This Joan Eyre was heiress of the house
of Padley, and brought the Padley estates into the Eyre family. There is
a Sanctus bell of the fifteenth century with a Latin inscription, 'Pray
for the souls of Robert Eyre and Joan his wife.'--Rev. Thomas Keyworth on
'Morton Village and _Jane Eyre_'--a paper read before the Bronte Society
at Keighley, 1895.
{259a} _Miss Miles_, _or A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago_, by
Mary Taylor. Rivingtons, 1890.
{259b} _The First Duty of Women_. A Series of Articles reprinted from
the _Victorian Magazine_, 1865 to 1870, by Mary Taylor. 1870.
{262} See letter to Ellen Nussey, page 78.
{275} Miss Bronte was paid 1500 pounds in all for her three novels, and
Mr. Nicholls received an additional 250 pounds for the copyright of _The
Professor_.
{280} A Mr. Hodgson is spoken of earlier, but he would seem to have been
only a temporary help.
{282} Referring to a present of birds which the curate had sent to Miss
Nussey.
{287} A Funeral Sermon for the late Rev. William Weightman, M.A.,
preached in the Church at Haworth on Sunday the 2nd of October 1842 by
the Rev. Patrick Bronte, A.B., Incumbent. The profits, if any, to go in
aid of the Sunday School. Halifax--Printed by J. U. Walker, George
Street, 1842. Price sixpence.
{288} A little dog, called in the next letter 'Flossie, junr.
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