April 12th.  The Wind N. very calm, Sun Shiny fair and very warm My people to day are carrying home the timber from Cemaes: To Day I first heard the Cuccow this year.
13th.  The Wind N. very calm & warm, but cloudy and dark all day –with very frequent showers of rain especially in ye morning: Paid Robert Evans Deputy Post master of LLanerchymedd by the Orders of Mr. John Jackson Clerk of the Northern Roads the Sum [there is a curly line over the 'm' sw] of twenty three Shillings for a Weekly Paper called the — Remembrancer together with the King's Speech, Addresses &cfrom the iith. of March 1748[9 sw] to the 25th. of March 1750. Paid Richard Roberts also 7s. 6d. for 9 days work at the Cow house in Cnewchdernog.
14th.  The Wind N. very calm, cloudy & overcast & something cold, & tho it made no rain last night, yet the grass is very wet, there being neither Sun nor wind to dry the grass from the wet which fell upon it from the rain yesterday: a little gale of wind in ye Evening and Some sunshiny which dryed a good deal. about 15 persons – comunicated [there is a wavy lines over the 'm' sw] this day . gave is. [1/- sw] to Margaret uch Richard a poor – old woman of this parish who neglected to attend here at Christmas when I distributed money & flesh &c.
Easter Day: [this is written in the margin opposite this entry sw]   15th.  The Wind N.W. calm Sun Shiny, fair warm and pleasant all day some few under 9 score comunicated [there is a line over the 'm' sw] here to day: The Priest in the Evening preached on Philip: Chap: 3d. vers. 10th. in a very full congregation.
16th.  The Wind N.E. blowing fresh & very cold & raining a Sleet very hard about 5 in the morning & very frequent showers of cold rain all the morning ; The Evening was dry but very cold & cloudy.
17th.  The Wind E.N.E. blowing moderate, & a great hoar frost this morning, very cold, but Sun Shiny and drying well all day; Pd. the Collectors of the land tax four & fifty Shillings & Eight pence for the lands in my holding in this parish, Viz. Brynddu – Coydan, Bodelwyn & ferem: Pd. them likewise Six and thirty Shillings for the Window tax.
18th.  The Wind N. very calm, cloudy & dark, especially in the morning it blew fresher in the Evening & continued dry all day: To Day I sowed Cefn y Groes with hay Seed, & sowed therein i2 pegg[o sw]ts of hay Seed & 120 pound weight of Clover Seed. I likewise Sowed there Cowslip Seed: To Day I saw the first Swallow this year: the weather is very cold and blasting the fruit trees, tho we have not had much Easterly winds·





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