| Description | Includes a recipe to preserve orange juice, medicine for violent fits and colic, dog mange. Monthly financial outgoings to people giving their names and the amount paid, includes labourers and window tax, 1738-1749. Occasional bloodletting noted throughout the journal. Other recipes for elixir salutis
Tree plantations at Wassand.
Also includes 1739: Extract of a speech by Mr Onslow, speaker of the House of Commons to the king.
Amount of acres being farmed at Estoft and the number of tenants as at 4 Jul 1739.
Note that the Mere froze over in Dec 1739.
1740: April he had a 'baroe' made of solid mahogany on the outside and oak on the inside. In the May a fire was laid in the house as it was so cold with snow and frost.
1741: a skate was caught at Hornsea 6 foot 10 inches long and 5 foot 1 inch broad. List of trees planted in the December. Notes that 'I had the first 'Courant' from York on 25 Jan 1741 and the first 'Evening Post' from London on 19 Feb 1741'.
1744: Note of an agreement of 3 May 1744 to John Mackfarlin to use the Mere for 1 year and in return he can use his boat to pinion swans (with other conditions attached). |