great service, and was in consequence knighted and appointed
King's Serjeant, and his son created a Baronet. Ob. 1666.] and
rode in the cavalcade with Maynard, to whom people wish the same
fortune. [John Maynard, an eminent lawyer; made Serjeant to
Cromwell in 1653, and afterwards King's Serjeant by Charles II.,
who knighted him. In 1661 he was chosen Member for Berealston,
and sat in every Parliament till the Revolution. Ob. 1690, aged
88.] There was also this night in King-streete, a woman had her
eye put out by a boy's flinging a firebrand into the coach. Now,
after all this, I can say, that, besides the pleasure of the
sight of these glorious things, I may now shut my eyes against
any other objects, nor for the future trouble myself to see
things of state and showe, as being sure never to see the like
again in this world.
24th. At night, set myself to write down these three days'
diary, and while I am about it, I hear the noise of the chambers
[Chamber, a species of great gun.] and other things of the fire-
works, which are now playing upon the Thames before the King; and
I wish myself with them, being sorry not; to see them.
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