Sam Jenner, coming to assist me in drawing off some cider, dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Sent Mr Robert Plumer…£23. Rec’d of Joseph Fuller 1.12.0 in full for the first half year’s land tax due at St Michael last…
In the evening went down to John Jones’s, there being a vestry to choose surveyors for the ensuing year. I stayed and drew up the last year’s surveyors’ accounts and then came home. The surveyors chosen for the ensuing year were Thomas Carman and James Fuller; and the electioners John Vine and Edward Hope.
My brother William came to see me and stayed all night. In the evening Thomas Durrant and Sam Jenner, who had been at work for me all the day, and Joseph Fuller Jr smoked a pipe or two with me. In the evening wrote my London letters. At home all day, except as before. Gave the following box money:
| To the Postboy | 0.0.6 |
| Butcher’s boy | 0.0.3 |
| Isaac Turner | 0.0.3 |
| Robert Hook | 0.0.3 |
| 0.1.3 |