About 6:45 Mr Joseph Burgess and I set out for Lewes on foot, to ask advice whether we could remove Elizabeth Day, a certificate person to our parish (but now big with child), but none of the justices being in town, their clerk, Mr Ed Verral, informed us that we could not remove her. But the child, though born a bastard, would not belong to this parish… When I came back, I dined on the remains of what my family left; viz., some cold duck and some cold bullock’s heart pie…
After I came back from Lewes, wrote a letter for Joseph Fuller to Mr George Tomlin, hop-factor, with 1 pocket hops. Rec’d by the post today from Mr John Collison 4 Lottery. tickets. No. 66612 is Mrs Atkins’s; No. 66546 is my wife’s, in which two tickets my wife and Mrs Atkins are to be share and share alike if it should be their fortune to have a prize in either of the tickets; No. 6643 between my brother and self; and No. 66611 is to be between Thomas Davy and our servant. N.B.: I received 10/6 of my brother the 22nd instant for his half of mine. In the evening Thomas Davy at our house to whom I read a sermon preached by the Rev Mr James Hervey, A.M., rector of Weston-Favell in Northamptonshire, being preached on some of the late fast days. I bought 3 of them today at Lewes, being lately published and stitched together. John Watford at work a-gardening for me all day…