Journey  to  SiiF.rpEHTON.
Monday,  October  31''  1757.  I  set  out  by  My.self  on  Horseback  from  mj'
Stables  in  "W^hite  Chapel,  Lmulon,  for  Shepperton,  ^  before  8  in  the  Morn'.
I  was  sent  by  Uncle  JSIauduit,  of  CuUum  Street,  with  a  Letter  to  Brook  Bridges
Esq'',  the  Brother  of  M"*  Ann  Carpenter,  a  Widow  Lady  of  a  good  fortune  in  Eed
Lyon  Street,  Holborn,  whom  my  Uncle  Courted.  The  above  Bridges,  Esq"'  a  Man
of  very  large  Fortune,  and  a  Whimsical  Old  Batchelor,  lodged  at  one  M'  Hughes'.'^,
next  Door  to  y'=  Kings  Head  at  Shepperton.
(Thursday,  December  8"'  1757.  Uncle  Jasper  Mauduit  was  Married  at  S'
Andrew's  Church,  Holborn,  to  the  Widow  Carpenter,  a  Lady  of  about  £800  per
Ann.  clear  Money.  They  were  both  turn'd  of  60  years  of  age.  Slie  was  my
Uncle's  S"^  Wife,  he  her  2''  Husl.and.)

See  Jasper  JIauduil's  "Sacramental  Ecflexious,"  page  29.
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Jasper  Mauduit  Esq''  who  died  lately,  having  iuibib'd  virtuous  ami  luiiit-si
principles,  acted  agreeably  and  consistently  through  life,  with  a  resolution  ami
firmness  not  often  practis'd  in  these  our  days.  lie  was  a  warm  and  active  frii'ud
to  civil  and  religious  Liberty  on  the  principles  of  toleration,  and  exerted  hiuiself
upon  all  occasions  in  support  of  it.  He  lamented  the  general  defection  and  want
of  fix'd  jJrinciples  as  destructive  to  every  thing  which  is  valuable.  In  his  wAk
thro'  life  he  was  affable  and  frank.  There  was  in  hiin  an  liumanc  affecfiun  whicii
always  discover'd  itself  to  those  whom  he  esteeui'd  fur  tlieir  virtue;  to  the  piutli-
gate  and  designing  he  was  reservM  and  cool.
Lament,  Eeadcr,  the  loss  the  publick  sustains,  but  let  not  his  memory  be  lust
to  Posterity.
