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Hereupon my Lady did confess to me, as a
great secret, her being concerned in this story. For if this
match breaks between my Lord Rochester and her, then, by the
consent of all her friends, my Lord Hinchingbroke stands fair,
and is invited for her. She is worth, and will be at her
mother's death, (who keeps but a little from her,) 2500l. per
annum. Pray God give a good success to it! But my poor Lady who
is afraid of the sickness, and resolved to be gone into the
country, is forced to stay in town a day or two, or three about
it, to see the event of it. Thence to see my Lady Pen, where my
wife and I were shown a fine rarity: of fishes kept in a glass
of water, that will live so for ever; and finely marked they are,
being foreign.
29th. We have every where taken some prizes. Our merchants had
good luck to come home safe; Colliers from the North, and some
Streights men, just now. And our Hambrough ships, of whom we
were so much afraid, are safe in Hambrough. Our fleete resolve
to sail out again from Harwich in a day or two.


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