Merge branch 'main' into release

Author: geoffroy-noel-ddh

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@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Even after Danby had been ejected from her aunt's house and was living in lodgin
 
 Even after such treatment by her aunt, Danby portrays herself as still doing her best to make amends as a dutiful, loyal niece, always hoping for reconciliation.
 
-So, why was Anne Danby writing to Parson Farrer? We do not know much about him.[^10] A George Farrer was ordained minister of Thornton Watlass in 1635, and his patron was Sir Thomas Danby,Anne's father-in-law.[^11] Thornton mentions Mr Farrer at Malton in the late 1660s, who may have been a chaplain at the Malton household of the Eure family.[^12] Given his age, and the information in Danby's letter that he was a relation of Katherine Farrer (Comber's other potential partner), he was likely either Katherine's father or perhaps uncle. As Danby had been implicated in suggesting the match between Katherine Farrer and Comber, this might explain why she wrote this letter giving her side of the story.
+So, why was Anne Danby writing to Parson Farrer? We do not know much about him.[^10] A George Farrer was ordained minister of Thornton Watlass in 1635, and his patron was Sir Thomas Danby, Anne's father-in-law.[^11] Thornton mentions Mr Farrer at Malton in the late 1660s, who may have been a chaplain at the Malton household of the Eure family.[^12] Given his age, and the information in Danby's letter that he was a relation of Katherine Farrer (Comber's other potential partner), he was likely either Katherine's father or perhaps uncle. As Danby had been implicated in suggesting the match between Katherine Farrer and Comber, this might explain why she wrote this letter giving her side of the story.
 
 These two versions of events allow for rather different interpretations of Anne Danby's character: was she the dutiful niece she made herself out to be or had she, as her aunt claimed, been at the centre of the rumours about Thornton, Comber and Nally? 
 

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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Thornton was pregnant with Robert when the incident above took place. He survive
 
 Many passages in Thornton’s writing deal with [the body, illness](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2022-12-19-grief-and-illness-thornton/) and [death](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2023-03-14-remembrances-encounters-elspeth-graham/). In the *Book of Remembrances*, the passing away of extended family members including [an uncle who ate too much cold melon](https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/food/forbidden-fruit/), are placed in a list along with the beheading of King Charles I. They occurred around about the same time, and are given equal weight. Thornton dedicated much longer passages to other bereavements, such as the death of her mother. Describing her mother’s final illness, Thornton mentioned using a common calmative still familiar today:
 
->these stitches continued about fourteen days, with the cough hindering her from almost any sleep. When, upon the use of bags with fried oats, butter and chamomile chopped laid to her sides, the stitches removed, and the cough abated as to the extremity thereof (p. 33).
+>these stitches continued about 14 days, with the cough hindering her from almost any sleep. When, upon the use of bags with fried oats, butter and chamomile chopped laid to her sides, the stitches removed, and the cough abated as to the extremity thereof (p. 33).
 
 ![A photo of an old over-the-shoulder woven bag, with a flower and vetegable design]({{"/assets/img/posts/17th_century_bag.jpg" | url}} "Bag (1600-1650). Victoria and Albert Museum.")