Rec’d of Ellen Pierce the following note, for which I gave my note to return the same again on demand, or else the money; viz.,
I promise to pay Ellena Pierce or order One Hundred Forty Pounds for value received this 18th July 1763.
per me Richard Day,
and according to her private agreement with Mr Day it is to bear interest at £4 percent per annum, so that is due upon it the 18th instant, both for principal and interest, the sum of l45.12.0.
Sam Jenner coming to do some work for me in the afternoon dined with me on a cold veal pie, some boiled tripe and garden beans. At home all day and very busy. In the forenoon it was extremely wet weather. In the evening read part of Burnet’s History of the Reformation. Master Jenner sat with me some time in the evening.