better resolutions and fell to my study, learning the High Dutch and Spanish tongues, and now and then refreshing my daunceing, and such exercises as I had long omitted, and wch are not in much reputation amongst the sober Italians.

January 28th, 1647, I chang'd my lodging in the Place de Mons'. de Metz neere the Abby of St Germains; and thence on the 12th Feby to another in Rue Columbier, where I had a very faire appartement which cost me 4 pistoles per moneth. The 18th I frequented a course of Chemistrie, the famous Mr. Le Febure operating upon most of the nobler processes. March 3, Mons' Mercure began to teach me on ye lute, tho' to small perfection.

In May I fell sick and had very weak eyes, for which I was foure times let blood.

May 22nd. My valet (Hebert) robb'd me of cloths and plate to the value of threescore pounds, but thro' the diligence of Sir Richard Browne, his Majesty's Resident at the Court of France, and with whose lady and family I had contracted a greate friendship (and particularly set my affections on a daughter) I recover'd most of them, obtaining of the Judge, with no small difficulty, that the processe against the thiefe should not concerne his life, being his first offence.

June 10th. We concluded about my marriage, in order to which I went to St. Germains, where his Majesty, then Prince of Wales, had his court, to desire of Dr. Earle, then one of his chaplains (since Dean of Westminster, Clerke of the Closet, and Bishop of Salisburie) that he would accompany me to Paris, which he did, and on Thursday, 27 June, 1647, he married us in Sir Richard Browne's chapell, betwixte the houres of 11 and 12, some few select freinds being present: and this being Corpus Christi feast was solemnly observ'd in this country; the