THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OK LEONARD WHEATCROKT. 4 1 



"In T674 I began to write another booke called 'The Memory's 

 Recreation,' but if I live to make it out, you will all be better 

 satisfied and 1 cumended ; however, the coppy of it you may find 

 among the rest of my writings in my Libry. 



"Oct. 2 being Friday, 1675, was my wife brought abed of a 

 daughter whose name we call Maddum Sarah. 



" My wife continued all this while a brewing, and I wrought 

 and did what I could, so that it pleased God we did a little 

 recover againe, and got ourselves and children close [clothes] , 

 paid sum debt, and so by degrees gained our freinds again. 



[Keen observer of the world ! When money goes friends go 

 too ; but with recovering prosperity they gradually return.] 



" I put Leo and Ester to Darby to learne sum better worke and 

 Breeding, after that to Nottingham. In the meane while I was 

 taking care of some water workes which were then at Youlgreave, 

 in which I had some share, and for three or four years I was 

 imployed about that business, of which I shall say more here- 

 after. 



"In the year 1678, Blessed be God, I was able to give, as 

 before I was willing to receave, for in that yeare I gave money 

 towards bulding of Paul's Church, in Lundon, which y^ Papist 

 Plotters had destroyed and bournt by fire before, in y* year 70. 



"In the yeare 1679, the Engeneare, James Wass by name, 

 came to Youlgreave, to dreane our waterworks, but his engine 

 would not do it, so was I and many more much damnified 

 by it, and he likewise to the vallew of 300 pounds. In that 

 yeare, July 4, was my wife brought abed of a son, whom we 

 called Titus, he the 5th son and the eleventh child. But 

 to tell you all their names that are now alive, and when 

 they were borne, and under what planet, is as foUoweth 

 (Aug. 12, 1679) : — 



1. Leonardus was Borne May 30, 1659, about 2 o'clocke in 

 the afternoune. 



2. Anna was Borne July 29, 1661, being Munday in the after- 

 noone about 5 aclocke. Then did Capricor rule. 



3. Ester was Borne Novem. 16, 1663, being Wodensday in the 



