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in Mathematics, and pretends to Astrologie. There 

 is an excellent collection of the choicest fruit. 



30 Aug., 1 68 1. From Wotton I went to see Mr. 

 Hussey (at Sutton in Shere), who has a very pretty seate 

 well water'd, neere my brother's. He is the neatest 

 husband for curious ordering his domestic and field 

 accommodations, and what pertains to husbandry, that I 

 have ever seene, as to his granaries, tacklings, tooles, and 

 utensills, ploughs, carts, stables, wood-piles, wood-house, 

 even to hen-roosts and hog-troughs. Methought I saw 

 old Cato or Varro in him ; all substantial, all in exact 

 order. The sole inconvenience he lies under, is the greate 

 quantity of sand which the streame brings along with it, 

 and fills his canals and receptacles for fish too soone. 

 The rest of my time of stay at Wotton was spent in 

 walking about the grounds and goodly woods, where I 

 have in my youth so often entertain'd my solitude : 

 and so on the 2d of Sept. I once more returned to 

 my home. 



30 Oct., 1682. Being my birthday, and I now 

 entering my greate climacterical of 63, after serious 

 recollections of the yeares past, giving Almighty God 



