Uncertainty about his employment by lord Hatton; the King has now returned to London from Tonbridge, where Sir George Barker, clerk of the Green Cloth, has died from drinking the waters; the King to retrench his expenses will put his family to board wages; hears from Ireland that their loving friend Dr. [Henry] Hall, bishop of Killaloe, is dead; successful voyage from Dublin to and from Holyhead of the double-bottomed ship invented by Sir William Petty.