Paid Mr Sam Beckett on account in cash 1.10.0. We dined on some biscuit sopped. In the afternoon wrote out Mr Darby’s bill. In the evening Thomas Davy and I walked down to Laughton to know when Wickersham could fetch me some coal. Thomas Davy came back with me, to whom I read the 5th book of Milton’s Paradise Lost. A very hot day and a very remarkable hot and dry time.