it to any thing of the times.  Besides the sermon, I was very well pleased with the sight of a fine lady that I have often seen walk in Graye’s Inn Walks, and it was my chance to meet her again at the door going out, and very pretty and sprightly she is, and I believe the same that my wife and I some years since did meet at Temple Bar gate and have sometimes spoke of.  So to Madam Turner’s, and dined with her.  She had heard Parson Herring take his leave; tho’ he, by reading so much of the Common Prayer as he did, hath cast himself out of the good opinion of both sides.  After dinner to St. Dunstan’s again; and the church quite crowded before I came, which was just at one o’clock; but I got into the gallery again, but stood in a crowd and did exceedingly sweat all the time.  He pursued his text again very well; and only at the conclusion told us, after this manner:  “I do believe that many of you do expect that I should say something to you in reference to the time, this being the last time that possibly I may appear here.  You know it is not my manner to speak any thing in the pulpit that is extraneous to my text and business; yet this I shall say, that it is not my opinion, fashion, or humour that keeps me from complying with what is required of us; but something which, after much prayer, discourse, and study yet remains unsatisfied, and commands me herein.  Wherefore, if it is my unhappiness not to receive such an illumination as should direct me to do otherwise, I know no reason why men should not pardon me in this world, and am confident that God will pardon me for it in the next.”  And so he concluded.  Parson Herring read a psalm and chapters before sermon; and one was the chapter in the Acts, where the story of Ananias and Sapphira is.  And after he had done, says he, “This is just the case of England at present.  God he bids us to preach, and men bid us not to preach; and if we do, we are to be imprisoned and further punished.  All that I can say to it is, that I beg your prayers, and the prayers of all good Christians, for us.”  This was all the exposition he made of the chapter in these very words, and no more.  I was much pleased with Dr. Bates’s manner of bringing in the Lord’s Prayer after his own; thus, “In whose comprehensive words we sum up all our imperfect desires; saying, ‘Our Father,’” &c.  Church being done and it raining I took a hackney coach and so home, being all in a sweat and fearful of getting cold.  To my study at my office, and thither came Mr. Moore to me and walked till it was quite dark.  Then I wrote a letter to my Lord Privy Seale as from my Lord for Mr.-------to be sworn directly by deputy to my Lord, he denying to swear him as deputy together with me.  So that I am now clear of it, and the profit is now come to be so little that I am not displeased at my getting off so well.  He being gone I to my study and read, and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.  I hear most of the Presbyters took their leaves to-day, and that the City is much dissatisfied with it.  I pray God keep peace among us, and make the Bishops careful of bringing in good men in their rooms, or else all will fly a-pieces; for bad ones will not [go] down with the City.