Rev. William Alderson: the deep snow kept them from visiting Tissington earlier. "I am so dreadfully alarmed at having once stirred up that irascible temper of my Lady FitzHerbert that it would be much less painful for wife, self, and all the living creatures I possess to die 10,000 deaths in a snow drift rather than again endure the stings of her insupportable anathemas"; is worn out by magisterial duties which have involved 6 out of the last 8 days; acted as vice-chairman of the bench at Doncaster. 26 January 1820