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Diary of Jo Jin Harroiver 71 I seed the gold lying in heaps, I also seed Summerst house,' Gild hall, Driiry Lane, Covingarden,^ Adelphus Buildings and several other pleaces. I then returnd and near my lodgings I dinned at an eating house and hade 4d. worth of roast Beiff id. worth of bread and a poynt of small beer, in all 5^d. Saturday, 22d. This morning I seed an advertisement in the Publick ledger for a Messenger to a publick Lodge, Sallery 15/ St' per week and another advertisement for an under Clerk to a Merch' to both which I wrote answers and went to the places apointed, and found at each place more than a dozen of Letters before me, so that I hade litle expectation that way they being all weel aquanted and I a stranger. I then went to change to see if any thing would cas[t] up but to no purpose, so I returned hom at 4 pm and spent the evening in a verry sollitary manner supping on bread and Cheese as usuall. Sunday, 2jd. This morning I drank some purle for breackfast and then I took a walk in the forenoon through severall streets, and at i pm I returned to the eating house I hade formerly been at and dinned which cost me 6.V today having hade id. worth of pudding more than I form- erly hade. In the afternoon I went to a Methodists meeting, the Text was in the V Chap : Mathew and the 20th Verse. After sermon I came home and being solitary in my room I made the following Verses which I insert on the other side of this leaf. Now at London in a garret room I am, here frendless and forsaken ; But from the Lord my help will come. Who trusts in him are not mistaken. When freinds on earth do faint and faile, And upon you their backs do turn ; O Truly seek the Lord, and he will Them comfort that do murn. I'll unto God my prayer make, to him my case make known ; And hopes he wdll for Jesus sake. Provide for me and soon. Munday, 24th. This morning I wrote six tickets to give to ship- masters at Change seeking a steward's birth onb^ some ship, but could not get a birth. I also wrote a petition in generall to any Merch! or Tradesman setting forth my present situation, and the way in which I hade been brought up and where I hade served and in what station, at same time offering to serve any for the bare suport of life fore some time. But all to no effect, for all places here at present are intierly carried by 1 Somerset House. Not the building now so called, but its predecessor, the old mansion of the Protector Somerset. ^ Covent Garden.