In the morning Mr Bannister and I walked to Chiddingly, he in order to survey a victular [victualler?] and I for a walk, it being a fine morning. We came home about 12:10 …
Very little to do in the shop all day. In the evening wrote the receipts for the two first quarters of the land tax. Joseph Fuller Jr smoked a pipe or two with me. I think since I have lived at Hoathly I never knew trade so dull or money so scarce, the whole neighborhood being almost reduced to. poverty.