1st.--To Covent Garden Theatre. Paid for a fortnight's board
and lodging, 1 pound 4s.; for a bushel of coals, 1s. 2d. Tea at
Prosser's coffee-house, 4d.; wine after dinner, 3d.; a pound of
candles, 7d.
7th.--To chambers (Mr. Adderley's) till near 7, then James came
home with me. At whist till 11.
9th.--To chambers. Home to dinner. At 4 to Drury Lane Theatre:
'The Careless Husband'--Lord Chalkstone, Mr. Garrick.
10th.--To Mr. Adderley's till dinner. Thither in the afternoon.
At 6 drank tea with Jenkins.
11th.--To chambers; after dinner there again. Home at 7; at 9,
Jenkins, James, and Mersing, at whist till 11.
Dec. 12th.--To chambers. Paid for cyder with James, after dinner,
3d.; wine with Mersing at night, 3d.
14th.--At whist with Jenkins, James, and Mersing.
17th.--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.
21st.--With Boughton and James; mobbed it for the first row of the
upper gallery at Drury Lane, which we got.
22nd.--To Drury Lane; an old play of Shirley's, 'The Gamesters,'
revived.
23rd.--To chambers; after dinner to d0. At 7, home; Jenkins,
James, and Boughton, to whist till 11.
25th.--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.
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