him and Maes, Norbury, and Mr.
Rawlinson till late eating some pot venison (where the Crowne earthen
pot pleased me mightily), and then homewards and met Mr. Barrow, so
back with him to the Miter and sat talking about his business of his
discontent in the yard, wherein sometimes he was very foolish and
pettish, till 12 at night, and so went away, and I home and up to my
wife a-bed, with my mind ill at ease whether I should think that I had
by this made myself a bad end by missing the certainty of L100 which
I proposed to myself so much, or a good one by easing myself of the
uncertain good effect but the certain trouble and reflection which must
have fallen on me if we had proceeded to a public dispute, ended besides
embarking myself against my Lord, who (which I had forgot) had given him
his hand for the value of the pieces of eight at his rates which were
all false, which by the way I shall take heed to the giving of my Lord
notice of it hereafter whenever he goes out again.

13th. Up, and after I had told my wife in the morning in bed the
passages yesterday with Creed my head and heart was mightily lighter
than they were before, and so up and to the office, and thence, after
sitting, at 11 o'clock with Mr. Coventry to the African House, and
there with Sir W. Ryder by agreement we looked over part of my Lord
Peterborough's accounts, these being by Creed and Vernaty. Anon down
to dinner to a table which Mr. Coventry keeps here, out of his L300
per annum as one of the Assistants to the Royall Company, a very pretty
dinner, and good company, and excellent discourse, and so up again to
our work for an hour till the Company came to having a meeting of their
own, and so we broke up and Creed and I took coach and to Reeves,
the perspective glass maker, and there did indeed see very excellent
microscopes, which did discover a louse or mite or sand most perfectly
and largely. Being sated with that we went away (yet with a good will
were it not for my obligation to have bought one) and walked to the New
Exchange, and after a turn or two and talked I took coach and home, and
so to my office, after I had been with my wife and saw her day's work
in ripping the silke standard, which we brought home last night, and it
will serve to line a bed, or for twenty uses, to our great content. And
there wrote fair my angry letter to my father upon that that he wrote
to my cozen Roger Pepys, which I hope will make him the more carefull
to tru