I had purchasd a very agreable house at Grantham, where I then fixed my self; hoping, by riding & exercise, to alleviate the fitts of the gout. but the house that Sr. Isaac desired to buy at that time in possession of Mr Seckar, who lived in it, was not then to be had. on which head I wrote to him. & this prov'd to be the last act of my correspondence with him. he dy'd the beginning of the next year. Sr. Michael Newton, a relation of Sr. Isaacs lived now at Hather, near Grantham. he stood candidate at a election for members of parliament. Mr Conduit who marryed Sr. Isaac's niece, wrote to me to give my interest to Sr. Michael
. & a correspondence now commencing between us, he desired me to give him all the informations I cd. collect, relating to Sir Isaac. for he was preparing to draw up an account of his life
. had he lived to have done it, it would assuredly have superseded this publication. but as we have no hope of that, I was willing to contribute my endeavors toward that end, by the present work.
it was a misfortune that Mr Chrichloe apothecary there, with whom my brother had been apprentice, dy'd but a little before I fix'd my abode at the place. he was 84 years of age, somewhat older than Sir Isaac, when they were alive together.
