Pretty busy all the morning. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a plain bread pudding and green salad. After dinner Thomas Durrant and I took a walk up to the common to catch my horse for Thomas Durrant to ride to Lewes upon on my business.
Rec’d of John Piper in cash 10.13.2, which with a receipt for 1 year’s land tax, 2.4.0, and by 2 bills of repairs, 1.0.10, makes together the sum of 13.18.0 and is in full for a year’s rent due from the devisees of Mr Will Piper to Mrs Mary Wills at Carshalton in Surrey and which I am to send to Mr Allen Chatfield, distiller in Croydon, who receives the rent for Mrs Mills.
In the evening my brother Will came to see me and stayed with me all night. In the evening wrote my London letters. Not very busy today. A melancholy time for trade and money.