is Fanatique stories, as if he were a great
zealot, when I know him to be a very rogue. But I do it for discourse,
and to see how things stand with him and his party; who I perceive have
great expectation that God will not bless the Court nor Church, as it is
now settled, but they must be purified. The worst news he tells me, is
that Mr. Chetwind is dead, my old and most ingenious acquaintance. He is
dead, worth L3,000, which I did not expect, he living so high as he did
always and neatly. He hath given W. Symons his wife L300, and made Will
one of his executors. Thence to the Temple to my counsel, and thence to
Gray's Inn to meet with Mr. Cole but could not, and so took a turn or
two in the garden, being very pleasant with the snow and frost. Thence
to my brother's, and there I eat something at dinner and transcribed
a copy or two of the state of my uncle's estate, which I prepared last
night, and so to the Temple Church, and there walked alone till 4 or 5
o'clock, and then to my cozen Turner's chamber and staid there, up and
down from his to Calthrop's and Bernard's chambers, till so late, that
Mr. Cole not coming, we broke up for meeting this night, and so taking
my uncle Thomas homewards with me by coach, talking of our desire to
have a peace, and set him down at Gracious-street end, and so home, and
there I find Gosnell come, who, my wife tells me, is like to prove
a pretty companion, of which I am glad. So to my office for a little
business and then home, my mind having been all this day in most
extraordinary trouble and care for my father, there being so great
an appearance of my uncle's going away with the greatest part of the
estate, but in the evening by Gosnell's coming I do put off these
thoughts to entertain myself with my wife and her, who sings exceeding
well, and I shall take great delight in her, and so merrily to bed.

6th. Up and to the office, and there sat all the morning, Mr. Coventry
and I alone, the rest being paying off of ships. Dined at home with my
wife and Gosnell, my mind much pleased with her, and after dinner sat
with them a good while, till my wife seemed to take notice of my being
at home now more than at other times. I went to the office, and there
I sat till late, doing of business, and at 9 o'clock walked to Mr.
Rawlinson's, thinking to meet my uncle Wight there, where he was, but
a great deal of his wife's kindred-women and I knew not whom (which Mr.
Rawlinson did seem to me to take