I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some apple pie and cheese. Rec’d of Mr Thomas Carman the two following bills:
“Sir, fifteen days after date please to pay to Mr Thomas Turner or his order the sum of six pounds one shilling, and place the same to the account of your humble servant, 86.1.0
Thomas Carman
To Mr Edward Aiskell at Sunderland in the county of Durham. December the 20th, 1763 East Hoathly.”
[and one on the same, for 29.6.4]
My brother came over in the evening in order to stand the shop for me while I assist Mr Coates tomorrow in distributing a gift left by some of the ancestors of the Pelham family to be distributed yearly on St Thomas’s day to every poor man or woman that comes for it, 4d each, and to every child 2d, and piece of bread to each and a draught of beer.
I went down to Halland in the evening and supped with Mr Coates and lodged there, my brother and Thomas Durrant keeping house for me at home.