January the 1st. The Wind N.W. blowing very high & stormy all day, but made no rain, the Air excessive cold and raw; gave the Sexton 2s. 6d New year's gift. |
2d. The Wind W. blowing very cold and raw, but made no rain all this day . my people attend the Mason & carpenter at Coydan who are repairing the old houses that were a falling. |
3d. The Wind S.S.W. blowing high & cold and raining without intermission very hard long before day [there is a punctuation mark between lines here which could be either a comma between 'cold' and 'and', or an apostrophe in front of 'till' sw] till i in the Evening. the rest of the Day dark, cloudy, moist air & very cold. |
4th. The Wind W. moist Air & very cold, dark cloudy weather, with some showers of sleet in the Evening & in the night . fenced about the young Trees in Cae'r Gegin. in order to turn ye Calves from Cae Tŷ'n y LLŵyn to that field & Cae'r Penrhyn. |
5th. The Wind N.W. very dark, cloudy & cold weather all day; my Servants ['Servants is in the margin sw] at the same work at Coydan all this week. |
6th. The Wind W. blowing high in the Morning and very cold, but dry all day, the night very calm and warm, this being the day I treat my labourers & reapers. I had them at my house, & sat with my own family & half a Dozen Neighbouring —Gentlemen till ii at night. gave 2s to raffling . |
7th. The Wind N.W. blowing high & very cold accompanyed with severall showers of hail in the Morning; the Evening very cold, but dry till night when it made some showers of sleet. |
8th. The Wind W. very cold raw weather, but dry all day till the fall of night when it rained very hard, as it did most part of the night; pd. Wm. Griffith of Cŷtt part owner & Master of the Cloxan 20s. in part of the Coal money. |
9th. The Wind N.W. blowing very high & stormy about 5 in the morning & raining very hard at the same time, about 7 the Wind was allayed, and was very calm, but continued to rain excessive hard without any intermission till i in the Evening, the rest of the day dull, dark cloudy & cold. |