11th.  My wife and I up very early this day, and though the weather was very bad and the wind high, yet my Lady Batten and her maid and we two did go by our barge to Woolwich (my Lady being very fearfull) where we found both Sir Williams and much other company, expecting the weather to be better, that they might go about weighing up the Assurance, which lies there (poor ship, that I have been twice merry in, in Captn.  Holland’s time,) under water, only the upper deck may be seen and the masts.  Captain Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search for some clothes and money of his, which he says he hath lost out of his cabin.  I did the first office of a justice of Peace to examine a seaman thereupon, but could find no reason to commit him.  This last tide the Kingsale was also run aboard and lost her mainmast, by another ship, which makes us think it ominous to the Guiny voyage, to have two of her ships spoilt before they go out.  After dinner, my Lady being very fearfull she staid and kept my wife there, and I and another gentleman, a friend of Sir W. Pen’s, went back in the barge, very merry by the way, as far as Whitehall in her.  To the Privy Seal, where I signed many pardons and some few things else.  From thence Mr. Moore and I into London to a tavern near my house, and there we drank and discoursed of ways how to put out a little money to the best advantage, and at present he has persuaded me to put out L250 for L50 per annum for eight years, and I think I shall do it.  Thence home, where I found the wench washing, and I up to my study, and there did make up an even L100, and sealed it to lie by.  After that to bed.

12th.  Troubled with the absence of my wife.  This morning I went (after the Comptroller and I had sat an hour at the office) to Whitehall to dine with my Lady, and after dinner to the Privy Seal and sealed abundance of pardons and little else.  From thence to the Exchequer and did give my mother Bowyer a visit and her daughters, the first time that I have seen them since I went last to sea.  From thence up with J. Spicer to his office and took L100, and by coach with it as far as my father’s, where I called to see them, and my father did offer me six pieces of gold, in lieu of six pounds that he borrowed of me the other day, but it went against me to take it of him and therefore did not, though I was afterwards a little troubled that I did not.  Thence home, and took out this L100 and sealed it up with the other last night, it being the first L200 that ever I saw together of my own in my life.  For which God be praised.  So to my Lady Batten, and sat an hour or two, and talked with her daughter and people in the absence of her father and mother and my wife to pass away the time.  After that home and to bed, reading myself asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.

13th.  All the day long looking upon my workmen who this day began to paint my parlour.  Only at noon my Lady Batten and my wife came home, and so I stepped to my Lady’s, where were Sir John Lawson and Captain Holmes, and there we dined and had very good red wine of my Lady’s own making in England.