In the forenoon my brother called at my house in his road to Lewes; I gave him the £2 to pay my mother, which she paid to Mr Wharton in part of the bill I received from Mr Wharton by my brother the 7th instant. I also gave him in cash 1.3.0, with which he is to pay Mr George Lambert in full on my account…
In the evening went down to Jones’s, there being a vestry to consult further about Thomas Daw’s affair. It was agreed that the parish should borrow of John Watford the sum of £20 and pay interest for the same after the rate of four pounds percent per annum, and for which Mr Joseph Burgess and myself should give our notes of hand for in behalf of the rest of the parishioners of this said. parish; and that we should lend them the said money upon mortgage to Thomas Daw, to bear interest at four pounds percent per annum.
I came home about 8 o’clock. After I came home, I read 3 of Tillotson’s sermons…