Godwin Diary

Siguieras 24.4.1797

see Sequeira

theatre, Stoke; School for Scandal & Catharine 8.8.1797

On GD website this entry is event tagged but the link is empty. This visit is covered in Godwin's letter to Mary Wollstonecraft (Abinger c40 f74-5). The "company of strollers" was based at Newcastle-under-Lyme. Catharine was David Garrick's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

miss Ja Willet 7.6.1797 at mrs Wedgwood's / 12.6.1797 miss Willet jr at mrs Wedgwood's

mrs Wedgwood's 7.6.1797 / 12.6.1797 again / 17.8.1800 mrs & miss Wedgwoods at (Robert) Darwin's, Shrewsbury / 28.11.1813 S Wedgwood at Mackintosh's

Sarah Wedgwood 1734-1815 widow of Josiah Wedgwood DNB d.1795. The S Wedgwood of 1813 was perhaps more likely her unmarried daughter Sarah (see Wedgwood, Catherine). Mrs Robert Darwin was Mrs Wedgwood's daughter so the three sisters and their mother were probably at dinner

tea, Stone 6.6.1797

Clearly the place Stone in Staffordshire

Henly 5.6.1797

Clearly the place Henley-in-Arden

Boot's Atherston nr Stratford 5.6.1797

3 Swans 4.6.1797 at Horseman's Oxford / 6.11.1810 at Ward's (with Coleridge & Middleton)

Godwin's letter to Mary Wollstonecraft (Abinger c40 f168) referred facetiously to "Mr Swan and his two wives or sisters". Unlike the others Godwin met at Horseman's, there was no Swan at Oxford University at that time, the nearest in Alum Ox being Abraham Swanne son of Richard of Raphoe Ireland cleric, adm 17.12.1784 age 17 BA 1789. Maybe it really meant some swans rather than humans.

Mossop 4.6.1797 at Horseman's, Oxford

See Horseman. John Mossop son of Clement M of Rottington, Cambs adm Queens college 21.1.1792 age 17 BA 1795 died 3.10.1849 will PCC 1849 wife Mary will PCC 1828

Horseman's 4.6.1797 at Oxford / 13.1.1800 Horsman calls / 14.1.1800 again / 15.1.1800 call on Horsman / 15.7.1816 Horseman (& Underwood) call / 26.10.1816 Horseman calls (not in) / 17.12.1818 Horseman calls / 17.2.1836 again