name of God, Joan, what makes you here?  Where is my Lord Lambert?’ She said, ‘He is gone; but I cannot tell whither.’  Whereupon he caused her to rise, and carried her before the officer in the Tower, and [she] was committed to custody.  Some said that a lady knit for him a garter of silk, by which he was conveyed down, and that she received L100 for her pains.”—­B]

My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedom brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is capable of being elected for them.  This day I heard that the Army had in general declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do.  At night supped with my Lord.

15th (Lord’s day).  Up early and was trimmed by the barber in the great cabin below.  After that to put my clothes on and then to sermon, and then to dinner, where my Lord told us that the University of Cambridge had a mind to choose him for their burgess, which he pleased himself with, to think that they do look upon him as a thriving man, and said so openly at table.  At dinner-time Mr. Cook came back from London with a packet which caused my Lord to be full of thoughts all day, and at night he bid me privately to get two commissions ready, one for Capt.  Robert Blake to be captain of the Worcester, in the room of Capt.  Dekings, an anabaptist, and one that had witnessed a great deal of discontent with the present proceedings.  The other for Capt.  Coppin to come out of that into the Newbury in the room of Blake, whereby I perceive that General Monk do resolve to make a thorough change, to make way for the King.  From London I hear that since Lambert got out of the Tower, the Fanatiques had held up their heads high, but I hope all that will come to nothing.  Late a writing of letters to London to get ready for Mr. Cook.  Then to bed.

16th.  And about 4 o’clock in the morning Mr. Cook waked me where I lay in the great cabin below, and I did give him his packet and directions for London.  So to sleep again.  All the morning giving out orders and tickets to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all supernumeraries that they had above the number that the Council had set in their last establishment.  After dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so till night, then to bed.

17th.  All the morning getting ready commissions for the Vice-Admiral and the Rear-Admiral, wherein my Lord was very careful to express the utmost of his own power, commanding them to obey what orders they should receive from the Parliament, &c., or both or either of the Generals.

[Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward himself, or from the Rump Parliament.—­Kennett’s Register, p. 163.]

The Vice-Admiral dined with us, and in the afternoon my Lord called me to give him the commission for him,