Robert Goodbody Journal

afterwards. My grandmother acted as Alice Simmons mother and perhaps my uncle Joshua Pim as father, but I am not certain whether he was there or not. Sally Clibborn afterwards Metcalf, was then a most beautiful young woman and I presume it was there Francis Metcalf first got acquainted with her. They were married the next year. There was great grief the morning after when Alice Simmons was leaving us with the whole family. She was of a most amiable disposition. I sometimes think what a job there must have been to get up a large dinner in two rooms, and also a large supper. The tea was taken in a room upstairs, or rather two rooms, both which are still standing, the bedstead being taken down and it converted into what is called a drawing room, but how poor such a thing would now appear. But still everything was of very best, both of eating and drinking, and also variety of dishes, but at that day the sweets, some of them, were laid on the table with the meat.

In the 4th month 1794 after the quarterly meeting my brother Thomas and I went to Ballitore School. My father's men went with us to bring home our horses, as we rode. In our company we had Sarah Shackelton and Jane Thomas, also Abraham Shackelton, of course 6 horses. All those persons except myself are long since dead.

The first time my brother Thomas and I was in Dublin was at the winter meeting in the 11th month 1793, Job Scott being there. We thought a very great place then. We lodged at Thomas Pim's and Robert Simmons, no 34, Back-lane. It was then a good new house. They were wholesale Woollen Drapers. That part of the city is wonderfully reduced since. I passed it lately and could hardly recognise the house, the canal being then under repair. My Aunt Goodbody, and some other of the family I don't

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