the office writing letters by candle light,
which is rare at this time of the year, but I do it with much content
and joy, and then I do please me to see that I begin to have people
direct themselves to me in all businesses. Very late I was forced to
send for Mr. Turner, Smith, Young, about things to be sent down early
to-morrow on board the King's pleasure boat, and so to bed with my head
full of business, but well contented in mind as ever in my life.

18th. Up very early, and got a-top of my house, seeing the design of
my work, and like it very well, and it comes into my head to have my
dining-room wainscoated, which will be very pretty. By-and-by by water
to Deptford, to put several things in order, being myself now only left
in town, and so back again to the office, and there doing business all
the morning and the afternoon also till night, and then comes Cooper for
my mathematiques, but, in good earnest, my head is so full of business
that I cannot understand it as otherwise I should do. At night to bed,
being much troubled at the rain coming into my house, the top being
open.

19th. Up early and to some business, and my wife coming to me I staid
long with her discoursing about her going into the country, and as she
is not very forward so am I at a great loss whether to have her go or
no because of the charge, and yet in some considerations I would be glad
she was there, because of the dirtiness of my house and the trouble of
having of a family there. So to my office, and there all the morning,
and then to dinner and my brother Tom dined with me only to see me. In
the afternoon I went upon the river to look after some tarr I am sending
down and some coles, and so home again; it raining hard upon the water,
I put ashore and sheltered myself, while the King came by in his barge,
going down towards the Downs to meet the Queen: the Duke being gone
yesterday. But methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should
not be able to command the rain. Home, and Cooper coming (after I had
dispatched several letters) to my mathematiques, and so at night to bed
to a chamber at Sir W. Pen's, my own house being so foul that I cannot
lie there any longer, and there the chamber lies so as that I come into
it over my leads without going about, but yet I am not fully content
with it, for there will be much trouble to have servants running over
the leads to and fro.

20th (Lord's day). My wife and I lay talking long in bed,