15th.  Called up in the morning by Captain Holland and Captain Cuttance, and with them to Harper’s, thence to my office, thence with Mr. Hill of Worcestershire to Will’s, where I gave him a letter to Nan Pepys, and some merry pamphlets against the Rump to carry to her into the country.  So to Mr. Crew’s, where the dining room being full, Mr. Walgrave and I dined below in the buttery by ourselves upon a good dish of buttered salmon.  Thence to Hering’ the merchant about my Lord’s Worcester money and back to Paul’s Churchyard, where I staid reading in Fuller’s History of the Church of England an hour or two, and so to my father’s, where Mr. Hill came to me and I gave him direction what to do at Worcester about the money.  Thence to my Lady Wright’s and gave her a letter from my Lord privily.  So to Mrs. Jem and sat with her, who dined at Mr. Crew’s to-day, and told me that there was at her coming away at least forty gentlemen (I suppose members that were secluded, for Mr. Walgrave told me that there were about thirty met there the last night) came dropping in one after another thither.  Thence home and wrote into the country against to-morrow by the carrier and so to bed.  At my father’s I heard how my cousin Kate Joyce had a fall yesterday from her horse and had some hurt thereby.  No news to-day, but all quiet to see what the Parliament will do about the issuing of the writs to-morrow for filling up of the House, according to Monk’s desire.

16th, In the morning at my lute.  Then came Shaw and Hawly, and I gave them their morning draft at my house.  So to my office, where I wrote by the carrier to my Lord and sealed my letter at Will’s, and gave it old East to carry it to the carrier’s, and to take up a box of china oranges and two little barrels of scallops at my house, which Captain Cuttance sent to me for my Lord.  Here I met with Osborne and with Shaw and Spicer, and we went to the Sun Tavern in expectation of a dinner, where we had sent us only two trenchers-full of meat, at which we were very merry, while in came Mr. Wade and his friend Capt.  Moyse (who told us of his hopes to get an estate merely for his name’s sake), and here we staid till seven at night, I winning a quart of sack of Shaw that one trencherfull that was sent us was all lamb and he that it was veal.  I by having but 3d. in my pocket made shift to spend no more, whereas if I had had more I had spent more as the rest did, so that I see it is an advantage to a man to carry little in his pocket.  Home, and after supper, and a little at my flute, I went to bed.

17th.  In the morning Tom that was my Lord’s footboy came to see me and had 10s. of me of the money which I have to keep of his.  So that now I have but 35s. more of his.  Then came Mr. Hills the instrument maker, and I consulted with him about the altering my lute and my viall.  After that I went into my study and did up my accounts, and found that I am about; L40 beforehand in the world, and