meat and good wine, but was troubled in my head after the little wine I drank, and so home to my office, and there did promise to drink no more wine but one glass a meal till Whitsuntide next upon any score.  Mrs. Bowyer and her daughters being at my house I forbore to go to them, having business and my head disturbed, but staid at my office till night, and then to walk upon the leads with my wife, and so to my chamber and thence to bed.  The great talk is, that the Spaniards and the Hollanders do intend to set upon the Portuguese by sea, at Lisbon, as soon as our fleet is come away; and by that means our fleet is not likely to come yet these two months or three; which I hope is not true.

8th.  Up very early and to my office, and there continued till noon.  So to dinner, and in comes uncle Fenner and the two Joyces.  I sent for a barrel of oysters and a breast of veal roasted, and were very merry; but I cannot down with their dull company and impertinent.  After dinner to the office again.  So at night by coach to Whitehall, and Mr. Coventry not being there I brought my business of the office to him, it being almost dark, and so came away and took up my wife.  By the way home and on Ludgate Hill there being a stop I bought two cakes, and they were our supper at home.

9th.  Sir George Carteret, Sir Williams both and myself all the morning at the office passing the Victualler’s accounts, and at noon to dinner at the Dolphin, where a good chine of beef and other good cheer.  At dinner Sir George showed me an account in French of the great famine, which is to the greatest extremity in some part of France at this day, which is very strange.

     [On the 5th of June following, Louis, notwithstanding the scarcity,
     gave that splendid carousal in the court before the Tuileries, from
     which the place has ever since taken its name.—­B.]

So to the Exchange, Mrs. Turner (who I found sick in bed), and several other places about business, and so home.  Supper and to bed.

10th.  To Westminster with the two Sir Williams by water, and did several businesses, and so to the Wardrobe with Mr. Moore to dinner.  Yesterday came Col.  Talbot with letters from Portugall, that the Queen is resolved to embarque for England this week.  Thence to the office all the afternoon.  My Lord Windsor came to us to discourse of his affairs, and to take his leave of us; he being to go Governor of Jamaica with this fleet that is now going.  Late at the office.  Home with my mind full of business.  So to bed.

11th.  Up early to my lute and a song, then about six o’clock with Sir W. Pen by water to Deptford; and among the ships now going to Portugall with men and horse, to see them dispatched.  So to Greenwich; and had a fine pleasant walk to Woolwich, having in our company Captn.  Minnes, with whom I was much pleased to hear him talk in fine language, but pretty well for all that.  Among other things, he and