Friday, August 1 1755

Image of a lone sheep stood on a patch of grass.

Paid John Fitness 8/9 in full for 6 corn hooks. Paid for bread ½d. Between schooltime carried up to Thomas Fuller’s 6 lbs of 6d sugar. Went to Chiddingly after schooltime to look upon Mr Hicks’s wool. Bid him 6¾d per pound for it. Paid Francis Smith in cash 18/2, which with £12.7.0 sent him by his boy the 29th July is in all £13.5.2, which he paid for me in London, as under (to wit)

To Margesson & Co.                 £13.0.0

To Crowder & Co. in full           £0.5.2

In the evening went down to Halland to look upon Mr Coates’s wool, which was all West-Country, and because I would not give him 7d per pound for it he huffed me prodigiously.

Tuesday, October 14 1755

At home all day. Paid Francis Smith in cash 10.11.0 which he is to pay in London for me. Paid for bran 2d; paid for 1 hundred [i.e., hundredweight] walnuts 6d…. In the evening about 8 o’clock Mr John Dulake of Waldron brought me 2 tuns of salt and other things from Lewes.