] to my office,
to tell me, that, by letters from Amsterdam of the 18th of this
month, the Dutch fleet, being about 100 men-of-war, besides fire-
ships, &c., did set out upon the 13th and 14th inst. Being
divided into seven squadrons, viz.--1. General Opdam. 2.
Cottenar of Rotterdam. [Died of his wounds after the sea-fight
in 1665.] 3. Trump. 4. Schram, of Horne. 5. Stillingworth, of
Freezland. 6. Everson. 7. One other, not named, of Zealand.
27th. To the Coffee-house, where all the news is of the Dutch be
gone out, and of the plague growing upon us in this town; and of
remedies against it: some saying one thing, and some another.
26th. In the evening by water to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I
found mightily off the hooks, that the ships are not gone out of
the River; which vexed me to see.
28th. I hear that Nixon is condemned to be shot to death, for
his cowardice, by a Council of War. To my Lady Sandwich's,
where, to my shame, I had not been a great while. Here, upon my
telling her a story of my Lord Rochester's [John second Earl of
Rochester, celebrated for his wit and profligacy.
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