6th. Up and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and most
with Mr. Wood, I vexing him about his masts. At noon to the 'Change a
little and thence brought Mr. Barrow to dinner with me, where I had
a haunch of venison roasted, given me yesterday, and so had a pretty
dinner, full of discourse of his business, wherein the poor man is
mightily troubled, and I pity him in it, but hope to get him some ease.
He being gone I to the office, where very busy till night, that my uncle
Wight and Mr. Maes came to me, and after discourse about Maes' business
to supper very merry, but my mind upon my business, and so they being
gone I to my Vyall a little, which I have not done some months, I think,
before, and then a little to my office, at 11 at night, and so home and
to bed.

17th. Up, and with my wife, setting her down by her father's in Long
Acre, in so ill looked a place, among all the whore houses, that I was
troubled at it, to see her go thither. Thence I to White Hall and there
walked up and down talking with Mr. Pierce, who tells me of the King's
giving of my Lord Fitz-Harding two leases which belong indeed to the
Queene, worth L20,000 to him; and how people do talk of it, and other
things of that nature which I am sorry to hear. He and I walked round
the Park with great pleasure, and back again, and finding no time to
speak with my Lord of Albemarle, I walked to the 'Change and there met
my wife at our pretty Doll's, and so took her home, and Creed also whom
I met there, and sent her hose, while Creed and I staid on the 'Change,
and by and by home and dined, where I found an excellent mastiffe, his
name Towser, sent me by a chyrurgeon. After dinner I took my wife again
by coach (leaving Creed by the way going to Gresham College, of which he
is now become one of the virtuosos) and to White Hall, where I delivered
a paper about Tangier to my Lord Duke of Albemarle in the council
chamber, and so to Mrs. Hunt's to call my wife, and so by coach straight
home, and at my office till 3 o'clock in the morning, having spent much
time this evening in discourse with Mr. Cutler, who tells me how the
Dutch deal with us abroad and do not value us any where, and how he
and Sir W. Rider have found reason to lay aside Captain Cocke in their
company, he having played some indiscreet and unfair tricks with them,
and has lost himself every where by his imposing upon all the world with
the conceit he has of his own wit, and so has, he te