THESE NOTES ARE FROM A SET OF
DIARIES,40 IN NUMBER.ONLY SOME OF THE ENTRIES ARE LISTED.A FEW ARE DIFFICULT TO
READ AND SOME OF THE ITEMS ARE REPETATIVE.THE DIARIES ARE HAND MADE AND HAND
STITCHED,ABOUT 3" BY 4" AND CONSISTING OF ABOUT 10 PAGES.
THESE DIARIES WERE GIVEN TO ME BY DOROTHY BOWES,MY
GODMOTHER, (NEE UNDERDOWN) (NEE FROOD ).SHE DIED AT
COLIN D PENNEY.
"COPPERS"
OAK LANE
MINSTER,SHEPPEY
ME12
3QW
DIARY NO. 1
11TH. JAN. 1828
TO JULY 6TH.
JAN.
11TH.} WENT TO
18TH.} WENT TO
21ST.} TO
23RD.} SAW THE JUDGES GO TO WESTERN HALL IN STATE.
WENT TO HERRIES.
30TH.} WENT TO SEE STEAM COACH BUT IT DID NOT RUN.
FEB.
7TH.} WENT TO HOWELLS, GAVE A SHILLING TO SEE A MODEL OF THE
17TH.} SUNDAY.ST. JAMES , MARY LE BONE.
18TH.} WENT TO
28TH.}
29TH.} WENT TO
MAR.
3RD.} WENT TO KATHERINE DOCK.INTO THE TOWER NEAR
9TH.} SUNDAY, ST. JAMES, QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
27TH.} WENT TO HERRIES,SAW LEVEE, LOST 1/2
SOVEREIGN.
APR.
4TH.} GOOD FRIDAY WENT TO CHURCH.
7TH.} EASTER MONDAY TO ST. JAMES CHURCH AND TO
8TH.} WENT TO JAMES GARDEN ,
16TH.} WENT TO SEE THE DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY, THEN
TO THE PIT ,
SAW" TALLSMAN."
17TH.} WENT WITH THOMAS TO TOTTENHAM BOXES SAW"
VILLAGE DOCTOR","MANIAC
LOVER" ,AND" MILITARY FISHMONGER" AND"
HYDRAULICS" .
23RD.} ST. GEORGES DAY .WENT TO HERRIES AND HOWELL SAW ILLUMINATIONS.
DIARY NO.2
JULY 20TH. 1828 -JULY 20TH. 1828
JUL
24TH.} SAW THE QUAKERS NEW BOOTS.
JAN
2ND.}
6TH,} OLD CHRISTMAS DAY.
9TH.} WENT TO TURNERS.DANCED IN THE EVENING.
11TH.} SUNDAY WENT TO CHURCH -MARY LE BONE.
13TH.} TO WINDMILL STREET FOR FATHER.
FEB.
12TH.}
MAR
9TH.} TO DRURY LANE SAW MEASURE FOR MEASURE, AND
GOODY TWO SHOES.
10TH.} TO
15TH.} SUNDAY
16TH.} TO
21ST.} WENT AT NIGHT TO
23RD.} TO COBURG THEATRE UND?? OR THE SPIRIT OFTHE
WATER,WONDERFUL.
31ST.} SUSAN HA?? GONE HOME.
APR.
17TH.} GOOD FRIDAY.
20TH.} EASTER MONDAY.TO
23RD.} SAW ILLUMINATOR.ST. GEORGES DAY.
MAY.
18TH.} TO
19TH.} BOUGHT GLOVES,LIGHT BLUE KID,AND NECK
HANDKERCHIEF.
27TH.} TO
JUNE .
4TH.} EPSOM GRAND RACE DAY.TO SEE GOLD REFINING AT
OXENDIR?? STREET.
9TH.} WHIT TUESDAY.WALKED TO
12TH.} TO
13TH.}
14TH.}
15TH.} TO SEE MASQUERADE AT DRURY LANE.
JUL.
5TH.}
DIARY. NO. 3.
JULY 27TH. 1829 TO OCCT
4TH.
JUL.
28TH.} EPPING, BREAKFAST 2/-, RODE HOME 1/6d,
AUG.
3RD.} WENT TO GROSNER? ON THE JETTY.SLEPT AT THE
WHITE HORSE. 4TH.}
100 STEPS TO LIGHTHOUSE. 1/2
PAST 12 TO DINNER TO HEARTH TO JETTY
HEARD BAND, TO TEA.
6TH.}
7TH.} SAW SHIP COME IN AND UNLOAD.
12TH.} WENT TO SHARINGTON.2 O'CLOCK DAWLING,3 STOPT
1 HR.STARTED AT 4
BINHAM 20 TO 5. WROTE THIS ON
ABBEY WALLS.TO WARHAM AT 1/2 PAST 5 SAW MR. AND MRS. HALL,WENT TO
HARNERS.
13TH.} 8 HAD BREAKFAST WENT WITH MR. HALL TO WELLS.
TO FIGHTING COCKS
HAD POT OF BEER .TO THE QUAY
TIDE WAS OUT HAD POT OF BEER.HOME TO
DINNER TOOK WALK IN MEADOW.
14TH.} TO WELLS.
15TH.} WENT SHOOTING.
17TH.} WENT REAPING.
18TH.} HAD TOOTHACHE.
19TH.} RODE TO BALE AND BACK.HAD TEA AT UNCLE
FAREWELL'S.MARTIN FETCHED ME
TO STODY IN CHAISE.
20TH.} AT STODY WITH BAD TOE.
22ND.} RODE WITH BROTHILL IN GEORGE'S CHAISE TO
GUNTON HALL .TO HEARTH
TO SUFFIELDTO SLEEP - RAIN.
23RD.} SUNDAY.
FAREWELLS.TO FITT'S TO
TEA.GATHERED APPLES.RODE FROM GUNTON IN THE MORNING.
24TH.} CAME BY COACH AT
25TH.} WITH UNCLE TO FARM.
26TH.} STARTED BY COACH TO
27TH.} WENT TO
29TH.} AFTERNOON SAW D? CUMBERLAND PRINCE GEORGE TO
TOTTENHAM STAGE JACK ROBINSON.
30TH.}
31ST.} TO HAYMARKET LISTONS BENEFIT,LOVERS
VOWS,HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE,
ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.
SEP.
3RD.} TO BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.
5TH.} TO HERRIES 3 TIMES WENT DOWN TO
7TH.} W.T.TRIAL WENT WITH FATHER IN CAB .WITH
JAMES LANGLEY TO FAIR.
EVENING TO
14TH.} TO TOTTENHAM THEATRE,FORREST
ROBERS,MONKEY???-.
19TH.} DITTO.SAW CHEROKE CHIE
23RD.} TO
24TH.} TO TOTTENHAM THEATRE ,KNIGHTS CROSS,
29TH.} MICHAELMASS DAY.EVENING TO TURNERS ,NEW
POLICE.
30TH.} TO
OCT.
2ND.} TO ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE PIT SAW MARRIAGE OF
FIGARO.THE SULTAN AND GOD
SAVE THE KING.
1. THE FIRST CIRCULATING LIBRARY IN 1740 WAS
AT 132
£200,000 BUILDING, THE WARDROBE VALUED
AT 40, 000£.STAGE -105FT LONG
75FT. WIDE ,45 BETWEEN STAGE? DOORS.
3. COVENT GARDEN 10 MONTHS BUILDING.
===========================
BOND STRRET TO ASHLEYS 1/6d
OXFORDSTREET IS 1 MILE 2 FUR
19 P
GROSVENOR STREET 2
1
HAYMARKET 1 25
HOLBORN 7 1
LONG ACRE 2 11
MOUNT STREET 2 29
PALL MALL 2 13
PICADILLY 7 28
MARTINS LANE 2 13
STRAND 6 9
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD 5
14
DIARY NO. 4.
OCT 16TH. 1829 TO END OF YEAR.
OCT.
16TH.} WENT TO ARGYLL ROOMS SAW MONS.CHABERT SWALLOW
10 GRAINS OF
PHOSPHOROUS BOILING OIL 350
DEGREES,ENTER A HOT OVEN 530 DEGREES HEAT.3/-.
17TH.} TO REYNOLDS.
18TH.} TO PARK.SUNDAY WITH MR. OSBOURN TO MARY
LEBONE CHURCH.
19TH.} TO HAYES TO HAVE A TOOTH DRAWN,MAYS
BUILDINGS.
26TH.} TO DRURY LANE TO SEE JULIUS CAESAR.
28TH.} TO TOTTENHAM PIT SAW ROB ROY,(MR. COBHAM)
CHILD OF A TAN MELLOW MAID.
30TH.} TO SEE THE LEARNED CATS IN HOLBORN.
NOV.
5TH.} GUNPOWDER PLOT.
9TH.} TO SEE THE LORD MAYORS SHOW.
13TH.} TO PICTURE AUCTION.
15TH.} JAMES BIRTHDAY -21.
19TH.} TO TURNERS ,GREAT FOG- FIRE IN OXFORD STREET.
21ST,.} TO ADELPHI,SAW BILLY
TAYLORS " YORK AND LANCASTER."
22ND.} SUNDAY,ST. JAMES CHURCH TO MARYLEBONE.
23RD.} TO REYNOLDS.
25TH.} TO THOMAS EVENING SNOW.
29TH.} SUNDAY SAW NEW POLICE MUSTER IN EVENING.
DEC.
2ND.} TO OLYMPIC THEATRE SAW BLACK EYED SUKEY OR
ALL IN THE DUMPS,INNKEEPER OF ABBEYVILLE MONSU.GOUFFER.-PIT 1/-.
4TH.} AFTERNOON WITH THOMAS, TO FRENCH MASTER IN
NEW STREET.
6TH.} CHRISTENING AT MARYLEBONE CHURCH.
8TH.} TO DUKE STREET,BOUGHT HANDKERCHIEF IN ARCADE
2/6d .TO LONG ACRE
TO HIRE A BRISTKA.
9TH.} TO MIVARTS BROOK FOR PHAETON.
10TH.} TO PEACOCK AND GROVE FOR CHAISE.
11TH.} FRIDAY.TOOK THOMAS TO THE ADELPHI TO SEE THE
ELEPHANT OF SIAM OR THE FIRE
FIEND,AND BILLY TAYLOR'S THE GAY YOUNG FELLOW.PIT 2/. 13TH.}
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, WITH FATHER
TO SEE THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE
HOME TO TEA V
ERY POORLY.EVENING TO
MARYLEBONE CHURCH.MET MOTHER
IN REGENTS STREET.
23RD.} SAW OTHELLO
AT DRURY LANE AND ,MY WIFE-WHAT WIFE. 2/-.
25TH.} CHRISTMAS DAY.MARYLEBONE CHURCH WITH MR.
BROTHILL.
29TH.} TO SEE THE KINGS PALACE.
30TH.} TO THE TOTTENHAM THEATRE SAW MAID OF GENOA,OR
THE DUMB GIRL OF THE ??,THE
WILD MAN ACTED BY MR. BLANCHARD,HOW TO EAT A BREAKFAST,THE TOWER
FIEND, 1/-.
DIARY NO. 5.
FROM JAN 1ST. 1830. TO MAY
15TH.
MR. BURFIELD MR. DIXON
CHAIR MAKER CHAIR MAKER
64 UNION ST. 430 OXFORD ST.
BOW.
THE FAIR SEX.
WHEN EVE BROUGHT WOE TO ALL MANKIND
,OLD ADAM CALLED HER WO'MEN.
BUT WHEN SHE WOOD WITH LOVE SO HARD, HE
THEN PRONOUNCEDIT WOMEN.
BUT NOW WITH FOLLY AND WITH PRIDE THEIR
HUSBAND'S POCKETS BRIMMING,
THE LADIES ARE SO FULL OF WHIMS,THAT
PEOPLE CALL THEM WHIM MEN.
JAN.
2ND.} TO HERRIES AND WITH MRS.BAMBRIDGE TO SEE THE
KINGS PALACE.
3RD.} SUNDAY TO THE SERPENTINE.EVENING TO MARY LE
BONE CHURCH.
5TH.} OLD CHRISTMAS EVE .WENT WITH MRS.BAMBRIDGE
TO TEA WITH MRS. HALL.
6TH.} OLD CHRISTMAS DAY,MEN LEFT AT 7
O'CLOCK,EVENING TO THOS.
8TH.} TO HERRIES ,HOME TO OLD WHITE CELLAR.
12TH.} WENT TO DEPFORD,HOME IN EVENING TO DRURY LANE
THEATRE SAW
ARTAXERKER? MA?? VESTRIS? THE
CITIZEN AND THE PANTOMIME OF JACK
IN THE BOX, OR HARLEQUIN BINUP? OF THE HIDDEN TOLTIND? PIT 3/6d
13TH.} EVENING TO OXFORD STREET TO BUY BROTHILL'S
CHAIRS.
14TH.} TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW THE PHRENOLOGIST
AND THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME
OF COCK ROBIN OR HARLEQUIN VULCAN AND VENUS,HALF PRICE WITH ALEX TAYLOR.
15TH.} EVENING WITH MRS. BAMBRIDGE, TO FETTER
LANE,COMING HOME SAW FIRE
IN RATHBONE PLACE 1/2 PAST 1 IN
THE MORNING.
18TH.} TO ST JAMES PARK ON ICE TO HORSEFERRY ROAD TO GAS WORKS AND TO HILTON PLACE.
21ST,.} TO SOMERSET HOUSE TO
SEE SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE THE PAINTER BURIED,
45 MOURNING COACHES,85
CARRIAGES.
26TH.} TOMONTAGUE PLACE BURTON CRESCENT TO GRAYS INN
LANE .
30TH.} TO THEATRE HALF PRICE AND SAW FIELD FORTY
FOOTSTEPS GOVERN? IN LONDON, DON GIOVANNI, PIT 1/-.
31ST.} SUNDAY.ST. JAMES CHURCH IN THE EVENING TO
MARYLEBONE CHURCH.
FEB.
5TH.} SAW THE LAST ACT OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN AT
OLYMPIC THEATRE,MISS
CLARKE ON THE TIGHTROPE,AND THE
TWO GREGORIES.ARGYLL ROOMS BURNT
DOWN.MR. BAITHWAITES STEAM FIRE
ENGINE THERE.
6TH.} TO SEE ARGYLL ROOMS.TO HALL MILLS BOOT
MAKER.
7TH.} RAPID THAW,SUNDAY,
10TH.} TO TROVELLS ,TO MARKS IN REGENTS STREET
CHARLOTTE AND SOPHIA
EDWARDS CALLED AT OURS.EVENING TO OXFORD STREET
12TH.} WITH MOTHER AND SUSAN TO ADELPHI THEATRE AND
SAW THE ELEPHANT OF SIAM AND
THE FIRE FIEND,THE BRICKLAYERS ARMS AND THE BOLD DRAGOONS PIT 4/-.
14TH.} SUNDAY, WITH FATHER TO ST. JAMES PARK
-SKATING,AND TO THE
SERPENTINE--NO SKATING
16TH.} ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE BURNT WENT IN THE MORNING TO SEE IT .WITH
FATHER TO SADLERS WELLS THEATRE SAW THE FIEND OF THE WATCH,OR THE FATAL
PURCHASE.THE FIRE KING OR THE FRENCHMEN PUZZLED AND ???
20TH.} TO TOTTENHAM THEATRE GUY MANNERING.
21ST.} SHROVE SUNDAY. EVENING TO ST. GEORGES CHURCH.
22ND.} TO PECKFORD BOLOPH WHARF ROYAL EXCHANGE HERD
BELLS PLAY GOD SAVE THE KING
12 O'CLOCK .UNIOUN STREET BORE COLLAPSES.
25TH.} TO DIXONS ESP. TO SEE THE ELEPHANT WALK FROM
THE ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE TO
ADELPHI WENT IN THREE MINUTES.
27TH.} BROUGHT BROWN KID GLOVES,2/- .BLUE WATCH
RIBBON 1/2d AT OXFORD STREET IN THE EVENING.
MAR.
1ST.} ST. DAVIDS DAY.TO THE TOTTENHAM COURT
THEATRE SAW THE OPERA OF THE CABINET,THE INTERLUDE CALLED MATRIMONY AND DON JUAN,OR
THE LIBERTINE DESTROYED FOR
THE BENEFITS OF M???. PIT 2/-.
2ND.} THE PANHARMONICAN THEATRE OPENED GRAYS INN
LANE.
4TH.} TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE WITH FATHER SAW TWO
ACTS OF THE GAMATON?
MISS WITH FANNY KIMBLE .TEDDY
THE TILER,AND ROBERT THE DEVIL DUKE
OF NORMANDY .
5TH.} TO LUBBOCK'S MANSION HOUSE
8TH.} TO PENNEY'S
TO WRYGHTS HAYMARKET.
10TH.} TO OLYMPIC THEATRE SAW MR.WILLIAMS
ENTERTAINMENT CALLED RANDOM
RECOLLECTIONS MUSICAL
GLASSES.PIT 1/-.
13TH.} TO LAWRENCE'S FOR HAIR CUT.
17TH.} ST.PATRICKS DAY.MR.POOL DIED.
19TH.} TO OLYMPIC, AS 10TH.PLUS "THERE SHE
GOES",14 CHANGES AND
PHANTA???
25TH.} MOTHER ILL .WENT TO BRIVER STREET FOR
LINAMENT.MEN GO TO TEA.
APR.
1ST.} SNOW.TO HARPERS STREET TO SHIP PHAETON £1 TO
BE PAID FOR LIGHTAGE
AND WHARFAGE A NOTE TO BE SENT
WITH GOODS RECEIVE ???????
FOR CALAIS TO MR. MOMMONS WATER
LANE TO PAY 10/6d FOR DUTY AND
ENTRY .
4TH.} SUNDAY
ST. JAMES CHURCH HERD THE BISHOP OF LONDON.
8TH.} TO COLLINGES SAW STEAM ENGINE OF 10 HORSE
POWER .
11TH.} EASTER SUNDAY. RAIN ,EVENING TO ST. ANNES
,400-4LB. LOAVES.
12TH.} WALKED TO GREENWICH AND WALKED HOME.
14TH.} TO ST. CATHERINES DOCK WITH SUSANS COUSINS
AND WITH CLAIRE.
21ST.} TO DRURY LANE THEATRE AND SAW THE OPERA OF
MASANIELLEA?? AND THE
FIRST SCENE OF THE BRIGAND.
23RD.} RAIN .ST.GEORGES DAY.
28TH.} TO DOWNES WHARF SAW SHIP THE EDWARD GO INTO
ST. CATHERINES DOCK.
30TH.} BOUGHT CHINA INKSTAND 1/6d AT HOLBORN.
MAY.
1ST.} TO DRURY LANE THEATRE SAW OPERA OF HOFFER OR
THE FALL OF TYROL.
AND THE EASTER PIECE OF DRAGON
GIFT OR THE SCARF OF PLIGHT AND
THE MIRROR OF FLIGHT.
DIARY NO. 6
MAY 10TH. TO
JULY 11TH 1830.
16TH.} SUNDAY.WORE NEW HAT AND DRILL TROUSERS
11/-AFTERNOON TO AYRES
ARMS.
17TH.} MORNING TO FITCHFIELD STREET SAW FIRE AND
BRAITHWAITES STEAM
ENGINE. EVENING TO TURNERS QUEBEC STREET .
26TH.} TO ADELPHI THEATRE SAW MATTHEWS ???? CALLED THE LONE HOUSE,
30TH.} WHIT SUNDAY.ST.JAMES CHURCH, EVENING TO MARYLEBONE CHURCH,NEW BLUE COAT.RAIN.
31ST.} TO THOS. AND WITH HIM TO GREENWICH FAIR,
WALKED HOME.
JUN.
5TH.} TO HERRIES,EVENING TO ASTLEYS SAW LAST SCENE
OF BATTLE OF WATERLOO
DRUCOW 5 HORSES AND THE PACE AND TORMINE? OF TOM MOODY PIT 1./-.LUCY EDWARDS CALLED
,WITH HER TO CHARING CROSS.
7TH.} TO PICADILLY WITH BLAKES CHARIOT.
8TH.} TO DRURY LANE THEATRE WITH THOS. SAW THE GREEN EYED MONSTER THE
DUMB SAVOYARD, AND HIS MONKEY
,ONE ACT OF PAST AND PRESENT,AND
THE CATARACT OF THE GANGES ,REAL WATER AND HORSES .PIT.
15TH.} TO MILLS TO BE MEASURED FOR BOOTS IN OXFORD
STREET,A BLACK SILK STRIPED
HANDKERCHIEF AND RED SILK POCKET HANDKERCHIEF 6/- ,11/-.
18TH.} NEW HALF BOOTS.
21ST.} LAUFEAT??? DAY.EVENING TO BAYSWATER SAW
FIREWORKS ,SINGING.
26TH.} SATURDAY AT 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING ,AT
WINDSOR, HIS MAJESTY KING
GEORGE THE FOURTH DIED. TO TURNERS TO
ORDER A BLACK COAT.
27TH.} SUNDAY.JOHN STODDART CAME TO SEE US ,HE IS
GOING TO BOTANY BAY
ON THE SHIP "BURREL"
CAP MATCALLE? FOR TWO YEARS .
28TH.} TO PALL MALL TO HEARKING WILLIAM THE FOURTH
PROCLAIMED .BOUGHT
BLACK LEAD FOR PENCIL CASE 1/-
.DAY IN PRINCES STREET.
30TH.} TO CHARLES WITH THOS FOR MOTHER AND SUSAN.
JUL.
1ST.} FATHER GONE TO TRIALS FOR JURY AT
WESTMINSTER.NEW BLACK COAT.
8TH.} TO TOTTENHAM STREET SAW FAUSTUS DEAD SHOT
,LOVE IN A VILLIAGE,AND
TRITHINER??? FOR LONDON.PIT 2/-.
10TH.} TO CHARING CROSS TO BOOK MY PLACE.
DIARY NO. 7.
JULY 12TH. TO OCTOBER 25TH.
1830.
JUL.
13TH.} 1/4 TO 10 O'CLOCK ARRIVED AT SHARRINGTON.
15TH.} TO UNCLE FARWELLS ? ,TO DINNER AT HODY
MARROW?,COME TO SEE HER
SISTER, DROVE HER IN CHAISE TO
THARTFIELD.
16TH.} TO SHARRINGTONS TO DINNER . GREAT STORM 3
WEEKS BEFORE 25TH.
JULY.4TH. JULY.
26TH.} TO BURHAM FAIR.TO WAREHAM.
29TH.} 3/4 OF AN HOUR COMING FROM WARHAM TO BURHAM
,AND FROM WARHAM TO
SHARRINGTON 2 HOURS.MRS HALLS CAT WEIGHS 12 1/4 LBS.
AUG.
2ND.} MARY STAGG MARRIED.
12TH.} TO CRESSINGHAM WITH UNCLE STAGG.
14TH.} TO THE THEATRE SAW KING LEAR ,PLAYED BY
MR.KEAN,AND PERFECTION OR THE
LADY OF MISSI?LOR?.PIT 2/-.
15TH.} SUNDAY TO YARMOUTH BY STEAM PACKET 2/- .TO
JETTY 206 STEPS. TO CHAPEL
AFTERNOON ,SLEPT AT THE BUCK INN.LEFT NORWICH AT 10 MINS PAST 7 ARRIVED AT YARMOUTH 1/2
PAST 11 -.32 MILES BY BOAT.
16TH.} TO THE JETTY .EVENING TO THEATRE .12 SEATS IN
PIT 15 BOYES LOWER
PIER SAW THE PLAY OF RICHARD
THE THIRD,PERFORMED BY MR. KEAN AND
COMIC BY MR. BURTON .PIT 2/-.
17TH.} TO NORWICH BY STEAM BOAT.
18TH.} TO LONDON B Y THE TELEGRAPH COACH .STARTED AT
7 ARRIVED AT CHARING
CROSS AT 8 O'CLOCK.
GRANDFATHER DIED FEBY 2ND. 1824
AGED 76 YEARS.
20TH.} RODE TO JACK STRAW CASTLE HAMPSTEAD.
21ST.} TO HERRIES , EVENING TO THOS. KING'S BIRTHDAY
GRAND ILLUMINATIONS
22ND.} SUNDAY TO HAMPSTEAD.
23RD.} TO SUREY? THEATRE WITH THOS. SAW DEAD OF
DARKNESS . FRENCH
REVOLUTION. P.P.S.COOKS LITTITUDES AND THE 203 ??? BLACK EYED SUSAN. PIT.
28TH.} ANNUAL DINNER AT JACK STRAWS CASTLE HAMPSTEAD
HEATH.29 TO DINNER.
30TH.} CHARLES EDWARDS CALLED AT OURS AND WE WENT TO
OXFORD STREET BAZAAR. TO THE DIORAINA SAW 4
VIEWS AND PHYSIORAMA 14 VIEWS 1/ea.
31ST.} TO THE TOP OF ST. PAULS CATHEDRAL FOR THE
10TH. TIME SAW THE
CLOCKWORK GREAT BELLS -WITH CHAS. EDWARDS.
SEP.
1ST.} TO HAKES HOTEL DUKE STREET AFTERNOON WITH
CHAS TO THE BOROUGH AND NEW
LONDON BRIDGE.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF
1830 WAS ON THE 27TH. 28TH. 29TH. OF JULY.
3RD.} TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.
4TH.} TO PICKFORDS WHARF AND TO BARTHOLOMEWS
FAIR SAW WOOMBEALTS????
COLLECTION OF WILD BEARS AND 3
ELEPHANTS.., TO HERRIES.
5TH.} SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH FATHER TO CHELSEA
REACH .EVENING TO SUPPER WITH
THOS AND TO BLACK FRIARS BRIDGE .
6TH.} TO RANDALL COACH---? WHITECHAPEL ROAD
.BOUGHT UMBRELLA IN NORTHGATE STREET FOR 7/6d CAME
THROUGH THE FAIR.
7TH.} FATHER WENT TO MARGATE.
9TH.} TOTTENHAM STREET THEATRE 1/2 PRICE, SAW THE
WATERMAN ,THE
REDOUBLABLES.SERGT.O CONNOR MR.POWER AND MY WIFES HUSBAND.PIT`1/-
11TH.} TO ASHTONS WHARF BLACKWALL WITH CHAISE .
14TH.} TO FINSBURY CIRCUS AND TO CLERKINWELL GREEN
SAW THE ELECTION FOR CORONER
BETWEEN WAKLEY, WAKELY LOST, AND BAKER .
15TH.} BIRDS TO COBOURG THEATRE SAW PEDRO THE DEAD
WANDERING JEW OR THE
WRECKERS AND THE MEETING AT SPITHEAD PIT
1/-.
19TH.} TO GREENWICH AND SAW THE WHOLE FAMILY ,RODE
HOME TO SUFFER AT THOS.
20TH.} TOHAYMARKET THEATRE SAW HONEST FRA---
AMBITION,OR MASIE MIGNOT
WITH JOHN OF PARIS.TO CHARLES
MISS CLARKE STAYING THERE.
24TH.} TO ASTLEYS HALF PRICE, SAW 2SCENES OF
ALLADDIN ,ON THE STAGE SAW
HORSE RIDING,DUCROW AS ROB ROY
AND HUNTER OF THE ALPS.PIT 1/-.
29TH.} TO SADLERS WELLS SAW HENRIE QUARTE DUCROWS
BEVING?? STATUTUES THE
DEAD SHOT MRS. FITZWILLIAM WILLIAM AND ADELAIDE. PIT 2/.
OCT.
1ST.} DUBLIN STEAM PACKET OFFICE AS TO SIDNEY
ALLEY.BOUGHT PORTRAIT OF
THE KING AND QUEEN FOR 3/-.
4TH.} TO SIDNEY'S ALLEY BOUGHT PORTRAIT OF THE
KING FOR 5/-.
5TH.} TO SHANNON WHARF ACROSS ST. KATHERINES
BRIDGE ,EVENING TO THOS TO
DRURY LANE THEATRE -THIS
INTERIIOR OF THE HOUSE NEWLY AND SUPERBLY DECORATED WITH
SILVER IN THE PLACE OF GOLD .SAW ???/
AND THE BRIGAND HALF PRICE
1/-.OPENED ON THE 1ST.
11TH.} TO PICKFORDS WHARF TO A MEETING IN OSNABING?
STREET FOR ABOLITION OF THE
POLICE.SAW STEAM CARRIAGE RUNNING 10 MILES AN HOUR.
13TH.} WENT WITH JAMES TO TOTTENHAM THEATRE ,HALF
PRICE,SAW FIRST
IMPRESSIONS.
21ST.} ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. 25
YEARS SINCE.
23RD.} TO HENRIETTA STREET AND HERRIES .EVENING TO
ADELPI THEATRE SAW WRECK ON
SHORE,OR BRIDEGROOM HOME FROM THE SEA. THE BLACK VULTURE OR THE WHEEL OF DEATH .AND BILLY
TAYLOR PIT 2/-.
25TH.} TO MOSLEYS BOUGHT PLANE IRON 1s-10d FOR PANEL
PLANE AND BACK IRON FOR MY
PLANE.
DIARY NO. 8 .
OCTOBER 27 TH. 1830 TO FEBRUARY
24TH. 183
.
OCT.
27TH.} WEDNESDAY.KING WILLIAM THE 4TH. WENT TO DRURY
LANE THEATRE FOR
THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE WAS KING,THE
PIECES WERE MARRIAGE OF
FIGARO ,THE BRIGAND AND THE
ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.I WENT AND SAW
HIM GO IN .THE QUEEN ADELAIDE WAS WITH HIM ALSO. 30TH.} TO HENRIETTA STREET
AND HERRIES EVENING TO CANDLELIGHT SUPPER AT
HODGSONS.
31ST.} TO MARY LE BONE CHURCH.
NOV.
1ST.} MONDAY.THE KING AND QUEEN WENT TO COVENT
GARDEN THEATRE AND SAW
THE PROVOKED HUSBAND,MISS FANNY
KIMBLE AND TEDDY THE TILER .I
WENT WITH THEM FROM THE PALL MALL TO THE HOUSE ROW WITH THE POLICE.
2ND.} TUESDAY.I WENT AND SAW THE KING GO TO THE
PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN
STATE.TO OPEN PARLIAMENT.
3RD.} TO COURT OF KINGS BENCH HERD MRS. WOODS
TRIAL OF LUNACY.EVENING
TO THOS.
6TH.} TO LOMBARD STREET TO SEE THE PREPARATIONS
AND DEVICES FOR THE
FORTHCOMING LORD MAYORS DAY.
9TH.} LORD MAYORS DAY .IT WAS THE INTENTION OF THE
KING AND QUEEN TO
HAVE DINED AT THE GUILDHALL,THE
CITY ON THE OCCASION WAS TO HAVE
BEEN ILLUMINATED BUT FEARFUL MISCHIEF WOULD ENSUE THEY POSTPONED THE VISIT ,THE
CITY WAS CROWDED WITH PERSONS ALL DAY,NO
STRANGER WAS ALLOWED TO PASS
THROUGH THE TOWER WHARF THE GATES
SHUT WENT TO WAPPING.??.
16TH.} THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND HIS MINISTERS
RESIGN.
20TH.} TO HERRIES.EVENING TO ADELPHI THEATRE SAW WRECK
ASHORE AND QUADRUPED.
22ND.} WITH JAMES TO THE TOTTENHAM THEATRE ,SAW THE
STRATAGEM AND DON
GIOVANI,MADAME VESTRES PERFORMS IN BOTH PIECES ,AND THE SMUGGLERS
ISLE. PIT 2/-.
23RD.} TO ST. MARTINS COURT TO HAVE NEW WATCH STRAP
-/6d.
27TH.} TO HERRIES THOMAS AND SUSAN HAVE BEEN MARRIED
FOR 7 YEARS.
28TH.} SUNDAY ST.JAMES. AFTERNOONTO TEA AT THOS
,CHAS EDWARDS CALLED AND DINED
WITH US.
DEC.
1ST.} TOOK MY WATCH TO BE REPAIRED AT ST. MARTINS
COURT.
10TH.} TO THOS. AND WITH HIM TO THE ADELPHI SAW
SKINNER? OF THE SEA AND
TALE OF THE ?.
11TH.} TO HENRIETTA STREET,EVENING CALLED IN ST.
MARTINS COURT FOR MY WATCH
CLEANING REPAIRING 4s-6d.
15TH.} TO ADELPHI SAW BOLD DRAGOONS ,WRECK
ASHORE,WAS I TO BLAME AND ??
19TH.} SUNDAY. ST. JAMES CHURCH .HERD LORD BISHOP OF
LONDON PREACH AND
ORDAIN A QUANTITY OF PRIESTS.
20TH.} I MEASURED JAN 1ST. 1828 5FT. 5INS. AND THIS
DAY I MEASURED 5FT. 7 1/4
INS. STANDING IN MY SHOES.
MRS. TURNER DIED WEDNESDAY 6TH.
OF DECEMBER AGED 79 YEARS AND TEN
MONTHS (WHITE LION. ???)
25TH.} CHRISTMAS DAY .TO THE ICE IN THE ST. JAMES
PARK FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS
SEASON AND BEING ENOUGH TO BEAR.
28TH.} TO TURNERS QUEBEC STREET FOR NEW VALENTINO
BRONZE WAISTCOAT, EVENING
LOST 1/- AT CARDS.
30TH.} GAINED 3/- AT CARDS.
FRENCH MINISTERS TRIED THIS MONTH.
MR. BRYCE DIED 27TH. OF
NOVEMBER.
END OF YEAR 1830.
1831
1ST.} TO HERRIES EVENING TO THOS AND LAWRENCE
-HAIR CUT.
2ND.} SUNDAY.ST. JAMES .AFTERNOON TO THOS AND WITH
HIM TO PARK
SKAITTING.AND TO TATTERSALLS.
3RD.} TO TURNERS BIRDS AND GLOVES??.SAW THE
OLYMPIC ----?,BEING THE
FIRST NIGHT OF ITS BEING OPENED UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAMESELLE VERTRIS.
4TH.} TO BIRCHIN LANE .EVENING TO DRURY LANE ,HALF
PRIOCE ,SAW 2 ACTS OF SCHOOL
FOR SCANDAL.AND THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME OF DAVEY JONES,
OR HARLEQUINSAND MOTHER CAREYS
CHICKENS. 1/-
7TH.} TO TURNERS ,NEW BROWN GREAT COAT.
8TH.} TO LADY HALES MONTAGUE SQUARE,TO HERRIES AND
TEE IN ST.JAMES PARK
10TH.} MARCHIONESS OF AYLESBURY FUNERAL
CARLISLE OF FLEET STREET TRIED
FOR INFLAMATORY PUBLICATIONS,
SENTENCED TO PAY A FINE OF
£200,TO BE IMPRISONED 2 YEARS IN THE
COMPTOR?? AND THEN TO FIND TWO
SURETIES OF £250 EACH,AND HIMSELF
IN £500 TO KEEP THE PEACE FOR
10 YEARS.
MR. HUNT THE NEW MEMBER FOR
PRESTON CAME TO LONDON AND WAS MET BY
100,000 PERSONS ON TOBINGTON ? GREEN.
14TH.} TO FINSBURY AND ALDERSGATE AND HERRIES .
EVENING TO COBOURG
THEATRE SAW JOHNOTHAN DOBSON AND THE PANTOMIME OF HARLEQUIN. SILVER PENNEY OR THE OLD WOMEN
IN THE BOTTLE HARLEQUIN MR. NIXON.
PIT HALF PRICE 1/-.
24TH.} THE FIRST DAY OF THE JOURNEYMEN AVACH?MAKER
MEETING CONCERNING
THE NEW FACTORY IN FIFE FIELDS.
29TH.} TO ADELPHI SAW THE KING OF THE ALPS AND THE
MISANTHROPES ,WAS I TO
BLAME,AND PANTOMIME GRIMALKIN THE GREAT,KING OF THE CATS.PIT 2/-.
FEB.
6TH,} SUNDAY. TO PARK SKAITING.ST. JAMES CHURCH,TO
TATTERSALLS,EVENING
WITH THOS TO TRINITY CHURCH.
9TH.} TO THE OPENING OF THE SANS SOUCE THEATRE
LEICESTER PLACE ,SAW
RICHARD THE THIRD PERFORMED BY A CHILD OF 7 YEARS OF AGE AND THE
TRISH? PATORS? SUPPORTED BY A
JUVENILE COMPANY.
15TH.} MR. PAUL CALLED AND WITH HIM TO
GREENWICH,HOME IN OMNIBUS.
22ND.} WITH JAS TO PALL MALL TO SEE THE KING GO
TODRURY LANE THEATRE
THEN I WENT IN THE HOUSE AND SAW
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL ,GOD SAVE
THE KING ,AND THE PANTOMIME.
23RD.} TOSUN STREET WITH GEORGE WITH PARCEL FOR
NORFOLK.
24TH.} THE QUEEN HELD HER FIRST DRAWING ROOM,WENT TO
THE PALACE TO LOOK AT THEM.
DIARY NO. 9.
FEBRUARY 24TH.1831 TO
JULY 7TH. 1831.
MAR.
2ND.} HAD HAIR CUT IN BROWN STREET.
5TH.} TO HENRIETTA STREET,HERRIES,EVENING TO OPERA
HOUSE TO SEE THE
PEOPLE COME.
6TH.} SUNDAY,ST.JAMES.CHARLES EDWARDS CALLED IN
THE EVENING AND WITH
HIM TO CRAVEN CHAPEL AND AS FAR
AS SOMERSET HOUSE.
7TH.} MONDAY,KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN ADELAIDE AND
PRINCE GEORGE OF
CUMBERLAND AND CAMBRIDGE WENT
TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE AND SAW
THE OPERA OF CINDERELLA AND THE PANTOMIME OF HARLEQUIN FAT AND
HARLEQUIN BAT ,AND THE GIANTS
CAUSEWAY.GOD SAVE THE KING WAS SUNG
TWICE AND RULE BRITANNIA ONCE .I WENT AND SAW THEM THE WHOLE OF THE EVENING AND RETURNED WITH
THEM TO THE PALACE. 2/-.LOST SILK H
ANDKERCHIEF.
9TH.} THE KING AND QUEEN STOOD GODFATHER AND
GODMOTHER TO ONE OF THE
MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY'S
CHILDREN.THERE WAS FOR THE OCCASSION A
SPLENDID ILLUMINATION OPPOSITE THE
HOUSE IN PARK LANE .
17TH.} ST. PATRICKS DAY.TO HOLBORN BRIDGE WITH S.
BARRY'S PHAETON.
18TH.} TO ADELPHI THEATRE HERD AND SAW WILLIAMS
MORSELS OF MIRTH FOR
MOMENTS OF
MERRIMENT.-----? PIT 2/-.
19TH.} TO HERRIES SAW PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE.
20TH.} SUNDAY ST.JAMES. OFF WITH FATHER TO
PACK.EVENING TO MARYLEBONE.
21ST.} COOKE'S EQUESTRIAN CIRCUS OPENED WENT AND SAW
HORSE RIDING. 1/- .
24TH.} TO MILLS.EVENING THOS CALLED AND WITH HIM TO
QUEENS THEATRE SAW
DANISH WIFE ,GALATEA,
TROUBADOUR,AND MRS. G. PIT.
28TH.} TO COVENT GARDEN MARKET BEFORE
BREAKFAST.EVENING TO TURNERS
BOUGHT OPERA GLASS 7/6d.
APR.
1ST.} GOOD FRIDAY,TO TEA WITH THOS .EVENING RAIN.
2ND.} TO HERRIES BOUGHT KID GLOVES AT CHISTON? IN
OXFORD STREET.2/6d.
3RD.} EASTER SUNDAY,OVER WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
4TH.} EASTER MONDAY,WALKED TO GREENWICH,TO TEA
WITH MR. EDWARDS ,WENT TO
PARK WITH LUCY RODE HOME.
8TH.} BARNEY BEEN GONE 2 YEARS.
16TH.} TO LOMBARD STREET,TO HERRIES,WENT TO COVENT
GARDEN SAW 1 ACT OF
ARGOS,AND LEMERA? AND NUCKAS?
CAVE OR SEA MUTINEERS. 1/-.
18TH.} WITH THOS TO STEAM PACKET FOR GRAVESEND.
19TH.} WENT WITH MOTHER TO WIMBLETON COACH.THE KING
AND QUEEN WENT FOR THE FIRST
TIME TO OPERA.MET MR. HALL AND WITH HIM TO DRURY LANE
THEATRE,SAW CHARLES 12 KING OF
STRALSENDS?.
22ND.} THE KING WENT IN STATE TO PARLIAMENT HOUSE TO
DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT
ON ACCOUNT OF THE MEMBERS NOT
CARRYING OUT THE REFORM BILL. TO
ALEX TAYLORS.
25TH.} A GREAT MANY HOUSES ILLUMINATED IN
CONSEQUENCE OF THE DISSOLUTION
OF PARLIAMENT.
27TH.} A GENERAL ILLUMINATION THROUGHOUT LONDON ON
ACCOUNT OF THE KING
DISSOLVINGPARLIAMENT.THOSE
PERSONS WHOSE HOUSES WERE NOT ILLUMINATED WERE BROKEN TO
PIECES BY THE MOB*.
28TH.} DRAWING ROOM HELD BY THE QUEEN .WENT DOWN ST.JAMES
STREET.
MAY.
2ND.} SIR THOS. BURDETT AND HOBHOUSE ELECTED
WESTMINSTER .
3RD.} WITH THOS TO OPERA HOUSE.,
4TH.} TO LUBBOEK? LEADENHALL STREET ,EVENING TO
THE ADELPHI THEATRE HERD
MATTHEWS COMIC ANNUAL AND GATES IN ITALY
OR THE BEAUTIFUL BARMAID.
PIT 2/-.
7TH.} TO LEADENHALL STREET AND HERRIES TO SEE THE
MODEL OF THE CITY OF LONDON
CONSISTING OF 73,000 HOUSES,107 CHURCHES,ALL CARVED IN WOOD AT THE WESTERN EXCHANGE.
9TH.} THOS CALLED IN THE EVENING AND WITH HIM TO
COOKES CIRCUS.PIT 1/-12TH.}
MR.TAYLOR DIED AT WIMBLEDON.
15TH.} TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY HERD BISHOP,AFTERNOON
WITH FATHER TO
KENSINGTON AND NOTTING HILL.
18TH.} HOME TO HOLBORN TOOK CAB AND RODE TO CHEAPSIDE
,WALKED TO LOMBARD STREET
TO TAKE UP BELL.
19TH.} EPSOM GRAND RACE DAY RODE WITH CARRIAGE TO
MARK'S TO HENRIETTA
STREET.WENT TO HOLBORN BOUGHT SILVER WATCH GUARD 19/-.POCKET PICK.
23RD.} WHIT SUNDAY. TO GRAVESEND BY THE KENT STEAMER
WITH FATHER 2/-.
DOWN WALKED WITHIN 2 MILES OF
ROCHESTER CAME HOME 1/- MET WITH
WILLIAM EDWARDS ON BOARD SAW THE THOMAS GRANVILLE SHIP.
23RD.} TO GREENWICH WALKED INTO PARK WITH EDWARD,
RODE HOME 2/-.
25th.} WENT AND BOUGHT A SILK HANDKERCHIEF IN REGENT
STREET ,BLUE AND
WHITE 5/-.
26TH.} TO HENRIETTA STREET ,WITH THOS TO WATERLOO
BRIDGE.
28TH.} BRISTHA? HERRIES AND TO SEE DRAWING ROOM VERY
FULL IN CELEBRATION OF THE
KING'S BIRTHDAY,GRAND ILLUMINATIONS.
29TH.} TO ST. MARTINS ANDTIO CONNAUGHT TERRACE.TO
ST. GILES CHURCH.
31ST.} TO COVENT GARDEN SAW NAPOLEON BONAPARTE HALF
PRICE 1/-.
JUN.
5TH.} SUNDAY WITH FATHER TO RICHMOND,RODE TO KEW
BRIDGE ,HOME BY STEAM PACKET
1/6d EACH.
6TH.} WITH THOS TO THE STRAND AND HERD SINGING IN
STREET
8TH.} HAMPTON COURT RACES FIRST DAY.
16TH.} BOUGHT WHITE COTTON GLOVES IN NEW STREET
-/10d.
19TH.} SUNDAY MORNING AT 6 O'CLOCK FATHER AND I WENT
WITH HORSE AND CHAISE TO WINDSOR THROUGH EATON AND OVER
WINDSOR BRIDGE SAW DR.
HERSCHELS GREAT TELESCOPE.HOME
TO DATCHET OVER THE BRIDGE.
20TH.} TO CHARING CROSS SAW THE HOUSE BUILT FOR THE
EXIBITION OF THE WHALE
,95FT. LONG. TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET -MISS FANNY
KIMBLE.
21ST.} TO THE CITY LOMBARD STREET WENT AND SAW THE
KING GO AND OPEN
PARLIAMENT IN STATE,MET THOS WAITED,AND SAW HIM GO BACK.
23RD.} TO WESTMINSTER HALL.TO HERRIES WITH MR. HALL
TO COURT -COMMON PLEAS
JUDGE TINDAL.
24TH.} QUEENS LAST DRAWING ROOM ,WENT DOWN ST. JAMES
STREET WITH MISS
DRUMMOND.
26TH.} KINGS ASCENSION TO THE THRONE,TO ST.JAMES
PARK HERD GUNS FIRE .
30TH.} TO EAST INDIA EXPORT DOCK.
JUL.
3RD.} SUNDAY MORNING AT 8 O'CLOCK FATHER AND I
STARTED FOR HERNE BAY TO SEE
THE PLACE FOR THE INTENDED NEW PIER(THE FIRST STONE TO BE LAID TO MORROW) IN THE ALBION
STEAM AND BACK THE SAME NIGHT AT
9 O'CLOCK.FARE 5/- EACH.
5TH.} BOUGHT OF THOS A MARINERS COMPASS FOR 2/-.
6TH.} TO CHARING CROSS AND TO BUY 1/2 A BLACK SILK
HANDKERCHIEF 3s-6d
7TH.} THE KING WENT TO A GRAND BALL AT DRURY LANE
THEATREFOR THE RELIEF
OF THE TUSH? WENT AND SAW THEM
GO AND COME BACK.
9TH.} TO LAWRENCE HAD HAIR CUT.WITH MR.BEACHAM AND
SAW THE STAINED GLASS
WINDOW REPRESENTING /TOURNAMENT OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD/ IN
OXFORD STREET.
10TH.} SUNDAY ST.JAMES WORE NEW HAT AND NEW BOOTS.
JULY 7TH.1831 I WEIGHED 1CWT-0-23LBS.OR
9 STONES-9LBS.
DIARY NO. 10.
JULY 14TH.1831 TO SEPT 15TH. 1831.
JUL.
14TH.} THURSDAY.STARTED BY THE LYNN COACH FROM
CHARING CROSS THROUGH ELY 1/4 PAST
4, LITTLEPORT 10 MINS PAST 5 ,CROSS THE GREAT OUSE 2 HORSES PULLING 10
BARGES.ARRIVED AT LYME 1/4 BEFORE 8 SLEPT AT THE GREEN DRAGON INN.
15TH.} TO QUAY SAW SHIPS STARTED BY THE CREAKE
CARRIER MET A MAN NAME ELLIOT WHO DROVE ME IN HIS CHAISE TO WALSINGHAM,SLEPT AT
THE WHITE LION.
16TH.} STARTED IN MORNING TO BALE.RAIN. SAW RUTH
COX, AFTERNOON TO SHARRINGTON.
17TH.} SUNDAY TO SLODY,AFTERNOON TO SLODY
CHURCH.MARTIN CAME WITH ME TO
SHARRINGTON.
18TH.} WENT TO BLAKENEY MET AUNT WENT BACK TO
SHARRINGTON WITH HER ,THEN TO BLAKENEY.
19TH.} TO THE MARSHES THEN TO CHEY? BEACH .DINED AT
THE GEORGE AND DRAGON,AFTERNOON TO UNCLES ,JOINED A WINE PARTY. 9 BOTTLES.
20TH.} WITH RUTH COX TO CLEY TO BLAKENEY TO
DINNER,AFTERNOON WITH MR. CROFT'S AND UNCLE WINE WITH ROBT. PELL TO MR.
BRIRITONS GARDEN? EVENING WALKED WITH RUTH
AND ELIZABETH STAGG TO LANGHAM.
21ST.} WALKED IN THE POURING RAIN TO HOLT SAW JANE
THEN TO STODY AND MRS.MARES AT BRIGHAM TO TEA TO SHARRINGTON ,BACK WITH UNCLE
TO MEET MOTHER BY COACH.
22ND.} TO BRINGHAM? DINNER AT STODY AND SLEPT THERE
23RD.} TO THOSNAGE? TO HIMIWORTH? TO DINNER ,MARTIN
DROVE ME IN CHAISE TO SHARRINGHAM.
24TH.} SUNDAY WITH MOTHER TO SHARRINGTON CHURCH
.AFTERNOON WALKED TO HOLT WENT WITH THOMPSON THE SINGER TO SEE MYNDHAM'S GREAT
ORGAN SLEPT AT STODY.
25TH.} AFTERNOON WENT WITH MR. SHIRLEY TO CRICKET
MATCH AT BRINTON,CALLED AT WISEMANS ,FETCHED MOTHER FROM BALE,MET UNCLE
FITT,RODE WITH HIM TO BLAKENEY.
26TH.} BOREHAM FAIR DAY ,WALKED IN THE AFTERNOON
WITH UNCLE COMING HOME STOPPED AT LANGHAM.
27TH.} RODE WITH UNCLE FITT TO SHARRINGTON.
28TH.} RODE TO BLAKENEY WITH AUNT.
29TH.} ELY FAIR DAY.TO ELY ROUND BY WIFFEN?,UP THE
STEEPLE SAW THE 6 BELLS AT WORK ALONG
WITH MARTIN AND BOE.
30TH.} HAD A SAIL ON THE WATER WITH WILLIAM WARNER
,AFTERNOON TO CHAY?
WITH HENRY FARROW,HOME WITH
UNCLE FITT.
31ST.} SUNDAY,WALKED WITH MARTHA FARROW TO BALE
,CALLED AT DALLING,SLEPT AT SHARRINGTON.
AUG.
1ST.} WITH MOTHER TO STODY, SLEPT THERE.THE NEW
LONDON BRIDGE OPENED THIS DAY.
2ND.} WALKED TO FOULSHAM BY HINDOLVERSTONE HERD A
GRAND BAND OF MUSIC THERE.MET THE PERFORMER NANTY THOMPSON AND BURTON AND
LOCKWOOD ,WENT AND HAD DINNER WITH THEM ,HERD THEM SING.STARTED FOR SHARRINGTON
1/4 PAST 4,
CALLED AT BRISSINGHAM AND
GEVIGES?.
3RD.} WENT TO HOLT.
4TH.} STARTED FROM WARHAM 1/4 PAST 9 ARRIVED 1/4
PAST 11, THE AFTERNOON TO BLAKENEY
THROUGH STEFKEY AND MOSSTON MET MOTHER THERE.
5TH.} WENT WITH UNCLE FITT TO ELY,BACK TO DINNER
.EVENING TO ELY SLEPT AT BLAKENEY.
6TH.} TO BALE.
7TH.} SUNDAY
TO STODY TO DINNER.
8TH.} CAME WITH VAN TO SHEPDHAM 1/6d.
9TH.} DINED AT MARY ROSS--BLES.
A STATUTE OF WILLIAM PITT WAS PLACED
IN HANOVER SQUARE JUST AT THIS TIME.
11TH.} THURSDAY.TO TRIMBLES EVENING AT UNCLES WITH
THEM BIRTH DAY 20
12TH.} MET MOTHER BY COACH RODE TO WALTON? WALKED
BACK TO SHIPOPHAM?
WITH THE DOG AND
STOPPEDUNTIL 11?.
15TH.} STARTED BY COACH FROM SKIPDHAM? 1/4 PAST 8
,WALTON 5 MINS PAST 9, MILDENHALL 10 TO
12,NEWMARKET 10 MINS TO 1, CAMBRIDGE 10 MINS PAST 2 ,CHESTERFORD 1/4 TO 4
,LITTLEBURY 4,NEWPORT 20 MINS PAST 4,STANSTEAD 5,
HOCKRILL 20 PAST 5 ,HARLOW
6, EPPING 1/4 TO 7 ,LONDON AT 9.
THE FARE FROM SHIPOTOWN? TO
LONDON IS £1-2s-0d.
16TH.} TO DELIVER LETTER TO MR.INSULL 40,YORK
STREET,WESTMINSTER.TO TEA AT THOS .MR. SMYTHSON AT THE SANS SOUCE THEATRE.
18TH.} BOUGHT ARTICLES IN OXFORD STREET,BOX BOTTLE
THIMBLE AND BUCKLE.
19TH.} TO CRIPPLEGATE.
21ST.} TO WESTMINSTER ABBEYTO SEE THE PREPARATIONS
FOR THE CORONATION.
ST. JAMES CHUCH AFTERNOON,
FATHER AND I WENT TO HAMPSTEAD.
22ND.} TO HOLBORN AND I BOUGHT A CORONATION MEDAL
1/-,MET THOS WENT TO VAUXHALL BRIDGE AND SAW GREEN ASCEND IN HIS BALLOON 10
O'CLOCK FROM VAUXHALL GARDEN.
23RD.} TO HOLBORN TO GET A PRINTING PLATE TO SEND TO
P.RUMBLE.COST ME
4/6d.
24TH.} TO TAKE A PARCEL TO COACH OFFICE FOR SHIPDHAM
CONTAINING A SILK HANDKERCHIEF FOR AUNT (4/-),TORTOISE SHELL NEEDLE BOX (3/-),2
BUCKLES (4/- 3/6d ) SILVER THIMBLE (3/- ) SMELLING BOTTLE ( 2/6d) A MEDAL (1/-
)TOOTH PICK AND A PLATE(4/6d ).
27TH.} ANNUAL DINNER 29 AT JACK STRAWS CASTLE
HAMPSTEAD HEATH.
30TH.} I WENT BY THE VENUS STEAM PACKET FROM ST.
KATHERINES DOCK TO NORTHFLEET,WALKED TO GRAVESEND AND HAD DINNER,WENT BY THE
GREAT ROAD AND BACK BY THE SIDE OF THE RIVER TO HEAR MICHAEL BOAI? THE CHIN
MELODIST AND HIS WIFEAND HER JOEL THE SEFFLEUR? FR
OM GERMANY DONKEY RACING
,JUMPING IN
SACKS,CLIMBING THE GREASY
POLE FARE 1/6d.
SEP.
4TH.} SUNDAY. TO HOLBORN WITH FATHER TO GO TO
MARGATE AND THEN WALKED
TO GREENWICH.RODE HOME.
5TH.} MRS. DOYLE FROM BLAKENEY DINED WITH US.
EVENING WITH MR. HALL.TO ASTLEYS MET JAMES BUTLER AND MR. SPRY AND HIS WIFE
.SAW THE LAST SCENE MAY--- HORSE RIDING AND TWO ELEPHANTS WITH THE PANTOMIME OF OLD WOMEN OF BANBURY
CROSS.
7TH.} WITH MR. HALL TO THOS TO PALL MALL
WESTMINSTER ABBEY,HOME 6 O'CLOCK.
8TH.} THURSDAY,THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES
,I WENT WITH MR. HALL AND SAW THEM GO IN STATE,THEN TO ST. JAMES PARK SAW THE
ARTILLERY TO GREEN PARK AND HYDE PARK.
MR. GRAHAM IN GREEN PARK WENT UP IN HIS BALLOON AT
5 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
.RAIN. EVENING TO HAYMARKET THEATRE .FREE 1/4 HOUR.CALLED MR. HALL AND WITH HIM
TO SEE THE FIREWORKS IN HYDE PARK ,SPLENDID ILLUMINATIONS ABOUT TOWN.
11TH.} SUNDAY TO SEE WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
12TH.} MR. HALL TO ABBEY.
14TH.} WITH MR. HALL TO LOOK AT THE INTERIOR OF THE
ABBEY SEATS.
PHILIP RUMBLE
BOOT MAKER
SHIPDHAM (Very Clear Inscription At The End Of The
Book.)
DIARY NO. 11.
SEPTEMBER 18TH. 1831 TO THE END OF THE YEAR.
18TH.} SUNDAY,STARTED FROM ST. KATHERINES BY THE
HARLEQUIN STEAMER FOR MARGATE 9 O'CLOCK ,GRAVESEND 25 MINS TO 12 O'CLOCK,NORE
LIGHTS 10 MINS PAST 1 O'CLOCK,ARRIVED AT
MARGATE JETTY 1/2 PAST 3, MET FATHER
WITH HIM TO QUEENS ARMS INN, TO DINNER ,TO ST.
PETERS ,BACK TO MARGATE.
19TH.} TO JETTY ON PIER SAW ANCHOR 59 CWT-0 QRTS
-19LBS. TO BREAKFAST THEN BY COACH TO RAMSGATE ,SAW THE GRAND HARBOUR THEN BY
STEAM PACKET TO DOVER.STARTED AT 1/4 PAST 10 ARRIVED 1 0'CLOCK THEN TO THE
CASTLE,SAW THE CONNON CALLED QUEEN ANNE'S POCKET PI
ECE 24 FT LONG DATED 1544 .
THROUGH THE TOWN TO DOVER HEIGHTS HOME DOWN THE SHAFT ? A GREAT WONDER CUT IN
THE SOFT CHALK CLIFF.TO SEE DOVER HARBOUR.SAW CALAIS STEAM PACKET COME IN
.W4ENT IN A SMALL BOAT ABOARD THE RAMSGATE PACKET .STARTED AT 4 ARRIVED 1
/2 PAST 6
(4/-) RODE BY COACH TO
MARGATE .EVENING TO LIBRARY'S.
20TH.} TO JETTY 449 STEPS LONG TO PIER .TO BREAKFAST
. STARTED BY THE ROYAL GEORGE STEAMER FOR LONDON 9 O'CLOCK TOOK N.W. DIRECTION
PASSED THE NORE LIGHT 1/2 PAST 11 O'CLOCK.ARRIVED AT LONDON BRIDGE 20 MINS PAST
4.RODE
WITH MR.GRAHAM TO THE
REGENTS QUADRANT.EVENING TO THOS ,WITH HIM TO WIMPOLE STREET.
22ND.} TO HAYMARKET THEATRE SAW ROSSINI SCHOOL FOR
COQUETTES JOHN JONES AND MY GRANDMOTHER
24TH.} FATHER HOME FROM MARGATE.
28TH.} TO LOMBARD STREET WENT INTO
GUILDHALL.AFTERNOON TO LUBBOCK'S BANK.
OCT.
2ND.} SUNDAY EVENING TO KING STREET CHAPEL.
3RD.} TO QUEBEC STREET AND ALONG THE EDGEWARE ROAD HOME BY BELL STREET.
4TH.} MRS. ROBERTS HAD TEA WITH US ,MOTHER AND I
WENT HOME WITH HER.IN THE MORNING TO BROAD STREET AND TO GUILDHALL. THE
ELECTIUON FOR LORD MAYOR BETWEEN LAURIE THORP AND KEY.
6TH.} TO BRANSBY COOPERS AND HOUSE OF LORDS .
8TH.} SATURDAY .AT 6 O'CLOCK THE HOUSE OF LORDS
CAME TO A DIVISION ON THE REFORM BILL.AT PROPOSED IT BEING READ THAT DAY 6 MOUTHS AND CARRIED IT BY A MAJORITY OF 41 .
10TH.} TO HOUSE OF LORDS IMMENSE GU---- OF THE PEOPLE
AND POLICE .
12TH.} ALL THE SHOPS CLOSED AND THE DIFFERENT
PARISHES WENT TO THE KING
WITH ADDRESSES ABOURT THE
REFORM BILL,GREAT MOBS PARADING THE STREETS BREAKING WINDOWS.
17TH.} TO DRURY LANE THEATRE SAW HYDER ALI OR THE
LIONS OF MYSORE IN WHICH MONSR.MARTIN HAS 2 LIONS SLEEP ON THEM AND FIGHT WITH
ONE. 2 BOA CONSTRICTORS,CHILDRENS PELICAN ,ALPACCA MONKEYS ,2 ELEPHANTS,THE
PIECE PRECEEDED BY JANE THORP.
18TH.,} TO S---- PLACE
,FIXED DRAGON ON CHIMNEY.
20TH.} WENT TOL SEE THE KING GO IN STATE TO -----?
THE PARLIAMENT.MET SUSAN IN ST. JAMES PARK .
23RD.} SUNDAY. TO ST.ANNES TO HEAR THE BISHOP OF
LONDON BUT HE DID NOT PREACH.
24TH.} TO BROAD STREET CITY.
25TH.} TO CROWN CT. WITH MOTHER.
26TH.} TO CROWN CT. FOR MY UMBRELLA HAD NEW HANDLES.
2/-.
30TH.} SUNDAY .ST. JAMES CHURCH ,SAW THE BISHOP OF
WINCHESTER .
NOV.
1ST.} TO TAVISTOCK STREET AS DREADFUL RIOTS AT
BRISTOL.
2ND.} TO GRAFTON STREET TO RAFFLE FOR GOLD CHAIN
.TO 235 HOLBORN STREET TO SEE FIRE.
5TH.} TO HENRIETTA STREET .HERRIES .EVENING TO
CANDLELIGHT SUPPER AT HODGSONS 19 STATIONARY.
6TH.} SUNDAY. ST.GEORGES.
9TH.} LORD MAYORS DAY .JOHN KEY TWICE ELECTED LORD MAYOR,SAW THE PROCESSION
RETURN TO GRACECHURCH STREET .EVENING TO THOS LOST 4 1/2d AT CARDS.
13TH.} SUNDAY.MILBANK ST. MARGARETS CHURCH.
15TH.} JAMES 23RD. BIRTHDAY,TO REYNOLDS,TO
ST.JAMES,REFORM MEETING AT COOKES CIRCUS WINDMILL STREET HOLBORN.
16TH.} SNOW THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR.
20TH.} SUNDAY ,TO ST.PAULS CATHEDRAL.
23RD.} MR.SPAIN'S FATHER DIED .
26TH.} TO ADELPHI THEATRE SAW VICTORINE OR I'LL
SLEEP ON IT. WEPT OF THE
WISH-TON WISH AND THE
BURLESQUE OF THE LIONS OF MYSORE.
27TH.} SUNDAY,ST.JAMES .TO TEA AT THOS.THEY AND
SUSAN BEEN MARRIED 8 YEARS.
29TH.} FATHER WENT TO MR.SPAIN'S FATHERS FUNERAL AT
PADDINGTON.
DEC.
2ND.} I WENT TO HEAR THE TRIALS OF BISHOP WILLIAMS
AND MAY ,FOR MURDERING ITALIAN BOY? BUT I COULD NOT GET IN .THEN WENT TO THE
NEW COURT 1/- HERD SEVERAL TRIALS.
5TH.} BISHOP AND WILLIAMS HUNG FOR MURDER.
6TH.} WENT AND SAW THE KING GO IN STATE TO OPEN
PARLIAMENT.
18TH.} SUNDAY,ST.JAMES HERD ORDINATION OF PRIESTS BY
BISHOP OF LONDON.
22RD.} TO THOS SAW A CARRIAGE DRAWN BY FLEAS.
24TH.} DENSE FOG.
25TH.} CHRISTMAS DAY .DENSE FOG.
26TH.} TO TEA AT THOS EVENING TO W---OO.
31ST.} TO HERRIES ,MOSELEY BOUGHT 1/4 CHISEL -/4d.TO
THOS.
END OF THE EVENTFUL YEAR OF
OUR LORD 1831.
DIARY NO. 12.
JANUARY 1ST. 1832 TO
MARCH 4TH. 1832.
JAN.
1ST.} WENT AND BOUGHT THE BELLS NEW WEEKLY
MESSENGER,ST.JAMES CHURCH
AND IN THE EVENING TO
ST.GEORGES.
2ND.} TO CLEVELAND STREET BOUGHT A CHIMNEY BOARD
7/-.
4TH.} TO BERWICK STREET ,HAIR CUT.
6TH.} OLD CHRISTMAS DAY .EVENING WITH FATHER AND
SUSAN TO COVENT GARDEN SAW BROTHER AND SISTER .IRISH AMBASSADOR AND CHRISTMAS
PANTOMIME OF HOP OMY? THUMB AND HIS BROTHERS OR HARLEQUIN AND THE OGRE. PIT.
8TH.} SUNDAY .ST.JAMES.AFTERNOON TO TEA AT THOS
,MET CHARLES AND MRS.
THEIR SERVANT ROBBED THEM
WHILE THERE.
9TH.} HERRIES PALL MALL LITTLE QUEEN STREET.
10TH.} TO MIDDLE SCOTLAND YARD.
11TH.} WELLINGTON BOOTS NEW SOLED BY HINLEY .EVENING
TO TEA AT THOS, LOST I/3d AT CARDS.
12TH.} AFTERNOON TO QUADRANT.
15TH.} SUNDAY ,TO SCOTCH CHURCH,REGENTS SQUARE TO
HEAR REV.MR. IRVING PREACH .CHARLES EDWARDS DINED AT OURS.EVENING WITH HIM TO
FLEET STREET.
18TH.} TO LOMBARD STREET TO BANK OF ENGLAND FOR A
POST BILL,CALLED AT DIXON AND CHANCERY LANE.EVENING TO REYNOLDS HAD GREAT COAT
ALTERED 2/6d.
19TH.} EVENING TO HALLS WITH HIM TO CASTLE
STREET.MET THOS AT ANGLE INN THEN WITH HIM TO JOHN STREET EXPLORING COURTS.
22ND.} SUNDAY.TO ST.JAMES PARK,THEN ST. JAMES
CHURCH,AFTERNOON WITH FATHER TO PARK SAW THE NEW GARDENWALL BUILDING IN ST.
JAMES PARK.EVENING TO BROADWAY WEST.
26TH.} EVENING TO THOS HOME BY COVENTRY STREET
BOUGHT PAIR OF GREEN KID GLOVES 1/6d.
29TH.} SUNDAY,MET CHARLES ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND
WALKED WITH HIN TO GREENWICH .EVENING WE WALKED TO DEPTFORD ,THEN RODE TO
CHARING CROSS.1/-.
31ST.} WENT TO FETCH £100 FOR CAP.? FAIRLIE TOOK IT
TO LODGE PLACE BUT NO ONE AT HOME.WENT TO OPTICIANS SALE CITY ROAD BOUGHT
THERMOMETER AND POOL GLASS.4/- PAIR.
FEB.
1ST.} WENT TO CAP. FAIRLIE'S LODGE PLACE TO TAKE
£100 AND RECEIVED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF IT FROM MRS.FAIRLIE.
7TH.} TO ST. ANNE'S CHURCH HERD REV. HUGH
McNEIL.BIRDS WITH THOS TO TURNERS HOME,WENT TO CHAPEL STREET TO MR.PAULS FOR
FATHER AND MOTHER.
14TH.} VALENTINES DAY.
16TH.} WENT 7 O'CLOCK MORNING TO SOUTH AUDLEY STREET
2 HOUSES BURNT.
22ND.} TO OLYMPIC THEATRE AND SAW HE'S NOT A MISS
AND OLYMPIC DEVIL'S PIT 1/-.
23RD.} LEFT MY WATCH AT GRANTS HAYMARKET TO
RANSOMS.EVENING TO MR. PAULS,LOST 1/- AT CARDS.
24TH.} QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY MR. AND MRS. PAUL CALLED
WENT WITH THEM TO PALACE EVENING TO SEE
ILLUMINATIONS ,DENSE FOG.HOME WITH MR. PAUL.
27TH.} TO MR. PAULS LOST 2/- AT CARDS.
29TH.} TO GRANTS FOR MY WATCH CLEANING.3/-.
3RD.} TO ALDERSGATE TO BOOK COACH FOR CHESTER.
DIARY
NO.13.
TOUR LIVERPOOL MARCH 6TH. TO APRIL 1832.
TUESDAY MARCH 6TH. STARTED
AT 9 0'CLOCK BY BIRMINGHAM WAGGON ARRIVED
AT UXBRIDGE 5 O'CLOCK IN THE
MORNING.PASSED 18 MILES STONE 6 O'CLOCK
SHARP
7TH.} FROST. ARRIVED AT BEACONSFIELD 8 0'CLOCK 23 MILES .BREAKFASTED
AT CROSS KEYS .COACH WEIGHS
24 CWT. AT HIGH WYCOMBE 11 O'CLOCK,WEST
WYCOMBE
AT 1/2 PAST 12 ,NO RAIN,
STOKENCHURCH? 4 O'CLOCK, HAD TEA THERE.HEAVY
SNOW AND HAIL STONES.
MARCH 8TH.SPLENDID VIEW CAN
SEE FROM HERE 30 MILES. LEFT OXFORD 1 O'CLOCK
IN MORNING WENT TO SLEEP.
TURNED OUT AT 1/2 PAST 5,TREMENDOUS HIGH HILL,
OBLIGED TO UNTIE THE COACH
TO ENABLE THEM TO GET UP ENSTONE.70 MILES
VERY HARD FROST.HAD
BREAKFAST AT ENSTONE.ARRIVED AT CHAPEL PLACE 1/2
PAST 11,
STOPT TILL 1,FOUND I HAD
LOST A £5 NOTE (WORCESTERSHIRE.) STRATFORD
ON AVON 11 O'CLOCK ,SHIPSTOW 7 O'CLOCK -A VERY PRETTY
TOWN- STOPPED
OVER A GOOD FIRE 1 HOUR.TO
SHIRLEY AT 9 O'CLOCKIN MORNING.
9TH.} ARRIVED AT BIRMINGHAM 12 O'CLOCK TOOK A WALK
UP NEW STREET SAW
THEATRE,TO BROMSGROVE
STREET HAD DINNER AFTERNOON WALKED INTO THE
TOWN DOWN SNOW HILL SAW
CANAL IRON FOUNDRY'S AND I PLINDIE?? SHOPS OF
HATTERS GROCERS 52
CANNISTERS AND SILVERSMITHS LOTION 11??4 1/2 ??
HAD TEA AND WENT TO BED.
10TH.} SATURDAY 9 O'CLOCK HAD BRAKFAST .COALS 14s
PER TON. WENT AND
SAW FACTORIES AND STEAM
ENGINES -HAD DINNER, AFTERNOON TO FACTORY SAW
POLISHING
COMBS,MAKING THIMBLES
-GIMBLETT NEEDLES -TROWEL PINCERS, AND SAW IRON
FACTORY MET WAGGONERS ,TO
GIN SHOP COME TO QUARTERS, HAD TEA
STARTED
FOR CHESTER AT 12 O'CLOCK
.ARRIVED AT WALSALL 4 O'CLOCK .STOPPED 1 1/4
HOUR.
122 MILES FROM LONDON.14
FROM STAFFORD 1/4 TO 7.
11TH.} SUNDAY MORNING ARRIVED AT CANNOCK 1/4 BEFORE
9 LARGE TOWN ,9
MILES FROM STAFFORD.HAD MY
BREAKFAST AT HUNTINGDON STAFFORDSHIRE 10
O'CLOCK
TRIMPERY ? LITTLE VILLAGE
1/2 MILE OUT OF TOWN IS A MOST SPLENDID VIEW
,AND IN THE FRONT IS TO BE
SEEN STAFFORD CASTLE AN IMMENSE SIZE ,BEEN
UNINHABITTED LAST 100 YEARS.
ARRIVED AT STAFFORD AT 1 O C'LOCK .CORKER
WATCH MAKER CURIOUS OLD
CHURCH HOUSES ARE SOME OF TMEM MODERN AND SOME
VERY OLD ????? THE SINGERS OF THE ALPS GIVE CONCERTS
HERE .DINED AT
THE BARLEY MOW.ARRIVED AT
STONE 1/4 TO 6 -NEAR HERE IS THE MARQUIS OF
STAFFORDS ,ANY TRAVELLERS
CALLING WILL RECEIVE 1 Lbs OF BREAD AND A
PINT OF BEER.150 RELIEVED
BEFORE 10 O'CLOCK FREQUENTLY. ARRIVED AT NEWCASTLE
UNDER LINE 10 O'CLOCK,VERY
POORLY SLEPT AT THE KINGS HEAD INN .
12TH.} TOOK A WALK THROUGH THE TOWN- 46 MILES FROM
BIRMINGHAM HAD MY
BREAKFAST STARTED 1/2 PAST
NINE -NEWCASTLE CHURCH SQUARE TOWER, STREETS
ARE IN SOME PLACES PAVED
WITH HARD BRICK LIKE IRON- VERY DULL LOWEY
MORNING
TO KEIL 11 O'CLOCK-VERY
PRETTY SQUARE CHURCH .2 LARGE WINDOWS AT THE
END .
ROAD VERY HILLY ,TO WERNE
HILL 1 O'CLOCK VERY STEEP TO BETLEY,NICE LITTLE
TOWN AND 1/4 PAST STOPT 3
ANCHORS HAD DINNER,ARRIVED AT NANTWICH 1/4-5
AND WENT UP THE TOWN TO LOOK
AT CHURCH, VERY OLD HANDSOME GOTHIC CHURCH
WITH
AN OCTAGONAL TOWER, SHAPE OF
A CROSS IN LIKE AN ABBEY.THE CHURCH YARD
OLD BUILDING PAINTED WHITE
AND BLACK DATED 1611.SOME MORE OLD BUILDINGS
DATED 1584 -RIVER RUNS
THROUGH THE TOWN,GOOD BRIDGE,STREETS RATHER NARROW
AND DIRTY, NO PAVEMENTS
-STOPPED 1 HOUR IN THE TOWN AT THE WHITE SWAN
.-TO TARPORLEY 10 O' CLOCK.
13TH.} SLEPT THERE ,STARTED NEXT MORNING 6
O'CLOCK,VERY NICE LITTLE
TOWN 10 MILES FROM
CHESTER-TO TARVERN 1/4 TO 8 ,5 1/2 FROM CHESTER,177
MILES FROM LONDON.THE
FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSES THE SOLID ROCK NEVER
DISTURBED.
ARRIVED AT CHESTER 10
O'CLOCK.LEFT CARRIAGE AT OFFICE WENT UP THE TOWN
TO THE FISH MARKET,SAW
EXCHANGE,OLD BUILDING WITH A STATUTE OF A QUEEN
AND ARMY.UP NORTH GATE ROUND
THE WALLS TO THE EAST GATE,WENT TO HARNESS
MAKER AND MR.BARKER
LAWYER.TO RAVEN HAD DINNER THEN FOR MY PORTMANTEAU
.STARTED BY SHEWSBURY COACH
FOR CARDEN 11 MILES FROM CHESTER.ARRIVED
1/4 PAST 3 SAW STEWARD AT
CARDEN HALL.GOT UP NEXT MORNING HAD BREAKFAST
AT 9 O'CLOCK THEN TOOK A
WALK IN THE PARK,SAW SQUIRE LEAKE.START FOR
HURLING? WITH HARNESS.SPENT
£1-11s-6d LEFT CARDEN 1/4 TO 4 GOT INTO
THE MAIN ROAD 4 O'CLOCK
.WALK ED 2 MILES TO HANDBY,NICE LITTLE TOWN,VERY
SMALL OLD CHURCH ONLY 2
LITTLE COIND--?? EACH SIDE .FROM HERE IS A BEAUTIFUL
VIEW OF WALES THE COUNTIES
OF DENBIGH AND FLINTSHIRE APPEAR A RANGE
OF MOUNTAINS,ON ONE IS A
HIGH CHURCH.ARRIVED AT CHESTER 1/4 TO 7 WENT
TO THE THEATRE ROYAL VERY
PRETTY LITTLE HOUSE.SAW HAVER ALE ? AND LIONS
,GEO.DUCROWS COMPANY .NEXT
MORNING AFTER BREAKFAST WENT PARTLY ROUND
THE WALLS,ON ONE OF THE
TOWERS IS WRITTEN "KING CHARLES STOOD ON THIS
TOWER SEP. 24 1645 AND SAW
HIS ARMY DEFEATED ON ROWTON MOOR". TO SEE
THE NEW BRIDGE OVER THE DEE
WITH ONE ARCH 200 FEET SPAN.THROUGH BARRACKS
TO CASTLE THEN ON TO THE OLD
BRIDGE.THE WATER FOR 1/4 MILE FALLS ABOUT
3 FEET.WENT INTO THE
CATHEDRAL,THE CHOIR IS MOST BEAUTIFUL AND AN OLD
PAINTING AT THE ALTAR,GOOD
ORGAN-VERY OLD,THE TOWER IS NOT VERY HIGH
,SQUARE WITH DOUBLE
WINDOW.WENT DOWN PEPPER STREET TO ST. JOHNS CHURCH.VERY
HIGH SQUARE TOWER.IN THE
CHURCHYARD IS THE REMAINS OF A HERMITS CELL
WHERE HAROLD ENDED HIS
DAYS.ALL IN RUINS,CAME TO QUARTERS HAD DINNER
.AFTERNOON WENT TO THE
RACECOURSE,EVENING TO THE PAVILLION SAW MILLER
AND HIS MEN, AND WAYS OF
WINDSOR.
16TH.} STARTED BY THE LIVERPOOL COACH TO BIRKENHEAD
THEN IN STEAM PACKET
ACROSS THE MERSEY,THE WHOLE
DISTANCE 2/6 18 MILES.LEFT CHESTER 8 O'CLOCK
ARRIVED AT 1/2 PAST 10 -TOOK
MY PORTMANTEAU TO ROBINSONS GLOBE COOK
STREET .TOOK A WALK TO THE
EXCHANGE.IN THE YARD IS A GRAND STATUTE OF
NELSON.CAME HOME HAD
DINNER THEN WENT TO CEMETRY ST. JOHNS
AND TO SEE
THE TRAIN OF STEAM CARRIAGES
START FOR MANCHESTER WITH MAIL .WENT AND
HAD TEA,EVENING
TO DUCROWS CIRCUS VERY PRETTY
THEATRE SAW ROBERT THE DEVIL-HORSERIDING
AND BEGGARS OF TOULOUSE
,HOUSE NEARLY EMPTY
17TH.} SATURDAY,ST. PATRICKS DAY .SAW CHILDREN START
TO LAY FOUNDATION
OF THE NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH
,THEN TO VIEW THE DOCKS,SAW SAW SHIP COME
IN ,VERY HIGH WIND N.W. STEAM
PACKETS ALL IN ONE DOCK .IN AFTERNOON
TO SEE RAILWAY EOF ?
TO SANS PAREL SAW MAID OF
GENOA AND THE BRIGAND
18TH.} SUNDAY TO DALE STREET AND 1/2 PAST 7 OMNIBUS
TOOK ME TO COMMENCEMENT
OF RAILWAY.STARTED AT 8
O'CLOCK ARRIVED AT MANCHESTER 25 MINUTES TO
10 -32 MILES - WENT TO
CHESHIRE TAVERN HAD BREAKFAST THEN TO
EXPLORE THE TOWN . WENT UP
PICCADILLY OVER THE BRIDGE TO SALFORD ALL
ROUND THE TOWN .SAW
BEAUTIFUL NEW GOTHIC CHURCH,HAD DINNER THEN TO SEE
INFIRMARY. MET A MAN WHO
CONDUCTED ME THE WAY TO THE IMMENSE PRISON.SAW
THE INSIDE OF THE COLLEGIATE
CHURCH ST. JOHNS A VERY NICE GRAND OLD
BUILDINGWITH SQUARE TOWER
AND BEAUTIFUL RING OF BELLS. SAW THE GATES
OF THE COLLEGE AND CLOSE BY
IS THE UNION OF THE TWO RIVERS,IRK AND IRWELL
?((RAIN FROM 11 TO 4)))
HERE ARE IMMENSE COTTON
FACTORYS,FIRE PROOF 7 STORIES HIGH AND NEARLY
ALL WINDOWS.ON THE WALLS OF
THE PRISON ARE PLACES NEWLY BUILT FOR MEN
TO FIRE FROM. THE CANAL
CROSSES THE ROAD AND THE CARRIAGE WAY IS UNDER
AN ARCH BENEATH IT .THE
STREETS ARE IN GENERAL ,GOOD AND WELL PAVED
-LARGE THEATRE MR. CORKILL
LIVES HERE .EVENING TOOK A WALK UP PICCADILLY
TO CHAPEL .
19TH.} WENT ROUND TOWN AND CALLED AT THE NEWSPAPER
OFFICE BROUGHT A
PAPER- TO POST OFFICE IN
EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, TO QUARTERS THEN BY THE
RAILWAY COACH TO
MACCLESFIELD STARTED 12 O'CLOCK. THE
SCENERY ON THE
ROAD IS VERY PRETTY ,VERY
HILLY,ARRIVED AT MACCLESFIELD AT 1/2 PAST
2. IN
MACCLESFIELD CHURCH IS A PLATE -ON IT IS WRITTEN "HERE LIES
THE BODY OF PERKINS A LEIGH
THAT FOR KING RICHARD THE DEATH DID DIE
THE BONES OF SIR PEERS HIS
SONNE THAT WITH KING HENRY THE FIFTH DID
WORNE IN PARIS .THIS PERKINS
SERVED KING EDWARD 3rd. AND THE BLACK PRINCE
HIS SONNE, IN ALL THE WARRES
IN FRANCE AND WAS AT THE BATTLE OF CRESSIE
AND HAD LYME? GIVEN HIM FOR
THAT SERVICE. SERVED KING RICHARD 2nd.AND
LEFT HIM NOT IN HIS TROUBLES
BUT WAS TAKEN WITH HIM AND BEHEADED AT
CHESTER BY HENRY 4th.-THE
SAID SIR PETER HIS SONNE SERVED HENRY 5th.
AND WAS SLAIN AT THE BATTLE
OF AGINCOURT.FIXED ON THIS PLACE ANNO DOMINI
1620"
ALSO AN OLD PLATE IN ONE OF
THE CHAPELS GIVING "26,000 YEARS AND 26
DAYS PARDON FOR SAYING 5
PATERNOSTERS AND 5 AIVES ".THERE ARE TWO CHAPELS
INDEPENDANT OF THE HANDSOME
CHURCH WITH STAINED GLASS WINDOW OF THE
5 SAINTS AND OUR SAVIOUR,
CONTAINING SOME VERY BEAUTIFUL OLD FULL LENGTH
MONUMENTS OF NOBILITY ALSO
SOME REMNANTS OF ARMOURY,HELMETS, GLOVES.THE
TOWN IS SITUATED ON A HILL
-STREETS ARE LIGHTED WITH GAS- HAD TEA AT
THE UNICORN. STARTED BY
TELEGRAPH COACH FOR DERBY AT 1/2 PAST 9 IN THE
EVENING,FARE 10/-, VERY
FIRM UNTILL WE ARRIVED AT LEEK 10 MINS
PAST
11 WHICH I SAW BY THE
ILLUMINATED CLOCK,THEN IT BEGAN TO RAIN TILL WE
ARRIVED AT DERBY 2 O'CLOCK
IN THE MORNING. I LEFT AT MR. MASON'S NAG'S
HEAD.IN THE MORNING WENT AND
TOOK A SURVEY OF THE TOWN , SAW THE THREE
CHURCHES STANDING VERY
LITTLE DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER (ALL SAINTS 178
ERECTED 2nd.OF MAY ??) ONE
OF WHICH IS THE COLLEGIATE ITS A VERY BEAUTIFUL
GOTHIC STRUCTURE.AFTERNOON
TO QUARTERS.HEARD THE DERBY GLEE SINGERS
-THE RIVER DERWENT RUNS
THROUGH HERE AND HAS A BEAUTIFUL BRIDGE OF THREE
ARCHER OVER IT .STARTED AT
1/4 PAST 7 BY THE PEVERIL OF THE PARK FOR
LEICESTER, FINE NIGHT
,THROUGH LOUGHBOROUGH LARGE TOWN ,ARRIVED AT LEICESTER
1/4 PAST 10 ON WEDNESDAY THE
21ST. DAY OF MARCH. I WENT AND SAW THE
TWO JUDGES GO IN THE
SHERIFF'S COACH TO CHURCH .PAST DAY APPOINTED BY
GOVERNMENT??????.I
REMAINED IN THE CHURCH
DURING THE SERVICE THEN WENT TO THE ALTAR AND
I SAW
THE PAINTING AND TOMB STONE
DATED 1608 .THE STEEPLEIS VERY MUCH LIKE
NORWICH CATHEDRAL.I WENT
WITH THE JUDGES TO THE HOTEL AND TOOK A WALK
THEN TO DINNER FOR I FOUND I
COULD NOT FAST.WENT AND SAW VERY OLD CHURCH
5 BELLS THEN TO ST.
MARGARET'S CHURCH, A VERY NOBLE STRUCTURE,THEN TO
ST. GEORGES A VERY HANDSOME
NEW GOTHIC CHURCH, THE SPIRE VERY MUCH LIKE
THE ONE FIRST MENTIONED IN
LEICESTER. HERE IS ALSO A ROMAN MILE STONE
WITH CROSS ON THE TOP FOUND
IN THE OLD ROMAN TOPS? ROAD OF THE REIGN
OF CAESAR HADRAIN.
THE TOWN JAIL IS ALSO TO BE
SOLD, NOT THAT CRIME IS STOPPED BUT THAT
THERE IS A VERY HANDSOME NEW
ONE ERECTED. THE SPACIOUS MARKET PLACE
GROSVENOR STREET ,A DIRTY
STREET,AND DEN OF BLACKGUARDS.OXFORD STREET
A WIDE STREET BUT THE
INHABITANTS ARE CHIEFLY POOR STOCKING WEAVERS.CALLED
AT THE LEICESTER HERALD
OFFICE AND BROUGHT PAPER,THEN TO POST OFFICE.THE
INN I WAS STOPPING AT WAS
THE HORSE AND GROOM . JAS BELL HUMBERSTONE
GATE.??
HAD AN AGREEABLE COMPANION
IN THE EVENING,TOOK MY GLASS AND WENT TO
BED.
22ND.} MORNING AFTER BREAKFAST TOOK A WALK ROUND THE
TOWN -STARTED
AT 1/2 PAST 9 FROM STAGG AND
PHEASANT BY TIMES COACH PASSED THROUGH
MARKET HARBOROUGH VERY
PRETTY TOWN AND HANDSOME CHURCH.ARRIVED AT NORTHAMPTON
10 MINS PAST ONE,FARE 8/-,
HAD DINNER WENT OUT AND I SAW ALL SAINT'S
CHURCH
VERY GOOD ILLUMINATED CLOCK
AND GRAVESTONE TO THE MEMORY OF A MAN 126
YEARS
OLD,HE HAD HIS
HEARING,SIGHT,MEMORY TO THE LAST,HE LIVED IN THREE CENTURIES
AND DIED 1706. WENT TO A
WELL NAMED THOMAS a BECKETT -HERE IS A HOUSE
DATED 1595 WITH MR.LEWIS'S
WITCH MOTTO. OVER THE PORTICO OF ALL SAINT'S
CHURCH IS A STATUTE OF
CHARLES 2ND.AND UNDER IS WRITTEN-THIS STATUTE
PLACED HERE IN MEMORY OF
CHARLES 2 WHO GAVE 1,000 TONS OF TIMBER FOR
THE REBUILDING IT AND TO THE
TOWN 7 YEARS CHIMNEY MONEY COLLECTED IN
IT- HERE IS A CUSTOM OF THE
CORPORATION LENDING ON GOOD SECURITY TO
YOUNG MEN 100 FOR 9 YEARS
WITHOUT INTEREST. IN ONE OF THE CHURCH YARDS
ARE TWO TOMBSTONES IN MEMORY
OF TWO WOMEN NAMED MIKETABEL AND HEPHZEBAH?.
RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE TOWN WITH A GOOD BRIDGE
OVER IT,HERE ARE VERY
FEW PUBLIC HOUSES ,THE
STREETS AND HOUSES ARE VERY CLEAN AND BUILT WITH
A NEW SORT OF STONE,THE TOWN
LIGHTED WITH GAS STARTED 9 O'CLOCK IN THE
MORNING BY COACH,PASSED
QUEENS CROSS AS VERYT OLD HANDSOME PIECE OF
STONE WORK ERECTED BY EDWARD
1 TO THE MEMORY OF HIS QUEEN
ELEANOR.THROUGH NEWPORT
PAGNAL WOBURN 42 MILES.DUNSTABLE,MARKET STREET.AND
ST ALBANS SAW THE OLD ABBEY
,BARNETT AND ARRIVED AT TOLINGTON 5 O'CLOCK
CAME IN OMNIBUS TO
PORTLAND. (FRIDAY. ))))PLACE ,HOME AT 1/2 PAST
5 .
24TH.} TO NEW KENT ROAD AND TOOLEY STREET,SAW THEM
DEMOLISHING THE
OLD
LONDON BRIDGE.
25TH.} SUNDAY ST. JAMES.
26TH.} TO HANCES THE HATTER.
28TH.} TO THREADNEEDLE STREET .THE BANK OF ENGLAND
TO INFORM THEM
ABOUT THE LOSS OF MY £5 NOTE
DATED DEC. 31ST.1831 NO.5207 AND SIGNED
A.JACKSON.
29TH.} TO MR. PAUL FOR MY LITERARY SOUVENIR.
DIARY NO. 14.
SEVEN
OAKS TRIP . APRIL 8TH.1832
8TH.} SUNDAY,WITH JAMES TO MILLBANK TO SEE
HOSPITAL SHIP NAMED THE CHANLECLEER JUST MOORED .EVENING TO THOS.
9TH.} TO HERRIES,WENT INTO THE NEW CROCKFORD
BAZAAR ST. JAMES STREET NOT YET FINISHED -TO ST.PAULS HEARD PART OF THE
SERVICE-THEN TO FOSTER AND PAWGON? CLEMENTS LANE .CALLED AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND
WENT TO ACCOUNTANTS OFFICE AND FOUND MY NOTE THAT I LOS
T HAD BEEN PAID AT DURY LANE
-MERSCEYS.
HAD TEA AT THOS. ALEX TAYLOR
CALLED AT OURS.
10TH.} TO BANK OF ENGLAND AND WAS INFORMED MY £5
NOTE WAS PAID THEM BY MESSR. WILLIAMS & CO. BANKERS. I WENT DIRECTLY TO
BIRCHIN LANE AND WAS ASKED TO CALL FOR PARTICULARS NEXT MORNING .MR. AND MRS.
PAUL AT OURS WENT HOME WITH THEM.
11TH.} WITH FATHER TO THE DELPHI THEATRE HERD YATES
VIEWS OF HIMSELF AND OTHERS -LIVING PICTURES MASTER HUGHES ON THE PARK.
12TH.} TO GRANTS HAYMARKET,TO SALE IN LEICESTER
STREET.
14TH.} THE REFORM BILL WAS READ A SECOND TIME
DIVIDED AT 7 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING ,A MAJORITY OF 9
15TH.} SUNDAY ST. JAMES, AFTERNOON TO PARK WITH
FATHER ,KING STREET CHAPEL THEN TO SEE MR. PAUL.
16TH.} WITH MR. J. HALL TO BUY CHILDS CHAISE MET
JAMES AT THOS THOR CAME HOME WITH US AND WE GOT RATHER LUMPEY
17TH.} EVENING TO TOOLEY ST.WENT OVER WATERLOO
BRIDGE AND RETURNED BY THE NEW LONDON
BRIDGE ,SAW THEM DEMOLISHING THE OLD ONE.
18TH.} TO WELLS STREET AND BROUGHT NEW IRON FENDER.
19/-
19TH.} TO PICADILLY WITH GENL:DYEE BRISTKAS?
20TH.} GOOD FRIDAY, AFTER TEA WENT TO THOS.RAIN IN
THE MORNING.
22ND.} EASTER SUNDAY ,ST. JAMES AFTERNOON,ROUND
REGENTS PARK WITH FATHER AND MR. PAUL EVENING TOOK A WALK WITH MRS. PAUL TO ST.
JAMES PARK.
23RD.} EASTER MONDAY- FINE WARM DAY.
27TH.} TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW MACBETH BY MRS. YOUNG LADY MACBETH.
MISS FANNY KIMBLES AND THE
EASTER PIECE CALLED THE TARTAR WITCH AND THE PEDLER BAY MISS POOLE 2/-
28TH.} HERRIES AND WENT AND SAW CROCKFORDS NEW
BAZAAR ST.JAMES STREET .MR. PAUL LEFT OURS FOR CAMBRIDGE .EVENING TO THOS.
29TH.} SUNDAY I WENT WITH MRS.PAUL TO WESTMINSTER
ABBEY THEN TO ST.MARTINS CHURCH .THOS CALLED IN THE AFTERNOON AND WITH HIM TO
HYDE PARK.MRS. PAUL AND I WENT TO MARY LEBONE CHURCH.
MAY 2 ST.} MR. PAUL RETURNED FROM CAMBRIDGE.
6TH.} SUNDAY, TO PALACE YARD TO SEE THE STATUTE OF
CANNING PLACED THERE ON THE ??I BELIEVE. TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY, ST. MARGARETS
CHURCH,THEN TO ST. JOHNS WESTMINSTER TO HEAR THE BISHOP OF LITCHFIELD AND
COVENTRY.AFTERNOON TOOK A WALK WITH FATHER INTO HY
DE PARK.EVENING WITH MR. AND
MRS. PAUL .TO KINGS STREET CHAPEL THEN I WENT TO ST.GILES CHURCH MET THOS AND
SUSAN AND WENT HOME WITH THEM.
7TH.} WENT WITH THOS TO THE NEW STRAND THEATRE SAW
THE BEGGARS OPERA-THE BEE HIVE AND AND LONG TINN? PIT.
9TH.} WEDNESDAY.EARL GREY BROUGHAM AND MINISTERS
RESIGNED. EVENING TO THOS.
10TH.} TO COVENTRY STREET MERSCEYS TO THOS MET
CHARLES AND WWITH HIM TO FETCH THOS (2 YEARS.)?
11TH.} TO ST. JAMES PARK WITH THE EXPECTATION OF
SEEING THE KING BUT DID NOT . TO LISLE STREET.
12TH.} HERRIES AND TO CROCKFORDS BAZAAR.
13TH.} SUNDAY.ST. JAMES .EVENING DOWN OXFORD STREET,
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD AND TO MR. PAUL IN NORFOLK STREET.
14TH.} MONDAY. STARTED FOR SEVENOAKS. MET THOS IN
CONDUIT STREET AT 1/2 PAST 4 , WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AT 5 O'CLOCK. LEFT LEWISHAM
AT 7 O'CLOCK AND BROMLEY ,10 MILES, AT 8 O'CLOCK .STOPPED AT THE ROSE AND CROWN
, HAD BREAKFAST ,LAND LADY VERY BAD TEMPERED
.FARNBOROUGH AT 10 O'CLOCK
.STOPPED AT THE OLD QUEENS HEAD GREENSTREET GREEN 1/2 PAST 11 TO PROSPECT
PLACE.
MADSONS COURT HILL 20 MILES
1/2 PAST 12 ,RIVERHEAD 1/2 PAST 1 O'CLOCK,ARRIVED AT SEVENOAKS AT 2 O'CLOCK.
14TH.} TOOK A WALK IN KNOLE PARK MEASURED OLD OAK 28
FT. IN CIRCUMFERENCE WENT AND ENGAGED BED AT THE ROYAL OAK INN.
15TH.} GOT UP 9 O'CLOCK ,WENT AND HAD BREAKFAST,TOOK
A WALK TO THE
COMMON.HAD A VIEW OF THE
WEALD OF KENT.HAD DINNER AND TOOK A WALK IN THE AFTERNOON.HAD TEA STARTEDFOR
TUNBRIDGE WELLS 1/4 PAST 5.WENT INTO SEVEN OAKS CHURCH ,VERY NEAT HANDSOME
MONUMENT OF THE EARL OF WHITWORTH ,GOOD LOOKING ORGAN .ARRIVED AT TUNBRIDGE 1
/4 PAST 7 -6 MILES FROM
SEVENOAKS STOPPED AT THE HALF MOON ON THE ROAD .ARRIVED AT THE WELLS 9
O'CLOCK,WENT TO THE CASTLE HOTEL HAD SUPPER ,SLEPT THERE.
(THROUGH SOUTHBOROUGH 33
MILES)
16TH.} TO THE SPRING AND PARADE,WALK ON THE
COMMON.HOTEL TO BREAKFAST THEN TO SEE THE BEAUTIFUL NEW CHURCH.TOOK A RAMBLE
THROUGH THE FIELDS WENT
THROUGH THE TOWN AND ACROSS
THE COMMON TO THE HIGH ROCKS.HAD DINNER AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE ,PAID 6d AND
WENT AND VIEWED THE HIGH ROCKS,THE DRIPPING ROCK -THE BELL ROCK WHICH UPON
STRIKING IT WITH A STICK RESOUNDED LIKE A BELL -THEN TO RUST? HALL COMMON
SAW THE ROCKS AND AMONGST THEM THE TOAD
ROCK.TO RED LION SOUTH GREEN,HAD
TEA,POOR STUFF ,STINKING BUTTER BAD BREAD RATHER DOWDY LAND LADY.THEN TO VIEW
THE DEVIL'S DRAWING ROOM ROCKS.50 FT. HIGH. TO KENTISH HOTEL THEN TO THE CASTLE
HOTEL TO BED
17TH.} STARTED FROM THE WELLS 1/4 TO 10 ,TO
TUNBRIDGE 1/4 TO 11,STOPPED ,AT PUBLIC HOUSE
ON THE ROAD .HAD ALE AND CAKES .PASSED THE SEVEN OAKS ON THE COMMON FROM
WHICH THE TOWN DERIVED ITS NAME.ARRIVED AT SEVEN OAKS CHURCH 1/2 PAST 1 -LEFT
SEVENOAKS 1/
4 TO 3 -ARRIVED IN BOND
STREET 11 O'CLOCK.
20TH.} SUNDAY WITH FATHER.IN CAB TO ST. KATHARINES
DOCK .WENT ON BOARD THE DART STEAMER TO NORTFLEET THEN TO GRAVESEND AND TO
DINNER .STARTED FROM NORTHFLEET AT 25 MINS TO 5,ARRIVED AT LONDON AT 25 MINS TO
8 -3 HRS RETURNING -2 1/2 HRS GOING -FARE 2/- .
RODE TO BOND STREET ON
SHILLIBEERS
OMNIBUS FROM BOW CHURCH FOR
-/6d !!!!!
26TH.} HERRIES THEN WITH 2 CARRIAGES OF MR.RAMSAY'S
TO SHIP ON BOARD THE UNITED KINGDOM LYING OFF THE HARDE ?? GREEWICH.STARTED AT
4 O'CLOCK,WENT AND SAW SOPHIA AND LUCY EDWARDS LEFT GREENWICH AT 1/4 PAST 9
ARRIVING IN TOWN AT 1/4 PAST 10.
27TH.} SUNDAY .WALKED TO HOLBORN,THEN FATHER AND
I TOOK A CAB AND RODE TO ST.KATHARINES ,WENT ON BOARD THE
VENUS STEAM PACKET FOR GRAVESEND 9 O'CLOCK, 3 HRS GOING -TO DINNER AT GRAVESEND
,TOOK A WALK UP WINDMILL HILL THEN
THROUGH GRAVESEND TOWN TO NO
RTHFLEET. --?? OVERTOOK
US,CAME HOME ON THE ROSE PACKET .3 HRS .RODE IN OMNIBUS TO END OF HOLBORN TO
THOS AND WITH HIM TO WEST MINSTER BRIDGE
DIARY NO. 15.
MAY 28TH. TO
JULY 1ST.
MAY.
28TH.} HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY WENT TO PALACE TO SEE THE COMPANY ARRIVE AT
THE DRAWING ROOM .TO MOTHER'S AND SPRIGG'S HOME BY REGENTS STREET .MR. AND MRS.
PAUL HAD TEA WITH US .EVENING TOGRANTS TO TAKE MY WATCH BUT DID NOT LEAVE
IT.SAW ILLUMINATIONS.
30TH.} TO COVENT GARDEN MR. YOUNG'S FAREWELL BENIFIT
.SAW THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET ,HERD FAREWELL ADDRESS -COUNTRY FAIR BY MR. MATTHEWS
.SONG.MR.PARRY,
AND DUET MISS SHERRIFF AND
MISS INVERARILY AFTER WHICH THE LANCE? OF
CRETNA?.EVENING TO THOS.
JUN.
1ST.} TO COVENT GARDEN SAW ONE ACT OF SCHOOL FOR
SCANDAL.DANCES BY ALBERT AND MRS.BEDFORD AND SIGNOR SAMINGO AND MADELE BRUGNOLI
. ONE ACT OF THE ROMANCE OF THE DAY AND THE HUNTING CHOROUS FROM DER
FREISTHERTY SUNG BY THE GERMAN OPERA PERFORMERS FOR TH
E BENIFIT OF MR. ABBOTT.
2ND.} TO HERRIES TO SPRING GARDEN TO FANCY FAIR
FOR THE BENIFIT OF CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL . EVENING TO THOS.
3RD.} SUNDAY STARTED WITH FATHER BY COACH TO
RICHMOND .ARRIVED 1/2 PAST 12 FARE 2/6d .TO THE RIVER SAW STEAM PACKET ARRIVE
-HAD DINNER ,WENT ON THE 'HILL' TO RIVER ,WENT ON BOARD THE STEAM PACKET
ENDEAVOUR STARTED 6 O'CLOCK ARRIVED WESTMINSTER BRIDGE 8
O'CLOCK
FARE -1/6d.
5TH.} TO ST. GILES CHURCH THEN TOOK OMNIBUS AND RODE TO THE BANK,FARE -/6d. TO LLOYDS THE
BANKERS,IN LOSHBURY? WALKED HOME.
7TH.} TO REGENTS STREET MET MR. PAUL ,HOME WITH
ME, THEN I WENT AND HAD TEA AT HIS,AND THEN WE STARTED FOR COVENT GARDEN-SAW
PERFORMANCE OF A DAY -OLD AND YOUNG MISS POOLE? 13 1/2 YEARS OLD ,CONCLUDED
WITH HIS HIGHLAND --
9TH.} SUSAN GONE TO SURREY.
11TH.} WET DAY .EVENING TO QUEBEC STREET,AND TO
WALES BAYSWATER.
12TH.} TO TURNERS AND REYNOLDS,MORNING TO
WESTMINSTER HALL SAW JUDGES ,THEN I WENT TO GREENWICH FAIR SAW THE THIMBLE RIG
,WON 2/-.TO GEORGE STREET HAD TEA THEN TOOK A WALK ON BLACKHEATH THROUGH THE
PARK THEN RODE
HOME.1/6d.
17TH.} SUNDAY AFTERNOON FATHER AND I TOOK A WALK IN
THE PARK.EVENING WENT WITH MOTHER TO ST. GILES CHURCH.
18TH.} ANNIVERSARY OF WATERLOO .TO HYDE PARK SAW
SOLDIERS WENT WITH THEM
TO ST. JAMES,THEN I WENT TO
WESTMINSTER ABBEY HERD SERVICE AND SAW BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.THEN PAID 1/- AND 3
PENCE TO VIEW THE ABBEY .SAW HENRY 7TH
CHAPEL AND HIS TOMB OF SOLID
BRASS WITH BRASS GATES TO CHAPEL ,THEN I SAW QUEEN ELIZABETH'S TOMB AND THE
TABLET IN MEMORY OF THE TWO PRINCES MURDERED
IN THE TOWER,THE TOMBS OF
VARIOUS KINGS,ONE CARVED IN WOOD AND THE HEAD WHICH WAS MADE OF SILVER WAS
STOLEN IN THE REIGN OF HENRY 8.THE CORONATION CHAIRS,
17TH. CONT.
WAX WORK QUEN?
ANN-ELIZABETH-WILLIAM AND MARY-LORD NELSON-DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.WILLIAM PITT'S
MONUMENT COST £6,000 .THEN I WENT TO WESTMINSTER HALL TO THE COURTS,HERD TRIALS
.AFTERNOON TO HERRIES AND LOMBARD STREET.
EVENING TO DEVERRRIHOUSE?
AND CO. FOR FATHER'S WATCH AND MINE, 10/6d.
20TH.} TO HERRIES MR. PAUL THEN OVER WATERLOO BRIDGE
TO TIMBER WHARF, HOME BY WESTMINSTER.EVENING TO THE HAYMARKET M,WITH THOS TO
JOHN STREET HOME WITH HIM.
22ND.} TO ST. GILES CHURCH TOOOK AN OMNIBUS ,RODE TO
CHANCERY LANE TO MR.MURRAY'S LAWYER.
23RD.} FATHER WENT TO MARGATE AND I WENT TO SLOANE
STREET,MR. DRUMMONDS,HERRIES AND WARWICK STREET.
26TH.} KING'S ASCENSION TO THE THRONE .TO HYDE PARK
SAW THE KING COME TO REVIEW THE GRENADERS AND PRESENT THEM WITH A NEW FLAG .SAW
THE KING RETURN.
I SAW THE QUEEN AND ROYAL
FAMILY RETURN IN AN OPEN LANDAU.AFTERNOON WITH RAMSAYS PHAETON TO GREENWICH TO
GO ON BOARD THE UNITED KINGDOM.RODE HOME.
FATHER CAME HOME FROM
MARGATE .SUSAN WENT TO HERNE BAY.
JUL.
1ST.} FATHERAND I STARTED WITH HORSE AND CHAISE
FOR WINDSOR AT 7 O'CLOCK ARRIVED AT BRENTFORD 8 O'CLOCK THROUGH HOUNSLOW
ARRIVED AT BEDFORD
9 O'CLOCK 13 1/4 MILES
STOPPED AT THE BELL WATERED HORSE OVER THE NEW STAINES BRIDGE 10 O'CLOCK 3
ARCHES .ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE HOTEL WINDSOR 11
O'CLOCK.TO CASTLE SAW THE
SOLDIWERS JUST COMING FROM BEING INSPECTED BY THE KING. TO ST. GEORGES CHAPEL
SAW THE KING AND QUEEN WALK CLOSE BY US.THEN TO QUEEN ELIZABETH TERRACE THEN TO
THE INTERIOR OF THE ROYAL CHAPEL .THEN WE SAW THE KING AND QUEEN RETUR
N TO CARRIAGE.EVENING WENT
AND HAD DINNER THEN DOWN THE TOWN TO WINDSOR BRIDGE TO THE CASTLE BY 156
STEPS BESIDES SLOPES
SAW THE INTERIOR NEW BALL
ROOM ST. GEORGES HALL STATE BED ROOM -SILVER TABLES. PAID THE GUIDE 1/- FOR
TWO,WENT AND SAW THE LONG WALK 3 MILES AND EQUESTRIAN STATUTE OF GEORGE THE THIRD
AT THE END .LEFT WINDSOR AT 5 O'CLOCK OVER WINDSOR BRIDGE AT SLOUGH 1/
4 PAST 5 COLNBROOK 1/4 TO 6 ,
HAD TEA 5 MINS PAST 6
,STARTED AGAIN AT 7 O'CLOCK 15 MILES,
REACHED CRANFORD BRIDGE 20 MINS PAST 7,HOUNSLOW 1/4 TO 8 ,BRENTFORD 10 MINS
PAST 8,
ARRIVED IN BOND STREET 1/2
PAST 9.
DIARY. NO. 16.
JULY 3RD. TO AUGUST 22ND.
TOUR TO
NORFOLK
JUL.
3RD.} TUESDAY. STARTED FROM CHARING CROSS BY HOLT
COACH 1/2 PAST 5
ARRIVED AT EPPING 10 MINS PAST
8 O'CLOCK HAD BREAKFAST THERE SAWBRIDGEWORTH
25 MINS PAST 9- 26 MILES THORLEY HOCKERILL 1/4 TO 10
STANSTEAD AND THROUGH A LITTLE TOWN CALLED UGLEY. GRAND FAIR DAY -TO NEWPORT
1/4 TO 11 ,
TO LITTLEBURY 10 MINS PAST
11, CAMBRIDGE 1/2 PAST 12, BARNWELL -NEWMARKET 2 O'CLOCK .HAD DINNER.
MILDENHALL 1/4 PAST 3 ,BRANDON 1/2 PAST 4, WATTON 6 O'CLOCK, SHIPDHAM 1/4 TO 7,
DEREHAM 1/4 TO 8 ,ARRIVED AT SLODY AT 1/4 PAST 9.
4TH.} WENT TO SHARRIHGHAM,GEORGE BAMBRIDGE DROVE
ME TO STODY IN THE EVENING.
5TH.} WENT WITH MR. BAMBRIDGE IN CHAISE B---. SAW
MR. MARIS TO MELTON IWANTON?. HAD DINNER AT MR. FITTSGUNTHORPE TO BALE AND
DAWLING TO MR. BUSH
SHOPPED AT SHARRINGTON.
6TH.} TO BLAKENEY WITH AUNT FITT.
8TH.} TO MARSHES WITH UNCLE FITT TO FETCH
PONY,AFTERNOON IN PONY CHAISE TO GUNTHORPE.
10TH.} RODE WITH AUNT FITT TO HOLT SAW MRS.BROTHILL
.EVENING WITH MARTIN TO THE UNITED ENGLISHMENS UNION.
12TH.} TO PORT OFFICE BRININGHAM SHARRINGTON DINED
AT BALE SLEPT AT SLODY DREADFUL STORM.
13TH.} MR. BAMBRIDGE AND I STARTED FOR CROMER
THROUGH HOLT BY FELBRIGG AND CROMER HALLS DINED AT THE WHITE HORSE ,HOME BY
BRINTONBEESTON SAW THE REMAINS OF AN OLD ABBEY.SHERRINGHAM TO CLIFFS THROUGH
HOLT HOME.
15TH.} SUNDAY WALKED TO SLODY ,RODE WITH MARTIN TO
BLINKLING HALL,THE BIRTHPLACE OF ANN BAYLEAN, FROM THERE TO AYSHAM VERY PRETTY
TOWN HANDSOME
LARGE CHURCH WITH ORGAN
BUILT BY JOHN OF GAUNT.
16TH.} RODE IN THE EVENING TO LADY SUFFIELDS COTTAGE
NEAR SLODY.
18TH.} WITH UNCLE FITT ROUND BY ELY TO THE BEACH
,THE SEA VERY ROUGH ,
WIND NNW.TO THE PILOTS HOUSE
END OF BLAKENEY HARBOUR.
WILLIAM JOHN HALL DIED JULY
22ND.1832.
20TH.} WALKED TO WELLS TO SEE WILLIAM WARNER ON THE
QUAY ,HE WALKED HOME WITH METO WAREHAM BY THE MARSHES .HAD DINNER AT
MR.WARNERS.AFTERNOON TOOK A WALK HAD TEA WITH MRS. WARNER.EVENING WALKED TO
SHARRINGHAM.
23RD.} STARTED FOR SHIPDHAM BREAKFASTED AT DEREHAM .
24TH.} TOOK VARIOUS WALKS
27TH.} FRIDAY. STARTED WITH MR.POND TO NORWICH 1/2
PAST 7 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING,ARRIVED 1/4 PAST 10, LEFT HORSE AND CHAISE TOOK A
WALK TO THE OLD CASTLE,THEN TO THE CATHEDRAL.SAW THE REPAIRS GOING ON .THEN TO
COACH OFFICE,TO RIVER TO DOVE STREET TO DIN
NER.AFTERNOON WE WENT TO THE
RANELAGH GARDENS.STARTED 1/4 PAST 4 THROUGH REYMESRSTON? AND HARDINGHAM
,STOPPED AT BARFORDCOCK,ARRIVED AT SHIPHAM 1/4 TO 7 .EVENIONG TO MR. RUMBLES.
30TH.} TO FARM WITH IBERAH? AND UNCLE STAGG, HOME
WITH HIM.TO TEA AT MRS. HART.
31ST.} TO MR RUMBLE STARTED WITH UNCLE STAGG FOR
NORWICH, ARRIVED AT 7 O'CLOCK I DIRECTLY STARTED FOR THE THEATRE AND SAW LOVE
IN A VILLAGE,SONGS MR. BRAHAM BAY OF BISCAY -WOOING A WIDOW.
AUG.
1ST.} WITH UNCLE TO THE COURT ,THEN I WENT TO THAT
SPLENDID RELIC THE
CATHEDRAL.WORKMEN EMPLOYED
IN REBUILDING A GREAT PART OF IT ,WALKED AROUND THE CLOISTERS.TO THE NORFOLK
HOTEL STARTED UNCLE HAD DINNER .AFTERNOON TOOK A WALK ACROSS THE BRIDGES ,MET A
FARMER FILBY.EVENING TOOK A WALK TO THE RANELAGH GARDENS.WENT TO THE P
LAY ,HALF PRICE SAW THE
SLAVE,CAP. MALCOLM
MR. BRAHAM AND NO SONG NO
SUPPER .FREDERICK AND MR. BRAHAM.
2ND.} STARTED 6 O'CLOCK BY THE PHONOMINA FOR SCOLE
INN, HAD BREAKFAST,20 MILES FROM NORWICH
FARE 5 SHILLINGS. STARTED BY THE
YARMOUTH STAR COACH FOR IPSWICH ARRIVED 1/2 PAST 11 WENT TO THE IPSWICH
ARMS,HAD DINNER TOOK A WALK ROUND THE TOWN.TO QUAY SA
W BRISON,HAD TEA TOOK A WALK
EVENING HERD SINGING.
3RD.} TOOK A WALK HAD MY BREAKFAST.STARTED BY THE
SHARMAN COACH 10 O'CLOCK FOR LONDON 69 MILES.THROUGH COPDOCK
COLCHESTER,CHELMSFORD,INGALISTONE.DINED AT WETHAM-ROMFORD,ILFORD ARRIVED IN
LONDON 6 O'CLOCK .RODE WITH
COACH TO OUR OWN DOOR FARE 14/-.
5TH.} SUNDAY.TO CHARING CROSS HERD RANTERS EVENING
TO BARNPHILIONS? SAW
NARWICH MERCURY .KING STREET
CHAPEL.
6TH.} LEFT MY WATCH AT DIVERREHOUSE? AFTERNOON TO
WATER LANE TO ST. KATHERINES DOCKS SAW STEAMERS ARRIVE AND DEPART.CALLED AT
SUSANS.
10TH.} SUSAN HOME FROM MARGATE ,WITH THOMAS AND
SUSAN TO THE LAWTHER ARCADE SPLENDIDLY LIGHTED UP ,FLAGS WREATHS OF FLOWERS,BANDS
OF MUSIC.MET MR. TURNER THERE.
11TH.} SATURDAY I ARRIVED AT THE COSY TALKED OF AGE
21 ,EVENING SOME
HOUSES AND MANY GIN HOUSES
ILLUMMINATED GENERALLY SUPPORT FOR REFORM .FIREWORKS A LOT.
12TH.} SUNDAY.WALKED WITH FATHER TO TOP OF SNOW
HILL.TOOK CAB RODE TO ST KATHERINES MET THOS AND MR. SHAW.STARTED BY THE HERO
STEAMER FOR GRAVESEND
9 O'CLOCK ARRIVED NORTHFLEET
1/2 PAST 12 ,HAD BAD DINNER ,TO GARDENS TO WINDMILL HILL.BOUGHT SHRIMPS TO THE
AMSTERDAM.WENT HOME BY THE BRILLIANT,CALLED AT THOS FARE 2/-.
13TH.} I HAD SUPPER AT HODGSON WITH
FATHER,MR.SHAW,ALEX TAYLOR,MR.HALL,AND MEN TO THE NUMBERS OF 23 IN THE
CELEBRATION OF MY BIRTHDAY.
14TH.} TO HORSE GUARDS TO THE NEW HUNGERFORD
MARKET,TO COVENT GARDEN.
19TH.} WITH FATHER TO MEET MR.WRIGHT IN HOLBORN TO
GO TO MARGATE
TOGETHER ,CALLED AT THOS ,TO
CHARING CROSS HERD 2 OF IRVINGS MEN ATTEMPT TO PREACH.SUNDAY AFTERNOON TO
HAMPSTEAD TO ORDER DINNER FOR SATURDAY.NEXT MET A YOUNG MAN ON THE ROAD AND I
WALKED WITH HIM TO HIGHGATE THROUGH KENTISH TOWN.LEFT HIM ON THE NEW ROAd
,WENT TO MARYLEBONE CHURCH HOME WITH THOS AND
SUSAN.
20TH.} WENT TO KING STREET FOR MY WATCHKEY.
DIARY NO. 16.
3RD. JULY 1832 TO AUGUST 22ND.
TOUR TO
NORFOLK .
JUL.
3
??
DIARY NO. 17.
AUGUST 25TH.1832 TO
OCTOBER 23RD.
AUG.
25TH.} TO HERRIES MET MR. HALL AND WENT WITH HIM AND
JAMES TO COACH OFFICE.RODE INSIDE COACH TO HAMPSTEAD TO ANNUAL DINNER ,OUR
COMPANY AMOUNTED IN NUMBER TO 24 .WALKED HOME WITH HODGSON,BEACHAM,AND MR.
HALL.MR. PAUL DINED WITH US.
26TH.} SUNDAY EVENING TO MARY LE BONE CHURCH.I CALLED IN WIMPOLE
STREET
FOR THOS.
29TH.} TO TURNERS.
30TH.} EVENING TO ELEX TAYLORS .
31ST.} TO BERKELEY SQUARE.EVENING HALF PRICE TO THE
OLYMPIC THEATRE TO SEE THE CLIMBING BOY AND MONSUER TONSON.MET J HODGSON THERE
PIT 1/-,TO SUPPER AT THE GLOBE BOW STREET.
SEP.
1ST.} HERRIES EVENING TO TURNERS AND THOS.
2ND.} SUNDAY WITH JAMES TO CHARING CROSS TO HEAR
PREACHING ,SAW THE BOY 3 YEARS AFTERNOON WITH FATHER TO HYDE PARK .EVENING TO
PADDINGTON CHAPEL THEN TO ST. MARY LE BONE.
3RD.} TO GLO9VERS ,CALLED AT THOS STARTED MR. SHAW
FOR BALL ,RODE WITH HIM TO FITCHFIELD STREET WALKED HOME.
4TH.} TO LEADENHALL STREET WITH TYRRELLS CHAISE
WENT THROUGH THE FAMED
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR .VERY FINE
DAY (RAIN PRECEDING DAY) HAD TEA AT THE ELEPHANT COFFEE HOUSE HOLBORN.SAW AN
EXHIBITION OF WAX WORK AND 2 MUMMIES IN HOLBORN.
5TH.} EVENING WENT WITH JAMES TO THE FANCY FAIR.
6TH.} TO TAPPS --? TO FELTONS PARK LANE RACKHAMS
AND HALLS LONG ACRE.
7TH.} TO SPRIGGS HOME THEN TO CLEMENTS LANE TO
BLACK GREEK STREET,MET THOMAS BUTLER.
8TH.} HERRIES EVENING TO PAYN'S OLD BOND STREET.
9TH.} SUNDAY MORNING FATHER AND I WALKED TO
FENCHUCH STREET,TOOK A CAB AND RODE TO ST. KATHERINES DOCK,THEN EMBARKED ON
BOARD THE HERO STEAM PACKET FOR NORTHFLEET .STARTED AT 10 MINS PAST 9 ARRIVED
AT 20 MINS PAST 12.VERY SLOW PASSAGE .MR. MASON ON BOA
RD ,WALKED TO GRAVESEND HAD
DINNER THEN TO MILTON STOPPED AT AN INN ON THE ROAD TOOK GLASS,THEN PROCEEDED
TO THE PIER ,THEN WALKED TO NORTHFLEET .CAME HOME BY THE HERO ARRIVED IN LONDON
AT 1/2 PAST 8 AGAINST THE TIDE .FARE 2/-.
10TH.} TO WALLERS OXFORD STREET,THOS CALLED ,HOME
WITH HIM TO TEA THEN TO W. WYBROOS? ,FROM THERE BY JENNINGS THEN TO THE NAGS
HEAD INN.BORO CALLED AT JENNINGS FOR THOS LEFT HIM IN ST. MARTINS LANE.
12TH.} I WENT IN THE EVENING TO SEE ATKINS ROYAL
MENAGERIE PADDINGTON,
LIONS ,TIGERS,LEOPARDS, 2
ELEPHANTS,LARGE AND SMALL,2 VERY FINE LARGE FULL GROWN LIONS I PAID AN ADDITIONAL
-/6d TO SEE THEM FED. ADMISSION -/6d.
16TH.} SUNDAY TO CHARING CROSS ,HERD PREACHER. TO
ST. JAMES CHURCH AFTERNOON TOOK A WALK WITH FATHER TO THE PARTY.EVENING TO KING
STREET,
OXENDEN STREET, ORANGE
STREET ,WEST STREET,LONG ACRE EPISCOPAL CHAPEL AND GRAFTON STREET CHAPELS.
17TH.} TO SEE THOS AT WIMOPOLE STREET,WENT WITH HIM
TO THORNAUGHT STREET ALONG TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD ,LEFT HIM IN COMPTON STREET.
20TH.} EVENING TO THOS AND AUCTION ROOMS.
22ND.} HENRIETTA STREET .HERRIES,EVENING TO THOS
DRURY STREET OPEN THIS EVENING.
23RD.} FATHER AND I STARTED IN TILBURY FOR WINDSOR
ARRIVED 1/2 PAST 10.
PUT HORSE UP AT THE CASTLE
HOTEL,WENT TO THE CASTLE SAW LORD HILL INSPECT THE TROOPS ,THEN TO THE CHAPEL
ROYALE AND SAW THE QUEEN COME IN CARRIAGE.THEN WE WWENT TO THE GREAT PARK AND
WALKED TO THE END OF THE LONG WALK AND SAW THE GRAND EQUESTRIAN STATUE
OF GEORGE THE THIRD IN
BRONZE.
BACK TO THE TOWN HAD DINNER
THEN TO QUEEN ELIZABETH TERRACE AND ROUND THE PRIVATE GARDENS ,SAW THE FOUNTAIN
AND THE STATUES.STARTED 4 O'CLOCK BY DATCHETT BRIDGE ARRIVED 1/4 PAST 8.
26TH.} TO THOS AND WITH HIM TO CONDUIT STREET,MET
CHARLES WENT HOME WITH HIM .CARDS LOST -/6d.
27TH.} TO JONES AUCTION ROOMS.
28TH.} TO STRAND AS FAR AS THE NEW THEATRE ,THOS
THEN CAME TO JONES AUCTION.
30TH.} SUNDAY,TO CHARING CROSS ,HOME TO LUNCH.WENT
TO CHARLES TO DINNER
WITH THOSND SUSAN .EVENING
TOOK A WALK TO REGENTS PARK.
OCT.
4TH.} WITH THOS TO HIS UNION.
5TH.} TO THE HAY MARKET THEATRE SAW THE PLAY OF
NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS.SIR GILES OVERREAY BY MR. KEARN WILBORN.MR.
ELTON.SECOND THOUGHTS AND KILLING NO MURDER BUSKINS MR.BURTON. PIT 3/-.
7TH.} SUNDAY TO WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AFTERNOON TO
TEA AT THOS ,MET MR. AND MRS.RODWAY AND CHAS. DALTON.
6TH.} TO HERRIES TO LOSHBURY.RODE HOME IN AN
OMNIBUS.FARE -/6d.
8TH.} TO MILLS POLAND STREET HOME WITH LITTLE
EDWARD HALL-MR. HALL VERY ILL.
9TH.} TO LUBBOCKS BOUGHTSILK HANDKERCHIEF IN
HOLBORN.EVENING TO TRY TO SELL MY SILVER GUARD.
10TH.} RODE IN OMNIBUS TO LUBBOCKS-/6d HOME BY
HERRIES .FIRE AT --- RICKETTS FEATHER MAN. OXFORD STREET SOLD MY SILVER GUARD
CHAIN -/4d.BOUGHT QUEEN ANNES SHILLING.
11TH.} MR. TATLOR DIED AT BATTERSEA THIS DAY
.EVENING TO THOS.
12TH.} ALEX TAYLOR CALLED AND DINED WITH US.
13TH.} TO REGENTS CIRCUS AND TOOK A WALK TO BIRD
CAGE WALK BEFORE MY BREAKFAST TO HERRIES, EVENING TO THOS AND WITH HIM TO
LEICESTER SQUARE.
14TH.} SUNDAY FATHER AND I STARTED FOR GRAVESEND BY
THE ECLIPSE STEAMER
9 O'CLOCK ARRIVED AT
NORTHFLEET AT 1/2 PAST 11 ,TO GRAVESEND FOR DINNER TOOK A WALK PAST MILTON CHURCH WALKED BY THE
GREAT ROAD TO NORTHFLEET.
STARTED 1/2 PAST 3 ARRIVED
IN LOMDON 6 O'CLOCK.WALKED TO THE BANK RODE HOME
IN OMNIBUS ,HAD TEA THEN I
WENT TO THOS MET MR. AND MRS. JENNINGS
AND W WYBROO ,THOS AND MR. SHAW CAME PART OF THE WAY HOME WITH ME.
15TH.} RECEIVED LETTER FROM MR. SPAIN AT
LIVERPOOL.EVENING WENT AND SAW MR. SPAIN.
20TH.} TO PANTECHNICON HERRIES .EVENING TO THOS NEW
BOOTS TOOK LETTER TO VERE STREET
21ST.} SUNDAY TO ST. JAMES PARK.AFTERNOON FATHER AND
I WALKED ROUND THE REGENTS PARK.EVENING MADE AN ATTEMPT TO HEAR MR. IRVING IN
HIS NEW CHAPEL (IT BEING THE SECOND SUNDAY OF IT BEING OPENED ) BUT COULD NOT
GET IN.TO
PEREY? CHAPEL,THEN TO JOHN
STREETMET THOS AND WITH HIM TO TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD CHAPEL.
22ND.} TO BAXTER AND PEARCE.BIRDS WITH DALTON TO
OXFORD STREET WAITED ALL THE AFTERNOON CAME HOME HAD TEA,JAS. AND I STARTED
OVER WATERLOO BRIDGE TO THE COBOIY THEATRE SAW MARTHA WILLIS JACK SHEPHERD
MARQUEIN MEMORY OF SIR WALTER SCOTT AND WRAITH OF THE
LAKE ,PIT HOME BY WATERLOO.
23RD.} RODE IN OMNIBUS TO LOMBARD STREET WENT INTO
ST.PAULS,TO HERRIES.
NOTE : NEARLY THE END OF THE
YEAR 1832 BUT REFER TO THE NEXT BOOK FOR
CHRISTMAS.
DIARY
NO. 18.
OCTOBER 24TH.1832
TO DECEMBER 31ST. 1832.
OCT.
24TH.} WEDNESDAY.TO THE NEW STRAND THEATRE HALF
PRICE .SAW FEMALE CAVILEERS .HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS AND THE WATERMAN. PIT 1/-.
25TH.} EVENING TO BIRDS TURNERS.
27TH.} TO HERRIES TO HALLS.
28TH.} SUNDAY. FATHER AND I AND MR. THOMAS CALLED
MR. BROUGH AND WALKED TO ST. KATHERINES AND WENT BY THE HAWK STEAM PACKET TO NORTHFLEET .3 HOURS GOING .WALKED TO
GRAVESEND HAD DINNER ,THEN TO WINDMILL HILL.MILTON CHURCH,BACK BY THE GREAT
ROAD THROUGH
GRAVESEND ,RAIN, TO NORTHFLEET CAME HOME BY THE "FLY".STARTED 20
MINS PAST 3 -ARRIVED 20 MINS PAST 7.WALKED TO THE BANK ,TOOK OMNIBUS AND RODE
TO THE END OF BOND STREET FOR -/6d. "PRODIGIOUS"!!!!. T.S. CALLED IN
THE EVENING.
31ST.} TO SOTHERBYS, AFTERNOON TO LADY DILLON'S BUTE
HOUSE OLD BROMPTON.EVENING TO THOS HAIR CUT.
NOV.
1ST.} LUCY EDWARDS MARRIED.
4TH.} SUNDAY,EVENING TO HEAR (AT THE NEW CHAPEL IN
NEWMAN STREET,LATE WESTS GALLERY) THE REV. WM.IRVING IMMENSE ROSODING?? TO GAIN
ADMITTANCE AND FINALLY REACHED THE GALLERY.
5TH.} EVENING I WENT TO MR. KIRBYS DRAMATIC
INSTITUTION IN JOHN STREET AND SAW A PARCEL OF FOOLS ATTEMPT TO PERFORM A PLAY
BUT THEY COULD NOT .I WENT WITH F.MASON.
6TH.} BIRDS,CORK STREET HARDING HENRIETTA
STREET,HERRIES.
7TH.} TO OXFORD STREET AND RODE TO THE BANK FOR
-/6d IN AN OMNIBUS CALLED THE VICTORIA .
9TH.} EVENING TO HARDINGS TO THOS ,WILLIAM
FELDWICK FROM SEVENOAKS ARRIVED IN
LONDON .CHARLES EDWARDS CALLED AT THOS HAD SUPPER WITH HIM ,TO CHARING CROSS.
10TH.} HERRIES TO OUR ANNUAL CANDLELIGHT SUPPER AT
J. HODGSONS.20 £34/4s
11TH.} SUNDAY TO WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ,SAW THE IRON
STEAMBOAT BUILT TO NAVIGATE THE GANGES .EVENING TO HEAR MR. IRVING PREACH MET
MR. SHAW. MR. AND MRS. HALL AND CHILDREN
CAME AND DRANK TEA WITH US ,BEING THE FIRST DAY OF HIS GOING OUT SINCE HIS
SEVERE I
LLNESS.
12TH.} AFTERNOON TO SEE MR. C. TURNER FOUND HIM
DANGEROUSLY ILL AND INSENSIBLE .DRANK TEA AT THOS WITH HIM TO CONDUIT STREET.
13TH.} I WENT WITH F . MASON TO DRURY LANE THEATRE
HALF PRICE SAW 2 ACTS OF SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL AD THE OPERA OF DER. FREISCHUTZ.
15TH.} TO COACH OFFICE FOR MR.THIRSLOW? HOME IN TIME
FOR THE MAX THAT WAS FLYING ABOUT IN CONSEQUENCE OF JAMES HAVING OBTAINED HIS
24 YEARS. EVENING TO THOS.
17TH.} TO HERRIES TO HALLS AND TO TAKE MR. TURNER
£3, SAW MR. TURNER GREAT CHANGE FOR THE WORSE SINCE MONDAY.
18TH.} CHARLES, MR. TURNER -DIED. ?
SUNDAY TO ST. JAMES AFTERNOON
WITH MOTHER TO SEE MR.?TURNER CALLED AT THOS .STOPT AND HAD TEA WITH THEM ,TO
ST. GILES CHURCH CALLED AND WAS TOLD MR. C TURNER DIED AT 20 MINS BEFORE 8
O'CLOCK.
19TH.} TO CT. KING'S BENCH SAW SIR THOS. DESMAN.TO
COLLINGES SAW MODELS OF SUGAR MILLS.
20TH.} TO ORDER PICTURE FRAME FOR SKETCHLY CASTLE AT
MOARES?.
21ST.} TO MO(A)(O)RES WITH THOS TO SEE MR. TURNERS
CORSE.
22ND.} TOOK OMNIBUS,NELSON, TO LOMBARD STREET ,WENT
TO BARKLEY PRITTON ,RODE IN OMNIBUS TO CHARING CROSS .EVENING WITHY FATHEWR AND
WE WENT TO THE ADELPHI SAW HENRIETTA THE TARSAKEN? ,BAD BUSINESS MEETING
MANAGERS ,CRIMSON CRIMES AND CUPID MR. REEVE.
24TH.} IN OMNIBUS TO LOMBARD STREET,HOME, MR. C
TURNER BURIED AT ST. GILES CHURCH.
25TH.} SUNDAY RAIN.CHAS. EDWARDS DINED WITH US,EVENING
TO HEAR IRVING FULL TO CHAPEL IN LONG ACRE FULL,TO ST. PAULS ..COV. GDS,ST.
MERLINS,ST.CLEMENTS.DANES AND AS FAR AS ST. DUNSTANS.FLEET ST. WITH CHAS.
27TH.} FIRE BROKE OUT AT TYRRELLS IN LONG ACRE 3
O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.
EVENING TO LONG ACRE SAW RUINS
14 HOUSES -TO MRS. TURNERS
28TH.} WITH MR. E HALL TO WESTMINSTER HALL TO
COLLINGES HOME EVENING.
29TH.} TO OXFORD STREET CORNHILL OVER BLACKFRIARS
BRIDGE TO COLLINGE, MET MR. SHAW ,TO COURTS
AT WESTMINSTER HALL.EVENING ALEX TAYLOR CALLED WITH HIM TO AUCTION
ROOMS.
DEC.
2ND.} SUDAY MORNING 1/2 PAST 10 MET CHAS EDWARDS
AT BRICKLAYERS ARMS AND WALKED TO GREENWICH TOGETHER.AFTER DINNER TOOK A WALK
ON BLACKHEATH SAW MR. EDWARDS HOME TO GEORGE STREET FOR TEA.VIOLENT STORM
THUNDER HAIL ,WALKED HOME.
5TH.} TOOK A WALK TO BUY FIJARO?.
6TH.} TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW THE PLAY OF THE
HUNCHBACK AFTER WHICH FIRST TIME GRAND BALLET OF MASSANULIO?.
8TH.} HERRIES. EVENING TO A MEETING IN DAVIES
STREET OF CLO EVANS THE CANDIDATE FOR WESTMINSTER. FOR BOOKS.
10TH.} MONDAY.THE FIRST COMMENCEMENT OF THE ELECTION
SINCE THE PASSING OF THE REFORM BILL .WENT TO HUSTING AT COVENT GARDEN .TO THOS
HOME TO TEA.EVENING WITH THOS TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW VIRGINIAS THEREDAN
KHOWLES. MAYOR OF GARICOLT AND MASANIELLO
.PIT.
13TH.} EVENING TO SAVILLE HOUSE TO MEETING FOR
ELECTORS IN FAVOUR OF SIR
J.SCOTT LILLIE FOR MIDDLESEX
HERD MR.LAWASS? SPEAK .
21ST.} TO BAYSWATER STREET ACROSS HYDE PARK TO
KENSINGTON SQUARE.
23RD.} SUNDAY TO ? FORMED CHURCH HERD BISHOP OF
LONDON PREACH AND ORDAIN A QUANTITY OF PRIESTS .EVENING HOME WITH MRS.PAUL.
24TH.} EVENING TO THOS ,JAMES HODGSON OPENED WHITE
SWAN EARL ST.? EVENT WENT AND SAW THEM.THE MEN DID NOT WORK AFTER TEA.
25TH.} TUESDAY .CHRISTMAS DAY,MORNING TO
THOS.ST.JAMES .MR. J. HALL DINED WITH US AND EDWARD HALL CAME AFTER DINNER .
CARDS.
26TH.} AFTERNOON TO B.COOPER AND TO TEA AND TO THOS
.
27TH.} EVENING TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE AND SAW THE FARCE OF THE CLUTTERBUCKS AND THE
SECOND REPRESENTATION OF THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMINE CALLED HARLEQUIN AND PUSS IN
BOOTS WITH THE PANORAMA OF THE TRIP TO ANTWERP.
28TH.} ALEXANDER TAYLOR CALLED IN THE EVENING AND
BOUGHT NEW GILT FRAME WENT WITH HINTO
HODGSONS.
30TH.}` SUNDAY TO ST. JAMES
CHURCH .AFTERNOON TO TEA WITH THOS ,MET MR. AND MRS. JENNY W. WYBO?? ,ON MY
ARRIVAL AT HOME I FOUND MOTHER EXTREMELY ILL.
31ST.} TO MR. HERINGS TO FETCH HIM TO GIVE HIS
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.
THIS DAY ENDETH VERY DULL
THROUGH MOTHERS ILLNESS BEING THE LAST IN THE EVENTFUL YEAR OF OUR LORD 1832.
DIARY
NO. 19.
JANUARY 1ST.
1833 TO MARCH 25TH. 1833.
JAN.
1ST.} EVENING TO THOS MEN LEFT OF WORK 7 0'CLOCK.
2ND.} SUSAN CAME TO SEE MOTHER .MOTHER STILL VERY
ILL (MR. CURLL SEN. DIED.).EVENING TO THOS TO HODGSONS.
4TH.} MOTHER WORSE ,MORE BLOOD TAKEN FROM HER .DR.
ELLIDTSON THE PHYSCIAN CAME TO SEE HER AND PRONOUNCED HER OUT OF DANGER.
5TH.} TO HERRIES AND 43 CHARING CROSS .EVENING
MRS.PAUL.CALLED HER DAUGHTER SENT TO HER THIS DAY .TO J.C. R'S FOR GOLD KEY
4s-1 1/2d HOLBORN FOR RING 9s-8 1/2d.
6TH.} SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH THOS TO ST. JAMES PARK
.THE PHYSCIAN CALLED TO SEE MOTHER WHOSE GETTING BETTER . EVENING TO CHARLES.
8TH.} SUSAN CALLED HOME WITH LEN?.WITH THOS TO THE
OPENING OFTHE HARMONIC MEETINGS.
13TH.} SUNDAY EVENING TO HEAR MR. IRVING
HERD MAN SPEAK IN THE MIDST OF PRAYER .TO ST. GILES CHURCH MET T.T. AND
MRS. DALTON HOME WITH THEM .MOTHER MUCH
BETTER .
14TH.} TO HERRIES AND WITH THOS AS FAR AS
SOUTHAMPTON STREET TO SNOW AND PAULS STRAND AND NICHOLAS LANE .EVENING TO
QUEBEC STREET.MOTHER SLOWLY
MENDING.
15TH.} TO HALKIN STREET EVENING WITH MRS. THOMAS AND
FATHER TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW THE NEW PIECE CALLED NELL GWYNNE OR THE
PROLOGUE THE WATERMAN.MR. W. PHILLIPS SUNG "THE SEA THE SEA "AND
CONCLUDED WITH THE NEW PANTOMIME OF PUSS IN BOOTS, PIT.
18TH.} FRIDAY EVENING A MAN WAS DISCOVERED IN THE
CARRIAGE OF SIR JERMINGHAM AND HAD REMOVED THE PLATE GLASS OUT OF THE FRAME AND
ON HIS TRYING TO ESCAPE CUT THE COACHMANS BOY IN THE ARM AND WAS CAPTURED BY
MR. PLANK HEAD OFFICER WHO TOOK HIM TO
MARLBO
ROUGH STREET AND HAD HIS
EXAMINATION BEFORE MR. CONANT AND WAS REMANDED 'TILL MONDAY.
19TH.} MR.BAMBRIDGE DIED SUNDAY.T. MASON CALLED AND
WITH HIM TO BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE .EVENING TO J. HODGSONS ,MET HIS COUSIN AND TWO
SISTERS CAME HOME WITH THEM.
21ST.} TO MARLBOROUGH STREET OFFICE ,HERD ALL THE
CHANGES EXAMINED AND THEN THE FINAL EXAMINATION OF JOHN JAMES THE MAN WHO BROKE
OPEN THE COACH HOUSE .AND HERD HIS COMMITTAL BEFORE MR. DYER AND CONANT.EVENING
WITH FK.MASON TO THE CONCERT ROOMS .SEVILLE
PALACE LEICESTER SQUARE HERD SINGING SAW THE AUTOMATAN ROPE DANCER
.MR C HOMAN THE -------?ANGLAIS'S
EXTEMPO----- POETRY ON SUBJECTS
PROPOSED BY THE COMPANY.
22ND.} TO CHARING CROSS TO BOOK MY PLACE FOR
NORFOLK.
GRANDMOTHER 87 YEARS OF
AGE 11TH. OF MARCH 1833.
24TH.} STARTED BY HOLT COACH ARRIVED AT STODY 1/2
PAST 9, COLD RIDE ,
SHARP FROST WIND N.E.
25TH.} TO CHUCHYARD SAW THE GRAVE BEING DUG BY
GEORGE BAMBRIDGE FOR HIS
FATHER .TO SHARRINGTON SAW
GRANDMOTHER .TO STODY TO DINNER .MR. BAMBRIDGE BURIED THIS DAY AGE 64 ,SAW ALL
THE FAMILY ,EVENING TO SUPPER WITH MRS. PAUL.
26TH.} MARTIN BAMBRIDGE DROVE ME TO BLAKNEY IN HIS
CHAISE.
27TH.} SUNDAY WITH UNCLE FITT. IN PONY CHAUISE TO
WARHAM,SLEPT AT BLAKENEY.
28TH.} UNCLE FITT DROVE ME IN CHAISE TO BALE.
29TH.} UNCLE FITT DROVE ME IN CHAISE TO SHARRINGTON
AND STODY .TO MRS. PAUL ,SLEPT AT MRS. BAMBRIDGE.
30TH.} STARTED BY HOLT COACH TO SHIPDHAM .FARE 5/-.
FEB.
1ST.} DEEP SNOW.
2ND.} TREMENDOUS RAIN.
4TH.} STARTED BY COACH TO LONDON ARRIVED AT 1/2
PAST 9 O'CLOCK.FARE £1-2s.
5TH.} WENT AND SAW THE KING GO IN STATE TO OPEN
PARLIAMENT HOUSE.THE FIRST REFORMED PARLIAMENT .EVENING TO THOS.
6TH.} TO HOWELLS.
10TH.} SUNDAY.ST.JAMES .EVENING TO MR. IRVING'S AND
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD CHAPEL HERD REV.PARSONS FROM YORK.
14TH.} VALENTINES DAY.TO OLD BAILY HERD TRIALS.THE
TRIALS OF JOHN JAMES
WAS OVER BEFORE I GOT
THERE,SENTENCE 7 YEARS TRANSPORTATION.SAW THOS AND MRS TAYLOR ,WITH THEM TO NEW
COURT HERD TRIALS. THE LAST ONE WAS MR. TAYLOR FOR BIGAMY-FOUND GUILTY
-SENTENCE 14 YEARS TRANSPORTATION.WITH THOS AND HAD TEA IN FARRINGTON STREET.
HOM
E WITH HIM.
15TH.} TO BUCOER? STREET FOR BOOKSAND TO JONES
AUCTION ROOMS.
17TH.} SHROVE SUNDAY.ST.JAMES -POURED OF RAIN IN THE
AFTERNOON.EVENING TO KING STREET CHAPEL.
19TH.} EVENING TO CHARLOTTE STREET TO SEE MR. PAUL
WITH INFLAMATION IN EYE.
21ST.} TO THE ROYAL ALBION THEATRE HALF PRICE PIT,
-/6d SAW MASTERS RIVAL OR DAY AT BOLOGNE? AND NELL GYWNNE AND A MOST
MISERABLE TURN OUT IT WAS ,BEGGARS
DESCRIPTION.
23RD.} MR. T. WALLER OF HOMEWORTH DIED.
24TH.} SUNDAY.TO BAKER STREET CHAPELTO HEAR BISHOP
OF CHESTER .AFTERNOON TO TEA WITH CHARLES AND MARIAN AT THOS.
25TH.} HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY .FIRST DRAWING ROOM
THIS SEASON ,GRAND ILLUMINATIONS ,SUSAN AND MARY ,JILL AND ELIZA PAUL DRUNK TEA
WITHUS .WITH THEM TO ST. JAMES STREET AND WITH THOS TO LONG ACRE TO SEE FIRE
NEXT DOOR TO ROANTREE?.
26TH.} REYNOLDS,TURNERS,TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW
MILLON MARQUE OF COMUS? AND THE SMILING? BOY -MISS POOLE .1/-.
28TH.} MRS.PAUL AND ELIZA DINED WITH US .AFTERNOON
TO SEE THE FLEET.
EVENING TO SEE MR. PAUL
CHARLOTTE STREET, VERY ILL.
MAR.
MAR.
1ST.} FRANCIS MASON OUT OF HIS
APPRENTICESHIP,SERVED 4 YEARS .MR. HALL AND I WENT TO THE MARSH GATE TO MAKE
INQUIRY FOR THE COUNTRY.
2ND.} TO WHITES TIMBER MERCHANT.
3RD.} SUNDAY. TO PALACE ROUND BY BIRD CAGE WALK
AND WESTMINSTER.AFTERNOON FATHER AND I WALKED INTO HYDE PARK IT BEING THE FIRST
FINE SUNDAY THIS SEASON.MR. AND MRS. PAUL AND ELIZA CAME TO TEA WITH US .I WENT
PART WAY HOME WITH THEM .
5TH.} WITH MOTHER AND MRS.PAUL TO VERE STREET,TO
QUEBEC STREET,
7TH.} TO RICHAWSOUS? SALE IN CONDUIT STREET
.EVENING TO DRURY LANE THEATRE SAW ONE ACT OPERA OF DON JUAN AND THE SPOLENDID
NEW BALLET OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTY -MADMSLLE. DUVERNAY.
10TH.} SUNDAY,WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ST. JAMES CHURCH .THOS AND MR. DALTON CALLED
IN THE AFTERNOON WITH THEM TO HYDE PARK .HOME TO TEA.EVENING TO IRVING'S CHURCH
HERD HIM FINISH HIS DISCOURSE PREVIOUS
TO HIM GOING TO SCOTLAND TO MEET THE CHARGE AGAINST HI
M BY THE SCOTCH CHURCH..TO
ST. GILES CHURCH.TO SUPPER WITH THOS.
11TH.} WITH MR.HALL TO COVENT GARDEN TO NEWPORT
STREET AND TO FOX UNDER THE HILL STRAND.YORK MONUMENT OPENED TO THE
PUBLIC,FIRST TIME THIS DAY.
12TH.} TUESDAY.I WENT TO THE SUMMIT OF THE NEW YORK
MONUMENT CARLTON PLACE,FINE VIEW .CAME DOWN VERY HASTILY TO SEE THE STEAM
CARRIAGE THAT WAS THEN IN CARLTON PLACE .I WENT AS FAR AS WESTMINSTER ABBEY
WITH IT ,SAW THEM TAKE A FRESH SUPPLY OF WATER AND
RETURNED WITH THEM AS FAR AS
CONDUIT STREET.MR. PAUL CALLED IN THE EVENING TO OXFORD STREET WITH HIM.
13TH.} TO BEAVANS LIVERY STABLES OXFORD STREET TO
ENQUIRE ABOUT OUR CHAISE ,FOUND WE HAD BEEN SWINDLED OUT OF IT .
14TH.} EVENING TO THOS AND WITH HIM TO COVENT GARDEN
THEATRE SAW THE NEW FARCE OF THE KENTUCKIAN
OR/N A TRIP TO NEW YORK IN WHICH MR. HACKETT THE AMERICAN MADE HIS
APPEARANCE.THE OPERA OF FRA DIAVOLO.MRS.JONES DEPARTED THIS MORNING AGED 67
.EVENING TO
BIRDS.
16TH.} TO PORTLAND PLACE TO HEAR THE NOMINATION OF
THE CANDIDATES FOR MARYLEBONE BY SIR PETER LAURIE ,HERRIES.EVENING ALONG THE
STRAND.
17TH.} SUNDAY.ST.JAMES EVENING TOIRVINGS KING STREET
CHAPEL. HEAVY RAIN THE WHOLE DAY.
18TH.} TO LIQUOR POND STREET SAW HOUSE FIRE.
20TH.} TO BR. BREWER STREET.TO ST. ANNES CHURCH TO
HEAR REV. HUGH McNEAL.
21ST.} TOOK OMNIBUS TO LYME SQUARE LOMBARD STREET
.EVENING WITH FATHER TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
-SHYLOCK MR. E. KEAN .FARCE OF A NABOB FOR AN HOUR AND COMUS. PIT 3/6d.
THE LAST TIME KEAN PERFORMED HE MADE ONE
MORE ATTEMPT AT OTHELLO BUT FAILED IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE PERFORMANCE.
24TH.} SUNDAY .ST.JAMES .MRS.JONES BURIED AT ST.
ANNES .EVENING- SNOW.
TO KING STREET CHAPEL.
25TH.} MR. BEAUMONT BROOK STREET DIED.
END OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF
THE YEAR OF OUR LORD .1833.
DIARY NO. 20.
MARCH 27TH. 1833 TO JUNE
3RD. 1833
COMMENENCEMENT OF THE SECOND
QUARTER OF THE YEAR.
MAR.
27TH.} TO NICHOLAS LANE.
28TH.} TO ST. PAULS CHURCH YARD MET MR. PAUL.
29TH.} AS ABOVE.WITH THOS TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE
SAW ORATORIO ISRAELITES IN EGYPT OR PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.
31ST.,} SUNDAY .TOOK A WALK
THROUGH HYDE PARK TO ST. MARY LEBONE CHURCH HERD BISHOP OF BANGOR .AFTERNOON
WITH FATHER .TO ST.JAMES AND HYDE PARKS.EVENING WITH MR. HALL TO HEAR MR.
IRVING FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS GOWN.
APR.
1ST.} EVENING TO THOS -HEAVY RAIN.
3RD.} MOTHER WENT TO TEA WITH SUSAN AND THEN TO
ST. GILES CHURCH ,I WENT AND FETCHED HER HOME.
5TH.} GOOD FRIDAY A REMARKABLE FINE DAY .AFTERNOON
TOOK A WALK TO ST. JAMES PARK .
7TH.} EASTER SUNDAY -OVER WESTMINSTER BRIDGE,IT
BEING A MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY ,I, ACCORDING TO CUSTOM TOOK A PLEASANT WALK TO
GREENWICH .SAW WILLIAM EDWARDS IN THE FAIR .SAW THE SPANISH DWARF 25 INCHES
HIGH.-TO THE WATER SIDE .
8TH.} TO THE PARK .UP HAMPSTEAD HILL AND FROM
THERE TO GEORGE STREET .TOOK A WALK WITH SOPHIA EDWARDS TO FAIR. STARTED 1/2
PAST 9 BY COACH FOR LONDON.
9TH.} RAIN.
11TH.} TO OXFORD STREET .TREMENDOUS HAIL STORM.
13TH.} TO HERRIES MET CHARLES IN CONDUIT
STREET,EVENING WITH FATHER TO THE QUADRANT TO BUY A HAT,TO THOS -NOT WELL.
14TH.} THE DAY APPOINTED BY THE CHURCH FOR A GENERAL
THANKSGIVING AND FORM OF PRAYER
THROUGHOUT ALL ENGLAND FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE CHOLERA MORBIUS .I WENT TO
WESTMINSTER ABBEY IN THE MORNING HERD BISHOP OF LITCHFIELD AND COVENTRY ,THEN
TO ST. JAMES HER
D BISHOP OF LONDON
PREACH.EVENING TO KING STREET CHOPLE .MRS. HART DIED THIS DAY.
15TH.} HAIL, SNOW, RAIN.
16TH.} THE KING ANNOUNCED THAT HER MAJESTY WAS A
GOING TO DRURY LANE .I WENT AND FOUND THROUGH THE ILLNESS OF THE PERFORMERS THE
THEATRE WAS CLOSED UNTILL SATURDAY NEXT,TO THOS SAW MRS.JENNINGS ,THEN WITH
THOS TO THE CONCERT ROOMS LEICESTER SQUARE.
19TH.} BOUGHT BOOKS.
20TH.} TO HERRIES BOUGHT BLACK SILK KERCHIEF IN
REGENTS STREET 4/6d.
21ST.} SUNDAY.ST.JAMES AFTERNOON BY MYSELF TO HYDE
PARK ,FATHER NOT WELL ENOUGH TO GO OUT .EVENING TO THOS MET MR. W .WYBROO
HAMMOND.
25TH.} TO DRURY LANE THEATRE SAW LOVE IN A VILLAGE
CONCERT -CHIMNEY PIECE THE WATERMAN FOR
THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. WOOD.
26TH.} WITH THOS TO A MEETING AT THE ROBIN HOOD HOLBORN.
28TH.} SUNDAY ST. JAMES AFTERNOON FATHER AND I TOOK A WALK AS FAR AS
EYRE ARMS TAVERN M,EVENING TO IRVINGS.
30TH.} TO THE NEW CLERKENWELL PRISON.
MAY.
2ND.} TO HARLEY STREET,PRINCESS STREET,EVENING TO
TURNERS .TO ASTLEY HALF PRICE SAW
HORSEMANS HIP ,MET THOS THERE.
4TH.} MRS. DEAN BURIED .STARTED 1 0'CLOCK BY
TOLWORTH COACH .FARE 1/6d.
WALKED THROUGH TWICKENHAM TO
TEDDINGTON ,WENT TO MR. SHEFFIELDS HOUSE CAME TO TOWN BY THE SUMBURY COACH 2/-
,ARRIVED AT 6 O'CLOCKHAD MY TEA STARTED WITH PHAETON 7 O'CLOCK ARRIVED AGAIN AT
TIDBURY? 10 O'CLOCK.
5TH.} SUNDAY .SLEPT AT THE CLARENCE ARMS ,AFTER
BREAKFAST I WALKED ACROSS BUSHEY PARK A DISTANCE OF 1 1/2 MILES TO HAMPTON
COURT WENT AS FAR AS THE BRIDGE AND RETURNED BY 10 O'CLOCK.SAW MR. Jd..STARTED
TO LONDON WITH
PHAETON AT 12 O'CLOCK
.EVENING TOOK A WALK -FATHER LAID UP WITH THE GOUT.THE WEATHER THIS DAY WAS
REMARKABLY FINE .
6TH.} TO MARKS, HERRIES, EVENING TO
REYNOLDS.----OMITTED STATING ON THE 3Rd.THAT I ATTENDED A MOST EXTENSIVE
MEETING IN THE GREAT ROOM ,CROWN AND ANCHOR
STRAND.RESPECTING THE ELECTION OF COL.EVANS IN PLACE OF HOBHOUSE ,MR.
HALL CAME WITH ME.
10TH.} COL. EVANS RETURNED FOR WESTMINSTER.
11TH.} HERRIES ,TO MOCLEY'S? HOTEL SAW THEM CHAIRING
COL. EVANS.
12TH.} SUNDAY,FATHER AND I WENT ON OUR FIRST SUMMER
EXCURSION BY THE HERO STEAMER TO GRAVESEND AND RETURNED BY THE SAME PACKET.
13TH.} REYNOLDS, BIRDS,MEETING(MUTINY ?) IN COLD
BATH FIELDS.POLICEMAN
STABBED .MR. KEAN THE
CELEBRATED TRAGEDIAN DIED AT RICHMOND 9 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING .
15TH.} HIS FIRST APPEARANCE 1814 LONDON STAGE
,SALARY AVERAGE 9,000 A YEAR FOR 20 YEARS.
18TH.} TO HALKIN STREET AND HERRIES .SAW THEIR
MAJESTIES LEAVE TOWN FOR WINDSOR 4 O'CLOCK.
19TH.} SUNDAY TOM WESTMINSTER ABBEY HERD BISHOP OF
GLOUCESTER,THEN TO ST. JAMES AND HERD DR. PHILPOTTS-THE BISHOP OF EXETER
PREACH.AFTERNOON HEAVY RAIN.EVENING TOOK A WALK TO MILLBANK AND ROUND BY
PIMBLICO.
20TH.} RODE TO CORNHILL.EVENING FATHER AND I WENT TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE
SAW TRAGEDY OF MACBETH BY MR. MACREADY
.MRS. BARTLEY TOOK HER FAREWELL OF THE STAGE -PERFECTION OR THE LADY OF MUNSTER
.MADAM VESTRIES AND LA SYLPHIDE BY MADSLLE TAGLIONI .PIT
3/6d.
25TH.} MR.KEAN BURIED AT RICHMOND THIS DAY .
26TH.} WHIT SUNDAY .FATHER AND I WENT ON BOARD THE
HARLEQUIN ,STARTED 1/4 PAST 9 -GRAVESEND 1/2 PAST 11 ,PASSED THE NORE
LIGHT AND ARRIVED AT THE SURPRISING NEW
PIER WHICH IS 3,600 FEET LONG 1/4 PAST 3 -WENT ON SHORE STARTED 1/4 TO 5 ,IN A
VERY HEAVY S
EA ,REACHED THE NORE 1/4
PAST 6, ARRIVED AT ST. KATHERINES 1/4 PAST 11.
27TH.} WHIT MONDAY.FINE DAY .EVENING TO DRURY LANE
THEATRE SAW 1 ACT OF
LORD OF THE MANOR HERD
MADAMSELLE PASTA-MALIBRAN BRAHAM??.WITH PLAY OF INKLE AND YARICO FOR THE BENIFIT
OF MR. HARLEY.
28TH.} WHIT TUESDAY.VERY FINE DAY TO TURNERS OVER
WATERLOO BRIDGE 1/2 PAST 2 WALKED TO GREENWICH BY 4 O'CLOCK RODE HOME .
29TH.} HARPERS MR. ATKINSON CAME TO LONDON SAW HIM
AT THOS.
30TH.} HERRIES AND WITH ANN AND EMMA FRANKLIN TO
ASTLEYS SAW THE TROJAN WAR .CHINESE
FETE'S HORSE RIDINGS (SAT ? THE TIME WAS ON THE STAGE )
31ST.} CHARLES EDWARDS CALLED IN THE EVENING .
JUN.
1ST.} SOUTHEYS.PENNEYS. HERRIES CORK STREET
,EVENING TO THOS.
2ND.} SUNDAY .TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY ,WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
AND TO THE NEW HUNGERFORD MARKET .AFTERNOON WITH FATHER ANN AND ?.FRANKLIN TO ST. PAULS TO LONDON BRIDGE AND CITY ROAD
.RODE TO KINGS CROSS-HOME TO TEA .EVENING TO KING STREET CHAPEL ,MET CHARLES
IN REGENT STREET .
3RD.} EVENING TO COVENT GARDEN THEATRE SAW THE
LAST ACT OF LORD OF
THE MANOR .THE DASHING
SARJEANT ,MADAM VESTRIES ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER .