Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

25.3.1672 (Monday 25 March 1672)

document 70016940

March. 25. 1672

the season calm, and cold but good, the times lowering the hearts and lives of men bad, judgements strange and sins worse(,) a child of 8 years a drunkard: Moles wife sought to split a woman at the secrets whom her husband raped. Smiths daughter by a fork forced her body inter anum et vulnam, Lord in mercy keep me from evil.