Our house was very clean, only one maid in it besides the master; we
had a very good supper provided, and being very weary went early to
bed. The owner of this house entertained us with the story of the late
Marquis of Worcester, who had been there some time the year before: he
had of his own and other friends' jewels to the value of 8000 pounds,
which some merchants had lent upon them. My Lord appointed a day for
receiving the money upon them and delivering the jewels; being met, he
shows them to all these persons, then seals them up in a box, and
delivered them to one of these merchants, by consent of the rest, to
be kept for one year, and upon the payment of the 8000 pounds by my
Lord Marquis to be delivered him.

After my Lord had received the money, he was entertained at all these
persons' houses, and nobly feasted with them near a month: he went
from thence into France. When the year was expired, they, by letters
into France, pressed the payment of this borrowed money several times,
alleging they had great necessity of their money to drive their trade
with; to which my Lord Marquis made no answer; which did at last so
exasperate these men, that they broke open the seals, and opening the
box found nothing but rags and stones for their 8000 pounds at which
they were highly enraged, and in this case I left them.

At the beginning of February we took ship, and our kind host, with
much satisfaction in our company, prayed God to bless us and give us a
good voyage, for, said he, 'I thank God you are all gone safe aboard
from my house, notwithstanding I have buried nine persons out of my
house within these six months'; which saying much startled us, but,
God's name be praised, we were all well, and so continued.

Here now our scene was shifted from land to sea, and we left that