(I think he said) when the King
come into England.
15th. Called up by Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me that my Lord
Middleton [John first Earl of Middleton in Scotland.] is for
certain chosen Governor of Tangier; a man of moderate
understanding, not covetous, but a soldier of fortune, and poor.
To the King's house by chance, where a new play: so full as I
never saw it; I forced to stand all the while close to the very
door till I took cold, and many people went away for want of
room. The King and Queene and Duke of York and Duchesse there,
and all the Court, and Sir W. Coventry. The play called, "The
Change of Crownes:" a play of Ned Howard's, [A younger son of the
Earl of Berkshire, and brother to Sir Robert Howard.] the best
that I ever saw at that house, being a great play and serious;
only Lacy did act the country-gentleman come up to Court, who do
abuse the Court with all the imaginable wit and plainness about
selling of places, and doing every thing for money. The play
took very much. Thence I to my new bookseller's, and there
bought "Hooker's Polity," the new edition, and "Dugdale's History
of the Inns of Court," of which there was but a few saved out of
the fire.
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