August 27th.  The Wind W.S.W. blowing pretty fresh Sun shiny for the most part & drying well all day: my people were this day & yesterday dressing the hay – that was not got in, which is in a very dirty pickle: Paid Rhŷs Bentir 2s. for a fore quarter of Mutton & hind quarter of Lamb.
28th.  The Wind S. S. W. blowing very fresh, cloudy dark weather & the Air foggy & moist & bordering upon rain tho it made but little of it to day: To Day My labourers finish'd opening the cross ditches in Bodelwyn meadows which had not been opened these 35 years ·
29th.  The Wind S. W. very calm, dark & cloudy weather all day but dry in the morning & till noon, when it begun to rain, & from that time till 9 at night & most of that time very hard. Paid Owen Roberts 5s. of his last winter's wages, pd. 3L. 9s. for a Cow & Calf, pd. 5L. i0s. 6d. for 4 peggets & half of Barley Pd. for 20 load of straw iis. 8d. pd. for re^a^ping hooks 6s.– & Pd. for Sand–rush ropes is. 9d. at 6d. a hundred fathom.
30th.  The Wind all the morning at W. came early in ye Evening to S.W. blew pretty fresh &was generally Sunshiny& dry'd well all this day: My people begun to Reap to day at Cae' Sgubor Goydan, & when they have done that & the Rye,Ishall have no reaping afterwards this fortnight.
3ist.  The Wind W. blowing moderate, Sun shiny, fair & drying well all this day.
September ist.  The Wind from W. to S.W. all this day and but little of it, was sun shiny fair & warm from first to last: My people to day & yesterday were carrying in the hay.
2d.  The Wind S. S. W. blowing very high, Some sun shine[, sw] but for the most part cloudy & dark but made no rain this day.
3d.  The Wind S. W. blowing pretty fresh & in generall cloudy & dark, but continued dry till near night when it made some small rain: Pd. Thomas Sion Rolant 5s. 8d. for fulling 34 yards of Blanketing cloath,at 2d. a yard: & Pd. Rhŷs Bentir i5d. for a quarter of Mutton·
4th.  The Wind W. very calm, dark & sultry for the most part, but yet dry, Pd. is. 4d. for four pound weight of Rush p[ool sw]^[oo? sw]^ings to make traces&c

 




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