20th. Letters from Tangier from my Lord, telling me how, upon a
Great defete given to the Portuguese there by the Moors, he had
put in 300 men into the towne, and so he is in possession, of
which we are very glad, because now the Spaniards' designs of
hindering our getting the place are frustrated. I went with the
letter inclosed to my Lord Chancellor to the House of Lords, and
did give it him in the House. Went by promise to Mr. Savill's,
and there sat the first time for my picture in little, which
pleaseth me well.
22nd. This evening I wrote letters to my father; among other
things acquainted him with the unhappy accident which hath
happened lately to my Lord of Dorset's two oldest sons, who, with
two Belasses and one Squire Wentworth, were lately apprehended
for killing and robbing of a tanner about Newington on Wednesday
last, and are all now in Newgate. I am much troubled for it, and
for the grief and disgrace it brings to their familys and
friends. [The following account of this transaction is abridged
from the MERCURIUS PUBLICUS of the day:--"Charles Lord
Brockhurst, Edward Sackville, Esq.
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