ark, and then eat a bit and by daylight to bed.

9th. Up by four o'clock, and at my multiplicacion-table hard, which is
all the trouble I meet withal in my arithmetique. So made me ready and
to the office, where all the morning busy, and Sir W. Pen came to my
office to take his leave of me, and desiring a turn in the garden, did
commit the care of his building to me, and offered all his services to
me in all matters of mine. I did, God forgive me! promise him all my
service and love, though the rogue knows he deserves none from me, nor
do I intend to show him any; but as he dissembles with me, so must I
with him. Dined at home, and so to the office again, my wife with me,
and while I was for an hour making a hole behind my seat in my closet to
look into the office, she was talking to me about her going to Brampton,
which I would willingly have her to do but for the cost of it, and to
stay here will be very inconvenient because of the dirt that I must have
when my house is pulled down. Then to my business till night, then Mr.
Cooper and I to our business, and then came Mr. Mills, the minister, to
see me, which he hath but rarely done to me, though every day almost
to others of us; but he is a cunning fellow, and knows where the good
victuals is, and the good drink, at Sir W. Batten's. However, I used him
civilly, though I love him as I do the rest of his coat. So to supper
and to bed.

10th. Up by four o'clock, and before I went to the office I practised my
arithmetique, and then, when my wife was up, did call her and Sarah, and
did make up a difference between them, for she is so good a servant as
I am loth to part with her. So to the office all the morning, where very
much business, but it vexes me to see so much disorder at our table,
that, every man minding a several business, we dispatch nothing. Dined
at home with my wife, then to the office again, and being called by
Sir W. Batten, walked to the Victualler's office, there to view all the
several offices and houses to see that they were employed in order to
give the Council an account thereof. So after having taken an oath or
two of Mr. Lewes and Captain Brown and others I returned to the office,
and there sat despatching several businesses alone till night, and so
home and by daylight to bed.

11th. Up by four o'clock, and hard at my multiplicacion-table, which I
am now almost master of, and so made me ready and to my office, where by
and by comes Mr. Pett, and