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1    Friday 7
2After priuat praiers I wrett my notes in my testement, which I
3geathered out of the Lector the night before : then I did eate my
4breakfast, then I walked abroad and talked of good thinges, so
5that I found much Comfort : after I Cam hom I wrett my sermon
6that was preached the saboth day before, then I went to priuat
7praier, and so to dinner : after which I taked a litle with som
8of my frendes, and exercised my body at bowles a whill, of which
9I found good : then I Came home and wrought tell 4, then I
10praied with Mr Rhodes, and after walked abroad: and when I
11Came hom I praied priuatly, and sonne after went to supper :
12after which I went to the Lector, and then to bed :
13
14    Saterday 8
15after praier I went about and then eate my breakfast and then
16walked abroad : after, I wrett notes in my testement and reed
17of the bible, then to dinner : after w^ch I talked a litle, and then I
18wrought tell 3 : then I walked with Mr Hoby tell 6 :, then I
19came and wrowght awhill, and so to praier and examenation, then
20to supper, after to lecor, and then to bed
21
22    The Lords day 9
23after priuat praier I did eate my breakfast and so went to church:
24after the sarmon was done, I praied priuatly and, after dinner, I
25kept Mr Hoby companie tell chuechchurchEdition: chuech time againe : after the
26sarmon I medetated a litle, and then I wrett out notes in my bible
27and, before supper, I praied, and, after supper and examenation,
28I went to bed :
29
30    Munday 10
31After priuat praers I went about the house, an then eate my
32breakfast : then I walked to the church with Mr Hoby : after
33that I wrougt a litle, and neclected my custom of praier, for which,
34as for many other sinnes, it pleased the Lord to punishe me with an
35Inward assalte : But I know the Lord hath pardoned it because he
36is true of his promise, and, if I had not taken this Course of
37examenation, I think I had for gotten itt : after dimer I walked with Mr Hoby and, after he was gon, I went to gett tithe aples:
38after I Came home, I praied w^th Mr Rhodes, and, after that,
39priuatly by my selfe, and tooke examenation of my selfe: and
40so, after I had walked a whill, I went to supper, after that to the
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42Tewsday 11
43After priuat praier I went about the house, and then wrett som
44notes into my testement : after, I walked and, when I cam
45home, praied With Mr Rhodes : then I wrought a whill and
46praied priuatly before diner : after, I walked, and took the aire
47in my Cocth, and when I Came home I wrought tell : 6 :, and then
48examened my selfe, and praied priuatly, and reed of Grenhame tell
49supper time : after supper I went to praers and, sonne after, to bed :
50
51    Wensday 12
52after priuat praiers in the morning I, being not well, did walk a
53litle, and then eate my brecfast : then I wrought, and talked with
54such strangres as as Came to me tell 5 : a clock att night, at
55which time I praed and examened my selfe : sonne after to supper,
56then to lector, and Not long after to bed.
57
58    Thursday 13
59In the morninge, after priuat praier, I wret some thinges touchinge
60Houshould mattres : then I did eate my breakfast, and did order
61diuerse thinges in the granirie : sonne after Mr Hoby Came home,
62and I kept him Companie tell he went away againe : after diner
63I went to Birstall, and se him, who was not well, and his aples
64tithed : then I wrought tell almost: 6 :, and praied with Mr Rhodes,
65and priuatly in my Closett : after medetation, I went to supper :
66after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed
67
68    Friday 14
69After order taken for the house, and priuat praers, I writt notes
70into my testement and then brak my fast : after, I wrought, and
71kept Mr Hoby compenie tell allmost diner time : then I praied
72and, after dimer, I walked awhill and went to church W^th Mr
73Hoby, and when I Cam home wrought tell 6 :, then I examened
74my selfe and praied, walked tell supper time : then I hard the
75Lector, and after wrought a whill, and so went to bed : Lord,
76for Christs sack, pardone my drousenes which, with a neclegent
77mind, caused me to ommitt that medetation of that I had hard,
78which I ought to haue had.
79
80    Saterday 15
81when I had praied I wrought tell 9 :, then I did eate my breakfast :
82after, I walked to the church w^th Mr Hoby, and was there tell
83dimer time : then I praied, and, after dinner, I wrought and went
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85w^th Mr Hoby and, after I came home, I examened my selfe, and
86praied : after supper I examened papers, when lector was done,
87with Mr Hoby, and so went to bed :
88
89    The Lordes day 16
90After I had praied priuatly, I went to church and, from thence
91returninge, I praised god both for the inableinge the minister
92so profettably to declare the word as he had, and my selfe to heare
93w^th that Comfort and vnderstanding I did : after dimer I walked
94with Mr Hoby tell Catzhising was done, and then I went to
95church : after the sarmon I looked vpon a poore mans Legg,
96and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the
97song of Salomon : then I examened my selfe and praied : after
98supper I was busie with Mr Hoby tell prair time, after which I
99went to bed :
100
101    Munday the 17
102After priuat praier I saw a mans Legg dressed, took order for thinges
103in the house, and wrough tell dinner time : after dinner I went
104about the house, and read of the arball : then I tooke my
105Cocth and Came to Linton, wher, after I had talked a whill with
106my mother, examened my selfe and praied, I went to supper, and
107then praied publeckly, and so to bed :
108
109    Tewsday the 18
110After I had praied priuatly I went to brakfast and, sonne after,
111took my Cocth, and wente to malton to salute my Lady Ewre,
112with whom I staied about : 2 : howers : then Came to Rillington,
113and went to my Cossine Gates house, and so home to Linton to
114supper : after that to prairs, and then to bed
115
116    Wensday the 19
117After praier I went to breakfast, and so tooke choch and Came to
118York, to Mr Skidmores house their, wher, after much time
119spent their with some freindes, I went to priuat praier : and,
120hauinge supped, I was at publeck praers very sicke : the Lord
121pardon the sinne for which I was so punished, it beinge the will of
122god often to punishe one sinne with another, for I had Litle proffet
123by that praier, by reasone of my sicknes: yet, presently, I was well
124with meanes, and so went to bed
125
126    Thursday the 20
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128Lady Borley, wher I hard Commune saruice, and diner :
129after which I had speech of some worldly matters, and then tooke
130Cocth with my Lady, and Cam home againe to supper with hir :
131before which we had saruice and, about ten a clock, I came to my
132Lodginge, and so went to bed
133
134    Friday the 21
135After priuat praier I went to breakfast, and then I talked with a
136phesition which, I hope, the Lord hath prouided for me in steed
137of Doctor Brewer, and some other gentelmen : after dinner I had
138companie of many gentllwemen that came to me, and Mr Fuller,
139my Lorde Burleys chaplen, who seemed a godly and relegous
140young man : then I went to vesitte my Cossin Bouser that
141lay ine, and thence returned to supper to Mr Skedmores, before
142which I praied priuatly : after supper diuers gentlemen cam in,
143who taried so late that we had no publeck praers, and so I went to
144bed, priuatly Comending my self to god
145
146    Saterday the 22
147After a priuat praier I brake my fast and then talked with Mr
148Iister : then I took my Cotch and went to Bisshopthorpe to
149the Busship : their I dined, and talked with Mrs Hutten of
150relegion tell I Came from thence : then I Cam to York, to Mr
151Skidmors House, wher, after I had praied, I went to supper to
152my Cossine Bousers howse, wher I had Conferrance with a
153relegious gintelwoman, and, thence Returninge, went to bed
154
155    The lordes day 23
156After priuat praier I walked and did eate my breakfast : then I
157reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother, and repeted the Doctrins
158which from thence I had hard Mr Rhodes Colecte : then I went
159to the church, wher I hard Mr Pamer speak, but to small profitte
160to any : thence I returned and priuatly praied, lamentinge the
161misirie of godes visible Church, and praisinge his goodnes to my
162selfee about others : then, sonne after, I went to diner : after
163that, I talked with Mr Hoby, and so went to my Cossine Bousers
164child christninge, and hard a sarmon, somthing better then that
165in the morninge : which ended, with all Ceremones, I returned
166to my lodginge, and examened my selfe and praid : then I went
167to supper to Mr Neuells : after, I went to my lodging, and so
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169    October 1599. Friday the 5 day
170After priuat praier I went about the house, then I wrett notes in
171my testement : then Mr Hoby Came home, with whom I talked
172tell diner time : after diner I was busie about presaruing quinces,
173and, a Litle before supper time, I walked about the house : then
174I examened my selfe and praied, then I went to supper : after
175to the lector, and, sonne after that, to bed
176
177    Saterday the 6 : day
178After priuat prairs I did walke about and eate my breakfast :
179then I went abroad with Mr Hoby : then I Cam home and dined :
180after, I wret notes in my testement, then I went in to the Granerie,
181and other places in the house, and so came to examine my selfe
182and praied : and then I went to supper, and so to lector, and then
183to bed.
184
185    The lordes day : 7
186After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast, and then to the church,
187wher, after the hearing of the word and receauinge the sacrementes,
188I Came home and did praie : and so to diner : after which I
189walked and talked with Mr Rhodes : then, sonne after, I went to
190church againe, and, after the sarmone ended, I Came home,
191where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle Concerning
192me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom I read a whill of the Bible :
193and after I returned in to my hart, examenid my selfe, and Craued
194pardon for my severall ommitions and Comitions : the Lord
195stringten me with his grace that I may sinne no more in the Like
196sort, amen : then I went to supper, after to the repetition and
197praers, and so to bed
198
199    Munday the 8 : day
200After praers I went about the house, then I did eate my breakfast :
201after, I was busie tell diner time : after dinner I was busie and did
202talke with Mr Rhodes touchinge diuerse thinges : then I wret
203notes in my testement, and then examened myselfe and praied,
204then went to supper : after, talked with Mr Rhodes of good
205thinges, and so went to bed.
206
207    Tewsday the : 9 day
208After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast with Mr Hoby :
209then I walked abroad, and tooke a lector : after, I Came in and
210praied, and then went to diner : then I went about and deliuered
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212testement, and after receiued Rentes, and walked awhile :
213and then examened my selfe and praied : after, I walked a while,
214and read of Babington, and then went to supper and, sonne after,
215went to bed, Mr Hoby Cominge home late
216
217    Wensday the : 10 : day
218After priuat praers I went about and did eate my breakfast :
219then I wret some notes in my bible, then went to diner : after, I
220walked, and presarued some sweet meat : then I wret notes againe
221in my bible, then I walked, and then came in and examened my
222selfe and praid : then I went to supper, and, after, paied seruantes
223wages, and so went to bed
224
225    Thursday the : 11 : day
226After praers I wret awhill some notes in my testemente, then I
227did eate my breakfast : then I walked tell allmost dinner time,
228then I wret a whill some notes in my testement, and then dined :
229after, I walked with Mr Hoby, and then againe wret some notes
230in my testement : then I went about the house and taked a whill
231with Mr Rhodes, and, sonne after, Came vnto priuat praier and
232examenation : then went to supper, and, sonne, after, to the
233Lector, and then to bed
234
235    Friday the 12
236After priuat praier I went about the house and did eate my breakfast :
237then I wrett some notes in my testement, and then walked
238about : then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer :
239after, I walked a broad, and, at my Comming home, I tooke a
240Lector, and wrett a whill : and, after I had gone about the house,
241I returned to praier and examenation, my selfe, and then reed of
242Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper : after, to
243praers, and so to bed.
244
245    October Saterday the 13
246After priuat prairs, I did writ a Letter : after, I did breake my
247fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible :
248then I went to dinner, and after walked abroad with Mrs Ormston :
249then I was busie in the kitchine and about the house tell 6 :,
250then I praied and examened my selfe : then I walked tell supper
251time and, after supper, to prairs, and so to bed
252
253    The Lordes day 14
254After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of
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256I medetated a while of that I had hard, and then praied, and so
257went to dinner : after, I walked tell church time and then, after
258the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston
259of that was deliuered : after, I examened my selfe and praied :
260after I went to supper and, after that, to praers, and lastly to bed
261
262    Munday the 15 day
263After priuat prairs I did take my leave of Mr Hoby and, sonne after,
264went to church wher, a child beinge Babtised, I hard a sarmon :
265after, I Came home and wrett to Mr Hoby and my Mother, and
266sent away a messhinger to Linton : then I praied, and then to
267dinner : after, I wrett notes in my testement and walked, and,
268at 6 : a clock, I examened my selfe and praied : then I hard
269Mrs. Brutnell Read of the Herball tell supper time, after which
270I praied, and so went to bed :
271
272    Tewsday the 15
273After priuat praier, and order taken for the house, I did eate my
274breakfast, took a lector, walked, and praid, and so went to dimer :
275after, I talked with Mr Measse, then I wret in my sarmon
276bood, and walked, talking with him, and then examened my
277selfe and praied : then went to supper, after to the lector, and
278so to bed
279
280    Wensday the 17
281After I was readie, and had praied priuatly, I tooke order for the
282house and so went to breakfast : then, soone after, I tooke my
283Cotch and went to Linton, wher, I aftor salutinge my mother,
284praied, and so went to supper : after, I hard a good lector and,
285after that, talked with Mr Wilsone, a godly Preacher, and so
286went to bed
287
288    Thursday 18
289After I had praied with Mr Rhodes, I did eat my breakfast and
290so went to the Church, wher I hard Mr Wilson preach : then
291I Came hom to dimer, neccltinge my Costomarie manner of
292praier by reason of my Lord Ewrie and my lades being there :
293after dinner we talked a whill and then went to church, whor
294I hard Mr Rhodes preach : after, I Came home and praied before
295supper, and, after supper, talked, and so went to bed
296
297    Friday the 19
298After priuat praier I took my leaue of diuerse, then hard a Lector
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300and then walked abroad, and then I Came home and talked of
301many good thinges with Mr Rhodes and, after priuat praied,
302I went to supper, and, aftor supper, I I hard a Lector, and so
303went to bed
304
305    Saterday the 20
306After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, and so hard a Lector :
307then I went to dinner and, after, took my Leaue of Mrs Gower
308that Came to se me, and so Came to Hacknes, wher I praied
309and then went so supper : after which I hard a Lector, and so
310went to bed
311
312    The Lordes day 21
313After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast and then I went to
314church : after, I cam home and praid, then dined, and after went
315to Catezisme and after none sermon : and then Came home,
316and wrett somthinge, then praied, and so went to suppr : after,
317I hard praers and, not long after that, hauinge talked with the
318workime, I went to bed
319
320    Munday the 22
321After priuat praier I did write : then I did eate my breakfast :
322then I went about the house and then I wret out my sermon :
323after, I praied, and so went to dinner : after dimer I walked about
324and had a Lector, and then Came to priuat praier and medetation :
325after, I wret some notes in my testement and then went to supper :
326after, to the Lector, and then I wret a letter to my mother, and
327so to bed
328
329    Tewsday the 23
330After priuat praier I did walk a bout the house and then write
331note in my testement : after, I went to brakfast and, after, talked
332awhile with Mr Langdall of his sonne, and then went to
333Skabye to visitt Mrs Bell : then, after 2 howers, I Came home and
334took order for thinges in the house, and then examened my selfe
335and praied : after, I walked a while and then went to supper,
336after that to the Lector, and, whan I had despacthed some to
337York and Skarbraugh, I went to bed
338
339    Wensday the 24
340After priuat praier I went about the house a while, then I wrett
341notes in my testement, and, after I had eaten my breakfast, I went
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343had reed of the Bible, I dined : after, I despacthed some busenes
344in the house, then I tooke a Lector : after, I wrett in my Comun
345place book, and then praied with Mr Rhodes, and went about the
346howse a whill, and then returned to medetation and priuat praier :
347then I stoudied a while for my Lector, and, after, went to supper :
348after I hard a Lector, and then I read of the book of marters
349and so went to bed
350
351    Thursday the 25
352After priuat praier and breakfast I did read a whill for beinge not
353well, partly through myne owne folly, which I humble praie the
354Lord to pardon : I went to dimer : after, I wrett some notes in
355my testement and then took a Lector : after, hard Euerill Read,
356and then praied, so went to supper, after to prairs, and then to bed
357
358    Friday the 26
359After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, Read a Longe Letter
360and wret an other, then praied, and after went to dimer : after
361which I hard a great disputation betwen 2 : preachers, then took
362a lector : after, talked with one that Came to se me, and then went
363to praier and examenation : after, I went to supper, then to the
364Lector, and so to bed :
365
366    Saturday the 27
367After priuat praier I wret to my Lord Ewre, then I took leaue,
368with some Conferance, of some that Came to se me, then I did
369eate my breakfast, and walked about tell diner time : after dinner
370I went about the house, and then tooke my Cotch and went abroad :
371after I Cam home and took order for supper, I praied priuatly &
372examened my selfe : then I Looked and wret in the houshould
373book, and so went to supper, after to Lector, and then to bed
374
375    The Lordes day the 28
376After priuat praers I wret notes in my testement, and did eate
377my breakfast : then to church, after I Came honne to praier
378and so to dimer : after which, I talked w^th a woman that was to
379bedeuorsed from hir Husbande with whome she liued inceasteously :
380then I went to Church and, after Catezising and sermone, I
381walked abroad : then I medetated of the sarmons, and raed and
382spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the
383morning, and so went to priuat praier : after, to supper, then to
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385Munday the 29
386After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, then I did go about
387the house tell allmost diner time, then I praied and then dined :
388after I had rested a while, I wrett my sermone, and then took a
389Lector, and, after, I hard praier and a Lecttor, because, in regard
390of mens dullnes after meat and being winter, it was thought
391more Conuenient to be before supper : after, I praied priuatly
392and then of the testement and so went to bed :
393
394    October Tewsday the 30
395After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, then I was busie to dye
396wooll tell allmost diner time, then I praied and dined : then I
397walked, and took a Lector, and read tell Lector time : then I
398hard that, and so went to supper : after, I was busie a whill and
399then praied and examened my selfe, and, after, reed a whill, and
400so went to bed
401
402    Nouember 1599: Wensday the first
403After priuat praier I talked a while with Mr Rhodes, then I did
404eate my breakfast, and went a while about the house : after, I
405answered a Vaine Letter, then I went to dimer : then I walked
406about the house and wret in my testemente : after, I walked
407abroad and, when I Came hom, I talked with Jousha, and so went
408to priaut praier and medetation, and then to supper : after, to
409praiers and so to bed
410
411    Thursday the 2
412After priuat praier I did eate a Litle, and so took my Choch and
413went to Seamer to see my Cosine Bousers wiffe, wher I dined :
414and then Cam home, wher, after I had walked a while about,
415I went to priuat praier and medetation : then I went to supper,
416after to prairs, and so to bed :
417
418    Friday the 3
419After I priuat praier I did break my fast, then I wrought tell
420allmost dimer time, then I praied : after dimer, I walked aboute
421the house, and did pray with Mr Rhodes : then I did read a while
422to my workwemen, and then to the Lector : after, to supper,
423and, after that, I did walke a whill, and then I praied priuatly
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425    The : 9 : day
426thes day I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, I praise god,
427without sicknes or trouble : and so, like wise, the 10 and : 11 : day
428
429    The lordes euen 11 : day
430After priuat praiers I was busie in the Kitchine and garden tell
431diner time, and, after, tell Mr Hoby Came home : and after I
432had walked a litle abroad, I went to priuatt prairs and examenation
433
434    The Lordes day : 12 : day
435This day, I praise god, I hard the exersices and receiued the
436sacrementes with much Comfort, and in health Continewed my
437Custom
438
439    The 2 day of the weeke 13 : day
440As, through corruption, we vse not the blessinge of peace as we
441ought, so are we to expecte new temptations to humble vs for our
442former necclegence, and so I haue benne, this day, boffeted for
443better heed
444
445    The 3 day of the weeke : 14 :
446After I had reed and praied I went about the house, made a saule
447for a sore beast, then I Came to worke into my chamber, and so
448went to diner : after, I walked a whill & spake to Iohn Dowson
449for Mault, and so went to worke tell praier time
450
451    The 15 day The 16 day These 2 daie I Continewed my
452accustomed exercises, and wrought most of a token I sent to
453London
454
455    The 17 day
456This day blakeborn Cutt his foot with a hatchett
457
458    The : 18 : day
459this day I finished my worke, wrott Letters to London, talked
460with Mr Stillington, praied at my accustomed times, and dressed
461Tho Blakbornes foott : and, after, went to readinge and
462preparation for the next day
463
464    The Lordes day : 19 :
465this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and,
466in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith : after, I Came home
467and Caused Mr Stillington to Read of Grenhame, and, after,
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469The 2 day, of the weeke, the 20 :
470this day my Mother Came to Hacknes, and staied the next day,
471which was it when Mr Hoby tooke his iournie to London : att
472which time, I thank god,
473
474    21 : day
475I Continewed my exercises in good health, and at night hard
476Iohn Corrow praie :
477
478    The 22
479my Mother went in the morninge betimes, and after she was gonne
480I dressed vp my Closett, and was buseed about that all the day
481tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed publeckly :
482and, after I had performed som priuat dutie, I tooke order for
483peters going to the markett, and went to bed
484
485    The 23 day
486Mistress Brutnell accompaned me at diner, and in the after none
487Mr Rhodes Cam home, and his brother Edward, who brought
488me a booke from his wiffe : after, I talked with Mr Coniers of
489Scarborow, who went to London : and, after he was gone, I
490praied, and dressed Tho Blackbourns Legg, and after went to
491readinge and medetation
492
493    Aprill The 24 :
494This day I performed my ordenarie exercises, and wrett to
495Mr Hoby by Mr Coniers
496
497    The : 25 : day :
498After praers and breakfast I went to church : when the sarmen
499was done I praied, and dressed blackbourns Legge : after diner
500I went Diuerse busenes about the house, and hard Mr Rhodes
501read, and after went to priuatt examenation and praier
502
503    The Lordes day : 26 :
504After I was readie I went to the church, and, after praers and
505sermon, I Came home and dressed Blackbourns foote : after,
506I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes : after,
507I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bible of the morninge
508exercise : after, I went to the church, and, after sarmon, I
509dressed a poore mans hand : and after that I walked a broad, and
510so Came to priuat examenation and praier
511
512    The 27 day
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514saruants foot and another poore mans hand, and talked with
515others that Came to aske my Counsill : after, I went into the
516Garden, and gaue some hearbes vnto a good wiffe of Erley
517for his garden : after, I Came to diner, praied, and went to
518diner : after, I talked a whill w^th Mr Rhodes and his brother,
519and, after that, went to worke, and hard Mr Rhodes read of
520Mr perkins new booke : and, after, went to walke, and about
521the house, and then went into my Clositt, and then examened
522my selfe and praied
523
524    The 28 day
525After priuat praier I went to worke, and, before diner time, came
526my Cosine Iohn Bouser, with whom I kept Companie vntell
527diner : after, we walked forth, and, when he was gone, I dressed
528packeringes hand : after, I hard Mr Rhodes read of perkin, and
529after I went to priuat examenation and praier
530
531    The : 29 : day :
532After prairs I wrett to Mr Hoby and my Cossine Bouchier :
533after, I dined and wroughte tell allmost night : then I praied,
534and, after supper, I hard Mr Aston praie and reade, and so
535went to bed
536
537    The : 30 : day
538After praers I went downe, and, before diner, Came Mr Hunter,
539w^th whom I kept Companie tell his goinge away. After, I
540went and wrought with my Maides tell allmost night, and then
541I went to priuat examenation and praier
542
543    May : 1 : day
544After I had hard the sarmon at the church, I praied and dined :
545and, after diner, wrett to Mr Hoby by Mr Etherington : after
546He was gone I went to priuat examenation and praier
547
548    The 2 day the Lordes euen
549After I had praied I wound yearne tell dinner time : then I
550praied, and dined : in the afternone I receuied letters by Mr Vrpith
551from Mr Hoby, and, after he was gon, I went to priuat praier
552and examenation/
553
554    The Lordes day : 3 :
555After I had ben at the church I praied : and, after diner, talked
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557Catizisinge, I wrett notes in my bible of the chapter : after, I
558dressed the sores I had in hand, and, when I had wretten a letter
559to my Mother, I went to priuat examenation and praier
560
561    The 4 day
562After a few drowsie praiers I went about the house, omittinge,
563thorowe necclegence, some exercise before I practised : after
564diner I walked abroad, god notwithstanding giuinge me comfort,
565in some thinges, beyond hope : after, I praied, and after supper,
566hard the lecture
567
568    The : 5 : day of May 1601 :
569After praers I went to the church, wher I hard a sarmon : after,
570I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read : after diner I went
571abroad, and when I was come home I dresed some sores : after,
572I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought with in a while : after,
573I went to see a calfe at Munckmans, which had : 2 : great heades,
5744 eares, and had to ether head a throte pipe besides : the heades
575had longe heares like brissels about the mouths, such as n'other
576Cowe hath : the hinder legges had no parting from the rumpe,
577but grewe backward, and were no longer but from the first
578Ioynte : also, the backe bone was parted about the midest bicke,
579and a rowne howle was in the midest into the bodie of the Calfe :
580but one would haue thought that to haue comed of some strocke
581it might gett in the Cowes bely : after this I Came in to priuat
582medetation and praier
583
584    The : 6 : day
585After I had praied, buesed my selfe about dyinge some cloth :
586and, after I had dined, I went to the dales wher I was, all the
587after none, seeing som work : and, after I Came home, I kept
588Mr ward Companie tell praier time
589
590    May 1601 : The : 7 : et 8 day
591these : 2 : daies I Continewed my accustomed exercises of praier
592and medetation, and was at the Dales all most all the after none/
593
594    The : 9 :: day
595this day I kept my chamber and tooke phisicke, being, all the
596night before, pained in my teeth so that I nether slept nor tooke rest
597
598    The : 10 : day
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600my chamber, saue that I went to the Church, both fornonne and
601after, to the sarmons : and so, I thanke god, had good Comfort
602
603    The : 11 : day
604I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read
605to me : and, in the afternone, some of my neighbours Came and
606sate w^th me
607
608    The : 12 : day
609I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of
610my lord of Esixe treason, and I wrought : and so like wise in
611the after none Iohn Corowe and he did read by Course vnto
612me tell a litle before I went to priuat praier and medetation.
613
614    The 13 : day
615I Receiued 41 :
616sheppe from my
617Mother
618After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes
619and younge Coroow read : after diner I dispatched
620all buseneses in my chamber, because
621I was not well, and at night I went to priuat
622praier, and after supper to the Lecture
623
624    The : 14 : day
625In the morning I praied, hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought :
626after diner I went about the house, and kept with my Maides
627tell all most night : then I went in to my Chamber and did some
628busenis : and, this after none, tooke a Lecture of Rhetorike :
629and after, at my time, went to priuat medetation and praier
630
631    from the 14th
632tell the 20 :
633I was both in
634paine and
635weake
636Only the Lordes day, in the Morninge, I
637hard the sarmon, but was so ill that I Could
638not goe the afternone, and was accompanied
639with my Cosine Isons wiffe tell allmost night,
640when I went to bed
641
642    The : 21 : day
643After prairs I went about the house, and sonne after to the
644church : after diner I went about and wrought, and, before supper,
645tooke Blackbours accountes for shepe he had sould : and after
646praied and so went to supper
647
648    The 22 :
649In the morninge I receiued letters from Mr Hoby : after, I praied
650and dined : then I wrougt : and, after, I walked to the Dales,
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652The : 23 :
653In the Morninge I wrett to Mr warde of Skarborowe : after,
654I praied and went about the house : after dinner I was busie
655in the Kitchine and in my chamber, and after I went to priuat
656examenation and praier
657
658    The Lordes day the : 24 :
659After praier I went to the church, and after I came from thence,
660I praied and reed : after, I dined : then I talked a whill, and after
661wrett notes in my bible, and reed, tell church time, to a sicke maid
662in my house : after, I went to the church, and at my accustomed
663times went to priuatt praier and medetation
664
665    May. The : 25 : day
666In the morninge, after priuat prairs, I sente vp for Mr procter,
667and Gaue him 20^li, in parte of paiment of a greater some : after
668diner I wrought, and Continewed my acuustomed exercises
669
670    The . 26 : day
671I praied, wrought, and dined : tooke a lecture of Rhe : in
672the After none, and then went to priuat praier at my accustomed
673hower
674
675    The 27 : day
676After priuatt praier I wrett to Mr Stillingt, and dispacthed a
677messhinger to him : after, I reed, and wrought tell : 2 : a cloke :
678then I praied and, after, eate a litli : then I went about the house
679and was busie in the Kitchine, and after I praied.
680
681    The . 28 : d :
682After praier I wrought, reed, went about the house, and praied
683againe before diner : after, I talked with Mr Bell and one Halles,
684that brought his daughter heather : and after I kept Companie
685with my Mother, that Came from Linton : and after I went to
686priuat examenation and praier
687
688    The : 29 : day :
689this day I Continewed my accustomed exercises, and was vesited
690by my Cosine, Mr Arthur Dakins, and others
691
692    The : 30 : day :
693This day, beinge the lordes euen, I went to the church in the
694afternone and hard the Exercise against the recepte of the lordes
695suppe