[Jonas Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617, and was appointed by Charles I. tutor to the Duke of York.  Soon after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor-General of the Ordnance.  He was famous as a mathematician, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society.  He died August 27th, 1679, and at his funeral sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower.]

and took him to the Five Bells,’ and drank a glass of wine and left him.  To the Temple, when Sir R. Parkhurst (as was intended the last night) did seal the writings, and is to have the L2000 told to-morrow.  From, thence by water to Parliament Stairs, and there at an alehouse to Doling (who is suddenly to go into Ireland to venture his fortune); Simonds (who is at a great loss for L200 present money, which I was loth to let him have, though I could now do it, and do love him and think him honest and sufficient, yet lothness to part with money did dissuade me from it); Luellin (who was very drowsy from a dose that he had got the last night), Mr. Mount and several others, among the rest one Mr. Pierce, an army man, who did make us the best sport for songs and stories in a Scotch tone (which he do very well) that ever I heard in my life.  I never knew so good a companion in all my observation.  From thence to the bridge by water, it being a most pleasant moonshine night, with a waterman who did tell such a company of bawdy stories, how once he carried a lady from Putney in such a night as this, and she bade him lie down by her, which he did, and did give her content, and a great deal more roguery.  Home and found my girl knocking at the door (it being 11 o’clock at night), her mistress having sent her out for some trivial business, which did vex me when I came in, and so I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet.  Before I went forth this morning, one came to me to give me notice that the justices of Middlesex do meet to-morrow at Hicks Hall, and that I as one am desired to be there, but I fear I cannot be there though I much desire it.

7th.  This morning the judge Advocate Fowler came to see me, and he and I sat talking till it was time to go to the office.  To the office and there staid till past 12 o’clock, and so I left the Comptroller and Surveyor and went to Whitehall to my Lord’s, where I found my Lord gone this morning to Huntingdon, as he told me yesterday he would.  I staid and dined with my Lady, there being Laud the page’s mother’ there, and dined also with us, and seemed to have been a very pretty woman and of good discourse.  Before dinner I examined Laud in his Latin and found him a very pretty boy and gone a great way in Latin.  After dinner I took a box of some things of value that my Lord had left for me to carry to the Exchequer, which I did, and left them with my Brother Spicer, who also had this morning paid L1000 for me by appointment to Sir R. Parkhurst.  So to the Privy Seal, where I signed a deadly number of pardons, which do trouble me to get nothing by.  Home by water, and there was much pleased to see that my little room is likely to come to be finished soon.  I fell a-reading Fuller’s History of Abbys, and my wife in Great Cyrus till twelve at night, and so to bed.