[Frances, daughter of Richard Jennings, Esq.,
of Sandridge, near St. Alban's, and eldest sister of Sarah,
Duchess of Marlborough, married 1st, George Hamilton, afterwards
knighted, and in the French service; and 2ndly, Richard Talbot,
Created Duke of Tyrconnel. She died in Ireland, 1730. The
anecdote here related will be found in the "Memoires de
Grammont."] This day my Lord Sandwich writ me word from the
Downes, that he is like to be in town this week.
22nd. At noon to the 'Change, busy; where great talk of a Dutch
ship in the North put on shore, and taken by a troop of horse.
25th. At noon to the 'Change; where just before I come, the
Swede that had told the King and the Duke so boldly a great lie
of the Dutch flinging our men back to back into the sea at
Guinny, so particularly, and readily, and confidently, was whipt;
round the 'Change: he confessing it a lie, and that he did it in
hopes to get something.
27th. We to a Committee of the Council to discourse concerning
pressing of men; but Lord! how they meet; never sit down: one
comes, now another goes, then comes another; one complaining that
nothing is done, another swearing that he hath been there these
two hours and nobody come.
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