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Heath family correspondence

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Lucy Heath [wife of Edward] to Sir Gilbert Pykering, Northampton. Left her children behind for safety but now understands that Rockingham garrison intends to distrain goods, evict children and quarter soldiers [at Cottesmore]. Asks for safe passage for a coach and horses of her aunt, Lady Croke to collect child and maid and convey to Waterstock in Oxfordshire. Asks him `remember whose child I am'.