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…Paid Mr Will Piper by his brother John 6/4½ for 2 bushels malt received today. Dame Gasson drank tea with us today. At home all day and busy.

We dined on the scrag end of a neck of lamb stewed… Mrs Piper drank tea with us.

At home all day… My brother came over in the evening to bring us the mare for my wife and me to go to Framfield upon tomorrow, but he did not stay.

In the morning my wife, self and nephew went over to Framfield where we arrived about 7:50. My wife and my mother’s whole family (except my sister and myself) at church in the morning. We dined on a roast pig. My wife and I neither at church in the afternoon. We drank tea at my mother’s and came home about 7:40. Rec’d of Robert Driver Jr 2/-, which I am to pay to the post for a watch he left me, and which I delivered to Robert Driver. My wife very ill all day…

This day Thomas Roase and Catharine Clarke were married at our church and are, I believe, an old maid and an old bachelor. Paid John Streeter the post 2/- for the watch I received from him for Driver… Dame Vinal a-washing half the day for us. Paid Dame Trill 8/-; viz., 3/- in full for keeping Ann Braizer, due today, and 5/- for their monthly pay, due yesterday, Mr French paying all the other poor for me yesterday, which I am indebted to him for as under:

To Edward Babcock	0.4.0
To Ann Wood	o.4.0
To Widow Pilfold	0.6.0
To Dame Streeter for doing for do.	0.3.0
	0.17.0

Dame Martin and Dame Trill drank tea with us. Thomas Davy sat with us a while in the evening… At home all day and very busy.

…My brother came over in the forenoon for the mare and for a basket bouillis. Rec’d of him 16/- for his share of the 2 shares of the 2 lottery tickets I bought. Will Burrage at work for me in the forenoon a-picking up of apples etc. Dame Vinal at washing all day, and both dined with us… In the morning wrote out about [¾]d worth of paper in land tax receipts for Mr Piper and Mr French, but they neither paid for the paper nor thanked me for the trouble. But there, I’ll suppose it was want of knowing better. Paid my brother 2/- for a Bible I had of my mother on Sunday.

…The two Master Watfords a-gathering of apples for me part of the day. Dame Prall at work for us all day on account of our maid’s going to Blackboys Fair… Paid Dame Prall 6d. At home all day. In the evening read 2 of Tillotson’s sermons.

…Dame Vinal and Peggy drank tea with us. Paid Mr John Mugridge… 11.19.9, in full for the same sum paid to Messrs Margesson and Collison for my use by Mr George Tomlin (5th Oct.) for hops which he sold for John Mugridge. Borrowed in cash of Mrs Virgoe £10 and gave her my note of hand for it, dated today, payable to her or bearer on demand. At home all day. My brother came over…but did not stay. In the evening read part of one of Tillotson’s sermons.

Paid Mr Jeremiah French in cash 12/- and, by 12 lbs sugar, 5/-, which together make 17/- in full for the money paid to the poor on Sunday last…. Dr Snelling called on me, but did not stay… Mr Elless drank tea with us. At home all day and but very little to a do. In the evening read one of Tillotson’s sermons, which I think a very good one. Oh! may the God of all goodness give me grace to mind what I read, that the same may sink deep into my heart and mind, and that I may every day become a better Christian. Oh! how weak and feeble are my best resolutions –[35 words omitted]… Daily and hourly do I sin, my own righteousness being but filthy rags–[50 words omitted]…and may the God of all goodness pour into my heart his holy spirit that I may live by faith and not rely on my own works, which are vain, and that I may work out my salvation with fear and trembling.

…Read part of Chesselden’s Anatomy.