9th.  This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to Deptford, to pay off two ships.  Sir W. Pen and I staid to do business, and afterwards together to White Hall, where I went to my Lord, and found him in bed not well, and saw in his chamber his picture,—­[Lord Sandwich’s portrait by Lely, see post, 22nd of this same month.]—­very well done; and am with child

     [A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall
     and by Spenser.  The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the
     “New English Dictionary,” is Bailey in 1725.]

till I get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone to sea.  To Whitehall again, where at Mr. Coventry’s chamber I met with Sir W. Pen again, and so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence walked over the fields to Deptford (the first pleasant walk I have had a great while), and in our way had a great deal of merry discourse, and find him to be a merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings very bawdy songs.  So we came and found our gentlemen and Mr. Prin at the pay.  About noon we dined together, and were very merry at table telling of tales.  After dinner to the pay of another ship till 10 at night, and so home in our barge, a clear moonshine night, and it was 12 o’clock before we got home, where I found my wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-day by the upholster, but not being well done I was fretted, and so in a discontent to bed.  I found Mr. Prin a good, honest, plain man, but in his discourse not very free or pleasant.  Among all the tales that passed among us to-day, he told us of one Damford, that, being a black man, did scald his beard with mince-pie, and it came up again all white in that place, and continued to his dying day.  Sir W. Pen told us a good jest about some gentlemen blinding of the drawer, and who he catched was to pay the reckoning, and so they got away, and the master of the house coming up to see what his man did, his man got hold of him, thinking it to be one of the gentlemen, and told him that he was to pay the reckoning.

10th.  Office day all the morning.  In the afternoon with the upholster seeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my chamber and my wife’s.  At night comes Mr. Moore, and staid late with me to tell me how Sir Hards.  Waller—­[Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of Charles I. judges.  His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.]—­(who only pleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison,

[General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme, appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from Windsor to Whitehall, in order to his trial.  He signed the warrant for the execution of the King.  He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the 13th.]

&c. were this day arraigned at the bar at the Sessions House, there being upon the bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, &c.; such a bench