L30/11/339/110

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Polwarth. Acknowledges payment of half years rent. Reference to the health of daughter Margaret Waddington during her pregnancy, and the writers own health.

7 Oct 1788

From: 1788 To: 1788

Understands Mrs Yorke is better since she got to Bath. The master of Queens [Robert Plumptre] is in a very declining state, though better; his disorder in the summer was piles. Mrs [Margaret] Somers Cocks [wife of John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers] has lately miscarried following a throw from a phaeton which overturned. Comments relating to Lord Plymouth [Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth] and Miss Sarah Archer [who married May 1778]. Writer hears Lord Dover has been at Windsor. [Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover].

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Waddington, Margaret,
Plumptre, Robert,
Somers, John Sommers Cocks, 1st Earl,
Somers Cocks, Margaret,
Windsor, Other Hickman [5th Earl of Plymouth],
Archer, Sarah,
Yorke, Joseph (1st Baron Dover)

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