This day I hear
that, to the great joy of the Non-conformists, the time is out of
the Act against them; so that they may meet: and they have
declared that they will have a morning lecture up again, which is
pretty strange; and they are connived at by the King every where,
I hear, in the City and country. This afternoon my wife and
Mercer and Deb. went with Pelling to see the gypsies at Lambeth,
and have their fortunes told; but what they did, I did not
enquire.
12th. Captain Cocke tells me that he hears for certain the Duke
of York: will lose the authority of an Admirall, and be governed
by a Committee: and all our office changed; only they are in
dispute whether I shall continue or no; which puts new thoughts
in me, but I know not whether to be glad or sorry.
14th. I with Mr. Wren, by invitation, to Sir Stephen Fox's to
dinner: where the Cofferer and Sir Edward Savage; where many
good stories of the antiquity and estates of many families at
this day in Cheshire, and that part of the kingdom, more than
what is on this side near London.
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