…I dined on a sausage batter pudding baked (which is this: a little flour and milk beat up into a batter with an egg and some salt and a few sausages cut in pieces and put in it and then baked). Paid Mr Scale, a needle-maker of Chichester, 1.2.6 in full for the following goods bought of him today:
| 4 thousand of needles in quarters | 0.12.0 |
| 12 hundred best do. in hundreds at 4/- per m. | 0.4.6 |
| 5 gross of shirt buttons | 0.6.0 |
Paid the Rev Mr Porter in cash £4 in full for 1 year’s interest due on a bond for £100 which the parish have, that was left as a legacy to the minister and churchwarden of this parish for ever, the interest of which is to be yearly distributed among the poor in this parish at the discretion of the minister and churchwarden for the time being. At home all day and busy. The wife of James Marchant, coming in the afternoon to assist my servant iron, drank tea with me.
How do I lament in secret the loss of that valuable partner of my soul, my dearest wife!