February ist. The Wind S. E. very calm, Sun shiny and fair, but very cold & freezing all day , & especially in the night all the snow that fell last night is still on the ground except what the Sun melted on the tops of houses· |
2d. The Wind E. calm, and generally Sun shiny & fair, but exceeding cold and freezing all this day and night & the Snow still lyeing on the ground undisolved; My poor servant is still in an uncer – –tain state, sometimes pretty well, & at othertimes restless and in pain, & the Wench that hurt him is so disconsolate & heartless that tho she got up to day,she was forced to take to her bed before night Pd. Mr. Rice Price 4s. 3d. for a pair of Tongs, fire shovel & Poker· |
3d. The Wind E. calm, Sun Shiny & clear all the morning, & freezing very hard; grew cloudy & overcast about noon but brought nothing down and was excessive cold all day. |
4th. 7 ❍ [this is written vertically in the margin under '4th.' sw] The Wind E. S. E. very calm all the morning & bringing down feather'd Snow in great abundance from 5 in the morning till ii, and freezing very hard all day & about noon it blew fresh and brought the wind to S. which brought down a great deal of rain especially in the night. |
5th. The Wind S. blowing pretty fresh, cloudy & dark all the morning attend- - ed with some showers of rain, which with what fell last night has quite cleared the ground from all the snow, but the frost still rem– – ains unmelted: all this Evening was Sun shiny and dry· |
6th. The Wind S. blowing fresh & raining very hard all the morning a mizling driveing rain, the Evening was dry but generally cloudy & dark: The Priest finished to day the Sermon begun the 2d. Inst. on i. Tim: Chap: 6th. verses i8 & i9. gave 6d. to a Collection for a poor man of LLandrygarn & gave Anna Wright 3is. 6d. for Pocket money. |
7th. The Wind S. blowing fresh, cloudy & dark all the morning, & most part of the Evening, but made no rain . |
8th. The Wind W. blowing moderate, cloudy & dark all day with some mizling rain in the morning, but dry all the rest of the day. |
9th. The Wind W. blowing moderate, made some showers of hail early in the morning with some frost & a hoar frost, but the rest of the day was dry, Sun shiny & pleasant; Pd. T. Bryan 36s. in part of his bill, & pd. Hugh Owen 5s. 2d. for a quarter of Pork at the rate of 2d. a pound. |
i0th. The Wind W. blowing moderate, Some sun shine but for the most part it was cloudy and dark and cold raw weather but dry. |