n we list. This consideration did displease me, but it was
voted and so went. We did nothing else, but broke up till a Committee
of Guinny was set and ended, and then met again for Tangier, and there
I did my business about my Lord Peterborough's order and my own for my
expenses for the garrison lately. So home, by the way calling for my
Chaucer and other books, and that is well done to my mind, which pleased
me well. So to my office till late writing letters, and so home to my
wife to supper and bed, where we have not lain together because of the
heat of the weather a good while, but now against her going into the
country.

10th (Lord's day). Up and by water, towards noon, to Somersett House,
and walked to my Lord Sandwich's, and there dined with my Lady and the
children. And after some ordinary discourse with my Lady, after dinner
took our leaves and my wife hers, in order to her going to the country
to-morrow. But my Lord took not occasion to speak one word of my father
or mother about the children at all, which I wonder at, and begin I will
not. Here my Lady showed us my Lady Castlemayne's picture, finely done;
given my Lord; and a most beautiful picture it is. Thence with my Lady
Jemimah and Mr. Sidney to St. Gyles's Church, and there heard a long,
poore sermon. Thence set them down and in their coach to Kate Joyce's
christening, where much company, good service of sweetmeates; and after
an houre's stay, left them, and in my Lord's coach--his noble, rich
coach--home, and there my wife fell to putting things in order against
her going to-morrow, and I to read, and so to bed, where I not well, and
so had no pleasure at all with my poor wife.

11th. But betimes up this morning, and, getting ready, we by coach to
Holborne, where, at nine o'clock, they set out, and I and my man Will on
horseback, by my wife, to Barnett; a very pleasant day; and there dined
with her company, which was very good; a pretty gentlewoman with her,
that goes but to Huntington, and a neighbour to us in towne. Here we
staid two hours and then parted for all together, and my poor wife I
shall soon want I am sure. Thence I and Will to see the Wells, half a
mile off,

[The mineral springs at Barnet Common, nearly a mile to the west of
High Barnet. The discovery of the wells was announced in the
"Perfect Diurnall" of June 5th, 1652, and Fuller, writing in 1662,
says that there are hopes that the waters may "save as many lives