Wherein his Lordship will have no
great success, I doubt. That being done, I down to Thames-
streete, and there agreed for four or five tons of corke, to send
this day to the fleet, being a new device to make barricados
with, instead of junke. After a song in the garden, which is now
the greatest pleasure I take, and indeed do please me mightily,
to bed. This evening I had Davila brought home to me and find it
a most excellent history as ever I read.
16th. A wonderful dark sky, and shower of rain this morning. At
Harwich a shower of hail as big as walnuts.
18th. To St. James's after my fellows; and here, among other
things, before us all, the Duke of York did say, that now at
length is come to a sure knowledge that the Dutch did lose in the
late engagements twenty-nine captains and thirteen ships. Upon
which Sir W. Coventry did publickly move, that if his Royal
Highness had this of a certainty, it would be of use to send this
down to the fleet, and to cause it to be spread about the fleet,
for the recovering of the spirits of the officers and seamen; who
are under great dejectednes, for want of knowing that they did do
any thing against the enemy, notwithstanding all that they did to
us.
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