John Evelyn’s diary, 1642

I gave a visit to my cousin Hatton, of Ditton.

I went to London, where I stayed till 5th of March, studying a little, but dancing and fooling more.

To Chichester, and hence the next day to see the siege of Portsmouth; for now was that bloody difference between the King and Parliament broken out, which ended in…

I went from Wotton to London, to see the so much celebrated line of communication, and on the 10th returned to Wotton, nobody knowing of my having been in his…