Jan. 29th, Sunday.—Between 2 and 3 to the Speaker’s to dinner; sat an hour before dinner; paid the servant, 2s.
Feb. 19th, Sunday.—To St. Dunstan’s Church. After dinner called on Mr. Maxwell; then to church at St. Andrew’s, Holborn; called on Mersing; soon after 4 Sam Ford came in; I stayed with him till past 7; then went home and got my fire lighted, and at 9 they came and stayed till 12.
21st.—Took a place in the Godalming Machine.
22nd.—To the ‘New Inn,’ Western Bridge, soon after 6; waited till 7; there being eight passengers, they sent a chaise in which I and a gentleman came; stopped at Cobham; arrived at Guildford [17b] between 3 and 4. Paid coach, 5s.; breakfast at Cobham, 18. coachman, 1s.
April 17th.—At 6 set out in the coach for London. Dined at Kingston; in about 5. With James and Jenkins to Mr. Boughton’s; at whist till 11. Paid coach and man, 5s. 6d.; dinner, 2s.
18th.—To the play: ‘The Provoked Husband,’ Mr. Garrick.
19th.—Breakfasted with James at Johnstone’s Coffee House, Charing Cross. Paid for chocolate and muffin, 2½d.
23rd, Sunday.—To St. Dunstan’s Church; walked in Lincoln’s Inn Gardens; to Mr. Emily’s to dinner; to the chapel in Russell Court; walked in the Park; at Slaughter’s Coffee House for half-an-hour; at 8 called on Boughton.
25th.—To Don Saltero’s at Chelsea; paid for breakfast there, 13½d.; to Marylebone, played at bowls there; at 5, Ford came; he stayed till 7; then I went to the ‘Crown and Rolls.’ Home about 12.
May 1st.—I catched a great cold yesterday; James and I went home with Jenkins; at cribbage till 11.