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At home all day; my side very bad. My brother Moses drank tea with us. Paid for butter 3d. Rec’d a letter this morning which came by yesterday’s post from Mr Stephen Fletcher to acquaint me that he shall be at Lewes the 15th instant with Mr Samuel Ridings’s horses. This morning I had a cere-cloth laid on my side.

At home all day; sent by Thomas Fuller’s a boy to Lewes, to be left at the White Horse for Mr Stephen Fletcher until he comes, 1 draft which I drew on Messrs Margesson and Collison… value £14, payable to Mr Samuel Ridings or order… in full to October last. I also sent with it on return 1 piece striped cotton 26½ yds at 2/-, value 2.13.0. Paid 3/3 for 1 dozen dairy brushes and No. 2 paste-boards brought me from Lewes by Thomas Fuller’s boy. Paid the post boy (for Thomas Freeman) 9d in full for 1 pair creepers received by him today. Gave Goldsmiths’s carter tobacco to about the valve of 1d for bringing a parcel from Lewes for me. Paid John Cayley in cash 1.4.0 in full to this day, except 131 lbs of butter received of them for Mr John Wilson of Southover, which I sent to him the 6th instant.

Rec’d of John Cayley 32 fleeces of wool

2 tod 1 lb at 6½d a pound              1.13.2½

ditto 7 ½ lbs lamb’s wool 4d            0.2.6

ditto 2 cords wood                     1.4.0

3.1.8½

rec’d today 15 lbs butter at 6d         0.7.6

                                       3.9.2½

due on book debt                       0.15.2

Paid in cash the 16^th July 1755 1.10.0

Paid in cash today in full as above 1.4.0

3.9.2½

Mr Tucker came to see me about 9:30. No churching here in the morning. At home all day; not at church. Laughton parson preached here in the afternoon. Mr Tucker went away about 8:15. I sent by him in a letter to Mr Robert Plumer 1 bill I drew… value 25.14.0… to Mr Robert Plumer… in full to this day… Mr Thomas Fuller came in about 5:25 and stayed 8:20.

Paid Mr Heaver for 1 bushel of oatmeal 5/-. At home all day. In the evening gave William Eldridge for his daughter (my god-daughter) 1 straw hat value 6d. Posted my day book. A very windy and wet evening.

Paid Francis Smith 12d, which with 9.19.0 I sent him the 9th instant makes £10 and is in full for the same sum paid to Messrs Margesson and Collison for me. I gave him 9.10.0 which he is to pay for me in town this week (see the next time I balance with him). This day Mr William Piper and his servant Mary Denmall were married at this church. At home all day. Rec’d of William Sinden ½ bushel wheat and ½ bushel bran. In the evening Robert Hook at our house 3 hours. I lent him in cash 1 guinea.

At home all day… Paid Robert Hook in goods 3/- for a rule he bought for me at Lewes.

At home all day. Gave the post boy 3d for a letter he brought for me from Mr Wilson. Molly Braizer here in the evening. I sent my maid to Framfield; she stayed all night. Rec’d of Robert Hook the guinea I lent him the 16th instant.

At home all day. My boys [i.e., school] broke up. Rec’d of Edward Russell 3.11.10½ in full to this day for himself and his servant Richard Braizer. Rec’d of Mary Braizer 12d for breaking up; ditto of Joseph Hutson 6d for breaking up. Nothing more of moment. Paid John French 6d for 1 pack of playing cards…

At home all day; very busy. In the evening my wife and I papered up about 90 parcels of tobacco. Paid Dame Streeter 18d for laying Mr Thompsett forth.

My wife and I at church in the morning; the text Matthew 26:24: … “it had been better [good] for that man if he had not been born.” There being no churching here this afternoon (Mr Porter preaching at Laughton), my wife and I went over to Framfield to see my mother and stayed until 9:20. We had Mr John Vine Sr’s horse; I gave the man for bringing and coming for him 6d,…

At home all day; it being St Thomas’s day I gave to the poor of this parish about 2/6, being about 30 in number (giving to each 1d and a draft of beer). Paid John Dulake… 15/- in full for bringing of salt etc. from Lewes for me and everything else to this day. Paid Francis Smith in cash 1.1.4, which with the 9.10.0 I gave him the 16th instant makes in all 10.11.4 and is in full for money he paid for me in London… I gave him also in cash 10.2.6 which he is to pay for me in London; see the next time we balance. Mrs Virgoe and children drank tea here. I Paid for milk ½d; paid for a peck of potatoes 6d.