Thomas Turner

…We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Dr Snelling paid my wife mother visit (he lying last night at Stonebridge). In the evening our late servant went home and Betty Mepham came to attend my wife. In the evening wrote my London letters. At home all day and but little to do. by wife very ill, poor creature; who can express the pain she has endured in this illness, and which I think she has borne with great patience and resignation to the divine will.

…In the forenoon my brother came over and dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. This day balanced accounts with Richard Page and there remains due to me the sum of 0.6.43. Dame Page drank tea with me. At home all day. My wife very ill.

We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner, with the addition of a plain bread pudding. At home all day. My wife, poor creature, very ill.

…My brother came over in the morning and breakfasted with us. We dined on a beef pie. Mrs Virgoe drank tea with us. At home all day. My wife, poor creature, extremely ill, but bears her illness with a patience and resignation truly Christian. Betty Fuller sat up with my wife.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.