Rec’d of Dame Pilfold £0.2.8. At home all day. In the evening Thomas Durrant and their man hope [helped] me draw out a barrel of beer. Lucy Smith drank tea here. Read several numbers in the 3rd volumes of The Tatler.
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Tuesday, August 5 1755
Paid Francis Smith in cash £17, which sum he is to pay Messrs Margesson and Collison. I this day drew on them to Mr William Smith for £5.6.10 in full, 30 days’ date. Rec’d of Thomas Darby £3.12.0 on account. N.B: Yesterday paid the widow Cayley 4/- for 1 year’s rent due for Mrs Browne’s stable.
Monday, August 4 1755
At home all day. In the morning about 6 o’clock Charles Diggens and Robert Rice called me up to take up a coat and waistcoat for Robert Rice. Charles Diggens took up a settoo coat for me, prime cost about k o c [?]. Paid for bread and butter 4½d. Marked up Collison’s parcel. Rec’d of Rippington’s boys 6d in full for a week’s schooling.
Sunday, August 3 1755
Took physic; at home all day. Paid for a loin of lamb, 3½ lbs, 12d; paid for bread 1d.
Saturday, August 2 1755
At home all day. Paid for bread and butter 3½d.
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.
Thursday, July 31 1755
At home all day. Rec’d of Dame Smith at Laughton Common 9/6; remains due on her account 14/-. Sent home by her Thomas Cushman’s bill, amounting to 12/11¾. Paid for butter 6d. Read part of the 3rd volume of The Tatler. Wrote out two bills.
Wednesday, July 30 1755
At home all day. Paid for bread ½d. Left off school at 3:40. About 5 minutes before 4 my [wife] went to Whitesmith to see the mountebank. Bought a packet [of patent medicine] which cost her 12d. She came home about 10:45. Mr Taylor, Messrs Heywood and Blake’s man, called on me. I paid him by a draft I drew on Messrs Margesson and Collison for £4.11.0, 30 days’ date, in full.
Tuesday, July 29 1755
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.
Monday, July 28 1755
At home all day except going down to Halland in the evening with some goods.