Thomas Turner

…I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. At home all day but not at all busy. In the evening read part of The Royal Magazine for October.

I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner; with the addition of some beefsteaks broiled. At home all day and pretty busy.

In the evening received 12 sacks salt by Page’s team. Mr Long, Thomas Durrant and Mr Sam Jenner assisted in getting in the salt. They supped with me on some bread and cheese. In the evening read some papers of The Guardian. John Reynolds of Chiddingly was this day buried at our church.

In the forenoon my brother Richard and Mr John and Joseph Hartley came to see me and they together with Mr Tipper dined with me on a beef pudding and cabbage boiled and two chickens roasted. They stayed and drank tea with me and then all went home.

Paid Mr Joseph Hartley in cash and goods 1.1.0 in full for a wig received of him today. In the evening my brother Moses came over to acquaint me that there was a sale at Newick tomorrow of Mr James Allen’s effects, lately foiled is trade. He stayed and smoked a pipe or 2 with me. After he went away, I read 1 of Tillotson’s sermons to Mr Tipper and Thomas Durrant.

Sam Jenner at work for me part of the day and dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some bones of beef boiled. In the evening balanced accounts with Mr John Long…

In the evening wrote my London letters and pretty busy till it was late in the evening… Sam Jenner lodged at my house. Today Mr French made me a present of a hare, which I sent to Mr Will Margesson.

Paid Joseph Fuller in cash 24.1.0, which with the £20 paid him the 20th ult., together with twenty pounds also paid him the 28th ult., makes together the sum of 64.1.0 and is in full for the same sum paid the 12th ult. per his order by Mr Swainstone to Mr Will Margesson on my account.

This day received of Mr Thomas Braizer 1.0.4 in full for a book debt… Sam Jenner dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a piece of beef boiled. In the afternoon Mr Piper drank tea with me. At home all day, pretty busy. Not very well in the evening.

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.