This done, and my eyes mighty bad with this
day's work, I to Mr. Wren's, and then up to the Duke of York, and
there with Mr. Wren did propound to him my going to Chatham to-
morrow with Commissioner Middleton, and so this week to make the
pay there, and examine the business of "The Defyance" being lost.
23rd. I took coach with Commissioner Middleton, Captain Tinker,
and Mr. Huchinson, and out towards Chatham, and dined at
Dartford, where we staid an hour or two, it being a cold day; and
so on, and got to Chatham just at night, with very good discourse
by the way, but mostly of matters of religion, wherein Huchinson
his vein lies.
24th. To the Hill house, and there did give order for a coach to
be made ready; and got Mr. Gibson, whom I carried with me, to go
with me and Mr. Coney, the surgeon, towards Maydstone; which I
had a mighty mind to see. A mighty cold and windy, but clear
day; and had the pleasure of seeing the Medway running winding up
mightily, and a very fine country: and I went a little out of
the way to have visited Sir John Bankes, but he at London; but
here I had a sight of his seat and house, [The Friary in
Aylesford parish, now the property of the Earl of Aylesford,
whose ancestor Heneage Finch married the eldest daughter and co-
heiress of Sir John Bankes.
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