Author: Thomas Turner

At home all day, and busy. Received of Ed Smith 3.3.0, being money lent him the 12th January. Gave Francis Smith in cash 1.5.0 for him to pay in London (see Saturday 22nd instant). Gave Bonwick’s carter for bringing 14 dozen bottles 12d.

At home all day. Ed Smith and I balanced accounts, and I paid him 4/- for 8 packs of cards. He spent the evening with me.

At home all day and very busy. Sent Will to Framfield. In the evening read Tournefort’s Voyage into the Levant.

At home all day. Remarkable cold. Mr Jordan dined with me. Paid the post boy for Thomas Freeman 0.6.0 (to wit) for 6 pairs girl’s pattens and 6 pairs clogs.

Charles Diggens brought my coat. I paid him 0.9.5 (to wit) for altering a pair of breeches and mending a greatcoat 0.0.9; for making 2 pairs spatterdashes 0.1.2; for making a coat 0.7.6. John Watford Jr a-fetching dung from the stable for me today; agreed to give him 18d. Paid for bread 1d.

Went over to Framfield in the morning. Rec’d of my mother 3.7.1, which with £6 received the 26^th January is in full for money paid for her for nails from Crowley the 29 January 1755; and likewise balanced our account current and there remains due to me £24.

Paid Richard Savage for flour etc. 1.16.0 in full to this day. In the evening at Durrant’s instructing Thomas. After supper read part of the new Magazine of Arts & Sciences.

At home all day. Rec’d of Francis Smith 0.18.6, which with 0.6.6 he paid in London for a trunk is 1.6.0, the sum I gave him the 17th. Paid Joseph Fuller for a leg of mutton and a sheep’s bell 0.2.6.

At church in the morning. The text the 4th chapter of 1st Epistle to the Thessalonians, verse 11. The subject: everyone to mind their own business. Ed Smith spent the afternoon with me. In the evening read part of The Whole Duty of Man.

At home all day and very busy. Sent Messrs Margesson and Collison in a parcel by Smith £18; drew on them today for £15 to Mr Mat Blake, 28 days’ date. Paid Vinal 16d for mending the copper.

In the evening went with Mr Clinch to see Mr T. Thompsett. Found him very ill. After supper read part of the 2nd volume of The Sports of the Muses.

At home all day. Posted my day book. Mrs French here in the afternoon. Brewed and filled the old barrel, the new being filled about 12 weeks ago.

Read part of the 2nd volume of The Sports of the Muses. Memo:

Epigram by Prior:

“When Loveless married Lady Jenny
 
Whose beauty was — the ready penny
 
I chose her, says he, like old plate:
 
Not for the fashion, but the weight.”

An Epitaph on a Miser, by Shakespeare;

“Ten in the hundred lies here ingraved
 
‘Tis a hundred to ten his soul is not saved.
 
If any man ask who lies in this tomb
 
Oho! quoth the Devil, ‘tis my John a Combe.”

In the morning Mr Withington, Bancroft and Nixon’s man, came to our house, and I went over to Framfield with him. I paid him in cash 0.19.0 and by bill on Messrs Margesson and Collison £15 which is in all 15.19.0, on my, Account £7 and for Thomas Fuller in full 8.19.0; remains due on my account £8.

N.B.: The bill abovementioned was drawn today and 30 days’ date. Came home in the evening. Paid Clymson the glover at Wannock 1.17.0 for goods as under (to wit):

46 pairs men’s outseamed tan	1.3.0
12 pairs boys’ ditto	0.4.0
12 pairs men’s inseamed ditto	0.10.0

Carried with me to Framfield:

24 pairs men’s outseamed	0.12.0
6 pairs boys’ ditto	0.6.0
5 pairs men’s inseamed ditto	0.4.2
	0.18.2

Received of my mother 0.19.0, of which sum 0.18.2 is for the above gloves and the remaining 10d I am debtor for. Paid Mr Plumer 3/- for two pounds powder.