Tuesday, January 29 1760

…My wife went down to Halland to dinner… About 7:30 I went down to Halland, where I supped on a cold roast turkey, a breast of veal roasted and hot, part of a cold chicken pasty, some ducks roasted and hot, cold neat’s tongue, tarte etc. in company with Mr and Mrs Porter, Mr and Mrs French, Mr Calverley, Mrs Atkins, Thomas Fuller and Joseph Fuller and his wife. We played at brag in the evening and according to custom my wife and I lost 2/10½. We came home about 2:20, sober. We gave among the servant 12d. 0 cruel fortune!

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