After breakfast Mr Hill and I set out for Maidstone where he gave me a bond for £60, dated today, bearing interest at £5 percent per annum, the same witnessed by Thomas Pope Jr. The above bond is in lieu of the £30 for which he gave me his note of hand the 5th day of November last, as also the £30 lent him the 15th of January last, both of which notes of hand I gave up to Mr Hill. He paid me the interest; viz., 1.2.6 due on the said notes to this day.
I bought of Mr Thomas Pope Jr a parcel of thread etc. amounting to 5.15.0, for which I paid him, and he is to send it to the White Hart Inn, Southwark, carriage paid. We baited ourselves and horses at Maidstone and came back to Yalden about 6:20. In the evening we took a walk and came back and supped with Mr Hill on some sausages in company with two gentlemen his acquaintances, the one a writing master, the other a wheeler and philosopher. I stayed at Mr Hill’s all night. Spent today 13½d.