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I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Paid Joseph Fuller Jr in cash £20. At home all day, but not very busy. In the evening wrote my London letters, and after I had written them Mr Tipper and I played a few games of cribbage; I lost 1d. Not very well in the evening.

Myself and servant at church in the morning… I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some beef bones boiled and a cold beef pie. In the evening myself and servant at church… Sam Jenner drank tea with me, and it being a wet evening he stayed all night. In the evening I read a sermon to Mr Tipper, Thomas Durrant and Sam Jenner. A most remarkable wet day.

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with some green salad. In the evening wrote out Mr Coates’s bill. My servant sat up with Mrs Brook. Thomas Durrant lodged at my house.

In the evening Mr Tipper and I played a few games of cribbage; I won of him 2d. In the evening about 10:30 we had several very loud claps of thunder and a great deal of lightning, with an abundance of rain, even from 5 o’clock, which continued the whole night. At home all day but not very busy.

…My brother came over in the afternoon to take up some clothes and stayed and smoked a pipe with me. Mr Tipper and I played a few games of cribbage; I won of him 7d at one penny a game. At home all day and pretty busy.

…I dined on a sheep’s head and liver boiled and turnips. Mr Joseph Hartley at Lewes (coming to take the measure of me for a wig), together with Dame Cushman and Mary Durrant, who bought many things in the shop, drank tea with me.

In the evening Thomas Durrant and I walked down to Mr French’s to inquire how Molly did, she being very ill. We stayed and smoked a pipe and came home about 9:10. After we came back, Mr Tipper and I played a few games at cribbage, but I neither won or lost. Rec’d of Edward Hope in cash 1.1.0 in full for the same sum assessed on him by a poor rate made the 9th August.

In the morning my brother called on me in his way to Horsebridge Fair, but did not stay… I dined on a breast of mutton boiled and then broiled. Mrs Carman and her daughter, Dame Merricks and Dame Braizer, buying some things in the shop, drank tea with me. At home all day and very busy.

In the evening Mr Tipper and I played a few games of cribbage; I won 3d. What a cheerfulness does business add to the temper when it flows in plentifully. My servant sat up with Bett Bridgman, who is very ill. Thomas Durrant lodged with me.

Sam Jenner dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some rashers of bacon fried. Dame Hook and her daughter and Dame Rich, buying a great many things in the shop drank tea with me. At home all day and pretty busy. Rec’d of the widow Page by the payment of her son John 2.2.0 in full

…At home all day. In the evening wrote my London letters, and Mr Tipper and I played a few games of cribbage; I won of him 3d. Pretty busy in the day.

In the morning my late servant went home. Myself, brother and servant at church in the morning… My brother dined with me on a bullock’s tongue boiled, a raisin pond butter pudding and turnips. Myself, brother and servant at church in the afternoon…

After churchtime my brother went away immediately. I drank tea at Mrs Fuller’s. In the evening Mr Tipper, Thomas Davy and Thomas Durrant sat with me, to whom I read some of Delany’s and Tillotson’s sermons. My servant sat up with Mrs Brook. Thomas Durrant lodged at my house.

My old servant Mary Martin came to see me in the forenoon and dined with me on the part of the neck of mutton bought today roasted in the oven and a batter pudding under it and remains of yesterday’s dinner.

In the afternoon my brother Will came to see me, and he, together with my late servant and Ann and Sal Prall, who had bought many things in the shop, drank tea with me. My late servant and my brother stayed all night. At home all day and pretty busy. But oh, that melancholy gloom that hangs on my brow, a gloom that almost I think has worn me to my native dust!