“At Dunstable Hill j met Mr. Stanhope with your friend Dr. Courayer, and not far from Northampton my Lady Halifax[367] going to London to lye in, and afterwards my Lord,[368] with whom j had some discourse, and who was so civil as to say he hoped j intended calling on him at Horton. I said j would take some other opportunity of paying my respects. We had yesterday the company of Lord Wentworth[369] and a brother[370] of the great Mr. Lyttelton, who is a Clergyman, at dinner. The former of whom is a very pretty kind of man, and the other will be a Bishop.” [367] _Née_ Anne Dunk, a great heiress. [368] George Montagu Dunk, 5th Earl of Halifax. [369] Edward, 9th Baron Wentworth. [370] Charles Lyttelton, afterwards Bishop of Carlisle. [Page heading: DERBY] Arrived at Derby, Mr. Montagu writes, “The town is finely situated, and the country good about it, but the famous engine[371] for silk weaving being out of order, j am afraid we must go away without seeing it.” [371] Invented by Mr. John Lombe, one great wheel turning 99,947 smaller wheels! [Page heading: MANCHESTER] On September 5 Mr. Montagu writes from Manchester-- “We lay last night at Buxton, which is a mean town, very romantic and surrounded with barren hills, and this morning, after travelling over about ten miles of very hilly country, some of which afforded very delightful prospects, and about 12 miles over a rich, flat country, we came here. This town is in the general, old, but some good houses have been built, and are daily building. The Collegiate Church is very handsome. It is very populous, and contains, as they say, about 70,000 people, and drives a prodigious trade. “To-morrow we pursue our journey. We propose to lye at Skipton in Craven, which if we do, we shall reach Burton in good time the next day.” Burton was Mr. Buckley’s[372] home. [372] With whom the three younger Robinson boys had lived. We must now return to Mrs. Montagu. Tunbridge Wells agreed with her, her spirits mended, and to the duchess’s inquiries she states-- “I can eat more buttered roll in a morning than a great girl at a boarding school, and more beef at dinner than a yeoman of the Guards; I sleep well, and am indeed in perfect health, and the waters have done me much service.” [Page heading: DR. YOUNG] With Dr. Young’s company she was delighted, and she rode with him often. One ride she describes thus--