Wren this day to town, and tells me that James Southern do
petition the Duke of York for the Store-keeper's place of
Deptford; which did trouble me much, and also the Board; though
upon discourse after he was gone we did resolve to move hard for
our Clerks, and that places of preferment may go according to
seniority and merit at my Lord Middleton's; and I did this day
find by discourse with somebody that this gentleman was the great
Major-general Middleton that was of the Scots army in the
beginning of the late war against the King.
14th. To White Hall, and there walked to St. James's, where I
find the Court mighty full, it being the Duke of York's birthday;
and he mighty fine, and all the musick, one after another, to my
great content. Here I met with Sir H. Cholmly; and he and I to
walk, and to my Lord Barkeley's new house, there to see a new
experiment of a cart, which, by having two little wheeles
fastened to the axle-tree, is said to make it go with half the
ease and more than another cart; but we did not see the trial
made.
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