2nd. My wife this day put on first her French gown, called a
Sac, which becomes her very well.
3rd. To White Hall, where W. Hewer met me; and he and I took a
turn in St. James's Park, and in the Mall did meet Sir W.
Coventry and Sir J. Duncomb, and did speak, with them about some
business, before the Lords of the Treasury: but I did find them
more than usually busy, though I knew not then the reason of it,
though I guessed it by what followed next day. Thence to
Dancre's the painter's and there saw my picture of Greenwich,
finished to my very good content, though this manner of distemper
do make the figures not so pleasing as in oyle. To the Duke of
York's playhouse, and there saw an old play, the first time acted
these forty years, called "The Lady's Tryall," [A tragedy, by
John Ford.] acted only by the young people of the house but the
house very full. To the New Exchange, and so called at my cousin
Turner's, and there meeting Mr. Bellwood, did hear how my Lord
Mayor being invited this day to dinner at the Reader's at the
Temple, and endeavoring to carry his sword up, the students did
pull it down, and forced him to go and stay all the day in a
private Counsellor's chamber until the Reader himself could get
the young gentlemen to dinner; and then my Lord Mayor did retreat
out of the Temple by stealth, with his sword up.
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