| Disgrifiad | Has received £6 for the discharging of cousin Bold and his man's quarterage due at Christmas and also £5 for cousin Richard Lloyd's half year. His wife presents her compliments to Owen, his Lady Master Bold and all the family, and returns her thanks for the cheese. Cousin Bold's memory is short and though the writer reads to him 'Janua Linguarum' in English to better his reading and to improve his knowledge in the tongue, yet for want of a retentive faculty, his proficiency is not correspondent to the means that were used. He exercised him much in composing epistles and dialogues. He is very blameless in his morals unless he sometimes hyperbolizes a little in his discourse.
Milk and flesh at night did not agree with him, therefore the writer advised his wife to give him a toasted cake in a little mellow ale. the shorter his stay in the country the better it will be for him. The writer will make as much of him as a schoolmaster and kinsman can. Dick Lloyd and Robert Griffith are well improved in their knowledge of school learning. Has conferred with the doctor concerning the vertigo; he says the cure is very easy once the cause is known. Has tumbled brother John's papers and books to find what they say, and finds that peacock's dung beaten into powder and taken both in the morning upon ale and fast two hours after it, is "very soveraygne". |