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[^HOBY, MARGARET.
DIARY OF LADY MARGARET HOBY, 1599-1605.
ED. D. M. MEADS.
LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD., 1930.
PP. 70.3  - 73.38   (SAMPLE 1)
PP. 76.1  - 81.36   (SAMPLE 2)
PP. 168.1 - 173.37  (SAMPLE 3)^]

<S SAMPLE 1>
<P 70>
(^Friday 7^)
After priuat praiers I wrett my notes in my testement, which I
geathered out of the Lector the night before : then I did eate  #
my
breakfast, then I walked abroad and talked of good thinges, so
that I found much Comfort : after I Cam hom I wrett my sermon
that was preached the saboth day before, then I went to priuat
praier, and so to dinner : after which I taked a litle with     #
som 
of my frendes, and exercised my body at bowles a whill, of      #
which
I found good : then I Came home and wrought tell 4, then I
praied with Mr Rhodes, and after walked abroad: and when I
Came hom I praied priuatly, and sonne after went to supper :
after which I went to the Lector, and then to bed :

(^Saterday 8^)
after praier I went about and then eate my breakfast and then
walked abroad : after, I wrett notes in my testement and reed 
of the bible, then to dinner : after w=ch= I talked a litle,    #
and then I
wrought tell 3 : then I walked with Mr Hoby tell 6 :, then I
came and wrowght awhill, and so to praier and examenation, then
to supper, after to lecor, and then to bed

(^The Lords day 9^)
after priuat praier I did eate my breakfast and so went to      #
church:
after the sarmon was done, I praied priuatly and, after         #
dinner, I
kept Mr Hoby companie tell chuech time againe : after the
sarmon I medetated a litle, and then I wrett out notes in my    #
bible
and, before supper, I praied, and, after supper and             #
examenation,
I went to bed :

(^Munday 10^)
After priuat praers I went about the house, an then eate my
breakfast : then I walked to the church with Mr Hoby : after
that I wrougt a litle, and neclected my custom of praier, for   #
which,
as for many other sinnes, it pleased the Lord to punishe me     #
with an
Inward assalte : But I know the Lord hath pardoned it because   #
he
is true of his promise, and, if I had not taken this Course of
examenation, 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:
after I Came home, I praied w=th= Mr Rhodes, and, after that,
priuatly by my selfe, and tooke examenation of my selfe: and
so, after I had walked a whill, I went to supper, after that    #
to the
Lector, and so to bed
<P 71>
(^Tewsday 11^)
After priuat praier I went about the house, and then wrett som
notes into my testement : after, I walked and, when I cam
home, praied With Mr Rhodes : then I wrought a whill and
praied priuatly before diner : after, I walked, and took the    #
aire
in my Cocth, and when I Came home I wrought tell : 6 :, and     #
then
examened my selfe, and praied priuatly, and reed of Grenhame    #
tell
supper time : after supper I went to praers and, sonne after,   #
to bed :

(^Wensday 12^)
after priuat praiers in the morning I, being not well, did      #
walk a
litle, and then eate my brecfast : then I wrought, and talked   #
with
such strangres as as Came to me tell 5 : a clock att night, at
which time I praed and examened my selfe : sonne after to       #
supper,
then to lector, and Not long after to bed.

(^Thursday 13^)
In the morninge, after priuat praier, I wret some thinges       #
touchinge
Houshould mattres : then I did eate my breakfast, and did order
diuerse thinges in the granirie : sonne after Mr Hoby Came      #
home,
and I kept him Companie tell he went away againe : after diner
I went to Birstall, and se him, who was not well, and his aples
tithed : then I wrought tell almost: 6 :, and praied with Mr    #
Rhodes,
and priuatly in my Closett : after medetation, I went to        #
supper :
after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to    #
bed

(^Friday 14^) 
After order taken for the house, and priuat praers, I writt     #
notes
into my testement and then brak my fast : after, I wrought, and
kept Mr Hoby compenie tell allmost diner time : then I praied
and, after dimer, I walked awhill and went to church W=th= Mr
Hoby, and when I Cam home wrought tell 6 :, then I examened
my selfe and praied, walked tell supper time : then I hard the
Lector, and after wrought a whill, and so went to bed : Lord,
for Christs sack, pardone my drousenes which, with a neclegent
mind, caused me to ommitt that medetation of that I had hard,
which I ought to haue had.

(^Saterday 15^)
when I had praied I wrought tell 9 :, then I did eate my        #
breakfast :
after, I walked to the church w=th= Mr Hoby, and was there tell
dimer time : then I praied, and, after dinner, I wrought and    #
went
a litle about the house tell : 6 :, then I went againe to the   #
church
<P 72>
w=th= Mr Hoby and, after I came home, I examened my selfe, and
praied : after supper I examened papers, when lector was done,
with Mr Hoby, and so went to bed :

(^The Lordes day 16^)
After I had praied priuatly, I went to church and, from thence
returninge, I praised god both for the inableinge the minister
so profettably to declare the word as he had, and my selfe to   #
heare
w=th= that Comfort and vnderstanding I did : after dimer I      #
walked
with Mr Hoby tell Catzhising was done, and then I went to
church : after the sarmon I looked vpon a poore mans Legg,
and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the
song of Salomon : then I examened my selfe and praied : after 
supper I was busie with Mr Hoby tell prair time, after which I
went to bed :

(^Munday the 17^)
After priuat praier I saw a mans Legg dressed, took order for   #
thinges
in the house, and wrough tell dinner time : after dinner I      #
went
about the house, and read of the arball : then I tooke my
Cocth and Came to Linton, wher, after I had talked a whill with
my mother, examened my selfe and praied, I went to supper, and
then praied publeckly, and so to bed :

(^Tewsday the 18^)
After I had praied priuatly I went to brakfast and, sonne       #
after,
took my Cocth, and wente to malton to salute my Lady Ewre,
with whom I staied about : 2 : howers : then Came to            #
Rillington,
and went to my Cossine Gates house, and so home to Linton to
supper : after that to prairs, and then to bed

(^Wensday the 19^)
After praier I went to breakfast, and so tooke choch and Came   #
to
York, to Mr Skidmores house their, wher, after much time
spent their with some freindes, I went to priuat praier : and,
hauinge supped, I was at publeck praers very sicke : the Lord
pardon the sinne for which I was so punished, it beinge the     #
will of 
god often to punishe one sinne with another, for I had Litle    #
proffet
by that praier, by reasone of my sicknes: yet, presently, I     #
was well
with meanes, and so went to bed

(^Thursday the 20^)
After priuat praier I wnt to the maner to doe my dutie to my
<P 73>
Lady Borley, wher I hard Commune saruice, and diner :
after which I had speech of some worldly matters, and then      #
tooke
Cocth with my Lady, and Cam home againe to supper with hir :
before which we had saruice and, about ten a clock, I came to   #
my
Lodginge, and so went to bed

(^Friday the 21^)
After priuat praier I went to breakfast, and then I talked      #
with a
phesition which, I hope, the Lord hath prouided for me in steed
of Doctor Brewer, and some other gentelmen : after dinner I had
companie of many gentllwemen that came to me, and Mr Fuller,
my Lorde Burleys chaplen, who seemed a godly and relegous
young man : then I went to vesitte my Cossin Bouser that
lay ine, and thence returned to supper to Mr Skedmores, before
which I praied priuatly : after supper diuers gentlemen cam in,
who taried so late that we had no publeck praers, and so I went #
to
bed, priuatly Comending my self to god

(^Saterday the 22^) 
After a priuat praier I brake my fast and then talked with Mr
Iister : then I took my Cotch and went to Bisshopthorpe to
the Busship : their I dined, and talked with Mrs Hutten of
relegion tell I Came from thence : then I Cam to York, to Mr
Skidmors House, wher, after I had praied, I went to supper to
my Cossine Bousers howse, wher I had Conferrance with a 
relegious gintelwoman, and, thence Returninge, went to bed

(^The lordes day 23^)
After priuat praier I walked and did eate my breakfast : then I
reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother, and repeted the       #
Doctrins
which from thence I had hard Mr Rhodes Colecte : then I went
to the church, wher I hard Mr Pamer speak, but to small         #
profitte
to any : thence I returned and priuatly praied, lamentinge the
misirie of godes visible Church, and praisinge his goodnes to   #
my
selfee about others : then, sonne after, I went to diner :      #
after
that, I talked with Mr Hoby, and so went to my Cossine Bousers
child christninge, and hard a sarmon, somthing better then that
in the morninge : which ended, with all Ceremones, I returned
to my lodginge, and examened my selfe and praid : then I went
to supper to Mr Neuells : after, I went to my lodging, and so
went to bed 

<S SAMPLE 2>
<P 76>
(^October 1599. Friday the 5 day^)
After priuat praier I went about the house, then I wrett notes  #
in 
my testement : then Mr Hoby Came home, with whom I talked 
tell diner time : after diner I was busie about presaruing      #
quinces, 
and, a Litle before supper time, I walked about the house :     #
then 
I examened my selfe and praied, then I went to supper : after 
to the lector, and, sonne after that, to bed

(^Saterday the 6 : day^)
After priuat prairs I did walke about and eate my breakfast : 
then I went abroad with Mr Hoby : then I Cam home and dined : 
after, I wret notes in my testement, then I went in to the      #
Granerie, 
and other places in the house, and so came to examine my selfe 
and praied : and then I went to supper, and so to lector, and   #
then 
to bed.

(^The lordes day : 7^)
After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast, and then to the    #
church, 
wher, after the hearing of the word and receauinge the          #
sacrementes, 
I Came home and did praie : and so to diner : after which I 
walked and talked with Mr Rhodes : then, sonne after, I went    #
to 
church againe, and, after the sarmone ended, I Came home, 
where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle         #
Concerning 
me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom I read a whill of the Bible : 
and after I returned in to my hart, examenid my selfe, and      #
Craued 
pardon for my severall ommitions and Comitions : the Lord 
stringten me with his grace that I may sinne no more in the     #
Like 
sort, amen : then I went to supper, after to the repetition     #
and 
praers, and so to bed

(^Munday the 8 : day^)
After praers I went about the house, then I did eate my         #
breakfast : 
after, I was busie tell diner time : after dinner I was busie   #
and did 
talke with Mr Rhodes touchinge diuerse thinges : then I wret 
notes in my testement, and then examened myselfe and praied, 
then went to supper : after, talked with Mr Rhodes of good 
thinges, and so went to bed.

(^Tewsday the : 9 day^)
After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast with Mr Hoby : 
then I walked abroad, and tooke a lector : after, I Came in     #
and 
praied, and then went to diner : then I went about and          #
deliuered 
corne : then I Came into my Chamber, & wret notes in my 
<P 77>
testement, and after receiued Rentes, and walked awhile : 
and then examened my selfe and praied : after, I walked a       #
while, 
and read of Babington, and then went to supper and, sonne       #
after, 
went to bed, Mr Hoby Cominge home late

(^Wensday the : 10 : day^)
After priuat praers I went about and did eate my breakfast : 
then I wret some notes in my bible, then went to diner :        #
after, I 
walked, and presarued some sweet meat : then I wret notes       #
againe 
in my bible, then I walked, and then came in and examened my 
selfe and praid : then I went to supper, and, after, paied      #
seruantes 
wages, and so went to bed

(^Thursday the : 11 : day^)
After praers I wret awhill some notes in my testemente, then I 
did eate my breakfast : then I walked tell allmost dinner       #
time, 
then I wret a whill some notes in my testement, and then dined  #
 : 
after, I walked with Mr Hoby, and then againe wret some notes 
in my testement : then I went about the house and taked a       #
whill 
with Mr Rhodes, and, sonne after, Came vnto priuat praier and 
examenation : then went to supper, and, sonne, after, to the 
Lector, and then to bed

(^Friday the 12^)
After priuat praier I went about the house and did eate my      #
breakfast : 
then I wrett some notes in my testement, and then walked 
about : then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to     #
dimer : 
after, I walked a broad, and, at my Comming home, I tooke a 
Lector, and wrett a whill : and, after I had gone about the     #
house, 
I returned to praier and examenation, my selfe, and then reed   #
of 
Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper : after, to 
praers, and so to bed.

(^October Saterday the 13^)
After priuat prairs, I did writ a Letter : after, I did breake  #
my 
fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the       #
bible : 
then I went to dinner, and after walked abroad with Mrs         #
Ormston : 
then I was busie in the kitchine and about the house tell 6 :, 
then I praied and examened my selfe : then I walked tell        #
supper 
time and, after supper, to prairs, and so to bed

(^The Lordes day 14^)
After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did     #
read of 
the Testement, and so went to church : after I Cam from         #
thence, 
<P 78>
I medetated a while of that I had hard, and then praied, and    #
so 
went to dinner : after, I walked tell church time and then,     #
after 
the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston 
of that was deliuered : after, I examened my selfe and praied   #
 : 
after I went to supper and, after that, to praers, and lastly   #
to bed

(^Munday the 15 day^)
After priuat prairs I did take my leave of Mr Hoby and, sonne   #
after, 
went to church wher, a child beinge Babtised, I hard a sarmon   #
 : 
after, I Came home and wrett to Mr Hoby and my Mother, and 
sent away a messhinger to Linton : then I praied, and then to 
dinner : after, I wrett notes in my testement and walked, and, 
at 6 : a clock, I examened my selfe and praied : then I hard 
Mrs. Brutnell Read of the Herball tell supper time, after       #
which 
I praied, and so went to bed : 

(^Tewsday the 15^)
After priuat praier, and order taken for the house, I did eate  #
my 
breakfast, took a lector, walked, and praid, and so went to     #
dimer : 
after, I talked with Mr Measse, then I wret in my sarmon 
bood, and walked, talking with him, and then examened my 
selfe and praied : then went to supper, after to the lector,    #
and 
so to bed

(^Wensday the 17^)
After I was readie, and had praied priuatly, I tooke order for  #
the 
house and so went to breakfast : then, soone after, I tooke my 
Cotch and went to Linton, wher, I aftor salutinge my mother, 
praied, and so went to supper : after, I hard a good lector     #
and, 
after that, talked with Mr Wilsone, a godly Preacher, and so 
went to bed

(^Thursday 18^)
After I had praied with Mr Rhodes, I did eat my breakfast and 
so went to the Church, wher I hard Mr Wilson preach : then 
I Came hom to dimer, neccltinge my Costomarie manner of 
praier by reason of my Lord Ewrie and my lades being there : 
after dinner we talked a whill and then went to church, whor 
I hard Mr Rhodes preach : after, I Came home and praied before 
supper, and, after supper, talked, and so went to bed

(^Friday the 19^)
After priuat praier I took my leaue of diuerse, then hard a     #
Lector 
and went to breakfast : after, I took my leaue of Mr Wilson, 
<P 79>
and then walked abroad, and then I Came home and talked of 
many good thinges with Mr Rhodes and, after priuat praied, 
I went to supper, and, aftor supper, I I hard a Lector, and so 
went to bed

(^Saterday the 20^)
After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, and so hard a      #
Lector : 
then I went to dinner and, after, took my Leaue of Mrs Gower 
that Came to se me, and so Came to Hacknes, wher I praied 
and then went so supper : after which I hard a Lector, and so 
went to bed

(^The Lordes day 21^)
After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast and then I went to 
church : after, I cam home and praid, then dined, and after     #
went 
to Catezisme and after none sermon : and then Came home, 
and wrett somthinge, then praied, and so went to suppr :        #
after, 
I hard praers and, not long after that, hauinge talked with     #
the 
workime, I went to bed

(^Munday the 22^)
After priuat praier I did write : then I did eate my breakfast  #
 : 
then I went about the house and then I wret out my sermon : 
after, I praied, and so went to dinner : after dimer I walked   #
about 
and had a Lector, and then Came to priuat praier and            #
medetation : 
after, I wret some notes in my testement and then went to       #
supper : 
after, to the Lector, and then I wret a letter to my mother,    #
and 
so to bed

(^Tewsday the 23^)
After priuat praier I did walk a bout the house and then write 
note in my testement : after, I went to brakfast and, after,    #
talked 
awhile with Mr Langdall of his sonne, and then went to 
Skabye to visitt Mrs Bell : then, after 2 howers, I Came home   #
and 
took order for thinges in the house, and then examened my       #
selfe 
and praied : after, I walked a while and then went to supper,
after that to the Lector, and, whan I had despacthed some to
York and Skarbraugh, I went to bed

(^Wensday the 24^)
After priuat praier I went about the house a while, then I      #
wrett 
notes in my testement, and, after I had eaten my breakfast, I   #
went 
abroad : after I Came home I praied, and, sonne after, when I 
<P 80>
had reed of the Bible, I dined : after, I despacthed some       #
busenes
in the house, then I tooke a Lector : after, I wrett in my      #
Comun 
place book, and then praied with Mr Rhodes, and went about the 
howse a whill, and then returned to medetation and priuat       #
praier : 
then I stoudied a while for my Lector, and, after, went to      #
supper : 
after I hard a Lector, and then I read of the book of marters 
and so went to bed

(^Thursday the 25^)
After priuat praier and breakfast I did read a whill for        #
beinge not 
well, partly through myne owne folly, which I humble praie the 
Lord to pardon : I went to dimer : after, I wrett some notes    #
in 
my testement and then took a Lector : after, hard Euerill       #
Read, 
and then praied, so went to supper, after to prairs, and then   #
to bed

(^Friday the 26^)
After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, Read a Longe       #
Letter 
and wret an other, then praied, and after went to dimer :       #
after 
which I hard a great disputation betwen 2 : preachers, then     #
took 
a lector : after, talked with one that Came to se me, and then  #
went 
to praier and examenation : after, I went to supper, then to    #
the 
Lector, and so to bed :

(^Saturday the 27^)
After priuat praier I wret to my Lord Ewre, then I took leaue, 
with some Conferance, of some that Came to se me, then I did 
eate my breakfast, and walked about tell diner time : after     #
dinner 
I went about the house, and then tooke my Cotch and went        #
abroad : 
after I Cam home and took order for supper, I praied priuatly   #
& 
examened my selfe : then I Looked and wret in the houshould 
book, and so went to supper, after to Lector, and then to bed

(^The Lordes day the 28^)
After priuat praers I wret notes in my testement, and did eate 
my breakfast : then to church, after I Came honne to praier 
and so to dimer : after which, I talked w=th= a woman that was  #
to 
bedeuorsed from hir Husbande with whome she liued               #
inceasteously : 
then I went to Church and, after Catezising and sermone, I 
walked abroad : then I medetated of the sarmons, and raed and 
spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the 
morning, and so went to priuat praier : after, to supper, then  #
to 
praers, and sonne after to bed : 
<P 81>
(^Munday the 29^)
After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, then I did go      #
about 
the house tell allmost diner time, then I praied and then       #
dined : 
after I had rested a while, I wrett my sermone, and then took   #
a 
Lector, and, after, I hard praier and a Lecttor, because, in    #
regard 
of mens dullnes after meat and being winter, it was thought 
more Conuenient to be before supper : after, I praied priuatly 
and then of the testement and so went to bed :

(^October Tewsday the 30^)
After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, then I was busie   #
to dye 
wooll tell allmost diner time, then I praied and dined : then   #
I 
walked, and took a Lector, and read tell Lector time : then I 
hard that, and so went to supper : after, I was busie a whill   #
and 
then praied and examened my selfe, and, after, reed a whill,    #
and 
so went to bed 

(^Nouember 1599: Wensday the first^)
After priuat praier I talked a while with Mr Rhodes, then I     #
did 
eate my breakfast, and went a while about the house : after, I 
answered a Vaine Letter, then I went to dimer : then I walked 
about the house and wret in my testemente : after, I walked 
abroad and, when I Came hom, I talked with Jousha, and so went 
to priaut praier and medetation, and then to supper : after,    #
to 
praiers and so to bed

(^Thursday the 2^)
After priuat praier I did eate a Litle, and so took my Choch    #
and 
went to Seamer to see my Cosine Bousers wiffe, wher I dined : 
and then Cam home, wher, after I had walked a while about, 
I went to priuat praier and medetation : then I went to         #
supper, 
after to prairs, and so to bed :

(^Friday the 3^)
After I priuat praier I did break my fast, then I wrought tell 
allmost dimer time, then I praied : after dimer, I walked       #
aboute 
the house, and did pray with Mr Rhodes : then I did read a      #
while 
to my workwemen, and then to the Lector : after, to supper, 
and, after that, I did walke a whill, and then I praied         #
priuatly 
and examened my selfe, and so to bed. 

<S SAMPLE 3>
<P 168>
(^The : 9 : day^)
thes day I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, I praise god, 
without sicknes or trouble : and so, like wise, the 10 and :    #
11 : day 

(^The lordes euen 11 : day^)
After priuat praiers I was busie in the Kitchine and garden     #
tell 
diner time, and, after, tell Mr Hoby Came home : and after I 
had walked a litle abroad, I went to priuatt prairs and         #
examenation

(^The Lordes day : 12 : day^)
This day, I praise god, I hard the exersices and receiued the 
sacrementes with much Comfort, and in health Continewed my 
Custom

(^The 2 day of the weeke 13 : day^)
As, through corruption, we vse not the blessinge of peace as    #
we 
ought, so are we to expecte new temptations to humble vs for    #
our 
former necclegence, and so I haue benne, this day, boffeted     #
for 
better heed

(^The 3 day of the weeke : 14 :^)
After I had reed and praied I went about the house, made a      #
saule 
for a sore beast, then I Came to worke into my chamber, and so 
went to diner : after, I walked a whill & spake to Iohn Dowson 
for Mault, and so went to worke tell praier time

(^The 15 day The 16 day^) These 2 daie I Continewed my
accustomed exercises, and wrought most of a token I sent to 
London

(^The 17 day^)
This day blakeborn Cutt his foot with a hatchett

(^The : 18 : day^)
this day I finished my worke, wrott Letters to London, talked 
with Mr Stillington, praied at my accustomed times, and         #
dressed 
Tho Blakbornes foott : and, after, went to readinge and 
preparation for the next day

(^The Lordes day : 19 :^)
this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation,    #
and, 
in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith : after, I Came home 
and Caused Mr Stillington to Read of Grenhame, and, after, 
I went to priuatt readinge and praier
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(^The 2 day, of the weeke, the 20 :^)
this day my Mother Came to Hacknes, and staied the next day, 
which was it when Mr Hoby tooke his iournie to London : att 
which time, I thank god,

(^21 : day^)
I Continewed my exercises in good health, and at night hard 
Iohn Corrow praie :

(^The 22^)
my Mother went in the morninge betimes, and after she was       #
gonne 
I dressed vp my Closett, and was buseed about that all the day 
tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed           #
publeckly : 
and, after I had performed som priuat dutie, I tooke order for 
peters going to the markett, and went to bed

(^The 23 day^)
Mistress Brutnell accompaned me at diner, and in the after      #
none 
Mr Rhodes Cam home, and his brother Edward, who brought 
me a booke from his wiffe : after, I talked with Mr Coniers of 
Scarborow, who went to London : and, after he was gone, I 
praied, and dressed Tho Blackbourns Legg, and after went to 
readinge and medetation

(^Aprill The 24 :^)
This day I performed my ordenarie exercises, and wrett to 
Mr Hoby by Mr Coniers

(^The : 25 : day :^)
After praers and breakfast I went to church : when the sarmen 
was done I praied, and dressed blackbourns Legge : after diner 
I went Diuerse busenes about the house, and hard Mr Rhodes
read, and after went to priuatt examenation and praier

(^The Lordes day : 26 :^)
After I was readie I went to the church, and, after praers and 
sermon, I Came home and dressed Blackbourns foote : after, 
I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes :      #
after, 
I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bible of the morninge 
exercise : after, I went to the church, and, after sarmon, I 
dressed a poore mans hand : and after that I walked a broad,    #
and 
so Came to priuat examenation and praier

(^The 27 day^)
After priuat praier I was busie about the house, and dressed    #
my 
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saruants foot and another poore mans hand, and talked with 
others that Came to aske my Counsill : after, I went into the 
Garden, and gaue some hearbes vnto a good wiffe of Erley 
for his garden : after, I Came to diner, praied, and went to 
diner : after, I talked a whill w=th= Mr Rhodes and his         #
brother, 
and, after that, went to worke, and hard Mr Rhodes read of 
Mr perkins new booke : and, after, went to walke, and about 
the house, and then went into my Clositt, and then examened 
my selfe and praied

(^The 28 day^)
After priuat praier I went to worke, and, before diner time,    #
came 
my Cosine Iohn Bouser, with whom I kept Companie vntell 
diner : after, we walked forth, and, when he was gone, I        #
dressed 
packeringes hand : after, I hard Mr Rhodes read of perkin, and 
after I went to priuat examenation and praier 

(^The : 29 : day :^)
After prairs I wrett to Mr Hoby and my Cossine Bouchier : 
after, I dined and wroughte tell allmost night : then I         #
praied, 
and, after supper, I hard Mr Aston praie and reade, and so 
went to bed  

(^The : 30 : day^)
After praers I went downe, and, before diner, Came Mr Hunter, 
w=th= whom I kept Companie tell his goinge away. After, I 
went and wrought with my Maides tell allmost night, and then 
I went to priuat examenation and praier

(^May : 1 : day^)
After I had hard the sarmon at the church, I praied and dined   #
 : 
and, after diner, wrett to Mr Hoby by Mr Etherington : after 
He was gone I went to priuat examenation and praier

(^The 2 day the Lordes euen^)
After I had praied I wound yearne tell dinner time : then I 
praied, and dined : in the afternone I receuied letters by Mr   #
Vrpith 
from Mr Hoby, and, after he was gon, I went to priuat praier 
and examenation/

(^The Lordes day : 3 :^)
After I had ben at the church I praied : and, after diner,      #
talked 
of good thinges to some of my neighbours, and, when they were   #
at 
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Catizisinge, I wrett notes in my bible of the chapter : after,  #
I 
dressed the sores I had in hand, and, when I had wretten a      #
letter 
to my Mother, I went to priuat examenation and praier

(^The 4 day^)
After a few drowsie praiers I went about the house, omittinge, 
thorowe necclegence, some exercise before I practised : after 
diner I walked abroad, god notwithstanding giuinge me comfort, 
in some thinges, beyond hope : after, I praied, and after       #
supper, 
hard the lecture

(^The : 5 : day of May 1601 :^)
After praers I went to the church, wher I hard a sarmon :       #
after, 
I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read : after diner I went 
abroad, and when I was come home I dresed some sores : after, 
I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought with in a while : after, 
I went to see a calfe at Munckmans, which had : 2 : great       #
heades, 
4 eares, and had to ether head a throte pipe besides : the      #
heades 
had longe heares like brissels about the mouths, such as        #
n'other 
Cowe hath : the hinder legges had no parting from the rumpe, 
but grewe backward, and were no longer but from the first 
Ioynte : also, the backe bone was parted about the midest       #
bicke, 
and a rowne howle was in the midest into the bodie of the       #
Calfe : 
but one would haue thought that to haue comed of some strocke 
it might gett in the Cowes bely : after this I Came in to       #
priuat 
medetation and praier

(^The : 6 : day^)
After I had praied, buesed my selfe about dyinge some cloth : 
and, after I had dined, I went to the dales wher I was, all     #
the 
after none, seeing som work : and, after I Came home, I kept 
Mr ward Companie tell praier time

(^May 1601 : The : 7 : et 8 day^)
these : 2 : daies I Continewed my accustomed exercises of       #
praier 
and medetation, and was at the Dales all most all the after     #
none/

(^The : 9 :: day^)
this day I kept my chamber and tooke phisicke, being, all the 
night before, pained in my teeth so that I nether slept nor     #
tooke rest

(^The : 10 : day^)
I was for my paine Eased, but my fase was swolen, and so I      #
kept 
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my chamber, saue that I went to the Church, both fornonne and 
after, to the sarmons : and so, I thanke god, had good Comfort

(^The : 11 : day^)
I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read 
to me : and, in the afternone, some of my neighbours Came and 
sate w=th= me

(^The : 12 : day^)
I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke   #
of 
my lord of Esixe treason, and I wrought : and so like wise in
the after none Iohn Corowe and he did read by Course vnto 
me tell a litle before I went to priuat praier and medetation.

(^The 13 : day^)
I Receiued 41 : 
sheppe from my 
Mother
After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes 
and younge Coroow read : after diner I dispatched 
all buseneses in my chamber, because 
I was not well, and at night I went to priuat 
praier, and after supper to the Lecture

(^The : 14 : day^)
In the morning I praied, hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought : 
after diner I went about the house, and kept with my Maides 
tell all most night : then I went in to my Chamber and did      #
some 
busenis : and, this after none, tooke a Lecture of Rhetorike : 
and after, at my time, went to priuat medetation and praier 

from the 14th 
tell the 20 : 
I was both in 
paine and 
weake 
Only the Lordes day, in the Morninge, I 
hard the sarmon, but was so ill that I Could 
not goe the afternone, and was accompanied 
with my Cosine Isons wiffe tell allmost night, 
when I went to bed

(^The : 21 : day^)
After prairs I went about the house, and sonne after to the 
church : after diner I went about and wrought, and, before      #
supper, 
tooke Blackbours accountes for shepe he had sould : and after 
praied and so went to supper 

(^The 22 :^)
In the morninge I receiued letters from Mr Hoby : after, I      #
praied 
and dined : then I wrougt : and, after, I walked to the Dales, 
and at night I returned to priuat examenation and praier
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(^The : 23 :^)
In the Morninge I wrett to Mr warde of Skarborowe : after, 
I praied and went about the house : after dinner I was busie 
in the Kitchine and in my chamber, and after I went to priuat 
examenation and praier

(^The Lordes day the : 24 :^)
After praier I went to the church, and after I came from        #
thence, 
I praied and reed : after, I dined : then I talked a whill,     #
and after 
wrett notes in my bible, and reed, tell church time, to a sicke #
maid 
in my house : after, I went to the church, and at my            #
accustomed 
times went to priuatt praier and medetation

(^May. The : 25 : day^)
In the morninge, after priuat prairs, I sente vp for Mr         #
procter, 
and Gaue him 20=li=, in parte of paiment of a greater some :    #
after 
diner I wrought, and Continewed my acuustomed exercises

(^The . 26 : day^)
I praied, wrought, and dined : tooke a lecture of Rhe : in 
the After none, and then went to priuat praier at my            #
accustomed 
hower

(^The 27 : day^)
After priuatt praier I wrett to Mr Stillingt, and dispacthed a 
messhinger to him : after, I reed, and wrought tell : 2 : a     #
cloke : 
then I praied and, after, eate a litli : then I went about the  #
house 
and was busie in the Kitchine, and after I praied.

(^The . 28 : d :^)
After praier I wrought, reed, went about the house, and praied 
againe before diner : after, I talked with Mr Bell and one      #
Halles, 
that brought his daughter heather : and after I kept Companie 
with my Mother, that Came from Linton : and after I went to 
priuat examenation and praier

(^The : 29 : day :^)
this day I Continewed my accustomed exercises, and was vesited 
by my Cosine, Mr Arthur Dakins, and others

(^The : 30 : day :^)
This day, beinge the lordes euen, I went to the church in the 
afternone and hard the Exercise against the recepte of the      #
lordes 
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