Myself and servant at church in the morning… My Old acquaintance (and I wish I could with propriety say, “worthy acquaintance”) Mr John Tucker, came to see me after churchtime and dined with me on a bullock’s tongue boiled and turnips. My servant only at church in the afternoon. Mr Tucker went away during churchtime.
Sam Jenner drank tea with me, to whom and Thomas Durrant I read 3 of Tillotson’s sermons. A very cold sharp frosty day, and so has been every day since the 23rd or 24th of December. The frost is now so severe that I believe there is ice 5 inches thick; the dust in the highways steams as in summer, and really it is as good travelling for carriages in most places.