And after a little
talk about our business of Ackeworth, went and saw the Lord
Wotton's [Henry de Kirkhoven, Lord of Denfleet in Holland,
married Katherine widow of Henry Lord Stanhope, and daughter of
Lord Wotton; and her second husband the person here mentioned,
was created Lord Wotton, of Wotton in Kent, 1651.] house
[Belsize House, pulled down long ago.] and garden, which is
wonderfull fine: too good for the house the gardens are, being
indeed the most noble that ever I saw, and brave orange and
lemon-trees. Thence to Mr. Chichly's by invitation, and there
dined with Sir John, his father not coming home. And while at
dinner comes by the French Ambassador Colbert's mules (the first
I ever saw,) with their sumpter-clothes mighty rich, and his
coaches, he being to have his entry to-day: but his things,
though rich, are not new; supposed to be the same his brother had
the other day at the treaty at Aix-la-Chapelle, in Flanders.
18th. Alone to the Park; but there were few coaches: among the
few there were our two great beauties, my Lady Castlemaine and
Richmond; the first time I saw the latter since she had the small
pox.
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