Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Felton there, very neat folks in house, etc.—about 80/. per annum
or more,—he keejis back 10/. from Mrs. Harrison, his predecessor'swidow,
she had a sequestration of the living till another incumbent
came—he agreed to give her 10/., but because she insisted upon,
more and [did not] accept it, he gave her nothing, nor has ta
this day.
1718. June 7th. Dryden once in a coffee-house finding fault with
Heylin's Cosmography—his son, being in the coffee-house, toolv him
up—and said there was a great defect in it, he owned—He had left
out the world of me—alluding to a play called so, which Drs'den had
writt. One Mr. Paul being expelled the college for getting a woman
with child—fled to London ; and being asked what he had done with,
the woman, etc., said Paulus naufragatus excussit viperam.^^^
1718. June 8th. Lock on Education, 223 very good—and
L'Estrange224 Fables. W. Clennell dined with us—veal spoiled with
keejjing, as were crabs and j^ye. B'en Johnson going in a lane, in
which a groom was sweeping the dung cross the lane, said^—
' Thou
sturdy groom, take ujd thy broom, and lett a jDoet come by.' Answer.
'Thy will be done, great Ben Johnson, her's room for the and L'
1718. June 9th. Bishop Lesley^ss (the late Mr. Lesley's father)
a mysogynist and designed to leave his estate to a nephew—but h&
displeasing him to the last degree—the bishop went to his dean, etc.
—the first daughter said she could love a young man better, as the
bishop asked her—but the second being asked, said slie could love a
young man, but such an old man as his lordshiiD, etc.
1718. June 10th. Read uncle's letter to me at Cambridge.—He
says, I could not convince any of my merit, if I declined sitting
again, etc., mistaking Mr. Drake—who tho he said I had still a
jDrospect, yet it was not till Mr. Bowtell died or resigned, etc. Admire
his perverse temper, yet would not send me a title—if uncle Robert
had not then sent me one, I might have been sent back—his title
promised me a handsome allowance on condition the bishop of London,
would ordain me, etc.
1718. June 11th. Writt to John Chirk—to drop the dispute
aljout the gown, desired him to buy me some books and to gett money
for them, and for the little box (if he was any thing out of jwcket
about it) of brother Richard when he comes. To Mr. Brigby to lett
me know what I owed him, and if Mr. Richardson had given him any
money.
1718. June 12th. Namesake writt to me to ask uncle if he would
desire bishop of Carlisle to give him a recommendatory letter to
bisliop of Lincoln. Gott my cane home—it cost 5s. in all—Mr. Gare
had nothing for his pains. George said he paid 16c?. for 4 pairs of
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Cf. Acts xxviii. 3. John Locke, Some Thouijhts Concerning Education.
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Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704), The Fables of .Esop and other Eminent
Alythologie'i ivilh some Moral Reflections, London, 1692.
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Henry Leslie (15S0-l(l61) M'^as bishop of Down and Connor and subsequently
of Meath. His son Robert Leslie, successively bishop of Dromore^
Raphoe and Clogher, died in 167-.