Justice Foster⁵³ and the whole bench, for his debauchery a little while since at Oxford Kate’s⁵⁴ It seems my Lord and the rest of the Judges did all of them round give him a most high reproofe, my Lord Chief Justice saying, that it was for him, and such wicked wretches as he was, that God’s anger and judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah many times It seems they have bound him to his good behaviour (there being no law against him for it) in £5000 It being told that my Lord Buckhurst was there, my Lord asked whether it was that Buckhurst that was lately tried for robbery,⁵⁵ and when answered Yes, he asked whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance at that time, and that it would have more become him to have been at his prayers begging God’s forgiveness, than now running into such courses again This day I hear at dinner that Don John of Austria, since his flight out of Portugall, is dead of his wounds so there is a great man gone and a great dispute like to be indeed for the crown of Spayne, if the King should have died before him My cousin Roger told us the whole passage of my Lord Digby to-day much as I have said here above, only that he did say that he would draw his sword against the Pope himself, if he should offer any thing against his Majesty, and the good of these nations, and that he never was the man that did either look for a Cardinal’s cap for himself, or any body else, meaning Abbot Montagu⁵⁶ and the House upon the whole did vote Sir Richard Temple innocent, and that my Lord Digby hath cleared the honour of His Majesty, and Sir Richard Temple’s, and given perfect satisfaction of his own respects to the House.

2nd Walking in the garden this evening with Sir G Carteret and Sir J Minnes, Sir G Carteret told us with great content how like a stageplayer my Lord Digby spoke yesterday, pointing to his head as my Lord did, and saying, ‘First, for his head,’ says Sir G Carteret, ‘I know when a calfe’s head would have done better by half for his heart and his sword, I have nothing to say to them’ He told us that for certain his head cost the late King his, for it was he that broke off the treaty at Uxbridge He told us also how great a man he was raised from a private gentleman in France by Monsieur Grandmont, and afterwards by the Cardinal, who raised him to be a Lieutenant-generall, and then higher and entrusted by the Cardinal when he was banished out of France with great matters, and recommended by him to the Queene as a man to be trusted and ruled by yet when he come to have some power over the Queene, he begun to dissuade her from her opinion of the Cardinal, which she said nothing to till the Cardinal⁵⁷ was returned, and then she told him of it, who told my Lord Digby, ‘Et buen, Monsieur, vous estes un fort bon amy donc’ but presently put him out of all, and then, from a certainty of coming in two or three years’ time to be Mareschall of France, (to which all strangers, even Protestants, and those as often as French themselves, are capable of coming, though it be one of the greatest places in France,) he was driven to go out of France into Flanders, but there was not trusted, nor received any kindness from the Prince of Condé, as one to whom also he had been false, as he had been to the Cardinal and Grandmont In fine, he told us that he is a man of excellent parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to get up to great height of preferment, but never able to hold it.

3rd Mr Moore tells me great news that my Lady Castlemaine is fallen from Court, and this morning retired He gives me no account of the reason, but that it is so for which I am sorry, and yet if the King do it to leave off not only her but all other mistresses, I should be heartily glad of it, that he may fall to look after business I hear my Lord Digby is condemned at Court for his speech, and that my Lord Chancellor grows great again With Mr Creed over the water to Lambeth, but could not see the Archbishop’s hearse so over the fields to Southwarke I spent half an hour in St Mary Overy’s Church, where are fine monuments of great antiquity.

4th Sir Allen Apsley⁵⁸ showed the Duke the Lisbon Gazette in Spanish, where the late victory is set down particularly, and to the great honour of the English beyond measure.They have since taken back Evora, which was lost to the Spaniards, the English making the assault, and lost not more than three men.Here I learnt that the English foot are highly esteemed all over the world, but the horse not so much, which yet we count among ourselves the best but they abroad have had no great knowledge of our horse, it seems To the King’s Head ordinary, and a pretty gentleman in our company, who confirms my Lady Castlemaine s being gone from Court, but knows not the reason, he told us of one wipe the Queene a little while ago did give her, when she come in and found the Queene under the dresser’s hands, and had been so long ‘I wonder your Majesty,’ says she, ‘can have the patience to sit so long