At home all day; wrote out bills. In the Lewes newspaper of the 24th think the following worthy of a memorandum:
“York, Feb. 11. — At the adjournment of the Quarter Sessions for this city and county thereof, James Monkman of New Buildens, near Sutton-on-the-forest, yeoman, was convicted of regratings contrary to statutes 5th and 6th of King Edward VI. The fact was that he bought 6 chickens in open market in the city at 6d each and immediately after sold them again, the same manner at 7½d each; for which offense he forfeited the value of the goods, received sentence of 2 months’ imprisonment and was accordingly committed to the city gaol. By the abovementioned statute the punishment for 2nd offense of forestalling, engrossing or regrating is a forfeiture of double the value of the goods and six months’ imprisonment; and for the 3rd offense the offender loses all his goods, must stand in the pillory and be imprisoned during the King’s pleasure.”
In the evening at Master Durrant’s instructing Thomas. After supper read part of Tournefort’s Voyage into the Levant.