14. Sunday. The week past I have received three shillings for boxes.
15. For nearly a month past, the carpenter, of whom I have had my wood, has not been here, so that I have been working a chest up into boxes, on shares. When finished and sold, it brought nearly thirty-two shillings; but I have had a partner to work with me, and one third of the avails we paid for the chest, so that only one third belonged to myself.
16. Mr. Bell, the commissioner, has been here again, and measured our cans, in which we draw our beer, and he says he shall come again and try the weights and measures by which we draw our provisions. To-day about twenty old countrymen petitioned the Board for permission to go on board His Majesty’s ships.
17. To-day the bells have been chiming in Plymouth and Dock, on the election of a new Lord Mayor.
18. Yesterday some friends, from without, sent victuals to those men who are on short allowance, but the agent would not let them come in.
19. The commissioner has again been here; he came precisely at the time of drawing our meat. We complained to him about the market, and he told us that no one should be allowed to retail any thing out to us, but that there should be an open market at the gate, three hours in a day. Also, those knives that were taken away a few days ago, were handed in again.
20. For the week past, I have received one shilling and eightpence for boxes.
21. Sunday. Last evening about nine o’clock, it being very dark, a number attempted to get over the wall by the help of a line, but as the sixth man was getting over, they were discovered, and three of the number immediately taken.
22. To-day is the King’s coronation day, and each ship in commission, in the harbor, fired a salute.
23. To-day the masons have been at work, building the wall higher where the men got over.