J Lenthall,⁷² in Southwarke did apprehend about one hundred Quakers, and other such people, and hath sent some of them to the gaole at Kingston, it being now the time of the Assizes Dr Pierce tells me the Queene is grown a very debonnaire lady, but my Lady Castlemaine, who rules the King in matters of state, and do what she list with him, he believes is now falling quite out of favour After the Queene is come back she goes to the Bath, and so to Oxford, where great entertainments are making for her This day I am told that my Lord Bristoll hath warrants issued out against him, to have carried him to the Tower, but he is fled away or hid himself So much the Chancellor hath got the better of him.

13th Met with Mr Hoole⁷³ my old acquaintance of Magdalene, and walked with him an hour in the Parke, discoursing chiefly of Sir Samuel Morland, whose lady⁷⁴ is gone into France It seems he buys ground and a farm in that country, and lays out money upon building, and God knows what so that most of the money he sold his pension of £500 per annum for to Sir Arthur Slingsby,⁷⁵ is believed is gone It seems he hath very great promises from the King, and Hoole hath seen some of the King’s letters, under his own hand, to Morland, promising him great things, (and among others, the order of the Garter, as Sir Samuel says,) but his lady thought it below her to ask any thing at the King’s first coming, believing the King would do it of himself, when as Hoole do really think if he had asked to be Secretary of State at the King’s first coming, he might have had it And the other day at her going into France she did speak largely to the King herself, how her husband hath failed of what his Majesty had promised, and she was sure intended him, and the King did promise still, as he is a King and a gentleman, to be as good as his word in a little time, to a little but I never believe it.

21st Meeting with Mr Creed he told me how my Lord Teviott hath received another attaque from Guyland at Tangier with 10,000 men, and at last, as is said, is come, after a personal treaty with him, to a good understanding and peace with him.

23rd To church, and so home to my wife, and with her read Iter Boreale,⁷⁶ a poem, made first at the King’s coming home, but I never read it before, and now like it pretty well, but not so as it was cried up.

24th At my Lord Sandwich’s, where I was a good while alone with my Lord, and I perceive he confides in me and loves me as he uses to do, and tells me his condition which is now very well, all I fear is that he will not live within compass There come to him this morning his prints of the river Tagus and the City of Lisbon which he measured with his own hand, and printed by command of the King My Lord pleases himself with it, but methinks it ought to have been better done than by Jobing Besides I put him upon having some took off upon white sattin, which he ordered presently I offered my Lord my accounts, and did give him up his old bond for £500 and took a new one of him for £700, which I am by lending him more money to make up and am glad of it.

25th This noon going to the Exchange, I met a fine fellow with trumpets before him in Leadenhall Street and upon enquiry I find that he is the clerke of the City Market, and three or four men carried each of them an arrow of a pound weight in their hands It seems this Lord Mayor⁷⁷ begins again an old custome, that upon the three first days of Bartholomew Fayre, the first, there is a match of wrestling, which was done, and the Lord Mayor there and the Aldermen in Moorefields yesterday second day, shooting and tomorrow hunting And this officer of course is to perform this ceremony of riding through the city, I think to proclaim or challenge any to shoot It seems the people of the faire cry out upon it as a great hindrance to them.

26th To White Hall, where the Court full of waggons and horses, the King and Court going this day out towards the Bath Pleased to see Captn Hickes come to me with a list of all the officers of Deptford Yard, wherein he, being a high old Cavaher, do give me an account of every one of them to their reproach in all respects, and discovers many of their knaverys, and tells me, and so I thank God I hear every where, that my name is up for a good husband to the King, and a good man, for which I bless God, and that he did this by particular direction of Mr Coventry.