Reference
OR2235
Title
Letter (single sheet) from Cuthbert Orlebar, Wem, Shropshire to Sophia Orlebar at J Parrotts Esquire
difficulty of cashing Note to draw on Oundle Bank
only communication with Midland Counties ‘the graziers etc’ from Northamptonshire (and Huntingdonshire I think they say) come to buy for feeding;
Date free text
1837
Production date
From: 1837 To: 1837
Scope and Content
details reference Johnson’s trust for poor of Podington – administered by Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,
sent books 20 years old – publications of Christian Knowledge Society – bad paper – badly bound and injured by lying by
therefore had requested him to send cheque instead.
Richard had kept cheque a long time – two years since last payment to the Charity
Pay Mr White for malt and hops £3.1s.10d.
Cuthbert ill with heart and chest complaints
proposed visit to mother in Isle of Wight they have been happy at Lymington, Country – very beautiful.
“I wish you could see the precious people amongst those I am here like those who were around me at Podington”. Therefore if you do remember any of my letter to Layton yet remember also that those of whom I there spoke are chiefly those of his flock which ? have turned aside like many at Podington”.
May pass through London on way to see mother – hopes may be no reason to leave Wem.
Postscript asks Richard for loan of £10
inquires reference allowances for fixtures at the vicarage.
Sorry to get him into trouble over letter
Wednesday 31 May [1837].
Note: According to the Alumini Frederick William Hanham Layton was son of S. Layton of Wem and was curate of Wem Shropshire 1831-1835 resigned 1835 and became an Angel of the Catholic Apostolic Church, Duncan Street, Islington 1835-1878. According to Burke’s landed Gentry Cuthbert’s sister Maria Caroline married Reverend Frederick William Hanham Layton of Riverside House, Islington Middlesex.
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