Rec’d of Robert Hook in cash 8/-, which is in full for 1 year’s land tax for the manor [of Foxhunt][probably Heighton St Clere] in this parish belonging to the Lord Viscount Gage, due at Lady Day last, and which Master Hook received of the steward for me…
My late servant Mary Martin and her sister came to see me in the forenoon and dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some mutton steaks broiled. They stayed and drank tea with me and then went away…
At home all day and thank God pretty busy. In the evening Thomas Davy sat chatting with me until near 11 o’clock… We had today a great many claps of thunder, though not very near, it thundering almost the whole afternoon.