_Nov._ 14_th_.—After dinner, I found a giddiness in my head making me unable to walk, and a kind of dumb confusion in my head. I wrote to Mr. Heaviside to come, which he did and ordered immediate cupping. {51} The next morning my complaint was gone. 1814, _May_ 30_th_.—Received from Mr. Sydenham Malthus the melancholy news of my son’s death at Exmouth, from the rupture of a blood-vessel in the lungs. 1817, _Feb._ 15_th_.—My grandson Henry died this morning. 1826, _June_ 16_th_.—In chaise to Guildford, the County election, voted for Mr. Sumner and Mr. Denison. {52a} _Sept._ 19_th_.—With Mary and Miss Davis, in a chaise, by Horsham and Henfold to the ‘Albion’ at Brighton. Dined and lay there; walked on the Chain Pier. 20_th_.—To Seaford, Eastbourne. Dined and lay at the ‘Hope’ in the Sea-houses. 21_st_.—To the Castle Hotel, Hastings; through Winchelsea to Rye; New Romney, dined and lay there. 22_nd_.—To Hythe, through Folkestone to Dover; saw the harbour; returned to Hythe, the ‘Sun,’ dined there. To Ashford, and lay there. _Sept._ 23_rd_.—To Lenham ‘Star’ at Maidstone; Wrotham Heath; Sevenoaks; Godstone to Reigate; Called on Mr. Glover; Dorking; Shere before 7. {52b} 1828, _Dec._ 24_th_.—Such has been the decay in my eyesight the whole of this year that I have not been able to read either print or MS., though I have continued to write letters, as I am writing on this 24th of December. I cannot read it when written. I have also lost my hearing in one ear in a great degree; subject to this, my bodily health has been what may be called good. I have been obliged to pay more than £1,100 by the treachery of a clerk, and the malice of one who had been long attempting, and at last effected a loss of long friendship with Mrs. Wigzell. {53a} 1832, _July_ 5_th_.—Mr. Linnell, a portrait painter was sent by my grandson Reginald to paint a portrait of me. I had five sittings. _Oct._ 18_th_.—I sent my curious MS. of the Bishops’ estates seized and sold by Cromwell to Mr. Ellis, {53b} to be presented to the Trustees of the British Museum. MR. BRAY’S LAST MEMORANDUM _Dec._ 17_th_.—A little rain; at home. Paid Higgins {53c} 8_s._ 3_d._ * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET * * * * * FOOTNOTES {6} It appears from his account of the Evelyn Family, in the second volume of the ‘History of Surrey,’ that he had read these Memoirs as long before as 1809. {7a} Whom he afterwards married. She was the daughter of Mr. Stevens, of Perry Hill, Worplesdon, and lived with her aunt, Mrs. Norwood, at Guildford. She was two years older than Mr. Bray, who was then only two months past 19. {7b} Mr. Flutter and his brother were Mayors of Guildford more than once, and the name of Flutter appears twice in the list of Mayors in the reign of Charles II.