Huntingdon -- Sleep comes furtively, it creeps noiselessly, like temptation though without the wretched relief surrender to such brings, even if it be for a moment; and brings not rest. I sink to peculiar dreams. In Winthrop’s study, where there was a chair, with red cushions, and he said I may sleep on it if I wish. That a godly man, a brushmaker, threw a stone at a cross, and a drunken cavalier made him kneel before it and say a prayer for the pope. That I stood on the banks of the Ouse, and there is a great roaring, of wind and water, as in the forests of America,  and this a comfort. I can only think this is because this dream Sarah is alive and though I am alone in darkness she waits for me. I am vile vile vile vile vile, there are many songs she would sing.

My cousin James Hathaway lectured today, at St John’s, on Titus 3,1, "to obey magistrates." He spoke of Jehoahaz, and Jehoiakim, and other kings of Israel, who did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

--And he saith, that tho Israel asked for a King, 'twas not to rule as absolute and despotical, but constrained by Law,  and with authority granted from the nation of Israel conditional upon that;

--and in this, it can be seen that England, though not the Chosen People, is through Christ adopted to Israel, a stepbrother and this seen in that God acting through the Barons constrained the Norman despots with Magna Carta, and the Courts, and the Common Law; and as England, with Israel, alone of the nations so constrains, so the kinship proven;

--And that what Paul intendeth in writing to Titus, was that magistrates and kings are to be obeyed only in that they apply the laws justly, and do not innovate, and do not make of them something that they are not, or apply them where not meant to be applied;

-and those that do so, that is innovate and misapply are to be rejected; and the people must needs do this, or God shall bring ruin to England, as ruin came to Judah, and Israel.

James is a most able minister, in the plain and unadorned style, with homely figures, and honest words; he hath no living, Laud's creature Wren the bishop at Ely's having turned him out from a church at Ramsay, but my brother Sydney, who it seems hath become prosperous, endowed a lectureship in the name of a company called the Society of the Unknown Endeavour which James said, quite openly, smuggled wine, etc from Holland, to avoid the King's duties; this a resistance, James said, that is countenanced, the King's fiddling with the customs to the wreck of trade and the engorgement of his court being an innovation much disliked by God.

He told me this, and much else, in the Falcon, after the lecture; he ate heartily, a dish of veal and orange, which he saith is a dish for which the Falcon is famous. He also lectures weekly at Holyfen; I asked after my father. He seemed to pause, and said he saw little of father, or my brother Thomas, they being of the Church of England, and disliking those called Puritans, so they did not attend the lecture.

He then told me how in 1640 Charles, needing money for the war on Scotland, sought a treaty with Spain; they would give him £300,000, if he joined in their war against the Dutch, and allowed the recruiting of soldiers in Ireland: this design stopped only by the swift action of my lords Brooke, and Say, and Warwick. James said the Spaniard nevertheless came to Ireland, with priests and arms, and trained men there, and it's these that are now terrorizing the countryside, killing and murder etc. He said also that the Spaniard by secret ways came to England, and hid arms in the houses of recusants in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, and Kent, and wait but soldiers loyal to the King, or a landing of troops from Ireland, or Spaniards, to unleash murder on the countryside, and then obtain London by several quick marches.

The smell of the beer was torture, and so too the woman that served, she

My Uncle then came us, with Desborough, and Valentine Walton, and son, and a James Berry, from an Ironworks, and my Uncle said, James says naught but the truth, and understates it, even; and thus, he said, we must strike while the iron is hot, and make it hot by striking. Yes, I said; so too in America, when we fought the savages. I said that I had written to my lord Saye, asking he recommend me to the Lifeguard of Essex; my uncle wished me success with that, then James said he would ride with them, and so they left to Cambridge.