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At home all day. Mr Edward Miller sent me a present of a hare. Gave the boy that brought it 12d. Samuel Slater Jr came in a little after dinner for Nanny Slater. Master Piper drank tea with us; I paid him 2.17.0 in part for money paid to Messrs Margesson and Collison on my account by Messrs Swainstone and Hedges. Paid Master Piper 6/8 for the 2 bushels of malt received the 30th of September last, which is in full except 6½ bushels malt and the remainder of the above money. I wrote the banns of marriage for Master Piper to be published in the church tomorrow between himself and his servant Mary Denmall… Gave Henry Vine for going to Framfield in the morning for me 3d. Paid John Watford Sr 3d for a bundle of straw. Paid for milk ½d. Busy all day. Samuel Slater and I spent the evening together at my own house. About 10:15 Master John Mugridge came in and stayed until 12:05. I rec’d of him in cash 2.10.4¾, which 1s in full to this day. Samuel Slater brought me 2 fine rabbits for a present.

At home all day. Paid Dame Cornwell 6d for brewing for us yesterday. Rec’d of William Sinden ½ bushel of wheat. Sarah Taylor drank tea. Nanny Slater in at Mrs Weller’s in the evening.

At home all day. This day we brewed and filled both the large barrels. Rec’d of Joseph Fuller 3 stone beef, 5/6; ditto of Mr French 1 gallon of peas and 4½ lbs hops. In the evening posted my day book and wrote out Joseph Fuller’s bill amounting to 5.18.6. In the evening read part of Tournefort’s Voyage into the Levant.

At home all day. Rec’d of Master Piper 6½ bushels malt; paid for butter and milk 3½d. In the evening read part of The Yeoman of Kent.

This night has been a very remarkable windy night and a great quantity of rain. Paid for bread 2d. Sent Francis Smith… 46.1.0, which he is to pay in London for me. At home all day. Molly French, John French and Fanny Weller drank tea with us and we played at brag in the evening. My wife and I lost 1½d. Joseph Fuller smoked 2 pipes here in the evening.

At home all day. Paid for a gallon of turnips 1d; paid for butter 3d. In the evening read The Recruiting Officer.

In the morning my wife and I went to Horsted to see my uncle Hill; dined there on a roast pig with John Durrant. In the afternoon Samuel Hemsley, T. Parker and J. Foord came in and spent the afternoon. My wife and I came home about 6 o’clock. My wife gave the maid 6d and I gave the boy 6d. I pave Master Durrant’s man 12d for going over to Framfield with me the 9th instant and for fetching Peter Adams’s horse today for me. Paid for milk ½d.

At home all day. My wife and Nanny went in the afternoon to see Mrs Vine the younger. Paid Thomas Fuller, butcher, 18d for 1 leg of mutton weight 6 lbs; paid for fetching a post letter ½d.

At home all day. Paid John Harman for 1½ gross pipes 3/-. This day my brother Moses came over after dinner, but did not stay. In the evening read part of Tournefort’s Voyage into the Levant and his description of the extent, laws, religion and custom of the Turkish Empire… Mahomet was born an idolator… he was a man who had a natural fund of good sense. The only article of faith the Mahometans have is that there is but one God and that Mahomet is the messenger of God. As to the commandments, the Turks reduce them to 5: to pray…to fast… to give alms and do works of charity… to go in pilgrimage… to suffer no filth upon their body. There are 4 other points added, but they are not absolutely necessary to salvation: 1st,. to keep Friday a sabbath; 2nd,. to be circumcised; 3rd, to drink no wine; 4th, not to eat swine’s flesh nor things strangled. There (their?) women are very much confined, but I think upon the whole they seem to have an eye to justice; but sure nothing can seem more ignorant than the greatest part of their religion except the belief in God and some few particulars.

This day balanced account with John Watford Jr and received of him 3.11.0 in full to this day as under:

My bill on him                         3.19.1¾

Rec’d by a pig                         0.2.0

Rec’d by carrying of dung               0.1.6

Rec’d by the surveyor’s tax             0.4.0

ditto by straw                         0.0.6

0.8.0

At home all day. John Hall called on me in the forenoon. Paid Thomas Freeman by his man 17/6 as under in full to this day; to wit:

to 19 prs pattens rec’d today at 9d          0.14.3

to 1 pr rec’d some time since                0.0.9

to 6 prs clogs rec’d today                  0.2.6

Paid for dough ½d. In the evening wrote to Edward Smith.