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3 Oct 1780

From: 1780 To: 1780

Polwarth. "Mama wrote of his having been hunting; now, if, like you, I was to prescribe to my friends... that ought to be taken very gently." Lord Granthams gout better; busy with improvement schemes; architect Belwood; grounds Migell (?), formerly foreman to Mr Brown, said to have done well at Lord Scarborough's; gravel road through park will be chief undertaking. Election; mob did not like new-fashioned way of members giving no dinners and drink, or at least much less than usual, and grew riotous and broke inn window; armed Association lately formed (like London) at last fired on mob and wounded one. "Surely of all the figures at an election, Lord Ongley has made the meanest and shabbiest and ought to be hooted out of the county; I was much diverted with your story of his burial in effigy... the Luton Quaker too had the better of Lord Ossory and gave him a good lecture; Sir George Osborn seems also like himself in puzzling and trimming between both sides. Mama wrote to me that Lady Heneage had liked Lord Polwarth's waistcoat without knowing it was my work". David Gregory apparently died.

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Polwarth,
Grantham,
Robinson, Thomas,
Belwood,
Scarborough,
Ossory,
Osborn,
Heneage,
Gregory, David

architect, elections, Quakers, DEATH