Bloody hilarious.  My elderly female academic friend in Oxford (who thinks Tariq Ramadan such a delightful young man)  once read out to our little group - in her rooms assembled  -  Reddy  Fenchurch's  essay  on the Spiritus Asper in the Demotic. She was quite squiffy on home-made elderberry wine at the time. She later said  that was the only way she could make herself demotic enough to attempt the rough breathing. She thought it was probably confined to the lower orders and not practised by the elite.

Sellar and Yeatman, ye should be living at this hour.

Monumental Brasses of Colchester is by  my bed - an invaluable guide.

Is any of this real?

Better than real. The apotheosis of the real.

Later in life, Fenchurch wrote,

.  Hard-to-find but well-worth-while.

Is that Edmund de Horsey related to the Spencer Horsey de Horsey, Tory M.P till 1860?  The de Horsey line was quite prominent in despactches &c.

One of his descendants, Adeline Louisa Maria, is described in typical British understatement, "In old age she became eccentric".

One wonders if this is the family that gave its name to "the horsey set".

If you are referring to the Spencer de Horsey who was the father of , among others, Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey, admiral and vectensian magistrate, then yes, I suspect they are related.  

Very, very good. But "Albany" I think.

Yes, you've got me. Albany.

Do you know I stayed at the Albany once, in the apartment owned at the time by David K. E. Bruce? Strange, but true.