About 4:05 Thomas Durrant and I set out for Lewes in order to get some punch bowls, but could not get any. I came home by Halland, where I breakfasted. Paid Ben Shelley… the sum of 34.13.4 in full for the same sum he paid in London for me… Thomas Durrant dined at our house on the remains of yesterday’s dinner.
To and fro at Halland all day. In the evening the Duke of Newcastle came to Halland. This day received a note of hand from my cousin Charles Hill for the bill, value £20, sent him the 10th ult… Paid Mr Faulkner Bristow 5/3 for 1 1b of chocolate bought of him today.