In the morning my late servant Mary Martin and her sister came to see me and breakfasted with me. They two and myself at church in the morning …My late servant and her sister in dined with me on a calf’s head boiled, a piece of bacon, green salad and a gooseberry pudding.
In the afternoon Mr Long, myself and Thomas Durrant walked to Chiddingly Church where we heard a sermon preached by the Rev Mr Herring, vicar of Chiddingly, from the 11th and 12th verses of the 7th Psalm: “God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day if he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.”
After a churchtime we went down to Mr Thatcher’s and drank tea and stayed and smoked a pipe or two. We came home about 9:20. My late servant and her sister and my present servant went in the afternoon to hear a clergyman (lately curate of Laughton but now become [a Methodist] field preacher) where there was I understand a pretty large congregation.
My servants etc. came back and drank tea at my house, and then my late servant and her sister went home.