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Two men leapt overboard, among
others, into the Thames out of the vessel into which they were
pressed, and were shot by the soldiers placed there to keep them,
two days since; so much people do avoid the King's service! And
then these men are pressed without money, and so we cannot punish
them for any thing, so that we are forced only to make a show of
severity by keeping them in prison, but are unable to punish
them. [Shooting the men was rather more than a show of
severity.] Returning to the office, I did ask whether we might
visit Commissioner Pett (to which, I confess, I have no great
mind); and it was answered that he was close prisoner, and we
could not; but the Lieutenant of the Tower would send for him to
his lodgings, if we would: so we put it off to another time. To
Captain Cocke's to dinner; where Lord Brouncker and his lady,
Matt. Wren, and Bulteale, and Sir Allan Apsly; the last of whom
did make good sport, he being already fallen under the
retrenchments of the new Committee, as he is Master Falconer;
which makes him mad.


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