1748 December 26 (Monday). A very pleasant Day. I rode out p.m. as far as Mr. Ebenezer Rice’s and Deacon Newtons — finished reading Εικωυ Βασιλικη Δεμτερα or the Portraiture of King Charles the second.[1] Ebenezer thrashing Rye
[1]Εικωυ Βασιλικη Δεμτερα, The Portraiture of his sacred Majesty, King Charles, II (London, 1694).