Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-07-18


FoREsr HILL, (Oxon,) May l, 1643
Seventeenth birth daye. A gypsie
woman at we gate would fame have tolde my for
tune, bat mother chased her away, saying she had
doubtlesse harboured in some of We low houses in
Oxford, and mIghte bring We plague. COulde
have cried for veXation. She had promised to tell
me We colour of my husbands eyes; but mother says
she believes shall never have one, am so sillie.
Father gave me gold piece Dear mother is chat
ed, methnks, touching this debt of five hundred
pounds, which father says he knows not how to pay.
Indeed he sayd, overnghte, his whole personal es-
tate amounts 10 but five hundred pounds, his tim
Der and wood 10 four hundred more, or thereabouts
and The tithes and messuages of Whateley are no
great matter, being morigaged for about as much
moore, and he hath lent sights of mony TO them that
won't pay, Ills hard 10 be thus prest. Poor ia
ther twas good Of him 10 give me this gold piece.
May 2nd.-Cousin Rose married to Master Ro-
ger Agnew. Present, father, mother, and brother
of Rose. Father, mother, Dick, Bob, Harry, and
| !; Squire PAIGE and his daughter Audrey an olde
aunt of Master Rogers and one of his cousins,
backed man, with large and such long
nose Cousin Rose looked bewtfulle; pitie so
faire girl sd marry so old man tits thoughte he
wants not mamie years of fifty.
| 7M.-New msfortunes in we poutrie yarde-
Poor mothers loyalty cannot stand we demands for
her best Chickens dacklings, &c. for we use of his
| My's officers since the king hath beene in Oxford
She accuseth my father of having beene wonne o.
by few faire speeches to be more of royaIist
than his natural temper incliheth him to which, of
course he will not admit
Sh-Wholo day taken up on visit TO Rose,
now week married, and growne quite matronlie
| already. We reached Sheepscote about an hour
before noone. long, broade, strait wake ofg.een
turf, planted with hoyoaks, sunfowers, ETC., and
some earlier flowers alreadie in bloom led up TO We
rusticail porch of truly farm like house, with low
gable roofs, long lattice window on either side We
dOore, and three easements above. Such, and no
| more, is Roses house. But she is happy, foT she
| came running !Orthe SOone she hearde Clio
ver's feet, and helped Inc from my saddle all smil-
ing, tho she had not expected to see us. We had
curds and creame, and she wished it was the time
of strawberries, for she sayd they had large beds
and then my father and We boys went forth to locke
for Master Agnew. Then Rose took me up to her
chamber, singing she went, and We long low room
was sweet with flowers. Sayd |, "Rose, to be
misfess of this pretty cottage twere hardlie amisse
to marry man as olde as Master Roger" "Olde ~
quoth she, "deare Mol, you must not deeme him
Olde: why, he is but forty-two, and am not TWEEN
ty-three?" She lookt soc earneste and hure that
coulde not but falIe laughing.
9h.-Mother gone TO Sandford She hopes TO
get uncle John to lend father this money Father
says she may try. IT'S harde to discourage her
with ironicalle smile, when she is doing all she
can, and more than mamie women would to help ia
ther in his difficute; but suche she sayth some
what bltterlie, is the lot of our SEX She babe ia
Their mind that she had brought him three thousand
pounds, and askt what had come of them? An
swered, helped to lille we mouths of nine healthy
children and stop ye mouths of easie husband
soc, with kiss, made it up. have We keys, and
am left misresse Of all, TO my create contenement
but ye children clamor for sweetmeats, and father
sayh, remember, Mol, discretion is we better part
of valour."
After mother had left, went into We paddock. 10
feed we colts with bread ; and while they were put
ting their noses into Robins pockets, Dick brought
out ye two ponies, and set me on OF them, and
we had mad scamper through We meadows and
down we lanes leading. just at the tutne Of Ho
ford's close, came shOFte upon gentleman walking
under We hedge, clad in a SOBER genteel suit and Of
most beautlfulle countenance, with hair like wo
mans, of lovely pale brown, long aud silky fall
ing over his shoulders. | nearlie went over him
Tor Clover's hard forehead knocked AGAINST hi
chest but he stoode like rock and ookinpe firs
at me and then at Dick, he smiled and spoke to m,
brother, who seemed TO know him. and turned a
bout and walked by us, sometimes sroaking Clio
ver's shaggy name. | felte little ashamed 70
Dick had selt me on ye poney just as was, III,
, gown somewhat too shorte for riding however,
drewe up my feet and let Clover nbblo lil
grasse, and then got rounde to We neare side, on
new companion stille between u.s. He offered MI
some wild flowers, and askt me THERE names ant
when tolde them, he sayd knew more than HI
did, though he accounted himselfc pretiie fayr
ootanlste and we went on thus, talking Of We herb
ana slmples in ye hedges; and sayd how pretti
some OF THERE names were, and that methought
! though Adam had named allie We animals in Para
5 disc, perhaps Eve had named ale We flowers II
ioOkt earnestile at me- this, and nuttered "pret
tie" Then Dick askt of him news from London
and ne spoke, methought, reservedlie ever and a
| 10 IL,
length, we parted at ye turn Of ye lane.
askt Dick who he was, and he told me he wa
one Mr.. John Milton, ye party 10 whom fatbe
, owed FIVE hundred pounds. He was the some o
Buckinghamshre gentleman, he added, we'll cor
nected, and very scholarlike, but affected towards
ye Parliament His grandsrc, jealous papiste
formerly lived in Oxon, and dsinhetited ye fathe
OF ms getlernau for abjuring We Roman faith.
When ! found how faire gentleman was IA
IbeL s creditor, become ye more interested indear
mothers successe.
May l9@.-Dick began to harpe on another rid