❍6 [this is written in the margin opposite this entry sw] September 25th. The Wind W. blowing fresh,cold & raw, dark hazy & moaky weather all the morning & without raining till about ii when it rained pretty hard from that time with very little intermission till 4 in the Evening, the rest of the day & night was dark & cold : The Priest preach –ed on Mat: Chap: iith. vers· 30th. |
26th. The Wind W. blowing fresh & not cold, but dark cloudy wea- - ther with severall showers of small rain both morning and Evening: Delivered Cousin Grace Mostyn 5s. to buy flower in Liverpool, & delivered Gabriel Jones 3s. 6d. to buy me White Lead Paint in Chester. |
27th. The Wind S.W. most part of the day, blowing fresh and cold, & generally cloudy and dark, but made no rain, the wind came about 4 in the Evening to due S. & blew high all night. |
28th. The Wind S. W. blowing fresh, cloudy and dark in the morn– ing and cold, from noon to night was sunshiny and fair & much warmer: The Swallows are still in the Countrey, I saw one to day. |
29th. The Wind S. blowing fresh with a mizling rain in ye morning the Evening generally dry & the wind not high, but it blew – very stormy in the night: my people haveing carryed home a good deal of Gors, have left off for this time, and are fall –owing the Pinfolds at Cnewchdernog the second time : About ten Mr. Lewis & I set out from hence to hear offences agst. the laws of Excise, & tho there was a great number, yet we finished by 7 at night and were at home here by half an hour past 8. pd. Lady Bulkeley's Agent 10s.for 2 years ffeefarm Rent [out sw]of Ty[? sw] y Rhôs [on 23 June 1738 WB pays Lady Bulkeley a 'ffee farm Rent' for Tyddyn y Rhôs, so presume the word 'Ty—' should be 'Tyddyn' sw]. |
30th. The Wind S. blowing high and stormy and very cold all day, yet sun shiny & dry. Saw a swallow This Day also. |