He cries out against the King's dealing so much with goldsmiths,
and suffering himself to have his purse kept and commanded by
them. He tells me also with what exact care and order the States
of Holland's stores are kept in their Yards, and every thing
managed there by their builders with such husbandry as is not
imaginable; which I will endeavour to understand further.
7th. Mrs. Turner, who is often at Court, do tell me to-day that
for certain the Queene hath much changed her humour, and is
become very pleasant and sociable as any; and they say is with
child, or believed to be so. After church to Sir W. Batten's;
where my Lady Batten enveighed mightily against the German
Princesse, and I as high in the defence of her wit and spirit,
and glad that she is cleared at the sessions.
12th. To the Royal Theatre; and there saw "The Committee," ["The
Committee," a comedy, by Sir Robert Howard.] a merry but
indifferent play, only Lacey's part, an Irish footman, is beyond
imagination. Here I saw my Lord Falconbridge, [Thos. Bellasses
Viscount Falconberg, frequently called Falconbridge, married
Mary, third daughter of Oliver Cromwell.
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