All the morning at the office, and without dinner down by galley
up and down the river to visit the yards and ships now ordered forth
with great delight, and so home to supper, and then to office late to
write letters, then home to bed.

20th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, where Pegg Pen very
fine in her new coloured silk suit laced with silver lace. Dined at
home, and Mr. Sheply, lately come to town, with me. A great deal of
ordinary discourse with him. Among other things praying him to speak
to Stankes to look after our business. With him and in private with Mr.
Bodham talking of our ropeyarde stores at Woolwich, which are mighty
low, even to admiration. They gone, in the evening comes Mr. Andrews and
sings with us, and he gone, I to Sir W. Batten's, where Sir J. Minnes
and he and I to talk about our letter to my Lord Treasurer, where his
folly and simple confidence so great in a report so ridiculous that he
hath drawn up to present to my Lord, nothing of it being true, that I
was ashamed, and did roundly and in many words for an houre together
talk boldly to him, which pleased Sir W. Batten and my Lady, but I was
in the right, and was the willinger to do so before them, that they
might see that I am somebody, and shall serve him so in his way another
time. So home vexed at this night's passage, for I had been very hot
with him, so to supper and to bed, out of order with this night's
vexation.

21st. Up, and with them to the Lords at White Hall, where they do single
me out to speake to and to hear, much to my content, and received their
commands, particularly in several businesses. Thence by their order to
the Attorney General's about a new warrant for Captain Taylor which I
shall carry for him to be Commissioner in spite of Sir W. Batten, and
yet indeed it is not I, but the ability of the man, that makes the Duke
and Mr. Coventry stand by their choice. I to the 'Change and there
staid long doing business, and this day for certain newes is come that
Teddiman hath brought in eighteen or twenty Dutchmen, merchants, their
Bourdeaux fleete, and two men of wary to Portsmouth.

[Captain Sir Thomas Teddiman (or Tyddiman) had been appointed
Rear-Admiral of Lord Sandwich's squadron of the English fleet. In a
letter from Sir William Coventry to Secretary Bennet, dated November
13th, 1664, we read, "Rear Admiral Teddeman with four or five ships
has gone to course in the Channel, and if