So they are truly outwitted by the other
side.
16th. To White Hall, and there walked up and down to the
Queene's side, and there saw my dear Lady Castlemaine, who
continues admirable, methinks, and I do not hear that but the
King is the same to her still as ever. Anon to chapel by the
King's closet, and heard a very good anthem. Then with Lord
Brouncker to Sir W. Coventry's chamber; and there we sat with him
and talked. He is weary of any thing to do, he says, in the
Navy. He tells us this Committee of Accounts will enquire
sharply into our office. To Sir P. Neale's chamber; Sir Edward
Walker being there;, and telling us how he hath lost many fine
rowles of antiquity in heraldry by the late fire, but hath saved
the most of his papers. Here was also Dr. Wallis, [John Wallis,
S.T.P. F.R.S. Savilian Professor of Geometry. Ob. 1703, aged
87.] the famous scholar and mathematician; but he promises
little. The Duke of Monmonth, Lord Brouncker says, spends his
time the most viciously and idle of any man, nor will be fit for
any thing; yet he speaks as if it were not impossible but the
King would own him for his son, and that there was marriage
between his mother and him.
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