That his amours to Mrs. Stewart are told
the King. So that all is like to be nought among them.
22nd. I was very glad to hear that the plague is come very low;
that is, the whole under 1000, and the plague 800 and odd: and
great hopes of a further decrease, because of this day's being a
very exceeding hard frost, and continues freezing. This day the
first of the Oxford Gazettes come out, which is very pretty, full
of news, and no folly in it. Wrote by Williamson. It pleased me
to have it demonstrated, that a purser without professed cheating
is a professed loser, twice as much as he gets.
23rd. Captn. Cuttance tells me how W. How is laid by the heels,
and confined to the Royall Katharin, and his things all seized.
24th. To the 'Change, where very busy with several people, and
mightily glad to see the 'Change so full, and hopes of another
abatement still the next week. Visited Mr. Evelyn, where most
excellent discourse with him; among other things he showed me a
lieger of a Treasurer of the Navy, his great grandfather, just
100 years old; which I seemed mighty fond of, and he did present
me with it, which I take as a great rarity; and he hopes to find
me more, older than it.
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