gn is by getting
underhand the merchants to bring in their complaints to the Parliament,
to make them in honour begin a warr, which he cannot in honour declare
first, for fear they should not second him with money. Thence homewards,
staying a pretty while with my little she milliner at the end of Birchin
Lane, talking and buying gloves of her, and then home to dinner, and in
the afternoon had a meeting upon the Chest business, but I fear unless
I have time to look after it nothing will be done,, and that I fear I
shall not. In the evening comes Sir W. Batten, who tells us that the
Committee have approved of our bill with very few amendments in words,
not in matter. So to my office, where late with Sir W. Warren, and so
home to supper and to bed.

31st. Up betimes, and to my office, where by and by comes Povy, Sir
W. Rider, Mr. Bland, Creed, and Vernatty, about my Lord Peterborough's
accounts, which we now went through, but with great difficulty, and many
high words between Mr. Povy and I; for I could not endure to see so
many things extraordinary put in, against truthe and reason. He was very
angry, but I endeavoured all I could to profess my satisfaction in my
Lord's part of the accounts, but not in those foolish idle things, they
say I said, that others had put in. Anon we rose and parted, both of us
angry, but I contented, because I knew all of them must know I was in
the right. Then with Creed to Deptford, where I did a great deal of
business enquiring into the business of canvas and other things with
great content, and so walked back again, good discourse between Creed
and I by the way, but most upon the folly of Povy, and at home found
Luellin, and so we to dinner, and thence I to the office, where we sat
all the afternoon late, and being up and my head mightily crowded with
business, I took my wife by coach to see my father. I left her at his
house and went to him to an alehouse hard by, where my cozen Scott was,
and my father's new tenant, Langford, a tailor, to whom I have promised
my custom, and he seems a very modest, carefull young man. Thence my
wife coming with the coach to the alley end I home, and after supper to
the making up my monthly accounts, and to my great content find myself
worth above L900, the greatest sum I ever yet had. Having done my
accounts, late to bed. My head of late mighty full of business, and
with good content to myself in it, though sometimes it troubles me that
nobody else but I s