19th, This day was buried; (but I could not be there) my cosen
Percivall Angler: and yesterday I received the news that Dr. Tom
Pepys is dead, at Impington.
21st. Mr. Povy carried me to Somerset House, and there showed me
the Queene-Mother's chamber and closet, most beautiful places for
furniture and pictures; and so down the great stone stairs to the
garden, and tried the brave echo upon the stairs; which continues
a voice so long as the singing three notes, concords, one after
another, they all three shall sound in consort together a good
while most pleasantly.
23rd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall;
but there finding the Duke gone to his lodgings in St, James's
for alltogether, his Duchesse being ready to lie in, we to him,
and there did our usual business. and here I met the great news
confirmed by the Duke's own relation, by a letter from Captain
Allen. First, of our own loss of two ships, the Phoenix and
Nonsuch, in the Bay of Gibraltar: then of his and his seven
ships with him, in the Bay of Cales, or thereabouts, fighting
with the 34 Dutch Smyrna fleet; sinking the King Salamon, a ship
worth a 150,000l.
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