At home all day. Paid Thomas Balcombe for Wi1liam Funnell in goods l/- for 2 hundred of bricks received this day by Thomas Balcombe’s wagon. This day Thomas Tester’s wife brought me 2 carp for a present; gave her about 1 1b lump sugar and 6 fish hooks, value about 9d. Paid for bread and milk ld.
Tag: sugar
Friday, August 1 1755
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.