AUGUST 1, 1667. Home, the gates of the City shut, it being so
late; and at Newgate we find them in trouble, some thieves having
this night broke open prison.
3rd. To the office, there to enable myself, by finishing our
great account, to give it to the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury; which I did, and there was called in to them, to tell
them only the total of our debt of the Navy on the 25th of May
last, which is above 950,000l. Here I find them mighty hot in
their answer to the Council-board about our Treasurer's
threepences of the Victualling, and also against the present farm
of the Customes, which they do most highly inveigh against.
5th. I hear the ill news of our loss lately of four rich ships,
two from Guinea, one from Gallipoly, all with rich oyles, and the
other from Barbadoes, worth, as is guessed, 80,000l. But here is
strong talk as if Harman had taken some of the Dutch East India
ships, (but I dare not yet believe it,) and brought them into
Lisbon. To the Duke of York's house, and there saw "Love
Trickes, or the School of Compliments;" [A comedy, by James
Shirley.
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