| Description | Includes references to Grimston being on the Jury of Sir Harry Franklyn's affair; Mrs Payler, Stev[en] Thompson and J Bagnall all being well; Bagnall's wife being as well as can be hoped considering she is very near down lying; H Duncomb being in good health; having been at the play and the Opera; the English players hardly going down after being used to the French Theatre; not having been satisfied with the opera; the weather; everybody hurrying out of town because of Elections but it is imagined that London will be very full in a months time on account of the new Parlement; having visited Sir George Strickland and his Lady and thinking her a very pretty and agreable woman; J Creyck being almost recovered of his accident and him being chearfull; having hoped to have found the Coll[onel] in London but Will having told him that he is still in Kent, where he had been several months; if he had known sooner he would have called on him on his way from Dover; having been at Court and the King looked well; having met Fowler there in his Canonicalls, who is going abroad with his pupil; L[or]d Chief Justice Lee having died that morning; his chaise horses; hoping to equip himself with a hunter in Yorkshire; English customs compared to French; the French dress being more graceful and becoming than the English, most especially the women's headdress; the smell of a coal fire having given him a headache for a day or two; the coachmen seeming to be in the clouds, the coachbox being higher than in France; the plainness and smallness of our coaches and bad paving of the streets of London must surprise a foreigner; the difference in the beauty of our coach and saddle horses being in our favor; Sir Dudley Rider is to succeed L[or]d Ch[ief] Justice Lee and Murray to be Attorney General |