17th. This day I do hear at White Hall that the Duke of Monmouth
is sick, and in danger of the small-pox.
19th. To the office, where Commissioner Middleton first took his
place at the Board as Surveyor of the Navy; and indeed I think
will be an excellent officer, I am sure much beyond what his
predecessor was. This evening the King by message (which he
never did before) hath passed several Bills, among others that
for the Accounts and for banishing my Lord Chancellor, and hath
adjourned the House to February; at which I am glad, hoping in
this time to get leisure to state my Tangier Accounts, and to
prepare better for the Parliament's enquiries. Here I hear how
the House of Lords with great severity, if not tyranny, have
proceeded against poor Carr, who only erred in the manner of the
presenting his petition against my Lord Gerard, it being first
printed before it was presented: which was, it seems, by
Colonell Sands's going into the country, into whose hands he had
put it: the poor man is ordered to stand in the pillory two or
three times, and to have his eares cut, and be imprisoned I know
not how long.
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