our lodgings, and they do both tell me that my chamber now
in dispute did ever belong to my lodgings, which do put me into good
quiet of mind. So by water with Sir Wm. Pen to White Hall; and, with
much ado, was fain to walk over the piles through the bridge, while Sir
W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes were aground against the bridge, and could
not in a great while get through. At White Hall we hear that the Duke
of York is gone a-hunting to-day; and so we returned: they going to the
Duke of Albemarle's, where I left them (after I had observed a very good
picture or two there), and so home, and there did resolve to give up
my endeavours for access to the leads, and to shut up my doors lest the
being open might give them occasion of longing for my chamber, which I
am in most fear about. So to Deptford, and took my Lady Batten and her
daughter and Mrs. Turner along with me, they being going through the
garden thither, they to Mr. Unthwayte's and I to the Pay, and then about
3 o'clock went to dinner (Sir W. Pen and I), and after dinner to the Pay
again, and at night by barge home all together, and so to my lodgings
and to bed, my mind full of trouble about my house.

16th. Up and to my workmen, and then to the office, and there we sat
till noon; then to the Exchange, and in my way met with the housekeeper
of this office, and he did give me so good an account of my chamber in
my house about which I am so much troubled that I am well at ease in my
mind. At my office all the afternoon alone. In the evening Sir J. M. and
I walked together a good while in the garden, very pleasant, and takes
no notice that he do design any further trouble to me about my house. At
night eat a bit of bread and cheese, and so to my lodgings and to bed,
my mind ill at ease for these particulars: my house in dirt, and like to
lose my best chamber. My wife writes me from the country that she is not
pleased there with my father nor mother, nor any of her servants, and
that my boy is turned a very rogue. I have L30 to pay to the cavaliers:
then a doubt about my being forced to leave all my business here, when I
am called to the court at Brampton; and lastly, my law businesses, which
vex me to my heart what I shall be able to do next term, which is near
at hand.

17th. At my office all the morning, and at noon to the Exchange, where
meeting Mr. Moore and Mr. Stucky, of the Wardrobe, we to an ordinary
to dinner, and after dinner Mr. Moore and I about 3 o'clock