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the best Scotch ale I ever tasted, and commissioned 

 me to buy (if possible) two New Zealand heads at 

 three guineas each, for Mr. Norman, for a museum in 

 Dublin, there being some about Gravesend ! One 

 was lately sold in a sale for thirty shillings. 



"Saturday, 10th. Visited with Mr. George Man- 

 ning the library of the Inner Temple (about ten 

 o'clock), which is the neatest, best, and most elegant 

 I ever saw. Made some extracts from Sir Henry 

 Chauncy's ' History of Hertfordshire ' a very scarce 

 work, and most valuable ! and from others. Stayed 

 two hours, but not a person came into the room, except 

 the under-lib rarian, and the librarian, who passed 

 through, saying, < I hope you gentlemen have found 

 what you wanted.' Keturned home by the boat from 

 Billingsgate, by John Creed, and found my cherry- 

 tree had been dug up and taken away. 



t( Monday, 1 2th. Fireworks in evening in the field 

 opposite the Globe, or Ordnance Field. Mr. Grafter 

 called, and said on Thursday morning last he went 

 over to Major Kelly, and brought a note from him to 

 Colonel Sir G. Hoste, purporting that it was not the 

 wish of Major Kelly to proceed with any charge 

 against Mr. Grafter, and that Sir George Hoste had 

 returned to Webster his charge against him ! 



"Tuesday, 13th. Windy. Waited on Yiggers 

 about the taxes due, 34s., who behaved very violently, 

 saying he would not give me any indulgence ! no, 

 not an hour ! Walked over to Northfleet with 

 some parish receipts, but came away without the 

 money. 



"Wednesday, 14*7*. Sale at White Hart of the 

 property. Got some bills to print about young Francis 



