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At a Meeting of The Surtebs SoaETT, held in Durham Castle, on Tuesday, December 4th, 1877, Mr. Greenwell in the Chair, it was

Ordered, "that a Selection from the Gale and Stukelet Correspondence should be edited for the Society by the Rev. W. C. LuKis."

James Baine,

Secretary.

PREFACE.

It was the earnest desire, more than once expressed, of the late John Britton, to give to the world some of the interesting Stukeley Collections which had come into his hands. A portion of these collections was exhibited by him at the Congress of the Archaeological Institute held at Lincoln in 1848, and the Council of that Society con- sidered these Memorials so curious and valuable as to be well-deserving of publication. In Britton's preface Co a Memoir of Aubrey, published in 1845, he remarks: " The celebrated Dr. Stukeley, who was a zealous and indefatigable collector and recorder of opinions and events, left a minute account of all that he saw and heard during his long intercourse with antiquaries, historians, and other men of letters and science. These memoranda, occupying several quarto and octavo volumes, together with a series of letters addressed to the Doctor by eminent persons, and a collection of his miscellaneous writings, have been many years in my possession ; and they would have been given to the world had I been insured against the risk of loss from their publication."

How Britton became possessed of these volumes of MSS. and bundles of letters is not stated, but they are now, as it is fitting they should be, in the possession of

ii. PESTACB.

the Rev. Harris Fleming St. John, of Dinmore Hoose, near Leominster, Herefordshire, who has, in the moat obliging and generous manner, pUced them, together with many other Stukeley papers, at my disposal for publication by the Surtees Society. Richard Fleming, of Sibdon Castle, Salop, purchased Dinmore in 1739, and bequeathed it to his second son, Richard, who, in the year 1752, married Frances, eldest daughter of Dr. Stukeley. Upon the death of their only son, Richard Stukeley Fleming, the property passed to their oolj daughter, Frances, the wife of the Rev John Francis Seymour St John, canon of Worcester, the grandfather of the present owner (Harris F. St. John), who has inherited numerous Stukeley pictures, MSS., volumes of sketches, relics, and a large collection of coins and medals.

Besides the voluminous corrsspondence in Mr. St. John's possession, another large collection of letters, which were transcribed by Roger Gale into three vola. quarto, has been entrusted to me with equal generoat^ and kindness, and with full permisaioo to use them in these volumes, by Henry Coore, Esq., of Scniton Hall^ near Bedale, Yorkshire, whose mother was Roger Gale'a great grand-daughter.

A few other letters of the some period, relating to Roman inscriptions, once belonging to Dr. Jurin, and now in the possession of C. K. Probart, Esq., d Newport^ Bishop's Stortford, Herts, have been voluntarily and obligingly lent for the same purpose. These will appear in Volume II.

PREFACE. 111.

To these owners of valuable MSS. the best thanks of the Society are returned.

This very considerable body of documents, so far exceeding what I had expected to use, has compelled me to alter the method of arrangement which I had' originally proposed, and to separate them so as to form two volumes instead of one. The Council of the Society expressed their approval of this course in order that as large a nimiber as possible of hitherto unpublished letters might be presented to its members, such docu- ments bearing upon, and illustrating, the social and political life and feeling, and the archaeological researches of the first portion of the last century. The prominent figures among the letter writers, throughout these vol- umes, are Stukeley, the brothers Roger and Samuel Gale, and Sir John Clerk, between whom, from first to last, there existed the warmest ties of friendship and esteem. Almost all of their correspondents, as well as almost all of those with whom they had intimate social relations, to whom frequent allusions are made in the letters, were men who were distinguished for their scien- tific and literary attainments, scholarship, and archaeo- logical researches, and for the honourable places in society, or in their respective professions, which they worthily filled. To many of them we are indebted in the present day for published works of great erudition and utility. They were eminent as philosophers, mathe- maticians, astronomers, antiquaries, physicians, surgeons, classical scholars, poets, historians, divines, painters, numismatists, &c.

IV. PRXTAOL

Although much of the material of these volumes be found to relate to dUtricta beyond the area to which the Surtees Society is limited, the Council feel that they may claim as their own, any subject which brings before the world the learning and intelligence of those scholars who have borne the honoured name of Gale.

The present volume contains Dr. Stukeley's Com- mentaries, Autobiography, Diary, and Common-place Book, in which he has given a complete account of his life, and entered very minutely into the affairs, friendships, and pursuits of himself and other members of his family. These are followed by a miscellaneous correspondence of considerable interest, and also by some letters upon astronomy and coins. The astroD* (Hnical letters have lieen considered of especial value by those gentlemen who are eminently qualified to express an opinion, particularly by Kev. A. Freeman, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and deputy to the Plumian Professor of Astronomy there, and by Rev. J. R. Lunn, B.I)., Lite Fellow of St John's, and Sadlerian lecturer, and now holding the college liring ct MartoD-cum-Grafton, Yorkshire, both of whom have strongly recommended their publication, and furthered this measure by supplying most useful comments.

The letters relating to coins were submitted to John Evans, Ksq., F.K.S., &c.. President of the Numismatic Society, who has very kindly annotated them. For the aid thus freely rendered by these gentlemen my hearty acknowledgements art due.

The second volume will contain correspoodence and

PREFACE. V.

private notes relating to archaeological discoveries made in almost every county of England, and in many parts of Scotland ; and these will be arranged in chronological order under the counties to which their subject-matter chiefly relates. A few of these letters have already been published by Nichols in his BeliquicB Galeance^ and appear to have been taken from Gale's transcripts in the possession of Mr. Coore, and as the originals have been placed in my hands by Mr. St. John, I have had the opportunity of collating the transcripts with them. Generally speaking, the handwriting of the correspon- dents is excellent, while the spelling appears to have followed no fixed rules. It is the custom of the Surtees Society, while it retains the spelling of the period, to follow the usage of the present day in regard to capitals, stops, and contractions. In the first part of this volume I have inadvertently adopted the ancient usage, and must therefore ask the Members of the Society to look upon that portion of the work as a specimen merely of original orthography. Several particulars which are not generally known, and are not without interest, are disclosed by the memoranda in this volume. We find that Stukeley's devotion to antiquarian pursuits and fondness for collecting curious articles, naturally led him not only to investigate his family history, but to acquire whatever objects would aid him in this inquiry. Besides some leaves of ancient churchwardens' accounts, which contain the names of his ancestors, he was pos- sessed of a remarkably fine monumental brass, formerly in the north aisle of Great Stukeley church, Hunts. A

VU PRXTACK.

sketch of it appears in one of his volomes of drawbgs, and represents Sir Nicholas Stukeley. In the doctor's fine pedigree at Dinmorc House, this individual finds a place under date 1357. We learn from the Brazen-nose Diary or Literary Memoirs how Stukeley became pos- sessed of the brass. In vol. iv , p. 59, 1741, he writes: **Mr. Torkington, rector of Little Stukeley, sent me the brass image of Sir Nicholas de Styvede which hb fiither and I took off the stone in the church of Great Stukeley many years ago (it being loose), and carried to the mansion house in Great Stukeley. Somebody has since then [1721] broke it in pieces, I suppose in order to sell it for old brass."' In vol. xviii., p. 29, of the same memoirs, 1759, he again writes : ^* I fixed the fine brass of Sir Nicholas de Styvecle, which I retrieved from Great Stukeley, on a mahogany board. They had pulled it off the stone in the church, and broke it into pieces, in order to sell it for old brass, and this since I took a drawing of it (9 July, 1 721 ), and had it engraved. The long brass inscription which went round the verge of the stone, with his name, history, and time of his death, &c., had been loose, and taken off before, and laid up in the parish chest ; but upon inquiry we (bund it gone ; as also the brasses of his two wives, his son, and daughter, from the same stone. But I thought it a necessary piece of piety toward my great progenitor to preserve what remained.** Lastly, in vol. xx « p. 52, be says : ^On 4 June, 1764, put up Sir Nicholas de Stukele/s monumental brass effigies in the chapel of my mauso- kum at Kentish Town.** Sir Nicholas is represented in

PRSFACE* Vll.

fall armour, bare-headed, hair cropped close, feet resting on a dog ; and he is l3ang upon a cross, the stem of which shews below his feet, and the trefoiled ends of the arms of the cross project above his head and beyond his arms. In the pedigree the date of this " progenitor " is 1357, but I think this is from 80 to 100 years too early, because at that period knights were generally repre- sented with their helmets or bascinets on ; they wore moustaches ; and their armour consisted of mail and plate, and over all was the jupon ; whereas Sir Nicholas is shown with a smooth face, the elbow plates are large, the tuiles are long and pointed, and reach to the knees, and the soUarets are long and acutely pointed, all charac- teristics of the later date.

In 1709 Stukeley took his M.B. degree at Cambridge, and in August of the same year went to London ^^ to see the practice of St. Thomas's hospital.'' During the time he resided in London he frequented St. George's church, and there ^^ received the sacraments, little think- ing," as he says, ^^ that I should ever have the honour to preside at the sacred table." In the last vol. (xx.) of his memoirs, he has made a note that on October 30, 1763, when he was 75 years of age, he first preached in spectacles ; that the topic of his sermon was against too much study ; and that his text was ^^ Now we see through a glass darkly." In the following year, on Sunday, April 1, as an eclipse of the sun was to occur, beginning soon after 9 in the morning, with the middle of it before 1 1, he inserted a paragraph in the " White- hall Evening Post," recommending that the morning

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niu PRKTACB.

service in the London churches should be poetpooed to enable the congregati#n8 to gratify their curiosity. ^ If the church service/* he wrote^ ^^ be ordered to begin a little l>efore 12, it will properly be morning prayer, and an unifonnity preserved in our duty to the Supreme lieing, the author of these amazing celestial move* ments."

Irreligion in the medical profession was common in his (lay, and Stukeley was of opinion that many of his contem{K>ranes lay under this reproach. See p. 112. Sir Thomas Brown, of Norwich, in the previous centuiy ntnarkiHl that this was the general scandal of his profe»- hion ; and Sir Kenelm Dighy, who lived at the same time as Brown, obs^Tved that *' Physicians do commonly hi*ar ill in this liehalf ; and that it is a common speech, ubi tres medici, duo athei.** Not only was astrology much followed, but in the lu>t cTntur}' it was doaely allied with the* art of medicine, and U*lieved in. Accord* ing to Fabian Withers, a phyhirian who was ignorant of a>trology deserved the name of a dt*<H:iver, liecause, bj ol»><'rving the moving of the >ignN he would have learnt what himple herb would have run*d the malady which lli^ greatest and ^t^onge^t medirines had failed to do. *' Diligently «*onbult," he writts, '' with an astronomer, Irum whence and by what means any |ienl or danger may hap|Mn or come unto the<% and then either go unto a physician, or use discretion and tem|»erance, and bj that means thou mayt*st defer and prolong thy natural life thn>ugh the rules of astronomy and the help of the phyaician.** Stukeley studied afttrolugy, and in thia

PREFACE. 1X«

volume, pp. 90-93, the reader will find " Canons for the Eimarmene," and the events of his life which happened under planetary influence. Such remarkable fulfilments of astrological forecasts as those which are recorded of the poet Dryden, must have gone far to encourage this study. The poet having calculated his second son Charles's nativity, " was grieved to discover that he was bom in an evil hour, Jupiter, Venus, and the sun being all under the earth, and the lord of his ascendant being afiSicted with a hateful square of Mars and Saturn.'* He therefore afiSrmed that the boy would " go near to die a violent death at his 8th year;" at his 23rd year he would lie " under the same evil influence ; " and if he escaped this crisis, then in his 33rd or 34th year another calamity would befal him The first oracle was realized when the lx)y was nearly killed, \'iewing a stag hunt at his grandfather's ( Lord Berkshire J, Charlton Park, when a ruinous wall fell and covered him with the debris. The second was realized when Charles fell from the top of an old tower at the Vatican, Rome ; and the third, when, in his 33rd year, he was drowned at Windsor. — See Wilsan^A Life of William Congreve.

Allusions to Richard of Cirencester are made in pp. 56 and 80, which hardly justify Mr. Herbert's suspicion {Cyclops ChristianuSj p 107 n.) that Stukeley was Bertram's accomplice in the production of this work. That he was closely connected with Bertram in its pub- lication fully appears, but the correspondence would rather tend to show that he was Bertram's dupe, than an accomplice in the imposture.

Short biogniphieal noCioes d the men of lettert, with whom Stukeley ctme into conUct» are given by him in bis Coromon-pUce Book, pp. 94-1 35 ; and d those whose names occur in the correspondence and elsewhere, in the foot notes passim. I trust the readers* indulgence will be granted me for having caused a lengthened memoir of Caleb Pamham, a friend and neighbour of Stukeley, to be written and inserted in an appendix, and that the interesting details of the life of so remarkable a man will atone for its copiousness.

In a toot note on page S3& I have stated that Gannoc signifies a standard or ensign. Since the sheet was {Minted I have met with an allusion to the same word in Stukelej's Braxen-nose Diary, where it is explained to be the via prcstaria or high-street, and an old German word equivalent to via alia.

1 have to express my thanks to Canon Raine for much assistance rendered ; also to the Rev. F. Hem- mans, Vicar of Holbeach, who has supplied a great amount of useful information relating to the Stukeley fiunily and their connection with that parish ; to the Rev. S. S. Lewis, F.S.A., Fellow of Corpus Chrisd College, Cambridge, for the loan d Masters's History of that college, and other sei vices ;' and especially to the Rev. J. K. Lunn, B.D., for the Memoir of Pamhanu

My inexperience in the labour d a work <d this kind must plead for me with the Council and Members d the

• Mr. Uvte hm Wtalj Isiownd m ikM tk« ^kt^ vHk bk tetk« to M (M Ckmm^mUH^t, F ID «i te Tiyii ol KMi." A BiiMiity la ft Acfti» mU la Ilea mtmA Mmmm^ #411 U IS.

PREFACE. XL

Society for errors and omissions which they will not fail to detect

Where directions are given to subjects postea^ under various counties, they must be understood as referring to Vol. II., where they will appear. The initials at the headings of the letters refer to the Rev. H. F. St. John and Henry Coore, Esq., in whose possession they are.

W. C. LUKIS.

fFaih lUdary, Ripon.

THE FAMILY MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM STUKELEY, AND THE ANTIQUARIAN AND OTHER CORRESPONDENCE OF WILLIAM STUKELEY, ROGER GALE, AND OTHER EMINENT MEN OF THE EARLY PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Part I. — ^The Commsntarts, Autobioobapht, Diabt, akd Common-place Book of William Stukeley.

OymmeniairyB^ 1720.

Mt Gh-andfather' Mr. John Stnkelej was bom the 4th of Jan. 1623, at Holbech, [&] lived for the most part at Uffington within a mile of Stanford, I suppose not so well pleasd with the Level Country of Lincolnshire. Part of the house is now rebuilt by Mr. Blackwel on the s. side Mr. Berties. Mr. Blackwell lives in it. The great house was pulld down when Capt Charles Bertie bought the Estate k built his new house. On the backside next the Fields are two Rows of great Ash-trees, which were calld the Walk, which he planted.' He planted manv wich trees' too, now standing in the hedgrows of the Farm Pastures between Uffington k Stanford about Newsted, k there is now, or very lately was, an old Man in the Town alive John Smith^ (as my Coz« WilL Barker of that place told me) who was his Laborer then, particularly a little field, calld Lammas field, near the River side, wherein is a Spring and many Aspen trees of his setting. He

* Mr. Wm. Hobton of Siion, k, Mr. Dan. de Lyon, whose Daoghter was BiAiTd. to crooked John Hobeon his ton, were goardisni to my Grandfar.— W, 8.

' He wan natnrally mnch giren to ooontiy improTementa. — ^W. 8.

' There are now (12 Aog. 17S0) 60 wich trees of his planting worth 6<, a piece. 1786. Mr. Bertie eat *em down k. sold *eni.^W. 8.

* Jo. 8iBith d7*d in oar Hoq>ital, pat in there bj Mr. STaaa.*-W. a In tlM aaigin opposite to 8adth*a name Is *« Old MaxweU of brig OMtntoo."

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boilt the Wall, A the Dairj booie bj the nwd tide, not &r from the bridge A Milli going to SUnford, where Newtted Abbj stood, ae my Father ooce told me. And old Morrice of Stanford knew him, remba hie ridg a race once himself. He wai ai to hi« per* •on, by all aoooonU I hare heard of him, not tall, about mj Father's stature, middle stature, fatdsh, of great AgiUtj A vira- dtjf rerj quick in speech and readj witt, particuUrlj faoetiooa, of a sodden apprehenaioo A would return an answer before a question was weU askd. His oonTertatioo being rery agree- id>le made him acoepuUe among the Nobilitj k Gentlemen unirersally liring round about the place, which was no small Detriment to his Affairs, keeping them Companj at their Sports A Diversioos, Baceing, Hunting, Qameing A the like, putting him upon the Neoesaity of alienating a great part of the Family Estate at Holbech, which is now in the hands of Dr. Pakej of Lincoln, giren by the Harta who bought it, particularly the 10 acrea now in possession of Mr. Ball wherein is the MiU, which I hare seen in an old Map of South Holland in possession of Mr. M. Johnson of SpaUing, called Stukeleys MiU ; A all the rest of Pakers Estate thereabouta, A that which waa bought by the Pettya of Oanesborough, part in Battell fielda, Damgate, A the fiurm between the Vicarage houae A Barringtons gate, whereof my 4 acrea which lay under my Fathen house was part By the old Town books or Terriers it appears our Family once owned almost all the land for a mile round Holbech Church, by marry- ing the Haiieas of the Fletea.

But to return to my Grandfather, I hare heard my Father say that he was mighty fond of making extempore Jokes A verses upon Company, A those upon his Cos. Nathan Hobson, who was blind of one eye, are still rememberd all orer Lincolnshire ; the preeent Champion ooce repeating them in my company not know- ing whose they were.

Hen oosMS If tAkea avedflac. t^s^ WUa a broad kel mi tttw edgiac

My aunt Dodaoo ooce repeated to me socne tefses which ho made upoo a grsat Eclipae of the sun, whidi were ooi oootemp- lihle^

W. JSTUKSLIT^ 1720. 3

He fint manyed Jane Dowman* of a good Family there but came originallj from Yorkshire, who left him two sons & two Daughters. These Dowmans or Dolemans went afterwards to Soham near Ely where some are still living, Thej had a great Estate, her mother was a Blechendjn in Kent related to the Hales* there, a Family of great note & wealth. One of her sisters was in her young time a Celebrated Beauty. Shedyd not long agoe at £Iy. I went one Christmas from Cambridg to see her & she was almost ravishd with joy. I think she was the finest woman of her age (above 80) that I ever saw. My Grande- mother was buryed in U£5ngton^ Quire 23 Dec 1662, & after- wards my Grandfather manyed Ellen' the daughter of John Crossland, Esq% of Helmsley in Yorkshire, sister to S' Jordan Crossland. Her former Husband was William Prideauz,® Bp.

* Da. of Wm. Dowmsn of UfBngton, Eaq., a Justice of peace, living May 1664.— W. 8. The family of Dowman liTed at the hooae called '*The Mote.*'

John ThofntOD, Qent, ob. Sep. 13, 15d8.nFAnn, eldest dan. of Bobt Draiye, Esq.

Sir Soger Thornton, knt^

Wm. Dowman, ^...Blechendyn Isaac ^LjiiA

of Uffiagton, Bsq. j of Kent. Lnkjn. J Thornton.

S. Bllen, or Sleanoi^^ohn Stakeley,^!. Jane D., Mildmay ^Mary Lnkyn,

d. of John Groesland, of Uffington, of Helms^y, Esq. Qent. ob. 1675. (widow of 0€iU»A PrideaoxXbnr.lnSt Ma^gaietX West-

bnrd. at Dowman,

UIBngton, of Soham,

23 Dec., Esq. 1662.

ob. 1676.

Adliird Stnkeley.

John Stokd^, bon& Oetob. 1667.y:FranoeB, 2d dan. of Bobt. BnUen, of Weston. Wm. Stnkeley, M.D., F.B.S., F.8JL, bom 1687.

• Ld. Chief Jnstice Hales.

* The Estate at Ufliagton belonging to ^^Uera, Dnke of Buckingham, as Ukewise that at Helmsl^, now Dnncombs ; I suppose my grandfr. went thither to make a lease, pay rent or the like, ft so came acquainted with her. 8r. Christ, fflaphsm liv'd in the great old manner house at Uffiagton at this time, or at the Fiyeiy (8r. Puiy Custs,) or at Mr. Snows on Bam hilL— W. &

* JTssasr Ckodand. Dugd. VUUation, Vol zxxwL, Snrtees Soc

• OoloMl ia the Boyal Aimy,

4 OOHJUUfTAXTlL

Prid6Mix*«'* ion, wboM estate wmi niiiiM for hU Lqjrmltj in tbe Ormod Rabdlioo. Ha rmiad a Regimaot in faror of liie Roval party, k maantain*d it at hit own Charf^ He wai a rerj valiant maUi k iiew 14 or 16 of the Rebek with hia own hand at the Battel of Maraton More** where be rec*d hb Deatba wound. ThiB Dr. Tanerod Robinson*^ told me, ^' wbo i» deaoended from the Ooalanda. Mrt. Ellen Croaland wai a very great Beaatr k had the honor of a aalnte from King Charles I. when at York, who oaoad her picture to be drawn bj Vandjke k bung up in bis Gallery of Ladja. King Charles II. gare her a pension in con- sideration of her husbands eminent senrioea. Mj Grandfather had no children bj her, k she provd an excellent Mother in Law, for my Fa' , the younger Bro'*, wms designd by my Grandfather to be brought up to Country business k Grazing, his elder Bro'- my Uncle being put Clerk to the Law ; but my Fa*** Geniun not condescending to any thing so mean he never would leave Sch<K>l, but was reaolvd to be a scholar. So every morning his Mo' uad to get up betimes to give him victuals k send him away to Stan- ford School before his Fa' wms out of bed, k at night he usd to abscond tiU his Father wms in bed, so that oo Sundays only he could be met with, k then he was always sure of a good beating for the whole weeks arrears, which hia Mo' often by her inter- position prevented, and nature would prevail sgainst all obstacle. My Grandfather dyd at Uffington May 1675, aged 58 y. 4 months, k was buryed in the Quire by my Grand mother. His widow lived afterwards at Westminster to the time of her Death. She was mighty desirous of seeing me when a Boy, and sent me a guinea for a present but dyd before I ever came to Loodoo, k was buryed in the South-west Comer of S^ Margaret* Church Weatm'

* BUkep ci Wofc-lM, iai!»SO. <>■ tkt lUb orw kit i— jIm In n^dcm cterdi. WorMiC«r«liirt(wkitbwlMrttlrHlo«bdBf tafMdoMolkit lUtkofvic* and hT«d wita kit ■M.in-Uw B«v. Joka W«6Ik tka BacfarX U taaenbad. *" Jokaaaas mdaaaa 4.0. ISTa, BtpL 17. aalai p^|o f^kaeara, md paraaiikas tsfaaaia" Ha diad If Jslj. I«i0. tgad Tf.

" 8r. Jordaalaa vaakilldtkalkattlaaoaMaaadiaf atiaaparkoffaa.— W.e. For a tkmrt If taMif ci Dr. T. Bakiaaoa, Ma 8takalf7*s

tkapmsalLsid

W. 8TUKELE7, 1720. 5

His Bister Esther marryd into the Family of the Kymes at Boston who lived in Rochford, or by some Richmond Tower, whose ancestors have been famous in that County ever since before the Conquest. His younger Bro'* Antony purchased the Estate of the Guild of Holbech, which is still in the hands of the Ghraves's of Sutton his Descendants. The Stukeleys now in Norfolk and Suffolk come from him. One was a Dignitary of the Cathedral of Norwich, S'* Tho. Browns monum^ ; another now is Parson of Preston near Lavenham & has children; another is now Parson of Middleton cum Membris.

There was a Picture of my Grandfit'* drawn with shoulder knotts the fashion of the Time, but upon the strictest enquiry I could never hear what became of it

My Aunt Dodson eldest Da'* waited as Companion to the Earl of Twomounds Lady in North^toushire.

My Fa'* Mr. John Stukeley'^ was bom at UfBngton Octob. 1657. After his Fa'- dyd his elder Bro'- Adlard took him to be his Clerk in the Business of the Law, at Holbech, in the old seat of the Family, & being himself of a very weak con- sumptive habit gave him to understand that he had no thoughts of marrying & expected that he should, so he lived with him afler his Clerkship was out, & prosecuted his business with great Industry, indulging at the same time his natural inclination for planting & improvement upon the Estate derived from his Fa'* as looking upon it one day to be his own. He sett most of the young wood now about the house & all the Quick hedges, several Bows & Walks of Ash trees among the Coppices & home pastures.

When he was near 29 years old he made his Addresses to the second of the Four Daughters of Mr. Robert Bullen of Weston, who lived upon the Estate near the Sea Bank called S'* Lamberts. She was then very young about 17 and handsome. At times she lived in London at Mrs. Yanderspritts, the comer house of Bosh lane (I think) in Canon street just by London stone, where be courted her when he came up in Term time. At length they were marryd at Pinchbeck on Fryday the 28 May 1686, by the Vicar Mr. Mitchel, (The Poesie of his ring, I have obtaind

*• ICjr Fa^ Uved at Holbech 102.— W. 8.

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wbom God ardaiod, which I hmre now hj iiie)| A gresi courte of naighboring Qontlemen A Relatioiu bemg prMent. Going thro' Bpdding upon their BeCom to Wertoo tn grMft Speed, ai is the custom at Weddiogs in the Oovntrji mm old Gentlewoman who was mj Fa*** djent calld to him Tery ooUi- dtooslj enquiring whose Wedding it was, A took it Terj ill thai he rode awaj without informing her, ss I hare heard him pleasantlj refaUe it Between Spalding k Mr. Bollens house, the coapanj beiog all upon full speed, mj Mo'- who was an exoellent Horse- woman, being upon a fioe joong Gelding of mj Grandfiuher Bollens, fairlj ootstript all the company k reached her Fa"^ house leering them behind, very merrily whipping my Fa"^ hores A himself too, k )oking him for being deserted by his Bride.

In aboat half a jear after, my Mo'* miscarried ; k on Monday the 7th Noremb. 1687 between 7 A 8 at night I was bom** in my Fathers (more probably in my Uncle Stokeleys) boose in Holbech, in the chamber the south east comer of the boose next the Garden (as I suppose) called the blue chamber. This bouse my Fa'* boogfat of Mr. Thacker, with 9 or 10 acres of ground under it, which he imprord rery much by building a great part of the hopse, wainsootting, deling Ac A the pastures he planted with the orchard with Fruit ; he built rery fine stables, baok hammm^ somer house, walls round the yard A Garden, set Quick hedges round the pastures and ristos of Ash, Oak, Elm A Walnut lb Field between the Front of the house and the Viearige ho«se he made into a grore, a Fine Avenue leading into the church yanL This he calld the Walk, in imitation of that at Uffingtoo, by whieh appellation it is still known. He beightned all the roads Isadii^ to the bouse, carrying thither many thousand oartloads of earth,

Uj Far tWs a moatb abort SO. Vy U<Ahtr If. If rm. •idwifa, a Tfmem CWombU aj sott. I mekl oi mj Mof • a llMe «M broac^ sp bj Ua 8pm. a vm tlM omkj skiM libs Uielga •• Ur. for tbo* aba waa iba fondaai Rarant la iba world jai aba bad Ibsi paesil* sffi^ tbac aba ooald %oi aboar Ui iba ama»ofi f caiftiaa tMilariaBi^ aa Itei abs is bar Ufa avar kiaai tmjcihu ebildraa. a I lasaaabar psrfasllj at tba i^ ol IS I vaa a parfad anaes* ta

I «M cbffiatMd tba 21 loUpvtec ^ Mr*

Uwim§ ia Hpaldiac Mr. Wm. WaUatt ol WvieA, aqr Oed- fsiban k MJ fTraaitainlitT f ilttn fi -tft in mj t^raaitfa' mj thidaMUbsr Uj m^ bsps tba dslbsi I wsa ht^timi ta a aqr liilsr asw bss til W.a

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filling up for the most part a great pitt by the aide of Baii^y Pitt & planting Trees upon them. He made several fifihpon<JU in the yards which he stockt with Pike, built a Dove hovtB^ wherein were an excellent & plentiful breed of Pigeons, made a new well, and was the cause of all the wells in Town being dug, which was a great benefit to the Countiy so scarce ci water in summer time, that Pump at the old Seat of the Family being the only one in the Parish at that time. He sett his heart very much upon improveing the Town where his ancestors had lived for many generations, was the great instrument of building the largQ Mercat Cross^* there, the Bose & Crown Inn,*^ bringing the Butter Trade thither, & obtaind a Post to come fix)m Spalding to bring the letters. He was made churchwarden, when he erected a new Beading Desk, & Pulpit for the Minister, & seats in the Church.^ He new built the wall between the church yard & the Street, was very earnest in collecting Contributions for rebuilding the Yicarige house.^' He purchased of S'* Oeo. Humble a paroell of old shops in the Mercat place by the Bridge, & at vast ezpence rebuilt 5 new houses thereon. He spard no cost in making good brick and lime, fetching the stone firom Lincoln, & fine oak timber from Tumby Wood, and coverd them all with tile or slate which till then was a stranger there. He new built the Cheoquer Inn A made fine vaults of brick, was instrumental in promoting more building all over the Town, & in planting Trees & quick sett hedges, so that the Countiy looks all like a Ghurden, & in Summer time yields to none for pleasantness. He assisted in taking in large tracts of Marsh land from the Sea, &, was [Mrind- paUy concemd in Mr. Belgraves new intake ; was very zealous in all works of sewers for draining the country, opening the

** Ko ICarket Ciots now eziits. There ii a lamp post upon a stone bMe in the centre of the road, which stone has been thought to have been the base of a cross taken down in 16SS.

" Tliere is a Bose and Crown Inn not far from the Stnkeliy aronnds ; and the Gbeqner Inn, aUnded to below, is now the chief Hotel, jnst opposite the diBzch, and is said to haTe been boilt on the site of All Saints HospitaL

" The Desk and Pulpit were xemoTod in the time of the Ber. J. Morton, forty-ilTe jean ago ; and the whole of the seats cleared away in 1SS7.

■* The present Vicarage was boilt between 1S38 and 1S40 ; bat two rooms of the fwMBP boose remain.

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•Iniceti loowring out fiills, A had oUatnd Orders finom the Com- miitioiien at Spalding for erecting one or more Water Sngioea in the Pariah, bat, be dying soon after, the work fiaU to the groond. He had bargee came up with lime ttoue, A other mate- rials from the Wash up the Hirer, to the Church Bridg which was nerer done before or since. He made Tast plantatioos of young trees, sowing aooms A other plants, A setting them in the borders of his Fields. I transplanted since his Death some hundreds of them, A oaks among the rest raiad from his acorns, which I oarryed in Wagons to sett in Distant

He was in person not tall, fat, of small bones, faceiioos in company, good humord the* a little passionate, of a Oeoeroos ition, of an open undesigning freedom of speech, esuiei to word, affable A courteous, condescending to the meanest, respectful. to his superiors, careful in the education of his chil- dren, I have heard him say that if he had but a groat in the world he would lay out 3d. of it to gire them learning, a great encourager of Industry, lovd to have many workmen imployd A constantly paid them erwy Saturday night A true 4 inde- fatigable Friend, A one who had or desenrd no Enemy, kind to his Relations even to a Fault, a sincere Lover of his Country A the National Church ; I cannot detirmine the party he was of, but in matters of Elections be ever promoted the Interest of those be thought the honestest Patriot A spard no pains or cost in doing it He was a stickler in the Revolution from his enmity to Popery A arbitrary Power. He undenrtood the Latin Lan- guage well. I have a book of Phrases collected out of Horace by bim when a Schoolboy, well done A handsomly written, A a great quantity of bis Exercises A venes in Latin A Greek, Tranalations in the ssme languages. He had a good Engiiah stile. He aflfectcd a jocoee good humord way of speaking in common conversation, 4 was master of all the good Qualitys thst became his ProfessioQ vastly distant from the iU onca. No person found him slack in giring the honestest advice to his Clyent, nor would be be engagd upon any terms in a eaaae which be suspected to be knavish, which the inccees of his Prae- taae flofficieotly evideooea, fur be was rsmarirahly happy that

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way, A seldom had a trjal went against him.^ He was stren- uoosly ooncemd in managing that famoos suit between the Im- propriator of the parsonage of Holbech & the Town, which they have ever since been sensible of in its good consequences in rela- tion to the modus of tytheS| and there was a notable Ballad made of it, wherein he had the chief hand, the Burden being (which I remember ever since a schoolboy)

For Geovge" without Garter has lott his iham Charter for tithing lambs after not on clipping day,

He had a good knack at Poetry & Bhjaning, a tuneable voice & could sing tolerably well. When young he exercisd himself in ringing & promoted the ringing Loft much which was erected in the steeple.

He took great care of the publick concerns & Accounts of the ParisL The Lord Lievtenant of the County, the Marquis of Lindsey, now D. of Ancaster, gave him a Lieutenants commission in the Militia which he kept to his Death, & offerd to put him into the Commission of the Peace but he dedind it Li Aug. 1695 he was elected one of the Stewards at a great Meeting of all the Attorneys in the Countys of Northton, Lincoln, Hunting- don, Rutland & Isle of Ely, at Suly in Northtonshire. He was very affectionate to his wife, tender yet reasonably strict to his children, a kind master to his servants & Laborers. Friendly to all his Brother Practitioners, Loyal to his Prince, a Zealous enemy to Popery & T]rranny, attachd to the Church of England, & against persecuting the Dissenters, never saying any thing worse of them than that they thought differently from him, & the surest way to lessen their numbers was to leave them to their own way ; that Truth needed not & would never gain Proselytes

* Indefatigable in aerring thoa thftt trusted their affairs in his hands; readj to lend his advise k monej to those that wanted it, 4c in Tindicadng them from wrong k oppression ; the common Father of the inferior part of the par- isht wtrj diariti^le to the indostrioos poor, k would not faU to sett them to work himself, or enable them to cany on their particolar trades k business. His tenants k dependants were sore of a constant Friend in him, k ewtrj one •trore to be onder hia cognisance k regard.— W. 8.

" AUnding to Lord George who held it under the Bp. of Lincoln.— W. 8«

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by Foroey nor lose bj LeoHj A good ntage ; 4 indaad aU th« Ditaeoten of the ptruh, of whaterer dfloominalioOi tmtlad Umv boflineM io hit handi, tbo* be wm the fiutbett penoo from fii?«r» log their Opinions, k would ofteo mildly reuoo with them opoo their disputes. Nerer any Coootry Gentleman left a Surer char- aoter, nor was more regretted, For upon news of his OBeipeded Death a Qeneral Grief struck thro* the whole country. Mr. Jmy of Fleet, a Good Neighbor & Gentleman of Estate, was so coo« cemed at it that he could not goe to Dinner that day 4 said ha should not live long after him, A indeed he dyd in less than a years time. Mr. Wm. Wallis nerer mentioned my Father to me but tears burst out, & to this day none of my old Neighbors meet me without expresaing the most sensible demonstratioiis of the loss of him, k remembrance of his particular serrioes io thea A tlieir great Lom, A the uniTersal detriment the country ana* taind thereby, A Indeed, ever since, the Face of the country ia alterd A the parish dwindled away to -nothing. No order nor rtigulation observd among them, for want of his poweHul inedi* ation A moderation to stifle their little Feuds of ContentioO| 4 conduct the business of the Public by his superior manageoMBi 4 regulation.

He had nothing to begin the world withall but his pen 4 ink, 4 left an Estate of his own acquiring of about S00£ p. ano, too small to suspect he usd indirect means for obtaining it, 4 doubtless he might honestly hare got much more but be thought it sufficient to put his children into a capacity of making their Fortunes by their own industry in Business, 4 that it was pre* farable to setting them abore the world 4 in a state of inda pcndi^cy, which rrnders young people too obnoxious" to all the rmnitys 4 errors, affluence and their years prompt them to. Ha rightly obserrd that a view of business 4 making ones self siderable wss the truest spur to that laudable ambition 4 of our own Facultys which turns the fire of youth out of the wrong path, 4 train of appetites they would naturally persoe, talo the track of merit 4 endeaforing to excel! ; That a soitaUa employment fills up the early racancys of life 4 eutta off the opportunitys of the idle pomiita, the keeoess of cor

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ixit too naturally prompts us too ; k being sett right in onr first going oat into the high road of Yirtae is half the jonmey, an Lnproveingmiderstanding & judgment of things then continoally ripening upon ns 'will {»olMibly make ns useful members of Society, k teach us to aoqnit ourselves well in all its characters that Frovidence shall afterwards place us in. Whereas being wholly exempt from the .cares of providing the necessary sup- ports of onr stations, k proposing no prospects but the satisfaction of animal Inclinations, we being a scandal upon our species as well as Family, k effectually ruin the Fortunes our Ancestors have too libeiaDy provided for us, not knowing the care k dili- gence they took to raise it

Indeed my Fa'* toward the latter end of his short life grew very indcdent as to business, k would entiroly have left it off but fer my mothers persuasions, he refusd being steward to the Col- lege of St Johns Cambr. for their lands in HolL Mr. Duncomb offerd him the Mannor of Holbech, S'* Edw^ Irby the caro of his Estate thereabouts, k several other very profitable Steward- afaipe he might liave had £rom my Uncle Stukeley but he per- emptorily refusd em, k I beleive the chief engagement he had to continue the aflGurs of his profession was in order to leave it to some of his children, he kept the Burlyon mannor in Oedney belonging to Lord Stanford, k the CuUyer Bents thero of Lord -Qasulstonea. He was a lover of Family k other Antiquitys. Onoe when I was with him at Oourt keeping thero, when his Clerk, he orderd me to take out the old Inscription cut upon the sooth door of ihe Churoh,^ k the Inscription upon the fine old Tomb of the Welbys^ an antient k worthy Family in these parts related to us ; & my dexterity at it made him commend me which probably was the first seeds of my love of Antiquitys.

About 1690 I learnt the first Rudiments of Letters of Mrs. rood, an old deeay'd Gentiewoman at Holbech, who

* The imeriplioii ittiided to is on tiie tenth door of Qedn^ ehnreh, S| ■fl« Irom Holbech, and is as follows :— ** Pax Xti sit hvio domai ct oauiiboa hafailantlbDs in ea. Hie xoqaiaa nostra.**

** The We)l7 monnment is a dab, bearing a Bnss figure, with the fbUow* Ing inscription : — *' Orate pro a*i*m domins Johmnn» Welbj qoondsm nxoris Bicsidi Welby senioris et fili» Ridi Lejke miliUs qae obiit ISo die Decembris Sni BOOooivilL Ctajoa aaiaw pcopfioietar Deos.**

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taught all the ChiMrai io the Parish, k in 1692 I was pat to the Free-School at the Church there, which was foaoded bj the Family of the Farmer*, A bj them, A other Benefactort together, eodowd with lands k tenements to the jearij %*aloe of £40 or 50 p anB. my Fs'* being one of the trustees of that Cbaritj. Tlie Ma'* then wis the learned Mr. Edw^ Kelsal, who in 4 jears time left us fur the School of Boston, k afterwards became the Vicar there, k dyd last summer (1719). To him at Holbach succeeded Mr. W** Smith, about 1696, a lieicestershire Gent, chiefly introduced by my Fa^ recommended by Mr. W** Bet- grare who had a good estate in the Country. My Fa'- likewise obtained a Benefaction of £10 p anH. from Mr. Charies Bellei of Clements Inn« whose estate at Holbech he was steward for, k stood Godfather to my sister now liring, this was p^ ss long as he lird. He was buryed at Strubby, where a small Estate feu to me about 1716 by the Death of my old Aunt Whiieing who before was Widow to my Grandfather Bullins Bro'*

[I could walk alone when I was a year okL]

In the year 1694 I learnt to write of Mr. Coleman who taught us in the Quire of the Church. He had a mighty knack of drawing with his Pen, which Incited my natural Inclination that way, k I was erer after endearoring to divert mysdf in it, k generally carryed tlic bell from my Cotemporary Imitatora. He dyd some years sfter and wsa buried in the churchyard of Hol- bech, in the north-east comer between the Church k Quire. Some few years after, I went a journey on horseback to visit an Aunt, elder sister to my Mo' who marryd Mr. Leonard Thomp- son living in Hagnaby, near Bullingbroke, where we passd thn>* boston, k visited our numerous Relations living tiirreaboutA. I drew tlien a Map (after a sort) of all my Journey, which reConi- ing I showd to my schoolfellows, k surpriid *em with strangv Rslstions of the high countrys as we calM 'em, which was a new workl to me, bred up in our L4»vel k had no other uuiion U hills 4 mountains than what I had formd in my own mind, fttNn the words in the Latin Grammar. The next morning at my Aunts, when I got up k saw from my chamberwindows the s«ljacent Eleration of Keal hill, I was iufinitely at a k)ss to hare a true Idea of the place k the Cborob al top, 4 Mtking eoM mil

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moi tho' snfficientlj tird & 8ore with rideing before/from taking a joarney up to it, so I was conducted by my Aunt's man, Philip Englishy who since dyd at Medlam house Farm in the Fen, I remember I was so silly as to ask him, (being fond of knowing the origine of things^) whether it was not made by one Keal & thence derived its name, & nothing sufficiently can express the emotion of my passions upon so new a scene of Nature. The yariety of ascents, the fine Prospect, gave me a satisfaction I was an utter stranger to before, & I fancyd myself in an enchanted world. Whilst we stayd there I was strangly delighted with a brook that ran before my Aunts door, & could not be easy till I had tracd it up to the very Fountain head, & learnt how it issud from the Ground, & then I oonceivd so strong an affection for that countiy that I never could rightly relish my native plains again, & even when I came to live & practise at Boston I always thought my self peculiarly happy, & took all opportunitys to visit this country & the Wolds again, & felt an uncommon pleasure when I was mounting these hills, the primitive face of the Earth, & tnmd my back of the low countiy which I esteemdonly as the leavings of the Ocean & artificial Ground.

Whilst I was a schoolboy I learnt to dance of Mr. Butler among the other young Fry of the Town, & my Fa'* engagd Mr. Smith, our Schoolmaster, to teach me to play on the Flute, A I found it serviceable to my health,^ that gentle exercise strength- ening my lungs which were naturally weak, insomuch that I was several times in danger of falling into a consumption which seems transmitted to me from my Grandfa'* Bullen, but by the care of Dr. Nutton of Spalding I recoverd. At this time I was always possessed with a mighty inclination of retiring into the Wood^ & little shady places in the Parish & round about, so

* . I Qtd to be troubled in mj 7011th 4c ail my Bron> k Sister with kyVd heela in winter time, k chapd handi in MTeritj of weather from an acrimony of the blood. Ify Uncle Stokel^ ntd to be affected after the same manner even whilst he wai a yonng man.— W. 8.

[Aboot this time happend near a total eclipse of the Son, which I remember was an agreeable sight to me.]— W. S.

* Qnapload oak wood near a fana of my Fa^ like that described by Ftatardi, v. IheseL densissimam ^ylTam aspan^oq et fndtleeeoiiBitamw— W, 8.

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that on hotjdmj% I gwenDj {mmI a good Ami of time tfaore, 4 wUlft the other boys were botjr in bunting for birds neita, I boajd nqraelf in reading tome book I oarryd in roj poeket, or eootenplating die abmbs 4 planta, 4 entling roj Name on the bark of treea with the date, numy of whieh in the pariah I bare aeen ainoe atill remaining.

Mr. Kebal oar Matter oad to make oa bring abatracta from the aennon on Mmidaj mominga, which I had to good an art at taking that I oooU fiimiah tome of mj echool feUowi with portioaa at a reaaonaUe rate, 4 dnnrti a oonaiderable traffic that way. Onoe, when Terj yoimgy I took a fimej to pUj the tmant 4 ahacooded far 9 or 8 daya, bat wae catobd I7 m j Fa** on horae- back in an onaeaaonabie hoar 4 place 4 aent capttre to echool| bat with an ityonctiQa to be apored for the fint fianlt

I learnt 00 the Flote afterwarda of Mr. Herring, Organiat ai BattoQ, who went to Booie 00 the Jubilee year with roj Lord Kseter that djd abroad. I had a tolerable knadt of nttking EngUah 4 Latin rereea, which waa eoocmragd bj Mr. Smith, 4 mj Fa'* who finequentJy gare aae aobjecta oot of the Sertptare 4 other beadi to exerdae my Talent npon, 4 he weald be parti- ealarlj pleaad to read *em orv. I oad to goe a etmpUng with Mr. Aaooagh, Apothecary in the Town, into Fleet Wooda, 4 knowing a pretty many plania, layd, I baUere, the Foandatioa for my bielinatioQa to the etody of Phjraic in that early age.

Mr. Belgrafo, who waa bred at Oxford, 4 an ingeaioaa Geat, being fieq neatly at my Fatbera booee, woald be talking with my Maaler 4 Fa'- among other learned aobjecta, open Aatrooemy, 4 I eudeeiord ahraya to liatea huhind the ecreea to their daa- eoorea, partieolarly when they were open the topic of the eartha BBotioa, which I peroeiTd Mr. Belgrade waa firmly pereoaded oC Bat I thooght it eo improbable a notion that I eet mjreeif to work lo collect, from Coriptuie and my own little Reaaoning, all the Afgumeota I coald mnaier op, 4 had them in a book eo aa that it made a little vohune, drawing at the eame time echemee of the planetary Orfaa aa I oooceivd *cm to be, 4 woald eometimee wmt' tore to argoe with them open that head. Setreral yeara after when my cooceptiooe of theee mattan were better formed I bomt ■jBoekwUehaayFar-waefeiya^ry ntifor he

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fistch it to read to Company, being pleaad with my attempt tho^ I aoppose not much eonvincd by mj weak argunentation. I nsd to eonyerae very mnch with the Parish Clark, Wm. Pepper, a tenant of my Fa"* who taught me something of the use of the Quadrant, & Dialling, & some Astrology withal, so that I eonld take the height of a steeple, & readily erect a scheme of twelve houses, A was very fond of the art, till the Uniyersity corrected my Judgment in those matters. Mr. Brampton, Organist of Sotton, a nuithematician, ««d to be with my Fa'- some Ume 41 was mightily dehghted w^ his company ; he had a knack in Astrology, & Physiognomy, & the like, & would often tell me I was bom to good Fortune but he did not acquaint me with the rules of his art Mr. William Tidd, whom my Fa'* employd in tyling the houses he built, was another correspondent of mine in such amusements, & Mr. W"* Day who lives now at Spalding, who was very ingenious in Drawing & Painting, increased my Love & Practise in the exercise of the pen, & I foUowd the trade of map making so that I had delineated pretty good plans of our whole parish as far as my Travels reachd, & by degrees made maps of the whole country. I had improvd my writeing A fao simile, so that I was a perfect master of Secretaiy, & Text, & Chancery, and Court hand, that my Fa'* resolved to take me to his own business, & declind admitting any clerks upon that account I affected Carving very much, A cut heads & figures out of Wood and Brick and Stone, some of which my Fa'* would take A place in his buildings. One head now stands in the Gavel end of the study he built anew at his house, next the Gkuv den, & I became so considerable a mechanic, that when any Poppet shows came to Town I presently imitated them, & made Scenes, Figures with moveable Legs, & Arms, & Strings to them, & uad to perform very notably before a great spectators of my School fellows on a holiday, & had a huge collection of such wooden Qentry. I likewise at this time had a strange propen- sitj to Buflding which was either an extratbiee Indination or Lnitation at least of my Fa'* for I made littie brick molds, A temperd day, A burnt the bricks I made, many 1000, A then cot them into tapering forms, ^practised Edifices in Minniatore, A was vecy diligent in making A trying all sortB of ArdMSy 4

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finding oot the prineiplaa upon wbiob their ftrengtb iBprnniB^ k the different fonni & weights thai thej wonld soetain. One of mj Fathen men had got the collection of old tongt made on Bobin Hood. A among the reet of hia company m^ Nao»e eake, which he uad to aing oTer to tis in a winters erenmg. This ael my head upon Archery, to that I made me 4 my Bro^ Bowi 4 arrows, 4 we became very ex[iert at Archery, so that I hare fre- quently kilM a small bird when we rambled about the fields. I imagine this was rery serviceable too in my health in opening the Thorax 4 lungs, 4 gave me a vast strength in my arms, so that I can break an ordinary Manchester Bow with drawing it

About this Tmie I remember I took a fimcy for old Coyns 4 Medals, 4 Mr. Lentoo of Fleet finding a whole urn full of Roman Brass coyn in that Parish, I got several of them which I have to this day. One odd humor I had of burying several different peices in boxes up 4 down in my Fathers pastures which lye there now. All which fancjs were but the dawnings of those studys which I pursuM at more mature years. Mr. Pettit who kept an Inn at Holbech, 4 had been brought up al Hayes Printing house at Cambridg, was a collector of coyns 4 other antiquitys, 4 encouragd me in such amusements, several of his I have now by me of his gift, as likewise an old casting mold df black marble. I suppose it Saxon because one of the fiioes of the coyn is a mitred figure, the other a lyon of that date ; it was found in Oranichester plowd lands near Cambridge. There was about this time an okl brass seal dug up in my Uncle SCnkeleys Garden, having cut in it two coats of arms, one a portcullis, the other a cockatrice, between them a man in long robes, the Ltg* end 60VRXBDa)eV60D6R.» I gave it to S' Hans Sloan.

I had been for some time at the top of our School at the age of 18, 4 had got a relish for learning, 4 the diffienltys being eonqurr*d I took a real pleasure there, 4 it was with relncUDoe I left it I writing a good hand, my Father took me to his buai- neas then, being aboot the UUer end of the year 1700, t«**^«*^^g to bring me up to the Law for some time with him, 4 then thai I ahouM prepare myself by study for the Gown m Loodoo. He gave me great eoooorageoMnt 4 advantages in thai boaiaeaai 4

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I had bj Clerks Fees, Bonds & the like got a sam of money. But that profession did not at all suit my Genius, For I was never without some of my School Books & Classics in my Desk, & whenever my Fa'* was oufc of the way I was much more eager upon them than my business which upon all occasions went heavily thro' my hands, tho he laid all Temptations in my way to forward me. I rode about the countiy with him, & was usd as his Equal in all Company. He usd to represent to me that if I chose to follow the Common Law I might succeed him at Hol- bech to great advantage, where all our Belations livd, & the whole country at our own Disposal. He hinted to me his inten- tions of my marrying an heiress there, of a Family nearly allyd to me, who had an estate in the Parish equal to his own. If I rather chose to make a figure at the Bar, he doubted not but his Interest & Acquaintance could put me forward to advantage, & often flattered me that he had ever conceived thoughts of my Being a Great Man, which I always wonderd at I always came to London with him at the Terms (first in June 1701), but what- ever Uttle time I had to spare I generally spent in vieuing the buildings, monument, & frequenting Booksellers shop. Going thro* Great & Little Stukeley near Huntington in one of our Journeys, my Fa'* told me those Towns were the place whence our Name & Family came, & where our Ancestors formerly lived. Our Country Lawyers in their Travel usd to call them, by way of Joke, Adlard & John Stukeley, in allusion to my Uncles & Fa"** name.

My Fa'* took me to the Playhouse with him to see the Yeo- man of Kent acted, the first I had been at Another time 1 went with him to the House by tlie Waterside, since demolisbd, in Baldwins Gardens. I went with him to Wolwich to see the Boyal Sovereign launchd.' S'* Pauls I took particular delight in, & would clamber up the scaffolds & ladders among the work- men to observe their arts & Engines. I remember then the

' I lay witii mj Far. thmt night at Staple Inn, that the prodigiooi great wind was which ragd all oTer Bngland, antild half the citj, blew down an infi- nite namber of traea, aa we obeennl in oar joom^ home, k the top of Waltham OroH^ 8L Bridaa 8tee|de was Jntt then finithd. Uj Far* wakd me WTeral in the night, bat I ilept ao loand that I neTer took notice of it— W. 8.

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18 ooMMEirrAmTB.

ClipoU was open at top, hmng ctmrjd np about aa high aa the innernioat Iron Balcoaj. When wa went to Weatm' ioalead of b€ftrin^ the Trjala I waa bosr at the Bookaellera aUlla, t gene- rmllj filld mj Pocketa home with Booka which he oad to obaerre 4 chide me for apending mr monejr. I bought M icroacopea, 4 Burning GUaaeay Pronpect QIaaaea, magnetic compaaaea^ Diala^ 4 all aorta of that kind of Ware, & waa tpiriblj puzxied to hide *em from him 4 conrtj *em down into the coontir. I bought aereral Booka of Aatronomr, 4 Anatom j, 4 Phraic, which at all leiaare honra I waa continoallr poring upon, 4 drawing achemea from *em. In abort my Fa'- found all pretmiling armptoma of roj eager Inclinationa to a atudy of a more refined Nature than that of the Law. I uad to goe to Lincoln with him at the Aaaixea, 4 we waa upon our Joumej thither the Sundaj that newacameof K. Williama De«th, (Mar: 1702) But waa more delighted in the Cathednd than attending the Judgea, 4 in riew- ing the old Monumenta, the Kuina of the Bpa Palace, 4 oU Cburchea, 4 Reliquea d* Antiquity in the Town« When at home I frequently abaented my aelf to range alone into the wooda to gather herba 4 aim|)lea, 4 conceiTd a paasionate Deaire for the atody of Phyaic, which I tliought would fully aatiate my Pbtkn aophical Qeniua. And at laat my Fa' waa reaolrd to humor the Bent of my mind 4 tend me to the University* which 1 eagerly df^inl, tlir Virnr of ilirTown Mr. I*im'»»w hnvni** thru T^t#» w^n* thcro who bad been my ■cboollelluwa, 4 at Vacationa they had fir'd me with fine atorj-a of the way of Living there. My Bit/* John who waa next to me in age being at [thia] time able to auooeed me aa mr Fa*^ Gierke.

About then I had an inatance, which I can*t forget, of an unaooountable intemml motion, or extraordinary notice of aa Brent, whereof I have aince upon aome ocoaaiona obaenrd the like. My Bro' and I by together in the aame bed in the blue ehamber, 4 for four or five nighta together I waa atrmngely dia- tnrbed m my aleep with Dreama of Hobbera, and that oar bouae

• Ladi tkaa at IW Ualwiity of mn commtrj. Jote k AahroM ftmlov Mr. A»4l. rm of Lr^mhmgum (wte dfd pAraon of THibifX Mr. fark of Lai* Mf B«tK k Mr. R4»k of ^mMom, Mr. FMof OoiMy. Mf. r^cil of Bo|.

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was broke open, that I constantly awoke in the night rerj much frighted & nsd to tell my firo'* of it. 80 far was I alarmd at it that before I went to bed I took some pains to bolt & barricade the chamber door which I had neyer done before', till one night, after as soond a sleep as eyer I had in my life, I was wakend by the sermnt maid knocking at the chamber door in the morning to tell me the house was broke open. I got up & foond that an Lnon bar in the Ghurden window jnst under me was forced out & the house had been plunderd. My Fathers Desk in the study was broke open & some money taken away, & some peices of plate, & the like, which were scatterd about the house, & we found that two or 3 horsemen had been in the yard & Garden who had committed the Bobbeiy, but we never could find them out They took away among other things a fine hunting scy- meter tipt with silver, & a knife in it, given me by my Aunt Ampleford,' & a silver edgd hat which was the first & only one I ever had. We had some notice that one of the Bogues was afterward hangd at Peterburgh or Huntington. But it was a thing very infrequent in our country, and of which I had no reason to have any natural apprehensions of, & made a deeper impression upon me.

In Easter Term 1703 my mother was at London which was the last time. She lodgd in a house in Ducks Court, whose Ghuden came under our chamber windows in Staple Inn, which chambers my Fa'* bought when he first began to practise, & my unde had half of them, viz^ those up one pair of stairs on the left hand, they were rebuilt 1700, Inner or Garden Court The Door was openM thence into Southampton buildings since his DeatL That Term my Fa'* was engagd in a great peice of work in making writings settling & selling all Mr. Belgraves Estate in our country. Mr. Belgrave, Mr. Benj. Saunderson, Mr. Tyrer, Coz. Bob. Bullin & his wife, Mr. Hadlcy Coney, & others, being purchasers. My Fa'* Mo'* &, I usd to dine together every day at Mr. Shepherds, the Crown, over ag^ Staple Inn Gkte in Holbom.

' Jane Stnkeley married in 16S2 to John Ampleford, who died in 1701, the last of a long line. The following inacriplion is on hit monument in Qed* BCjChnch:—

"Ultimoi a maiibnt generoea itixpe ciaitai

UltimvB airtiqai Koniiils iHe fait**

10 COMWIKTAmTA.

Pkrt of that Estate, of w^ I wrote thr writingn, being in Holbech ICanhy waa bought bj mj wives fa' WiUiamsoD, A, told bv hta •on for £300 w*- was p*- me for my wives fortune.

I was admitted Pensioner in Corpus Chri^ti, or Bennit Col- lege, CambridfT, Not. W), 1703. I was examined by my countnr- man old Mr. Beck/ the senior Fellow, A Mr. Waller :* mv Tutor was Mr. Thomas Fawceti* recommendcnl bv Mr. Dodson, Bro' to my Uncle Dodson, at that time Butler of Kingn Collo;^ I went to reside there about Li day following, k kept in the ground chamber in Katherin Hall Court, next tlie Walk that leads to the Gate, my study was the first corner of the College on tlie right hand going from the street to the gate. Mr. John Brand, now liTing near Norwich, was my chum k at that time Janitor A Chappel Clerk. I was, toon aAer, Scholar of the House A re- mored into my Scholarship Chamber, tlie ground room on the left band, the first stair case on the right hand of tlie Court beyond the comer ; my study tiuit in tlie room, A bed that next the file place. I had not been a month in tb<* University before I made a map^ of the whole Town.

I was matricuUted Spring 1704. I staid all that year in College, appljnng m^'self to the socu<it4>md «tudys, A constantly attending Lectures, tometime twice or thrice s day, A Chsppel tbrioe a day, A Marce missed thre<* timc*^ all tlie while I utaid in College. My Tutor, A Mr., now Dr., Danny,* atlerwsrds Cluip*

* Mr. 8«aiMl B«ck ooolribvtad a 10 towmrd* the rrfAiritt; mmI bMaufjtaf %k§ wc«t ii4« oi Um oolUfs.

* John Waller. B.D.. Raoior oi & Beo««lict'i Chwdi. CMihrklfv. froM 170S to 1707, WM iMtitatod in ITU to the \icMr%^t «>f <trmatrh««C«r. vbick Im Wld t4)fHlMr with Um Ractorx oi Utile WilhrmhaiB. CmmK. to the tiB« oi kit dmih in 171S.

* TWm. Fsvoacc* B.D., frcAkWnt oi the CoUccc. sb4 a m<m ssoriUia Tator, VM cdscBted si Ab^ Teeiaoo't School. He Mftrtani to the Fields Lm- 4oa, ADd WM oos oi thorn oootidssmble aehoUn vho vere hnm^ht m ImUmsm oi Mr. fiMtlewmjte't (MMC«r oi Ihst hchoot) prAt abilitie* Utt the tntUmcUom oi jomMh, R« VM R«:ior oi 8. BeMdiet'a Charch. ComK irom 1707 to 1711. Mi WM ytoimiod lo Um tselofy oi Mo«ik*.Seftfh. taff.. b«t dM fasfoet hs lifl IW OaU^ts, sad vm bwt«l in Um cha|>el. 1717

* Tlds map to in oae oi SUkelcj't rol«B«i oi I>ravinf«. dated 1 70S, la Um I I I oi tiM BsT. H. r. 81. ioha, oi DiaiBor« Hoaar.

* I>r.Daaaj47'ds4^pQCocth Yorhahf. 1730— W.&. rurabrial §iDmmjmm

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to the Chancellor of the Universiiy, the Duke of Somerset, now Rector of Spofforth in Yorkshirei joind in reading to their reepectiye Pupils. The former read to us in Classics, Ethics, Logic, Metaphysics, Divinity, & the other in Arithmetic, Algebra, Gfeometry, Philosophy, Astronomy, Trigonometry. Mr. Fawoett read to us in Tullys offices, the Greek Testament, Maximus Tjrrius by Davis, Clerks Logics, Metaphysics, Grotius de jure Belli & Pacis, Pufendorf de Officio Nominis & Civis, WUkins Natural Religion, Lock of himian Understanding, Tullys Ora- tions. Mr. Danny read to us in Wells Arithmetica numerosa & speciosa, Pardies (Geometry, Tacquets Geometry by Whiston, Harrises use of the Globes, Rohaults Physics by Clark. He read to us Glarks 2 Volumes of Sermons at Boyles Lectures, Yare- nius G^graphy put out by S'* Isaac Newton, & many other occasional peices of Philosophy, & the Sciences subservient thereto. These courses we went thro with so much constancy that with moderate application we could scarce fail of acquiring a good knowledg therein.

All this while I turnd my mind particularly to the study of Physick, & in order thereto began to make a diligent & near inqui- sition into Anatomy & Botany, in consort with Hobart, a senior Lad of our College who was enterd into that study, & since dead. With him I went frequently a simpling, & began to steal dogs &, dissect them & all sorts of animak that came in our way. We saw too, many Philosophical Experiments in Pneumatic Hydro- static Engines & instruments performed at that time by Mr. Waller, after parson of Grantchester, where he dyM last year beeing professor of chymistry, & the doctrine of Optics & Teles- copes & Microscopes, & some Chymical Experiments, with Mr. Stephen Hales' then Fellow of the College, now of the Royal Society. I contracted acquaintance with all the Lads {& them only) in the University that studyd Physic, & Swallow of Pem- broke who took his Batchelor of Physics degree while I was

* I drew oat Mr. Halet^i machine of the planeta motioni which he fint projected, tc gave the idea of the horarja. We were meditating to begin another bat my fathers death preTcnted it. — W. 8. See Common -place Book, jN^ffM. A drawing of the machine ^ inTcnted and executed by Mr. Stephen Hales, aboat 1705,'' u given in one of the Volamea of Drawings, in the pot- iMdoD of the BcT. H. F. 8t. John.

ff OOmODfTAftTB.

therfty A sinoe pnotiied near or at Bp ^Stortford, now dmd ; Child of Magdaleo who now prmotuat at LaTeobam Soflblk, 4 Pany Hnmphryi who both took the aame degree, the lalter now lires in North Wales ; Joseph Sparkea, of 8^ Johns, who now lives at Peterborgh ; Henry Slebbing, of Katherin HaU, who since took Ordert, A has signalisd himself ag^ the Bp. of Bangor ; Kitchener of Queens College, since dead ; Dr. Ashenhorsty oofr living in Trinity College ; Dr. Addeobrook/ now dead. I was acqnsinted with Dr. Craak, since dead, at Bury 8t Edmonds, With these I usd to range about once or twice a week the drcom* jacent country, & search the Gravel A Chalk pits for fossils. Gogmagog hills, the Moors about Cherry Hinton, Grantchesler, Trumpington, Madingley Woods, Hill of health, Cbestertoo, Barnwell, were the frequent scenes of oar simpling toyl, armed with Candleboxes &, Kays eatalogus. We hunted after Butler* tij%j dissected frogs, usd to have sett meetings at our chambera, to confer about our studys, try Chymical experiments, cut up Dogs, Cats, A the like.

About 1705 Mr. Hales & Mr. Waller gathectl sobscripCioos to make the oo\d bath about a mile A a half oat of Town.

Once Kitchener A I hired horses A rambled to Pottoo A Ckmlingay a simpling, where going into the water in a great pond near an oU seat very imprudently after dinner I had like to have been drowned, having drank pretty freely, it being a very hot day.*^ Another time I went to Safron Waldoo, once I went with my Chum Johnson, now Fellow of S^ Johns, to Ely to visit my Aunt WagstaC Once I went to Pelerbargb, where John A Ambrose Pimlow took orders, A I rsComd that day. Once by my Fathers order I went to visit my Cos. Ann Thompson at Mr. Grayttocks of HiMersham, (Jan : 17(16 )« A these were all the times I rode oat from Cambhdg. My Fa'* oad to visit me in his journeys to A from London, (July 18, 1704), A the first time, among other books, he brought me for a

• ^oksAddMbrook. M.D., fofSOTlj FtUovol C^&kefiM BAO^is 171f tan a«000 to foaa4 a Pkjitasl Uoipiul. wydi bj se Ael el r^itati

U VM 0|mnd IB 17SS. Mid is pMtly miil hj

Hm pXmtmim ol SfipliSf vorkd la mj bssttfsl tartalj, a tkos dtaai sssHSMsaH^— W. &

W. 8TUKELET, 1720. 28

present Qsboms advice to a Son which [he] liked mightily, but told me withal that part aboat Love & Marriage did not belong to me A I need not be hasty in reading it over, tho It confirmd me pretty much in following the advice he had several times given me not to think on that state till I was as old as he was when he marryd viz^ 30. I had, the last time I was with him in Town (Mar. 1703-4), bargaind with Mr. Moxon for a pair of GHobeSy & bought of him his book of the use of them, & made my Bro/* who was now with my Father, my Deputy privately to pay for them, which I reckond a mighty Ornament to my study.

In Sturbridg Fair time (Sept. 1704} my Fa'- & Mo'- & Mrs. Saonderson of Holbech, & my Aunt Anna Bullin, made a journey to see me.

The Correspondence I unavoydably kept up with my Towns- men & Countiymen first learnt me to smoak Tobacco, & upon Tryal, which was at a visit they all made me in my own chamber, I finding it to agree pretty well with me, & the fashionableness of it among the Students, induced me to continue the custom, & I doe beleive it has been somewhat serviceable to my health canying off some of the superfluous humidity of my constitution ; for doubtless so plentiful an evacuation by the Salivary glands in such habits cannot but be of use, & may prevent or diminish several unthought of indispositions. I was the rather incouragd to it by the determination of my studys, thinking it useful against infection of distempers, & the stink of animals we dissected. I had then with me Ambrose Pimlow, now minister at Castle acre & Bongham in Norfolk, an Ingenious Lad, for whom I always had a great kindness, & there was a great intimacy between us & harmony of thought. When I was in the country at my Fa"* house he understood I could smoke, & once tolde me, when he was taking a Pipe alone at home, that I might bear him com- pany, but because he had never asked me before when in other Company I refusd, & he never saw me smoak.

7 Nov'* 1704. My Fa'* sent me word they observd my birth day with all my young relations in the country.

Feb : 1705. The Queen was at Cambridg, came from New- market, returned at night, the prince being there. The scholars were placed on one side of the way from Emanuel ColL to the

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Regent Walk. A speech made in the Regent bouae. 8be dined at Trinitjy Dr. Gowcn** the M' of S^ Johns made a speech to her in that College; went to prayers at Kings Cbappel; Dr. James*' M'* of Queens made a speech to her at Qoeeos; Dr. John Adams'* Prorost of Kings made a speedi to her in the Chappell, I was bj, be presented her with a Bible. 8be Knigbt- ed S'' Isaac Newton after Dinner at Trinitji t the Vice Chan- oellorDr. Ellis of Caius.''

I osed to frequent, among the other Lads, the River in sbeeps Oreeni Sl learnt to swim in Freshmens t Sophs pools as the}- are called, A sometime in Paradice, reckoning it a Beneficial Exercise. My Fa' was at Csmbridg July 7, 1705.

Whilst I was tbns indulging my stndys, k busy in not ignoble

leisure, I had fully determind my thoughts to the study of I^ysic,

k felicitated my self upon it, peroeiTing the noisy bar would

ne%*er have been for my purpose, or consentaneous to my invio«

oible modesty k want of assurance. I was thro*ly of the opinion

of the person nsentiond in the Great Poet

Ok

Scirt ponm^tktm Kcrbanim woaK) — d<pdi

If alait, et maua Afiure ioftoriat unm.

[JEftekt : Ltb. lii. L SSSl.

k would often reflect in my nerious retirem**' upon the goodness k conduct of Providence in so disposing of me to humor my inclinations k give me full scope in satiating my desire of know- ledge, I took great dcliglit in going into 8' Johns Gardens 4 studying there, k in the summer I spent many bours in poring more esp(*cially u|ion my Anatomical Authors, so that I had mvle mv self Master of the Fabric of the human bodv, in which I wan not a little asnitted by my undentanditig the Draughts 4 Figures, so that I had nearly as good a notion of that Science at that time, tbo I had never been at a human dissection, an I have now. I judgd I could better argue upon paper, if occasion waa, than vi%a voce, and that my tomprr woukl nr%er suit %iith that tomultiiOQS manner of reasoning k rugged kind of study. My

" Emrj JMMt. MmUt. li7S.1717. " PwnMt.iriS-lS.

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GenioB is of too tender a make & gentle disposition to admit of a foroeable exertion of its self, like a temperate flame that glows in tranquility but is extinguished in a violent blast I peroeivd I was too nearly of the disposition both of mj Fa^* & Uncle, & the rest of the Family I have known, & wanted that Fire which I suppose my Ghiandfather had.

My Tutor Fawcet, being Bursar about this time, and the College Lawyer out of the way, he understanding my having been sometime Clerk to my Fa'', sett me work to engross some College Leases, which I performd so well that he paid me the same price that his Attorney was to have.

I learnt French about this l^me of Mons'* Gkti^, a Refugee of that Nation, a person of good Learning & had studyed Physic ; A designed to learn Italian for I had thoughts of travelling, especially to Rome which place I have ever had the most earnest desire of seeing, thinking there is all that can possibly satisfy the most curious Enquirer. That City, which hss been the Resi- dence of the Greatest (Jenius^s that ever lived, firing my Ambition to breath in Italian Air, & could only tempt me to undergoe the fatigues & dangers of foreign Expeditions where I might behold the Pantheon, the Pillars, the Obelisks, the Gates, the Amphitheaters, & all that Art has to boast of Great & Vener- able. But my hopes were frustrate, & Imagination alone A Prints must supply the want of Real inspection ; & had I gone *tis not unlikeley their Painting, Statuary, Music, their sober way of living, would have suited so well to my tast & constitu- tion that I should have been content to pass my Life there. However, in some measure to allay my thiret at leisure hours, I drew out a whole paper book of the Antient & Modem Struc- tures there, which I have still by me.

But now I draw near the unhappy interruption of my learned Amusements, & the melancholy Catastrophe of my Fathers Life, which provd to me a long vacation indeed, amounting in the whole to some years, which I unavoydably was obligd to pass in regulating the disorders & troubles that then befel me on account of the Deaths of so many of my Family which happend in a short time, besides the great detriment that ensued to my For- tunes which my Fathers longer life in all probability would have

M commcTAiTs.

renderd ronoh more oontidartUe, & the pwiUTM 4 dilBcoltjt I then underwcDi in to young an Age, A aettling ftoooonta A trma^ aoting boaineM to which I wis natormlljr anfitt m well m oneo- qtuuntod withall, sate very heavy upon my tpirito, A prodnod such a timidity so unnatural to my Temper as I oould never recover for many years, till I had eotiiely extricated my self with a most unwearied Diligence, A a foroeable resolutioo to stem the current of Fortunes Frowns, provide for the eduoalioo of my surviving Bn/' A Sister, A \my their portions A my own Debts, A sett my self above the meager malice of the world, A retrieve my Elstate, A withal put my self into a fair Pro^MCt of business A advancing in my Profession, which took up to my lasting Orief A detriment many of the best yean of my Life when I was fittest for the spur of Ambition, A was most capable of pushing my way into the worid with that alacrity A effiBCi the moKt to be expected from juvenile blood. But In these distresses I still secretly adord the Oreat Providence of the world A his wise Dispensations, confiding intirely in his dispositions of me which I could not but belei%e were the most happy for me, bat at all events requird my most perfect submission A resignation. I comforted my self that I was but young A migbt still have many happy years in Ileserve that would not fail to make me full amends ; that affliction is the best School of life, A the most effectual Regulator of the passions of the mind ; that by this means I might avoyd many fatal miscarriages, which a better Fortune would perhaps have insuard me in, A the Tide of pros* perity in youthful Ardors might have ship wrackd me in the boiling Ocean of unthinking A unstable affluence, which now with a more contracted sail A careful steerage I might escape. Being sensible* in my own Person of the Calamitys hanging over human Nature, A attendant upon every one in this state, might better prepare me for the important Charitys of our Profession A other Offices of Life where we can never avoyd concerns with the Ca« lamitous A distressed, which gives us a scope to exercise that great duty of Philanthropy, the most perfect Imitation of the Divine PeHectiona, A rewards us with the pleasure of doing good to others, the most eminent perfection of our Nature.

After I had reaided in College for one intire year, I ns*d to

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oome into the Goxmtrj now & then after the Terms were over, but rust caution did my Father use in permitting me to keep Company with my Academical Cotemporarys & Acquaintance there, for fear of drinking & contracting ill habits. He would take a very sensible pleasqre in setting the Clergymen there, & any persona of learning, to examine & discourse with me about tbe Studys I had prosecuted in the University, A be highly pleased with their approbation of what I could answer upon these occasions. He had some years before, now & then, been seized with pretty vident fitts of the Gk>ut, which were now much abated. Bm once he had a severe illness which I beleive was owing to an irreigular paroxysm of that malady, & he really thought he should dye. He was never easy without my Company, & when alone would be counseling of me in the future conduct of my Life & in Family matters, as if it was his last advice, which drew the tears finom my eyes, A made me inconsoleable. And still he would fre- quently insist upon his former declarations how much he verily beleivd I should live to be a considerable Han, & an ornament to his Family, which I could scarce take any otherwise than a Deli- rium, owing to his Illness ; not being able to conceive any thing in my self that should promise so favorable a Prognostic, beyond his excessive Love of me, & that I being his eldest must of necessity have the principal Concern upon my hands, of looking after his posthumous affaira.

Li the last year (1705^ of his Life my Mother was brought to bed of a sister which was her last, & he sent for me down in Company with Mr. Bichard Dodson, the Butler of kings College, ag'- the Christning. Li the latter end of the year the child dyd. Ociob.

May 1705 my Fa'* usd for the first time the handsome somer- hoQse he had built in his Ghurden, a good peice of woric, where he was very merry with the Qossips, & the last time I ever was merry in his company.

At Christmas he made his Will, which he had never done before, t invited Mr. Fimlow the Minister to sup with him that he might wittness his sealing it

July 1705, 1 was to have oome down w^ my Fa'* to Hoi- beeh as he came from London, but my Aunt Stokeleys Coaoh

t8 COMMRIfTARTS.

ooming tbenoe I went home in it A. Ainplefbrd gave me a guinea then.

This winter 1705 I went to Cbjmical Lectojm w^ 8. Vigam.

The beginnin*; of Nor. 1705 I went to College again.

On Satorday morning Feb: 9, 1705-6 my Fa'* called oo me at Cambrid^ in hiii last Joomej to London. He aeot tat me to break fajit with him at tiie black bear, mr Bro'* John with him, & teemM, aji I took particular noticei mighty chearful A gay when I took my last k nerer to be rorp)tten farewelL

He had junt bt'fore hurt his left thumb, I sup|)ote againat the •addle upon his hornets stumblin;; or the like accident, which waa some |Mun to him, ii in his last Lettrr he wrot4* to my Mother al Holbech he telU he had that night been in Company with the Mr. Whichcot k BIr. Bertie, Knights for the Shire, who treated him k some more Qent. with Burton Ale, k that he was the first that broke up company, but was then in perfect health, yet usee that remarkable exprension that his thumb still pained him 4 be beleiTed would never be right again. A day or two after, he was siered with a violent pleurisie k sent for Dr. Wright, k Mr. Wood an Apothecary near Staples Inn, he was blooded k blia- terd k followed the Drs. orders, removing out of his own bed^ which joyned upon tlie Wall, into my Uncles being more oonTe^ nient for dressing his blisters, during which operation he expird in i^erfect mind after 2 or 3 dsys sickness. He was of a grots habit of body, k pretty fat k full of blood, k the distemper en* ereasd upon him very suddenly k soon det^Tmind his Fate, which surprixd all the work! of his acquaintance who lost a Friend to him. That very day that I expected him down at Oambridg, upon hit Iletum home, I was with Dr. Pluniptre, then Fellow of Queeoa, who at my Tutors ref|ucst was giving me diredioiia in the study of Physick, k a Meseenger at 1 1 came to me to tell me my Father wss dead, for my Uncle had immediately dispatcbd Ben. Smith, then a Porter at Sta|>ies Inn, with my Fathers two horses to carry the melancholy Nt*wi» to my Mo'* k leave o«e of the horses for me to come up to Town. It can't be imagind, mot [will] I relate, the strange shock so unexpected a message gave ne, k for a minute or two I was as it wen* out of myselfy bat yet the refiectioo of the great Pkrt 1 most bear in this

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diiuury scene of mj Family arm*d me with that necessary Mag- nanimity that I recalld my mind, & that minnte took horse for London, meditating all the way npon so sudden an Event, & considering within myself what notices I might have had, or secret Intelligence, to forewarn me of so touching an Accident, bat upon the strictest reflection nothing occurd to me that I could imagine portended this great Change in my Fathers & my own Life, which I admird, when considering that I had observd some- what unusual of that sort upon trivial acc^ before. And after- wards, upon enquiry of the precise time of his Expiring, I recollected what I was doing at that instant, it being about 12 or 1 oclock of the day. Feb. 28. 1705-6 thursday. I found I was simpling at that time, near the Bowling green house in the fields not far from Newnham, the most thoughtless & serene of any part of my Life. When I came to Staple Inn, where I found my Bro'' afler a little while, I went into the Chamber where my Father dyd, & finding him lying in his Coffin upon the Ground I fisU into a most violent Agony of tears & grief, out of which I could not retrieve my self till my Uncle came & joynd in the melandioly consort My Mother sent me immediate Orders to bring his Corps down to be buryed at Holbech, cost what it would ; & I took care to send for Mr. Turin the Painter, who was to have drawn his & my Mo*** pictures that summer, to take the best resemblance he could at that time. My mother had been strangly disturbd with frightful Dreams for some time, & ezpressd her concern for my Fa*** health several times to the Family, & when the Messenger came into the house, tho* she had never seen him before, as she met him in the room before she got down stairs cryd out with great vehemence Mr. StukeUy it dtauL Mr. Rix & all the Neighbors who bad leam^t the Fatal News came rushing into the house that instant, k could scarce recover her from the swoon, k the whole Town was in an Uproar, k People ran about the Streets as if they had been dis- tracted, & in a minute the whole Country was acquainted with it, k nothing but Lamentation k Condoleance was heard from all Quarters. We brought the body down in a hearse, k everybody wonderd at its looking so fresh k comely after so long a time before we conunitted it to the Oround in the burying Place of

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tlM Familjr in the North Ea«t Ue of Holbeeh Chordi, where all hit Anoetton of his Name (exoq>i hit Fathflr) who had UtwI in the Coontrj, 4 the Fletea, had been intent for tome Ceulmja. We made a Tery handaom burying for hinii & the Expeoee of aU together oouM not be under £100.

Mj Fa'- was bat 49 years old when he dyd, A had often aaid be aboold be content with the time allotted to mjr Orandfa'* whiek bat a few months abore 5S. No Oentieman in the Oomitrj erer more oniTenallj bewailed 4 regretted. ETerj peraoo I met, of what rank soever, took pleasure in joining with me ia the senoe of his loss, 4 recounting the favors he had done isr theUi 4 their dii^iair of ever meeting another Friend like htm in the profession, 4 they have since foond their prognoatie tnMu I beleive if he had any thoughts of his death dming his Illaesai he had the least fear of it of any body near him, 4 seemd only to desire to see me before his last minate, for he had aeot my Br/' down an hoar or two before to fetch me op, 4 be was oo the Road when the Messinger overtook him 4 sent him baek. He had great personal Coonige, 4 when a jroong Man never de» eiind fighting on a jast oceasion. He ran a Oeatlemaa thro* the Hand that was a Bro'* Prsetitiocier in the Coontry upon a Duel ; but naturally of a very friendly temper, 4 indostrioos to compose difference between Acquaintance. My Uncle Stokeley, who was 10 jrear older 4 bat weakly, coald never reeover himself after. When my Fa'* was dead be ran about the Inn tearing hie hair, wringing his hand«, 4, as soon as we left the town with his Uorpse, fell into bis Ust Illness, 4 dyd that day three weeks ia the same bed. My Aont went op to liondon 4 depoaiisd hia im the VaoH ander 8^ Andrews Charoh.

I stayd for some time in the CSooatry to rectify my Co»* cerns, bot my Mo**,^ being a wetnaa of grsat senoe 4 dsjitsnii in Managing basiness, took the Care npoo her self 4 ssot me again lo College to keep my Term 4 piiivae my stodys (May 1706> I eaoM down again in the Bmnssr (Jane 170<) 4 the BmaD pos being prevalent in the Oooatry I was aaiMl with il|

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maoh to mj joy & satisfaction^ for I bad often expressd mj de- sire of having the distemper, considering the Profession I had undertaken, & it being the distinct sort I happily recorerd, tho' I was pretty ftill. My Mo^* took great pains to remove all my books & prevent my reading, for fear of prejudicing my Eyes. 80 I got some box wood, & cutt a pretty little sceleton out of it, about 6 inches long, where every bone was very distinct in situ A forma. I gave it afterwards in a Case to Mr. Breakneck, my Apothecary at Holbech, & it is now in his shop. My Bro'* John oonstantly attended me during the Illness & never catohd the Infection, but of the rest of us, the younger ones whom my Mo'* would never suffer to come near me, first, my Bro'* fell ill of it (the distinct), & then my sister Frances (of the confluent) & both recoverd ; next, my youngest Bro'* Robert was seizd with them in a violent manner with purple spots & bloody Urine, & the Manservant James Saunders in the same case, & both dyed.

Dr. Thomlinson now came into the Country, & fixd to practise at Spalding, a person of good reading, a ready wit & elocution, he had a great kindness for me, & I usd to be often in his com- pany. Dr. Massey too, about this time, came to practise at Wisbech, he was brought up at Oxford ; beside all other qualifi- cations suitable to his Profession, he had a good manner of Draw- ing. With these two I spent a good deal of my time in the Countiy, make journeys on purpose to stay with them a day or two at a time, which my Mo'* was not averse to, judging it no small improvement to me in my Studys to be in their Company.

At that time I sett myself to work in dissecting Dogs, & Heiv ons, & all sorts of Animals that came in my Way.'* We had an old Oat in the bouse, which had been a great Favorite of my Fathers A the whole Familys, & by my Mothers leave I rid her of the infirmitjrs of age, & made a handsom sceleton of her bones, which I canyd to Cambridg with me the next Journey thither, k after I had taken my Degree & was leaving the University I buryed her in a high walk'^ by the sideof the Lane leading firom

^ Now I met with that odd ooificstioii in the sheep which I have since Ctfea to Dr. Meed.— W. 8.

" PMiof thefoitificstioiisniedbjO. Cramwell in the besiBBlng of the ciYU wan*— W. 8.

the Spittle boose Conduit k the bridge in tbe roed to Qogmmgog bilU, where I uad frequeotly to walk. I likewise loeletonied •ererml difierent sorts of birds, Sl made air pomps t 20 inreotioos to trj mecbmnical k philosophicml experioieiits I bad learnt in my Academical Lectores.

I went to London Automn following to lettle mj Fa"** coo- cems tbere, k went to s<*e Coorses of Anatomy with Mr. George Boif wbo lired tben in Cbancerj Lane over ag^ tbe Oardens of Linoolns Inn, k Dr. Swallow. I was in London Dec'* 1 706. In Nor', mj Bro' Jo. was with me in Town. I went in tbe itage Coach (Jan. 1706-7) to Cambridg. I learnt tben to fence of Mr. Conmer at Ixmdoni k became a considerable Proficient at it I livd at that time in my Fa"** Chambers Staple Inn« I saw tbe Colors carryd in processional Triompbi with tbe D. of Marl- boroogh, to be bung up in Goild Hall. I saw too tbe Pomp of tbe Queen going to Westm' to sing Te Deom for one of oor great Victorys. At this time, I think, the great arch of boards wss made to turn tbe Cupola^ of St Pauls 4 I was at top of it

My Mo'* pot out my Bro'* John lo serve his clerkship thro* with Mr. CUrk of St Kes k gave £100 with him (p' money Feb. 1706-7) proposing he should fix to practise at Holbeefa as my Far*^ soccesnori k with tha* view earnestly persuaded my Fa'* when be msde his Will to leave him tbe bouie he lived in, 4 tbe Estate under it, but be would not consent to dismember it from my patrimony.

About this time I began to conceive a passionate Lore for Anti<)aitys, 4 because I ssw my Affairs would not indulge in foreign sfiecuUtions of that tort, I tomd my tbooghts for a letsora Amusement to those of my own GHintry. I fn*<]uenUy took a walk to sigh over tbe Roins of Barnwell Abby, 4 made a Draogbt of it, 4 usd to cott pieces of tbe Ew trees there into Tobacco Stoppers, lamenting tbe Destruction of so noble monuments of tbe Piety 4 Magnificence of our Ancrators. Architecture was ever a fiiTorite Diverstcm to me, 4 I ooold sit an boor or two together in the Anticbap|iel of Kings Colkige viewing 4 cooteoi- plating tbe building, 4 made a draught of a longitodinal seotioo

» A itstsii, 4ais< I70S, >• la sat olliis feis> sl <mwli^^ la ths silks Bsf. M. r. at Jeka.

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of it. I made some prospects of the Town of Cambridge one from the Castle Hill which was a very odd view. I drew out our own College, naj the very Bathing places in the River could not escape me, nor Gk>gmagog hills, most of which the Lads & Fellow ooDomoners of mj Acquaintance begd of me. In mj journeys home ward to Holbech I took out the famous inscription of Ovinus,' now on a stone tumd to a horsing block at the 3 kings aldioose in Hadenham, the most ancient religious inscription in En^and.

This winter 1705 I went again to Chymical Lectures with Seignor Yigani at his Laboratory in Queen's College. I took down all his Readings in Writing, & have them in a Book with Drawings of his manner of building Furnaces of Dry Bricks with- out Lron or Mortar, & his manner of regulating the Fire to any degree of heat.

At this time my Tutor gave me a Room in the College to dis- sect in, & practise Chymical Experiments, which had a very strange appearance with my Furniture in it, the wall was gene- rally hung round with Guts, stomachs, bladders, preparations of parts A drawings. I had sand furnaces, Calots, Glasses, & all sorts of Chymical Implements. I then tryd a good experiment of blowing up the lungs thro a heated gun barrel for a day together, a pair of bellows being tyd to the wind pipe, & a pan of charcoal under the barrel, so that the lungs being thro'ly dry I ponrd into them melted lead which filld up all their ramifications like the branches of a tree, then rotting the substance of them with water I had the finest animal plant that ever was seen which was mightily admired, but I pulld it all to bits to give away little portions of it among my acquaintance. Here I & my Associats ofien dind upon the same table as our dogs lay upon. I often prepard the pulvis fiilminans & sometime surprizd the whole Col- lege with a sudden explosion. I cur'd a lad once of an ague with it by a fright

* A iketdi of the stone U in one of hii Yolnmet of Drawings, in tlie pos- sesrioo of the Bev. H. F. St John. The inscription is luosm tuam ovdto ua VKVB n BBQUniC. AMKH. Stokdej adds this note : ^'This Inscription I took in the jeer 17<^, at Hadenham, when 1 saw it in company with Mr. Bog. Gale. Oviaas is St Owen, the house Steward of St Andzy. He dy'd at 8t Chads,

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Aboai thii tinM there happeod e total Edipee of the moon which I late op most pert of the night to obeenre.

II jr Mother hid enjojrd but e week ttete of health eome time before mj Fathere Death, but reoeird each a shook in hia kMa that, with Orief k the fatiguee of butineae, the was now fallen in a dangerous Sickness, k which provd her last So that earlr in the Spring of this year 1707 she sent for me down k I peroetnl her Tisibly decline ererjr day. Dr. Barker of Ljmn attended her but without any hopes of Ileoorery. Her Spirits were entirely depressd, k an hjrsteric cholic led on the Fstal Tragedy so fast that no Remedys couM stem it, yet to the last she showed a more than Feminine Magnanimity, k would give directions in all boai- ness that occurd with great stedyness of Mind, 4 comforted her- self that I was of years able to supply her pUce 4 presenre the Family 4 Estate from Ruin, but one thing which is remarkable gare her grtmi uneasiness, k she was always telling it to aU her Visitors, that she was perfectly assured some one of her ehildrm would soon follow her to the Orare, 4 all her Drsams, which she thought portended Death, were Double as she expressd it And at that time, what with gretf 4 the weight of such Melancholy Scenes, I was very much indisposd myself My Bro'* John was sent for from S** Ires to attend her last minutes, 4 she orderd ua to be calld up together sereral nights in the return of her par« oxysms when she thought her self expiring, 4 was particularly inquisttiTO about my health, dreading I was destind to aooomp> any her, which she thought would bring our Aflisirs into an irre* ooTerable Disorder.

On the 8^ July 1707 she expird about IS ackMrk at Nooo. I being then upon the bed in the Room of my Nativity. My Bro' John, about that instant coming out of the Garden, in the Passage saw, as he thought, coming down the grsai stairs, socne body aU in white which he imagind some of the women atteodia|( on my Mother, 4 looking upon *em to enquire afW her saw the appeareance instantly vanish, which affrighted him prodigiously, ao that in the Hall Mr. Breaknock the Apothecary net [him] in the greatest disonler possible, insomuch that for some time be eoohi not speak, bat at length rsoovering himself ho told htoi wkilbe had seen, 4 they both eame op stairs la

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iL I ohided him severely for entertaining such a fancy as I imagind it, & strictly chargd 'em both to say nothing of it, least the Country should raise a story of my Mothers apparition or the like, & he neyer mentiond it again, but his own Fate so aeon following made me think there might possibly be such a thing as an admonition firom some higher Power of his approach- ing Dissolution ; & this is the only Accident of this sort that erer I knew or heard of in our Family. The yerity of which, as I rdate it, is incontestable, & what Mr. Breaknodc, now living at Holbech, can sufficiently evidence. We buryed my mother in a plain Wooden Coffin according to her express order, & without any pomp, by my Fathers left side ; the Child that last dyd lying at their head, & my youngest sister that dyd just before my Father at their right hand, the other children that had been buryed be- fore at their Feet, along our seat in the Church. Having per- fbrmd their obsequies I kept house till Michmas following,' but my Illness inoreasd upon me so that the whole Country gave me over for gone ; but I considerd much in my self that tho' I was not afiraid of Death, which I can safely affirm never affected me in all my Life, yet then was the only time It would be unseason- able, & would often tell my Friends, who acquainted me with the discourse of our Neighbors, that they should be oonvincd of that Mistake, for that I was resolvd to live, A by Dr. Nuttons care, who had been my Physician from my Youth, I perfectly recoverd after some time.

My Bn/' John, upon his return to his Master at 8^ Ives, was seized with a violent bloody flux & fever, A could not be easy without my seeing him, & to gratify him, ill as I was my self, I

* Uj Aimt, Anna Bnllen, staying with me as my Hootekeeper. She wai a Toy haadflom woman, marxyd aomt yean after to Mr. 8am. King, who came to live at Holbech * practiae the Law after Mr. Topham dyd. She bnryd him, k afterwards marxyd again in London, hot dyd noon after Se waa brought down hj her partieolar rtqaott to be boryed near my Mor. in Holbech eh. At this time I came aoqoainted with Mr. Locae of Holywell, near Onildtboroogh, Hoithtonshire, who was down in the ooontzy with his eldest liater whom I •hall speak of hereafter. In a joomey to Tiait them abont this time I went to Oeadle, k, Thnqseton, k Wellinboroogh, k Northton, where I took a drawing of QaetBS Gross the flnt in my TraTcUing book. I jnst then began to draw with iDdiaa Inkw— W. &

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took a journey thither bat wm hood forod to oome borne •gAin 4 became worse than before. I left him to the care of Dr. Craak of Cambridge A he mended a little, bat his Distemper retomd 4 carnrd him off Au^. 7. 1707, in the 18th year of his age^ •boot 8 at night, a shaq) lad of good parts Sl Tiracitj A good dispo- sition, most like my Grandfather whose name be bore, jet ntfwer afrt*ct4Hi learning, having only enough for his profeasioo, tbo be went to school as long aji I did, but ne%*er gave into a liking of Scholastic Confinement, k consequently made no rast improTe- ment in it, the* he wanted no ca|>acity for any thing. Bat his Genius was more for action, k he was a great artist at shooting, coursing, k sll Country Exercises, k expressd great eameslaeaa k pleasure in the thoughts of lining in my Fathers boose at Hoi- becb. He was an admirable Clerk k would (bad he linl), [bare] been without question noUble in his profession. I found among his Tapers a Drawing he had maile of the Ground plot of our House k the adjacent pastures, well enough done by bis memorT, k the alterations in the Wslks, Gardens, Fishponds, ke. which I conceive he denignd Uy make had Fate given him a longer ierm^ for he had the comon family tante for rural Improvemeota 4 I^nting.

I could not possibly attend his funeral, k so sent orders to burr him there in the (^burch, in nome measure cooteot that it was not far from the old habitation of our Family, k their origi- nal neat, Great Stukeley. So he was interrd in the North lale^ just at the entrance that goes into the Quire.

U{>on this Mr. Staunton, Schoolmaster of Moulton, where my only Bro' Adiard was now at School, k where my UocU A«ilanl Stukel«*y had fonnrrly been a Sc^bolar, usd to say in com- |iany that hi« Boy wa^ sun* of the Kstate. But I thought Death had made sufficient Itavage in the Family at that time, I having lost my Father, Mother, two Bro*^, k Sifter, beside my Dode, in less than two years time, that I was, as I then expresad it, reaolvd to Live k deceive them all, k perfectly reeorerd.

My Mother was 39 years old at her death. She was boni at Skidbrook, in the Marsh Country of Linooloahire, near Loath, whereabouts my Grandfather BuUin had hved before he oaoM into HoUand. Her Mothers Namei k his First wife, was f nftaa

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The famOj of Loftes Btill about Lonth in good cirenmstances. She was my Fathers Widow 16 months, with whom she had lived in the most perfect Conjugal Affection & mutual happiness almost 20 years. I heard her say that a little before he djd, re- flecting upon the time of their Marriage, they should have been content to compound with heaven had they been at first assured of living so long together. When he first marryed he often usd to wish that he might have as many Sons, & of the same Names, as all his Ancestors that had lived at Holbech before him, & it was entirely fulfilld, he leaving just so many alive, (besides those that dyd young,) & one Daughter of my Mothers Name Frances. My Mother* was a Woman that I could not say enough of were she no Relation. In person reasonably tall, & very well shapd, of a good Complexion & color, her hair davkish. She was reck- ond as Comely a Woman as any in the Country, of an admirable Witt & Understanding beyond far the greatest number of her sex, of a fine soft voice, decent carriage & sober deportment, very ready & agreeable in Discourse, Gentile in her Dress, exceeding good humor, courteous, of a very mercifull & charitable disposi- tion, adord by all of her own sex, & lovely in every bodys eye, happy in everybodys good word. She ynroie a fair large hand, & spelt better than the Generality of women, read with a very good Grace,.& nothing of business or Learning that she attempted but she could be perfect in it She could manage business with vast dexterity in any kind, a G^od Arithmetician, & quick in all sorts of accounts. For her houswifery in the Country way, & Domestic JSconomy, exceeded by none; bountiftd & kind to her servants, dependants, & the needy ; of an exact Regu- larity in her manners & converse ; very constant in Devotion & Saenments ; of a merciful & humble Disposition, yet equal to every part of the Character of a Gentlewoman ; a most affec- tionate wife, & met with a reciprocal return of Love ; tender to her children, & willing to Sacrifice her life for their good. The frequency of child bearing reducd her strength & health very eariy : yet the Greatness of her Soul, & Firmness of Mind, was never much cast down by any affliction. She often felicitated

* Mj Mor. was at London in 16S8, the great froet yesr, at Mn. Tander* ipnftii Watling Stveet, a corner heote hj Iiondon stone.— W. 8,

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her Mif & tbankd ProTideDoa thmi nooe of ber c^iUreo wera de» formd or defective in their Members or Intellects. She deli^ed ber idf in Oardeninp, & was moch pleased in s Stone Btaloe I made of a Cupid, the Summer afler mr Fa'* dyd which thm intended to sett in the middle of ber Flower Farterr.

At MichAas 1707 I sold all the Houshold Goods, A iett the houAe to Mr. Topham who came there to practise the Law. I put my Sister out to board with Mr. Rix one of roj chief TeoasU in Octob. All the monej I could raise by sale of Goods, k mj Flate, at Sturbridg Fair, whidi my Fa' gave me in his Will par- ticularly, went to pay several large sums of money my Fa'* waa unfortunately bound for with my Uncle, whidi was a vast ioooo- renience to me at that time &, crampt me to a great degree, tha Creditora being importunate for their Debts, which amounted to about £40(1. My Mo'* had likewise paid a great deal in ber li£i time for my Fa"** debts, &, for putting my Bro'* out Clerk. I paid too by degrees all the remainder, which was a very gre«t sua in the whole, &, clieckd all my ambitious flights, so that what with tbem, t my Bro*** &, Sistera fortunes, I paid near as much aa my Fa*** flslate was wortL He dying suddenly in great Coo* cems of business left his aflfaire in disorder. He had taken up a great deal of money for carrying on his buiMings, A moat part of his debts I was cheated of thro* my own uni'ki I fulness in sock aflfaira &, my avocations to follow my stodys which I was reaolvd not to neglect at all events, tho* exfjensive. I had no way to extricate my self thro* these difficultys but patience A frugali^^ as for marrying I was fully determind against that, but propoad to raise my Fortunes (if it should be my luck) by my Profcaaioo^ & as finiily resolvd fully to satisfy all my Fathera debts tho* I might by Law have wipd many of them ofll Yet I thoogbi oomon principlea of honesty k Respect to my Fa"** Memofj would not permit it.

I being still under age, chose for my Guardian, pro forma, my Cos. John Bemey of Lynn, a very hocest k worthy GeBl, 4 who was very aaaiatant to me ; A patting all my a&ira ta the beat poatnre I could, I went again in the Aotomn to Caabridg, being now four yeara standing, k a Soph according to the Ac»» deoue Fhraae, who think thameelTsa do omu fcUuii 4

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Urge antoriiy over the Inferior Lads. When I came to Cam- bridg I found Mr. Bolf dissecting there, & he was dedard Pro- fessor of Anatomy in the University. He was very curious too in the knowledge of Botanies. Mr. Step. Hales, & he & I, & Mr. Sherwin, Fellow of Christs, & several more of us, usd to goe a simpling together. I had drawn a Map of the County of Cam- Inridg to put into Rays Catalogus which I carryd about with me. Tbey put me upon dressing up a new Edition of that famous Bartorer of Botany among us, whereto should have been prefixd a Map, & they would procure the large Additions to the work of plants observd there since his time, but my short stay there pre- vented any such thoughts being put in execution. Now all the Scholars of my year took their Batchelor of Arts degrees, & for the most part dispersd, & few of them have I since seen. I con- to be present at Seignior Vigani's Chymical Lectures, & time went thro' a Course of Materia Medica with him. I a particular Favorite of his, & often visited him & receivd his Visits again. My Acquaintance was now much lessnd in CoUege so that I tumd the stream still more difiusively among those of my own Line. I visited the Apothecarys shop to make my self perfect in the knowledge of Drugs, & Officinal Compo- sitions & exercisd a little Gratis Practise among the poor people that depended upon the College, & such lads as would trust them- sdves to my Care. I prescribd often to one Smith, who was our Joyner, & the Fellow in gratitude promisd me his body to dissect when he dyd, which happening next Spring when I was out of College he expressd much concern that I could not have the benefit of his Promise.

In my own Elaboratory I made large quantitys of sal vola- tfle oleosum, Tinotura Metallorum, Elixir Proprietatis, & such matters as would serve to put into our Drink. I usd to distribute it with a plentiftil hand to my Tutors Fawcet & Danny, to Mr. Kidman^ who was their Tutor, then Senior Fellow & President,

* Charles Kidman, B.D^ became fellow of Oorpne in 16S6, and a celebrated T^rtor. He was for many yean Preaident of the OoUege, and one of the earlieat, if not the fint, to introdaoe ** Locke*a Bsnj on Hnman Underatanding ** into the Univerri^, instead of the old Logic prerionalj need. Chaplain to Dr. T«iBQQ when Bp. of linooln in 1691, but aa a damonr waa raiaed against him

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to Mr. WilliamnY k Baoon acqaainUnco of my Tuton tiDce dead (the two last), & to any of tho I^adt I kept Company withal. At this time Dr. Bentley made a New Chymical Laboratory at Trinity College, & Seign'* Vi^ni directed it, & was chosen Profeaaor of (liymistr)' by the University, & was the first I usd to rtait Dr. Ashenhurst of Trinity, who kept in the C*hambers that had been 8'- Isaac* Newtons. I took particular pleasore in being there wlierc he coni(M>sd his Immortal Principia, liaving a pro- digious veneration for my Illujitrious ( ountryman. lie was bom at Coulstcnu'orth/ near Grantham, in Licolnshire, where he has now an EHtate, &, M^vrral of his Name & Family i^till remaining. Mr. Stebbing of ( atherin Hall, (now Dr. SteUiing,) & I were very intimate Si tryd several Experiments together, as particu- larly that of eva|>orating human urine, according to BeUinia Method.

Tliis ChriMmas I,di'signing to take my Batchelor of Physics Degree m*xt year, tlirew off my ragged Sophs Gown, with relations of which I had oflen diverted mr Mo' in the (ountnr, k comniencd Harr\- Soph as its there styled, k took the habit accorriingly. I likrwiM* continued to (lerfect my knowledge of the French Lan;n)a;;o with my old Master Geti^re,

Mr. Oliver,* Fellow of our ( ollege, having a friend of hia, (John Bagford,) at work to publish somt'thing of the history of Printing, wanted a I>rawing out of an old book in our MS. Lib- rary so famouji for a fine ( olhvtion of such things. It was a

OQ srcoQot of hit I«*tituttinari»n Pnncipln. and of a temoo prsscbtd bclori lb« rnivervitj on " TriTatr Jod^m^nt in Matter* of Relifion.'* ht wm aol rcCai»««l aa Chaplain by tht Dp oo hu promocioa io Cmmterbmrj. hmii vi» pvs* aeottfd hy him in 17<t6 ti» ihr Hertr^rj of hliaUd. Eaacs. AfUrwarda he bsrsBM Hector of Banham. N'urfolk. and of Thwait. ^affl>lk. Tbc former he rsai|rnsd in favour of ht* nephew in 173V the latter h# held io the time of hia death ia 1740. Bancd in the chvrrhjard of Ihm.^MmsUr't iiui. tf Chr^ . p^ aTT.

• f^ iMac N oaly rhiM of laaar N k Hannah dao' o# James kymeim^ td Market Overtoo. w«t bom I»rc. M. IS«}. at Woolethorpe. and vma hapHMd in the Charch uf he John lUpCiet, 1 oU&crworth. oo let JaaJ 1441-1.

• Idvvd OUvcr. BD. hccame Bmot oI flc Mary Ahctereh wllh 8L LavTVMt rMBtaey. U»d. la 1711. died 1731 k% SMwcr to «m el his •ermooe vm vntiea by a di«eeaiter. sad was eatltled * k Bowlaad for aa OUvar, or a sharp Behske t? a aswcj Unit, hf a Loe«ff ol Caity." pahUahad la !«•.

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leaf oat of the oldest printed wooden Cuts in the world, as is sopposd, being the history of our Saviors life with parallel places, St stoiys oat of the old Testament typical thereof. I drew one of th«n oat & it was cat in wood, he gave me one of the im- pressions, & Dr. Clarks Two Volumes of Sermons at Mr. Boyles Lectores for my pains, & the dutch Edition of Grotius de Jure natoTB & Gentium.

Mr. Stephen Ghmy, of Canterbury, was now in our Uni- ▼ernty as an Assistant to Mr. Cotes, Professor of Astronomy, for whom they built the Observatory in Trinity College, a very ingenious Man, well versd in Philosophy, Astronomy, Optics, Mechanics Ac., Uncle to Mr. John Qnj'' of our College, my Junior, who studyd Physick, a lad of very good parts & Industry, with whom I was particularly acquainted, since'took his Batche- lor of Physics Degree, & now practises at Canterbury his Native Country. We three usd to smoak many a late pipe together, & try Various Experiments in Philosophy. Since then Mr. Stephen lived with Dr. Desaguliers,* & assistcKl him in his lectures, as in hia E^)eriments before the Boyal Society. Now he lives in the Charter house as one of the Gentleman Pensioners there. He invented the Water Microscope mentiond in the Philosophic tran- sactions ; one whereof I made myself about this time.

Jan: following 1707-8 I went down to Holbech, & lodgd at my own house with Mr. Topham. Ashwensday 1708 we dia- seeted old Hoyes. Mr. Sam. Craven, half bro'* to Mr. Smith, the School M'* there, & his Deputy, who was at that time of S^ Jcdms Coll^ne, was my chief Companion* We usd to talk in Latin lo one another the better to prepare us for keeping our exercise at taking our Degrees. Here I resided all the Summer tiD Nov'* 1708. He & I usd to goe a simpling together very finqoently all the Country over.

* Jobn Onj, H.D^ aon of HatthiM Qnj, Aldeman of. Cantertraiy ; ■dmittad into Oorpua CoU. in 1706 ; M.B. in 1711 ; H.D. ]781. He practiaed at OiatartNuy with great aoooeM, and died there in 1787, aged 49.

* Jean Theophile Deaagolieia, bora at BocheUe, 1S88 ; died 1749. He came to Lcmdon with hia father on the reTocation of the Edict of Nantea. Hafing taken Holj Orden, he, in 170a, aocceeded Dr. Kiel aa Leotoxer on IipcfiflMntal Philoeopby at Oxford, and paUiahed aereral worka. He waa an

4S COMMSNTABtB.

I spent this jear in taking oare of tlie Conoerns of mj Estate, in mj stndjSy &, riding about the Coontiy for my bealtl^ direreiony & improTenient I became aoqoaiDted wilb Mr. Joks Hardjy a Presbyterian Paraony who osd lo preach sninetime among our Dissenters. He was one of great Reading k Cbri* ositj, & inflamd my Love for Antiqaitys. I met him bjr Ap» pointment 19 June this year at (*rowland, where we Uy a Nighl on purpose to stun'ey the Koble Remains of the Monastery there of which I took several Drawings, & wrote an Aooount of Memo- randums that I could pick up there about it, k the Bridg, 4 whatever was remarkable.

This Montli too I engagd in a famous Dispute by way of letter with Mr. Waring, the school Master of SpaMing, an id* genius Gentleman, about the Mode of the Resnrrectaoii* Dr. Nutton reviewd the papers that passd between us, k was pleaad to approve of my Explication of that Difficult Subject.

I nude a great many occasional Excunions this Sonuner into the Neighboring Countrys, chiefly to cooverw with the Pbjr* sicians of any Note k eminence in Practise. At Lynn, bend* Dr. Barker, I was acquainUfd with Dr. Hepburn. At Slamfoitl with Dr. Wilson, who was my Coxen, k Dr. Denham, k Mr. Baguley the Surgeon. At Lincoln I was intimate with Dr. Primrose, Deicended from the Author of that Name, k Or Richicr. At Newark with Dr. Huoton, where too I had aa opportunity of seeing my old Friend Seign'* Vigani who liTod tliere. At Northton I conversd with Dr. Oreeowood, k Dr. Maine. Petcrburgh, Dr. Hill. I saw Dr. Kail toa I a C^urious Socleton of a large Toad, which I found under (liurch Wall, as whiu* as Ivory, k every individual Bone eotiri without seperating the Ligaments, which afterwards in my ab» sence was eaten by the mice.

This Summer in a journey to Boston to visit my oM Master Mr. Kelsal, then Vicar, I to^k a Drawing* of the' West cod of the Steeple, w^ I oopyd into a Uttle paper book I have ainoa filld with such Views. I have since compard it with the Origiod k wooderd at its exactness considering I was not above half aa hour in sketching it out I likewise wrote oat the Inseriptiooa

• rye WM 4aas Ike foUevlaf |«v, liet^W. a.

W. STUKELEY, 1720. 43

on the bells, A designd to take that upon the famons old Clock BeD which I beleive was eqnal to any in England for bulk, but observing it very long, & in very antient Saxon Characters, I <»nitted it for that time, exceedingly to my regrett, for it is now for ever lost They knockt it on peices the week before I went to reside there to cast into new ones, & none had skill or thought to take it out, which I often lamented, It being in all probability a curious peice of Antiquity.

Ashwensday 1708. We took up old Hoyes that hangd him idf A was buryed in the highway, & dissected him, & afterwards made a sceleton of his bones, & put them into a fine Glass case with an inscription in Latin. The Country people were strangly alarmd at this unusual Operation, & it was the common topic of discourse among 'em for a long time after. I set it up in my Sonmier house, & all the World came to see the wondrous sight. llr. Maurice Johnson, of Spalding, now of the Inner Temple, a very Learned G^t, & with whom since I have entertaind a great Fr^dship, at that time undertook to satyrise me & my Fellow Operators about it in verse, which I answerd immediately in the Hune way upon first sight of it

In April I took a journey into Northamptonsh'- where I ▼iewd the Noble seat of the D. of Montague, Boughton, so &mous for Painting & the fine Gardens & Waterworks. I staid aome time at my Friend Mr. Lucas's at Holywell, where I got acquainted with Dr. Parkyns, a neighboring Physician & learned Oentieman, one of G(ayety & Fire. Mr. Lucas had two sisters who lookd after his Family, k we, being all single, livd very merrily together, & conversd with great Freedom & Innocence. The I^dys had much good sense & humor, & one Morning I got iq> betimes Acompoed a Copy of Verses on the Family of Love, by which title we signalisd our selves, which servd to divert us in oor walks about the neighboring Fields, k occasiond their writ- ing letters to me when at Cambridg afterw. & we kept a friendly eotreqwodence that way.

In Dec. 1708 I went again to College, where I prepard my- idf for taking my Degree. I enterd then into Fdlows Com- iDooa. My Questions were in Catamenia pendent a plethora, qpon which I niade a Thesis when I kept my Aot| Monday 24

44 COtOaSTTAMYt.

Jan. 1708-9. Oonooctio cibi in rentricnk) non fit per roenttrunm. Mr. Dannj wm mj Fa'* as we call it, k opend the Dispute with a jocnlar speech, according to custom, wherein he expatiated npon roj Dissecting the old Man of Holbech, k the thickness of oar Couotrj Air, complementing me at the same time upon escaping the comon taint of the Vervecum patria, k that we should dispute de Lana Caprina, k much of that sort Toward the latter end I remember this expression Rancq palustres raoeb eUmoribos k pleno ore .£sculapiu expectant suum. Mr. Waller, another Fellow of our College, was mj Prompter as the Method is, he being Devoted to Phjiia The exercise being over I kepi mj Feast where the Professor Dr. Green, k his namesake** the M'* of our College, faTord me with their Company among the Best of the Faculty in the University, k the Professor obserrd lo me the next day that he never was so merry, nor staid so long at any Entertainment before. The Young Oentlemen of the University, who were Students in our Faculty or of my Aoquain* tance, I treated at the same time very plentifully in my own Chamber, k I think I went to bed the soberest of all the com- pany. My Uncle Dodson was present at the whole Solemnity, k brought me up my money to discharge the expence which amounted to above £50, k with him I returud a day or two after to Holbech, bidding a long farewell to my Alma Mater as having no thoughts of furder residence. I had renewed my Baichelor of Pbysicks Degree some days before at the hands of S' [John] Ellis, the Master of Caius College, then Vioe-Chan- oeDor.

I staid in the country till June 1709 to regulate my Concerns k receive the Compliments of my Friends k Tenants, k lodgd at that time with Mr. Rix with my Sister. I made an EntfTtatn- meot too at one of my Tenants, the Chequer, a Pnblick hoase, where I invited the Justices, Clergy, k Oentlemeo, all round the country, my Friends, acquaintance, k Dependants, upon which oocaaion we roasted a vast hinder Quarter of an Ox, k boild a huge plum poddin in a Copper, k drank off a bogihead of ale bfwwd on purpoeeL The Ladys I treated with Sweetmeats k Tea bj BockeHafelL

si Omwrn, tnm i§m is 171C

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I took a drawing of an old Tomb of one of the Litilebiirys'^ Familj in our Chb, which I gave to Mr. Rix. I took a Draught of the Fine Church of Kirkton, in our Country, & some inscrip- tiovia there. In April 1709 I went into Northamptonshire to see mj acquaintance there, particularly Mr. Lucas, where we lived a while, after the same Aree & conversible manner as formerly, in a kind of Monastic communication, nor did our youth launch out beyond any thing agreeable to the strictest of their Orders. Mrs. Ann, the eldest sister, a Lady of great Prudence & Gravity, we calld the Abbess. She is since marryd to Mr. Burk, now my neighbor in King Street, Bloomsbury. Mrs. Martha had some- what of an airy temper, & accompanyd me in several of my Bambles in that Country to view Antiquitys, Roman Camps, & the like. We traveld together like Errant Vertuosos, & when we came to an old mind Castle, &c., we dimbd together thro' every story & staircase, mutually helping one another, & pulling each other over the gaping arches & rugged heaps of rubbish, & when I had occasion to draw a view of them out, as we sat upon a stone or the grass, she held my ink horn or my paper, & was very serviceable & assistant in taking my designs, & all without any reserve or immodesty ; nor could any aged Philosophers have conversd together with more innocent familiarity or less guilt even in thought or intention. Nor could travailing curi- ositj or Antiquarian Researches be rendered so agreeable as with a fidr t witty Companion & Fellow laborer, & when we retumd home my young Disciple could entertain the Family with so very carious Relation of the curiositys we had seen, that it would be difficult to say whether so nice taste in the Remains of Ancient Time most recommended a young Lady, or that Refined study became more lovely & delightful for her sake. She is since marryd to a G(entleman in Wales.

The week before Whitsuntide this year 1709 I went to Lon- don,^ t in my way at Cambridge I was seizd with the first fit of the Gout transmitted to me by my Father. It was but slight,

" A reoBmbent eflSgy of Sir Hamphr^ littlebiixy, si the wwt end of tlie BOitli alala, f ormerl j si the estt end of the nme. Thii monnment li of the 14th

I left Holbedi Aug. e, 1709, sniTd ia Londoa 8th at Btfit— W. &

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k onlj gave me tooia small oneaniieM for about a week. Mj intantioD in this Joamej was lo finish mj Medicinal Siodja, k prepare mrself for Practise. In order whersio I tbooglit it eoo- venient to see the Method of the Hospitals here, where all sorts of Cases in Phjrsio & Surgerj oocorringy I might perieotlj learn the sjrmptoms A see the Diagnostics bsfore mj ejres, k make such obsenrations open the progress of Diseases, k the treatment of the Physicians upon them, & so fix them in mj Memory as would fnllj qoalifj me for launching out into the Practise of the Plro> fession I had spent so much time k money in studying. Tber^ fore I thought it highly adriseable to put my self under the eye of Dr. Mead,^ then Physician to St Thomas's Hospital, whose Illustrious Character^ as well by his writeings as his snooessful Practise, gare the most pregnant Prognostics of the Dignity k Figure he has since raisd both himself it the Art of Healing to. From my first acquaintance with him the Dr. thro* his innate goodness k sweetness of Temper was pleasd to show me great countenance k faror. 80 I lay at my own Chambers at Staples Inn, k trudgd every morning across the Bridg to the hospital, setting down in a paper book the Names of erery patient as taken in k the prescriptions, k sdlicitously obsenring erery turn k change in the Case, k drawing such Memorandums from thenoe as I thought oouTenient

My Countryman Dr. Broxholm*^ was at the Hospital at the same time with Dr. Mead, k Dr. Coleby, who has sanoe been chose one of Dr. Raddiffe trsTeUing Felbws, k Dr. Fulwood, now living at Huntingdon. My old Aoqnaintanoei Dr. Parkyns of Northtonshire, was now in Town too. I nsd lo spend some time with him, k Dr. Balam who had chambers then in Staples Inn the civilian. Tliey too, both people of Gallantry, were a little too volatile for my sedate humor, k I generally Ml *tm together late at night talking of the fiur sex.

I fbrmd a weekly meeting of the yoong Physicians k Surgeons (Mr. CbeseUen k Mr. Tho. Forster), wbers we dissected some part or other, k read a Disooune in oar TWns upon any sobjeel we had a Mind. I begun the Meeting with one upon Qeneratioo.

W. STUKSLKTy 1720. 47

Anoth^ I read on Feyers, on Tobaooo, on the Forms of Pre- scription.

On I treated, according to a custom, Dr. Mead &

the Surgeons, at the Kings arms Tavern, St Pauls Church yard.

I had always a great fancy for Architecture, & getting acquainted at this time with some of the builders of St Pauls I came to gett some knowledg of the Rules of that Art, which laid A foundation fin: my future consideration of the beautys & pro- portions of the Antient Oreek & Boman Manner, which I per- ceivd was revivd among us.

In Feb. 1709-10 I had been 7 months in London under the strictest course of Studys, both Theoretical & Practical, in my Profession, & being heartily tird of London thought of practis- ing in the Countiy, & so was resolvd to retire into the Country. On Munday, that Dr. Sacheverels tiyal commencd, (at Cambric^ 17 Feb. 1709-10) I went down again to Holbech, (lived at Mr. Bixs,) & cast my eyes upon the neighboring Town of Boston, where I had many Relations & acquaintance, & it being near my Estate I thought I could best take cognisance of my afiairs, A pursue the design I had of extricating my self out of debt, & look after the education of my Bro'* & Sister. So on Ladyday 1710 I went thither accompanyed by many of my Friends, to sound the opinion of such as I could find there, & meeting with profes- sions of kindness, & hopes of success, I resolvd to fix my Stan- dard there, to enter upon Practise which I thought would be but gradual & suitable to my very young years. On Mayday follow- ing I went to reside, t begun to come a little into business. I cured several young children of fits, which in a small measure raised me a character. Just in that week Mr. Lynton, a young deigyman of my year in Cambridge came to the Livings of Frieston k Butterwick in that neighborhood. He had marryed Councillor Woods sister, of Coppingthorpe'* near York, who mar- ryd the Daughter of Dr. Nicholson an Eminent Physician in York, Sl widow of Mr. Arthur Ingram of Barrowby near Leeds, whose fiither was Bro'* to the Lord Lrwin, A ownd the Estate of the Priory of Frieston & advowsons of those two livings. Mft#^^tn Wood, & her Family usually, coming down into that Country in

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Springy fell sick of a Ferer aboat Michfias 1711, k Mn. Ljd* ton, having been aoqoainted with nte, introdnoed me into the Family, & 1 restord her to her health, & waa alwajs outioenid for him & them ever after when anj occasion offerd« 8he being a Lady of great semie, & all other good Qnalitjt, had particiilarlj an extraordinary Genius for Music, which waa transmitted U> her hereditarily, her Fa'* too baring considerable skill herein. She could perform incomparably upon the Harpsichord, k oompoad Lessons frequently, t I baring the honor of bearing ber in mj risits, entcrtaind a Love for that Divine Art whic^ so powerfully affected me, & from one of her worth could not but eogage a duller person than myself. This month of May (1710) I took a Journey to Oxford with several Gentlemen of Boston. I had a slight touch of the Gout there.

Dec. 1710 I made a Prologue k Epilogue in lewsa for tha Schoolboys acting.

Feb. 1710-1 1. My Bro'* came from Moulton School, k lived with me at Mr. Amals, k designing to be an Apotbeearj he studyd the RudimenU of Pharmacy there. In I pot

him out apprentice to Mr. (Vx>per of Northton.

June 26, 1711, at SUnford, sister Wm. Stennit We weol thence to Northton, Holywell, Naseby, Uppingham.

Abtiraei of my Lifcj for Mr. MiuUr%^ of Bennet CoUege^

Maj/j 1720.

William Stokelej, son of John Stnkelej, of the antient fmmiljy lords of Stokelej Magna by Handngton, k Frances, daughter of Robert Bullen,' of the family of Anna Bullen, was bom at Holbech, Lincolnshire, Novemb. 7, 1687. He, from his infancy, had a strong propensity to drawing k designing, which by time & practise he improved to a considerable degree* He was brooght up in the free school at Holbech, then in good repate, under the care of Mr. Edwd. Kelsall, afterward Vicar of Boston. There were 11 lads now in the University from this neighbomrhood, 6 whereof from this schooL He was admitted of Bennet GoUege, 20 November, 1703, and went to reside Ladyday following. Whilst an undergraduate, Mr. Hales* (now

' TliSa lyiognphy was written for Mr. Mssten*! Hittory of the College, and U ineerted In that work In a aoniewhat altered fonn.

Bobert Maaten» B.D^ Fellow of the College, and of the Soc of Antiqnariea, Loodoa, wrote a ** History of the College of Corpot Chriiti, and the B. Virgin Maiy, (eowmonly called Bea^), in the UniTenitj of CambrV* whidi wat pab- liabed in 1758, and printed at the UnlTertitj Praia. It was dedicated to Mafthlaa Mawaon« D.D^ fonnerlj Maater of the College, and Biahop of Chi- Chester in 1740, to which tee he had been translated from Llandaff.

* Of Weaton, Line.

■ Stqihen Halea, D.D., Sth ton of Thomaa, eldest son of Sir Bobt. Hales, Bart., of Bekeabnme, Kent. His mother was Marj, danr. and Heiress of Ridid« Wood, of Abbota«Laag^j, Herts. He was bom 17 SepL, 1S77 ; admitted a Fensiooer of Corpns, 19 Jone. 1 S96 ; and obtained his Fellowship SS Feb.. 1 702*S ; MJL at the following commencement, and B.D. in 1711. Appointed P.C. of Teddingtoo, Middz^ in 170S. In 171S he was chosen F.B.8., andabontthe same time Tacafed hia College Fellowship bj accepting the Bectcry of Porlock, Bomara., which he exdmaged for that of Farriagdoo. Hants. He married Maiy, dear, and Heivias ef Dr. Henry Newce, of M nch.Hadham, Herts, Beetor cf Hailsham, Bnsssi, Several cf his writings were printed at the reqoest el the Bojal Soeiecj, before whom they had been read. So mnch did he disdngnish himaelf bj hia stadiea and pablicationa, that the Unircnitjof Oiford honoared Um with lbs Diploma cf D.D., SS JuM, 17as. The Boyal Sodelj also thm^ht B

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Dr. of Teddington), tbeo fellow of the Collage, emploTM him to drew a machine be made in the nature of what we aioce call Orrer}'8 : the original drawing he has now bj him« Mr. Tbo. Fawcet,* his tutor, employ 'd bim to draw a leaf or two out of the most antient printed book of Scripture historj in •eulptore, in the College MS. library*, for the use of John Bagford/ who was then writing on tbo origin of the art of ingraring. At that time Stepben Graj, the first eminent propagator of electriettj, often brougbt bis cylindric glass tube to our College^ to Tiait fab nepbew Jobn Graj/ of Canterbury, fellow student in phjaidc witb Stukelej. Before them two Stepben trj'd his electrical experiments then in their infancy. He took frequent herbariztng walks with Mr. Halen, k others, students in medicine^ about the country many miles round (^ambridg, and made great additiooe to Rays (*atalogiis [Plantamm] circa Cantabrig which, with a map of the county, be was much sullicited to print; but bit father dying, whilst be was junior Soph, called him freqoeotlj into the countr}* to take care of his private affaira, k prevented it.

lum vmtbj o# Um Oof>i€7 Gold M«U1» Md W VM tlwud by Ikt lojal Aesteaj

of Pan* nt%€ oC tbttr rt^bt turttgn mttmbtn. Ht vi» appoiaUd cterk ef tb«

clowt to ibt PnooMs o# WaloB. Tb€ B^ ol Oalofd. ia a

IxmkSoq Indrnukry. 20 FeK. 1754. dwcnbsd biM

batb bc«ti loQf aa Orniiarm Ui bia rrolgiiua aa a CttrgjaMa* aad la bia

eoaatry aa a Pbiloaopbcf '*— TmL Mmsi^rw't NtM. tf Orp. CM, CM^ Ckmk^

p. iOS.

• Tboaaa ravatti. B.!) . «bo vaa Pvaaidaat ol Iba Oalkc*. ea^ a aaal tacvlWoi Taior. vaa adacai^l aadcr Mr. ^a^^lawi^y%a, la Abfw TaaAaaa*li bcbool. M. Ifaftia'».ia.ib€-ri€kla. Ha vaa Bcdor ol ac Btatf, CMabw liMS i;o: to i:il He «a# prrfrrrr*! to tbc Rrccorr d Moaba Elcicb, asialb, bM dted brforv he Irfi ibc i **\\t^. an<l «aa b«ri«d la ibc Cbapci. 21 Jaac. 1717. —

• Jobo fUffoftl, aa aocdttcaiad auia. aad collocbif ol ran pnai^ k€^ vaa a aaiiva ol Load«ia. He drvoc«d mwtk umm la aaliactiaf for tba biMory of pnouaf . bal ibt proapactaa «m all tbat lypsariij. Hia Ckil- l«cti«*o« arr tn tbo Bni. )!•• . at»d arv bocb car>o«aaad Talaabia. Ha

TW oaf I ol O&iord caplojvd bim la ■afctaf pafcbaaaa 9i Boni la 14*7 . diad la 171C— JMooj /)WC p, 114.

• Joba Ofay. M.D. mm ol MaUbiaa Gray, aa AUotimi 9i adsiunl a acbolar ol Corpaa apoa At^ Parbav* faaaiatna. II A#r« ITOSs If a. la 1711 . M II la i:.*l Ht vaa a |waaa ol ctadic la bia vbicb bo practMad aft CaatotUify. iHad 4 k^^ 17S7, aad «M

w. 8TUKELET9 1720. 51

Stukelej took his bachelor of phjsics degree 21 Jan., 1707-8 ; studyed anatomy under Mr. Bolfe, surgeon, in chanoery lane ; went lectures of chymistry to Seign'- Vigani in Trinitj College, & in qoeens college cloysters, & tryei many chymical experi- ments, & dissections, injections, &c., in conjunction with (now Dr.) Stebbin, then studying Physick, of Catherin Hall ; and had a chamber allowM him in Coll.

He studyed the practical part of physick under Dr. Mead, at S. Tho. hospital, Soutliwark, in 1709; May, 1710, settled to practise at Boston-Manchester, 15 Stanfield ;^ May, 1717, removed to practise in Ormond Street, London ; admitted a fellow of the Boyal Society, by nomination of Dr. Mead, 20 March, 1717-8, by S'* Is. Newton, with whom (on acc^ of being of the same country), he had afterwards a particular friendship.

1 Januan'', 1718, Stukeley was one of tlie founders of the Antiquarian Society,* of which he was secretary for 9 years, whilst he lived in London. He took Dr. of physicks degree 7 July, 1719, at Cambridg ; examined at the College of physicians, London, & admitted a candidate Sep. 30.

1720. Admitted a fellow. This year he published an account of Arthurs Oon,* & the Roman vallum in Scotland, in 4**** His curiosity led him to be initiated into the mysterys of Masonry, suspecting it to be the remains of the mysterys of the antients, when widi diiBcuIty a number sufficient was to be found in all London. After this it became a public fashion not only spred over Brittain & Ireland, but all Europe.

March, 1722, ho read the Gulstonian Lecture at the College upon the Spleen, which ho printed in folio, together with the dissection of an elephant, with many copper plates, colored to imitate nature.

At this time an hereditary gout, which siez*d him first at the age of 16 (of which his father dyed at the age of 49), grew upon him to such a d^ree, that he was generally laid up of it all the

* Whilflt be resided at Botton, be ttronglj reoonmeoded tbe Cbaljbeete WBten of Suuilleld, near Polkingham : and became one of tbe earliest dhoken of them.— Vid. Mmsi^rt's JTut. tf Carp^ p. 882.

* f #., a reriver of the Sodetj.

* See Letters apon this moniimeot among the Ooffraspondeace.

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winter monihi. Tbu obliged him to ride oo horaebeck ta the Springy for recoTery of his health. B7 thie meeiit be indulged his natunl lore of antiquity t, especially thoee of hit own eoontfy ; the fruit of which was his Itinerarium Corioanm, in folio, witb 100 copper plates, published in 1724.

He had contracted friendships with the great Thomas,** Earl of Pembroke, whose antique marbles at Wilton he drew out; witii the learned Heneage, Elart of Winchelsea, k in general with all the virtuosos in London, k with some foreigners." He had a great intimacy with Mr. Roger Gale, went a Umr of half a jrcar^ along with him, all around the south k west of England. la 17S5 he went along w*** him all the north of England, k the whole length of the Roman wall ; drew out and described inniH merable old dtys, roads, altars, Ac, nut yet poUiah'd. But having always a religious turn of mind, k especially loving to go up to the fountain head of things, his chief attention was lo the works of the Druids, whom he pcrceiv*d to be of the aboriginal patriarchal religion. On this ace*- he spent e^'erjr year, a motitli or two, at Abury, k at Ambresbury, in Wilts, and by iamnner* able drawings k measurements nude himself master of the natnrt of their two great temples of Stonebenge k Abury, with many leaser. Ijord Hertford inxited him to MaHborough. In 1726 he was Censor of the ( ollege of physicians, k of the CVnumQ of the Royal Society by S' Isaac Ni*wtons destination ; 4 ooe of the Committee of the Ro\*al Soctctv to examin into the oooditioQ of tlie instruments at the Royal Ubaervstory, Greenwidi, then under the care of Dr. Hallev.

In June that year, to the wcmder k regret of all his aoquaia* tance, he retired to Gmntluun in LincolniJitre. On taking leave

Barl ol P^mbrokr, ^mttkm&d ite IcmI Isjws4 oI Uri Af«a4tl*i €0l1«tio« ol euisM. ptimdkp^lf bwto. To tkoat bo aidod oMsy o# tks Oio0Uoioo ■srblw. sod o# Uo Ummnm oollcctkHi. lo 1711 tUtk^ Coor^fle poUtoko4 o Dooertpuoo ol ilM^ oo4 lo KUibiovort vMffo^vtMotfffor Josci Eoaoodf. ol mhktk Mooffol odItMoo oflorvordo lypMiil bot tWj ofo aoi vote*

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of S'* Isaac Newton, 1 Apr., then in lodgings at Kensington, where he spent a whole day with him alone, S'* Isaac directed him to inquire about a convenient house to be purchased for him in Orantham, for he had thoughts of ending his days there, near his native town, but his death soon after prevented it However, Stukeley, by living in Grantham, had an opportunity of collect- ing the memoirs of S'* Isaacs family, & the early part of his life (for he was brought up at Grantham school). These memoirs he sent up to Mr. Conduit, who propos'd publishing his life. The papers fell into the hands of Lord Lymington, who marryed Mr. Conduit's daughter.

In 1728 Stukeley marryed a gentlewoman of family & fortune in that neighborhood, Frances, daughter of Robert Williamson, of AUington, gentleman. He was employM by all the noble & other familys around that country in the practise of physic, but he entertained thoughts of entering into holy orders. Archbp. Wake, to whom he was well known, encouragM him in it, & ordainM him at Croydon, 20 July, 1729. In October that year Lord Chancellor King presented him to All Saints Living in Stamford, with S. Peters annexM. On November 8, Bp. Reynolds,'* of Linoolni ordaining him priest, ofTerM him the Living of Holbech, his native town, then vacant, which he refusM. He likewise was offered another living that year, by the prut ESarl of Winchelsea.

Feb., 1730, he removed to Stamford, & took upon himself the parochial Cure. That year Dr. Rogerii, a parishioner, invented his Oleum Arthriticum, when he had used it upon himself & many others, with admirable success. Dr. Stukeley was induced to do the like with equal advantige, & it saved his joints Ry this t other proper regimen he recovered his limbs t health to a surprizing degree. A, has ever since enjoyM a firm state of health, beyond any example in the like circumstance.

In Januan', 1732*3, he publisird an account of the success from these oyls esctemally apply*d in innumerable instances, in a letter to S'* Hans Sloan ; k the year after he publishM a regular treatise of the cause & cure of tlie gout, from a new rationale,

" Ricluund Rajnoldi, who pennittcd the Dean and Chapter to pun down Um rvfiM of the Palaea, and to oas the ftooe for the repain of the Cstliodnd.

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which ptitM thro* two editions of 1000 each in n% baridet an abctnot of the work, of like n^ to three editions, k m Terjr neel edition of the larger work at Dnblin, 1 735.

Here he learnt, from Mr. Archdeaoon Camberiand, thai the Bishop/' his predecesftor, whilst at Stamford, made an Orrerr, which after his death the grandchildren used to play withal, till broken in pieces. The Bp. was likpwine rery diligent in making a meridian line upon the wall of Browns hospital, which is slill risible, &, Dr. Stukelev has now in his possession a dock invented A made by Bp. Cumberland, for astronomical uses, containing hours, minuter, k secoiuiH, with only three wheels, whicfa is reckon 'd by tlie arti^^ts that way a great curiosity. The Bp. was the inventor of the long |)endulum, k found oat tbe way of adjusting it, by a screw at the top, whereby it may be leogtbened or short ned without stopping its motion.

S. Marys Living in Stamford, being vacant. Lord Chaooellor Hsnlwick offered it to the Dr., but he refused it. A corioiia silver plate of Human worknian»hip was found in Rtsley park, Darbyshire. It was in tlie |>«issession of Exsuprriits, whom we call S. Swithin, bi^liop of [Touloute] who lived about [the year 206] ho gave it to tlie church of lh>ugois m France. Tbe Dr. got it ingraved by G. Vandergiicht, k printed an explanation of it, k trac«*d tito journey of it from thai church hither. Tie addressed to Ili>gi*r (rale.

In 1734) he publif»hed hit Pahrographia Sacra, in quarto, N^ 1, dedicated to S' Itichard EllynJ* Barr" , from wbon he bad receivcil favors, ll wa« to »Ih»w a •periiiim how heatbeo OBytbo* log^' is derivftl from •acn*<l hi^tor^ : k tliat the Baccfaos of tbe porlA ii no c»thrr tlian Jdiovah in Scripture, tlie leader of tbe l«ni«*litr^ thro* tlir HilJcrnrwi. For hi« cntt*rtainment be baa carried ihrM* kiml of imjuiryt to a gn*at length : but there is no return to be found by putting tbem to the preaa.

In 1737 hi* wife dyed, leaving him 3 daugbtcrm.

** Eicksrd CMaWHsad, bom Is iht fsmb oi H. Asm. Aldgaltf, FMWv ol M ^. CSolU CsAbr., asctor •# Brafli«rt4Mi. mmd Viesf •# 9l MsftteX •iSBlord. Blalkip ol fwibotoi^S, ISfl. thmd Oct. S. Kli^ bsnod la ku CatWdrsl.

*• 01 KsdM frisfj. Lias.

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In 1739 he marrj^ed the only daughter of Dean Ghde, his fir^ Bo^er Ghdes sister.

The late Duke of Ancaster, Peregrine (in whose family now, & formerly with the first Duke Robert, he was well received), made him one of his chaplains, Aug., 1739, & gave him the liv- ing of Somerby by Grantham. In the winter of 1740, 41, 42, 43, he lived in Town with his family, in Gloc''' Street In the beginning of 1740 he published his work of Stonehenge, in folio, with many copper plates of that wonderful structure of the Drwisj dedicated to his patron the Duke of Ancaster.

December, 1741, the house of Commons orderM him to preach before them, on 30 January. He printed the sermon.'^ It regarded the necessity of observing the public Sabbatic duty.

11 December, 1741, he was one of the founders of the Egyptian Society : whereof Lord Sandwich was president.

22 January, 1741-2, the Duke of Montagu, then admitted of it asked him the meaning & purpose of the so famous Egyptian Stirunu He answerM that it was difficult to obtain a proper iMtioo of it from authors; that he apprehended the origin of it was equal to that of the world, for when sacrifices were instituted, it was the method of the ancestor!^ of mankind to watch, & await the descent of celestial fire to consume the animals on the altar, in token of divine acceptance ; during which time of awaiting it was necessary in warm countrys to drive away birds of prey & beasts, by a rattle, from devouring the sacrifice. This is apparent finom the famous federal sacrifice of Abnihani, Genesis xv. Hence the Egyptians made it their great prophylactic of all evil. The rattling of it was equivalent to procul e$te profani This solution was approved of by the Society, k soon alWr the Dr. presented Id the Duke a large k full account of that matter in manuscript ; from which time be was pleasd to honor him with his favor k firiendship.

In the beginning of the year 1743, he published Abury, or a description of that stupendous work of the Dnuds ; with

** Ob lbs text— Lam : ii. 6. **The Lord htth canted the ■olemn feaiU and atbbsAe to be forgotten in Zioo, and hath despised in the indignation of hit tba King and the prieil ; ** from which paitage he thewed that National are the coneeqaenoe of a KationNl profanatioo of the Sabbath.

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manj oopperpfaitas, folio, dedicated to the Beri of Penbrok^.

Thai same jear be pabliahed the aoooant of Ladj Bottia*s aepnlehral oeU lately diaoorered at Roiatoo,*^ in quarto, ^ith copper platea, being titled Paleographia Britannica, or mono* menta of antiqoitj that relate to Brittiah hiatorr, dedicated to Lord Chancellor Hard wick.

18 Jane, 1744, the lecture in All SaioU Chorch being meant the Truateea gare it to the Dr.

In 1745 one Ur. Parkjnt,'^ a clergyman in Norfolk, taok it into hia head to write an awkward anawer (as he caUa it) U Dr. Stukeleyt account of Lady ltoiaia*t cell at Roiatco ; being an onhandaom treatment of the Dr., i, an nnconnected, odd aoco«Bl of that antiquity of hia own.

The Dr. aoon anawered it, addretaed to Lord Hardwiek, lot on account of the Rebellion defer*d the publication till 1746, k printed it at Stamford. The title was Paheographia Britannica, No. 2, wherein are many curious rrmarkablea in antiqni^, paita* culariy the true origin of the Unirervity of Cambridg, in the eld Roman City of Oranta, on the north aide of the rirer. He kaa eollecied an exceeding good cabinet of antient Roman A Oiwtk Coyns, diapoeed chiefly in a religious regard to the goapd bialorj.

In June, 1747, he rec2d a complaiaant IZr from Mr. Bertraal^ of Copenhagen, a gentleman unknown to him, intraating a eor» reapondence ; in the course of which mention waa made of a curious manuscript*^ of Richard of Wcetminstrr, relating to tlM Roman antiquitya in Brittain. Thia year he cut out in wood a machine of his own inTentioo (or Orrery), which shows the tnM motion of the sun ft moon round the globe of the earth, the ooufM of the tidea, k many other particulan UM*ful in common life.

14 Norember. Dr. & rccid a long Icr from the Duke of Montagu, offering him & Oeorgea Liring, Queens square, 4 ei pressing a deaire of hie acceptance, w^ be comply *d withal^

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tbo' it Tacated both his other Liyings, chiefly in regard to the Dukes satisfaction ; In the beginning of the year following, removM to Town.

In September that year, 1748, he accompanyed the Duke to Boughtoni Northamptonshire, for a month. 5^ July the year following, the Duke dyed, the most regretted of any subject in England. The Dr. went to pay his last respects to his great patrons remains passing thro* Kentish town, & sprinkled his herse with woodbind flowers. On returning home in a fitt of grief, he wrote some lines in blank verse, upon that melancholy subject, which were printed in the newspapers of the same day, A afterward in the Brittish Magazine. The Dr. printed them on a half sheet, to give away to the Dukes friends.

There were likewise printed in the British Magazine some verses of the Drs. describing the months entertainment with the Duke at Boughton, & some anecdotes concerning his character.

In Christmas, 1749, he printed, on a sheet, a paper of verses made in the year 1736, called a philosophical hymn on Christmas day, inscribed to the Lady Hardwick, which he gave away chiefly to his parishioners. Afterwards it was printed in the Brittish Magazine.

In the beginning of the year 1750, on occasion of the two 8hock» of the earthquakes then, the Dr. gave in two papers to the Boyal Society, attempting to point out the cause of earth- quakes from the principle of electricity. He preachM a sermon upon that alarming occasion in his oni-n church the auditors in both places in numbers requested him to make these discourses puUick, which he complyed withal, intitling the pamphlet the philosophy of earthquakes, natural & religious, or an inquiry into their cause A their purpotte. He printed it in octavo, chiefly to give away to his fiiends k parishiouers. There was likewise an account of the work printed in the Brittish Magazine.

Mrs. Adams, a parishioner of his, since his coming to London, ofierM him a Living in her gift, which he refused.

Beside an infinite number of drawings of Roman k other antiqnitys, the Dr., during his 20 years enjoyment of the solitude of the conntiyi carryed his studys k his designs, chiefly in sacred antiquitjrsy to a very great length. He discussed carefully 4

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largely tbe whole qotition of the true jeer A day of o«r Baviovt birth, hit whole life k minittrjj to as to oompile an exaci harmooy of the GospeUy k the fasti €9a»gMei as he ttjlee it, in the way of a kalendar, k tie illoitrated by the coyna k nedala k inecriplioQa of antiquity. Herein we may aaaign rery many partienlar dajra of the month, week, k ytmt^ whereon the trantactiooa of o«r Sariourt life happen 'd, in a more precaae manner than baa been done.

Beside those works mentiond in the preface to Slooebemfa, be has found out means, from heathen mytlioiof^r, k motmmeols of antiquity, to recover tbi* effi^pes of Tery many of the patriareha mention *d in Sacred writ, which he baa drawn out in OHUiy separate volumes.

He has trac'd the ori/i^n of Aalrooomy finom the first ages of the world. He has tnic*d the origin of Architeetore, with OMUiy designs of the mosaic tabernacle ; the temple of Solooion ; the breastplate of Anron ; the manner of the incampmeet of fhm Israelites ; the origin of the celestial eonstsilatiooe ; iIm natare of the Hebrew Sliecbinah ; k an infinity ot' saorsd aataqoitjra deduc*d from proofs not hitherto obeerv*d« tqgetber with wmay other tracts k diACountes too trdious to be reeapitalaied ; an immense quantity of drawings having a reUgioss rcgatd, €.f^ above 4(K) views of places in the holy land, relating to snerad hisCory, with very many more of like natnrsL

The artifice of booknellers diecorages authors from rsapiag Uw fruit of their laboim, nevertheless be porposee to print ike beak of Richsrd of Westm', mhich is an extraofdinanr enriositv. 4 givee more light into the history of Brittain than all the hooka hitherto published. He has lUO copper plates ready ingtaten^ 4 with ooim k observations will render it a second Vohone of the Itinerarium Cnriosuas.

Diary,

Feb. 1720. Mons'- GhronoviuB Son to the famous Critic in Town.

Apr. 11. I bought South Sea Stock with Mr. Wood.

Apr. 18. At the Lincolnsh'* Feast, Ship Tavern, Temple barr. pres^ Sir Is. Newton. Upon my mentioning to him the rehearsal of the Opera to night (Rhadamisto)' he said he never was at more than one Opera. The first Act he heard with pleasure, the 2^ stretch*d his patience, at the 3^ he ran away.

Bumper q. d. Bon pere.

Apr. 21. With L^ Harley* in his Library, Dover Street

Apr. 25. I presented my profile to Mr. Wood.

28 May. The Kings Birthday. I reed from Mr. Wood £350, my share of the profit of our South Sea contract.

30 May. Mr. Bird took off my face in plaistcr of Paris.

2 June. Surprizeing scene in Change Alley. S. Sea in the morning above 900, in the evening 700 p O, it has rose 100 p

' In S Acta, bj HandeL It wai reheaned for the ftnt time on the 17th of April, and was the ftnt of the Operas oonipoeed for the new Opera Honee, *'The Bojal Aoftdemj of Maiie,** C#. Hajmarket Theatre. The Text wai written bgr Nioola Hajm. On ito appearance it lecdTed the meet extravagant applaoae. The air, "Ombva Cam,** Handel oomddered one of the ftneet he erer made. The Open wai dedicated to George I. The Pogt B^f of 9 JqIt, 1710, adTer* tiaed the copper-plate engraring of Radamiatoa, hj Richd. Mearet, macical inetmment maker and mneic printer at the Golden Viol ; and on let Deer, in the Mune jear another advertiaement announced that on the ISth ineu the Opera woald be pnbUehed, consiating of 134 large folio copper-platea. A third advartiaemeat bgr Mearea in the PMt B^^^ IS Mar., 1721» informed the pnblic that Handel had compoeed aereral additional aonga, which woold appear in thia edition : end that each »***■*«■»■ aa had alraadv nardiaaad the nteviaBa aditioa, woald neriva the additioMd aeafi (41 pagaa) gtatii.- 8ea SokmM^$ Lff0 ^ MtmM IIW7) ^ U.

* Bobert Hartej, Sari af Osfotd, bora in Loadoa 16SI, died ia 17M. A grant patron of literatara, and collector of literary treaanrea. Hia eillaatka af MSa. waa parehaaed for the Britiah Maaeaaa. Ha waa impeached te traaaen bf ite Whig party ia 1711, aoaftnad in the T^mrn^ aad ralwaid at iba ead af

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diem for S or 3 <Uj». Profetftioot A abopt are fotgot, all goa thither as to the minoa of PotoaL Nobility, Ladjrt, Brokafv, 4 footmen all upon a level. Great equipngea aetttog op, the priaaa (ne) of thin^rs rose cxorbiUntlj. Such a renTersenient of Uw order of Nature as suoccedin;; agea can have no Idea of.

7 Juue. I aat to S'* Qodfrej Kneller for my pictore.' S** Is. Newton came in to see his picture finished designed for Mr. Cassini.^

II June. L^ Nottini^ham* had his foce taken 8 diffsraol ways in order for a bust.

18 June. Dr. Mead sat for his pictnre.

27 June. Went to see Mr. Depoys raritya, long acre.

30 June. Went with S'- Is. Newton to see the Coinage ia the Tower. He set his hand in my Album.

July 14. At the Apotbecarys herbarizing feast at (}raenwieb. Several people run mad & kill thoniaelvea aAer having got grant sums of monev in South Sea.

July 17. I visited I/- Pembroka.

July 18. Din*d with Dean Stanley.* Mr. Mieklebnrgh alonff with us.

July 81. I din*d with S' Ood£ Knelkr at Whittoo, ia Ham Walks.

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• DMltl riscb. E«rl of Kouisfbsfli. P>wlSisi o# tb« CoMcU sa ibe «< Qmsb Asm ; aiMiMd ffo* ««at to 17ia la ITat be bacMM leriof WlMb«U«k to virtM ol bi« dcoetot ffo* lltesbslK ^mt. saa bmi ef Sir TWmm Bsssh^ m4 vtto o# Mr Mojto riasb. bis gieat gtmMmkm. Wh nfkj «• W^kSM oa lbs Trialty ibiitosi tbe Ibaabs ef tbe OaiiniHi eC Osta< and •# lbs jiibsp saa CWiu ef f laiis Be atoi to II

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Aug. 9* S'* Is. Nevrton went to Oxford with Dr. Kiel/ he having not beeu there before.

In Lincohishire.

S^t 23, 1720. S. Sea fallen from 1000 to 400. The world in the utmost distraction — thousands of familjs ruin*d.

I was with S'* John Yanbrugh.*

Sept 30. I was admitted Fellow of the College of Physicians.

S. Sea last night under 100 now risen to 310.

Oct. 5. A young Elephant in Town dying S'* Hans Sloan bought it for us to dissect

Oct 10. Dr. Mead & I visited Mr. S^ Andr6 to see his fine preparations in Anatomy which are beyond comparison.

the age of 16. In 16C9 he wm elected to m Fellowihip of Corpat ; wm eaimte to Dr. Ooodman, at Mach Hadbam, Herta., where he became known to the Earl of Ea««x, who made him hit chaplain, and presented him to the Rectory of Bajna Panra, Emcz, in 1681. This he gare np for 8. Mary Magd., in Old Fish Street. London, in 1682, and in 1690, upon the death of Dr. Goodman, was appointed to the Rectory of Mach Hadham. In 1684 he waa preferred to the Pkebend of Caddington, in the Cathedral of 8. Paul ; in 1689 to the Arch* deaoonry of London ; and in 1706, to the Deanery of St. Anaph. Before this time he had received the appointment of Chaplain to the Prinoeaa of Orange, and aabeeqaently Clerk of the Cloaet to her when Qaeen. Dr. Stanley, in 1722, made and printed at hit own ezpenae, a Catalogue of the Taloable MSS. in Corpoa Library. Daring hit Maatenhip the College Cummnnion Plate was •loleii, and be generooaly pieaented the 8ilfer*gilt Plate which had belonged lo Qoeen Mary*t private chapel, and which abe bad given to him. He died ia 1781t at the age of 84, and was boried in St. Paart Cathedral.— Jf«j(nv*« BuL

* John Keill. bom at Edinburgh, 1671 ; died 1721. Entered Balliol OolL, Oxford, and ia la^d to have been the flrat who taught Sir L Kewton*a prindplea by ezperimenta. In 1698 he publiabed an ** Examination of Dr. Baraet*t Theory el the Earth,** to which he tabjoined **Bemarkt on Whiaton*t Theory.** In 1699 he waa appointed deputy profeaaor of KaL PhiloM>phy. In 1708 he defended Newton*a claim to the invention of fluxiooa. In 1710 he waa cboean Saviliaa ProfeMor of Astronomy at Oxford. In 1714 the Unlverrity conferred en bim tlie degree of M.D. In 1716 be publiabed an edition of *- Commandine'a EucUd.**— See SfH^m's Diet., p. 688.

* Sir John Vanbrugb. bom 1666 ; died ia London, 1726. He waa a cele* Ijfated Bngliak dramatic writer and arehiteet. Hia oomediea were **Tbe Provoked Wife **; ** The Confederal**; and** The Bdapee, or Virtue ia Danger.** For eome time be waa Clarendeux King-of«Arma ; and Surveyor of Greenwich Hoapital ia 1716. He waa alao Coonptroller-geaeral of Worka, mad Surveyor of tbe Koyal Oardena. Hit prindpal oonatradioa ia Blenbeim.--See BmUm^ p. 1019.

<t DUmT.

Oct 18. Dr. Friend, Onitnr Hmnreimons ml CoHege, be gmirt a gill Cap.

Oct 28. Dr. ChMaCj anatomical roader. I was demanrtiaior.

Norr. Mont'* Plumicr the famoua Statmuy djd of a ooo* sompiioni mj patient

Norr. 25. I din'd with S*' la. Newton where we aodtted the R8. Aoc^

Dec 10. I drew out L^ Pembrokea laia.* He gave me a gold cojm of Philip, of Maoedon.

Dec 11. He came to aee mv drawings of Solomons Templa.

Dec. 15. Dr. Halley sat to 8' Godfrey Kneller for Dr. Mead. Talking of a painter/* of whom people reported thai his colors were good k lasting, yes, says 8* Godfrey, but the more is the pity. Acquainted with Mr. Baxter."

Jan. 6, 1721. I was made a Freemason at the Salutalkm Tar., Tavistock Street, with Mr. (\>llins, (*apt Rowe who made the famous diving Engine.

The Directors late paramount, now dcspoiFd 4c

Mr. Kemps antiquit3rs sold.

Jan. 26. Mr. Le Neve Nonroy k I tack some tranaeripciooa out of Domeaday booL

• nu to probttMf tkt bUck teislt autw •# HtkHMcte (?>, m iMom sf klfli ntX kMsUaff sad hoidkm§ htimm kla • psitAlito ilwtM te vkidi Is * niiilist afwt •# OsArto. It to AppMviKlf o# cIm agv of iIm fSili Djbmij, er Abo«t Um 7tk €t«t«r7 SjC. Tbc htmd mmd UmtfL srt aodct «. mmd hmwt keaa muni m ikom ol tkt foddtm lito. iMUntf •# bsisf wbU9 Is iIm b«s4.«ltlie ol s iwmmkman s# thm 4y— iij •bof ■wti— d. A, Om^am km wf istsd li te IMS **Ba^ tovwdft csptomiaf Um Htortft m Um ObAs «f m bslMiCiaC lo Gspc W. UUmvUmt. Lond^ 1717.** It ptob^blj cm»

** 8m auksWy't Cmbsms-pUm Book. viMft H to m*4 tiMt tW ytodtd to «M Mr. Kichowtooo. JoootlMyi IticlMrilano vm Uv« oboot 1< —dated to Loodoa la ITU. Hs woo owniiiir id s good ^ortfott yoiotir. Hs oFfoit llM * TWorj ol rolocioff .** oM * Ao Imoj spo« tW Aft o# It ffololos to poloUoc.**-Kot Mftf0m, p SAS.

•• WUHmo aoitor, otplitwol KicWrd tostrr tlis eslthroloi

Am. la ICSO; disd I7A Ho la tiM dsMlBi, sad wm ty^ioiod MmM o# tte Mi ■o pobltakod m Latio Owsf la lATf : aa la laas : oa BdM. ol Hotaat la Kie ; oad s DioL ol BntMli la lilt. ItoOliiniyelBiiBiis Aat^a. wsspnaMdla liaSw^Tdd^ Mstii^li

^ ^111.

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Mr. Hotfkin8 new invented Machine for raising water by f

Feb. 4. 8^' Godfr. Kn. sketchd my profile on paper.

Feb. 13. S'' Is. Newton presented me with the new Edition of his optics. We disoonrsM abont mnscnlar motion.

Feb. 17. The fine featherwork bed made by Edm. Cany.

L^ Stanhope'' buryd in great state.

Feb. 20, 1720-1. The Lincohishire Nobility & Gentry din*d at Pontacks. I was with them.

Feb. 23. Dr. Halley & I breakfasted at 8'* Is. Newtons. 8'* Is. mentiond the poverty of the materials he had for making his Tbeoiy of the moons motion ; that Mr. Flamsted'' would oommonicate none of his observations to him. 8'' Is. came to London, 1696. Halley mentiond a Calumny Flamstead raisd ag^ him for stealing 110 stars from him, & that Dr. Hare answerd that if it was true he knew of no law whereby to punish him for it 8'* Is. showd us the famous glass of Mr. Hngens,'^ 170 foot radius, which he had lately bought

Mar. 10. I waited on 8'- Chr. Wren.

The latter end of this month cold weather coming suddenly upon two or 3 days of excessive hot I was visited, afler two

" Jamet Stanhope, fint Bmrl, born 1673; died ia London, 1731. Highlj difdagniabed ss m military roan, eipeciallj at the dege of Namor in 1S9S ; at tkt MCge of Barcelona in 1705 ; and at Port Mahon, which be oapcniedin 170S. He WBt appointed Secretary of State bj George I. ; Ambaaiador to Vienna in 1714 ; Fine Lord of the Tteasnry, and Chanoellor of the Bzcheqner in 1717, wkieb be reliaqaitbed on b^ng created a Peer. — See BeeUiL, p. 97a.

" Bomat Derby in 164S; died 1719. In 1669 be ealcabOed an edipee of the ran, which was to happen in the following year. Entered Jerat College, Cambridge. In 1674 he was appointed Astronomer Boyal, in which year he took Holy Orders. In 1675 the Koyal Greenwich Obserratory was commenced, and was called Flamstced Honse. It is said that Newton was indebted to bit lumr obeerrations for the means of carrying ont and Terifying bis discoTCiy of graTitation.— See Bretom, p. 402.

'* Cbrittiaa Hnygens (son of Constantino H.« lord of Zoylicbem and Secva- taiy to the Prince of OrangeX was bom ia 1SS9; died 1S95. He was an Miintnt ■afhemitirisn, and pnblisbed, among other works* a treatise on Hcio- logy, ia which be described a newly invented pendalnm. In 1666 be gave an aeoout of bis disoorery of a satellite of Satam. Fellow of the R. a in 1661, and aflvwards a member of the Academy of Sciences, Paris. His **Ooemo- tbeofos» or IVeatise on the Plurality of Worlds,** was printed in 1696.— See

^6ss.

64 DIAJIT.

jreart inUnniition, with the Goat, Ac [Hw Dr. qwaki of Um rotnodiot bo iitodj.

Maj 26. I/- Pembroke gmvo mo tbo dimeniiofM of aooio Oreek Templet in Sicilj. He gmvo me Vilmriiit^ bj Jonta.

June 5. I went to tee the Silk mmnufiictiire at Cbebqr.

June IG. We diod at Oreenwicb with Jooea, Kirikall^ Highmor,** Ac Viaitod Dr. HaUey, Hare.

June 24. Tlie Masons had a dinner at Sutiociert HaO, present, Doke of Montagoe, L^ Herbert, L^ Scanhope, S** And. Fountain,'^ Ac Dr. Deta^ien pronounced an oration. Tbo O^ M' Mr. Pain produc*d an oM MS. of the Cooftitatiooa** which be got in the Weat of Enghmd, 500 yean oM. He road over a new actt of articles lo be obterr'd. Tbo Doko of Montague cboae 0^ M'- next jrear. Dr. Beal, Deputj.

July 15, 1721. At Holboch, John Butior mj tenant told me he dreamed Home time before, he saw Sam. Ho wet riding down Holbech Steeple ; the morning after came news of Howola taken ill, of which Mcknca^ be dy*d. Botlrr was taken ill tbaa day, A 1 conjectunl it would [be] fatal, which proT*d tmc A new weathercock nett upon Holbech Steeple.

JuW 16. Went to \'tait L^ Pembroke, be made me a of bit picture by Wiaten,'* Diadplc of 8' Peter LoUy.

ViuvviM follio TitffviriMi a AbiMK U ac H« «M gmJif m/kmtmi kf J«I«m

ku TrtMlM om AfdiiiactM* it tWi ml aAiiilir. Uifiki* Tff—ilHi—^ •n, C-lallX ^HU tMm ^ Uigo Jcmm ; aoaOvOl'iL- p. IOCS.

ItH : aiH litu. H« «M ekoMS mm ol Um fiiiliMWi ol tW B«jal M ito ffo«iid*tlom.— UN Bftfmm. fw UA,

•* 8ir A. foMUftM. bum at KArfwd, XotMk : mi4 aiail ITSa.

r H« ••dt A •olltcilM ol Mitigo^ m4 eartiiitii B« 4few ite fef tW wlfiMl lUwmiioM «• a«mt * M» •! A T^^** Ka%klei|f

• A aafiy •# Um ifvl aad ImI p^« •# tlite Ma. !• tai mm •# €l Dffmwteft \m %km pammmkm •# Um lev. H. f. ti.

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18 July. Mr. Grer. V. gucht & I went to S*' Albans where I finishM my drawing of the place.** At More park.

20 July. Mr. S'* Andre & I dissected Mr. Roberts's Tortoise. This summer I went a 3 months Journey with Mr. Roger

Gale into the West Came home the middle of Octo.

21 March, 1719-20 I was present at College at the revisal of the Pharmacopasia.

Nov. 30, 1721. Dr. Halley resigning his Place as Secretary to the Royal Society, I was sollicited by a great many members to stand Candidate to succeed him, but The President, Halley, Dr. Mead, & the whole Mathematical Party opposd me. I had 27 voices, & 13 who had promised me did not appear, & thro' the great diligence of the contrary side & Indolence of my Friends, a great many that were brought thither only by my Interest were induced to vote against me: whereby we were outnumbered to the vast satisfaction & rejoycing of our

opponents. Nee tam

Turpo fuit vinci quam contendisse decorum.

13 Deccmb. Went to sec Governor Yales sale of his Collection.

Din'd with Count Marsigli,*' Founder of the University of Bolognia, & a great antiquar}% at S^' Hans Sloan.«, who showd us all hiH prodigious Cabinet, with us Dr. Steigerthal, Dr. Sherard, Mr. Le Neve Norroy & Mr. Roger Gale.

14 Dec. L*"' Pembroke \nsited me to sec the Drawings of Sionhengc, Abuiy.

20 Dec. Feast at College. Tessier, Real, Dod, & Self, Stewards.

* SeTen pen-and-ink sketches of different iiortions. external and internal, of the church, are in one of Stokelej's Volames of Drawings in the poasesiion of the Bev. H. F. St. John.

" Count Louis Ferdinand Mamigli, an Italian Xataralist. was bom at Bologna in 163% ; died 1730. Served in the Imperial armj, and in 1683 wai taken prisoner bj the Tartars, who sold hira to the Turks. After his release he brcaoM a general, but was dismissed the service on the surrender of Brisach bj the Count d'Arco to the Duke of Burpindj. He then retired to his native town, where he formed a museum, and erected a printini; office. He founded the Academy of Arts and sciences there. He became a member of the Academ/ of Sciences, Paris, and Fellow of the R. S., and was the author of f«veral important works.— See Bert^m, p. 6U2. F

66 DIART.

S7 Dec. We met at the FaanUio Tt. Stnnd A bj of Grand M'- present, Dr. Beal oonstitoted a new Lodge thm9f where I waa choae M'-

14 Jan., 1721-2. At a qu'ly Meeting where Bro' Topping repeated 30 incoherent words either forwards or backwards er by stops after once liearing them. He is a M'* of meoKny 4 can doe the like to a very much larger extent.

12 Feb. 1 dissected k drew out the muscles from a prepare ing Body at the College.

S Mar. EtchM the pUte of CroyUnd bridge.**

1721-2.

March 14, 15, 16. I read my Lecture at College upon the Spleen.

Blarch 17. 1 etrhcd Holbech Cross.

March 20. 1 drew the Ground plot of Carlisle k Cbcalar Cathedrals for Mr. Bruwn Willin.

March 25. 1 etcluHl CoUu*rworth Church.

May 18, 1722. Mr. Dav. Jones k I went to see oU Mr. Baxt'* ; among many curious Remarks of Antiquity, he ga^-^ at this translation of ill5w>pf» fa)>le, which he made once in walkii^y as a jest upon the danger of the church people.

In ^Iflopi iittiAfli. Veaa cmUuimi c«m ▼cll«l iioiiA tetHM

N«c poMtt iaU tndiur ma dolo AStmr ftkfli oof»*io mm^mmt immtitm

Ea |ac«t in — dio Mm t«A cws iboo Dcrt^t b«< gXmndtm diftUa fvrtsw favills

Et daaiat lle« Me« umis n4et aasi.

May 23. 1 dinM at Siir;;i*«>nii Hall at the Anatomic Lectora.

Mav 25. Met Duk** ol Qurn%lioro, I»rd Dunbarton, Hinchm*

broke, 4ur., at Fount. T«t\ . I^id;*. to consider €)( Feast on S* Johaa.

* Tbc mMrkabto ^inaAO^*'" ^f^df% mmtu4 htuwmm A.n. I: IS3H). at ihf point whm two •trraai*. cm froai thm Wellaad* Ua otiicr twvm the NcM. aaiird and aowd pmM, tlir mhkmj prattacU. Etaf E4«r |T , w^m taf Ua ablKA of C>ojlaa<i. «a)k««l tnm Ua •hkmj to Ua Wi4ea. aad tflibarifd for rulM>nnfav. AD 1«C9 lu pmcrraiiaa la prakaMj Maanc« Jobaaoa. for la tKc Itia Car Ikakcky adda a aaia thtH ** brtaf tW mfmmrd of tlir Ik»*«w t^f Croylaad. caaifl tW Cfwa ^i %km «a W •«« parad antli ftofic to aa^ it ffO« rvia "^aaa Mfy.

Jwt^ l^eiatas aA LMMaia. aw. III., p^

W. STUK£LET, 1720. 67

Jan. 2. With Mr. FUtcroft I went to survey the new buOd- ing of the Dormitory of Westm'* School. Thence to the top of the Scaffolding of the N. Isle of the Abby, & E. H. VII Chappel. We saw the vault, where 0. Cromwell was buryed, then openM.

May 28. I went to see the Camp drawn out on the Kings birthday. They made 3 running fires the whole length which was very fine.

Jun. I went to see the K. review the troops. At night

B^' Hans Sloan, Mr. Rog. Gale, Mr. Warkhouse, I^Ir. Ja. Hill, & Doct'* Danny, made me a visit

Jun. 14. The young Princesses dinM with S'* Hans Sloan. I breakfasted at Dr. Meads with the Duke of Sax Grothas Librarian.

Jun. 19. I view'd Dr. Woodwards'* Musaeum.

July 2, 1722. I show'd Mr. Baxter my Supplement to the Pentingerian Tables.

July 6. I drew the Gate of the Watling street next the Thames over ag** Stangate Fern-, Wcstm'* I observM the Thmcheon was stole out of the hand of the fine Statue of K. Ja. II before the banqnctting house. Sometime before they had stole one side of the Iron rails.

July 11. I sat to Mr. Marchand cutting my Profile in basso relievo in Ivory.

July 19. Mr. Ger. Vandergucht, Mr. Pine, & I, went upon 8^ Pauls, & were afterwards in the New River Pond, which is cleaned from the mud the first time since S'* Hugh Middletons^ days.

* Jolin Woodward, an eminent Phyiidan, born in Derbjihire in 1665 ; died in London in IHH, In 1692 he beaune Profeeeor of PhTtic at Greaham College. In IC95 Abp. TcniMm conferred on him the degree of M.D. He foonded the ProfeMor»hi|> of Geology at Cambridge in 1727 ; and bequeathed to the llonenm a collection of Englinh foMiIn. The foreign fonaiU were added afterwarda bj porchaae from Woodward's heim. — See JStrt^m, p. 1103.

** 8ir Hugh lliddleton died about 1C40. He was a London goldsmith, who, cbicllj at his own cost, supplied London with pnre water, selecting the Chad- weU and Amwell springs at Ware, and forming what is known as the ** New Biver.** In acknowledgment of his serrices be was created a Baronet in 162 I, p. 715.

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68 DUBT.

Sept 17. I waited on the Bp. of Deny.

Nor. 3. The Earl of Wtncbebea did me the honor of a

The Duke of Wbartoo* k U- Dalkeith ristted oar Lodg. al the Fountain.

Nor. 7. Order of the Book instituted. I din*d with Dr. Lockyer &c at the Chaplains table 8^ JamesV

D*ec. 20. L'* WinchclAea ;^ve me a peioe of the SCooaa of Kits Cotj House k a great fossil Ojster shell from aboai Maid- ston. They find such in cleaving blocks of stone thereaboota. We went togetlier to lec S** Martins new Ch^^ His Lordah^ bought a couple of Roman bricks found there.

Dec 28. I dinM with L^ HertfocxI introduced by lA Winchelsea. I made them both If embers of the Order of IIm Book or Roman Kni;;hthood. I saw a rery great pearl al tW Glass blowers, black lyon orer against Beanford boiUmga Strand, it was in an oyster shell, as big as a pigooos egg b«i tuberculous.

Jan. 4, 1722-3. L^ Wincbebea k L^ Hartford booor*d mm with a ritit

Jan. 24. Mr. Gordon gare me a risit; he sings al tW Opera;'' he has bet^n to view Arthun Ood k the Aotiqnitjt thereabout! ; be told me wlion at Capoa with S'* Geo. Bjnjf^ they sar*d the fim* Amphitheatre there, the 3rd in the worlds

* Philliis Dvkc ol Wharuw (aos ol 10 icm i %nd dica IB SpBis la 17J1. Hs vm ol a Taiwi»tHBf cbAHM^r. mmI !• de|Hcir<l hj P*^ in tbc Uttc. "^ WkMloa. Um of oar dftja." II i« cttmva^Mieet coapelWd hia lo l». I (MA.

* M. M*niQ'»-intWFirl«t«. (Ie«ipi«d bj Ji 6niftheU in 17^ Witbm it* charthfard lie* BoabilMC. tat tJird in i:*;i, ancl «b«Me f«»craJ mm ti— il>d by UofWf^ ^4 r. Amtfkts UmJ., Vol V . |». ISa.

" N«kcUj bM tCHMk bte |ca tbrcMifb * Mr. Ootdoa** m4 *bt the 0|«rm.**

* Gfocf* BjM. 'V'laeDMt Tomaftoa. bom ia ISSS. 4M im. Be 10 ibr Smwj m4 m I7M. «m cw— ador.ja^cbiof te lbs MUllMiasfi. h€ (IrfMirU lb* hfiMi*b Sivt otf M€t:f Ib 1721 bt wm tUmi la Iba ^Hi^st •>.il ftlurwartU ftftfioiAirtl Fine LofU ul tba A4fliiffattf . He wat Iba lalbsr el \l»€ •nf*irf«nat« bat brav* \«laiiral J«tbn !!/«§. vba wimm4m94 la ba ibal la 1717.^?^ JftH^, PL jn7.

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which the (}ermaii8 were going to poll down to repair the fortifi- cadonsy by speaking to the Grovernor & Vice Roy at Naples.

Mar. 14. After some vellications & preludes the Grout seiz'd upon my right foot in the bones of the Tarsus. I let blood & found it very much inflamM, & laid a Caustic upon the part, drinking much water & sugar & juice of lemon, fasting, & taking aloes every day. I made a crucial incision & causM an issue where the Caustic was laid. L^* Pembroke honorM me with a yisit to invite me to come to draw his famous Diana'' of the Ephesians new come home, a piece of most admirable Antiquity. He has now the three oldest Statues in the World, the Isis, the Jupiter Ammon*^ sett up in Thrace by Sesostris, & this Diana. He told me he had seen a body of a man petrifyM entirely by lying in a Spring in Italy which runs into the T^ber, it was in the Villa Pamfilia mention'd in Lassels. When the Spanish Embassador was present his Ldship saw an arm of it broke off for the Embassadors satisfaction & the bone was very visible the flesh petrify^d. My Lord broke off the end of a thumb & gave it to Mr. Charlton whose Collection came to S*^' H. Sloan.

When I arose in the morning I found a slight touch as a pre- lude of the Qout in my great Toe of the left foot where it had been most frequently. But at night it went off, Fryday night or rather Saturday following, tho* I went ven* well to bed. About two a clock in the morning I wak*d with pain in my right instep where it never had been before, yet I walkM about that day, next morning Sunday at the same hour It renewM the attack in the same place with greater violence. When I gott up

* The Bpbetian DUoa. The bodj of white marble, the extremities iMlored in black marble, the right arm nearly to the thoalder, the left from bdow tlie elbow, and both legi from below the kneet, restored.— ^Vyfri en the KiAm Hmu9 Seuiftures, hp C, T. Xenrtan, ytJL,, SalishMty IW. 0/ ArciUtol. /air., p. S69.

* lliia tUtoey with a ram on hit thoalderB, it caUed Jopiter, bat ii rather that of Hermea Kriopboroa. It it an ancient imitation of an archaic ttatoe I ■otft piobablj a eopj of the atatne bj Calamity dctcribed hj Pantaniat IX.. 2*^, aa oiaUag in bia time at Taaagra. Calamit wat a contemporary ef Phidiat, aad aowriabod BX. 440. Tbia atatae ia engraved bj Kennedy, who callt it iapiler, and aaja that it came from Thrace.— »ee C T. Newtpm^i Seulftmrtt ef VUfM Bmm^ te Aftolwry IW. H Arehm^L luM^ p. 209.

70 DIAKY.

I ordered xriox. of blood to bo Ukon awmj A took m good band- tome doM of alo« loU ai I bad done the daj before. I likewiao orderM a Canstio to bo Uud opoo ibe part bat it pror'd not atroiif eootigh k tcaroe made an etcar, however we dirided it bj a etom tection. Sunday nigbt I was in pain again, but on Muodaj the swelling was abated k pain gone. Mundar night I took an opiate draught so that I slept perfectly well k found no pain ; but on tuosday morning the Surgeon took a fancy to lay on a soap plaster upon the wound which pain*d me all day k nigbt k raised the inflammation higher so that it went to the Ust joint of the great toe of the right foot, pavMng by the great joynt, ita former rendexrous, which was now encompafts*d with it on both sides. The Swelling rose to a high degree eren from too to ancle, then I left off doing any thing at it, eat k drank flesh k wine, lay in bed two days.

L^ Penbroke told me be had heard Dr. Tho. Millingtoo say that be was chamberfelk>w with Dr. Sydenham^ at Cambridg, that the latter was idle k never study *d, but went into tbe army having an Uncle there in a considerable |kx4 ; but in 3 years time be grew tir*d of that k took a renolution to study Phyaidu By this time be had entirely forgot hi<i latin, but recovered it again by obstinate reading of Cicero, translating it into Ellglisl^ k then into Latin, correcting it from the original, which at hsi brought him to that elegance k purity of Latin style for whieh his works are so justly admir*d as well an for their caraiy obsenratioos of nature.

By advice of tbe Surgeon I hath*d my ftiot with oyl of t«r^ pentine k Rectif S|iirits of Wine which pruduc'd the gout im the other fooC Thi« went ttin>* the ^InAr stadium as the other till they were rrduc*d to an ei|uality k with M|ual pace by dej came to their (brmer slate which was* not iierfectly dooe in than 6 weeks. I was in a oonsideralilt* fever all the tioM, drought, my urioe very high oolorM 4 thick, to that I conjerturt

liaMl fliTsictM. bom leH ; AM te l«if . Is IMt to ■alfii Msfdslsa BaII Osfot^ hm Ml wW« Ito tHj fninmti for CWHw L Re wtm^iiiOy r«i«ni«d lo tW CBivvnitj. ma ISs Doctor's Dsfrss. &mi moM Is Wmtimttmm. Hu vrvuoco oo tke

W. STUKELKY, 1720. 71

if I had taken the bark as before it would certainly have taken off thefitt

I attribute it to the eastern wind, so vehement & cold for many days before, which stopt insensible perspiration.

Apr. 18. I went to measure Csesars Camp on Hounslow heath with L**- Winchelsea & U- Hartford.

At the end of 5 weeks exactly I first perceivM any real amendment of the Groat, but two days afler it began again in the right ancle. I bath'd it well with spirits of wine, the warm weather coming on.

May 27. After I had walkM about a fortnight a swelling came again in the Right foot which rose almost as high as before bat without any pain & went away in a week.

May 24. I took a sketch of Mr. Baxters picture & observed he looked ver}* ill having a considerable dropsy in his legs. He complainM too of difficulty of breathing ; on that day sennight he dy'd.

He had just finished his 2^ Edit of Horace & was again set to work upon his Welsh Dictionary but left it at the letter H.

June 14. After the right foot was well recovered, it returned into the left, & run thro* its former scene, swelling and pitting ; in about 10 days perfectly well.

June 15. I saw Moses's fine diamond, 160 gr**, of a green cok>r, reconM the finest in the world, beyond Mr. Pitts.

Sept. 30. At the half yearly Comitia of the College, I was desir'd to make a design of a plate for the letters of summons. I was nominated one by the president to look over the library.

Oct 22. I saw the Comet thro* Mr. Grahams'' Telescope.

Oct 27. Mr. Sheeles &, I walk*d to find out Caesars Camp about Sheperton. We discover*d three.

Nor. 9. I walk*d alone to Watford Sic to find out Cassi- belins Town, which I discovered at Ricmansworth.

* 0«or|re Graham, an coioent mechanic, born in Cumberland in 167ff ; died la London 1751 ; and boned in Westminster Abbey. He wat jonm«7man and WMtMor to Tompion, the noted clockmaker. He inT^nted aeTeral valuable aetrotiomical inatmmenta, and the great moral arch in Oreeuwich Obeerratory W9M divided bj hit own hand. He invented the Sector ; and waa a member oif tiM B. S.— See B^etmt, p. 4eO.

7t DiAftT.

Dec. 2. I dinM with the Alip. at Lambeth the fini time.

Oct 4. I read my diacour^e of the Dorcheat amphitheat. ai the hodg. A, ddiverM to erery Bro'- a Copy.

Di*c. G. I caM thr Amphitbi*ator in plaint, of paria.

Dec. 20. I waA St€*ward with Dr. ToMier, Dod, Wliartoo. I brouj^ht a proof of the* drawin;:^ of the ( olle;r<** I made a ticket with Fato bono eventui liotio.

This month, by iny metins^ L* Winchilnea k L^ Hartfofd came to the Antiquarian Society.

I be^n to cut C«'«*Miri head in a piece of clialk.

Four of my acn|uaintance <k myik'lf were attackd with the Qout on Chritttniaii day, all e»dp*d but Mr. CatteraL I pr»» vented it from comin^r to a fit

Feb. 2C, 1723-4. I bad the IVinceftie» coromanda by mj L^ Hartford to send her a drawing of the CliappeP upon the bnd|rt which Her Hi;;l)n«'^ wan pleased withall, & onierM me to wait on Her with the* drawinpi cif Stonebrnge.

Mar. 4. I publi«h*d my IxHiun* on tlie S|ilt«en.

Mar. 8. I \\^ seizM aftiT dinner i»ith the goat, left Ibol. Next day I ftftcd nHMtly. Tuesday, Wedm^iMlay, k niaradaj I faiited mostly, e:itin^ only bnmd 6i rliee^, k drank two qitarta of water at \vtk^i (*a(*li ilny by very '^low degreen, making mtteli water again, riear, keeping my ^t«K*Ling ofl' 4 r\|M»<»ing my lr|t out of bcii c%'rrv niglit. (hi TliurMlay night I i)erceiv*d it fgf/i into my bead, m it cxmtiniied all friday, which made me lemwff

" 7W cl»«|<l. dcilicAtctl to M THtHAM A lVcllH« vliick ftood «|0i iW CMC Mde at 01«| l^mtl.ifi llrid^. o«rr iht tetith or cmirml |«er. lu froM to the tcrr^ «a» :«) fc«t in trnin^. ••»<) *ik* «livitlr«l into thrtt coaif«rt»<titA, •! vhicb (h« rrnirftl t*t%r c^m'.mturtl m )mfffr «tn«l«f« at>«l tke tvu ollMri Iht ctiirmocrs fr«»« Uic Atrrtf t\tr itit«>ri<>r c«««iM«(ril r»f %n •|*f«r ciM|»l aa4 a cr7|4, Tbr Uitrr i»m alioyt 3u trtt bi^h. aimI Umd mi etilrmiKv trtmk tW rt««r, M wrU m frviQi tbr fucmrr Tliit cliAfvl «m iMV<t fur acrvior* to tW of tbc ftrfofVAti'in TK«> ftn Kit#rt nf thr rtrttlpr %nd CliftprI mm rt«T. C of M. IIm7 Colrrharrb. •! the •»mlh en«l u( «K«t is ft4»« Uincarf* AlWy. TbooiAft A IWck«^ h*il brm Im^him^I Thr work wm brfva m 1174. %md ia IJOa. Aa iVtrf <»l ( <*a«cli«irrli died in 1;SUS. W iMd Mt tlir MUttecttea af wrtBf hi« work oo«tf»lrtrd. In 1717 tht rl»^«-l (iHrw cAllrd CIm|«I llaaM) mm labAbiird bj ft Mr Vftldvya. or iW^dvjB. vbo. vbiW dtacvYcrtd tbr rtaAina ol tbr arf«kbiml •o^mmvi at tW

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off the water, only drinking a quart of milk as before, & same diet ; friday night I had violent pain all night long & no sleep, & in the morning it was very much inflamM & sore, so that I could scarce set it to the ground, yet did not pit. All Saturday I drank water again, so that by evening it was much mended, but my head was not perfectly right On Munday night I drank but 2 cups of Ale, & found it inflam'd my blood again ; but by drinking water I conquer'd it, & so continued mending. I found aU this while my water very clear as it had been some months before, & when stood a little while it smelt strong, like spirit of harts horn or sal-volatile, but now on tuesday I observed it began to thicken a little & smell fetid. I had regularly every day a stool nol loose, & sleep very well, perfectly free from pain, can walk pretty well, but not put my former shoes on. In 3 weeks I could walk abroad very well, & was perfectly reoover'd.

Apr. 2, 1724. The Speaker (Compton) in^nted me to spend some time with him in Sussex this summer, by Mr. Rog. Gale. Dr. Millington wrote much on generation, & much commended bat never could be persuaded to print it

Ap. 12. I continued to drink water every day, by small quantitys at a time in morning, noon, aiVer dinner, & night, which kept the gout off, tho* I found every now Si then a ten- dency towards it After waking in the night, I perceived a constant inflammation of my blood, which went off soon after rising ; now & then after waking I found it, but a cup or two of water drove it off. I continued a pint of milk morning & even- ing, but I conjecture neater dos as well.

Ap. 14. I attended all day at the house of Lords with Members of the College during the debates of the Pb3rsician8 bilL Duke of Argyle** & L^ Hay were violently bent ag^ it, t

ioha, 3d Duke, born 167S ; died 1743. He wm dkUnsiiiUhed m a aad a aoldicr. For hit efforts in farthering the onion of Rcotlnnd and IsflaDd, he WM created an Bnglieh Peer bj the title of Baron Chathem and Karl of Greenwich in 1705. He fought at Ramiliet, Oudenarde, and Malpla> qnet« *e. In 1716 he aopprcMed ** Mar*a Ridng** in Scotland with energy. Sir Bobi. Walpole depri?ed him of aereral of his oAoea, to which howerer he OB the fall of that miniater.— .0Mm, p. SS.

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D^glaciad no opportanilj of obstmcliiig it L^ Townieod* Mud, in relation to the Anatotnj clanae, that the mobb thow*di a mercifiil ditpotition in hindring dtMaetionn, k it ought to be encoura/lcM, L^ Carteret wonderM bow that clause was foialed into the bill, that it waa a subject not to be nara*d in the boose of Lords. L' Trevor s^ it was taking away a prerogatiTO of the Crown, for it might be the misfortune of a pemon of ooo* sideration to be convicted of capital crimes^ k then the King could not dispose of his body, upon which they rejected it The Bpa. said not one word all the time. The Duke of Montag«« went out of the hotise when there waa danger of a division, k came in again. 1/ Pembroke waa earnest for it. None spoka but L*- Trevor, 1/ Harcourt, k L^ Chancellor, k they very strenuously, & with great reason k judgmt^nL Dr. Eaton, (ibe Styptic Dr.,) petitioned to be beard ag' it. L^ Harcourt aakd him how it came alwut that he was not one of the College ; k he annwfrd that thert* was a misunderstanding between him k the College. Dr. F*n«*nd answerd that be was Censor then wbas be was eaamind, k that if there was any want of uoderstanding twas all on his tide. I found there was a general iodiffrrence aa to the bill in tk* whole lioune, k as to Anatomy all the fine thinga that might ha%'e btt-n Miid by anyone in itn favouri, were entiralj dn>p*d. TIk* L^ it M-ems wrre unwilling to trust any one witli power, k that the Pliy»icians, (the)* imagin*d,) had some sintaler end in it The Afiothecar} » insinuated we dkl not oodantaad druga. S' Hann Sloan otTerd to contend with them, 4 aayd hm would l»nng 54MI drug* tliat all the Apothecary^ in town aboiakl not know ofi<* of. L^ IMaware was Chairman of the Coa* tiiittee ; with mut*h dilHiulty k amendm* it iuimiiI.

On fryday it ramt* again to the bouse of Omimon*, wbert bjr Mr. Hungerfbrds craft a new amendment ws» addcxl, via* tkal

* (lisrlrtt. VtM>»«nt To«ii*kr«d. bom IS7C AtM IT^S A tW fr%gm at Q«rr« Aiiiir ; «Im» I» IImU of iht^w^*^ l« KU. MwifUrf. bst mkiim iiiaM«c« viili tW kisf isriistd «Imi W ram id iW ol kM OwsMii f«vo«ntc« s*«l SiiaCnaHS. Tm s alMirt vliik W wwm UwHr^ssf t4 trrUm-l la 1777 LoH T wiwafd w«« vrltpMvl hj a*f Wa1|«»I« : sa4 Im* iImw mir«^ to RaimIma. NuHmU, * Hr l«ft oakr." LseJ MsIma. *- vitli s ■m«i ■•W«misW4 tk^feim, m4, vbst Is «U1 Isss

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it should be in foroe no longer than 3 year. I had like to have brought the gout into the tarsus of the right foot again, with standing so long.

Nov. 1. We opend the body of a woman 10 weeks before she was to lye in, Mr. Sayer Surgeon & Mr. Prude Apoth.

Nov 12. I viewd the moon thro' ^Ir. Hadleys** reflecting telescope which brings her fac« to be about 1100 miles distant only.

The Abp. of Cant sent some prints of mine of the ro. pharos at Dover Castle to Monsieur Monfaucon.'^

Nov. 29. I walkd with Mr. Sheels & Catterall to Muswell hill to find out the hermen Street I judg it goes by Southend, & so between Bamet & Enfield, thro' the chase, to Hartford.

Dec. 5. The gout came into my right scapula for 2 days ; it rowl'd about from place to place, sometime in the head where it cans'd a pain for a whole day & night, sometime in the stomach with a sourness, belching, &c, but I kept it out of my foot tho' it was very indinabl to come into my left great toe.

I first thought of making a clavichord with Jews trumps instead of strings.

Dec 6. As I was at dinner the gout fell into my left great toe. I perceiv, most evidently, that it has an exacerbation every other day, but later & later, & this toward the evening. I found this returned thrice. Now not to stop this by my method I con- cluded would be just as senseless as not to use the bark in the like fits of a real ague. In a weeks time the gout was wholly gone. I drank no strong liquor, eat moderately, twice a day I had milk, found no uneasiness whatever but was verv well. I obser\'d my urine did not smell so much like sal volatile as before, but more stinking & had somewhat more sediment I was not loos in body but as ordinarily.

^ John Hadlej, the reputed ioTentor of the Sextant, died in 1744. He wm OB intimate terms with Sir lanae Kewton, and it ii generaUj believed that he bonowed the idea of thit inttrnment from that great man.— BeeUm^ p. 476.

" Bernard dc Montfaacon, bom at Sonlage, Langaedoc, in 1656 ; died at Parif in 1741. He began life in the armj, which he qoitted on the death of hit parenu, and entered the Benedictine Conrent of St. Ifaor in 1676. In 169S he fisited Home, and in 1702 publiabed an aooonnt of hit joomej. After this be vfQla maaj works leplcCa with crvditloBd— BmCmi, p. 729.

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Dee. M. Tetterdmy k til nigbt I eooid not help thinkiiig ef B'* Nichi restrmnge, wbot boot I had beo el about 10 jtt mg^ k this wtthoat any manner of p^rkras ooaiaoo. L^ Wtnchilaea carryd me to dine with L^ Haitfocxl k the minote we came there we wer told of hit death. It wat an odd k an oteiett preia|te to my tpprehention, k whtt I ean*t help being torprixM tt Mj lidy Htrtford pretent^ my book of the Amphitheat of DorcheeC to the Princett.

Jtn. 31, 1724-5. I retolrM to leare off wigt k wear my own hair.

Jan. 13. I ttw tt Dr. Meadt tome fottik tent from Oxford- thire by Mr. Wttte, comoa ammonia tqoeex*d fltt, bonet dog op 12 f. deep, tome human fingert, comoa ammonia, large, takes in tolid ttone of great thickneat, no fltw ritible, k many beiem* nitet call'd thonderboitt by the vulgar.

Feb. 24. The gout hat been flying tbont me thit week, it cornea into the bonet of the right loot ; it maket no pain but tooM oneattnett in walking, k that chiefly in the morning, for it goea oflT in the day time. I ply it ttootly with drinking water k am pretty abitemiout.

Mar. 15. To morrow being the annirertary return of the gout it teii*d me to night in the head ; it lasted all night Neit day I walk*d all morning, rid all the afternoon ; it comet now k then at a rioient cramp in the right tanut, sometime at a crick in the neck, for that I can plainly peroetire a poiaoci ruaiitag about mei

Ap. 2, 1725. Mr. Pacey intiwioc'd me to L^ MacdcafteU, lo whom I pretented my book of Itinerar. curioa. Cent L

May 5. I went to m« the room at Crarm house, first wai»* tcotted with the new artificial marble, with Mr. Steph. Halea.

May 19. I pretented the Piinciett with my Itinerarium.

May 22. In my Kentith joumer, tAer hotting the blood I found a pain in my ankle which erery day grew worse till I eouU not walk ; but at tnddenly ceaad upon applieation of asy antidoitu

Kov. 8. I went lo see the three young lyont al the tower lately btougbt forth there ; they toMrl, (at I may call it,) like a eat» 4 Ikal ooutiiiually , k thtir actiaut aiu muah liko a eala, tiwy

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dimb up chain, hangings, Ac ; there were 4 but one dyM ; three la»t year but dead

Dec. 24. The gout wakd me at 2 in the morning in the left foot, but my usual remedy removd it in a day or twa

Whilst I lived in London for 9 years together, in the flourish- ing time of my life, I had the greatest intimacy with Thomas L^ Pembroke, Heneage Earl of Winohelsea, S'* Isaac Newton, Dr. HaUey, Mead, S'* Hans Sloan, L^ Oxford, James West, John Bridges, D. of Argyle, Tom Rawlinson, Dr. Friend, Dr. Arbuth- not. Dr. Morton, Dr. Walt'- Harris, S'* Godfrey Eneller, & in short with the whole sett of learned men & Vertuoso^s, w*^ at that time abounded, & by having recourse to their librarys I arrived to a considerable degree of knowledg & equal reputation.

At the end of 1725 an irresistible impulse seized my mind to leave the Town. It began whilst I was at Newcastle with Mr. Gale, strongly impressed on my mind as I returned at Grantham, viewing the milky way one night. In country retirement & hours of contemplation (being always of a religious turn), I resolved to take upon me the sacerdotal character, & very soon met with good preferment Then for 20 years together I employed all my &cultys, & all the skill I had obtained in antient learning, in going to the sourse of religious antiquitys ; t the harvest resulting therefrom, such as it is, is immense. But all this while that I lived in the country what I knew was intirely to my self, no one person conversM with me in that way, or had any regard toward it ; till at length Providence brought me to an intimacy with the Duke of Montagu, who, tho* no scholar himself, had a fine genius, & entertain^ Uie greatest opinion of me in the world, & took the first opportunity to bring me to Town again. He dyM 5 July, 1749. But the same Providence left me not destitute of a great t good b^ so much the more agreeable to my mind, as being of the softer sex, for from that time it was brought about by steps that I became a4y|uainted withmEiAM.

Jan. 2, 1725-6. My left ear Ued. I find that drinking warm water in a morning has taken away the belching I usM to have in a morning afler breakfast, & eructations. This December I throMy resolvd to goe into the country to live, t boo^t a

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bouae at Ormnthamy fiodiog no porpoae io life can be antwwd bj mj tUj in London ; but ttudv, k too dote attach nMfnt to thai, had like to have thrown me into hjpoehoDdriaciam.

Ap. 1, 1726. Returning out of the Country I paid a vtiit Io S'* Iiaac Newton. He abowd me his new edition of hia Priii- cipia not yet publisbd ; be informed me be waa bom chriatmaa day 1642. We bad some discourse about SoloaK>ns temple of which he had formerly made the plan ; he says it waa older than any great heathen temples ; that Seaostris from heooe made bk templea in Egypt, one in each Nomus, k that from thence the Greeks made theirs k borrow *d their religion.

Ap. 15. I din*d with him at his Lodgings alone, at Orbela buildings Kensington ; his breakfast is orange peel boild in water, which he thinks diseoWcA Flegm, k bmd 4 butter ; be drinks more water now than formerly, ria'- morning k night. He thinks the body of Europe was peopled first by those from the north of the Euxin Sea, k the same as peopled Ameriea, rude k barbarous, without houses^ or religion, trarelling in carta as the Scythians k tartar*, k such they properly were. Of tliea were the first inbabitantu of Brittan ; in aflertimes when the Pastors were ejected Egypt in great numbers some went tu 8yria« to Greece, to Mauritania, to Spain, Italy, Ac., under the eondnct of the Egyptian Hercules, who paaed the Straits, built Carteiay Cadix, k was thence calld Melcartos, 4 this man first found the tyn trade to Brittan. Tbes people dviliad

Apr. nltimodie, 1726. I wak*d in the morning with a pain in the parotid glandu, which in the daytime extended to the right cheek bone, it was some hindrance to me in eating ; it tinu*d for 2 or 3 days, then fell upon the right eyebrow, 4 ini canthus of that eyr, k hail a mn of fit« rrtuming e\^ry day.

May 3. It was exceeding [lainful in that part, made the skisi sore, 4 my eye to run, coming to a violent fit in the night time; in the morning 1 found thr gout lodgd in the ball of my right fooC That day I arcompanyed 1/ Hartfocd 4 L^ \Vtnel»akeal* risit L^ Colrain, where I put my foot into the Canal, when it went out of my fooC« then my bead ached« but I could walk. All thes 2 or 3 days my nuse ran with a biuudy r, as if tlwrs had been an apnuhewie. This happend

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I had been ill of a cold 3 weeks, coming out of Lincolnshire into London. This return of the gout was nearly to a day anni- ▼ersaiyy for it seizd me in Kent last year in ihe beginning of May.

May 4. I began at night with my usual remedy, finding distinctly that it was gout ; the wind has been east for some time. I put my foot out of bed all night, and put it into cold water several times a day & wear no stocking on, at home, for I take it that warmth creates the pain, it raryfys the humor & makes it open the minutest vessels. Otherwise it fills only the larger, swelling the part, but without much pain, bee* the circulation is carryed on thro* the larger vessels not much interrupted, for two days, 5, 6. I rode out on the 6^ all day long, as far as Caes. CSamp on hounslowheath, & eat nothing. I was much fatigud & went to bed, & sweat much in the night, & slept pretty well, having very little pain, foot somewhat better. If I had been blooded & taken physic, when I was first taken ill, in all proba- bility I should have prevented the fit The sixth day I could begin to put my foot into my former shoe, & walkd out, the effect of my remedy showing itself at this time sudden &. sur- prizing. I us*d it in the night as well as day, >iz'* water. The 10^ day firom the first seizing of the gout I was pfectly well in all respects, & that day I had a gentle looseness.

Happy are tliose who have passed thro* life without any signal unhappiness.