| Decr. 5th. The Wind W.N.W. cold & raw, dark & cloudy in the Morning, Sun-shiny & fair about 10. the Evening very cold the Wind blowing from N.W. accompanied with showers of sleet. the parson preached on James Chap 5th. vers. 12th. |
| 6th. The Wind N.N.W. blowing a rank storm from 2 in the Morning to i in the Evening accompanyed with a very cold rain or sleet. the wind abated in the Evening by a discharge of a prodigious shower of hail, the night fair and light. |
| 7th. 5❍ [this is written vertically in the margin below '7th.' sw] The Wind N.W. very cold & raw, & very cloudy in the morning with some small showers of rain, about 4 in the Evening it begun to rain hard, & continued so till 8. at night. |
| 8th. The Wind S.W. calm raw weather & cloudy, yet made but little rain, my people still at Coydan plowing – others at Pen y Bont (in my own holding this year,) work at the Garden is transplanting Yew trees out of the Seed bed into a border in a strait Line. |
| 9th. The Wind W. dark & cloudy & very cold & raw in the morning, yet continued dry all day, the same work still in the fields & garden. to day I begun to thresh this year's Corn. |
| 10th. The Wind W. S. W. very cold & raw weather, but dry all day: dug the border in the Walk by the North Wall, &planted it all with Laurell. planted likewise Flower de Lys in the Edges thereof. |
| 11th. The Wind S. W. dirty hazy weather all day, but moderately warm. continueing the same work still [there are three long, horizontal lines in the margin opposite this line sw] in the North Border, and digging a piece of the South border to plant by it some Quince Trees, which I did before night, & sowed some plumb stones betwixt them. |