Into Moor-fields,
and did find houses built two stories high, and like to stand;
and must become a place of great trade till the City be built;
and the street is already paved as London streets used to be.
8th. Away to the Temple, to my new bookseller's; and there I did
agree for Rycaut's [This book is in the Pepysian Library.] late
History of the Turkish Policy, which cost me 55s.: whereas it
was sold plain before the late fire for 8s., and bound and
coloured as this is for 20s.; for I have bought it finely bound
and truly coloured all the figures, of which there was but six
books done so, whereof the King and Duke of York and Duke of
Monmouth, and Lord Arlington, had four. The fifth was sold, and
I have bought the sixth.
9th. Towards noon I to the Exchange, and there do hear mighty
cries for peace, and that otherwise we shall be undone; and yet
do suspect the badness of the peace we shall make. Several do
complain of abundance of land flung up by tenants out of their
hands for want of ability to pay their rents; and by name, that
the Duke of Buckingham hath 6000l.
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