22 Jethro Tull : his Life, Times, and Teaching. 
memoirs of those days, is specially mentioned as one of the 
party ; the fact is interesting as showing the interest taken even 
by fine ladies from town in the country pursuits of almost inac- 
cessible Scotland. On July 14, at the King's levee in London, 
the Diarist witnessed a presentation, which marked an era — he 
saw "the Quakers presented." Later in the month our Diarist 
writes, " I was with the King in the evening, who asked me 
about my plantations." In August he again visited the farms 
at Bushy and Abbs Court. 
In July 1728, the Diarist gave Lord Townshend,' who was 
much interested, an account of the Scotch improvers, and also 
of Thomas Hope, with a view of getting hira a provision of 200?, 
a year. Lord Townshend received this proposition very graci- 
ously. In 1729 there was some special agricultural subscrijjtion 
in which Hope and the Diarist were interested ; he gave as his 
subscription hi. for three years. The Duke of Argyle, his 
brother Lord Ilay,^ Frederick Prince of Wales and others also 
subscribed. On one occasion the Prince asked the Diarist if in 
Scotland he had many horses. " Yes, sir," was the reply, " a 
great many, but they all go in the plough ! " And on April 2 
the Diarist writes, " I went to Sir Robert Walpole — the 
Prime Minister — and for the same object he paid me his sub- 
scription." This incident of the subscription is interesting as 
giving the names of some of those practically interested in 
agriculture. On March 18 the Diary further records, "I 
had a long conversation with Lord Ducie about agricultural 
improvements ; he asked me to visit him, that I might judge for 
myself of the advantages of the TuUian system." 
On April 8, 1730, the Diary records : " I went to Court, where 
I had a long conversation with Lord Halifax about the operations 
ladies celebrated in the memoirs and poetry of those days. Horace Wj^lpole 
says of the last-mentioned lady, a maid of honour to the princess : " I never 
heard her mentioned by anyone who did not prefer her as the most perfect 
creature they ever knew." She married Col. John Campbell, a groom of the 
Bedchamber— was the mother of the fifth Duke of Argyle, and died 1736. 
' Charles Townshend, Viscount Townshend, Lord President of the Council, 
born lOTC), died 1738 : the colleague and rival of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert 
Walpole. In anagc of corruption, Townshend passed liis public life in handling 
political pitch, yet finally retired into private life with hands clean and unde- 
filed. Lord Townshend was an enthusiastic farmer. Having, as Secretary of 
State, attended his master. King George I. in his visits to Hanover, Lord 
Townshend studied turnip husbandry there, and on a large scale introduced- 
that system into his county— Norfolk. It is interesting to observe how one 
great step in advance leads to another. Tull and Townshend prepared the 
way for Bakewell, wlio, with a view to improve the animals of the farm, 
travelled abroad, like Tull, to study, and then experimented. 
2 Archibald, Earl of Hay, second son of the first Duke of Argyle, 1C82-176I, 
and afterwards Duke of Argyle. Managed the Scotch business of the Govern- 
ment for Uobert Walpole. 
