a dispute between Mr. Moore and Dr. Clerke, the former affirming that it was essential to a tragedy to have the argument of it true, which the Doctor denied, and left it to me to be judge, and the cause to be determined next Tuesday morning at the same place, upon the eating of the remains of the pasty, and the loser to spend 10s.  All this afternoon sending express to the fleet, to order things against my Lord’s coming and taking direction of my Lord about some rich furniture to take along with him for the Princess!—­[Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, who died in December of this year.]—­And talking of this, I hear by Mr. Townsend, that there is the greatest preparation against the Prince de Ligne’s a coming over from the King of Spain, that ever was in England for their Embassador.  Late home, and what with business and my boy’s roguery my mind being unquiet, I went to bed.

2nd (Sunday).  To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming to chapel.  I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my Privy Seal fees and gratuity money, &c., to this day between my Lord and me.  After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon “The Lord is my shield.”  After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord’s (he dining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply.  So, to St. Margarett’s, and heard a good sermon upon the text “Teach us the old way,” or something like it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion, which have brought us into all our late divisions.  From church to Mrs. Crisp’s (having sent Win.  Hewer home to tell my wife that I could not come home to-night because of my Lord’s going out early to-morrow morning), where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, it being a farewell cup to Laud Crisp.  I drank till the daughter began to be very loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should be.  To my Lord’s, and to bed with Mr. Sheply.

3rd.   Up and to Mr.-----, the goldsmith near the new Exchange, where I
bought my wedding ring, and there, with much ado, got him to put a gold
ring to the jewell, which the King of Sweden did give my Lord:  out of
which my Lord had now taken the King’s picture, and intends to make a
George of it.   This morning at my Lord’s I had an opportunity to speak
with Sir George Downing, who has promised me to give me up my bond, and to
pay me for my last quarter while I was at sea, that so I may pay Mr. Moore
and Hawly.   About noon my Lord, having taken leave of the King in the
Shield Gallery (where I saw with what kindness the King did hug my Lord at
his parting), I went over with him and saw him in his coach at Lambeth,
and there took leave of him, he going to the Downs, which put me in mind
of his first voyage that ever he made, which he did begin like this from
Lambeth.   In the afternoon with Mr. Moore to my house to cast up our Privy
Seal accounts, where I found that my Lord’s comes to 400 and odd pounds,
and mine to L132, out of which I do give him as good as L25 for his pains,