1651: about the 16 or 18 of April, I sawe that incomparable good conditioned gentlewoman, Mris M. Wiseman, with whom at first sight I was in love—haeret lateri[216].
1652: October 21: my father died.
1655: (I thinke) June 14, I had a fall at Epsam, and brake one of my ribbes and was afrayd it might cause an apostumation.
1656: September 1655, or rather (I thinke) 1656, I began my chargeable and taedious lawe-suite about the entaile in Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire.
This yeare, and the last, was a strange year to me, and[217] of contradictions;—scilicet love M. W.[218] and lawe-suites.
1656: December: Veneris morbus.
[219]1657: Novemb. 27, obiit domina Katherina Ryves, with whom I was to marry; to my great losse.
1658: ...[220]
1659: March or Aprill, like to breake my neck in Ely minster, and the next day, riding a gallop there, my horse tumbled over and over, and yet (I thanke God) no hurt.