A sad, vicious, negligent Court, and
all sober men there fearful of the ruin of the whole kingdom this
next year; from which, good God deliver us! One thing I reckon
remarkable in my own condition is, that I am come to abound in
good plate, so as at all entertainments to be served wholly with
silver plates, having two dozen and a half.
JANUARY 2, 1666-7. My wife up, and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the
fields to frost-bite themselves. I find the Court full of great
apprehensions of the French, who have certainly shipped landsmen,
great numbers at Brest; and most of our people here guess his
design for Ireland. We have orders to send all the ships we can
possible to the Downes, every day bringing us news of new
mutinies among the seamen; so that our condition is like to be
very miserable. Mr. George Montagu tells me of the King
displeasing the House of Commons by evading their Bill for
examining Accounts, and putting it into a Commission, though
therein he hath left out Coventry and --[A blank in the MS.], and
named all the rest the Parliament named, and all country Lords,
not one Courtier: this do not please them.
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