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on its nest in the park, the others having bred and 

 gone. Heard Lord Darnley's daughter. Mrs. Brown- 

 low, died in child-bed,, and that the child was living 

 at Cobham Hall ; but that Mrs. Brownlow was taken 

 to Ireland to be buried. At Shorne a great storm of 

 thunder and lightning, with a beautiful rainbow. 



" Thursday, 24/i. In our way through Shorne called 

 on old Mr. Chipps, who had been twenty -five years 

 in Lord Darnley's service as poulterer, but had left him. 



" Friday, 25th. Lord Mayor of London at Rochester, 

 having been to view the city bounds, gave a ball. 



" Sunday, 27th. Heard Tilbury Fort was in the 

 Duchy of Lancaster, a jury having sat on the body of 

 an infant found dead in a closet there ! 



" Monday, 28th. Wrote a letter and sent a list of 

 British plants wanted to Mrs. Smith of Gamer, saying 

 I intended to publish a volume of Kentish botany. 



" Tuesday, 29th. Paid Mr. Holderness eighteen- 

 pence, balance due to him for a pair of breeches. Mr. 

 George Pocock from Oxford came last night." [He had 

 a printing employ at the Clarendon Press.] 



" Wednesday, 30th. A jury sat on a child found 

 drowned in the Swan Inn well, the child was supposed 

 to have been stolen. The mother had travelled from 

 Manchester, where the child had before fell down a well 

 and cut a gash in its eyelid : otherwise it was a very 

 pretty child. Walked into Northfleet Brooks, where I 

 found growing the yellow loosestrife, a beautiful tall 

 plant. 



" Thursday, 3lst. Charles Pocock going to Sierra 

 Leone in Africa, but could not fetch the ship. 



"Friday, August 1st. Mr. George Pocock returned 

 from Woolwich. 



