This is both a research project and an experiment in creating a diary in the style of a Tudor-era woman. Research notes are usually found here, and my primary journal is here.

26 March 2009

On ys day, little but my usual work. Of good note, my Lady daughter 7 her sonnes met with me at an inn yt serves food from ye lands of ye kingdom of Ayutthaya, with whom the Portugese hath so recently discouered and trade with much to yr profit. 7 the food was of strange nature 7 served forth in a straunge way, but of delicate and wholesome flavor, and I not displeased with this, though I found ye fissh cooked in a new sort of milk to be more plesaunt than the noodles which were neither sweet nor spiced in proprer proportion.

Et so also did the Lady Isobel speak to me on her concerns regarding the baby she now carries, and she prays that she shall bear a girl this time, and I hope for this as well. The babe arrives soon enough, sooner than expected, for my lady daughter complains of many of they symptoms that come before she goes to childbed, and I am most worried to see her away from her chambers and her physick when seeming so near to her time.

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