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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.

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

…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.

At home all day. My father and mother Slater dined with us on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a roast duck and a plum suet pudding. About 3 o’clock Mrs Elliot and her son called my father and mother Slater, and they all went home together. I this day settled the accounts between Mrs Virgoe and Mr French… I wrote receipts for each of them in full, which each of them respectively signed. I lent Mr Jeremiah French in cash £6, but had no note; it is charged to account…

Paid Joseph Fuller 13½d for a shoulder of lamb received today and also 6/- for 9 lbs of hops received today. My brother came over in the morning. I paid him in cash 1.3.0 for rolls which he bought and paid for me at Lewes yesterday, as also 18d for 6 brushes that he bought for me. My brother did not stay, but he carried home Mrs Elizabeth Hicks behind him.

About 10 o’clock my father Slater and I set out for Lewes (I having no business but to accompany him) where we arrived about 12. I called on Mr Hook, Mr Snelling, Thomas Scrase, Mrs Roase, and dined at Mr John Madgwick’s about 5 o’clock on some cold roast beef… Paid Mr Joseph Attersall 2.12.0 in full and bought of him 3½ yds jack chain, which cost me 12d. We came home about 9 o’clock. I spent 2d, my father Slater paying all the other expenses. He also gave me a pair of spurs, value 20d. Mr Madgwick came with us as far as the Broyle.

This day paid my father Slater… 8.8.0, being in full for the mare I bought of Mr Bachelor, and which he paid for… My family and my mother Slater dined on a roast shoulder of lamb and the remains of Sunday’s dinner.

In the morning my brother came over for my mother’s salt sacks and breakfasted with us, he being a-going to Lewes. This day balanced accounts with Francis Smith and paid him…in full for money he has paid in London for me…[including] 25 Sept. to Messrs Barlow and Wigginton for the 1/16 shares of the 2 lottery tickets they bought for me,1.12.0. By examination I find I have made a mistake of 20/- to my prejudice, and which I have made Francis Smith Dr. for in the post book. This day wrote a letter to Bancroft and Nixon for Thomas Fuller, another for John Mugridge to Tomlin, with hops, and another to Swainstone and Hedges, with hops, for Mr French. Just before dinner my father and mother Slater, Mrs Elliot and son came in and dined with us on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Soon after dinner Mrs Elliot and her son went for Hailsham, and I, out of complaisance to my father Slater, walked with him to Eason’s Green to see a cricket match; viz., Lindfield against Framfield and Maresfield, which was not played out, but was like to be won with great ease by Lindfield, they most of ‘em running out designedly, or striking up their wickets in the 2nd innings. Came home about 7 o’clock and spent the evening at my house. Paid John Streeter 3d for 1 oz spinach seed…

In the morning my wife and self went to church, and soon after we were at church, my brother Moses and sister Sally came to us… Surely, as we expected my brother and sister, nothing could be more rude than for not one of us to stay at home besides a servant. But however their good nature overlooked it and they came home and dined with us on 2 roast ducks and gravy sauce, a piece of beef boiled with turnips and carrots and a suet plum pudding. My whole family at church in the afternoon, and also my brother and sister… My brother and sister stayed and drank tea with us and went away about 6 o’clock. About 9 in the evening we were all alarmed by a drunken travelling woman, swearing and rolling about the street. In the evening read 3 of Tillotson’s sermons.

Master Braizer at work for me again today. Paid Joseph Fuller 6d for a sheep’s bell. Dined on the sheep’s head and bell, a piece of pork and turnips. …Rec’d by Richard Page 10 sacks of salt. At home all day; paid Dame Trill 3/- for keeping Ann Braizer, due the 22nd instant.

Richard Braizer at work for me a-gardening… I now owe [Mrs Virgoe] for 1 bottle of white wine and one 13 quart glass bottle… Did a little work in the garden. In the forenoon my brother came over to borrow 4 ½ ells rolls but did not stay. In the evening Mr Elless and I walked over to Framfield. Came home about 9 o’clock and read one of Tillotson’s sermons. Rec’d of the gardener at Halland ½ bushel onions.

Very busy all the forenoon… Rec’d of John Vine Jr 10/3½ in full for 2 shirts etc. for Joseph Fitness… My eyes very bad… In the afternoon my wife paid a visit to Mrs Atkins; stayed about 2 hours. This day there was a cricket match played on the common between the tradesmen and farmers of our parish, which was won with great ease by the latter. In the evenings Halland hop-pickers bought their pole-puller’s neckcloth and, poor wretches, many of ’em very unsensible. At home all day. In the evening my wife read me one of Tillotson’s sermons.