Author: Thomas Turner

…Paid Robert Hook in cash 13/-, which is in full for the same sum he paid Mr John Pike of Burwash in full on my account. At home all day; posted my day book.

My brother came over in the forenoon and dined with us… In the afternoon made part of the land tax books, Mr Piper and myself being assessors for the present year.

…In the forenoon rode over to Framfield, and, my brother wanting to go to Lewes, I lent him my horse and came home on foot. I borrowed of my brother in cash £20, but gave him no note for it. We dined on a beef pudding and greens boiled and a piece of mutton roasted. Paid Ben Shelley in cash 3.10.0, which with the £30 I gave him the 24th makes together the sum of 33.10.0 and is in full for the same sum he paid for me in London this week…

Dame Lewer and Dame Chipper drank tea at our house. Lent John Browne in cash £20, for which he gave me his note of hand payable to me or order on demand, with interest for the same after the rate of four pounds percent per annum. Thank God pretty busy today. My brother called as he came back from Lewes and left my horse and supped with us. Made part of the land tax books. Mr Long sat with us some time in the evening.

In the forenoon rode to Bayley’s Lane to the crock-kiln to buy some earthenware, but there being not enough burnt, I agreed to postpone it until Tuesday next. We dined on a beef pudding and cabbage leaves. In the afternoon rode up to Mr Vine’s and looked upon his wool, which he agreed I should have at the market price. Mrs Bean drank tea at our house. In the evening made part of the window tax books. Pretty busy in the day.

No churching at our church in the morning, Mr Porter preaching at Laughton. In the morning my wife and self walked to Little Horsted church, where we heard a sermon preached by the Rev Mr Chalice, curate of Ripe, the text in John 5:28,29: “…For the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice. And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”

We dined with my uncle Hill in company with my brother Moses and one Mr Godfrey, on some beans and bacon and a shoulder of veal roasted and stuffed, and currant pond butter pudding (our servant at home dining on a beef pudding). Spent the afternoon at my uncle’s, and in the evening Thomas Durrant came for to carry my wife home, and I also rode home on a horse of my uncle’s, and his boy with me to have the horse home again. Came home about 9:10. My wife and I gave the servants 12d.

Rec’d of Mr John Gosling in cash 5.3.7½, which is in full for the rags I delivered to his son the 16th instant; viz.,

To 6 cwt 3 qr 14 lbs rags sold at 30/-			10.6.3
Carriage allowed			0.10.0
To 5 quires of paper			0.2.6
			10.18.9
Per contra Cr.
To 2 reams of writing paper bought for me			1.0.0
To 4 lumps of sugar bought for me, weight 1 cwt O qr 15 lbs at 73/-			4.2.9¾
Rec’d by carriage:
viz.,	sugar	1.0.15
	rags	6.3.14
	paper	0.0.26
		8.0.27 at 18d per cwt	0.12.4¼
Do. In cash today			5.3.7
			10.18.9

We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner, with the addition of some green peas. My wife extremely ill with a swelled face, and a most excessive pain in it. At home all day (in the evening wrote my London letters), except just walking down to Whyly to see Mr French’s wool and not staying 5 minutes.

…We dined on some pork and peas. Dame Hook and Molly and Dame Cornwell the younger drank tea at our house. Mr Stone paid my wife a visit today. At home all day and pretty busy, though most of the goods delivered were booked. In the forenoon my brother came over to borrow my horse.

…In the evening went to Bayley’s Lane and looked out some earthenware. Mr Stone paid my wife a visit, who is something better. My brother came over in the forenoon and brought my horse again.

Paid Thomas Fuller by his servant Will Burrage in cash and goods 3/2 in full for half a dozen of candles received by him today. We dined on some beans and bacon. In the forenoon my cousin Molly Hill came to see us and after tea my wife and cousin walked to Whitesmith Fair.

In the evening I played at cricket some little time before the door. My cousin Hill came back and lodged at our house. Joseph Fuller Jr smoked a pipe with me.

In the forenoon my sister Sally came to see us and she with my cousin Hill dined with us on a forequarter of lamb roasted, a cauliflower, carrots and cucumber. After dinner my uncle came in and he dined with us on the remains of what we left. They all stayed and drank tea with us, and then went home… Paid Mr Sam Beckett in cash 2.11.0 which is in full for the same sum he paid in London for me this week; viz.,

Jul 3.	To Mr Stanley Crowder & Co	2.8.0
	To a bottle of pectoral balsam of honey	0.3.0

Paid Richard Fuller 2/9 for a forequarter of lamb received today weighing 8¼ lbs. At home all day, but not very busy. In the evening read part of the London Magazine for June.