14 May

Sunday 14.^th Attended Chapel in the morn^~g, & being Whit

Sunday, the Sacrament ## was administed, in which I

(invitus, fateor) partook: & which cost me half a crown.

It was a most lovely day, but I spent the greater part

of it in my room, complet’g the Index to the Holkham

Catal. At 5 oC. went to Mr Gaisford‘s in Holywell, and

found besides myself, only one guest invited, viz. Mr

Surtees the Durham Historian, formerly of Christ Ch.

& a fellow Collegn. of Mr G‘s. The ev’g passed very pleasantly

& Mr G. was particularly civil & attentive to me.

Surtees is a great chatterer, & nearly got into a scrape,

for he began speaking of the new B’p. of Durham, Dr Van

Mildert, in very free terms: not knowing or _^^not recollectg,

that Gaisford had married the Bp’s niece. Gaisford

however very prudently avoided the shock, by saying

he knew nothing of the B’p.