| May 9th. The Wind E. blowing very fresh, sunshiny hot and scorching all day and the ground exceeding dry – and very little grass for the Cattle: pd. Owen Thomas ye Smith's Bill being 3s. |
| 10th. 8❍ [this is written in the margin below '10th.' sw] The Wind E. blowing high and exceeding cold in the morning and prodigious dry and scorching all day : my people are all these days fenceing betwixt the Cattle and the Corn . |
| iith. The Wind E. blowing high and very cold as it is every morning and hoar frost this morning; A poor Market for Butcher's meat to day at LLanfechell . pd. 2s. for a side of Veal & the head & a Side of Lamb . Delivered to Wm. Peters 3L. 12s. to buy me Coal at Mostyn, & 5s. 6d. to buy me flower in Liverpool: |
| 12th. The Wind E. blowing high and very cold all the morning;The Evening much warmer with some thunder, but continues – still very dry & scorching: paid 3s. for Rabbets used last winter |
| 13th. The Wind E. blowing moderate and not very cold, cloudy & dark most part of the morning, yet made no rain; The Evening was very hot & scorching till 5 when it ^grew^ cloudy again, but no rain ☞ [this pointing symbol is in the margin opposite this line sw] gave a LLangwillog [Llangwyllog sw] man 2s. 6d. for the service of this Stallion to my young Grey Mare last night & this Morning:The Priest preached on Ecclesiastes Chap: 12th. vers. ist. |
| 14th. The Wind N.E. blowing fresh, hot & scorching all day: it made some little attempt to rain about noon, but soon left off, haveing brought down onely a few drops: A very penal Law being past from Ireland [this is in the margin opposite this line sw] last Session of Parliament against running of Soap & Candles – there will soon be no soap to be had, but what comes from Chester at 7d. a pound: I bought to day of a woman in that buisness 20 pound weight almost (which I am afraid is the last I shall have of her ) for which I paid her 7s. 3d.2/1. |
| 15th. The Wind E. blowing high almost all day till near night, Sun shiny, hot and very scorching; ’tis very remarkable that almost every night (since the Easterly winds ) is very calm & generally dark and cloudy. |
| 16th. The Wind E. blowing high and very hot and scorching, about another before night it begun to make some few small showers,butmade nothing that would allay the dust: pd. Richard Jones 4s. 6d. for being here four days with his man in ^[alte sw]ring^ Makeing one Cart Wheel. |