Up, and carrying my wife to my Lord's lodgings left her, and I to
White Hall, to the Duke; where he first put on a periwigg to-day; but
methought his hair cut short in order thereto did look very prettily of
itself, before he put on his periwigg.

[Charles II. followed his brother in the use of the periwig in the
following April.]

Thence to his closet and there did our business, and thence Mr. Coventry
and I down to his chamber and spent a little time, and so parted, and
I took my wife homeward, I stopping at the Coffee-house, and thence
a while to the 'Change, where great newes of the arrivall of two rich
ships, the Greyhound and another, which they were mightily afeard of,
and great insurance given, and so home to dinner, and after an houre
with my wife at her globes, I to the office, where very busy till 11
at night, and so home to supper and to bed. This afternoon Sir Thomas
Chamberlin came to the office to me, and showed me several letters from
the East Indys, showing the height that the Dutch are come to there,
showing scorn to all the English, even in our only Factory there of
Surat, beating several men, and hanging the English Standard St. George
under the Dutch flagg in scorn; saying, that whatever their masters do
or say at home, they will do what they list, and will be masters of all
the world there; and have so proclaimed themselves Soveraigne of all the
South Seas; which certainly our King cannot endure, if the Parliament
will give him money. But I doubt and yet do hope they will not yet, till
we are more ready for it.

16th. Up and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and most
with Mr. Wood, I vexing him about his masts. At noon to the 'Change a
little and thence brought Mr. Barrow to dinner with me, where I had
a haunch of venison roasted, given me yesterday, and so had a pretty
dinner, full of discourse of his business, wherein the poor man is
mightily troubled, and I pity him in it, but hope to get him some ease.
He being gone I to the office, where very busy till night, that my uncle
Wight and Mr. Maes came to me, and after discourse about Maes' business
to supper very merry, but my mind upon my business, and so they being
gone I to my Vyall a little, which I have not done some months, I think,
before, and then a little to my office, at 11 at night, and so home and
to bed.

17th. Up, and with my wife, setting her down by her father's in Long
Acre, in so ill looked a place, amo