[21b] Mr. Webb was Solicitor to the Treasury. This appointment is now given to barristers.
[21c] He only paid 10d. for his dinners (without wine) at the ‘White Hart’ and the ‘Tuns,’ and 6s. a week for his lodgings in the town.
[22a] Miss Adee and Betsy Stevens were the bridesmaids.
[22b] Mrs. C.’s was the lodging Mr. Jenkins had taken for him in Lothbury.
[22c] He left a particular account of his expenses on his marriage. The following are some of them:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
| Licence | 1 | 11 | 6 |
| Pair of gloves | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mr. Burdett’s fee | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| The clerk | 0 | 10 | 6 |
| Mrs. Norwood’s maid | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| Middle Parish ringers | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dinner at Epsom | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Chaise from Epsom to London | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Driver and hostler | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Two bottles of Lisbon at the ‘White Hart’ | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| For fifty oysters | 0 | 0 | 7½ |
| A pound of cheese | 0 | 0 | 3½ |
| A pound and a half of salmon | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Paid Jenkins for the ring | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| [Jenkins got the ring and sent it to him with a humourous letter.] | |||
| Mr. Shrubb for a tabby nightgown | 7 | 14 | 0 |
| Ear-rings and necklace | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Coffee with Boughton at the Lincoln’s Inn Coffee House (on the afternoon of his wedding) | 0 | 0 | 5 |
[23a] They received friends to tea every evening this week. They lived in a house with a garden, in which Mr. Bray planted fruit trees and shrubs, but where it was does not appear in the Diary.
[23b] He went to the Bowling-green to play at whist in the winter, and at howls in the summer.
[24a] He had been the first performance of Marplot by Garrick.
[24b] When he took the horse as far as Dorking it was 2s. 6d.