4th. After dinner with Sir J. Minnes and T. Middleton to White
Hall, by appointment; and at my Lord Arlington's the office did
attend the King and caball, to discourse of the further quantity
of victuals fit to be declared for, which was 2000 men for six
months; and so without more ado or stay there, hearing no news
but that Sir Thomas Allen is to be expected every hour at home
with his fleet, or news of his being gone back to Algier. The
Queene-Mother hath been of late mighty ill, and some fears of her
death.
5th. Went five or six miles towards Branford, where the Prince
of Tuscany, [Cosmo de' Medici, who succeeded his father Ferdinand
in the Dukedom of Tuscany 1670. His Tour in England has been
recently published.] who comes into England only to spend money
and see our country, comes into the town to-day, and is much
expected; and we met him, but the coach passing by apace we could
not see much of him, but he seems a very jolly and good comely
man.
6th. Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of
York what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall;
which the Duke of York did give ear to, and though he thinks not
fit to revoke what is already done in this case by a Court-
martiall, yet it shall bring forth some good laws in the
behaviour of captains to their under-officers for the time to
come.
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