In the morning at home. Paid Mr Stone’s parish bill, 3.8.2… My brother Will came over to see me and dined with my family on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some rashers of pork, myself being at Jones’s, having dined before. I received there of Mr Joseph Burgess in cash 1.10.0 and by 2.2.0 for Durrant’s rent and 12/- for roots, which together makes 4.4.0, and is in full for poor tax. Paid Master Rothfields’s bill for flax 2.8.0 Rec’d of Joseph Fuller the balance of his poor tax, as also of Richard Page, Jo Durrant for himself and Mr Lucas, John Potter, Ed Hope, John Cayley, Peter Adams and Thomas Fuller. I made up my accounts with the parish and there remain due to me 25.14.10½. The officers chosen for the year 1757 were myself churchwarden, Joseph Fuller electioner, Will Piper overseer, Ed Hope electioner, but as it was proved William Piper had served it very lately, it was agreed Ed Hope should serve it. We broke up about 10:20. My brother lodged at our house all night…
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Friday, February 11 1757
This being the day appointed by proclamation for a general fast and humiliation before Almighty God for obtaining pardon of our sins and for averting those heavy judgements which our manifold provocations have most justly deserved and imploring His blessing and assistance on the arms of his Majesty by sea and land, my wife, self and maid at church in the morning. The text in I Samuel 12:25:”Jut if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.”
My wife, self and maid at church in the afternoon, but we had only prayers. We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a butter pudding cake and some turnips… I called a public vestry today to consult about Thomas Daw, as also to consult about allowing Dame Trill and her husband more per month. The result was as under; viz; Mr John Vine will try if Delves’s blacksmith shop etc. can be had for Thomas Daw. And they agreed I should give Dame Trill what I pleased. Thomas Davy spent the evening with us, to whom, and in the day, I read 3 of Tillotson’s sermons.
Monday, August 30 1756
In the morning sent my maid up to Thomas Fuller’s to borrow his horse to go to Mayfield upon. He accordingly lent me one. About 8:30 Joseph Fuller came and called me by agreement, and we went to Mr Porter’s to ask his opinion whether we should pay Tester’s debt to Savage or not. He gave it as his opinion that it would be best for the parish to pay it and that they were highly to blame not to have paid it before. From Mr Porter’s we went to Mr Coates’s also to ask his advice, which was just the same as Mr Porter’s, with this addition; -viz., to call a vestry on Sunday and to register every person’s name that assents to it or that dissents from it.
About 11:20 Thomas Fuller and I set out in order to see a cricket match at Mayfield; viz., Mayfield against the county (or the pretended county), but there was not time to play it out. The county got the first innings 52, and Mayfield headed them 18. Then with 4 of the county out in the 2nd innings, they got that 18, and 14 ahead of Mayfield when they left off. I won 6d and spent 12d. We came home to Thomas Fuller’s about 10 o’clock, sober. But before I could get home I was a little high, which proceeded from what I drank there. We dined at Mr Porter’s on what came out of the parlor (they having almost dined there before we came in); viz., the remains of a leg of mutton boiled, a shoulder of venison roasted, a fine plum pudding, carrots, turnips etc… My brother Richard came over in the morning and breakfasted with me…
Friday, December 26 1755
About 11 o’clock my brother William came to see us and dined with us. After dinner I went down to Jones’s (it being a meeting of the parish for choosing of surveyors). The company there was J. French, T. and J. Fuller, Edward and Richard Hope, J. Watford and son, T. Reeve, J. Durrant, W. Rice, W. Piper, J. Burgess, J. Hutson, J. Cayley and Robert Hook. The surveyors chosen for the year 1756 were John Cayley and Robert Hook; the electioners [or alternate], Joseph Durrant and James Hutson. I stayed there about 2 hours; came home about 5:30. About 6:30 William Piper, T. and J. Fuller and P. Adams came in here from the parish meeting. Peter Adams, went away directly. Joseph Fuller went away about 7:30 very much in liquor. About 9:30 I went home with William Piper and Thomas Fuller as far as Mr Piper’s.