very good order, and my chamber
washed and cleaned, which it had not been in some months before, my
business and trouble having been so much. At noon Mr. Holliard put
in, and dined with my wife and me, who was a little better to-day. His
company very good. His story of his love and fortune, which hath been
very good and very bad in the world, well worth hearing. Much discourse
also about the bad state of the Church, and how the Clergy are come
to be men of no worth in the world; and, as the world do now generally
discourse, they must be reformed; and I believe the Hierarchy will in a
little time be shaken, whether they will or no; the King being offended
with them, and set upon it, as I hear. He gone, after dinner to have my
head combed, and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till
pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below stairs in our
great chamber, where I slept well.

17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning till noon getting
some things more ready against the afternoon for the Committee of
Accounts, which did give me great trouble, to see how I am forced to
dance after them in one place, and to answer Committees of Parliament
in another. At noon thence toward the Committee, but meeting with Sir W.
Warren in Fleet Street he and I to the Ordinary by Temple Bar and there
dined together, and to talk, where he do seem to be very high now in
defiance of the Board, now he says that the worst is come upon him
to have his accounts brought to the Committee of Accounts, and he do
reflect upon my late coldness to him, but upon the whole I do find that
he is still a cunning fellow, and will find it necessary to be fair
to me, and what hath passed between us of coldness to hold his tongue,
which do please me very well. Thence to the Committee, where I did
deliver the several things they expected from me, with great respect and
show of satisfaction, and my mind thereby eased of some care. But thence
I to Westminster Hall, and there spent till late at night walking to and
again with many people, and there in general I hear of the great high
words that were in the House on Saturday last, upon the first part of
the Committee's Report about the dividing of the fleete; wherein some
would have the counsels of the King to be declared, and the reasons of
them, and who did give them; where Sir W. Coventry laid open to them the
consequences of doing that, that the King would never have any honest
and