The Diary of William Bray: extracts by William Bray
page 57 of 67 (85%)
page 57 of 67 (85%)
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Driver and hostler O 2 O Two bottles of Lisbon at the 'White Hart' O 3 4 For fifty oysters O O 7.5 A pound of cheese O O 3.5 A pound and a half of salmon 0 1 0 Paid Jenkins for the ring O 6 6 [Jenkins got the ring and sent it to him with a humourous letter.] Mr. Shrubb for a tabby nightgown 7 14 O Ear-rings and necklace O 14 O Coffee with Boughton at the Lincoln's Inn Coffee House (on the afternoon of his wedding) O O 5 {28} 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. {29} He went to the Bowling-green to play at whist in the winter, and at howls in the summer. {30} He had been the first performance of Marplot by Garrick. {31} When he took the horse as far as Dorking it was 2s. 6d. |
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