…Sent Mr will Margesson enclosed in a letter as above the bill value 57.7.6 I received yesterday of Mr Richard Stone also sent him a bill value 4.0.6 on Mr George Tomlin, hop-factor in Southwark, four days’ date, payable to Mr William Margesson or order, dated today, drawn by myself for the balance due to me from Mr Tomlin (and which is for money clover-seed was sold for that I sent for Mr John Piper in my name).
I dined at Mr Coates’s on a shoulder of mutton roasted and pancakes and fritters. I stayed and chatted after dinner with Mr Coates some time, my family at home dining on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Bett Fuller and Thomas Durrant drank tea with me. At home all the evening and very cold.
Mr Coates showed me today an original letter written from one of the Pelham family to another of the same in the year 1620. The writing was a very neat pretty hand, and the spelling much the same as we use now, and the color of the ink hardly altered or changed in the least and I think a prettier letter could not be wrote.