Thomas Turner

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Posted part of my day book. At home all day and really very little to do. A very rainy day; in the evening we had several flashes of lightning and some extreme long and loud claps of thunder.

I dined on a piece of beef boiled and an apple pudding. Finished posting my day book. A very cold day and a great deal of snow fell, but there being no frost, it did not lie long on the ground. In the evening went down to Mr Porter’s, where I stayed and supped and spent the evening with him (Mrs Porter being ill at Mayfield). I came home about 9:50, and after I came home read part of Butler’s Posthumous Works.

…In the forenoon my brother Will and my brother Moses came over. My brother Moses and I settled the account of our wool, and there remains due to him on that account 25.18.10. I borrowed of him in cash two guineas. My brother Will stayed and dined with me on a piece of beef boiled.

Mrs Browne and Dame Pentecost drank tea with me. Paid Ben Shelley in cash 9.17.5 in full for the same sum he paid in London this week for me… My brother Will stayed all night with me. At home all day and very busy, but prodigious cold day, there being a very hard frost. When my brother and I balanced today about his wool there was 5/7 for some rags I sold for him omitted…

Received of Mr Arthur Knight Jr £3 by the payment of his father. Also received of Arthur Knight the elder 5.17.0, both of which were on account of myself and the other executors and devisees of Mr Will Piper deceased.

Paid Joseph Fuller 6d for 1 breast of mutton bought of him today for Dame Burrage. My brother dined with me on a piece of beef boiled and some potatoes. At home all day and thank God very busy. My brother stayed with me all day. A very sharp frost, and in the evening or some part of the night there fell a great deal of snow.

My brother stayed and breakfasted with me and then went home. Myself and servant at church in the morning… I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a few potatoes boiled. Myself and servant at church in the afternoon…

Sam Jenner drank tea with me, and he, Mr Tipper and Thomas Durrant sat a while with me in the evening, to whom I read two of Tillotson’s sermons. Dame Akehurst, being to wash for me tomorrow, supped with me and lodged with my servant. A very cold frosty day.

Dame Akehurst a-washing for me all day and dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of an apple pudding and potatoes…

In the evening wrote my London letters… Rec’d of the widow Prall 12/-; rec’d of Will Wenham 12/-, both of which are in full for the same sum assessed on them by a poor rate made the 9th August last. At home all day and very busy. A most prodigious cold frosty day. Dame Akehurst lodged with my servant. Paid Mr French 13½d for 9 lbs beef bought of him today for Dame. Burrage.

…Dame Akehurst, a-washing for me all day, dined with me on a piece of beef boiled and potatoes. At home all day and pretty busy. A very cold frosty day…

Paid Dame Akehurst 18d for 2 days’ washing. In the evening busy a-writing and read part of Butler’s Posthumous Works. How glad should I be to get off that melancholy gloom which continually hangs on my mind.

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a light pudding and potatoes. At home all day and pretty busy. A very cold frosty day

Bett Mepham an-ironing for me today dined with me on a piece of beef boiled and potatoes. At home all day and really very little to do. Sam Jenner smoked a pipe with me in the evening.

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a broiled sausage made me a present of by Mrs Carman… At home all day and but very little to do the whole day.