Category: Uncategorised

We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. At home all day. My wife very ill. In the evening posted part of my day book.

…Delivered to Ben Shelley, put up in a paper and sealed, in cash £40 for him to pay in London for me this week; viz.,

28 Guineas	29.8.0
20 half-do.	10.10.0
2 shillings	0.2.0

Paid Mr Percival Hart 6/- in full. We dined on a piece of beef boiled, an apple pudding, turnips and potatoes. Paid Thomas Durrant the 2/- I borrowed of him the 7th instant. At home all day; my wife very ill. Thomas Durrant smoked a pipe with me in the evening, he going today to Dr Snelling’ for a cupping glass for me.

…In the afternoon Mr Snelling called to see my wife. Mr Meadows Neatby called on me but did not stay. In the evening wrote my London letters. At home all day. My wife, poor creature, very ill. But very little to do.

Rec’d of Mr Thornton 2 rabbits (which I have not paid him for). Myself only at church in the morning… We dined on a rabbit boiled, and another roasted and stuffed. No service at our church in the afternoon, Mr Porter preaching at Laughton. In the afternoon Mrs French came to see my wife and drank tea with us… In the evening read one of Tillotson’s sermons. My wife, poor creature, very ill, but bears her illness with great resignation to the divine will.

In the morning my brother came over and brought home my horse. He breakfasted with me and stayed and dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Paid Benjamin Shelley in cash 9/- in full for the same sum he paid Mr Charles Browne this week in full on my account… Rec’d of Thomas Diplock in cash 30.12.4 for which sum I am to send a bill of the same value to Mr Matthew Blake in Hickman’s Folly near Dock Head in Southwark, which is his landlord and which bill with the following receipts I received of Master Diplock makes the sum of £37 and is in full for one year’s rent due from Master Diplock to Mr Blake at Lady Day last. The receipts received were as under:

To a receipt for a year’s land tax due Lady Day, 1760	5.8.0
To a receipt for 1 year’s quit rent due St Michael, 1760	0.12.8
To a bill of Mr John Farley’s	0.7.0
To the bill I am to send	30.12.4

…At home all day. My wife, poor creature, very ill.

In the forenoon my brother came over, and I lent him my horse. We dined on a piece of beef boiled and turnips. At home all day. My wife, poor creature, extremely ill. Oh, what a melancholy time I have; my spirits are quite sunk beneath a load of grief, and my heart overwhelmed with a sea of trouble, but let me not grieve at the divine will, but the more earnestly let me pray for grace to direct my steps and to put my trust in the Most High, who is a rock of defense to all such as call upon him faithfully and will hear their prayer in the needful time of trouble.

…Paid Thomas Burfield in goods 8/9 in full for 15 beehives received by him today. At home all day. My wife, poor creature, most prodigious ill, but surely she bears her pain, which is excessive, with uncommon patience and resignation to the divine will, praying for grace with the greatest fervor and devotion, that she may bear her illness with patience.

We dined on a piece of beef and some pork boiled and a woodcock roasted, turnips and potatoes. At home all day. My wife, poor creature, extremely ill.

After breakfast John Watford carried my mother Slater part of her way home… Paid Mr Heaver’s, the miller at Isfield, his son 19½d in full; viz.,

To 2 bushels bran	0.1.0
Do. 1 gallon grats	0.0.7½

At home all day. My wife, poor creature, extremely ill.

…At home all day. My wife very ill. In the evening wrote my London letters. Sent Mr Paul Hornsby enclosed in a letter by Shelley, delivered to himself, one bill on Mr Will Margesson, dated tomorrow, 30 days’ date, No. 461, value 8.19.6, which bill when paid is in full on my account to Mr Hornsby to the 18th November. Paid John Gosling Jr 3/9 for 6 hedging cuffs received by him today.