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Diary of John Narrower 69 JVednesday, 12th. This morning fine clear weather but hard frost. I waited onbi". untill three pni for Cap! Lacoers [?] returning. But when I found he did not I left a letter of thanks to him for his favours shown me, for he would take no passage money from me, Besides that he used me like a Brother making me sleep and eat with himself; I then went ashore and immediately set out for London with no more cash in my pocket [but] IS. 8)^d. St' I pray. May God provide more for me and for all who are in strait. Immediatly as I left Portsmouth I fell into Comp' and conversaition on the road to whome I sold two pair of stock- ins 4/6d. it being the price they cost me in Zetland. I traveled four Miles this afternoon and lodged all night at Post doun' bridge and the House had a Battery of Twelve Canon round it. here I supped on eight Oisters and id. and ^ worth of Bread, with a poynt of strong and a poynt of small beer which [cost] me 3d., being in all 4j^d. for supper, here I paid 3d. for my bedd, and it was warmed with a warming pan, this being the first time I ever seed it done. Thursday, 13th. Wind at E. so thick that I could not see above 100 yards distance. I crossed over Post doun hill and Breackfast at Handen," and after crossing a large barren Common of that name I dinned at Petersfield and then Got as far as Raik in the County of Sussex where I staid all night, having traviled twenty miles this [day] which is more than I did expect earring my Box and Bundle on my back ; They have for firing here, nothing but a kind [of] heath like flaws. ^ at this place I paid 3d. for my bedd, My diet being all the old storry. Bread, Cheese and beer, and I hade a Rush Candle to light me to bedd. Freiday, i^th. This morning I sold in my lodgings sundry articles to the amount of iS/gd. Sf which Articles cost me ;^i.5/6 St". So that necessity obliged me to lose 6/gd. ... * Sunday, i6th. This day after breackfast and read' some Chapters on a Newtestament I found in my room, I made the two following verses which I here insert below. My absent friends God bless, and those, my wife and Children dear ; I pray for pardon to my foes. And for them sheds a tear. At Epsom here this day I ly. Repenting my past sins ; Praying to Jesus for his mercy, And success to my friends. Here I hade an extream good dinner in Publick, for sixpence, in the Afternoon I took a Walk and seed round this place a great many fine Houses and gardens most of them belonging to Londoners. 1 Portsdown. ^Horndean. 3 Flax. •Harrower then walked on by way of Godalming and Guildford to Epsom, where he spent Sunday.