1808, Nov. 15th.—This day I completed my 72nd year; and thanks to God’s mercies I find myself in as perfect health as I ever enjoyed in my life, and the only perceivable difference in any of my senses that I am aware of is a little degree of deafness in my right ear, but as the other is perfect, I do pretty well. My left eye I think has not perfectly recovered the severe inflammation which I had two or three years ago, but the other being sound, I read and write as well and as much as ever. My teeth remain perfect in front and without any additional loss to those which decayed some years ago.
1810, April 5th.—I quitted the Board of Green Cloth, after having had a place there for 49 years and a half. I was put on the superannuation list at my request, the Lord Steward having kindly procured leave for it. He also, unsolicited, gave me leave to resign my place of Clerk of the Verge to my son.
Nov. 14th.—After dinner, I found a giddiness in my head making me unable to walk, and a kind of dumb confusion in my head. I wrote to Mr. Heaviside to come, which he did and ordered immediate cupping. [51] The next morning my complaint was gone.
1814, May 30th.—Received from Mr. Sydenham Malthus the melancholy news of my son’s death at Exmouth, from the rupture of a blood-vessel in the lungs.
1817, Feb. 15th.—My grandson Henry died this morning.
1826, June 16th.—In chaise to Guildford, the County election, voted for Mr. Sumner and Mr. Denison. [52a]
Sept. 19th.—With Mary and Miss Davis, in a chaise, by Horsham and Henfold to the ‘Albion’ at Brighton. Dined and lay there; walked on the Chain Pier.
20th.—To Seaford, Eastbourne. Dined and lay at the ‘Hope’ in the Sea-houses.
21st.—To the Castle Hotel, Hastings; through Winchelsea to Rye; New Romney, dined and lay there.
22nd.—To Hythe, through Folkestone to Dover; saw the harbour; returned to Hythe, the ‘Sun,’ dined there. To Ashford, and lay there.