At home all day. Sent Messrs Margesson and Collison in a lemon basket £10 (by Smith). Rec’d of John Geal 0.4.1 in full. Rec’d of Elizabeth Babcock 0.4.11 in full. Received of Dame Pilbull 6¼d in full. Posted some London accounts. Rec’d a letter from Ridings’s man to inform me of his being at Lewes on the 4th evening. In the evening at Master Durrant’s instructing Thomas. After supper read part of The Tragedy of Cato, which I think extremely fine.