May 10th. The Wind E.N.E. very calm, sun shiny and very hot all day , but a fine refreshing dew every Morn. |
11th. The Wind E. blowing fresh & scorching, but sun shiny all day, The Market at LLanerchmedd much the same as last week. |
12th. ●6 [this is written vertically below '12th.' sw]. The Wind E. & by N. not hîgh, yet very dry & scorching all day, & great want of rain , yet blessed be God it makes a fine dew every night. Pd. Joseph ap Probert Lewis 2d for mending my cloaths . |
13th. The Wind E. blowing fresh sunshiny dry & scorching all day: a pretty full Market to day at LLanfechell; delivered into the hands of Jane Jones Owen Bedlar's Wife 18s. to be paid Mr. Wm. Morris of Holy-head to pay for Books he was to buy for me in Dublin: Viz Clark's Paraphrase on the 4 Gospels, 2 Vol. 8vo. [this is an abbreviation for 'octavo' sw] Lock's Paraphrase & Notes on St. Paul's Epistles. & Syrena. or feigned Innocence detected. |
14th. The Wind N. W. blowing fresh & very cold, but– not scorching so much as yesterday. My people all this week employed in fenceing about ye Corn [– sw] |
15th. The Wind N. blowing fresh & very cold but sun– shiny: The Wind came to the W. in the Evening; grew very cloudy & overcast . |
16th. The Wind N. blowing fresh & cold, cloudy & dark all the morning, the Evening calm & warm till night when it grew very cold again. |
17th. The Wind W. S.W. blowing fresh & very cold, it freezed last night & a prodigious hoar frost this morning which blasted & withered all my Kidney Beans, & singed the ash trees as black as a coal as likewise the Wallnuts. |