out my father's consent, which
I will write to him to-night about, and have done it. Here meeting my
uncle Thomas, he and I to my cozen Roger's chamber, and there I did give
my uncle him and Mr. Philips to be my two arbiters against Mr. Cole and
Punt, but I expect no great good of the matter. Thence walked home, and
my wife came home, having been abroad to-day, laying out above L12 in
linen, and a copper, and a pot, and bedstead, and other household stuff,
which troubles me also, so that my mind to-night is very heavy and
divided. Late at my office, drawing up a letter to my Lord Treasurer,
which we have been long about, and so home, and, my mind troubled, to
bed.

20th. All the morning sitting at the office, at noon with Mr. Coventry
to the Temple to advise about Field's, but our lawyers not being in the
way we went to St. James's, and there at his chamber dined, and I am
still in love more and more with him for his real worth. I broke to
him my desire for my wife's brother to send him to sea as a midshipman,
which he is willing to agree to, and will do it when I desire it. After
dinner to the Temple, to Mr. Thurland; and thence to my Lord Chief
Baron, Sir Edward Hale's, and back with Mr. Thurland to his chamber,
where he told us that Field will have the better of us; and that we must
study to make up the business as well as we can, which do much vex and
trouble us: but I am glad the Duke is concerned in it. Thence by coach
homewards, calling at a tavern in the way (being guided by the messenger
in whose custody Field lies), and spoke with Mr. Smith our messenger
about the business, and so home, where I found that my wife had finished
very neatly my study with the former hangings of the diningroom, which
will upon occasion serve for a fine withdrawing room. So a little to
my office and so home, and spent the evening upon my house, and so to
supper and to bed.

21St. Within all day long, helping to put up my hangings in my house in
my wife's chamber, to my great content. In the afternoon I went to speak
to Sir J. Minnes at his lodgings, where I found many great ladies, and
his lodgings made very fine indeed. At night to supper and to bed:
this night having first put up a spitting sheet, which I find very
convenient. This day come the King's pleasure-boats from Calais, with
the Dunkirk money, being 400,000 pistolles.

22nd. This morning, from some difference between my wife and Sarah, her
maid, my wife and I fell out