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Edmund Skepper had married Anne Breame of Beetley, who, on the death of her father, came into 9000 pounds. She and her husband purchased the Oulton Hall estate, upon which Anne Skepper seems to have been given a five per cent. mortgage. The boy inherited the estate, and the girl the mortgage, worth about 450 pounds per annum.
Lamb may be slyly remembering this. C . Cambridge. Dyer added a work on Privileges of the University if Cambridge to his History. Our friend M.'s. The Mrs. M. here referred to was Montagu's third wife, a Mrs. Skepper. It was she who was called by Edward Irving "the noble lady," and to whom Carlyle addressed some early letters. A.S. was Anne Skepper, afterwards Mrs.
"Mary Clarke of full age widow of Spread Eagle Inn, Gracechurch Street daughter of Edmund Skepper Esquire." On 2nd May an announcement of the marriage appeared in The Norfolk Chronicle. A few days later the party left for Oulton Cottage, and Borrow became a landed proprietor on a small scale in his much-loved East Anglia. On 21st April Mr Brandram had written to Borrow the following letter:
Knapp was able to quote a manuscript of the time where he says that "there is no Radical who would not rejoice to see his native land invaded by the bitterest of her foreign enemies," etc., and also a letter, printed in the "Norfolk Chronicle," on August 18, 1832, on the origin of the word "Tory." At the end of this year he became friendly with the family of Skepper, including the widowed Mrs.
Old Mrs Skepper, Mrs Clarke's mother, had just died, and it is a proof of Borrow's intimacy with the family that he should be invited to stay with them whilst they were still in mourning. "There has been a Bible meeting at Oulton, in Suffolk, to which I was invited.
As Anne Skepper, before her marriage, she was much admired by Carlyle; "a brisk witty prettyish clear eyed sharp tongued young lady"; and was the intimate, among many, especially of Thackeray and Browning.
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