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But above all, I saw my Lord Mordaunt
[Vide note Nov. 26, 1666.] as merry as the best, that it seems
hath done such further indignities to Mr. Taylor since the last
sitting of Parliament as would hang him, if there were nothing
else, would the King do what were fit for him; but nothing of
that is now likely to be. Cozen Roger and Creed to dinner with
me, and very merry: but among other things they told me of the
strange, bold sermon of Dr. Creeton [Probably Robert Creyghton of
Trin. Col. Cambridge, A.M. 1662. Ling. Graec. Prof. Reg.
1672-3.] yesterday before the King; how he preached against the
sins of the Court, and particularly against adultery, over and
over instancing how for that single sin in David the whole nation
was undone; and of our negligence in having our castles without
ammunition and powder when the Dutch came upon us; and how we
have no courage now-a-days, but let our ships be taken out of our
harbour. Here Creed did tell us the story of the duell last
night, in Covent-garden, between Sir H. Bellasses and Tom Porter.


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