W. How came and dined with us; and
then I to my office, he being gone, to write down my Journal for
the last twelve days: and did it with the help of my vizard and
tube fixed to it, and do find it mighty manageable, but how
helpfull to my eyes this trial will show me. So abroad with my
wife in the afternoon to the Park, where very much company, and
the weather very pleasant. I carried my wife to the Lodge, the
first time this year, and there in our coach eat a cheesecake and
drank a tankard of milk. I showed her this day also first the
Prince of Tuscany, who was in the Park, and many very fine
ladies.
26th, after dinner comes Colonell Macknachan, one that I see
often at Court, a Scotchman, but know him not; only he brings me
a letter from my Lord Middleton, who, he says, is in great
distress for 500l. to relieve my Lord Morton [William, ninth Earl
of Morton, who had married Lord Middleton's daughter Grizel.]
with (but upon what account I know not;) and he would have me
advance it without order upon his pay for Tangier; which I was
astonished at, but had the grace to deny him with an excuse.
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