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with a present of wine, which I received with all 

 respect and thankfulness. 



I being thus prepared for my voyage, went with 

 my servants to Flussing, and finding no English man 

 of war there, being loth to trust my self with a less 

 vessel, was at last informed that a Dutch man of 

 war lay there ready to convoy some merchants; I 

 forthwith sent for the captain thereof, whose name 

 was Bankert, and asked him whether it was possible 

 to obtain the favour of having the use of his ship to 

 transport me into England? To which he answered, 

 that he questioned not but I might ; for the merchants 

 which he was to convey were not ready yet, desiring 

 me to send one of my servants to the state, to request 

 that favour of them ; with whom he would go himself, 

 and assist him the best he could; which he also did. 

 My suit being granted, my self and my chief servants 

 embarqued in the said ship; the rest, together with 

 the goods, being conveyed in another good strong 

 vessel, hired for that purpose. 



After I was safely arrived at London, I found My 

 Lord in lodgings; I cannot call them unhandsome; 

 but yet they were not fit for a person of his rank and 

 quality, nor of the capacity to contain all his family : 

 neither did I find My Lord's condition such as I 

 expected: wherefore out of some passion I desired 

 him to leave the town, and retire into the countrey; 

 but My Lord gently reproved me for my rashness and 

 impatience, and soon after removed into Dorset- 

 house ; which, though it was better then the former, 

 yet not altogether to my satisfaction, we having but a 

 part of the said house in possession. By this removal 

 I judged My Lord would not hastily depart from 

 London ; but not long after, he was pleased to tell me, 

 that he had dispatched his business^ and was now 



