_Dec._ 1_st_.—To Covent Garden Theatre. Paid for a fortnight’s board and lodging, £1. 4_s._; for a bushel of coals, 1_s._ 2_d._ Tea at Prosser’s coffee-house, 4_d._; wine after dinner, 3_d._; a pound of candles, 7_d._ 7_th_.—To chambers (Mr. Adderley’s) till near 7, then James came home with me. At whist till 11. 9_th_.—To chambers. Home to dinner. At 4 to Drury Lane Theatre: ‘The Careless Husband’—Lord Chalkstone, Mr. Garrick. 10_th_.—To Mr. Adderley’s till dinner. Thither in the afternoon. At 6 drank tea with Jenkins. 11_th_.—To chambers; after dinner there again. Home at 7; at 9, Jenkins, James, and Mersing, at whist till 11. _Dec._ 12_th_.—To chambers. Paid for cyder with James, after dinner, 3_d._; wine with Mersing at night, 3_d._ 14_th_.—At whist with Jenkins, James, and Mersing. 17_th_.—Jenkins and James came home with me at 7; played at draughts with Jenkins. Afterwards Boughton came and took us to his lodgings; at whist till 11. 21_st_.—With Boughton and James; mobbed it for the first row of the upper gallery at Drury Lane, which we got. 22_nd_.—To Drury Lane; an old play of Shirley’s, ‘The Gamesters,’ revived. 23_rd_.—To chambers; after dinner to do. At 7, home; Jenkins, James, and Boughton, to whist till 11. 25_th_.—To the Temple Chapel, at the Sacrament. In the afternoon with James and Boughton to the Romish Chapel in Lincoln’s Inn Fields; then to Mrs. Emily’s and drank tea. Home at 8. 27_th_.—With Boughton to St. Michael’s Church, Cornhill, and heard part of a sermon; afterwards to St. Mildred’s, and heard part of the prayers. At whist with Sibthorpe, Boughton, and Jenkins till near 11. 28_th_.—To an auction of books {16} at the ‘Robin Hood.’ 31_st_.—Between 9 and 10 Mrs. Mouling sent for me, to play at whist with her son and daughter till 11. 1758, _Jan._ 2_nd_.—To chambers at 4 till past 7; then home; Boughton, Daniel, and Mersing came, and played at whist till 12. The following is written on a slip of paper:—‘_Jan._ 1_st_, 1758.—In my pocket, £1. 5_s._ 5_d._; purse, £17. 9_s._ 6_d._; money laid out for my brother, &c. £2. 7_s._ 7½_d._; due from my mother at Christmas, £2. 2_s._; in my card purse, {17a} 12_s._ 2_d._; Bank 3 per cent. Reduced Annuities, £100. ‘Of wife and children, debts and taxes clear, £123. 16_s._ 8½_d._’ _Jan._ 29_th_, _Sunday_.—Between 2 and 3 to the Speaker’s to dinner; sat an hour before dinner; paid the servant, 2_s._ _Feb._ 19_th_, _Sunday_.—To St. Dunstan’s Church. After dinner called on Mr. Maxwell; then to church at St. Andrew’s, Holborn; called on Mersing; soon after 4 Sam Ford came in; I stayed with him till past 7; then went home and got my fire lighted, and at 9 they came and stayed till 12. 21_st_.—Took a place in the Godalming Machine.