terborough's gentleman about
getting his Lord's money to-day of Mr. Povy, wherein I took such order,
that it was paid, and I had my L50 brought me, which comforts my heart.
We sat at the office all the morning, then at home. Dined alone; sad for
want of company and not being very well, and know not how to eat alone.
After dinner down with Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten
to view, and did like a place by Deptford yard to lay masts in. By
and by comes Mr. Coventry, and after a little stay he and I down to
Blackwall, he having a mind to see the yarde, which we did, and fine
storehouses there are and good docks, but of no great profit to him that
oweth them for ought we see.

[For "owneth." This sense is very common in Shakespeare. In the
original edition of the authorized version of the Bible we read: "So
shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that oweth this girdle"
(Acts xxi. I i) Nares's Glossary.]

So home by water with him, having good discourse by the way, and so I to
the office a while, and late home to supper and to bed.

13th. Up and to my office, at noon (after having at an alehouse hard
by discoursed with one Mr. Tyler, a neighbour, and one Captain Sanders
about the discovery of some pursers that have sold their provisions) I
to my Lord Sandwich, thinking to have dined there, but they not dining
at home, I with Captain Ferrers to Mr. Barwell the King's Squire Sadler,
where about this time twelvemonths I dined before at a good venison
pasty. The like we had now, and very good company, Mr. Tresham and
others. Thence to White Hall to the Fishery, and there did little. So
by water home, and there met Lanyon, &c., about Tangier matters, and
so late to my office, and thence home and to bed. Mr. Moore was with me
late to desire me to come to my Lord Sandwich tomorrow morning, which I
shall, but I wonder what my business is.

14th. My mind being doubtful what the business should be, I rose a
little after four o'clock, and abroad. Walked to my Lord's, and nobody
up, but the porter rose out of bed to me so I back again to Fleete
Streete, and there bought a little book of law; and thence, hearing a
psalm sung, I went into St. Dunstan's, and there heard prayers read,
which, it seems, is done there every morning at six o'clock; a thing I
never did do at a chappell, but the College Chappell, in all my life.
Thence to my Lord's again, and my Lord being up, was sent for up, and
he a