18 January 1649 – 24 January 1649

I returned home, passing an extraordinary danger of being drowned by our wherries falling foul in the night on another vessel then at anchor, shooting the bridge at three quarters' ebb, for which His mercy God Almighty be praised.

Was published my translation of Liberty and Servitude, for the preface of which I was severely threatened.

I went through a course of chemistry, at Sayes Court. Now was the Thames frozen over, and horrid tempests of wind. The villany of the rebels proceeding now so far as to try, condemn, and murder our excellent King on the 30th of this month, struck me with such horror, that I kept the day of his martyrdom a fast, and would not be present at that execrable wickedness; receiving the sad account of it from my brother George, and Mr. Owen, who came to visit me this afternoon, and recounted all the circumstances.