In my way did give to the poor and menders of the highway
3s. Before night come to Marlborough, and lay at the Hart; a
good house, and a pretty fair town for a street or two; and what
is most singular is, their houses on one side having their pent-
houses supported with pillars, which makes it a good walk. All
the five coaches that come this day from Bath, as well as we,
were gone out of the town before six.
16th. Tuesday. After paying the reckoning, 14s. 4d. and
servants 2s., poor 1s., set out; and passing through a good part
of this country of Wiltshire, saw a good house [Littlecote.] of
Alexander Popham's, [M.P. for Bath.] and another of my Lord
Craven's, [Hampstead Marshal, since destroyed by fire.] I think,
in Barkeshire. Come to Newbery, and there dined; and musick: a
song of the old courtier of Queene Elizabeth's, and how he was
changed upon the coming in of the King, did please me mightily,
and I did cause W. Hewer to write it out. Then comes the
reckoning, (forced to change gold,) 8s. 7d.; servants and poor,
1s.
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