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Thursday 10th. About ten I went to the Devi/es to speak wth. Mr. Sadlier 

 and some others, and at two set out from thence in. order to have had some 

 Sport w"*. my Dog : but a sudden Rain prevented. 



Friday 11th. Having been privately at Home all the Day, in the Evening 

 I went to be with Bro. Selfe some little Time, he having I think at this time 

 a very melancholy Scene before him relating to his Daugh''. Miss Ciss., who 

 now plainly shews her Illness to proceed from some Disorder of the Mind. 



Saturday, 12th. I was at Home in my own Business Mr. Sadler the Attumey 

 being w"". me in the morning and afterwards attending my little Harvest. 



Sunday, 13th. Mr. Fox preach'd this Morning on 21st Verse of the 2nd 

 Epistle of St. Peter. [? Chapter.] 



Munday, 14th. About 3 I went out a setting and tarried till Evening when 

 hearing Bro. Selfe had sent for me I went to Beanacre where I tarried till 

 Eleven or after, The Business to me was chiefly to speak with me of the miserable 

 Condition of Miss Cissy and how to dispose of her, &c. 



Tuesday, loth. After Dinner I again took my Horse and after being out 

 with my Dog two or three Hours I went to Bro. Selfe's and tarri'd there with 

 them till near ten : some part of the time Mr. J"". Norris was w*''. us. 



Wednesday, 16th. Hearing last night that my Mother was taken ill at Bath. 

 I went to that Place this Morning after I had called at Mr. Webb's and found 

 my Mother indeed very ill but not so bad as I expected and I hope y'. by due 

 means she will get over it for as we suppose tis the Gouty Humour in the 

 Stomach w'^''. Yesterday began to remove ; I tarri'd some little time at Farley at 

 my Return in Business, and had some Disturbance afterwards in my Road Home. 



Thursday, 17th. Being under an Engagement I went to Bro. Selfe's this 

 Morning and tarried there an Hour or two : afterwards was at Home w'l'out 

 Company. In the Afternoon we had a Cook Maid came to our Service in the 

 place of 



Friday, 18th. In the Afternoon I attempted to go out a Setting but was 

 beaten off' by the Rain, and in the Evening Mr. Webb of Farley* was with me 

 in Business. 



Saturday, 19th. In the Morning I was about an Hour and Half at Beanacre 

 partly in Business. Afternoon I was two or three Hours a setting. 



Sunday, 20th. A young Man a Stranger whose Jfame I have forgotten 

 preach'd on the 13th Verse of 3rd Chap'^ of Epistle general of St. James. 

 After Sermon I was some little Time with the Preacher, Mr. Newborough, Mr. 

 Foxe's Uncle and Bro. Selfe at Mr. Foxe's. Sermon being in the Afternoon. 



Munday, 21st. About 8 this Morning Mr. Webb call'd on me to go with him 

 to Reading to have the Mortgage of Munckton Farley Estate assign'd to me 

 from one Mr. Whistler a Gent, in y'. neighbourhood : we called at Marlborough 

 where I saw Watty in good Health and proceeded on our journy to Newbury 

 thro y* Rain and lodg'd there. 



Tuesday, 22nd. It being a wet Morning 'twas Nine before we left this place 

 and we came to Reading very wet between 12 and 1. So it was late before we 

 could do our Business w'^^, -^yas transacted with one Mr. Whistler y'. lives near 

 that Place and Mr. Blagrove of Reading his Attorny, we return'd no farther 



than Theal and lodg'd there. 



• Of Moniton Farley. 

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