y 5 th 1781 Monday – This day ab t 7 in the morn. This is the house I was born in, built by my grandfather, inhabited by my mother and will I hope long be so by myself.įeb. Staid there ‘till Friday the 9 th when we went to our house to live which I rent from Mr Hanbury at 10 £ year. y 7 th 1781 Wednesday – We went in a chaise from Kevanhila to P’pool to Mr Hanbury’s. y 5 th 1781 Monday – I went from Kevanhila to Christchurch to meet my moor tenants and returned to P’pool. These verses will induce you we think too well treat herīut we beg you won’t love her so much as to beat herįeb. You may put her away without fear of your life She will never direct you, but always obeyĪnd should you be as ‘tis common be tired of your wife She is silent and always give you your way This sweetest of creations to you, our good friendĪs is plain to seen, she’s a lady of richesĪnd we give you our word she’s unreceiving breeches Whose excellent merits induced us to send Your aversion to marriage to us is well knownīut we really believe you will like this Miss Joan Verses written by a Miss A Maud and sent to a young officer (with a gilded gingerbread doll) who railed ab. This evening Mr Cecil’s barns and oxhouses were burnt down and a great quantity of grain coustand to the value in the whole of above 300 £. Set out from Haggard’s in a chaise to Usk and got to Kevanhila by 6 o’clock in the evening. y 2 nd Friday – We set out from Bristol with Eliza in a chaise to the passage, had a fine passage.

We went on Friday 26 th to Mr Davies in Somerset Street and returned on Sunday to me cousins house.įeb. y 25 th – Sent our last loads of goods to P’pool by the Caerleon boat and gave up the house next morning to Mr Jones the school master. y 29 th 1781 Wednesday – This evening we left our house in Somerset Street and went to lye at my cousin Capel next door. This day my daur Mary went to board with Mrs Calloway up on Kings Down. y 23 rd 1781 – This day my son Thomas went to board at Cap. y 18 th – Sent our first load of goods by Caerleon boat to P’pool. Mr Cookshatt called in Somerset Street whilst we were at Bath, on his way to Yorkshire. We lay at York house that night and returned to Bristol next morning. y 8 th – Went with my son John to Bath to visit Mr Thicknese at his hermitage at St Catherines. Two little girls went to Mr Davies’s today. t him a pair of black Manchester breeches. y 6 th 1781 – Bought Mrs Cooke a new calico gown, olive striped with white and my son Thomas a new hat and on Monday last bo.

James hayward 4 cherrytree gardens