Diary, May/Jun 1663
Diary, May/Jun 1663
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are paid, and then the land goes to Tom and the burden of
paying all debts will fall upon the rest of the land. Not that I would
do my brother any real hurt. I advised my father to good husbandry and
to living within the compass of L50 a year, and all in such kind words,
as not only made, them but myself to weep, and I hope it will have a good
effect. That being done, and all things agreed on, we went down, and
after a glass of wine we all took horse, and I, upon a horse hired of Mr.
Game, saw him out of London, at the end of Bishopsgate Street, and so I
turned and rode, with some trouble, through the fields, and then Holborn,
&c., towards Hide Park, whither all the world, I think, are going, and in
my going, almost thither, met W. Howe coming galloping upon a little crop
black nag; it seems one that was taken in some ground of my Lord's, by
some mischance being left by his master, a thief; this horse being found
with black cloth ears on, and a false mayne, having none of his own; and
I back again wit
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