usique.

12th. Up, being frighted that Mr. Coventry was come to towne and now at
the office, so I run down without eating or drinking or washing to the
office and it proved my Lord Berkeley. There all the morning, at noon to
the 'Change, and so home to dinner, Mr. Wayth with me, and then to the
office, where mighty busy till very late, but I bless God I go through
with it very well and hope I shall.

13th (Lord's day). This morning to church, where mighty sport, to hear
our clerke sing out of tune, though his master sits by him that begins
and keeps the tune aloud for the parish. Dined at home very well, and
spent all the afternoon with my wife within doors, and getting a speech
out of Hamlett, "To bee or not to bee,"' without book. In the evening to
sing psalms, and in come Mr. Hill to see me, and then he and I and the
boy finely to sing, and so anon broke up after much pleasure, he gone I
to supper, and so prayers and to bed.

14th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, to the Lords of the
Admiralty, and there did our business betimes. Thence to Sir Philip
Warwicke about Navy business: and my Lord Ashly; and afterwards to my
Lord Chancellor, who is very well pleased with me, and my carrying of
his business. And so to the 'Change, where mighty busy; and so home
to dinner, where Mr. Creed and Moore: and after dinner I to my Lord
Treasurer's, to Sir Philip Warwicke there, and then to White Hall,
to the Duke of Albemarle, about Tangier; and then homeward to the
Coffee-house to hear newes. And it seems the Dutch, as I afterwards
found by Mr. Coventry's letters, have stopped a ship of masts of Sir W.
Warren's, coming for us in a Swede's ship, which they will not release
upon Sir G. Downing's claiming her: which appears as the first act of
hostility; and is looked upon as so by Mr. Coventry. The Elias,' coming
from New England (Captain Hill, commander), is sunk; only the captain
and a few men saved. She foundered in the sea. So home, where infinite
busy till 12 at night, and so home to supper and to bed.

15th. That I might not be too fine for the business I intend this day, I
did leave off my fine new cloth suit lined with plush and put on my
poor black suit, and after office done (where much business, but
little done), I to the 'Change, and thence Bagwell's wife with much
ado followed me through Moorfields to a blind alehouse, and there I did
caress her and eat and drink, and many hard looks and sooth the poor
wret