[this text appears on a page between the entries for 17 and 18 May 1743 sw] An acct, of the produce of the Tythe hay Corn & straw of LLawr y LLan parcell for the year 1734 All the Hay made 72 loads, exclusive of the gatherers share being 5 load All the Rye threshed and Winnnowed made 2 peggets, exclusive of the gatherer's share, & threshers share – My Share of the Wheat came to 9 Cibbins & 2 quarts, winowed Octr. 2d. Winowed Novr. 30th. 8 Cibbins of pease, 6 whereof came to my shar[e sw] |
On the Old play called Nuts in hand. Lo Nuts in hand! who is't that doth them claim? ’Tis I; wherfore? My Mistress sent the same. If they were meant for you, I feign would know Whether the Nuts I bring, be even or no? They'r even; the Nuts deceive you, So may she; They may; but she can use no Fallacy. The same in Latine Verse. Ecce nuces manibus! mihi sunt, quis Iure requirit? Has ego; Tu quare? misit Amica mihi. Si tibi servatæ, statim cognoscere quæro Anne par est numerus, vel quoque dispar erit? Aequalis numerus; fallunt te, fallat at illa; Forte Nuces fallunt; fallere Amica nequit. |
[this text appears on a page between the entries for 17 and 18 May 1743, and I have also placed it in its chornologically correct position sw] Monday the 8th. of this month of May 1743 was laid the foundation of Bodorgan Wind– = Mill near LLanfeirian. |