…Molly French and Mrs Browne, together with Mr Long, drank tea with me, and in the evening we, together with Thomas Durrant and Samuel French, played at brag; I won 12d, and they all supped with me on some bread and cheese, and went away about 11:20.
Rec’d of Edward Alcorn 8/4 in full. Rec’d of the Widow Browne £1… of Widow Page by the payment of her son John 2.16.0…of John Cayley 1.6.0 in full for half a year’s land tax due at St Michael last. Rec’d of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle by the payment of Mr Will Michell (to Thomas Davy from whom I received it) in cash 7.19.0 in full for half a year’s land tax due at St Michael last, for Halland House and woods.