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Updated: May 23, 2025

In Andrew Marvel Milton found one congenial spirit, incorruptible amid poverty, unbowed by defeat. He had had better training still, having been for two years an inmate of Nunappleton, in the capacity of instructor to Mary, only daughter of the great Lord Fairfax.

Mark Pattison - Milton

Indeed, so overdone are mourning ceremonies in England what with the hired mutes, the nodding plumes, the costly coffin, and the gifts of gloves and bands and rings, etc. that Lady Georgiana Milnor, of Nunappleton, in York, a great friend of the Archbishop, wrote a book against the abuse, ordered her own body to be buried in a pine coffin, and forbade her servants and relatives to wear mourning.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages