would reckon himself obliged to show the same
ingenuous acknowledgment of my love and service to him as at the
beginning he ought to have done, before by my first letter I did (as he
well observed) put him out of a capacity of doing it, without seeming
to do it servilely, and so it rests, and I shall expect how he will deal
with me. After that I began to be free, and both of us to discourse of
other things, and he went home with me and dined with me and my wife
and very pleasant, having a good dinner and the opening of my lampry
(cutting a notch on one side), which proved very good. After dinner he
and I to Deptford, walking all the way, where we met Sir W. Petty and I
took him back, and I got him to go with me to his vessel and discourse
it over to me, which he did very well, and then walked back together to
the waterside at Redriffe, with good discourse all the way. So Creed and
I by boat to my house, and thence to coach with my wife and called at
Alderman Backewell's and there changed Mr. Falconer's state-cup, that he
did give us the other day, for a fair tankard. The cup weighed with the
fashion L5 16s., and another little cup that Joyce Norton did give us
17s., both L6 13s.; for which we had the tankard, which came to L6 10s.,
at 5s. 7d. per oz., and 3s. in money, and with great content away thence
to my brother's, Creed going away there, and my brother bringing me
the old silk standard that I lodged there long ago, and then back again
home, and thence, hearing that my uncle Wight had been at my house, I
went to him to the Miter, and there with him and Maes, Norbury, and Mr.
Rawlinson till late eating some pot venison (where the Crowne earthen
pot pleased me mightily), and then homewards and met Mr. Barrow, so
back with him to the Miter and sat talking about his business of his
discontent in the yard, wherein sometimes he was very foolish and
pettish, till 12 at night, and so went away, and I home and up to my
wife a-bed, with my mind ill at ease whether I should think that I had
by this made myself a bad end by missing the certainty of L100 which
I proposed to myself so much, or a good one by easing myself of the
uncertain good effect but the certain trouble and reflection which must
have fallen on me if we had proceeded to a public dispute, ended besides
embarking myself against my Lord, who (which I had forgot) had given him
his hand for the value of the pieces of eight at his rates which were
all false, which by