Reference
HW50
Title
Booklet containing manuscript account of Richard How’s opinions on the poor rate of Aspley Guise and various disputes.
Date free text
no date c. 1771
Production date
From: 1770 To: 1775
Scope and Content
Descriptions of the characters of his acquaintances. Long account of his father (Richard How I); of Robert Sawell (father-in-law of Francis Moore) who “sometimes indulg’d his Scholars with a Holiday and to amuse them, found something for them and the Ushers to do in his fields in Haytime (or Harvest)”; F Moore; J Butcher; widow Cope; W Scott; J Morris; R Helley; Esquire Selby; Esquire Franklin; J Stringer; A Truluck; Francis Monk “ it was a common complaint he used to plough away his neighbours land..” etc.
Level of description
item