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15th. This day I hear the Princesse is recovered again. The
King hath been this afternoon at Deptford, to see the yacht that
Commissioner Pett is building, which will be very pretty; as also
that his brother at Woolwich is making.
19th. To the Comptroller's, and with him by coach to White Hall;
In our way meeting Venner and Pritchard upon a sledge, who with
two more Fifth Monarchy men were hanged to-day, and the two first
drawn and quartered. [Thomas Venner, a cooper, and preacher to a
conventicle in Coleman-street. He was a violent enthusiast and
leader in the Insurrection on the 7th of January before
mentioned. He was much wounded before he could be taken, and
fought with courage amounting to desperation.]
21th. It is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no
cold at all; but the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and
down, and the rose-bushes are full of leaves, such a time of the
year as was never known is this world before here. This day many
more of the Fifth Monarchy men were hanged.
22nd. I met with Dr.


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