From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)
Met with Creed, and walked with him a turn or two in the park, but without much content, having now designs of getting money in my head, which allows me not the leisure I used to have with him. Besides, and odde story lately told of him for a great truth, of his endeavouring to lie with a woman at Oxford, and her crying out saved her; and this being publicly known, doth a little make me hate him. Thence took coach, and calling by the way at my bookseller's for a book, write about twenty years ago in prophecy of this year coming on, 1666, explaining it to be the mark of the beast. -- Pepys' Diary, 18 Feb. 1666