The messenger being gone back, Erwin and his
company asked their druggerman what he had said, which he told
them. "But why," say they, "would you say that without our
leave, it being not true?"--"It makes no matter for that," says
he, "I must have said it, or have been hanged, for our King do
not live by meat, nor drink, but by having great lyes told him."
In our way back we come by a little vessel that come into the
river this morning, and says she left the fleet in Sole Bay, and
that she hath not heard (she belonging to Sir W. Jenings in the
fleet) of any such prizes taken as the ten or twelve I enquired
about, and said by Sir W. Batten yesterday to be taken, so I fear
it is not true. I had the good fortune to see Mrs. Stewart, who
is grown a little too tall, but is a woman of most excellent
features. Sir Richard Ford did, very understandingly methought,
give us an account of the originall of the Hollands Bank, and the
nature of it, and how they do never give any interest at all to
the person that brings in their money, though what is brought in
upon the public faith interest is given by the State for.
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