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of Tull, and of Hall, a Papist attorney near Hungerford, on their 
manner of enriching the land with tares : 10 acres fattened 200 
sheep in a summer. Later, I went to buy a barometer." On 
Api'il 21 : "I was with Sir Robert Walpole ' this morning, and 
then to Court, where I had a long conversation with Lord 
Halifax about my Scotch improvements, of wliich he much ap- 
proved." On April the 28th: " I went to Court, and afterwards 
to the House of Lords, where I had a long conversation with 
Lords Bathurst ^ and Litchfield about agricultural improvements." 
On May the 9 th the Diarist writes : " Lord Halifax pressed 
me to be of a party to go and see Tull at Abbs Court ; I ac- 
cepted. I dined with Scarborough,^ Chesterfield,* Albemarle,'^ 
Deloraine ^ and Schultz." This must have been an interesting 
dinner party, and no doubt Abbs Court and Tull were subjects 
of conversation, because Lord Scarborough, the Diarist's greatest 
friend, was brother-in-law of Lord Halifax. Lord Chesterfield 
— then Lord SteAvard of the Household — was the celebrated lord, 
the author of Letters to his Son. Colonel Schultz held some 
office at Court, a man of wit; he is celebx'ated in Pope's Court 
Ballad as a punster. 
On May the 24th : " After dinner I walked with the King, who 
questioned me regarding my manner of planting trees." A day 
or two later, Sunday : "I went with the King to Marble Hill 
— a charming place — the King constantly asked me the names 
of trees." On June the 11th : " After dinner I had, on the terrace 
at Windsor, a long tete-d-tete with the King ; the King talked of 
employing certain regiments to clear and level roads through 
Windsor Forest, and said that he was not quite sure the Colonels 
approved. ' Yes, sir,' I said, ' they will like the duty ; I know 
one at Kinsale [i.e. the Diarist himself] who would be very 
" happie " to offer his services.' The King laughed heartily and 
said, ' I believe you would work for nothing.' ' Yes,' I added, 
' and, to boot, pay our own marching money.' The Duke — the 
young Duke of Cumberland — invited me to his supper." On 
> Sir Eobert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Prime Minister of England, 1715-17 
and 1721-42. 
- Allen Bathurst, first Baron and Earl, born lG8i, distinguished for wit, 
taste and learning ; died in his ninety-first year. 
* Richard, second Earl of Scarborough, K.G. ; died in 1740. 
* Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, K.G. ; died in 1773. 
^ William Anne Keppel, second Earl of Albemarle, E.G., a soldier ; died 
in 1754. 
* Francis Scott, second Earl of Deloraine ; born 1710, died 1739. 
' Marble Hill, a little villa near Twickenham, belonged to Lady Suffolk, see 
post, page 26. Lords Burlington and Pembroke designed the house. Lord 
Bathurst and Mr. Pope laid out the gardens, and Gay, Swift, and Arbuthnot 
were self-constituted superintendents of household, 
