1854

Decorative front page of the 1854 diary.

DATE	DIARY ENTRIES	ACCOUNTS	Notes.
	January 1854
1^st January 1854	At Home
2^nd January 1854	At Home on Various matters
3^rd -7^th January 1854	Do. Do.	£3 8s 5d Reced of Mr Matthews my Bill for Valuing Yeovil Marsh Turnpike Paid Baker Hoskins 13s	Written vertically along the right border of the page is “Laid up in a Bad Cold and Cough”
8^th January 1854	At Home
9^th January 1854	At Home on Various matters
10^th – 11^th January 1854	Do. Do.	Pd Mullens B[read]^d17s 6 ½ d Pd ½ Yrs Land Tax Cattistock 13s 6d Do. Wayrates 2s10d Do. Two Collections Poor Rates 11s 4d
12^th January 1854	IN PENCIL Sent for 25 cwt Coals Yeovil Do. Went to Yeovil & made affidavit for Valuation of Longbredy and sent same to London	£11 13s Received a Yrs int of £300 on Beaminster Turnpike due 1^st Janry 1854} sent to W&Dorset Dorchester
13^th January 1854	At Home on Various matters	Expenses after Coal 2s [Mr Alger]Pd Mr Watts Solicitor 3s 6d Pd Mr Gamis for Cigars 16s Expenses at Yeovil 2s	The first evidence we have of Martin smoking albeit cigars.
14^th January 1854	Do. [Sent Mr Alger Bill receipted] Along the right hand edge of this weeks page he simply records ‘Bad Cold’.	£4 4s Reced of Mr Alger further Bill making Affidavit &c } Pd Mr Chick for Tile & Board 1s 4d Pd Mr Vine for work in 9a [Nine acres field] 9s Baker & Hoskins 13s Bob Sartain making Courtlands Hedge 8s 2d
15^th January 1854	At Home
16^th January 1854	Went to Coker to see Stock &c	£1 10s 3 ½ d Reced of Mr Reynolds 3£ he received of Wibby [sic] Pd him ½ Yrs Land Tax £1 10s 3 ¼
17^th January 1854	At Home on Various matters [Wet day]	£44 8s Reced ½ Yrs dividend Wilts & Dorset Bank due Xmas last £1480 pd up 6 per cent Pd Mr Wm Jennings for his 48 Shares £480 at 6% ½ yr £14s 8d Pd Mr Baskett see Bluntsmoor Papers
18^th January 1854	Annual Wilts & Dorset Meetg Salisbury At Home on Various matters	Pd ½ yrs Tithe [Coker] due 1^st Janry instant to Newman & Lyon £4 19s 9d Pd Miller Hallett £1 11s 11d Pd for a Pair of Spurs 10s 6d Paid Poor Rates & Mole Do. £1 14s 0d To be repaid Do. for Tompkins Lewcombe Woods 6s 9d
19^th January 1854	Went to Charmouth to Value Great Coombes Estate in the Parish of Whitechurch Canonicorum	Pd Expenses this Journey £1 12s Pd Bob Sartain for work 10s Baker & Hoskins 13s
20^th January 1854	Mr Wm Jennings died this morning ¼ to one o/k At Whitechurch Valuing		The shock of his death must have been considerable. Life long friends, relatives and colleague Martin must have felt his loss greatly.
21^st January 1854	Returned Home
22^nd January 1854	At Home
23^rd January 1854	Making out Valuations of Great Coombes Estate & sent same to Mr Alger [Red Cow Calved]	£2 5s Reced of Mr Cosens One of my Bills for Valuing Timber Pd for Letter Stamps & Carriage 4s 4d Pd Horne Robins & Co Tea £2 chk W&D Dorchester
24^th January 1854	At Home on Various matters	Pd Tom Cox for Carriage 2s Pd Mr Rooke ½ yrs Tithe Ransom 2s 3 ½ d Paid Poor Rates Ransom 1s Pd Arthur yrs Subscription to Sundays [sic] School £1 Pd Geo Mullens 1s 8d	Arthur and John were churchwardens together. We may presume that Arthur ran the Sunday school.
25^th January 1854	Sent for a Load of Hay Coker At Home & Went to Ransom Paying Bills &c my own	£11 Reced of Mr Alger another Bill for Valuing Great Coombe in Whitchurch Canonicorum Pd for Articles Yeovil &c 6s
26^th January 1854	Mr Wm Jennings was buried – Lord Ilchester attended the Funeral	In the original the entry is bounded by a black box	Given the social mores of the day it would have been unusual for an Earl to attend the funeral of a commoner. Jennings must have been well respected for him to have Do.ne so.
27^th January 1854	At Home on Various matters [Duchess Calved]	Pd Mr Geakes Bill Yeovil 13s Pd Bob Sartain 14s Wm Vine 2s 6d Baker & Hoskins 13s Sartains Boy 1s
28^th January 1854	Went to Yeovil with Edwin
29^th January 1854	At Home
30^th January 1854	At Home on Various matters	Pd Mr Crew Jennings for Hurdles Poles &c £1 7s Pd Coker Poor & Church Rates £1 18s 10 ¼ d
31^st January 1854	[Parliament met] Do. Do.	Paid ½ Yrs Income Tax £1 9s 2d Do. ½ Years Property Tx myself 8s 2d Ld Ilchester 14 4 ½ d Second Poor 2s 8d
	February
1^st February 1854	Do. Do.	Pd Church Rates Cattistock 1s 5d Paid Mrs Jesty Bal of Rent to Lady Day 1853 £2 7s 3 ¾ Pd Ransom Poor Rates 1s 8 ½ d
2^nd February 1854	Do. Do.	Bob Sartain for work 8s 4d Wm Vine Do. 7s 6d
3^rd February 1854	Yellow Cow Calved Do. Do.	Hoskins Baker 13s
4^th February 1854	At Home on Various matters
5^th February 1854	At Home	Paid Washing from 2^nd May £3 2s 4d
6^th February 1854	At Home on Various matters [Arthur went into Devonshire]	Pd Bob Sartain making Hedges in Three Cornered Ground & Pipers Hay sideling } over leaf
7^th February 1854	At Home on Various matters
8^th February 1854	Do. went to Ransom in afternoon	Mr A Young Mr Coker for Lime & Reed £3 1s 8d chk Yeovil Expenses after coal 2s 6d £1 12s 6d Reced of Farmer Brett for 30 Sacks of Lime Pd Vine for work 9s
9^th February 1854	IN PENCIL Sent for 25 hund Coals Yeovil At Home on Various matters	Bob Sartain Hedging 17s 2d Hoskins & the Boy 8s 6d Pd Trask on A/ for draining £2
10^th February 1854	Do. Do.
11^th February 1854	Went to Coker
12^th February 1854	At Home	Pd Cattistock C Rates 1s 5d
13^th February 1854	At Home Mr Wm Jennings Sale of Stock &c	Pd For things purchased at Mr Wm Jennings Sale £55 9s 6d Chk Dorchester Reced of Arthur part of the above £14 Chk Yeovil sent to W&D Yeovil
14^th February 1854	At Home on Various matters	Reced of Mrs Wm Jennings for a quarter of oats £1 4s Pd Expenses & things at Yeovil 2s 6d
15^th February 1854	Do.	Pd Mrs Kellaway B Bill £1 9s 0 ¼ d Pd Bob Sartain making Hedge in Piperhay 15s 7d Pd Vine on Account Hedging 10s Pd Hoskins & the Boy 8s 6d
16^th February 1854	Went to Yeovil
17^th February 1854	At Home made out Valuation of the late Mr Wm Jennings Land at Evershot to let [Lord Ilchester £1 1s 0d]
18^th February 1854	At Home – on Various matters
19^th February 1854	At Home
20^th February 1854	At Home on Various matters
21^st February 1854	Went down to Edwins	Pd Henry Conway Bill 3s 6d Pd Vine & Sartain Gardening 17s 4d Expenses after Coals 2s
22^nd February 1854	At Edwins – Edwin was Ill	Pd Mr Fields Bill for Edwin £30 17s Paid Joseph Groves for Straw 6s Expenses 10s Paid Mr Vine for thrashing &c 8s 10d Pd Hoskins & Boy 8s 6d Pd Tom Cox for Carriage of Harness 2s	This was a considerable bill and it is not clear what for. Edwin died the following year. Did his illness this year have anything to do with it? John had paid about half this bill to Mr Field two years earlier.
23^rd February 1854	Went to Pen & Valued Mogers & Clothiers Land – Waited on Lord Ilchester at Redlynch 3.3.0
24^th February 1854	Went to Milton by desire of Lord Ilchester respg a New Farm House for Phippen		This was Simeon Phippen of Milton Clevedon near Shepton Mallet , in 1851 he was 33 yr’s old farming 168 acres and employing 5 men. He was to die before the next census leaving his wife Lucy in charge.
25^th February 1854	Returned Home
26^th February 1854	At Home
27^th February 1854	Went to Ransom &c
28^th February 1854	Went to Ransom & paid Mr Rook Lord Auckland Tithe Rent Charge for woods 3.14.1
	March
1^st March 1854	At Home on Various matters	Gave Wm Perratt in Distress £5 Misses Jennings gave £5 Mrs Jesty Do. £5 Reced by me & paid Chk W & D for £15	This entry from March 1854 is very unusual as the amount that was given was quite considerable. The only William Perratt that I have found was a baptist minister [in 1851 living in Harlington Middlesex] who may have been his sister’s son [Mary Perratt]. This plus the religious connection may explain the generous Do.nation.
2^nd March 1854	Went to Coker & sold a Heifer calf to Farmer Jenkins	£13 17s 6d Sold a Heifer & Calf to Mr Jenkins of Ransom Pd Wm Vine For Hedging &c 16s 3d Hoskins & Boy 8s 6d
3^rd March 1854	Went to Ransom & marked some Beach [sic] to be cut – sold two Calves to Misses Trenchard £5
4^th March 1854	Attending to Gardening
5^th March 1854	At Home
6^th March 1854	At Home -attendg Men in Gardn one of Mr Pauls Heifers slipped Calf	Insurance Pd Mr Crew Jennings 5^th March 1854 J Martin himself Xmas 1852-1853 £4 10s 0d Do. 1854 £4 10s 0d Mrs Ann Martin & E J Martin Mid 1852 to 53 } 2 12 6 Do. 1854 }2 12 6 Edwin J Martin Xmas 1852 to 1853 } 1.6.3 Do. 1854 1.6.3 } } £16 17 6d Pd Calder & Son Spirits £5 6s 0d
7^th March 1854	Do. Do.	Pd Henry Conways Bill 3s 6d Pd Vine & Sartain Gardening 17s 4d Hoskins & Boy 8s 6d
8^th March 1854	Do. – and went to Ransom
9^th March 1854	Went to Yetminster & Valued Mrs Wm Jennings Estate there
10^th March 1854	Making out Valuation of the above & made Sketch of same £4 4 0d
11^th March 1854	Mrs Arthur & Little Man went to Torquay At Home on Various matters [Edwin & Fitzgerald came] sent for 25cwt coals
12^th March 1854	At Home
13^th March 1854	At Home Had Moved my Cider Back from Summer Lodge -[a Sheep died]
14^th March 1854	Elizabeth Dunford came as Servant Girl At Home on Various matters [Edwin and Fitz left]
15^th March 1854	Do. – went to Ransom
16^th March 1854	Do. Do. Arthur went Down to Summer Lodge
17^th March 1854	Attendg Gardening Planting Potatoes
18^th March 1854	Went to Ransom &c
19^th March 1854	At Home
20^th March 1854	At Home & went to Ransom &c	Paid Mr Fox of Frampton for Four Sheep Troughs £1 12s Pd for a Bushel of Potatoes 5s 3d after the Rate of a Guinea a Sack Paid Bollen & Bird for Wine £2 16s
21^st March 1854	Do. Do.	Pd for a Do.z Sacks £1 6s Pd for things & Expenses at Yeovil 6s
22^nd March 1854	Went to Coker [another Heifer Calved]	Pd Trask further draining £2
23^rd March 1854	At Home – Poor Mr Crew Jennings Shot himself with a Pistol in the Shrubbery	The Rascal 15 Cheated me out of it Sold Russell Heifer Calf IN PENCIL not paid Pd Evershot way rates 8s 9d Do. for Tompkins Poor Plot at Lewcombe woods 5d } To be repaid
24^th March 1854	At Home on Various matters [Edwin & Fitz came]	Pd John Squibb Plashing Garden Hedge 8s 4d Pd making Hedge in the Land 11s8d Wm Sartain for work 9s Hoskins & Boy 8s 6d
25^th March 1854	At Home on Various matters
26^th March 1854	At Home
27^th March	At Home on Various matters
28^th March 1854	At Home – Mr Crew Jennings was Buried at Evershot -Killed a Pig	Paid for Two Pigs £3 11s 0d
29^th March 1854	At Home on Various matters -Went to Ransom
30^th March 1854	At Home on Various matters [Edwin left] Captain Digby had a severe accident [out Hunting]	Gave Bob Sartain makg Cow Crib 1s Pd Want [sic] catcher at Westwoods 4 s 2d
31^st March 1854	At Home on Various matters – Dined at Arthurs with Fitz [Fitz went to Torquay with Arthur]	Pd Mr Samways Carting a Load of Hay from Coker £1 Pd Woman Ground dressing &c 10s 8d
	April
1^st April 1854	At Home attendg Hauling Dung into 9 acres
2^nd April 1854	At Home
3^rd April 1854	Attendg Hauling Dung into Nine Acres &c	Paid Mr Fox of Frampton for Four Sheep Troughs £1 12s Pd for a Bushel of Potatoes 5s 3d after the Rate of a Guinea a Sack
4^th -6^th April 1854	Do. Do.	Paid Bollen & Bird for wine £2 16s
7^th April 1854	Went to Yeovil Market sold Mr Russell a Heifer and Calf	Pd for a doz Sacks £1 6s Pd for things & Expenses at Yeovil 6s
8^th April 1854	At Melbury all the morng with Arthur and Lord Ilchester looking over Office papers looking to work people in afternoon	The Rascal 15 Cheated me out Sold Russell Heifer & Calf NOT PAID Pd Men Hauling dung &c for Mangle £1 10s Pd Hoskins 7s John Squibb on a/ for Hedging in Yarnbarton 5s	He was repaid his £15 in early April but forgiveness if it ever came was not in evidence.
9^th April 1854	At Home
10^th April 1854	At Home on Various matters
11^th April 1854	Do. Do. at Melbury with Arthur examining Papers with Lord Ilchester Purchased Manure of John Christopher £3	Pd Ransom Way Rates5 ½ d Women for work —– nothing entered
12^th April 1854	Went to Bluntsmoor & settled ½ yrs Rent with Farmer Thompson	£39 9s Received of Farmer Thompson Bal ½ yrs Rent due Michas 1853 Expenses 1s 6d Pd Women ground dressing 4s Paid Taylor Chisletts Bill in full of all demand 10s 3d Pd Mr Robert Bartlett ½ yrs Property Tax for West Coker 11s 7d Pd Mr Richd Gifford Way Rate for West Coker 11s 7d Pd John Christopher for Dung £3 Pd Goldring draining 3s 5d
13^th April 1854	At Home on Various matters Bought Rick of Hay late Mr Wm Jennings 22.10.0 Farmer Thompson takes ½	Expenses after Coals 2s 6d Pd Labourers including Hoskins and the Boy £1 7s 10d
14^th April 1854	At Home Good Friday
15^th April 1854	Sent for 25 Hundred of Coal & 2 Hund Salt At Home &c went to Ransom
16^th April 1854	At Home
17^th April 1854	At Home on Various matters
18^th April 1854	Attending Lord Auckland at Rampisham all the day	Pd Mr George for Apples 10s 6d Pd Mrs Jesty for Giles’s working in my Garden £3
19^th April 1854	Attendg Lord Auckland at Melbury & went to Coker in the Afternoon to see the Thrashing of my Wheat [slept at Broadstow]	Pd a yrs Tithe for Westwoods £2 17s 4d Pd Sandiford for Apple Trees & Grafting &c £4 19s 6d Expenses 1s 6d Pd Women Mangling 7s 8d Pd ½ Yrs Land Tax Coker £1 10s 3d Pd Trask Bal of Bill for draining [Coker]£1 7s 5 ¾ d
20^th April 1854	Attending my Lord Auckland at Melbury and at Home on Various matters [Red Cow Turned] [sic]	Pd at Yeovil for Articles 4s Pd Groves Carpenter 2s 4d Hoskins and Boy 8s 6d
21^st April 1854	Attendg Lord Auckland at Melbury in Morning ½ past 8 – And at Home on Various matters
22^nd April 1854	Went to Yeovil & thence to Coker when found my Wheat finished thrashing -The Heifer there had Calved	Pd Vine a Week at Coker Thrashing 10s Hoskins and Boy 8s 6d
23^rd April 1854	IN PENCIL Dutchess Turned At Home
24^th April 1854	At Home on Various matters [Marking my Sheep]	Paid ½ Yrs Tithe Evershot £1 18s 6d [
25^th April 1854	Do. Do.	Pd Poor Rates Coker £1 14s 4 ½ d [Pd Mr J Wadman this…] Paid for a Cheese & other articles and expenses at Yeovil £1 11 6 ½ d
26^th April 1854	At Home – A Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer for the success of Armies & Fleets in the War with Russia
27^th April 1854	Attendg at Westwoods men at work	Paid Letter stamps 2s 6d £14 Reced for Heifer & Calf Yeovil Market
28^th April 1854	Went to Yeovil Market & sold Heifer & Calf at £14 and 37 Sacks of Wheat to Mr Patch of Bow mills at 10s a Bushel		Bow Mills was at Merriott in Somerset.
29^th April 1854	Attending work people at Westwoods &c	Paid J Squibb for work 5s Pd Two Men Hacking 15s 6d Pd Wm Vine a Week 9s Pd Hoskins & Boy 8s 6d Pd Mrs Wellman 7s 10d Pd ½ yrs Land Tax Cattistock 13s 6d Pd ½ yrs Property Tax A 5s 5d B 2s 11d } 8s 4d 15s Reced of John Fielder by Arthur a Yrs int due 1^st January 1854
30^th April 1854	At Home	Pd ½ yrs Land Tax at Ransom 9d
	May
1^st May 1854	At Home attending work people in Garden	Do. Property Tax 1s 8 ½ d Pd ½ Yrs Land tax Evershot 2s 7d Do. Assessed Taxes £4 17s 9d
2^nd May 1854	Visitation at Sherborne 10 O Clock Went to Visitation with Arthur in his Carriage	Pd Procuration money for the Year 1854 11s 5 ½ d Pd Mr Penny Stationer Sherborne 9s
3^rd May 1854	Went to Ransom before dinner looking to work people after	£73 15s Reced of Mr Patch for Sacks 37 of Wheat Coker Pd Poor Rates Ransom 1s 7d
4^th May 1854	Went to Ransom in the forenoon & preparing Lines for setting Mangle in Afternoon
5^th May 1854	At Home Went to Ransom and attendg Planting Mangle in Garden
6^th May 1854	[Mrs Fountain came as Servant] Planting Mangle in Nine Acres and settled Rent with Mr Bengefield	£5 16s 7d Received of Mr Bengefield Bal of Rent to Mic 1853 £15 Do. on Acct of ½ Yrs Rent to Lady Day 1854 Pd All labourers this week £1 5s	This is Ann Fountain [58 yr’s] wife of an agricultural labourer John Fountain who is mentioned in the 1845 diary.
7^th May 1854	At Home	£27 4 11 ½ d Reced Mr Hines Rent of his Land at F Vauchurch
8^th May 1854	Attendg Nine Acres Planting Mangle ½ day rain came on	Pd Farmer Dunford for Hay £6 Pd Mr Kellaways Bread Bill £1 9d 3 ¾ d Pd Miller Halletts Bill 11s 6d Pd Poor Rates Cattistock 2s 10d Pd Tom Cox’s Bill 6s 4d
9^th May 1854	Do. Finished Planting Mangle	Pd Horne Robins & Co 2 Bucklesbury for 15 lb of Tea 5 of which Mrs Jesty [18/4d] } £2 15s Chk May 17 Dorchester
10^th May 1854	The Yeomanry assembled in the Park Attending work people &c [sent 21 Sheep to Coker]
11^th May 1854	Attending work people & Went to Ransom
12^th May 1854	Evershot Fair Mr Jas Rawlins Mr Henry Dunning & Arthur dined with me
13^th May 1854 Old May Day	At Home on Various matters [Edwin came]
14^th May 1854	At Home	Pd Edwin for my new Harness sold to Mrs Wm Jennings £9
15^th May 1854	Attendg work People in Nine Acres [Went to Woolcombe Rook Shooting]	Pd Evershot Poor Rates 2s 9d Lewcombe Woods Poor Ground Rates 2s 5 ¾ d Pd Farmer Dunford for a Suck Calf 15s
16^th May 1854	Attendg work People in Nine Acres [and went to Ransom]
17^th May 1854	Went to Coker & settle with Mr Reynolds for work &c	Pd Mr Reynolds for work &c £6 IN PENCIL que [sic] 6d Land Tax twice £1 10s 3 ¼ d see papers in this book. Pd Mr Hine his Rent of Frome Vauchurch Land when I gave up the business to Mr Hine £27 4s 11 ½ d	It is not know what he means when he uses the word que. It does appear in pencil elsewhere in the diaries.
18^th May 1854	Board Day Went to Toller Down Fair Rain Came	Pd Labourers- Women and Hoskins and Boy Ploughing in 9 acres & Picking Couch £1 10s	Couch grass is an invasive form of grass. If this were 9 acres in Evershot [and we cannot be sure where the field was] it was pasture in 1838 and if it was now ploughed this may be the reason for picking the couch out of it.
19^th May 1854	The Yeomanry went on Permanent Duty Sherborne [Fetched Hay from Ransom] Bought of Farmer Dunford At Home on Various matters Attendg in Nine Acres with People Couching &c
20^th May 1854	Do. Do. & went to Ransom
21^st May 1854	At Home
22^nd May 1854	Went down to Edwins at the Opening of Shepton Church
23^rd May 1854	At Shepton when the Newly repaired Church was opened [our Singers attended]	Gave Subscription to Shepton Church £5 Pd Expenses 10s Pd John Peach for Cheese 7s
24^th May 1854	Returned Home
25^th May 1854	At Home on Various matters
26^th May 1854	Do. & went to Rampisham	1s 10 ½ d Received of Farmer Brett for 1 ½ Sacks of Lime
27^th May 1854	At Home on Various matters
28^th May 1854	At Home [an Accident with my best Cow obliged to have it killed]	Pd Vine Hoskins & Boy 17s Pd Sawyers Westwoods £1
29^th May 1854	At Home on Various matters
30^th May 1854	Do. & went to Ransom taking Down old Buildings
31^st May 1854	Do. Do. had my Cow killed	Pd Cow Doctor 2s 6d Pd Cleaning Table Cover 2s	An interesting term for what was essentially a slaughter man.
	June
1^st June 1854	[Board Day] At Home on Various matters went to Ransom	Pd Sawns Westwoods Balance of their Bill 19s 4d Pd Vine Hoskins & Boy 17s 6d
2^nd June 1854	Do. Do.
3^rd June 1854	Do. Do.
4^th June 1854	At Home	IN PENCIL 1-0-2 Do.z Bottles Hamper & JarMr Hine
5^th June 1854	At Home on Various matters – Went to Ransom -My Sheep were washed	Pd Mr Collins Coal and Clothing Club £1 Pd Mr Hine for Rum £1 15s 9d
6^th June 1854	Evershot Club Dined at the Acorn & went to Ransom respecting Hanburys distress	Pd Expenses at Club and subscription £1
7^th June 1854	At Ransom & Finished Hanburys distress [Sale to take place Tuesday next]
8^th June 1854	At Home on Various matters went to Ransom
9^th June 1854	Do. Do.
10^th June 1854	At Home had my sheep sheared [103]
11^th June 1854	At Home
12^th June 1854	Rain Came Working on the County Rate business Evershot being over Charged
13^th June 1854	At Home & went to Ransom [Hanburys Sale]
14^th June 1854	At Home & went to Ransom &c
15^th June 1854	Board Day At Home on Various matters went to Ransom
16^th June 1854	Went to Dorchester respecting County Rate Evershot Parish being increased in New Rate £535 – The Committee struck it off
17^th June 1854	At Home & went to Ransom & Holywell
18^th June 1854	At Home
19^th June 1854	At Home & went to Ransom & Holywell Had 2 acres of Swedes drilled in 9 acres
20^th June 1854	At Home & went to Holywell Stock Sale Mr C Jestys [Went to Ransom in the Morng]
21^st June 1854	At Home & went to Holywell to pay for what I purchased and to Ransom Finished the Turnip sowing
22^nd June 1854	Went to Ransom measuring Coppice &c
23^rd June 1854	At Home on Various matters & went to Ransom
24^th June 1854	Do. Do.
25^th June 1854	At Home
26^th June 1854	Receiving Rents at Rampisham	£50 Received a Yrs Salary from Rampisham
27^th June 1854	At Home & went to Ransom	Pd at Custards for a C Book 2s 9d Paid Expenses at Yeovil 3s 6d
28^th June 1854	Went to Yeovil Fair & Pd into Wilts & Dorset £450 to be forwarded to Messrs Drummond for Lord Auckland
29^th June 1854	Board Day At Home & went to Ransom &c [Wet Day]
30^th June 1854	At Home on Various matters & went to Ransom
	July
1^st July 1854	Do. Do.	Pd Labourers 17s 6d
2^nd July 1854	At Home
3^rd July 1854	At Home on Various matters { Wet Weather no Hay about Yet
4^th July 1854	At Home on Various matters settled the rent &c with Mr Baskett	£24 9s 10d and Check to Yeovil D&W this day Reced of Mr Baskett Balance of Accts for monies at Somerton &c see Paper with my Bluntsmoor Accts &c
5^th July 1854 Old Midsummer Day	At Home on Various matters & went to Ransom	Pd ½ yrs Tithe Ransom due Ly Dy 1854 2s 3 ¼ Pd Mr John Dunham of Bridport for a Turnip cutter £5 10s Chk W&D Dorchester	Dunham John, plumber, brazier, tinplate worker, furnishing & general ironmongery, East street, Bridport
6^th July 1854	Attending People about the Mangle in Nine Acres & went to Ransom	Pd Pullmans Bill £1 12s £5 Received of Mr Trenchard for Two Calves Pd him his Bill for Beans £15 13s 9d
7^th July 1854	At Home on Various matters Mangling &c	Pd Labourers & women mangling £1 8s
8^th July 1854	Do. Do.
9^th July 1854	At Home
10^th July 1854	Began Mowing in Yarn barton At Home on Various matters -attending Mangling & went to Ransom
11^th July 1854	Attendg Manglers in Nine Acres &c and Went to Ransom
12^th July 1854	At Home & went to Ransom Manglers worked till ¼ to Eleven when rain came on
13^th July 1854	Board Day Attendg Haymaking in Yarn Barton & Poor Close
14^th July 1854	Do. & went to Ransom [Rain came on]
15^th July 1854	Attendg in Nine Acres – Mangling &c
16^th July 1854	At Home The Revd Mr Ramsay [Preached for Mr Collins] Vicar of Crewkerne a Fine Preacher
17^th July 1854	At Home on Various matters working Book for Ransom Accounts & went to Ransom in Afternoon	£4 4s 0d Reced of Mr Baskett for Valuing Mr Willm Jennings Estate at Yetminster £15 10s Received of Mr Baskett my Bill for Valuing Estate in Wiltshire at West Kington the Property of Mr Dowding who was about to Borrow£13000 of Mr Wm Jennings but he died
18^th July 1854	Attending Haymaking	Pd Poor Rates Ransom 5s 6d
19^th July 1854	At Home on Various matters Rain in the Morning no Haymaking	Reced ½ yrs dividend Wilts & Dorset Bank due Midsummer 1854 £44 8s Pd Mr Baskett Mr Wm Jennings 48 shares £14 8s From Midsummer the whole interest on the 148 shares will be wholly mine as I have taken up the 48 shares in part of legacy £528	It is not known why he left the lower part of the entry after deleting the first part.
20^th July 1854	Haymaking Rick’d Poor Close & Yarn barton	Paid Mr Vine mowing &c £1 919s 8d Pd Labourers and Women Mangling £2 8s 6d
21^st July 1854	Haymaking Rick’d Courtlands	21^st July 1854 £1000 Received of the Executors of my dear Friend the late Mr William Jennings legacy left me by him } Paid the Executors for 48 Shares which I held of Mr Wm Jennings in the Wilts& Dorset Bank now £11 a share become my own property } £528 1000 Legacy 528 deduct shares £472 28^th {Pd this into W&D – Yeovil by check from Mrs Wm Jennings
22^nd July 1854	Haymaking in Pipershay	Pd Men helping Ricking Tipping Ricks &c 10s
23^rd July 1854	At Home	Pd Tailor Chisletts Bill £1 3s 6d Pd Evershot Poor Rates £2 12s 6d
24^th July 1854	Haymaking Ricked Pipershay and made it very well	Pd ½ yrs Tithe Rent Charge [Coker] £4 19s 2d Pd Mr Edwards Bill Yeovil £9 16s 10d
25^th July 1854	Attending Tipping Rick’s &c a very Hot Day	Pd Mrs Reynolds on Acct of Haymaking [Coker] £5 Pd for Articles at Yeovil & Expenses 10s Pd Labourers & Women Mangling £2 14s 6d
26^th July 1854	Attending Tipping Pipers Rick &c and Mangling
27^th July 1854	Board day Attending Mangling &c & went to Ransom
28^th July 1854	Went to Yeovil and paid into the Wilts & Dorset Bank £472
29^th July 1854	At Home & attending to Mangling &c Edwin & Geo Martin & Wife came
30^th July	At Home
31^st July 1854	At Home on Various matters rain came Edwin & Geo Martin Left	Paid ½ yrs Property Tax Cattistock 8s 4d
	August
1^st August 1854	At Home on Various matters Went to Ransom and sold my Wool to Mr Hine at 1s per lb Mrs Wm Jennings went to Weston Super Mare	£9 Received of Mrs William Jennings for my New Harness } Chk W&Dorset of Yeovil 9.0.0 And for 2 pigs 3.4.0 at Mr C Jestys Check W & D Yeovil 12.4.0
2^nd August 1854	Attending workpeople in Nine Acres Tom Hows Stallion broke into my Field with my Mare	Paid for deals for Barn £1 18s 11 ½ d Pd Mr Caves Malt Bill £8 13s
3^rd August 1854	At Home attending workpeople in Nine Acres
4^th -5^th August 1854	Do. Do.
6^th August 1854	IN PENCIL Sheep to be Color’d this week At Home
7^th August 1854	Attendg work People Marking Sheep &c
8^th August 1854	Went to Holywell & Measured Railway Land for Mr Chas Jesty [dined there].
9^th August 1854	At Home on Various matters & went to Ransom
10^th August 1854	Board Day Plotting Chas Jesty’s Railway land &c preparing Fold for Coloring sheep [sic]
11^th August 1854	At Home on Various matters & Went to Ransom
12^th August 1854	At Home on Various matters sent for Sheep from Coker to be Coloured
13^th August 1854	At Home	Pd Hitchcock dipping and Coloring my Sheep 11s Pd after coloring my Sheep 8s
14^th August 1854	Attending Colouring & dipping of my Sheep [223]
15^th August 1854	At Home on Various matters & went to Ransom Two of my Sheep died tonight I blame the dipping	Pd Hoskins going after Coal 2s 6d Pd for Letter Stamps 2s Pd Sherborne Journal from June 30 1853 -1854 £1 2s Pd Expenses 5s
16^th August 1854	At Home on Various matters sent 100 sheep back to Coker
17^th August 1854	Sale at East Coker Elm Board At Home on Various matters sent for a Load of Coals	Pd Labourers 18s
18^th August 1854	Went to Yeovil & ordered Paper for House & a Carpet for the Great Parlour &c
19^th August 1854	Attending Workpeople in 9a & went to Ransom
20^th August 1854	At Home	Pd T Cox for Carriage 4s 8d
21^st August 1854	At Home on Various matters & went to Ransom	Pd Poor Rates [Coker £1 14s 6d]
22^nd August 1854	Went to Holywell & Measured Land taken by Railway of Mr Jesty as SpoilBank	Pd Hoskins & Vine 16s
23^th August 1854	At Home working on Holywell Land for Mr C Jesty &c
24^th August 1854	Board Day At Home on Various matters
25^th August 1854	Attendg at Holywell with Mr Bratton respg Mr Jesty’s Claim for Land & dined H Well with Messrs Hills Richardson & Co
26^th August 1854	At Home on Various matters
27^th August 1854	At Home
28^th August 1854	Went to Coker & Settled with Mr Reynolds	Pd Mr Reynolds Balance of Bill for Haymaking £2 19s 6d
29^th August 1854	At Home on Various matters
30^th August 1854	At Home on Various matters went to Ransom sold 7 Sheep to Mr Trenchard at 35s each and Tegg Flat Heifers at £17 each = £46 5s[all paid see 11^th Oct]
31^st August 1854	At Home on Various matters – sent to Coker after Sheep & Wool
	September
1^st September 1854	Attending Trimming my Sheep for the Fair	Paid Trimming Sheep 10s Pd Vine & Hoskins 16s J Groves 3s
2^nd September 1854	Do. Do.
3^rd September 1854	At Home
4^th September 1854	Marked my Sheep &c
5^th September 1854	Went to Holywell respg Mr Jestys Railroad Land Dined at Arthurs with Mr Ingram
6^th September 1854	At Home & Went to Woolcombe & Purchased of Mr Arthur Dibble 100 Lambs at 22s each
7^th September 1854	Toller Down Fair Board Day Went to Toller Down Fair but did not sell my Sheep – Dined at Arthurs with Mr James
8^th September 1854	Went to Holywell to Find out mistake in Measuring Railroad Land Mr Jesty and making New Plan
9^th September 1854	Went to Holywell & finally Settled the measure of Mr C Jesty’s Railroad Land with Mr Grubber [?]
10^th September 1854	At Home	Pd J Groves Carpenter 3s
11^th September 1854	Working upon the Ransom Accts
12^th September 1854	Went to Hardington & Valued Farmer Guppys Farm
13^th September 1854	At Home on Various matters [went to Ransom]
14^th September 1854	[One of my Lambs died stung by some reptile] Attending at Holywell when settled with Mr Bratton Mr C Jesty’s demand for 5yrs Rent of Land occupied by R Road Company £110 18s 0d
15^th September 1854	At Home had my 100 Lambs dipt [sic] at Woolcombe bot. of Mr Dibble in fact only [99] one of them died	Pd for Fowls 2s 3d Pd Mr Dibble for 100 Lambs £110
16^th September 1854	At Home on Various matters – went to Rampisham	Pd Hoskins & Vine 16s Pd Farmer Peach for a pig £1 10s 0d
17^th September 1854	At Home	IN PENCIL I.o Messrs Calder 3 Jars and Basketts Paid Calder & Son £6 7s £36 4s 0d Reced of Mr Hine for Wool 1s/lb Paid Elizabeth Dunford ½ yrs wages due 12^th Sept inst £1 15s 0d
18^th September 1854	At Home made out Valuation of Farmer Guppy Farm Hardington and [Mr Hine Packed my Wool]	IN PENCIL My Two Wool Cloths No 10 & 11 to be returned by Mr Hine Pd Farmer Peach for a Pig £1 10s 0d Paid Miller Hodges Bill 11s 8d
19^th September 1854	At Home on Various matters [Mr Trenchard died]	£3 3s Reced of the Revd. Mr Sanctuary [sic] by Mr Russell my Bill for work at North Poorton Pd Labourers £1 6s 0d
20^th September 1854	IN PENCIL The New Church at Crewkerne Consecrated At Home on Various matters Went to Ransom
21^st September 1854	Board Day Attendg in Nine Acres people picking Couch &c
22^nd September 1854	Do. Do. went to Ransom
23^rd September 1854	Do. Do. Do.	Paid Labourers £1 8s 8d
24^th September 1854	At Home
25^th September 1854	Attending in Nine Acres -Labourers Burning Couch &c	Pd Women 1s 6d Paid Expenses 2s
26^th September 1854	Went to Coker to see my Sheep
27^th September 1854	At Home on Various matters – went to Ransom [Edwin came]
28^th September 1854	Attending Stafford Fair sold 80 Wethers to a Mr John Brake at £132 33s/ each a very bad Fair – Edwin went Shooting at ### Mr Patten slept here	£132 sent Check to Yeovil this day Messrs Wm Footmen and Son Romsey Bankers Received of Mr J Brake for 80 Wethers } Pd for Pen & other Expenses luck &c £1 1s 0d
29^th September 1854	At Home on Various matters went to Ransom Edwin went Shooting at Westwood & Wm Patten with him	Paid Labourers £1 8s 8d
30^th September 1854	At Home on Various matters went to Ransom Edwin & Wm Patten left
	October
1^st October 1854	At Home Thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest	Gave at Church 2s 6d Pd Mr Kellaways B Bill £1 0 9 ¼ d
2^nd October 1854	At Home colouring Lord Aucklands Ransom Plan for him -sent for a Load of Straw to Coker	£3 10s Reced of Maria Ellis a yrs int on £70 due 23^rd Sept last £2 5s 6d Do. for 30 sacks of Lime & a Calf Pd her for Ploughing Land £4 19s
3^rd October 1854	At Home & went to Ransom	Gave the Ringers for the Sebastopol [sic] Victory 2s 6d Pd Miller Williams Mullens Bread Bill 18s 6 ¾ d Pd for Umbrella a Box of Cigars & other Articles £1 12s Pd Mr England for a Halter 2s Pd Sarah Barrett washing £1 19s 11d
4^th October 1854		Paid Peter Davies for Oats £1 4s Paid Vine & Hoskins 14s 6d
5^th October 1854	Board day Attending work People &c
6^th October 1854	Went to Yeovil and purchased Six Bushels of Vetches at 12s per B of Mr Chard of Haselbury
7^th October 1854	At Home on Various matters went to Ransom
8^th October 1854	At Home	Gave Vine going to Yeovil after Vetches & Deals 2s
9^th October 1854	Atteng at Westwoods getting home Hurdles & Packing away ### &c [Lord Auckland came to Melbury]

10^th October 1854	Attending at Ransom with Lord Auckland all the day [Edwin came & Wm Pattern]	£46 5s Reced of Mr Trenchard for Two heifers and Seven Sheep Pd Bill for Meat £3 10 7 ½ d Pd Mr Trenchard for Poor Rates for Poor Ground at Lewcombe woods 13s 3 ½ d
11^th October 1854	IN PENCIL sold Mr Trenchard 3 sheep for £2 10s this day At Home on Various had Vetches sowed [Edwin went Shooting at Chelborough]
12^th October 1854	At Home on Various matters [went to Melbury to see Lord Auckland]
13^th October 1854	At Home on Various matters [Edwin & Wm Patten left]	£2 2s 0d Reced of Mr Farwell my Bill of the Duke of Cleveland	This is the last reference to Edwin in the diaries.
14^th October 1854	At Home on Various matters Men pulling off Roof of Barn &c	Pd Vine & Hoskins 16s Pd Goldring Watching Turnips 2s
15^th October 1854	At Home Mrs Arthur confined with a Daughter
16^th October 1854	Attending at Westwoods Men repairing the Barn & went to Ransom [The last Tea lasted 22 weeks] 10 Pounds	Paid Mr Henning ½ yrs Tithe Cattistock due 16^th instant £1 8s 8d Sent Robines Horne & Co for Two Pounds worth of Tea £2 Chk W & D Dorchester
17^th October 1854	Attending at Westwoods about Barn &c
18^th October 1854	Went Yeovil Had a Load of Coals 27 ¾ cwt at 18 ½
19^th October	IN PENCIL B Day At Home on Various matters and went to Higher Holway &c
20^th October 1854	At Home on Various matters went to Ransom Cash’d Check for Mr Jenkins
22^nd October 1854	At Home	Paid ½ yrs Tithe Evershot £1 18s 0d 11s 5 ½ d Reced of Mr Hoskins what I paid Procuration money Pd Mr Richd Hill for repairing Carriage £15 Pd Mr Chas Dowding for New Carriage Harness £8 Pd Mr Thomas Read Coker Poor Rates £1 14s 4d Pd Mr James Chard for Six Bushels of Vetches £3 12s 0d Pd Lords Rent 3s 6d Paid Expenses at Court 8s £2 2s Reced of Mr Weston for Valuing Railway at Cattistock Paid Mr Tucker of Frampton for Carriage of my Wool 6s Gave Man going after Slates 2s 6d £4 10s Reced of Mr Webb 1 yrs int on £90 due 19^th September last Pd Vine & Hoskins 16s
23^rd October 1854	Making Tracing of Allington Wilts for Valuation		He was at Allington in 1838 as well surveying the Earl of Ilchester’s land.
24^th October 1854	Evershot Court Attending Evershot Court as Foreman of the Jury dined at the Acorn		The annual Court Leet.
25^th October 1854	At Home Wet day Preparing Allington Sketch &c
26^th October 1854	At Home on Various matters
27^th October 1854	Do. and went to Ransom
28^th October 1854	Sent for 600 Slates Yeovil At Home on Various matters
29^th October 1854	At Home	Along the left vertical edge of the page for this week is “Troubled with the Rheumatick”
30^th October 1854	Went to Allington to Value Lord Ilchesters Property Slept at Devizes		Another visit to Allington at Allcannings in Wiltshire.
31^st October 1854	Arrived at Allington and Proceeded in the Valuation
	November
1^st November 1854	At Allington Valuing
2^nd November 1854	Do. -and making out Particulars
3^rd November 1854	Returned Home Five Days £10 10s 0d Expenses £3 17 0d 14. 7 .0	Pd Expenses to Allington and Back £3 17s Pd for Gloves &c 9s Pd Evershot Ass[essed] Taxes ½ yr £2 14 10d Pd J Groves & Geo Barrett repairing Westwoods Barn on a/ £5
4^th November 1854	At Home went to Ransom in the afternoon	Pd ½ yrs Land Tax Ransom 9d Pd Vine & Hoskins 19s Pd David Lovelace damages by my Sheep May 18^th 1853 £1
5^th November 1854	At Home
6^th November 1854	At Home on Various matters writing Ransom Fair Accts in the Evening
7^th November 1854	Do. Do.
8^th November 1854	Do. Do.
9^th November 1854	At Home on Various matters went to Ransom
10^th November 1854	At Home attending taking up Mangle
11^th November 1854	Do. Do.
12^th November 1854	At Home
13^th November 1854	At Home on Various matters Rain Came attendg taking up Sweed’s [sic]	Pd Mr Custard for Two Fair Acct Books Ransom and 6 sheets of Tracing Paper 10s Paid for 27 ¾ Coals 18 ½ £2 2s
14^th – 18^th November 1854	Do. Do.	Gave men at Westwoods 1s 2d £35 13s 5d Reced of Farmer Thompson Rent due Ly Dy 54
19^th November 1854	At Home	Pd Mr Baskett one Yrs insurance Edwins House Shepton from Mid 1854 to 55 £2 12s 6d Do. Mowries Somerton Lady Day 1854 to Do. 1855 £2 14s 0d
20^th November 1854	Attending taking up Swedes &c	£106 1s 3d Reced Check of Arthur for Mowries Somerton due Mic 1853 & Ly Dy 1854 } Pd Mrs Jesty her moiety of Walton rent £50 10s 7 ½ d Paid women Swedes & Mangles 17s 8d Do. Do. 4s Paid Thomas Cox 5s
21^st November 1854	Do. & went to Ransom	£9 10s 0d Received of Cox of Somerton for Mowries Cary Mead Pd Mrs Jesty her moiety £4 15s
22^nd – 23^rd November 1854	Do. Do.	Pd for Besoms 3s Pd Labourers 19s
24^th November 1854	At Home all the day unwell Drank Tea at Mr Basketts C Jesty W Henning
26^th November 1854	At Home sent my Fair Accts and disbursements to Lord Auckland Postage 2/8d	Pd for Fowls 2s Gave my Sister Martha £5 Letter stamps 2s 6d
27^th November 1854	At Home Bad in Rheumatick		This was written Down side of page for the whole week.
28^th -30^th November 1854	Do.	Pd Mr Kellaways Bill £1 0s 6 ¾ d Pd for 25 Hund of Coal £1 19s 7d
	December
1^st December 1854	Do.	Pd Labourers Mangling &c £1 15s 4s Received for a Sheep
2^nd December 1854	Do.
3^rd December 1854	At Home Moores and Butlers £708 11s 6d	Bishopstone £15 9s 6d} received of Messrs Merriman a ½ yrs interest on £708.11s 6d due 29^th Sept 54 £13 11s 10d} Do. of J R Ward ½ Yrs interest on £641 11s 6d due Do.} IN PENCIL £67}½ yrs int due from Mr Hubbard and to Mic 1854 £1 13s 6d [Paid in 1855] Book
4^th December 1854	At Home in Rheumatik	Paid J Groves Balance of Bill Westoods £5 Paid Mr Hine for Rum £1 18s
5th-6th December 1854	Do. Do.	Pd Yrs Rent Ld Ilchester for land in 9a due Mic 1854 3.1.25 @ 40 }£6 16s 3d Pd Labourers 16s
7^th December 1854	Do. went to Ransom
8^th December 1854	At Home in Rheumatik
9^th December 1854	Do. Do.
10^th December 1854	At Home	Pd Mr Trenchard for Lemons 2s
11^th December 1854	At Home in Rheumatick
12^th December 1854	Do.
13^th December 1854	Do. – went to Ransom
14^th December 1854	At Home
15^th December 1854	Do. Went to Ransom
16^th December 1854	Do.
17^th December 1854	At Home	Pd Property Tax Ransom 3s 5d Pd Farmer Peach for Wheat £5 14s 3d
18^th December 1854	At Home & Went to Ransom
19^th December 1854	Receiving Rents at Ransom	Pd ½ Yrs Rent for Lord Aucklands land Ransom £2 Pd Property Tax Ransom due Mic 1854 3s 5d
20^th December 1854	Making up Ransom Rents &c	£15 Received of Mr Bengefield on further acct to Mic 1854 [£2 9s 7d] still due }
21^st December 1854	At Home on Various matters	Gave Eliza Perratt ### Clark going to Australia £5 Gave Old Women 2s Pd Labourers 18s 4d	This is possibly another of John Martin’s sisters family. Elizabeth, a Yorkshire girl married John Perratt a Dorset boy. In the end she did not emigrate and was still in Evershot twenty years later.
22^nd 23^rd December 1854	Do. Do.
24^th December 1854	At Home	Paid for a Sheep Dog 5s Paid Subscription to Singers £1 Pd Mr Belcher Robert Pullmans Bill [deceased] £1 8d
25^th December 1854	At Home Dined at Arthurs
26^th December 1854	At Home on Various matters	Pd Subscription to Patriotic Fund £3 Pd Messrs Conways Bills £18 10s 6d chk Yeovil Paid Jas Groves Thatcher £2 17s 6d Paid Esau Knell Tailor £2 19s 6d Paid Cooper Chubb £1 17s 9d Paid J Pouncey £2 16s 7d Pd J Edwards Mine 0 1 3 } 16s Edwin 14 9
27^th December 1854	Do.	Pd For Fish 1s 6d Gave Ringers 2s Paid Labourers 18s
28^th – 31^st December 1854	Do. IN PENCIL ON 30th Both Cows will calve latter [sic] in Janry

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