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National Library of Wales, MS 4811D. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Can you tell me what were the arms of Salisbury & Talbot? they may be alluded to with good effect. Of Hungerford I accidentally found a singular circumstance connected with Hungerford. I rambled to Farley
Castle, once the seat of that family, now a pile of ruins — small & trifling but well situated. the chapel is still roofed, &
in a vault beneath lie five of the Hungerfords in pickle, in leaden cases bearing much such a rude resemblance to the human form as the
mummy outsides a small leaden box contains their entrails. a hole has been bored by the shoulder of one, & in probing with a stick
the bone xxx the shoulder may distinctly be felt, & the leathery fleshliness of the neck.
I have had no Coke
I have now omitted every thing miraculous, & given the historical account of the Maids first appearance. the burning of the Herald also is done. what remains to do is trifling — little alterations of lines & words, & a few insertions to mark the costume.
Madame Elizabethso
as to but I must be careful not to be considered as confounding revolutionary excesses with revolutionary opinions.
I have procured an old translation of De Serres.
I mean to consult Burneys History of Musicth century. in Chaucer I for ever find the ribiblejazerent of double mail — I shall not take the same liberty with another. jazerina
often occurs in the Guerras Civiles de Granada.
fare you well. I shall keep term the 20th of next month.
God bless you.
I forgot to say I saw Old Sarum.