Diary, Oct/Nov/Dec 1660 | Page 7

another ship till 10 at night,
and so home in our barge, a clear moonshine night, and it was 12
o'clock before we got home, where I found my wife in bed, and part of
our chambers hung to-day by the upholster, but not being well done I
was fretted, and so in a discontent to bed. I found Mr. Prin a good,
honest, plain man, but in his discourse not very free or pleasant.
Among all the tales that passed among us to-day, he told us of one
Damford, that, being a black man, did scald his beard with mince-pie,
and it came up again all white in that place, and continued to his dying
day. Sir W. Pen told us a good jest about some gentlemen blinding of
the drawer, and who he catched was to pay the reckoning, and so they
got away, and the master of the house coming up to see what his man
did, his man got hold of him, thinking it to be one of the gentlemen,
and told him that he was to pay the reckoning.

10th. Office day all the morning. In the afternoon with the upholster
seeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my
chamber and my wife's. At night comes Mr. Moore, and staid late with
me to tell me how Sir Hards. Waller--[Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of
Charles I. judges. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for
life.]--(who only pleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison,
[General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme,
appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from Windsor to

Whitehall, in order to his trial. He signed the warrant for the execution
of the King. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the 13th.]
&c. were this day arraigned at the bar at 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, he did wholly rip
up the unjustness 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 traitors. To-morrow they are to plead what they have to
say. At night to bed.

11th. In the morning to my Lord's, where I met with Mr. Creed, and
with him and Mr. Blackburne to the Rhenish wine house, where we sat
drinking of healths a great while, a thing which Mr. Blackburne
formerly would not upon any terms have done. After we had done there
Mr. Creed and I to the Leg in King Street, to dinner, where he and I and
my Will had a good udder to dinner, and from thence 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 best that which Mr. Greatorex brought, which is one round thing
going within all with a pair of stairs round; round which being laid at
an angle of 45 deg., 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 Cockpitt to see "The Moore of Venice," which was well done.
Burt acted the Moore; 'by the same token, a very pretty lady that sat by
me, called out, to see Desdemona smothered. From thence with Mr.
Creed to Hercules Pillars, where we drank and so parted, and I went
home.

12th. Office day all the morning, and from thence with Sir W. Batten
and the rest of the officers to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin,
where dined withal Col. Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major
Norwood, very noble company. After dinner I went home, where I
found Mr. Cooke, who told me that my Lady Sandwich is come to
town to-day, whereupon I went to Westminster to see her, and found

her at super, so she made me sit down all alone with her, and after
supper staid and talked with her, she showing me most extraordinary
love and kindness, and do give me good assurance of my uncle's
resolution to make me his heir. From thence home and to bed.

13th. To my Lord's in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance,
but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-
general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was done