Thomas Turner

In the forenoon sent our servant to Framfield… James Awcock bought some shirts of me and sat a while with us in the evening. Very busy all day.

Thomas Davy at work for me all the forenoon a-helping me unpack my earthenware… Balanced accounts with Richard Page and received of him in cash 1.11.9 in full. He stayed and spent the evening with us. Thank God very busy today. At home all day.

At home all day. We dined on a suet pudding, parsnips and potatoes. In the afternoon Sarah, Bett and Kate Trill drank tea at our house. In the evening Mr Thornton, our new officer of excise, and Thomas Davy sat with us a while.

…We dined on the remains of Sunday’s dinner. Rec’d of Sarah Axel in cash 12/- in full… Robert Diggens and Joseph Fuller drank tea at our house. My wife very ill all day. Rec’d of the widow Trill by the payment of James Trill 12d in full.

…We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Dame Dallaway and Frances Cole drank tea at our house. In the evening Thomas Davy at our house, and I also wrote my London letters. At home all day.

Myself and servant at church in the morning… We had a brief read for a parish church in the City of Bristol, to which I gave 1½d. We dined on part of a calf’s head boiled, a piece of bacon, turnip greens and potatoes. After dinner Thomas Davy and I walked over to Framfield, and Richard Fuller on their horse carried my wife. We found my mother very ill. We stayed and drank tea at Framfield and came home about 7:10. Thomas Davy at our house in the evening, to whom I read one of Tillotson’s sermons.

In the morning sent Messrs Richards and Comber in cash by John Streeter £4… We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. In the afternoon sent our servant to Framfield. Paid Joseph Fuller by his son Richard 15d for a calf’s head received by him today… Charles Diggens drank tea at our house.

In the forenoon went down into Lucas’s land to see a pond fished… Went down to Jones’s about an hour in the evening and smoked a pipe with one Mr William Cooper, hosier at Leicester. Came home about 9:10.

At home all day… Mrs Vine drank tea with us. In the afternoon sent our servant to Framfield, who brought me word my mother was rather worse.

…Received of Mr Norfolk, pewterer, in cash 0.17.0 for goods sold to him today; viz.,

To 15 3/8 lbs pewter, which was  my mother’s	0.7.8
To 18¾ lbs my own	0.9.4

Rec’d of Mr Nuns in cash 0.16.2 for…3 lbs brass…and 2¼ lbs copper… I then paid him…for one tea kettle, 0.9.6; for 2 pound-weights, 0.2.0; for 1 half-pound weight, 0.0.6; for 1 quarter ditto, 0.0.3. Rec’d of Mr Corderoy in cash 1.0.6…for horse-hair delivered to him today. Rec’d of Messrs Thomson and West in cash 4.15.0, which was the money they sold a pocket of hops belonging to Joseph Fuller for. Rec’d of Gore and Perchard for [horns] 15d… About 2:45 I came out of London and thank God arrived safe at home about 10:45… The following is the true state on my journey in regard to all my disbursements etc… [total] £251.12.1…