In the morning myself and servants at church… This day the banns of marriage for the first time were published between Ben Brinkhurst and Ann Dallaway, both of this parish. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a plain suet pudding boiled.
After dinner Joseph Fuller Jr and I rode to Lewes where we went to the parish church of Southover and heard a sermon preached by the Rev Mr George Newton, curate of that parish and Hamsey, and rector of Isfield, from the former part of II Samuel 12:7: “And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.” We drank tea at John Fuller’s and stayed and smoked a Pipe with him and came home very safe and sober about 8:30… In the evening read one of Tillotson’s sermons.