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…In the forenoon my cousin Molly Hill and cousins Bett and Ann Ovendean came to see us and dined with us on some veal cutlets fried and rashers of bacon, a piece of pork boiled, an apple pudding, turnips, carrots and green salad, as did Mr Long, who came in just as we had dined. My cousins stayed and drank tea with us and then went home. Dr Poole paid my wife another visit today and wrote her another prescription. Mr Stone by Dr Poole’s order let her blood. At home all day and pretty busy. My wife not so well again. Oh, melancholy time! My brother sent me by Philip today in cash £10 in order for some bills in London when he comes over.

…Mr Godfrey drank tea at our house. At home all day and my wife something better. In the evening wrote an advertisement for Mr Thornton.

We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner, with the addition of a piece of pork boiled, cabbage and potatoes. At home all day. My wife continues very ill, but I hope rather better.

Paid Joseph Fuller Jr in cash £5 for the note of hand I gave him the 5th instant, and accordingly took up my said note… At home all day.

My wife continues very ill. It is impossible for tongue or pen to express the trouble I now feel on account of my wife’s illness, and the constant fears that I have she will never get the better of her illness. Oh, would the God of all blessings look down upon us in this our day of adversity and trouble and restore my wife to her former health and so pour the graces of his Holy Spirit into our hearts that we may live in love and unity and every day become better Christians!

Sent Messrs Barlow and Wigginton enclosed in a letter by Shelley (delivered to a person whom Shelley sent from Uckfield for the letters) 1 bill on Mr Will Margesson… to my brother Moses… (which he endorsed himself yesterday) value 7.8.6… which bill is on his account to Messrs Barlow and Wigginton and is in part of the £20 I borrowed of him the 6th instant… In the afternoon my cousin Thomas Ovendean called on me and stayed some little time at our house. At home all day and but very little to do. My wife continues very ill. Ah, how melancholy is my present situation; but let me not repine at the dispensations of providence, but let me submit with cheerfulness to the divine will.

…In the forenoon my brother came over… Rec’d of Mr John Vine Jr in cash £8 on account… At home all day. My wife continues very ill, though I hope in a mending way. In the evening wrote my London letters.

Myself at church in the forenoon… The communion was today, and I stayed (gave 6d). John Shoesmith and Sarah Vine were asked today for the first time.

We dined on a shoulder of mutton roasted and onion sauce, potatoes and a plain rice pudding. No service at our church in the afternoon, Mr Porter preaching at Laughton. In the evening Thomas Davy at our house, to whom, and in the day, I read 3 of Sherlock’s sermons.

Saturday, Oct. 11: Thomas Davy a-gathering of walnuts for me in the forenoon and dined with us on the remains of Thursday’s dinner, with part of a chick boiled… Rec’d of Ben Brinkhurst 7/6½ in full. Dame Cornwell drank tea at our house. Rec’d of Mr Joseph Burgess the half-Guinea I lent him the 4th instant. At home all day. My wife something better, and pretty busy all day.

…This day balanced accounts with Will Sinden… Bett Fuller drank tea with my wife. At home all day and pretty busy. My wife not quite so well again. Thomas Davy sat a while with us in the evening…

In the morning got Bett Mepham to come and wait on my wife during her illness. In the forenoon my father Slater came to see us and dined with us on a piece of bacon, a plain suet pudding and cabbage. Mrs Atkins, Mrs Hicks, Mrs Jessup and Mrs French drank tea with my wife. My father Slater went home again in the evening.

Paid Mr Will Piper in cash 60.0.6 in full for money paid by Mr George Tomlin (for 2 pockets of hops sold for him… to Mr Will Margesson on my account on or about the 16th September last). At home all day and thank God my wife something better and pretty busy all day. Mr Poole, when he visited my wife yesterday, gave it as his opinion that her illness was the fluor albus and an ulcer in the right kidney.