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At home all day and busy. Paid Mrs Weller £8 in full for one year’s rent due the 5th April (N.S.) and paid her £4 in full for one year’s interest due the 5th April (N.S.).

At home all day. Paid Mrs Cayley 7/5 for 13¾ lbs of butter in goods.

At home all day. T. Ling and Ann Cain married yesterday. H. Paine and Elizabeth Elphick married.

Busy all the day in settling Mr Thomas Thompsett’s affairs with his two brothers-in-law and bought of them all his books, paper, forms etc. for 4.12.0; and I balanced accounts with them as under:

Myself Dr. for the above	4.12.0
and what I had rec’d of Mr Thompsett’s debts	11.1.6
Do. Creditor for money disbursed for debts etc. and for some which I have not paid but have engaged to do it	9.16.1
	1.5.5

which balance of 1.5.5 I paid them and afterwards bought of them some pork and a crock which I gave them 12d for.

At home all day and busy. Paid Francis Smith 5/- for 2 gallons gin. Paid Mr Jeremiah French 12/6 in goods, which is for 1 cord of wood on Mr Thompsett’s account. Paid Joseph Fuller for 1 knuckle veal 5½ lbs 16½d; paid Richard Braizer for 2 half days’ gardening 12d. He this forenoon set me some French beans. I went to bed not sober.

At church in the morning; the text 5th chapter of Jeremiah, 4th verse. I went to Laughton church; the text, the 19th Psalm, part of the 7th verse. Came back and drank tea at Thomas Cushman’s. Came home in the evening about 8:20.

At home all day. Gave Francis Smith 10.19.0 which he is to pay to Messrs Cruttenden and Burgess for me. Balanced accounts with Francis Smith. By 4.2.0 paid before and by 0.14.10¼ by goods makes 4.16.10¼ and is in full to — [left blank].

At home all-day. Paid Pat Mepham for washing etc. 18d.

In the evening read part of that simple thing called The West Country Clothier and, notwithstanding the meanness of the language, I think the character of the midwife and gossips is in some measure painted in their true colors; and the thoughtlessness and extravagance of many women are in some respects justly exposed by its often terminating in the husband’s ruin (as in the case of Mr Wilmot and, I think, the character of Humphrey Shewshow). Often fidelity and honesty are obscured by meanness of birth and the want of education; and I further think nothing is more ridiculous than to see a waiting-maid made the lady’s confidante, either when single or in a married state. If in the first, the young lady stands candidate for ruin, and, if after marriage nuptials, differences must in all probability ensue, for it many times happens that the insinuating expressions of an Abigail fail not of drawing the lady’s affections from her husband by detraction though she should be almost the only one for him before.

At home all day. Rec’d of Mr Reeve. 1.10.1. Sent Thomas Cushman’s nurse 12d.

At home all day. Paid Master Bridgman for a quarter of lamb 5¾ lbs 17d. Mr John Madgwick dined with me. In the evening read part of Pilgrim’s Progress.