Sent Mr Thomas Dyke & Son at Sarum enclosed in a letter, which letter was enclosed in another to Mr John Crouch, grocer, in order for him to put in the post in London (by Ben Shelley delivered to his servant) 1 bill… value 12.3.0… Sent Mrs Elizabeth Middleton & Son enclosed in a letter by Shelley delivered to his servant one bill value 3.15.0… Paid Mr Charles Cooper, a sheriff’s bailiff, in cash 25/- in full on my account. Paid Mr John Potter 9/2 in full for thatching a house in this parish [probably Jones’s] for Mr Thomas Neatby.
At home all day and very little to do. In the evening; my brother and I played a few games of cribbage; I won 8d of him. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some boiled tripe.