Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

19.7.1646 (Sunday 19 July 1646)

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19: This week god was good to me and mine in supporting and delivering my wife from great pains: in the day, I was very unprepared, but god was pleased to go along with me and to help me in the same to him be praise: Mrs. Wilsby died of a fever, being well brought in bed, the greater is gods mercy in preserving my spouse: heard of the illness of John Clarke , we may be hidden from one another but not from god;