1710, having succeeded his father in the
Earldom 1698.] were at church this morning. I walked upon the
Downes, where a flock of sheep was; and the most pleasant and
innocent sight that ever I saw in my life. We found a shepherd
and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of
people, the Bible to him; and we took notice of his wooling knit
stockings, of two colours mixed. Mrs. Turner mightily pleased
with my resolution, which, I tell her, is never to keep a
country-house, but to keep a coach, and with my wife on the
Saturday to go sometimes for a day to this place, and then quit
to another place; and there is more variety and as little charge,
and no trouble, as there is in a country-house.
17th. Home, where I was saluted with the news of Hogg's bringing
a rich Canary prize to Hull: and Sir W. Batten do offer me
1000l. down for my particular share, beside Sir Richard Ford's
part; which do tempt me; but yet I would not take it;, but will
stand and fall with the company. He and two more, the Panther
and Fanfan, did enter into consortship; and so they have all
brought in each a prize, though ours worth as much as both
theirs, and more.
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