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 C. K. OGDEN
 
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 THE CHEVERELS 
 
 OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 BY 
 
 LADY NEWDltfATE-NEWDEGATE 
 
 AUTHOR OF 'GOSSIP FROM A MUNIMENT ROOM* 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM FAMILY PORTRAITS 
 
 LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO 
 
 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON 
 
 NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 
 
 1898 
 
 All rights reserved
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 INTRODUCTION xi 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 1719-1776 
 
 Birth and parentage of Sir Roger Newdigate King's Scholar at 
 Westminster School University College, Oxford Founder 
 of the Newdigate Prize Member for Oxford First marriage 
 to Sophia Conyers Second marriage to Hester Mundy 
 Letter from the latter to Sir Roger Lady Newdigate's letters 
 from Newnham 1 
 
 CHAPTER II 
 1781 
 
 Life at Buxton as described by Lady Newdigate Letters from 
 Charles Parker and Nelly Mundy Visit to Manchester 
 Return to Buxton and home 13 
 
 CHAPTER III 
 1781 
 
 Lady Newdigate's second visit to Buxton via Shipley Letters 
 to Sir Roger Visit to Sheffield Lady N.'s illness Her 
 recovery . .29 
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 1782-1785 
 
 Lord Bagot's announcement of the birth of a son Lady N.'s 
 letters from London on the eve of a general election Death 
 of Mrs. Ned Mundy Lady N.'s visit to Buxton via Shipley 
 Lady N.'s letters from London, 1785 Charles Parker's embryo 
 love-affair with Miss Howe His marriage to Miss Anstruther 49 
 
 1031770
 
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 CHAPTER V 
 
 1787-1788 
 
 PACK 
 
 Lady Newdigate's letters about her brother's courtship of Lady 
 Middleton from Shipley and Bath Mr. Mundy's engage- 
 ment and second marriage First mention of Sally Shilton 
 Grand concert at Derby Lady N.'s account of it and visit to 
 Shipley 68 
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 
 1789 
 
 Lady Newdigate in London Birth of Lady Middleton's daughter 
 Lady N. at the Birthday Drawing-room Her return to 
 Arbury Recalled by illness and death of Lady Middleton 
 Her will Large provision for the baby . . . .81 
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 1790-1794 
 
 Lady Newdigate's sittings to Romney for her portrait Lady 
 Templetown's letters Death of Motta at Arbury Letter of 
 Mrs. Newdigate, with account of day spent at Naples with Sir 
 William and Emma Lady Hamilton . . . .98 
 
 CHAPTER VIII 
 1792 
 
 Sally Shilton brought to London for her musical debut Her suc- 
 cess at private parties Her prospects of becoming a profes- 
 sional singer Lady Newdigate at Court for the presentation 
 of her niece Fanny Mundy, afterwards Lady Charles FitzRoy 109 
 
 CHAPTER IX 
 
 1792 
 
 Sally's continued success as a singer at drawing-room parties 
 Her breakdown in health Abandonment of all idea of a pro- 
 fessional career for Sally . 122
 
 CONTENTS vii 
 
 CHAPTER X 
 1792-1795 
 
 PACJK 
 
 Sally goes to Lisbon for the winter Her letter from thence to 
 Sir Roger Birth of a son to Charles Parker Letter from Mr. 
 Mundy describing the reception at the Opera of the news of 
 Lord Howe's victory on the 1st June, 1794 Death of Charles 
 Parker 137 
 
 CHAPTER XI 
 1795 
 
 Lady Newdigate's journey to Sussex with Mrs. Barton Their 
 stay at Stansted Park Expedition to Portsmouth and the 
 Isle of Wight They leave Stansted for Bognor Rocks . .150 
 
 CHAPTER XII 
 1795 
 
 Life at Bognor Rocks Visit from the Duchess of Devonshire 
 
 Return to Stansted Home by Harefield .... 164 
 
 CHAPTER XIII 
 
 1797 
 
 From Arbury to Piccadilly Illness of Lord Charles FitzRoy 
 Lady Newdigate's arrival at Brighton Life in lodgings 
 Sketches of Cliff and Steyne 175 
 
 CHAPTER XIV 
 1797 
 
 Letters from Brighton (continued) Arrival of Prince of Wales 
 Brighton Races Lady Charles FitzRoy's illness Lady N.'s 
 change of lodgings Death of Lady Charles FitzRoy at 
 Wandon 192 
 
 CHAPTER XV 
 
 1797-1800 
 
 Lady Newdigate's visit to Margate Her last letters to Sir 
 Roger Her failing health Her death Prayer found in her 
 pocket Her will 211
 
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 CHAPTER XVI 
 1797-1806 
 
 _. PAGE 
 
 Sally Smlton's reputation as a singer Her marriage Mr. and 
 Mrs. Ebdell's letters to Sir Roger King George III. expected 
 at Packington Sir Roger's offer of Sally's musical services 
 on the occasion Lord Aylesford's answer Sir Roger's de- 
 clining health His death . 218 
 
 CONCLUSION 227
 
 LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS 
 
 SIR ROGER NBWDIGATB Frontispiece 
 
 From the portrait by Romney. 
 
 NELLY MUNDY To face p, 30 
 
 From the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 GEORGIANA, LADY MIDDLETON 68 
 
 From thf portrait by Hoppner. 
 
 HESTER, LADY NEWDIGATE 98 
 
 From the portrait by Romney. 
 
 CHARLES PARKER AND JANE ANSTRUTHER . . 142 
 
 From miniatures (said to be) by Cosicay. 
 
 LADY CHARLES FiTzRoY 210 
 
 From the portrait by Hoppner. 
 
 Lady Newdegate wishes to acknowledge with gratitude Mr. Mundy's 
 kind permission to reproduce three of his family portraits at Shipley 
 for this book. They are the following : ' Nelly Mundy ' by Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, ' Lady Middleton ' by Hoppner, and ' Lady Charles FitzRoy ' 
 by Hoppner.
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 IT must still be within the memory of the present gene- 
 ration when George Eliot first made her mark as a writer 
 of fiction in the pages of ' Blackwood's Magazine.' 
 
 Her ' Scenes of Clerical Life ' revealed to an admiring 
 public the pathos, caustic humour, poetical fancy, and 
 keen insight into character of a new and unknown writer. 
 In this her first work of imagination George Eliot appears 
 at her simplest and consequently at her best. Inspired 
 by memories of her early youth, she wrote from her 
 heart as well as from her head, and her characters with 
 their life tragedies impress us the more because they are 
 taken from real life and from amongst her personal 
 surroundings. She speaks of these three stories herself 
 as ' a bit of faithful work that will perhaps remain like a 
 primrose in the hedgerow and gladden and chasten hearts 
 in years to come.' 
 
 Nowhere did these charming tales excite keener 
 interest than in a far-away corner of Warwickshire. 
 The inhabitants of this particular neighbourhood were 
 naturally somewhat exercised in their minds in regard to 
 the identity of this unknown George Eliot. It was clear
 
 Xll THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 he must have had unusual opportunities of intimate 
 acquaintance with places and people still in evidence to 
 prove how graphically they had been portrayed. Squires, 
 parsons, doctors, lawyers, &c., were depicted with a kindly 
 yet satiric pen, apt to note down any peculiarity or weak- 
 ness as well as more flattering characteristics. Friends and 
 neighbours readily fitted the caps on to each other's heads, 
 not altogether without a spice of malice in their amuse- 
 ment. Here and there personalities were so thinly veiled 
 that it would have been impossible for those indicated to 
 avoid recognising their own portraits, though occasionally 
 with decided reluctance. 
 
 Have we not heard how ' Mr. Farquhar, the secondary 
 squire of the parish,' characterised by a well-known lisp, 
 made a feeble protest against this imputation in the 
 following appeal to his medical friend and adviser : 
 
 ' You know, Mithter N., that I never lithp exthept 
 when my thtomach ith out of order.' So loth are we to 
 acknowledge our slight infirmities. 
 
 Nevertheless the first editions of George Eliot's works 
 were exceedingly popular in the neighbourhood, and soon 
 written keys were passed round giving the real names of 
 places and people side by side with the author's slightly 
 disguised nomenclature. 
 
 It is rarely any writer can venture to utilise so boldly 
 the localities and experience of actual life. When Mary 
 Anne Evans (or Mrs. Lewes as she then called herself) 
 began to write fiction she probably felt that by her 
 own act she was finally separated from her family and 
 the home of her youth. She had besides veiled her 
 identity under an incognito so complete that not even her
 
 INTRODUCTION xiii 
 
 publishers knew her sex and her real name. Thus she 
 felt free to dive into the recesses of a singularly observant 
 and retentive mind, and make use of the stores of fact and 
 fancy she had accumulated during her apparently quiet 
 and uneventful girlhood. 
 
 We can understand how completely at home she 
 would be amid the surroundings of farmhouse life, and 
 how well acquainted she would naturally become with the 
 petty gossip, local scandals, and severe but often just 
 criticisms of a middle-class country neighbourhood. In 
 the pictures she draws from life in this class not even 
 her nearest relatives have escaped her humorous and 
 graphic pen. 
 
 The ' Scenes of Clerical Life ' comprise three stories. 
 In the first and last George Eliot has not scrupled to take 
 her plots from tragic circumstances still within the know- 
 ledge of the living. 
 
 In the second tale, ' Mr. Gilfil's Love-story,' the date of 
 its occurrences carries us back to the eighteenth century, 
 and there were no existing susceptibilities that could be 
 wounded by her realism at the date of its publication. 
 The scene of that pathetic story is laid at Arbury in 
 Warwickshire the Cheverel Manor of George Eliot 
 whilst Sir Christopher and Lady Cheverel are intended to 
 represent Sir Eoger Newdigate and his second wife. 
 
 It is at first sight surprising how this authoress can 
 have acquired so much knowledge of the internal life of a 
 family who lived long ago, and were dead many years 
 before she was born. It has been accounted for in the 
 following manner. 
 
 Robert Evans' first wife (not George Eliot's mother)
 
 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 had been a valued member of the household at Arbury. 1 
 She must have had ample opportunity of hearing the usual 
 gossip handed down by housekeeper to housekeeper con- 
 cerning the doings and sayings of the family. In those 
 days, when feudalistic veneration still flourished, these 
 traditions were reckoned of greater importance than since 
 the world has moved onward at a giddy pace, and levelling 
 influences have been at work and are working for good as 
 well as for evil. No doubt the stories from the big house 
 were treasured up in the immediate neighbourhood, and 
 by none more than by the estate bailiff's little daughter. 
 
 Mary Anne Evans was born at the South Farm, 
 within the precincts of the park at Arbury, and she has 
 told us herself how later on she used to be her father's 
 constant companion in his business expeditions. Whilst 
 Eobert Evans was transacting estate work with the 
 Squire in the library, she probably waited for him in the 
 housekeeper's room at Arbury. 
 
 This picturesque old room has been accurately described 
 by her and appears in more than one of her works. Here 
 she must have heard much discourse on the past and 
 present, of which she has given us amusing specimens, 
 showing that the speakers, if truly reported, could have 
 taken little account of the presence of so quiet and 
 retiring an auditor. It was probably through the favour 
 of the housekeeper that George Eliot obtained her know- 
 ledge of the rest of the house, whilst her descriptions 
 of Sir Christopher and Lady Cheverel are evidently taken 
 
 1 Her epitaph in Astley Church is as follows : 
 
 ' In Memory of HAKRIET, wife of BOB T EVANS, for many years 
 the Friend and Servant of the Family of Arbury. 
 Ob' 26 th Dec. 1809. 
 Mt 39.'
 
 INTRODUCTION XV 
 
 from the full-length portraits of their originals in the 
 saloon at Arbury. 
 
 The story of the heroine of the tale Caterina 
 being founded on fact, would be very likely to have 
 impressed an imaginative and romantic girl, more espe- 
 cially as in her youth there would be many still alive who 
 could remember the ' little' syren ' with the big dark eyes 
 and the beautiful voice who came from the big house to 
 be the mistress of the vicarage. 
 
 In the following pages we may be able to judge how 
 far George Eliot was true to the life in the facts and 
 characters of this one tale. 
 
 Amongst the numerous letters preserved in the muni- 
 ment-room at Arbury there are many written by the Lady 
 Cheverel who was Caterina's patroness. These letters, 
 from which the following extracts have been made, have 
 no pretensions to any special value as historical records. 
 They are merely mementoes of the life of the period in 
 town and country. They will be found full of domestic 
 details, descriptive of the writer's various interests and 
 pursuits. They also contain the relation of the loves, joys, 
 and sorrows of a warm and affectionate heart given with 
 all the frankness of intimate correspondence. 
 
 But the Cheverels of ' Mr. Gilfil's Love-story ' shall be 
 left to unfold their own characters and manner of life as 
 far as possible from their letters written and received.
 
 THE 
 
 CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 1719-1776 
 
 ' Well, that theer's whut I coal a pictur',' said old ' Mester ' Ford, a true 
 Staffordshire patriarch, who leaned on a stick and held his head very much 
 on one side, with the air of a man who had little hope of the present 
 generation, but would, at all events, give it the benefit of his criticism. 
 
 ' Th' yoong men noo-a-deys the'r poor squashy things th' looke well 
 anoof, but the' woon't wear, the' woon't wear. Theer's ne'er un '11 carry 
 his 'ears like that Sir Cris'fer Chuvrell.' 
 
 It was ten years at least since Sarti had seen anything so bright, 
 stately, and beautiful as Lady Cheverel. MR. GILFIL'S LOVE-STOBY. 
 
 SIR ROGEE NEWDIGATE was born May 20, 1719. He 
 was the seventh son and youngest child of Sir Richard 
 Newdigate, third baronet, by his second wife, Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Sir Roger Twisden, Bart. Sir Richard died 
 in 1727, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, 
 Sir Edward, a boy of twelve, who died under age in 1734. 
 At his death the only surviving and youngest brother, 
 Roger, then a King's Scholar at Westminster School, suc- 
 ceeded as fifth baronet, but leaving no issue the baronetcy 
 became extinct in 1806. Sir Roger's three sisters, who all 
 predeceased him, married respectively the Honourable 
 John Chichester, 1 Mr. Palmer, 2 and Mr. Ludford. 3 
 
 1 Mrs. Chichester's son succeeded his uncle as fifth Earl of Donegal in 
 1757. 
 
 2 Charles Palmer, Esq., of Ladbroke, co. Warwick. 
 8 John Ludford, Esq., of Ansley, co. Warwick. 
 
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 2 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Shortly after Sir Roger's death an appreciative notice 
 of him appeared in the ' Gentleman's Magazine.' This 
 was followed a few months later by a longer memoir in 
 the same publication by the Rev. R. Churton. "We here 
 make a few short extracts from these papers. 
 
 ' The incomparable baronet of Arbury,' as his biogra- 
 pher styles him, ' was a lover of virtu and an excellent 
 classic from his early days, and made two lengthy tours 
 on the Continent, where he accumulated many objects of 
 art, which now adorn his Warwickshire home. . . . The 
 best classics, and Homer in particular, seemed as familiar 
 to him when he was on the other side of fourscore as if 
 he was just come from Oxford or Westminster. . . . 
 
 ' To the University of Oxford he was a steady friend 
 and frequent benefactor, especially to University College, 
 where he matriculated. . . . Amongst his testamentary 
 bequests was the sum of 1,0002. on trust for an annual 
 prize for English verses on ancient sculpture, painting, 
 and architecture. The prize was brought forward in his 
 life-time, when he expressed two conditions only, that there 
 should be no compliments to himself (" if there is it will 
 make me sick "), and that the number of the lines should 
 not exceed fifty. When he was asked : " Will you not 
 allow another fifty ? " " No, no," he said, " I won't tire 
 them in the theatre." Later on he observed on the same 
 subject : " Our great fault is want of compression. The 
 best of Horace's odes and the finest Psalms are seldom 
 more than about that length." ' 
 
 In this simple fashion the 'Newdigate' Prize for 
 Poetry was founded at Oxford. 
 
 Sir Roger's connection with the University was of long 
 duration and of a flattering nature. In 1749 he had the
 
 EAELY MAREIED DAYS 3 
 
 degree of LL.D. conferred upon him, and the following 
 year he was first elected to represent Oxford in Parlia- 
 ment. 1 In accordance with the rules of the University he 
 was unaware he had been proposed and elected until he 
 received a letter from the Vice-Chancellor informing him 
 of the honour conferred upon him. 
 
 ' In the same manner, without application or expense 
 whatsoever, he was re-elected five times . . . until in 
 1780, after thirty-five years' service in Parliament ... he 
 solicited his dismission and retired from public life.' 
 
 In politics Sir Koger was a rigid Tory of the old type, 
 whilst Horace Walpole calls him ' a half-converted Jaco- 
 bite.' 
 
 ' In person,' says Archdeacon Churton, ' he was above 
 the middle size, a true English gentleman of polished 
 manners, and of the old school. There was about him a 
 dignified affability of deportment, and at the first interview 
 with a friend his fine open countenance was lighted up 
 with a blended radiance of intelligence and benevolence, 
 which those who saw it often cannot adequately describe, 
 but no one who once saw it will ever forget. . . .' 2 
 
 Sir Roger Newdigate married early, and shortly after 
 his return from the foreign tour, which followed immedi- 
 ately on his leaving Oxford. The wife of his youth was 
 Sophia, daughter of Edward Conyers of Copt Hall, Essex, 
 and of the Honourable Matilda Fermor, daughter of Lord 
 Lempster. 
 
 Arbury contains many relics of Sophia, Lady Newdigate, 
 who seems to have been as artistically endowed as her hus- 
 band. But as she was not the original of George Eliot's 
 Lady Cheverel we need only record that after a long and 
 happy married life of thirty-one years she died in 1774, 
 leaving no children behind her. 
 
 1 He had previously been elected as Knight of the Shire for Middlesex 
 in 1742. 
 
 2 Gentleman's Magazine, 1807. 
 
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 4 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEEEL MANOR 
 
 Sir Eoger was for a time inconsolable, and sought dis- 
 traction in a prolonged tour on the Continent the second 
 he made during his life. Whilst sojourning in Italy 
 this time he added largely to his collection of pictures, 
 engravings, coins, books and statuary, which he had com- 
 menced in earlier days. 
 
 It was not until after his return to England that he 
 first met the lady who was to become his second wife, and 
 was destined to figure in the pages of ' Mr. GilfiTs Love- 
 story.' 
 
 Hester Margaretta Mundy was the daughter of Edward 
 Mundy of Allestree in Derbyshire, and of his wife Hester, 
 daughter and eventual heir of Nicholas Miller of Shipley 
 in the same county. This lady, the object of Sir Koger's 
 second choice, must have been a very attractive woman 
 both in looks and disposition, though no longer in her first 
 youth. Their marriage took place after a short courtship 
 on June 3, 1776, at which period Hester must have been 
 nearer forty than thirty years of age, though quite eighteen 
 years younger than her husband. 
 
 During her twenty-four years of married life the second 
 Lady Newdigate was a voluminous letter-writer. She 
 had many opportunities for exercising her aptitude with 
 her pen, owing to Sir Roger's disinclination to leave his 
 Warwickshire home, which increased as years grew upon 
 him, so that his wife had frequently to make her excur- 
 sions without him. Hester was evidently an especial 
 favourite with her own near relations, and was often called 
 away to participate with them in seasons of sorrow and 
 anxiety as well as of joy. In later life when ailing in 
 health she was absent for weeks at a time in search of relief 
 at English watering-places. On all these occasions her 
 letters to her husband are almost journal-like in their ful- 
 ness of detail a minuteness and particularity he seems to 
 have demanded and thoroughly appreciated. 1 
 
 Sir Eoger has preserved this correspondence carefully 
 divided into separate packets, each of which represents an 
 absence varying from a few days to a few weeks. Many 
 of the letters have been docketed by him with the dates 
 when they have been received, though Hester almost 
 
 1 Sir Boger seems to have been fully as regular in his replies. Unfortu- 
 nately his letters have not been kept.
 
 EAELY MARRIED DAYS 5 
 
 always omitted the month and year when she wrote to 
 him. In transcribing the following extracts all eccentri- 
 cities and faults of spelling have been retained as they were 
 written. 
 
 The earliest letter in Hester's handwriting is one 
 written just after her engagement to Sir Roger had taken 
 place, when she was still Miss Mundy. It begins, as nearly 
 all hers do, without any formal address. 
 
 All Friday & yesterday I pleased myself with the 
 Idea that by to-night's post I sh'd write you a very saucy 
 Letter ; two very tollerable nights rest had done more 
 towards calming my spirits & easing my Heart than all 
 your generosity, tender affection & every healing Balm 
 you strove to administer could effect. I have really been 
 a very rational creature, last night went through a most 
 furious presentation at Lady Williams' & did not so far 
 expose myself as to make your very good friend and mine, 
 Miss Conyers ] blush for me. I have gone about my busi- 
 ness with composure & flatter myself I have remember'd 
 every thing you have said to me tho' my endeavours have 
 not in everything succeeded, but business shall have no 
 part in this Letter, my friends think I have taken too large 
 a dose of it to-day & to that they attribute my present 
 aching Head, but the truth is I was last night unable to 
 command my Anxious thoughts to Rest. The pleasing 
 prospect before me one moment promised me a Life of 
 happiness with y e most worthy, estimable & agreable 
 Man in y e World (nay, was I not afraid you w d from the 
 short knowledge we have had of each other suspect my 
 Sincerity) I w d add the only Man upon Earth that I think 
 could make me truely bless'd. Y e next moment Rocks 
 
 1 Miss Mary, or Molly, Conyers, the sister of Sir Eoger's first wife.
 
 6 THE CHEVEKELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 appear'd which made me think, the greatest of which are 
 my own unworthyness, and y e utter impossibility of my 
 Ever obtaining any better hold of your affections, than 
 what your blind partiallity now gives me & which I 
 much fear will diminish as you become more clear sighted. 
 Yet you shall never upbraid me with having deceived you. 
 I confess that I do not, nor ever will deserve you, so you 
 had better consider what you are about, & take a little 
 more time to consider than you seem enclined to do. 
 
 I must thank you for a most flattering, soothing & 
 pleasing Letter, but dare not attempt to answer it. Indeed 
 my good Friend and Sister in Spring Gardens l with whom 
 I dined charged me to write but Little and then go to 
 Bed, in both which I obey her in hopes that a good Night 
 will inspire me with so much pride and impertinence as I 
 was possess'd of yesterday. Good night my dear Friend, 
 accept the affectionate thanks of a most grateful Heart and 
 which is wholelly 
 
 Y rs 
 
 H. M. 
 
 Monday night. 
 
 A few months after Hester had become Lady Newdi- 
 gate, Sir Roger seems to have been called away to London, 
 probably on Parliamentary business, and their first parting 
 took place. During her husband's absence, Hester went 
 to stay at Newnham with her old friends Lord and Lady 
 Denbigh. Here both she and her only unmarried sister, 
 Nelly Mundy, appear to have been on terms of special 
 intimacy with their host and hostess. Lady Newdigate 
 sometimes speaks of Lady Denbigh as ' my mother,' which 
 may mean her godmother, for her own parents had died 
 some years previously. 
 
 1 Sir Eoger's town house.
 
 EARLY MARRIED DAYS 7 
 
 Though Hester does not date her letters, we learn from 
 her own words that these from Newnham were written 
 within a year from the time she first met Sir Roger. 
 
 MY DEAR, DEAE RUNAWAY, I could not begin a letter 
 to you last night though inclination with a long train of 
 powerful reasons pleaded for it. You see in this instance 
 an exact picture of the state of my temper & the motive 
 for my obstinacy will not soften y 6 colouring. The real 
 truth is that I am a very bad dissembler & cannot appear 
 what I am not, my spirits were foolishly low & I was 
 afraid if you found it out your Vanity w d lead you to sus- 
 pect that your absence was y e cause. Indeed I could not 
 myself find any better reason, for I was perfectly well, had 
 a most kind and pleasant reception from my friend & 
 sister, found the Latter in good health & the former 
 recovering from a severe attack of her Billious Complaint 
 & mending every hour, so that by the time we went to 
 Supper everybody was i jolly & happy excepting myself 
 & I felt a weight at my Heart that would not let it rise 
 but my partie quarree with Susanah & the two elders 
 has done wonders. 1 I now think of you no more & have 
 been troting round my old Acquaintance in y e Shrubery 
 with as much Glee as if I had not been transplanted into 
 another Soil ; but y e quantity of Rain that fell in y e Night 
 has made y e walks so wett that I could not stay out as 
 long as I wish'd to for my Companions are gone out on 
 horse back & I had a momentary inclination to mount 
 on a Pillion on the old Mare & make one of the Cavalcade, 
 but you have so often express 'd a fear of seeing me upon 
 
 1 This probably refers to the warm baths Lady N. was in the habit of 
 taking whenever an opportunity offered.
 
 8 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 four legs that I felt a doubt whether you w d approve. So 
 y e old Lady was ordered into y e Stable & I am now 
 much more agreably employ'd. We were so late before 
 we left Coventry that I am afraid you would not get so 
 far as you intended. We drank your health at 4 o'clock 
 & at ^ past 9 when Lady D. wonder'd how you was at 
 that instant employ'd, I boldly answer'd 'he is writing 
 to me.' I shall often have that absurd fancy if you do not 
 cure me of it. 
 
 Wednesday 2 o'clock. In about 16 hours I hope to 
 have the first Letter my Husband ever wrote me (for Lady 
 D. sends to Rugby from whence they come early) & I 
 just recollect this to be y e 1st time I ever address'd you in 
 y e Character of a Wife & yet it seems so natural that I 
 can hardly believe it. I find there is no need of practice 
 on my Side to make y e pen run glib (do you understand 
 that word?) therefore I entreat you give me no more 
 opportunities of wearing out my fingers & your Patience 
 in this way. 
 
 I have nothing of consequence to say but to remind 
 you of your promise to be careful of yourself & to return 
 to me as soon as possible. In that persuasion I shall be 
 happy until the time arrives. Last year at this time I 
 was so without knowing that you ever existed ; see the 
 mischief you have done me. 
 
 We read Gibbons (sic) last night & this morning has 
 gone I don't know how. We were late at breakfast, then 
 had prayers read by y e tedious Curate, after that a short 
 walk which has brought us to y e end of the morning. . . 
 
 I have been thinking what you shall bring me from 
 London Town and have determin'd it shall be a steal
 
 EARLY MARRIED DAYS 
 
 Chain for my Watch. I will have nothing else for I shall 
 not have a Want or Wish when I get you back again. 
 
 I have got ' Spieghero gli affetti mieci ' from Mrs. 
 Mundy ; it is pretty and suits my present humour but not 
 my abilities. I have try'd it but find it beyond me & is 
 so in. every sense, & so <& so your dear Becky leaves 
 you to imagine how much and how sincerely she is 
 
 Yours 
 
 HESTEE NEWDIGATE. 
 
 Behold his Lordship just arrived. He travell'd late last 
 night and was Eob'd a Little on this side Dunstable of 
 22 guineas & they took his Watch but on rec*. of his 
 purse return'd it. I hope you had no such Allarm. I 
 will now go down and see the Peer. 
 
 Wednesday night 11 o'clock. Tho' I am so sleepy 
 I can hardly hold my eyes open I cannot go to bed till I 
 have thanked my Dear Soul for a most sweet & kind 
 Letter which I have just read over for y e third time & 
 now I will pray for your preservation & happiness & 
 then try if I can dream of you. Good night. 
 
 Friday. So little sense had I last night that I mis- 
 took y e day of y e week (see y e date) and yet it was a Day 
 I had look'd for with impatience & which brought me 
 a most heartfelt pleasure. I hope to-morrow will do the 
 same for I am foolish enough to wish to know what you 
 do every hour. I would not for the world suspect that 
 you are a bit wiser in regard to me, therefore I shall tell 
 you that I slept well & that I and all my Companions 
 have been in a perfect state of health all day. 
 
 My Lord routed us out y e moment we had breakfasted
 
 10 
 
 to pass sentence upon some trees that are to be fell'd in 
 the Garden. That done we continu'd our Walk and both 
 y e day and our Party were so bright and agreable that 
 not one of us recollected it was prayer day till near one 
 o'Clock. Mr. Merrick had waited for us two hours & I 
 fear will charge this unusual irregularity to my ace*. 
 Prayers over my three companions mounted their horses 
 & I puzzled over ' Spieghero ' but made nothing of it. 
 The whole of this afternoon we have read Gibbons (sic) 
 & are come to y e Chapters to which I believe he owes 
 his fame ; for I really think as a History it is a moderate 
 performance. We have got Doct r Watson's answer & 
 intend to compare them as we go along. . . . 
 
 My Lord ask'd me this afternoon if I thought you 
 would have any objection to his game keeper going over for 
 a day to Arbury to beat for Wood Cocks with your keeper 
 in your woods as they are birds of passage, here to-day 
 & gone to-morrow. I thought there could be no objec- 
 tion & assented, but I have now taken fright not that I 
 discover any cause, but I feel as if I had done wrong. If 
 I have, reprove me as gently as you did once before, & 
 I will love you the better for it. If you really do not dis- 
 approve I shall not be sorry to have a little emulation 
 raised in our keeper by the puffing ace 1 Mr. Ladbrook 
 will give of his own performance. I do believe he is a 
 very honest & excellent game keeper for I never saw a 
 table so well supply'd. We have in y e 5 days that I 
 have been here had 2 brace & of partridges 7 Wood 
 Cocks & 5 snipes. 
 
 I can't talk about Plays & Operas until we meet but am 
 glad you are so Riotous. I read your News to L d D. & he
 
 EAELY MAREIED DAYS 11 
 
 is happy with it & always wants more. Lady D. says 
 no Latin lines shall draw me from Newnham till you 
 leave London. 
 
 Y e Dutchess of D. is charming. I hope you will 
 bring a hair dresser down with you that can make me 
 like her. Y e story about Lady How is very pretty. 
 
 To-night I can use my warm Bath which I can if 
 necessary repeat once or twice before I leave this place. 
 I know it will take away my pains & releave my 
 
 Spirits & your presence will perfect the cure 
 
 Nothing can be so fortunate for me as this opportunity of 
 Bathing which I cannot at present do conveniently at 
 
 home having neither Tub nor dressers. 
 
 Adieu, 
 
 Y w Ever. 
 
 Sunday evening. This has been a sweet Cold Day for 
 walking. I attended you in Idea from Church into the 
 Park which I believe you only went through & made a 
 doz. visits. 
 
 Lady Newdigate appear'd to-day for the first time at 
 Kirby Church, very genteelly dress'd I thought, but she 
 was greatly out done in height of Head and Ruffle by the 
 young Ladies of y 6 Village. I trotted round y 6 Shrubery 
 till I was quite Hot, which together with my Warm bath 
 last night has made me quite alive & well. You can't 
 
 imagine how much I find myself releaved by it 
 
 As to my Spirits they are rather above than below par. 
 My Mother says I shall want backening if I bathe any 
 more, which I shall certainly do & I believe on Tuesday 
 because his Lordship goes from y e Mayor's Feast at 
 Leicester to L d Wentworth's for a night.
 
 12 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 You will justly wonder what that can have to do with 
 my Bath, but you must know it is prepared for me in y e 
 Kitchen where he visits so perpetually that it is almost 
 impossible to conceal it from him, & as he pretends to 
 have heard & really seems fully persuaded that I am 
 in a situation w ch requires care, I know I sh'd be taken to 
 task & have so many comments upon it that it would 
 distress me. ... I am sorry to disappoint him, but fear 
 it is past doubt. 
 
 You begin your Letter like a dear Goose, & end it in 
 the same stile. . . . 
 
 I wish you would get me some Sassiperella (I don't 
 know whether I spell it right). I mean y e plant dry'd; 
 it is given as an anti-scorbutic, whether sold at the Herb 
 Shops or Apothecaries I know not, but if you want infor- 
 mation confine your enquiries amongst y e Lower Class 
 & don't say you want it for me, because there is a very 
 ridiculous story annex' d to it which I will tell you if you 
 don't know when you come down. It is late & I will 
 be prudent. Adieu.
 
 13 
 
 CHAPTEE II 
 
 1781 
 
 Nature had given Captain Wybrow an admirable figure, the whitest of 
 hands, the most delicate of nostrils, and a large amount of serene self-satis- 
 faction ; but as if to save such a delicate piece of work from any risk of 
 being shattered she had guarded him from the liability to strong emotion. 
 There was no list of youthful misdemeanours on record against him, and Sir 
 Christopher and Lady Cheverel thought him the best of nephews, the most 
 satisfactory of heirs, full of grateful deference to themselves, and above all 
 things guided by a sense of duty. MK. GILFIL'S LOVE-STOEY. 
 
 TOWARDS the end of June 1781 Lady Newdigate paid a 
 visit to Buxton in order to try a course of the waters, as 
 a cure for the rheumatic pains and sleeplessness from 
 which she had been suffering. She was accompanied by 
 her sister, Nelly Mundy, 1 and by Sir Koger's cousin and 
 supposed presumptive heir, Charles Parker, who at this 
 date must have been in his twenty-seventh year. Sir 
 Roger took the party to Buxton, established them there, 
 and then returned to Arbury to look after his hay. He 
 had retired from Parliament the previous year. 
 
 Lady Newdigate begins her journal -like correspondence 
 immediately after his departure. 
 
 Saturday 8 o 'Clock. I can almost say with truth that 
 I have at this instant no uneasiness but what your Absence 
 occasions ; it has not been so all day, but no doubt every 
 occurrence & sensation has taken a colouring from it. 
 Indeed we have all been foolish & Low, Charles and Nelly 
 have scarcely utter'd a word except on y e subject of your 
 
 1 Nelly Mundy was two years Hester's junior, and the only unmarried 
 member of the family. She seems to have been in great request, especially 
 in times of sickness and trouble.
 
 14 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Journey, for which I felt oblig'd as it is the only one my 
 heart can joyn in at present. To-morrow I hope to be wiser. 
 
 What a bold man you are to hazzard your wife's 
 Character at such a Place as Buxton by sending a Lattin 
 note open by a Postillion ! I daresay it had been read by 
 Doc tr Robertson and all y e Learned Men here before it 
 came to my hands. Well, I may be proud to be thought 
 capable of inspiring such sentiments & not ashamed to 
 understand & return y e like tho' I cannot find so readily 
 a quotation that will do Justice to my heart. I did not 
 make it out entirely to my satisfaction & as Nelly & 
 Charles were both present & eagerly enquiring the Con- 
 tents of my Note I was vain enough to show it to y c 
 Latter & to make him explain it, which he did in very 
 Elegant words. . . . We are as to numbers much as when 
 you left us, but two-thirds at least are new and are like 
 those they follow, equally unknowing and unknown. The 
 Howes * are constant in their attention to us, indeed Lady 
 H. is as anxious about me as if I was her sister. . . . 
 
 9 o'Clock. We have pray'd, Jumbled & drank Tea, 
 Charles is gone to sup above to see y e humours of y e 
 Company whilst we finish our post. ... I am pure well 
 this evening & mean to try again to sleep without 
 assistance. 
 
 Then follows a postscript from Nelly Mundy : 
 
 Here come I with my mouse flies, but the Dear Naughty 
 Hetty has left me nothing to say . . . she tells me she 
 
 1 Viscount Howe, the celebrated Admiral, who was advanced to an 
 earldom in 1788. He married Mary, daughter of Chiverton Hartopp, Esq., 
 of Welby, Notts.
 
 LIFE AT BUXTON 15 
 
 has given a full ace* of herself, if she has I'm sure it 
 is a mighty pretty story. ... I hope to be able to say 
 at least as pleasant things next post so I will leave you 
 to your Haymaking when I have made my Complaints of 
 my flirt. Why did not you take him away with you ? 
 He has now told me in plain terms that I am so bold & 
 ugly he can't bear to look at me. This is a breach you 
 may believe that never can be made up. . . . 
 
 Yrs 
 i 
 
 MOUSEY. 
 Lady Newdigate writes next : 
 
 Monday evening. This has been a good day . . . 
 have been more free from head than usual ... & been 
 very pretty company all day. I don't know whether 
 Nelly & Charles will vouch for that but I daresay y e 
 Viscount [Howe] will, with whom I have flirted many 
 times to-day. They came & sat by us whilst we devour'd 
 our Arbury pine though they would not partake, & we 
 drank our Tea with them and y e conversation was kept 
 up very pleasantly till Supper bell rang. Charles & his 
 Lordship are sworn friends. I begin to suspect y e former 
 worms himself into y e good graces of y e Latter by your 
 order, to find out his sentiments in regard to me. Now 
 I'll give the pen to Charles. 
 
 From Charles Parker on the same sheet : 
 
 I take it for granted Lady N. has sent you the fullest 
 account of herself, therefore will not presume to say any- 
 thing more. . . . Nelly is honest enough to confess that 
 she has put some of my speeches in no favourable light. 
 But worst of all ! I have made a sad Blunder this
 
 16 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Evening to Lady Howe which his Lordship did not let 
 slip. I must seriously recollect myself & be more upon 
 my Guard. I must now make my Complaints. They tell 
 you I went to the Supper last night to see the Company, 
 the fact was They would give me none, but told me, like 
 little Eliza, that Tea was to be my Supper & so to 
 Bed. After such usage you may guess we shall not be 
 very cordial and I shall be ready to hatch up any Mischief 
 ag st them. I shall be a good Spy whose chief Excel- 
 lence consists of being as Ill-natured as possible. We 
 shall be at constant Variance, so come as soon as you can 
 & keep us from any further Mischief. Adieu. 
 
 Lady Newdigate writes : 
 
 Tuesday. I bathed before dinner thought y e Bath 
 pleasant as I had it all to myself & found that y 6 Bath 
 Maid could swim. I took her in to give me a Lesson. I 
 believe I sh'd make something out of it if she could attend 
 me constantly, but y 6 like favourable opportunity may not 
 happen again whilst I stay. . . . We have had right 
 Buxton weather ever since you went, y e way to y e well 
 almost impassable. They laid planks over y e hollow for 
 some days which danced as we went over & splashed 
 us. Now they have fill'd it up with dirt and made it much 
 worse. We have been forc'd to get high Pattins & with 
 them we do vastly well. It is a fine afternoon but I doubt 
 will rain again. I long to hear it is sunshine at Arbury, 
 when will you bring it back to us ? Y r Hay wants it at 
 present & indeed I am not so selfish to wish you with 
 me just now, for you could not get out for Amusement or 
 health.
 
 LIFE AT BUXTON 17 
 
 From Nelly Mundy 
 
 "Pis very hard upon poor me, I really can't get in a 
 word edgeways. Charles promised to leave me a page 
 & did it in a delightful awkward puzzling manner : then 
 comes this vile Hetty & fills it all up with all the news 
 of the place & every thing worth relating except that I 
 am in great spirits, w cb is I know as important a piece 
 of intelligence as you can receive. . . . 
 
 From Lady Newdigate 
 
 Thursday. ... A parcel of Vulgars arrived just at 
 dinner time yesterday & took possession of our places & 
 w d not give them up which w d have made an unplea- 
 sant Biot had not y e Howes taken us to their Table. . . . 
 We had a famous Ball last night, 9 or 10 Couple with 
 many Beauties from y e White Hart, but Charles w d not 
 notice them. We did prevail on him to ask Miss Butter- 
 wick & Miss Dawson but they being engaged he w d dance 
 with nobody but Nelly. . . . 
 
 From Nelly Mundy 
 
 Buxton, July the 13th. Lady Howe being gone out of 
 Airing with Lady N. & Charles on horseback, I for once 
 have an opportunity of getting the start of both in begin- 
 ning a Letter to you, & thank God I have a very pleasant 
 story to tell for our dear Hetty has had as much refresh- 
 ing sleep as the various noises w d admit of, & a repetition 
 of those disturbances are prevented in future by the very 
 friendly attention of L d and L dy Howe who insist upon 
 exchanging apartments. Hetty objected strongly, upon
 
 18 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 w* h it was refer'd to me & as I have no Idea that such a 
 proposal cou'd Occur to any body who had not goodness 
 of heart enough sincerely to wish it might be accepted, I 
 at once acquiesced in the thing, but thought it incumbent 
 on us to make it as little inconvenient to them as possible, 
 therefore we call'd in Mrs. Fox [the landlady] & have 
 with her assistance procured another dressing room for L d 
 Howe & prevented the necessity of their quitting their 
 Bed Chamber & this has quieted all scruples of Conscience 
 amongst us. ... 
 
 We had a great many beauties here on Wednesday 
 night & Charles Parker gave a fresh instance of his 
 partiality for Old Women by slighting them all to dance 
 with me. ... I need not tell you I hope that I will take 
 all possible care of our Dear Invaluable Treasure, or that 
 we all love you and that I am, 
 
 Most affectionately y rs 
 
 N. MUNDY. 
 
 From Lady Newdigate 
 
 Saturday, 2 o'clock. If I was not afraid of your very 
 jealous disposition I sh'd be tempted to own that the last 
 2 days & nights have entirely reconciled me to y e Loss 
 of you. You have no Idea how y 6 Noise, confusion & 
 various agremens of this place are increased. We are now 
 fuller than any of my Bee hives for we send out swarms 
 every night to y 6 neighbouring Lodging houses & take 
 them into feed in y 6 day, a practice they say unknown 
 before. 
 
 Nelly told you yesterday how very friendly L d and 
 Lady Howe had been in offering to change appartments
 
 LIFE AT BUXTON 19 
 
 with us. I sh'd have been quite unhappy to have accepted 
 so much as that, & yet I really think if I could not have 
 got a quiet Eoom by any other means I must have done so 
 or have removed to some other house, but very fortunately 
 we have accommodated matters so well that I have every 
 advantage from their attention without any inconvenience 
 to them, except L (1 Howe's being without a dressing Room 
 for one day. I wish'd to have waited till he got one, but 
 he very Politely & kindly made his Serv fa remove all his 
 things into their Bed Chamber & insisted on my sleeping 
 in the Lamb, for so my habitation is call'd & well de- 
 serves y Name, for I heard nothing. . . . To give you an 
 Idea of our Numbers I need only tell you that y 8 instant 
 I left my Room Lady Gall way, her Sister & two Maids 
 went into it. There they all sleep, dress, etc. In short 
 it's y" only Room they have to retire to. The Edmon- 
 stones have the Parlour Mrs. Ratliffe quited. They are 
 magnificent People indeed, have a most splendid Equipage 
 with supporters & four fine horses, 2 Laced postillions, 
 serv' out of livery, footmen I know not how many, etc. In 
 short neither the Howes nor Lady Newdigate are worthy 
 regard before them. He is a Nova Scotia Baronet & 
 fancys he is to take place of all English Bar te but they 
 tell me we are not to let him. If that is really so & 
 they give themselves airs I shall be apt to walk before her 
 Ladyship in a quiet way when occasion offers. Both he 
 and She seem mighty distant, but perhaps we may mistake 
 y 6 Motive. 
 
 Ten at Night. . . . We have a scheme of getting for 
 a couple of Nights out of this Buxton Fog, Noise & 
 confusion which nothing but y e efficacy of these Waters 
 
 c 2
 
 20 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 could enable one to live a week in. I sh'd be happier if I 
 knew you approved our Plan but flatter myself you will. 
 We mean to set out as soon as prayers are over in our 
 Chaise, send Mrs. Lowe before to walk up y Hill, then 
 take her in & proceed gently to Dishly, Dine & stay 
 there 2 or 3 hours & then proceed to our friend Starkie 
 at Manchester with whom we shall spend a quiet day & 
 return in the same gentle manner on tuesday which I 
 think will do us good & our horses no harm. 
 
 Nelly Mundy writes : 
 
 Dishly 5 o' Clock. We arrived here at 3 are just going 
 to proceed to Manchester, have had a charming pleasant 
 morning airing expect the evening to be as refreshing & 
 beneficial after a most Luxurious Dinner of Mutton Steaks, 
 Host Chicken, Pease & tart eaten with a good appetite. 
 . . . You can't imagine how we have enjoy'd our quiet 
 dinner in a neat pretty room looking into beds of flowers 
 & flowering shrubs . . . the Chaise is order'd so adieu. 
 
 From the same 
 
 Manchester Monday morning. When we arrived 
 here we were told that the South post did not go out till 
 Eleven this morning, so I kept the Letter to give you the 
 latest account. She bore her journey vastly well tho' the 
 last 14 miles were very Stoney & made her head ache a little 
 
 but a dish of Tea refresh'd her It is a lovely day. 
 
 This will be a Charming Hay Day for you. I hope we 
 shall all do our Work well, God Almighty prosper us ! 
 
 Y etc., 
 
 N. M.
 
 LIFE AT BUXTON 21 
 
 From Lady Newdigate 
 
 Starkie Castle Monday. Not a word of thanks did 
 I send in y e Letter that went this Morn for a pretty 
 piece of folly which came enclosed in yours. Indeed my 
 dear Life you are too good to me, it is an odd thing to say 
 but very true that y e flattery you bestow upon me 
 makes me feel more humble than anything I ever met 
 with, because I am conscious that I owe it more to 
 your partiallity than to your Judgment, but don't you 
 examine that point too nicely. It is proper that I sh'd be 
 sensible of it & that I sh'd endeavour to be the being 
 you so fondly paint. I will indeed my dear Love, my 
 heart feels as it ought every instance of your kindness & 
 does not yield to yours in warmth of affection, tho' I have 
 not a pen that can speak it so agreably. God bless you, 
 write on & never grow wiser. 
 
 Starkie is y e happiest of all mortals, she Lodges us 
 very Comfortably ; her house is quite a Little Baby 
 House, delightfully situated for a town, Looking into 
 Gardens & so quiet after y 6 Noise of Buxton, that it 
 will require some resolution to return. ... If I am stout 
 to-morrow will go in my Chaise to the Infirmary to see 
 these curious Baths the fame of which make a topic of 
 conversation at Buxton. They say they are superior to 
 any in this or any other Kingdom. 
 
 Starkie desires to add her Comp ts . 
 
 From the same, from Buxton 
 
 Friday 11 o'C. Lord Howe is just going to send 
 a Serv* to Middleton who will put this into y e Post to- 
 night at Lichfield. Y e Death of Mr. Whetham is y 8
 
 22 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 cause of this messenger being sent. Lady Howe supposes 
 the two sisters to be at Middleton & means to go to 
 them if they wish for her ; l she will be a real Loss to me 
 but indeed I meet with many friends. Sneyd girls are 
 come, both pretty but Mary quite Beautiful. Adieu. 
 Venison was delightful & y e Bones pick'd. 
 
 Lady Newdigate's next letter begins with a graphic 
 account of how she doctored herself for a headache with 
 an emetic followed by six opium pills, with lamentable 
 results, though after a bad day she was able to eat two 
 wings of a boiled chicken at night. She goes on to say : 
 
 Poor dear Charles was so shocked when I came down 
 last night & thought me so unable to sit up that he set 
 off immediately in search of an Easy Chair or Couch, 
 heard there was one at y e Grove Coffee House in a private 
 parlour belonging to a Mr. & Mrs. Eobertson. Away 
 went he without knowing anything of y c people & beg'd 
 they w d give it up to me, which they very politely con- 
 sented to & Just when I was thinking of returning to my 
 Bed Chamber a most delightful Easy Couch made its 
 entrance in at my Window, for it was too Large to gain 
 admittance through y e Door. It is not to be imagined 
 what instant relief it was to me. ... I feel uncommonly 
 well to-day, have been this Evening to wait upon Mrs. 
 Robertson with my thanks and find she knows you .... 
 and almost all my Connections. I met Mr. B. as I came 
 out, he said a thousand Civil things about y e Dear Couch, 
 desires me to keep it & wishes to see you. So do others 
 
 1 In a later chapter we hear a great deal more of these two sisters, Mrs. 
 Whetham and Lady Middleton, the daughters of Evelyn Chadwick, Esq., of 
 Lincoln and West Leake, Notts.
 
 LIFE AT BUXTON 23 
 
 also, yet I do not advise you to come yet, We are fuller 
 than ever, 69 were fed to-day at y e Long Table & three 
 side Tables. Your Brother Baronet has made an attempt 
 to change y Dinner & Supper hours to 3 & 9 but it 
 does not take ; they are very troublesome discontented 
 people. I believe if you had seen y beautiful Mrs. Fox 
 in Tears as I did last night you w d have Challeng'd y c old 
 Square Toes & poor Charles was in part y e innocent 
 cause. It is quite impossible for him to keep out of a 
 Scrape. Being examined by y Bart in regard to our 
 Suppers and what we paid, he own'd that we were charged 
 but one Shilling & it seems they pay two. Upon this 
 Poor Mrs. Fox was attack'd & abused in very gross 
 terms. So in she came to us with streaming eyes to beg 
 we w d explain to y 6 Edmonstones that our Suppers were 
 never anything more than a Tart & Cold Chicken which 
 we Eat when y e Company went to Supper above, whereas 
 the E....S order a hot supper of 5 or 6 dishes to be got at 
 9 o'Clock. I assured her I w d do all in my power to set 
 y c affair in its proper light which I have done, but her 
 Ladyship made me a Short answer & looks so haughty 
 & disagreable that I believe our Acquaintance will end 
 there. . . . What nice Venison you have sent this week ! 
 y e fattest that I ever tasted. Y e Howes have also weekly 
 of which we partake & of most delightful Cherries, 
 Strawberries & Gooseberries fresh every other day from 
 Chadsworth. Y e Pine, Melon & Apricots you sent were 
 also good, but it is quite grievous to see y e total destruc- 
 tion of so much fine Orange & Myrtle. It is squeezed 
 irrecoverably & imbibed y e smell of y e Venison so 
 strongly that no Soaking in Water, Airing or other
 
 24 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 means yet discovered will bring it about. Don't mangle 
 y e poor Trees any more for us ... ten O'Clock, my 
 bathing hour so Adieu. 
 
 Sunday is properly a Festival & you have taken care 
 I shall keep it as such. What a delightful Breakfast 
 you sent me ! Three packets containing 4 Letters, that 
 is y product. . . . 
 
 At five yesterday Nelly & I went on y e Ashbourn 
 Koad attended by Lumber [a horse] with pillion & 
 Charles's John to attend. At y e Carriers Inn I mounted 
 & took y e opposite charming flat and striped Road 
 between y 6 two Walls to the Village you & I first found 
 out. It suits me so well that you may venture to suppose 
 me trotting there every evening from six to seven. . . . 
 At 10 went into y 6 Bath with Lettice my Mistress 
 & y e two Nellys l as spectators. No ground can I gain 
 or more properly I cannot lose it ; in vain do I try to 
 throw myself in as she does & skim along, down plump 
 I go to y e Bottom. Nelly was much entertained with 
 my very awkward attempts. . . . 
 
 Morning prayers were at ^ past 12 to-day & Evening 
 at six, but I had half an hour's trot on y e Little Common 
 byFairfield. On our return coming over y e bridge a Post 
 Coach & four drove full Gallop against us & had not the 
 Gentlemen obliged y e Postillions to Stop w d have canted 
 us down the high bank into y e brook. They did Lock our 
 Wheel but as Will m stood firm & they were stop'd in time 
 we came off with a fright only. . . . Your restlessness about 
 our continuance in this Noise has been of infinite advan- 
 tage to us. I mention'd to y e Howes when at dinner 
 1 Nelly Mundy and her maid, also called ' Nelly.'
 
 LIFE AT BUXTON 25 
 
 to-day in more than usual Noise & heat that you wish'd 
 me to Dine in my own Parlour, upon which Lady H. 
 say'd why sh'd we not make a proposal of y e kind to Mrs. 
 Fox. Accordingly it was done, agreed to, & we are 
 the happiest people you can conceive with y e Idea of our 
 quiet meals which are to begin to-morrow. God bless you, 
 continue your good nights & when he thinks fit grant 
 me y e like. 
 
 Tuesday. Bath last night Charming, but make no 
 progress in Swimming. Lettice says 'I am afraid y r 
 Lad sp will never be bold enough,' but who knows what a 
 fortnight more at Buxton may make of me. . . . 
 
 Charles Parker writes on the same sheet : 
 
 . . . How much longer are we to live with* you? 
 What can we do to entice you to us ? Will a Mounte- 
 bank, a Conjuror, a Baffle have any influence over you ? 
 Hoc juyat ? I'm afraid you will go on to say : ' Horum 
 semper ego,' etc. etc. What do you say to 60 People in 
 the Long Room at an Assembly? (For these are the 
 Joys of our dancing Days.) Will that do any better? 
 ' No,' you will answer, ' still worse.' Well, now for my 
 third and last expedient, I hope that will not fail to bring 
 you. Tis the better Health & better Spirits of your 
 dear Hetty, I hope in God we can promise you that, so 
 Venez, voyez & Jouissez. Adieu. Good night. 
 
 CHAS. PARKER. 
 
 Nelly Mundy writes on Thursday night : 
 
 The Dear Soul has eat a good Supper of Plumb Pye 
 & a glass of wine & is going in Glee to Swim. . . .
 
 26 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Never was so riotous a day as yesterday, Cottillions 
 morning, noon & night, & after that singing & drinking 
 Champagne till 4 o'Clock in the morning. Some of 
 the men in bed all day to-day but enough sober'd to 
 make out a Cottillion to-night. I believe I need not tell 
 you that Charles took no Share of the Gallons of Wine 
 that were swallow'd. I am apt to believe that he never 
 does anything more wrong than making rude speeches 
 to me. As I am left alone & have nothing more very 
 interesting to tell you I'll go and see what the rioters are 
 about, so good-night. 
 
 From Lady Newdigate 
 
 Friday, 5 o'C. Bathing goes on (I had like to have 
 said) swimmingly but that is not true. Lettice was mis- 
 taken in thinking I sh'd never be Bold. I can throw 
 myself with a Spring forward upon y e Water & go 
 plump to y e Bottom as direct as any stone, then shake 
 my ears & try again with y e like success . . . but it is 
 a charming exercise. Just as we were sitting down to 
 dinner in L d Howe's Parlour arrived my Brother ; l he 
 rode from Shipley & according to his usual Luck was 
 twice wet to the skin. . . . They ask me if you will be 
 here before Monday. I answer I know not when you 
 come & I suppose you say it is my fault that you are 
 not here now. Indeed, indeed my D r Soul you w d not 
 be so happy with us as you are in y r Hayfield for which 
 I say don't come to make a Stay, only Just to take me out 
 of Pawn. 
 
 1 Edward Miller Mundy, Esq., of Shipley, near Derby, Lady Newdigate' 
 only surviving brother and the youngest of the family. He was born in 1750.
 
 LIFE AT BUXTON 27 
 
 There is one more letter from Lady Newdigate to her 
 husband before he arrives to escort her back. In it she 
 answers all his suggestions for their journey categorically, 
 under numbered heads, and at the end goes on : 
 
 6 tbly I do command you to come to Buxton as soon as 
 possible after the rec* of this Letter ; Saturday I think 
 sh d be the Latest ; 7 thly I rejoyce with you most sincerely 
 that tuesday sennight is so near at hand & you will 
 rejoyce still more with me that our pains & mortifica- 
 tions are likely to be well repaid. Indeed, indeed I am 
 full of pleasing hope. . . . 
 
 In this batch of letters is included a paper in Charles 
 Parker's handwriting, which contains some lines evidently 
 composed by him, but largely corrected by Sir Eoger's 
 pen. 
 
 TO THE NAIAD OF BUXTON WELL 
 
 Sweet Nymph that sporting in the tepid stream 
 Shakest from thy auburn locks the roseate bloom 
 Of Health & Joy, Haste thee sweet Nymph & shed 
 Thy choicest influence o'er my Etta's Head ! 
 
 Haste thee sweet Nymph ! 
 
 And in its steamy Tides 
 
 Whatever thy potent wave 
 
 Under its limpid Crystall hides 
 Present to close the languid aking eye 
 And lull to sweet repose the lingering Sense. 
 
 Haste thee sweet Nymph & shed 
 
 On her thy choicest influence ! 
 
 Nor shall thou deem thy labor vain 
 
 For ne'er did a more gentle Mind 
 
 With manly sense & polish'd arts refin'd
 
 28 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Her well turn'd limbs plunge in thy mystic stream. 
 
 Haste thee Nymph & far away 
 Drive thrilling pain and wan inquietude 
 That tinges sickly pale the faded cheek 
 And writhing Spasm and wakeful lassitude 
 And whatsoe'er of ill yet lurks unseen 
 And whatsoever our trembling thoughts forebode 
 
 Give to the saffron-robed Wye 
 To bear far off upon her rock-born Wave 
 In headlong plunges down her high wall'd course 
 To sanguine Derwent or Trent's stately Flood. 
 Daughter of Phoebus and Hygeia fair 
 Haste thee Nymph and hither bear 
 Whate'er of healing drug or vapor bland 
 Treasur'd in lofty caverns deep 
 Midst thy fermenting minerals sleep, 
 Potent the labouring limbs to free 
 And sooth the pangs of misery. 
 Nor torture him who pendent o'er her couch 
 Now pours incessant vows before high heaven 
 
 Now when she droops forlorn 
 In sullen silence hides the wat'ry eye, 
 
 Forbids the throbbing heart to move 
 And checks the rising sigh. 
 
 Haste thee sweet Nymph 
 Two faithful hearts in one to save. 
 
 So shall thy far fam'd Wave 
 Thro' distant lands in ages yet to come 
 
 Be celebrated in poetic lore 
 Thy lovely flowing locks to bind 
 Grateful shall each the Chaplet weave 
 The laurell with the mistle intertwine 
 And Bladud's boasted springs shall yield to thine.
 
 29 
 
 CHAPTEK III 
 
 1781 
 
 Lady Cheverel . . . being herself on principle and by habitual self-com- 
 mand the most deferential of wives, she noticed with disapproval Miss 
 Assher's occasional air of authority towards Captain Wybrow. A prond 
 woman who has learnt to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement 
 of her submission and looks down with some superiority on all feminine 
 assumption as ' unbecoming.' MB. GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY. 
 
 IN the autumn of the same year, 1781, Lady Newdigate 
 paid a second visit to Buxton for a supplementary course 
 of the waters. She left Arbury on September 24 in com- 
 pany with her brother, ' Ned ' Mundy. They got as far as 
 his house, Shipley Hall, near Derby, the same evening, 
 where they were welcomed by Fanny [Mrs. Mundy ! ] and 
 Nelly, their unmarried sister. 
 
 Lady Newdigate writes to Sir Roger : 
 
 We got here by the Light of a Little clear Moon at 
 little after seven, sh'd have had no need of its assistance 
 had not y e nut of the fore wheel come off. Ned discover'd 
 y c loss before the wheel follow'd it, so y e whole ended in a 
 little delay & I have taken care to have it well secured 
 against to-morrow. Fanny & Nelly were overjoy'd to 
 see us, y e former looks better than I expected & seem'd 
 in good spirits but Nelly whisper'd me that she was much 
 
 1 Mrs. Edward Mundy was the daughter and co-heir of Godfrey Meynell, 
 of Yeldersley, near Derby. She was in failing health at this time, and a 
 visit to Lisbon had been projected for her benefit.
 
 30 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 hurt & fretted with y e Contents of a Letter she found 
 here from Mrs. Meynell disapproving entirely the Lisbon 
 scheme, magnifying all y" difficulties & dangers of y e 
 Voyage & telling her that her Uncle Doct r Hunter of 
 York is of opinion that y e sea sickness might be attended 
 with y e most fatal consequences to her. Fanny soon after 
 inform'd Ned of this & gave him y 6 Letter which he 
 pocketed & beg'd the subject might not be enter'd upon 
 till to-day. I see he is horridly vext but he utters nothing 
 that can hurt her. They have had a long tete-a-tete since 
 which she seems in better spirits, & has several times 
 mention'd Lisbon as y " only place thought on, but I fear 
 they will have a sad & perplexing scene to go through 
 with y e Meynells to-morrow. Fanny seems very sorry that 
 we don't stay to talk it over with them & has said all she 
 can to persuade, but I plead your orders being peremptory 
 & both Nelly & I are much obliged to you for giving 
 us such a plea, for I am convinced if we were to give an 
 opinion it w d rather do harm than good. . . . Both 
 Father & Mother seem inclined to committ Frederick 
 & Henry to our Care ; they are two sweet Poppets, but 
 quite of the fairy kind. . . . 
 
 What a Storm of Cold Wind have we had all last night 
 and to-day ! to be sure it makes one Shudder with y e Idea 
 of mounting y e Peak Hills but our object is profit & not 
 pleasure so we shall not be discouraged. The dear Nelly 
 seems quite happy that she has it in her power to devote 
 herself to our Service. We mean to set out at 9 & hope 
 to be at Buxton by ^ past 6 at y e latest. . . . 
 
 Buxton, Wednesday night 9 o' Clock. We arrived well 
 & without any accident soon after seven. . . . Y e Eoad
 
 AN AFTER-COURSE AT BUXTON 31 
 
 hinder'd us for y e Lime Carts have cut it sadly, so we did 
 not get to Matlock till past one. I think I need not add 
 that we were pretty well & JoHy when I have told you 
 that on hearing the Company in y e Long Room were to 
 dine in half an hour We preferr'd Joyning them rather 
 than wait to have a dinner dress'd ; but what was my 
 astonishment to see no less than sixty covers laid & every 
 place fill'd. We modestly took our Seats at y e Lower End 
 which fortunately was one of y e warmest places in y e 
 Boom & ate up almost a whole Shoulder of Mutton & 
 dish of Potatoes which stood by us, believing ourselves to 
 be totally unknowing and unknown ; but when hunger 
 was satisfy'd & we began to look about us we discover'd 
 at another table Lady Eliz. Chaplin, her three daughters, 
 Lady Bromley, Miss Curzon (L d Scarsdale's daughter), 
 Mrs. Bathurst & old Hewitt of Nottinghamshire. As 
 Lady E. Chaplin was a very Old Acquaintance we thought 
 it right to make ourselves known, were very politely & 
 kindly rec d & much pressed to continue in their Xmas 
 party for such they look upon it ; the wind cannot be colder 
 at that season. 
 
 On our arrival here we were shewn into our own par- 
 lour where there was a comfortable fire, so took it for 
 granted all things were ready for our reception, but Mrs. 
 Fox soon appear'd & discover'd to us that we were not 
 expected till friday ; my second Letter which told of our 
 coming to-day is not arrived. So y e Booms Mrs. Fox 
 intended for us are wanted & the Lyon and Lamb 
 engaged by the L d President of Scotland till ye 1 st 
 Monday in Oct br which is about the time she says we 
 order'd them to be kept. But we have got a good well-
 
 32 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 aired double-bedded Room for to-night & I dare say 
 shall be able to fix ourselves to our Minds to-morrow. . . . 
 Good night, I am going to Bathe but not in my Cork 
 Waistcoat as I find Mrs. Beresford bathes at y e same 
 time. 
 
 Thursday morning With September. . . . If I sh'd go 
 to Sheffield which must depend on the Weather and my 
 own Feelings, it will probably be about Monday sennight. 
 You have given me Leave to have desert knives which it 
 w d be a pity not to have to suit y e others. My Brother 
 has Knives & forks also made to suit his Silver ones, so 
 exact that they can't be distinguish'd, which are used only 
 in y s manner I proposed viz. : when y e others run short. 
 The Carving Knives are also very handsome. I remember 
 you liked them for that purpose at Wotton & Keel. 
 Consider y e matter and Let me know your pleasure for I 
 sh'd be sorry to go a Step beyond it. I have been inter- 
 rupted by a Visit from Mrs. and Miss Anson. The former 
 observed how comfortable we were in this Parlour, said 
 she hoped we meant to Joyn them at dinner. I told her 
 y e Weather was too severe for me an Invalid to hazzard 
 being placed w th my Back to y e Door which I appre- 
 hended must be y e case if I went into y e Eoom above. 
 She said yes that I certainly sh d for they had been a Week 
 in those cold places & were not much better off yet. 
 She envied us our warm parlour & I am sure I sincerely 
 pity them with twenty thousand a year & two Parlours 
 disengaged ever since they came, that they chuse to submit 
 to such hazzard and inconvenience. 
 
 I like my new Maid much, she is gentle & modest 
 & seems as if she w d be tidy. You will not think her
 
 AN AFTER-COURSE AT BUXTON 33 
 
 handsome enough, but she is not ugly & is very 
 genteel. . . . 
 
 We have got a Boom which I think I shall like better 
 than y e Lyon. It is directly under it, is much more 
 cheerful & pleasant & I think must be as warm and 
 quiet, & y e next Room to it will be at Liberty to-morrow 
 so you may suppose us fairly settled. 
 
 I enclose Mr. Barton's l account for Tea, y e sum frights 
 one but if y e Common Tea runs (as Mr. B. says it does) 
 near 80p ds y e Chest it will answer well. Y e best is full 16 s 
 a pound but Mundys & Newdigates 2 who have also a 
 lot & who have also had from y e Shops since y e new 
 Tax was laid, say it is better than what you can buy for 
 18 s . I tell you all this to console you & further will 
 promise it shall last a great while. ... I have used you 
 with uncommon ceremony, which I hope won't be lost 
 upon you, nothing but Gilt Paper could be got at Last 
 Night, but don't expect y e Like again. 
 
 Friday 2 o' Clock, Sept r 28th. Our plan of Living is 
 now so fixt that you may know where to find us any hour 
 of the day. We rise at 7, drink water till nine, Breakfast, 
 pray at 10, Jumble and trot from Eleven till one, drink 
 water, put on a clean shirt, dine at ^ past 2, write, read 
 work & play upon y e Guittar all y e Evening, sup at 8, 
 Bathe at 10 & then to bed. The Lyon & Lamb are 
 fools to our present appartment. I did not know there 
 were any so thoroughly comfortable & pleasant. L d 
 President may stay as long as he pleases, I will not change 
 
 1 James Barton, Esq., who was the husband of Lady Newdigate's youngest 
 sister, ' Milly.' 
 
 2 Francis Newdigate, Esq., of Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, and his wife, 
 n6e Sneyd. 
 
 D
 
 34 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 . . . Don't be vext when you hear we did not get our 
 things from Arbury yesterday. Y e Carrier says his 
 Waggon was so full he could not bring them, but that 
 they positively will be here to-morrow morning. It is 
 of no consequence, for Ned insisted on my Bringing a 
 Bottle of his fine old Madeira for fear we sh'd not get 
 good wine at Matlock & I have enough of it to last a 
 day or two. 
 
 Do you know that we drink of y e old St. Ann ? and 
 that it is actually (notwithstanding all that Carr told you) 
 more than a degree and half warmer than y e new Well. 
 It seems that very soon after we went away y e Company 
 wrote to Carr & insisted on having y 6 Old Well restored, 
 or they w d all leave y e place. He pleaded impossibility, 
 the Wall of the Hotel, that is to be, being exactly built 
 upon it, upon which some familys quited y e place & a 
 parcel of spirited Men got some Masons & actually 
 pick'd a Hole in y e Wall till they came to y 6 Spring. 
 This brought an order from Carr (who durst not appear 
 himself) to Arch over y e Spring, which is done in form of 
 a little Nich just to prevent y e Bain getting in, & y e 
 Old Women dip their glasses through a hole in y e Wall. 
 That fine Octagon Building & fine Pump are entirely 
 deserted, y e News of which was no sooner spread abroad 
 than Company came in numbers from every quarter & 
 continue to do so. God knows who they are but no less 
 than seven post Chaises, a Post Coach & 3 Phaetons 
 have arrived since yesterday morning. . . . Only think 
 what the Old St. Ann may do for me when her deputy did 
 so much ! I expect to be so beautify'd & improved 
 that you will not know me. ... A thousand longings I
 
 AN AFTER-COUKSE AT BUXTON 35 
 
 have, one is for a Barrow of Griff 1 Coals, for these are 
 detestable but cheap enough, sixpence a day for each fire 
 be they great or small. . . . 
 
 Saturday Sep r 2Qth. Another lovely looking day, 
 but high cold wind. . . . Edw d goes behind y c Chaise 
 & generally walks up the Hills, or I think he c d hardly 
 stand y e Cold, but I hear no complaints but of Lodging. 
 They were y e 1 st night in a Boom with about a doz n , 
 where y e Wind blew through their Beds ; they are now 
 got into one which contains but 3 Beds but no warmer 
 than y 6 first. I shall send for Mrs. Fox & make a rout 
 but fear we shall get no redress. I believe I must offer to 
 pay something for a room for them if I can't get one 
 without. All y e footmen have got such Colds & Coughs 
 that it is terrible to hear them as they stand at y e Door. 
 
 Sunday Sep r 30th. It has poured all this Day 
 with out a moment's interruption or even Abatement, but 
 with y e help of Pattins & Parapluies we got to y e Well. 
 Old S* Ann is rather nearer than y 8 New; the poor 
 Dippers sit soaking without the least Shed to Cover them. 
 It is cruel that they don't make them some shelter. . . . 
 I fancy out of seventy-four that y e Long Room Contain'd 
 to-day there might be six names (our two included) that 
 are not unknown to you. Such a parcel of Shabs I never 
 beheld. How did I rejoyce that you were not here. You 
 c d not play Whist all day with Mr. Anson & the Dun- 
 dass's nor amuse yourself with Mr. W kf d's doleful 
 face & conversation & there is nothing Else for you. 
 I daresay we are abused for shutting ourselves up but it 
 is impossible to go amongst them. . . . What a sad story 
 1 The coal mine on the Arbury estate. 
 
 D 2
 
 36 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 of y e Poor Man kill'd in y 6 Pits ! too sick to dwell upon ! 
 We must turn our attention towards y e Poor Widow & 
 Children. . . . Y e Carrier was honest, the things came 
 yesterday & we tuned Guittars & strum'd most of the 
 Evening but that circumstance made us acquainted with 
 a most Cruel Loss. John Music is gone, y e Dear Man 
 that used to save me the trouble of tuning. We are 
 going to Supper upon Craw Fish & Eoasted Potatoes. 
 ... A Scrap from Shipley says that Lisbon will still 
 be y 6 Place. 
 
 From Nelly Mundy 
 
 Buxton, Monday. The Date is very right, it has been 
 a true Buxton Monday for it has rain'd the whole day. 
 . . . We do not lose a single glass of water if it rains dogs 
 and cats, the Pattins great Coat & large Umbrella are 
 sufficient security. The upstairs party seems to be in 
 a very fluctuating state, five or six carriages are gone 
 off to-day & several arrived. . . . L d Vernon & the 
 Bishop of Peterborough are expected on Wednesday. It 
 is very immaterial to us who comes or who goes for we 
 never mix with the Company but at prayers. . . . The 
 most important events of this day I think are that Tho s 
 has had a tooth drawn & that the Wheels of a Cart 
 separated themselves from the Carriage as it was going 
 up the hill, came down again by themselves & crack'd the 
 Chaise that was waiting at the door. Fortunately for us 
 it was not yours. . . . 
 
 Lady Newdigate goes on upon the same sheet : 
 
 Tuesday. Another Rainy Day and dark as possible, 
 but it brought me (Hester for fear you sh'd not know my
 
 AN AFTER-COUKSE AT BUXTON 37 
 
 hand) a sweet Letter so I defy the day to give me its 
 colour. Bath g at noon agrees well, & I swim like a 
 frog that has lost y e use of its hind Legs. Don't go & 
 maim a poor frog to see how that is. I assure you it is 
 very tollerable. ... I have had a Letter from Ned to-day 
 so like himself that I w d enclose it was it not for double 
 Postage. He says he has stood firm in regard to y e 
 Lisbon plan & has carry'd his point with less difficulty 
 than he expected & that he hopes to begin to move y e 10 th . 
 They mean to go y e cross Country Road to Bath, so to 
 Falmouth where a packet is order'd to be ready for them. 
 So much was said of the badness of the Portugese ships 
 that I suppose that plan was given up. I have desir'd 
 Ned to send two Cribs that the Children sleep in to be at 
 Arbury before they arrive there. . . . Poor Fanny's mind 
 is torn to pieces so much about herself & Children that it 
 makes dragons of Everything ; one which perhaps you 
 will think absurd, but which I could wish to humour her 
 in for a short time if you will give me Leave. She 
 recollects y e Cracks & sinking of y e Sealings in y e 
 old Dining Room & Gallery & is unhappy about her 
 Children sleeping in that part of y e house. Ned men- 
 tioned it to me at y e same time expressing entire confi- 
 dence in your Judgment & tender care in not placing 
 his babes where you was doubtful of their safety, but 
 seem'd much to wish that Fanny might go away without 
 that weight upon her mind. In consequence of the con- 
 versation I took an opportunity of saying to Fanny that 
 I meant to place her babes for the Winter in y e Blue 
 Room as it was so near that I c d call in at all hours. I 
 perceived her Countinance brighten immediately, so if you
 
 38 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 have no objection let it be so. If they are Noisy & 
 disturb us we can move them afterwards. . . . 
 
 Wednesday Oct r 3rd. A most heavenly day. . . . 
 We are now going to finish the evening as usual with 
 Book, Work & Music ; don't you want to know our 
 Studies? We have just finish'd y e Sorrows of Werter, 
 a novel which was much in Vogue last j'ear. It is inte- 
 resting but I think y e sentiments of the Hero often ex- 
 ceptionable. Y c Author seems sensible of it & makes a 
 sort of lame apology in the preface. We are now in 
 Burney's travels through Germany, w ch I once began & 
 I believe was forc'd to return y e book. 
 
 L d Vernon & y e Bishop of Peterborough are just 
 arrived. We have sent Comp 18 & enquiries and y e 
 Latter politely intends himself y c honor of calling upon us 
 to-morrow. He will be an acquisition to us. Y e other is 
 shy & says Little, perhaps may call at our parlour door 
 once out of Civility but y e Lawn Sleeves will I hope like 
 to visit us often. . . . 
 
 Thursday. I believe I shall ruin you in tea & 
 muffins, have just invited L d Vernon, Ansons & 
 Bishop of Peterborough for this afternoon & if I feel 
 pretty well we will attend them for an hour into y e Card 
 Boom for I find People think we are Sulky & proud, 
 that we keep so close in our hole. I deny that charge 
 but believe y 6 truth is we are a Little nice & think time 
 too precious a commodity to squander away in civilities 
 to people that we neither expect or wish to see again. I 
 don't like to be abused neither, so will try to stear 
 between y e two extremes. . . . Last Night finish'd my 1 st 
 week. I paid my Bills 13. 14. too much, but I don't
 
 AN AFTER-COURSE AT BUXTON 39 
 
 know how to lessen expense, without lessening Comforts. 
 That last word properly introduces y 6 subject of Sheffield 
 goods, for I cannot help ranking in that class everything 
 that tends to make ample provision of the useful in a 
 family as it naturally introduces neatness order & con- 
 venience. I absolutely deny that your objections to y 6 
 shams which you say my heart is so much set upon 
 proceed either from Pride or Covetousness. If I thought 
 the former sh'd wish some friend (for I durst not in that 
 case do it myself) to put into your hand y 6 very instructive 
 pretty fable of the Peacock & Golden Dish ; but it is 
 not applicable to your case. Do not either fear or flatter 
 yourself that your passion for y e sort of intrinsic Worth 
 now in question has anything to do with y e qualities of 
 y e Mind. Our little differences in opinion are mear 
 preventions form'd perhaps by Education & might in 
 both have taken too strong a Colouring if each had been 
 connected with a person exactly of their own way of 
 thinking, ergo, it is better that we sh'd not always be of 
 the same mind. But after all this learned Discourse I 
 am still irresolute about going to Sheffield. On first 
 reading your Letter I determin'd not to go ; after a 2 nd 
 [reading] was afraid you w d think I was Capcious, that 
 you w d not enter into all my follies. Now I think I see 
 it in another light & that y e permission you give me to 
 please myself is a proof that you have no objection but 
 the throwing away (as you think) so much Money. Now 
 in y 6 first place y e Money you gave me is for no other 
 purpose than to fool away as I like, and in y e second it 
 is fit that every one sh'd pay for their own Whims. You 
 must & still more dearly for yours whenever your
 
 40 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Magnificence chuses to replace them with really Silver. 
 I shall therefore go & give full scope to my extravagance 
 looking upon it as a pretty & proper compliment to 
 make myself a handsome present & rather a debt as I 
 never have yet laid out any considerable sum for my own 
 Gratification except on y e Monument to the memory of 
 my D r father & Mother & that I shall be able to pay you 
 before this new debt will be contracted. . . . 
 
 Friday night. We seem to have regain'd our 
 Credit by giving Tea to all their (Ansons') party last 
 night, siting by their Commerce table & inviting Wink- 
 fields to dinner to-day. L d Vernon & y e Bishop of 
 Peterborough both flirted with me so much yesterday 
 that you w d not have known which to be most jealous of. 
 But it is now clearly decided for the Lawn Sleeves for 
 I have been Shabby & not appear'd to-day, and L d V. 
 departs with the Ansons to-morrow.- Nelly is at this 
 instant with a fine Eiot in y 6 Winkfields' Parlour hearing 
 Mrs. Fox sing. They invited me & gave broad hints 
 that my parlour was y e best Eoom but I had no notion 
 of turning myself out for them & am really not equal 
 to any Jollity to-night. ... If pretty well on Sunday & 
 y 2 day is fine shall after Church (or rather service) set 
 out for Sheffield & return on Monday ready I hope to 
 begin drinking & Bathing on Tuesday & (if it pleases 
 God) to pursue it steadily without further interruption 
 till all my 111 humours & bad Qualities are wash'd away. 
 ... I observ'd in the Card Eoom last night 6 or 7 very 
 handsome genteel looking young men really above y 6 
 common stamp, but not a Name amongst them, where 
 can they come from? Our great boasts now are Sir
 
 AN AFTER-COURSE AT BUXTON 41 
 
 George & Lady Coke & Sir George & Lady Barker. 
 Are not these last y e People that had your house ? They 
 seem charming vulgar. . . . 
 
 Saturday night Oct. 6th. Great news, a fine Paris 
 Coach with Glass Pannels arrived containing Mr. Fitz 
 Morris 2 nd Son to L d Shelburne, his Lady, her Sister, 
 both pretty Women daughters to L d Inchiquin with a 
 most prodegious train of attendance, Led horses, side 
 saddles & baggage up to y e top of the Coach. What 
 an Event ! What will they do here ? Mrs. Winkfield 
 says they are the most shewy pompous people in y e 
 World. ... If it is fine . . . we expect great entertain- 
 ment in y e Drive (to Sheffield) for we go thro' y e whole 
 of Middleton Dale which is one of y e great Lyons of 
 y e Peak & Ned says by far y e most beautiful Kocks 
 he ever saw. 
 
 Sunday morning. . . . Y e Day charming and am 
 going to prayers & then set out for the Beautiful Kocks 
 at Middleton Dale. . . . Prayers over, Chaise at y e Door 
 & Sun Shining. I wish you was going with us even 
 though you sh d put a Check to my extravagance. Adieu, 
 adieu. 
 
 Monday night 8 o'Clock. Just two hours since we 
 arrived safe & well from Sheffield, the Weather made 
 on purpose for us, the Road very even & good & the 
 scenes more tremendously beautiful than any I ever saw 
 before in England. I suppose we went about 2 miles 
 nearer y e Gods than we sh'd have done owing to their 
 not telling us to take a Short turn which was to Lead 
 us down to Middleton Dale. Instead of that we kept on 
 the great Sheffield turnpike which carry'd us up to y e top
 
 42 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 of a mountain where there was a sort of Plain if one 
 may be allow'd to call it so, all black Eock & Ling, the 
 "Wildest place I ever beheld, at y e end of which is such a 
 prospect open'd as makes my head turn to think on. I 
 was sometime before I durst carry my Eye over y e Wild 
 hills & Craggy Eocks at y e Bottom of which about 2 
 miles below ran y e Derwent ; on y a other side of which 
 ye hills were beautifully cultivated, plant d & interspersed 
 with Villages. We durst not sit in y e Carriage down y e 
 steep parts of the Hill. Nelly indeed walk'd all the way, 
 I daresay more than two miles, but my strength fail'd so 
 I got into y e Chaise & came down very safe, William 
 being indeed very careful. At the Bottom of the Hill y e 
 Inn appear'd to our great Joy for we had no suspicion 
 then of being out of our Eoad, but imagine our mortifica- 
 tion when instead of the good fare we were made to 
 expect at Middleton Dale we were beheld with astonish- 
 ment by y e Landlady & told there was nothing to be 
 had but y e remains of a Joynt of Lamb which she & 
 her family had dined upon. How did we then applaud 
 ourselves for bringing with us a Large piece of our 
 Excellent Venison Pasty & a pint of my Wine. On 
 that we made a most hearty Meal, y 6 Serv te hash'd up y e 
 Lamb & thought it excellent & all were well pleas'd to 
 find we were only ten miles from Sheffield instead of 13 
 w ch we should have been at Middleton. We got there 
 before 6 had a good supper & charming Beds, were up 
 at 7 & saw the Plated Manufactory through all its 
 branches which is very curious indeed, made myself rich 
 in conveniences which are to be sent to Arbury in about 
 a month, came through Middleton Dale which is full as
 
 AN AFTER-COURSE AT BUXTON 43 
 
 beautiful as Ned described it & a much more level & 
 pleasant road than our Black Sir William, which I find 
 is y e name of that high Eocky Plain, but I cannot get a 
 reason why so call'd. Y e People at y e foot of that hill 
 c d give no ace* at all, but y e Maid who waited upon us at 
 Middleton believed it was from Sir William a Conqueror 
 who fought there. Such a field of Battle is not usually 
 chosen, for it is entirely cover'd with pieces of Black Eock 
 most of them bigger than y e Conqueror himself who we 
 must suppose to have been a very great man. I am glad 
 we made him a visit now it is over but once in one's Life 
 is enough. . . . 
 
 Tuesday. Another Heavenly Day & I have made y e 
 most of it. Being inforni'd that y e Chaise horses were a 
 Little tired with their Journey but that Mr. Lumber was 
 fresh I mounted my Pillion at this door, Eode up & 
 down hills manfully, then drank Water, bathed with like 
 Courage, Laying myself upon y 6 water according to your 
 directions & thereby getting as many duckings, I daresay 
 more than twenty for I have a wonderful alacrity for 
 Sinking. . . . Cork has been alter'd two or three times 
 & now does everything well but keep me above Water. 
 God bless you. Amen, amen. 
 
 Thursday evening Oct r ll/t. There has been almost 
 an hourly arrival of Carriages yesterday & to-day. . . . 
 All this makes mighty Little difference to us. ... We 
 have nothing to do with y e Owners of all y e fine Varnished 
 Coaches & Chaises. I have desir'd Nelly will send 
 Molly l a list of their Names tho' I am sure she will think 
 
 1 Miss Mary Conyers, sister to Sir Roger's first wife, and now his tenant 
 and near neighbour at Astley Castle.
 
 44 THE CHEVEKELS OF CHEVEKEL MANOK 
 
 we made them, but it is Literally true that y e most shewy 
 people here are either Lightbodies, Littletails or Hardmans, 
 & that we have not a speaking acquaintance with a 
 Soul in y e Long Boom except y e Bishop of Peterborough 
 & Lady M. Fitz Morris who came up & introduced 
 herself to me the first time I appear'd above in y e Civillest 
 manner imaginable, as if glad to find somebody that she 
 might venture to speak to. I told you wrong about her, 
 she is y e only Child of y e deaf & dumb Lady Orkney 
 & marry'd to y e Brother of the present L d Shelburne. 
 Y e young Lady with her is a Miss Jones, a pretty Little 
 inocent Welch Girl who yesterday entertained y e Bishop 
 of Peterborough with a very naive & ridiculous ace* of 
 her manner of Bathing & of standing upon her head in 
 attempting to swim. . . . 
 
 Nelly Mundy writes the next letter for Lady Newdigate, 
 who was suffering from the effects of one of her favourite 
 emetics. 
 
 Buxton Oct. l&th. I know I have not the least 
 Chance of making myself agreeable to you, for you will 
 run your Eye over the whole Letter not to be able to find 
 a Line of Hetty's writing & then take an Aversion to me 
 & everything I say. Confess fairly, is not this true ? [Then 
 follows an account of Lady Newdigate' s amateur doctoring.] 
 . . . You may conclude all is well and that there is a 
 fair prospect of my restoring the dear Prioress l to you the 
 middle of next week with improved health & looks. . . . 
 This is a bad sixpenny worth. I wish I cou'd have made 
 it better, but if I was to attempt giving you a pretty 
 
 1 Arbury was built on the ruins of Erdburie Priory in the sixteenth 
 century.
 
 AN AFTER-COURSE AT BUXTON 45 
 
 account of Friday night's Ball old Gentlemen of 70 
 dancing with young Miss's of 16 I know you w d not 
 attend to a word of it. ... 
 
 Lady Newdigate resumes : 
 
 Tuesday evening Oct r ~L5tk.I need not employ a 
 deputy to-night thank God, for I really feel able to thank 
 you for two charming Letters & to answer them from 
 Beginning to End, but I shall not be let to try y e strength 
 of my Brains so far having in fact been much worse than 
 I intended & promised to be when Nelly answered for 
 me on Sunday night. ... As my nerves & spirits were too 
 much agitated to let me sleep I thought about 2 o'Clock 
 it w d be a wise act to take 3 of the opium pills. These 
 seeming rather to increase my restlessness I supposed the 
 quantity was too small & at four took 2 more. Still 
 prepossessed with y e Idea & recollecting that Jebb in his 
 very last letter desires me not to be afraid of them but to 
 take them whenever particularly agitated, I thought I 
 might go on taking two every two hours till they procured 
 sleep & proceeded as far as number nine, when (provi- 
 dentially perhaps) my Courage fail'd me. No Sleep came 
 but my Head was confus'd and I was sick. In this situa- 
 tion Nelly found me & when she heard what I had done 
 had sensations which I believe it w d not be very easy to 
 describe, which however she endeavour'd to conceal for 
 fear of hurrying me, took all possible pains to prevent 
 noises, suffer'd nobody to speak or come near me but to 
 give me what I wanted, & so I dosed on y e whole day 
 & was in hopes y e effects of y e opium w d have gone off 
 without further Consiquence, but violent sickness, nervous
 
 46 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 sinkings & Cold Sweats came on towards evening. I 
 knew Nelly w d be terrify'd to death if she knew of it so I 
 sent privately for Mr. Buxton y e Apothecary who I sus- 
 pected w d be allarm'd at the situation he found me in & 
 therefore before I gave him my hand assured him I was 
 not dying & told him what I had done, for which he has 
 several times thank'd me for he says my Pulse w d have 
 surprised him greatly. He gave me a strong Nervous 
 draught which had a speedy good effect. . . . My own 
 folly about y e opium I must greatly regret and am so truely 
 penitent that I hope neither you nor Nelly will scold me. 
 
 Here is St. Luke, y e 1 st day that was fixt for our 
 Meeting & it brings a Hamper of good things, Venison 
 & Partridges sweet as possible, Pears & Pines in per- 
 fection, Rouleaux never out of season, a draught which I 
 have given Nelly to put upon y e fire or Dunghill as she 
 pleases, but first made her give me a rec* for it, that it may 
 be entirely her own affair. You may say what you will of 
 not fearing my extravagance, but I have certainly made 
 you believe that I sh'd lay out a very large sum in these 
 same shim-Shams that have produced such fine argumen- 
 tation on both sides or you w d not have thought me in 
 danger of remaining here in pawn after sending me with 
 fifty guineas in my Pockett & last week sending me fifty 
 more, but such Game must always be sweet & the more 
 as it is a proof that you have a real desire to have me back 
 again with all my follies and notwithstanding our sad 
 differences in opinion. Indeed it is high time for we have 
 been parted till we can't understand each other at all. I 
 never c a have y e most distant thought of your wishing to 
 interfere in or even to know anything of my Private
 
 AN AFTER-COURSE AT BUXTON 47 
 
 expences ; no one word or Action of your Life c d give birth 
 to such an Idea. You therefore must have hash'd & 
 mangled y e meaning of my fine sententious harangue in a 
 most Cruel manner. . . . You accuse me of mistaking your 
 Meaning in a former occasion. I do not think I misunder- 
 stood one word, but your fancying I did had a mighty 
 pretty effect. I would not erace a single line of all you 
 say upon that subject for y e world tho' I agree with you 
 that it is too trifling for the honor that has been done it, 
 but as long as it was honor let it receive a return in kind. 
 
 Friday. What machines we are ! I have been riding, 
 Bathing, swiming & sinking without Cork in as bold a 
 Manner as before my Illness, have ate a good dinner & 
 feel inclined if I finish my Post in time to go up & 
 peep at y e Ball which is to be this evening. ... If you 
 approve of my scheme of setting out after I have drank 
 y e Water & Bathed on Wednesday it will be little more 
 than an airing for me & y e horses & I shall gain a 
 day & without hurry or fatigue be at Arbury to make 
 your Coffee on Thursday. With what pleasure I think 
 of that event I leave to your Justice to determine. . . . 
 
 From Nelly Mundy on the same sheet : 
 
 Now I come in a Moderate way, neither presump- 
 tuously covering a whole sheet nor sneakingly squeezing 
 myself into my L d Bathurst's wig. If this Dear Soul has 
 not given a very good account of herself she is a vile 
 Wretch ... if she continues to go on at the same rate 
 till Thursday I shall not be ashamed to deliver up my 
 Charge. I heartily wish I c d do it in person but that is 
 impossible. On Thursday I must infallibly be in Town.
 
 48 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 . . . Adieu my dear S r Eoger, may you and y r Cara 
 Sposa meet in health & spirits & long enjoy an ample 
 
 share of both those valuable Articles. . . . 
 
 N. M. 
 
 The last letter of this series is evidently written by 
 Lady Newdigate after receiving Sir Boger's answer to her 
 letter containing the account of her hazardous experiment 
 with the opium pills. 
 
 Sunday 21s Oct r . . . . What shall I say for giving 
 you that Cruel Allarm for you was more hurry'd than 
 your words bespoke you. I must kneel down & Cry, it 
 is y e only thing to be done. . . . How good you are about 
 my staying & your coming to me & how many pretty 
 things you say ! my Pen cannot thank you but my heart 
 does. ... I shall have a better way of conversing with 
 you before to-morrow night ; any way I shall see you in a 
 few hours after you receive this. . . . You seem to think 
 I have been quacking myself. Indeed my dear Soul I am 
 very certain & the recollection gives me pleasure that I 
 have not taken, nor done a single thing in regard to my 
 own health but what you w d have approv'd & recom- 
 mended, except y e Opium pills. ... It is indeed a great 
 mercy that I was not a greater sufferer. I am truely 
 thankful for it & now I have confess'd my sins in full 
 we'll neither think nor talk any more on the subject. . . . 
 No more Letters from me. 
 
 P.S. from Nelly Mundy : 
 
 How very 111 poor little I am used kick'd quite out & 
 not allowed room to explain of the Saucy Creature's 
 barbarity. Indeed I durst not say much for she looks 
 quite stout enough to knock me down.
 
 49 
 
 CHAPTEE IV 
 
 1782-1785 
 
 Captain Wybrow always did the thing easiest and most agreeable to him 
 from a sense of duty ; he dressed expensively because it was a duty he owed 
 to his position ; from a sense of duty he adapted himself to Sir Christopher's 
 inflexible will, which it would have been troublesome as well as useless to 
 resist, and being of a delicate constitution he took care of his health from a 
 sense of duty. His health was the only point on which he gave anxiety to 
 his friends ; and it was owing to this that Sir Christopher wished to see his 
 nephew early married, the more as a match after the Baronet's own heart 
 appeared immediately attainable. ME. GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY. 
 
 WE begin this chapter with one of Lord Bagot's x cheery 
 letters, announcing the inopportune arrival of his second 
 son (afterwards the Bishop of Bath and Wells) at a country 
 inn. 
 
 Saracen's Head, Daventry : Nov. 22, 1782. 
 
 DEAE SIB KOGEB, However awkard the Place I am 
 happy to tell you my Wife was here this morning ab* six 
 o'Clock safely delivered of a fine Boy, & that she and 
 her Child are both as well as possible. She was attended 
 by Kerr of Northampton who always attends Mrs. Chester, 
 wants no assistance & [she] is much more comfortably 
 & quietly accommodated than you wo'd think it possible 
 to be in an Inn. 
 
 When I made her excuses to Lady Newdigate that she 
 did not dare visit her for fear of making her visit a month 
 long, I little thought she wo'd have spent a month so near 
 her at an Inn. If I co'd have dined & spent my time in 
 
 1 William, first Lord Bagot. 
 
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 50 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 your magnificent Library at Arbury 1 sho'd not have 
 regretted my confinement, nor cared tho' her Ladiship had 
 ordered the Maids to wash the Hall every day, but neither 
 must I regret it now but have every reason to thank Pro- 
 vidence for the great dangers we have escaped & the 
 security we are in now & the comforts we have to what 
 
 they may [have been]. . . . 
 
 Yours most affec ately 
 BAGOT. 
 
 In the spring of 1783 Lady Newdigate was in London 
 for a short time in March and April, without Sir Roger, who 
 had been called home on business. It was a time of some 
 excitement in the political world, being the eve of a general 
 election, and Hester in her daily letters to her husband 
 takes pains to send him all the reports that reached 
 her. She was also especially interested in the Derbyshire 
 election, her brother, Ned Mundy, being considered one of 
 the most popular candidates for that county. 
 
 In the following letters Lady Newdigate often men- 
 tions her Italian music master, by name ' Motta,' said to 
 be the original of Sarti in 'Mr. GilfiTs Love-story.' 
 
 Tuesday March 23rd, 12 o'C. I am waiting for Motta. 
 . . . When Motta is gone I drive to Smithfield. . . home 
 to dress & to y e Opera at seven, it is to be wonderfully 
 shewy & the last Dance y e best, so we must see it out which 
 perhaps may keep me too late to add a Word when it is over. 
 
 The next letter from Hester is begun in the hand- 
 writing of Mrs. Francis Newdigate. She was the wife of 
 Sir Roger's cousin 1 and a daughter of Ralph Sneyd, of Keele. 
 Lady Newdigate often writes of her and her husband as 
 ' the little News ' and of her as ' the Little Woman.' 
 
 I cannot my dear Sir let you remain in ignorance as 
 to pollitecks, therefore have seized the last moment of the 
 
 1 Francis Newdigate was an elder brother of Charles Parker's, who had 
 taken the name of his maternal uncle on succeeding to his estates in Derby- 
 shire and Notts.
 
 A GENERAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFAIR 51 
 
 Parlement to get a frank that you may have my intelli- 
 gence gratis, for fear you sho'd think it was spight made 
 me write because I loose my wager. The King is now gone 
 down to the House to prorogue the Parlement which ex- 
 pires to-morrow & I am apprehensive that finding your- 
 self right in this particular you may be induced to espouse 
 Mr. Mainwaring's cause in Middlesex in preference to Mr. 
 Bing, therefore I think it right to inform you Mr. Main- 
 waring is the son of a bricklayer & I hope you will not 
 make me the same answer I have just had from Mrs. 
 Conyers that it was better than being the son of a gun. 
 
 I know you will be very sorry to hear Lord Thurlow's 
 house was broke open last night & the villains are got 
 clear off with the great seal. It is a very extraordinary 
 accident. I am not superstitious but surely it looks a 
 little ominous. Lady Newdigate continues charmingly 
 well & I know writes to you to-night, therefore I shall 
 leave everything for her to tell but what relates to the good 
 of the nation. I am affraid Sir Edward Littelton means 
 to propose himself for Staffordshire & I am assured you 
 are gone to Canvas Warwickshire. I am . going to dine 
 with Mr. Tollemache who I hear means to oppose Sir 
 Robert Cotton in Chesshire & am to spend the evening 
 with Mrs. Cornwallis. After all the pains I have taken to 
 put you right it is unnecessary to assure you how much I 
 
 am 
 
 Your sincere friend, 
 
 Bedford Square : F. NEWDIGATE. 
 
 ye 24th of March. 
 
 I shall send this & my frank open to Lady Newdigate 
 knowing her unfortunate jealousy. 
 
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 52 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Lady Newdigate writes on the same sheet : 
 For fear Franks sh'd be charged I (Hester) will not 
 add another sheet. The Little Woman tells you very true, 
 The Seals are certainly stolen & not yet recovered. 
 100 in cash & a few rusty swords taken with them. 
 Y e King has prorogued y e Par* till y e 5th of April. . . . 
 Mrs. Newdigate is just come in & is very Angry to see 
 me writing in her Letter. She says you'll think I sh'd 
 have written a Whole Sheet if she had not. To convince 
 her I have said all my say will wish you good night. . . . 
 Thursday night 25th March. Ned's mind is so engaged 
 about Election affairs that he could not sleep. Almost 
 every Derbyshire Man except himself is gone down & 
 one report says Curzon will come in without opposition ; 
 another that he will decline ; a third that L d Tamouth will 
 be a Candidate ; a 4 th that Frank Burdett will be unani- 
 mously chosen. Ned is evidently anxious about the Event, 
 therefore we have encouraged him to go down immediately 
 & accordingly to-morrow at 6 in y e morning he sets off. 
 We have persuaded him to go by Nottingham to see how 
 Matters stand with his friend there. He told me he was 
 canvass'd yesterday by one of y 6 younger Sheldons for his 
 brother Ealph for Warwickshire & that his Answer was 
 that he sh d not take any part unless Sir B. N. interests 
 himself ; in that case he sh d do his utmost for y e Person 
 he espouses. He says Holbiche, (I beg his Pardon for not 
 knowing how to spell his Name) Adderley, Sheldon, some 
 other Person & the two present Members all declare they 
 will stand, but perhaps you may know better for this is 
 common report. L d Feilding desires me to tell you that 
 Mr. Manwayring opposes Bing in Middlesex & he hopes
 
 A GENERAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFAIR 53 
 
 will carry it. The Seals are not found. Everybody sup- 
 poses they were not Stolen by Common Rogues & that 
 it must be done to answer some Gambling purpose as it is 
 well known that many thousand pounds were depending 
 on the day of dissolution. If it has delayed y e Proclama- 
 tion for a Dissolution & answer'd their Vile purpose it 
 will be grievous. . . . 
 
 Monday night 29^ March, 9 o 'Clock. ... A Letter 
 from Trumper to say you may have a Cock Pheasant & 
 3 Hens for 4 Guineas, that is 1 Guinea less than y e Price 
 in Town. Trumper says that this man sold 50 Pheasants 
 that he rear'd last year to a Bird Man two months ago for 
 40 Guineas & that he is well assured you will not get 
 them anywhere Cheaper than he offers them. He has 
 promised y e Man an Answer on Thursday, but he cannot 
 have yours before Saturday. Lyons is in search of phea- 
 sants for Ned, has been to all y e Bird Shops & they ask 
 him 2 Guineas for Cock Birds & 1 for hens. . . . You 
 seem to be hanging & transporting at no small rate. I 
 hope you'll leave none but honest People in our Quarter. 
 
 Thursday April 1st. Fox they say will be Chose for 
 West r & Sawbridge for y e City. L d Denbigh looks 
 blank upon it. He bids me tell you that Mr. Manwarring 
 is proposed by Mr. Woods' son in Law & that Wood, 
 Clitheroe & all your old friends are very active for him, 
 & he hopes you will write immediately to your Steward 
 to signify your Wishes for Mr. Byng is very importunate. 
 There is a fine story coming out against Fox, proofs of 
 bribery when he was in place. So Baker is kick'd out 
 of his Borough & Gen 1 Conway went down (to S* E d 
 Bury I think) with full assurance of success ' he had
 
 54 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEKEL MANOR 
 
 served them in two Par ts & hoped they would re-elect 
 him.' He was answered that for that reason they were 
 determined not to have him ; w d take any body else that 
 y 6 Duke of Grafton pleased to send. He sent young 
 Fitzroy L d Southampton's son & he is Chose. 
 
 Ned writes word that Coke will come in again for 
 Nottingham & that at present there is no appearance of 
 Contest for the County of Derby. A Mr. Mac Namara or 
 some such sounding name is gone down to oppose Booth 
 Grey at Leicester & they say Sir S. Gideon to Coventry. 
 
 Friday. To-night Fox lags behind but I suppose there 
 is no Judging . . . Ned writes word that Derbyshire is 
 asleep, no County Meeting called or likely to be unless an 
 opposition is declared. There is no doubt of his coming 
 in if he w d spend a Little Money, but he wisely deter- 
 mines not to do that & therefore must wait y e Event. 
 I must write a line to him so good night. 
 
 Mrs. Newdigate told me this evening that L d Thurloe 
 told her L d Fielding had got the Treasurer's Staff. I 
 suppose then L d Guilford has resigned upon y e Queen's 
 dismissing his grandson North who was his secretary. 
 You remember that he rode behind Fox's Chariot ; when 
 the Queen was told of it she sent him word she did [not] 
 like to be waited on by other People's servants & had no 
 further Occasion for him. Mr. Howard, Lady Efnngham's 
 second son is appointed in his place. . . . 
 
 This letter was missent to Stafford, and only reached 
 Sir Boger on his return to London a few days later. 
 He seems to have complained of this gap in his wife's 
 correspondence. 
 
 Lady Newdigate's last letter before his return was sent 
 by hand to meet him on the road.
 
 A GENERAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFAIR 55 
 
 Fearing you must be late my Dear Life I h#ve sent 
 both your Men to guard you. God grant you may arrive 
 safe & well. . . . The Post on Tuesday brought the 
 News of my Brother's being a Candidate declared for y e 
 County of Derby. ... I have not neglected you either 
 out of Idleness or forgetfulness, & I won't allow you to 
 say such a thing even in Joke. I have had a multitude 
 of things in my Head & upon my hands, all which you 
 shall know. God bless you. 
 
 Mr. Mundy was duly returned to Parliament by his 
 County at this election. Possibly he would not have been as 
 anxious for the compliment paid him had he foreseen how 
 costly the honour would prove. No doubt the position of a 
 Member of Parliament in the last century was reckoned 
 a higher prize than in the present day. The members 
 of the House of Commons were fewer in number and 
 more equalised in social status than now. The prestige 
 they enjoyed was higher and their privileges were more 
 numerous, not to mention the political influence that 
 could be exercised, or the prizes that might be extracted 
 by due pressure on the party to which individual members 
 belonged. On the other hand the expenses of an election 
 were enormous, and, if a contested one, almost ruinous. 
 
 Mr. Mundy had been warned against this danger 
 when he came of age in 1771. He has preserved an 
 excellent letter of advice written to him by the Lady 
 Denbigh l who seems to have taken a motherly interest 
 in the family at Shipley after they lost their own parents 
 in 1767. 
 
 DEAE S R [she writes], Will you allow me to pre- 
 sume so far on the Priveledge you have granted me of 
 calling you my Son, as to offer you a few Words of such 
 Advice as is dictated by the sincerest wishes for your 
 Happiness which will almost entirely depend on your 
 
 1 Mary, Countess of Denbigh, wife of the sixth Earl, and daughter and 
 co-heir of Sir John Bruce-Cotton, Bart.
 
 56 THE CHEVEKELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 first setting out in the scene of Life you are now entering 
 upon. 
 
 She then goes on to urge ' Religion ' upon him as 
 'the only solid Foundation for real Worth & the only 
 Defence against the Attacks of Vice,' and continues by 
 warning him severally against the dangers of ' Gallantry,' 
 ' Gaming,' and ' the society of thoughtless uninformed 
 young men.' 
 
 Finally she gives her opinion on the evils of 
 ' Electioneering ' as follows : 
 
 There is a Branch of Expence almost as dangerous 
 as Gaming & perhaps more immoral from the Perjury, 
 Drunkenness, & other Vices which usually attend it. I 
 mean Electioneering. The Honor which a Seat so 
 obtain'd can confer is certainly not worth the Purchase. 
 The Man who has no farther aim in hurting his Fortune 
 than to be a Member of Parliament is a Fool. He who 
 means to repair it again by selling his Vote is a Knave ; 
 and considering the little Dependance to be plac'd on 
 Ministerial Promises & the Fluctuations which for 
 several Years past have attended Ministerial Power, 
 probably will find himself in the End a Fool also. . . . 
 
 Mr. Mundy, unfortunately for his immediate successors, 
 disregarded this sage advice, and when the tempting prize 
 was set before him, could not bring himself to decline the 
 honour of a seat in Parliament. In the end, thirty-nine 
 years of parliamentary life proved so costly that he all but 
 ruined his family and had to sell three estates to pay 
 election expenses. 
 
 Later in the year Mr. Mundy lost his wife, who had 
 been in delicate health for some time. The visit to 
 Lisbon had not the desired effect, and after a lingering 
 illness, she died at Brighton in November 1783. She 
 left five children, four of them boys and one girl, named 
 Fanny, after herself.
 
 A GENEKAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFAIK 57 
 
 In the following summer Lady Newdigate paid one more 
 short visit to Buxton, this time not on her own account, 
 but to establish her sister Nelly there, who had been 
 seriously ill. They travelled together from Arbury, 
 accompanied by their motherless niece, Fanny Mundy, 
 and made a resting place of the empty, melancholy house 
 at Shipley on their way to Buxton. 
 
 Shipley 10 o' Clock Tuesday. We got to Burton at 
 ^ past one, Derby by three, had an excellent dinner . . . 
 order'd our Chaises to proceed to this Place which we 
 reach'd before 7 in a dismal misty Rain, the Hatchment 
 over the door, forlorn state of every Boom etc. made it 
 really a melancholy scene. I rejoyced I was with y e dear 
 Nelly but she appear'd to bear it better than any of us. 
 Fanny shed a few tears at first coming in but the Joy of 
 finding herself again at Shipley soon brighten'd her up 
 & Nelly set herself to business. . . . 
 
 It is well we came for Lyons could not make y e 
 Upholsterers believe my Brother w d come down till Par 1 
 broke up, so there is not a Koom paper'd nor bed up. . . . 
 We slept in the old Nurseries as we found they had been 
 constantly lain in. ... I have sent James forward for a 
 pair of horses from Bipley for y e Maids chaise & we 
 shall put my Brother's 4 to my Chaise which I think will 
 draw us in two hours to Matlock. . . . 
 
 Buxton, Wednesday night. I thought it better to stop 
 at Matlock ... & after a good Dinner & a walk about 
 a of a mile up y e Hill came to a place call'd the Temple 
 house y e most Bomantic beautiful spot I ever beheld where 
 Just y e number of Beds we wanted were vacant. There 
 we drank our Tea & sup'd upon Strawberries brought 
 from Shipley & Lay in as Clean Beds & in as quiet a
 
 58 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 house as possible. I should have told you the Principal 
 houses were all full, & Mighty Smart Beaus & Belles 
 walked by our Lodgings. I ask'd who they were & was 
 told that there was nobody of very great account but 
 Mrs. Lee of Chester. We were told that Buxton Hall 
 ran over ... so we thought it prudent to be out early. 
 Before 7 were in our Chaise made a short Breakfast at 
 Bakewell & at \ past 11 arrived before y e Hall where 
 8 Post Chaises & Coaches full of Company were waiting 
 to know if they could have admittance. 
 
 As soon as y e Mistress (who by the by is new to us 
 all) c d be got at I made James announce who we were, 
 which procured us an Audience & we were requested to 
 sit quietly in our Chaise till y e Companys were sent off. 
 We were then shew'd into our old Blue Parlour which we 
 learnt belong'd to L d Keppell who is absent for a day or 
 two. Here we sat a full hour when the Lady return'd 
 with assurances that she had done impossible things for 
 us, had procured us very tollerable Beds in a house at y e 
 top of the hill for this night & that she has very great 
 hopes she shall be able to take us in to the house to- 
 morrow. The Maids have been all over the Place to-night 
 & say there are no lodgings nearer than y e top of y e 
 Hill & that those we are to sleep in to-night are Clean 
 but very Paltry. I hope we shall have some changes 
 before Saturday or I really do not see how I can possibly 
 leave poor Nelly. . . . We have leave to sit in L d K's 
 parlour which is a happy circumstance. We are told of 
 4 L 43 & 7 Baronets that are com g as soon as they can 
 have lodgings. 
 
 Thursday night. Keppell for Ever ! If his Lordship
 
 A GENERAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFATE 59 
 
 had not been so kind to absent himself at this time we 
 Litterally sh d not have had where to put our heads. We 
 had a most Miserable hole to sleep in last night, but by 
 great exertion, Bullying, Coaxing etc. we have obtained 
 to Sleep to-night in a tollerable two bedded Koom in this 
 house. ... I think y e only thing I can determine is that 
 if you do not see me at Arbury before, to send the horses 
 to Burton on Monday morning. . . . Supper calls, Adieu. 
 Oh I am glad you are not here. We were too hungry 
 to go to bed supperless, & they w d not let us sup in the 
 Keppell, so we made part of 70 people at least, Noisy, 
 Hot, & very disagreable, but thank God I am finishing 
 my Letter in a very comfortable Looking Bed Koom. It 
 is large & clean but will be dismal by daylight for y e 
 only Window there is is too high to see out of, and against 
 a dead wall. However, by comparison it is a Paradice. 
 Once more Adieu. 
 
 The next batch of letters of any interest were written 
 by Lady Newdigate from London in May and June 1785. 
 Sir Boger had gone back to Arbury, leaving his wife 
 behind for another ten days. She seems to have been 
 occupied with a course of music lessons from her Italian 
 master, Motta, and also with an embryo love affair of 
 Charles Parker's, in which both she and Sir Boger were 
 greatly interested. The young lady in question was one 
 of the three daughters of Lord and Lady Howe, presum- 
 ably the eldest, as she is spoken of as ' Miss Howe.' 
 
 Tuesday May %4Jh. I do not feel happy in the Idea 
 that you are getting farther & farther from me every 
 Minute. ... As soon as you was gone I gave up my 
 head to be tortured by M rs Hood, then came Motta & 
 stay'd above 2 hours. He remarked that Charles was 
 distrait & so he was. I think him thoroughly taken in.
 
 60 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Whilst he was singing before I came down Miss Howe 
 came in & was taken into y e drawing Boom where I 
 found her much entertained with hearing Duets between 
 Ch s & Motta behind the Curtain for they knew not that 
 she was there. She came with an offer to me of Lady 
 Howe's Box & Ticketts for to-night, & to ask me to 
 dine with her on Thursday, neither of which I agreed to. 
 . . . Miss Howe made me a very short visit, seeing I was 
 engaged with Motta. . . . God bless you, take care of 
 yourself for you was not well. I wonder how I c d be 
 so silly to let you go without me. I am sure it cannot 
 answer to me, if it is to be the music of the spheres. . . . 
 Wednesday 25th 2 o'C. . . . Our Ball was y e pret- 
 tiest thing I ever saw & the girls all so happy it did 
 one good to behold them. They danced alternately 
 Minuets, Cotillions, Country Dances & figure dances 
 from 7 till 12, then went down to an Eligant supper of y e 
 inocent kind in y e great Boom below. When we old 
 ones had admired them some time we were invited to seat 
 ourselves at a Table, a kind of Horse Shoe, which fill'd y e 
 Little Boom. . . . Y e folding doors between the Booms 
 were taken away & the Appearance was indeed beautiful. 
 At one o'clock y e Company broke up & y e Bartons 
 brought me home. . . . We have changed our day for 
 Kensington to Monday next, so I have just writ to L dy 
 Howe to say we will dine with her to-morrow. 1 If that 
 produces an invitation to my Lodger [Charles] I shall 
 think we are en train. I have taken occasion to mention 
 
 1 It seems to have been then considered a compliment between friends 
 when they offered themselves to dinner. This meal took place usually in 
 the course of the afternoon and did not interfere with evening and supper 
 engagements.
 
 A GENEEAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFAIR 61 
 
 Mad lle to Almost everybody I have been Company with, 
 since you went, in order to hear what people thought of 
 her & they are unanimous in her praize. They say she 
 is the most unaffected unassuming, properly behaved, 
 best natured Girl in London. We talk of having another 
 representation of our Ombres Chinoises on Friday. . . . 
 
 Answer from L dy H. : ' Have you? yes to be sure & 
 pray tell Mr. P. that I shall be glad of his Company, 
 tho' my Lord dines out. . . .' M rs Walsingham tells me 
 that y e Dean of West r has very few places this year 
 allotted him & that it is a great favor & great Luck 
 to have y e offer of one. . . - 1 
 
 Thursday. . . . Charles is not my Lodger yet. I 
 believe not till to-morrow. Poor fellow he recollected an 
 Engagement with M 1 " 8 Stead to y e Poles for to-day which 
 obliged him to decline y 6 tempting Party at y e Admiralty 
 [Lord Howe's]. I fancy that Circumstance has put him out 
 of Spirits, for he call'd me aside after Breakfast to desire 
 I w d not give the hint before agreed upon, for upon 
 thinking it over he was sure it could not do, & therefore 
 it was best to drop all Ideas of the kind. I beg'd him 
 not to be so despairing, but he made me promise to do 
 nothing to-day. . . . 
 
 I call'd upon L d Denbigh last night, found him in an 
 earnest fit of the Gout; he was so happy to see us & 
 beg'd us hard that we w d play at whist with him to-night. 
 That we promised & now I am sorry we did for Lady 
 Howe has sent word she does , not go out this evening & 
 wishes us to stay. ... I shall be too late for Lady 
 Howe's dinner if I add more. 
 
 1 For the performance of Handel's Messiah.
 
 62 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 From Molly Conyers, sister to Sophia, Sir Roger's 
 first wife 
 
 . . . My Lady & Nelly are up to the Ears in Angels 
 & Devils preparing for a Grand Shew to-night with 
 hardly time to get ready so I am permited to be Secre- 
 tary. . . . Lady N. bids me say they had a very Pleasant 
 Party yesterday at the Howes, staid till near 9 & then 
 went to joyn L d Denbigh's party, who was very much 
 obliged by it ; he is still in the Gout. . . . 
 
 Now they give me the Pen while the Ladies go to 
 dress. We have heard of you at different Stages on the 
 Eoad & this morning from Arbury. ... I wish you 
 was here for more reasons than one. There is a report 
 that the Trent & Mersey Bill would still be thrown out 
 in the Lords if the Matter was rightly understood, & 
 the grounds of it explained to the Chancellor. L d Wey- 
 mouth is not awake or he might do much, but his Agent 
 can do nothing & even L d Uxbridge in his own Cause 
 wants an Adjutor. 
 
 From Lady Neicdigate 
 
 Our figures etc. are all finish'd, I am dressed & 
 expecting my Company every minute. Charles has in- 
 vited M re Foley & her Children, Nelly, Lady Anstruther 
 & Miss, & Molly sends for y e Middletons from Ken- 
 sington so we shall have a numerous audience. . . . 
 Lady Howe has just sent us her Tickets for y e Opera &
 
 A GENERAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFAIR 63 
 
 her Box for to-morrow. If we are not too tired when we 
 come from Thames Ditton to dress we mean to make use 
 of them. Indeed we get very dissipated. I hope I shall 
 bring a more quiet Mind & Manners to Arbury. 
 
 Friday night May 11th. Our performance has gone 
 off vastly well & I gave y e Bartons, Fauquiers & 
 Molly a Cold Chicken afterwards. We all parted Just as 
 y e Clock struck twelve & are to be call'd at seven. . . . 
 Our Audience consisted of very Old & very Young, Old 
 Middleton, Old Fauquier, Lady Gray, M rs Sloper, M rs 
 Cotton & about 12 Children all highly pleased. I will 
 pack up our Scenes on Monday that I may not be ask'd 
 to perform again. 
 
 Saturday night ^ past 9. We have had a Charming 
 Day. . . . Mrs. W. friendly as usual & vastly delighted 
 with our admiration of her Place which is beautiful & 
 extensive far beyond y e Idea I had conceived of it & the 
 house is Charming, the Booms pleasant, spacious & 
 numerous enough for her family with every Convenience 
 she can wish for & the whole in a Stile as peculiar to 
 itself as our sweet Arbury. . . . We got back at a 
 before 9 & I find myself more inclined to thank you 
 for your letter than to make use of Lady Howe's Box 
 & Tickett. Nelly also seems satisfy'd with y e Amuse- 
 ments of y e Day & Molly thought it right to return to 
 Harley Street ; so three of the Ticketts sleep in my 
 drawer which is pitty. Y e 4 th Charles was very glad 
 of. ... 
 
 Nulla dies sine linea is a Law I must joyfully sub- 
 scribe, particularly as you are also exact in y e observance 
 of it. ... You tell me nothing about my Bees, or of the
 
 64 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 works in Swanland, nor of my Pheasants having laid etc. 
 L d Denbigh shew d me in writing y c state of his Poultry 
 Yard, 37 Pheasant Eggs set under hens, 20 Turkeys 
 hatch'd etc. etc. in y 6 same prosperous stile. . . . L d D. 
 is very earnest about flinging out the Trent & Mersey 
 Bill in H. of L ds . He says there is not a doubt of its being 
 done if L d Weymouth w d exert himself. His reception 
 of Nelly and me was really affecting. He thank'd us 
 repeatedly with tears in his Eyes, said he was a poor 
 deserted Old Man that nobody thought about l beg'd us 
 to come & dine with him before I go down & when 
 we came away Whisper'd Nelly that the Vis ct had neither 
 Call'd nor sent to enquire after him tho' he had sent 
 Eades to tell him he was laid up with y e Gout. Nelly 
 sat down & wrote to L d . F. as soon as she got home. . . . 
 
 Sunday Just come from Church. The Howes are 
 gone out of town but return Monday or Tuesday. Our 
 spirits are mended but y e Little we have had opportunity 
 of saying on the interesting subject seems to indicate a 
 desire to have no hint given at present. So far I think 
 with him that he sh d have good reason to believe himself 
 approv'd, of which upon talking it over I do not find any 
 certainty. He says he is sure she has no suspicion of his 
 liking her. A discovery of that kind may change her 
 behaviour to him. . . . 
 
 I shall write a fine sensible Letter I daresay for here 
 are Charles & Motta singing. . . . Wednesday I shall 
 take Leave of all London friends, Thursday spend in y e 
 
 1 Lord Denbigh had lost his wife in 1782, but within the year he re- 
 married. The second Lady Denbigh was Sarah Farnham, widow of Sir 
 Charles Halford, Baronet. She survived her last husband fourteen years, 
 dying in 1814.
 
 A GENERAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFAIR 65 
 
 Abbey & I hope friday see Arbury. God bless you. I 
 have written this Letter in such a Cat-headed way that 
 you won't know how to begin or end. 
 
 Tuesday. Nelly & Charles are gone to y c rehearsal 
 at y e Abbey & I have been paying till my Hair stands 
 on End. Motta's demand was frightful. He fairly made 
 out between me & Charles 64 Lessons, which with 
 Music we have had of him songs transposed etc. came 
 to 26. 5. 0. ... 
 
 I have got my Ticket of Admission to the Deanery on 
 Thursday, not to be there till p st 11. I shall come home 
 from the Abbey, undress & pack up which will be no 
 unpleasant conclusion. The Messiah is to be rehearsed 
 on Friday & so many People are going to it to avoid 
 a Crowd that they will infallibly make one. . . . We 
 din'd with open Windows (at the Middletons) & walk'd 
 between y e Showers which has given me Rheumatism in 
 y e back of my neck and shoulders, but I hope that 
 Flannell & y ? strength of Mrs. Hood's arm will take it 
 off. ... 
 
 I have nothing new to tell you on the important 
 subject. I hear they are come to town. I'll have a Little 
 more conversation with y e Young Man before I make my 
 Leave Taking Visit, & if anything is to be said will 
 send & appoint a time or they may be out & disappoint 
 us. ... My Neck is very stiff and I prudently sit here 
 quietly . . . these Sour Winds make every body Com- 
 plaining except Nelly who is really stouter. 
 
 Wednesday. I sent to enquire after Lady Howe's 
 cold & rec d for Answer that she had y e Rheumatism in 
 her Back & was not able to come out but would be glad 
 
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 66 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 to see me at one o'Clock. Milly l carry'd me & we found 
 a family party ; y e young Ladies all 3 making & dress- 
 ing Hats & Caps for a Ball which is to-night at Mrs. 
 Dundass's at Wimbledon L dy H. prop'd up with Pillows 
 & lamenting that she must break throw her Kule & 
 send them with their Aunt Mrs. Howe. No one named 
 C. P. nor could I bring him in but by head & shoulders 
 which I thought was better left alone. He will be 
 mortify'd to learn that they are not to be at Ranelagh 
 to-night. I talk'd to him seriously upon y e subject as we 
 came from Wimpole St r last night & he seems really 
 not sufficiently sure of the Lady's opinion to hazzard an 
 Opening to y e principals. He is quite certain she has no 
 Idea of his attachment. I do think that sh' d be the first 
 step. He says he shall have few opportunities now of 
 seeing her & seems to despair of y e affair advancing 
 any further this year, or of their Situation being Eligible 
 sh d it take Place. They must, as I told him, Judge of 
 that for themselves, but till he is satisfy'd of that & of 
 her affections, I do not think I can with any propriety do 
 anything. He says they have never yet met since he 
 thought seriously on y e subject. Perhaps the 1 st inter- 
 view may point out y e road that is to be taken. . . . 
 
 This evening I shall come home in good time in order 
 to be an Able person to-morrow. They tell me we have 
 all sorts of Advantages & Agremens in Lady Yates' Places, 
 don't go into y e Abbey till Just before y 8 King Comes & 
 can get out at any time. So I shall be in no fear of 
 
 1 Her sister, Mrs. Barton. An echo of this name must have lingered at 
 Arbury until George Eliot's time. One of this authoress's most attractive 
 heroines is called ' Milly Barton.'
 
 A GENERAL ELECTION AND A LOVE AFFAIR 67 
 
 distress. | past ten, Harley Street. Lady H. Conyers is 
 here & Matilda Just off to Eanelagh. I hear no news 
 except that the King & Prince of Wales are reconciled. 
 The Latter drops his prosecution & goes to y e Birth 
 Day. 
 
 Wimpole Street 9 o'C. Thursday. Just going home 
 to finish payments & pack up & if possible get a good 
 Sleep & be as well as I shall be happy when I meet 
 you on Saturday. I got home from the Abbey just in 
 time to send you a Verbal Message by Nanny that 
 I had heard delightful Music much at my ease & was 
 pretty well. . . . Love from all here Adieu. 
 
 We hear no more of Charles Parker's incipient love 
 affair with Miss Howe, and are not told if he ventured to 
 put his fortunes to the test. 
 
 In any case he was quickly consoled, for in September 
 of the same year (1785) he married Jane (always called 
 Jessy), daughter of Sir John and Lady Anstruther. 
 
 Two of the three Miss Howes married two years later, 
 in 1787. The eldest, Sophia, who became Baroness 
 Howe on her father's death, married the Hon. Penn 
 Ashton Curzon, and Louisa, the youngest, married the 
 Earl of Altamont, afterwards Marquis of Sligo. Lady 
 Mary Howe 1 remained unmarried. A few years later she 
 became godmother at Charles Parker's request to his 
 youngest daughter, who was named Louisa by Lady 
 Mary's desire, after her sister, Lady Altamont. 
 
 After Charles Parker's marriage to Miss Anstruther 
 he seems to have been openly acknowledged as Sir Roger's 
 heir to the Middlesex property, and he and his wife made 
 their home at Harefield Lodge. 
 
 1 Lord Howe was advanced to an earldom in 1788. 
 
 V 2
 
 68 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 1787-1788 
 
 When the fact that Caterina had a remarkable ear for music and a still 
 more remarkable voice attracted Lady Cheverel's notice the discovery was 
 very welcome both to her and Sir Christopher. Her musical education 
 became at once an object of interest. Lady Cheverel devoted much time 
 to it, and the rapidity of Tina's progress surpassing all hopes, an Italian 
 singing-master was engaged for several years to spend some months together 
 at Cheverel Manor. MB. GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY. 
 
 LADY NEWDIGATE'S next match-making excitement was 
 on behalf of her brother, Edward Mundy, who had been 
 left a widower with five young children in 1783. 
 
 In the summer of 1787 there was a possible match in 
 view for him which excited the keen interest of all his 
 immediate relations. The lady of Mr. Mundy's aspira- 
 tions was Georgiana, widow of Lord Middleton and sister 
 of James Chadwick, Esq., of Kirklington. 
 
 Lord Middleton having died without issue, the title 
 passed to a distant cousin, whilst all his available property, 
 plate and jewels he appears to have left to his widow. 
 Lady Middleton had an only sister, Mrs. Whetham, who 
 was also a widow with no family. 
 
 Whilst the courtship was in progress Lady Newdigate 
 was summoned to Shipley, to give her sympathy and 
 help in this desirable alliance. She writes to Sir Roger 
 from Shipley on July 4, 1787 : 
 
 We had a very hot drive to Aspley tho' we changed 
 our plan and went to breakfast, but the coming back from 
 two to four was insupportable. We saw a great deal of 
 fine hay carry'd, this climate is forwarder than our upland 
 Country. Willoughbys were much pleased with our
 
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 LADY MIDDLETON'S COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 69 
 
 visit and make great enquiry after you. Y c serv* is 
 returned from Kirklington [where Lady Middleton was 
 staying with her brother, Mr. Chadwick] w th a very kind 
 note accepting the offer so Mrs. Oliver, Nelly [Mr. 
 Mundy's two sisters] & Helena [Mrs. Oliver's daughter] 
 set out at 10 in y e morning for it is near 30 miles. We 
 shall think it very hard indeed if no good comes of the 
 sacrifize we make in dividing the sisterhood just now, but 
 I flatter myself it will be forwarding the purpose I came 
 for. Ned's spirits have risen greatly since this Plan was 
 first [suggested] he seems much obliged to us all for 
 giving into it. They will return to dinner on Friday 
 & I hope to make My Dears Coffee on Saturday. 
 
 The scene is next transferred to Cheltenham, where Lady 
 Middleton and Mrs. Whetham are staying, also a certain 
 Fanny Willoughby, a member of the late Lord Middleton's 
 family, whose good will on behalf of the suitor has been 
 gravely doubted. Mr. Mundy's courtship of the fair 
 widow seems to have made considerable progress, and he 
 has with him an anxious and zealous sympathiser in his 
 sister, Nelly Mundy. Mr. Mundy writes to Sir Roger 
 from Cheltenham on October 19, 1787, as follows : 
 
 MY DEAR SIR, Yours and Lady Newdigate's Letters 
 we have just received, and though we did not intend you 
 should hear from us by this day's post, I cannot let it go 
 without a few Lines from me to thank you both for your 
 very kind Letters. Yesterday's post would inform you how 
 happy we all are and with what generosity L dy Middleton 
 placed entire confidence in me. I must now assure you 
 both that we are perfectly satisfy ed F. Willoughby has 
 acted the friendly part by me, and the appearances we 
 observed soon after her arrival were produced by the
 
 70 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 fresh sensations you have heard of. The Joy she appears 
 to feel is not such as could be put on if a long concerted 
 plan had failed and she had been disappointed. Indeed 
 her sincerity in this business cannot now be doubted, and 
 I beg you will not only acquit her of any Deceit and 
 Interestedness but endeavour to remove any Prejudices 
 my sister Oliver may have conceived against her. We do 
 not yet know what day we shall leave Cheltenham but 
 you shall hear by Sunday's post. I hope everything will 
 be fixed to-morrow. 
 
 God bless you all and thank you a thousand times for 
 your goodness to me and anxiety about me. I hope very 
 soon to introduce to you a sister you will not totally dis- 
 like. Nelly joins me in love to all. . . . 
 I am dear Sir, 
 
 Your affec ate Brother & sincere friend 
 
 E. M. MUNDY. 
 
 Lady Newdigate we may believe never saw this letter, 
 as she must have started for Cheltenham before it could 
 have reached Arbury. Evidently Mrs. Oliver, who was at 
 Arbury, was imbued with such grave suspicions of Fanny 
 Willoughby's opposing influence that she induced her 
 sister to leave with her for the scene of interest at once. 
 They arrived at Cheltenham on Saturday the 20th, and 
 Lady Newdigate writes to Sir Eoger on Sunday the 21st : 
 
 What a lovely day we had for our journey ! it was y e 
 more agreable because I knew it would be Joy to you. 
 Nothing c d be more pleasant or prosperous than our 
 progress. We got to Stow by one o'clock & was there 
 advised to go by North Leach y e late Rains having made 
 y e short Road almost impossible ; another reason for not 
 attempting it was that we c d not get four horses. A pair
 
 LADY MIDDLETON'S COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 71 
 
 brought us perfectly well to North Leach 9 miles and a 
 fresh pair 11 rniles to Cheltenham. So many people are 
 now upon the wing from this place that y e place w d not 
 furnish more. We made an excellent Dinner upon our 
 Cold Loaf & arrived here about ^ after four. They 
 were sitting round y e table in a front room & upon 
 the Carriage stoping flew into y e Passage, & seeing Mrs. 
 Oliver get out concluded that poor Helena was worse and 
 that she was carrying her to Bath, but on my appearing 
 y e exclamations of Joy & surprise were very great. 
 They had not the least expectation of my coming, seem'd 
 overcome with pleasure & cry'd out, ' Oh how very good 
 Sir Roger is to send you ! ' I ask'd Nelly if all went 
 well, she said she hop'd so. Y e Company we found 
 was themselves, y e Bowdlers & Fanny Willoughby. Y c 
 Latter I had greeted en passant but did not pay 
 much attention to her till we became seated when I 
 observed a gloom & kind of embarrassment which I could 
 not help observing to her, & told her she look'd as if 
 she was not glad to see me. She try'd to shake it off as 
 well as she could, but was evidently so struck that she c d 
 not recover herself, & in about ten minutes took her leave 
 saying that Lady M. would expect her, that she w d see us 
 again before she went, that she must set off at three 
 to-day if possible, as her brother w d be waiting at an Inn 
 for her about twenty miles from hence, but that she sh'd 
 not go if L dy M. was not better. She has kept house with 
 a cold these two days & I am afraid will not be well 
 enough to let us come to her to-day, for we have just sent 
 & find she is not up. I don't find that anything goes 
 wrong but yet we don't advance. Ned stay'd with ns the
 
 72 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 whole evening which I enquired y e reason of and was told 
 (at least understood) that Lady M. had desired he w* 1 not 
 come last night. Upon further examination I learn that 
 he was stop'd by F. W. who came as soon as she had 
 Din'd & told him she knew it w* 1 be more agreable both 
 to Lady M. & Mrs. W. [Whetham] that he sh'd not come. 
 I have scolded him for minding her & advised never to 
 take a denial but from her own mouth & to tell both y e 
 Ladies that F. W. kept him away. I am certain that she 
 trys to make Lady M. believe he has no real attachment 
 for her. Ned observed how much she was struck at my 
 coming & thinks she will not dare to go as long as I 
 stay. I don't know what she fears from me unless she 
 thinks that I see through her, & that she shall not be 
 able to intimidate me as she does Ned & Nelly. They 
 think she has an influence and are quite afraid of her. I 
 won't offend her if I can help it, but I will put an end to 
 misteries if possible, which will be disarming her entirely. 
 Ned does not think that she means to be his enemy, but 
 that she has some interested plan which she is trying to 
 bring about & which makes her wish at present to keep 
 back the business. I shew'd your letter to Bess [Mrs. 
 Oliver] and Nelly ; they are both much pleas'd and 
 obliged to you for it. You bid me not shew it Ned, but I 
 told him of it & consulted with him about sending it. He 
 wishes it to be kept back if possible till F. W. is gone, if 
 she goes to-day. If she does not I will deliver it the first 
 time I am admitted. Ned will walk there from church & 
 hopes to see her. He will tell her the reason of my 
 coming & desire to know when I may wait upon her. 
 Nelly is just come in with Blank Face again ; she has
 
 LADY MIDDLETON'S COURTSHIP AND MAREIAGE 73 
 
 been let in but finds all Cold, & she thinks with Anger 
 in y e Countenance, & is all agitation, expecting that Ned 
 will have his dismission, but I hope she frights herself 
 unreasonably. 
 
 As the case stands, it is possible you may see me before 
 Wednesday, or that it may be important my staying a day 
 or two beyond that time ; therefore I think you had better 
 not send for me ; the difference of horses in this situation 
 I am sure you won't think worth considering. 
 
 I must end or shall be too late for even 8 3 o'Clock 
 Church, which we are going to, and Ned is not come 
 home. 
 
 God bless you my d r Life, Nelly makes me as great a 
 fool as herself. My brains are turn'd round. I really 
 think if this affair lasts long so, she will have a shaking 
 Palsy. Lady M. is not well enough to see me to-day and 
 Fanny W. does not go till to-morrow. I wish she may 
 then. 
 
 This letter is enclosed in a larger sheet, on the inside 
 of which is a short note to Sir Eoger from Ned Mundy, 
 headed ' Bead the cover first.' 
 
 Cheltenham : October 21, 1787. 
 
 MY DEAE SIB BOGEB, Not five minutes ago I was 
 made the happiest of mortals by receiving L dy M. 8 con- 
 sent. God bless you and thank you for all y r kindness. 
 L dy Newdigate is well & as happy as I am almost. 
 I am your happy & affec ate 
 
 E. M. MUNDY. 
 
 The next letter is from Lady Newdigate, dated ' Mon- 
 day 3 o'C. 22nd Oct.'
 
 74. THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 We have just had our presentation in form. She 
 seems very unwell but looks smiling & happy, & a 
 more interesting Elegant Creature I never saw. I gave 
 her your Letter which she received very graciously ; every- 
 thing seems as we could wish, but that our poor foolish 
 Nelly is sick. She was not able to go with M rs Oliver & 
 me to L dy M. We laugh'd at her yesterday for Beading 
 so 111, but y e consiquence is too serious. She agitated 
 herself so much that it gave her violent Complaint in her 
 Bowels, which continues & she is feverish. Had she 
 been well perhaps I might have surprised you before this 
 Letter arrives, but as it is, I shall stay till Wednesday & 
 be with you by Coffee time. Y e Happy Man & Nelly 
 hope to follow us in a day or two. 
 
 Adieu, Ever, ever Y. 
 
 Mr. Mundy's marriage was not long delayed. He 
 writes to Sir Eoger from Shipley on January 21, 1788 : 
 
 MY DEAE Sra, In return for your very kind Congratu- 
 lations and good wishes which I thank you for most 
 sincerely ; I will tell you that I am the happiest creature 
 on Earth, and impatient to introduce my dearest Lady 
 Middleton to her relations at Arbury. She has kindly 
 promised to pay you a visit whenever you like to receive 
 us, and wishes to prevent Lady Newdigate coming through 
 our very bad roads. We do not intend to stay more than 
 one night or two at Middleton before we go to town or 
 we could have had the pleasure of seeing you there. I 
 mention Lady Newdigate's coming to Shipley alone be- 
 cause I know you dislike to go from home in Winter to 
 any distance. If you could see ns I think you would like
 
 LADY MIDDLETON'S COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 75 
 
 us very well, so don't stand upon ceremony with us. We 
 shall not undertake the Journey either with reluctance or 
 fear of the roads I assure you. Lady Middleton desires to 
 add her Love to you and Lady Newdigate and Cornpts to 
 the News : Nelly is quite silent but I believe she has 
 some Love for you all. I have a great deal and am your 
 truly affectionate 
 
 Brother & Servant 
 
 MlLLEE MUNDY. 
 
 We hear of Lady Newdigate paying her first visit to 
 Shipley after the advent of its new mistress in the follow- 
 ing summer of this same year 1788. She had a second 
 attraction to the neighbourhood at that time, being anxious 
 to attend a grand musical performance which was to take 
 place at Derby. She therefore stopped for a night or two 
 at the county town, and was met by her relatives from 
 Shipley, who had come in for the same object. 
 
 In the next letters we find the first mention of Sally 
 Shilton, the little girl brought up and educated by Lady 
 Newdigate on account of her beautiful voice. She was 
 the original of Caterina, the heroine of ' Mr. Gilfil's Love- 
 story,' but was not of Italian parentage as the tale makes 
 out. Report says that Sally Shilton was the daughter of a 
 collier on the property, and Lady Newdigate's attention was 
 first attracted to the child by hearing her singing whilst 
 seated on the cottage door-step. She was taken to Arbury 
 at an early age for the cultivation of her voice, and developed 
 so much musical talent in addition to her unusual gift of 
 song as to lead to ambitious hopes of her making her mark 
 as a professional singer. Both Sir Roger and Lady Newdi- 
 gate became much attached to the little girl, and as she 
 grew up she was gradually promoted from the house- 
 keeper's room to the drawing-room, where her musical 
 gifts gave constant pleasure to her kind patrons and their 
 guests. Lady Newdigate's former singing master, Signer 
 Motta, was engaged to train Sally's voice, and seems to 
 have spent much time at Arbury for this purpose. Her 
 history will be unfolded in due course by Lady Newdigate's
 
 76 THE CHEVERELS OF CIIEVEREL MANOR 
 
 letters and one or two of Sally's own compositions. At 
 the date at which we have now arrived 1788 Sally 
 must have been about fourteen years old. 
 
 Friday 4 o' Clock Shipley. We have just arrived about 
 a quarter of an hour, & the first Dinner Bell is ringing, 
 but as this is really the first Leisure Moment I have had 
 since I enter'd Derby on Tuesday I must dedicate it to my 
 Dear Life & thank him for y e very great pleasure he has 
 procur'd me in this Jaunt, which has answer'd in every 
 agreable light far beyond my expectations or even my 
 hopes. I had a very pleasant Journey (barring the Idea 
 of leaving you behind) & arrived at y e Nunnery at 6 
 o'Clock where my good old friend rec d me with tears of 
 Joy & of the most cordial kindness. We had just drank 
 a quiet dish of Tea, when a Shipley serv* arrived to say y e 
 whole party w d be with us in half an hour. Accordingly 
 within that space y e Little Room was fill'd with (I thought) 
 a tollerably well looking set, all well & joyous, glad to see 
 me, wishing for you also and blessing you for sending me. 
 They sat with us till our supper was ready & then departed 
 to their Lodgings leaving the dear Nelly with us who is 
 in perfect health. In the usual Stile she had (upon seeing 
 a request in y e Daily Paper from y e Managers that the 
 Ladies w d not wear Hats or Bonnets either in the Church 
 or Theatre) saved me a hurry by providing a Cap ready 
 for me. The first performance was the Messiah. We 
 call'd at Lady M.'s lodgings at half past ten and went all 
 together. The Directors were waiting for us at the Door 
 & handing us through the Crowd placed us all in y e 
 Mayor's Pew which had been kept for us. L d Vernon 
 & M r Mundy in particular paid us y e greatest attention,
 
 LADY MIDDLETON'S COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 77 
 
 handed us out in y e same manner & kept places for us in 
 the Theatre, of which diversion I did not partake either 
 Day ; the I 8t I had a little Headach & being told that it 
 w d be amazingly Crowded & hot, Nelly advised me to save 
 myself, & their experience of y e heat kept us all away 
 y c second evening. Indeed we thought y e Church & 
 Assembly quite sufficient. As y e Latter was thought a 
 necessary Compliment to the Town L dy M. insisted upon 
 going ; it was stupid enough, but it pleased & we got 
 back to our snug Lodgings before twelve. 
 
 Mara promised Harrison to sing her best & she really 
 kept her Word. I never liked her so well ; she was in 
 high good humour & said she never sang in a Place that 
 suited her Voice so well. Indeed, I had no recollection of 
 its being so fine & spacious a Church. There were 1,300 
 People in it y e first day & many more the second & tho' 
 y e Weather was very hot I cannot say that I was oppress'd. 
 The Meeting was y e best as to Company that had ever 
 been known in y e Town. 
 
 Our old friends were so good as to take in my 2 footmen 
 & my Brother had bespoke stabling so my Serv te & Horses 
 were well off, but many had no place to put their heads in. 
 I hope you will receive your Horses safe and well. They 
 have perform'd vastly well & all the Serv ts have been as 
 sober & attentive as possible. . . . 
 
 They wish to keep me [at Shipley] y e latest day which 
 I have said positively is thursday ; that neither my incli- 
 nation nor Conscience can keep me longer as you have 
 given me Carte Blanche. Therefore on that day if you 
 think me worth fetching from Twycross, I will dine with 
 you I hope & with all y 6 good people I left at Arbury. . . .
 
 78 THE OHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Motta sends Sally a Lesson to get against he conies. 
 Tell her to practice it. We agree'd in a Whisper that 
 there was not a singer at Derby equal to her. He seem'd 
 disappointed that I did not bring her, but don't tell her so. 
 She has I doubt not been gaining more at home & I hope 
 amusing you & your Company. We are all very well 
 but tired & sleepy as you will guess by this Letter. Mrs. 
 Whetham leaves us to-morrow. Good night. 
 
 Shipley, Sunday night. Though my last letter was 
 writ in my Sleep, I hope it w d convey my waking senti- 
 ments to my Dear Sir Roger which must ever be those of 
 y e tenderest affection & gratitude. He w d not I am sure 
 be a little glad to find y e scheme he so kindly plan'd for 
 my Enjoyment had so fully answer'd his wishes. I can 
 now with certainty add that none of the party are the 
 worse for it. We were all exceedingly amused but y e very 
 pretty Attention paid me by so many friends & acquaint- 
 ance, many of whom I have not seen for more than 20 
 years, gave me more than common pleasure, & made y e 
 expence of Spirits y e greater. I think I never enjoy'd y e 
 fresh air and a quiet drive more than I did from Derby to 
 Shipley. We were all too much tired to stir out of y e 
 house that evening. Lady M. had a bad headache & 
 Mr, Chadwick who had ventured to y e Church performance 
 both days was very unwell, but 2 nights sleep has set us 
 all to rights. 
 
 Ned went a shooting yesterday morning & left a Charge 
 that I sh'd not see any of y e New works till his return, so 
 Lady M. drove me out in the Chair. We took a round 
 & that shew'd us Shipley on every side, & the admira- 
 tion that was bestow'd on its beauties & praises that
 
 LADY MIDDLETON'S COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 79 
 
 seem'd involuntarily to break out every now & then of its 
 Owner made 2 hours appear very short to me. We heard 
 him shoot at a distance & were quite fidgetty that we c d 
 not get over y e brook that parted us. I think I never saw 
 anybody's Countinance & manner express complete happi- 
 ness so strongly. 
 
 In the evening Ned walk'd me into every Barn, Coach- 
 house, Stable round his New Walls, built & building. 
 They seem well contriv'd & very convenient, I think you 
 will approve. They talk of y c Great Boom but nothing is 
 done towards it, which Ned says is y fault of his Architect 
 [Sir Roger] who ought to have been here now & have 
 form'd his plan upon y spot. 
 
 In y e middle of dinner yesterday arrived Fanny Wil- 
 loughby ; she was at y e Musick at Derby, went on friday 
 somewhere beyond Ashborn where she purpos'd staying a 
 week, but on Lady M.'s telling her that I was going to stay 
 some days at Shipley she dispatch'd an order to Aspley to 
 send over her 2 Clavicellos l & they arrived about an hour 
 before her. We play'd a good deal in the evening and 
 Motta composed a very pretty thing that we perform'd 
 admirably. Fanny went home to Mass to-day, but promises 
 to return to-morrow & we have made Ned bring out his 
 flute & he is to get it in order to play trios. Motta has 
 compos'd a very fine bravoura song for Sally, which he 
 fetch'd me to hear before we had been 3 minutes in y e 
 house ; tho' he is very happy here, he will I am sure be 
 very glad to get to his little scholar. . . . 
 
 1 A clavicello seems to have been an instrument of a composite cha- 
 racter. It consisted of a violoncello with a keyboard attached to it. There 
 is no specimen extant at Arbury, but one is represented in Komney's 
 portrait of Lady Newdigate.
 
 80 
 
 I don't believe I have mention'd y e dear Boys, they are 
 all much grown & look vastly well ; they were very glad 
 to see me & Henry has ask'd several times why Sir Roger 
 w d not come ? Mrs. Whetham is, if possible, fonder of 
 them than Lady M. is. They return to Eton on Wednes- 
 day. 
 
 We have been to Heynor Church, had a Charming 
 Walk after Dinner till Tea & now the Bell has just rung 
 to Prayers. . . . God bless you my dear Soul & keep you 
 in health for y e sake of Y r truly affec ate 
 
 H. N.
 
 81 
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 
 1789 
 
 For the next ten years Sir Christopher was occupied with the architec- 
 tural metamorphosis of his old family mansion. . . . Though Lady Cheverel 
 did not share her husband's architectural enthusiasm, she had too rigorous 
 a view of a wife's duties, and too profound a deference for Sir Christopher, 
 to regard submission as a grievance. MB. GILFIL'S LOVE-STOKY. 
 
 A YEAR later, in 1789, we find Lady Newdigate in 
 London with her niece Fanny Mundy and her protegee 
 Sally Shilton, but without Sir Eoger, who had left 
 Spring Gardens for Arbury before her. She appears 
 to be detained for a time on more than one account. 
 She proposes to attend the Birthday Drawing-room ; 
 Sally's music lessons have to be continued ; whilst, lastly 
 and principally, she is anxiously awaiting the first confine- 
 ment of her brother's second wife. Lady Middleton is in 
 London for this event, and established with Mr. Mundy in 
 their Piccadilly town house. 
 
 Lady Newdigate's first letter home is dated 31st May 
 1789. 
 
 I am just come from Church my dear Love & at y e 
 Altar have implored for Blessings on your head & for many 
 returns of this day ' more & more happy & accompany'd 
 with all that your heart can wish. . . . Sally is very well 
 
 1 Sir Roger's epitaph in Harefield Church tells us he was born on May 
 20, whilst in Archdeacon Churton's memoir he is said to have been born on 
 May 30. Here we should be led to suppose his birthday was the 31st of the 
 month. The only explanation for this confusion of dates seems to be that 
 the 31st was the date of his first marriage to Sophia Conyers, and they may 
 have kept this day as one of happy remembrance for so long that Sir Roger 
 had forgotten his real birthday. 
 
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 82 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 & her Voice Clear but not strong. That I hope will come, 
 Motta does not doubt it. 1 He comes to both [Sally and 
 Fanny Mundy] every day & they are studying a new duet 
 for you. Lady M. is very good & desires me always to 
 bring Sally, but it w d interfere too much with her business 
 as Fanny & I are great part of the day there, but she has 
 Din'd there several times and I always take her when I go 
 in an evening as Lady M. is delighted with their singing 
 together, which they are studying to do without accom- 
 paniment, which is very useful & agreable & will make 
 our Water Partys Charming. . . . 
 
 Monday 1st June. Joy to us all, the anxiously 
 expected Event is happily over. Lady M. was safely 
 delivered of a fine Girl at 4 o'Clock this morning. She 
 was in strong Labour from 6 o'Clock & had a very hard 
 time indeed. When y e Child was born she was so ex- 
 hausted that we were for several hours under great appre- 
 hensions for her safety, & the Doctor seems to intimate 
 that if it had lasted any longer it might have been fatal 
 both to Mother & Child certainly to y e latter for it was 
 so long before it cry'd or shew'd signs of Life that we all 
 concluded it dead, but thank God it squall'd at length with 
 a Voice as strong as ever I heard Sally's. Mrs. Whetham, 
 Lady H. [Howe] Mrs. Heywood & myself were with her 
 y e whole time & could not be easy to leave her till eight 
 o'Clock when her faintness went off & she fell into a sweet 
 sleep. The Child eats like a Cormorant & is as promis- 
 ing as possible. A servant was sent express to Shipley for 
 y e Wet Nurse y e Moment it was born, but one must be 
 procured in y e meantime, for it's thought Lady M. will not 
 1 Sally was about fourteen or fifteen at this date.
 
 A BEGINNING AND AN END OF LIFE 83 
 
 have milk for it which will be a disappointment. I got to 
 Bed before nine & lay till near one but could not close my 
 Eyes, my nerves have been upon y e stretch so many hours 
 that it must take time to get them into a proper state for 
 sleep which I doubt not they will be by an early hour this 
 evening. Then the chance is that I sleep too sound & get 
 y e headach. I have an invitation to dine to-morrow at L d 
 Bagot's but shall excuse myself on y e supposition that I 
 shall not be fit to come into Company. I feel very toller- 
 ably well & all my attendant companions appear to be so. 
 ... I have fears for Mrs. Whetham only. I never saw a 
 Creature suffer more from anxiety. I sh d tell you that y e 
 Instant we were summoned to Lady M.'s Boom we were 
 all Charging our Glasses to y e Brim, some with Wine & 
 others with Water to y e Health of y e Day [Sir Koger's 
 supposed birthday]. 
 
 I sent Jessy [Mrs. Charles Parker *] our good news. 
 She answers kindly that it makes her feel to have got rid 
 of half her Burden. Poor soul, I wish she was in y e same 
 state, with one little change perhaps she w d say. The 
 Little Girl is quite y e Welcome Guest in Picca dilly . 
 
 I am going to eat my Mutton with my girls, and shall 
 go early in y e evening to Jessy after calling in Piccadilly. 
 My Bro. felt so happy that he did not know he was tired. 
 I left him drinking Coffee & ordering his horse to ride 
 out. 
 
 Be assured my dear Soul that I really am well, as a 
 person can be who has work'd so hard and had no Sleep. 
 
 Tuesday 2nd June. My Head is well to-day, but I feel 
 
 1 Mrs. Parker was daily expecting her third confinement, and having 
 had two girls, she much desired a boy. 
 
 a 2
 
 84 
 
 my nerves very much shaken. The air has done me 
 good. Fanny & I walk'd to Piccadilly & find Mother & 
 Child going on well, but y e latter w d have been lost 
 without great attention. It had not slept for 14 hours 
 when it was discover'd that y e temporary "Wet Nurse 
 they had hired had no Milk for it. Lady Howe & Mrs. 
 Whetham were 6 hours driving about in search of a nurse 
 yesterday, fortunately found one with plenty of excellent 
 Milk which y 6 Little Soul sucks with such glee it is quite 
 delightful to watch it. 
 
 Many happy returns of y e day to us my D r Love 
 [their wedding day]. I thought as you did of its being 
 y 1 st time we had been divided on its happy return since 
 we came together. We will celebrate it old Stile with 
 double Joy. ... At this instant Khodes enters with a 
 petition. James Wagstaff has so exquisite a taste for 
 London that he begs to stay another day to go to y e 
 Birthday, for he hears that I am to be as fine as y e Queen 
 & that he can never see so fine a sight as y e Ladies going 
 to Court. I at first said positively no, we have trespass'd 
 one day already & I thought you w d not be pleased, but 
 upon recollection that on a day of great rejoicing it was 
 not possible to inflict mortification I call'd out Yes, Yes, 
 in almost y e same breath. 
 
 I have had a note from Molly [Conyers] to say she 
 hopes to get away from Sunbury to-day. If she comes & 
 we feel both well in the evening, my Brother & I have 
 laid a scheme to surprise & delight y e two girls with y e 
 sight of all y e Decorations of the Spanish Embassador's 
 entertainment which Lady Howe says surpass'd every- 
 thing that has been or can be imagined. The girls know
 
 85 
 
 nothing of y e Matter, but after dinner we are to dress 
 ourselves a Little Smart to drink Tea in Picc dilly where 
 we arrive at 8 o'Clock. My Bro. & George are to desire 
 us not to get out of the Coach ; we take them in a drive 
 away to Kanelagh which we shall have to ourselves, but 
 it will answer our purpose. Our party will be all Joy, 
 we shall Drink Tea, walk about & before y e fine World 
 arrives come away, for my Bro. will order y e Coach where 
 to stand & we are to be at home by 12. If this takes 
 place & answers my expectations of giving delight it will 
 be better than all y e finery to-morrow. 
 
 I have got my Cap & all my things ready so shall 
 dress without hurry & I really do believe my gown will 
 be y e most beautiful & Eligant. I daresay you'll have 
 a description in y e Newspaper. I hope to set out on 
 Monday 4 o'Clock. Molly just arrived, agrees to our 
 Party, will take up her abode in our Garret & travel 
 down with us. That settles everything, for I can leave 
 Sam 1 to go with y e goods & shan't have 2 men to attend 
 us. Much love & good wishes from us all. Ever, ever 
 
 yrs 
 
 King's Birthday 10 o'Clock, Wednesday 3rd June. 
 We had a nice Party last night, walk'd about and saw 
 very fine things much at our Ease ; then drank our tea, 
 after which Molly & I got seats & sent Fanny to Gallop 
 round & round with her Father & Brother till 11 when 
 we got our Coach up immediately & were in our own 
 house before 12. There was a double Row of Coaches 
 going to Banelagh almost from y e Lock Hospital. By 
 one or two o'Clock I suppose it w d be so full there w d be 
 no stirring. What nonsense !
 
 86 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 I have had a good Night & feel very equal to y*. 
 fatigues of y 6 Drawing Room, but I shall hate to have my 
 pretty Gown torn to pieces, which I know it will be. I 
 expect my hairdresser every instant & do not expect to 
 get home before y e post goes. I shall begin to prepare 
 for my departure as soon as this Ceremony is over, for if 
 all goes well in Piccadilly I have set my heart upon being 
 with you on Monday evening & shall leave Sam 1 as I told 
 you to see y 6 goods weighed & Loaded, unless you forbid 
 me. ... I must leave you for pride & vanity. 
 
 Adio Caro mio. 
 
 Friday 4 o' 'Clock 5th June 1789. Two Lines you shall 
 certainly have and two very satisfactory I hope you will 
 think them. In y e 1 st place we are all well. Lady M. 
 had a little uneasiness with her Milk yesterday, but all 
 perfectly right to-day. I have no headach after my 
 fatigues of Court but have been fagging since 8 this 
 morning in order to dine with you on Monday which I 
 think we may do from Dunstable, & as all paying & 
 packing must be finished to-morrow if we are to set out 
 on Monday, we may just as well eat a Chop after Church 
 on Sunday & twirl down to Dunstable. 
 
 Jessy bold well for aught I know. 1 I am going to 
 her this evening & we dine in Piccadilly. . . . Adieu. 
 
 Saturday 5 o'Clock. Oh you tardy Mortal, not send 
 your horses for me till 9 o'Clock on Tuesday morning ! 
 Why I shall have had a good Sleep at Arbury by that 
 time. I have been packing & paying & paying & packing 
 till I have a Broken back and Empty purse. In truth 
 this long stay & the Birthday has made money run very 
 
 1 Mrs. Charles Parker gave birth to a third daughter on June 14.
 
 A BEGINNING AND AN END OF LIFE 87 
 
 short, but I have made Ned supply me, & told him you 
 will redeem me if he throws me into Prison. My mind 
 at this moment stands thus. Finish all business, take 
 leave of friends etc. to-night. Go quietly to Church in y e 
 morning, set off at 2 with a Cold Loaf in our hands, pro- 
 ceed as far as we like, certainly to Dunstable, & I hope 
 as certainly be with you before y e Dinner time. So if y e 
 Blacks are not ready for me I shall growl. Heaven bless 
 you and send us a Happy Meeting. Love to all. 
 
 Before these letters begin again Lady Middleton's 
 short married life with her second husband had come to 
 an end. Lady Newdigate was summoned back to London 
 in great haste by the following letter from Mr. Mundy to 
 Sir Koger. 
 
 MY DEAK FBIEND. Long before this reaches you my 
 Beloved Georgiana will be no more. She was taken with 
 a Shivering yesterday morning and has been gradually 
 declining ever since into the miserable situation She is 
 now. Break this afflicting News to my dearest Hetty & 
 Fanny [his daughter] and if you will do the kindest thing 
 in y e world Give my dear Hetty leave to come to your 
 
 Afflicted Brother 
 
 E. M. MUNDY. 
 
 London : Sunday 4 o'Clock, June 28th 1789. 
 
 Lady Newdigate, with her ever-ready sympathy, obeyed 
 this summons at once. She writes on the road from her 
 first stopping place : 
 
 i past 10 o'Clock [probably Monday, June 29, 1789]. 
 This instant arrived at Stoney Stratford where I think 
 it prudent to stop. I am well except a little Head Ach 
 & much Heart Ach, both much increased with y e Idea of
 
 88 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 having left you in such an uncomfortable Melancholy way. 
 Pray God keep you well & reward you for this kind Act 
 to my poor distress'd Brother, who I am sure must feel 
 himself incapable of Acting or he w d not have ask'd you 
 to have sent me. I found y e Roads very heavy & y e L d 
 Lieutenant of Ireland being gone by to-day I have had 
 tired Horses for 2 stages. I am come to my new friend 
 at y e Cock, have ordered a Chicken for my Supper which 
 I shall eat in haste & get to Bed, in order to be out if I 
 can at 4, which will bring me to town as soon as if I had 
 gone on to Dunstable. . . . 
 
 Piccadilly, Tuesday 3Qth June 1789. 2 o'C, I c d not 
 sleep after 2 o' Clock, so got out at 3 & was in Spring 
 Gardens at 11. Just wash'd my hands & brush'd my 
 Coat & came in a Chair to this Melancholy house. The 
 porter flung open the Parlour door, but my legs trembled 
 so it was some minutes before I c d get so far. Ned & 
 M rs Whetham both fell upon my neck & we all were 
 releaved by a flood of Tears before anybody c d utter a 
 word. Chadwick came into y e Eoom just after. They 
 are all deeply distress'd but I think as far as I can judge 
 pretty well in health & the dear little Inocent Cause of 
 all this misery in a perfect state. I have just seen it in a 
 sweet sleep. I wish'd also to have seen y e quiet sleep of 
 y e poor dear departed Angel, but find she is already so very 
 offensive that Lyons has just call'd me out to urge the 
 expediency of nailing down the coffin. That being y e case 
 I know not whether you might not think there may be 
 something noxious in y e fumes, & have fears about me. I 
 have not yet seen Ned except in y e presence of M rs Whet- 
 ham or Chadwick so can tell you nothing more. Lyons
 
 A BEGINNING AND AN END OF LIFE 89 
 
 knows no more than that her Lawyer was sent for yester- 
 day & came. He supposes with the Will but nothing has 
 transpired, nor are any orders yet given but what were 
 absolutely necessary. I am very well in health I give you 
 my Word & my spirits will get quiet by and by, I don't 
 doubt. I find a Letter from each of my Sisters which 
 I send you. You will see that both have been seriously 
 111 and I doubt this News will overset them both again. 
 Ned knows that Nelly had had a Violent Nervous Attack 
 & therefore made Lyons write by the post only to Barton 
 [Milly's husband] to break it them & to say he was sure 
 you w d have y e goodness to let me come to him ; therefore 
 he desired Nelly w d not come. He desires me to say how 
 deeply he feels your kindness to him. Indeed I do think 
 as far as I can judge at present that some friend is abso- 
 lutely necessary & I don't hear of one they any of them 
 have in town. 
 
 Ned brings me a List of Letters to write for him so 
 Adieu till to-morrow. 
 
 Y rs Ever. 
 
 Spring Gardens, Wednesday 11 o' Clock 1st July 1789. 
 I came home to a well-air'd Comfortable Bed between 
 nine & ten & got some good sleep, but my head was so full 
 of the melancholy business which I have taken upon my- 
 self almost wholly to transact that it kept me many hours 
 awake in y e night. Y e consiquence is I am late this 
 morning. Ned sent before I was up to enquire after me 
 & to know when I w d have his Coach. I have now 
 sent for it. 
 
 After I had sent away my Letter yesterday Ned call'd
 
 90 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 me into his room & gave way to an Emotion of Grief that 
 seem'd to releave him & which he had suppress'd out of 
 attention to the poor afflicted Bro. & Sister. He told 
 me that as Lady M. had left no orders or hinted her wish 
 about her funeral, he sh d beg of me to order it as I thought 
 most respectful & proper. Her Will was open'd the 
 day she dyed. She leaves 10,000 to her Sister 5000 to 
 her Bro. 2000 to each of my Bro.' 3 younger children, 
 500 to M rs Oliver, ditto to Nelly and to M rs Heywood's 
 daughters, to several of her god-children etc. To Lady 
 Howe & her daughters, myself & many others to whom 
 she meant only a token of regard 100 each. To Lord 
 Middleton y e furniture of Middleton with some family 
 Jewells & Plate, with other Legacies to friends & serv ts 
 amounting my Bro. thinks to about 50,000. The rest 
 all to him. 1 My Bro. means to Bury her at Shipley. 
 Indeed poor M rs Whetham yesterday after sitting in silent 
 sorrow for 2 hours said ' I hope M r M. you mean to lay 
 her where You hope to Lye yourself ' & then bore Testi- 
 mony to her having been y e happiest woman since her 
 union with him that ever lived ; it was she added too much 
 for this World. My brother's attention to her & Chad- 
 wick & theirs to him gives me great pleasure. We have 
 consulted them as far as their grief will allow us about 
 every thing, but I hope I shall have an Able Counsellor 
 to-day. M rs Whetham express'd a wish to see Lady Howe 
 in y e Letter Lyons wrote to her. If she comes she will 
 take a weight from my Shoulders, because I shall be sure 
 they will approve all she advises. But as to y e funeral it 
 
 1 This was not quite the case, the child inheriting the bulk of its 
 mother's large fortune, as mentioned later.
 
 A BEGINNING AND AN END OF LIFE 91 
 
 was necessary to determine it & being entirely my Bro.'s 
 affair (tho' I think in general y e more private y e better) 
 yet in her situation it appear'd to me that every show 
 of respect short of an ostentatious parade was proper. I 
 have therefore order'd 3 mourning coaches & my Bro.' s 
 own Carriage containing all the upper servants to attend 
 Escutcheons etc. It is to set out on Monday get to 
 Derby on friday night & be interr'd on Saturday ; 8 
 Derbyshire gentlemen to be ask'd to bear y e Paul. . . . 
 
 Piccadilly 3 o'Clock. I have had your kind Letter 
 my dear Soul which is a true picture of your own Good 
 Heart. Ned thanks you kindly but seems to think it will 
 be best for y e three to remain together till y e whole of this 
 Melancholy Business is over. I dissuade them from re- 
 maining here. If Ned cannot go far from Town he had 
 better accept y e offer he has had of L d Howe's house at 
 Porters for a few days, then let M rs Whetham & Chad- 
 wick go down to Kirklington & return just to transmit y e 
 necessary business, of which he seems to think he has 
 much that cannot wait. I don't believe he is any Judge 
 of that at present, but perhaps a day or 2 will settle many 
 things. No Letters from Lady Howe or from Harling l 
 so we expect somebody is coming from both families. . . 
 
 Wednesday night 11 o'Clock. We have settled much 
 disagreable business to-day, but have a good deal still to 
 come. I was forc'd to call in my Bro. who went through 
 it well, but he has been sadly low this afternoon & poor 
 M rs W. & Chadwick much worse than they were yester- 
 day. Indeed I never saw poor Creatures so broken-hearted ; 
 
 1 Her sister Mrs. Barton's home in Norfolk.
 
 92 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEEEL MANOR 
 
 she goes & weeps over y e Child 3 or 4 times a day in a 
 most affecting manner. 
 
 Lady M. has left her her Pearl Bracelets & most of her 
 Rings & Trinkets, so I advis'd my Bro. to give them to 
 her directly to avoid renewal of grief. She took them, 
 seal'd them up without looking at them & said she sh'd 
 keep them for the Child. . . . 
 
 My Bro. shew'd me Lady M.'s Will written with her 
 own hand & sign'd but not witness'd. She leaves 
 44,000 per ann. in annuities. Her fine Necklace & Ear- 
 rings all y e Gilt & old Sideboard plate, Dressing Plate, 
 Furniture of Middleton, China, Medals etc. to whoever 
 shall be in possession of y e Title at her Death & to go 
 with y e Title as long as it remains in y e Willoughby 
 family. When all this is paid there will be including y e 
 house more than 100,000 remaining. But nothing can 
 lessen his loss of such a Woman. I came home intending 
 to go to bed & now I am scribbling till 12 o'Clock. 
 
 9 o'Clock Thursday %nd July 1789. I slept better 
 than 1 have done a long while, waked at 8 & got up. 
 Shall write notes to Tradespeople to bring their goods to 
 Chesterfield Street. I think I have little more to do now 
 than to equip myself and Fanny [Mundy] If you have 
 any Wants let me know or any message to Taylors etc. 
 Don't you want Black Paper? ... It is very irksome 
 to me to be from you at this time particularly. It is a 
 kind act your sending me & is as kindly taken & I am 
 sure Ned will not wish to delay me when he feels he can 
 go alone. I really do not know what he w d have done 
 without me. . . . Lord Howe is 111 so Lady H. can't 
 come.
 
 A BEGINNING AND AN END OF LIFE 93 
 
 Thursday afternoon. They are all three much better 
 to-day than yesterday & we have talk'd over all this 
 Melancholy business very Calmly. I urged them to fix 
 some plan for themselves & again repeated your kind 
 request that Ned w d return with me. That I believe is 
 really not practicable as he can do nothing until he has 
 taken out Administration. In short my Dear Soul your 
 kindness is y e Rock that supports us all & all our present 
 distress'd Connections. I found they did not like to 
 separate & therefore ventur'd to say I could Answer that 
 you w d gladly receive them all till they c d fix their own 
 plans, & was surpris'd to find no objection made to it from 
 either. On the contrary it seems to be y e thing that suits 
 best with their present feelings & your kind proposal of 
 y e same Plan to-day (for it is now friday Noon) make all 
 easy & delightful to me, though I have hardly a Nerve 
 to tell you anything for we have just had a dismal inter- 
 view with my two dear Sisters. They arrived at 12 last 
 night. I was just steping into y e Coach to go home 
 when Sam 1 stop'd at the door & said they w d be here in 
 an hour. I returned to tell the News, but thought it 
 better that they should not meet at that late hour, so sent 
 them all to Bed & drove to Chesterfield Street. Y e 
 Meeting I need not describe. Nelly bore it better than 
 Milly [Mrs. Barton] but both look dreadfully indeed. 
 Barton came with them & I think will be of use to us in 
 our Melancholy preparations for Tuesday. I stay'd with 
 them an hour last night & then drove home, where my 
 late return had put them in a fright. 
 
 This morn g I had people of business upon appoint- 
 ment whom I was forced to dispatch before I c d stir, but
 
 94 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 got some breakfast & set out at 11 ; walk'd through the 
 Park which revived me, call'd in Piccadilly, found them 
 very Low with y e Idea of seeing my Sisters. So I 
 thought the sooner it was over y e better ; order'd Ned's 
 Coach to Chesterfield Street & set out to prepare them 
 for it. Mrs. Whetham & Chadwick really behaved y e best 
 of y e set. It has really been a trying affair. I fetch'd y e 
 Babe down also that y e whole might be over at once. 
 We have all wept over it till I can hardly see. I am 
 going now to more tradespeople appointed to Chesterfield 
 Street. My sisters are also going home. I shall return 
 at 4 as Ned has just ask'd me not to leave Mrs. Whetham 
 to-day & my Sisters will come again to Tea. I have not 
 had a moment's talk with Nelly so know nothing of their 
 intentions, but could I get y e Man [Mr. Barton] out of 
 the way I w d foster them also under your Wing, but I 
 doubt that can't be. Hope I shall get back to you on 
 Tuesday night. Ned etc. think they shall follow me on 
 Saturday. . . . 
 
 Thank God for y e Charming Accts of to-day, that you 
 are well & approve what I do is a cordial that will support 
 me through anything. Indeed I am perfectly well but in 
 a throng of melancholy business that tears my Heart to 
 pieces all day long. Dear Ned is wonderfully calm, so 
 are y e other two & they are upon a footing of mutual 
 Confidence & openness that is a Comfort to themselves 
 & very pleasing to see. . . . This day (Saturday) is the 
 toping up of all orders & directions consequently a 
 very busy working one for Body & Mind. ... I told 
 you they were all to remove to Porters to-morrow which 
 I doubt by your Letter you do not quite approve. If it
 
 A BEGINNING AND AN END OF LIFE 95 
 
 had been more respectful etc, I wish they had not moved 
 till after Tuesday, which is y e day y e funeral is to set out. 
 But it w d have been a dreadful scene for them & you 
 have named my taking Ned to sleep y e night before in 
 Spring Gardens. People's own feelings must guide on all 
 these occasions. Perhaps you will not approve of my 
 setting out on Tuesday as the day is altered to that, but 
 as I go from a different part of y e Town & sh'd set out 
 many hours before y e funeral, My impatience to get to 
 you made me see no impropriety in it. A like motive also 
 made me press Ned to come to town to do business on 
 Wednesday, but his own feelings has suggested that it 
 will be improper for him to appear till after she is interr'd. 
 So it is fixt that he shall not return here till Monday sen- 
 night & upon recollection that y e Body rests at Dunstable 
 on Tuesday night & turns out of our Road from that 
 Place, I shall effectually avoid it by not setting out till 7 
 or 8 o'Clock on Wednesday ; but then I shall be late at 
 Arbury. The passing it w d be very Irksome to me & I 
 sh'd think more exceptionable than preceding it by some 
 hours. But if you are of a different opinion or in short 
 if you disapprove of my setting out on Tuesday send a 
 Letter off immediately. If it is too Late for the Mail it 
 may be sent by y e Stage. Otherwise I shall try to drink 
 Tea with you on Tuesday. 
 
 The House is freehold & y e Child's fortune which is 
 81,500 comes to y e father if she dyes an infant, but it is 
 hers from y e death of y e mother. He cannot touch the 
 income, therefore we must reckon the 700 annuity s to 
 be deducted out of y e 96,000 which is y e remainder after 
 all Legacies are paid, a noble Addition to his own
 
 96 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 fortune, but so far short of y 6 Income they Joyntly had, 
 that a Change of Menage will be necessary. But these 
 are after considerations, perhaps reserved for Arbury. 
 He has offer'd Mrs. Whetham the Care of y e Child, at 
 least for some time. Indeed the Consideration that her 
 imence fortune w 4 come to him in case of her Death w d 
 make it an too anxious charge for himself or Nelly. . . . 
 Adieu. 
 
 4 o'Clock. Lady Howe is just arrived. We were all 
 together, a dismal meeting. I thought it better to come 
 & dine with my sisters & go to them again at 7. . . . 
 
 We have glimpses of the progress of the motherless 
 babe, 'the dear little Inocent Cause of all this misery,' 
 in subsequent letters. She was christened Georgiana 
 Elizabeth, and grew up, as far as we know, under the care 
 of her aunt, Mrs. Whetham. A year later than the date 
 of this last letter she was brought to London to be 
 inoculated. In September 1791, when she would be 
 more than two years old, Lady Newdigate was on a visit 
 to her guardians, Mr. Chadwick and Mrs. Whetham, at 
 Kirklington, and writes to Sir Koger concerning her : 
 
 The dear little Georgiana is y e fatest Little Pig you 
 ever saw, perfectly Healthy & Lively & with y e same 
 sweet intelligent Countenance, but her features are 
 absolutely buried, so that she is not in my opinion so 
 beautiful as when you saw her, but I dare not say that to 
 Mrs. W. She never crys & will go to anybody ; but her 
 father & her nurse seem to divide her heart. Fanny also 
 [her half-sister] has some share whilst she plays Country 
 Dances to her, which she never fails to ask for in very 
 expressive Language as soon as she is brought in after 
 Dinner. ,
 
 A BEGINNING AND AN END OF LIFE 97 
 
 The little heiress seems to have flourished in the 
 atmosphere of love by which she was surrounded. 
 
 As soon as she was grown up, when just eighteen, 
 Georgiana Mundy married Henry Pelham, fourth Duke of 
 Newcastle. She became the mother of fourteen children, 
 and died when only thirty-three, at the birth of twins, 
 on September 27, 1822. 
 
 1 See Debretfs Peerage, Edition 1839.
 
 98 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 CHAPTEE VII 
 
 1790-1794 
 
 The elder lady ... is tall, and looks the taller because her powdered 
 hair is turned backward over a toupee, and surmounted by lace and ribbons. 
 She is nearly fifty, but her complexion is still fresh and beautiful, with the 
 beauty of an auburn blond ; her proud pouting lips, and her head thrown a 
 little backward as she walks, give an expression of hauteur which is not 
 contradicted by the cold gray eye. The tucked-in kerchief rising full over 
 the low tight bodice of her blue dress sets off the majestic form of her 
 bust, and she treads the lawn as if she were one of Sir Joshua Reynolds's 
 stately ladies who had suddenly stepped from her frame to enjoy the even- 
 ing cool. MK. GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY. 
 
 IN 1790 Lady Newdigate went up to London without Sir 
 Roger, for the purpose of sitting to Romney for her full- 
 length portrait, which now hangs in the saloon at Arbury, 
 side by side with that of her husband by the same artist. 
 She begins her journal-like letters to him as usual on the 
 road, but it is not until she is in London that she describes 
 her perplexing reception at Dunstable by Mrs. Oliver, the 
 landlady, as follows : 
 
 I did not tell you last night how M rs Oliver surpris'd 
 me at Dunstable. She follow'd me & scrutiniz'd me in a 
 Manner that made me think her either Drunk or Mad. 
 At last she ask'd after you & on my answer that you was 
 well she clap'd her hands together & exclaimed ' I am 
 heartily glad to hear it ; it has been reported that Sir 
 Roger was shot dead by a highwayman.' The report 
 has prevail'd some days in town, that it happen'd upon 
 Uxbridge Common. Ned fortunately heard that circum-
 
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 SITTINGS TO ROMNEY 99 
 
 stance which he knew must be false. He supposes that 
 it arose from a Bobbery that was committed there & a 
 Jumble of y e Story of Sir George Ramsay. . . . 
 
 Saturday 24:th April. Spring Gardens. Thank God 
 that you are well . . . but I can't get that nasty story out 
 of my Head. I charge you to throw out your Purse to any 
 Man that Asks you for it as you come up & don't give him 
 any pretence to shoot you. I shall take care & not walk 
 y e Streets that you may not find me dead or under y e 
 Surgeon's hands. The Stories in y e papers of this horrid 
 Woman Hater are not exaggerated. Not a night passes 
 that some poor female is not dreadfully wounded. On 
 Thursday evening Lady Howe's own Woman was as- 
 saulted at their own Door in Grafton Street. She saw 
 this Monster following her & she ran forward & had time 
 to ring y e bell before he came up, but y e porter not being 
 in y e Hall, the Man threw her down upon y e Steps, kick'd 
 & punch'd her till she fainted away & then stab'd her in 
 y e thigh. In this Condition she was found when y e Door 
 was open'd. Ned yesterday saw a young Lady who was 
 only slightly wounded by means of y e Man missing his 
 Stroke which was aim'd at her hip. The Knife or Dagger 
 whatever it is went through a thick bundle of muslins 
 which she had in her pocket & cut a gash in her thigh. 
 A premium of 100 Guineas is offer'd & subscrib'd yet 
 nobody can lay hold of him. 
 
 I am settled as if I had been here a month, but your 
 Rooms below & above look so Melancholy and wanting, 
 I can't bear them. I find my Brother's carriage has so 
 much Employment with himself his daughter [Fanny] 
 Nelly & Milly [Miss Mundy and Mrs. Barton] that I think 
 
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 100 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 I shall feel more at my Ease to have a Carriage than a 
 Chair. Nelly offers me her Chariot & last night I accepted 
 it, but have just had Newport [the carriage builder] with 
 me who offers me a good Chariot for a guinea which I had 
 rather give than feel in pain for what belongs to another. 
 . . . The Pics [Mundys in Piccadilly] seem all very well, 
 but Ned's spirits are so entirely gone, that he makes my 
 heart ach. . . . Love to Sally, adieu. 
 
 11 o'Clock Monday. Nelly & Ned have beat me out 
 of my Apothecaries Chariot ; to be sure it was a beastly 
 thing that M r Newport sent me, so I have now got Nelly's 
 with my own Harness & Coat. I am vastly well & M r 
 Barton [Milly's husband] who came to town last night 
 complim* 8 my looks greatly, so I hope M r Eomney will 
 like me to-morrow. They are all mightily dissatisfy'd with 
 my Picture, but as you think you shall like it they shall 
 not make him do it again, unless Lady Templetown & 
 Bomney himself wish it. I will call & take Lady T. with 
 me. Fanny [Mundy] coughs & looks sadly, Ned is so 
 allarm'd that he has sent privately to desire Sir Lucas 
 Peppys will call & say whether she ought not to be sent 
 into y e Country. ... I am glad your little Companion 
 amuses you. I have bought her y e Music of y e Haunted 
 Tower which Fanny plays all day long, but wants Sally 
 to sing y e Songs which are very pretty. Adieu, adieu. 
 
 Wednesday morn g 28th April 1790. . . . Lady Tem- 
 pletown was not at home yesterday. I left word I sh'd 
 be found at Romney's till four & beg'd to see her, but she 
 never came. My picture is still too young & too hand- 
 some, but I fancy you will like it. ... I am going with 
 Ned to-day who is sitting ... to Lawrence. If I like
 
 SITTINGS TO KOMNEY 101 
 
 him he shall sit for me. . . . Romney thinks he shall be 
 satisfy 'd with one sitting from you, but tells me I must 
 supply your place on Tuesday. ... I have just bought & 
 sent to Wolter to bind a Book to tear Sally's brain & my 
 own to pieces. I have paid no Money yet except for 
 Music. Apropos to y e head I sh'd be glad if you c d bring 
 me when you come my White Beaver Hat. ... I can 
 forgive if you sh'd forget this Commission but not if you 
 neglect to send me a handsome smooth Lock of y r own 
 hair. What I have was taken from y e Toopee & is of all 
 lengths. What was cut off when you left off your queue 
 w d be just the thing. Let it come in your next Letter. 
 ... A great knock at y e Door. Enter Lady Templetown 
 & L d Feilding. They have stay'd till I was obliged to 
 turn them out & now I must dress & whirl away to Pic. 
 
 Saturday morning. . . . A note from Romney to 
 desire me to dress myself in white Sattin before I come to 
 him to-day ; I have no such thing in town, must get my 
 head dress'd in haste & drive to Pic & borrow a Gown 
 which I shall not be able to get into. . . . Time to go to 
 Romney. 
 
 4 o'Clock. Lady T. was faithless & never came to me, 
 but my sisters approve y e figure & attitude which was 
 y 6 business to-day. The Borrow'd Gown won't satisfy 
 him, he insists upon my having a rich white Sattin with 
 a long train made by Tuesday & to have it left with him 
 all summer. It is y e oddest thing I ever knew, but I dare 
 not disobey him as you are not here to support me. I had 
 just read a Charming Letter from you & a very good one 
 indeed from Sally or I think he w d have put me out of 
 humour.
 
 102 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Monday. I met Motta at y e Door in Pic, & Nelly 
 ask'd him to dine there to-day. I have not seen him 
 except at y e Opera, he has been at Portsmouth with y e 
 King of Spain's Physicians. ... I have got a white Gown 
 for Mr. Komney to-morrow. Adieu. 
 
 Romney's portrait of Lady Newdigate was a long time 
 on hand. She was still sitting to him in London two 
 years later. 
 
 The Lady Templetown, on whose artistic taste and 
 judgment Sir Roger placed so much dependence, was a 
 Miss Boughton by birth, and at this time the widow of 
 the first Baron Templetown. Her son afterwards became 
 the first viscount of that name. She was an old friend 
 and correspondent of Sir Roger's 'Your Baroness,' as 
 Lady Newdigate often calls her in her letters to her 
 husband. 
 
 At the later period mentioned above 1792 Lady 
 Newdigate gives Sir Eoger an account of one of her final 
 sittings to Romney. 
 
 I finish'd yesterday in an anxious minute. You will 
 not disapprove that I w d not let Romney fix all that Care 
 upon my Brow. ... I am appointed by Romney at 12 
 o'Clock. Lady Templetown and M re C. Cotton are to meet 
 me. If the former dislikes my Countenance he shall do 
 nothing to y e face for y e last Sitting was thought to im- 
 prove me. 
 
 4 o'Clock. Romney kept me 2 hours and . Lady 
 T. was there almost y e whole time. I read to them your 
 directions which they seem perfectly to Comprehend & 
 approve. Romney cannot part with y e drawings till y e 
 pictures are quite finish'd, but promises to take care of 
 them. I fancy I call'd up very good looks to-day ; where 
 they came from I don't know, but my Picture is certainly
 
 SITTINGS TO ROMNEY 103 
 
 much improv'd. All seem satisfy'd with it. I have 
 reason to be so, for it is handsomer than ever I was 
 in my life. 
 
 Lady Templetown gives her verdict on Lady Newdi- 
 gate's portrait in a letter to Sir Roger, dated 
 
 Portland Place: June llth 1792. 
 
 The unanswered letter of a Friend is a silent reproach 
 that I had rather not feel, & it seems an injury to myself 
 to appear negligent where I am very sincerely attached at 
 all times and interested to preserve the favorable ground I 
 stood upon. At the time my good Sir that I received your 
 Letter I was engaged in very sad duties, & the course of 
 the winter has been with me so unquiet that I should be 
 sorry to be called to a strict account of all my omissions 
 altho' la cara moglie will have told you that I did not 
 neglect the task you imposed upon me relative to my then 
 neighbour M 1 ' Eomney, & I really think he has acquitted 
 himself well in respect to Lady Newdigate. The character 
 of the face is well preserved, & the hair is of an agreable 
 duskiness that is neither in nor out of powder, so that I 
 am of opinion it will please all parties not that I am 
 willing to make this compromise in order to give up our 
 little skirmishes upon the subject, & which I shall rejoice 
 in any opportunity of repeating. 
 
 We were not guilty of passing by Arbury unheeded, 
 last year, for I did not go to Ireland. If I live till this 
 time twelvemonth I probably shall, but one trembles in 
 forming any distant plans, however ardently we may wish 
 that no sad circumstance may interrupt their accomplish- 
 ment.
 
 104 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 I understand that you are soon to have the pleasure of 
 seeing M 1 " 8 Nelly Mundy & her charming niece [Fanny 
 Mundy] at Arbury charming indeed I think her & one of 
 the most pleasing young women in London. I am now 
 preparing with great expedition to set out for Sysa, but as 
 you may suppose I shall not travel through France, & 
 have no apprehension of being molested in any part of 
 Austrian Flanders. I take my 3 Nymphs with me & con- 
 duct Arthur so far on his way to a College at Marbourg 
 where he is to acquire the french & german languages, 
 so essential to a soldier, the rest of my flock are tolerably 
 sound both in mind and body c'est tout ce qu'on peut 
 esperer. 
 
 My kindest Compliments I beg to L dy Newdigate. 
 Templetown would entreat me to present his best respects 
 if he was near me. Eliza is sea-bathing at Bamsgate w th 
 little Sophia & Caroline remains to console me at home. 
 This is a domestic Chronicle & I will conclude it with the 
 truest assurance of my being ever my dear Sir 
 
 Y r affec ate & faithful Servant 
 
 E. TEMPLETOWN. 
 
 Romney seems to have lingered for another year or two 
 over the completion of his two portraits of Sir Eoger and 
 Lady Newdigate. We do not hear of their being sent 
 down to Arbury until 1794, when the saloon, with its 
 Gothic ceiling adapted from Henry VII. 's Chapel at West- 
 minster, was ready to receive them. Whilst these pro- 
 longed artistic sittings were going on, entailing frequent 
 visits to London, Sally's musical education was by no 
 means neglected. Signor Motta continued to be her 
 capable and appreciative master, both at Arbury and in 
 London, until he was taken ill at the former place and died 
 in October 1791. His premature loss was a subject of 
 much regret, both to the Newdigate and Mundy families,
 
 SITTINGS TO ROMNEY 105 
 
 who evidently valued him as a friend as well as a musician. 
 Motta's death at Arbury caused no little trouble to Sir 
 Roger, who was a long time searching for the deceased 
 man's rightful heirs, to whom he could consign such 
 property as he had left behind him. His body was laid 
 in the grave at the parish church of Chilvers Coton, and 
 a tablet to his memory was placed in the church l by 
 Sir Koger. 
 
 Lady Templetown, having gone to Italy for a prolonged 
 stay, as anticipated in her letter given above, was able to be 
 of use to Sir Koger in his efforts to discover Motta's rela- 
 tions. She writes from Portice, 20th September, 1794 : 
 
 The receiving a letter from my good friend Sir Roger 
 Newdigate was an unexpected & very sincere pleasure to 
 me and I cannot delay the reply until the objects are 
 attained that he wishes for. Perhaps Sir William Hamil- 
 ton may already have acquainted you with the steps he had 
 taken, at any rate it may be satisfactory to you to know 
 that as far as it depends on me I will hasten the conclusion 
 of the business, but Sir W m having been for some time 
 at Castelamare & myself always at Portice prevents my 
 seeing even his Secretary who has had directions from Sir 
 William to get Motta's Brothers from Calabria without 
 loss of time & procure a legal power to enable Mr. Manby 
 to transmit to them his effects, which being done his 
 Secretary was to give me immediate information. But 
 Sir W m said this might take up three weeks at least but 
 (entre nous) I was pleased to see that he seemed to enter 
 earnestly into the business for he latterly appears to 
 throw aside all cares but for his capital Gem & his Etrus- 
 can Vases, of which he has certainly a most magnificent 
 
 1 ' Sacred to the memory of Domenic Motta, of the Kingdom of Naples, 
 who died at Arbury, October 31, 1791.'
 
 106 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 collection. . . . However to return to poor Motta which is 
 at this time more interesting as a Capital of 300 would 
 relieve his Relations from indigence & perhaps enable them 
 to enter into some means of trade, by which numbers in 
 Calabria have made comfortable fortunes. Sir W m says 
 that neither the Prince Castel Cicala nor his Secretary 
 would make any scruple of pocketing the money if it once 
 got into their hands as they are absolutely necessitous and 
 the Secretary a kind of Attorney. 
 
 I had great pleasure in seeing M r and M 1 " 8 Newdigate at 
 Naples where I wish'd to seduce them to stay a little longer, 
 but he always repeated a sentence of yours in one of your 
 letters, that if they did they would repent it. . . . It was my 
 fixed intention to have set out about this time on my way 
 to England had not these scourges of Mankind made such 
 an undertaking absolutely hazardous & I believe imprac- 
 ticable. I had rather be destroyed by the burning Monster 
 that is near us, than by those new species of Barbarians. 
 But heaven's will must be accomplished by different means 
 & we must endeavour always to think that ' there is some 
 soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly 
 distil it out.' 
 
 I would fain have heard a great deal more of Arbury 
 and of dear Lady Newdigate to whom I desire to be affec- 
 tionately remembered. My Girls are very much obliged 
 by your remembrance of them. I should like to shew 
 them to you, for as girls go they are not amiss. . . . 
 
 I have never heard whether my favourite Miss Mundy 
 is married or not if the Men had any taste she certainly 
 would altho' perhaps she might not improve by the 
 change. I often think that was I sure of living & seeing
 
 SITTINGS TO ROMNEY 107 
 
 fifteen years longer I should not be in a hurry to marry my 
 girls. Are you of my opinion ? l . . . 
 
 There is a letter of the same year written from Naples 
 by Mrs. Francis Newdigate to Sir Koger, giving an account 
 of a day spent in company with Sir William Hamilton and 
 his wife. As the latter has been rendered memorable by 
 Bomney's art and Nelson's love, it may be interesting to 
 give a contemporaneous estimate of this lady. 
 
 Mrs. Newdigate writes on the 18th of May, 1794 : 
 
 MY DEAR SIB, Sir W m & Lady Hamilton came to 
 visit us the day after we sent them our good Col's [Hamil- 
 ton's] letter & fixed last Sunday for our spending the day 
 with them at Caserta, which we did and I think in the 
 whole course of my Life I never was so much amused. 
 Sir W m received us in the most friendly manner & his 
 Wife did all she possibly c d to be agreable & succeeded so 
 well that at 8 o' Clock in the Even 8 we were excessively 
 sorry to go. We arrived there at 10 in the morn g & found 
 Sir W m & Lady H. playing & singing with several musi- 
 cians. Lady H. sang several songs most inchantingly & 
 made us all very sorry to go & see the aqueduct & the 
 Palace. They attended us & we came back at three 
 o'Clock to dinner. The moment it was over they took us 
 to see the King's beautifull English garden which Sir W m 
 has had the direction of intirely. Nothing can be imagined 
 more beautifull, the turf he has contrived to throw water 
 over whenever he pleases, the verdure is astonishing, the 
 finest exoticks grow like common shrubs. We were no 
 sooner in the midst of the garden than the Queen & all her 
 
 1 Lady Templetown's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married the first Mar- 
 quess of Bristol ; the second, Caroline, became Mrs. Singleton ; and the 
 youngest, Sophia, remained unmarried.
 
 108 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 family arrived & insisted on our being presented to her at 
 that time. She talked a great deal very graciously to us. 
 As I knew she made it a rule to meet all the English that 
 the Hamiltons take into the garden we had taken the 
 precaution of being rather more dress'd than usual. I was 
 quite in Love with Sir W m & much charmed with my 
 Lady who appears to me quite a pattern of good conduct. 
 She is grown amazingly large but is still very handsome. 
 She sang us some beautiful little Pollish songs & promised 
 Mr. Newdigate to give him leave to get them coppied, tho' 
 she never had given them away to anybody. . . . They 
 have made us promise to spend another day with them 
 next week when they come to Naples. . . .
 
 109 
 
 CHAPTEK VIII 
 
 1792 
 
 While Cheverel Manor was growing from ugliness into beauty, Caterina, 
 too, was growing from a little yellow bantling into a whiter maiden, with 
 no positive beauty indeed, but with a certain light, airy grace which, with 
 her large appealing dark eyes, and a voice that, in its low-toned tenderness, 
 recalled the love-notes of ttye stock-dove, gave her a more than usual 
 charm. ME. GILFIL'S LOVE-STOBY. 
 
 WE must retrace our steps a couple of years, from the 
 date of the last letter to the spring of 1792, when Lady 
 Newdigate came up to London to assist at the presenta- 
 tion at Court of her niece, Fanny Mundy. This was the 
 girl of whom Lady Templetown wrote as ' that charming 
 Miss Mundy,' ' one of the most pleasing young women in 
 London,' &c. 
 
 Sally Shilton, now seventeen or eighteen years old, 
 was also brought to London this spring, to test her powers 
 as a songstress, more especially with a view to her training 
 for a professional career. In Lady Newdigate's letters to 
 Sir Roger she frequently mentions her desire to be guided 
 in this matter by the advice of a Mr. and Mrs. Bates. 
 The former was Joah Bates, an eminent musician, born 
 at Halifax in Yorkshire in 1740. He was unanimously 
 chosen conductor of the commemoration of Handel at 
 Westminster Abbey ; and till the year 1793 he conducted 
 the choral performances of ancient music. His wife was a 
 first-rate singer. 1 
 
 Lady Newdigate's first letter given here is from 
 Dunstable, her usual stopping place on the road to 
 London. This time she was to take up her abode with her 
 brother in Piccadilly, Sir Roger's own house in Spring 
 Gardens being for sale. 
 
 1 Maunder's Biographical Treasury, 1845.
 
 110 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Dunstable, Wednesday 9 o 'Clock. Feb nj 1792. Sally's 
 head got well after we had devour'd 3 pounds of Cold 
 Beef & she has been reading y e Marquis de Boselle to me 
 from y e time we arrived which was at past till 6 y e time 
 a dish of fine plump larks were set upon y e table ... & 
 now she is almost asleep over y a fire. . . . Had we 
 resolved to stop at Stoney Stratford not a Bed was there 
 for us at y e Cock. Lady Uxbridge had order'd a Dinner to 
 be ready at 5 & Engag'd every Bed in y e house & when we 
 stop'd at this Door Mrs. Oliver told me with a Melancholy 
 face that she had already 3 Families in y e house & had 
 nothing but Garrets to offer me. I did not like the 
 thoughts of going to a strange house so determined to wait 
 till she c d see what she c d procure for me, & she very soon 
 conducted me in a good Dining Room & shew'd me a neat 
 2 bed Garret where I dare say we shall sleep as well as in 
 a Palace. . . . 
 
 Friday evening Piccadilly. . . . Thursday next will 
 be a hurrying day for it is fixt for y e presentation & after 
 much pro & Co. it is determined that Nelly [Mundy] goes 
 also. I am very glad, it makes Ned happy & will put 
 both Aunt & Niece upon a more respectable footing & 
 be vastly pleasanter to me. We have been to various 
 shops to see fashions, . . . but to-morrow is to determine 
 y 6 weighty points of Dress. Sally has been out with us 
 and has had a present of a Cap & a Bonnet. Nelly & 
 Fanny think she looks thin & is Grave but I hope it is 
 only with silent wonder at y e New Scene. They are all 
 very kind & good to her. . . . L d Feilding Din'd & stay'd 
 all y e evening yesterday & both y 6 Girls sung a great deal, 
 but I do not think Sally's Voice sounds so strong as it
 
 SALLY SHILTON IN LONDON 111 
 
 did at Arbury. I hope it is only y e difference of y e room. 
 ... I sent to the Bates to say we shall be glad if they 
 will call upon us & that we will call upon them in a day 
 or two. I talk'd to Miss Colmore about a Master for 
 Sally . . . the whole family are to drink tea with us this 
 evening when we shall discuss y c subject fully. . . . Sad 
 ace 1 of y e P. of W. & Duke of Y. They are beastly drunk 
 every day & People say y e poor little Duchess is very un- 
 happy. It is supposed she will open her house & let in all 
 y e world on Thursday next ; we shall probably make part 
 of y e Crowd. I say we for you may expect I shall be very 
 dissipated when we once set off. . . . 
 
 Sunday. Colmores sent an Excuse last night but 
 they come to us this evening. I doubt Sally won't be 
 able to sing to them for she had y e head ach all day. 
 
 Monday 4 o' Clock. Sally Kally'd last night and sung 
 Charmingly to y e Colmores ; they were all much pleas'd 
 & Miss C. thinks her Voice is grown stronger. Mrs. C. 
 ask'd us to Dine with them on friday & enquired if I sh'd 
 have any Objection to let Sally come to them at 7 as she 
 possibly might have a few Musical people. It is Just y e 
 thing I wish & better for her that she is not ask'd to 
 Dinner. . . . We were deny'd at y e Bates but I left a 
 note to say I wish'd to see them either at their own house 
 or here, & desired they would let me know. They tell me 
 it is said to be in agitation for Mrs. B. to come out again 
 as a publick singer. How will that operate in regard to 
 our business ? Miss Colmore promised to go to Lady 
 Clarges this morning to ask her opinion about the 1 st 
 Master. . . . 
 
 Tuesday. This day has been all Hurry which indeed
 
 112 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 our Mornings have hitherto been, & we are as quiet in y e 
 Evenings. Few People know we are in town, & we have 
 not yet set out of an Evening, not do not intend it till 
 thursday. 
 
 I have call'd upon & found Lady Templetown & agreed 
 that we'll do all that you shall command but must wait till 
 our great Hurrys are over. It quite turns my head to 
 think of Thursday ; sale of the house, Court and God 
 knows what by that time may happen. I think I am in 
 a Charming Train about Sally. I gave her a dose of 
 Evans yesterday & she seems quite well to-day. She is at 
 this instant under a french hair Dresser's hands to be Cut 
 & Curl'd, but not Powder'd I promise you, & I am going 
 to take off her Stays which will also please you. I agree 
 to y e proposal of y e Colmores for Sunday & have hopes we 
 shall gain credit & make friends. By Miss C.'s note I 
 rather think Music is given up for Friday. I have desired 
 that may be explain'd because in that Case Sally shall not 
 go. I have not an Answer from y e Bates. Nelly and I 
 are going to y e City and shall pass near, so if time will 
 serve we'll call again. 
 
 You may suppose we are very busy Equipping our- 
 selves, everything is fixt upon, & Sally shall write an 
 account of us when we are Compleat. 4 o' Clock Just 
 return'd from y e City, call'd again in John Street. Bates's 
 are in Norfolk & the Maid does not know when they come 
 back very unlucky, but we find an invitation from Mrs. 
 Gaily to Music on Monday to meet y e Anguishes. Per- 
 haps I may hear from them when they come. . . . 
 
 Wednesday night. I have just had y e enclosed from 
 Miss Colmore, so y 6 Music party stands for Friday & I can-
 
 SALLY SHILTON IN LONDON 113 
 
 not wait upon y e March 33 [of Donegall] which I am sorry 
 for. She has call'd both morn g & Evening & left Tickets 
 [cards] also for my Sister & Niece. I have also been 
 twice at her Door. What an impertinent Fine Lady is 
 Lady Clarges ! I w d not condescend to be disappointed 
 in my Answer to Miss Colmore as to having Pozzi to 
 accompany Sally. I left that to Miss C.'s judgment 
 telling her that I had determined to have Mortellari to 
 teach her. Every one agrees that he is y e best & has the 
 Name. . . . Fanny is also to learn of him. 
 
 I went for an hour to Lady Dacre last night ; found 
 her with only Mrs. Munster & Miss Lennard. She rec d 
 me most kindly & ask'd a thousand questions about you 
 & Arbury. We all Join'd in Abusing you for not coming 
 up with me. By the by L dy D. seem'd very sure that 
 Bates w d be at y e Antient Music to-night & promised if 
 she saw him to tell him that I wanted much to see him. 
 Mrs. Bates has been 111 & out of town 3 weeks & Bates 
 has been with her, but he is Manager of y e Ant. Music & 
 therefore cannot well be absent. When I came home at 
 10 o'Clock I found Lady Templetown. She had invited 
 herself to Sup & stay till her Son L d T. call'd for her after 
 y e Opera. Ned return'd from y e Opera just as we sat 
 down to Table, said y e Opera was stupid & y e house cold 
 & empty. It was near 12 when L d T. arrived very 
 hungry & in raptures with everything he had heard & 
 seen. This disagreement of opinion cannot be owing 
 entirely to y e difference between y c Age of 20 & 40. 
 
 Thursday morn" 9 o'Clock. I have slept well & feel 
 equal to y e importance of y 6 day. The Court affair will be 
 made very easy to us. Lady Harcourt is very obliging & 
 
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 114 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 will explain to the Queen the affair of Nelly ; & Lady 
 Bath is in Waiting with whom she is acquainted. Gowns 
 are promised in time & all things Else are ready. You 
 have added greatly to y e Beauty of Fanny's Dress. I 
 thought I could not execute your kind intentions towards 
 her at a better time nor in a better way than by getting 
 her a Gold Chain for her Neck to hang her father's picture 
 to. It is quite the thing & will cost you about 4 guineas 
 & . I have not time nor Boom for y e Joy & thanks she 
 expresses. My Hair dresser comes at ^ past 10 so hope I 
 shall have no hurry. I have got a new Hat for John as 
 you said I might & I believe y e Chair & Chair Men will 
 look Clean & Tidy. 
 
 Maberley [the family solicitor] has been here ... & 
 will attend the sale [of the house] & meet me here when I 
 come from Court which will be time enough to add a post- 
 script to you. There will be no York House to-morrow. 
 We are all glad of it. All hurry, hurry, Bellman ring- 
 ing. . . . 
 
 \ past 4 o'Clock. All our Court business is happily 
 over & we have got off our Hoops & are Comfortable tho' I 
 am still ignorant of my fortune, for Maberley is not arriv'd 
 so in y e meantime I will tell you we were graciously 
 received. Lady Harcourt behaved very politely, came & 
 stood by Nelly when y e Queen came up, & everything 
 pass'd well & Fanny Look'd so. She was a very Eligant 
 figure & we are all so well pleas'd & so little fatigued that 
 we have accepted y e offer of Mrs. Barwell's Box at y e Play 
 to-night & Sally is of y e Party. I must tell you that Lady 
 Donegal but here enters M r Maberley. The house is pur- 
 chased by M r Bumell of the Treasury, late under Secretary
 
 SALLY SHILTON IN LONDON 115 
 
 to L d North. There were no bidders but himself beyond 
 2000 Guineas. Our Puff got him up to 2850 Guineas which 
 is ;2992, 10. Therefore had y e puff bid again the house 
 M r M. thinks w d have been bought in, exceeding your 
 Authority. I am perfectly satisfy'd & hope you are so. ... 
 Saturday morning 16th Feb ry 1792. We have not any 
 of us suffer'd in y e least from y e Business & hurry of thurs- 
 day, tho' y e day was piercing cold, a proof that we are all 
 well & stout. . . . We are all delighted with y e new Opera 
 House (if it is not too large to hear well) & the procession 
 of Simon is magnificent. M 1 " 3 Barwell's Box is well placed 
 for hearing & seeing ; she has y c goodness to lend it us 
 again for to-night when Mrs. Siddons acts Lady Macbeth 
 & Mrs. Jordan is in y e Farce. So you see we make all 
 possible use of our time. I shall take Sally again. She 
 did herself great credit last night but there were few 
 Worthy People to hear her, the great Judges all disap- 
 pointed Mrs. Colmore, but all present were delighted & 
 will spread her fame & Lady Clarges has been with Miss 
 C. to ask if she c d not bring Sally to meet Mortellari at her 
 house on Monday evening. I am quite glad, so is Miss 
 Colmore, also that she is really engaged to sing with the 
 Anguishes at Mrs. Gally's. I have sent through Miss 
 Colmore to engage Mortellari to come & teach both Fanny 
 & Sally. The Latter shall have a Lesson every day if he 
 can give it, & Sally is now gone to Chuse & hire herself a 
 piano forte at Broadrip's which I shall set in y e dressing 
 Koom which Nelly gives up to me, so she may have her 
 full practice without encroaching upon Fanny. I hope 
 you will think we are in good train. The only fear I have 
 is of her strength. She looks very pale & peeking to-day 
 
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 116 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 & tells me that she was wak'd in y e night with y e numb- 
 ness in her head & face of which she has before complain' d 
 but not lately. I have always thought it to be nervous & 
 if so y e exertion of spirits & voice yesterday w d occasion it. 
 
 1 will not let her sing at all to-day. Colmore's Dinner 
 was ridiculously Magnificent, only our family & four men ; 
 
 2 Emense Courses, full Desert with Ices, Champaign & in 
 short every kind of fine Wine. We sat down to Table at 
 6 & did not rise till past 8. I never was so tired, Sally 
 was waiting in y e Koom above from 7 o' Clock, & we got 
 home just at 12, ate our Crust & went to Bed, & Nelly 
 desires I will tell you we have not had one Collogue after 
 Eleven o'Clock since I came to town, can you credit such 
 goodness ? I assure you we are as prudent as we are 
 Active; it is impossible for things to go on more plea- 
 santly. If you really have no remains of Gout or Sickness 
 (& I trust that you tell me y e very truth) & go on plea- 
 santly with your Companions I shall like to enjoy mine a 
 Little after our hurrys are over. . . . Have ordered a 
 Coachman's great Coat. . . . We can do without a Hat 
 till after thursday when we must attend S* James's again 
 & then one of my Chair Men's hats may be loop'd pro- 
 perly to serve. ... I forgot to say that Colmore has seen 
 Molini who inform'd him that he had learnt at y e Neapo- 
 litan Ministers that Motta's friends knew of his Death, so 
 they conclude y e same packet will have brought Letters 
 for you. . . . 
 
 Sunday. I have had another Vexation about your 
 Box. Lady Templetown, Sir John Anstruther, Mrs. 
 Cotton, etc. etc. kept me so long from Dressing for y e 
 Early Dinner as we were to see Mrs. Siddons that I pack'd
 
 SALLY SHILTON IN LONDON 117 
 
 in a hurry & left out your Snuff, which I hope you do not 
 want, but it looks as if I had less attention to you than I 
 ought to have. Pray do not think so, even if I fail in 
 other instances for indeed my Mind is occupy'd with such 
 variety of interesting subjects that I don't know how to 
 govern it. ... It has snowed so hard all morning that we 
 have none of us Ventur'd to Church but y e Brother & 2 
 Sisters have had a long Collogue, the first without inter- 
 ruptions since we met. ... I believe he [Barton] dines 
 here & Lord Feilding & we stay at home to Chuse & 
 rehearse the Songs & Duetts that the Girls are to perform 
 to-morrow. 
 
 Monday. . . . Past 3^, I must dress & dine with the 
 March 88 of Donegal ' at 5. . . Y r Noble Nephew is not in 
 town & nothing ever was more obliging than L dy Donegal 
 has been to us all, called 3 times & left tickets [cards] for 
 all ; at Court when she heard we were come to present 
 Fanny desired she might stand by us, so don't be sorry 
 that I dine with her. 
 
 Tuesday. How you w d have been pleased to hear the 
 applause our Little Syren gain'd last night at Mrs. Gally's 
 where many Musical people & some of acknowledged taste 
 & Judgment were assembled. None sang but y e 3 Miss 
 Anguishes & herself ; they were cut down by her most 
 exceedingly. Miss Charlotte who is y e great singer sung 
 ' vi diro ' in so infamous a Stile that we did not like y e 
 Song at all. Everybody agrees that Sally will be a very 
 Capital Singer when she comes to her full strength, but 
 
 1 Sir Roger's nephew, Lord Donegall, had married for the third time in 
 1790, and was advanced in the Irish peerage to be Marquis of Donegall and 
 Earl of Belfast in 1791.
 
 118 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 that till that time she must be managed with attention or 
 she may lose her Voice if not her life. This was y e 
 general opinion last night & Miss Colmore who is quite 
 Wild about her is very Ernest with me not to let Mortellari 
 or any Professional People who may think to gain Money 
 ot Credit by her Exhibition prevail with me to let her be 
 heard in a Publick Room these 2 years to come, by which 
 time she will have acquired strength & Knowledge in 
 Musick to command Applause. I shall suspend my 
 decided opinion till I have heard that of Mr. Bates who 
 I have as yet no Message from, but I do not see in what 
 light I can send to consult Giardini. If I sh'd meet 
 him at any Musical party w ch I am afraid is not likely 
 I c d ask his opinion, but he has already given it to 
 M r . Payne who you know told us that Mr. Giardini said 
 she w d in 2 or 3 years be a fine singer, but that her Voice 
 was not fit for y e Publick at present ; & w d it not be 
 awkward to g i- ve him y e trouble of coming to Me here with- 
 out making him any recompense or agreeing to his recom- 
 mendation, which doubtless w d be a person he wish'd to 
 serve. I have employ'd Miss Colmore to engage Mortellari 
 who is by All acknowledg'd to be y e 1 st in taste & that is 
 all that Sally can improve by, for she is better grounded 
 than any of them ; but if you still think I sh'd still send 
 for Giardini tell me but y e manner how & I will do it. I 
 send you another proof that her fame is gone abroad & I 
 do think that to have her solicited in this manner will 
 gain her many more friends & admirers than it w* 1 do to 
 try her in any Publick Room. But all that may still be 
 managed if it is thought Eligible. Be assured I will not 
 be inattentive to her interest, you see she has a full share
 
 SALLY SHILTON IN LONDON 119 
 
 of my thought. I take Fanny & Sally to-night into y e 
 Pit to y e Opera. The Coach is now at y* Door to Carry 
 me to Lady Donegal, Colmores etc. etc. L d D. came 
 home before Dinner yesterday & flirted with me so much 
 that you w d have been quite Jealous had you seen it. He 
 bids me tell Sir Roger he w 3 come to Arbury as soon as he 
 gets to Fisherwick. . . . She is very pleasing indeed & I 
 find we are to be very intimate. . . . 
 
 4 o'Glock. We met Mortellari at y e Colmore's & 
 Fanny sung a Duett with him; he is to come to her 
 to-morrow at 3 & to Sally at seven. I like his manner 
 much. . . . 
 
 Thursday. . . . I am now dress'd for Court & to dine 
 as I told you with the Marquis & March 33 . I hope you 
 will no longer disapprove when I shall have time to tell 
 you y e speeches he has made & his Civilities to my Brother 
 & all of us. ... I will tell Sally to fill up y e other half 
 Sheet whilst I am at Court as I fear I shall not have time 
 to add anything. I am wonderfully well & Sally also I 
 assure you. 
 
 From Sally Shilton to Sir Roger 
 
 SIB, I am happy to tell you that Lady Newdigate is 
 in perfect health. She left me to add a Little to her 
 Letter whilst she is at Court. M rs [Nelly] & Miss Mundy 
 [were] looking very well in their Court dresses, and the 
 latter is in perfect health and quite fat. They are all 
 going to dine at the Marquis of Donegal's and after that 
 M r & Miss Mundy go to Cumberland House in short 
 they are very dissipate. We went to the opera last 
 Tuesday Evening, they make very bad work of it. I have
 
 120 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 got Mortellari for singing, I did not like him at First but 
 like him very well now. Lady Newdigate is so good as 
 to let him come four times a week to me ; thank God I 
 am in very good health at present and hope to continue 
 so, and my voice is in very good order. Mortellari says 
 that I know a great deal of Musick ; he brought me some 
 new songs which I sang off at sight, which is a great 
 comfort. Lady Newdigate and I go next Tuesday 
 Evening to Lady Dacre to have a little Musick and Lady 
 N. thinks she will meet Mr. Bates there. We have 
 expected him here a great wile, but he is so busy in his 
 Custom house that he hardly finds time to eat his dinner. 
 I believe Mrs. Bates is not in town. She is gone into the 
 Country for her health. I am very happy to hear that 
 you are so well. 
 
 I am your ever 
 
 Dutiful & Obed 1 Servant 
 
 SABAH SHILTON. 
 
 From Lady Newdigate 
 
 % past 4. I think I have taken Leave of Royalty for y c 
 rest of my Life, & a very handsome Leave they took of me. 
 It was a very full drawing room, we are but this instant got 
 home, but what will be that on Tuesday ? All y e World 
 will be presented (I excepted) to y e Dutchess of York. . . . 
 
 Thursday night % past 10. We have had a chearful 
 pleasant Dinner & stay'd till 9 o'Clock. His Lordship 
 had so much to say to his Aunt & so many messages to 
 send to his Uncle, that to say the truth she was thoroughly
 
 SALLY SHILTON IN LONDON 121 
 
 tired, but y c rest of the party consisting of y e March 88 1 & 
 Miss Godfrey, Nelly & Fanny, Lord Sackville, his Brother, 
 my Bro. & Doct r Morgan were so well amused with Con- 
 versation & the Irish Bag Pipe that they w d not attend 
 to my signs to come away. I had y e whole story of L d 
 Belfast & a sad one it is ; he is indicted for Perjury & 
 there is to be a big tryal before L d Kenyon on Tuesday 
 next. I c d not make head or tail of y e Story from his 
 Lordship except that the foolish young Man had been 
 bamboozled out of 40,000 in y e space of nine months by 
 some Villanous People who to cover their own Iniquity 
 had commenced this suit against him, but L dy D. says 
 they have no doubt but he will be honorably acquitted. 
 I am really sorry for the Father, he seems to feel much 
 more than he knows how to express & desired me ten 
 times over to write you y e whole story & to tell you that 
 his Mind has been so occupy'd for some months past, that 
 he has omitted doing what was right by you, but he will 
 wait upon you at Arbury & will write to you himself 
 when this important tryal is determined, & he hopes you 
 will consent to my staying in town a Month Longer to 
 be present when L d B. returns from his banishment, as 
 he thinks so near a relation as Sir Boger sh d be present 
 either in person or by deputy on that occasion. What 
 a strange head ! he will send me his 6 Tickets for 
 Hastings 's Tryal on Wednesday. We are all quite in 
 Love with her. She appears every time we see her 
 more pleasing, but enough of them. . . . 
 
 ' This Lady Donegal! was Barbara, daughter of the Eev. Doctor Luke 
 Godfrey, and married Lord Donegal! as his third wife in 1790.
 
 122 TIIE CIIEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 CHAPTBK IX 
 
 1792 
 
 This rare gift of song endeared her (Caterina) to Lady Cheverel, who 
 loved music above all things, and it associated her at once with the pleasures 
 of the drawing-room. Insensibly she came to be regarded as one of the 
 family, and the servants began to understand that Miss Sarti was to be a 
 lady after all. MB. GILFIL'S LOVE-STOBY. 
 
 LADY NEWDIGATE had family anxieties at this time 
 which she was sharing with her brother, Mr. Mundy, and 
 her sister Nelly in regard to their sister Milly's husband 
 Mr. Barton. The latter had long been a trouble and an 
 object of dislike to his wife's family, and now owing to 
 gambling debts was on the verge of ruin. Sir Roger, with 
 his customary warm-heartedness, was not only ready with 
 his counsel in this difficulty, but was quite willing and 
 anxious to receive Mrs. Barton at Arbury, if it could be of 
 any assistance at the expected crisis. In after years Mrs. 
 Barton seems to have been a constant visitor, if not a 
 resident, at Arbury. 
 
 At the present moment Lady Newdigate's mind was 
 also much harassed by perplexities in regard to her 
 protegee Sally, and Sir Roger probably added to them by 
 his peremptory and urgent desire for the girl's immediate 
 debut as a professional singer. Lady Newdigate combats 
 this idea in her usual tactful way in the next letter from 
 London, which is in continuation of the series begun in 
 the last chapter. 
 
 Friday Piccadilly 3 o' Clock. . . . Your determined 
 opinion about Sally's being produced so opposite to that 
 of others who I have consulted as unprejudiced Judges
 
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 worrys me I must confess. But be assured that everything 
 I have yet done is in favour of your plan, that I will talk 
 to Bates in that stile & as far as I find it practicable it 
 shall be adopted. All these Little exhibitions are to 
 announce her to y e World as a professional singer. Mor- 
 tellari teaches her as such & is giving her an Artful Manner 
 of throwing out her Voice to be heard in publick. The 
 fault he finds is that she sings en Dame & not en professor. 
 I am sending her to-night to y e Oratorio to hear Harrison 
 & Mrs. Billington in ' Sweet Bird ' & many of her fine 
 Handel songs, & on Saturday (to-morrow sennight) Nelly 
 makes a Concert here in order to Collect all y e best Judges 
 & every means is tried to induce y e Bates' s to come to us 
 that day & before, if it is possible to get them. I am sure 
 if my own Bread depended on it I c d do no more for her. 
 Indeed I am more anxious for her Welfare than is consis- 
 tent with my own Comfort, & I begin to suspect that she 
 will in future give me pain instead of pleasure in reward 
 for all the time & Care I have spent upon her. I do not 
 mean to insinuate a Complaint against her, but such 
 Dangers & difficulties appear in sending her out, & she 
 must lose so much Countinance, protection & consequence 
 whenever that happens. But no more on this subject 
 until I have seen Bates. . . . 
 
 Saturday. . . . Sally was delighted with the Ora- 
 torio last night. I sent Mrs. Khodes & Mr. Lyons with 
 her into y c Front Box. The Crowd was expected to be so 
 great I durst not venture her into y e Pit or Gallery. 
 Mortellari takes a vast deal of pains with her, & I think has 
 taught her Art in putting out her Voice. I am going to 
 take her to another Little Party at Mrs. Gally's to-night.
 
 124 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 But Nelly forbids me to think & write so much about her ; 
 she says that except the time that the Spring Gar. House 
 engages me all my thoughts & arrangements are given up 
 to Sally ; that ever since I came into this house we have 
 never had one -| hour's tete-a-tete Conversation, nor ever 
 seen y e poor Clavicellos since y e 1 st night we unpack'd them. 
 All this is very true, for my mornings if I am not at Sp : 
 Gar : are spent with business & papers at y e opposite 
 Corner of the house from her, & between Fanny's intro- 
 duction & y e parties we attend on Sally's ace* we are too 
 much fagg'd with y e day to Collogue at night. She bids 
 me tell you she is quite Jealous of Sally & shall send her 
 back to Arbury if I don't give a Little more of my attention 
 to my Hostess. Indeed I ought for both Ned & all his 
 house study my ease & pleasure & make my Situation very 
 pleasant & Comfortable. Your Letter of 3 pages is just 
 arrived, two of them entirely engross'd by Sally. Indeed 
 we both make her too great an object. Give me leave to 
 assure you my Dear Love, that there is not a single argu- 
 ment you have used that I have not thought on & duly 
 weigh'd & that I will not by personal affection, self-interest 
 or any Consideration for myself, You, or anything else be 
 influenced from doing what appears to me to be for her 
 Welfare both present & future that I think it a duty to 
 act for her to the best of my Judgment & will do so. ... 
 Monday. . . . As I heard nothing from Bates I 
 yesterday wrote a long letter to Mrs. B. explaining my 
 Motive for bringing Sally to town & my Wishes & yours 
 to be guided by their Judgment ; told her that not being 
 able to see Mr. B. she had been heard by such & such 
 people who had given such & such opinions, which I w d
 
 THE LITTLE SYREN'S BRIEF SUCCESS 125 
 
 not decide upon until I had seen them in short urg'd a 
 speedy meeting, endeavour'd to interest them for our Little 
 Girl ; directed to Mr. or Mrs. B ; beg'd an answer from 
 him if she was not in town & entreated he w d procure for 
 me a Means of her hearing y e Concert of Antient Music on 
 Wednesday. John brought word Mrs. Bates is expected 
 in town on thursday & he was not in. I believe it is only 
 business that keeps him from his friends & hope I shall 
 hear from or see him. In the meantime as you seem to 
 think it best Sally sh'd not be taken to parties I will stop 
 my hand, but must tell you that she gains universal 
 applause produced in y e manner she is, as one in training 
 for y e Profession under my Protection, & it w d certainly 
 secure to her many friends & patrons when ever she does 
 come out, but there is not one single person amongst all 
 who have heard & admired her who does not think her 
 much too young, too weak in Voice & Constitution & too 
 Artless, in her manner of singing to make any figure as a 
 professional singer at this time, & that it w d Kuin her 
 future interests to be produced as such. Y e Plan I was 
 going upon is generally approved. That she cuts down 
 most, or suppose all, of y e Ladie singers is no proof that 
 she is fit for y e Publick. But except to-morrow to L d 
 Camden & at Nelly's little Party on Saturday which she 
 has made on purpose for her I will not let her be heard 
 till she has past her Examination with y e Bates. As to 
 her receiving gratuities at present I have many insur- 
 mountable objections to it. ... 
 
 2 o'Clock Tuesday. Just return'd from a quiet walk 
 in y e Park with Sally to mend a shabby head. ... I 
 send you a satisfactory Letter [from Bates] which has
 
 126 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 accompany'd 2 Tickets for y e Antients to-morrow, so I 
 shall go with Sally myself. . . . 
 
 Wednesday morn . Lord C. [Camden] was much 
 pleased with our Little Syren, said much in praise of her 
 taste & growing Powers, admired but Liked not ' Caro 
 Luci vi dire etc.' I said she had not learnt Handel but 
 sh'd try any song he pleased. He chose ' I know that my 
 Redeemer etc.' taught her the true expression etc. and 
 was quite in his Element & whisper'd Lady D. that he sh'd 
 be eternally oblig'd if I would some morning let her call 
 & sing a song to Lady Eliz. Pratt who was too 111 to come 
 out. I have promised she shall write you an Ace* of all 
 her proceedings on friday, but to-day & to-morrow will be 
 fully taken up. Mortellari comes both days, we go to y e 
 Antients with Mr. & Mrs. Cotton & she is preparing for 
 her exhibition to Mr. Bates w ch is to take place to-morrow 
 Evening. You see we are en train and everything succeeds 
 to my wish. I think Mortellari takes great pains & 
 teaches her a great deal ; his taste is delightful, she thinks 
 so also. . . . 
 
 Thursday. The Antients answer'd our Expectations 
 in some points. We were all Eyes & Ears, the Orchestra 
 very fine but y e Music too loud & the singing very bad. 
 We certainly c d have done better as to taste & Judgment, 
 but it must require great strength to sing in a Room so 
 crowded & so hot. We sat out of the way of winds and 
 near y e Door, yet have both sad Headaches to-day. I am 
 vext for Sally & wish I c d take it all. I have given her a 
 dose of Salts & hope that will mend her before y e evening. 
 If not Mrs. Bates knows how to make allowances & we 
 must appoint another Day. . . . Ned had what I must
 
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 call a fortunate Headach & was forc'd to come home from 
 y e house to Bed at 9 o'Clock last night. The Papers will 
 tell you they sat till past 4 this Morning without y e 2 
 Principals opening their Lips & then adjourned till to-day. 
 Ned is well to-day & gone upon Duty ; my head gets 
 better, Sally says hers does y e same. . . . 
 
 Friday.. . . Sally's head got quite well as soon as 
 she had conversed a Little with the Bates. They both 
 express'd themselves very kindly towards us & seem'd 
 much interested for her. I told them it was my wish & 
 design to have consulted them before anybody had heard 
 her & I inform'd them in what manner & by whom she 
 had been heard & y c General approbation she had met 
 with. It seem'd to be their real opinion that she sang 
 well enough to do herself & Late Master (who ought 
 to have y e Credit of having so well grounded her) great 
 honor, & that being introduced by me in a manner so 
 respectable, assisted by her own engaging manners must 
 gain her friends & protection, & the report of persons so 
 great in Musical knowledge w d make people eager to hear 
 her when she launches out. We talk'd about y e difficulty 
 of placing her which they express themselves strong upon 
 but only in General terms. ... I was pleas'd to find they 
 approve of Mortellari & say he is y 1 st Master for finishing 
 a singer. . . . 
 
 Saturday. Nelly is so occupy'd with her Arrangm ts 
 for this Evening that I am forced to take y e whole post 
 upon myself. . . . You shall hear y e proceedings of to-day 
 by Monday's post. Lady Palmerston has politely left her 
 Ticket [card] for Sally y e same as for us & desired me to 
 Bring her. There are no professional People admitted ;
 
 128 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 only Lady Singers, amongst whom she will shine & gain 
 great applause I am sure. Adieu. 
 
 Sunday. In my Life I never saw so thorough a day 
 of Rain as this has been. We thought it impossible to 
 take Serv te & horses out & have not been to Chapel, but 
 since Church have had a circle of Visitors to correct our 
 Gothic notions. The Party went off well & charmingly 
 last night. Did I tell you that Ned has put up a hand- 
 some Chadeliere in each of y e Eooms? which lighted 
 them beautifully, & y e House appear 'd most strikingly 
 handsome, y e 1 st time it ever was show'd to such a 
 number of people. They did not I believe exceed 50 & 
 therefore c d not make a Crowd though they all got into 
 one Eoom. The Music was so attractive that not a Soul 
 w d play at Cards, so y e fine Drawing Eoom w d hardly 
 have been seen at all if Nelly had not (chiefly for y e 
 Comfort of y e Music party) made y e Company enter through 
 y e Drawing Eoom & shut up the entrance of y e Great 
 Eoom near y e organ. So y e Music was at that end out of 
 y e Way of y e Crowd if there had been any & I think it c d 
 hardly have sounded better in y e Arbury Hall. Mortellari 
 saw y e preparations for a Concert when he came to give 
 Fanny her Lesson in y e morning, & beg'd so hard that he 
 might come & accompany his two Scholars that he c d not 
 be refused, & as we took care to explain to Everybody 
 that he had given y e Girls only a few Lessons each, Poor 
 Motta had y e whole Credit & praise Due for his pains, & 
 it gives me pleasure that such ample Justice is done to 
 his memory. Every soul, y e Bates included, say it is 
 impossible for any body to be better taught than Sally 
 has been. I wish you could have been amongst us last
 
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 night your Ears w d have been fully Gratified in every 
 sense. She sung ' Ombre Amene ' ' Generosi Bretagne ' 
 & a new Duett with Fanny most divinely, & her 
 Manner & person was praised almost as much as her 
 Voice. The General Opinion is that she will make a 
 most Capital Singer in a year or two when she gets at her 
 full strength, but everybody adds what a pity to send such 
 a Sweet inocent Girl out of a happy & secure situation 
 into such a Sea of Dangers as this town ! If the Bates's 
 w d take her that might be obviated perhaps, but it will 
 be a difficulty & a very delicate thing to manage. I shall 
 however have it in my eye & will offer myself to spend an- 
 other Evening with them, & desire them to let me send 
 Sally in the morning to pass the whole day there. Her 
 Good Temper & Manner may engage them to make some 
 offer of y e kind we wish. After all this I am sorry to add 
 that she has so bad a return of the Numbness in her Head 
 that I do not take her to Lady Palmerston's this Evening. 
 She only sung y e 3 songs I mention with intervals of near 
 an hour between them, which confirms me in y e Opinion 
 that it is a Nervous affection & proceeds now from y e 
 great anxiety & desire to do well. But it proves at least 
 that either y e Mind, Body or both are at present unequal 
 to great exertion. She has been excessively Low all day & 
 is now Lying upon y e Sopha by me in a sound sleep. 
 Lady Vernon has been so good to send us 4 Tickets for 
 Catches & Glees to-morrow at L d Exeter's & writes that 
 one of them is for Sally. Indeed she has y e same respect 
 & attention from everybody as if she was my Daughter. 
 People insist that it is due to her on my Ace* & for her own 
 unassuming behaviour which shows that she perfectly 
 
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 understands her own situation, & they give me credit on 
 that score which I am not a little proud of. I rather 
 scruple taking her to Lord Exeter's where she will not 
 entertain but be entertain'd. Everybody agrees that she 
 sh'd hear all kinds of good Music & as this is a kind quite 
 new to her I do not think I shall withstand y e temptation 
 if she is quite well to-morrow. . . . 
 
 This is Monday. . . . Sally looks better & is in better 
 spirits to-day, but her head still feels numb'd & she is in 
 doubt whether she can take her Lesson with Mortellari, 
 so I shall say nothing to her of Lord Exeter's, particularly 
 as Nelly thinks it more than probable that he will ask her 
 to sing, as he heard her here on Saturday & was much 
 pleased. 
 
 There was a very pick'd assembly last night at Lady 
 P.'s not numerous but almost all grandees & connoisseurs, 
 Dutchess of Cumberland etc. etc., Lady Clarges, Miss 
 Harris, Miss Erskine etc. etc. The 3 last mention'd 
 sung well, but I think we sh'd have shone amongst them. 
 No professional people admitted there. Lady P. & many 
 others express'd great disappointment that Sally c d not 
 come & hoped to see her another time. In short her 
 fame is gone abroad almost equal to your expectations & 
 much exceeding mine. The business I think is to feed y e 
 desire of hearing her in this infant state as we call 
 it, but not to make y e gratification too easy nor too 
 Common. At the same time to cultivate for her y e friend- 
 ship and protection of those whose patronage may be 
 Essential to her when she comes out. I am convinced we 
 sh'd have done her an injury had we produced her in any 
 Other' way than this. Indeed the Bates's say it c d not
 
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 have been done whilst she is carry'd about & introduced 
 by me. I think I have not minded Nelly's orders in this 
 but I know you are interested as much as I am for my 
 Little Charge. . . . 
 
 Tuesday 6th March. . . . I am sorry to say that 
 Sally's numbness lasted all Sunday & yesterday & went off 
 in y 6 night with an excruciating headach, which still con- 
 tinues tho' not so violent. She says she feels as if her 
 Voice was quite gone, but I hope that is only fancy. I 
 have sent for Evans & expect him every minute. He has 
 been & she has told her own story to him fully & sensibly, 
 & has confess'd having had those numbed sensations 
 after singing much oftener than she has told both before 
 she came to town & since. He confirms my opinion of 
 its being nervous but speaks of y e Consiquences as being 
 more serious than I apprehended. He does not absolutely 
 object to her singing or learning to Sing if she can do it 
 without difficulty & as it were in Sport, but on no con- 
 sideration must her mind be agitated with hope or fear. 
 He orders her Valerian & to steam her head over Rose- 
 mary & says he will see her again in a day or two. I have 
 follow'd him out of y e Boom to know his real opinion & 
 he has frighten'd me sadly. He says her nerves seem to 
 be very delicate & that she has a Scorbutic irritability 
 about her, that must be prevented fixing there by taking 
 care to keep her in an even tranquil state of Mind ; that 
 he has known Girls at her Age with y e Like delicate 
 sensations lose all power of voice, even of speach, have a 
 Paralytic Stroke or become stupify'd from great exertion 
 of Spirits. No doubt these little Tryals before Company 
 have been such to our Dear Girl & the Applause she has 
 
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 132 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 met with must Elivate her above herself, tho' she has 
 appear'd Collected & unmov'd. But there must be an End 
 of them, this year at least ; which will be a great disap- 
 pointment to many & mortify me very much. I went 
 yesterday to y e Bates & fixt to have another snug Evening 
 with them on Friday & I was to send Sally to spend y e 
 Day with them. They Promis'd to teach her y 6 Stile of 
 singing Handel & M Bates said she w d practice duetts 
 with her for y e Evening. I have just told Sally that I 
 dare not venture upon this engagem*. She answers ' in- 
 deed I am not at all afraid of M r & M rs Bates, they are so 
 good natured to me & I am sure they won't let me Sing 
 too much, for they don't think I am strong enough & they 
 say it will Spoil my Voice.' I meant to give you Swords 
 & have fill'd my Paper with her. 
 
 Thursday. . . . I am sure I frightened you as much 
 as myself about our sweet little Syren. Her Letter yester- 
 day I hope w d calm your Mind as to present Danger but 
 I am still uneasy. The Newdigates think she looks ill & 
 she certainly is Abbatue & sung so faintly with Mortellari 
 yesterday that I have forbid his coming again till Satur- 
 day & will not let her sing a note to-day. She begs so 
 hard to spend y e day with y e Bates to-morrow that I con- 
 sent on condition that she tells him all that has happened. 
 Cards like y e enclosed were given to us all at Breakfast 
 this morning. I did not observe at first that Sally had 
 one till she gave it me with eyes streaming. I told her I 
 sh'd determine nothing till y 6 day came & sh'd be guided 
 by Evans's opinion. She will be hurt if she does not go, 
 but I am afraid of so anxious a moment. Your Letter is 
 just arrived. I am glad you seem to think so lightly of 
 
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 THE LITTLE SYKEN'S BRIEF SUCCESS 133 
 
 her Complaint. I have felt y e effect of nerves too severely 
 not to dread it, but I will be guided by better & more 
 impartial judgm* than my Own. ... I will be seeking 
 out a Piano forte. I suppose you w d have a New one if 
 I can't get a good one second hand ? 
 
 Saturday. . . . Maberley is just gone from me, but 
 I sh'd tell you 1st what I am sure you think most material, 
 that my Cold is a vast deal better & that our sweet little 
 Warbler was able to do herself great credit at y e Bates' s 
 yesterday. Her Voice was not strong but sweet as pos- 
 sible & they are quite astonish'd with her knowledge of 
 Music & facility in reading it. She had learnt to sing & 
 accompany a very difficult Duett of Handels & M rs Bates 
 & she sung it divinely. I must get her those Chamber 
 Duetts & also Handel's Opera Songs in Score & y e Accom- 
 panyments to the 5 Vols. of oratorio Songs. She did not 
 force her Voice but M rs Bates says she sung a good Deal 
 in y e course of y e day & feels no inconvenience from it. 
 If she gets well in this day & to-morrow I will be guided 
 by her opinion & wishes in regard to taking her to Lady 
 Palmerston's. If she can do herself Creditt without 
 injury to herself it may be a great thing for her, but I 
 won't tell her how material, nor what Judges she is likely 
 to see there ; only prepare her for seeing a great Many 
 People & tell her that if she is not quite certain she can 
 sing to them with as Little fear as to y e Bates's I will not 
 take her. Bates's give us great hopes of seeing them at 
 Arbury this year, but I will leave Sally to tell you that on 
 Monday. . . . Evans has just been here, finds his patient 
 much mended. I hope with Care we shall not want 
 further Advice. .
 
 134 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 * 
 
 Tuesday 2 6* Clock. I have been sitting two hours to 
 Lawrence which I grumble at as I thought y e Picture was 
 finish'd but Ned will have still another sitting on friday. 
 . . . Nelly & I have both got bad Colds. She nursed 
 hers last night & I chaperon'd y e two Girls to Lady 
 Palmerstons. Y e company was less numerous than last 
 Week but very much Pick'd in y e Musical & tonish line. 
 Sally sung y e Harp Song which Fanny accompany'd & 
 gain'd very great applause tho' her Voice failed so much at 
 y e end I was afraid she w d not have got through it. I gave 
 everybody to understand that she had been 111 & that y e 
 faillure (which I believe few people were sensible of) was 
 from weakness of Nerves. As soon as she had finish'd 
 Lady P. came & took her by the hand, Complimented her 
 upon her performance, led her into y e other Koom to sit 
 quiet & with her own Hand fetch'd her a Glass of water. 
 She very soon recovered herself. Lady P. desired her not 
 to sing any more if it w d hurt her & I was afraid of her 
 doing it, but not sorry to find that Applause had its proper 
 effect in exciting ambition. She was very anxious to sing 
 a Song she has learnt of Mortellari, so I gave way & to be 
 sure never anything was so admir'd. It did shew her 
 Voice, taste & Powers wonderfully & is the Stile of this 
 frittering age, very pretty indeed if it is executed so neatly 
 as she does it, but more graced than Poor Motta would 
 have taught her. But as y e Bates observe : the plain 
 Eligant Stile will not go down with y e greater number & 
 she must please All. It is necessary to learn it & it is a 
 fine exercise, she may leave it out when she will. She 
 has a Little Head Ach to-day but not enough to make us 
 put off Mortellari who comes at 8 this Evening. I will
 
 THE LITTLE SYREN'S BRIEF SUCCESS 135 
 
 certainly consult any Physician for her you Approve but 
 indeed Evans' opinion so perfectly coincides with my own 
 that it satisfys me & y e Effect of y e Valerian & indeed 
 every circumstance since he saw her has proved him in 
 y e right. He says the less is done y e Better, now & then 
 a Little Physic & valerian when she is nervous & either 
 Harrogate or Cheltenham some time in y e summer. This 
 he thinks will make her stout, but if it does not all we 
 wish, the fault will be in her natural Constitution, which 
 tho' not a bad one is irritable & he does not think any 
 Course of medicine w d alter it, but if injudiciously given 
 might injure her very materially. Nelly tells me that for 
 young Women Sir Lucas Peppys is in great Name. Indeed 
 I do believe he has restored Fanny by forbidding all 
 Medicine & keeping her in a Course of Air & Exercise. 
 She has not had a Single Complaint since she came to 
 town & is quite fat. . . . 
 
 Saturday night. . . . They are all gone to the play 
 except myself & Sally who has had y e head ach all day. 
 ... I will not answer the 1 st part of your Letter my 
 Dear Soul. I trust that we do perfectly understand each 
 other's meaning tho' we may some times mistake an 
 expression. If I have used any that were absurd or 
 incoherent forgive it. My thoughts have frequently been 
 wholely taken up with subjects far different from what I 
 was writing about. Never suspect me of wanting con- 
 fidence in you. But no more of this. . . . 
 
 Tuesday morn 9 9 o* Clock. It will be a hurrying busy 
 day. Little News [Newdigates] breakfast with us & will 
 be going I dare say till near one, Mortellari comes at 11. 
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 136 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 then I must carry Sally with me to Hollands to fix about 
 y e Piano forte etc. I have seen several very good ones at 
 Broderip's & Elsewhere at 18 & 20 guineas. Y e new 
 ones are raised now to 26 every where. . . . 
 
 3 o'Clock. Newdigates set out in good Spirits about 
 1, mean to go to Kochester ; they desire me to give love 
 & thanks to Arbury. . . . They were all hurry but will 
 write from Dover or Callais. . . . 
 
 Sir L. P. stay'd an hour & took great pains about 
 Sally. He gives me great Comfort, thinks almost all her 
 Complaints proceed from debility mearly temporary. He 
 has given me a plan for her & talks so reasonably that I 
 feel Confidence in his Assurances that all will go well. 
 
 2 o'Clock Saturday. I have done all my Business, 
 pack'd up all my things, spent all my Money. ... I 
 return as I came with an Empty place in y e Coach. If I 
 c d have brought Sally down it w d have been worth while 
 to have taken her out of y e house [in Spring Gardens] 
 before y e regular time but I had promised her a week with 
 a friend out of town & as she has had such an un- 
 comfortable time, done so well & may never come up 
 again I c d not disappoint her to save her Carriage. . . . 
 God bless you & grant us a happy Meeting before Dinner 
 on Monday. ...
 
 137 
 
 CHAPTEE X 
 
 1792-1795 
 
 The truth is that with one exception Caterina's only talent lay in loving ; 
 and there it is probable the most astronomical of women could not have 
 surpassed her. Orphan and prot6g6e though she was, this supreme talent 
 of hers found plenty of exercise at Cheverel Manor, and Caterina had more 
 people to love than many a small lady and gentleman affluent in silver 
 mugs and blood-relations. MR. GILFIL'S LOVE-STOBY. 
 
 WE hear no more of a professional future for the little 
 syren. Her organisation, physical and mental, was evi- 
 dently unsuited for the trials and excitements of a public 
 career, however successful it might have been. After 
 her return from London in 1792 her health continued 
 to give cause for much anxiety to her kind patrons, 
 and we gather from contemporary letters that as the 
 summer wore away, fears arose lest she should fall into a 
 consumption. To avert this danger it was proposed to 
 send her for the winter to Lisbon, then popular as a health 
 resort owing to its mild climate and accessibility by sea. 
 Sir Roger and Lady Newdigate spared no pains to find a 
 suitable escort for the delicate girl and a home to receive 
 her on her arrival at Lisbon. Lord Bagot was one of 
 those to whom they applied for advice and assistance in 
 this matter, and he ends a letter to Sir Roger on business 
 affairs in the following manner : 
 
 So much for this disagreable subject, but it is only 
 to go to another disagreable one, the dear Siren ; whose 
 Case I most sincerely lament. My Wife nor I have 
 neither Lisbon connections nor knowledge of anybody 
 likely to go thither. I am glad you have written to the 
 Bishop of S* Asaph on the subject. He or Mrs. Bagot
 
 138 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 may very likely be able to be of assistance & I am sure 
 will be happy to be so if they can. 
 
 You told me last year you wo'd come to Blithfield 
 this by water. Why are you not here ? there has been 
 no other method of coming even if you had embarked in 
 an air Baloon. 
 
 This must be all Lady Newdigate's fault. She hear'd 
 you make the promise & agree'd to it & now She will not 
 come. There is no depending upon Women, but if you do 
 not both come in the course of the Autumn I shall not put 
 up with it. There are strange alterations since you were 
 here. Perhaps Mrs. Bowdler (to whom & to her Daughter 
 I beg my best Comp* 3 & congratulate you upon having been 
 able to keep them so long, for here they were very volatile) 
 may have told you it is become a tolerable looking place 
 out of doors. I have brought my Park & Woodlands to 
 my House, & made Savanahs upon the Blythe that you 
 can see no end of. But I know what wo'd bring you here 
 sooner than all I co'd shew you, if I co'd do it : viz. tell 
 you how happy you wo'd make us if you wo'd come. 
 Talk about it to my Lady. She may have some conscience 
 left & let us hear about it. 
 
 All here join in love to All at Arbury 
 I am dear Sir Roger ever 
 
 Yours most affectionately 
 
 BAGOT. 
 
 Blithfield 
 
 Aug" 24, 1792. 
 
 In the course of the autumn Sally was sent to Lisbon 
 under the charge of a Mr. and Mrs. Close, and one of her 
 letters from thence is here given. It is written to Sir 
 Roger, and is dated
 
 DOMESTIC JOYS AND SOEROWS 139 
 
 April y e 9th 1793 
 Braco de Prata. 
 
 SIE, I hope you will pardon and forgive me in 
 delaying writing to you so long. I assure you it was not 
 from disinclination that I did not answer your very kind 
 letter sooner, but merely from not knowing properly how 
 to express my Gratitude to you for your good advice, 
 which indeed has been of great service to me. It is 
 impossible ever to repay you and Lady Newdigate for all 
 the trouble and expence that you have been at to re- 
 establish my health, but I hope by the assistance of God 
 I shall soon recover it. I assure you I have him always 
 in my thoughts and without him nothing can be done. 
 I depend on him for the recovery of my Health and I 
 flatter myself that he will succeed. I have laid up all 
 youthful flights and attend solely to my health. Indeed 
 that would be very unpardonable in me if I had not 
 attended to it, after all the trouble that you have been at 
 in sending me so far from all my Friends ; but I am not 
 without Friends where ever I go. I don't know the 
 reason of it, but it is very fortunate for me. Indeed you 
 have no Idea how good and attentive Doctor Withering 
 has been to me. How very lucky I have been in being 
 in the same house with him and amongst such rational 
 society. Musick goes on pretty well but I have not much 
 time to practice as we are so large a party. Mrs. Close 
 sings most evenings and a most delightful pipe she 
 has. We do not yet sing Duetts together as Doctor 
 Withering will not allow me to try my voice till the first 
 of May. French goes on very rapidly. Mr. Close is so 
 good and kind as to give up to us an hour every day and
 
 140 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 sometimes two. He gives us English Exercises to turn 
 into French and indeed we work very hard at it. We are 
 studing it most part of the day. Miss Pearson and Miss 
 Penelope learnt it for two years at School and they ought 
 to know a great deal more than we do, but Mr. Close says 
 that we are all much the same. I flatter myself that 
 I shall be able to converse with you when I return which 
 I hope will be very soon. Doctor and Miss Withering 
 intend leaving this Kindom about the 26 th of May in the 
 How Packet and I hope I shall have a Letter from my 
 Good and almost only Friend that I have in the World to 
 tell me whether I stay or go. I hope it will be the Latter 
 as I think it a very long time since I have seen you. I 
 suppose I shall find Arbury a very different place from 
 when I left it ; there will be so many improvements that 
 I shall not know it. I often think what you are doing 
 and how I used to imploy my time, tho' I am afraid 
 that I did not imploy it properly very often. I have 
 often thought of the hours that I lost when I might have 
 been improving myself. Indeed I am very much surprized 
 how Lady Newdigate could have so much patience 
 in teaching me any thing, for I was very stupid and 
 Lazy. Certainly nobody could have had the opportu- 
 nities of making the greatest improvement in everything 
 as I have had. I have written a long Letter to Miss 
 Willoughby and told her everything. This Packet sails 
 to-morrow and I have sent by it half a Chest of Oranges 
 for Mrs. Oliver. I hope they will get safe to her and be 
 good ones. There are scarcely any good ones to be had 
 here, tho' they are so plentiful. We give four hundred
 
 DOMESTIC JOYS AND SORROWS 141 
 
 and eighty reas a hundred of Oranges which is in 
 english money 2s. S^d. 
 
 I will give you a description of our habitation ; it is 
 situated by the side of the River which is twelve miles 
 broad and there are some beautiful hills that are beyond 
 it. If I was a drawer I would bring home the whole 
 Country. The house stands rather in a Wood and the 
 Garden is upon a hill where there is a summer house that 
 takes in the whole Country. Below it there is a most 
 beautiful Wood where we stroll and all the young people 
 except Master Henry Close and myself study Botany in 
 it. Doctor W. instructs them and they like it very much. 
 The Nightingales are beginning to sing and they make 
 the wood their Theatre where they all meet in an evening 
 and treat us with a few of their sweet tunes. The Black 
 Birds are beginning but they are not so fine as ours. 
 Doctor Withering Mr. Close and Mr. Pearson are going to 
 the Caldas next Friday. Doctor W. has got permission 
 from government to try a Chemical experiment on the 
 Waters which will be a very good thing for the Physicians 
 do not know their qualities. 
 
 We are all invited to a Masquerade which will be as 
 soon as the Princes of Brasils is brought to bed which is 
 expected every day. Great preparations are getting ready 
 against the event takes place and there are to be Illumi- 
 nations Three nights. Doctor W. has proclaimed that I 
 may go with Mr. C. and the young Ladies and that it will 
 do me no harm. I assure [you] it was his own proposal, for 
 I had no Idea that I should go. Please to present my 
 Best Eespects to Lady Newdigate and Compliments to all
 
 142 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 that I have the honour of knowing. We have had some 
 very bad weather indeed, but we flatter ourselves that 
 it is now set in for good. I have not been quite so well 
 but I hope this fine weather will set us all up. I believe 
 it is the water that disagrees with me for I have had a 
 Violent Complaint in my Bowels, but I hope it is 
 going off. I hope you will excuse my mentioning it 
 to you. 
 
 It is reported and believed that the Queen is dead, but 
 it is not to be known for certain till the Princes is brought 
 to bed. ... I am afraid the poor Piano forte will be very 
 much out of tune. 
 
 I am Sir 
 
 Your ever grateful Dutiful 
 and much obliged 
 servant 
 
 S. SHILTON. 
 
 The little songstress, who was evidently becoming 
 weary of her banishment, was permitted to return to 
 England at the time she desired. She left Lisbon to- 
 wards the end of May and reached Arbury in the month 
 of June, much improved in health and spirits. On her 
 arrival she found her kind patrons rejoicing at the news 
 of the birth of a son and heir to the Charles Parkers at 
 Harefield. 
 
 Joy to me my D r Sir Roger [writes the happy father] 
 & thanks to God for as fine a Boy as ever was seen, 
 which our Dearest Jessy has just presented me with & all 
 safe & well . . . before three She was deliver'd of this fine, 
 fat Broad Shoulder' d Gentleman. 
 
 Pray God grant him Health & Life that he may see & 
 know You & learn to respect & love You as his Father
 
 ^L arA.es: 
 
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 DOMESTIC JOYS AND SORROWS 143 
 
 does. ... I have great Reason to be thankful for so 
 happy an Event & I am sure you & Lady Newdigate will 
 cordially partake of our Joy. . . . 
 
 Ever affty Yours 
 
 CHAELES PAEKEE. 
 
 Harefield Lodge : 
 3 o'Clock Morning. 
 
 Sir Roger wrote a characteristic letter in reply, which 
 has been preserved. It is addressed to the new-born 
 infant, who received the names of Charles Newdigate. 
 
 To Master Charles Newdigate Parker 
 
 This I guess my dear little Boy is the very first Letter 
 of congratulation addressed to you, on your fortunate 
 arrival in this World, which probably you can neither 
 read nor understand, but instruction cannot come too 
 soon, and it is never too early to be wise ! You have a 
 great deal to do & the sooner you set about it the better. 
 
 The first lesson I shall give you is Risu cognoscere 
 Matrem the only return yet in your power to make for 
 the long tedious months she has passed for your good : 
 Next you are to stretch out your little hands, both of 
 them remember, & take Papa by the Chin, kiss him & 
 Mamma till they laugh, for no good can come to him 
 Cui non risere Parentes. I don't explain this as I conclude 
 your knowledge in all languages is the same. 
 
 Then look about you & you will probably find out a 
 Grand Mamma, that in course of time will do her best to 
 humor & spoil you : kiss her & thank her. 
 
 They will tell you of other Friends you have a long way 
 off, that long to see you & expect you to come as soon as
 
 144 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 they will let you. Be sure to do this to Nod your head 
 & smile. 
 
 Enough for the present, you shall have more as you 
 come to weeks & months of discretion, for tho' a hundred 
 miles off & I have never seen you I feel a great Partiality 
 for you, & so does a certain Lady near me, wishing you a 
 long & happy Life to the joy & comfort of your dear 
 Parents ! Adieu. 
 
 Yours most affectionately 
 
 P^EDAGOGUS. 
 
 Nine months later Sir Roger, who was always ready 
 to tender advice, be it concerning Sally's stays or the up- 
 bringing of infants, is again a scribe on the subject of this 
 welcome baby's training. This time he writes as if from 
 the child to its mother, the signature appearing from its 
 irregular characters to have been traced by a pen held in 
 the infant's own little fist. 
 
 MY DEAR MAMMA, Take notice that if, after the receit 
 of the inclosed you shall fail to give me cold water to roll 
 in every morning and the best of milk & a good deal of it, 
 all day long, and a stout nimble nurse to toss me about 
 from morning till evening from the date hereof till the first 
 of January next I am advised to bring my Action against 
 you, so pray Dear Mamma be careful of 
 Your loving Son 
 
 CHARLES NEWDIGATE PARKER. 
 
 Arbury 26 of 
 March 1794. 
 
 These are specimens of Sir Eoger's correspondence in 
 his lighter moods. He could also administer a dignified 
 rebuke when the occasion demanded it. He has kept rather 
 a curious correspondence with a lady who was one of the 
 last representatives of the old family of Ashby of Break-
 
 DOMESTIC JOYS AND SORROWS 145 
 
 spears, near Sir Eoger's Harefield property in Middlesex. 
 The Ashby family had a burying-place called the Break- 
 spears Chapel in Harefield Church. The living of Harefield 
 being what is known as ' a peculiar,' the patron of it 
 was possessed of more than ordinary power in connection 
 with the edifice and surrounding churchyard, a privilege 
 which Sir Roger clung to with the natural tenacity of his 
 character. Mrs. Ashby writes : 
 
 S B , Give me leave to Inform you I have put a Small 
 Tablet of Marble in Memory of my Mother in a very 
 Obscure part of Harefield Church by the Window near 
 the Bells. As the Partridge family wou'd not admit my 
 Sister who died in the year 1772 to be deposited in the 
 Chapell my Mother after many Cruel Conflicts deter- 
 min'd to be laid by her Children who were all denied 
 Altho' the only petition they ever asked . . . the Inscrip- 
 tion I enclose for your perusal, If it merits Praise or 
 Blame its all my own, & shall esteem myself highly 
 Obliged & honour'd by your Opinion & advice how to act 
 in Consequence of a Prosecution against me by Mr. 
 Partridge for telling the truth ; I am perfectly ignorant 
 of Law beyond the Commandments. ... I shall wait with 
 impatience to hear from you as expenses will increase. 
 . . . Our Familys are both very Ancient & there has 
 been great friendship between them. Permit me to offer 
 Compts to Mrs. M. Conyers whom I shou'd be happy to 
 see ; I have a very comfortable habitation & the respect 
 & kind attention of all my neighbours 
 
 & am Y r oblig'd & most Obed 1 
 
 A. ASHBY. 
 
 Eickmansworth June 30th 
 1790
 
 146 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Inscription enclosed 
 TO THE MEMORY OF ANN ASHBY 
 
 VENERABLE IN LIFE, HIGH & GLORIOUS IN IMMORTALITY 
 
 DAUGHTER OF WHITLOCK BULSTRODE ESQ RE 
 
 AND ELIZ. DINSLY HIS WIFE OF HOUNSLOW 
 
 AND WIFE OF W M ASHBY ESQ RE OF BREAKSPEARS 
 
 (WHO WAS THE SON & HEIR OF FRANCIS ASHBY & JUDITH TURNER 
 
 HIS WIFE) 
 BY WHOM SHE HAD THREE DAUGHTERS 
 
 ANNE, CHARLOTTE & REBECCA 
 SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 28 1785 
 
 AGED 93 
 HERE ALSO LYES THE BODY OF REBECCA ASHBY 
 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 12TH 1772 
 
 ON THE DECEASE OF THE ABOVE MENTION'D W M ASHBY ESQ RE 
 THE FAMILY ESTATE DESCENDED TO HIS YOUNGER BROTHER 
 
 WHOSE DAUGHTER POSSESS'D IT DURING THE LIFE TIME 
 OF THE WIDOW & CHILDREN OF THE AFORESAID W M ASHBY. 
 
 BUT WOULD NOT ADMIT THEIR REMAINS TO 
 REST IN THE CHAPELL WITH THEIR ANCESTORS 
 O READER THINK ON THIS. 
 
 Sir Roger's Answer 
 
 MADAM, I am favor'd with your Letter & beg leave 
 to inform you that no one has any right to erect monu- 
 ments in the Church of Harfield without my permission 
 by my Commissioner Sir W. Scott. This I conclude you 
 was ignorant of as I heard nothing from you before. 
 
 If I had been ask'd my opinion of the inscription 
 before you put it up, I sh'd have told you very freely that 
 I c d not recommend the recording Family differences on 
 Marble to Posterity ; that I sh'd be happy at all times to 
 be an instrument in reconciling my neighbours when at 
 variance, but beg to be excused taking a part myself. 
 From your Letter I can give no opinion of the Prosecu-
 
 DOMESTIC JOYS AND SORROWS 147 
 
 tion carried on against you w cb you mention & heartily 
 wish which is all I can do for a restoration of Peace in 
 your Family & amongst all my neighbours. 
 I am Madam 
 
 Y r most obedient servant 
 
 Arbury: KOGER NEWDIGATE. 
 
 July 5th 1790. 
 
 We must now return to the summer of 1794 to quote 
 a letter to Sir Eoger from Mr. Mundy, giving a graphic 
 account of the arrival of the news of Lord Howe's great 
 victory over the French on June 1 of that year. The 
 tidings of that welcome success were brought to the opera 
 by Lady Chatham, whilst the performance was going on, 
 and it was at once announced to the large audience there 
 assembled. 
 
 The only date on Mr. Mundy's letter is the day of the 
 week Wednesday. 
 
 MY DEAE SIR, I cannot resist the Temptation of wish- 
 ing you all Joy of our great and splendid Victory at Sea, 
 and fearing your Paper might be silent upon it or not give 
 you the particulars as far as are at present known I put 
 down on paper what transpired last night on Sir Koger 
 Curtis's arrival. 
 
 Lord Howe had two actions with the French Fleet ; 
 in the last on y e 1 st of June he brought them to close 
 Action and took seven Sail of Line of Battle Ships. Six 
 are coming home ; one sunk soon after she surrendered, 
 and one is supposed to have gone down during the Engage- 
 ment. Lord Howe laid the Queen Charlotte close on 
 board the French Admiral and in a very short time gave 
 him so good a beating that he set every sail he could and 
 ran out of his Line, leaving his fleet to shift for them- 
 selves. Admirals Bowyer and Pasley and Cap tn Nutt have 
 
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 148 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 each lost a Leg ; Adm 1 Graves wounded in the arm and 
 Cap** Montague killed. No further particulars are yet 
 known ; except that several more french ships were so 
 much damaged, they did not think they could reach Brest. 
 Admiral Montague with 9 sail of fresh line of Battle 
 Ships is gone off Brest and it is expected he will give 
 some ace* of their crippled fleet running into harbour. 
 L d Howe is coming home, his ship having lost a mast, 
 but he has left all his well-condition 'd Ships to pursue. 
 
 We received this News last night at the Opera where 
 Mortichelli was singing a favorite song. She was silenced 
 in a Moment, and Eule Britannia called for, which was 
 repeated at least a dozen times, the Audience all standing 
 and huzzaing. 
 
 As I was in the next box to Lady Chatham who 
 brought the news to us, I had the pleasure of announcing 
 to Sir W m Howe the first intelligence of his Brother's 
 success. The poor Man could not utter a word for many 
 minutes he was so overcome with Joy. 
 
 I don't find the name of 1'Aigle in L d Hood's letter, 
 therefore suppose she was cruising. I have not heard 
 from George l lately. 
 
 We go on well in Derbyshire with our subscription 
 and have determined to raise a Body of Cavalry consisting 
 of Gentlemen and Yeomen. Sir H. Harpur, Sir Hob* 
 Wilmot, Maj r Bathurst, Cap tn Cheney and I have already 
 offered our services. 
 
 God bless you all 
 
 Your affectionate 
 
 E. M. MUNDY. 
 
 1 Mr. Mundy's third son, afterwards Admiral Sir George Mundy, K.C.B.
 
 DOMESTIC JOYS AND SORROWS 149 
 
 Sir Boger's happiness in the birth of a son to his 
 favourite cousin, Charles Parker, received an overwhelm- 
 ing shock in the unexpected death of the father, before 
 the child was two years old. In the month of April 
 1795 Charles Parker was laid up with a cold accompanied 
 by fever. For this he was bled, in accordance with the 
 practice of the time. Delirium set in, followed by a 
 sudden collapse, and he passed away when only thirty- 
 nine years of age. He left behind him a widow and five 
 young children, four of them girls, and an only son. The 
 latter, Charles Newdigate Parker, succeeded to Harefield, 
 and in accordance with Sir Roger's will took the name 
 and arms of Newdegate instead of those of Parker. He 
 married early Maria, daughter of Ayscoghe Boucherett, 
 Esq., of Willingham in Lincolnshire, but died in 1833, 
 before his fortieth birthday. He left an only child, the 
 late Eight Honourable Charles Newdigate Newdegate, of 
 Arbury and Harefield, member for North Warwickshire 
 for forty-two consecutive years. Mr. Newdegate died on 
 April 10, 1887, and with him passed away the last descen- 
 dant of Charles Parker.
 
 150 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 CHAPTEE XI 
 
 1795 
 
 Sir Christopher was listening with polite attention to Lady Assher'g 
 history of her last man-cook, who was first-rate at gravies, and for that 
 reason pleased Sir John he was so particular about his gravies was Sir 
 John : and so they kept the man six years in spite of his bad pastry. 
 
 Lady Cheverel and Mr. Gilfil were smiling at Eupert the bloodhound, 
 who had pushed his great head under his master's arm and was taking a 
 survey of the dishes, after snuffing at the contents of the Baronet's plate. 
 
 MB. GlLFII/8 LOVE-STOBY. 
 
 IN the summer of this year, 1795, Lady Newdigate was 
 suffering from an affection in one of her knees, which 
 crippled her and caused her much pain. She was advised 
 on this account to try a change of air and sea-bathing, and 
 set out from Arbury for the south coast early in the month 
 of August. Her first destination was Stansted Park in 
 Sussex, at that time in the possession of a rich Indian 
 nabob, Mr. Barwell by name. After her arrival there she 
 was to decide between the rival claims of various untried 
 places on the coast. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Barwell had been constant and kind 
 friends to Lady Newdigate's sister, Mrs. Barton, and her 
 scapegrace of a husband, and thus earned the gratitude 
 and friendship of the Mundy family. Mrs. Barwell was 
 a great favourite with everyone, and Lady Newdigate 
 often speaks of her in her letters as 'the Sweet Little 
 Woman,' or the 'Little Angel.' Many years later, in 
 1811, Mr. Mundy married Mrs. Barwell, then a rich 
 widow, as his third wife. 
 
 Lady Newdigate's sister, ' Milly ' Barton, was her 
 companion on this expedition to Sussex. The latter 
 was at this time so frequent a resident at Arbury, with 
 her young daughter Nelly, but without her husband,
 
 IN SEARCH OF HEALTH 151 
 
 that it seems probable the Mundy family had managed 
 to provide for Mr. Barton elsewhere, much to the comfort 
 of his immediate belongings. 
 
 The only other family event to be chronicled before 
 beginning Lady Newdigate's fresh batch of letters is the 
 marriage of her niece Fanny, Mr. Mundy's only daughter 
 by his first marriage. Her wedding took place in June of 
 this summer, the bridegroom being Lord Charles FitzRoy, 
 second son of the third Duke of Grafton. Henceforth 
 Fanny Mundy is spoken of as Lady Charles. Mrs. Nelly 
 Mundy still remained with her brother as the mistress of 
 his house. 
 
 Lady Newdigate and Mrs. Barton started in two 
 carriages from Arbury, with their usual accompaniments 
 of male and female servants, and both being in delicate 
 health their first day's journey was a short one, to Walton, 
 Sir John Mordaunt's place in Warwickshire. 
 
 Here are only [Lady Newdigate writes] Sir John, Lady 
 M. & y e six girls who all pet me as much as you and Nelly 
 do, but are less severe than y e latter. . . . M r8 Barton found 
 an answer from M rs Grayham about y e Little Bathing Place 
 near Brighton ; she recommends it for sea-bathing and 
 driving, but she says there is no opportunity of going out 
 in Boats, nor does she know that there are hot Baths. 
 Lady Willoughby is just come from Cows & Lady M. 
 will desire her to call here to-morrow to give an Ace* of 
 that Place. Sir John says that Royalty & y e great en- 
 campment has frighten'd many from Brighton this year, 
 & she supposes there is less company there than almost 
 any place upon that Coast, but these circumstances must 
 make it disagreable. . . . 
 
 The travellers' next stopping-place was at Woodstock, 
 two days later, and on Sunday they reached Walliscote, 
 where they stayed with the Cottons. (Mrs. Cotton was a 
 Conyers, and related to Sir Eoger's first wife.) Lady 
 Newdigate continues :
 
 152 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 I have gained much since I set out, the swelling of 
 my knee abates daily . . . & I c d walk upon even ground 
 without a stick but think it not safe to do so. ... I am 
 not fatigued at all by y e 30 miles drive of yesterday which 
 indeed was delicious, neither Wind nor Sun to molest us, y e 
 Eoad smooth & Country most beautiful. The Phaeton is 
 indeed y e most delightful Vehicle for such an expedition that 
 is possible. If ease of body & mind are essential ingredients 
 in this prescription I am sure I have them in perfection, 
 thanks to my dear Sir Roger and to those on whose care I 
 can depend that he shall have no wants or wishes in my 
 absence, but that we may all meet again in health & 
 comfort. . . . We think to get to Farnham to-morrow, 
 29 miles, from whence we have about 27 to Stanstead, 
 Charming Easy days, the Poneys came in as fresh last 
 night as if they had gone no more than our usual airing. 
 
 Stansted Wednesday morning. Here we are safe & 
 well, have had a most delightful Journey. I never quited 
 the Phaeton y 6 whole way & Milly only for a couple of 
 hours y e night before last, when having the Misfortune to 
 deserve y e Name of misguided travellers we got into Cross 
 Roads & did not arrive at our destination till nine o'Clock. 
 To be sure now it is over it is quite laughable and a good 
 Lesson to reflect how many Scrapes one little detour 
 might have led us into & how many superfluous miles 
 we have gone to avoid y 6 inconveniencies that w d other- 
 wise have attended it. You might observe from y e 
 Contrary Routes that Milly & I sent you from Wallis- 
 cote that we were wavering as to our Plan. Y e sisters 
 were decidedly for going thro' Reading & Farnham, but 
 M r Cotton from Consultation of Maps & Conversation 
 with Postillions believ'd it w d be full as good & pleasant
 
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 & a much shorter Road to go by Basingstoke & Alton. 
 In y e first of these places we found it 19 miles instead of 
 15 & were inform'd that instead of 10 miles good turnpike 
 to Alton there was not above 3 miles made & y e rest so 
 Cut as to be impassable for such a Carriage as mine ; In 
 short that we had 12 miles cross country Eoad. We 
 were only 17 miles good turnpike from Winchester ; that 
 w d have been our sensible plan, but our Evil Genius had 
 got possession of y e day. Y e Landlord of y e house told 
 me y e Eoad was equally good to Alresford & that we sh'd 
 there be 10 miles nearer to Stanstead. We listen'd to 
 him & y 6 Consiquence was we had 8 miles Bad Eoad out 
 of 16 & was an hour in y 6 dark. But y e Poneys perform'd 
 wonders & we were perfectly well & happy in the thought 
 that our difficulties were over. But behold y e 15 miles 
 good Eoad which we were inform'd w d take us to horn- 
 dean turn'd out 19 of quite impassable. The only good 
 way was by Wickam & that by a detour of 20 miles, then 
 by another detour of 14 miles to Havant & then 4 to 
 Stansted. But this was a misfortune only to y e poor 
 Poneys who in fact made nothing of y e 38^ miles, but 
 came in as fresh as possible, & to be sure we had a variety 
 of y 6 most beautiful scenes the whole day that was 
 possible & came over Post Down which is directly over 
 Portsmouth & commands a full view of Spithead. I was 
 delighted but it was 8 o' Clock before we got to Stansted, 
 rather too dark to see y e approach in perfection, but it had 
 a magnificent appearance. Y e family were all enjoying y e 
 sweet evening in y* portico & welcom'd us very cordially. 
 . . . Y e company here consists of Mrs. Barwell's 2 Sisters, 
 2 Ladies whose names I have not yet learnt & 4 or 5
 
 154 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 men, all Indians I believe. The hours of y e family are 
 what y 8 Polite World w d not conform to viz. Breakfast at 
 8|, dine at 3^, supper at 9 & go to bed at 10, but every- 
 body is at Liberty to order Breakfast, Dinner or Supper 
 into their own Eooms & no questions ask'd. . . . The 
 amendment of my Leg is really like a charm. ... I walk 
 firm & secure & gain strength in y e Joynt. In other 
 respects I am well except want of sleep, which makes me 
 feel Languid & headachy in a Morning. ... I never 
 closed my eyes till 5 and wak'd again before 7. Sea air 
 alone I doubt will not break y 6 spell. I hope y e warm 
 Bath will. Most of this company are earnest for y e Isle 
 of Whight but we determine upon nothing until we hear 
 from M rs Graeme who is to send us a rail Ace* from 
 Worthing of that place. 
 
 2 o'Clock. I have had a most enchanting drive thro' 
 y e Park & Cuts thro' y e forest. M ra B. is so good to 
 propose a Jaunt to Portsmouth & y e Isle of Wight to- 
 morrow if y c Weather is like to-day, & has also bespoke 
 me a Water Cart of Sea Water which Nanny Ashcroft 
 has undertaken to have properly heated & put into a most 
 convenient Bath here. Baths in y e house of all sorts. 
 One may be Stew'd in Vapour, Boil'd & Wash'd in any 
 way one pleases, so you see I am losing no time by this 
 Agreable Visit. 
 
 Thursday morning 10 o' Clock. . . . Our expedition 
 is put off on ace* of dear Milly's Ear ; it has given her a 
 bad night. . . . M rs Barwell is going to take me to Up 
 Park, Sir H. Featherstone's. Oh what good news I have 
 to tell you ! Nanny Ashcroft got me y e most delightful 
 & perfect Warm Sea Bath last night at 9 o' Clock, after
 
 IN SEARCH OF HEALTH 155 
 
 w ch I ate my Bason of Milk & went to Bed. ... I believe 
 I was asleep before 2 & never waked till 7, am free from 
 Head Ach, perfectly cool & comfortable & my Knee so 
 strong & well that I have been up stairs to see Milly & all 
 over y 8 Principal Appartments of this superb Palace. . . . 
 Friday morn 9 1 past 9. . . . What a noble situation 
 has Up Park ! but the air was hazy, we c d hardly distin- 
 guish the Sea. Y e Woods very fine & coming down 
 apace ; much may be spared if taken judiciously but I 
 fancy y* possessors Judgment is chiefly in horses, & the 
 only object to feed them. The day was heavenly & we 
 just got back before a storm of thunder began ; it was not 
 near us, but y e Lightning Vivid & incessant all after- 
 noon & all night. To-day is Gloomy & pleasant & 
 M r Barwell promises fine Weather so we resolve not to 
 delay an expedition plan'd last night to Bognor Kocks, a 
 place strongly recommended to us about 16 miles from 
 hence. I was to have taken M rs Barwell in my Phaeton & 
 one of her sisters to have taken Milly in her Curricle, but 
 alass Milly's Ear is not broke & it w* be folly for her to 
 venture. So M rs Brown only accompanies me with John 
 & a serv* of M 1 " 8 Barwell's who knows y e place to attend us. 
 The Efficacy of y e 1 st Sea Bath was for one night only. 
 I have had Little Sleep but am well & my Leg gains 
 strength. The Little Angel will give me another Bath 
 to-morrow. . . . 
 
 From Mrs. Barton 
 
 MY DEAR Sin KOGER, Lady New. has left me her 
 Letter to finish. . . . She seems perfectly well . . . ex- 
 cept in respect to Sleep. ... I find she has told you of
 
 156 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 my ill-behaviour. 'Tis a Vile Ear & torments me sadly. 
 ... I must be very careful to prevent a return of it. 
 M rs Colbeck assures me that a little bit of Negro's Wool 
 will effect it, and has offered me a bit of her Black Serv 18 
 Head. But I don't know whether I can persuade myself 
 to try it. I should think a bit of Sheep's Wool wou'd 
 do as well & be a much sweeter thing. . . . We are 
 certainly well accommodated here and the dear Little 
 Angel and her Caro Sposo are as attentive as possible to 
 make everything pleasant and Convenient, but my dear 
 Companion and I will not be sorry for more quiet. Our 
 Numbers are great & the Male part of Barwell's Guests 
 not exactly the Men one wou'd wish to pass a Summer 
 with ; but we see little of them except at Meals, as the 
 chief pleasure they find in this Beautiful place is walking 
 round the Billiard Table. Major Balfour (one of the 
 party) has been here four years running for a month at a 
 Time & has never set his foot beyond the Colonade. 
 Why do such people come into the country ? . . . Your 
 little Angel & M r B. desire their best Comp ts Adieu. 
 
 From Lady Newdigate 
 
 Sunday morning Ylih August. . . . M r Barwell has 
 Just told Milly that y 6 Clergyman is taken 111 & can give 
 no Service, so he says it will be a Writing Day with 
 everybody & advises that we sh'd let him have our Letters 
 soon, least his number ' sh'd be full. Milly is better but 
 not quite free from Ear Ach. I am glad she did not go 
 with us to Bognor for we dined upon y e Beach vf* w d 
 not have suited her so well as it did M rs Barwell & me 
 
 1 For franking.
 
 IN SEARCH OF HEALTH 157 
 
 who were quite delighted with the Place. Sir Bich d 
 Hotham to whom it belongs has built 30 or 40 neat con- 
 venient Houses of different sizes for y e reception of Com- 
 pany, all pleasantly situated & with full view of y e Sea. 
 A convenient Hot Sea Bath is also just made, & the Great 
 World has taste enough to prefer it to all others upon 
 this Coast. Whilst we sat at dinner there pass'd the 
 Duchesses of Devonshire & Eutland, Lady E. Foster, 
 Dow ger Lady Sefton etc. & we saw y e Names & Titles of 
 at least 20 more of y e very supreme set. At first it deterr'd 
 me from enquiring about Lodgings notwithstanding y e 
 various Comforts & Advantages we sh'd derive from being 
 only 16 miles from this Hospitable family, but on Con- 
 sidering y e thing more seriously it appear 'd evident to me 
 that y 6 houses c d not be occupy'd by any Company that 
 w d promise us such perfect ease & solitude. They are 
 much too fine to Notice us, we sh'd be amused with seeing 
 them drive about & they will insure us a good Supply of 
 provisions, tho' perhaps we may pay a Little Dearer for 
 them. This reasoning produced an immediate summons 
 to y 6 Woman who has y e Letting of y 6 Houses. She at 
 I 8t said there was not one of any size vacant, but at last 
 own'd that one very small one, 4 guineas p r Week, was 
 just given up, but that a Lady had secured y 6 refusal of 
 it. We went to see it & it is so perfect a Little Cabin 
 that I am quite wild to have y e Ladies answer. How we 
 shall all squeeze into it I can't tell, for y e whole Consists 
 of 2 Little Parlours in one of which there is a Bed ; above 
 a little Dining Eoom & Bed Chamber ; over that 2 bed 
 Chambers & below a Kitchen & Scullery. Bill must have 
 a Bed at y e Inn with his horses, & the 2 Men have y e
 
 158 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Parlour, but how shall we do for house maid & Cook ? 
 Betty in this case turns out a great Convenience. Neither 
 she nor Barret make any difficulties ; they say that with 
 a Woman to help adays, who is recommended by y e Old 
 Lady who promised us all assistance they shall do very 
 well & we can hire everything we want either at y e Eocks 
 or at Chichester which is only 7 miles distant & in y e 
 direct road from this place, so that I am sure we shall 
 want for nothing. 
 
 I was upon Wallerton Down yesterday & round by 
 L d George Lenox's Park, a beautiful Eoad & fine view of 
 Spit H d & y e Isle of W te . When we shall get to either 
 I know not for I cannot bear to go without Dear Milly. 
 Indeed she says she has promised you not to trust me so 
 long out of her sight. If I could Conquer bad nights I 
 do feel that I sh'd be very frisky, but y e greatest per- 
 fection of a Bath (w ch I had last night) did not answer so 
 well as y e 1 st tryal. I had very little Sleep . . . but feel 
 well to-day & am going to drive M rs Barwell in my 
 Phaeton as it is a rule in this family that without neces- 
 sity no horses go out on Sunday. But as we cannot pray 
 & I am in pursuit of health I may transgress. . . . 
 
 Sunday night 11 o'Clock. We are Eakes to-night, 
 the Cause is this : Milly's Ear is quite Easy & the 
 Weather so fine that we have been planning our expe- 
 dition to Portsmouth for to-morrow. It will consist of 4 
 Ladies & 2 Gentlemen. M r Barwell sends off by day 
 break to bespeak y 6 best Boat & if y e Day is fine we are 
 to go round the Fleet at Spit Head. Mons 1 ' le Comte de 
 Narbonne Aid de Camp to Mons 1 ' D'Artois is on a visit to 
 a Neighbouring family who brought him here this after-
 
 IN SEARCH OF HEALTH 159 
 
 noon. He says Mons r is on board the Queen Charlotte 
 at Spit Head, so possibly we may see him. We shall at 
 Least Admire y* noble Ship he is in. We are to have 
 breakfast & be off by ^ p st 9. I drive M rs Barwell in my 
 Phaeton & shall take both John & Thomas, ye former 
 only was at Bognor. I made Bill bring y e Poneys down 
 to y e sands & they let y e sea wash over their hoofs 
 without sign of fear in them or their Eider. I perhaps 
 shall not be able to add a Word in y e morning so God 
 bless you. 
 
 Monday 12 o'Clock. A Eainy Bad Day. . . . Milly 
 has just told me that Comte de Narbonne & several Gents 
 & Ladies dine here. I don't think I shall dine amongst 
 them but feel quite equal to meeting them in y e Drawing 
 Koom. Have been settling Posting Acc te with John & 
 what do you think y e Journey from Arbury here comes 
 to ? We paid 14 d per mile great part of y e way for y e 
 Chaise horses & 6 d all y e way for y e saddle horse. 
 Y e whole, Baits & Sleepings included comes to above 
 i24 to this place. A Dear Prescription but it is Doct r 
 & Apothecary too, & I must say has kill'd all my Dragons 
 about my knee. At one time I began to fear I sh'd be a 
 Cripple for Life. . . . 
 
 Wednesday morning. All well & Jolly, Laughing & 
 being Laugh'd at for our odd expedition of yesterday 
 which upon y e whole delighted us & has done us all good. 
 It was exactly comformable to Tapscots prescription, a 
 little Kough sailing, sea spray but not sickness to agitate. 
 We had a fine drive to Portsmouth & y e novelty of a 
 fortify'd Place in England threw my Ideas into an 
 agreable Confusion, but the Day turn'd out Windy &
 
 160 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Squally & our hearts began to fail us as to y e sailing part. 
 M rs Barwell who is a great Coward w d go to y e platform & 
 look out at y e Sea before she determin'd. I was passive being 
 well assured we sh'd not venture foolishly. M re Barwell 
 took fright when she saw y e Kuffled Ocean & y e Little 
 Boat in which we were to pass to our Great Deck Boat, 
 dance up & down & was coming back to y e Inn to consult 
 about a Change of Plan, when she met Admiral Mac- 
 bridge & Lady Lauderdale just arrived from Hyde & going 
 to embark again for Cows. The former told her that it 
 was just y e Weather that was pleasantest for Sailing in 
 so safe a Boat as We had got ; that they were merely on 
 a sailing party of pleasure & were tempted to prolong it 
 as the day was so favorable ; but that we sh'd embark 
 immediately as y e tide was going to turn. This report 
 out weigh'd y 6 Dear Little Woman's fears & we set out, 
 but I thought I never c d have got into y e Boat. It was one 
 instant even with y e Stairs, y 6 next 2 or 3 yards distant 
 & as much below them. I gave myself up entirely to 
 M r Barwell Brown & two Able Sailors who handed me 
 from one to y other very Cleverly, & getting into y e great 
 Boat was Easy as we had a strong side Wind & she Lay 
 quite on one side. So far was happy & y e sight of y 6 
 Ships at Spit head magnificent. We sailed thro' y 6 midst 
 of them both going & coming back, for I sh'd have told 
 you we had determined to go over to y e Isle of W. 
 The Wind was against us, we had frequent unpleasant 
 Squalls which dash'd the Spray over us & we were 
 oblig'd to tack many times which made all y e Company 
 most Compleatly sick except Milly & myself. We sat 
 upon deck all the time, cast a Wise look at each other
 
 IN SEARCH OF HEALTH 161 
 
 from time to time & then L aught at ourselves & Com- 
 panions. No one quitted y 6 Deck but M Barwell who 
 firmly resolv'd if it sh'd please God to Land her safe on 
 y e Isle of W. that she w d never quit that spot again. In 
 an hour & half we accomplished y e 5 miles to Byde, but 
 y 8 Vessel could not get within a quarter of a Mile of the 
 shore & y e getting into a small Boat was very disagreable 
 & for me very difficult in so Eough a Sea, but my Knee 
 gave no intimation of weakness. . . . We landed happily 
 & M 1 " 8 B. Miss G. & Miss Impey immediately got well, 
 but Miss Bell Barwell y e sweet Little Girl you have heard 
 us mention continu'd so 111 we c d not get her to Upper 
 Byde as we intended. So we took up our quarters just 
 where we Landed at y e house of a Cousin of yours I 
 suppose, a M rs Stevens, 1 Little better than a Cottage but 
 neat & comfortable. I talk'd to her of her descent & that 
 of her husband, for I found they were of y 6 same name, 
 but they did not seem to know that their Ancestors were 
 ever in better plight. We all, except y e poor Girl, ate a 
 good Cold Dinner & left her in a sound sleep in y e Care of 
 M re Stevens whilst we walk'd about to see as much as we 
 Could of the Island, a most rich & beautiful scene indeed, 
 & strongly did M Barwell urge the sending back for 
 Cloaths & to inform M r B. that we sh'd stay to go over 
 y e Island & till y c Weather was fine. But y e sailors told 
 us the Wind w d be in our favor & y e Sea smooth & that 
 | of an hour w d land us at Portsmouth. Y e I 9t & last 
 were true, but y 8 Wind in y e Morning had occasion'd a 
 great Swell & there being a dead Calm for some time we 
 
 1 Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Newdigate, second baronet, had married 
 William Stephens, Esq., of Barton in the Isle of Wight, in 1696. 
 
 M
 
 162 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 were toss'd about & y e 4 Ladies were again very sick, but 
 Milly & I got used to y e Kolling & enjoy'd y e fine sight of 
 y 6 ships. We pass'd close by y e Comerrac de Marseilles, 
 Y e Prince of Wales, Glory & many other 1 st rate M. of 
 War & I suppose there are not fewer than 20 of that 
 description at Spithead. Y e Queen Charlotte we also saw, 
 but not near enough to introduce ourselves to Mons r & y e 
 Prince of W. stay'd we were told but 2 hours. It was a 
 sweet evening for y e Phaeton & not dark tho' we did not 
 get to Stansted till nine o'Clock. ... I had y e enclosed 
 agreable note from Sir B. Hotham's factotum & we have 
 determin'd to remove there [to Bognor] on Friday, not 
 without much kind opposition from our host & hostess. 
 Indeed we have every reason to leave them with regret 
 but such a Cabin as we have got will have great Charms 
 & our Menage will not be of a common Stamp. I have 
 order'd a 2 nd Bed in y 6 Parlour that Bill may not be led 
 into Evil by sleeping at y e Inn. . . . 
 
 From Mrs. Barton 
 
 Stansted IQth August (Thursday). . . . Notwith- 
 standing the attention & kindness we receive we are both 
 of us ungrateful enough to wish to get into our little quiet 
 Habitation to which we remove to-morrow. We send off 
 our two maids and John as soon as we are dressed in the 
 morning, mean to eat an early dinner here and be at 
 Bognor at 6 to-morrow evening, that I may feast my 
 eyes with a full Sea which it will be at that hour. I am 
 not surprised that you suppose no going into the sea, for 
 from those very little black spots you describe in the Map 
 the place takes its name, there being no appearance of
 
 IN SEARCH OF HEALTH 163 
 
 Eock on the Shore, but a full description of the place you 
 shall have when we get there. . . . 
 
 I don't love to make mischief but I really think you 
 will have occasion to look a little Green when I tell you 
 that M 1 ' Farrer (a gentleman who is in the House) has 
 just sent Lady Newdigate an Italian translation from the 
 Greek of the adventures of Sappo which if she likes he 
 begs she will take to Bognor for her amusement. 
 
 From Lady Newdigate 
 
 Ten o'Glock Friday. It seems quite ungrateful to 
 feel glad to Leave these good & very Coind friends 
 but the thought of setting out for our Little Bognor 
 Cabin raises our Spirits to such a pitch that we can't 
 comport ourselves with becoming Gravity on the occasion. 
 The Chaise with our Abigails & John are setting out 
 as they are to hire & buy many necessary articles at 
 Chichester which we are doubtful of getting at Bognor ; 
 & M ra Barwell sends Bycroft with them to shew them the 
 shops & dispose y e people to favor us. She is to go on 
 to Bognor & they send a Carriage for her in the evening. 
 M rs B. lends me a Charming Pillion & a telescope. In 
 short we have everything we want or wish for from these 
 hospitable People. ... I don't wonder you c d not find 
 our Bocks ; they are to be seen only when y e Tide is out 
 & are just what y e Maps describe, black spots that run in 
 a Line 2 miles out to sea, & are an effectual Guard against 
 foreign invasion ; for no vessels dare come near them. . . . 
 There are still some parts of this Noble Mansion which I 
 have not seen & am going over this morning with M r 
 Barwell . . . God bless you all. 
 
 M 2
 
 164 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 CHAPTEE XII 
 
 1795 
 
 The eldest . . . was as fine a specimen of the old English gentleman as 
 could well have been found in those venerable days of cocked hats and pig- 
 tails. His dark eyes sparkled under projecting brows, made more pro- 
 minent by bushy grizzled eyebrows ; but any apprehension of severity 
 excited by these penetrating eyes and by a somewhat aquiline nose was 
 allayed by the good-natured lines about the mouth, which retained all its 
 teeth and its vigour of expression in spite of sixty winters. 
 
 MB. GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY. 
 
 LADY NEWDIGATE'S letters from Bognor Kocks are here 
 continued from the last chapter. She writes on Sunday, 
 August 23 : 
 
 Oh Dear a 2 nd Letter from Arbury is gone to Stansted 
 since we left it. Mr. Barwell sent y 6 1 st to Chichester 
 immediately & I had it y e same day, but no letter to-day 
 & no post to-morrow. You were well however thank God, 
 & I trust your next will be all glee on hearing that I was 
 able to go to Portsmouth y e day after our disappointment 
 & that I went thro' a very trying day so well & was not 
 afterwards y 6 worse for it. When I reflect on ye events 
 of that day I can scarcely believe them real. I seem as 
 much out at sea as I am now writing at my Dining Room 
 Window. But it has been perfectly calm & placid since 
 we came here. Y e Moon and Jupiter are now just 
 opposite to me & are most beautifully reflected in ye Sea. 
 Oh ! that you could see our habitation ! it is really y e
 
 A MONTH AT BOGNOR ROCKS 165 
 
 pretyest thing you can Conceive, and y e perfect retire- 
 ment we are in a pleasing contrast to y* numerous family 
 at Stansted & almost incredible in a Place so Brimfull 
 of Faces that one knows. Mr. & Mrs. Sheridan, the 
 Speaker & his family (besides some others who c d not get 
 houses & went back to Chichester) arrived yesterday, 
 & y e only empty house in y e Place is I hear engaged for 
 L d & L dy Loughborough who come to-morrow ; but no 
 body visits or associates with any but their own party, 
 so you may imagine that we have time enough upon our 
 hands, but as far as I can judge from y e 2 Days I have 
 been here the Life of Bognor will be a busy one. To-day 
 has been less so than it ought & that we intended owing 
 to Mrs. Gowan disappointing us. I sent to her yesterday 
 for information about Church & she sent word that y e 
 Parish Church was so small that y e Company was forced 
 to divide & part go to the Church of Felpham, but that 
 we sh'd get no places at all unless she 1 st put us in a way. 
 So we sat with our Cloaks on expecting the Old Lady & 
 she never came at all. The reason was Company pour'd 
 in so fast that she c d not get to us till it was too late. 
 To-morrow I think will be too short for y e demands upon 
 it. Milly goes into the warm Bath at 8, after which we 
 breakfast & then drive to Chichester to bespeak new 
 springs for my Phaeton, for both have fail'd just in 
 y e manner they have always done before, but are tyed up 
 as they say to be perfectly safe. We also must get 
 materials for Bathing Dresses. In short I find it will be 
 necessary to go for almost everything we want to that 
 place, & a more delightful road & pleasant drive it is not 
 possible to have. I must be back by 2 to take my Warm
 
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 Bath & at 3 we dine upon roast Beef & good Potatoes & 
 y e finest large Prawns or most excellent small Lobsters 
 or Crabs that can be eaten. We feast upon them 
 alternately, & always wish that we c d send you some in 
 a Letter. At 5 we always sally forth to walk upon y e 
 sands or beach according as y e tide serves. To-night 
 it was y* latter, full tide, & 2 large Ships in view 
 tacking against y e Winds y e whole afternoon. Only think 
 of my taking an Evening Walk | a mile End ways ! 
 Indeed I can hardly believe it myself. My Knee feels 
 quite Well, but sleep does not come yet. 
 
 Aug st 25" 4 . Tuesday night % past 7 o' Clock. Just 
 come iii from a Charming Drive the Moon & Jupiter 
 lighting up y e Sea most beautifully. We work y e Dear 
 Poneys well, they were 2 hours upon y e Sands this 
 morning & behaved Charmingly. We quited our Car- 
 riage where y e Sands were fine & walk'd, Oh ! it was 
 delightful ! They are busy as possible in this Country 
 getting in Barley, pease and Beans, most of the wheat is 
 in & they say the Crops are in General pretty good. I 
 hope they will turn out so with you & that we shall eat 
 many a good Loaf of Arbury Wheat together before y 6 
 End of y e Year. . . . The Man who supplys us here 
 with excellent Milk & Butter is a Warwickshire man 
 his name Prestidge ; enquires most affectionately after 
 you and Mrs Conyers. He made Betty give him all 
 she knew of your Life & Conversation for years back ; 
 remembers that you rode a fine spirited horse when you 
 was Major of y e War re Mil a . He is a fine Grey headed 
 old man & for his Love of you & Molly, Milly & I 
 are grieved that we can't do every thing that he asks us.
 
 A MONTH AT BOGNOR ROCKS 167 
 
 He keeps Bathing Machines, but they stand at an incon- 
 venient distance from us. ... 
 
 Friday morning. Two great Events in our walk last 
 night. A lady who was siting on a Bench by Lady 
 Pembroke got up & spoke to me as I pass'd. It was 
 Mrs. Kobinson, Lord Malmesbury's sister & at 10 just as 
 we were moving towards bed a Message came from L d & 
 Lady Hood. They were to sleep at y e Hotel & depart at 
 nine this m g . I mounted the Dear Grey at ^ past seven 
 & as I came up from y e sands saw L d Hood's long Nose 
 & scorch'd face looking out of y e Window. I turn'd my 
 horse to speak to him when L dy H. also appear'd & at y e 
 instant Milly arrived to enquire after her Ladyship. We 
 sat with them whilst they Breakfasted & then walked 
 home to our own. I am glad we saw them for y e 
 Barwells are to dine with them to-morrow. ... I pleas'd 
 myself with thinking that our Eyes met in y e Moon last 
 night. Indeed it was impossible to be otherwise unless 
 you never look'd at it for Milly and I admired her & 
 Jupiter & their reflection in ye Sea till we were almost 
 blind. . . . 
 
 Sunday morn ^ past 9. Another glorious day. . . . 
 Church is in y e afternoon at ^ past 2, but we shall be there 
 sooner to secure places as they say some Ladies sat by 
 the Door last Sunday & some c d not get in at all. It 
 is y e smallest Church I ever &aw. Sir E. Hotham has 
 built a very spacious Chapel joyning to his own house, 
 but it is not quite finished & if they are as tedious about 
 that as about y e Warm Bath there may be no Service in 
 it till y e Place is out of fashion. 
 
 Monday morning. . . . I think if you do not object
 
 168 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 that 3 weeks is as long as I sh'd wish to stay at this place, 
 after which I hope every step will bring me nearer dear 
 Arbury. The kindnesses we have experienced from y e 
 Barwell house & y e number of necessaries they have sent 
 us makes it necessary we sh'd go that way to restore them 
 & give them at least one day, after which our Eoute may 
 be any way we please & I wish for y r opinion upon y e 
 subject. Poor Jessy [Mrs. Charles Parker] has written us 
 a most pressing Letter to seduce us as far as Harefield out 
 of our Road . . . but I will not answer her Letter till I 
 have your thoughts. Our Weather [is] enchanting and 
 as y e Moon after to-day w d not serve our friends from 
 Stansted, I rather expect them & in Consiquence sent 
 John upon Grey for Mutton & Wine from Chichester or 
 Tea-chester as both he & Betty persist in Calling it. 
 Here he comes with our provisions. Our feast will consist 
 of Neck of Mutton, Lamb Steaks, Cold Beef, Lobsters 
 Prawns & Tart. 
 
 2nd Sept. What weather we must have had & how well 
 I must have been, out every day & almost all day ever since 
 I left Arbury & never yet to have been in my Post Chaise, 
 but have just order'd a p r of horses from y e Inn & shall use 
 it at 8 to-night for y 6 1 st time on an occasion that I will 
 give you & y r Company each 100 Guesses to find out, & 
 after that when I tell you you will lift up your hands with 
 surprize but without any mixture of Joy, for you will sus- 
 pect as we much fear that our happy insignificance & ease 
 will be somewhat spoilt for y e rest of our time here. Now 
 you must know that as we were sitting quietly with our 
 Book & Work yesterday, a Coach stop'd at our Door & 
 the Dutchess of Devonshire was announced. She was
 
 A MONTH AT BOGNOR ROCKS 169 
 
 quite shock'd to learn that we had been more than a 
 Week in this Place. She did not know it till she saw us 
 at Church on Sunday. She sh'd have said ' till I saw 
 your pretty singular Equipage & enquired who it belong'd 
 to ' for I am sure she could not remember either Milly's 
 face or mine. However all this was very Civil & after 
 enquiring Particularly after my Brother & L d & L dy 
 Charles etc. she told us that her Children & all y e young 
 people y e Place affords were to meet at her Lodgings this 
 Evening & to have a dance & she sh'd take it as a par- 
 ticular favor if we w d Look in upon them. I find everybody 
 she visits intends to do so, therefore to avoid being par- 
 ticular we must do y e same. We shall see assembled all 
 y e great World of Bognor Kocks & as you are not in Parl* 
 & Ned's Consiquence does not extend beyond Derbyshire 
 I hope nobody Else will honor us with their notice. . . . 
 No company from Stansted yesterday. ... I have made 
 my Lame Knee that was a bandage so Complete that I 
 sh'd not be afraid to dance a horn pipe with y e Duke of 
 Devonshire if he sh'd be very importunate. . . . 
 
 From Mrs. Barton to her daughter Nelly at Arbury. 
 
 . . . Only think of our going to a Ball. How we shall 
 equip ourselves for the occation I don't know for Barrett 
 thinking we should have no occation for them has left all 
 our smart things at Stansted, but you shall certainly be 
 inform'd what appearance we make. 
 
 [The letter with the account of this party is unfor- 
 tunately missing.] 
 
 Thursday 3rd Sep'\ Our friends [Barwells] came
 
 170 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEBEL MANOR 
 
 Loaded with good things from y e Garden which is what is 
 most wanted here, 2 Phaetons & a post Chaise in w ch were 
 M r & M rs Barwell, M rs Colbeck, Miss Gore, M r Brown 
 
 6 M r Impey. I look upon y e Gentleman's ' Visit as a much 
 greater honor than that of our Grand Duchess, for in 
 regard to visits he is as immoveable as a certain War- 
 wickshire Bart, & though he said he w d beat up our 
 Quarters & y e Rocks when we left Stansted both Milly & 
 his good Little Wife were so sure he w d not that y e Latter 
 fearing I sh'd think it a necessary Comp* desired Milly 
 to assure me that he never went any where. But I 
 never saw a Gentleman enjoy himself more, nor a whole 
 Party more pleasant & well satisfy'd. Indeed we gave 
 them a most excellent Dinner dress'd by Betty at a little 
 fire about y e size of my Bed Chamber grate at Arbury, 
 2 Courses, a remove & desert. They stay'd with us till 
 
 7 & having a relay of horses at Chichester w d be at home 
 before nine. Many kind arguments were made use of to 
 induce us to remove to Stansted & if not acceded to, that 
 when I leave Bognor we w d make some stay. The Warm 
 Bath sh d be made still more commodious & Barwell w d 
 engage a Boat by the Day that I may take a sail whenever 
 I please. These proposals not being Listen'd to Y r Angel 
 went away saying she w d write to you. ... Of all y 6 
 Places I ever was in this is y e Dearest, one week's bill for 
 my 3 horses & standing of Carriages 3. 4. 6 but you seem 
 not to care how soon I ruin you, so God bless you and all 
 your sweet Companions. . . . 
 
 Sunday Sep 1 6. Thank God for a calm bright day, it 
 puts quite another face upon our Ideas. The thunderstorm 
 on Thursday of which we had only the skirts made such 
 
 1 Mr. Barwell
 
 A MONTH AT BOGNOR ROCKS 171 
 
 a Combustion in the Air & Sea that the Latter was quite 
 tremendous to behold all friday & yesterday & I thought 
 y e Wind w d have blown us in our Little Cabin to Chiches- 
 ter. . . . You are very good in desiring me not to tye 
 myself down to a Day or Week. You may be sure I shall 
 not Loiter, having every reason that a Woman can have 
 to prefer home to all other places. I doubt I cannot stay 
 less than 2 days at Stansted & hard work we shall have to 
 Combat y e many amusing schemes they have plan'd for us, 
 but we certainly shall crush them all & proceed to Hare- 
 field a most excellent road & 2 easy days ; 2 or 3 days will 
 not more than satisfy poor dear Jessy. When we get to 
 S 4 Albans our road is familiar. . . . 
 
 Tuesday y f 8th. . . . Your friend Prestedge still raves 
 about you & gives us y e best of Milk & Butter for your 
 sake. He says if I mention'd y name of Souch you w d 
 have remember'd him. He was at Arbury at a fishing, 
 when L d Denbigh was there, & saw a Carp taken out of 
 your Pool that weigh'd 221b. He must mean a Jack. . . . 
 Your Nymphs & Graces are good Souls. To be sure the 
 same amusements are not exactly suitable to their Age & 
 yours but you afford a Blessed proof that when each side 
 endeavours to meet the other's wishes, the Distance 
 is never insurmountable. . . . 
 
 Wednesday y e dth. . . . To-morrow not being Bath- 
 ing day we mean to take a frisk & see Worthing, 20 miles, 
 Charming Koad, y e Poneys will do it in 3 hours. We'll 
 take our Night Caps as there is a good Hotel in Case we 
 sh'd meet with any agreable friend or for any reason wish 
 to stay all night, but our plan is to set out at 8, arrive at 
 past 11, dine & see y e Lyons by 3 & return before dark, 
 for we are aware that we have no Moon. All this depends
 
 172 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 upon y e report that John makes of y e security of the 
 springs, they are well bound up & have never fail'd since, 
 & I have ordered an additional band so I think we may 
 venture safely. 
 
 Thursday. Oh what fools we were to take fright at 
 a few Clouds yesterday ! it turn'd out most heavenly & 
 to-day is like unto it, but nothing must stop Bathing. . . . 
 I have no Evil but . . . want of sleep to complain of & 
 how strange it is that sh'd not mend. ... I try to be as 
 patient as possible, but indeed it is at times hard to bear. 
 Having (thank God) no pain, my fretful temper some- 
 times thinks my Complaint is less bearable. Oh I am 
 glad Letters are come for this is a bad strain. Charming 
 Letters that brighten y 6 Ideas. I wish to expunge y e few 
 Lines above but will not. You shall have my thoughts 
 just as they occur. We are going to drive to Chichester 
 & here comes a Cart from Stansted loaded with fruit & 
 Garden Stuff of all kinds, & a kind note of enquiries. I 
 must answer it. Adieu. 
 
 Sunday y e 13th. . . . Our Dutchess is here still, that 
 is her Children & family, for she spends most of her time 
 at Goodwood. Y e Dutchess of Rutland also & her two 
 Beautiful Boys ride about & ornament y e Place. She has 
 generally Arthur Paget by her side. I find he succeeds 
 his Brother in her good Graces ; she seems quite proud of 
 shewing that at 40 she has charms to attract a young 
 man of 20. What a foolish Woman ! . . . 
 
 Tuesday 15th. . . . Here has been a 3 mast vessel, 
 so near that with y e Telescope we could distinguish every 
 Rope, hovering about us all morning. It is now on 
 shore about | a mile off with all its Sails down. I suspect
 
 A MONTH AT BOGNOR ROCKS 173 
 
 it to be a smuggler & hope now to succeed in getting you 
 some India Hand ks which hitherto I have try'd for in 
 Vain. There are many Whisperers about & I have yielded 
 a Little to temptation, which together with a few neces- 
 sary s we were oblig'd to purchase will make our trunk 
 which was very full before, quite overflow, so I have 
 determined to get a Box & send by London from Stansted. 
 So if you have any Commissions for me send them directly. 
 I can Smuggle almost as well at Stansted or Southamp- 
 ton as here, but don't publish this beyond your own 
 Circle. If you do I shall have Commissions to fill a 
 Waggon. . . . 
 
 Stansted, Saturday [19^]. I had a charming Bath 
 before I set out from Bognor yesterday. It revived & Cooled 
 me & enabled me to bear the very hottest & most dusty 
 drive I ever had in my Life. . . . We were glad to rest 
 a Little at Chichester & arrived ourselves at Stansted just 
 at 4. All out, driving or riding & dinner not till six. What 
 a Change from y e sober hours we left a month ago ! We 
 expected to find the House quite full of all y e Amsterdam 
 Hopes, M r & M rs Vernon etc. etc. but Nanny Ashcroft 
 met us with a smiling Countenance & told us those 2 
 familys went off that morning & that there remained no 
 additional females to y e family Party but Old M" Hale, 
 M r Eigby's sister. Men there are in plenty but of a 
 particular Class that one sees nowhere else, & except that 
 they fill a long Table at Meals are no annoyance. What 
 luck we are in to escape all y e Mynheers ! Our friends 
 received us gladly & kindly. ... I found your Letter & 
 y e ^ note for 50 enclosed. If you pay all demands in like 
 proportion people will like to trade with you. I told you
 
 174 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 20 w d do for me. What a Silly Man you are ! ... As 
 you are so good my D r Soul to leave us quite to our own 
 discretion it is just determined in Council that we set out 
 for Harefield on Wednesday ... & eat y 6 most relishing 
 Mich 8 Goose that ever was roasted with you on Tuesday. 
 . . . Barwell has just sent Milly with a Ball of solid 
 Opium weighing at least 21h. w cb he desires may be my 
 Bed fellow to-night. That cannot hurt & he is sure it 
 will make me sleep. I will certainly try it. I have not 
 time to tell you of the sweet drive we had yesterday . . . 
 y e day heavenly & every yard seemed to give health & 
 spirits yet y r perverse wife c d not sleep. But all will go 
 well by & bye I doubt not. God bless you. 
 
 Harefield Lodge 1 o 'Clock Thursday. You'll like to 
 see y 6 date from this place & to know that the Sisters & 
 Poneys have perform'd Well. We left our friends at 
 Stansted at 10 yesterday, very sorry I do believe to lose 
 us & found dear Jessy as glad to receive us. She looks 
 111 but behav'd with great resolution & composure, the 
 children all well & full of Joy . . . y e Boy stout, noisy & 
 good humour' d. I have borne my journey well, indeed y e 
 Weather & roads were delightful but y 6 Dust insupport- 
 able & so deep y 6 sand & gravell from Farnham to Windsor 
 that I did not think y 6 Poneys c d have drawn us up y e 
 Hills. They were 5 hours bringing us 24 miles to Wind- 
 sor where I left them & y 6 Maids to dine & with Post 
 Horses to y e Chaise got here at \ p st 3. I never in my 
 Life had a better bed than last night at y e Bush at Farn- 
 ham & I really rested better than Common & feel very 
 well but rather tired & Blind with Dust. We are drinking 
 your health in Tea. Adieu.
 
 CHAPTEE XIII 
 
 1797 
 
 ' Sir Christopher, as I understand, is going to make a clean new thing of 
 the old Manor house both inside and out. . . .' 
 
 ' But what does my lady say to 't ? ' 
 
 ' My lady knows better than cross Sir Cristifer in what he's set his 
 mind on,' said Mr. Bellamy. . . . ' Sir Cristifer '11 hev his own way, that you 
 may tek your oath. An' i' the right on 't too. He's a gentleman born an's 
 got the money.' MB. GILFIL'S LOVE-STOBY. 
 
 THE next batch of letters, chronicling a visit to the sea- 
 side, were written by Lady Newdigate in the summer of 
 1797, when she spent some weeks at Brighton. She was 
 accompanied by her sister Mrs. Barton and the latter's 
 daughter Nelly, a girl of seventeen at this date. 
 
 They left Arbury towards the end of June, and Lady 
 Newdigate writes first from Daventry : 
 
 We wish all our good friends who are so anxious about 
 us c d know how fortunate & prosperous our 1 st Days 
 journey has been. In spite of the very worst of winter 
 roads the day & drive has been pleasant. I never saw 
 this Road so rutted, so heavy or so deep. It was with 
 difficulty my poor Poneys c d drag us to Dunchurch by half 
 past two o'Clock. There we all got an excellent Dinner 
 which we devour'd as we do Molly's Sunday dinners, & 
 stay'd till half past 5 in order to follow y 6 Tail of a shower 
 which we jockey'd most happily without a drop over head, 
 but y e Road was in a Swim, Braunston Hill so heavy that 
 I have made my hand shake with whiping my Horses, but 
 am not at all fatigued, or is Milly, nor no Bee in her Ear.
 
 176 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 . . . "We have drank Tea, heard a fine Concert from y e 
 next Boom & I have been into y e town & have bought 
 myself a Whip & my Postillion a Silver Band for his Hat. 
 I fancy they c d not get one at Nuneaton for it was sent 
 with only a Cord. Now we are very Smart. . . . 
 
 Dunstable Tuesday night. . . . Boads so deep and 
 heavy I really never saw for such a length of way. We 
 set out at 8 o'Clock & with difficulty reach'd Stoney Strat- 
 ford at ^ past 12, Baited there 3 hours & just got to y 6 top 
 of Chalk Hill as y 6 sun sank into his Bed. Poneys have 
 had a hard day, but I gave them time & put in my new 
 one for one Stage ; he perform'd well & all three are eat- 
 ing their corn very comfortably. ... I mean to be out 
 before 8 to-morrow, but shall not be in town in time for 
 y e post, but I hope you may conclude us safely landed 
 in Piccadilly before or about 6. 
 
 Thursday 2 o'Clock 11th June 1797.. . . Not a drop 
 of Bain had we yesterday, but found y e Streets in Streams 
 from a Thunder Shower there had been 2 hours before. . . . 
 4 o'Clock. Interrupted by 3 separate partys of y e Graf ton 
 family. . . . Dr. Pitcairne for Milly. . . . He recommended 
 y e Air & Sea at Brighthelmstone. Milly told him we had 
 thoughts of going to Bognor Bocks. He said that was by no 
 means a good Air : so says Denman & wonders that we were 
 not annoy'd by the stinking marshes when there. . . . They 
 have quite decided us for Brighthelmstone which is nearer & 
 we determine to set out on Monday. I have had y e punctual 
 Penny who promises his orders in time, tho' I am sorry to 
 say they go beyond your instructions, for when Bich'd & 
 Will came in to be measured it appear'd that y e formers 
 Livery being made for a Less Man, the Elbows were
 
 BRIGHTON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 177 
 
 coming thro' & Will ms was not only quite thread bare but 
 one skirt had been torn off & patch'd on again. I thought 
 therefore you would not disapprove of my ordering them 
 New Liveries as well as riding Frocks ; & hats they must 
 also have. Eich d ' 8 is very shabby indeed & Will never has 
 had one. The Boys cap I have not bespoke, y e Sea air 
 will tarnish it & make it unfit to go with y e new one & 
 his Hat & Silver Band Looks very well. 
 
 Friday 2 o' 'Clock. . . . At ten a Dear Letter from you. 
 Sorry for y B loss of Carp, but more so that you sh d be 
 plagued. Y story of progress with Towers delightful & 
 that you are all well still better, but pray don't starve your 
 Guests. Consider that I & my suite (horses excepted) 
 Live free of cost till Monday. . . . 
 
 Saturday 1st July. . . . I have just seen Fairy 
 [Miss Cotton] & Learnt all y c ways of Brighthelmstone. 
 She will write about a house that will just suit us & upon 
 her recommendation I have engaged a profess Cook who 
 has lived 4 y rs with M rs Leigh so you may expect to hear 
 we give Dinners to y c Prince of Wales & L dy Jersey, if 
 they sh'd arrive whilst we stay. 
 
 Sunday night. . . . We made our Quality visits after 
 Church & then Drove to Hammersmith & to Kensington 
 Palace, M" Cotton with Eheumatism bent double, Fairy 
 blooming, & she gave us hints & instructions about 
 Brighton that will be of use to us, & has order'd a person 
 to meet us at y e Inn & inform us of all y e pleasant houses 
 disengaged. We shall probably have Choice, for no body 
 of the World thinks of going there before y e end of August 
 & Camps there will be none near. Ned believes there is 
 to be only one at Weymouth. 
 
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 Monday morn". . . . We can't set out to-day, Milly 
 has business that she w d be vex'd to leave undone & my 
 brother & Nelly say we don't inconvenience them tho' 
 I think we must. 
 
 Tuesday. We c d not have gone yesterday if we had 
 intended it for about y time we sh'd have set out Nelly 
 Barton was seized with such an odd sleepyness & sickness 
 & head Ach that we were forced to put her to Bed. . . . 
 We thought it expedient to send for Cotton, Evans's son- 
 in-law & successor, a very sensible honest man. . . . He 
 hopes she will be able to move in a day or two, but it 
 would be very hazardous in her present state. He does 
 not apprehend Meazles which Milly fear'd but a violent 
 attack of y e Complaint that has been so long in fashion. 
 . . . My Brother & Nelly are so very kind & make so 
 light of y* inconvenience we must put them to by break- 
 ing their plans which were arranged for leaving town on 
 Thursday that we have every possible Consolation. 
 
 Thursday 6th July. Thank God our minds are per- 
 fectly Easy for Nelly B's safety. The throat is almost 
 Well but y e Day is bad & she is not in a state to run 
 hazzards. To mend y c Matter my man Bich d has been in 
 Bed with a fever & taking repeated doses of James since 
 Noon yesterday. ... I found out by accident he was 111 
 for y 6 foolish fellow wish'd to Conceal it w cb might have 
 cost him his Life & w d have been a great distress to me. 
 As it is he need not keep me in town if Nelly is able to go 
 to-morrow of which I make no doubt, as I can leave him 
 another day to recover, & he may be down by y e stage to 
 meet me. ... I am quite well, but a Letter from Wandon ' 
 
 1 The home of Lady Charles FitzRoy, nte Mundy.
 
 BRIGHTON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 179 
 
 has fill'd us with anxiety. L d Charles is very 111 of a 
 Billious fever. The Apothecary certainly fears it to be of 
 a putrid tendency as he has order 'd him Bark & two 
 bottles of Wine a day. They have sent for Doct r Carr 
 from Northampton but he was not arrived when y e post 
 came away. Ned will wait for to-morrow's post & if he 
 finds that Carr cannot go to him, he immediately sets out 
 & Carrys down Doctor Hallifax. We have had 3 or 4 
 sets of Fitzroys this morning making anxious enquiries 
 after L d Charles. It will be a satisfaction to us to see to- 
 morrow's ace 1 before we set out. It is dreadful to think 
 how long these sort of Complaints have prevail'd in town 
 & country. Thank God all that are very near & dear to 
 us have come off well. 
 
 Friday 1th July, one o 'Clock. . . . We are habited, 
 pack'd & I hope shall actually re-commence our Journey 
 between 3 <fe 4 o' Clock. Nelly is quite free from Fever 
 & Sore Throat but I never saw any thing so Low & 
 languid. . . . 
 
 We are to Dine at 2 o' Clock & my Sister, Frederick 
 & Henry will be so Vulgar as to eat with us at that 
 Uncouth hour. My Brother alass ! is just setting out 
 with Doct r Hallifax for Wandon. Carr has been over, dis- 
 approves of what has been done before & put L d Cha 8 into 
 a Course of James's Powders. As his extensive business 
 will not allow him to stay with him the Duke will not 
 be satisfy'd without Hallifax goes down & stays. My 
 Bro r has seen him & settled their Journey at 2 o'Clock. 
 He says from ye Acc te the fever is certainly of a bad kind 
 but no allarming symtoms are mention'd. I am glad my 
 Bro. goes down for poor Fanny has no body with her & is 
 
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 180 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 in a state of anxiety which must be hurtful in her situa- 
 tion. ... I have never found Eoom or time for a word 
 of Politicks, but there is no news but what you have in 
 y e papers. I think everybody that are friends to their 
 Country are in good Spirits & think that y late efforts of 
 the Mischievous have done infinite good & that the Navy 
 will be in greater subordination & be better regulated 
 than it has ever been. The night before last Ned (y e 
 younger) saw a french Gentleman turn'd out of y 6 Play 
 house for saying in a low Voice 'Vive la Kepublic.' An 
 Officer with one Arm in a Sling took notice of it and said 
 if he was able he w d turn him out & he was hustled 
 out of the Box & made y e best of his way out of y e house. 
 The publick Enthusiasm in favor of English tars is for y e 
 present quite gone. Ned says that passages in y e Theater 
 that w d till now have set y e house in a Eoar of Applause 
 is now rec d with Coldness. I hope they will be Ambitious 
 to regain their Popularity. 
 
 Brighthelmstone, Sunday July y e 9"'. I must break 
 through y e order of my Journal & introduce you at once 
 to y e neatest, pleasantest & most Comfortable House that 
 you can form an Idea of, & assure you that we are all 
 well & had a delightful pleasant journey. . . . Y e post 
 was gone before we got to Reigate, a Clean, good Inn & 
 good Beds. As our two Invalids seem'd a Little tired I 
 thought it best not to hurry them out in y e Morning, so 
 order'd Bich d to wait & attend Mrs. Barton's Chaise at 
 her own time. But as it was expedient that we sh'd get 
 as early as possible to Brighton I called Kerry before 6 
 o'Clock, order'd Will m & y 6 Phaeton, got a dish of Coffee 
 & set out with my Maid by my side at 7. . . .1 had y 6
 
 BRIGHTON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 181 
 
 pleasantest of drives 19 miles to Cuckfield where I 
 order 'd a good dinner which was ready to come upon 
 Table when y u Posters arrived. By the time we had 
 swallowed it Poneys had had a long Bait & we proceeded 
 prosperously & pleasantly to the Great Castle Inn at this 
 Place, sent immediately for our Letters & for Fairy's 
 friend who has many houses of her own to let which in 
 Course she carry'd us to first . . . but she very hand- 
 somely told us of 7 or 8 others & advised us to see them 
 before we fixt. One of the number is y e one we are in 
 w cb has this advantage over all we have seen that every 
 Bed Chamber is airy & has a view of y e Sea. ... I am to 
 give 6 guineas per week as I take it by y e week only. It 
 is y s last house upon y e Steyne near y e Sea. I was sorry 
 not to take Mrs. Howell's house, she behaved so hand- 
 somely. Nelly [Mundy] w d I am sure have done it & 
 have put herself into a Close back Boom, don't you think 
 she w d ? . . . By 8 o'Clock we were comfortably settled 
 in our House. The Cook seems an orderly sensible 
 Woman. She is to market, Cook & Clean y e house, our 
 own Maids helping to make Beds & sweep our Rooms, so 
 that I hope we shall want no extra helper except when 
 we give dinners to y e P. of W s whose pavillion we see 
 from our windows, & we also see at this instant a fine 
 Bed of Tulips upon y e Steyne, Bonnets, Blue & Yellow 
 etc. but they are people that no body knows. We took 
 our Walk before y e world came out & are now going to 
 afternoon Church. . . . The air feels soft & balsamic & 
 we all fancy ourselves y e better for it already. . . . Thank 
 God we have a better ace* of L d Charles than we expected. 
 I dare say you have it also from Nelly. . . . How Charm-
 
 182 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 ingly you get on with your Turrets \ I was so ignorant as 
 not to know that y e Arrow was a New Idea for a Vane. 
 I think it a very good one. I can believe that you all 
 rejoyce at Denman's pier doctor's] good report, but am 
 sorry dear Sally was glad over much. Neither Joy nor 
 Sorrow in the extreme is good for her : tell her to write 
 to me & tell me how she does & whether my recipe 
 continues to agree. . . . 
 
 Monday y e 10"*. More heavenly weather cannot be 
 wish'd. I hope you have just such & I intended that you 
 sh'd begin to mow last Saturday, but am afraid you did 
 not. We have had two Hours drive upon the Downs. 
 The day was made on purpose for us, no Sun whilst we 
 were out, a Gentle Soft Breeze from y e Sea of which we 
 had a fine View & the Drive all upon fine Turf. I find it 
 is the fashion to go a dusty Road in an Evening by y e 
 side of the Cliff, perhaps in Consideration for y e Horses, 
 but I think my Poneys will be able to draw me up y e 
 Hills twice a day. . . . We saw a number of Equipages 
 upon y e Downs & many drive past our house but I know 
 not a Name they belong to. ... I think you will like to 
 know how to think of us through y e Day so I will give 
 you our General plan. Rise at 7, Bathe or Walk from 
 eight to nine, then Breakfast ; from ten till 12 or one 
 drive upon y e Downs ; sit in our Bow Windows to y e Sea 
 till ^ past 3, then Dine, drink Tea at Six, drive again 
 till near 8 & then Lounge upon y e Beach Or Steyne till 9 
 when we Sup & go to Bed at ^ p st ten. These are y e 
 rules we have laid down & I don't think it will be in y e 
 P. of W ses power when he comes to alter them. . . . 
 We are hungry all day Long & there is tempting fruit
 
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 which you know I cannot withstand though I give Is. Qd. a 
 pottle for strawberries & as much for a pound of Cher- 
 ries. The fish is excellent but I daresay too dear ; we 
 gave Is. 6d. for a pair of fine soles yesterday & Is. 3d. for 
 4 fine Whitings to-day. At Bognor we seldom got any 
 fish at all. You will Judge by the subject I write upon 
 that I now am hungry. Indeed I am, & shall play my part 
 with an excellent dinner viz. Fish, Roast Mutton, Cold 
 Beef, Sallad, potatoes, Tart, Cheese & a Desert. Brava, 
 you will say ; I am sure you do not give your guests a 
 better Dinner except that y e Strawberries come from 
 Swanland. Keep yourself well & happy my Dear Life & 
 I shall Lay in such a stock of health here that you will 
 think me too robust & riotous when I return. 
 
 Tuesday II th . Very good Letter from Arbury thank 
 God, but I am afraid for Lord Charles & very sorry for 
 all that belong to him. Nelly too is hurry'd down to 
 Wandon & must disappoint poor Jessy. She also disap- 
 points Milly but not me, for I foresaw y e impossibility 
 of her coming down here. But Milly thought as the 
 Fitzroys must now give up their Shipley visit that she 
 might be tempted down. But it is only sickness or distress 
 that can draw Nelly & with those Cords I hope we shall 
 have nothing to do. ... I found out Mrs. Ch 8 Drum- 
 mond immediately when I look'd in y 6 Book of y 6 right 
 Bookseller. We ignorant People went & subscribed to 
 y 6 one that was in fashion 10 or 12 years ago & who has 
 now only the great or rich that subscribe to both. I am 
 glad my ignorance has procured me such distinction for 
 y e Civil Man has lent me a Telescope for y e time I stay. 
 The Eooms were lighted up on Sunday, but as nobody
 
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 went to them ye candles were put out & will not be 
 open'd again till y 6 Eaces, which with Sorrow I learn are 
 to Commence y c 25 th & last 3 days. Nelly B. enjoys the 
 thought of y e Bustle ; there will be y e P. of W.'s Band 
 playing twice a day upon y e Steyne & at y 6 Balls. She 
 flatters herself she shall at least get to one, but I don't 
 know how that will be. I rather think we shall all make 
 an excursion to Worthing or perhaps to Stansted for y e 
 3 days of the races. ... So much for you ; now for 
 Sally. Love etc. . . . Giving dinners to 9, what Extra- 
 vagance ! We eat up everything we can get ourselves & 
 have nothing for strangers. 
 
 Thursday. I have not your Letters till y 6 4th day. 
 There you have y e advantage. Y of Monday night just 
 arrived. Nasty Astley Wake to take away your Workmen 
 when they sh'd have occupy'd you tenfold, that you might 
 not regret y e want of post that day. ... A most Con- 
 venient and Chearful house we have got, but it has a 
 defect which y e gloomyness of the Day we arrived made 
 us not observe viz. that it fronts to y e West & is dread- 
 fully hot in a sunshiny afternoon of which we have as yet 
 had but 2. ... We are going to see y e prince's Pavillion 
 which is not shewn after his arrival, then for a Drive & 
 ride upon y 6 Downs. . . . We air'd last night along the 
 Cliff for the 1 st time. I felt afraid to venture not know- 
 ing that as far as y e Koad is near the Cliff which is about 
 3 miles, there is a strong post & Bail all y 6 Way. If not 
 it w d be tremendous indeed for y e Rock is quite perpen- 
 dicular & from 50 to 200 feet high & y e Eoad sometimes 
 not y 6 breadth of a Carriage from y e Edge. We saw a 
 Fleet of near thirty Sail of Large Ships going towards
 
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 Portsmouth, it was delightfully pleasant. I think y e 
 Company have taste to make that y e fashionable Evening 
 Drive & we profit by their want of sense, for a long String 
 of Carriages met us about a Mile from hence at eight 
 o'Clock as we were coming home & we had y Cliff to 
 ourselves. . . . 
 
 Friday. ... I have had a very Tepid Bath this 
 morning which has refresh'd me & made me feel com- 
 fortable after y e hottest night I ever felt in England. . . . 
 Indeed we were all so overcome with y e heat of our 
 Lodging yesterday & heard such an Ace 1 of Coolness & 
 Comfort from Mrs. Hale who is just removed from our 
 neighbourhood to the Cliff that we determined to seek for 
 a house there, & after our Evening Drive which we 
 shorten'd for that Purpose went into every house unlet 
 on y e Cliff & Marine Parade, in number 4 only, but 
 fortunately one of them, the very house I think we sh'd 
 have made Choice of if it had been at Liberty. It is 
 quite to my taste for from y e Parlour, Drawing Eoom & 
 my Bed Chamber nothing to be seen but Sea, aspect 
 south. Milly's & Nelly's Bed Chamber east, looking over 
 a Garden with side view of y e Sea & under them a small 
 parlour to which we can retire if y e South aspect sh'd ever 
 be too hot, which I think it never can be in such an 
 elivated & airy situation. I was afraid Nell w d have 
 regretted the loss of this Gay Scene, but she seems as 
 much pleased to remove as her Mother & Aunt. So 
 to-morrow evening our week being up we become inhabi- 
 tants of No. 15 Marine Parade. . . . Nelly & I are going 
 to swallow a fine fresh Breeze upon y e Downs with 
 Barret upon a new Poney to try for her mistress. . . .
 
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 New Poney quite a beast, we must seek further. We 
 found y e Downs cap'd with a Cold fog so made y e best of 
 our way down into y 6 Sunshine w ch is tempered by a fine 
 Breeze from y e Sea & till about 4 o'Clock nothing can be 
 pleasanter than our present house, I mean in point of 
 temperature, for I must always prefer a View of y e Un- 
 bounded Ocean to Ked Coats & White Gowns, tho' here 
 indeed we have a mixture of both. . . . 
 
 Marine Parade Sunday 16th. Now I hope we are 
 settled till we Leave this place. . . . We have a pretty 
 good pull from y 6 Steyne to our abode which will keep us in 
 good breath, the Baths, Librarys etc. etc. are all in that 
 quarter. . . . Milly discovered a Fleet of 21 Sail as she 
 lay in Bed this morning, but they are so far off that our 
 Telescope has not power to shew us y 6 Colors they Carry, 
 but we see their masts & sails very distinctly & last night 
 a pleasure boat about a Mile & ^ distant. I could almost 
 have distinguish' d y e faces of the Company on board, I 
 don't say known, for I literally do not know y e face of 
 Man or Woman in y e place except M re C. Drummond. . . . 
 
 Your Drawing gives me no Idea what Brighthelmstone 
 now is. Indeed I have seen nothing yet of the part you 
 have drawn. I am told that y e Steyne & everything 
 beyond the Old Town has been built within y e last 30 
 years. I will walk all over y e place & give you y 6 best 
 Map I can of it. Y e White Cliff you speak of begins 
 from y e Steyne by a gradual assent & where we are is 
 about 60 feet high. I have no doubt from y e great Bites 
 that y e Sea takes from it from time to time, that all these 
 sweet Houses will in a few years share y e fate of y 6 old
 
 BRIGHTON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 187 
 
 town you describe, tho' we have a Broad Eoad & Little 
 Court between us & the Cliff thus. . . . 
 
 I have made you believe we are y e highest part of y e 
 Cliff & y 6 last house, but there are houses 
 us & much higher situation. . . . 
 
 \ a mile beyond 
 
 From Mrs. Barton to Sir Roger 
 
 Brighton July y e Ylth. ... I hope you have heard y e 
 good account from Wandon, Lord Charles quite out of 
 danger & recovering fast so I fancy you will soon see the 
 Great Nelly at Arbury ; but I must Leave room for Lady 
 N. to add her few lines so adieu. 
 
 From Lady Newdigate 
 
 Milly has told so good & true a tale that I think I 
 cannot mend it ; her sleeping last night through y e Storm 
 was beyond belief & must be y e effects of 3 or 4 sleepless 
 nights with head ach caused by y 6 heat of our 1 st house. 
 I am not usually afraid of thunder but it was so loud of
 
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 that Cracking kind & y e Gusts of Wind so violent that 
 I expected y e house or at least Chimneys to fall every 
 instant & y 6 Lightning so vivid & Constant thro' our 
 Venetian blinds & thin Curtains, for we have not a 
 Shutter in y* house, that it is wonderful to me that they 
 escaped being on fire. I own I lay in a great fright 
 not daring to encounter y e Lightning thro' y e Staircase 
 window w ch appeared worse from the wind down my 
 chimney having put out my rush light. . . . 
 
 Tuesday 10 o' Clock. . . . Last night the dust being 
 laid on y e Roads & y e Wind & Waves not enough appeased 
 since y 6 Storm of y e night before to make y" Cliff or Downs 
 pleasant . . . we drove to Lord Pelham's, 4 Miles from 
 hence. ... As the family is not there y* Woman at y s 
 Lodge made no scruple of letting us into y e park & told 
 us we might go out at y e Lodge at y 6 other End & find a 
 track over y e Downs to Brighton. . . . Nelly canter'd by 
 the side of us 3 Miles thro' a most Beautiful Tumbled & 
 well planted Park & over y e Downs delightful. ... I 
 wish I c d give your Rheumatic wrists & arms a few 
 soakings in these Charming Baths. I am sure it w d Cure 
 you. Old Fairy says she has not known such Comfort 
 these 20 years as since she has Bathed a few weeks every 
 summer in warm Sea water. 
 
 Thursday y" QQth. . . . This morning it rains & has 
 oblidged me to have a Chair to & from y e Bath, y 6 1 st time, 
 except in London that I have got into a Cover Convey- 
 ance since I left Arbury. . . . M r Barwell complimented 
 me & Nelly upon our good looks. If he has good acc ts of 
 his Boy & of M rs B.'s spirits he will stay 2 days of y e 
 Race in his way Back. . . . We shall leave y e length of
 
 BRIGHTON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 189 
 
 our stay to be determined by you & now I'll tell you my 
 Ideas. When we leave the seaside ... we need make 
 only 2 days from hence to Harefield ; to Ryegate y e 1 st 
 day ; from thence 21 miles to Mundy's Hotel Piccadilly 
 where we can have a dinner from y c Tavern & if you wish 
 it, see Denman . . . but all this, likewise whether we stay 
 one day or more with Jessy & when we leave Brighton 
 shall be subject to your direction. Denman & Pitcairne 
 both said that under a month no great benefit was to be 
 expected. That will bring us to Saturday y e 5 th of August. 
 Speak your Mind, I am sure it is that of myself & Dear 
 Companions. . . . 
 
 Friday y e 21s. . . . I am glad you understand my 
 Drawing. If you have patience & will give me time to 
 execute my great design, you shall know all that you wish 
 to know. The old Town is all to y e West of y e Steyne & 
 the Church upon a hill behind it. I have got a Map of y e 
 Place in '88 & am adding all that is done since ; also a 
 ground Plan & Elevation of our House is in hand, but 
 what with watching y e Sea, Driving, walking & writing, 
 I get but little Time for other Works. I rejoyce that 
 Burgess & Sarah are well again, you have shew'd great 
 Medical Skill, I hope for the last time it will be wanted. 
 ... I have not answered you about y e Steyne, will describe 
 it on y e next Leaf, but that must be after Dinner, for we 
 are in a hurry to eat Whitings & Mutton. 
 
 Y e fishing boats are out to-day. Only 2 have ventured 
 since Sunday & we watch'd them coming in with Terror ; 
 they kept throwing out y e Water on both sides as far off 
 as we c d distinguish & were 2 hours battling y e Waves 
 not 20 y ds from y e Shore.
 
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 Saturday 2&nd. What a Change in our prospect ! 
 Instead of great Foaming Billows that made one dread to 
 see a Ship or Boat at Sea we have now a Sheet of Glass 
 before us that w d not hurt a fly. . . . This place fills very 
 fast, but with whom I know not. Milly hears that y e 
 house we have left is taken for The M rs Pitt, but I want 
 faith & don't Care. There seems to me to be more 
 Children than ever were assembled in any place before, 
 I suppose from y e Idea that y e Air is so pure ; & indeed 
 I do think there is something uncommonly mild & 
 balsamic in it. ... We had a new & delightful airing 
 last night up y e hill by Brighton Church on a fine Koad 
 over y e Downs. About 5 miles & is what is call'd y e 
 Devil's Gap, & is a Lyon that everybody goes to see. I 
 thought we were too late to go so far & mean to attack it 
 in a Morning. Here comes Milly enchanted with her 
 Eide, y e horse, y 6 Day & y e prospect all delightful. She 
 bids me thank you for your Letter, finish mine & get 
 some Cloaths upon my Back for I am writing in my Bed 
 Gown & it is near our Dinner time. Distribute Love 
 throughout y r Empire. Adieu.
 
 Grass nicely kept for ye 
 Company to walk upon 
 
 Walter & Beutall K.
 
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 CHAPTER XIV 
 
 
 
 1797 
 
 Last of all came a couple whom the villagers eyed yet more eagerly than 
 the bride and bridegroom. A fine old gentleman, who looked round with 
 keen glances that cowed the conscious scapegraces among them, and a 
 stately lady in blue-and-white silk robes, who must surely be like Queen 
 Charlotte. MB. GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY. 
 
 LADY NEWDIGATE continues her letters from Brighton, 
 the next being dated Sunday, July 23. 
 
 A mighty good day with us. ... My Companions 
 are in high health & spirits. Milly has slept as she did 
 in the thunderstorm & feels well & hungry, & myself 
 & Nelly ditto. . . . Many Great arrivals yesterday. 
 Amongst y* rest L d and L dy Jersey & family : they have a 
 House upon y e Steyne just opposite to the Pavillion, y 6 
 owner of w cb is expected to-night. They will gain their 
 Ends by impudent perseverance, for nobody seems to 
 think there will be any Bustle made this Year. We shall 
 receive them Civilly. ... Oh how I like a Letter that 
 begins in Verse. I cannot like Audrey thank y e Gods 
 that they have not made me Poetical. 
 
 Monday 24th. Nasty Monday brings me no Letter & 
 it is pay day so I have my Week's acc te to settle. It is 
 necessary to know how fast money goes that I may be 
 able to tell you how many hundreds or thousands will 
 redeem me from this Place. Gambling season does not
 
 ROYALTY AT THE PAVILION 393 
 
 begin till to-morrow, so the great Charge at present is 
 Eating & drinking, I assure you we live well & upon great 
 delicacies. I have marketed myself this morning, given 
 3 s for a Turbot & 2. 6 d for Cherries & Strawberries, all 
 Luxuries these, nothing towards feeding y e family you 
 see. . . . Just come out of my Pickling Tub. . . . Prince 
 expected every minute. Duke of Bedford, Sir John Lade 
 & many of y e Turf arrived. I have promised to take Nell 
 to y e Course one day, not in my Phaeton, but to have a 
 pair of horses to Milly's Chaise & my two serv te to attend 
 me & to go with her one Night to y e Ball, but we have not 
 yet determined which it shall be. I don't think poor 
 Milly can determine whether she can stand y e meeting of 
 so many of B. . .'s old Croneys who possibly may recollect 
 her. I shall not press her upon y e subject. I will go 
 with Nelly who will be perfectly in Cog. with me, for I 
 have not seen a Man yet that I know well enough to 
 Curtsey to. ... 
 
 Tuesday y e %5th. I am a Solitary Being, have walk'd 
 upon y e Cliff & Steyne & have sat an hour upon a Marine 
 Stool which I have treated myself with, amongst nurses 
 & children upon y e Beech till y e waves wash'd my feet & 
 I removed several times out of their reach. Very 
 delightful indeed ! I envy'd not the Mad World upon y e 
 Eace ground. Thither my Companions are gone. You 
 need not preach to me care of y e Hills. I do encounter 
 the best of them in my own Dear Carriage, but found my 
 Courage quite unequal to y e task of going upon sidelong 
 Hills among a number of Carriages with Hack Horses & 
 Postillions. So Milly is gone with her Girl & I have 
 sent Kich d & Will upon y e Galloways to attend them & 
 
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 194 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Charles is my Porter & Guard. When I open'd your 
 Letter c d not recollect what I had said to put you into 
 such a puff. It was only that I complain 'd of your not 
 writing y e days it was almost impossible you sh'd write 
 so you may guess what you have to expect. You write 
 very sweetly & kindly about our stay here & Milly is full 
 of Gratitude for it. Her Spirits are so improved within 
 these few days that I do really hope y e Completion of our 
 Month will find her very essentially benefited. She did 
 not seem this Morning to have the feelings I suspected 
 about going to y e Race, & yesterday's journal will speak 
 for y e health & Spirits of y e Trio, but as I owe M. L. 1 a 
 very kind & acceptable note the History of our Riots & 
 disgrace shall be inscribed to her. 
 
 To Miss Millicent Ludford 
 
 MY DEAR MILLY, Your tender Care of my Husband 
 Convinces me that you are my very true friend & there- 
 fore I shall depend upon you to soften y 6 following 
 relation, & moderate y e laugh it will raise against us as 
 much as you can. I told Sir R. I had promised Nelly 
 one Ball at y e Race, so it behoved us to enquire w ch was 
 likely to be y e best. One & all declared that for y e 2 last 
 years y e Day before y e Race all the Great Company came 
 to y e Ball, & that it was more Brilliant & agreable that 
 Night than any other during y e Whole Season. Then 
 say we ' Why sh'd not we partake of y 6 best ? ' Miss 
 Grosvenor who is our Neighbor & happen'd to call upon 
 us just then, agree'd to go with us, so bonnets were taken 
 off, Turbans etc. adjusted & at p st 9, y e Genteel Hour, 
 
 1 Millicent Ludford, daughter of Sir Eoger's sister Juliana.
 
 ROYALTY AT THE PAVILION 195 
 
 we repair'd to y e Ball Room which is truly magnificent 
 indeed. It was gaily Lighted up & the Master of y e 
 Ceremonies walking about in it. Not another Soul. He 
 observed to us that he never knew y e Company come 
 so late, but that there certainly w d be a great deal 
 presently. . . . 
 
 The next sheet has been torn off and is unfortunately 
 missing. Evidently they had chosen the wrong night 
 and nobody came at all. 
 
 From Lady Newdigate to Sir Roger 
 
 Wednesday %6th. Now I feel remorse that my Non- 
 sense sh'd make you send to Cov try on a busy day, but 
 your inconvenience is past & y e pleasure to me just in 
 full force. . . . Nell was so pleased with y 6 Race Ground 
 yesterday that it occupy'd & amused y e Mother & pre- 
 vented unpleasant thoughts. She told me she had seen 
 several of y 6 sporting tribe that used to be "Weeks at a 
 time at Harling, but she took care not to be seen by 
 them & they were not Men that went to Balls so sh'd 
 run no further Chance of meeting them. P. of W. was 
 upon y 6 field on horseback & always by Lady J.'s Coach 
 when y e horses were not running. She has never 
 appear'd except in her Carriage & nobody visits her or 
 seems to make any fuss about her. Our Ladys Maids 
 hear that she & her Daughters walk upon y e Steyne at 
 hours when nobody else does & that yesterday y e Mob 
 hiss'd her as she stood at her Window, which faces the 
 Pavillion. We went down to y e Steyne last Night at y e 
 Genteel hour which is 9 o' Clock to see y 6 Illuminations 
 at y e Booksellers in honour of y e Prince's arrival & to 
 
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 196 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 hear his Band of Musick w ch played delightfully & is to 
 play from 8 till 10 every Night. Y e Scene was comical 
 & pretty, very like Vauxhall, only without Trees ; y c 
 Company still more mixt. We heard that y e Duchess of 
 Marlborough & numbers more of y e very great were 
 there, but except just about y e Illuminations it was too 
 dark to distinguish anybody's face. One thing pleased 
 me which was that as soon as ' Long live the Prince ' 
 appear'd in shining Lamps y e Mobility made y e Band 
 strike up ' God save the King ' & w d not let them change 
 y e tune tilLeven I was tired of it. 2 or 3 turns satisfy 'd 
 us & we came home to our Boil'd Artichokes at ^ p st 9. 
 The Company stay'd upon y e Steyne till ^ p st 10 & are 
 now all gone upon y e Course. We set out as usual with 
 Phaeton & Poney at Eleven to take a quiet airing but 
 found it so hot we c d not bear it. So if we do not go to 
 y e Ball which depends upon y e report we hear, we shall 
 take a long Drive in y 8 Evening. Nelly is such a reason- 
 able pleasant Creature that I sh'd be sorry not to give 
 her as much amusement as is good for her. She enjoys 
 everything but seems just as happy when at home with 
 us. I have heard of some arrivals that I must visit, 
 Lady Evelyn, Mrs. Pigou & one or 2 more, most of 
 them Birds of Passage come only for y e Eace, but our 
 acquaintance may increase a Little without oppressing 
 us. Old Middleton comes to-morrow ; she will be worth 
 all y e rest to me. 
 
 And so Nelly [Mundy] is detain'd at Wandon on poor 
 Fanny's Ace*. She has caught y e fever of L d Charles, 
 very slightly Nelly assures me, but in her Situation it 
 must be allarming & one cannot help thinking it possible
 
 ROYALTY AT THE PAVILION 197 
 
 that Nelly may not entirely escape, tho' she boasts much 
 of the precautions she has taken. I shall be glad to have 
 her safe in y e North, but she certainly cannot leave 
 Fanny till she is as well as her present state will admit 
 of. ... How you will make Hay to-day if you have such 
 -jzeather at Arbury ! . . . 
 
 Thursday yiih. What c d be y e reason that you had 
 no Letter from Nelly [Mundy] to say that L dy Charles's 
 Illness detain' d her. She c d not have omitted writing as 
 she knew you were expecting her. Such suspence is very 
 uncomfortable, but it has long been over I hope & by this 
 time the cause nearly so also, but I always think that 
 accidental Illnesses are doubly to be dreaded in Poor 
 Fanny's situation. 
 
 Journal continued from y e short & hot drive of yester- 
 day. It left us no inclination to stir till evening when 
 a Charming Breeze arose which tempted me into my 
 Phaeton & Nell to mount her horse. As we had before 
 determin'd to try our Luck again at y e Ball, Milly chose 
 to sit quiet. We had a most refreshing airing till 8 
 o'Clock, Drank our Tea, dress'd & to y e Ball at \ past 
 nine. It was in truth a very shabby one for a Kace Ball, 
 not 100 people in all, but Nelly got a good Dance. The 
 Prince of Wales just walk'd round y e Room & spoke to a 
 few Ladies, & Milly & I saw some old acquaintances that 
 we had not seen for some years who were very glad to see 
 us, so it answer'd well to all y e Party & we are none of us 
 the worse for it. We have been this morning to call upon 
 Lady Evelyn, who upon hearing that we were to pass 
 thro' London strongly recommended to us y e Darkyn 
 [Dorking] Eoad & kindly press'd us to make an Inn of
 
 198 THE CHEVEKELS OF CIIEVEREL MANOR 
 
 their House at Wootton. This was enforced by Sir 
 Frederick who urged that it w d divide our Journey much 
 better. They are 36 miles from London. I don't love 
 Visits on a Journey, but it is flattering & pleasant to find 
 Warmth in very old friends, & poor Milly who before she 
 went to India, lived a great deal with them, feels their 
 kind remembrance quite a Cordial . . . tell me your 
 wishes truly & I will be very obedient. . . . Our maids 
 are walk'd to the Course ; we are going to dine upon 
 Pigeon & Cold Mutton, take a drive from six to 8 & 
 then if we are not too Lazy hear y e Musick for ^ an hour 
 on y e Steyne. I am not able to get at y e Etymology of 
 that word. Everybody answers that they have ask'd y e 
 same Question without success, but I'll go & talk to y e 
 two Booksellers, one of them is very intelligent. 
 
 Friday 28th. Oh ! this is Lovely Weather indeed. 
 If you have y e same, Mowers cannot keep pace with you 
 & you will have done your hay in a trice. What does 
 that word come from ? I can make nothing of Steyne. 
 There is a town not far off called Steyning. M rs Middleton 
 arrived yesterday . . . she will eat Mutton with us at \ 
 past 3. ... Nell is gone with a Lame Lady in her Post 
 Chaise to see y 6 Race from an opposite hill. The P. of 
 W. being so rich that he can pay no Bills gives a Plate 
 to-day. Otherwise y 6 Race w d have ended yesterday. I 
 am told that Lady Jersey was with all her beautiful 
 Children at y 6 fireworks y e other night, not amongst y 6 
 Great but seated on a bench amongst the Vulgar, who 
 made 2 attempts to Hiss her, but were not joyn'd by 
 Townspeople & Company as last year. They will un- 
 doubtedly let her stay but she lives for y e P. alone, for
 
 ROYALTY AT THE PAVILION 199 
 
 nobody, a few young Men excepted, go to her house 
 or are seen with her. . . . No Barwell at y e Race. 
 M r Shakspeare left him at Winchelsea with a friend who 
 had been much hurt by an over turn in a Curricle & y e 
 good natured Barwell c d not resolve to leave him. . . . 
 Here comes our Old Friend [Mrs. Middleton] . . . she 
 was much overcome with heat & fatigue yesterday, but 
 old Sir James Nappier of 82, who she travell'd down with, 
 in order to take care of him, walk'd to her home before 
 8 o'Clock this morn g intending to Breakfast with her. 
 He call'd again at 9 but not finding her up, said he sh'd 
 walk home & breakfast by himself. He was a great 
 friend of Old Middleton & in some profession but I 
 know not what. 
 
 Dear Nelly's words [from Wandon] are a Little dark 
 indeed & tell me that her mind was in a very anxious 
 state & that she c d not determine what she sh'd do, nor 
 what she wish'd to do, unwilling to give unnecessary 
 allarm, yet herself believing Fanny to be more unwell 
 than mearly her situation w d ace* for. . . . 
 
 M rs Middleton insists that I send her kindest love to 
 you & says that it does her heart good to hear you are so 
 Well. 
 
 Sunday 30th. You directed the Letter I have to-day 
 with such a Shaking Hand & so III, without Spectacles I 
 suppose, that I was half frightened, but thank God your 
 Letter wears the Marks of a Steady Head, Heart & Hand 
 & your Nymphs speak well of you, so I am happy, but 
 how without sea Breezes was it possible to exist on friday 
 & Saturday ? Milly, & some Indian friends that are 
 here, say they never felt such weather but in Calcutta. 
 
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 I have never felt y e Downs too hot for my open Carriage 
 till yesterday, when I was forced to put up y e Head to 
 shade me from y e San & came home quite sick. We did 
 not attempt to stir again till eight o' Clock, when we 
 walk'd to y e Steyne & were lucky enough to find a 
 Vacant Bench under y 6 Booksellers awning. There we 
 sat, heard y e Musick & saw y 6 Company pass & repass, 
 but who they were we knew not tho' y e pretty half Moon 
 shone Bright & made a Line of Light over y 6 Sea, as upon 
 y 6 Hall Pool which methought you were all admiring at 
 that instant from y e Library Window. Ye Contrast be- 
 tween y e two scenes amused my imagination more than 
 that of y e Grandees that were passing in Cog. At Nine 
 we walk'd up y e Cliff to our suppers which we c d not eat 
 for Heat ; not a breath of air even in our Temple of y e 
 Winds & y e Night so Sultry there was no sleeping till a 
 most violent hail storm with very moderate thunder & 
 Lightning at 5 this morning cool'd y e Air a Little. But 
 when I walk'd down to my Bath at 8 o'Clock I thought 
 y e day promised to be as hot as yesterday. I waited \ an 
 hour for my Bath for y e Hail in y e Night had broken 
 every Sky Light & made y e Sea water in y e Cistern unfit 
 for use by the tiles & dirt it had brought from y e buildings. 
 The Bath woman told me that square pieces of Ice were 
 found that came through y 6 window f of an Inch in size. 
 We had one pane broke in our Dining Room & M" Drake 
 upon y e Steyne had eleven. We all feel Languid to-day 
 but otherwise well. ... I have heard a fine Extempore 
 Sermon evidently preached at y e P. of W. but he was not 
 there to hear it. Poor Fanny has been very ill indeed. I 
 do not feel very easy about her. Adieu.
 
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 Monday 3lst. . . . 5 o'Clock. Old Fairy call'd just as 
 we were sitting down to a dinner of Cold Lamb & Sallad 
 & Currant Tart. She sociably partook of it & I have told 
 her that y e like Chear may be found at past 3 whenever 
 she pleases. I have talk'd to her about my difficulties. 
 You will suppose she advises me to stay another Week. 
 Indeed she seems seriously to think it may be of great 
 Consiquence to Milly. ... I cannot repeat my old friend's 
 arguments but you w d with me think them weighty 
 though they equally oppose our inclinations. . . . Well ! 
 if I must stay another week will turn my thoughts to y e 
 benefits that will attend it as I hope ; 1 st Milly's further 
 amendment ; 2 n<Uy my own, for tho' really I do not seem 
 to want it, am certain that both y e air & Bathing agree 
 with me ; 3 rdly my sick horse may recover & by that time 
 be able to perform y e Journey with me, which there seems 
 to be but little Chance of so soon as Saturday next. Oh 
 dear ! all our Letters will be at cross purposes for y 6 next 
 five days. . . . 
 
 I have made a sort of vague calculation on money 
 matters & find that not less than 60 or 7Q more than 
 I have will bring me scot free to Arbury. Adieu. You 
 won't like this Letter more than I do. 
 
 Tuesday y e 1st. Oh, you Dear Dear Soul, you have 
 releaved & comforted our Minds by y r 2 Letters to- 
 Day ! . . . You propose us to stay just to y e Day I 
 mention'd in my Letter yesterday which is such a Cordial 
 to poor Milly as you can hardly conceive. . . . Our only 
 difficulty now is with y e people of our Lodgings who have 
 let their house from Monday y e 7 th . They cannot turn 
 us out I believe, but y 6 man has been to Bully me in
 
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 hopes I suppose to make me pay a Little more, thinking 
 that I have no Gentleman belonging to me, but he is 
 mistaken. Milly went immediately to Old Middleton & 
 found with her M r Bowen y e nephew of Sir James 
 Nappier, who very politely undertook our Cause, has 
 been with y s Lady who took y e house for her friend & 
 who promises to let me know by to-morrow night 
 whether she will delay her coming till Saturday sen-night. 
 If she will not, M r Bowen advises me to quit y e house or 
 I may be persecuted by the Man for y e rent of y e month, 
 y 6 Lady has taken it for. We have so Little to remove 
 & there are plenty of houses, so it is not worth a 
 squabble. ... In my Letter I cheated Sir J. Nappier of 
 3 years. He is turn'd 85, lost one Eye 40 y rs ago, but 
 will walk alone upon this Cliff where Gigs & flying 
 Phaetons etc. etc. are passing every ins*. He is moving 
 his Lodgings because he c d not see y e Sea. 
 
 I don't like y e ace* from Wandon & suspect that Milly 
 will be oblidg'd to go there instead of coming with me to 
 Arbury. My Horse is much better to-day and Will m 
 makes no doubt but he will get well. 
 
 Do ask of your female Croneys if they have any wants 
 in y e Muslin way. Nothing else is worn in gowns by any 
 Bank of people, but I don't know that I can get them 
 cheaper here, but great Choice there is, very beautiful & 
 real India. 
 
 Wednesday 2nd. . . . Our Landlord I am sure is a 
 Jacobin. I will have no more parly with him, but if the 
 Lady is unwilling to delay her coming, we will remove 
 for a Week, provided we can find a place to remove to, 
 but every house seems to be taken & yet there are very
 
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 few that we know even by sight & all complain that there 
 is nobody to associate with. Y e Princes party & Citizens 
 make y e only figure. I think we shall be sorry not to 
 move, for after y e nasty man had hurry'd our spirits & 
 made us nervous y e Violent Storm of Wind that Blew all 
 yesterday & still continues, has made us rather dislike 
 this very exposed situation which in Calm Weather is 
 very delightful, but if both Winds & Jacobins roar at us 
 we shall seek shelter in y e Peaceful scenes of Arbury 
 sooner than we talk of unless we can settle ourselves for 
 another week with very little Trouble. . . . Old Mid. is 
 well & in spirits. She takes it very kindly that you wish 
 her to Come to Arbury, but she says she's too Old for 
 such Journeys. Indeed she is not so able as some who 
 make y e same excuse. . . . 
 
 Thursday 3rd. . . . In the Hurricane last night, when 
 people c d hardly stand upon their Legs upon this Cliff 
 arrived at y 6 next Door a smart sociable with 4 beautiful 
 Bay horses & smart postillions, an Old Gen m & Lady 
 with 2 young Ladies within, follow'd by a Coach with 
 Domesticks drawn by Post horses. We watch'd & pity'd 
 them in many fruitless attempts they made before they 
 c d get out of y e Carriage into y e house. At Supper I 
 heard their Names were Vere & that our Cook knows 
 them & I suppose inform'd their Ser vts of y 6 behaviour 
 of our Jacobin Landlord, for this instant I receive the 
 following Polite Note, ' M r Vere y e Banker finding him- 
 self so near Lady Newdigate takes y e liberty of making 
 his respects to her L dp to enquire after her health & to 
 tender her any services in his Power.' 
 
 It is really a great Comfort, he will know exactly 

 
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 what is right to do & will obviate all kinds of difficulties, 
 for tho' I sh'd not like to give my own notes here, which 
 might be disputed, he w d ans r them, so in Case we sh'd 
 be obliged to Quit Brighton on Saturday & by any acci- 
 dent y r further supply sh'd not arrive I can be in no 
 distress. . . . 
 
 M rs Mid.'s Kich d , my Eich d & Barret are separately 
 walking y e town over, for as dear Milly had set her heart 
 upon another Week we will stay if we can find a place to 
 put our heads in, but I much doubt our success. To- 
 morrow must decide it. ... Miss Gros r says ' Steyne is 
 German for Stone.' She has seen in Old Maps y e Place 
 spelt Brighthelmstein. 
 
 ^ p st 2 o'Clock. We have had a Blowing drive but 
 not very unpleasant & have had a feast of Gooseberries & 
 Bread, but no tidings yet of a house. Mid's Eich d is in 
 such a rage with y e Jacobin that I find he has been to a 
 Lawyer of his acquaintance to ask whether I c d be turn'd 
 out. He call'd in Tryumph to tell me I c d not. I knew 
 it before but had rather do any thing than be subject to 
 y 6 Man's impertinence, besides I shall inconvenience a 
 family who are very inocent of all this. We are all very 
 well but in a grand fuss you will suppose. . . . Huzza, 
 Gregory for ever ! The Civil Bookseller that I told you I 
 subscribed to by mistake & who had lent me a Telescope 
 has help'd me out of all our difficulties. He has taken a 
 house for a family in London & was to write to-night to 
 say when they may come. Hearing of our distress he 
 has offer'd it me for a Week ! It is lower down upon 
 y e same Cliff, not so near y e Edge, nor so much exposed 
 to y e wind. So ends our troubles. In consiquence of
 
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 M r Vere's note we have offer'd ourselves to drink Tea with 
 M rs and Miss Veres this afternoon & are accepted. 
 
 Friday y e Mh. We are preparing to get out of y 6 
 Jacobin's Clutches as soon as our Eyes open to-morrow 
 morning. The People are not yet gone from y e house we 
 are to occupy, so we have taken a pig in a poke, but it 
 appears like this we are in, & we had Hopson's Choice. 
 Y e situation too is desirable, not 50 y ds to move our things 
 & y e Wind is again Calm so that our Sea View is enchant- 
 ing. . . . We are all in love with old Vere. He w d hand 
 me into my own house, w ch indeed I c d hardly have 
 enter'd without his help, y e Wind was so boisterous. 
 Our Visit seem'd to please very much. . . . 
 
 The Ace* from Wandon to-day is very uncomfortable. 
 Y e Crisis of y 6 fever may be on y e 14 th day or go on to y e 
 21 st & that Period is dreaded for y e Child whose death 
 may occasion immediate Labor, & how y e Mother's 
 strength may bear it so weaken'd by y e fever is very 
 doubtful. Nelly guards her expressions as much as 
 possible, but it is evident that Fanny is very bad & Nelly 
 in very great anxiety of Mind. . . . 
 
 We far outdo Taylor's ace* of y e Hail Stones. Many 
 here declare they measured 2 & 3 inches & M r Vere says 
 he measured one at Chichester that had lain many hours 
 in his Koom If inch & that 1,000 damage was done at 
 Goodwood & Stansted. . . . 
 
 Sunday morning 6th. You shall have y 6 1 st fruits of 
 my Pen from my New Lodgings which we were happily 
 settled in last night. They are really pleasanter than 
 those we have quitted ; je ne sais pas pourquoi, for it has 
 exactly y e same View but being lower on y e Cliff we feel
 
 206 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 ourselves more in y e Sea. What Dolphins ! you will 
 say. ... It is certain I c d not have been turn'd out, but 
 the Man is a Jacobin whose principles are to restrain 
 others but to obey no Laws but his own. He c d not have 
 turn'd me out but might have plagued me which he did to 
 the last & now accuses me of stealing 24 Backgammon 
 men, but we are out of his Clutches thank God & by 
 means of our good friend Fairy both ourselves & serv ts 
 are Comfortably Lodged, for we c d not decently contrive 
 to put 3 men & 3 maids into 3 Beds. Fairy luckily 
 has a Spare Bed & y e distance is so small that it is no 
 inconvenience to us & I hope none to her as we are Early 
 people. . . . 
 
 I am sorry poor Nelly's anxiety & attentions to the 
 sick & to y 6 several numerous Branches of both families 
 that she has to send Acc ts to, sh'd make her so remiss to 
 you. You seem in the Letter I have to-day to be still 
 ignorant that Fanny's disorder is y e same fever that Lord 
 Charles had & that her situation has made it from y e 1 st 
 a most hazzardous affair. The Death of the Child has 
 been hourly expected ; that event Kerr says w d bring on 
 immediately Labour, & seem'd to insinuate that it was y e 
 most desirable, as y e Labour w d probably be more Easy & 
 short & they dread her strength being so much exhausted 
 by y e fever as not to get safely through it. Nelly's words 
 to-day are these ' Kerr's unexpected arrival at a Critical 
 Moment last night seems to have been quite providential. 
 The Apothecary saw a turn in Fanny's disorder which he 
 thought required an immediate Change of Medecine. A 
 messenger was despatch 'd post to Northampton but before 
 y 6 Man c d reach Newport y e Doct r arrived. Our Joy can
 
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 be more easily conceived than described. Y e Apoth. was 
 right, but Kerr quiets our apprehensions by assurances 
 that symtoms are still favorable. He returns to us 
 to-morrow & will sleep here. He does not pronounce 
 possitively that this is y e Crisis ; it may be so or may 
 be protracted a few days Longer.' Surely this is a most 
 Allarming Ace* & Nelly's task a most Anxious and Labo- 
 rious one. Thank God she continues well if we may 
 believe her own ace* which we resolve to do. Sh d Poor 
 Dear Fanny get over this fever, which indeed I much 
 doubt & you are so good as to give us this full Latitude, 
 I think we shall certainly go by Wand on & Drop Milly 
 there, but not take Nelly B. into an infected house. 
 Therefore I shall probably sleep at Woburn & either see 
 Nelly there or go with Milly just- to get a peep at her. 
 Old People are not subject to Catch disorders, therefore I 
 have no apprehension for myself or even for Milly, who 
 must be about Lady Charles to be of real use, but if you 
 have any scruples about me I will promise you not to see 
 her ; but it will be a relief to my mind to see Nelly & to 
 hers also. Therefore I am sure you will wish me to do 
 it. ... 
 
 Monday 1th August. No Letters to-day so have little 
 to write about. . . . Old Vere, his Wife 2 Nieces & a 
 friend that is with them drank Tea with us yesterday. 
 They are so fond of us they torment us to death with 
 messages & invitations to drive out in their sociable, ride 
 with y 6 young Ladies, walk with them upon y e Steyne 
 etc. But they are in a stile far above us, come home at 
 5 o'Clock to Dinner & are out till 11 at night walking y e 
 Steyne or Baffling for Bijoux at y e Booksellers, which is
 
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 much y e fashion here. We carry poor Nell to none of 
 these things, for when we do walk down to y e Steyne we 
 leave it before the Great World arrive ; but we had a ^ 
 intention to take her to y 6 Ball to-night, as we hear it is 
 to be a good one. Our Spirits are hardly up to it for in 
 truth we are in a sad fright about Fanny. Pray God 
 that to-morrow may bring better acc ta . . . . 
 
 Tuesday 8th. I was dress'd for y e Ball, but a Nasty 
 head ach (y e 1 st I have had since I came here) seized me 
 very suddenly, so as soon as I sent my Companions off I 
 went to Bed, Slept it off & am well to-day. I know not 
 what c d have caused it unless it was y e high & Cold Wind 
 upon y 6 Downs or that I had worry'd myself about 
 Wandon, which is not less y 6 case to-day. I wrote you 
 our last Allarming, I think, ace*. Nelly said she w d write 
 again on Sunday, w ch if she had done we sh'd have had it 
 to-day. Her last was written on Thursday, Kerr was to 
 be there on Friday & was to Sleep there & I find by a 
 Letter I receive to-day from my Brother that y e Doct r 
 expected friday to be a decisive day. If there had been any 
 happy turn Nelly w d not have omitted giving us a Line on 
 Sunday. I cannot help having fears also for dear Nelly. 
 Let things turn out as they will we shall certainly leave 
 this place on Saturday, but whether we shall visit Wootton 
 our Wandon news will determine. A Letter will certainly 
 find me in Town on Monday. Oh ! the Vile Post Man ! 
 he has just brought y e enclosed which he had overlook'd. 
 The Event I fear is but too Certain. I don't suppose we 
 can do any good by making Woburn our Eoad. If not 
 shall probably do as we first intended, stay 2 nights with 
 Jessy & then make y 6 best of our way to Arbury. We
 
 EOYALTY AT THE PAVILION 209 
 
 are all three well but hurry 'd as you will suppose & I 
 must write a Line to my Poor Brother who is almost 
 heart broken. He seems to have had Little or no hope 
 for some time. . . . 
 
 Wednesday 9th A ugus t. Kevi ving News from Wandon . 
 Indeed I gave all up yesterday and so I think w d you. 
 Nelly's Words to-day are '"When Doct r Kerr arrived 
 yesterday (Sunday) he found y e pulse abated & some 
 other favorable symtoms, & at 6 o'Clock this morning he 
 came to my Bed Side to tell me that every good Sign 
 was continu'd & that we had now everything to hope. 
 The sudden transition from having everything to fear, has 
 quite intoxicated both L d Ch s & me. We have taken 
 Fanny up in a Blanket this Morn g & Changed her 
 Bedding. She has borne y e fatigue without any apparent 
 Injury, says she feels herself in Heaven, & I hope will get 
 some Sleep, a Blessing she has been very long a Stranger 
 to.' There is good Ground for hope in this Ace* most 
 certainly, but yet we cannot compose our spirits enough 
 to determine on a Visit to y e Evelyns. . . . 
 
 M r Vere paid me a Visit this morn 6 & beg'd I w d not 
 scruple drawing upon him for any Money I might want. 
 I told him he was a bold man knowing so well y e various 
 Ways of spending Money at this place. He answer'd 
 that was y e very reason that led him to suspect that 
 expenses might exceed my Calculations & that he w d 
 with pleasure answer my drafts to any amount. There's 
 for you now. No bounds are to be set to my extrava- 
 gance. . . . 
 
 Thursday IQth August. . . . You begin to be Jealous 
 & won't furnish me with a pretence to apply to my friend, 
 
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 210 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 but I must tell you it is now too late to put a stop to y 6 
 intimacy, things have gone too far ; he has sent me to-day 
 a Pine Apple, a Bunch of Grapes & 6 Apricots & I have 
 ask'd Fairy & Miss Grosvenor to eat them. To-morrow 
 being our last day we shall dine with y e former & leave 
 our people to Pack. . . . 
 
 I sh'd have named Wandon first if we had heard 
 to-day. I did not expect it, but shall certainly have news 
 to report to-morrow. Pray God that it may be good. . . . 
 God preserve you in health & happiness till I come to 
 plague you. 
 
 Lady Newdigate's letters from Brighton end cheerfully, 
 but the hopes of Lady Charles's recovery were doomed to 
 be overthrown in the next letter from Wandon. Indeed, 
 she had already passed away on Wednesday, the day 
 when Lady Newdigate was rejoicing in Nelly Mundy's 
 hopeful account of the apparent rally on the previous 
 Monday. 
 
 Fanny Mundy became Lady Charles FitzRoy in June 
 1795, and after two short years of married life she died on 
 the 9th of August, 1797, leaving one son, born in 1796.
 
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 211 
 
 CHAPTER XV 
 
 1797-1800 
 
 Rich brown locks, passionate love, and deep early sorrow, strangely 
 different as they seem from the scanty white hairs, the apathetic content, 
 and the unexpectant acquiescence of old age, are but part of the same life's 
 journey. MR. GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY. 
 
 THE previous chapter contains the last cheery letters 
 from Lady Newdigate to her husband whilst she con- 
 tinued in tolerable health. For the next three years she 
 seems to have been constantly ailing and a source of 
 anxiety to all who loved her. From her own showing in 
 previous illnesses we may divine with what fortitude her 
 brave spirit bore ip against the trials of continuous physical 
 discomfort. There is also ample evidence in the corre- 
 spondence of contemporaries of her patience and cheerful- 
 ness under suffering. 
 
 Each year she seems to have tried the beneficial effect 
 of some English watering-place, and we hear of her at 
 Bath on more than one occasion ; but as Sir Roger 
 accompanied her to this fashionable resort for gouty and 
 rheumatic patients, there are no letters chronicling her 
 daily experience, as was her invariable habit. 
 
 In the summer of 1800 she made one more trial of 
 the sea-bathing in which she had so much faith. This 
 time the favoured spot was Margate, to which place she 
 was conveyed from London by sailing packet. As usual, 
 she made some stay at her brother's house in town, and 
 was accompanied to Margate by her faithful sister Nelly 
 Mundy. The younger Nelly, Milly Barton's daughter, 
 had married her cousin, young Ned Mundy, in the March 
 of this year, and they also seem to have been of the party 
 to Margate. 
 
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 212 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEKEL MA.NOR 
 
 At this time Lady Newdigate was often in acute 
 suffering from dropsical complications, yet she seems to 
 have written brightly and courageously as before to Sir 
 Roger, who, now in his eighty-second year, remained at 
 home. The only records he has preserved of this last 
 batch of letters are a collection of extracts cut out of 
 them, all bearing testimony to her love and gratitude to- 
 wards himself, and her affection for her home at Arbury. 
 These slips of paper are enclosed in a cover on which Sir 
 Eoger has written in the trembling hand of old age : 
 
 1800 
 
 Dulces exuviae dum vita Deique sinebant 
 Voluntas Suprema. 1 
 
 We here give one or two of the extracts from the 
 mutilated letters : 
 
 You are a Dear Angel, I can read your thoughts in 
 every line. It is all I wish & makes me doubly anxious 
 to be enabled by a tollerable degree of returning health 
 to reward you in some measure for all you have done 
 & suffer'd for me. Did I not still entertain a Gleam of 
 Hope that God in his great Mercy w d in his good time 
 extend his Goodness so far I sh'd most earnestly pray 
 him to take me to himself that I might no longer be a 
 Bar to your happiness & that of all who Love me. But 
 he has with numberless other Blessings given me a never 
 failling hope & Confidence that I shall yet enjoy some 
 years of Ease & of happiness with you at dear Arbury, & 
 with this hope I ought with patience to endure y e Tryal 
 however long it may be. 
 
 Another cutting is evidently from the last letter she 
 wrote before leaving Margate. The date of the post-mark 
 on the back is 30th July, 1800. 
 
 Shall certainly send Luggage & those who wish to 
 1 ' Sweet spoils whilst life and the supreme will of God permitted.'
 
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 Brave y 6 ocean by y e Packet & come away with those who 
 are as Cowardly as myself in Hack Chaises. You are 
 answerable for my Want of Courage. I used to have 
 enough, but you make Life so very valuable to me that 
 I cannot consent to hazzard it or neglect any means to 
 preserve it, that depends on myself. God's Goodness to 
 me has been so wonderfully great that I doubt not he will 
 direct me for y e best & at all Events I hope we shall have 
 a happy meeting on Saturday. We are going to dine 
 with y 6 Mundys & Leave our People to pack & get all 
 things on Board. . . . Our Cap tn has just been here, he 
 laughs at my apprehensions of a storm, says this is a fine 
 Steady wind that will take us to London in about 12 or 
 14 hours ... & now my Dear Soul do you & y 6 good & 
 kind Jessy joyn your Prayers that I may have no more 
 delays, but that we may have a happy meeting on Friday 
 next. What joy there is in y e thought, Adieu. 
 
 The ' Gleam of Hope ' Lady Newdigate still enter- 
 tained for her ultimate return to health was not realised. 
 She returned to Arbury and lived through the summer, 
 but on the 30th of September the end came and she was 
 released from a life of suffering. 
 
 By her Will (an informal document), dated 10th of 
 March this same year (1800), she leaves various bequests 
 to her family and friends, including ' the little syren.' She 
 begins as follows : 
 
 I Hester Newdigate, Wife of S r Roger Newdigate of 
 Arbury in the County of Warwick B* having my dear 
 Husband's permission to dispose of the property he has 
 generously given me, I do bequeath it in the following 
 manner. . . . 
 
 Then follow the gifts of annuities of 50Z. a year to
 
 214 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 each of her sisters, Mrs. Oliver and Mrs. Barton, with 
 various legacies from 20?. to 100?. to her Mundy nephews, 
 and '500 to my affectionate Eleve and Friend Sarah 
 Shilton ' with ' my small pianoforte & one of my 
 Clavicellos.' She leaves several small legacies and gifts 
 of jewellery, &c., to different friends, whilst the residue 
 of her money and valuables was to go to her sister, Nelly 
 Mundy. In this way she disposed of some 4,000?. worth 
 of property. 
 
 On October 31, a month after her death, Nelly Mundy 
 writes the following letter to Sir Eoger : 
 
 MY DEAE SIR KOGEB, Tho' the motive of sending you 
 the enclosed is good & obvious, I know not whether I can 
 be justified in doing so. It is the Copy of a manuscript 
 found in the Dear departed Angel's pocket book, written 
 in her own hand & worn with use so as to be illegible in 
 some places as the Copy shows. It has cost me many 
 tears in transcribing, yet I think my Dear S r Eoger it 
 must give you more pleasure than pain. If I have judged 
 amiss in what I have done pray forgive the unintentional 
 error of 
 
 Y r very affectionate 
 
 & faithful 
 
 N 
 
 N. MUNDY. 
 
 Shipley. 
 
 Enclosed was the following paper : 
 
 Copy of Manuscript found in my Dear Sister's Pocket 
 
 Book much worn 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 O Father of Mercies & God of all Comfort, the sweet 
 refreshment of our Souls & constant support of our 
 bodies by thy goodness it is that I have been preserved 
 the night past from all perils & dangers & that my frail
 
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 body has been refresh'd with rest & lives to praise thee 
 in another day. Great & boundless have been Thy 
 mercies to me most gracious God. By thee I have been 
 holden up ever since I was born, restrain'd & protected 
 from innumerable evils into which the propensities of my 
 corrupt nature might have led me. Placed at my birth & 
 to this hour in situations of ease & comfort ; blessed with 
 the tenderest of Parents & the best & most affectionate 
 of Husbands & kindest of friends, & throughout Life 
 with a degree of happiness & prosperity so far surpassing 
 the common lot of mortals & my own deserts, that my 
 heart overflows with Gratitude unutterable. But above 
 all I praise Thy Holy Name for the light of thy Glorious 
 Gospel, & for the hope it has given me of obtaining 
 Eternal Life through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ. 
 In an humble sense of my own unworthyness I desire 
 with the profoundest reverence to acknowledge that thou, 
 even in thy severest dispensations hast kind intentions 
 & gracious designs towards us. It has pleased thee in 
 Thy infinite Wisdom to lay thy afflicting hand upon me. 
 Behold I fly unto thee for succour, accept with patient 
 resignation this thy Visitation & most earnestly beseech 
 thee to enable me to bear it with such submission as 
 becomes a Creature & a Sinner & to sanctify all my 
 afflictions to me, that this sickness of my body may be 
 an increase of health to my Soul. To that end Lord 
 make me diligent in searching my heart that I may 
 discover anything that is hateful in thy sight & on my 
 true & sincere repentance I pray thee to remove thine 
 anger from me, heal my Soul that has sinned against 
 thee, & if it be not thy blessed will to heal my body also
 
 216 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 & to restore peace & joy to my Dwelling, give me such, 
 perfect resignation as shall induce Thee in thy Mercy to 
 mitigate the pains & sufferings of my declining state & 
 when the time that thou hast appointed for my great 
 Change shall come, do thou Merciful God, Saviour 
 strengthen [illegible] . . . support my Spirits & Confirm 
 my faith in my Dying Agonies & through the merits of 
 him who Dyed for me receive me into the Company of 
 thy blessed saints & angels, into thy Heavenly Kingdom 
 thro' Jesus Christ. 
 
 Shower down thy heavenly Benediction upon my 
 most Dearly beloved Husband & if in thy Wisdom thou 
 thinkest fit to deprive him of me, in whom, next to 
 Thee, he looks for Support & Solace of his Old Age, do 
 thou Gracious Lord grant him so great a supply of 
 thy heavenly Comfort & consolation accompany'd with 
 his good health, Chearful disposition & all other bless- 
 ings that can make Life desirable to him, that the re- 
 mainder of his days may pass as those already spent in 
 that even peaceful tenor which only good men can expe- 
 rience. 
 
 I also implore thy Especial Blessing, Spiritual & 
 temporal upon my dear Bro r Sisters & all my friends & 
 relations : Sooth the afflictions of all those who will grieve 
 for me & grant in mercy to them and to thy Unworthy 
 Suppliant, that as long as thou seest fit to spare my Life, 
 thou will vouchsafe such a degree of Ease & Comfort 
 [unto me] that my declining state may be gentle & imper- 
 ceptible & that I may be capable to the last of enjoying 
 the Society of my Dearest friends & of being some 
 Comfort to them. And grant that we may all so finish
 
 NEARING THE GOAL 217 
 
 our Course here, that we may by thee be permitted to 
 meet & know each other in a better world. 
 
 On the cover which enfolds this prayer, Sir Koger has 
 written the date of his receiving it and the following 
 Latin inscription : 
 
 1800 Nov r 4 th Kec d 
 
 Semper honos nomenq [i.e. nomenque] tuum pietasq 
 [pietasque] manebit ! l 
 
 Hester Newdigate is buried in Harefield Church, where 
 she lies in the chancel, and the monument erected to 
 her memory is a white alabaster urn designed by her 
 husband. It is on a similar scale to that of Sir Eoger's first 
 wife, Sophia Conyers, and in the centre between the two 
 is yet another, to the memory of his mother, Elizabeth 
 (Twisden) Lady Newdigate. 
 
 Other memorials of Hester Newdigate still exist at 
 Arbury. The fruits of her spinning-wheel may be seen 
 in fine white table linen woven into damask cloth the 
 year she died, and embroidered in one corner with the 
 legend, ' Spun by Lady N. 1800.' 
 
 And every spring, in Nature's glorious resurrection- 
 time, for more than a century past there has come up 
 through the grass of Swanland her special portion of 
 the grounds at Arbury a large H. N. outlined in golden 
 daffodils, which tradition says were planted by herself. 
 
 1 ' Ever shall thy honour and name and piety remain ! '
 
 218 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 CHAPTEE XVI 
 
 1797-1806 
 
 ' Ah ! you remember well the Sunday as Mrs. Gilfil first come to church, 
 eh Mrs. Patten ? ' ' To be sure I do. ... I think I see him [Mr. Gilfil] now 
 a-leadin' her up th' aisle an' her head not reachin' much above his elber : 
 a little pale woman wi' eyes as black as sloes, an' yet lookin' blank-like as 
 if she see'd nothin' wi' em.' ' I warrant she had her weddin' clothes on ? ' 
 said Mr. Hackit. ' Nothin' pertickler smart on'y a white hat tied down 
 under her chin and a white Indy muslin gown. . . . 
 
 ' Mr. Gilfil brought her to tea wi' me one afternoon and he says in his 
 jovial way, " Now Mrs. Patten, I want Mrs. Gilfil to see the neatest house 
 and drink the best cup o' tea in all Shepperton ; you must show her your 
 dairy and your cheese-room and then she shall sing you a song 1 " An' so she 
 did ; an' her voice seemed sometimes to fill the room an' then it went low 
 an' soft, as if it was whisperin' close to your heart like.' 
 
 MB. GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY. 
 
 WE must turn back a year or two to take up the thread 
 of ' the little syren's ' life from the time she returned from 
 Lisbon. The change of air and scene had been of great 
 benefit to her health and spirits, but she still remained of 
 too fragile an organisation to encourage any hopes on the 
 part of her kind patrons that she would ever be able to 
 undertake the perils and trials of a professional life. Her 
 experimental visit to London when only seventeen seems 
 to have been the first and last she made with this object 
 in view. 
 
 Henceforward Sally's home was at Arbury, where we 
 hear of her constantly as one of the family. Relations 
 and friends of Sir Eoger's and of Lady Newdigate's 
 almost always include ' love to Sally ' in their messages 
 of remembrance in their letters. Mr. and Mrs. Francis 
 Newdigate, writing from Italy in 1795-96, constantly 
 refer to Sally's talent and taste when hearing new music.
 
 THE FALL OF THE CUETAIN 219 
 
 ' Tell Sally,' writes Mr. Newdigate, ' I am bringing her 
 some roaring recitatives for the Hall at Arbury.' Thus, 
 though never a professional singer, Sally seems to have 
 had a considerable reputation in the county and neigh- 
 bourhood as a gifted musician of no mean order. 
 
 In 1797 she went to assist at a musical party at 
 Packington, the seat of the Earl of Aylesford. 1 On her 
 return to Arbury she was the bearer of the following letter 
 from her host : 
 
 DEAR SIR BOGER, I must avail myself of Miss 
 Shilton's good humor by desiring her to give this note to 
 you for the purpose of assuring you that L dy Aylesford and 
 myself are exceedingly thankful to you & L dy Newdigate 
 for the very great entertainment we have had in your 
 kind indulgence in allowing Miss Shilton to be of our 
 musical parfr this week, to which we very justly ascribe 
 the great eclat its performances have made. I hope you 
 will find that Miss Shilton has not suffered in health by 
 singing too much. It was the only thing to be appre- 
 hended from the pleasure it gave us and her good 
 humor'd readiness, and I can really say that there was 
 but one opinion of her singing and playing, tho' all the 
 performers very justly complain that we were not 
 applauded one half so much as we deserved. 
 
 L dy Aylesford desires me add her best thanks to you 
 and L dy Newdigate 
 
 I am Dear Sir Koger 
 
 Yours very sincerely 
 
 AYLESFORD. 
 
 Sally was doubtless a great comfort to both Sir Koger 
 and Lady Newdigate in the latter's prolonged illness, and 
 probably she could not well be spared from her Arbury 
 home until all cause for attendance on the invalid 
 
 1 Heneage, fourth Earl of Aylesford.
 
 220 THE CHEVEEELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 had ended so sadly. Between three and four months 
 after Lady Newdigate's death the event took place which 
 forms the romantic climax to ' Mr. Gilfil's Love-story.' It 
 was in January 1801 that Sally Shilton became the wife 
 of Mr. Ebdell, the Vicar of Chilvers Coton (Shepperton in 
 the tale), and went to live at the quaint old vicarage close 
 to the church, which was only some three miles from her 
 old home at Arbury. 
 
 A day or two after the marriage, we find letters 
 written by both bride and bridegroom to Sir Koger express- 
 ing their mutual happiness. Sally writes with many 
 dashes and some doubtful spelling : 
 
 I am sure my dear & Best of Benefactors will (I 
 flatter myself) have no objection to my addressing him, 
 to Convince him that I really feel the Happiest of Beings 
 and I cannot help hoping & feeling sure that I shall ever 
 be one. Mr. Ebdell is gone to a meeting at the Colledge * 
 this morning ; he I am delighted to tell you seems most 
 Compleatly happy, and I shall ever make it my Constant 
 study & wish for a Continuance. Indeed the Pangs I felt 
 when you departed from me on Monday were great ; and 
 I could not summons up sufficient Resolution to accom- 
 pany you to y r Carriage. I hope you were not angry with 
 me, for my Little Heart was too, too full I assure you. 
 
 My Dear Husband, but what a strange word ! is very 
 kind & Indulgent to me and I hope I shall ever prove 
 grateful for his very kind attention to me. 
 
 I cannot sufficiently express the Gratitude I feel for 
 all your Fatherly Goodness & kindness I have for so 
 many years experienced ; and be assured I shall ever 
 make it my Constant Prayer to merrit all the Blessings 
 bestowed upon me. 
 
 1 ' The workhouse, euphuistically called the " College." ' G. Eliot. 
 Now still called ' College for the Poor.'
 
 THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN 221 
 
 The weather being so indifferent we are determined 
 not to go to Birmingham. I think with y r Permission I 
 might come to Arbury to-morrow morning after Breakfast 
 and M r Ebdell will I am sure accompany me. 
 
 I have been very Busy settling myself in my own 
 House which indeed is Vastly Comfortable. Will you 
 have the Goodness to send my Piano Forte for M r Ebdell 
 wishes it was here very often. I beg you will accept of 
 our Best Thanks for the very acceptable and agreeable 
 Present you were so kind to send ; the Venison is 
 excellent. 
 
 Well, God bless you my Dear Sir 
 
 & Believe me to be 
 Y r ever Grateful affc te Daughter 
 S. EBDELL. 
 
 Chilvers Coton 
 
 Wensday morning. 
 
 Mr. Ebdell writes at the same time : 
 
 SIR, Altho' Sally is in her own Eoom writing I 
 believe to her Friends at Arbury I cannot resist the 
 violent inclination I feel to thank you most sincerely for 
 the very valuable present you have made to me in her, 
 under my own hand. And to inform you that She really 
 is comfortable & happy. It is true she sometimes heaves 
 a sigh for the Friends she has left, which to me is rather 
 pleasing than otherwise, as indicating the natural goodness 
 of her grateful Heart. It wou'd be strange indeed if I 
 cou'd not with truth in this early stage, profess my com- 
 pleat satisfaction & Happiness, but as there surely are 
 probable reasons to expect a continuance of our mutual
 
 222 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 Felicity that you may live long in Health to hear these 
 same professions shall be the constant & most earnest 
 Prayer of 
 
 Your most obliged & grateful 
 
 Humble Servant B. G. EBDELL. 
 
 After the death of Lady Newdigate and the marriage 
 of Sally, Sir Boger's life would naturally have been a 
 lonely one. Being the youngest of his family and at this 
 time in his eighty-second year, his three elder sisters had 
 long predeceased him. Moreover, owing to causes difficult 
 to explain, Sir Roger had not been on the best of terms 
 with his nearest relations for a long time past. The few 
 remaining years of his life would have been solitary 
 indeed had it not been for the friendship and companion- 
 ship of his cousin Francis Newdigate, of Kirk Hallam, 
 with that of his wife and only son. At his request they 
 came to live with him at Arbury, and at Sir Eoger's death 
 Francis Newdigate succeeded to the Warwickshire pro- 
 perty, but for his lifetime only. 1 
 
 In July 1805 the county and neighbourhood were 
 much excited by the prospect of a visit to Warwickshire 
 by King George III. 
 
 Lord Aylesford was to have the honour of receiving 
 the King at Packington, and wrote to tell Sir Roger of the 
 arrangements to be made for the occasion. 
 
 Packington, 30th June. 
 
 DEAK SIB ROGER NEWDIGATE, I daresay you know 
 our Good King proposes to honor this County with a Visit, 
 but perhaps you have not heard the plan he at present 
 has lined unless something unforseen makes it necessary 
 to change it. He is to be at Warwick on the Tuesday 
 after he leaves London and on the Wednesday to receive 
 the address of the Corporation of Coventry in St. Mary's 
 
 1 The property being entailed on Charles Parker's descendants passed to 
 his grandson, Charles Newdigate Newdegate, on the death of Francis 
 Newdigate in 1835.
 
 THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN 223 
 
 Hall, and from thence to proceed to my House from 
 thence to Lichfield and Birmingham. 
 
 If the Parliament's sitting will allow it He will be at 
 my house on the 17 th : if not a week later. 
 
 It does not appear to me that you can any way pay 
 your devoirs to the King more conveniently to yourself 
 than while he is at Packington and therefore beg to 
 propose to you to dine that day at my house at the L d of 
 the Bedchamber's table. You will have an opportunity 
 of making your bow early in the afternoon so as to incur 
 no risque in your return home. I wish I could offer you 
 a bed but considering how large a family I have at home 
 and how large a company I am to be housed with, I do 
 not feel my vanity mortified in confessing I have not a 
 bed to spare. But allow me to assure you that if what I 
 have proposed meets your approbation, it will give me 
 great pleasure. 
 
 I am etc. etc. 
 
 AYLESFOBD. 
 
 Sir Roger evidently thought the occasion of this corre- 
 spondence too important not to preserve a copy of his 
 answer, which runs as follows : 
 
 Arbury, 3rd July 1805. 
 
 DEAR L D AYLESFORD, I am at a loss to express my 
 gratitude to your Lordship for your obliging invitation or 
 my regret in being forced to decline that honor. If I had 
 been able I should not have fail'd long ago to acknowledge 
 your repeated goodness, by paying my respects to your 
 Lordship at Packington. But I have not for a long time 
 gone farther from home than my Parish Church & grow
 
 224 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 weaker every day, & in iny 87 th year I am neither fit nor 
 able to join the splendid Court at Packington. But no 
 one can be more truly thankful for the honor of his 
 Majesty's visit to the County, or join more sincerely in 
 prayers & heartfelt wishes for a long continuance of his 
 Health & Reign over us. 
 
 With your Lordship's permission Mr. Newdigate will 
 wait upon you at Packington in the afternoon of the 17 th 
 to make my Apology to the King & offer of duty & service 
 as a Magistrate & Major of Volunteers. 
 
 Sensible how great a burden will be laid upon you, I 
 flatter myself you will not take it amiss the liberty I have 
 taken of sending this by Barrs my Steward, with orders 
 to make enquiries in your Lordship's Family whether 
 anything that Arbury can furnish may be agreable or 
 usefull upon this great occasion. 
 
 In my Stores I have a tolerable Crop of Peaches, 
 Nectarines & Grapes & Pines. To send you Fish is to 
 send Coals to Newcastle, but if perchance your Stews 
 were deficient I have plenty of good Carp ready at all 
 times. If my Butler or any of my Serv te can be usefull 
 you will Command them. 
 
 One thing more occurs to me, knowing how greatly 
 Music is in favour, you will perhaps entertain your royal 
 Guests with a Concert or private Airs, in which case give 
 me leave to remind you that I have in my neighbourhood 
 a most charming little Siren who would be highly honored 
 by your Lordship's commands as will Mr. Ebdell her 
 husband. If you approve and will fix your Hour, I will 
 prevail upon her to take my Chaise to wait upon you, & 
 bring her back again.
 
 THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN 225 
 
 I will not take more of your time than to assure you 
 that it will give me real pleasure if in any respects I can 
 contribute to your Lordship's pleasure or convenience. 
 I am my Lord 
 
 Your affec ate & much obliged 
 humble servant 
 
 E. NEWDIGATE. 
 
 In the end the King's proposed visit fell through, 
 which was communicated to Sir Roger by Lord Aylesford 
 in the next letter. 
 
 Packington, July 6, 1805. 
 
 DEAR SIR BCGER NEWDIGATE, Your letter which 
 was brought by Mr. Barrs has imposed upon me the 
 most difficult task for I know not how to express all that 
 I feel on receiving so much friendship and kindness, or 
 how to thank you for so obliging and profuse an offer. 
 I delayed writing till to-day, because I had the same day 
 that M r Barrs was here received a letter intimating some 
 doubts whether His Majesty could prudently undertake 
 this excursion. To-day I have received a letter from 
 L d Hawkesbury to acquaint me that He had received 
 His Majesty's commands to inform me that in conse- 
 quence of the Complaint in his Eyes He has judged it 
 most prudent to defer his journey till another Year. He 
 is going immediately to Weymouth. I have by the same 
 post received a letter from a Person who has very good 
 information, which I hope in God will prove so in this 
 instance, in which he tells me ' since writing the above 
 I have heard with infinite satisfaction that Mr. Phipps 
 has declared H. M.'s eyes to be in no danger, & that he 
 will soon have perfect sight.' 
 
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 226 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 I must confess the disappointment at not having the 
 honor of seeing him under my roof I feel very much, but 
 I love and value him too much to let any private wishes 
 of my own suffer me to repine at what evidently is the 
 wisest and most prudent step he can take to avoid heat 
 and fatigue and tho' under this alteration I cannot avail 
 myself of any part of your friendly & generous offer I 
 shall always remember it with pleasure & gratitude. 
 I am dear Sir Koger 
 Your most obliged & faithful servant 
 
 AYLESFORD. 
 
 We now approach the last scene of Sir Roger's long 
 life. A year later, in July 1806, he writes of himself to a 
 friend : 
 
 I thank my good God my prayer is heard ! I am 
 unwell but have no particular complaint, but a general 
 defailance, gradual decay, increasing weakness ; but by 
 His great mercy my road down hill is easy. I have only 
 to look one way and to pray ' Lord let Thy servant depart 
 in peace.' . . . 
 
 ' When his last malady came upon him, which was 
 attended, through God's mercy, with little bodily suffering, 
 those who were near beheld him as aforetime, affectionate, 
 pious, and resigned, " longing," as he expressed himself, 
 " to have the curtain closed." And on Tuesday, November 
 25, about half past 11 at night, without a pang or struggle 
 he breathed his last.' ' 
 
 1 From Archdeacon Churton's ' Memoirs of Sir B. Newdigate ' in the 
 Gentleman's Magazine, 1807.
 
 227 
 
 CONCLUSION 
 
 IN the foregoing chapters our readers will have 'found 
 the materials for a far more intimate and authentic know- 
 ledge of the lives and characters of the real Cheverels of 
 Cheverel Manor than ever had George Eliot. 
 
 It may be interesting to trace briefly where the 
 authoress remained true to facts in regard to the principal 
 actors in her tale, ^nd where she diverged into the realms 
 of her own imagination. 
 
 To begin with the heroine of ' Mr. Gilfil's Love-story ' : 
 
 CATEBINA 
 
 The little syren's gift of song, her adoption as a child 
 by Sir Koger and Lady Newdigate on account of her 
 beautiful voice, and her ultimate marriage to the vicar of 
 the parish are well-known facts. All we learn from Lady 
 Newdigate's letters and Sally's own artless productions 
 tend to confirm our impressions of Caterina in the story 
 as a highly gifted and personally attractive young song- 
 stress, though fragile in form and of a delicate constitution. 
 It seems more than probable that so sensitive and im- 
 pressionable a nature as was Sally's may have undergone 
 some acute love-disappointment, though possibly undis- 
 covered by Lady Newdigate. Her simple charms and 
 undeniably beautiful voice were very likely to have 
 attracted the thoughtless attentions of some gay Adonis, 
 who, whilst amusing himself with a passing flirtation, may 
 have kindled feelings both real and deep in the girl's 
 tender heart. 
 
 Sally's lengthened stay at Lisbon when eighteen years 
 old may have been undertaken as much for the cure of a 
 wounded heart by change of scene as for her restoration 
 to health by removal to a more balmy air. The experi- 
 ment seems to have succeeded in its object, but it was
 
 228 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 not until eight years later that Sally rewarded the 
 devotion of Sir Boger's chaplain and the vicar of his 
 parish by becoming Mrs. Ebdell. 
 
 In the pretty letter from the newly married wife to 
 Sir Boger it may be thought she seems over anxious to 
 impress upon her old friend that she is really happy, 
 almost leading one to suspect this is a case in which ' the 
 lady protests too much.' Still we have no reason to 
 believe the marriage was anything but a success during 
 her twenty-two years of married life, for we are obliged 
 to admit that Mrs. Ebdell did not die in the flower of her 
 youth, but at the less romantic age of forty-nine. During 
 the many years she lived as mistress of the old vicarage 
 she had time to imprint her story, her attractive looks, 
 and her fine voice on the minds of the parishioners, of 
 which faint memories have been handed down to the 
 present day. 
 
 Bernard Gilpin Ebdell and Sarah his wife are buried 
 in their parish church, and a monument to their memory 
 is placed above what used to be the vicarage pew. They 
 had one child, a daughter, Anne, born in 1807. She, too, 
 has left a picturesque impression behind her. The chil- 
 dren of her contemporaries still bear in mind the descrip- 
 tion given them of this young girl as she usually appeared 
 at church, in a white spun silk shawl with a red rose at 
 her breast. Anne Ebdell married Mr. Latimer Harpur, 
 the brother of George Eliot's ' secondary squire of the 
 parish,' and some of Mr. Ebdell's descendants still occa- 
 sionally revisit the scene of their grandfather's love- 
 story. 
 
 CAPTAIN WYBEOW 
 
 There are many points of resemblance between Cap- 
 tain Wybrow in the story and the real Charles Parker. 
 Amongst them may be quoted similarity in appearance 
 from personal description ; a like destiny in being selected 
 as heir to the childless baronet ; and a premature and 
 unexpected death. But here the parallel ceases. We 
 cannot find any ground for believing that Charles Parker 
 ever trifled with the affections of the little syren. Indeed 
 she was but eleven years old when he married Miss 
 Anstruther, in 1785, and consequently if there was any
 
 CONCLUSION 229 
 
 foundation for the supposition that Sally's health suffered 
 from a love-disappointment the author of it was not very 
 likely to have been Charles Parker. 
 
 LADY CHEVEBEL 
 
 If George Eliot's representation of Lady Cheverel is 
 intended to be an accurate reproduction of Hester Lady 
 Newdigate, we may justly think it is an unappreciative 
 portrait and even less than kind. 
 
 Hester's frank outpourings in her letters reveal a 
 warmer hearted and more affectionate disposition than 
 we should have divined from our authoress's description 
 of the stately lady with the ' expression of hauteur ' un- 
 contradicted by ' ohe cold grey eye.' Probably Hester's 
 many illnesses and a natural dignity of manner and 
 deportment may have prevented her character being 
 rightly read and duly appreciated by her subordinates. 
 We have also to bear in mind that George Eliot's impres- 
 sions must have been derived from household gossip 
 carried down to the next generation. Therefore we can- 
 not wonder at a certain amount of ignorance and mis- 
 conception in regard to the Lady of Cheverel Manor. 
 On many points the story and the letters are completely 
 in accord, such as in the prominence given to Lady 
 Cheverel's remarkable musical taste and knowledge ; her 
 adoption of a little girl on account of her beautiful voice ; 
 the tact with which she manages her husband's crotchets ; 
 and the extreme deference she always shows to his wishes, 
 great and small. 
 
 But we who have read her letters know the real Lady 
 Newdigate to have been a truly affectionate wife, a loving 
 and beloved sister, and when suffering had subdued and 
 chastened her buoyant spirit, still brave and cheerful to 
 the end, yet entirely resigned to the Divine Will. 
 
 SIB CHBISTOPHEB CHEVEBEL 
 
 Sir Koger Newdigate was a subject easy to depict 
 from life. Being endowed by nature with a fine presence 
 and a genial disposition, he had all the superficial elements 
 for ensuring popularity amongst his inferiors. Added to
 
 230 THE CHEVERELS OF CHEVEREL MANOR 
 
 these gifts his strong personality and originality of charac- 
 ter could not fail to make their mark during the eighty- 
 seven years he lived in the midst of his tenants and 
 villagers. 
 
 George Eliot seems to have realised him thoroughly, 
 though only from tradition, for her father did not come 
 into Warwickshire until after Sir Koger's death. The 
 truthfulness of her picture is evidenced by those graphic 
 touches in which she shows us the man with all his 
 failings as well as his sterling worth. We recognise his 
 optimistic nature in Sir Christopher's mistaken estimate 
 of Miss Assher's character : 
 
 'Accustomed to view people who entered into his 
 plans by the pleasant light which his own strong will and 
 bright hopefulness were casting on the future, he saw 
 nothing but personal charms and promising domestic 
 qualities in Miss Assher, whose quickness of eye and taste 
 in externals formed a real ground of sympathy between 
 her and Sir Christopher.' 
 
 In another passage, referring to the old baronet's choice 
 of Captain Wybrow as his heir, he is described as ' moved 
 to the step I am sorry to say by an implacable quarrel 
 with his elder sister, for a power of forgiveness was not 
 among Sir Christopher's virtues.' 
 
 But later, when Sir Christopher loses his nephew 
 sadly and unexpectedly, George Eliot does full justice to 
 his warm, generous nature under the crushing blow : 'I'm 
 very weak, Maynard God help me ! I didn't think any- 
 thing would unman me in this way, but I'd built every- 
 thing on that lad. . . . Perhaps I've been wrong in not 
 forgiving my sister. She lost one of her sons a little while 
 ago. I've been too proud and obstinate.' 
 
 Taken altogether, the original of Sir Christopher 
 Cheverel receives ample justice from the gifted authoress's 
 pen, though it is not as a county magnate, or as a well- 
 known classical scholar, nor as a benefactor to Oxford 
 that she celebrates his renown. Probably those from 
 whom she got her information cared not much for any of 
 these things. It is chiefly as an honest, kindly, indepen- 
 dent English squire that she represents him to us, 
 strictly just in his firm but benignant rule on his estate, 
 and generous withal in spite of his unbending will.
 
 CONCLUSION 231 
 
 Nowhere does George Eliot depict his character in 
 more telling words than when she is describing the chief 
 hobby of Sir Boger's life the alteration and adornment 
 of his ancestral home. 
 
 ' As for Sir Christopher,' she writes, ' he was perfectly 
 indifferent to criticism. " An obstinate crotchety man," 
 said the neighbours. But I, who have seen Cheverel 
 Manor as he bequeathed it to his heirs, rather attribute 
 that unswerving architectural purpose of his, conceived 
 and carried out through long years of systematic personal 
 exertion, to something of the fervour of genius as well as 
 inflexibility of will ; and in walking through these rooms, 
 with their splendid ceilings and their meagre furniture 
 which tell how all the spare money had been absorbed 
 before personal comfort was thought of, I have felt that 
 there dwelt in this old English baronet some of the sublime 
 spirit which distinguishes art from luxury and worships 
 beauty apart from self-indulgence.' 
 
 The annals of the Cheverels of Cheverel Manor have 
 come to their natural end. We have followed their 
 fortunes from birth to death, not without learning some- 
 thing, we trust, from their simple straightforward lives. 
 
 Fortunately for them and for us, they were blissfully 
 unconscious of the publicity in store for them a century 
 later, when their life-story would provide a theme for the 
 genius of one of England's most gifted novelists. In the 
 letters we have transcribed there is no self-consciousness, 
 no posing for effect before a wider tribunal than that of 
 the indulgent relatives for whom alone they were written. 
 Faulty as the spelling and syntax often are, they lay bare 
 the hearts and lives of God-fearing, honest, loyal English 
 men and women. 
 
 If not unduly presumptuous, we would cherish a hope 
 that these autobiographical letters, with their charm of 
 individuality and truth, may possibly ' gladden and chasten 
 hearts in years to come ' though unidealised by the pen 
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 Abbott (Evelyn) - 3, 19 Balfour (A. I.) - n, 18 Buckland (Jas.) - 26 
 
 Crake (Rev. A. D.) - 26 
 
 (T. K.) - - 14, 15 (Lady Betty) - 6 ; Buckle (H. T.) - - 3 
 
 Crawford (J. H.) - 21 
 
 (E. A.) - - 15 1 Ball (John) - - 9 Bull (T.) - - - 49 
 
 (R.) - - - 10 
 
 Acland (A. H. D.) - 3 
 
 Banks (M. M.) - - 21 Burke (U. R.) - - 3 
 
 Creed (S.) - - 21 
 
 Acton (Eliza) 29 
 
 Baring-Gould (Rev. ; Burns (C. L.) - - 30 
 
 Creiehton (Bishop) -4, 5, 8 
 
 Adeane(J. H.) - - 8 
 
 S.) - - - 18, 27, 31 i Burrows (Montagu) 5 
 
 Crozier (J. B.) - - 8, 15 
 
 Adelborg" (O.) - - 26 
 
 Barnett (S. A. and H.) 17 Butler (E. A.) - - 24 
 
 Custance (Col. H.) - 13 
 
 jEschylus 19 
 
 Baynes (T. S.) - - 31 
 
 Cults (Rev. E. L.) - 5 
 
 Ainger (A. C.) - - 12 
 
 Beaconsfield (Earl of) 21 Cameron of Lochiel 13 
 
 
 Albemarle (Earl of) - n 
 
 Beaufort (Duke of) - 11,12 Campbell(Rev. Lewis) 18,19 
 
 Dale (T. F.) - - 12 
 
 Allen (Grant) - 25 I Becker (W. A.) - 19 
 
 Camperdown (Earl of) 8 
 
 Dallinger (F. W.) - 5 
 
 Allgood (G.) - 3 i Becsly (A. H.) - 
 
 Cawthorne (Geo. Jas.) 13 
 
 Dauglish (M. G.) - 8 
 
 Angwin (M. C. - 29 
 
 Bell (Mrs. Hugh) - 20 
 
 Chesney (Sir G.) - 3 
 
 Davidson (W. L.) 15, 17, 18 
 
 Anstey (F.) - 21 
 
 Bent (J. Theodore) - 9 
 
 Childe-Pemberton(W.S.) 8 
 
 Davies (J. F.) - - 19 
 
 Aristophanes - 19 
 
 Besant (Sir Walter)- 3 
 
 Cholmondeley-Pennell 
 
 Dent (C. T.) - - n 
 
 Aristotle - 14 
 
 Bickerdyke (J.) - 12, 13 
 
 (H.) - - ii 
 
 De Salis (Mrs.) - 29 
 
 Arnold (Sir Edwin) - 9, 20 
 
 Bird (G.) 20 
 
 Christie (R. C.) - 31 
 
 De Tocqueville(A.)- 4 
 
 (Dr. T.) - - 3 
 
 Blackburne (J. H.) - 13 
 
 Churchill(W. Spencer) 3, 21 
 
 Devas (C. S.) - - 16, 17 
 
 Ashbourne (Lord) - 3 
 
 Bland (Mrs. Hubert) 21 
 
 Cicero - - - 19 
 
 Dickinson (G. L.) - 4 
 
 Ashby (H.) - - 29 
 
 Blount (Sir E.) - 7 
 
 Clarke (Rev. R. F.) - 16 
 
 - (W. H.) - - 31 
 
 Ashley (W. J.) - - 3, 17 
 
 Boase (Rev. C. W.) - 5 
 
 Clodd (Edward) - 18,25 
 
 Dougall (L.) - - 21 
 
 Avebury (Lord) - 18 
 
 Boedder (Rev. B.) - 16 
 
 Clutterbuck (W. J.)- 10 
 
 Dowden (E.) - - 32 
 
 Ayre (Rev. J.) - - 25 
 
 Bowen (W. E.) - 7 
 
 Colenso (R. J.) - 30 
 
 Dovle (A. Conan) - 21 
 
 
 Brassey (Lady) - 10 
 
 Conington (John) - 19 
 
 Du'Bois (W. E. B.)- 5 
 
 Bacon - - 7, 14, 15 
 
 (Lord) la 
 
 Conway (Sir W. M ) u 
 
 Dufferin (Marquis of) 12 
 
 Baden-Powell (B. H.) 3 
 
 Bray (C.) ... 15 
 
 Conybeare(Rev.W.J.) Dunbar (Mary F.) - 21 
 
 Bagehot (W.) 7, i?, 27, 31 
 
 Bright (Rev. J. F.) - 3 
 
 & Howson (Dean) 27 i Dyson (E.) 21 
 
 Bagwell (R.) - - 3 
 
 Broadfoot (Major W.) u 
 
 Coolidge (W. A. B.) 9 
 
 
 Bailey (H. C.) - - 21 
 
 Brown (A. F.) - - 26 
 
 Corbin (M.) - - 26 
 
 Ebrington (Viscount) 13 
 
 Baillie (A. F.) - - 3 
 
 (J. Moray) - 12 
 
 Corbett (Julian S.) - 4 
 
 Ellis (J. H.) - - 13 
 
 Bain (Alexander) - 15 
 
 Bruce (R. I.) - - 3 
 
 Coutts (W.) - - 19 
 
 (R. L.) - - 14 
 
 Baker (J. H.) - - 31 
 
 BryceU.)- - - u 
 
 Coventry (A.) 12 
 
 Erasmus - - - 8, 31 
 
 (Sir S. W.) - 9 ! Buck (H. A.) - - 12 
 
 Cox (Harding) - n I Evans (Sir John) - 31
 
 INDEX OF AUTHORS AND EDITORS continued. 
 
 Page i Page ! Page 
 
 Page 
 
 Falkiner (C. L.) - 4 
 
 Hunt (Rev. W.) - 5 Millias (]. G.) - - 14 
 
 Sheppard (E.) 7 
 
 Farrar (Dean) - - 17, 21 
 
 Hunter (Sir W.) - 5 
 
 Milner (G.) - - 32 
 
 Sinclair (A.) - - 12 
 
 Fitzgibbon (M.) - 4 
 
 Hutchinson (Horace G.) 
 
 Monck(W. H. S.) - 16 
 
 Skrine (F. H.) - - 8 
 
 Fitzmaurice (Lord E.) 4 
 
 ii, 13.31 
 
 Montague (F. C.) - 6 
 
 Smith (C. Fell) - 9 
 
 Folkard (H. C.) - 13 
 Ford (H.) - - - 13 
 
 Ingelow (Jean) - 20 
 
 In err am IT T) \ s 
 
 Moon (G. W.)- - 20 
 Moore (T.) - - 25 
 
 (R. Bosworth) - . 7 
 (T. C.) - - 5 
 
 (W.J.) - - 13 
 
 ngram ( i . u.) 5 
 
 (Rev. Edward) - 14 
 
 (W. P. Haskett) 10 
 
 Fountain (P.) - - 10 
 
 Jackson (A. W.) - 9 
 
 Morgan (C. Lloyd) - 17 
 
 Somerville (E.) - 24 
 
 Fowler (Edith H.) - 22 
 
 James (W.) - 15 
 
 Morris (Mowbray) - ii 
 
 Sophocles 19 
 
 Francis (Francis) - 13 
 
 ameson (Mrs. Anna) 30 
 
 (W.) 19, 20, 23, 30, 32 
 
 Soulsby (Lucy H.) - 32 
 
 Francis (M. E.) - 22 
 
 efferies (Richard) - 31 
 
 Mulhall (M. G.) - 17 
 
 Southey (R.) - - 32 
 
 Freeman (Edward A.) 5 
 
 ekyll (Gertrude) - 31 
 
 Murray (Hilda) - 26 
 
 Spahr (C. B.) - - 17 
 
 Fremantle (T. F.) - 13 
 
 erome (Jerome K.) - 22 
 
 Myers (F. W. H.) - 32 
 
 Spedding (J.) - - 7, 14 
 
 Fresnfield (D. W.) - it 
 Frost (G.) - - - 31 
 
 ohnson (J. & J. H.) 31 
 Jones (H. Bence) - 25 
 
 Nansen (F.) - - 10 
 Nash (V } - - - fi 
 
 Stanley (Bishop) - 25 
 Stebbing (W.) - - 9 
 
 Froude (fames A.) 4,8,10,22 
 Fuller (F. W.) - - 4 
 Furneaux (W.) - 24 
 
 Gardiner (Samuel R.) 4 
 
 Joyce (P. W.) - 5, 22, 31 
 Justinian - - - 15 
 
 Kant (I.) - - - 15 
 Kaye (Sir J. W.) - 5 
 
 Nesbit (E.) - - 21 
 Nettleship (R. L.) - 15 
 Newman (Cardinal) - 23 
 Nichols (F. M.) - 8, 31 
 
 Steel (A. G.) - - n 
 Stephen (Leslie) 10 
 Stephens (H. Morse) 7 
 Sternberg (Count 
 
 Gathorne-Hardy (Hon. 
 
 ATJ \ T - 
 
 Kelly (E.)- - - 15 
 Kent (C B R ) - *? 
 
 rvuaiuci i^ - / 
 
 Ogilvie (R.) - - 19 Stevens (R. W.) - 31 
 
 **) ~ 13 
 Geikie (Rev. Cunning- 
 ham) - - - 31 
 Gibbons (J. S.) - 13 
 Gibson (C. H.) - - 14 
 Gleig (Rev. G. R.) - 9 
 Goethe - - - 20 
 
 Kerr (Rev. j.) - - 12 
 Killick (Rev. A. H.) - 15 
 Kingsley (Rose G.) - 30 
 Kitchin (Dr. G. W.) 5 
 Knight (E. F.) - - 10, 12 
 Kostlin (J.) 8 
 
 Oldfield (Hon. Mrs.) 8 
 Oliphant (N.) - - 6 
 Onslow (Earl of) - 12 
 Osbourne (L.) - - 24 
 Paget(SirJ.) - - 9 
 Park(W.) - - 14 
 
 Stevenson (R. L.) 21,24,26 
 Storr (F.) - - - 14 
 Stuart-Wortley(A.J.) 12, 13 
 Stubbs(J. W.)- - 7 
 Suffolk & Berkshire 
 (Earl of) - - ii, 12 
 
 Going (C. B.) - - 26 
 Gore-Booth (Sir H. W.) 12 
 Graham (A.) - - 4 
 (PA) - - 13 
 
 Kristeller (P.) - - 30 
 
 Ladd (G. T.) - - 15 
 Lang (Andrew) 5, n, 12, 14, 
 
 Parker (B.) - - 32 
 Passmore (T. H.) - 32 
 Payne-Gallwey (Sir 
 R.) - - - 12, 14 
 
 Sullivan (Sir E.) - 12 
 Sully (James) - - 16 
 Sutherland (A. and G.) 7 
 (Alex.) - -i6,2 
 
 (G. F.) - - 17 
 Granby (Marquess of) 13 
 Grant (Sir A.) - - 14 
 Graves (R. P.) - - 8 
 Green (T. Hill) - 15 
 Greene (E. B.)- - 5 
 Greville (C. C. F.) - 4 
 Grose (T. H.) - - 15 
 Gross (C.) - - 4, 5 
 Grove (F. C.) - - n 
 (Mrs. Lilly) - n 
 Gurdon (Lady Camilla) 22 
 Gurnhill (J.) - - 15 
 'Gwilt (1.) - - - 25 
 
 18, 20, 22, 23, 26, 32 
 Lapsley (G. T.) - 5 
 Lascelles (Hon. G.) ii, 13 
 Laurie (S. S.) - - 5 
 Lawley (Hon. F.) - 12 
 Lawrence (F. W.) - 17 
 Lear (H. L. Sidney) - 29, 31 
 Lecky (W. E. H.) 5, 16, 20 
 Lees (J. A.) - - 10 
 Leslie (T. E. Cliffe) - 17 
 Levett-Yeats (S.) - 22 
 Lillie (A.) - - - 14 
 Lindley (J.) - - 25 
 Loch (C. S.) - 31 
 
 Pearson (C. H.) - 9 
 Peek (Hedley) - - 12 
 Pemberton (W. S. 
 Childe-) - - 8 
 Pembroke (Earl of) - 12 
 Pennant (C. D.) - 13 
 Penrose (Mrs.) - 26 
 Phillipps-Wolley(C.) 11,23 
 Pitman (C. M.) - 12 
 Pleydell-Bouverie (E. O.) 12 
 Pole (W.) - - - 14 
 Pollock (W. H.) - ii, 32 
 Poole (W. H. and Mrs.) 29 
 Poore (G. V.) - - 32 
 
 (G.) - - - 32 
 Suttner (B. von) - 24 
 Swan (M.) - - 24 
 Swinburne (A. J.) - 16 
 Symes (J. E.) - - 17 
 
 Tallentyre (S. G.) - 9 
 Tappan (E. M.) - 26 
 Tavlor (Col. Meadows) 7 
 Tebbutt (C. G.) - 12 
 Terry (C. S.) - - 8 
 Thomas (J. W.) - 16 
 Thornhill (W. J.) - 19 
 Thornton (T. H.) - 9 
 Todd (A.) - - 7 
 
 Haggard (H. Rider) 10,22,31 
 Hake (O.) - - - 12 
 HaUiwell-Phillipps(J.) 9 
 Hamilton (Col. H. B.) 5 
 
 Locock (C. D.) - 14 
 Lodge (H. C.) - - 5 
 Loftie (Rev. W. J.) - 5 
 Longman (C. J.) - ii, 13 
 (F. W.) - - 14 
 
 Pope (W. H.) - - 13 
 Powell (E.) - - 7 
 Praeger (S. Rosamond) 26 
 Prevost(C.) - - n 
 Pritchett (R. T.) - 12 
 
 Toynbee (A.; - - 17 
 Trevelyan (Sir G. O.) 6, 7, 8 
 (G. M.) - - 7 
 Trollope (Anthony)- 24 
 Turner (H. G.) - 32 
 
 Hamlin (A. D. F.) - 30 
 Harding (S. B.) - 5 
 Harmsworth (A. C.) 12 
 Harte (Bret) - - 22 
 Harting(J. E.)- - 13 
 
 (G. H.) - - ii, 13 
 (Mrs. C. J.) - 30 
 Lowell (A. L.) - 5 
 Lubbock (Sir John) - 18 
 Lucan - - - 19 
 
 Proctor (R. A.) 14, 25, 28, 29 
 Raine (Rev. James) - 5 
 Randolph (C. F.) - 7 
 Rankin (R.) - - 7, 21 
 
 Tyndall (J.) - - 8, 10 
 Tyrrell (R. Y.) - - 19 
 Unwin (R.) - - 32 
 Upton(F.K.and Bertha) 27 
 
 Hartwig (G.) - - - 25 
 Hassall (A.) - - 7 
 
 Lutoslawski (W.) - 16 
 Lvall (Edna) - - 23 
 
 Ransome (Cyril) - 3, 7 
 Raymond (W.) - 23 
 
 Van Dyke (J. C.) - 30 
 Virgil - - - 19 
 
 Haweis (H. R.) - 8, 30 
 Head (Mrs.) - - 30 
 Heath (D. D.) - - 14 
 Heathcote (J. M.) - 12 
 (C. G.) - - 12 
 
 Lynch (G.) - - 6 
 (H. F. B.)- 10 
 Lyttelton (Hon. R. H.) n 
 (Hon. A.) - - 12 
 Lytton (Earl of) - 6, 20 
 
 Reid (S. J.; - - 7 
 Rhoades (J.) - - 19 
 Rice (S. P.) 10 
 Rich (A.) - - - 19 
 Richardson (C.) - n, 13 
 Richmond (Ennis) - 16 
 
 Wagner (R.) - - 21 
 Wakeman (H. O.) - 7 
 Walford (L. B.) - 24 
 Wallas (Graham) - 9 
 (Mrs. Graham)- 26 
 
 Helmholtz (Hermann 
 von) - - - 25 
 Henderson (Lieut- 
 Col. G. F. R.) - 8 
 Henry (W.) - - 12 
 Henty (G. A.) - - 26 
 Herbert (Col. Kenney)- 13 
 Herod (Richard S.) - 13 
 Hiley (R. W.) - - 8 
 Hill (Mabel) - - 5 
 Hillier (G. Lacy) - n 
 Hime (H. W. L.) - 19 
 Hodgson (Shadworth)is, 31 
 Hoenig (F.) - - 31 
 Hogan (J. F.) - - 8 
 Holmes (R. R.) - 9 
 
 Macaulay (Lord) - 6, 20 
 Macdonald (Dr. G.) - 20 
 Macfarren (Sir G. A.) 30 
 Mackail (J. W.) - 9, 19 
 Mackenzie (C. G.) - 14 
 Mackinnon (J.) - 6 
 Macleod (H. D.) - 17 
 Macpherson (Rev. 
 H. A.) - - 12, 13 
 Madden (D. H.) - 14 
 Magniisson (E.) - 22 
 Maher (Rev. M.) - 16 
 Malleson (Col. G. B.) 5 
 Marchment (A. W.) 23 
 Marshman (J. C.) - 8 
 Maryon (M.) - - 32 
 
 Rickaby (Rev. John) 16 
 (Rev. Joseph) - 16 
 Ridley (Sir E.) - - 19 
 (Lady Alice) - 23 
 Riley (J. W.) - - 21 
 Roget (Peter M.) - 17, 25 
 Romanes (G. J.) 9, 16, 18,21 
 (Mrs. G. J.) - 9 
 Ronalds (A.) - - 14 
 Roosevelt (T.) - - 5 
 Ross (Martin) - - 24 
 Rossetti (Maria Fran- 
 cesca) - - - 32 
 Rotheram (M. A.) - 29 
 Rowe (R. P. P.) - 12 
 Russell (Lady)- - 9 
 
 Walpole (Sir Spencer) 7 
 Walrond (Col. H.) - n 
 Walsingham(Lord)- 12 
 Ward (Mrs. W.) - 24 
 Warwick (Countess of) 32 
 Watson (A. E. T.) - n,ia 
 Weathers (J.) - - 32 
 Webb (Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sidney) - - 17 
 (T. E.) - - 16, 20 
 Weber (A.) - - 16 
 Weir (Capt. R.) - 12 
 Wellington (Duchess of) 30 
 West (B. B.) - - 24 
 Weyman (Stanley) - 24 
 Whately(Archbishop) 14,16 
 
 Holroyd (M. J.) - 8 
 Homer - - - 19 
 
 Mason (A. E. W.) - 23 Saintsbury (G.) - 12 
 MaskelyneO. N.) - 14 Sandars (T. C.) - 15 
 
 Whitejaw (R.) 19 
 WhittalKSirJ. W. )- 32 
 
 Hope (Anthony) - 22 
 
 Matthews (B.) - 32 Sanders (E. K.) 
 
 Wilkins (G.) - - 19 
 
 Horace - - - 19 
 
 Maunder (S.) - - 25 Savage-Armstrong(G.F.)2i 
 
 - (W. H.) - - 3 
 
 Houston (D. F.) - 5 
 
 Max Miiller (F.) Seebohm (F.) - - 7, 9 
 
 Willard (A. R.) - 30 
 
 Howard (Lady Mabel) 22 
 Howitt (W.) - - 10 
 
 9, 16, 17, 18, 23, 32 Selous (F. C.) - - n, 14 
 May (Sir T. Erskine) 6 Senior (W.) - -12,13 
 
 ^^illich (C. M.) - 25 
 Witham (T. M.) - 12 
 
 Hudson (W. H.) - 25 
 Huish (M. B.) - - 30 
 
 Meade (L. T.) - - 26 Sewell (Elizabeth M.) 23 
 Melville (G.J.Whyte) 23 Shakespeare - - 21 
 
 Wood (Rev. J. G.) - 25 
 Wood-Martin (W. G.) 
 
 Hullah (J.) - - 30 
 
 Merivale (Dean) - 6 Shand (A I.) - - 13 
 
 Wyatt (A. J.) - - 20 
 
 Hume (David) 15 
 
 Merriman (H. S.) - 23 Shaw (W. A.) - - 7, 31 
 
 Wylie (J. H.) - - 7 
 
 (M. A. S.) - 3 
 
 Mill (John Stuart) - 16, 17 Shearman (M.) - ii 
 
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