In the morning my late servant Mary Martin came over to assist my servant today in my absence and breakfasted with me. About 11:30 I set out for Newhaven, where was to be a sale of foreign brandy at the customs house there. I dined at the White Hart at Newhaven (my friend Tipper not being at home) in company with 5 gentlemen (or at least other men) on a shoulder of mutton roasted, a plain hard pudding, a currant butter pudding cake, cabbage and lobster.
The sale came on about 3:50, when there were put up for sale to the highest bidder 78 half-ankers of brandy, 3 in a lot, which is 26 lots, each lot containing 13½ gallons of foreign brandy. Each lot was sold as under:
| 1. Myself | at 6/3 gallon |
| 2. Thomas Tipper | 6/1 |
| 3. John Goring | 6/1 |
| 4. Mr Bathcombe | 6/1 |
| 5. John Smith | 6/- |
| 6. Mr John Pentecost | 6/- |
| 7. Thomas Tipper | 5/10 |
| 8. Mr Brooker | 5/11 |
| 9. Mr Burrows | 5/11 |
| 10. Mr Brooker | 5/11 |
| 11. Mr Bean | 5/11 |
| 12. Mr Olive | 5/11 |
| 13. Mr Pentecost | 5/10 |
| 14. Mr Thomas Tipper | 5/11 |
| 15. Mr Edward Blackman | 5/10 |
| 16. Mr Olive | 5/11 |
| 17. Mr Sam Olive | 5/11 |
| 18. Mr Blackman | 5/10 |
| 19. Mr Goldsmith | 5/10 |
| 20. Mr Brooker | 5/10 |
| 21. Mr Goldsmith | 5/10 |
| 22. Myself | 5/10 |
| 23. Mr Burrows | 5/10 |
| 24. Mr Olive | 5/10 |
| 25. Mr Goldsmith | 5/9 |
| 26. Myself | 5/9 |
After the sale was over I paid as follows:
| Lot No. 1, 13½ gallons at | 6/3 | 4.4.4½ |
| Do. 22 | 5/10 | 3.18.9 |
| Do. 26 | 5/9 | 3.17.7½ |
| 12.0.9 |
I then rosined down my casks and spent about half an hour with my friend Tipper, who came to bring me going on my road almost as far as Lewes. I came home about 9:20 very safe and sober Spent today as under:
| My Dinner | 0.0.6 |
| Drink | 0.0.6 |
| Turnpike & Ferry | 0.0.3 |
| Horse | 0.0.6 |
Mary Martin and my servant at home today dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner, with the addition of a piece of pork and some cabbage and turnips. They in my absence paid either a son or a servant of Mr Edward Heaver, miller at Isfield, 0.17.10 in full for the following received by them today:
| 2 bushels flour | 0.11.4 |
| 1 bushel oatmeal | 0.6.6 |
They also paid Mr Ben Shelley in cash 3.9.8 in full for the same sum he paid in London for me this week… My late servant went home in the evening. Rec’d a receipt today by Mr Shelley from Mr Crouch and Mr Margesson that the bills I sent them by Mr Shelley the 12th instant came safe to hand and were placed to the credit of my account.