Martin the purser, who dined with us,
and wrote some things for us, And so took coach again back:
Fitzgerald with us, whom I was pleased with all the day, with his
discourse of his observations abroad, as being a great soldier
and of long standing abroad; and knows all things and persons
abroad very well,--I mean the great soldiers of France and Spain
and Germany; and talkes very well. Came at night to Gilford;
where the Red Lyon so full of people, and a wedding, that the
master of the house did get us a lodging over the way, at a
private house, his landlord's, mighty neat and fine: and there
supped; and so bed.
8th. I hear that Colbert the French Ambassador is come, and hath
been at Court INGOGNITO. When he hath his audience, I know not.
9th. Waited on the Duke of York; and both by him and several of
the Privy-council, beyond expectation, I find that my going to
Sir Thomas Allen was looked upon as a thing necessary; and I have
got some advantage by it among them.
10th. To my Lord Arlington's house, the first time since he came
thither, at Goring-house, a very fine, noble place; and there he
received me in sight of several Lords with great respect.
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