Letter

Scope and Content

Letter from Rev George Chetwode to his grandfather Lord Stamford. Thanks Lord Stamford for a gift of £100. The church services are "grand, a vast deal of chanting, in fact it is the same as the cathedral services, save and except the psalms, which are read". Describes how at one marriage a drunken fiddler led the wedding procession through the town. Ashton under Lyne is full of sects.

Dated at: Ashton under Lyne.