…The opera of the Cabinet, with Two Strings to your Bow being bespoke by Lady L. Lennox for the evening of the next day [15 June] I went to the latter part of it, to which Mrs. M. co’d not venture, having for a day or two before been very unwell with great sickness at stomach & total loss of appetite, in consideration of which I on the next day (Wed’y. 16) thought it right to call in Dr. Sanden, who imediately prescib’d such things as he thought might relieve the complaint, tho’ he rather fear’d that it might end in a journey to Bath…

On Friday the 25th I composed a Sanctus in D. for 3 trebles & on the next day wrote some Comandments for them…

Tuesday the 29th being St. Peter's day I had an opportunity of trying my new Sanctus & Comandments w’ch I accompan’d myself on the organ, but it (as usual for the 1st time) did not go so well as I co’d wish, tho’ it was rehears’d on the day before – On this day Parliament was dissolv’d & writs issued out for a new one…

Being at this interval previous to going to Angmering quite at leisure I on Monday the 28th. look't out a movement I had some years before sketch’d out in score for the 1st. part of a Symphony in B[. which I now went on with & added two more movements w’ch compleated it being my 31st. Symphony (No. 66 in my catalogue) & about the same time I began composing a 32d. Overture or Symphony in D. the subject of which occur’d to me when I was in London the preceeding May…

The city election being on the next day [7 July], Edw’d & I went in the morning to the Townhall, where Messrs Steele & Thomas were reelected Members after w’ch I dined at the Swan with Mr Steele's friends but was too late to get into the principal room.