By and by Sir G.
Carteret, and Townsend, and I to consider of an answer to the
Commissioners of the Treasury about my Lord Sandwich's profits in
the Wardrobe; which seem as we make them to be very small, not
1000l. a-year, but only the difference in measure at which he
buys and delivers out to the King, and then 6d. in the pound from
the tradesman for what money he receives for him; but this, it is
believed, these Commissioners will endeavour to take away. From
him I went to see a great match at tennis, between Prince Rupert
and one Captain Cooke against Bab. May and the elder Chichly;
where the King was, and Court; and it seems they are the best
players at tennis in the nation. But this puts me in mind of
what I observed in the morning, that the King playing at tennis
had a steele-yard carried to him; and I was told it was to weigh
him after he had done playing; and at noon Mr. Ashburnham told me
that it is only the King's curiosity, which he usually hath of
weighing himself before and after his play, to see how much he
loses in weight by playing; and this day he lost 4 1/2lbs.
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