So to coach again,
and got to Lippook, late over Hindhead, having an old man a guide
in the coach with us; but got thither with great fear of being
out of our way, it being ten at night. Here good, honest people;
and after supper to bed.
7th. To coach, and with a guide to Petersfield, where I find Sir
Thomas Allen and Mr. Tippets [John Tippet, a Surveyor of the
Navy; afterwards knighted.] come; the first about the business
the latter only in respect to me; as also Fitzgerald, who came
post all last night, and newly arrived here. We four sat down
presently to our business, and in an hour despatched all our
talk; and did inform Sir Thomas Allen well in it, who, I
perceive, in serious matters is a serious man: and tells me he
wishes all we are told be true, in our defence; for he finds by
all that the Turkes have to this day been very civil to our
merchantmen every where; and if they would have broke with us,
they never had such an opportunity over our rich merchantmen as
lately coming out of the Streights. Then to dinner; and pretty
merry: and here was Mr.
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