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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Forthampton. [Typed transcript available]. Lady Hardwicke 'having fulfilled all our wishes by producing a fine boy.' [Charles James Yorke]. Hope all will go on as well as it has begun.

16 Jul 1797

From: 1767 To: 1797

Health of Mrs P Carew [Jemima Pole-Carew?], who has a cough; writer considers it may be partly a nervous affliction from the whooping cough. Recommends an embrocation. 'The trials of the mutineers grow tiresome' [refers to Spithead and Nore mutinies]. 'But how goes our peace? Made or not made - I exepct no good from it..' Worcestershire and Herefordshire have suffered a storm which has shivered one of the new pinnacles of the cathedral at Hereford. Miss Whitmore, neice to Sir Thomas, who behaved so heroically as a prisoner at St.Omers, was standing by an open window in an observatory at a house in Worcester and was struck by lightning, but not killed.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Yorke, Elizabeth,
Yorke, Charles James, Viscount Royston,
Pole-Carew, Jemima,
Whitmore,
Whitmore, Thomas

family correspondence, whooping cough, mutiny, legal process, storms, lightning