ere, and then finding the French
congregation's sermon begun in the Dutch, I returned home, and up to our
gallery, where I found my wife and Gosnell, and after a drowsy sermon,
we all three to my aunt Wight's, where great store of her usuall
company, and here we staid a pretty while talking, I differing from my
aunt, as I commonly do, in our opinion of the handsomeness of the Queen,
which I oppose mightily, saying that if my nose be handsome, then is
her's, and such like. After much discourse, seeing the room full, and
being unwilling to stay all three, I took leave, and so with my wife
only to see Sir W. Pen, who is now got out of his bed, and sits by the
fireside. And after some talk, home and to supper, and after prayers
to bed. This night came in my wife's brother and talked to my wife and
Gosnell about his wife, which they told me afterwards of, and I do smell
that he I doubt is overreached in thinking that he has got a rich wife,'
and I fear she will prove otherwise. So to bed.

8th. Up, and carrying Gosnell by coach, set her down at Temple Barr, she
going about business of hers today. By the way she was telling me how
Balty did tell her that my wife did go every day in the week to Court
and plays, and that she should have liberty of going abroad as often as
she pleased, and many other lies, which I am vexed at, and I doubt the
wench did come in some expectation of, which troubles me. So to the Duke
and Mr. Coventry, and alone, the rest being at a Pay and elsewhere, and
alone with Mr. Coventry I did read over our letter to my Lord Treasurer,
which I think now is done as well as it can be. Then to my Lord
Sandwich's, and there spent the rest of the morning in making up my
Lord's accounts with Mr. Moore, and then dined with Mr. Moore and
Battersby his friend, very well and merry, and good discourse. Then into
the Park, to see them slide with their skeates, which is very pretty.
And so to the Duke's, where the Committee for Tangier met: and here we
sat down all with him at a table, and had much good discourse about the
business, and is to my great content. That done, I hearing what play it
was that is to be acted before the King to-night, I would not stay, but
home by coach, where I find my wife troubled about Gosnell, who brings
word that her uncle, justice Jiggins, requires her to come three times
a week to him, to follow some business that her mother intrusts her
withall, and that, unless she may have that leisure