P65/28/3/10

The Reverend John King Martyn to the Reverend William Mudge, his son-in-law from Pertenhall to Rampisham

24 Sep 1829

From: 1829 To: 1829

Endorsed "Old Mrs Martyns death. Thos. 1st marriage etc My dear Friend You will have learnt from my wife's letter the deplorable circumstances we have been involved in since our return from Weymouth - since she wrote I have had a letter from Ryde where he and his wife are lodged - and mentioning his application to the Bishop for leave of absence for a year, to which his Lordship seems disposed to accede, and Mr Gorham has the offer of the curacy for that time. From his letters there seems to be a great revolution of feelings and sentiments which gives me hopes that all this is permitted by the Lord as the means of bringing him down from his steeleism and opening his heart to receive that gospel which he has been so long opposing. If it do but issue in a thorough conversion I shall not care much about the connection he has formed. Betsy always bore a respectable character and though slander is at work now, there is no ground for imputing sin to either of them in their intercourse - moreover her manners are by no means vulgar, and if she be but humble and unassuming she may do very well after a time ... J. Day has quite withdrawn from our society, but still attends the preaching - Mr. Hull has been very ill but is something better - Bricheno is still ill and not likely to get well - Mary Marks has just lost her sister Sally very sudden

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Martyn, John King,
Mudge, William,
Day, J.,
Hull,
Bricheno,
Marks, Mary,
Marks, Sally,
Gorham

PERTENHALL, general correspondence, Rampisham, Ryde