and resolves not to give. Thence by water with
Sir W. Batten to Trinity House, there to dine with him, which we did;
and after dinner we fell talking, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Batten and I; Mr.
Batten telling us of a late triall of Sir Charles Sydly the other
day, before my Lord Chief Justice Foster and the whole bench, for his
debauchery a little while since at Oxford Kate's,

[The details in the original are very gross. Dr. Johnson relates
the story in the "Lives of the Poets," in his life of Sackville,
Lord Dorset "Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir
Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock, in Bow
Street, by Covent Garden, and going into the balcony exposed
themselves to the populace in very indecent postures. At last, as
they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the
populace in such profane language, that the publick indignation was
awakened; the crowd attempted to force the door, and being repulsed,
drove in the performers with stones, and broke the windows of the
house. For this misdemeanour they were indicted, and Sedley was
fined five hundred pounds; what was the sentence of the others is
not known. Sedley employed [Henry] Killigrew and another to procure
a remission from the King, but (mark the friendship of the
dissolute!) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to
the last groat." The woman known as Oxford Kate appears to have
kept the notorious Cock Tavern in Bow Street at this date.]

coming in open day into the Balcone and showed his nakedness,.... and
abusing of scripture and as it were from thence preaching a mountebank
sermon from the pulpit, saying that there he had to sell such a powder
as should make all the [women] in town run after him, 1000 people
standing underneath to see and hear him, and that being done he took a
glass of wine.... and then drank it off, and then took another and drank
the King's health. It seems my Lord and the rest of the judges did
all of them round give him a most high reproof; my Lord Chief justice
saying, that it was for him, and such wicked wretches as he was, that
God's anger and judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah many times.
It's said they have bound him to his good behaviour (there being no law
against him for it) in L5000. It being told that my Lord Buckhurst was
there, my Lord asked whether it was that Buckhurst that