All The World’s A Stage
The Lover
And then the lover, sighing like
furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress’ eyebrow
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The Bakers of Highfields Story
The Story of the Dods and Bakers and of Highfields, Fenton
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Hannah
Mary Baker eloped with Dr
John Bellyse of Audlem and they married at Mucklestone
Church on 27 September 1808. John ‘Cockfighting’
Bellyse’s son's
entry into the Baker family was not without colour. He eloped with Richard's
daughter, Hannah, in the time approved manner. She climbed from the bedroom window and they departed by post chaise. The following
morning, having read her farewell letter, Richard set forth to the doctor’s
abode, the house now occupied by Dr Thornton. He came upon Bellyse sitting
reading by his open window and, not unnaturally, expressed himself with some
force on the subject of the good doctor's son, John.
Bellyse waited for a period of silence before observing, “The ganders as good
as the goose, Sir”, and returned to his book. Peace was restored, Richard
giving the newlyweds a rather fine inlaid coffer. When Canon Bellyse retired as
vicar of Audlem, he very kindly returned it to Highfields! (Baker, J Bellyse (1982), Highfields, Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and
Baker Families, Audlem District History Society, page 19).
Often Jane Dod would stay with her Aunt Diana Dod, who lived
at Bridgnorth and it was here that she met a young architect, William
Baker. She was staying at Bridgnorth with her grandmother in 1736 when the
latter died. Jane and William were married the same year and, as
her grandfather had died some years earlier, they returned to Highfields. (Baker, J Bellyse (1982), Highfields, Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and
Baker Families, Audlem District History Society, page 11).
Hova
Dod and the daughter
of Edwin,
Lord of Edge …
William
Dod of Lostford and Anne Chester …