23rd. At noon comes Mr. Evelyn to me about some business with
the office, and there in discourse tells me of his loss to the
value of 500l. which he hath met with in a late attempt of making
of bricks upon an adventure with others, by which he presumed to
have got a great deal of money: so that I see the most ingenious
men may sometimes be mistaken.
27th. In the Park, where I met Mr. Wren; and he and I walked
together in the Pell-Mell, it being most summer weather that ever
was seen. And here talking of several things; of the corruption
of the Court, and how unfit it is for ingenuous men, and himself
particularly, to live in it, where a man cannot live but he must
spend, and cannot get suitably without breach of his honour: and
he did thereupon tell me of the basest thing of my Lord Barkeley
that ever was heard of any man--which was this: how the Duke of
York's Commissioners do let his wine-licenses at a bad rate, and
being offered a better, they did persuade the Duke of York to
give some satisfaction to the former to quit it, and let it to
the latter; which being done, my Lord Barkeley did make the
bargain for the former to have 1500l.
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