r J. Minnes lies, play on the harpsicon; but, Lord! it
was enough to make any man sick to hear her; yet I was forced to commend
her highly. So home to supper and to bed, Ashwell playing upon the
tryangle very well before I went to bed. This day Captain Grove sent me
a side of pork, which was the oddest present, sure, that was ever made
any man; and the next, I remember I told my wife, I believe would be
a pound of candles, or a shoulder of mutton; but the fellow do it in
kindness, and is one I am beholden to. So to bed very weary, and a
little galled for lack of riding, praying to God for a good journey to
my father, of whom I am afeard, he being so lately ill of his pain.

2nd. Being weary last night, I slept till almost seven o'clock, a thing
I have not done many a day. So up and to my office (being come to some
angry words with my wife about neglecting the keeping of the house
clean, I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me) and
there all the morning. So to the Exchange and then home to dinner, and
very merry and well pleased with my wife, and so to the office again,
where we met extraordinary upon drawing up the debts of the Navy to my
Lord Treasurer. So rose and up to Sir W. Pen to drink a glass of bad
syder in his new far low dining room, which is very noble, and so home,
where Captain Ferrers and his lady are come to see my wife, he being to
go the beginning of next week to France to sea and I think to fetch
over my young Lord Hinchinbroke. They being gone I to my office to write
letters by the post, and so home to supper and to bed.

3rd (Lord's day). Up before 5 o'clock and alone at setting my Brampton
papers to rights according to my father's and my computation and
resolution the other day to my good content, I finding that there will
be clear saved to us L50 per annum, only a debt of it may be L100. So
made myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Pen showed me the young
lady which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church,
hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth L1000
per annum present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and
handsome lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow. However, he got this
good luck to get her, which methinks I could envy him with all my heart.
Home to dinner with my wife, who not being very well did not dress
herself but staid at home all day, and so I to church in the afternoon
and so home again, and up to teach Ashw