May 18th. The Wind N. N. W. calm, warm & fair all day and Sun Shiny from 9 in the morning till its setting: my Servants that fetched Anna Wright & her Sister Grace home, expended 2s. 6d. & 1d. for Garden Seeds, 7s. for aDosen Sugar & paid Catherine Wal[t sw]er that parted from hence to day 26s. being her wages in full. |
19th. The Wind N. very calm, Sun shiny fair& warm all this day – |
20th. The Wind N. very calm, Sun Shiny fair & warm, and even very hot and Sultry about noon and continued so till near night. |
2ist. The Wind N.E. very calm and warm, and yet not so hot as it was yesterday, yet all the day was fair &pleasant, & the night very dewy. |
22d. The Wind N.W. very calm, Sun Shiny, hot & Sultry for the most part of the day, yet some part of it was attended with a rusty mist. |
23d. [there is a mark in the margin below this date that looks like a full moon mark, but is a blot sw] The Wind E. blowing pretty fresh, hot & scorching all day; Paid Rowland ab William Rowland ab Robert alias Maharen bâch 6d. for fish. |
24th. The Wind N. calm, warm, fair and pleasant all day, and about noon it was very hot and Sultry: a pretty great Market to day at LLanfechell. Pd. Owen Thomas the Smith 3s. 3d. for work. |
25th. The Wind N & by E . blowing something fresh in the morning but Sun shiny, warm, fair & pleasant all day; My people were all this week betwixt finishing plowing the Pinfold & harrowing it, attending at the Mill to shell the Oats, and washing the sheep & shearing of them: pd. 5s. 6d. for 8 yards of cloath to make sand bags. |
26th. Whitsunday [this is written in the margin underneath '26th.' sw] The Wind N. calm and moderately warm, but some interruption in the Sun Shine frequently to day: The Priest preached on Luke – Chap: 22d. verse i9th. |
27th. The Wind S.S.W. blowing moderate in the morning, but cloudy & dark - in the Evening it blew fresh & rained from about noon all the rest of the day & a great part of the night: Paid a Carnarvanshire man from abt. Tal y Cafn 2s. 6d. for the use of his Stallion(Which was a large Bay horse) ☞ [this pointing symbol is in the margin opposite this line sw] to my Grey Mare that was covered last May by the Black Stallion of – LLangwillog, and has now a Foal by him which she foal'd about the – Middle of last month. |