oing away. So by God's great blessing my mind is
in good condition of quiet.

4th. Lay long talking pleasantly with my wife in bed, it having rained,
and do still, very much all night long. Up and to the office, where
we sat till noon. This morning we had news by letters that Sir Richard
Stayner is dead at sea in the Mary, which is now come into Portsmouth
from Lisbon; which we are sorry for, he being a very stout seaman. But
there will be no great miss of him for all that. Dined at home with my
wife, and all the afternoon among my workmen, and at night to my office
to do business there, and then to see Sir W. Pen, who is still sick, but
his pain less than it was. He took occasion to talk with me about Sir J.
Minnes's intention to divide the entry and the yard, and so to keep him
out of the yard, and forcing him to go through the garden to his house.
Which he is vexed at, and I am glad to see that Sir J. Minnes do use him
just as he do me, and so I perceive it is not anything extraordinary
his carriage to me in the matter of our houses, for this is worse than
anything he has done to me, that he should give order for the stopping
up of his way to his house without so much as advising with him or
letting of him know it, and I confess that it is very highly and basely
done of him. So to my office again, and after doing business there, then
home to supper and to bed.

5th. Up and with my painters painting my dining room all day long till
night, not stirring out at all. Only in the morning my Lady Batten did
send to speak with me, and told me very civilly that she did not desire,
nor hoped I did, that anything should pass between us but what was
civill, though there was not the neighbourliness between her and my wife
that was fit to be, and so complained of my maid's mocking of her; when
she called "Nan" to her maid within her own house, my maid Jane in the
garden overheard her, and mocked her, and some other such like things
she told me, and of my wife's speaking unhandsomely of her; to all which
I did give her a very respectfull answer, such as did please her, and am
sorry indeed that this should be, though I do not desire there should be
any acquaintance between my wife and her. But I promised to avoid such
words and passages for the future. So home, and by and by Sir W. Pen
did send for me to his bedside; and tell me how really Sir J. Minnes did
resolve to have one of my rooms, and that he was very angry and hot, and
sa