I heard something of this at the 'Change to-
day: and it is pretty to hear how people do speak kindly of the
Duke of Buckingham, as one that will enquire into faults; and
therefore they do mightily favour him. And it puts me in mind
that, this afternoon, Billing the Quaker meeting me in the Hall,
come to me, and after a little discourse did say, "Well," says
he, "now you will be all called to an account;" meaning the
Parliament is drawing near.
23rd. By and by comes sudden news to me by letter from the
Clerke of the Cheque at Gravesend, that there were thirty sail of
Dutch men-of-war coming up into the Hope this last tide: which I
told Sir W. Pen of; but he would not believe it, but laughed, and
said it was a fleet of Billanders, and that the guns that were
heard was the salutation of the Swede's Embassador that comes
over with them. But within half an hour comes another letter
from Captain Proud, that eight of them were come into the Hope,
and thirty more following them, at ten this morning. By and by
comes an order from White Hall to send down one of our number to
Chatham, fearing that, as they did before, they may make a show
first up hither, but then go to Chatham: so my Lord Brouncker do
go, and we here are ordered to give notice to the merchant men-
of-war, gone below the barricado at Woolwich, to come up again.
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