Source: Welbeck Abbey: RCHM xxix vi 172
Title: Portland Manuscripts
Date: 22 October 1738
Place: Surrey

I set out from Dover Street in my chariot and six horses, attended by Rawlings on horseback, Thomas Theobalds in horseback, William Pluckrose leading my horse, Ben the keeper on the seventh coach horse, Charles Barlee behind the chariot. We thus proceeded till we were stopped on this side Hounslow for the horse to be changed that was newly shod and cut to the quick. We reached Staines, were I stopped to give the horses some hay and water. From thence to Bagshot where I lay, having appointed the colonel to meet me there. He came from Oxford, and arrived in the evening in good health. Here we lay and had good accommodation.

A travel journal in the hand of the second Earl of Oxford