In the morning I paid Mr Faulkner Bristow in cash 2.1.4 in full. Breakfasted with Mr John Madgwick. Came home about 12:20. Spent upon myself, horse, ostler and turnpike 3/11. My brother dined with me on a piece of beef boiled, an apple pudding and carrots.
In the afternoon rode a to Laughton with some goods and stayed and chatted too long with the clergyman who is lately come there, for I cannot with truth say I came home sober. My brother in my absence received of Mrs Bridgman today 1.6.8½ in full. My servant’s father, coming to see her, lodged at my house.
Rec’d from the parish of Ticehurst a certificate for James Marchant, Elizabeth his wife and Hannah their child, allowing them their [i.e., Ticehurst’s] inhabitants legally settled in their said parish. The certificate was properly signed by John Clifton and Robert Fuller, churchwardens, Richard Austine and Gabriel Jarvis, overseers, and allowed by J. Nicholl and Stephen Fuller, two of his Majesty’s justices of the peace in and for the county of Sussex.