Reference
HG12/3/3
Title
to Miss Higgins, Turvey Abbey from Lady Harriet Hesketh
Date free text
2 Apr 1794
Production date
From: 1794 To: 1794
Scope and Content
Asks if Mr Higgins could help to remove those village boys who make a noise at Mr Cowpers house in Weston, which is "distressing
to Mr Cowper at this melancholy period; last night in particular between the hours of nine and ten, a number of these idle youths,
whether young men or boys I cannot say, assembled round the gate shrieking & screaming as if some violent calamity had befallen
them..."
encl: note from Lady Hesketh thanking Mr and Mrs Higgins for help with above matter
Level of description
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