Diary, Aug/Sep 1666
Diary, Aug/Sep 1666
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d and wounded on ours, and as many flag-officers on theirs as
ordinary captains in ours; there being Everson, and the Admiral and Vice-
Admiral of Freezeland on theirs, and Seamour, Martin, and -----, on ours.
I left him going to Chappell, it being the common fast day, and the Duke
of York at Chappell. And I to Mrs. Martin's, but she abroad, so I
sauntered to or again to the Abbey, and then to the parish church,
fearfull of being seen to do so, and so after the parish church was
ended, I to the Swan and there dined upon a rabbit, and after dinner to
Mrs. Martin's, and there find Mrs. Burroughs, and by and by comes a
pretty widow, one Mrs. Eastwood, and one Mrs. Fenton, a maid; and here
merry kissing and looking on their breasts, and all the innocent pleasure
in the world. But, Lord! to see the dissembling of this widow, how upon
the singing of a certain jigg by Doll, Mrs. Martin's sister, she seemed
to be sick and fainted and God knows what, because the jigg, which her
husband (who died this last sickness)
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