the Doctor's lodgings, and there lay with him, our discourse being much
about the quality of the lady with Mrs. Pierce, she being somewhat old and
handsome, and painted and fine, and had a very handsome maid with her,
which we take to be the marks of a bawd. But Mrs. Pierce says she is a
stranger to her and met by chance in the coach, and pretends to be a
dresser. Her name is Eastwood. So to sleep in a bad bed about one
o'clock in the morning. This afternoon after dinner comes Mr. Stephenson,
one of the burgesses of the town, to tell me that the Mayor and burgesses
did desire my acceptance of a burgess-ship, and were ready at the Mayor's
to make me one. So I went, and there they were all ready, and did with
much civility give me my oath, and after the oath, did by custom shake me
all by the hand. So I took them to a tavern and made them drink, and
paying the reckoning, went away. They having first in the tavern made Mr.
Waith also a burgess, he coming in while we were drinking. It cost me a
piece in gold to the Town Clerk, and 10s. to the Bayliffes, and spent 6s.