In response to this, the great chamber was partitioned into two parts and the courtroom occupied the western end with entry by an exterior door clumsily inserted within the nice west window. Mr Becher, the vicar common, having known as on me, I on the next morning returned his go to & also called with my brother & niece Rebecca upon Mrs & the Miss Plumptres, after which I walked up the East Thorpe hill, with my brother with whom my sister & I drank tea in the evening & met a Mr Heathcote, a younger musician, the son of a clergyman there, who performed to us upon a brand new piano-forte my brother had from Clementi’s in a very effective type having been currently in London, under Novello. Henry Marsh was nonetheless paying visits to his sister in Southwell in order to help her with her affairs and initially of July he went there accompanied by ‘my Son Henry’s little girl, the place she was now to stay.’ Unhappily, unhappy news was to observe.
I took a stroll with my Sister & nieces etc. to Mr Shepherds grounds close to the East Thorp, & within the afternoon went with them & my brother to a romantic spot called the Dumbles, about 2 miles from Southwell. The reason my nieces were not also of this get together was as a result of Mr Heathcote had fallen in love currently with Rebecca & made her a proposal, which they both being very younger, & she not feeling a mutual attachment for him, she had rejected, however which my Sister wished to shew him each sort of respect. Relationships, intercourse, and love! In the evening of the following day (Friday the 19h.) my brother & I drank tea at Mr Heathcote’s who played to us on his grand piano-forte, & took the bass in 2 or 3 M.S.Trios of Haydn, for a violin, tenor & bass of which my brother took the first & I the second. On Wednesday the 25. Mr Heathcote drank tea with us, & the young ladies, his pupils, every played a chunk on the grand piano-forte, of whom my grandaughter (Harriet, the daughter of his late son, Henry) was the principal performer, who was now much improved.
William returned to London and Mary suspected that he might need gone there to make his advances to a Miss Susan Faulkner ‘and one thing might have come of it, if our pal Edward Heathcote had not let him into somewhat bit of a secret, that he had found throughout the assorted tete’s a tete that he and Jane get pleasure from on a music day; specifically, that her objection was not to himself, but she thought her mother would never consent to her going abroad. I was there in Sept’r 1817. On the following evening Mr Heathcote got here & joined my nieces & me in some sacred music and many others. of which he sung an element & played the accompaniments, which he incessantly afterwards did while I staid, with sometimes the help of Mr Thompson, a very good bass singer, from the choir. We subsequently had some tea by ourselves, after which we went out & met them, & on our return discovered my brother Will’m who was come, as common, to tea, & spend the evening with the household. On the Thursday Evening after our arrival we went with your uncle to St. Johns Chapel (which has these days been constructed) as a result of, he had engaged to play the organ, the Organist of that chapel who can also be organist of the Cathedral being in London, and as it occurred that we very a lot favored the gentleman who preached it gave us great pleasure to search out that your Uncle goes there often each Sunday Morning and Evening as we do to Mr Daniel Wilsons.
I now due to this fact returned & sat right down to a solitary dinner that had been prepared for 5. Thinking they may presumably come by the Portsmouth night coach & arrive by the mail the subsequent morning I went to meet it, when I found, not them but my bro’r Henry, who pondering they had arrived at the tip of the preceeding week, was come to spend about 10 days with us. About 10 at night time nonetheless she arrived, having gone by a Portsmouth coach to Petersfield, whence she was driven in gigs to Chichester & Bognor.’ They stayed in Bognor for only two or three days, earlier than returning all together to Chichester. On the following morning between 9 & 10 I left Southwell, the place I had spent 12 very nice & blissful days, & went by the coach to Nottingham the place I arrived quickly after 12. & quartered on the White Lion, the place I used to be set down.