It seems there is great
presumption that there will be a Toleration granted: so that the
Presbyterians do hold up their heads; but they will hardly trust
the King or the Parliament what to yield them, though most of the
sober party be for some kind of allowance to be given them. Lord
Gerard is likely to meet with ill, the next sitting of
Parliament, about Carr being set in the pillory; and I am glad of
it. And it is mighty acceptable to the world to hear, that among
other reductions the King do reduce his Guards: which do please
mightily.
21st. Comes news from Kate Joyce that, if I would see her
husband alive, I must come presently. So I to him, and and his
breath rattled in the throate; and they did lay pigeons to his
feet, and all despair of him. It seems on Thursday last he went
sober and quiet to Islington, and behind one of the inns (the
White Lion) did fling himself into a pond: was spied by a poor
woman, and got out by some people, and set on his head and got to
life: and so his wife and friends sent for. He confessed his
doing the thing, being led by the Devil; and do declare his
reason to be his trouble in having forgot to serve God as he
ought since he came to his new employment: [He kept a tavern.
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