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In fine, he told us that he is a man of excellent
parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to
get up to great height of preferment, but never able to hold it.
3rd. Mr. Moore tells me great news that my Lady Castlemaine is
fallen from Court, and this morning retired. He gives me no
account of the reason, but that it is so: for which I am sorry;
and yet if the King do it to leave off not only her but all other
mistresses, I should be heartily glad of it, that he may fall to
look after business. I hear my Lord Digby is condemned at Court
for his speech, and that my Lord Chancellor grows great again.
With Mr. Creed over the water to Lambeth; but could not see the
Archbishop's hearse: so over the fields to Southwarke. I spent
half an hour in St. Mary Overy's Church, where are fine monuments
of great antiquity.
4th. Sir Allen Apsley [Sir Allen Apsley, a faithful adherent to
Charles I., after the Restoration was made Falconer to the King,
and Almoner to the Duke of York in whose regiment he bore a
commission.


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