My friend Tipper stayed and breakfasted with me and then went away. This day received a letter by the post from Mr Richard Waite at the Devizes that the bill value 7.3.0 sent him the 16th ult. came safe to hand. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner.
Thomas Durrant and his mother drank tea with me. Rec’d of Thomas Braizer £9 for two years’ interest on a free and copyhold mortgage due to myself and the other executors and devisees of Mr Will Piper deceased. In the evening Molly and Bett Carman and Thomas Durrant and I played a few games of whist; I lost 3d.
This day Sam Jenner went to Cranbrook for me and my brother, and coming back late in the evening took part of my bed. At home all day and in the first part of the evening wrote my London letters. Paid Mr John Wilbar’s nephew at Lewes 2/3 in full for 6 large oil brushes received of him today…