So waited on my
Lord to Court, and there staid and saw the ladies awhile: and
thence to my wife, and took them up; and so home, and to supper
and bed.
23rd. To my Lord Sandwich's, where I find my Lord within, but
busy private; and so I staid a little talking with the young
gentlemen, and so away with Mr. Pierce the surgeon towards
Tyburne, to see the people executed; but came too late, it being
done: two men and a woman hanged. Pierce do tell me, among
other news, the late frolick and debauchery of Sir Charles Sedley
and Buckhurst running up and down all the night, almost naked,
through the streets; and at last fighting, and being beat by the
watch and clapped up all night; and how the King takes their
parts; and my Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable
by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid
shame. How the King and these gentlemen did make the fiddlers of
Thetford this last progress to sing them all the obscene songs
they could think of. How Sir W. Coventry was brought the other
day to the Duchesse of York by the Duke of York, to kiss her
hand; who did acknowledge his unhappiness to occasion her so much
sorrow, declaring his intentions in it, and praying her pardon;
which she did give him upon his promise to make good his
pretences of innocence to her family by his faithfulness to his
master the Duke of York.
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