…In the afternoon I rode to Lewes to prove Mr Piper’s will and took my niece with me, Thomas Durrant carrying my niece on Mr Thornton’s mare. Came home about 9:40. Spent as under:
| The court fees | 1.18.4 |
| 1 bottle wine do. | 0.2.0 |
| Spent | 0.0.6 |
| Horses, turnpike, ostler | 0.0.9 |
| 2.1.7 |
My servant in my absence very busy today. I called nowhere in town today but on Mr John Madgwick.