only getting as much out of him as I
could. I perceive he is a rogue, and hath inquired into everything and
consulted with Dr. Pepys, and that he thinks as Dr. Pepys told him that
my father if he could would not pay a farthing of the debts, and yet I
made him confess that in all his lifetime he never knew my father to be
asked for money twice, nay, not once, all the time he lived with him,
and that for his own debts he believed he would do so still, but he
meant only for those of Tom. He said now that Randall and his wife and
the midwife could prove from my brother's own mouth that the child was
his, and that Tom had told them the circumstances of time, upon November
5th at night, that he got it on her. I offered him if he would secure
my father against being forced to pay the money again I would pay him,
which at first he would do, give his own security, and when I asked more
than his own he told me yes he would, and those able men, subsidy men,
but when we came by and by to discourse of it again he would not then do
it, but said he would take his course, and joyne with Cave and release
him, and so we parted. However, this vexed me so as I could not be
quiet, but took coach to go speak with Mr. Cole, but met him not within,
so back, buying a table by the way, and at my office late, and then home
to supper and to bed, my mind disordered about this roguish business--in
every thing else, I thank God, well at ease.

26th. Up by 5 o'clock, which I have not been many a day, and down by
water to Deptford, and there took in Mr. Pumpfield the rope-maker, and
down with him to Woolwich to view Clothier's cordage, which I found bad
and stopped the receipt of it. Thence to the ropeyard, and there among
other things discoursed with Mrs. Falconer, who tells me that she has
found the writing, and Sir W. Pen's daughter is not put into the
lease for her life as he expected, and I am glad of it. Thence to the
Dockyarde, and there saw the new ship in very great forwardness, and so
by water to Deptford a little, and so home and shifting myself, to the
'Change, and there did business, and thence down by water to White Hall,
by the way, at the Three Cranes, putting into an alehouse and eat a bit
of bread and cheese. There I could not get into the Parke, and so was
fain to stay in the gallery over the gate to look to the passage into
the Parke, into which the King hath forbid of late anybody's coming, to
watch his coming that had appointed me