24th.  Sunday.  Drank my morning draft at Harper’s, and bought a pair of gloves there.  So to Mr. G. Montagu, and told him what I had received from Dover, about his business likely to be chosen there.  So home and thence with my wife towards my father’s.  She went thither, I to Mr. Crew’s, where I dined and my Lord at my Lord Montagu of Boughton in Little Queen Street.  In the afternoon to Mr. Mossum’s with Mr. Moore, and we sat in Mr. Butler’s pew.  Then to Whitehall looking for my Lord but in vain, and back again to Mr. Crew’s where I found him and did give him letters.  Among others some simple ones from our Lieutenant, Lieut.  Lambert to him and myself, which made Mr. Crew and us all laugh.  I went to my father’s to tell him that I would not come to supper, and so after my business done at Mr. Crew’s I went home and my wife within a little while after me, my mind all this while full of thoughts for my place of Clerk of the Acts.

25th.  With my Lord at White Hall, all the morning.  I spoke with Mr. Coventry about my business, who promised me all the assistance I could expect.  Dined with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound, being amused at our great changes here, and Mr. Southerne, now Clerk to Mr. Coventry, at the Leg in King-street.  Thence to the Admiralty, where I met with Mr. Turner

[Thomas Turner (or Tourner) was General Clerk at the Navy Office, and on June 30th he offered Pepys L150 to be made joint Clerk of the Acts with him.  In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the King came in, preserved in the British Museum, there occur, Richard Hutchinson; Treasury of the Navy, salary L1500; Thomas Tourner, General Clerk, for himself and clerk, L100.]

of the Navy-office, who did look after the place of Clerk of the Acts.  He was very civil to me, and I to him, and shall be so.  There came a letter from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening, but he refused to come to her, but meeting in White Hall, with Sir Thomas Clarges, her brother, my Lord returned answer, that he could not desist in my business; and that he believed that General Monk would take it ill if my Lord should name the officers in his army; and therefore he desired to have the naming of one officer in the fleet.  With my Lord by coach to Mr. Crew’s, and very merry by the way, discoursing of the late changes and his good fortune.  Thence home, and then with my wife to Dorset House, to deliver a list of the names of the justices of the peace for Huntingdonshire.  By coach, taking Mr. Fox part of the way with me, that was with us with the King on board the Nazeby, who I found to have married Mrs. Whittle, that lived at Mr. Geer’s so long.  A very civil gentleman.  At Dorset House I met with Mr. Kipps, my old friend, with whom the world is well changed, he being now sealbearer to the Lord Chancellor, at which my wife and I are well pleased, he being a very good natured man.  Home and late writing letters.  Then to my Lord’s lodging, this being the first night of his coming to Whitehall to lie since his coming from sea.