…In the forenoon my brother Sam Slater came back to my house from Lewes.
This day paid Sally Waller my house-keeper cash and goods £4 in full for her servitude due to this day, and in the forenoon she left my service in order to go to Catsfield to keep her uncle Mr May’s house, who came for her. Her leaving my service was, as she protested, without any dislike or the least reason for dislike and contrary to her inclinations and the most earnest persuasions of her friends, but this uncle, being a widower and having two children, over-persuaded her to live with him in order that she might see the children, well done for.
My brother Sam Slater dined with me on a piece of bacon boiled, the best and of a neck of lamb roasted, the scrag and boiled, a plain rice pudding and carrots. My servant at church in the afternoon. My brother Slater went away in churchtime in the evening read one of Archbishop Tillotson’s sermons.
Drank tea at Joseph Durrant’s, and after tea Thomas Durrant and Mr Tipper and myself took a walk for air, but called at no one house. Came home about 7:30. In the evening Mr Tipper sat and chatted with me a while Thomas Durrant lodged at my house.