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I staid till
the King went down to receive the Sacrament, and stood in his
closet with a great many others, and there saw him receive it,
which I did never see the manner of before. Thence walked to Mr.
Pierce's, and there dined: very good company and good discourse,
they being able to tell me all the businesses of the Court: the
amours and the mad doings that are there: how for certain Mrs.
Stewart is become the King's mistress; and that the King hath
many bastard children that are known and owned, besides the Duke
of Monmouth.
18th. To Mr. Lilly's, the painter's; and there saw the heads,
some finished, and all begun, of the flaggmen in the late great
fight with the Duke of York against the Dutch. The Duke of York
hath them done to hang in his chamber, and very finely they are
done indeed. Here are the Prince's, Sir G. Askue's, Sir Thomas
Teddiman's, Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Joseph Jordan, Sir William
Berkeley, Sir Thomas Allen, and Captain Harman's, [Afterwards Sir
John Harman.] as also the Duke of Albemarle's; and will be my
Lord Sandwich's, Sir W.


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