Sunday 21st December 1817
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Wrote to Mariana (Dr Belcombe’s, Petergate, York) to announce my safe arrival here, and say
I had ordered 4 horses at the Rose and Crown (Briggate Leeds) to be ready for her at one next Friday – Wrote also a few lines to Mr Radford (Leeds) to desire him to make the ring for my aunt
Anne size O – In the afternoon assisted in reading the service – after tea read all the 3rd and 4th of Volume 2,
I had ordered 4 horses at the Rose and Crown (Briggate Leeds) to be ready for her at one next Friday – Wrote also a few lines to Mr Radford (Leeds) to desire him to make the ring for my aunt
Anne size O – In the afternoon assisted in reading the service – after tea read all the 3rd and 4th of Volume 2,
Sermons on several important practical subjects in 2 volumes
by the late Reverend and learned Joseph and Boole in a Rector of St Ann’s in
Manchester. Volume 1 London printed for the author’s widow and sold
by the booksellers in Town and Country 1748’
2 volumes. [guo] volume 1 pages 322. Volume 2 pages 339 - *
*75/143 Read Sunday 22 March 1818
Afterwards my uncle and aunt let me into my aunt Listers great grief for the loss of her
husband. It appears she is not satisfied with my uncles having left her the house
and premises (as they stand) for her life and anannuity of three hundred pounds, in lieu of
her thirds and the thousand pounds he has had of hers. She told my uncle only a fortnight after
the funeral. Good came out of evil and it was well that the three thousand pounds left her
fathers will was fixed as it was, otherwise my uncle Joseff would have taken that also –
Last Tuesday she told my uncle she had asked and Wiglesworth and he said she could claim
her thirds as there was no bar. My uncle calmly replied that she knew that was not her
husbands intention, she had seen the will before his death and then said she was satisfied this she
acknowledged but said Joseph was ill and she did not like to say anything – Here the
matter ended –
A remarkably fine frosty day – my uncle and aunt were at church in the morning,
A remarkably fine frosty day – my uncle and aunt were at church in the morning,
Mr Wilmot curate of the church, gave a most impressive funeral sermon to the memory of our late vicar
Dr Coulshurst who was buried in the choir of the old church last Thursday (the 18th) at 64 –
The church, I understood was handsomly put in mourning for the Princess Charlotte, but now
in addition, the galleries are hung round with black cloth, bordered with broad black fringe, and escutcheons
of the Duffins arms hung round the pulpit and a few in other parts of the church – the party from the
vicarage were there this morning – consisting of the Reverend Mr Coulshurst the Dr’s brother and the
following relations of Mrs Coulshurst – Mr, Mrs and 2 Miss Whitakers, Mrs and Miss Tipping, and Mr
Allen – we hear Mrs Coulshurst was at church this afternoon, the Dr left home last Wednesday
week (the 10th instead) in good health, and rode to Wakefield on the business of choosing a
conductor and matron for the West-Riding asylum – Mr Morley of Halifax apothecary, and his
wife were candidates for both offices and would doubtless have been elected had Dr Coulshurst lived
he (the Dr) being to be president or chairman of the meeting and to have a casting vote – They say
the conductors salary is £200 a year, and a house to live in the matrons salary £50 a year
and board and lodging found –
On the subject of Dr Coulshurst’s death, the following is an extract from a
On the subject of Dr Coulshurst’s death, the following is an extract from a
letter from my aunt Anne, dated Shibden Hall Monday 15 December 1817, and which I received at Dr
Belcombes, Petergate York, on Tuesday morning 16 December 1817 – ‘The newspapers must have
‘announced to you the death of pour Dr Coulshurst - another awful visitation supposed
‘to be from the effects of cold – He had gone to Mr Smith’s of Heath near Wakefield, on horse-
‘back on Wednesday for the purpose of attending the meeting on the asylum business the following day,
‘and having ridden slow, was extremely cold and complained of pain in his stomach or chest,
‘but ate a hearty dinner, and drank tea as usual – Went to bed and ordered his servant to
‘call him at 7 o’ clock – On the manservant going into the room, he said he was better – He
‘told him to come again at 8, which he did – He then said he might come in 1/2 and hour, and he
‘would get up – On the man's going the 3rd time, he found him a corpse – An express was
‘immediately sent off to Halifax, and Dr Daley and Mrs Wilmot went at an early hour in
‘the afternoon in a chaise at 4 and retired about 5 the next morning, following the corpse in a hearse
‘I understand Dr P says the nature of his complaint was such that nothing could have been done for
‘him –‘ (gout in his stomach and Dr P thought also the rupture of some vessel) my aunt adds –
‘Emma Ralph and Mr James Stansfeld were married on Saturday and I hear went off in a
‘quiet way to York – only one chaise and pair of horses’ – (They were I understand at Stridges hotel in
Blake Street during their stay in York from the Saturday of their marriage, till the Friday following)
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