Author: Thomas Turner

…At home all day. Dame Cornwell and her daughter and Mrs Rippington drank tea at our house. Not very busy. In the evening I wrote my London letters.

My brother came over in the morning and breakfasted with us and after breakfast my wife and I set out for Lewes fair, Thomas Durrant riding before my wife, and I on Mr Thornton’s horse, in company with Mr Burgess of Rotherfield.

I balanced accounts with Mrs Roase… We dined at Mrs Roase’s on a cold fillet veal roasted and cold ham, in company with several more… Paid Mr Faulkner Bristow in cash 10d and by one bill on Mr William Margesson…5.8.0, which with the 10d I paid him makes the sum of 5.8.10 and is in full on my account. Paid Mr John Lambert 0.11.4 in full. Paid Mr Samuel Newell 18/- in full. We drank tea at Mr Scrase’s. Came home about 9:40… My brother stayed and supped with us and then went home…

Paid Mr French and Thomas Fuller 13/6 for window tax and land tax. Mr John Warriner called on me and I paid him in cash 1.16.6 in full on account of himself and brother.

We dined on the remains of Sunday’s dinner with the addition of some roasted pigeons. Mrs Fuller, Molly and Betty Fuller and Mrs Ancill drank tea at our house. At home all day, but very little to do in the shop. My side a great deal better, and may the God of all goodness pour into my heart the graces of his Holy Spirit, that I may continually adore and praise him for this, his inestimable blessing to me, a poor sinful creature, through the merits and mediation of my blessed Savior.

Dame Dallaway at work for my wife part of the day and breakfasted with us and also dined with us on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. In the evening walked up to Mr John Vine’s, there being an audit.

I carried my bill for goods delivered for the audit, amounting to 2.6.0, which bill I delivered to Mr Vine with a receipt upon it and he promised to send me down the money tomorrow morning about 11 o’clock. I came home in company with Joseph Fuller, sober.

Mrs Weller drank tea with us… At home all day and very little to do.

At home all day… Rec’d of Joseph Fuller 1 lamb’s head and pluck. Thomas Durrant a-gardening for me 2 or 3 hours; drank tea with us. And really a most melancholy time. Nothing to do.

Mr Long and I took a walk in the morning and he came back and breakfasted with me. No service at our church in the morning, Mr Porter being ill. Mr Long and I walked to Chiddingly, where we had a sermon preached by the Rev Mr Herring, vicar of Chiddingly, from Proverbs 15:3: “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”

We dined on a dried hog’s cheek and a lamb’s head and pluck boiled, a gooseberry pudding and spinach… My wife, self and servant at church in the afternoon, when we had a sermon preached by the Rev Mr Jones, curate of Waldron, from part of I Corinthians 2:9:… “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” We had a brief read for the parish church of Roxtler in the county of Salop, to which I gave 2d. James Trill and Lucy Mott were out asked.

…After dinner I rode to Bayley’s Lane to buy some earthenware, but was disappointed, the man having no quantity made. Came home about 5:20. Rec’d of Mr Will Piper in cash 1.8.11 in full as under:

To the balance of our account	0.9.11
To cash paid Thomas Ling	0.10.0
To do. Richard Braizer	0.6.0
To do. widow Trill	0.3.0

But little to do all day. My brother came over in the evening, but did not stay.

In the morning Thomas Durrant carried my wife to Hartfield. Very busy at work in my garden all the forenoon. We dined on the remains of Sunday’s dinner, with the addition of a green salad. An extreme hot day.

Posted my day book… At home all day, and but little to do. An extreme hot day.