20th. To our church to the vestry, to be assessed by the late
Poll Bill, where I am rated as an Esquire, and for my office all
will come to about 50l. But not more than I expected, nor so much
by a great deal as I ought to be for all my offices. The Duke of
Richmond and Mrs. Stewart were betrothed last night. It is
strange how "Rycaut's Discourse of Turky," which before the fire
I was asked but 8s. for, there being all but twenty-two or
thereabouts burned, I did now offer 20s., and he demands 50s.,
and I think I shall give it him, though it be only as a monument
of the fire.
21st. To the Duke of York's playhouse, where unexpectedly I come
to see only the young men and women of the house act; they having
liberty to act for their own profit on Wednesdays and Fridays
this Lent: and the play they did yesterday, being Wednesday, was
so well taken, that they thought fit to venture it publickly to-
day; a play my Lord Falkand's, [Henry Carey, third Viscount
Falkland, M.P, for Arundell 1661. Ob. 1664.] called "The
Wedding Night," a kind of a tragedy, and some things very good in
it, but the whole together, I thought, not so.
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