10th. Wednesday. Up, and walked to the hospitall: very large
and fine, and pictures of founders and the History of the
hospitall; and is said to be worth 700l. per annum, and that Mr.
Foly was here lately to see how their lands were settled. And
here, in old English, the story of the occasion of it, and a
rebus at the bottom. So did give the poor, which they would not
take but in their box, 2s. 8d. So to the inn, and paid the
reckoning and what not, 13s. So forth towards Hungerford. Led
this good way by our landlord, one Heart, an old but very civil
and well-spoken man, more than I ever heard, of his quality. He
gone, we forward; and I vexed at my people's not minding the way.
So come to Hungerford, where very good trouts, eels, and cray-
fish. Dinner: a mean town. At dinner there, 12s. Thence set
out with a guide, who saw us to Newmarket-heath, and then left
us, 3s. 6d. So all over the plain by the sight of the steeple
(the plain high and low) to Salisbury by night; but before I came
to the town, I saw a great fortification, and there light, and to
it and in it; and find it prodigious, so as to fright me to be in
it all alone at that time of night, it being dark.
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