Rec’d of Mr Coates by the payment of Mr Porter in cash 7.4.0 in full as under:
| Mr Coates Dr. | |
| To the house etc. free of all expenses | 70.0.0 |
| Per Contra Cr. | |
| By money received of Mr Porter yesterday | 30.0.0 |
| By a mortgage due to Mr Porter | 30.0.0 |
| By almost two years’ interest, it being due at 2nd October next, on the mortgage at: 4½ percent | 2.13.6 |
| By money left in Mr Coates’s hands to pay the arrears of quitrent and if there is not so much due the overplus is to be returned to James Marchant | 0.2.6 |
| By cash received today | 7.4.0 |
| 70.0.0 |
Paid James Marchant in cash 4.18.0 in full for his and his wife’s share of the money due out of the house, as they had before agreed that Mr Coates should have the house for £70, and that each of the other sisters should have ten pounds apiece clear, and the rent due they would outset against the interest and the fees etc. if it exceeded the ten pounds; if not, they would have been the gainer, provided it had not come under that sum; viz.,
| Myself Dr. | |
| To money the house was sold for and for which I was to account | 70.0.0 |
| Per Contra Cr. | |
| By money paid James Thorpe and Martha his wife yesterday | 10.0.0 |
| By money paid to William Williams and Lucy his wife yesterday | 10.0.0 |
| By Mr Porter’s mortgage | 30.0.0 |
| By money due on the mortgage to Mr Porter for interest | 2.13.6 |
| By money paid at the court yesterday for fines, admittances etc. | 0.12.6 |
| By money left in Mr Coates’s hands to pay the arrears of quitrents | 0.2.6 |
| By cash paid him today | 4.18.0 |
| 70.0.0 |
My old and worthy friend Mr Francis Elless came to see me in the forenoon, and he and John Jenner, hatter at Hailsham, dined with me on part of a shin of beef stewed and potatoes. Paid John Jenner in cash (the balance of account) 3.5.2 in full on account to this day. Mr Elless stayed and drank tea with me and in the evening we walked down to Whyly and spent the evening with Mr Blackman.
Came home very sober about 10:30. My friend stayed all night. Very busy all day. I think my friend Mr Elless is as agreeable a companion as any among my acquaintance, he being sober and virtuous, and a man of a great deal of good sense, and endued with good nature. He has improved his natural parts with a great deal of useful learning.