29th.  The King’s birthday.  Busy all the morning writing letters to London, among the rest one to Mr. Chetwind to give me an account of the fees due to the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my Lord desires to know.  After dinner got all ready and sent away Mr. Cook to London with a letter and token to my wife.  After that abroad to shore with my Lord (which he offered me of himself, saying that I had a great deal of work to do this month, which was very true).  On shore we took horses, my Lord and Mr. Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four servants, and had a great deal of pleasure in riding.  Among other things my Lord showed me a house that cost a great deal of money, and is built in so barren and inconvenient a place that my Lord calls it the fool’s house.  At last we came upon a very high cliff by the sea-side, and rode under it, we having laid great wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was not so high as Paul’s; my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was.  But we riding under it, my Lord made a pretty good measure of it with two sticks, and found it to be not above thirty-five yards high, and Paul’s is reckoned to be about ninety.  From thence toward the barge again, and in our way found the people at Deal going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, it being the King’s birthday, and had some guns which they did fire at my Lord’s coming by.  For which I did give twenty shillings among them to drink.  While we were on the top of the cliffe, we saw and heard our guns in the fleet go off for the same joy.  And it being a pretty fair day we could see above twenty miles into France.  Being returned on board, my Lord called for Mr. Sheply’s book of Paul’s, by which we were confirmed in our wager.  After that to supper and then to musique, and so to bed.  The pain that I have got last night by cold is not yet gone, but troubles me at the time of . . . .  This day, it is thought, the King do enter the city of London.

["Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of his passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that they will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats, and other ornaments of triumph and rejoicing."-Rugge’s Diurnal, May, 1660.—­B.]

30th.  About eight o’clock in the morning the lieutenant came to me to know whether I would eat a dish of mackerel, newly catched, for my breakfast, which the Captain and we did in the coach.  All yesterday and to-day I had a great deal of pain . . . and in my back, which made me afeard.  But it proved nothing but cold, which I took yesterday night.  All this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had made myself now worth about L80, at which my heart was glad, and blessed God.  Many Dover men come and dine with my Lord.  My Lord at ninepins in the afternoon.  In the