Sunday 20 August 1665
(Lordโs day). Sir G. Carteret come and walked by my bedside half an houre, talking and telling me how my Lord is in this unblameable in all this ill-successe, he having followed orders; and that all ought to be imputed to the falsenesse of the King of Denmarke, who, he told me as a secret, had promised to deliver up the Dutch ships to us, and we expected no less; and swears it will, and will easily, be the ruine of him and his kingdom, if we fall out with him, as we must in honour do; but that all that can be, must be to get the fleete out again to intercept De Witt, who certainly will be coming home with the East India ships, he being gone thither. โฆ After church to my inn, and eat and drank, and so about seven oโclock by water, and got between nine and ten to Queenhive, very dark. And I could not get my waterman to go elsewhere for fear of the plague. Thence with a lanthorn, in great fear of meeting of dead corpses, carried to be buried; but, blessed be God, met none, but did see now and then a linke (which is the mark of them) at a distance. So got safe home about 10 oโclock, my people not all abed, and after supper I weary to bed.
Sir George Carteret (Treasurer of the Navy)
Sir Edward Mountagu ("my Lord," Earl of Sandwich)
Jan de Witt (Grand Pensionary of Holland)
Dutch East India Company
Queenhithe
Lantern (Lanthorn)
Link: A flaming torch to light the way for plague carts at night.
King of Denmarke: Frederick III (King of Denmark)
Frederick was born at Haderslev in Slesvig, the son of Christian IV and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg. In his youth and early manhood, there was no prospect of his ascending the Danish throne, as his older brother Christian was elected heir apparent in 1608. Wikipedia
He was an enthusiastic collector of books and his collection became the foundation for the Copenhagen Royal Library.
Duke Frederick (the future Frederick III of Denmark) by Pieter Isaacsz