Friday, March 24, 1837

1837

March

Friday 24

8

10 55/..

No kiss. Good Friday – Ann took two of Brodie’s pills last night and put on his belladonna plaister just before setting off yesterday!

Ready in 1 1/2 hour – The change of dress from pelisse to la robe always takes me some time and very often costs me a cold – Breakfast at 9 1/2 –

Comfortable bed and breakfast and comfortable Inn –

At church at 10 1/2 (5 minutes walk or not so much from the Inn – close to the castle) – One clergyman did all the duty – Preached 1/2 hour from Luke xxiii. 34.  Pretty good sermon, but I dozed latterly – Service over at 1 –

Then strolled into the castle court and garden – Then saw the interior of the castle, the part inhabitable and uninhabited – About an hour there – Some faded old tapestry in the large inhabited rooms upstairs – A large old picture screen (1 large wide fold with one on each side of it about 1/2 the width), the middle part, a family picture, the Lord and Lady Clifford, the parents of the celebrated countess, and 3 or 4 children – The side folds each containing a large whole length at different periods of life of the celebrated countess (Pembroke Dorset and Montgomery) herself – The middle fold had a border of descents (about 36 in all – About 18 on each side) arms and text – and seems to be a regular pedigree of the family –

2 old oak beds struck us much – in the style of Mrs. Ann Lee’s – massy bed-posts – low-pannelled top, and against the head – and a pannelled foot-board – dark oak highly varnished – Lord Thanets, the present Steward (Mr. Healy – here about 5 years) has with much good had these beds done up (they were lumber when he came) and had one or two new ones made after then, but with longer posts – these latter spoilt by being of too modern a pattern –

Back at the Inn at 2 – Had the landlady up to inquire about a footman for Mrs. Ann Walker and a labourer for ourselves – Then sat talking to Ann – and writing the above of today till 2 3/4 – Then till 4 10/.., reading Whitaker’s history of Craven respecting Skipton and the family of Clifford –

Off from the Devonshire Hotel Skipton at 4 1/4 and alighted at the Devonshire Arms Bolton Bridge at 5 1/4 – A single house – nice looking and tidy, but cold and empty, and wrote back by the postboy to Mrs. Bradley, Devonshire Hotel Skipton, ‘to have the rooms we had just left ready for us tomorrow night, and Mr. Bradley to send a pair of horses to be here at seven tomorrow evening –

The hills – the whole country covered with snow, except a little green knoll thawed by the sun, peeping out just before we reached Bolton Bridge little more than 5 miles (according to the mile stone) from Skipton – No wood but the drive along the hilly limestone glen would be pretty in summer – Passed several lime kilns in limestone rock, tilted up almost perpendicularly – Had ordered dinner, sent off my note, and written the last nine lines at 5 50/.. –


WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/20/0037 and SH:7/ML/E/20/0038


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