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Journal Category: Diary

Entry Date: 1662-03-17

Word Count: 128

Monday 17 March 1662

All the morning at the office by myself about setting things in order there, and so at noon to the Exchange to see and be seen, and so home to dinner and then to the office again till night, and then home and after supper and reading a while to bed.  Last night the Blackmore pink brought the three prisoners, Barkestead, Okey, and Corbet, to the Tower, being taken at Delfe in Holland; where, the Captain tells me, the Dutch were a good while before they could be persuaded to let them go, they being taken prisoners in their land.  But Sir G. Downing would not be answered so: though all the world takes notice of him for a most ungrateful villain for his pains.

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