L30/11/339/195

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas. [Typed transcript available]. Comments about the harvest. Son Joseph and wife Catherine left last week.

20 Aug 1801

From: 1801 To: 1801

'..we are likely before it is long to be having a mourning for poor Hecate [?], who is said to be declining.' [Appears to be a member of the Cocks family.] Lord Abercorn is recovering very fast, but the fracture of one leg was so bad it is thought he might have lost the limb if the surgeon had not been so immediately called to his assistance. [He was thrown from a phaeton.] Christopher Beauchamp arrived two days ago after having escorted Mrs [Agneta] Yorke to Bath. Comments relating to Agneta Yorke's furure plans. 'The Captian [Joseph Sydney Yorke?] has built 'a very pretty box' within 2 miles of her which has cost him near £400. Speculation about the King visiting Bath. Brief comments about Lady Hardwicke [Elizabeth Yorke] Governor [William] Dowdeswell looks 'much relaxed and weakened and considerably older for his hot residence in the Bahamas and his Spanish captivity. He was at Bilbao, where the prisoners were very civil. This did not extend to the sailors; he was bringing two peacocks home for his new sister in law, but the sailors wrung their necks and ate them for supper.

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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, Joseph,
Yorke, Catherine,
Cocks,
Hamilton, John James [1st Marquess of Abercorn],
Beauchamp, Christopher,
Yorke, Agneta,
Yorke, Joseph Sydney,
Yorke, Elizabeth,
Dowdeswell, William

family correspondence, harvesting, road accidents, Bilbao, peacocks, Bahamas