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Letter from Agneta Yorke to Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth, sent from Tittenhanger [Typed transcript available].

30 Jul 1775

From: 1775 To: 1775

Mention of Mr Yorke's departure for The Hague, and daughter Caroline departing. Possibility of the writer and Lady Beauchamp visiting; asks for details about lodgings. Refers to a trip to North Wales at the end of August, though it is not yet thoroughly settled. Mr & Mrs Philip Yorke have gone to Erthig. Their house in Upper Brook Street is to be let for three years with coach house and stabling for 6 horses, for £200 per year, unfurnished. Met Sir Francis Clark, who had received instructions to quell a riot at the dockyard; a major general and 200 men were sent, only to find five old women shouting about the wages of their husbands and sons.

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Yorke, Caroline,
Beauchamp-Proctor, Laetitia,
Yorke, Philip,
Clark, Francis

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, The Hague, Wales, Mayfair Upper Brook Street, rioting