After breakfast I rode to Maresfield to carry in the window and land tax books, there being a sitting of the commissioners of the land tax. I came home about 2:20. Spent only 2d.
There being a main of cocks fought at Jones’s today between the gentlemen (if any such there be) of this parish and the gentlemen of Lewes, Mr Ben Hudson of Hailsham who came to see it dined with me on a fillet of veal roasted, a gooseberry pudding and some green salad. Mr Hudson also drank tea with me. Paid Mr Thomas Cruttenden, baker in Lewes, 1.4.0 in full. In the evening wrote my London letters.