In the morning my old acquaintance and friend Dr Hill called on me, and sat down to breakfast with me, that being all, for he neither ate nor drank anything. I lent him, in cash £30, for which he gave me his note of hand payable to me or order on demand for the same sum, which said note was witnessed by Mr George Bannister. Mr Hill stayed with me till about 12:20 and then set out for Yalden.
I went down to Mr Coates’s, where I dined on a buttock of beef boiled, a roast duck and mince pie, carrots, turnips and greens (my servant at home dining on the remains of yesterday’s dinner). I stayed and spent the afternoon with Mr Coates, and in the evening Mr Porter coming in, we stayed and supped with Mr Coates and came home about 9:20. During my absence my brother and sister came to see me. My brother was gone home, but my sister came to stay with me some few days.