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Batten and Sir J. Minnes were aground against the bridge,
and could not in a great while get through. At White Hall we
hear that the Duke of York is gone a-hunting to-day; and so we
returned: they going to the Duke of Albemarle's, where I left
them (after I had observed a very good picture or two there).
18th. At noon Sir G. Carteret, Mr Coventry, and I by invitation
to dinner to Sheriff Maynell's, the great money-man; he, Alderman
Backewell, and much noble and brave company, with the privilege
of their rare discourse, which is great content to me above all
other things in the world. And after a great dinner and much
discourse, we took leave. Among other discourses, speaking
concerning the great charity used in Catholique countrys, Mr.
Ashburnham did tell us, that this last yeare, there being great
want of corne in Paris, and so a collection made for the poor,
there was two pearles brought in, nobody knew from whom (till the
Queene, seeing them, knew whose they were, but did not, discover
it), which were sold for 200,000 crownes.


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