8th.—Dined in Butcher Row, 9d.; went to hear Green, the Methodist, dispute in Fetter Lane—shameful. With Jenkins at cribbage till past 11.
10th.—Breakfasted with Mr. Street; at 11 to the Bank, and sold £25 stock; [18] at 4 dined with Mr. Adderley at the ‘White Lion,’ in Wych Street; drank tea with Clare; between 7 and 8 Gordon and I went to Covent Garden: ‘Miss in her teens,’ &c. Fribble, Mr. Shuter.
11th.—With Jenkins to Marylebone Bowling green, at bowls. Home at 9; then an hour at the ‘Bell.’
18th.—Breakfasted at home; James dined here; he fetched a pigeon pye; afterwards to Prosser’s, where Pitts came to me; at 6 Emily came; we took boat at the Temple, landed at Lambeth, and walked to Vauxhall; supped there. Home about 12; very pleasant evening; paid for supper at Vauxhall, 2s.; going in, 1s.
19th.—Breakfasted at New Exchange Coffee House; dined at Betty’s with Mr. Gordon; then to Drury Lane—‘The Rehearsal,’ Bayes, Mr. Garrick; paid for breakfast, 6d.; a letter, 3d.; dinner and wine, 1s. 4d.
20th.—Jenkins, James, and I walked to Marylebone; at bowls till 8; then we went to the ‘Sugar Loaf’ in Bell Yard; wine at Marylebone, 6d.; supper, 4½d.
22nd.—Boughton, James, and I to Islington, to a bowling-green there; paid for cyder, ham, &c. 7½d.
26th.—Dined with Mr. Adderley at the ‘White Lion,’ there till 6.
27th.—To the Bowling-green beyond the Foundling Hospital.
29th.—James and I walked to Marylebone, bowls there; between 4 and 5 we went to see ‘Hamlet,’ by Mr. Garrick.