24 March 1664 – 30 March 1664

It pleased God to take away my son, Richard, now a month old, yet without any sickness of danger perceivably, being to all appearance a most likely child; we suspected much the nurse had overlain him; to our extreme sorrow, being now again reduced to one: but God's will be done.

After evening prayers, was my child buried near the rest of his brothers—my very dear children.