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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Forthampton. Visitors to Wrest. Dr & Mrs Waddington and youngest grandson have just left having stayed 2 weeks. They went to the theatre at Worcester and saw 'that little whelp Master Betty [William Henry West Betty - a child actor known as "the young Roscius"] playing Hamlet. The places were given to them by Mr & Mrs Cocks of Higham. Poor Mr Cocks was prevented from going by a bad fall from his horse. but is now recovered.

29 Jul 1805

From: 1805 To: 1805

Last Wednesday Mrs Joseph Yorke was suddenly taken ill, and in a few hours brought to bed of 2 boys, who only lived till the next morning, being some weeks before their time. Writer believes Mrs Frances Beauchamp-Proctor has now got to the coast. With regard to the Irish propery, Mr Beauchamp-Proctor wrote to Mr Charles Yorke to know the state of the case, who replied that the prospect of success, if any, was very distant, but that Mr Beauchamp-Proctor would not be liable to any expense - at least not for some time. Writer asks how Lord Royston's shin bone recovers, and when he will begin his tour. The parsonage house at Horkesley is nearly covered in; writer is informed that it will be a very convenient and good dwelling, and better than the old one in every respect. Lord & Lady Somers are due at Castledich next week.

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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,
Waddington, Thomas,
Cocks,
Yorke, Catherine,
Beauchamp-Proctor, Frances Mary,
Beauchamp-Proctor, William [1st Baronet],
Yorke, Philip, Viscount Royston

family correspondence, theatre, accidents, Great Horkesley, parsonages