Temple Bar, we found a pullet ready roasted, and there we dined.  After that he went to his office in Chancery Lane, calling at the Rolls, where I saw the lawyers pleading.  Then to his office, where I sat in his study singing, while he was with his man (Mr. Powell’s son) looking after his business.  Thence we took coach for the City to Guildhall, where the Hall was full of people expecting Monk and Lord Mayor to come thither, and all very joyfull.  Here we stayed a great while, and at last meeting with a friend of his we went to the 3 Tun tavern and drank half a pint of wine, and not liking the wine we went to an alehouse, where we met with company of this third man’s acquaintance, and there we drank a little.  Hence I went alone to Guildhall to see whether Monk was come again or no, and met with him coming out of the chamber where he had been with the Mayor and Aldermen, but such a shout I never heard in all my life, crying out, “God bless your Excellence.”  Here I met with Mr. Lock, and took him to an alehouse, and left him there to fetch Chetwind; when we were come together, Lock told us the substance of the letter that went from Monk to the Parliament; wherein, after complaints that he and his officers were put upon such offices against the City as they could not do with any content or honour, that there are many members now in the House that were of the late tyrannical Committee of Safety.  That Lambert and Vane are now in town, contrary to the vote of Parliament.  That there were many in the House that do press for new oaths to be put upon men; whereas we have more cause to be sorry for the many oaths that we have already taken and broken.  That the late petition of the fanatique people presented by Barebone, for the imposing of an oath upon all sorts of people, was received by the House with thanks.  That therefore he [Monk] do desire that all writs for filling up of the House be issued by Friday next, and that in the mean time, he would retire into the City and only leave them guards for the security of the House and Council.  The occasion of this was the order that he had last night to go into the City and disarm them, and take away their charter; whereby he and his officers say that the House had a mind to put them upon things that should make them odious; and so it would be in their power to do what they would with them.  He told us that they [the Parliament] had sent Scott and Robinson to him [Monk] this afternoon, but he would not hear them.  And that the Mayor and Aldermen had offered him their own houses for himself and his officers; and that his soldiers would lack for nothing.  And indeed I saw many people give the soldiers drink and money, and all along in the streets cried, “God bless them!” and extraordinary good words.  Hence we went to a merchant’s house hard by, where Lock wrote a note and left, where I saw Sir Nich.  Crisp, and so we went to the Star Tavern (Monk being then at Benson’s), where we dined and I wrote