A couple of further thoughts:
In the same line, there's an unusual letter/mark at the start of 'married'. The best I can make of it is that he started to write 'faithful' (possibly) then changed his mind. My point is that the writer wasn't averse to amending things as he went along, so there could be some odd letters here and there.
Second, on looking more closely, I'm not now sure that the last letter is 'h'. Where an 'h' is written with a careful clockwise stroke in the second part of the letter (see 'has' in the same line, also 'her husband' in the inserted bit), it's close to the upright stem. Where it's more hurried and has an anti-clockwise stroke (as in 'who', 'Chesterfield'), there's more of a gap. Here we have a clockwise stroke and a gap, which doesn't match either form.
I'm therefore wondering if the word could be minds, as suggested by Gadget above, perhaps as a last-minute amendment to something like 'thoughts', whose 't' remains.
This may be a bit far-fetched, but I'm currently preferring it to 'hinch' (especially if he wasn't from Lincolnshire).
