money, till coming to the Vestry, and seeing nobody
of our ablest merchants, as Sir Andrew Rickard, [A leading man in
the East India Company, who was committed in 1668 by the House of
Lords, during their proceedings on the petition of Skinner, VIDE
JOURNALS, He purchased the advowson of his parish, St. Olave,
Hart Street, and left it to trustees IN PERPETUUM, who still
present the Rector. He was knighted by Charles II,. July 10th,
1662.] to do it, I thought it not decent for me to do it.
7th. To White Hall, and there saw the King come out of chapel
after prayers in the afternoon, which he is never at but after
having received the Sacrament: and the Court, I perceive, is
quite out of mourning; and some very fine; among others, my Lord
Gerard, in a very rich vest and coate. Here I met with my Lord
Bellasses: and it is pretty to see what a formal story he tells
me of his leaving his place upon the death of my Lord Cleveland,
[Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland.] by which he is become
Captain of the Pensioners; and that the King did leave it to him
to keep the other or take this; whereas I know the contrary, that
they had a mind to have him away from Tangier.
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