July i7th. The Wind S. blowing high and stormy all day and cold enough in the Evening attended with some– small showers of rain about 3 in the Evening;but about 9 at night it begun to rain in earnest, & rained I believe most part of the night· |
i8th. ❍ 5 [this is written in the margin underneath 'i8th.' sw] The Wind S. blowing high and raining hard long before day & untill near 8; was somewhat dry from that time till 10, and from that time it rained hard with very little intermission till near i. dry afterwards the rest of the Evening till 8 when it begun to rain & rained then very hard for about an hour: Pd. John Oliver the Cooper 14s. for 14 days Cooper's work· |
i9th. The Wind S. blowing fresh, but generally Sun shiny & fair all day, at the fall of night it made a good deal of rain. |
20th. The Wind S. blowing very high, stormy & cold all day, & raining hard in the morning, so that nothing could be done in the hay. |
21st. The Wind W. & by S. blowing fresh all day till 4 in ye Evening when it grew calm, but was then cloudy & dark & all the morning was Sun Shiny, pd. Rhys Hughes 2s. 6d. for a Side of Mutton, & gave 2s. to a raffle of Lewis ^Hughes^ the Sexton of LLan- badrick who lost a Cow that fell over the precipice. |
22d. The Wind W. calm, Sun Shiny and fair till ii. all the rest of the day was cloudy & overcast, & blowing fresh & cold: My people all this week ( when the weather permitted ) were dressing of hay: This Day the New Purple Table Cloath with a Silk fringe about it for the Comunion [there is a line over the 'm' sw] Table at LLanfechell — Church & which I made a present of to the parish was first laid upon the Comunion [there is a line over the 'm' sw] Table. |
23d. The Wind S.blowing fresh & raining almost without intermission from 10 a clock last night to 10 a clock this night, if not all night, The Priest preached on the Same text he did this day fortnight. |