Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/339/387
  • Title
    Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Forthampton. Sorry to give Lady Lucas so much trouble; unfortunately Mr King's patterns did not please the writer, so Mrs Anne Waddington is to get the Irish stuff gown at some shops she recommends when she come to Batts Hotel on Wednesday. There will be room enough in their barrouche for the books Lady Lucas intends for the writer. They will bring back 'Waverley' and the unfortunate Tragedy. Is pleased the drama sells so well. If the Waddingtons are prevented from going to London, the parcel will have to be sent by the Tewkesbury coach.
  • Date free text
    14 May 1815
  • Production date
    From: 1815 To: 1815
  • Scope and Content
    Comments about the failure of the Old Gloucester bank; the writer does not think if will concern her much, but the poor Dean of Gloucester had some hundreds of pounds 'in their shop'. Mrs James Jelf was a particular friend of the Cambridges, and the day after the news arrived the Archdeacon [George Owen Cambridge] immediately offered to be at the expense of putting Jelf's two sons to school. 'This Sir J Jelf has brought ruin on the whole firm by deep speculation in mines, navigable canals etc. One of the partners worth a large fortune is much to be pitied - his whole fortune was answerable to the bank. When he would have given £12,000 some years ago to withdraw his name he was not allowed to do it - and to add to the misfortune it was chiefly his wife's fortune...' [Note: Nibletts' Old Bank was carried on from the mid 1790s by the partnership of James Jelf, the barrister William Fendall (d. 1813), and the attorney Charles Evans. The banking crisis of 1815 caused the failure of the Old Bank, which was thought to have been weakened by the involvement of Fendall and Jelf in the Bullo Pill tramroad and an abortive plan for a Severn tunnel at Newnham.] Pleased that 'you invalids' are going on well; Mr & Mrs C Yorke are indeed complete invalids. Mrs Plumptre give but an indifferent account of Lady Susan Bathurst and their poor brother, who is quite disabled and cannot get off his chair without help.
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