3rd. Sir W. Batten is gone this day to meet to adjourne the
Parliament to Oxford. This night I hear that of our two watermen
that used to carry our letters, and were well on Saturday last,
one is dead, and the other dying sick of the plague; the plague,
though decreasing elsewhere, yet being greater about the Tower
and thereabouts.
4th. This night comes Sir George Smith to see me at the office,
and tells me how the plague is decreased this week 740, for which
God be praised! but that it encreases at our end of the town
still.
5th. Read a book of Mr. Evelyn's translating and sending me as a
present, about directions for gathering a Library; but the book
is above my reach, but his epistle to my Lord Chancellor is a
very fine piece. Then to Mr. Evelyn's to discourse of our
confounded business of prisoners, and sick and wounded seamen,
wherein he and we are so much put out of order. And here he
showed me his gardens, which are for variety of evergreens, and
hedge of holly, the finest things I ever saw in my life. Thence
in his coach to Greenwich, and there to my office, all the way
having fine discourse of trees and the nature of vegetables.
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