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All the afternoon upon my Tangier accounts, getting Tom
Wilson to help me in writing as I read; and I find myself right
to a farthing in an account of 127,000l.
21st. Mr. Batelier told me how, being with some others at
Bourdeaux, making a bargain with another man at a taverne for
some clarets, they did hire a fellow to thunder (which he had the
art of doing upon a deale board) and to rain and hail, that is,
make the noise of, so as did give them a pretence of undervaluing
their merchants' wines, by saying this thunder would spoil and
turn them which was so reasonable to the merchant, that he did
abate two pistolls per ton for the wine in belief of that.
22nd. I to St. James's, and there with the Duke of York. I had
opportunity of much talk with Sir W. Pen to-day (he being newly
come from the fleet); and he do much undervalue the honour that
is given to the conduct of the late business of Holmes in burning
the ships and town, saying it was a great thing indeed, and of
great profit to us in being of great loss to the enemy, but that
it was wholly a business of chance.


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