31st. Meeting yesterday the Searchers with their rods in their
hands coming from Captain Cocke's house, I did overhear them say
that his Black did not die of the plague. About nine at night I
come home, and anon comes Mrs. Coleman [Probably the person
mentioned in the following extract from MALONE'S ACCOUNT OF THE
ENGLISH STAGE. "In 1659 or 60, in imitation of foreign theatres,
women were first introduced on the scene. In 1656, indeed, Mrs.
Coleman, wife to Mr. Edward Coleman, represented Ianthe in the
first part of the Siege of Rhodes: but the little she had to say
was spoken in recitative."] and her husband, and she sung very
finely, though her voice is decayed as to strength but mighty
sweet though soft, and a pleasant jolly woman, and in mighty good
humour. She sung part of the Opera, though she would not own she
did get any of it without book in order to the stage. Thus we
end the month. The whole number of deaths being 1388, and of
them of the plague, 1031. Want of money in the Navy puts every
thing out of order. Men grow mutinous; and nobody here to mind
the business of the Navy but myself.
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