I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. At home all day and thank God pretty busy. This day came to Jones’s a man with a cartload of millinery, mercery, linen drapery, silver etc. to keep a sale for two days. This must undoubtedly be some hurt to trade, for the novelty of the thing (and novelty is surely the predominant passion of the English nation, and of Sussex in particular) will catch the ignorant multitude, and perhaps not them only, but people of sense who are not judges of goods and trade, as indeed very few are, but however as it is it must pass.
In the evening Mr Clapinson and myself played I dare say upwards of 40 games of [cribbage] for 1d each, but neither of us won, we leaving off play even. Very busy in the afternoon a-marking up a parcel of linen goods. Ann and Sal Prall, buying some things in the shop, both drank tea with me.