Exchanged the following draft for Mr Richard Stone, surgeon and apothecary at Blackboys, for doing of which he gave me 6/6:
£66.0.0 Lewes 8th Feb., 1765
Gents: Fourteen days after date please to pay to Mr Richard Stone or order sixty-six pound for value received by your humble servant
To John Burtenshaw.
Messrs Cardin and Day
Merchants in Bucklersbury, London
Endorsed by the said Richard Stone.
I dined on a beef pudding and potatoes and parsnips. In the afternoon Molly and Bett Carman, Mrs Browne and Thomas Durrant paid me a visit and drank tea with me, and they together with Mr Bannister, Sam Jenner and Joseph Fuller Jr and Henry Godley spent the evening with me and played at cards, some at brag and others at whist. I won about 5d or 5½d. They all stayed and supped with me on some bread and cheese and apple pie (except Mr Bannister and Joseph Fuller). The rest stayed till about 2:10. Thomas Durrant, not being very well and it being very late and excessive cold, took part of my bed. At home all day and very busy.
Oh! the want of a true, sincere and virtuous friend to entrust the management of my household affairs with.