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Bought half a hog of Will Piper, about 9 stone at 2/2 per stone. Paid Mr Friend in cash £9. Rolled up 140 papers of tobacco. Busy all day.

Went to Broadreed to Ben Walnut’s sale on foot, in company with Will Bowman. I bought nothing. Came home about 4 o’clock. Paid for a neck of veal 19d.

[Vol. “A” ends]

[The following passage, from the lost volume “3B”, is taken from Sussex Archaeological Collections…, Vol. XI, p. 185:]

This day made an end of instructing Miss Day. Read part of The Spectator; prodigiously admire the beauties pointed out in the eighth book of Milton’s Paradise Lost by The Spectator’s criticism, wherein is beautifully expressed Adam’s conference with the Almighty, and likewise his distress on losing sight of the phantom in his dreams, and his joy in finding it a real creature when awake.
 

[Vol. “C” resumes:]

Went over to Framfield in the morning. Sought John Colgate’s wool for my mother at 6d per lb. White came there to dinner with me.

Messrs Heywood and Blake’s man called on me. I paid him in cash £18 and by bill on Messrs Margesson and Collison 5.16.0, in all 23.6.0, which is in full, all except 3 cotton gowns supposed to be lost by the carrier, having never received then.

At home all day. Paid Joseph Fuller for a leg of lamb 17d.

Took physic today. At home all day. No churching in the afternoon, Mr Porter being ill.

Very busy all day a-making a bedtick. Sent Messrs Margesson and Collison in a box £13. At home all day.

Memorandum: The box and cash did not go till Tuesday.
 

At home all day. My wife, self, Ann Slater and maid very busy a-making of bolster and pillow-ticks and a bed bottom for Joseph Fuller.

At home all day. Paid Joseph Fuller for a bullock heart 12d. My wife and Ann Slater went to Mrs Atkins’s in the afternoon. Paid Jenner for hats by money and goods 1.6.9 and is in full.

Went over to Framfield in the morning in order to fill a bed bolster and pillow. Began to pick the feathers but did not finish them. Came home in the evening.