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Sutton. Among other things they
tell me that there hath been a disturbance in a church in Friday-
street; a great many young people knotting together and crying
out "Porridge" often and seditiously in the Church, and they took
the Common Prayer Book, they say, away; and, some say, did tear
it; but it is a thing which appears to me very ominous. I pray
God avert it.
31st. To Mr. Rawlinson's, and there supped with him. Our
discourse of the discontents that are abroad, among, and by
reason of the Presbyters. Some were clapped up to-day, and
strict watch is kept in the City by the train-bands, and abettors
of a plot are taken. God preserve us, for all these things bode
very ill.
SEPTEMBER 1, 1662. With Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by coach
to St. James's, this being the first day of our meeting there by
the Duke's order; but when we come, we found him going out by
coach with his Duchesse, and he told us he was to go abroad with
the Queene to-day, (to Durdan's, it seems, to dine with my Lord
Barkeley, [Lord Berkeley's seat near Epsom.


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