-doings do depend upon my care therein. My Lord Sandwich has lately
been in the country, and very civil to my wife, and hath himself spent
some pains in drawing a plot of some alterations in our house there,
which I shall follow as I get money. As for the office, my late industry
hath been such, as I am become as high in reputation as any man there,
and good hold I have of Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, which I am
resolved, and it is necessary for me, to maintain by all fair means.
Things are all quiett, but the King poor, and no hopes almost of his
being otherwise, by which things will go to rack, especially in the
Navy. The late outing of the Presbyterian clergy by their not renouncing
the Covenant as the Act of Parliament commands, is the greatest piece
of state now in discourse. But for ought I see they are gone out very
peaceably, and the people not so much concerned therein as was expected.
My brother Tom is gone out of town this day, to make a second journey to
his mistress at Banbury, of which I have good expectations, and pray God
to bless him therein. My mind, I hope, is settled to follow my business
again, for I find that two days' neglect of business do give more
discontent in mind than ten times the pleasure thereof can repair again,
be it what it will.

OCTOBER 1662

October 1st. Up with my mind pretty well at rest about my accounts and
other business, and so to my house and there put my work to business,
and then down to Deptford to do the same there, and so back and with my
workmen all the afternoon, and my wife putting a chamber in order for us
to lie in. At night to look over some Brampton papers against the Court
which I expect every day to hear of, and that done home and with my
wife to bed, the first time I have lain there these two months and more,
which I am now glad to do again, and do so like the chamber as it is now
ordered that all my fear is my not keeping it. But I hope the best, for
it would vex me to the heart to lose it.

2nd. Up and to the office, where we sat till noon, and then to dinner,
and Mr. Moore came and dined with me, and after dinner to look over my
Brampton papers, which was a most necessary work, though it is not so
much to my content as I could wish. I fear that it must be as it can,
and not as I would. He being gone I to my workmen again, and at night by
coach towards Whitehall took up Mr. Moore and set him at my Lord's,
and myself, hearing that there was a play