21 January 1686 – 27 January 1686

I dined at my Lady Arlington's, Groom of the Stole to the Queen Dowager, at Somerset House, where dined the Countesses of Devonshire, Dover, etc.; in all eleven ladies of quality, no man but myself being there.

Unheard-of cruelties to the persecuted Protestants of France, such as hardly any age has seen the like, even among the Pagans.