Paid Ben Shelley (by his brother John) in cash 2.7.8, which with the £70 sent, or at least delivered, to him the 9th instant makes together the sum of 72.7.8 and is in full for the same sum paid in London for me as under:
| By cash paid the 10th instant to Mr William Margesson | 70.0.0 |
| By do. the 3rd instant to Messrs Cluer Dicey & Co. in full on my account | 0.12.0 |
| By do. the 10th instant to Messrs Smith and Isherwood in full on my account | 1.15.8 |
I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Rec’d of Mr Porter the sum of 12.5.4½ in full for poor tax. Rec’d of Thomas Reeve by the payment of his daughter in cash 4.17.6 in full for poor tax… Rec’d of Mr George Bannister the sum of four guineas, which I lent him the 29th December last, and gave him the note of hand I received of him upon lending the money.
At home all day and thank God very busy. In the evening smoked a pipe or two at Mr Joseph Burgess’s, Joseph Fuller, T. Durrant and Sam Jenner treating me with a glass or two of punch. Paid John Nutley in cash 14/- in full for 2 bushels flour, I delivered to Will Sinden, the other to Starkes [Slarkes].