May 25th. The Wind N.E. fair and very warm, and moderately calm all day with a fine dew this morning gave 1s. to a raffling of Owen Warmingham for a Gun– [this is followed by a mark on the next line which may be a mistake sw] |
26th. The Wind N. E. Sun shiny fair & warm with a fine dew this morning. Paid John Fur size the Scotch Pedlar 5s. 6d. for striped linnen to make Frocks for Nancy – Wright . |
27th. The Wind S. blowing high all day , yet Sun shiny, hott and very sultry. My servants employed to day in bleeding — the Working horses, & trimming their Mains & tails– pd. 2d. for fish to Abraham Jones. |
28th. The Wind N. W. moderately calm, and not very warm in the morning, the Evening calm and very hot. it made some rain this morning before day, and a small shower afterwards about Sun rise. |
29th. The Wind W. S. W. in the Morning, it came to N.E. about 3 in the Evening, All this day was generally dark and cloudy, yet it was very sultry & hot,my people all this week at the same work as the last, onely some of them harrow the pinfold at Cefn y Groes– pd. to the Churchwarden of LLanddeusant 7s. 4d.— Church mize for my lands in that parish that are in my own hands . |
30th. The Wind S. W. blowing fresh, & raining before day tîll — near 8 in the Morning, & some mizling rain after wards about noon; the Evening generally Sunshiny & fair. Owen Bulkeley the Curate of LLanddeusant read here to day, a very wretched reader he preached on Mat. Chap 6th. & part of the 24th. vers. |