Paid an apprentice of Mr Thomas Freeman’s of Mayfield 14/- in full for 1 dozen of women’s pattens and 1 doz of women’s clogs received by him today… A very hard frost in the morning and in the afternoon s pretty deal of snow fell. At home all day. My wife, poor creature, very ill. In the evening wrote out part of the parish bill and wrote some letters. Thank God pretty busy today…