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And then for flowers, they are best seen in
a little plat by themselves; besides, their borders spoil the
walks of another garden; and then for fruit, the best way is to
have walls built circularly one within another, to the South, on
purpose for fruit, and leave the walking garden only for that
use. Sir Richard Fanshaw is lately dead at Madrid. The fleet
cannot get clear of the River, but expect the first wind to be
out, and then to be sure to fight. The Queene and Maids of
Honour are at Tunbridge.
23rd. All full of expectation of the fleet's engagement, but it
is not yet. Sir W. Coventry says they are eighty-nine men-of-
war, but one fifth-rate; and that the Sweepstakes, which carries
forty guns. They are most infinitely manned. He tells me the
Loyal London, Sir J. Smith, (which, by the way, he commends to be
the best ship in the world, large and small) hath above eight
hundred men; and moreover takes notice, which is worth notice,
that the fleet hath lain now near fourteen days without any
demand for a farthing-worth of any thing of any kind, but only to
get men.


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