10th. To the office; the yard being very full of women, (I
believe above three hundred) coming to get money for their
husbands and friends that are prisoners in Holland; and they lay
clamouring and swearing and cursing us, that my wife and I were
afraid to send a venison-pasty that we have for supper to-night,
to the cook's to be baked, for fear of their offering violence to
it: but it went, and no hurt done. To the Tower to speak with
Sir John Robinson about the bad condition of the pressed men for
want of clothes.
11th. I away by coach to St. James's, and there hear that the
Duchesse is lately brought to bed of a boy. By and by called to
wait on the Duke, the King being present; and there agreed, among
other things, of the places to build the ten new great ships
ordered to be built; and as to the relief of prisoners is
Holland. And then, about several stories of the basenesse of the
King of Spain's being served with officers: they in Flanders
having as good common men as any Prince in the world, but the
veriest cowards for the officers, nay for the general officers,
as the Generall and Lieutenant-generall, in the whole world.
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