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Jethro Tall : li in Life, Times, and Teaching. 
to the intense disgust of Tail, was immediately reprinted in 
Ireland — pirated without acknowledgment ; and in those days 
there was no legal remedy. So Tull writes, fearing that the 
whole work in like manner would be pirated, " I was come to a 
resolution to publish no more." 
The year 1731 was a Tullian year in Lord Catlicart's 
Diary, January 12 : "I wrote to Lord Stair and to Mr. Tull." 
This was the Diarist's relative and the chief originator of the 
Scotch Agricultural Societj'-, Marechal Lord Stair : ^ there was 
a trade in black cattle between the Marechal and Lord Halifax, 
as in Sir Walter Scott's Tico Drovers, which traffic Lord Cathcart 
arranged. January 18: "Tull the younger and others dined 
with me." January 21 : "Mr. Tull called on me this morning." 
Saturday, January 23 : " Very frosty, I was this morning with 
Lord Bingley,^ with Mr. Tull : my Lord greatly approved TuU's 
system." January 28 : " James Campbell is very ill ; I was with 
him." Young Tull was fourteen years afterwards on Campbell's 
staff as aide-de-camp. Sunday, February 28 : "Mrs. Tull called 
on me in the morning before I went to church." March 10 : "I 
went at 7 o'clock to Rothe's ; we started with Lord Stair for Abbs 
Court, where we saw them drilling sainfoin and barley at one 
and the same time. We had a very agreeable walk all over the 
farm, and dined at Hampton Court with Lord Westmorland, 
and in good time returned to town." ]\Iarch 12 : "I had this 
morning a long conference with Mr. Tull. Yesterday wrote to 
Thomas Hope." March 24 : " Went on foot to Highgate to 
see a theodolite : then to call on Colonel James Campbell, who is 
better : afterwards to the House of Lords with the King : went 
to a coffee-house at St. Mary-le-Graud about selling Sauchie — 
Scotch — coal : called also on Lord Sempill, the Duke of Dorset, 
' John, 2nd Earl of Stair, K.T., Field-Marshal, second in command unc\er 
King George II. at the battle of Dettingen, Ambassador to France on the 
death of I.ouis XIV. The Earl died in 1747. lie was the Diarist's first cousin, 
and with him, as with others, at that time landscape gardening was a passion, 
and landscape gardening and home farming went hand in hand : he was a 
devoted agricultural iinprover. Bridgeman and Kent were then the two great 
professional landscape gardeners, and some of their work may be traced at 
the present day. They were advocates of a natural sy.^teni as opposed to the 
hard lines, right angles, and clipped monstrosities of the Dutch school. Kent 
laid out Kensington Gardens, and amongst others he worked for Lord Bur- 
lington at Chiswick and Lord Cobham at Stow. The Diary to often cited is 
full of evidence of the passion which then prevailed in regard to that delightful 
art, which is the creation of the most pleasing picturcsout of nature's own locally 
available materials. 
■■^ Robert Benson, M.P, for the City of York, raised to the Teeragc as Baron 
Bingley, 1713. His daughter Harriet married (ieorge Lane-Fox. She was the 
heiress of Bramham I'ark in Yorkshire. 'J'hc beautiful park and gardens 
Lord Bingley there created repiain to this day monuments of his taste and 
liberality, 
