“…These men have a decided provincial character; and their galloways also, which are always overloaded, have a manner of going peculiarly their own…”
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“A Manner of Going Peculiarly of their Own”

“…These men have a decided provincial character; and their galloways also, which are always overloaded, have a manner of going peculiarly their own…”
From the Patients’ Disbursement Books, The Retreat, York. Ref: Ret 3/10/1/1 Judith Robertson 1799 10 Sept, 1799 Knitting needle 3d 1800 8 June Patent knitting needles 3d Pasteboard 4d – 7d 22 Sept shrowd – 7-/ 6d coffin 42 -/ (Pasteboard = cardboard, used to make bonnet brims). The casual – and all too […]