12th. My Uncle Talbot Pepys died the last week. All the news
now is, that Sir Jeremy Smith is at Cales [Cadiz.] with his
fleet; and Mings in the Elve. The King is come this noon to town
from Audly End, with the Duke of York and a fine train of
gentlemen.
13th. The plague encreased this week 29 from 28, though the
total fallen from 238 to 207.
14th. With my Lord Brouncker towards London, and in our way
called in Covent Garden, and took in Sir John (formerly Dr.)
Baber; who hath this humour that he will not enter into discourse
while any stranger is in company, till he be told who he is that
seems a stranger to him. This he did declare openly to me, and
asked my Lord who I was. Thence to Guildhall, (in our way taking
in Dr. Wilkins,) and there my Lord and I had full and large
discourse with Sir Thomas Player, [One of the City Members in the
Oxford and Westminster Parliaments. See more of him in the
Notes, by Scott, to Absalom and Achitophel; in which poem he is
introduced under the designation of "railing Rabsheka."] the
Chamberlain of the City (a man I have much heard of) about the
credit of our tallies, which are lodged there for security to
such as should lend money thereon to the use of the Navy.
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