To the King's playhouse; and by and by comes Mr. Lowther
and his wife and mine, and into a box forsooth, neither of them
being dressed, which I was almost ashamed of. Sir W. Pen and I
in the pit, and here saw "The Mayden Queene" again; which indeed
the more I see the more I like, and is an excellent play, and so
done by Nell her merry part, as cannot be better done in nature.
26th. To Exeter House, where the Judge was sitting, and there
heard our cause pleaded; Sir -- Turner, Sir W. Walker, and Sir
Ellis Layton being our counsel against Sir Robert Wiseman [D.C.L.
King's Advocate 1669.] on the other. The second of our three
counsel was the best, and indeed did speak admirably, and is a
very shrewd man. Nevertheless as good as he did make our case,
and the rest, yet when Wiseman come to argue (nay, and though he
did begin so sillily that we laughed in scorn in our sleeves at
him,) he did so state the case, that the Judge [Sir Leoline
Jenkins, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and afterwards made
Judge of the Admiralty and the Prerogative Court.
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