Philip Lee Ralph
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Philip Lee Ralph, the editor, broadly interpolated the diary and actual diary entries are few and modernised in spelling.
December 1640
22. Will brought the fat ox from Queen Camel, with letters, etc.
23. The ox is killed and "weigheth very ordinary, not half fed, but cost nothing"
Company had been pouring in, and on the twenty-fourth, as the year before, “the good and worthy Doctor [Dorislaus]" arrived from London. Christmas was observed with both a morning and afternoon church service. When Sunday came, two days later, Mr. Freeman preached, after which the procedure was: “To dinner, and then to cards, tables, and the like all the day till supper." Although the house was "full of clowns," still more appeared, including "Sir Henry Mildmay of Moulsham and his full company, who were all of them merry." On the last day of the year, "the gentlemen are gone fast now, and as many left."
On New Year’s: "To dinner came rascal upon rascal without sending for.
And then my bull played the jade; and were merry, etc. Twelfth-day found the house still “full of good and bad." "All were merry, and we sat up till very late and then to bed in peace, I bless God and all his saints."… (meer)