James's: which I wonder at. Thence down to the garden of
Somerset House, and up and down the new building, which in every
respect will be mighty magnificent and costly.
27th. Sir Martin Noell told us the dispute between him, as
farmer of the Additional Duty, and the East India Company,
whether callico be linnen or no: which he says it is, having
been ever esteemed so: they say it is made of cotton woole, and
grows upon trees, not like flax or hemp. But it was carried
against the Company, though they stand out against the verdict.
28th (Lord's day). Up and walked to Paul's; and by chance it was
an extraordinary day for the Readers of the Inns of Court and all
the Students to come to church, it being an old ceremony not used
these twenty-five years, upon the first Sunday in Lent.
Abundance there was of Students, more than there was room to seat
but upon forms, and the Church mighty full. One Hawkins
preached, an Oxford man. A good sermon upon these words: "But
the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable." Both
before and after sermon I was most impatiently troubled at the
Quire, the worst that; ever I heard.
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