28th.—With Boughton and Jenkins; they stayed till 1.
29th.—Home in the Portsmouth fly. Thanksgiving for taking Quebeck.
Dec. 1st.—Illumination for Sir Edward Hawke beating Conflans.
13th.—Ford, Mellersh, and Vincent the clergyman sent for me to the ‘White Hart’ to play at whist.
1760, Jan. 14th.—At 6 to the ‘Red Lion’: Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Russell, Mellersh, and Ford; home at 11.
15th.—Lord Onslow sent for me to dinner; home at 8. Paid Mr. Wilpley bleeding my wife, 2s. 6d.
Feb. 11th.—On Upperton’s mare to London; dined with Adderley at the ‘Feathers.’ At 5 to Covent Garden, ‘Comus,’ singing by Miss Brent. To Clare’s for half-an-hour; then to the ‘Angel’; Jenkins came at 10, stayed till 12.
April 13th.—Paid a man going beyond Ripley to get some leeches to bleed the child. A labourer in the garden one day, 1s. 3d.
July 7th.—To the Club at Wotton Hatch; reckoning, 4s. 6d.
28th.—Mrs. Norwood and my wife drank tea with Mrs. Hole. I went to the Green till past 8. Englestoft came after; played backgammon till near 11.