She seemed to me a very comely woman: but
I hope to see more of her on May-day.
28th. To Deptford, and there I walked down the Yard, Shish and
Cox with me; and discoursed about cleaning of the wet docke, and
heard (which I had before) how, when the docke was made, a ship
of near 500 tons was there found; a ship supposed of Queene
Elizabeth's time, and well wrought, with a great deal of stone
shot in her of eighteen inches diameter, which was shot then in
use: and afterwards meeting with Captain Perriman and Mr. Castle
at Half-way Tree, they tell me of stone-shot of thirty-six inches
diameter, which they shot out of mortar-pieces.
29th. I hear that the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of York's son,
[James, second son to the Duke of York. Born 1663, and created
Duke of Cambridge that year.] is very sick; and my Lord
Treasurer very bad of the stone, and hath been so some days. Sir
G. Carteret tells me my Lord Arlington hath done like a gentleman
by him in all things. He says, if my Lord were here, he were the
fittest man to be Lord Treasurer of any man in England; and he
thinks it might be compassed; for he confesses that the King's
matters do suffer through the inability of this man, who is
likely to die, and he will propound him to the King.
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