y's, and she not
being well did not see her, but straight home with my wife, and late to
my office, concluding in the business of Wood's masts, which I have
now done and I believe taken more pains in it than ever any Principall
officer in this world ever did in any thing to no profit to this day.
So, weary, sleepy, and hungry, home and to bed. This day the Houses
attended the King, and delivered their votes to him: upon the business
of the Dutch; and he thanks them, and promises an answer in writing.

28th. Up and close at my office all the morning. To the 'Change busy
at noon, and so home to dinner, and then in the afternoon at the office
till night, and so late home quite tired with business, and without joy
in myself otherwise than that I am by God's grace enabled to go through
it and one day, hope to have benefit by it. So home to supper and to
bed.

29th. Up betimes, and with Sir W. Rider and Cutler to White Hall. Rider
and I to St. James's, and there with Mr. Coventry did proceed strictly
upon some fooleries of Mr. Povy's in my Lord Peterborough's accounts,
which will touch him home, and I am glad of it, for he is the most
troublesome impertinent man that ever I met with. Thence to the 'Change,
and there, after some business, home to dinner, where Luellin and Mount
came to me and dined, and after dinner my wife and I by coach to see my
Lady Sandwich, where we find all the children and my Lord removed, and
the house so melancholy that I thought my Lady had been dead, knowing
that she was not well; but it seems she hath the meazles, and I fear the
small pox, poor lady. It grieves me mightily; for it will be a sad
houre to the family should she miscarry. Thence straight home and to the
office, and in the evening comes Mr. Hill the merchant and another with
him that sings well, and we sung some things, and good musique it seemed
to me, only my mind too full of business to have much pleasure in it.
But I will have more of it. They gone, and I having paid Mr. Moxon for
the work he has done for the office upon the King's globes, I to my
office, where very late busy upon Captain Tayler's bills for his masts,
which I think will never off my hand. Home to supper and to bed.

30th. Up and all the morning at the office. At noon to the 'Change,
where, after business done, Sir W. Rider and Cutler took me to the Old
James and there did give me a good dish of mackerell, the first I have
seen this year, very good, and good disco