ion to see how my Lord Ashworth--[Lord Ashworth
is probably a miswriting for Lord Ashley (afterwards Earl of
Shaftesbury).]--deports himself, which is very fine indeed, and it joys
my heart to see that there is any body looks so near into the King's
business as I perceive he do in this business of my Lord Peterborough's
accounts. Thence into the Parke, and met and walked with Captain Sylas
Taylor, my old acquaintance while I was of the Exchequer, and Dr. Whore,
talking of musique, and particularly of Mr. Berckenshaw's way, which
Taylor magnifies mightily, and perhaps but what it deserves, but not
so easily to be understood as he and others make of it. Thence home
by water, and after dinner abroad to buy several things, as a map, and
powder, and other small things, and so home to my office, and in the
evening with Captain Taylor by water to our Tangier ship, and so home,
well pleased, having received L26 profit to-day of my bargain for this
ship, which comforts me mightily, though I confess my heart, what with
my being out of order as to my health, and the fear I have of the money
my Lord oweth me and I stand indebted to him in, is much cast down of
late. In the evening home to supper and to bed.

11th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, where some
discourse arose from Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry, which gives me
occasion to think that something like a war is expected now indeed,
though upon the 'Change afterwards I hear too that an Embassador is
landed from Holland, and one from their East India Company, to treat
with ours about the wrongs we pretend to. Mr. Creed dined with me, and
thence after dinner by coach with my wife only to take the ayre, it
being very warm and pleasant, to Bowe and Old Ford; and thence to
Hackney. There 'light, and played at shuffle-board, eat cream and good
churies; and so with good refreshment home. Then to my office vexed with
Captain Taylor about the delay of carrying down the ship hired by me for
Tangier, and late about that and other things at the office. So home to
supper and to bed.

12th (Lord's day). All the morning in my chamber consulting my lesson of
ship building, and at noon Mr. Creed by appointment came and dined with
us, and sat talking all the afternoon till, about church time, my
wife and I began our great dispute about going to Griffin's child's
christening, where I was to have been godfather, but Sir J. Minnes
refusing, he wanted an equal for me and my