Having staid here a great while a gentleman that was going to kiss my Lord’s hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hired a Dutch boat for four rixdollars to carry us on board. So they came in where we were, and I being in haste left my Copenhagen knife, and so lost it. Among others I saw the ministers that come along with the Commissioners ( Mr. Rhetor.Īfter that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, where we went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind being very high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to be pulled on shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, and feathers, were swimming in the sea. The hall is a great place, where the flags that they take from their enemies are all hung up and things to be sold, as in Westminster Hall, and not much unlike it, but that not so big, but much neater.Īfter that to a bookseller’s and bought for the love of the binding three books: the French Psalms in four parts, Bacon’s Organon, and Farnab.
Pierce, the other for my wife.Īfter he was gone, we having first drank with him at our lodging, the judge and I to the Grande Salle where we were shewed the place where the States General sit in council. He went with me to buy a couple of baskets, one of them for Mrs.
The women many of them very pretty and in good habits, fashionable and black spots. Every body of fashion speaks French or Latin, or both.
And meeting this morning a schoolmaster that spoke good English and French, he went along with us and shewed us the whole town, and indeed I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of the town. We lay till past three o’clock, then up and down the town, to see it by daylight, where we saw the soldiers of the Prince’s guard, all very fine, and the burghers of the town with their arms and muskets as bright as silver.
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