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return of Mr. Teasdale from his voyage (on the cod- 

 fishery) in about three weeks. 



"Thursday, 13 to. The Rev. Mark Noble, Mrs. 

 Cresswell, her daughter, and Miss Noble paid me 

 a visit, when I gave Mrs. Cresswell a reversed whelk 

 from Whitstable, which is a great rarity, and a Bernard 

 crab, and an Helix pomatia (found in Sir John Dyke's 

 park on May 1st, about five years ago). Mr. Noble 

 bought Fussel's ' Journey into Kent/ octavo, and 

 a ' Biographical Peerage/ 



" Friday, 14th. Valentine's Day. Two gentlemen 

 (unknown) called on me to buy a ' History of Graves- 

 end' (but they did not), when they said that a Mr 

 Illingworth of the Record Office, Tower, would give 

 any information in that office on liberal terms. 



" Monday, 1 7th. Sold Mr. R , assistant at Mr. 

 Beaumont's, surgeon, Homer's ' Odyssey ' and * Iliad.' 



"Tuesday, Itith. Employed in "composing" an 

 account (additional) , of the subscribers for the relief of 

 the poor of Gravesend, when this second amount 

 was 52Z. 2s. 4d., making with the first amount a total 

 of 166?. 17s. 4d distributed in and among the towns- 

 folks, &c. : thus there were relieved 680 families, and 

 2330 persons in the greatest distress, by 2741 quartern 

 loaves of the best wheaten bread, 1313 pounds of 

 meat, and 24^ chaldrons of coals ! I cannot close this 

 paragraph without mentioning the name of Mr. James 

 Wade (of Ash), who gave liberally five pounds ; and at 

 every such subscription he gives handsomely, not for- 

 getting his native town of Gravesend, where his father 

 was Mayor. 



" Wednesday, 19th. A gentleman in the shop whose 

 features so resemble Mr. Blanchard (part owner of 



