L30/14/7/18

Andrews, Nice to Grantham, Madrid Broke his shin at Aix, confined to bed for six weeks in violent torture. Now healed. Weather severe; sea unruffled: "the Firmament is of a peculiar azure". Good house, many Irish acquaintances in Nice this season, tolerable cook, good viands, excellent Champagne and Hermitage, Claret ordered from Bordeaux. Lord Harcourt triumphantly got the Irish Parliament to pay off arrears and to increase the annual establishment by £100,000, among the new taxes a stamp duty. Bills sent over for those purposes, but Mr. Thurlo made so many alterations rejected unanimously on return. New bills prepared. "The Castle" claim Mr. Thurloe acted as the instrument of the "Bedford Party" to insult Lrd. Harcourt. Andrews thinks Harcourt cannot believe this absurd story himself. Bishop of Derry has asked Andrews to ask Grantham to give protection and assistance to Mrs. Ferras O'Neal, gentlewoman and widow of an Irish Officer who died while in the Spanish Service "and left her little more for her dower than an expensive law-suit which she is now carrying on at Madrid". 27 January "1774" [Error, note on back dispatched and received 1774] [For Mrs. O'Neal (or O'Neill) see L 30/14/102/1].

1774

From: 1774 To: 1774

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Lucas,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Andrews, Francis,
Harcourt, Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl,
Thurloe,
Andrews,
O'Neill, Ferras

family correspondence, provost, Dublin Trinity College, injury, weather, Irish, cook, alcohol, wine, general parliament, stamp duties, general taxation, national acts, Bishop, gentlewoman, widow, army officer, deaths, British Army, dower, suits, Nice, Madrid, Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Spain