And so used these words: "That this
place was to the King as my Lord Carnarvon [Charles Dormer
succeeded his father, who fell at the battle of Newbury; as Earl
of Carnarvon. Ob. s.p. 1709.] says of wood, that it is an
excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of
debts. "This day Sir W. Coventry tells me the Dutch fleet shot
some shot, four or five hundred, into Burnt Island in the Frith,
but without any hurt; and so are gone.
7th. To St. James's; but there find Sir W. Coventry gone out
betimes this morning on horseback with the King and Duke of York
to Putny-heath, to run some horses.
8th. In our street, at the Three Tuns Tavern, I find a great
hubbub: and what was it but two brothers had fallen out, and one
killed the other? And who should they be but the two Fieldings?
one whereof, Bazill, was page to my Lady Sandwich; and he hath
killed the other, himself being very drunk, and so is sent to
Newgate.
10th. At noon to Kent's, at the Three Tuns Tavern: and there
the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice
that were found in the dead man's pocket, and but 18d.
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