15th.  Early packing up my things to be sent by cart with the rest of my Lord’s.  So to Will’s, where I took leave of some of my friends.  Here I met Tom Alcock, one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I had not seen him these sixteen years.  So in the Hall paid and made even with Mrs. Michell; afterwards met with old Beale, and at the Axe paid him this quarter to Ladyday next.  In the afternoon Dick Mathews comes to dine, and I went and drank with him at Harper’s.  So into London by water, and in Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d. and went to the Sun Tavern and ate it, where I did promise to give her all that I have in the world but my books, in case I should die at sea.  From thence homewards; in the way my wife bought linen for three smocks and other things.  I went to my Lord’s and spoke with him.  So home with Mrs. Jem by coach and then home to my own house.  From thence to the Fox in King-street to supper on a brave turkey of Mr. Hawly’s, with some friends of his there, Will Bowyer, &c.  After supper I went to Westminster Hall, and the Parliament sat till ten at night, thinking and being expected to dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not.  Great talk to-night that the discontented officers did think this night to make a stir, but prevented.  To the Fox again.  Home with my wife, and to bed extraordinary sleepy.

16th.  No sooner out of bed but troubled with abundance of clients, seamen.  My landlord Vanly’s man came to me by my direction yesterday, for I was there at his house as I was going to London by water, and I paid him rent for my house for this quarter ending at Lady day, and took an acquittance that he wrote me from his master.  Then to Mr. Sheply, to the Rhenish Tavern House, where Mr. Pim, the tailor, was, and gave us a morning draft and a neat’s tongue.  Home and with my wife to London, we dined at my father’s, where Joyce Norton and Mr. Armiger dined also.  After dinner my wife took leave of them in order to her going to-morrow to Huntsmore.  In my way home I went to the Chapel in Chancery Lane to bespeak papers of all sorts and other things belonging to writing against my voyage.  So home, where I spent an hour or two about my business in my study.  Thence to the Admiralty, and staid a while, so home again, where Will Bowyer came to tell us that he would bear my wife company in the coach to-morrow.  Then to Westminster Hall, where I heard how the Parliament had this day dissolved themselves, and did pass very cheerfully through the Hall, and the Speaker without his mace.  The whole Hall was joyful thereat, as well as themselves, and now they begin to talk loud of the King.  To-night I am told, that yesterday, about five o’clock in the afternoon, one came with a ladder to the Great Exchange, and wiped with a brush the inscription that was upon King Charles, and that there was a great bonfire made in the Exchange, and people called out “God bless.  King Charles the Second!”