26th. It is strange to see with what speed the people employed
do pull down Paul's steeple, and with what ease: it is said that
it and the quire are to be taken down this year, and another
church begun in the room thereof the next. Home by coach with
Sir D. Gauden; who by the way tells me how the City do go on in
several things towards the building of the public places, which I
am glad to hear; and gives hope that in a few years it will be a
glorious place. But we met with several stops and troubles in
the way in the streets, so as makes it bad to travel in the dark:
now through the City. So I to Mr. Batelier's by appointment,
where I find my wife and Deb. and Mercer; Mrs. Pierce and her
husband, son, and daughter; and Knipp and Harris, and W. Batelier
and his sister Mary and cosen Gumbleton, a good-humoured fat
young gentleman, son to the Jeweller, that dances well. And here
danced all night long, with a noble supper; and about two in the
morning the table spread again for a noble breakfast beyond all
moderation; and then broke up.
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