INDEX
Reading edition
Abercorn, Marquis of, 347
Aldworth, Richard, 72
Allen, Alderman (father-in-law of Arthur Young), 32
— —(son of the above), 60
— Mrs., 36, 38
Althorp, Lord, 313
Amorette, Abate, 176
Anson, Mr., 394
Arbuthnot, Mr. (son of Viscount Arbuthnot), 66, 92, 97, 98, 124
Armstead, Mrs., 260
Aspin, Miss, 15
Attwood, Mr., 471
Auckland, Lord, 314
Augusta of Saxe Gotha (Princess of Wales), 16
B., Countess of, 29
Baker, Whyman, 88, 111
Balgrave, Rev. —, 355
Banks, Sir Joseph, 150, 151, 163, 165, 167, 174, 201, 224, 321, 339, 350
Baroude, A. F., 464 note
Barrington, Dr. (Bishop of Durham), 254, 348, 352, 358, 376
Barry, James (painter), 115-118
Bayley, Butterworth, 59
Bedford, fifth Duke of, 172, 206, 244, 245, 246, 254, 256, 273, 276, 301, 313, 318, 330, 351, 360, 363, 372, 374, 375
476Bedford, sixth Duke of, 372, 373 note, 374, 383, 384, 396, 444
Bentham, Jeremy, 247, 249, 308, 341
Bentinck, Lady Mary, 327
— Lord Charles, 328
Berchtold, Count Leopold, 167 and note, 168-170, 180
Bernard, Mr., 376
Berry, Edward, 323
— Miss Jane. See Young, Mrs. Arthur, daughter-in-law of Arthur Young
Bolton, M.P., Cornelius, 75, 80
Boswell, 191
Boyd, Hugh, 92-97
Bristol (Bishop of Derry), Earl of, 101, 102, 103-105, 113, 128-131, 228
— Countess of, 225, 227, 243
Brudenell, Mr., 18
Brunswick, Duke of, 355, 356
Bryant, Jacob, 245 and note, 291
Buccleugh, Duke of, 245, 256, 261
Bukaty, M., 159, 180 and note
Bulkeley, Lady Frances, 52
Bunbury, Sir C., 412
Burdett, Sir Francis, 345, 449, 451
Burgoyne, Montague, 418, 419
Burke, Edmund, 67, 93, 174, 232, 256-261, 302, 345, 428
— W., 257, 428
Burney, Dr. Charles, 23 and note 12, 51, 65, 92, 100, 101, 115, 144, 181, 194, 196, 197, 214, 232, 250, 299, 326
— Fanny. See Arblay, Madame d’
—Sarah, 215 and note
Burrell, Sir Peter, 164
Burton, Colonel (afterwards Lord Cunningham), 67, 68
Bute, Lord, 192, 355, 412
Cadell (the publisher), 395
Cadogan, Lady, 313
Caldwell, Sir James, 69, 70, 75
Camden, Lord, 304
Canham, the elder, Bartholomew, 2
Canning, Mr., 327, 362 note
Carew, Pole, 202
Carnot, M., 307 and note
Carrington, Lord, 314, 315, 319, 333 note, 351, 356, 360, 361, 363, 370, 379, 393, 407, 413
Cartier, M., 157
Cartwright, Dr., 367, 373, 374, 396
Castiglioni, Count di, 176
Castries, Marshal de, 240
Catherine, Empress, 124
Charlemont, Earl of, 75
Chester, Bishop of, 97, 98
Chesterfield, Lord, 33, 34, 49
Chevalier, Rev. M., 14
Cibber, Mrs., 15
Clermont, Lord, 211
Clive, Lord, 49
Cobbett, William, 442
Cocks, Sir Charles (afterwards Lord Somers), 52
Coke, J. W., 212, 384, 385, 386, 400, 432, 444
Cole, Charles, 243, 245, 255, 290, 297, 304, 368
Colhoun, Mr., 363
Cornwallis, Archbishop, 139
— Marquis of, 205
Cotton, Lady, 338
Coulter, Rev. Mr. (Master of Lavenham School), 7, 8, 23
Courtenay, Sir W., 192
Cousmaker, John, 103
— John de, 3, 126
— Miss, 102, 103
— — Anne Lucretia de. See Young, Mrs. (mother of Arthur Young)
478Coventry, Lady, 20
Cowper’s ‘Letters,’ quoted, 410
Coxe, Archdeacon, 236
Crewe, Mrs., 214, 233, 259, 260, 327
— Mr., 326
Crosse, Lady, 17
Danby, Mr., 50, 55, 76
Darnley, Earl of, 245
Dartmouth, Lord, 236
Day, Thomas (author of ‘Sandford and Merton’), 166 and note
Derry, Bishop of. See Bristol, Earl of
Doddington, George Bubb, 12, 161
Douglas, Bishop, 236, 304
Dryden (quoted), 35
Ducket, Mr., 172
Dundas, Lady Jane, 327
— Mr., 261, 327
Dundonald, Lord, 160
Dunstanville, Lord de, 245
Durham, Bishop of. See Barrington, Dr.
Edward Augustus, Prince. See York, Duke of
Egremont, Lord, 111, 179, 244, 245, 275, 299, 313, 315, 317, 324, 352, 358, 360, 363, 434
Elizabeth, Princess (daughter of George II.), 16
Ellerton, Mr., 50
Erne, Lady, 267
Estissac, Duchess d’, 175
Euston, Lord, 365
Fawcett, Sir William, 329
Fielding, Sir John, 69
Fife, Lord, 112
Folkes, Sir Martin, 2, 11
Forbes, Mrs., 252, 253
Fordyce, Lady Margaret, 338
— Sir William, 147
479Forster, Lord Chief Baron, 75
Foster, Lady Elizabeth, 468, 469
Fox, Charles James, 202, 227, 233, 234, 259, 424, 425
— Henry (afterwards Lord Holland), 16, 134, 164
Freeman, Miss, 20
Frere, J. H., 362 note
Fry, Mr., 391, 395, 398, 407
Gage, Sir Thomas, 191
Garrick, 10, 15, 22, 31, 32
— Mrs., 245
George II., 16
— III., 112, 132, 138, 160, 178, 190, 224, 237, 268, 321, 322
George, Prince (afterwards George III.), 16
— — (afterwards George IV.), 192
Gibbon, Edward, 258, 259, 468
Gifford, W., 362 note
Gloucester, Duke of, 371
Gordon, Duchess of, 334
Gough, Captain, 5
Grafton, Duchess of, 139, 140
— Duke of, 139, 140, 141, 193, 201, 211, 239, 254, 305, 325, 361, 362, 372, 382, 426, 438, 454 note
Granby, Marquis of, 355
Gray, Thomas (the poet), quoted, 89, 90
Green, Valentine, 59
Grenville, Lord, 360, 435
Grey, Sir Charles (afterwards first Earl Grey), 327
— — — (afterwards second Earl Grey), 233, 234, 235, 424
Grigby, Joshua, 390
Guerchy, Comtesse de, 186, 187
Gurney, Rev. Mr., 462
Halifax, Dr., 372, 376
— Earl of, 67, 75
Hardwicke, Lord, 338
Hardy, Professor, 238
Harvey, Fenton, 20
Hastings, Warren, 164
Hawke, Lord, 241
Hawkesbury, Lady, 267
Hawksworth, Dr., 343
Héritier, C. de l’, 367 and note
Hertford, Marquis of, 427
Hervey, General, 105, 106
— Lady Mary, 267 and note
Hesketh, Lady, 233
Hill, Rev. Rowland, 359
Hoar, Captain, 350, 352
Holdernesse, Lord, 56
Holroyd, John Baker (afterwards Lord Sheffield, q.v.), 58
Hoole, Mrs., 189, 198, 246, 250, 252
— John, 189
— Rev. Samuel, 189, 246, 251, 252, 361, 362
Howard, Sir Charles, 28
— John, 59, 60, 248
Howlett, Rev. —, 97, 285
Hutchinson, Rev. Mr., 336
Huthhausen, Baron, 173
Ingoldsby, Dr., 19
— General, 4, 5, 6, 7
— Mrs., 6, 10
Jarré, General, 123
Jarvis, Lord, 267
Jefferys, Mr. and Mrs., 73
Jenkinson, Mr., 256
Jenyns, Soame, 244, 245
Jermyn, Sir Thomas, 2
Jobson, Rev. Mr., 337
John of Austria, Archduke, 463, 464
Joy, Mrs., 19
Kalaskowski, Count, 144
Keene, Mr. and Mrs., 3
Kennon, Mrs. Sidney, 10, 11, 12, 13
Keppel, Lord, 108
Kingsborough, Lord, 76, 77-80
Kinsman, Mr. (master of Bury St. Edmunds School), 7
Lafayette, 191
Lamb, Mr. (King’s Messenger), 45
Lambert, Captain, 29
Langford, Dr., 142
Latrobe, B. H., 172
Lauderdale, Lord, 314, 397
Law, Thomas, 229
Lawrence, Dr., 345
Leeds, Duke of, 51
— Sir George, 472
Leigh, Mr. (Clerk of the House of Commons), 261, 262
Liverpool, Lord, 339
Llandaff, Bishop of. See Watson, Richard
Longford, Lord, 71
Loughborough, Lord, 86, 98, 207, 208, 219
Louisa, Princess (daughter of George II.), 16
Luther, Mr., 179
Macartney, Lord, 196
Macaulay, General, 460, 462
Macklin, Rev. Mr., 154, 267, 274
Macpherson, Sir John, 224, 225, 239
Macro, Mr., 170
Magellan, Mr., 150
Manchester, Duke of, 367, 395
March, Lord, 140, 141
Marlborough, Duke of, 26
Martin, Professor, 147
Massalski, Prince (Bishop of Wilna), 52
Mauduit, Israel, 255 and note
Medlicott, Mr., 71
Milbank, Lady, 350
482Mildmay, Sir A. St. John, 348
Milner, Dean, 371 and note, 372
— Professor, 150
Miripoix, M. de (French Ambassador), 17
Moira, Lord, 243, 304
Moncrief, Sir Henry, 238
Montagu, Mrs., 233, 243, 244, 245, 312, 349, 358, 386
Montrose, Duke of, 245, 347
Mordaunt, Lady Mary, 52
More, Hannah, 233, 245, 246, 473
Mouron, M., 124
Murray, General, 171
Nepean, Mr., 341, 342
Neve, Miss, 467
Neville, Mr., 134
Newcastle, Duke of, 16
North, Lord, 60, 107, 201
— Rev. Mr., 344
Northey, Mr., 363
Oakes, Orbell Ray, 154, 266, 382, 388, 406
— Mrs. Orbell Ray, 266 and note, 270, 320, 321, 354, 359, 370 note 211, 382, 385, 388, 392, 438, 443, 444, 445, 446, 453
O’Connor, A., 317 and note
Oliver, Right Hon. Silver, 74
Onslow, Dr., 191
— General, 4, 15, 16, 191
— Lady, 20
— Mr. Speaker, 4, 20, 28
Orde, Mrs., 245
Orford, Earl of, 60, 206, 207, 233
Ossory, Lord, 331, 332, 395
Overton, J., 376 and note
Pakenham, Mr., 460, 461
Paley, Dr., 378
Parkyn, Mr., 367
Partridge, Rev. S., 280
Patulle, M., 36, 40, 42
Pearson, Dr., 376
Pelham, Lord, 381
Peterborough, Bishop of, 147
Peterson, Lady, 20
483Petty, Lord Henry, 370
Phillips, Sir John, 17
Pigot, Admiral, 193
Pitt, William, 134, 137, 161, 166, 201, 203, 219, 221, 254, 255, 306, 314, 315, 327, 345, 346, 363, 371, 424, 427
Plampin, Betsy. See Oakes, Mrs.
— Captain John, 154, 423
Polignac, Prince and Princess de, 162 and note
Popple, Mr. (Governor of Bermuda), 13
Porteus, Bishop, 178, 179
Portland, Duke of, 51, 326
Potemkin, Prince, 102, 125
Poulett, Mr., 246
Preston, Lord, 367, 368
Priestley, Dr., 99, 150-153, 439
Queensberry, Duke of, 192
Radnor, Lord, 161
Richardson, Samuel, 192
Richmond, Legh, 460
Roberts, Dr., Provost of Eton, 142
Robertson, Messrs. (of Lynn), 22, 23
Rochefoucault, Counts de la, 119-121, 154
Rochester, Bishop of, 4, 28
Rockingham, Marquis of, 42, 50
Roper, Dr., 52
Ross, Bishop, 160
Rosslyn, Lord, 360
Rossmore, Lord, 347
Rostopchin, Count, 387, 401
Rumford, Count, 323
Ryder, Lady Susan, 327, 328
— Mr., 327, 386
St. Vincent, Earl of, 418, 419
Sambosky, Rev. —, 124, 125
484Scott, Rev. Thomas, 349, 359, 391, 392
Seabright, Sir John, 463
Shelburne, Earl of (afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne), 67, 69, 102
Shelley, Mr., 20
Sheridan, R. B., 164 and note, 234
Sidmouth, Lord, 419, 434, 460
Simeon, Rev. Charles, 369, 395, 397, 398, 399, 400
Sinclair, Sir J., 159 and note 119, 160, 219, 220, 224, 241, 242, 243, 245, 247, 256, 299, 314, 315, 316, 413, 414, 437, 443, 464
Smirenove, Mr., 387, 400
Somers, Lord, 359
Somerville, Lord, 245, 315, 316, 318, 347, 361, 363, 384, 385, 404
Souga, Anthony (Austrian Consul), 169
Spencer, Lord, 313, 367
Stafford, Lord, 161
Stanhope, Lady, 313
— Philip, 33
Stanislas, King, 119
Stonehewer, Mr., 193, 346
Sturton, Sir Thomas, 344
Symonds, Professor John, 103, 114 and note 84, 120-124, 129, 140, 144, 146, 154, 160, 184, 192, 201, 210, 236, 239, 253, 283, 295, 304, 344, 355, 362, 368, 400, 412, 419-421
Thornhill, Major, 78, 79
Thurlow, Lord, 161
Tillet, Mr. de, 170
Tomlinson, Mr., 22
— Mrs. (sister of Arthur Young), 20, 22, 126
Tour du Pin, Count de la, 257
Townshend, Lord, 136
Trant, Mr. and Mrs., 73
Tuam, Archbishop of, 75
485Turner, Miss, 15
Turton, Dr., 264, 273, 274
Vary, Mr., 140, 141, 193
Vassy, Governor, 4
Voltaire (quoted), 39
Wakefield, Edward, 75 and note
Washington, General, 189, 191, 360
Watson, Richard (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff), 97, 123, 124, 147, 150, 177-180, 236, 237, 254, 375
Way, Miss, 467
Wellesley, Marquis of, 451
Wentworth, Lord, 245
Whitbread, Samuel, 52, 59, 161
Wight, Alexander, 84 and note
Wilberforce, William, 201, 287 and note 180, 288, 289, 297, 307, 325 and note, 326, 345, 348, 359, 371, 375, 407, 454 note, 457, 459
Wilkes, John, 10
Willes, Mr. Justice, 52
Willoughby, Sir C., 351, 413
Winchester, Earl of, 245
Winchilsea, Earl of, 244, 315, 351, 363, 388, 466, 470
Windham, William, 161
Wollaston, Dr., 277
Wurtemburg, Queen of, 425
Wyndham, M.P., Mr., 259
Yeldham, John, 47
York, Duke of, 16, 266, 327
486York, Mrs., 245
Young, Rev. Dr. (father of Arthur Young, writer of the Autobiography), 2-6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 24
— Mrs. (mother of Arthur Young), 3, 22, 24, 28, 56, 57, 61, 77, 81, 126
— Arthur (son of Arthur Young), 51, 139, 143, 299, 317, 318, 323, 352, 363, 382, 402, 403, 406, 408, 415, 418, 428, 429, 432, 448, 456, 457, 464
— Mrs. Arthur (wife of Arthur Young), 32 and note 29, 46, 81, 142, 146, 319, 339, 389, 413, 424, 429, 438, 457, 460
— — — (daughter-in-law of Arthur Young), 323, 397, 398, 399, 404, 409, 415, 429, 446, 448, 457
— Bartholomew (grandfather of Arthur Young), 2
— Elizabeth (‘Bessy’) (second daughter of Arthur Young), 51, 146, 181, 189. See also Hoole, Mrs.
— Elizabeth Mary (‘Elisa Maria’) (sister of Arthur Young), 1, 15, 19, 20. See also Tomlinson, Mrs.
— Rev. Dr. John (brother of Arthur Young), 2, 9, 57, 107, 127, 132, 138-143
— Martha Ann (‘Bobbin’) (youngest daughter of Arthur Young), 110 and note 83, 158, 159 note 118, 184, 185, 263-284, 286, 287, 290, 294, 295, 298, 323, 382, 423
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Transcriber’s Note
In the Table of Contents, the page for Chapter I was missing and has been supplied. The page given for Chapter III was ‘4’ and has been replaced by the correct page 44.
The Index has frequent references to footnotes, mentioning the page and number on those pages. Since all footnotes have been renumbered sequentially, for uniqueness, across the text, the Index references have been modified to reflect the new numbers.
On p. 223, Young includes a memorandum from August 21, opening with a quotation mark which is never closed. Judging from the tone of the memorandum, it is likely that it closes at the end of a long paragraph on p. 224 (see below).
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.
32.23 [I ]shall make the tea Added.
58.13 were the numbers ascertained.[’] Removed.
187.30 quoted particulars o[f] yearly expenses Restored.
211.11 ‘Last night, in[s]tead of reading Inserted.
213.13 on the p[oli/la]ce of corn and capital employed Probable.
224.22 secretaryship of the Board.[’] Added.
284.26 dwells upon the present.[’] Added.
306 the study of polite letters[.] Added.
315.27 the same answer was [r]eturned Restored.
381.16 I have taken places[.] Added.
393.31 ‘Der Augenblick ist Ewigkeit.[’] Added.
459.12 general anxiety and app[r]ehension Inserted.
Transcription of Manuscript Letter after p. 188
The following is a transcription of a letter from Arthur Young to his wife Mary. There are several place names that resist transcription in indicated with bracketed dashes.
No 82
Besançon July 27. 89
Dear Mary
I expected a Lr here, but was disappointed How comes yt: I hope not to be so at Dijon.
I think I wrote you fro Strasbourg: the day after at yt place 20,000 mob pillaged the Hotel d. Ville a house 3 times as big as the Angel & almost tore it in pieces: It was well furnished, but all turn’d out of windows in sight of 6 Regim.ts who could not or w’d not do anything to save it. From yt time to this moment all has been riot in every place I have been at. I spent a day at Schelestad with the Ct. de la Rochefoucauld who was very civil & obliging but on ye qui vive for populace who are every where in motion At one place I was near being knocked on the head for want of a Tiers etat Cockade; and at another saved by self being an englishn. by explaining how ye Tiers etat pd no taxes but the Seigneurs all in England; proposing to them to do the same in France, they relished this, and believed yt I was not a Seigneur, but an honest fellow.
In this country worse & worse—they are burning and plundering chateaus, & hunt down the Seigneurs like wild beasts—some have been shot, others hanged, and hundreds driven out of the Country & ruined. You see by ye papers I suppose that the King is at Versailles bereft of Guards power, family & all but claps and huzzas: the Queen shut up at St Cyr; the Count d’Artois gone to Spain it is said but first to [————]; and all the Queen’s friends fled the Kingdom to escape halters. Never was such a revolution known or heard off. The towns are every where arming the tiers etat, so it will very soon be too late for the nobility to stir in their defence.
Pray tell Hyde to take Care that the acre in Grav P.field yt is to be inclosed be well dunged & sowed with cabbage seed I ordered fro [——] thro Bess—witht fail by the 20th. august in fine order. Write me how the Cabbages are, fro a little bed in [——] past Round garden; How does Cooper go on? I desire that Arthur may lose no time at home, but take Mr Symonds directions when to go to C. I have not had a Lr from him of 11 months; I suppose because I expressly desired one once a fortnight: But nothing surprizes me that come fro him; Eton has I hope has done so much for his head that it leaves nothing for his heart—God send it may prove so; & yt I have not impoverished myself for nothing.
Give my dear Bobbin a Kiss for me & tell her I shall write her a Lr next.
Adieu Yr affectt AY
Remr me to yr Mother
Say nothing to Arth. abt writing; I had much rather have no Lr than such as those hints bring: observe this:
Miss Young
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