e how my Lord pays use now for above L9000, which is a sad
thing, especially considering the probability of his going to sea, in
great danger of his life, and his children, many of them, to provide
for. Thence, the young ladies going out to visit, I took my wife by
coach out through the city, discoursing how to spend the afternoon; and
conquered, with much ado, a desire of going to a play; but took her out
at White Chapel, and to Bednal Green; so to Hackney, where I have
not been many a year, since a little child I boarded there. Thence to
Kingsland, by my nurse's house, Goody Lawrence, where my brother Tom and
I was kept when young. Then to Newington Green, and saw the outside of
Mrs. Herbert's house, where she lived, and my Aunt Ellen with her;
but, Lord! how in every point I find myself to over-value things when
a child. Thence to Islington, and so to St. John's to the Red Bull,
and there: saw the latter part of a rude prize fought, but with good
pleasure enough; and thence back to Islington, and at the King's Head,
where Pitts lived, we 'light and eat and drunk for remembrance of the
old house sake, and so through Kingsland again, and so to Bishopsgate,
and so home with great pleasure. The country mighty pleasant, and we
with great content home, and after supper to bed, only a little troubled
at the young ladies leaving my wife so to-day, and from some passages
fearing my Lady might be offended. But I hope the best.

26th. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich's, and coming a little too early, I
went and saw W. Joyce, and by and by comes in Anthony, they both owning
a great deal of kindness received from me in their late business, and
indeed I did what I could, and yet less I could not do. It has cost the
poor man above L40; besides, he is likely to lose his debt. Thence to my
Lord's, and by and by he comes down, and with him (Creed with us) I rode
in his coach to St. James's, talking about W. Joyce's business mighty
merry, and my Lady Peters, he says, is a drunken jade, he himself having
seen her drunk in the lobby of their House. I went up with him to the
Duke, where methought the Duke did not shew him any so great fondness as
he was wont; and methought my Lord was not pleased that I should see the
Duke made no more of him, not that I know any thing of any unkindnesse,
but I think verily he is not as he was with him in his esteem. By and
by the Duke went out and we with him through the Parke, and there I left
him going into