Diary of Rev Edward Stevens

Drove Bell, Katie and Frank to Tadmarton. Called on the Rector – no one at home.

Webb returned from his holiday.

Met Mr Mann and his elder son Adrian this evening near the church when I was out for a walk with Bell. Mr Adrian Mann is engineer on board a steamship.

Mr Mann told me that Richard Lamb had taken out a license for shooting game for a kinsman or connection of nis named Harris, that he got all the right of shooting in the neighbourhood he could and sent the game obtained to Banbury market. Mr Mann and the other farmers do not seem to like the system.

Received a letter from John Young, a Sibford boy, and not a very satisfactory one who has been in London two or three years at work on a milk walk. He writes from 2 Gregory Place, Holland Street, Kensington and asks me to recommend him to the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police.

I replied that he should go to the clergyman of the parish where he had been living the past two or three years as he would know more about him than I could.

Visited Thomas Green, Mrs Horsman, John Hathaway, Henry Bishop, William Webb, Eli Webb.

Unsettled weather.