took it very well, at least without any anger Here I heard how the rich widow, my Lady Gold, is married to one Neale, after he had received a box on the eare by her brother (who was there a sentinel, in behalf of some courtier,) at the door, but made him draw, and wounded him She called Neale up to her, and sent for a priest, married presently, and went to bed The brother sent to the Court, and had a serjeant sent for Neale, but Neale sent for him up to be seen in bed, and she owned him for her husband and so all is past.

23rd W How was with me this afternoon, to desire some things to be got ready for my Lord against his going down to his ship, which will be soon, for it seems the King and both the Queenes intend to visit him The Lord knows how my Lord will get out of this charge for Mr Moore tells me to-day that he is £10,000 in debt and this will, with many other things that daily will grow upon him, (while he minds his pleasure as he do,) set him further backward.

24th To White Hall, and Mr Pierce showed me the Queene’s bedchamber, and her closet, where she had nothing but some pretty pious pictures, and books of devotion, and her holy water at her head as she sleeps with a clock by her bed-side, wherein a lamp burns that tells her the time of the night at any time Thence with him to the Park, and there met the Queene coming from Chapell, with her Maids of Honour, all in silver-lace gowns again, which is new to me, and that which I did not think would have been brought up again Thence he carried me to the King’s closet where such variety of pictures, and other things of value and rarity, that I was properly confounded and enjoyed no pleasure in the sight of them, which is the only time in my life that ever I was so at a loss for pleasure, in the greatest plenty of objects to give it me.

26th At my Lord Sandwich’s, where his little daughter, my Lady Kathanne was brought, who is lately come from my father’s at Brampton, to have her cheeke looked after, which is and hath long been sore But my Lord will rather have it be as it is, with a scarr in her face, than endanger it being worse with tampering³⁶

July 4th This day the King and the Queenes went to visit my Lord Sandwich and the fleet, going forth in the Hope.

7th The King is pretty well to-day, though let blood the night before yesterday.

10th My Lady Sandwich showed us my Lady Castlemaine’s³⁷ picture, finely done given my Lord, and a most beautiful picture it is 14th To my Lord’s He did begin with a most solemn profession of the same confidence in and love for me that he ever had, and then told me what a misfortune was fallen upon me and him in me, by a displeasure which my Lord Chancellor did show to him last night against me, in the highest and most passionate manner that ever any man did speak, even to the not hearing of anything to be said to him but he told me, that he did say all that could be said for a man as to my faithfullnesse and duty to his Lordship, and did me the greatest right imaginable And what should the business be, but that I should be forward to have the trees in Clarendon Park³⁸ marked and cut down, which he, it seems, hath bought of my Lord Albemarle, when, God knows I am the most innocent man in the world in it, and did nothing of myself, nor knew of his concernment therein, but barely obeyed my Lord Treasurer’s warrant for the doing thereof And said that I did most ungentlemanly-like with him, and had justified the rogues in cutting down a tree of his, and that I had sent the veriest Fanatique that is in England to mark them, on purpose to nose him All which³⁹ I did assure my Lord, was most properly false, and nothing like it true, and told my Lord the whole passage My Lord do seem most nearly affected with him, partly, I believe, for me, and partly for himself So he advised me to wait presently upon my Lord, and clear myself in the most perfect manner I could, with all submission and assurance that I am his creature both in this and all other things and that I do own that all I have, is derived through my Lord Sandwich from his Lordship So, full of horror, I went, and found him busy in trials of law in his great room, and it being Sittingday, durst not stay, but went to my Lord and told him so whereupon he directed me to take him after dinner and so away I home, leaving my Lord mightily concerned for me So I to my Lord Chancellor’s, and there coming out after dinner I accosted him, telling him that I was the unhappy