I observed
this night very few bonfires in the City, not above three in all
London, for the Queen's coming; whereby I guess that (as I
believed before) her coming do please but very few.
3rd. Saturday. In the afternoon to White Hall, where my Lord
and Lady were gone to kiss the Queen's hand.
4th (Lord's day). In the morn to our own church, where Mr. Mills
did begin to nibble at the Common Prayer, by saying "Glory be to
the Father, &c." after he had read the two psalms: but the
people had been so little used to it, that they could not tell
what to answer. [Daniel Milles, D.D., thirty-two years rector of
St. Olave's, Hart-Street, and buried there October 1689, aged
sixty-three. In 1667 Sir Robert Brooks presented him to the
rectory of Wanstead, which he also held till his death.] This
declaration of the King's do give the Presbyterians some
satisfaction, and a pretence to read the Common Prayer, which
they would not do before because of their former preaching
against it. After dinner to Westminster, where I went to my
Lord's, and, having spoken with him, I went to the Abbey, where
the first time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral.
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