No service at our church in the morning. I went to Sam Jenner’s in the morning, with whom I breakfasted. After breakfast we walked to Ringmer Church where we heard a sermon preached by the Rev Mr Fletcher, curate of Ringmer and Laughton, Ephesians 4:30: “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
From Ringmer we walked to my uncle Hill’s, where we dined on a shoulder of veal roasted. In the afternoon walked to Little Horsted Church where we heard a fine sermon preached by the Rev Mr [Philips], curate of that parish and Maresfield, from the 21st, 22nd and 23rd verses of the 15th chapter St Matthew’s Gospel: “Then Jesus went thence and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word.”
I came home by Sam Jenner’s, where I stayed and smoked a pipe or two. Came home about 7:30. One of my servants went to Framfield Church in the morning and to Buxted in the afternoon. The other went to Horsted in the afternoon. No service at our church the whole day, Mr Porter being ill at Mayfield.