And here the Hall was very full, the King
having by Commission to some Lords this day prorogued the
Parliament till the 19th of October next; at which I am glad,
hoping to have time to go over to France this year. But I was
most of all surprised this morning by my Lord Bellasses, who by
appointment met me at Auditor Wood's at the Temple, and tells me
of a duell designed between the Duke of Buckingham and my Lord
Halifax, or Sir W. Coventry; the challenge being carried by Harry
Saville, but prevented by my Lord Arlington, and the King told of
it: and this was all the discourse at Court this day. But I
meeting Sir W. Coventry in the Duke of York's chamber, he would
not own it to me, but told me he was a man of too much peace to
meddle with fighting; and so it rested: but the talk is full in
the town of the business. Thence, having walked some turns with
my cosen Pepys, and most people by their discourse believing that
this Parliament will never sit more, I away. I did bring home a
piece of my face cast in plaister, for to make a visard upon for
my eyes.
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