[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
A pound of cheese 0 0
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.