…Paid Thomas Freeman by the post boy 4/6 in full for half a dozen pattens received by him today. Dame Novice dined with me on a bullock’s cheek stewed and French beans. Dame Durrant drank tea with me. In the evening walked over to Master Russell’s and bought of him 6 pockets of hops at 47/6 per cwt and gave him in hand five guineas; the hops [?] Joseph Fuller Jr and myself are to be joint partners in.