Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

28.6.1648, 14.8.1648 (Wednesday 28 June 1648)

document 70003440

28. This was the P:F: I was persuaded not to preach, but I did, and had the greatest audience, I had many days before, but truly our hearts are not cleansed nor our ways reformed: [Wet summer] the lord goes out against us in the season which was wonderfully wet, floods every week, hay rotted abroad, much was carried away with the floods, much in but very dirty, and dangerous for cattle; corn laid, pulled down with weeds, we never had the like in my memory, and that for the greatest part of the summer, it continued to August: 14: when it rained that it made a little flood, and commonly we had 1 or 2 floods weekly, or indeed in the meadows there was as it were a continual flood.