ED 360 04 01 03
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ED 360 04 01 03
Title
Margaretta Brown: Letter from Dr Brown
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Item
Date
1 January 1813
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From Clenchwarton. To Margaretta. Greenwoods have desisted from their demands for the money owed due to the debt of the dishonourable son. Has heard that Berkley Paget was in conversation with the Duke of York about the misfortune of William dying in the West Indies. The Duke of York thought it was not a misfortune because had he lived he would have been courtmartialled for appropriating funds from the Regiment supposedly for clothing. He sent baskets of 'Turkies' for Christmas. Has been dining widely and has Captn. W staying before he sets out on the Union Coach, he is not so much as a Farmer as a chess player. 'Pray say everything that can mark my esteem to the Provost and his Lady'. Addressed to Miss Brown at the Revd. Dr Keate's Eton College, near Windsor
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