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Date	Diary Entry for the year 1810	Accounts entry	Notes.
	January 1810

1^st – 21^stJanuary 1810 8^th January 1810 15^th January 1810 20^th January 1810	Surveying at Bishopstone	Paid Wm Belcher 7 days and 1s to drink £1 2s 0d Paid Boy at Bishopstone in full £1 1s 0d Paid for two New Girts 4s Paid postage of Letters Bishopstone Inclosure 6s 8d Paid Thomas Short for information Bishopstone 5s 6d Ditto 11s 6d	The Act to inclose Bishopstone [North Wiltshire] had been passed in June 1809 and we may assume that Martin got to work quickly afterwards. One of the Commissioners appointed to oversee the inclosure was John Martin’s cousin: William Jennings. One of the principal landowners was Henry Fox-Strangways the third Earl of Ilchester. Martin derived much work from the Earl.
22^nd – 24^th January 1810	Bishopstone Inclosure Meeting Receiving Objections to Claims	Charge 10s/6d for carriage of Map Paid Man Bringing Box from Bishopstone 2s 6d My share of Bill £2 2s 2d	The inclosure was controversial many commoners objecting to it before the Act was passed. Afterwards we may suspect that they were in no mood to let their rights be trampled on possibly explaining the four days it took to examine their claims.
25^th– 26^th January 1810	Do. [Ditto] Returning Home	Paid returning Home £1 3s 6d Expenses 6d	An interesting detail as to how long travel took in those days. The distance between Bishopstone and Evershot [according to Google ,using the A303] as 89.4 miles taking 2 hrs and 7 min. He made the return six times during the year.
27^thJanuary 1810	At Home		A very common entry and in the later diaries almost the only entry on Sunday’s.
28^thJanuary 1810	Went part of the way to Wareham to pay duty of Auction.		There are no details of what auction he is referring to.
29^th January 1810	Returned Home from Wareham and went to supper at Mr Stones	Expenses this day 4s.
30^th January 1810	At Home
31^st January 1810	Do.

	February
1^st -4^thFebruary 1810	At Home
5^thFebruary 1810	At Home	A number of entries in the 1810 diary relate to farming matters. Land surveyors had to have a deep understanding of how agriculture was conducted.This entry was in the accounts section.

Taken from the Farmers Journal in Berks 60lb of wheat will return 37 of the finest Flower [sic] & 14lb of two inferior kinds 8lb of Bran & ½ of waste Spring Wheat produces two or 3lb more Bran & is sown in general instead of Barley Wheat 10s Barley 5 or 5s 6d Oats 2/5d or 4s The above would produce ample profit to the Farmer and enable him to pay Taxes 1810

6^t^hFebruary 1810

At Home Auction at the Acorn selling Timber for Mr Strangways

Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, Martin refers variously to him as Lord Ilchester or, as here, Mr Strangways.

7^th -13^th February 1810

At Home

12^th February 1810

At Home

Martin may have been a devout Christian but he was no puritan. He clearly liked a book and there are a number of entries in the accounts section where he pays money to ‘luck’. He was a typical countryman who enjoyed hunting and shooting but there is no mention in the diaries of fishing.

Mr Anger was to receive allotments in the Bishopstone award.

This is probably James Crowdy born in 1783 an attorney who was living in Highworth in the 1841 census.

Mr Kent is unknown.

27th Nov 1809 Bishopstone Inclosures”]. “Mr Anger bets with Mr Kent that the Bishopstone Comon is 340 acres Mr Kent bets it is not Mr Anger bets with Mr Kent that its 7 Furlong from one Comon Gate to the other Mr Kent bets it is not Mr Crowdy bets with Mr Kent that Bishopstone Comon is 340 Acres Mr Kent bets it is not Mr Martin bets with Mr Anger that it is not more than 4 ½ around Bishopstone Comon Mr Anger bets its more”

14^th February 1810	At Home Mr Bellamy at Capt Jennings with Mrs Bellamy Thos [Thomas] & his Sister	This was John Jennings, brother to William Jnr. and cousin to John Martin. He was a solicitor but also at this time Captain in the Western Battalion of the Volunteer Militia.
15^th -18^thFebruary 1810	At Home
19^th February 1810	At Home	A further example of his interest in agriculture.

Bishopstone Inclosure Cropping above Ridgeway Wheat then Beans or Pulses after that Barley or Oats with Clover & Grass the Grass Field lies two years & then to wheat again—————- New Sown Wheat – old Grass Field New Grass Field wheat stubs [sic] &c Bean Stubs – making together a Five Field system Cropping Below Ridgeway Wheat then Beans or Pulses after the Barley or Oats then Fallow for wheat New Sown wheat, Summer Fallow, wheat Stubs & Barley or Oats making a 4 Field System.

20^thFebruary 1810	Went to Abbotsbury to Stake out roads and settle the Claims Finally Carriage of Map 5s		The Abbotsbury Inclosure, had begun in 1809 and was to be completed in 1814. The Commissioner was William Jennings, the Clerk was his brother John Jennings and the surveyor John Martin. The principal land owner was the Earl of Ilchester.
21st-25th February 1810	At Abbotsbury	Gave Maid at Abbotsbury Ostler 5s Paid my Bill there £2 0s 3d
26^th February 1810	At Abbotsbury dined at Mr Crews
27^th February 1810	Returned Home from Abbotsbury
28^thFebruary 1810	At Home

	March
1^st – 3^rd March 1810	At Home		From the 17th century onwards the fallow field had been planted with clover. As a nitrogen fixing plant it helped restore the fertility of the soil as well as providing an edible crop for animals during the winter.

An Artificial called Lucerne The seed is about [3s a lb??] and 16 £8 will sow an acre durable for 15 years good mown once the first year twice the second & 3 times a year after—

4^th March 1810	At Home Uncle at Evershot		Which uncle it was is not known.
5^th March 1810	Went to Oborne to buy Vellum	Paid Bill for Vellum £6 6s 0d Turnpike 1 1/2d	Vellum, made from calf skin was the preferred surface on which to draw maps. It has great longevity. There were Parchment makers at both Oborne and Sherborne.
6^th – 7^thMarch 1810	At Home
8^thMarch 1810	Went to Shipton Gorge with Mr Palin to set him Measuring	Turnpike 1 1/2d [again]	There is no actual gorge at Shipton [note the spelling in this entry] the parish is probably named after one Thomas de Gorge who lived here in 1285. This is the first reference to an assistant helping him with his work. Professional people, or ‘gentlemen’ are always referred to as Mr xxxx. This is a contraction of Master xxxx used in earlier centuries to denote the individual was a gentleman. See section on the poor law.
9^th – 12^thMarch 1810	At Home
13^th March 1810	Went to Abbotsbury
14^th March 1810	Abbotsbury meeting to hear objections to roads.
15^th -16^thMarch 1810	Ditto
17^thMarch 1810	Do.. making alterations by Commissioners orders on map to be o’kay’d		The first reference to OK being used in English [according to Wikipedia} is in 1839 in the Boston Morning Post. It would appear to have been used at a much earlier date in the UK.

One of the first uses of the term ok’d?

18^th March 1810	At Home
19^th March 1810	At Home		This is typical of the type of notice that was attached to the church door and adverted in the local newspapers. Perhaps he was practising when he wrote this out.

“We the undersigned Commissioners named and apptd by an act of Prlt lately made and passed intitled An Act for inclosing the Comons and Waste Lands in the parish of ……….Do. hereby give notice that I have set out and appd the following public carriage roads and drove ways as dictatd by the sd Act the general lines of which roads are as follows one public Carriage road 30 Feet wide one other public Carriage 30 ft A Drove way 20 feet wide And I hereby give notice that I have prepared Maps on which such intended roads are accurately laid Do.wn and described which may be seen at the offices ##### at Mr M my surveyor at &c I have further appointed &c Do. hereby appt a meeting to be holden at – on—- at which meeting all such persons as may be #### or affected by the appointment of such roads may attend

20^th – 25^th March 1810	At Home Do..
26^th March 1810	At Home making off on Map the bound of y [the] different Stock on the Comon to be charged for		Another enigmatic entry. Note the contraction of ye for ‘the’ and comon with one m.
27^thMarch 1810	At Home
28^th March 1810	Plush Meeting at Cerne to settle Accounts	My Share of Bill 7s	The Plush inclosure Act was passed in 1809. The impression is sometimes gained from the inclosure entries that the end of the process is nigh but so often the final awards were not made until years later. The Plush award took until 1825 to complete and Bishopstone 1814.
29^thMarch 1810	At Home
30^thMarch 1810	set off for Plaitford slept at Woodyates Inn	Expences [sic] this day 16s 6d Pd for 3 pairs of Stockings at Blandford 12s 6d	The Woodyates Inn [Later the Shaftesbury Inn] was on the stage coach route to Exeter. It had been turnpiked after 1753. George 111 had his own room in the Inn and insisted on stopping here when he visited Weymouth. Lieutenant Lapontiere stopped at the Inn on his way from Falmouth to London with the first news of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
31^stMarch 1810	Meeting at Plaitford to sale [sic] Timber Wellow Inclosure	My Fee £10 10s	Another inclosure. William Jennings once again the commissioner.

Woodyates Inn was famous in it’s day.

	April
1^st April 1810	set off from The Shoe at Plaitford to Bishopstone slept at Andover		The pub still exists and their website states that an Inn has existed on the site since 1420.
2^ndApril 1810	Arrived at Shrivenham about 7 o’k [o’clock]	Expences [sic] this day 8s 6d charge 10s 6d for carriage of map
3^rd -7^thApril 1810	Valuing at Bishopstone		Valuing was arguably the most important part of any inclosure for the amount of land a man received was dependent on the value of the land he already held.
8^th April 1810	Went to Shrivenham Church & walk’d to Watchfield in afternoon	Paid my Bill £7 4s 7d Pd man bringing papers to Bishopstone 10s	A surveyor typically earned a guinea [£1 1 shilling] a day whilst he was working plus expenses. A commissioner received two guineas a day. Martin would have had little reason to stint himself. An agricultural labourer was paid about 8s 6d [42 p] a week.
9^th^–14^th April 1810	Valuing at Bishopstone
15^thApril 1810	Arrived at Mr Wilsons and din’d
16^thApril 1810	At Bishopstone completing map
17^thApril 1810	Do..
18^thApril 1810	Do. taking up the Arable from the pasture in the Homesteads in order to	Calculate the Vicars Tithe Apples &c	One of those entries that defies any kind of explanation. He ran this entry across into the accounts section.
19^thApril 1810	Completing the above on the Map

20^thApril 1810	Finding out of property din’d with Mr Moore at Mr Browns	Paid Thomas Short for attendg the Commissioners 5 days 12 6d The Boys Do. 11s Old Sayer drawing chain 5s Paid Taylor attendg the Commissioner 5 days 12s 6d Short and Taylor all together 10 days see above vis from y 4^th of April to the 14^th £2 10 0d	A host of people but none can be traced. The 20th was Good Friday in 1810 but you would hardly know it from the diaries. All of these entries have a large red B alongside them the significance of which is lost.
21^stApril 1810	Staking out Public Roads and this day us’d 260 pegs		One of the enduring but least mentioned features of inclosures were the new roads that were laid out. Public ones were paid for at public expense and served the needs of the community whereas private roads served the landowners fields.
22^nd April 1810	Din’d at Mr Churches		Easter Sunday and it is a surprise that nowhere in the diaries does he record this important Christian Festival.
23^rd April 1810	Staking out Roads -used 170 pegs	Paid Taylor for a new waist coat 18s	More stakes. They Do. not appear in later diaries but were necessary for laying out the new roads and allotments.
24^thApril 1810	Made Map of Roads for Mr Crowdy
25^th– 27^thApril 1810	Finding out property
28^thApril 1810	Returning Home charge this being Finding out property [erased ] return home from meeting	Paid for Lucerne seed £1 Paid Labourers finding out property £1 £1 Received of Mr Field for the Lucerne seed	Martin was obviously impressed with the new grass known as Lucerne such that he actually bought some of it [and then resold it].
29^th April 1810	Do..
30^thApril 1810	At Home making Abbotsbury scheme

	May
1^st -5^th May 1810	Do. [At Home making Abbotsbury scheme]
6^thMay 1810	At Home
7^thMay 1810	At Home making Abbotsbury Scheme		Canvas was a generic term. Why it needed to be sewn is not known.
8^thMay 1810	Do.
9^thMay 1810	Do. Pasting Paper for Pitton and Farley	Paid for Canvas and sewing 13s	This is the first entry where he is “Pasting paper”. Paper at this time was generally made from rags. A little later in the century wood pulp would begin to be used but in either case it had to be ‘sized’ in order to prevent ink or paint from bleeding into the fibres. It is not known what he sized the paper with. Gelatine was used until 1806 after which aluminium sulphate and rosin was invented.
10^th -11^th May 1810	Making Abbotsbury Scheme	Paid for oil case for carrying Bishopstone map 8s 6d
12^thMay 1810	Set off for Bishopstone	Expenses 14s 4d	About £20 in today’s money.
13^thMay 1810	arrived at Bishopstone abt 5 o/k	Expenses 5s 4d Carriage of Map 10s 6d
14^thMay 1810	Hearing Objections to Roads at Bishopstone
15^th May 1810	Bishopstone Meeting Valuing
16^th -19^th May 1810	Do.
20^th May 1810	Returning Home
21^stMay 1810	Returned Home from Bishopstone Preparing for Abbotsbury
22^ndMay 1810	Abbotsbury Meeting Allotting
23^rd -29^th May 1810	Do.
30^thMay 1810	Returned Home Received on Acct of WJ———–	— Paid Expenses £5 10s 2d — £30———–
31^st May 1810	Allotting Abbotsbury making Scheme complete &c

	June
1^st -2^nd June 1810	Do.
3^rdJune 1810	Do. some part of the day
4^thJune 1810	Allotting Abbotsbury
5^thJune 1810	Sale at Benville did not sell the house it was bought in at 115£ [sic] Charge	£1 1 0d Reced of Mr J J	According to Hutchins Benville was ” a little hamlet in Frampton liberty, about a mile from Corscombe, of which we have no ancient account in our records.” On the OS 6 inch to the mile maps it comprised a manor house and farm and a few houses. The meaning of the entry is not known.
6^thJune 1810	Taking Inventory & valuing goods at Mr Pattens charge £1 1s 0d		William Patten was a surgeon and apothecary resident at Evershot. He died in 1810 and this was a post-mortem sale.
7^thJune 1810	Making out Fair Valuations of Do. ½ day went Measuring on Bubbdown ½ day		Bubbdown is a part of Melbury Bubb. Modern aerial photos overlaid on the OS 6 inch map show the extent of the woodland to be identical to that of the past. Many fine trees were sent from here to supply the navy, many sold by John Martin.
8^thJune 1810	finishd Measuring Coppice Wood at Melbury 40 a[cres] 0 r[oods] 6 p[erches] @ 8d £1 6s 8d		Coppiced woods were widespread in Dorset and very valuable. They were classed as Silva Caedua or underwood and were subject to the tithe. Maiden [uncoppiced trees] when felled were not tithed. We see here also how much he charged for measuring 8d an acre. He threw the perches in free.
9^thJune 1810	Sitting Day at Evershot		It is not clear what this refers too, possibly the annual court Leet at Evershot.
10^thJune 1810	At Home
11^thJune 1810	Allotting Abbotsbury
12^th -16^thJune 1810	Do.	Paid John Miles for Distributing Dr Pattens Hand Bills 2s 6d
17^thJune 1810	At Home Mr & Mrs Draper came Uncle Thomas also		Thomas was a common name on both sides of the family. This was probably Thomas Jennings brother to John Jennings and William Jnr.
18^thJune 1810	Abbotsbury Allotting
19^th—20^th June 1810	Do.
21^st June 1810	Dr Pattens Sale
22^nd June 1810	Do. Sale
23^rd June 1810	Do. receiving &c
24^th June 1810	At Home	Paid Bath Chronicle £8 6s 0d Recd again £8 6s 0d	Presumably this was for an advert for one of the inclosure meetings but the notice cannot be traced. Nor can the £8 6s which he received again.
25^th June 1810	Met Mr Jn Miller at Alton & measured some Lanes [sic] for him		Alas, unknown.
26^thJune 1810	At Home Abbotsbury
27^th -30^th June 1810	Do.

	July
1^stJuly 1810	At Home
2^ndJuly 1810	At Home Abbotsbury
3^rdJuly 1810	Do.
4^thJuly 1810	No Quality’s &c on Bishopstone
5^th -7^thJuly 1810	Do.
8^thJuly 1810	Set off for Bishopstone
9^thJuly 1810	Bishopstone Meeting in the Evening	Charge 10s 6d for carriage of Map Expenses Up £1 2s 0d
10^thJuly 1810	Bishopstone revising Values
11^th -13^th July 1810	Do.	Pd Expenses at Sh[rivenha]M £3 0s 6d Paid Man & Boys at Bishop[stone] for attending Comm[issione]r 9 days viz 15^th May to the 19^th inclusive &c 11^th & 12^th July £1 15s 0d	Another Red B by these entries.
14^th -15^thJuly 1810	Returning Home [These days I did not return but it must be charged]
16^thJuly 1810	Proving claims at Bishopstone
17^th -20^thJuly 1810	Do.
21^stJuly 1810	Sitting Day at Evershot Dr Pattens Sale not due this Sitting		Sitting Days generally have to do with parliament or the Courts. It is probably a reference to Evershot Court.
22^ndJuly 1810	Do.
23^rdJuly 1810	Proving claims at Bishopstone
24^th -29^thJuly 1810	Do.
30^thJuly 1810	Proving claims at Bishopstone
31^stJuly 1810	Do.

	August
1^st -5^thAugust 1810	Do.
6^th August 1810	Proving Claims at Bishopstone
7^thAugust 1810	Travelling to Bishopstone	Paid for Man at Shrivn [ham] for carrying papers & map thereto 1s 6d Paid Man for Carriage of Map to Shrivenham 1s 6d
8^thAugust 1810	Do.– I was at Bishopstone But suppose must charge	Do. for Carriage back to Bishopstone and papers 1s 6d
9^thAugust 1810	Bishopstone Meeting 11 o/k in the forenoon
10^th August 1810	Bishopstone hearing objections to new set out road
11^thAugust 1810	Returning Home	Carriage of map 10s 6d Paid my share of bill £1 4s
12^thAugust 1810	Do.
13^th August 1810	At Bishopstone staking Ladder way Road again the Surveyors having altered it since I staked it out
14^thAugust 1810	Measuring the Idstone and Bishopstone Roads for the Information of the Commissioners 1 days work	Paid Man for drawing chain measuring said Road 3s 6d Boy Do. 2s 6d	The result is shown in the panel below. This was actually written inside the diary cover.

From Mr Churches Barn up the Middleway & over the Down in the same track a new road is talked of to the place where the Idstone and Lambourn Roads unite Measures 240 chains – And from such place of uniting Back by Lord Cravens House Do.wn Idstone Drove Ridgeway again unto Mr Church’s Barn measures 294 Chain making Idstone 46 chain the Furthest way

15^th August 1810	Went to Highworth to see Mr Crowdy respecting Beckett	Paid Man making Pegs £3 3s 9d	Mr James Crowdy was a local solicitor. The Beckett estate was owned by Lord Barrington and by the early 19th century was in a state of poor repair. Inventories apparently show that during the 1800 – 1810 period it was gradually being dismantled. The current house [occupied by the Army] was started in 1829.[1]
16^thAugust 1810	Set off for Home	Expenses on the Road £1 1s 0d
17^thAugust 1810	arrived Home
18^thAugust 1810	Bishopstone Map
19^thAugust 1810	Dind at Mr Pattens at Beers Do.wn
20^thAugust 1810	Bishopstone Map Scaling		Having surveyed the estate parish or field the measurements had to be translated to a map scale. Typically this was three chains [66 yards] of real length being represented by one inch on the map. A mile of real length would be represented by just over 26 inches on the map.
21^st—25^th August 1810	Do.
26^thAugust 1810	Dind with Capt. Jennings and rode to Cattistock & Rampisham
27^thAugust 1810	Scaling Bishopstone
28^thAugust 1810	Do.
29^thAugust 1810	Do. & took an Inventory of C Chubbs Goods		The Chubbs ran the Acorn mid century but C Chubb has not been identified.
30^thAugust 1810	Do. and Held the Sale of Do.
31^stAugust 1810	Do. – Do.

	September
1^stSeptember 1810	went to Cattistock to alter line between Mr Cozens & Mr Isles	Paid for Pegs & Man 4s 6d
2^ndSeptember 1810	Dined at Home
3^rdSeptember 1810	Pitton and Farley Inclosure Meeting The Spread Eagle ### 11 o/k I did not attend this Meeting Bishopstone Map Scaling		The inclosure here began in 1809. The last we heard from him working on this was in May 1810 when he was pasting paper for the map. I have not found any connection with the Earl of Ilchester.
4^thSeptember 1810	Abbotsbury Meeting 5 o/k
5^th—9^th September 1810	At Abbotsbury meeting	Went to Bridport Harbour by Water with Commissioner 7s
10^th^–11^th September 1810	At Abbotsbury meeting
12^th—15^th September 1810	Staking out allotments
16^thSeptember 1810	At Abbotsbury
17^thSeptember 1810	Staking out allotments
18^thSeptember 1810	Returned Home	Further Expenses £1 15s
19^th -20^th September 1810	Altering allotments in meadow	Borrowed of Mrs Jennings £2	Inserted in red.
21^stSeptember 1810	Bishopstone Map	Paid Thomas Flow for Carriage of Box & Papers from Bishopstone 6s 1d
22^ndSeptember 1810	Do.
23^rdSeptember 1810	At home
24^thSeptember 1810	Bishopstone Map
25^th^–29^th September 1810	Do.
30^thSeptember 1810	At Home

	October
1^stOctober 1810	Bishopstone Map
2^ndOctober 1810	Went to Long Sutton Meeting		This was a very protracted inclosure with the original act authorising inclosure being passed in 1797. William Jennings Jnr. was appointed surveyor and mapped part of the land in 1803. The award was not finally enrolled in the courts until 1822. Martin was clearly involved in the inclosure but there is little in the diaries to indicate his precise role.
3^rd^–5^thOctober 1810	At Long Sutton
6^thOctober 1810	Returned Home from Long Sutton
7^th October 1810	Went to Abbotsbury in the evening to stake out Meadow
8^thOctober 1810	Stak’d out Meadow Abbotsbury	My Expenses 15s 4d
9^thOctober 1810	At home Working out Litchet [sic] Matravers Map for Mr Henning		The Henning family seemingly had branches in most parts of Dorset but I have not been able to find any near Lytchet Matravers.
10^thOctober 1810	Set off for Bishopstone
11^thOctober 1810	Bishopstone Meeting in the Evening settling Calculations
12^th^–13^th October 1810	Bishopstone Meeting
14^thOctober 1810	Returning Home	My Expenses £1 6s 0d Carriage of Map 10s 6d Expenses up and down £1 4s
15^thOctober 1810	Returning Home from Bishopstone
16^thOctober 1810	Stakd out Lambourn Road at Bishopstone
17^thOctober 1810	Took up Grass in lower Field this is the day I returned Home rainy weather
18^thOctober 1810	Working about Bishopstone
19^th– 20^th October 1810	Do.
21^stOctober 1810	At Home
22^ndOctober 1810	Working about Bishopstone
23^rd October 1810	Do.
24^thOctober 1810	Do. preparing to set off for Farley in the Evening
25^thOctober 1810	Sett [sic] off for Farley slept at Salisbury	Expenses this Journey 19s 6d Paid for a New head to the Bridle 2s 8d
26^thOctober 1810	Arrived at Farley about 12 o /clock went round the bounds of the Manor	Paid for a pair of gaiters 7s Turnpike 6d
27^thOctober 1810	Began Measuring fine weather Thomas Parsons & a Boy for the Chain		The Parsons family were extensive in the parish. Thomas was probably born in 1776 and is shown in the 1841 census as a Farmer.
28^thOctober 1810	At Farley out all day Measuring took a very Bad Cold never worked	same Boy & Man [no money entered].
29^thOctober 1810	out all day Measuring T Parsons and Levi Parsons as before – cold still very Bad		Levi was born in 1795 and another member of the extended family. Possibly a cousin to Thomas.
30^thOctober 1810	out all day Levi Parsons and his Cousin for Chain cold no better
31^stOctober 1810	out all day T Parsons & Levi again cold no better

	November
1^st November 1810	Pitton and Farley out all day
2^nd^–3^rdNovember 1810	Do.
4^thNovember 1810	Dined at Mr Cooks Farley
5^th November 1810	Pitton & Farley out all day
6^th November 1810	Do.
7^th November 1810	Do.	Paid Two Pounds for Lodgings £2 Borrowed the above of Thomas Parsons	This was a considerable amount of money. Almost £100 in today’s money indicating Parsons was a prosperous man.
8^th November 1810	Returned Home	Expenses returning Home 10s
9^th November 1810	Casting Bishopstone		Having measured a field [or a whole estate] the area of each component part had to be calculated – a process known as casting.
10^th November 1810	Do.
11^th November 1810	At Home
12^thNovember 1810	Casting Bishopstone
13^th -17^thNovember 1810	Do.
18^thNovember 1810	At Home J Draper was here to Dinner
19^thNovember 1810	Casting Bishopstone
20^thNovember 1810	Pitton and Farley Meeting 10 o/clock in the Forenoon I did not attend
21^st November 1810	Casting Bishopstone
22^ndNovember 1810	Do.
23^rdNovember 1810	Do. Mr Palin At abbotsbury for me [sic]
24^thNovember 1810	Do.
25^thNovember 1810	Do. Mr Stile at abbotsbury
26^th November 1810	Bishopstone Casting Mr Palin returned from Abby	My Expenses at Abbotsbury & Mr Palins £2 6s 1d
27^th -30^th November 1810	Working about Bishopstone

	December
1^st December 1810	Do.	£20 Recd of Mr W J on account
2^ndDecember 1810	Do. uncle Thomas was here
3^rdDecember 1810	Working about Bishopstone
4^thDecember 1810	Do.
5^thDecember 1810	Sett off for Bishopstone slept at Warminster
6^thDecember 1810	Slept at Warminster Swindon	Expenses on the Road £1 6s 6d
7^thDecember 1810	Slept at Slept at Swindon arrivd at Shrivenham abt 9
8^thDecember 1810	Bishopstone Inclosure preparing to Allot
9^thDecember 1810	Do.
10^th December 1810	At Shrivenham Bishopstone Inclosure making Scheme
11^th-13^th December 1810	Do.
14^th December 1810	Alloting [sic]	Pd Bishopstone Hayward 3s Pd for Eating for Labourers4s 6d	The Hayward was responsible for the maintenance of the hedgerows and fences in the parish. Even in an open parish there had to be some protection of the arable fields from grazing animals.
15^th December 1810	Alloting
16^th December 1810	Left of for Home slept at Devizes	My Share of Bill £5 17s
17^thDecember 1810	Returning Home from Bishopstone
18^thDecember 1810	Returning Home from Do.	Expenses returning Home £1 2s 0d
19^thDecember 1810	At Home about Bishopstone	Paid Mr Denny for General Survey Book for Bishopstone 10s 6d
20^th -22^nd December 1810	Do.	Carriage of Map 10s 6d
23^rd December 1810	At Home
24^thDecember 1810	At Home Working About Bishopstone
25^thDecember 1810	Christmas Day		There was no extended holiday at Christmas or any other time.
26^thDecember 1810	Working about Bishopstone
27^thDecember 1810	Do.
28^thDecember 1810	Went to Yeovil to meet Mr White respecting the Yeovil Charity with Mr W Jennings		Which charity this was is not known. This is the first specific mention of William Jennings.
29^thDecember 1810	Working about Bishopstone
30^thDecember 1810	At Home
31^st December 1810	Sale at Evershot House Malthouse and premises belonging to J Chubb

The last day of 1810

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John Martin of Evershot

The Life and Times of a 19th Century Land Surveyor.

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