at and afterwards Rector of St.
Anne's, Blackfriars). He was vicar of the parish of St. Sepulchre
from 1638 until the Act of Uniformity, in 1662, forced him to resign
his living.]

Mr. Herring, being lately turned out at St. Bride's, did read the psalm
to the people while they sung at Dr. Bates's, which methought is
a strange turn. After dinner to St. Bride's, and there heard one
Carpenter, an old man, who, they say, hath been a Jesuit priest, and is
come over to us; but he preaches very well. So home with Mrs. Turner,
and there hear that Mr. Calamy hath taken his farewell this day of his
people, and that others will do so the next Sunday. Mr. Turner, the
draper, I hear, is knighted, made Alderman, and pricked for Sheriffe,
with Sir Thomas Bluddel, for the next year, by the King, and so are
called with great honour the King's Sheriffes. Thence walked home,
meeting Mr. Moore by the way, and he home with me and walked till it was
dark in the garden, and so good night, and I to my closet in my office
to perfect my Journall and to read my solemn vows, and so to bed.

11th. All the morning at the office. Dined at home all alone, and so to
my office again, whither Dean Fuller came to see me, and having business
about a ship to carry his goods to Dublin, whither he is shortly to
return, I went with him to the Hermitage, and the ship happening to be
Captn. Holland's I did give orders for them to be well looked after, and
thence with him to the Custom House about getting a pass for them, and
so to the Dolphin tavern, where I spent 6d. on him, but drank but one
glass of wine, and so parted. He tells me that his niece, that sings
so well, whom I have long longed to see, is married to one Mr. Boys, a
wholesale man at the Three Crowns in Cheapside. I to the office again,
whither Cooper came and read his last lecture to me upon my modell, and
so bid me good bye, he being to go to-morrow to Chatham to take charge
of the ship I have got him. So to my business till 9 at night, and so
to supper and to bed, my mind a little at ease because my house is now
quite tiled.

12th. Up early at my office, and I find all people beginning to come to
me. Among others Mr. Deane, the Assistant of Woolwich, who I find will
discover to me the whole abuse that his Majesty suffers in the measuring
of timber, of which I shall be glad. He promises me also a modell of a
ship, which will please me exceedingly, for I do want one of my own.