His business to me was about
some ground of his at Deptford, next to the King's yard: and
after dinner we parted. To Woolwich, where I saw, but did not go
on board, my ship "The Jerzy," she lying at the wharf under
repair. But my business was to speak with Ackworth about some
old things and passages in the Navy, for my information therein,
in order to my great business now of stating the history of the
Navy. This I did; and upon the whole do find that the late
times, in all their management, were not more husbandly than we;
and other things of good content to me. Thence to Greenwich by
water, and there landed at the King's house, which goes on slow,
but is very pretty. I to the Park, there to see the prospect of
the hill, to judge of Dancre's picture which he hath made thereof
for me; and I do like it very well: and it is a very pretty
place. Thence to Deptford, but staid not, Unthwayte being out of
the way. And so home, and then to the King's Tavern (Morrice's)
and staid till W. Hewer fetched his uncle Blackburn by
appointment to me, to discourse of the business of the Navy in
the late times; and he did do it by giving me a most exact
account in writing of the several turns in the Admiralty and Navy
of the persons employed therein, from the beginning of the King's
leaving the Parliament to his son's coming in, to my great
content; and now I am fully informed in all I at present desire.
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