1 April 1754 – 7 April 1754

We set out in the machine, and the next evening reached the Foundry.

I settled all the business I could and the next morning retired to Paddington. Here I spent some weeks in writing; only going to town on Saturday evenings, and leaving it again on Monday morning. In my hours of walking I read Dr. Calamy’s Abridgment of Mr. Baxter’s Life. What a scene is opened here! In spite of all the prejudice of education, I could not but see that the poor Nonconformists had been used without either justice or mercy; and that many of the Protesant bishops of King Charles had neither more religion nor humanity than the popish Bishops of Queen Mary.