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miles off. On what account we go I can't pretend to say: it was
proposed as if it were only on mine. On Thursday we go to
Calne to a corporation dinner. Hamilton of Bath has been
mentioned as another person whom I shall see & that in a few
days: it is he who was the creator of Payne's-Hill: he is
the oracle for the gardening works that are carrying on here:
and has been employ'd in undoing what Capability-Brown
had done. To day we had no company at dinner: yesterday
we had a Mr Bayntun, (son of a Sr Edw. Bayntun
an old courtier whose name you will find in th your Bible,) and
his wife: and who should this wife be but a Lady Maria
a daughter of Ld Coventry by Miss Gunning, and who
notwithstanding her ancestry is as dowdy as a country girl,
and as ugly as a horse: and yet they say she had on her
best looks. Her husband is a plain young country Squire
in dress with something of Croft's manner in his address,
yet better spoken and without his affectation: he is cultivated
per cause de vicinage: being the nearest neighbour there is, and

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Date_1	1781-08-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings	[[main_headings::[Circular]]]
Folio number	206	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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