L30/21/3/8

From Journal of a tour to East Anglia (see also L30/9a/6):

Jul 1750

From: 1750 To: 1750

Dinner at Cambridge, next day at Bury St. Edmunds, “a pretty well-built Town inhabited by a great number of what you call Gentry...surprised with the troops of fine Misses...but well may they be fine who have regular Public Assemblies, a Fair and other great meetings that bring half the County together and the elegant Mr. Felton Harvey/Hervey settled among them in a large House to which he has added a new great Room that he Flatters the Ladies shall be open to them all the Winter”. Remains of the Abbey, nothing but the Gateways that are very fine. Monday breakfasted at Lord Cornwallis's and then drove on to the Duke of Grafton's at Euston, “finest Park I have ever been in'; house now new-fronting and `it lay in such a dirty litter.” Stayed at indifferent inn then on to Yarmouth where they rode to the shore in a Yarmouth car, part wheelbarrow, part sledge and part cart. Norwich Town Hall fine but the Cathedral `I think not fine. Disappointed at not seeing any of their manufactures. All have separate looms in their own houses and `mounting up into a Garret to see a single loom was not worthwhile'. Stayed four days with Mr. Walpole; richly wooded country which changed when they went on to Lord Leycester's to sandy deserts, but nothing can be said too high of the house. Lord Townshend's spoilt by comparison with Houghton. “Very pretty collection of pictures” at Sir Andrew Fountain's. Return via Cambridge.

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Hervey, Felton,
Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of