at
night, for Will did, by my leave to go, meet her upon the road, and at
night did bring me word she was come to my brother's, by my order. So I
made myself ready and put things at home in order, and so went thither
to her. Being come, I found her and her maid and dogg very well, and
herself grown a little fatter than she was. I was very well pleased to
see her, and after supper to bed, and had her company with great content
and much mutual love, only I do perceive that there has been falling out
between my mother and she, and a little between my father and she; but I
hope all is well again, and I perceive she likes Brampton House and seat
better than ever I did myself, and tells me how my Lord hath drawn a
plot of some alteracions to be made there, and hath brought it up, which
I saw and like well. I perceive my Lord and Lady have been very kind to
her, and Captn. Ferrers so kind that I perceive I have some jealousy of
him, but I know what is the Captain's manner of carriage, and therefore
it is nothing to me. She tells me of a Court like to be in a little
time, which troubles me, for I would not willingly go out of town.

28th (Lord's day). Waked early, and fell talking one with another with
great pleasure of my house at Brampton and that here, and other matters.
She tells me what a rogue my boy is, and strange things he has been
found guilty of, not fit to name, which vexes [me], but most of all the
unquiett life that my mother makes my father and herself lead through
her want of reason. At last I rose, and with Tom to the French Church
at the Savoy, where I never was before--a pretty place it is--and there
they have the Common Prayer Book read in French, and, which I never saw
before, the minister do preach with his hat off, I suppose in further
conformity with our Church. So to Tom's to dinner with my wife, and
there came Mr. Cooke, and Joyce Norton do also dine there, and after
dinner Cooke and I did talk about his journey and Tom's within a day
or two about his mistress. And I did tell him my mind and give him my
opinion in it. So I walked home and found my house made a little clean,
and pleases me better and better, and so to church in the afternoon, and
after sermon to my study, and there did some things against to-morrow
that I go to the Duke's, and so walked to Tom's again, and there supped
and to bed with good content of mind.

29th (Michaelmas day). This day my oaths for drinking of wine and going
to pla