L30/11/339/476

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady de Grey, sent from Forthampton Court. Reference to Mr Robinson shooting at Wrest, and requesting him to be on his guard against a double barrelled gun. Refers to an accident where Mr [John Somers] Cocks was shot in an accident with his own gun. The injury was slight as there was only powder in the gun, but one eyebrow was burned off, his neck cloth was burned, and both his hands.

20 Oct 1818

From: 1818 To: 1818

Mr Cocks laments that the accident happened on 30th September and has therefore precluded up to the present all pheasant shooting. Mention of Mrs Layton, late Lydia Plumptre; her family take little notice of her. Mention of other family members. Reference to health of King George III. Grandson John Thomas Waddington was prevented from visiting at the expected time by the illness of his brother's curate; George therefore could not stir from home but was very desirous to see his brother the traveller. The writer now expects John Thomas Waddington any day, and indeed all the Waddingtons, except the old Aunt. Dowager Lady Somers [Anne Cocks] and Miss Smith come to stay for 4 days on the 1st of November; granddaughter Mary Ann must exert herself to return Miss Smith's attentions to her at Shortgrove. Mrs [Agneta] Yorke is always pleased with pheasants or partridge as Lord St.Germans can send her only hares and woodcocks. The writer saw Lord St.Germans when at Eastnor and thought he looked in health, though thinner. Separate sheet with part of a letter from P J Broome relating to Lydia Plumptre.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Cocks,
George III,
Waddington, George,
Waddington, John Thomas,
Layton, Lydia,
Plumptre, Lydia,
Yorke, Mary Anne,
Smith,
Cocks, Anne,
Yorke, Agneta,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans

family correspondence, shooting, accidents, game