Sent Mr Thomas Neatby & Son enclosed in a letter by Shelley…£9. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some sausages boiled. Rec’d of Thomas Prall 16/- in full for half a year’s land tax due at St Michael last. At home all day, and very little to do.
In the evening Richard Prall came to Mr Banister’s end of the house, he being in bed, and called him all the knaves, villains etc. he possibly could think of, which so far enraged Mr Bannister as to occasion him to come down into the street and indiscreetly enough give him the discipline of the horse-whip. I cannot but own Prall very justly deserved what he had a pretty sufficient dose of, but at the same time I dare say as it’s a breach of the peace it will cost my neighbor Bannister some money.