…About 10:20 Thomas Fuller and I set out for Lewes where we arrived about 12:20. I paid the collector of the excise Joseph Durrant’s hop-duty, 0.7.6, and also Joseph Fuller’s, 1.17.4, both which sums I had received of them today for the same purpose…
I dined at Mr Friend’s on a hog’s cheek boiled, a chick roasted and some greens… I stayed at Mr Friend’s about 2 hours and came home very sober about 6:30. In the evening Thomas Cornwell made my wife a present of a pike 16 inches long from eye to fork, weighing about 2½ lbs; I gave him 6d. A very high wind all the afternoon, and in the evening as high as almost I ever knew it and extremely cold…