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After dinner to the Court, where Sir Ellis Layton did make a very
silly motion in our behalf, but did neither hurt nor good after
him Walker and Wiseman. And then the Judge did pronounce his
sentence; for some a part of the goods and ship, and the freight
of the whole to be free and returned and paid by us, and the
remaining (which was the greater part) to be ours. The loss of
so much troubles us; but we have got a pretty good part, thanks
be to God! Received from my brother the news of my mother's
dying on Monday about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and
that the last time she spoke of her children was on Friday last,
and her last words were, "God bless my poor Sam!" The reading;
hereof did set me a-weeping heartily.
29th. The great streets in the City are marked out with piles
drove into the ground; and if ever it be built in that form with
so fair streets, it will be a noble sight. To a periwigg-maker's
and there bought two periwiggs, mighty fine indeed; too fine, I
thought, for me; but he persuaded me, and I did buy them for 4l.


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