I made many
friends, and so did others. At last it was ordered by the Lords
that it should be referred to the Committee of Priviledges to
consider. So I away by coach to the 'Change; and there do hear
that a Jew hath put in a policy of four per cent. to any man, to
insure him against a Dutch warr for four months: I could find in
my heart to take him at this offer. To Hide Park, where I have
not been since last year: where I saw the King with his
periwigg, but not altered at all; and my Lady Castlemaine in a
coach by herself, in yellow satin and a pinner on; and many brave
persons. And myself being in a hackney and full of people, was
ashamed to be seen by the world, many of them knowing me.
19th. To the Physique Garden in St, James's Parke; where I first
saw orange-trees, and other fine trees.
20th. Mr. Coventry told me how the Committee for Trade have
received now all the complaints of the merchants against the
Dutch, and were resolved to report very highly the wrongs they
have done us, (when God knows! it is only our own negligence and
laziness that hath done us the wrong): and this to be made to
the House to-morrow.
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