14th. To Epsum, by eight o'clock, to the well; where much
company. And to the towne to the King's Head; and hear that my
Lord Buckhurst and Nelly are lodged at the next house, and Sir
Charles Sedley with them: and keep a merry house. Poor girl!
I pity her; but more the loss of her at the King's house. Here
Tom Wilson come to see me, and sat and talked an hour: and I
perceive he hath been much acquainted with Dr. Fuller (Tom) and
Dr. Pierson, and several of the great cavalier parsons during the
late troubles; and I was glad to hear him talk of them, which he
did very ingenuously, and very much of Dr. Fuller's art of
memory, which he did tell me several instances of. By and by he
parted, and I talked with the two women that farm the well at
12l. per annum of the lord of the manor. Mr. Evelyn with his
lady, and also my Lord George Barkeley's lady, [Elizabeth,
daughter and co-heir of John Maasingberd, Esq.] and their fine
daughter, that the King of France liked so well, and did dance so
rich in jewells before the King at the Ball I was at at our Court
last winter, and also their son, a Knight of the Bath, [Charles,
eldest son, summoned to Parliament as Baron Berkeley, VITA
PATRIS, 1680, Ob.
Pages:
1194
1195
1196
1197
1198
1199
1200
1201
1202
1203
1204
1205
1206
1207
1208
1209
1210
1211
1212
1213
1214
1215
1216
1217
1218