On Mar. 27th I went to visit Mrs Smith, my wife's mother, at Brampton near Chesterfield.

* JOHN PHILIPS, A poet of very considerable eminence, was son of Dr. Stephen Philips, arch-deacon of Salop, and born at Brampton in Oxfordshire, December 30, 1676.

He told his grandfather that he had been in combat with a giant; and frightened his poor mother at Brampton with long, and by no means authentic, accounts of the battle.