Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

24.8.1648 (Thursday 24 August 1648)

document 70003490

24. daily rains, but especially this morning, we found it exceedingly wet, it caused a very great flood, abundance of hay rotten, much corn cut and not cut grows, and yet men repent not to give glory to god: this day a thanksgiving at the Hith church for the victory in the north, the enemy in Colchester demand very high terms on which to surrender the town