10th At night comes Mr Moore and tells me how Sir Hards Waller¹⁶⁷ (who only pleads guilty), Scott, Coke,¹⁶⁸ Peters,¹⁶⁹ Harrison, &c were this day arraigned at the bar of the Sessions House, there being upon the bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, &c, such a bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in England. They all seem to be dismayed, and will all be condemned without question In Sir Orlando Bridgman’s charge,¹⁷⁰ he did wholly rip up the unjustnesse of the war against the King from the beginning, and so it much reflects upon all the Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned them, yet they must hereby confess that the King do look upon them as traytors To-morrow they are to plead what they have to say.

11th To walk in St James’s Park, where we observed the several engines at work to draw up water, with which sight I was very much pleased Above all the rest, I liked that which Mr Greatorex¹⁷¹ brought, which do carry up the water with a great deal of ease Here, in the Park, we met with Mr Salisbury, who took Mr Creed and me to the Cockpit to see The Moore of Venice, which was well done Burt acted the Moore,¹⁷² by the same token, a very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see Desdemona smothered.

13th I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison¹⁷³ hanged, drawn, and quartered, which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts of joy It is said, that he said that he was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged him, and that his wife do expect his coming again Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the first blood shed in revenge for the King at Charing Cross.

14th To White Hall chappell, where one Dr Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after it an anthem, ill sung, which made the King laugh Here I first did see the Princesse Royall since she came into England Here I also observed, how the Duke of York and Mrs Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly through the hangings that parts the King’s closet and the closet where the ladies sit.

15th This morning Mr Carew¹⁷⁴ was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross, but his quarters, by a great favour, are not to be hanged up.

16th Being come home, Will told me that my Lord had a mind to speak with me to-night, so I returned by water, and, coming there, it was only to enquire how the ships were provided with victuals that are to go with him to fetch over the Queen, which I gave him a good account of He seemed to be in a melancholy humour, which, I was told by W Howe, was for that he had lately lost a great deal of money at cards, which he fears he do too much addict himself to now-a-days.

18th This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker¹⁷⁵ and Axtell¹⁷⁶ should die, I went to Newgate, but found they were reprieved till to-morrow.

19th This morning my dining-room was finished with greene serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome This morning Hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are This night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrow for my Lord.

20th I dined with my Lord and Lady, he was very merry, and did talk very high how he would have a French cooke, and a master of his horse, and his lady and child to wear black patches, which methought was strange, but he is become a perfect courtier, and, among other things, my Lady saying that she could get a good merchant for her daughter Jem, he answered, that he would rather see her with a pedlar’s pack at her back, so she married a gentleman, than she should marry a citizen This afternoon, going through London, and calling at Crowe’s the upholsterer’s in Saint Bartholomew’s, I saw limbs of some of our new traytors set upon Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to see, and a bloody week this and the last have been there being ten hanged drawn, and quartered.

21st George Vines carried me up to the top of his turret, where there is Cooke’s head set up for a traytor, and Harrison’s set up on the other side of Westminster Hall Here I could see them plainly, as also a very fair prospect about London.