Leeves', with Miss Lavant and Miss More.
Walked with them and Miss Leeves up Warwick's Bench and part of
Velvet Walk; then played at quadrille. Home 11.
May 1st.--Drank tea there again. Quadrille.
20th.--Richard the man went for a week to the Peasemarch to be
aired; he catched the smallpox coming to us. Paid for a cheesecake
for Jacky, 1d.
22nd.--War with France proclaimed at Guildford; the soldiers drawn
up in arms, and with music went before the Mayor, &c. Went to see
the wire-dancer; he tossed the straw very well, he laid a board on
the wire and sat on it himself with three children and a dog in
full swing; on the whole quite silly.
23rd, Sunday.--To Stoke Church, afterwards to the Bowling-green,
and had a syllabub with Rawlins, Ford, Mellersh, Mersing, W.
Parson, Hallomby, and Elkins. Walked up the Velvet Walk with them.
25th.--Sir Charles Howard reviewed his regiment in the Artillery
Ground. With Parvish to the 'White Hart,' and gave him a bottle of
wine, which I owed him for teaching me on the flute.
June 6th, Sunday.--To Lower Church; to the 'White Hart,' with
Stares, Harbroe and Mellersh, had some cold tankard. Mellersh and
I walked up Warwick Bench; and in the hop-ground at the bottom of
Velvet Walk, met Rawlins and Ford, who went with us.
9th.--To the Assembly. Danced with Miss Fanny Yalden, who dances
very well. Paid Assembly 2s. 6d.; negus, 1s.
10th.
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