change. But I am well contented with it, I
having now nearly 2800l. in gold, and will not rest till I get
full 3000l. Creed and I did stop (the Duke of York being just
going away from seeing of it) at Pauls, and in the Convocation-
House Yard did there see the body of Robert Braybrooke, Bishop of
London, that died 1404. He fell down in the tomb out of the
great church into St. Fayth's this late fire, and is here seen
his skeleton with the flesh on; but all tough and dry like a
spongy dry leather, or touchwood all upon his bones. His head
turned aside. A great man in his time, and Lord Chancellor. And
now exposed to be handled and derided by some, though admired for
its duration by others. Many flocking to see it.
14th, Knipp tells me how Smith, of the Duke's house, hath killed
a man upon a quarrel in play; which makes every body sorry, he
being a good actor, and they say a good man, however this
happens. The ladies of the Court do much bemoan him. Sir G.
Carteret tells me that just now my Lord Hollis had been with him,
and wept to think in what a condition we are fallen.
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