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No service at our church in the morning, Mr Porter preaching at Laughton. We dined on a piece of beef boiled, a piece of pork, a raisin suet pudding, turnips and potatoes. Myself, servant and late servant at church in the afternoon… Mr Long drank tea with me… Borrowed of Thomas Durrant 2/-. My wife very ill.

…My brother came over in the forenoon and dined with me on a piece of beef, a piece of pork, a suet pudding, boiled turnips, potatoes and greens. At home all day; a very cold day. My wife very ill. Mr Long made my wife a present of a woodcock and blackbird. He stayed and supped with us. In the evening read part of the London Magazine.

We dined on a beef pudding, turnips, parsnips, greens and potatoes… In the forenoon we had a great deal of snow fall, but as there was no frost it melted as it came down. At home all day. My wife very ill.

…We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner, with the addition of some boiled mutton. At home all day. My wife very ill.

After breakfast my brother Slater went home… At home all day. In the evening wrote out some bills. My wife, poor creature, very ill. A melancholy time — trading very bad.

Mary Heath a-washing for us all day and dined with us on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Just as we had dined my brother Sam Slater and my mother Slater came in, who dined at our house on some mutton cutlets fried… Paid Mary Heath 13½d for 1½ days’ washing.

At home all day. My wife very ill. My mother and brother Slater stayed all night. Paid Mr Heaver’s son, the miller at Isfield, in cash and goods 5/9 in full; viz.,

To 1 bushel oatmeal	0.5.0
To 1 do. Pollard	0.0.8
	0.5.8

received by him today.

After breakfast my father Slater went home upon my horse (he coming yesterday on foot). My father made my wife and myself a present of a guinea each, which I look upon aa done from a principle of good nature and compassion for our misfortunes, so that I look upon it as a thing of greater value than barely the worth of the present…

Mr Porter made my wife a present of 2 carp. Mary Heath a-washing for us half the day and dined with us on the remains of yesterday’s dinner …At home all day. My wife very ill and myself a good deal disordered with a cold. Mary Heath lodged at our house. Paid Betty Mepham 2/6 for attending my wife this last week. Pretty busy all day.

Myself only at church in the morning… We had a brief read for a loss by fire to Samuel Richards of the parish of Kingswood in the county of Wilts, whose loss amounted in the whole to £1200 and upwards (to which I gave 2d). We dined on a piece of bacon boiled, a heart pudding, turnips and potatoes. No service at our church in the afternoon, Mr Porter preaching at Laughton.

In the evening my father Slater came to see us and stayed all night. In the evening our late servant came again and Betty Mepham went home. James Marchant, Thomas Davy and my father supped with us. Myself a good deal indisposed with a cold. My wife really ill, but I hope not quite so bad as she has been.

Mr Snelling came to see my wife again and dined with us on a sheep’s head and pluck… At home all day. My wife somewhat better again today.

In the forenoon my brother came over and stayed and dined with us on some fried sheep’s liver and the remains of yesterday’s dinner. This day balanced accounts with Mr John Gosling and paid him 21d in full. In the evening I balanced account with Joseph Durrant and paid him 1.14.6 in full. Joseph Fuller, Joseph Durrant and Thomas Durrant spent the evening with me. At home all day. My wife very ill.