…Sent Mr Ben Shelley by his servant one bill on Mr George Tomlin, hop factor in Southwark, dated today, value 6.17.6 in full for the same sum Mr Tomlin sold the hops belonging to myself and the other executors etc. of Mr Piper deceased.
Dame Akehurst a-washing for me all day and dined with me on a piece of pork boiled, an apple pudding and greens. Dame Merricks and Dame Wrothwell, buying some goods in the shop, drank tea at my house. At home all day and not at all busy.
Paid Dame Akehurst 18d for her 2 days’ work. In the evening Joseph Fuller Jr smoked a pipe or 2 with me.