Volume II Part 2 (1/2)

24th March, 1666 Sent 2,000 to Chatham

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1st April, 1666 To London, to consult about ordering the natural rarities belonging to the repository of the Royal Society; referred to a Committee

10th April, 1666 Visited Sir William D'Oyly, surprised with a fit of apoplexy, and in extreer

11th April, 1666 Dr Bathurst preached before the King, from ”I say unto you all, watch”--a seasonable and most excellent discourse When his Majesty came from chapel, he called to me in the lobby, and toldlong since made me of the Commission); which I declined as inconsistent with the other service I was engaged in, and huave hie of the peace between the, which came to me in a letter from France before the Secretaries of State had any news of it After this, his Majesty again asked ht supply my place of Justice of Peace (the office in the world I had ard of the perpetual trouble thereof in these nu coive immediate notice of to my Lord Chancellor, and I should be excused; for which I rendered his Majesty many thanks From thence, I went to the Royal Society, where I was chosen by twenty-seven voices to be one of their Council for the ensuing year; but, upon ot to be excused--and so home

15th April, 1666 Our parish was now ue than ever, and so was all the country about, though almost quite ceased at London

24th April, 1666 To London about our Mint-Commission, and sat in the inner Court of Wards

8th May, 1666 To Queensborough, where finding the Richate, I sailed to the buoy of the Nore to my Lord-General and Prince Rupert, where was the Rendezvous of theto meet the Hollander Went to visit my cousin, Hales, at a sweetly-watered place at Chilston, near Bockton The next , to Leeds Castle, once a famous hold, now hired by me of my Lord Culpeper for a prison Here I flowed the drywater into the court of the Castle to an old fountain, and took order for the repairs

22d May, 1666 Waited on my Lord Chancellor at his new palace; and Lord Berkeley's built next to it

24th May, 1666 Dined with Lord Cornbury, now made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen; who kept a very honorable table

1st June, 1666 Being in uns go thick off, I took horse and rode that night to Rochester; thence next day toward the Downs and seacoast, but ate, who told me what passed, or rather what had not passed, I returned to London, there being no noise, or appearance at Deal, or on that coast of any engage this to his Majesty, who, and knowing that Prince Rupert was loose about three at St

Helen's Point at N of the Isle of Wight, it greatly rejoiced him; but he was astonished when I assured hiuns in the Downs, nor did the Lieutenant who landed there by five that

3d June, 1666 Whitsunday After serht, and had been all Saturday, and that Captain Harman's shi+p (the Henry) was like to be burnt Then a letter from Mr Bertie that Prince Rupert was co toloose and in the way), and put new courage into our fleet, now in athe chasers; that the Duke of Albeer So, having been uns still roaring very fiercely

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5th June, 1666 I went this ht

6th June, 1666 Came Sir Daniel Harvey from the General and related the dreadful encounter, on which his Majesty commanded eons It was on the sole in the chapelwith e on our side, his Majesty coiven as for a victory The Dean of the chapel going down to give notice of it to the other Dean officiating; and notice was likewise sent to St

Paul's and Westminster Abbey But this was no sooner over, than news careat both in shi+ps and ate was burnt, and as noble a vessel of ninety brass guns lost; and the taking of Sir George Ayscue, and exceeding shattering of both fleets; so as both being obstinate, both parted rather for want of a like a lion; which exceedingly abated of our foriven for bonfires and bells; but, God knows, it was rather a deliverance than a triumph So much it pleased God to hu could withstand the Duke of Albe of his success now, because he had once beaten the Dutch in another quarrel; and being ambitious to outdo the Earl of Sandwich, whoe

7th June, 1666 I sent eons, linen, medicaments, etc, to the several ports in my district

8th June, 1666 Dined with me Sir Alexander Fraser, prime physician to his Majesty; afterward, went on board his Majesty's pleasure-boat, when I saw the London frigate launched, a most stately shi+p, built by the City to supply that which was burnt by accident so there with great banquet

11th June, 1666 Trinity Monday, after a ser of the Corporation of the Trinity-House, after the late raging and wasting pestilence: I dined with them in their new room in Deptford, the first time since it was rebuilt

15th June, 1666 I went to Chatham--16th In the Jemmy yacht (an incomparable sailer) to sea, arrived by noon at the fleet at the Buoy at the Nore, dined with Prince Rupert and the General

17th June, 1666 Came his Majesty, the Duke, and many noble dispatched, I returned to Chathaht in the Royal Charles; we had a tempestuous sea I went on shore at Sheerness, where they were building an arsenal for the fleet, and designing a royal fort with a receptacle for great shi+ps to ride at anchor; but here I beheld the sad spectacle, do rather so led us The loss of the Prince, that gallant vessel, had been a loss to be universally deplored, none knowing for what reason we first engaged in this ungrateful e lost besides nine or ten more, and near 600 men slain and 1,100 wounded, 2,000 prisoners; to balance which, perhaps we hteen or twenty of the enemy's shi+ps, and 700 or 800 poor ht, I returned home