Sent Frank Smith by his boy £12.7.0 which he is to pay Messrs Margesson and Collison for me. Paid for cherries 4½d. Paid Master Piper 6/6 for 2 bushels of pale malt received the 28th instant. Gave a traveller and my schoolboy 1½d. Rec’d of Halland gardener 1 gallon of French beans which I am to pay 4d for. Paid Isfield miller’s man 5/- for a bushel of oatmeal received today.
Tag: Frank Smith
Tuesday, August 12 1755
Sent Messrs Margesson and Collison by Frank Smith, paid to him in hand, 13.10.0 and returned them at the same time as under:
6 susis at 21d 0.10.6
3 do. at 24 0.6.0
1 doz linen 0.5.0
1 doz do. 0.6.6
1 doz do. 0.6.9
1 doz do. 0.7.9
1 doz do. 0.8.0
1 doz do. 0.9.0
1 doz do. 0.10.0
£3.9.6
This day Mrs Virgoe dined with us on a shoulder of venison. Mrs Vine Jr drank tea with us in the afternoon. At home all day. Paid for bread ½d. In the evening read part of the 4th volume of The Tatler, in which I find some very agreeable stories, in particular one wherein a beautiful and virtuous young lady is ruined by a young debauchee and a sordid parent, his father.