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1767

From: 1767 To: 1767

Directions for a tour:- "The lodging houses furnish all linen ... but I suppose you will choose to bring sheets ... They furnish white earthenware for the table, china for tea, and glasses. The knives have white or coloured handles, and the forks two tangs; I believe you would do well to bring some of your own and some candlesticks, what they furnish here being brass. Sugar and wax candles are to be bought, but my servant tells me he can find none larger than 6 in the lb... York 18 miles off where a man can ride and back before dinner very conveniently. Nothing is to be hired ... As to the house ... there is absolutely but one in this town which has rooms enough to contain you tolerably conveniently, I mean if you and Lady Bell come (details of possibilities) ... change of air would be of service to her as she grows so fast..." Garden, good view. "A large bedchamber for you, another smaller for Lady Bell; another with a bed in an alcove ... a dressingroom for Lord Hardwicke, very airy and a pleasant view ... on one floor and I think there are 2 more for the women servants; and I'm told there are two above them, a sort of garrets ... below there is a kind of a hall, a dining room, not large, which must serve for a drawing room, and a little parlour which I reckon will be a steward's room and for the upper servants to sit in. Your footmen must eat in the kitchen unless you give them board-wages to eat abroad. Your stable people will be with the horses at an inn ... You must send down a housemaid (the lowest you have will do best) by the York Fly, and from thence in a chaise here to the Crown, where she may wait till you come. I have engaged a woman cook at half a guinea a week ... an elderly quiet creature." House now "inhabited by a Mr Bagshaw of Derbyshire and his lady."

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Hardwicke,
Bagshawe

CORRESPONDENCE, family correspondence, Knaresborough, Derbyshire