their houses again in the city.  Then throw Long lane wheir is their fripperie; besydes it their is a hospitall for sick persons; then Smithfield East and West.  I had almost forgot Aldergate Street, on of the nicest now in London, ye shall ever find mercats their; then we go thorow the Moon taverne.  To the west of Smithfield is Snowhill, wheir the coach for Oxford is; then ye come to Hoburn bridge, a very filthy place, the street is large and long.  In it is St. Andrews church wheir I went and heard Mr. Stellingfleet; the coach for York is at the Black swan their; above it ye come in to Lincolnes Innes Fields, a brave place weill built round about, much like the Place Royall at Paris.  Heir lodged my Lord Middleton, heir is the Dukes playhouse, wheir we saw Tom Sydserfes Spanish Comedie Tarugo’es Wiles, or the Coffee House,[471] acted.  In the pit they payed 30 p., in our place 18s.  He could not forget himselfe:  was very satyricall sneering at the Greshamers for their late invention of the transfusion of blood, as also at our covenant, making the witch of Geneva to wy[472] it and La Sainte Ligue de France togither.

    [470] Sir George Gordon of Haddo, 1637-1720 (see infra, p. 177),
        afterward Chancellor and Earl of Aberdeen, now returning from
        studying law abroad.  Advocate, 1668, Lord of Session, 1680,
        President, 1681, Chancellor, 1682.

    [471] Printed in 1668.  T.S. was the son of the Bishop of Galloway.  He
        became conductor or proprietor of a theatre in the Canongate,
        Edinburgh, and published the Caledonian Mercury, the first
        Scottish newspaper.

    [472] Weigh.

After some way ye come to Covent Garden, all which will quickly fall in to my Lord of Bedford by wertue of an assedation which quicklie is to expire, having let of old the ground on the condition they should build upon it and they brooking the ususfruit for such a space of tyme it should finally returne to him; and this they tell me to be a ordinary contract at London;[473] then New Street, Suffolk Street, Charron Crosse, St. Martins Lane.  In its Church preaches D. Hardins, a pretty man.  Heir is York house, the New Exchange, etc., then the Strand and Savoye, Temple bar within and without the Gate, wheir are all their Innes of Court, their lawyers and many booksellers.  Then ye come to Ludgate hil; then to St. Pauls; then to Cheapsyde Crosse; then in to Broad Street at the back of the Exchange now:  their is also Litle St. Helens and Great St. Helens, Leadinghal; also Aldgate, wtin the gate or wtout it; which is either wtin the bars or wtout them called White Chappell; out which way we went to Hackney, a village some 2 miles of London wheir M’ris Inglish hir son Edward lives; saw Bedlan Green by the way and the beggars house.  Neir Algate goes of the Minorites leading to Tower-hil and the Tower, then doun to the Hermitage.  The Custome house is in Mark Lane.