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by all seafaring men. Mr. Crouch, a conchologist, called, 

 and saw me the first time, and bought a few specimens. 

 Mr. Grundy, sen., died. 



" Thursday, 28th. Frances goes money-hunting for 

 me to Dartford. 



" Tuesday, April 2nd. Wind north. The winds 

 since Saturday have cut the vegetation and parched 

 the leaves as if burnt. This is the first check we have 

 experienced all the winter. Mr. Grundy buried. Lent 

 Mrs. Pitt one volume of White's ' History of Selborne.' 



" Wednesday, 3rd. Mr. Barlow called and says 

 that Mr. Vigors and Mr. Eversfield are to be the joint 

 collectors of land tax for Gravesend, as he declines. 

 Yesterday Mr. Hubble and Mr. Gladdish, the two 

 new overseers, called, and ordered some parish printed 

 receipts to be done with their names. Buried this day 

 Mrs. Etherington Robert Oakes's cnild, &c. 



" Thursday, 4,th. In the night some thieves broke 

 open the house of Mr. Bothers, the grocer getting 

 in the back way, making use of a centre-bit to 

 bore holes in the pannel of the door and stole bank- 

 notes, checks, gold and silver, &c. I went to Dartford. 

 Waited on Mr. Fooks, the solicitor [grandfather of 

 Edward J. Fooks, Esq., solicitor, Hillside, Gravesend] ; 

 and on my return met with Robert Okill, who paid me 

 five shillings for a printing job. He had just returned 

 from Maidstone, where five men had been executed, viz., 

 four smugglers for wounding- officers at Margate, and 

 one man for robbing Dr. Pigot at Mereworth. 



" Good Friday, 5th. Sent two notes (one pound 

 each) to Mr. Simmonds. 



" Saturday, 6th. Lent Mr. Peen second volume of 

 White's ' History of Selborne/ 



" Easter Sunday, 7th. Some thieves taken up for 



