Love and grief or The death of the Sutherlands (1794)
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3286920Love and grief or The death of the Sutherlands1794
Love and Grief OR THE DEATH OF THE SUTHERLANDS;
A Balled founded on fact, and contains the affecting ſtory of william Earl of sutherland and his Counteſs. Having loſt an only ſon they endeavoured to diſpel their grief by a journey to Bath. They had been there but a few weeks, when the Earl was taken ill of a fever, during which the Counteſs attended him twenty-one days and nights; and ſhe died, perfectly ⟨worn⟩ out with fatigue and watching, in June, 1766, and his lordſhip a few days after. It appeared, from the inſcriptions on their coffins, that the earl was only 31, the counteſs 26.