Author: Thomas Turner

Paid Mr Benjamin Shelley in cash 6.11.9 in full… I dined on a sausage pudding and watercress. In the afternoon Mr Jacob Fender, servant and rider to Mr James Blake, called on me. I paid him one bill…value £30… At home all day, but not very busy.

Myself, brother and servant at church in the morning… Mrs Carman dined with me on a neat’s tongue boiled and greens. Myself, brother and servant [at church] in the afternoon… Sam Jenner drank tea with me and spent the evening with me.

Rec’d of Mr Richard Stone 1 draft on Mr William Baldwin dated today, payable to me or order on demand, value 38.7.6, for which I gave him a receipt acknowledging that I have received such a bill.

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a few rashers of pork boiled and potatoes. At home all day and but very little to do. In the evening wrote my London letters. Sam Jenner sat with me some time in the evening. My brother and I marked up a parcel of Manchester goods.

Sent Mr Margesson enclosed in a letter by Ben Shelley delivered to himself the bill value 38.7.6 I received yesterday of Mr Stone. Janes Emery, a-gardening for me part of the day, dined with me on a piece of beef boiled, a hard pudding and some greens.

Dame Watford and her sister Ellen Pierce my late servant drank tea with me. In the afternoon my brother set upon a wild ramble. His first place was Chiddingly, then Laughton Pound where Master Hook, whom I sent in pursuit of him, found him and brought him home about 1:45.

My brother Moses came over in the evening, I having sent to him on the account of Richard’s ramble. He stayed with me till past 12 and then went home. A prodigious wet evening.,

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some onion sauce. In the afternoon I was sent for down to Mrs Hannah Atkins’s, where I and James Marchant were witnesses to her signing and sealing her will, which she declared to be her last will and testament. And we signed it as witnesses in presence of Mr George Verrall and his wife and Mrs Elizabeth Hicks. I stayed and drank tea there on company with the before mentioned (except James Marchant). I came away immediately after tea.

My brother quite ashamed of his last night’s behavior; kept his bed all day. May the supreme Being give and endue him with his preventing grace, strength and resolution of mind enough never to be guilty of drunkenness again. Paid Robert Hook 5/3 in full for the same sum he paid, and for his trouble a-going after my brother yesterday.
 

After breakfast set out for Lewes to get some Norwich crape for Mrs Atkins. I dined at Mr Madgwick’s on a slit rump of beef, turnips and parsnips (my family at home dining on a sausage pudding). I came home thank God very safe and sober about 4:20. Spent today on myself, horse, ostler and turnpike 10d.

Paid today the following people in full on my brother Richard’s account:

Mr Edward Blackman	0.5.0
Mr John Scott	0.0.3
Mr Will Lee	0.5.10
Mr John Martin	1.8.6
Mr Stephen Heaver	1.4.0
Mr Stephen Turnis	0.4.7
Mr Joseph Morris	3.3.0
Mr William Vine	2.6.10½
Mr William Barwick	0.19.3
Mr John Jones	0.7.6
Mr John Harland	0.3.0
Mr John Easton	0.3.0
Archibald Browne	0.5.0
Mr Richard Moreton	0.16.6
	11.16.9½

Spent on my brother’s account 6d. At home all the evening; Sam Jenner sat with me some time. In the forenoon we had a very severe shower of hail, I think the smartest I was ever out in.

I dined on the remains of yesterday and Wednesday’s dinners. At home all day and very little to do. In the day posted part of my day book. In the evening read part of Homer’s Odyssey translated by Pope. Paid John Nutley in cash and goods 6/- in full of all demands whatever.
 

Paid Mr Richard Stone in cash 38.7.6 in full for the bill received of him the 11th instant, and he returned me the receipt I then gave him. Paid Ben Shelley in cash 10.1.9 in full for the same sum he paid for me in London this week. I dined on a leg of mutton roasted and potatoes and some venison sauce.

At home all day, and in the forenoon posted part of my day book. In the afternoon very busy marking up a parcel of haberdashery and other goods. In the evening Sam Jenner sat with me some time, to whom I read part of the London Magazine for February.

Myself, brother and servant at church in the morning… I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. No service at our church in the afternoon, Mr Porter preaching at Framfield, the vicar thereof being ill.

In the afternoon my servant went to see Mr Sam Jenner. And about 3:30 my brother and I walked down to Halland in order to see Mr and Mrs Walls. We drank tea with them and came home about 7:50, thank God both as sober as we went away from home. An excessive wet evening indeed.

In the morning walked down to Mr Porter’s, where we signed the brief which he read the 24th ult. upon which we had collected upon the whole the sum of 1.12.0; viz.,

The Rev Mr Porter	0.5.0	Sarah Bridger	0.0.3
Mary Overing	0.0.3	Ann Gear	0.0.1½
Elizabeth Akehurst	0.0.2	Mr John French	0.0.6
Mr Thomas Wall	0.1.0	Mrs Elizabeth French, widow	0.0.6
Mr Simonds Blackman	0.2.6	Miss Molly French	0.0.6
Mary Cottingtone	0.1.0	Elizabeth Strudwick	0.0.3
Mrs Mary Piper, widow	0.0.6	Mary Carpenter	0.0.3
Mr James Fuller	0.0.6	Charles Vine 3d	0.0.3
Thomas Olivers	0.0.2	Mrs Elizabeth Fuller, widow	0.0.2
Edward Hope	0.0.2	Thomas Reeve	0.0.6
John Cayley	0.0.6	John Nutley	0.1.0
Richard Hope	0.0.6	George Stace	0.0.3
Samuel Harmer	0.0.3	William Gasson	0.0.3
Edward Foord	0.0.6	Mr Coates	0.1.0
Henry Bray	0.0.3	Ann Nicholas	0.0.3
Mary Wheeler	0.0.3	Joseph Fuller	0.1.0
Joseph Durrant	0.0.6	Thomas Durrant	0.0.6
Joseph Burgess	0.0.6	Robert Hook	0.0.6
Thomas Hervey	0.0.3	Thomas Davy	0.0.6
Mrs Hannah Atkins	0.1.6	Mrs Elizabeth Hicks	0.1.0
Mrs Elizabeth Browne	0.0.6	James Hutson	0.0.6
William Alcorne	0.0.3	William Henly	0.0.2
William Burrage	0.0.2	John Gasson	0.0.1
Henry Godley	0.0.6	Hutson John	0.0.3
John Piper	0.0.6	Richard, john and Ann Page, widow	0.1.0
Thomas Carman	0.1.0	John Watford	0.0.6
Ellen Pierce	0.0.3	Hannah Marchant	0.0.2
Mr George Bannister	0.0.1	Myself	0.1.2½

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. At home all day, but not very busy. In the evening wrote my London letters.