Thomas Turner

I dined on a bullock’s tongue boiled, a batter pudding; and potatoes. Mrs Carman bought a great many things in the shop and drank tea with me in the afternoon. At home all day and very busy. In the evening Sam Jenner and I played a few games of cribbage; I won 2d. He stayed and took part of my bed.

…I dined on a hot beef pie and the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Sent Mr Richard Stone, surgeon and apothecary at Blackboys, by his servant Christopher Vine in cash 18.18.6, and 1/6 I kept back for exchange makes £19, which is in full for [a] bill received from him today…

At home all day and pretty busy. In the evening Joseph Fuller Jr sat with me some time. How unpleasant and truly melancholy is my present situation from what that was in my dear Peggy’s time!

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some applesauce. At home all day. Dame Henly and her youngest daughter drank tea with me.
 

Sent Mr John Crouch…£10. I dined on part of a sparerib salted and boiled and some greens. After dinner walked up to the house of Edward Foord, where I served the funeral of his wife and distributed the following gloves:

Women’s Black Ribbon-Bound
1. Sarah Winton	5. John Hart’s wife
2. Catharine Winton	6. Widow Dan
3. Will Winton’s wife	7. Dame Evenden
4. Nicholas Winton’s wife	8. Dorothy Dallaway
Men’s 2d Chamois or Black Ribbon-Bound
1. Edward Foord Jr	5. Will Winton
2. Will Foord	6. Nicholas Winton
3. Thomas Foord	7. John Hart
4. Ditto, his son

Total: 7 pairs men’s, 8 pairs women’s.

We came to church about 4:30 and buried the corpse. She we aged 49 years.

In the evening my servant went out to dancing and took the liberty to stay all night. In the evening Sam Jenner and Joseph Fuller sat with me some time.

In the morning wrote my London letters. I dined at Mr Porter’s in company with himself, wife and two sons, Mrs Atkins, John and Mrs French, Mrs Fuller and Mr and Mrs Walls on a fine dish of carp, a green neat’s tongue and turnips, a rump of beer a la daub [?], a hot chicken pasty, a roast turkey and bread puddings. My family at home dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner.

We stayed and spent the afternoon there, and drank tea and coffee and in the evening played at cards, Mrs Walls and myself playing at whist against Mrs French and Mrs Atkins, but we neither won nor lost. We also stayed and supped with Mr Porter on 2 chickens boiled, 2 ducks roasted, the remains of the tongue and pasty left at dinner and gooseberry tart. We stayed till about 11:15 and came away sober. I gave Mrs Porter’s servant one shilling.

Myself at church in the morning… We had a brief read for the relief of George Craven, sufferer by fire at Frizzing Hall in the county of York, whose loss amounted to the sum of £1128 and upwards. I collected 2/4 and 2d I have myself makes collected in the whole on this brief 2/6. After churchtime I went into Mr Porter’s, where we signed the brief.

Sam Jenner dined with me on a chicken pudding, a piece of beef boiled, a few rashers of pork and potatoes. After diner Sam Jenner and I walked over to Framfield to see my sister, whom I found better than I could have expected, though now in a very low week way, having been disordered with a violent inflammation on the lungs.

We stayed and drank tea at my brother’s and came home about 7:10. Sam Jenner came back with me and stayed some time with me in the evening.

My brother’s arm excessive bad. Mr Stone paid him a visit. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Paid Mr Ben Shelley by his brother John Shelley in cash 7.10.9 in full for the same sum he paid in London for me this week…

About 3:30 I walked over to Thomas Davy’s, from whence I went to church and stood sponsor for his infant daughter (in company with Mr George Bannister, Dame Cornwell and Molly French). We came back and drank tea and coffee at Mr T. Davy’s, and also spent the evening, and supped with him on bread, cheese, puffs and plum cake, with Joseph Fuller Jr, Thomas Durrant and Samuel Jenner added to our company. We broke up about 11:20 very sober. I gave the nurse 18d.

This day received a letter that my sister kept her chamber [i.e., had to stay indoors]. Rec’d of Henry Parker by cash and land tax receipt 1.8.0 on Mr Vine’s account.

My brother walked with Mr Bannister his round today. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Dame and Thomas Durrant drank tea with me. My brother came about 6:30, very much in liquor and having spent every farthing of money in his pocket, and, having fallen down, and the misfortune to dislocate the great bone of the arm, but his companion Mr George Bannister had the presence of mind immediately to pull it into place again. So of a misfortune I think this may be deemed good fortune.

At home all day. The trouble I have with my relations and my own folly makes me quite insane.

James Emery, a-gardening for me all the forenoon, dined with me on a cold bullock’s heart pie and plain suet pudding and potatoes. Completed posting my day book. At home all day and but very little to do. In the evening myself, Sam Jenner, my brother and Joseph Fuller Jr went into Thomas Durrant’s, where we stayed about 2 hours and a half, but too long it proved for us to come home sober. Oh, how hateful am I to myself; how do I detest and loathe myself.

This evening died the wife of Edward Foord, about 6:30, after a lingering illness, aged 49.

In the day posted part of my day book. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. This day balanced accounts with Mr James Fuller to the 9th instant, and paid him in cash 9.4.0 in full to the said time. In the evening John and Richard Page, sons of the widow Page, came to balance the accounts between their mother and myself, which we did, and there remains due to me upon balance 6/-. They stayed with me some time and supped with me on some bread and cheese. At home all day.