After breakfast I set out for home, but after drinking too much elderberry wine I rode several miles out of my road, and my surcingle breaking I lost my bags from under me, but however thank God I arrived at home about 6:30, and in the evening after I came home my brother went home.
My brother and servant dined today on a shoulder of lamb roasted and cucumbers. Gave our tenant’s servant 12d and his son a silk handkerchief. Oh, my unhappy temper, that a few glasses of liquor intoxicates me, and yet I am so stupidly foolish as not to absolutely refrain from drinking anything.