Miss Mary Mitford's correspondence on the topic of Lord Cochrane's degradation reveals the extent of his private grief in the days following the stock exchange trial:
'Did papa tell you that he had seen poor, poor Lord Cochrane that victim to his uncle's villainy, almost every day? He wept like a child to papa. And they say that the last dreadful degradation, the hacking off the spurs of knighthood, is actually meant to be put in force upon him.'
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Checking out J.H. Barlow & Co at no.7 Vere St, I chanced on this article by JHB’s 4 x great-grandson [https://bityl.co/Fq6P]. I was luckier than JHB; his descendant says “JHB seems not to have traded very successfully. He appears frequently in the #LondonGazette. In 1804 he is in the #FleetPrison & in 1818 in the #KingsBenchPrison.”
I’ve allowed myself to postpone his 1818 imprisonment till after Mrs F needs him, because…
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