Sunday, August 12 1764

Myself at church in the morning… Just after I was gone to church my brother Will came to see me and came to me church. He and Sam Jenner dined with me on a piece of beef roasted, French beans and cucumbers. Myself, brother and servant at church in the afternoon, the text in John 13:17: “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” My brother went away immediately as soon as we came out of church.

In the evening took a walk to see Mr Porter’s new house. Sam Jenner, being to set out tomorrow for Canterbury in order for to be employed as a hop-assistant, in company with Thomas Davy, for the convenience of being ready in the morning, took part of my bed. A great deal of rain fell in the evening.

Oh, the irregularity of my life when compared to that in my dear Peggy’s life.