April 1, 1666. To Charing Cross, to wait on Sir Philip Howard;
whom I found in bed: and he do receive me very civilly. My
request was about suffering my wife's brother to go to sea, and
to save his pay in the Duke's guards; which after a little
difficulty he did with great respect agree to. I find him a very
fine-spoken gentleman, and one of great parts, and very
courteous. Meeting Dr. Allen, [Probably Thomas Allen, M.D. of
Caius College, Cambridge, and Member of the College of
Physicians. Ob. 1685.] the physician, he and I and another
walked in the Park, a most pleasant warm day and to the Queene's
chapel; where I do not so dislike the musick. Here I saw on a
post an invitation to all good Catholics to pray for the soul of
such a one departed this life. The Queene, I hear, do not yet
hear of the death of her mother, she being in a course of
physick, that they dare not tell it her. Up and down my Lord St.
Albans his new building and market-house, looking to and again
into every place building. I this afternoon made a visit to my
Lady Carteret, whom I understood newly come to towne; and she
took it mighty kindly, but I see her face and heart are dejected
from the condition her husband's matters stand in.
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