THK AUTOniOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 39 



[Compare this with the festivities at Leonard's own wedding 

 celebrated for eleven days, during which two hundred persons 

 were hospitably entertained (Journal x\\\\. 42).] 



" At my retourne my son Leo and I went to Mr. Sleight, 

 where we made a bed and 12 chears in 6 days. 



[Besides the inventory of Books (printed in vol. xix.) there was 

 another of joiner's tools — with lathes and various chisels, which 

 must have belonged to Leonard, who seems to have been an 

 all round man, and highly accomplished in almost every useful 

 art — tailoring, gardening, tuning virginals, carpentering, turning, 

 &c., &c.] 



"Then I went to Mr. Coates to dresse him a Jacke, and cord 

 some beds, and the like. ["Jacke" — either a soldier's leather 

 jerkin, or perhaps a jacket. May it be a leathern jug which had 

 become unstitched ? — a black jack.] 



"All this while my Bulding was going forwards, and I seeking 

 out for timber and other materials as framing of windows and 

 doores till Oct. 27, when I did finish Antoney Souter's orchard 

 at Tansley. 



" You may heare take notis that in all this discorse I have 

 said nothing of soulgery, for I writ all my doings and actions in 

 another booke. I was soulger in the dayes of King and Parli- 

 ment, and all Oliver's dayes till the King came in againe, which 

 was Charles 2, who of his clemancy and goodnes granted to us 

 all (excepting those who were excessary to his father's death) an 

 act of indemnity, &c. 



"Till 1673, ^'^d all that yeare I did many things of noate ; I 

 writ a Catechisme titeled ' A Free Gift to Ashouer Free Schoole,'' 

 and other memorable things now in writing. 



"Mar. 26, 1673, I set that Sick-a-more at the 'Rodd,' and 

 upon May 2 after, I came to my ould house againe which I had 

 mortgaged to one Antoney Tourner, but like a good lad, I souid 

 it about 2 years after, for I was in sum debt and nothing would 

 serve crrditors but Money, Money. 



"And moreover, the same day, I came to my house againe, and 

 my wife fell a labour and was brought abed of a son whose name 



