Thomas Turner

After breakfasting with us Mr Sterry set out on his journey for Lewes. Myself and wife both ill with colds. Our maid only at church in the morning. We dined on some bacon and peas. Our maid only at church in the afternoon. In the forenoon my brother came over to borrow my horse to go to Lewes upon. Mr Thornton and Thomas Durrant sat with us in the evening, as did Molly Fuller and Mr Shoesmith.

…This day received by the post the disagreeable news of the French being landed at Dover. Oh, melancholy news! but yet I hope it is only a false report set about by some credulous and fearful people without any real foundation.

About 8:20 Mr Richard Sterry came in and we balanced accounts. I paid him…19.5.6 in full on my account to this day. Mr Sterry supped and lodged at our house. At home all day. Received of Joseph Fuller 1½ 1bs mutton not paid for, that I received in the morning being paid for. My wife very ill with a cold all day and I think somewhat dangerous.

In the forenoon my brother came over and brought my horse. I received of him in cash 4.6.3½ for goods as under:

½ hundred [weight] sugar	50/-	1.5.0
¼ hundred do.	58/-	0.14.6
2 hundred do.	52/-	0.13.0
14 lbs do.	56/-	0.7.0
35½ lbs lump	76/-	1.4.3¼
Carriage		0.2.6¼

…Paid Mr Sam Beckett in cash 11/6, which he paid this week to Messrs Raby and Master in full on my account. At home all day. Dame Beach drank tea at our house. My wife very ill with a cold and cough.

In the morning my brother came over and I lent him my horse… About 1:10 Charles Diggens called on me and I walked with him to the Dicker to see a game at cricket played between the same two elevens that played on Eason’s Green the 28th ult. It was not played out, though if it had, in all probability Framfield would have beat, they heading the other eleven 98 runs the first innings.

Came home about 8:30. Spent 1½d, though neither ate nor drank during the time I was absent from home. A prodigious hot day, but a fine serene air, there being nothing of a sultry air.

Rec’d of John Cayley the guinea lent him the 2nd instant. We dined on part of the scrag end of a neck of mutton boiled. Dame Rothfield and Dame Merricks drank tea with my wife. At home all day. Read part of The Peerage of England.

After breakfast rode over to Framfield and from thence I rode to Chailey to consult my brother concerning the appointing a day to settle my mother’s affairs. I dined at Mr Beard’s on some cold bacon and beans… I came home by my uncle Hill’s, but he was not at home. Called at Thomas Jones’s at Bentley and bought his wool at 9d per pound. Came home about 8:10, but not thorough sober…

Paid Mr Holman 1.12.0 for 48 lbs wool received of him today. Thomas Cornwell a-gardening for me today and dined with us on some beans and bacon. Paid him 12d for sundry jobs. Paid John Elphick in cash 0.14.0 for 21 lbs of wool received of him today. Lent Mr Joseph Burgess in cash 2.10.0, for which he gave me his note of hand, payable to me or bearer on demand.

In the afternoon walked down to Halland with Mrs Coates’s bill, which amounted to 5.1.9. In the evening went down to Jones’s to the vestry where were only John Cayley and myself. Came home about 8:10. Lent John Cayley in cash 1 guinea.

Myself only at church in the morning. We had a sermon preached by the Rev Mr Chalice, curate of Ripe (Mr Porter preaching himself at Ripe), from the former part of Romans 13:7: “Render therefore to all their dues.”

Mr Francis Elless dined with us on some peas and a piece of bacon boiled. My wife, self and servant at church in the afternoon. Mr Chalice preached here again; the text the same as in the morning… According to my opinion Mr Chalice is a very indifferent orator, either for a good delivery or a good discourse. In the forenoon and the evening read three of Tillotson’s sermons.

Mr Neatby stayed and breakfasted with us and then went away. In the forenoon rode to Chiddingly and bought Mr Holman’s wool at 8d per pound. Lent John Streeter the post in cash 1.1.0… Paid Richard Vine the weaver in goods 8/5 for weaving 14 yds cloth at

7d yd	0.8.2
¼ lb tur [?]	0.0.3

In the afternoon my wife paid a visit to Mrs Porter. In the evening Mr Elless sat with us some time.

In the forenoon Mr Meadows Neatby called on me. He stayed and dined with me on a loin of mutton roasted. I paid him… 6.17.6… Mr Neatby stayed at our house all night. About 2:20 we had a great deal of rain, which continued all the afternoon, and several loud claps of thunder which seemed at a great distance. I not observing above one flash of lightning. Rec’d of Joseph Fuller one loin of lamb. At home all day.