24 Jethro TuU: his Life, Times, and Teaching. 
July the 22nd : " I went on horseback this morning to see the 
works in Windsor Forest : in less than two days several miles of 
road have been levelled. I saw nearly all the officers, who begged 
me to hint to the King that on this service the subalterns were 
at great disadvantage, which in the evening I did not fail to do. 
I did full justice to officers and men ; the King was surprised 
and charmed at the work done by the troops." July 23 : " Out 
walking I told the King of the character of Thomas Hope and 
of. our Scotch improvements. The King was well satisfied, 
chiefly in regard to our manufacture of linen of Cambray, which 
would prevent English money going to France. The King 
seemed pleased with what I said in regard to Thomas Hope." 
August the 10th : " The Duke of Dorset^ promises to interest him- 
self about Hope." August 13 : " I walked in the evening with the 
King, and read to him a letter I had from the Duke of Chandos,^ 
thanking me for having taught his people to burn clay — a won- 
derful success." On August 14 : "I had an invitation from Sir 
Robert Walpole, asking me to visit him at Houghton in Norfolk." 
These incidental records of the names of some of those 
interested in the agricultural affairs of that day are the best 
evidence, so far as they go, as to the men, or some of them, and 
as to the influential Scotch Society which from the first appre- 
ciated and adopted the Tullian principles — principles that, for 
want of due care and interest, men such as those named, and 
many others of their class and power, would never have willingly 
allowed to die. 
Abbs Court, or Apps Court, a manor one and a half mile 
north-east from Walton-on-Tliames, celebrated in song by Pope, 
was inherited by Lord Halifax ; situated on an open plain adorned 
with noble elms and oaks, it has a pretty look-out towards 
Hampton Court. Here, at this half-way house, surrounded on 
the home farm by instructed, intelligent, appreciative great men 
from London, we can picture to ourselves poor Tull in his glory. 
Having for the moment escaped from his everyday surroundings, 
his wife Susanna and her girls, " his hovel of a house " at Pros- 
perous, and his idle, mischievous labourers, he is in the enjoy- 
ment of the few happy hours of a life usually rendered iniserable 
' Lionel Cranfield Sackvillc, seventh E.irl and first Dukeof Dorset : died 1 76.3. 
* James Brydges, ninth Baron and first J)uke of Chandos, created 171!), 
known as " tlie Princely Chandos ; " died at Canons, near Edgware, in 1714, 
Canons, the " Timons villa " of Pope's satire : 
" At Timons villa let us pass a day 
Where all cry out, ' What sums are thrown away ! ' " 
Jhe glory, however, was of brief duration : 
"Deep harvests bury all liis pride has plann'd 
And laughing Ceres reassumcs the land," 
