Diary of Rev Edward Stevens

Received Government Grant for School amounting to £42. 19. 4.

Visited School.

Sold Tustain of Milcombe 12 pots of souring apples at 3/- per pot of 64 lbs + 7 lb for weight of basket. It was very fine fruit.

Visited Hannah Simmons, P. Webb (my man) who is still unable to work, William Kay, Mrs Tay’s mother, and C. Holder.

Sharp frost.

Visited Miss Dix. Attended choir practice this evening. Mr and Mrs Davies came this evening.

Mr Joseph Pettipher came to vestry and asked me to take chair at a meeting for closing public houses on Sundays to be held in Friends’ Mission room on a certain evening and at a certain hour which was afterwards altered without consulting me, and held at an hour when I was otherwise engaged and therefore I did not attend.

Attended school morning and afternoon.

Visited Soldier Green (pensioner) who was recently married in London to Kate Herbert a servant living at Addington, but belonging to Tadmarton and having two sisters living in the parish, viz Bodfish’s wife and John Holtom’s concubine.

Visited Phoebe Payne, George Green, and Thomas Lively (out).

Library committee at 6.30 this evening. Resolved to get books from Religious Tract Society with aid of grant.

Gave out Coal Tickets for Town Estate.