Reference
HW87/47
Title
Letter: Joseph Barber (Ampthill) to Thomas (Tom) or Richard How (3 Crowns & Key, Gracious St.)
Date free text
2 March 1723/4
Production date
From: 1723 To: 1724
Scope and Content
Will Woodman at Woburn Market for his horse.
Scandal about Thomas How's affairs reported by Sarah Marriott when she returned from London where she had been staying in St. Paul's Churchyard : "Well but, said Frank Gibson, I hear he [Thomas How] has partly spent it [his fortune & estate], and added, I hear he has a mind to my cuzen Guly Briggins”; conversation with "the captain" who also lodged there. The maid servant that lives with them [Frank Gibson] came from Woburn & has given Frank Gibson all those hints of scandal that have been published from thence concerning you, but like a jade as she is, she proved treacherous to her mistress also ....
Please buy 6 yards persian.
J. Clark kill’d one of T. Huckles does.
Money due to William Arnold.
Has bad cold : the disease seem much fixt on my lungs, attended with a violent cough.
Level of description
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