14 December 1648 – 20 December 1648

I heard an Italian sermon, in Mercers' Chapel, one Dr. Middleton, an acquaintance of mine, preaching.

I got privately into the council of the rebel army, at Whitehall, where I heard horrid villanies. This was a most exceedingly wet year, neither frost nor snow all the winter for more than six days in all. Cattle died every where of a murrain.