Paid Mr Thomas Martin 10/6 in full. Dame Akehurst, a-washing for me all day, dined with me, as did Mr Long, on a calf’s heart pudding, a piece of pork and some garden beans. Thomas Vallance, formerly an acquaintance and workman to my father, called on me and dined with me on the remains of what we left.
Mr Long stayed and took part of my bed. At home all day and very little to do. An excessive hot day; in the evening we had several loud claps of thunder, but at a distance, and also a great many severe flashes of lightning.