forgotten." The document referred to is in manuscript, and is entitled, "Extract from the Diary of Abraham De la Pryme Under -- date of December 29th, 1697 I heard a gentleman say that was in the ship with him about six years ago, that, as they were sailing over against Hastings, in Sussex, says Sir Cloudesley, ' Pilot, put neer, I have a little business a shore here,' so we put nere, and him and this gentleman went a land in the boat, and having walked about half-a-mile ashore, Sir Clowdsley came to a little house ; 'Come,' says he, to the gentleman, 'my business is here, I came on purpose to see the good woman of this house.' Upon which they knocked at the door, and out came a poor old woman, upon which Sir Clcwdsley kist her, and then fell down on his knees, begged her blesing, and called her mother (shee being his mother that had removed out of Yorkshire thither). He was mighty kind to her and shee to him, and after that he had pay'd his visit, he left her ten guineas, and took his leave with tears in his eyes, and departed to his ship."
The late Hon. R. Marsham-Townshend adds in his letter "Grossly inaccurate as De la Pryme was in his account of the early days of Sir Cloudesley, it is most interesting to find that the story of his visit to his mother at Hastings was already current in 1697, in the lifetime of both of them"
In the face of this interesting evidence there seems no reasonable doubt that Mrs. Shovell, otherwise Flaxman, resided in Hastings, and that Sir Cloudesley Shovell visited her at her house in All Saints' Street.
