We returned to the town dined together
we then returned took the parting hand
with Elders Banks & Hardy & all the Saints
Elder Hardy has had the small pox of late
but is getting well over it. We rode to Liverpool & I spent the night at home. 35 m[iles]
I lade hands upon 10 sick while in preston
~ Tuesday
11th I recieved two Letters & wrote
one To Br Henry McCureden & gave
him a sharp reproof I had a visit in the
evening of Br & sister Haywood & sister Clark
I blessed sisters Heywood & Clark. 4 [miles]
~ Wednesday
12th[FIGURE] In company with Sisters Woodruff Clark & Haywood I visited Lord Nelsons monument of Liverpool.
Opened on the 21 day of Oct 1813
The subscription commenced for this purpose
on the 15 Nov 1805 and finished the same year
amounting to about £9000. The first stone was
laid on the 15 July 1812. The whole of the
design was planned by Mathew Charles Wyatt
Esqr ^R. A^ of London. The monument which is
in Bronze was executed by Richard Westmacott
Esqr. R. A. London; the pedestal of hendal Marble
by Messrs Hetherington & Webster of this town.
Description of the Monument
The figures which constitute the principal design are
Nelson, victory, Death, his country mourning
for her loss, and her navy eager to avenge it,
naturally claim a place in the Group. The principal
figure is the Admiral, who resting one foot on
a conquered enemy and the other on a cannon
with an eye stedfast and upraised to victory
is recieving from her a fourth Naval crown upon
his sword which to indicate the loss of his
we returned to the town dined together
we then took the parting hand
with Elders Banks & Hardy & all the Saints
Elder Hardy has had the small pox of late
but is getting well over it. We rode to
Liverpool & I spent the night at home. 35 m
I lade hands upon 10 sick while in preston
~ Tuesday
11th FIGURES I recieved two Letters & wrote
one To Br Henry McCureden & gave
him a sharp reproof I had a visit in the
evening of Br & sister Haywood & sister Clark
I blessed sisters Heywood & Clark. 4
~ Wednesday
12th [FIGURE] In company with Sisters Woodruff
Clark & Haywood I visited Lord
Nelsons monument of Liverpool.
Opened on the 21 day of Oct 1813
The subscription commenced for this purpose
on the 15 Nov 1805 and finished the same year
amounting to about £9000. The first stone was
laid on the 15 July 1812. The whole of the
design was Planned by Mathew Charles Wyatt
Esqr of London. The monument which is
in Bronze was executed by Richard Westmacott
Esqr. R. A. London; the Pedestal of hendal Marble
by Messrs Hetherington & Webster of this town.
Description of the Monument
The figures which constitute the principal design are
Nelson, victory, Death, his country mourning
for her loss, and her navy eager to avenge it,
naturally claim a place in the Group. The principal
figure is the Admiral, who resting one foot on
a conquered enemy and the other on a cannon
with an eye stedfast and upraised to victory
is recieving from her a fourth Naval crown upon
his sword which to indicate the loss of his
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