Myself and servant at church in the morning… I dined on a beef pudding and turnips. After dinner I, in company with Richard Fuller, walked to Little Horsted Church where we heard an excellent sermon preached by the Rev Mr Warnford, rector of that parish, from the Matthew 7:12: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”
We, being too soon for church, went into Mr Lewer’s and stayed some time, where I saw and spoke with my uncle Hill. After church we went to Framfield and called on my brother, with whom we stayed about an hour… A very severe cold day; the frost very hard, and between 5 and 7 o’clock in the evening a pretty deal of snow fell. And between 7 and 9 o’clock it rained for some considerable time excessive hard, after which it cleared up and froze again.