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CHAPTER XII.
DISAPPOINTMENTS AND PERPLEXITIES.
Mrs. Wesley, it will be remembered, had a brother, Samuel Annesley, who went to India, which, in those days, was regarded almost as live-long banishment. He left a wife and perhaps young children behind him, who seem to have resided at Shore House, Hackney, a fine old red brick residence which was in the fields when Jane Shore lived there, and was approached by her royal lover by a footpath from the main road, known for many generations as King Edward's Path, but now widened and built over, and called King Edward's Road. Shore House is well remembered by numbers of people still living, but it has shared the fate of so many similar edifices, and been pulled down, the old bricks being used in the erection of small villas built over what was once a fertile and well-stocked garden, and forming a short thoroughfare called Shore Road. Samuel Annesley must have been in fairly prosperous circumstances to have established his family at Shore House, and it is nearly certain that after the fire at Epworth Rectory one or two of his nieces stayed with them for a time, and produced
