Author: Thomas Turner

Took physic today… In the forenoon my brother and I went down to Halland and delivered Mr Coates’s bill, amounting to 2.16.0. We dined today on lamb’s liver and some rashers of pork fried, a pudding baked under the leg of lamb, the lamb’s tongue and brain, with a gooseberry tart and a custard.

Busy all the evening. Charles Diggens took up a frock etc. for himself… This day Mr Francis Elless and Thomas Durrant ran in Halland garden a foot race 20 rods for 2/6 each, which was won by Thomas Durrant, I suppose with ease (I not being there). I went half the bet with Thomas Durrant so that of consequence I won 15d.

After breakfast my brother Moses went over to Framfield to my mother’s. My whole family at church in the forenoon… We dined on the lamb’s head which was boiled yesterday, as also the lights, mint etc. minced with the addition of a green salad, gooseberry pie and custard.

In the afternoon our maid and nephew went to Chiddingly Church (to order the cooper to call at our house). Myself, wife and Philip at church in the afternoon… George Richardson came to see us while we were at church in the afternoon and stayed till we came out of church and also stayed and drank tea with us. And then my wife and I went down to Jones’s with him, where he treated myself and wife with a bottle of raisin wine. Thomas Davy at our house in the evening, to whom, and in the day, I read 4 of Tillotson’s sermons, 3 of which I think as good sermons as can be read.

Took physic today. In the morning Mr Joseph Burgess and I signed a certificate for James Simonds and Ann his wife and Ann their daughter to the parish of Ecklesham, and John Streeter and Stephen Hazelden attested the same, and Streeter carried it to Lewes to get it allowed by the justices and then to forward it to the man. I paid Streeter 4/- for the certificate and his trouble. In reading the Jewish Antiquities I find [various things]…

We dined on the leg of lamb which was roasted on Saturday in the oven, with a cauliflower boiled, and some gooseberry pie and custard. At home all day. In the evening my brother came back to our house to have his blisters laid on and care taken of them

In the morning Master Piper gave me in cash 11.10.0 and a receipt for 1 year’s land tax (due at Lady last) for 2.8.0, for me to send by the carrier to Mr Allen Chatfield at Croydon for 1 year’s rent due to Mrs Mary Mills at Carshalton for her land which is used by Master Piper.

After breakfast Mr Burgess and myself went to talk to Anne Jeffrey and the servant of Thomas Osborne, who we had heard were both with child. But upon talking to them we have no reason to think so. Paid Mr Heaver, the miller at Isfield, 2.3.10 in full for 1 sack of flour and 3 bushels of pollard received by him today. We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a plain rice pudding for my brother. After dinner my brother and I went down to look at Mr French’s wool, but he was not at home. Mrs Parsons and Anne Prall drank tea at our house. In the evening my brother and I went down to Whyly and looked at Mr French’s wool, which I agreed to give him 1.0.6 per tod for; and if it turned out well, I was to give him 6d more per tod. We came home about 10 o’clock.

In the morning Crowhurst brought me some earthenware, and I paid him… After marking up my ware I walked over to Framfield. I breakfasted at my mother’s and came back about 11:10. I and the 2 boys walked down to Halland. We dined on a loin of lamb roasted in Marchant’s oven with a batter pudding under it. About 6:10 Mr Elless and I went down to look on the keeper’s wool, but it not being at home, we went to Mr Jones’s and master Goad’s and looked upon theirs. We also called in at Francis Paris’s and drank a mug of beer. We came back to the keeper’s sober, but I did not get home so. We came home about 1:20. I bought the keeper’s wool at 20/- the tod and am to have 2 shoulders of venison into the bargain. I sent word to Master Goad that I would take his at 1.10.0 per tod…

My mother’s servant came over in the morning and breakfasted with us… James Marchant drank coffee with us in the afternoon on account it was my brother’s birthday, who treated us with it, and entered into the 25th year of his age. At home all day and very piteous. Paid Joseph Fuller 11d for the loin of lamb received of him yesterday. Read part of Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, which I like extremely.

After breakfast my brother, self and nephew walked over to Framfield. We called at Mr Peckham’s as we went to Framfield and bought his wool for my mother at 21/- per tod. We got to my mother’s about 11:10 and dined with her on some green peas, a piece of pork, some cold mutton and cold plain butter pond pudding. After dinner my brother and I walked down to Mr Smith’s at Hempstead to look upon his wool, but it was not come home. We stayed and drank a bottle of cider with him. We came back and drank tea at my mother’s…

Thomas Davy at our house in the evening, to whom I read part of the London Magazine for June, wherein I find the charge of the gold boxes and writing and ornamenting the freedom of the City of London, which was by them presented to Mr Fitt and Mr [P]egge, cost 251.13.0. The freedom was written by Mr Joseph Champion and ornamented by Mr Charles Gardiner.

Took physic today. We dined on some lamb’s liver fried and some rashers of pork with a baked rice pudding for my brother… In the evening my brother went home to Framfield. At home all day. Read part of The Universal Magazine for June. Looked over part of my haberdashery to see what I want against Mr Collison’s coming round.

After breakfast my brother Will came in to see me, and together with my whole family was at church in the forenoon. The text was the same as that of the 5th of June… The Rt Hon George Cholmondely [3rd] Earl Cholmondely, Viscount Malpas, Joint Vice Treasurer [receiver-general and paymaster general] of Ireland, Lord Lieutenant, Custos Rotulorum and Vice-Admiral of Cheshire, Governor of Chester Castle, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Carnaervon, Flint, Merioneth and Montgomery, steward of the royal manor of Sheen in Surrey, and knight of the Bath [etc.], being a-visiting at Mr Coates’s, was at church this morning.

We dined on a lamb’s heart pudding, a piece of bacon, a lamb’s head and the remains (which the cat left us) of a lamb’s lights and the lamb’s tongue and brains, carrots, green salad, gooseberry pie and custard. My brother and my whole family at church this afternoon… My brother and Ann Martin (our maid’s sister) drank tea with us. My brother stayed till 6:20. I received of my brother in cash 2.2.0 in part of money for a watch which I am to buy for him…

Took physic today… At home all day. My brother came over in the evening in order to have 2 blisters laid on behind his ears… read part of The Universal Magazine for June wherein I find the following receipt recommended (in an extract from Dr Lind’s essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of the seamen in the Royal Navy) as a specific against all epidemical and bilious fevers and also against endemic disorders: He first recommends a regular course of life and to abstain as much as possible from animal food, and to confine as much as possible to a vegetable diet. Then he orders about 2 ounces of the following tincture to be taken every day upon an empty stomach (and better if taken at twice):

Rx	8 onces of bark
	4 ounces dried orange peel, which infuse in a gallon of spirits.

But in my opinion it might be rendered a more grateful bitter if instead of the 4 ounces of dried orange peel there were put 1½ ounces of it and 3 ounces of undried lemon peel cleared from the white. I also found an account of the following powder, called the Duke of Portland’s gout powder:

	For the gout or rheumatism:
Rx	Aristolochia Rotunda, or
	Birthwort Root
	Gentian Root
	Germander
	Ground Pine    tops and leaves
	Centaury

Take of all these well dried, powdered and sifted as fine as you can, equal weight; mix them well together and take one drachm of this mixed powder every morning, fasting, in a cup of wine and water, broth, tea or any other vehicle you like best; keep fasting an hour and half after it; continue this for three months without interruption. Then diminish the dose to a drachm for 3 months longer; then to a drachm for 6 months more, taking it regularly every morning if possible. After the first year it will be sufficient to take ½ a drachm every other day. As this medicine operates insensibly, it will take perhaps two years before you receive any great benefit; so you much not discouraged though you do not perceive at first any great amendment. It works slow but sure. It does not confine the patient to any particular diet, so one lives soberly and abstains for those meats and liquors that have been always accounted pernicious in the gout, as; champagne, drams, high sauces etc. N.B.: In the rheumatism that is only accidental and not habitual, a few of the drachm rosemary do, but if in an habitual, or that has been of long duration, then you must take it as for the gout. The remedy requires patience as it operates but slow in both distempers.