L30/11/339/459

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady de Grey, sent from Horkelsey Park, relating to the financial affairs of Rev. William Ward.

1818

From: 1818 To: 1818

'I hope you will receive this before Mr Ward arrives in Town - the complaints that you will probably hear with respect to his present pecuniary difficulties I sincerely believe to be well founded (for the £2,000 secured by him for a fine from his stall only paid off old debts). The thorough conviction that he is at present under the difficulties he laments has induced my daughter [daughter in law, Anna Maria Yorke] to give up the great tithes of Great Horkesley which brought him £700 this Michaelmas, and to take those of Little Horkesley which paid him (only) this year £400 - and out of that £400 she has engaged to pay the curate of Great Horkesley, Mr Melville, for the time he stayed and likewise the tax leaving a remainder of about the sum of two hundred and thirty or forty pounds.' Writer received a letter from Catherine Yorke [letter torn but seems to refer to schooling, with mention of Catherine, Comtesse de Hompesch, Mary Ann and 'a most excellent school near London'].

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Ward, William,
Melville,
Yorke, Anna Maria,
Yorke, Catherine,
Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de

family correspondence, Great Horkesley, tithes, Little Horkesley, family/personal financial affairs, schools