L30/11/339/490a

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady de Grey, sent from Forthampton. Thanks Lady de Grey for her visit.

17 Jul 1819

From: 1819 To: 1819

Thanks for venison. Mention of a wedding at to take place at the end of August [marriage of widowed John Eliot, Earl of St.Germans and Harriet Pole Carew]. Regrets that Lady de Grey is not to be at the fete, at the writer will not get a full account of it. Mr Broome is somewhat weaker from the great discharge of an abscess, which had been very painful for 5 days and has now been opened. The cough and expectoration are at present as much as ever. His wife and daughters are very low about hin. Mention of 'Kitty' [granddaughter Catherine Harriet Yorke] going to school when her Mama thinks her of proper age. Reference to the sermons of Rev. Commeline. Has received a letter from 'another clergyman' [Clarke]. He has brought up a very large family on an income of under £100 per annum and put them all in the way of providing for themselves. Now and then the writer gives him a little assistance. The letter just received, if true, is a sad picture of the present state of the country. Quotes from the letter which states that a great many labourers of the county [Lincolnshire] have been several months out of work and obliged to have relief from their parishes. He has three sons who have been out of employ for three months; two have a wife and three children each. In trying to support his family, the clergyman has put himself in debt, and seeks assistance.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans,
Pole-Carew, Harriet,
Yorke, Catherine Harriet,
Broome,
Clarke,
Commeline

family correspondence, illness, specific marriages, general schools, Lincolnshire