Out at work on the highways as surveyor. We had the following people out:
| Mr Blackman | 3 courts [carts] |
| Mr Thomas Reeve | 2 ditto |
| James Fuller | 1 ditto |
| Joseph Fuller | 1″ |
| John Cayley | 1″ |
| George Stace | 2″ |
| Laborers: | |
| Robert Hook and son | John Gasson for John Durrant half a day |
| John Burgess | Thomas Bristow |
| Charles Vine | John Watford for Mrs Atkins. |
I dined on part of a calf’s bell boiled and some greens. In the evening Mr Porter, myself and Robert Hook, in company with Mr Carman on horseback, took a walk to look at some high roads adjoining to a closure lately made of some common ground by Master Hook. [He had been granted a 3-acre enclosure in 1764 by the Lord of the Manor of Laughton]. We came back about 7:20. In the evening Mr Carman sat with me some time.