Sent Mr Ben Shelley by his servant (Sam) delivered to him by my servant in cash £60 for him to pay in London for me… Sent Mr Porter’s letter enclosed in another to Mr John Crouch, grocer, Southwark, in order for him to put in penny post.
In the morning my late servant Mary Martin came over to see me and breakfasted with me, and dined with me on a wild duck roasted and the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Sam Jenner coming in the evening and the weather proving very tempestuous, both he me and my late servant stayed all night. In the afternoon carried up to Mr Coates his bill, which amounted to 11.2.7¾. Mary Nutley and Bett Nutley drank tea with me…