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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Forthampton. Mrs [Agneata] Yorke will leave about Wednesday next. Arrangements for sending various items from London to the writer, including a print, pamphlets and some pills.

16 Apr 1815

From: 1815 To: 1815

Uncertain whether Lady King's scheme will take place, as the plan is not yet formed. Mention of fever in the Universtiy; anxious for acquaintances there. It is said that it arose from opening a large drain near Jesus College. Pensome's Will has been found by a boy on a rough bench between two trees, a place where workmen usually meet is the morning. When found it had the appearance of having been long carried in a pocket. The property depending on the Will was above £20,000. The writer cannot explian how one of her tenants could have made such a fortune. Comments about the price of corn. Mentions the happy conclusion of the trial. Mrs Broome has gone with her father, old Mr Salmon, aged 82 who has just accepted a Living at a value of £1,000 per annum.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Yorke, Agneta,
King, Isabel,
Pensome,
Salmon

family correspondence, fever, Cambridge Jesus College, wills, corn, legal process, parish livings