L30/11/339/95

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Polwarth. The frosty weather has put an end to the fatal fever that raged amongst the poor in the lower watery parts of the town; the writer was informed there were 30 funerals in a few days.

6 Jan 1786

From: 1786 To: 1786

Describes people skating on the ice. 'I no longer laugh at boot stockings, on the contrary adopted something of the idea when I went to the cathedral last Sunday.' Description of the flight of neighbour Lady Mary Cornwallis. [Lady Mary Cornwallis eloped with Mark Singleton in 1875, but her father later endorsed the marriage]. The bishop has had a cold with some rheumatic tendancy - hope he will be recovered before his Visitation Day. Will move to Town after 'this disagreeable affair' is over.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Cornwallis, Mary,
Singleton, Mark

family correspondence, weather, fever, skating, specific marriages