Diary of Thomas Smith, Esq. 105 



House and his Bro. being with us, and we stay'd till One ; the Air I believe 

 doing me much Service, and so came to my Home about two but not capable to 

 eat or drink but very little all this Day. 



Friday 24th. I all the day was at Home in a very Melancholy Condition. 



Saturday 25th. Also this whole day I was at Home in privacy. 



Sunday 26th. Mr. Fox this Morning continu'd his Text as last is mention'd ; 

 and had but a very small Congregation on Ac*, of the wet Weather. 



Munrlay 27th. Just in the Evening I went to Bro. Selfe's and tarry'd there 

 'till Nine, his Son Capt". Jacob being just come from London and so we had 

 much Talk of his Affaires and what publick News was stirring. 



Wednesday 29th. My two Daughters went to Nonsuch this Morning, and 

 having no Company I walk'd with my Gun after Dinner till Night : and had 

 for an Hour the Company of my Tenant Little and another Person in the Even- 

 ing : the rest of the Time alone. 



Thursday 30th. Early this Morning I went to Bath to see my Mother, and 

 in y* Evening was at Doc*^ Cheyne's, where was some little time after I came 

 in, one Gourdon, the writer as 'tis sfi. of the Independent Whig, and London 

 Journ"., both bad Papers.* 



Friday, Dec. 1st. Between 7 and 8 I came from Bath, (leaving my Mother 

 in as good Condition or better than expected, tho' I think but bad in the Main) 

 tairy'd at home only half an Hour and went to Nonsuch where I tarry'd all 

 Night. There were none others then their own Family. 



Saturday 2nd. At two or after I and my two Girles left Nonsuch and found 

 very bad Roads by Reason of a very hard frost ; however we came safely to our 

 Habitation by Night. 



Sunday 3rd. The same Text was yet continu'd by Mr. Fox this Morning, as 

 is before mentioned. 



Munday, 4th. I was all the Day at Home with my Workmen very busie ia 

 carrying out Marie now, being Frosty Weather. 



Tuesday, 5th. By Agreem'. with Bro. Selfe, I went to Beanacre, and from 

 thence with him and his Son J; cob, to Mr. Metbuen's, of Bradford, where we 

 din'd, and also took our Night's Quarters, having w^"". us in the Evening, Hania 

 the Apothecnry, besides y^ Family. 



Wednesday, 6th. There din'd with us at Bradford, Mr. Rogers the Minister 

 of the Parish, and Mr. Thresher, but immediately after Dinner, I left them and 

 came home to my own Family in the Evening, through very bad Frosty 



Thursday, 7th I was w^'out any Company (saving my Neigbhour Poulsom, 

 whom I sent to in Business) all the Day. 



Friday, 8th. This being, by the Government, appointed a Day for a General 

 Fast and Humiliation throughout Great Britain, to implore God's Mercy towards 

 as, in preserving ns from the Plague now ■violently raging in y' S. part of France, 

 I attended the Church Service, and Mr. Fox preach'd on 3rd Verse of the 13th 

 of St. Luke. 



(To he continued.) 



•John Trenchard, Esq., of Cutteridge, parish of North Bradley, Wilts, -was the writer of the 

 Independent Whig ; he died 1723, and his widow married Mr. Gordon, probably the person named 

 In the diary. 



