With the page inverted relative to the foliation, half the page is taken up with the following pencil notes:
28 Earle __ of Hull
of Geo III p. 1806
oct 6 1806
[?Turner] Cliffords Inn –
a [?Italian]
‘28 of Geo III’ is legal phraseology to indicate a law enacted in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of George III (1760–1820). Clifford’s Inn was an inn of chancery (a society of solicitors and attorneys) in London’s legal district; it was sold off in 1903 and demolished in 1934 except for a small gatehouse which survives down Clifford’s Inn Passage, running north off Fleet Street just west of St Dunstan-in-the-West’s Church and Fetter Lane.
1 The significance of the information remains to be established.
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, a large sailing ship is shown, apparently with a small sailing boat behind or beyond it. These may have been observed off Margate or in the Pool of London (see the Introduction).
