Took physic today. Paid Mr Beckett 16/- for 1 piece of figured lawn bought of him today. Dame Prall a-washing for us all day. We dined on piece of pork and peas and a butter pudding cake for my brother. In reading Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities I find his opinion was (or at least it was a prevailing notion in his time) that the earth was the center of the planetary system. Mr Francis. Elless drank tea with us. At home all day and read part of Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities. My wife very ill. Halland gardener made me a present of 2 melons.