hews that the times are loose, and
come to a great disregard of the King, or Court, or Government. Thence
I to White Hall to attend the Council, and when the Council rose we find
my order mightily enlarged by the Sollicitor Generall, who was called
thither, making it more safe for him and the Council, but their order
is the same in the command of it that I drew, and will I think defend
us well. So thence, meeting Creed, he and I to the new Cocke-pitt by
the King's gate, and there saw the manner of it, and the mixed rabble
of people that come thither; and saw two battles of cocks, wherein is
no great sport, but only to consider how these creatures, without
any provocation, do fight and kill one another, and aim only at one
another's heads, and by their good will not leave till one of them be
killed; and thence to the Park in a hackney coach, so would not go into
the tour, but round about the Park, and to the House, and there at the
door eat and drank; whither come my Lady Kerneagy, of whom Creed tells
me more particulars; how her Lord, finding her and the Duke of York at
the King's first coming in too kind, did get it out of her that he did
dishonour him, and so bid her continue..., which is the most pernicious
and full piece of revenge that ever I heard of; and he at this day owns
it with great glory, and looks upon the Duke of York and the world with
great content in the ampleness of his revenge. Thence (where the place
was now by the last night's rain very pleasant, and no dust) to White
Hall, and set Creed down, and I home and to my chamber, and there
about my musique notions again, wherein I take delight and find great
satisfaction in them, and so, after a little supper, to bed. This day,
in the afternoon, stepping with the Duke of York into St. James's Park,
it rained: and I was forced to lend the Duke of York my cloak, which he
wore through the Park.

7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, where great hurry to be made
in the fitting forth of this present little fleet, but so many rubs by
reason of want of money, and people's not believing us in cases where
we had money unless (which in several cases, as in hiring of vessels,
cannot be) they be paid beforehand, that every thing goes backward
instead of forward. At noon comes Mr. Clerke, my solicitor, and the
Auditor's men with my account drawn up in the Exchequer way with their
queries, which are neither many nor great, or hard to answer upon it,
and so dined