himself to answer Backewell's
people's occasions, or he must have broke; but committed this to
me as a great secret. I could not see Lord Brouncker, nor had
much mind, one of the great houses within two doors of him being
shut up: and Lord! the number of houses visited, which this day
I observed through the town quite round in my way by Long Lane
and London Wall. Sir W. Pen, it seems, sailed last night from
Solebay with about sixty sail of ship, and my Lord Sandwich in
the Prince and some others, it seems, going after them to
overtake them.
7th. At this time I have two tierces of Claret, two quarter
casks of Canary, and a smaller vessel of Sack; a vessel of Tent,
another of Malaga, and another of white wine, all in my wine
cellar together.
9th. I took occasion to have much discourse with Mr. Ph.
Carteret, and find him a very modest man, and I think verily of
mighty good nature, and pretty understanding. He did give me a
good account of the fight with the Dutch. Having promised Harman
yesterday, I to his house: the most observable thing I found
there to my content, was to hear him and his clerk tell me that
in this parish of Michell's Cornhill, one of the middle-most
parishes and a great one of the town, there hath, notwithstanding
this sickness, been buried of any disease, man, woman, or child,
not one for thirteen months last past; which is very strange.
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