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And these dogs are set out
every night, and called together in, every morning by a man with
a horne, and they go in very orderly.
29th. Home this evening, but with great trouble in the streets
by bonfires, it being the King's birth-day and day of
Restoration; but Lord! to see the difference how many there were
on the other side, and so few ours, the City side of the Temple,
would make one wonder the difference between the temper of one
sort of people and the other: and the difference among all
between what they do now, and what it was the night when Monk
came into the City. Such a night as that I never think to see
again, nor think it can be.
30th. I find the Duke gone out with the King to-day on hunting.
31st. A public Fast-day appointed to pray for the good success
of the fleet. But it is a pretty thing to consider how little a
matter they make of this keeping of a Fast, that it was not so
much as declared time enough to be read in the churches, the last
Sunday; but ordered by proclamation since: I suppose upon some
sudden news of the Dutch being come out.


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