Tuesday, February 15 or Shrove Tuesday 1763

…A great deal of snow fell in the night and a very hard rain in the forenoon. Sam Jenner dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a piece of pork and some turnips. In the evening Thomas Davy and I played a few games of cribbage; I won of him 10d. Sam Jenner took part of my bed, it being so wet the whole day that he could not get home.

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