After breakfast Joseph Fuller and I walked down to Halland in order to consult Mr Coates in regard to Burrage’s affair, from whence I went to Bentley and came back and dined with Mr Coates on part of a neck of mutton stewed, and piece of beef dressed a la mode (my servants at home dining on a piece of bacon boiled, a plain suet pudding and turnips)…
Joseph Fuller Jr smoked a pipe with me in the evening, as did Mr French, who poor creature is I think quite stupid through drinking.