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Changing hands yet again & back to Norfolk
Early in 1845 my friends Isaac and Esther Richardson back in Norfolk had seen a newspaper advertisement for a female domestic servant in the home of a prominent…
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1837-1848 In the hands of the Master of the Queen’s Musick!
After four years of ‘being made use of’, I was finally rescued by the Master of the (new) Queen’s Musick, Franz Cramer. Of all the luminaries around John…
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1833-1837 – Changing hands again!
Samuel Wesley told the truth about my being stolen to his close friend Vincent Novello. Perhaps it was at a Freemason’s Lodge Meeting, where all manner of secrets…
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1828 onwards – a new world, with ‘stimmung’
For a couple of years Isaac and I travelled relentlessly from one Methodist meeting to another across swathes of north Norfolk, accompanying the hearty singing of these well-meaning…
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Isaac has to deal with Discordant feelings!
When we entered The Black Swan, we interrupted a Methodist Class Meeting led by Benjamin Gregory, a charismatic character, very popular among the poor in the area. Isaac’s…
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Enter the Richardson family
While Samuel Wesley and I were caught up in this ecstatic musical crucifixion, I was aware of a young tall bearded man standing at the back of the…
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