Rebecca too who was an Infant when we were there last was now a fine Girl of 6 Yrs & ½ old, there being now 2 younger than her, viz. Having the last time we were at Nottingham spent a delightful week at Matlock, 颜射 we were now determin'd on spending another Week there, & accordingly proposed it to the Williams's soon after we came, who readily agreed to accompany us there, & the more so, as Mr W. who had for sometime had a little obstinate cough hanging upon him, seem'd to think that a little change of Air, more Exercise than he was in the habit of taking at home, might be of service to him. Mr Harris (Sydney's Schoolmaster) & Mr Bogue Dissenting Minister of Gosport, who being on a Journey back from Scotland, came to stay a few days at Mr Williams's during which Visit we had prayers in the family twice a day, which he deliv'd extempore. Richard Birkin came from a humble family in Belper in Derbyshire to New Basford in the 1820s during the bobbin-net 'fever'. It was demolished in 1853, having been sold to Alderman Richard Birkin for £8,410, who built a warehouse and factory premises on the site.

With adjoining land, Richard Birkin, together with his son Thomas Isaac Birkin, built not only a new set of warehouses but had a new street, Broadway, laid out between St. Mary's Gate and Stoney Street. Allowing for the reform of the calendar in 1752, dying in the 'forty sixth year of his life', his birth date could have been between 1st July 1724 and 29th June 1725. Thus, there is just a possibility that Thomas, the son of William Williams of Chancefield, noted above, born on 28th June 1725, might be the same person. January, on our conversation happening to turn upon the Williams's, & my expressing myself as rather displeased at Mr W. with Sydney & Lydia not staying to see us when they were at Chichester on the day of our return from Worthing in the preceeding Sept'r, he observ'd that there seem'd to be some misunderstanding between us, as on their returning to Nottingham soon after that time (where he with my Brother Henry were then staying) Mr W. had express'd himself several times as displeased with us on account of my son John having told him at Salisbury, in his way to Chichester that we sho'd be glad to see him & the young people with him, when they came to Chichester but co'd give them no beds, on account of Henry & Edw'd (his other sons) being then with us.

Mrs Clerke being staying at Mrs Lennox's the Authoress at Westminster, we therefore on this day called & breakfasted with her there after which we all 3 went in Post Chaises to Gosport, which journey I must be so ungallant as to say was one of the most unpleasant ones I ever took, as besides Bandboxes innumerable that were to be stow'd withinside, Mrs C. had a Bird & a Squirrel in cages. As however the only message left by Mr Williams when at Chichester was „that they were obliged to return to Gosport without staying to see us, as on the day but one afterwards he had settled to be at Winchester on his return homeward“ we therefore had no more reason to know of Lydia's being to be left at Gosport than we had of Sydney's being left, & indeed we remain'd totally ignorant of her being so near us, 'till we receiv'd a Letter from my Sister a little before my Bro'r Will'm came to us in Nov'r in which she mention'd Lydia's having been staying a Month at Gosport for the sake of the sea bathing, which not agreeing with her, she had gone back to Mr Townsend, at Pewsey, where she had been staying before.

Catherine, about 4 Yrs old, & Pet of the family, & Will'm near 2. The young Men Sydney, John & Henry were also proportionally grown & alter'd. Inspired by the uniform of Prussian officers during the Napoleonic wars, men began to abandon stockings and knee breeches for trousers. On the next day (Tuesday 11th) the Races began to which however none of us went (except the Boys) but in the Evening all went to the usual Tuesday Evenings Lecture at Castlegate Meeting which was this Evening deliver'd by Mr Bogue who afterw'ds supped with Mr Williams at Mr Alliott the Dissenting Minister's, besides which they also this day breakfasted & dined out. It may be of interest to note here that when David Bogue died, on 25th October 1825, he was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's, Alverstoke, within twenty yards of the tomb of the Rev. Thomas Williams. On our return we found a Mr & Mrs Rawson at Mr Williams's who, with Mr Pearson supt with us, previous to which Mr Bogue said prayers, which fixt the unwieldy Mr Pearson upon his knees for a longer time than I believe he was used to, as he told Mr W. the next Morning he co'd have excused about half the Prayer.