The Camden Society 1856. [No.LXVI] Square 8vo. 23.5 x 18cm. Publishers original dark green embossed cloth. Gilt title to spine. Pp. xiii, 142. Corners slightly bumped.

The diary is a private record of facts, preserved for his own use. He paid considerable attention to general literature, memoranda of public events with farming notices, on weather and crops, and gossip of a rural neighborhood. His tone of feeling on the leading struggle between monarchy and democracy was remarkably moderate. At first he looked upon the King’s character favourably, but the current of events induced a leaning towards the Parliamentary cause.

Rous kept this diary between 1625 and 1643, when he was vicar of Santon Downham in Suffolk, recording both local events and reports of momentous happenings in Britain and abroad from Charles I’s accession to the outbreak of the Civil War.