that my sister, having took a composing draught, had lain down in an insensible condition, and she feared that she would never wake; at 7 I set out for Mayfield, when my sister, to our general griefs, seemed just expiring. Finished drawing Miss Anne's handkerchief, and carried it home to her, receiving ls. for my labour. Miss Patty, her sister, gave me a pair of shoes to draw in diamonds.
"Met with Mr. Roberts, who invited me in, and gave me a dram and a pint of mild.
"18th. Harry came with the unwelcome news of my sister's death, 11 p.m. I met Mr. Roberts, who invited me in and gave me a dram.
22nd.—I set out to attend my sister's funeral. Bands were supplied to every one of the near relations, and gloves to every one who attended, as also red and white wine. Next to the corpse followed my brother Newington and Joe, then my brother and sister Stone, then Mr. Joseph Newington and his wife, Dr. Newington and his wife, Mr. Benj. Newington and his wife, Mr. J. Newington and myself. There was a sermon preached on the occasion by the Rev. Mr. Hailley, The text was, 'Keep innocency, and take heed to the thing that is right,' &c. The sermon being ended, we conducted the corpse to the grave,[1] in the before-mentioned order. We being prodigiously cold, went to the Bear, and refreshed ourselves.
"26th.—I was informed by my mother that I had been called upon last night by a man from Hailsham. He proved to be Master Ley from Brighthelmstone: we went to Peerless, where he spent 5d. and I 9d. I put into his hands my best wigg to be buckled, which be said would come to 2s. 6d. I paid him a 1s. towards the work to be done to my wigg."
There seems to have been no such stipulation with Master Gale as that in force at the school at Lewisham, "that the schoolmaster should not follow vain and gaudy fashions of apparel, and wear long-curled or ruffin-like hair;" nor were the boys of Mayfield, as was the case there, forbidden to wear long-curled, frizzled, or powdered or ruffin-like hair, or to cut it in such sort or manner that both the beauty of their fore-
- ↑ The grave is on the north side of the chancel, about six rods therefrom, about in a line with the end wall.
