Whether these will be enough to break the Peace upon, or no, he
cannot tell; but I perceive the certainty of peace is blown over.
To Charing Cross, there to see the great boy and girle that are
lately come out of Ireland, the latter eight, the former but four
years old, of most prodigious bigness for their age. I tried to
weigh them in my arms, and and them twice as heavy as people
almost twice their age; and yet I am apt to believe they are very
young. Their father a little sorry fellow, and their mother an
old Irish woman. They have had four children of this bigness,
and four of ordinary growth, whereof two of each are dead. If
(as my Lord Ormond certifies) it be true that they are no older,
it is very monstrous.
9th. This evening news comes for certain that the Dutch are with
their fleet before Dover, and that it is expected they will
attempt something there. The business of the peace is quite
dashed again.
12th. The Duke of Buckingham was before the Council the other
day, and there did carry it very submissively and pleasingly to
the King; but to my Lord Arlington, who do prosecute the
business, he was most bitter and sharp, and very slighting.
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