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The constable retained for himself and his heirs the control of the shoemakers; and made over to his own steward, Dutton, that of the fiddlers and players, and for many hundreds of years afterwards the Duttons of Dutton retained the power. On midsummer-day, they used to ride through Chester, attended by all the minstrels playing on their several instruments, to the Church of St.
She must now, however, confess, for her step-mother was in an effusive mood, and bent upon instantly inviting the Duttons to pay them a visit. Mrs.
Palmer; "this sort of what do you call it? double-dealing about visitors, goes on every where, Madam Beaumont. But how do I know, that when I go away, you may not be as glad to get rid of me as you were to get away from these Duttons?" added he, in a tone of forced jocularity.
Besides, those Duttons, at all times, are the most stupid creatures upon the face of the earth; I cannot endure them; so awkward and ill-bred too! and yet of a good family who could think it? They are people one must see, but they are absolutely insufferable." "Insufferable!" said Mr.
At the proper hour, Sir Wycherly sent his chariot for the ladies; and a few minutes before the appointed moment, the party began to assemble in the drawing-room. When Sir Wycherly appeared, he found the Duttons already in possession, with Tom doing the honours of the house.
However, Lord Bromley found he could not do without her, so, after that one cruise, Harry retired from the navy, and they lived chiefly at "The Towers," where a numerous family was born. At last Lord Bromley died at a great age, and it was found that he had left Bromley Towers to their eldest boy, Theodore. To the Duttons was bequeathed a small estate worth three thousand a year.
Beaumont, shake hands and be friends, and hang the Duttons! I did not mean to vex you by what I said. I am not so polite as I should be, I know, and you perhaps are a little too polite. But that is no great harm, especially in a woman." Martin and the snuff-box came up at this instant; and all was apparently as well as ever. Yet Mrs.
Cutbush is supposed to have slept on a dresser in the servants' hall; and a stray Frenchman who arrived one evening was laid up in the smoking-room, on a sofa. And, according to the Journal, the year closed with Between Reeve and the Duttons there was a friendship of many years' standing, and they were there, wrote Mrs.
In the time of Henry VII., the Duttons claimed, by prescriptive right, that the Cheshire minstrels should deliver them, at the feast of St. John, four bottles of wine and a lance, and that each separate minstrel should pay fourpence halfpenny. . . . Another account says Ralph Dutton was the constable's son-in-law, and "a lusty youth." October 19th.
"Oh, yes," said Miss Hunter, "I will if I possibly can this day; but it is so difficult to find a good time " "At dinner, suppose?" said Mrs. Beaumont. "At dinner! surely, ma'am, that's an awkward time, is not it, for talking of secrets?" "The best time in the world, my dear; you know we are to have the Duttons, and the Lord knows whom besides, to-day.
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