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" Tuesday, 23rd Mrs. Willatts bought shells. 



"Thursday, 2bth. Walked to Dartford with Mr. 

 Peen, and got Mr. Brewer to accept a note for 

 8/. 10s. 6d., payable at two months, drawn in favour of 

 Mr. Charles Amherst. The harvest has become very 

 general as some of the wheat has been carried. 



"Friday, 26th. Paid Mr. Amherst, in presence 

 of Mr. Peen, his half-year's rent to Midsummer, 

 121. 10s. ; viz., by giving him Mr. Brewer's note-of- 

 hand, dated July 17, 1822, at two months for 2Z. 10s. 6rf., 

 which was made payable at the Bull Inn, in Leadenhall 

 Street, and at the same time I gave him cash 3?. 17s., 

 and there was also owing for a book 2s. 6d. ; in all 

 making up the amount ; but for which he gave no 

 receipt until, he said, he had received the money from 

 Mr. Brewer. 



"Monday, 29th. Many martins flying about at 

 five in the afternoon, apparently foreboding a storm, or 

 about congregating. 



" Wednesday, 31st. Warm. Taken very ill with the 

 colic and cholera morbus. 



" Thursday, August 1st. Warm. In bed with the 

 colic all day : very ill. 



"Saturday, 3rd. Sally goes for me to Dart- 

 ford, and Frances called and said she was going to 

 Dartford Fair, and thence to Kingsdown. Heard the 

 lightning and thunder had done damage to Hoo 

 Church yesterday. And that at Brandts- hatch was a 

 great fall of hail. It is remarkable that on August 2nd 

 I have known it often thunder and lighten, with 

 violent storm. It was on that day, about fiftv years 

 ago, I remember seeing the mill-post of Shorne Mill, 

 with the mill, all shattered to pieces. The miller's name 



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