| January 2ist. The Wind E. blowing fresh and very cold, cloudy and overcast & very like snowy weather, yet it – brought down neither snow nor rain all this day. |
| 22d. The Wind N.E. blowing pretty fresh and cold, haveing made some little frost this last night, but was generally Sun shiny and fair all day: To Day I sowed my first pease & beans– this year: pd. the Taylor 2s. 6d. for working & pd. 3d.2/1 for thread. |
| 23d. The Wind N. calm Sun shiny, fair and pleasant till 4 in the Evening when it grew cloudy & overcast; the frost was – pretty hard this morning, but all thawed before noon: This Day I planted by way of Espaliers in the wall Garden 10 - Cherry Trees (black & Red Heart ) which my BrotherLewis sent me & which he had from Littleton the Gardiner of Chester. |
| 24th. The Wind N. & by W. calm cloudy & dark generally all day, with a mizling rain frequently in the morning; the Evening was dry but cloudy and overcast. |
St. Paul's day [this is written in the margin opposite this entry sw] 25th. The Wind W.N. calm, but dark weather with a mizling rain almost all day, about night the wind came to N. & blew fresh & very cold & freezed before morning: A very small ^Fair^ at LLanerchmedd & very few people in it: pd. 6d. for bread. |
| 26th. The Wind W. blowing pretty fresh & very cold, frequent showers ofSleet & feathered Snow in the morning, but melted as soon as it fell, which soon thawed the frost, but about 8 at night it snowed in Earnest & before 9 the Earth was thick covered with it . |
| 27th. The Wind N. W blowing fresh & very cold, the Snow which fell last night being freezed, more was added to it this day by frequent showers of snow and hail . |
| 28th. The Wind N. N. W. blowing fresh, and haveing made some frost last night, the Snow continues still unthawed, & some more fell this day; |
| 29th. The Wind N. moderately calm, with frequent showers of driveing snow, yet most of it thawed before night. |
| 30th. 9❍ [this is written vertically in the margin under '30th.' sw] The Wind S. E. and blowing fresh and very cold, haveing freezed very hard last night. which it did all this day, tho it was generally Sun shiny & fair, and a great deal of Snow fell this night, insomuch that the ground was covered very thick with it [. sw] |
| 3ist. The Wind E. blowing fresh and very cold and freezing all day and all night, tho it was generally cloudy dark weather. |