…I dined on part of a leg of lamb roasted. At home all day. In the evening went into Joseph Durrant’s, where I signed and sealed two bonds as security for the behavior etc. of Thomas Durrant and Thomas Davy, both employed as hop-assistants. The obligation was for two hundred pounds each bond, and my partner, the other obliger, was Joseph Durrant. The witnesses: Thomas Pepper, supervisor of excise, and Thomas Tipper, officer of excise.
I spent the evening at Master Durrant’s and came home about 10:20 very sober. Thomas Durrant lodged with me. Rec’d today of Mr Thomas Swaine by the payment of Richard Bridgman in cash 2.14.0 in full for the same sum assessed on him for lands in this parish by a poor rate made the 9th ult.