To church, it being Whit-sunday; my wife very fine in a
new yellow bird's-eye hood, as the fashion is now. I took a
coach, and to Wemstead, the house where Sir H. Mildmay died, and
now Sir Robert Brookes lives, having bought it of the Duke of
York, it being forfeited to him. [Sir Robert Brookes, Lord of
the Manor of Wanstead, from 1662 to 1687. M.P. for Aldborough in
Suffolk. He afterwards retired to France, and died there in bad
circumstances. From a letter among the PEPYS MSS., Sir Robert
Brookes appears to have been drowned in the river at Lyons.] A
fine seat, but an old-fashioned house; and being not full of
people looks flatly.
17th. The Duchesse of York went down yesterday to meet the Duke.
18th. To the Duke of Albemarle, where we did examine Nixon and
Stanesby, about their late running from two Dutchmen; for which
they were committed to a vessel to carry them to the fleet to be
tried. A most fowle unhandsome thing as ever was heard, for
plain cowardice on Nixon's part.
23rd. Late comes Sir Arthur Ingram [Sir Arthur Ingram, Knight,
of Knottingley, Surveyor of the Customs at Hull.
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