Molly French dined with me on a chick boiled, a piece of bacon, turnips, greens and a butter pudding cake. She stayed and spent the afternoon with me, and her brother, coming to accompany her home, drank tea with me.
In the evening wrote my London letters. My brother came over in the evening in order to stand in my shop tomorrow during my absence, I having promised Mr Coates to assist him in the morning in distributing a gift left by some of the Pelham family for ever and annually given upon St Thomas’s Day; that is, 4d each to every man and woman, and 2d to every child, come from where they will, and a piece of bread and draught of ale to each.
Mr Tipper being ordered to remove in the evening, I went to Master Durrant’s, where I smoked a pipe with him in company with my brother, Sam Jenner and Master Durrant’s family, and after taking my leave of Mr Tipper, I walked down to Halland where I supped and stayed all night. My brother lodged at my house as did Thomas Durrant.