llinger to do it because I perceive by my accounts that I shall be
better by L30 than I expected to be. But by tomorrow night I intend to
see to the bottom of all my accounts. Then home to dinner, where Mr.
Moore met me. Then he went away, and I to the office and dispatch much
business. So in the evening, my wife and I and Jane over the water to
the Halfway-house, a pretty, pleasant walk, but the wind high. So home
again and to bed.
21st. Up about four o'clock, and settled some private business of my
own, then made me ready and to the office to prepare things for our
meeting to-day. By and by we met, and at noon Sir W. Pen and I to the
Trinity House; where was a feast made by the Wardens, when great good
cheer, and much, but ordinary company. The Lieutenant of the Tower, upon
my demanding how Sir H. Vane died, told me that he died in a passion;
but all confess with so much courage as never man died. Thence to
the office, where Sir W. Rider, Capt. Cocke, and Mr. Cutler came by
appointment to meet me to confer about the contract between us and them
for 500 tons of hemp. That being done, I did other business and so went
home, and there found Mr. Creed, who staid talking with my wife and me
an hour or two, and I put on my riding cloth suit, only for him to
see how it is, and I think it will do very well. He being gone, and I
hearing from my wife and the maids' complaints made of the boy, I called
him up, and with my whip did whip him till I was not able to stir, and
yet I could not make him confess any of the lies that they tax him with.
At last, not willing to let him go away a conqueror, I took him in task
again, and pulled off his frock to his shirt, and whipped him till he
did confess that he did drink the whey, which he had denied, and pulled
a pink, and above all did lay the candlestick upon the ground in his
chamber, which he had denied this quarter of a year. I confess it is one
of the greatest wonders that ever I met with that such a little boy as
he could possibly be able to suffer half so much as he did to maintain
a lie. I think I must be forced to put him away. So to bed, with my arm
very weary.
22nd (Lord's day). This day I first put on my slasht doublet, which I
like very well. Mr. Shepley came to me in the morning, telling me that
he and my Lord came to town from Hinchinbroke last night. He and I spend
an hour in looking over his account, and then walked to the Wardrobe,
all the way discoursing of my Lord
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