1852

Inside the 1852 diary. On the right it says James Groves owes me 15 Rates at 18d each. Presumably something to do with the Poor’s rate.

DATE	DIARY ENTRIES	ACCOUNTS	Notes.
	January 1852
	Mr James of Mappowder for Foot Rot 2oz Sugar of Lead 2 Do. Blue Stone 2 Do. Gunpowder I litre Oil Petre Tablespoon of Oil of Vitriol Linseed Oil Sufficient to make Salve		This entry appears on the frontispiece of the 1852 diary. Given the ingredients it would appear to kill most things.
1^st January 1852	At Home on Various matters
2^nd January 1852	Do. Do.
3^rd January 1852	Do. Do. Edwin Came Mr Wm Jennings Ill IN PENCIL Bob Sartain owe me 2d	Pd for Ten Pounds of Tea Mansell & Co £2 Chk W&Dorset
4^th January 1852	At Home	Pd Mr Dawe Bill for repairing Barns Floor &c Bluntsmoor £5 12s 9d
5^th January 1852	At Home -dined with Mr Wm Hennings Arthur C Jesty & Mr Frampton of Cerne [Edwin left]	Pd Women for Work 5s Tom Tompkins Do. 7s	Not William Jennings.
6^th January 1852	At Home on Various matters	Tom Frampton 8 s
7^th January 1852	Do. Do.	Paid Church Rates £1 1s 0d
8^th January 1852	Do. – Bengefield now owes me to Mic 1851 £6 And there will be another ½ yr due Lady Dy 1852 £22 10s 0d } £28 10s 0d	£4 7s 4d Reced of Mr Bengefield on further acct to Mic 1851 Pd Himbury for Lime 3s 9d	Although he had given a notice to quit to Mr Bengefield in 1845 he appears to have remained as Martin’s tenant.
9^th January 1852	Arthur and Wife went to Southampton to see S N Phil
10^th January 1852	Attended Westwoods walking [sic] Sheep &c Arthur and Wife returned	Pd Tom Tompkins 2s 4d
11^th January 1852	At Home	Tom Frampton 8s
12^th January 1852	At Home on Various matters A Very Wet Day
13^th January 1852	At Home on Various matters another Wet Day Lord Ilchesters Rent Day Dined at the Acorn	Paid 40 cwt Coals Dorchester £3 8s 8d Chk Wilts & Dorset
14^th January 1852	Annual meeting Wilts & Dorset at Dorchester to elect Local director At Home on Various matters killed a Sheep which was Fell broken	£10s 3s 0d sent Chk to W&Dorset Reced a Yrs int Beaminster Turnpike due 1^st instant
15^th January 1852	At Home on various matters
16^th January 1852	Do. Do.	£30 7s 0d sent Warrant to W&D this day Reced ½ yrs int Wilts & Dorset due Christmas last £1012 10s 0d paid up Pd Mr Wm Jennings for his 35 shares mine is 100 shares £7 17s 6d 3 Hogs hds Cider 4.10.0 3.7.6 cash 7.17.6
17^th January 1852	Went to Coker resp draining	Paid Way rates Ransom 5 1/2d Pd further drainage at Coker £1 11s 4d Tom Frampton 8s
18^th January 1852	At Home
19^th January 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd ½ yrs Tithe Ransom 2s 4 ¾ d
20^th January 1852	Do. Do. [Wet Day]
21^st January 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd ¼ Poors Rates Cattistock 4s 2 ½ d
22^nd January 1852	Do. Do.	Pd Jas Groves for Reed &c Thatching House &c £15 11s 1d
23^rd January 1852	Do. Do. Put the Fat Sheep ^25 into Court Lands
24^th January 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd for a Sack of Potatoes 9s Pd Mrs Arthur House £15 Pd Baker 2s Pd ½ yrs property tax Cattistock 14s 7d
25^th January 1852	At Home	Tom Frampton 8s	Sadly Martin’s house is no longer extant – seemingly the only one in a long row of cottages that was knocked Down and replaced.
26^th January 1852	Went to Coker and paid off Men draining and cutting Emmet Buts &c	Pd Men at Coker Cutting Emmet Butts &c £1 1s 0d	Where this was in Coker is not known.
27^th January 1852	At Home on Various Matters [Very wet day]	Pd ¼ Poor Rates Ransom 7d Pd ½ Yrs income Tax Evershot £1 9s 2 Do. Property Tax Evershot £1 1s 1 ½ d Do. ¼ Poor Rates £42 at 1s/ Do. £2 2s 0d Pd for Sugar 8s 4d
28^th January 1852	Went to Dorchester Purchased a New Saddle	Pd Mr Hodges for Wine &c over 1doz Bottles £10 s2 0d Pd Mr Pouncey for Saddle &c £4 0s 6d Expenses 2s 6d Pd for Pork 2s 2d
29^th January 1852	At Home on Various matters Edwin & Wife & Child came	Pd Mr C Jennings Subscription to Sunday School £1
30^th January 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd Barrett for work 4s 8d Boy Baker Do. crd forward Tom Frampton 8s
31^st January 1852	Do. Do.
	February
1^st February 1852	At Home
2^nd February 1852	Annual meeting of Wilts & Dorset Salisbury 11 ok At Home on Various Matters	£14 10s Reced of Mr Way for Two Cows Pd him for Beef 17/6d Mutton 4/6d Lamb 4/6 £1 6s 6d
3^rd February 1852	At Home on Various Matters	Pd Mrs Jesty a Yrs Rent of Yarnbarton due Ly Dy 1851 £6 £2 17s 2 ¼ d Reced of Mrs Jesty for Milk Cream &c
4^th February 1852	Do. Do.	Pd Sandiford for 8 Apple Trees & Planting &c Chilthorne £2 7s
5^th February 1852	At Home on Various Matters
6^th February 1852	Do. Do.
7^th February 1852	Do. Do.	Pd Baker 4s Pd Jas Gundry work in Lord 7s Tom Frampton 8s
8^th February 1852	At Home
9^th February 1852	At Home on Various Matters
10^th February 1852	Do. Do.	Pd Barrett Thrashing Oats &c 7s
11^th February 1852	At Home on Various Matters
12^th February 1852	Do. Do.
13^th February 1852	Do. Do.	Pd Barrett in full 5s 3d John Tompkins Gardening 5s 4d The Boy Baker 2s 9d Tom Childs draining in Yarn Barton on a/ 10s Tom Frampton 8s
14^th February 1852	At Home on Various Matters Edwin Went Home
15^th February 1852	At Home
16^th February 1852	Went to and Valued Land Rental by Christopher Guppy of Lord Ilchester £2 2s
17^th February 1852	At Home on Various matters – Writing Letters &c
18^th February 1852	Went to Coker respg draining &c	Pd Tom Child remainder for draining in Yarn Barton 15s 6d Do. diging [sic] ditch Do. 2s 6d
19^th February 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd for Cheese 4s 1 ½d
20^th February 1852	Do. Resignation of Ld John Russells ministry
21^st February 1852	Went to Yeovil and paid Bills &c	Pd Barrett Thrashing Oats &c 7s
22^nd February 1852	At Home	Pd Pickford Yeovil £1 6s 3d Pd Milborne Yeovil Tailor £8 15s Do. for Edwin £4 8s Pd for Black Silk Handkerchief and expenses 8s
23^rd February 1852	Attendg at Westwoods – [Marling]	Tom Frampton 8s
24^th February 1852	Do. – Went to Holywell & Saw the Fox Hounds throw off
25^th February 1852	At home on Various matters & attendg Marling	Paid for 40 Hund of Coals Load Bridge at 16d per Hund £2 13s 4d
26^th February 1852	Do. Do.
27^th February 1852	Do. Do.	7s 6d Reced for a calf
28^th February 1852	Do. Do.	Paid Men Marling £1 Tom Frampton 8s	Marl was chalk or clay [the nature of Marl varied from one place to another] and was an early form of soil improving improving it’s structure and acidity level.
29^th February 1852	At Home
	March
1^st March 1852	At Westwoods attendg Marling &c	Pd Henry Conways Bill 16s 5d Pd Groves Carpenter which went for Church rates 2/5 ¼ the Rate 2s 6d
2^nd March 1852	Do. Do.
3^rd March 1852	Went to Coker with my 80 Sheep – Dined at Mr Genges East Chinnock	Pd Trask on a/ of draining at Coker £1
4^th March 1852	Attendg Marling at Westwoods &c	Paid Mrs Jestys Church Rate to go towards Rent of Yarn Barton 8s 6d Expenses Coker 2s
5^th March 1852	At Home on Various matters Sold Henry Miller some Hay at Westwoods to be fed on the same for a fortnight from this time at 5£
6^th March 1852	Attending Marling at Westwoods	Pd Men Marling £1
7^th March 1852	At Home	Tom Frampton 8s
8^th March 1852	Attending at Westwoods Marling	£16 Reced of Butcher Way of Sherborne for Ten Sheep see 2^nd Feb this is 10 out of 20 sheep
9^th– 10^th March 1852	Do.
11^th March 1852	Went to Coker respg draining	Pd Trask remainder for draining at Coker £2 10s 0d
12^th March 1852	Attending at Westwoods Marling	Pd Mr Hancock Yeovil for Watch Chain etc £2 6s 0d
13^th March 1852	Do. Do.	Pd Men Marling £1 3s
14^th March 1852	At Home	Tom Frampton 8s
15^th March 1852	Went to Bluntsmoor respg draining	Pd J Lake as Bill 1850 4s 6d
16^th March 1852	Attending Marling at Westwoods
17^th – 20^thMarch 1852	Do. Do.
21^st March 1852	At Home
22^nd March 1852	At Westwoods attending Labourers
23^rd March 1852	Do.	£5 Reced Henry Miller for Hay at Westwoods Paid him for a Pig £2 10s
24^th March 1852	Went to Coker to see Sheep
25^th March 1852	At Westwoods attending Lime Pit
26^th – 27^th March 1852	Do. Do.	Paid Men Ploughing Lime Burning &c £1 7s Tom Frampton 8 s	Burnt Lime [quick lime] was another form of marl. A lot of time was spent burning it for little advantage compared with slaked lime or plain old chalk.
28^th March 1852	At Home
29^th March 1852	At Home on Various matters
30^th March 1852	IN PENCIL NORTH POORTON 12 O/K Went to North Poorton & Valued Lands to be Exchanged between the Rector and Mr Jenkins £1 1s 0d
31^st March 1852	At Home on Various matters
	April
1^st April 1852	At Home on Various matters Sent for 50 of my Sheep from Coker	Pd for Lt Stamps 5s
2^nd April 1852	At home on Various matters [Took medicine] Bob Sartains Lime Burning turned out good for nothing	Pd Bollen & Bird Spirits £5 5s 11d IN PENCIL at this time 5 Jars due
3^rd April 1852	At Home on Various matters
4^th April 1852	At Home	Pd Rich Roberts’s Bill 6s 2d Pd J Tompkins for Work 6s 8d Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
5^th April 1852	At Home on Various matters- went on Ransom Hill to take situation of New House for Mr John Batten & made Sketch 10/6d
6^th April 1852	At Home attendg Workplace Gardening &c	Pd for Stamps 5s
7^th April 1852	IN PENCIL Mr Bishop 11 o clock At Home on Various matters	P Bollen & Bird Spirits £5 5s 11d at this time 5 jars due.
8^th – 10^th April 1852	Do.	Pd Richd Roberts Bill 6s 2d Pd J Tompkins for Work 6s 8d Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
11^th April 1852	At Home
12^th April 1852	Went to Hillfield Valuing Timber for Chas Cozens Esq £2 5s 0d
13^th April 1852	At Home on Various matters working out Particulars of Hillfield Timber
14^th April 1852	Do. Do.
15^th April 1852	Do. Do. Mr P Woolcott Left Let Arthur have two Checks to be deposited at W&Dorset Dorchester Wadman 33.10.10 Wm Neale 22.0.0	£33 10s 10d sent Check to W & Dorset Reced of Mr Waman Balance of Rent to 29^th September 1851 when he quitted my Land at Coker 13s Reced of Mr Hine what I paid out of pocket Pd Sartain Lime Kiln work 4s	This was Arthur’s father in law Phillip Woolcott.
16^th April 1852	At Home on Various matters Sent Mr Haine Check for £12 8s 0d Balance of ½ yrs Rent due 25^th March last Rent £4 Ld Tax 19s Pay int 13s	£39 2s 6d Reced ½ yrs Rent Bluntsmoor due Mich 1851
17^th April 1852	Went to Bluntsmoor & reced ½ yrs Rent	Baker 4s 7d Tom Frampton 8s	Bluntsmoor Farm in Mosterton.
18^th April 1852	At Home
19^th April 1852	Went to Plush to Value Estates of Michael Miller Esq [where I slept]
20^th April 1852	Returned Home made out Valuation of Plush
21^st April 1852	IN PENCIL Tithe Paying Evershot At Home made out Valuation of Plush for Mr Coombs – [Little Man very Ill]		Arthur’s son, Arthur John Martin [Little Man] was baptised 20^th September 1851. He was to die in 1891 during an epileptic attack. A private train brought his body home from Weymouth.
22^nd April 1852	At Home on Various [Child still very ill]
23^rd April 1852	At Home on Various matters
24^th April 1852	At Home on Various matters
25^th April 1852	At Home
26^th April 1852	Went to Yeovil & Chilthorne	Pd for Medicine &c 5s Pd for Trouser stuff & Braces £1 2s 6d
27^th April 1852	At Home on Various matters	£15 sent to W&Dorset this day Reced of John Way Butcher of Sherborne one pound unpaid see 8^th March
28^th April 1852	Went to Coker and Paid for Ploughing &c [Little Man better]	Pd Mr George for Ploughing &c £5 18s 6d Do. Mr Young £9 Pd Groves Carpenter 5s 6d
29^th April 1852	At Home on Various matters -Fine Rain	Pd Mr Rendall for work at Coker £2 Pd Sawing Apple Traces &c 16s Pd ¼ Poor Rates Evershot £2 2s 0d Paid ½ Yrs Land Tax Cattistock 13s 6d
30^th April 1852	Do. Fine Rain [after 8 weeks dry]
	May
1^st May 1852	At Home on Various matters Mr Pine came respg Arbitration – [Hamworthy]	Pd Men Lime Kiln 12s Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
2^nd May 1852	At Home
3^rd May 1852	At House on Various matters with Mr Pine looking into the Arbitration papers	Gave Dolphin [sic] Groves Looking to Sheep 5s Paid Mr Russells Bill £1 5s 5d Pd Land Tax & property Tax Ransom 4s 3d Pd Mr Randall ½ yrs Land Tax for Coker due Ly Dy 1852 £1 10s 3 ½ d
4^th May 1852	Went to North Poorton resp Exchange
5^th May 1852	Working on North Poorton Exchange
6^th May 1852	IN PENCIL Red C to B Do. Do.
7^th May 1852	Went to Pool on the Hamworthy Reference	15s Reced of Mr C Jennings a Yrs int from Fields due 1 Jany 1852 £6 6s 0d Reced of Messrs Stone & Symonds my Bill for Curtis’s Railway Valuation Cattistock 1.1.0 for Fordington Valuation of Tithes Railway work
8^th May 1852	To be at Pool 11 ok – London Tavern Hotel At Pool on the arbitration	Pd mending Watch Key 9d Pd ½ years Assd Taxes & Ld Tx £5 0s 4d Reced of Mr Andrews 2 ½ yrs int Cerne Turnpike due Mic 1850 £12 15s
9^th May 1852	Returned Home	Travelling Expenses [charge] £1 10s Pd Men Lime Kiln work 15s Baker a Week 4s Tom Frampton 8s
10^th May 1852	At Home on Various matters Edwin & his Uncle Geo came	Pd for Potatoes 3s Pd Way Rates Cattistock 1s 5d Do. Mr Smith for Furze 18s	Despite his use of coal it is interesting to see he was still using furze [gorse] for firing.
11^th May 1852	Yeomanry meeting Melbury Park 11 ok A Boy Killed by Mr G Templemans Mare running away under the Traces the Boy was left in the care of the Mare whilst Shooting for a Cup	Pd Mr Wm Henning for Vetches 6s Do. Poor Rates Cattistock 5s 8d Pd Lewis of Ransom 24 sack Lime £1 4s Pd ½ yrs Tithe Cattistock £1 9s 9 ½ d Pd 92 Hund [cwt] of Coals at 14d per Hund £5 7s 4d
12^th May 1852	Evershot Fair	Pd Wellman Lime Work 5s 4d Barrett for work Baker Do. 4s Tom Frampton 8s
13^th May 1852	At home on Various matters
14^th May 1852	Do. Do.	Pd for Potatoes 3s Pd Way Rates Cattistock 1s 5d Pd Smith for Furze 18s Pd Mr Wm Henning for Vetches 6s
15^th May 1852	Do. Edwin & his Uncle of Oxford left
16^th May 1852	IN PENCIL Dutchess to B At Home	Pd Wellman Lime work 5s 4d Baker Do. 4s Tom Frampton 8s
17^th May 1852	At Westwoods on Lime Kiln and Writing Letters &c
18^th May 1852	Preparing for Permanent duty
19^th May 1852	Permanent duty at Blandford Regiment entered the Town about ½ past 5
20^th May 1852	At Blandford on P duty
21^st May 1852	Do. Dined at J J Farquharson Esq with 13 more of the Regiment there was Seven of our Troop		J J Farquharson was a local magistrate who was also the Colonel of the Blandford Troop of the Queens Own Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry.
22^nd May 1852	At Blandford
23^rd May 1852	Do.
24^th May 1852	At Blandford on Permanent duty
25^th May 1852	Do.
26^th May 1852	Do. Returned Home	Received for Pay & p Corn £4 6s
27^th May 1852	At Home making up Accts &c	Pd Expenses Fly Him &c [sic] £6
28^th May 1852	Evershot Club Dined at the Acorn	Pd at the Club 18s 6d	This was Evershot Friendly Society.
29^th May 1852	[Ham] Reference attending Messrs Pearce & Pyne at the Antelope Dorchester	Paid Barrett 8s The Boy Baker 4s Expense at Dorchester 2s Tom Frampton 8s Pd 12lb of Turnip Seeds 6s
30^th May 1852	At Home
31^st May 1852	Went to Coker and had home the 30 Sheep there
	June
1^st June 1852	IN PENCIL Yellow Heifer to B Making out the Hamworthy Valuation and sent the same to Mr Pyne	Pd for Letter Stamps 3s 6d By Chks on W&Dorset dated 1^st June £11 3s 7d Pd Dorchester Coal Compny for 40cwt of Coals £3 3d 4d
2^nd June 1852	At Home on Various matters Washed my Sheep &c	Pd Mr Balster for Spirits £3 14s Mansell & Co for Tea £2 Pd 2yrs Church Rates Ransom 11s
3^rd June 1852	Went to Child Okeford on the Poor Rate	£6 Reced of Mr Dawbney for Book of Reference & Field & Poor Rate & Tithes of Mosterton Pd my Rate on the above 6s 1 ¾ d
4^th June 1852	At Child Okeford	Paid Barrett Ploughing &c 4s Paid Baker 4s
5^th June 1852	At Child Okeford
6^th June 1852	At Child Okeford
7^th June 1852	At Child Okeford
8^th June 1852	Returned Home	Pd Expenses £2 Pd Sheep Shearers 10s Reced for a Calf 12s
9^th June 1852	At Home on Various matters Sheep Shearing 85 Pen Hogs & 8 Chilvers Do. a very Wet day	Pd Women Splitting thistles 4s 6d Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s	It’s not clear what split thistles were used for. Most likely they were used as fodder. Chilvers were young female lambs whilst Pen Hog’s were lambs of either sex between 9 -18 months of age.
10^th June 1852	Do. Do.
11^th June 1852	At Home on Various Matters
12^th June 1852	Do. Do.
13^th June 1852	At Home
14^th June 1852	At Home on Various matters attending Workpeople at Westwoods	Pomerania Turnips	Pomeranian Turnips according to the Farmers Magazine of 1841 were smooth, perfectly white globe turnips which “when grown on superior rich soil acquire somewhat of a monstrous or overgrown appearance.”
15^th June 1852	Do.
16^th June 1852	Writing Letters &c a Wet day	Paid Sandiford Grafting at Chilthorne £1 7s Pd Henry Vine & Jessop digging Chalk 16s	More Split thistles.
17^th June 1852	Attendg at Westwoods – Drawing Chalk &c	Woman Splitting Thistles 1s 9d Pd at Dorchester for Various articles £2
18^th June 1852	Do. Do.	The Boy Baker 4s
19^th June 1852	Ham Renewal Dorchester 2 o/k Went to Dorchester & executed my Award Mr Welch Solicitor of Poole attended	Tom Frampton 8s
20^th June 1852	At Home
21^st June 1852	At Home on Various matters writing Okeford Numerical Book	Pd for Mackrell [sic] &c 2s Pd Wm Cave for Malt £5 14s [Arthur Paid the 14s]
22^ndJune 1852	Went to Sherborne Visitation	Pd for Articles at Yeovil 4s 10d Pd ½ yrs property Tax Cattistock due Ly Dy last 14s 7d Pd ½ yrs income Tax Evershot £1 9s 2d Do. Property Tax £1 1s 1 ½d Pd for Bacon &c Dorchester 18s
23^rd June 1852	Writing Okeford Numerical &c	Pd Women for work 4s 2d Pd Poor Rates W Coker £1 14s 4d chk W&Dorset Pd Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
24^th June 1852	IN PENCIL Mr Knights Sale of Stock &c Began Mowing Yarn Barton & Barrow Do. & other work Sowed 4 acres of Swedes at Westwoods
25^th June 1852	Do. – Marked my Sheep
26^th June 1852	Working on Okeford Rate &c
27^th June 1852	At Home
28^th June 1852	[Edwins Wife Died] Working on Okeford Rate &c Wet Weather Courtlands was finished Mowing
29^th June 1852	Working on Okeford &c
30^th June 1852	Do. Do.
	July
1^st July 1852	Do. Do. Made Sketch & Particulars of Sir Edward Bakers Land at Child Okeford £1 1s 0d	£6 Reced of Mr Bengefield Bal of Rent to Mic 1851 Pd Expenses at Yeovil 3s Pd Mr Reynolds for work turning Lime Banks £1 13s 10d
2^ndJuly 1852	Haymaking	Pd Him on Acct of Haymaking £3
3^rd July 1852	Haymaking Ricked Yarn Barton & Part of Barrow	Pd Haymakers 17s 10d The Boy Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
4^th July 1852	At Home
5^th July 1852	Haymaking Very Hot Thunder weather
6^th July 1852	Haymaking Very Hot Thunder weather
7^th July 1852	Finished Ricking Courtlands Went to Yeovil Marsh with Mr Matthews and viewed Land over which a New Road is about to be made [Went to Chilthorne]
8^th July 1852	Haymaking in Pipers Hay
9^th July 1852	Went to Coker to see about the Haymaking
10^th July 1852	Ricking part of Pipershay
11^th July 1852	At Home
12^th July 1852	Haymaking in Pipershay	Pd J Groves Haymaking 1s 6d Pd Chedd Building Lime Kiln £7 15s 6d
13^th July 1852	Rickd Pipers Hay	£34 4s 9d sent to W&Dorset this day Reced of Mr Wm Jennings on a/ of Mowries Somerton due Mic 1850 & Ly Dy 1851 £87 10s Reced of Do. for £2 10s per share further call on his 35 shares in the Wilts & Dorset Bank
14^th July 1852	Haymaking in the Three Corners Ground	Paid to Saul Provis Esq Salisbury further call £2 10s per share on my Hundred Shares in Wilts&Dorset £250 and Mr Wm Jennings’s 35 shares as above together £337 10s 0d Check on W&D at Dorchester dated the 19^th July
15^th July 1852	At Home on Various matters Reced of Mr Wm Jennings £87 10s being £2 10s per share further call on his 35 Shares in the Wilts & Dorset Bank	Pd Haymakers in full & mowing £4 16s The Boy Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
16^th July 1852	Sowed Turnips in 9 acres At Home on Various Matters Made Affidavit of Exchanges at Ransom for Mr John Batten £1 1s This was done the 15^th
17thJuly 1852	At Home on various matters working on Okeford &c
18^th July 1852	At home
19^th July 1852	Working on C Okeford	Paid Poors Rate Ransom 1s 10d Pd Letter Stamps 5s Pd Evershot Poor Rates £2 2s
20^th – 24^th July 1852	Do.	Pd ½ yrs Tithe Ransom 2s 4d Pd Foot Rot ointment &c 2s Pd Hoskins 2 weeks work 8s
25^th July 1852	At Home
26^th July 1852	Went to Ransom & Valued Land on the Hill Exchanged to Ld Sherborne & the inclosure for W J Batten £1 1s	Pd Lewis of Ransom for 14 Sacks of Lime & 6s towards burning Lime at Westwoods £1
27^th July 1852	Working on Child Okeford Rate	Received of the Executors of the late Mr Chas Hawkins his T Commutation expenses for Abbotsbury £6 12s sent to the bank this day
28^th July 1852	Do.
29^th July 1852	Making Exchange of Lands at Rampisham & Sketch for Mr John Batten £2 2s 0d	£30 7s 6d changed Warrant at Yeovil W&Dorset Reced ½ yrs int Wilts & Dorset due midsummer last Pd Mr Wm Jennings for his 35 shares £7 17s 6d Paid this to Mr Wm Jennings 19^th Nov 1852
30^th July 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd Mullins Bread Bill £1 10s 11d Pd Boy Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
31^st July 1852	Do. Do.
	August
1^st August 1852	At Home
2^nd August 1852	Attending Turnip Hoeing at Westwoods &c Drew out 40 of my Sheep to sent to Coker
3^rd August 1852	Writing Letters &c And sent the 40 sheep to Coker [A Wet day] Fine in the afternoon
4^th August 1852	Went to Yeovil – changed the Wilts & Dorset Warrant 30.7.6 at Bank
5^th August 1852	At Home on Various matters
6^th August 1852	Went to Dorchester Fair
7^th August 1852	At Home on Various matters Attending Building Wall by Pig Sty
8^th August 1852	At Home
9^th August 1852	At Home on Various matters
10^th – 11^th August 1852	Do. Do.	Pd Mr Eaton my usual Subscription to Missionary Society 5s
12^th August 1852	Went to Coker and paid Mr Reynolds for work &c	Paid Mr Reynolds for Haymaking in full £3 9s 4d 1/10d over
13^th August 1852	At Home on Various matters
14^th August 1852	Do. Do. Edwin & Child left	Gave Edwin by Check £20
15^th August 1852	At Home	Pd Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
16^th August 1852	Entering Yeomanry Pay List in orderly Book and looking over Bills &c [A Bad Wet day for the Harvest]
17^th August 1852	At Westwoods about the Turnpike A wet afternoon.
18^th August 1852	At Home on Various matters attendg Turnip Hoers at Westwoods	Pd Jack Squibb Hoeing Turnips 14s 6d
19^th– 21^st August 1852	Do.	Letters stamps 4s Pd Mr Trenchard Bal Bill £8 6s Pd Baker 4s Tom Frampton
22^nd August 1852	At Home
23^rd August 1852	At Home on Various matters
24^th August 1852	Do. Had the 40 Sheep back from Coker	Pd Mr Cottell for Stone for Bluntsmoor Stall Ho £2 11s 8s
25^th August 1852	At Home on Various matters [had the Sheep Coloured]
26^th August 1852	At Home on Various matters
27^th – 28^th August 1852	Do.	Pd Women about Turnips 4s 6d Paid Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
29^th August 1852	At Home
30^th August 1852	At Home on Various matters
31^st August 1852	Do. Do.
	September
1^st September 1852	Do. went to Melbury to look at Mr Swaffields Lambs	Pd Mr Podger [sic] ½ yrs property Tax Coker Shedule A [sic] £1 6s 3d Do. B 13s 1 ½ d Pd Mr Wadmans Church Rate 4s 6 ¾ d Sent Check to Mr Wadman for the whole £2 4s 0d
2^nd September 1852	At Home on Various matters
3^rd September 1852	Do. Do. Attendg at Westwoods Trimming Wethers	Pd Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
4^th September 1852	At Home on Various matters
5^th September 1852	At Home
6^th September 1852	Went to Rampisham by desire of Mr J Daniell respg Valuation and made Two Copies of Total Value of Rampisham for him £1 1s 0d
7^th September 1852	Toller Down Fair Sold 60 2 teeth Wethers to Mr James Crew at 36s 6d a Head cost in 19s	£109 10s Reced for 60 Wethers sent Check on National Provincial to Wilts & Dorset Pd Expenses 12s
8^th September 1852	At Home on Various matters
9^th September 1852	[Ransom] Went to Yeovil respg Mr Matthews Turnpike Work And had a good deal of conversation with Mr John Batten on the Ransom sale – charge ½ & ½ .	Pd Expenses 2s 6d
10^th September 1852	[Ransom] Working on matters respg the Ransom Sale
11^th September 1852	[Ransom] Went to Ransom & examined Book of Particulars with John Newbury and preparing Paper for sketch of Ransom	Pd Mr Kellaways [ Bread Bill] £1 8s 3d Paid Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
12^th September 1852	At Home
13^th September 1852	[Ransom] Working on Sketch
14^th September 1852	Ransom Working on Particulars
15^th September 1852	Ransom Working on Particulars The Duke of Wellington died at Walmer Castle in his 84^th year.
16^th September 1852	Ransom Went to Rampisham & working on Sketch ½ day – And went to Chelborough & Purchased 100 Pen Lambs of Mr Paul	Paid Groves Carpenter £1 1 5 ¾ d Pd Mr Paul for 100 Lambs 24s each £120 chk W&D
17^th September 1852	Ransom Waiting on Mr Johnson by his desire respg sale and working on Sketch & Particulars the other part of the day	Pd the Boy Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
18^th September 1852	Ransom Working on Particulars all day
19^th September 1852	At Home
20^th September 1852	Working on Ransom Particulars and attending Mr John Batten in my Office on the same
21^st September 1852	Working on Ransom Particulars
22^nd September 1852	Do. Pasting Sketch on Canvas for Ransom
23^rd September 1852	Working part of the day on Ransom	£18 19s chk on Stuckeys Cashed at Yeovil Reced of Mr Hine for my wool
24^th September 1852	Making Verdigrise Green & attendg to Farming the remainder of my Wethers for Stafford Fair		This is West Stafford near Dorchester. The only reference to this fair.
25^th September 1852	Colouring the Ransom Sketch	Pd Vine for work 8s Do. Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s
26^th September 1852	At Home
27^th September 1852	Went to Coker
28^th September 1852	Went to Stafford Fair & sold 25 Wethers at 35s each to Mr Richards near Wincanton	Paid Mr Young £22 and Mr Ginge £2 7s for ploughing } £24 7s Pd John Drakes Bill £1 10s 11d £43 15s Received for 25 Wethers sent Check to Wilts & Dorset for £44 0s 0d 28^th October Paid Luck money & expenses at the Fair 6s
29^th September 1852	Marking the Hundred Lambs I bought of Mr Paul &c	Paid for two Lime Baskets 3s Pd Mr Fields Bill for Edwin £15 15s 9d	This is the first of two bills in the diaries paid to ‘Mr Fields’. The next is in two years but it is not known who he was.
30^th September 1852	Went to to Value Knoll Park Farm		Presumably Knoll Farm near Wareham.
	October
1^st October 1852	Valuing the Farm – Edwin was gon [sic] to see the Dibbles depart for Australia
2^nd October 1852	Returned Home by way of Milborne Port and purchased of Mr Sealy 100 lambs	Purchased 100 Lambs of Mr Sealy of Milborne Port at 23/6d per head less 10s £117.00 Pd Travelling Expenses &c 12s Pd Baker 3s 4d Pd Tom Frampton 8s
3^rd October	At home
4^th October 1852	Casting Knoll Park Farm &c A Wet day	Pd Turnpike for Coker 2s 6d Pd for Foot Rot stuff 2s 6d
5^th October 1852	At Home & went to Ransom in the afternoon respg Valuation for Mr Batten	£3 10s 0d Reced of Maria Ellis a Yrs interest due Sept Last Paid her for hauling ### £2 5s 0d	Maria Beater who we met in 1838 had re-married to a farmer John Ellis of West Chelborough. She was still paying off the loan, probably a mortgage on land she had bought.
6^th October 1852	Working on the Valuation of Ransom all day [Sent after more Colour]	Pd for Paper 2s 8d Pd Jack Squibb remainder for Turnip Hoeing Paid to Arthur 5s 6d
7^th October 1852	Writing out Valuations of Ransom [Abstract]	Pd Geo Lewis on acct Lime Burning £1
8^th October 1852	Marking the Milborne Port Lambs &c	Pd Baker 4s Pd Tom Frampton 8s
9^th October 1852	At Home on Various matters
10^th October 1852	At Home
11^th October 1852	At Home on Various matters
12^th October	Numbering the Ransom Sketch and Putting in Trees Plantations &c
13^th October 1852	Working on the Ransom Sketch
14^th October 1852	At Home on Various matters. A Gentleman from London View’d Ransom and came to me to see the Map
15^th October 1852	Attending work people in Garden & Westwoods [Edwin came]
16^th October 1852	At Home on Various matters Edwin & Arthur went to Bridport abt Railway work
17^th October 1852	At Home
18^th October 1852	Went to Coker to see my Sheep &c
19^th October 1852	Examining Ransom Map with Particulars and sent Mr Batten the Sketch Map of Ransom
20^th October 1852	Made Sketch of Mr J Daniells exchange Lands at Ransom charge 12s
21^st October 1852	Went to Bluntsmoore [sic] and reced ½ yrs rent of Farmer Thompson & for 4 acres of Oats sold him at Coker
22^nd October 1852	At Home on Various matters
23^rd October 1852	Went to Yeovil carried Particulars of Ransom to Mr Batten & had conversation with him respg Yeovil Marsh Road
24^th October 1852	At Home
25^th October 1852	Evershot Court Dined at Acorn – I was foreman of the Jury	Pd my Lords Rent 3s 6d Expenses at the Court 18s Pd Ann Chant for work 2s
26^th October 1852	At Home a Very Wet Day Valuing Jonathon Wilton Land at Buckshead Rented of Lord Ilchester	Pd ½ yrs Tithes Evershot £1 19s 8 ½ d Pd James Cox’s Bill Tailor 10s
27^th October 1852	Valuing Jonathon Wilton Land at Buckshead & making out Valuation £2 2s 0d
28^th October 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd Mr Kellaways Bread Bl 12s 8d
29^th October 1852	Went to Burl to Value that Farm but the Rain came on & could not proceed	Pd Vine for Work 8s 8d	Burl Farm near Evershot.
30^th October 1852	Went to Burl again today and Finished Viewing the farm	Tom Frampton 8s.
31^st October 1852	At Home
	November
1^st November 1852	Making Sketch of Girt Farm &c	Pd Mr Trenchard Poor Rates £1 8s Pd ½ yrs assessed Taxes £4 1s 11 ½ d Do. Land Tax 2s 7d	Girt Farm near Evershot.
2^nd November 1852	At Home on Various matters – writing out Valuation of Burl Farm & attending the Turnpike meeting at the Acorn	£50 14s Reced of Mr Peter Cox my Bill on Mr Sheridan for Tithe Commutation Abbotsbury Sent Check Mr C Jennings part of the above for £38
3^rd November 1852	Putting the Office to rights and other matters in the office My Brother George died at Oxford	Paid Mr Penny of Coker for Poor Rates ordered 8^th October £2 5s 8d Pd Mansell Horne & Co for Ten pounds of Tea £2 Pd Mr Trenchard for Two Pigs £1 8s 0d Pd ½ yrs Property Tax and Church Rates Ransom 2s
4^th November 1852	Valuing Girt Farm &c	Pd Mr C Wightman Poor Rates Cattistock 11s Pd ½ yrs tithe Cattistock £1 9s 0d
5^th November 1852	Making out Valuation of Girt Farm &c
6^th November 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd Mrs Wellman making flannel shirts 2s 8d
7^th November 1852	At Home
8^th November 1852	Valuing Cowcroft and Heaving bear [sic] Farms and Went to Coker afterwards to see my sheep &c		Cowcroft farm was at North Perrott . Presumably Hewing Bear was as well but cannot be found.
9^th November 1852	At Home on Various matters
10^th November 1852	Valuing Farmer Strongs Farm &c Bob Sartain & Family went to the Union
11^th November 1852	Making out Valuation of Heaving bear & Cowcroft Farms
12^th November 1852	Making out Valuation of Farmer Strongs Farm	Paid Mr Collins a Yrs Coal & Clothing Club due Xmas 1851 £1 10s Reced of Mr Collins for Lime
13^th November 1852	1 day of the Duke of Wellington lying in State at Chelsea Hospital the Crowd was so great that many were killed Working on the Valuations &c	£3 10s 0d Reced of J Nichollets Esq my Bill on Mr Philips for Valuing Railroad work Cattistock Sent P Office order to W&D Bank Pd Tom Frampton 8s
14^th November 1852	At Home
15^th November 1852	Went to Chelborough & Valued Mr C Jennings Farm Rented by Mr Wm Paul
16^th November 1852	At Home on Various matters Casting the above Farm &c
17^th November 1852	At Home on Various matters at Westwoods
18^th November 1852	Do. Do.	Pd the Dorchester Coal Company for #### £5 5s
19^th November 1852	Do. completing Valuations &c	Pd Robt Hoskins 9s 4d Pd Jas Hudson Esq a Yrs Subscription to Royal Agricultural Society £1 chk W&D
20^th November 1852	Ransom Court Holding Rampisham Court &c	Reced Holding Ransom Court £1 1s Pd the Boy Baker ——— [nil entered] Tom Frampton 8s
21^st November 1852	At Home
22^nd November 1852	Went to Woodsford to Value the Farm slept at the Antelope Dorchester
23^rd November 1852	Valuing Woodsford Farm and slept again at the Antelope
24^th November 1852	Returned Home Working on Valuations of Mr Johnsons Land at Ransom belonging to himself in the Evening	Pd Expenses at Dorchester £1 8s 6d Pd for Articles at Dorchester 10s Pd Mr Pouncey for Grapeloes [sic] £1
25^th November 1852	Working on the Valuation of Mr Johnsons Land	Pd for Pork 3s 8d
26^th November 1852	At Home on Various matters Doing something to the Woodsford
27^th November 1852	Making another Particulars of Mr J Daniells land	Pd the Boy Baker 5s 4d
28^th November 1852	At Home
29^th November 1852	At Home on Various matters Doing something to the Woodsford Valuation
30^th November 1852	At Home on Various matters Do.
	December
1^st December 1852	At Home on Various matters Farmer Thompson fetched a load of
2^nd December 1852	At Home on Various matters
3^rd December 1852	Do. working on Woodsford Valuation in the Evening
4^th December 1852	At Home on Various matters
5^th December 1852	At Home
6^th December 1852	At Home on Various matters finished the Woodsford Valuation	Paid Mr Kellaways Bread bill 11s 10d £30 19s Pd into W& Dorset by Messrs Merriman Received of Messrs Merriman of Marlbro one yrs interest due from Wilsons Estate at Bishopstone due 29^th September last £708 11s 6d at 4 ½ per cent The Prebendal Yardland Mr Webb has – mortgage for £90 Total of Mortgages £798 11s 6d
7^th December 1852	Went to Somerton to Value some Estates of Lord Ilchester
8^th December 1852	Valuing Farmer Waltons Farm at Somerton
9^th December 1852	Valuing Farmer Bartlett Farmer Tucker & Farmer Whites Farms at Compton Dundon
10^th December 1852	Valuing Farmer Edwards & Farmer Sams’s Farms at Somerton Knoll	Pd Expenses at Somerton for Self and Mr Snook Servants &c £3 5s 0d
11^th December 1852	Returned Home about ½ past 4	Pd Yeovil for articles 5s Pd The Boy Baker 4s Pd Tom Frampton 8s
12^th December 1852	At Home
13^th December 1852	At Home on Various matters
14^th December 1852	Went to Coker to see my Sheep &c
15^th December 1852	At Home on Various matters -Casting some of the Somerton Valuations &c	£5 Reced Check by Post of Mr Welsh of Wells being further on Acct of my Bill £38 7s 0d suppose I shall never get any more
16^th December 1852	At Home on Various matters	Pd Robert Pullmans Bill £10 1s 0d
17^th December 1852	Do. Do.	Pd for a sheeps crib 1s
18^th December 1852	Do.
19^th December 1852	At Home
20^th December 1852	At Home on Various matters Doing something to the Somerton Valuations in the Evening
21^st – 24^thDecember 1852	Do. Do.	Gave the Singers 4s Gave the Ringers 2s
24^th December 1852	Do. Do. [The Misses James Came]	Paid Mrs Arthur House £5 Pd mending Umbrella 8d Pd Mrs Jesty Bal Rent to Lady Day 1852 2s 6d
25^th December 1852	[Christmas Day] At Home	Pd for Pork 2s 6d Pd the Boy Baker 4s Do. Tom Frampton 8s Pd Groves Carpenter 13s 10d 3^rd January 1853 Pd Turnpike after Coal 2s
26^th December 1852	At Home
27^th December 1852	At Home on Various Matters	Pd J Squibb making Hedge at Westwoods 13s Pd Clipping George 10s
28^th – 29^th December 1852	Do. Do.
30^th December 1852	Do. Do. The Misses James’s left
31^st December 1852	At Home on Various matters Making out Somerton Valuations in the Evening	The Boy Baker 4s Tom Frampton 8s

	January	February	March
Monthly Abstract	Paid Tailor Chisletts Bill £3 7s 3d Do. Edwins Bill £6 15s 6d Pd 30 Hundred of Coals £1 15s Pd Mullens Baker £1 9s 2d Pd J Trenchard Poor Rates for January 1853 £2 4s 6d Pd J Trenchard Meat Bill £8 10s 0d Reced of Mr J Trenchard for Sheep & Lime £1 4s 4d	Pd Mr Nobbs Cattistock 2s Pd Lord Ilchester my rent due Ly Dy & Mic 1852 £28 18s 4d Pd Mr Wightman ½ yrs Poor Rates and Land Tax Cattistock land tax 13/6 P Tax 17/7 } £1 8s 1d Pd Miller Halletts Bill Ransom £3 10s 8d	Pd J Groves Thatcher £5 8s 3 ½ d Pd J Pounceys Bill £8 5s 9d John Groves Mason £5 4s ½ d Henry Conways Bill £1 15s 1d John Edwards Shoemaker £1 12s 4d James Roberts Blacksmith £5 5s 7 ½ d James Chubb Cooper £1 5s 7d Mr Edwards of Yeovil £3 2s Stephens Coal 2s

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