_Sept._ 22_nd_.—The Coronation. To the Green, played four games. At 7
to the ‘Red Lion,’ to drink the King’s health. To the Mayor at the
‘Tuns.’ Home at 12.
28_th_.—To Wotton Hatch. Home between 7 and 8.
_Oct._ 2_nd_.—To London, to talk with Mr. Evelyn {28b}; called on
Jenkins.
3_rd_.—Breakfasted with Mr. Evelyn.
9_th_.—Bleeded to-day.
27_th_.—To London, with Mr. Evelyn to the Board of Green Cloth. There
till 3, dined at Clifton’s Chop House. Paid for dinner, 1_s._
28_th_.—Breakfasted at Dr. Adee’s. The Miss Adee’s walked with me to
look for a house. Mr. Jenkins supped with me.
29_th_.—To the Green Cloth at 11; at 3 to the ‘Angel,’ and dined there.
To Covent Garden Theatre, but could not get in. Drank tea at Adderley’s;
quadrille. Paid for dinner, 1_s._ 6_d._; rum, 1_s._ 2_d._; orange chips,
3_d._; cakes, 2_d._
1762, _Jan._ 18_th_.—Queen’s Birth-day. We all dined at St. James’s. At
11 home in a chaise; paid for chaise, 1_s._ 6_d._
_March_ 12_th_.—The General Fast. My wife brought to bed of a boy. {29}
_April_ 24_th_.—Much out of order with a cold.
25_th_.—Bled this morning.
26_th_.—Mr. Stephenson and I, with Mr. Selwyn, at 2, to the Exhibition.
Paid for catalogue, 6_d._
27_th_.—At home this morning, taking Jessop’s water. In the afternoon
drank tea with Jenkins. Home at 8.
_July_ 29_th_.—Dined at the ‘King’s Head,’ Dorking, paid for dinner and
wine, 2_s._; Lord Midleton’s man for venison, 2_s._ 6_d._
_Aug._ 21_st_.—To St. James’s with Mrs. Norwood, and three Miss Adee’s to
drink caudle. {30a} Went into Kensington Gardens; gave the boy who let
us in, 2_d._
_Sept._ 1_st_.—To Mr. Walters, {30b} called on Mr. Malthus; {30c} dined
at Mr. Evelyn’s. Home at 6.
_Oct._ 2_nd_.—Dined and lay at Lord Midleton’s; at quadrille, from 4 in
the afternoon. Paid servants in the house, 5_s._
_Nov._ 5_th_.—In the Guildford coach to Guildford. Went to the ‘Tuns’ to
drink the King’s health. Home at 12; paid at the ‘Tuns,’ 1_s._; coach
and man, 6_s._
13_th_.—Dined at Mr. Burdett’s; at whist won 6 rubbers out of 7; won
15_s._ Home past 12.
1766, _Sept._ 6_th_.—Paid for a horse, bought of a Welchman, £6. 6_s._
0_d._; saddle, bridle, and cloth, £1. 17_s._ 6_d._
_Oct._ 4_th_.—With Mrs. N. and Miss Kerr to Drury Lane; ‘Romeo and
Juliet.’
5_th_.—Sunday to Church. To the Coffee-house for half-an-hour. Paid for
wine, 6_d._
6_th_.—To Mundy’s Coffee-house, and supped.
7_th_.—Drank tea with Jenkins.
10_th_.—With Mrs. Kerr to Drury Lane: ‘Provoked Husband’ and ‘Devil to
Pay:’ Mr. Garrick.
11_th_.—Drank tea with Adderley. To the Coffee-house for half-an-hour.
12_th_.—Drank tea at Dr. Adee’s.
13_th_.—With Jenkins to Mundy’s Coffee-house. Paid reckoning, 2_s._
6_d._