The King
himself asked about Shaw, and being told he was dead, said he was
very sorry for it. The sickness is got into our parish this
week, and is got, indeed, every where: so that I begin to think
of setting things in order, which I pray God enable me to put
both as to soul and body.
27th. To Hampton Court, where I saw the King and Queene set out
towards Salisbury, and after them the Duke and Duchesse, whose
hands I did kiss. And it was the first time I did ever, or did
see any body else, kiss her hand, and it was a most fine white
and fat hand. But it was pretty to see the young pretty ladies
dressed like men, in velvet coats, caps with ribbands, and with
laced bands, just like men. Only the Duchesse herself it did not
become. At home met the weekly Bill, where above 100 encreased
in the Bill, and of them, in all about 1700 of the plague, which
hath made the officers this day resolve of sitting at Deptford,
which puts me to some consideration what to do.
28th. Set out with my Lady Sandwich all alone with her with six
horses to Dagenhams; going by water to the Ferry.
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