Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HY931/3
  • Title
    To John Harvey V at Finningley
  • Date free text
    14 December 1800
  • Production date
    From: 1800 To: 1800
  • Scope and Content
    Has consulted Cleveland’s poems about “your bird”, a soland goose. Joe took woodcocks and letter to Sharnbrook: all well there. Thanks for brace. Williamson and John Markham’s journey to Cambridge. Mention of Jones and Lax. Mutherhead Parslow dines with him on Tuesday to go to St Neots Fair next day. Dangers of being out late. Blick, McGrath’s apprentice set on near Broom Furzes, on way to Campton, robbed and stripped. Given shelter at Mr. Humberstone’s. Mrs Trevor has given birth to a girl. Dinner at Lord Ongley’s. Miss Ann, Mrs G., Mr and Mrs P. and three young ones there. Sociable game of whist. Saw Hindley and “talked road business”, he has promised to make out a proper indemnification for the parish. His Lordship out of Temper at Biggleswade. Miss Judy gone to Mr Willy’s in Lincolnshire for Grantham Assembly. Moggerhanger family down. Met “old gentleman” and Webb, he is unhappy about “ the Russian business”. Mrs Reynolds at Ickwell Bury lame with rheumatism. Joe (keeper)’s activities. Good fire occasionally in John Harvey’s study. Papers and books damp. Information about garden. Consultation with Williamson about tenant’s dinner. Joe to notify all cottagers: rents from some unlikely. Mr Hindley wants rental of cottages, which Joe can prepare. Mr Hindley does not understand. Proxy sent to Mrs Bolton. His advice concerning purchase money due to John Harvey. Warning against letting money get into hands of a “third party”. Gadsby too busy to come over: spends this week at Trevor’s, next at Williamson’s. Doctor Palmer absent a fortnight, went to picture sale at Cambridge. Mrs Faulkner says he was sent for to a patient. Kit Cooper dying. Account of Trim [dog?]’s illness and death. Bob Brunt did post mortem. Wye For [?] was at church and called. Doctor P [Palmer?] returned. Expects Mr and Mrs Hornsby on Wednesday “their Damsel also Miss Brunt is coming back in an increasing way”. Coachman and Wright’s letter “travelled in the same Machine”. Is matter settled? Respects to Mother, wife, Uncle, “little ones”. Party at Christmas and possibility of Edmund’s being there mentioned. He is now in the North.
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