30th. To the Treasury-chamber, where I did speak with the Lords.
Here I do hear that there are three Lords more to be added to
them; my Lord Bridgewater, my Lord Anglesy, and my Lord
Chamberlaine. Mr. Cooling told as how the King, once speaking of
the Duke of York's being mastered by his wife, said to some of
the company by, that he would go no more abroad with this Tom
Otter (meaning the Duke of York) and his wife. [Vide the play of
"Epicene, or the Silent Woman," in which Mrs. Otter thus
addresses her henpecked husband, THOMAS OTTER--"Is this according
to the instrument when I married you, that I would be princess
and reign in my own house, and you would be my subject, and obey
me?"--ACT iii., SCENE 1.] Tom Killigrew being by, said, "Sir,
pray which is the best for a man, to be a Tom Otter to his wife
or to his mistress? meaning the King's being so to my Lady
Castlemaine.
31st. To Marrowbone, where my Lord Mayor and Aldermen, it seems,
dined to-day; and were just now going away, methought, in a
disconsolate condition, compared with their splendour they
formerly had when the City was standing.
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