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Dated ''Feb 17 1728.9'.

Criticizes Hume's 'Dialogues concerning natural religion'

Further criticism of Hume's 'Dialogues concerning natural religion'

Jack's Land, Edinburgh. Commiserates regarding illness and discusses the work of the Long Parliament.

Groningen. Discusses Mr Gordon and his advisers, ceremonials of the Dutch, subject of previous letter (undisclosed), request to be addressed without clerical titles "for I am a downright layman"

Diary entries and accounts kept by a student in his last year at Trinity College, Cambridge in a printed diary for 1753 altered to the later date the diary started in February 1755 and continuing on through the beginning of February 1756 when Hebbes left Trinity for Kensington. Hebbes records academic activities: declaiming in Chapel, presenting an epistle to the Master of Trinity Dr Smith, and paying the Moderator's man for huddling before being examined by Mr Howkins, and then by two moderators, and four fathers in the 'theatre'. His accounts record purchases of food, a subscription to Dockrell's Coffee House, and a variety of miscellaneous items: a new wig, repairs to his watch, Christmas boxes, as well as expenses relating to trips to London, Saffron Walden, Royston, Chesterton, and Stourbridge Fair. He records money won and lost at cards and bowls, and money given to the poor. He mentions selling books, makes payments to the Junior Proctor, Beadle, Head Lecturer and Senior Bursar, and buys a bachelor's gown, and wine and port for the 'Batchelor's table' before taking his degree. The diary also appears to have been used for handwriting practice by Ellen Hebbes and possibly other Hebbes children.

Lisle Street, Leicester Field. Discusses business with Lord Hopton.

Caldwell. Discusses new taxes in the colonies, possibility of George Brown settling in the area.

With 'The order of the service in the English Church of Amsterdam' and 'Form of the public Part of Prayer in the City of Amsterdam'.

Edinburgh. Ferguson is reading AS's work and is complimentary but the work has provoked the Church, the University, the merchants and the militia, illness of Hume

Kirkaldy. Apologises for the letter sent the previous day

Edinburgh. Discusses revenues from tobacco, Hair Powder Act, consolidation of customs and excise

Edinburgh: scheme to improve the fishing trade in Scotland

Argenteuil. Suggests d'Ormessan should be deprived of his powers

(The document bears a note on its provenance, dated at Annonay on 1 Jan. 1827.)

Sackville Street. Anticipation of the payment of the Austrian loan, suspicion of a misinterpretation by Pitt of the terms of the loan

Sackville Street. Declares his opposition to the interest on the Austrian loan being set below 5%