Sent Mr Will Margesson enclosed in a letter by Benjamin Shelley delivered to himself by my servant the bill value 21.9.6 which I received of Mr Stone the 1st instant. Having something happening in after the carrier was gone, my brother went after him in the forenoon as far as Uckfield to carry another order for him. We dined on hot giblet pie. In the evening went down to Mr Porter’s and balanced accounts with him as follows:
| The Rev Mr Porter Dr. | |
| To sundry shop goods from the 29th Dec., 1763 to the 24th Dec., 1764, both days inclusive | 62.3.0¼ |
| To ½ 1b tobacco omitted in the account | 0.0.8 |
| To nails, oil, pitch and ground white lead used at Belmont [a private house] | 10.6.5½ |
| To Master Michael Baker’s bill ending Jan. 3, 1765 | 2.13.7¼ |
| 75.3.9 | |
| Per Contra Cr. | |
| By buttons received | 0.0.6½ |
| By nails charged to Mr Coates’s account | 0.2.1½ |
| By 66½ lbs wool at 8d | 2.4.4 |
| By cash received this evening | 72.16.9 |
| 74.3.9 |
I stayed and supped with Mr Porter on some bread and cheese and also spent the evening there till near 12 o’clock. At home all day except being at Mr Porter’s. Busy a-writing; the greater part of the day. A very wet evening.