[It was not usual at this time to sit down to breakfast, but instead
     a morning draught was taken at a tavern.]

they being just come to town.  Mr. Jenkins shewed me two bills of exchange for money to receive upon my Lord’s and my pay.  It snowed hard all this morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much swelled with cold.  Strange the difference of men’s talk!  Some say that Lambert must of necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and that the Fifth-monarchy-men [will] stick to him, if he declares for a free Parliament.  Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote of pardon and indemnity from the Parliament.  From the Hall I came home, where I found letters from Hinchinbroke

[Hinchinbroke was Sir Edward Montagu’s seat, from which he afterwards took his second title.  Hinchinbroke House, so often mentioned in the Diary, stood about half a mile to the westward of the town of Huntingdon.  It was erected late in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the site of a Benedictine nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its appurtenances, to his father, Richard Williams, who had assumed the name of Cromwell, and whose grandson, Sir Oliver, was the uncle and godfather of the Protector.  The knight, who was renowned for, his hospitality, had the honour of entertaining King James at Hinchinbroke, but, getting into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his estates, which were conveyed, July 28th, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu of Barnwell, father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant they are still vested.  On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, during the minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchinbroke was almost entirely destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly saved, and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore, Esq., R.A.—­B.]

and news of Mr. Sheply’s going thither the next week.  I dined at home, and from thence went to Will’s to Shaw, who promised me to go along with me to Atkinson’s about some money, but I found him at cards with Spicer and D. Vines, and could not get him along with me.  I was vext at this, and went and walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spent this day in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters from the North, that brought certain news that my Lord Lambent his forces were all forsaking him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, and that he did now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my Lord Fairfax did also rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and that what he had done was only to secure the country against my Lord Lambert his raising of money, and free quarter.  I went to Will’s again, where I found them still at cards, and Spicer had won 14s. of Shaw and Vines.  Then I spent a little time with G. Vines and Maylard at Vines’s at our viols.