nd so took coach and called my wife at
Unthanke's, and so up and down to the Nursery, where they did not act,
then to the New Cockpit, and there missed, and then to Hide Parke, where
many coaches, but the dust so great, that it was troublesome, and so by
night home, where to my chamber and finished my pricking out of my song
for Mr. Harris ("It is decreed"), and so a little supper, being very
sleepy and weary since last night, and so by to o'clock to bed and slept
well all night. This day, at noon, comes Mr. Pelling to me, and shews
me the stone cut lately out of Sir Thomas Adams' (the old comely
Alderman's) body, which is very large indeed, bigger I think than my
fist, and weighs above twenty-five ounces and, which is very miraculous,
he never in all his life had any fit of it, but lived to a great age
without pain, and died at last of something else, without any sense of
this in all his life. This day Creed at White Hall in discourse told me
what information he hath had, from very good hands, of the cowardice and
ill-government of Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Thomas Allen, and the repute
they have both of them abroad in the Streights, from their deportment
when they did at several times command there; and that, above all
Englishmen that ever were there, there never was any man that behaved
himself like poor Charles Wager, whom the very Moores do mention, with
teares sometimes.

28th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and at noon
home to dinner with my clerks; and though my head full of business, yet
I had a desire to end this holyday week with a play; and so, with my
wife and Deb., to the King's house, and there saw "The Indian Emperour,"
a very good play indeed, and thence directly home, and to my writing of
my letters, and so home to supper and to bed for fearing my eyes. Our
greatest business at the office to-day is our want of money for the
setting forth of these ships that are to go out, and my people at dinner
tell me that they do verily doubt that the want of men will be so great,
as we must press; and if we press, there will be mutinies in the town;
for the seamen are said already to have threatened the pulling down of
the Treasury Office; and if they do once come to that, it will not be
long before they come to ours.

29th (Lord's day). Up, and I to Church, where I have not been these many
weeks before, and there did first find a strange Reader, who could not
find in the Service-book the place for