. The Houblon family, its story and times. aid something ofthose who were left he paused : For, as he said, thatbelongs too much to the living to be insisted on by me.^In like manner, though what remains to be told in theseMemoirs refers to a generation now passed out of sight,it still belong-s too much to the livina- to be muchinsisted on by ourselves. 1800 Seven years after Mrs. Houblon Newton went to live at Coopersale, her elder daughter Maria married hercousin Alexander Cotton and went to Girton, one of hislivinos near Cambrido-e. Her second dauo^hter Laetitiaodied in 1818, and from that
. The Houblon family, its story and times. aid something ofthose who were left he paused : For, as he said, thatbelongs too much to the living to be insisted on by me.^In like manner, though what remains to be told in theseMemoirs refers to a generation now passed out of sight,it still belong-s too much to the livina- to be muchinsisted on by ourselves. 1800 Seven years after Mrs. Houblon Newton went to live at Coopersale, her elder daughter Maria married hercousin Alexander Cotton and went to Girton, one of hislivinos near Cambrido-e. Her second dauo^hter Laetitiaodied in 1818, and from that time till her death Newton lived all alone at Coopersale pile of red morocco pocket-books, each representinga year in the ladys calendar of life, remain to testifyto its monotony,—but meanwhile her riches increased. 1837 When she died in 1837 came a surprise. For thirtyyears Mrs. Alexander Cotton had regarded herself—except in respect of the settled estates—as her mothers * See vol. i. p. 164. 2 j^g jj^^j f-Q^j.^. HZ o OS XH o z►Jooz OS o XHbS > ►JD u EARLY VICTORIA 293 sole heir, and so certain was she of this that everybodyelse believed it also. The younger members of thefamily were all informed many times and with muchwarmth of the shocking plot which disinherited her;but so it was. Controlled and directed the greater partof her life by her masterful daughter, the ancient ladyquietly took her measures, and with the assistance ofher lawyer made the will which divided her inheritancebetween thirteen o-randchildren.^ When Mr. Archer Houblon died in 1831 his second 1831son Charles, as heir of entail to the Archer property ofWelford, assumed the name of Eyre. This was inaccordance with the will of his grandfather, Mr. the same time his elder brother John- succeeded toHallingbury Place, and after the death of his grand- 1837mother, the Lincolnshire property of the Newton familydescended to him, likewise Coopersale in Essex. Butwhile the t
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