WY992/15

Letter to William Stuart from Lady Jane MaCartney. Talk about the illnesses going round the family. William has said that “if the mortgage be upon Lord Hertford’s estate he cannot act as a trustee” and wants to know if this applies to that money only or the Irish Estate or both.

5 May 1806

From: 1806 To: 1806

She says that she will leave the papers and manuscripts to William, Lord Hertford and Lord Spencer. Thinks she had better name as trustees for Lady Louisa, Lord Lovaine and James Wortley, they are both respectable steady young men and both now between thirty and fourty. Thinks it wrong that Lord Hertford etc. should be sending Lady Louisa invitations to concerts, assemblies etc. “before alas” the Grave has been closed a Month! “Lady Louisa said people remarked to her at the Concert that the lady being in such grief to wear her weeds a year instead of the usual time six months”. She had found the Scottish Estate to be worth £95 per annum and belongs to Lord MacCartney and his heirs while the Irish estate was said to be worth £4,000 per annum but Lord MacCartney never got more than £3,000.

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Macartney, Jane [Countess Macartney],
Stuart, William,
Seymour-Conway, Francis, 2nd Marquess of Hertford,
Spencer, Lord,
Wortley, James,
Percy, George [5th Duke of Northumberland],
Percy, Louisa

CORRESPONDENCE, Ireland, mortgages, Scotland