…In the evening went down to Jones’s, in company with Joseph Fuller, Mr Long, Mr Thornton and James Marchant, to take part of a forfeit which Joseph Fuller paid to be off a bet which he had made with Mr Thornton. The bet was for a guinea that Mr Saxby had either a horse or mare that would go (one pace) from the park gate on the leigh of Laughton to the Cat in Cats Street [now Cade St., Heathfield] within the hour (being between 9 and 10 miles and very uneven ground), but Mr Thornton laid he had not.
We stayed and spent 7½d apiece besides Joseph Fuller’s forfeit and I came home about 10:20 sober. But little to do all day. My uncle Hill called on me in the morning, but did not stay.