1758 February 20 (Monday). Rain last Night and this Morning, afterwards very pleasant. Mr. Mason tells me the Ways are so filled with Snow that there has not gone so much as one Horse in the Road to Shrewsbury near him; and there are but steppings over to Mr. Martyns. N.B. Esq. Brigham brings the Mare, which I have bargained for; and I gave him a Note for Eight pounds L.M., payable the first of next September, and She is put up into the Barn as Mine.