8th.  By coach with both Sir Williams to Westminster; this being a great day there in the House to pass the business for chimney-money, which was done.  In the Hall I met with Serjeant Pierce; and he and I to drink a cup of ale at the Swan, and there he told me how my Lady Monk hath disposed of all the places which Mr. Edwd.  Montagu hoped to have had, as he was Master of the Horse to the Queen; which I am afraid will undo him, because he depended much upon the profit of what he should make by these places.  He told me, also, many more scurvy stories of him and his brother Ralph, which troubles me to hear of persons of honour as they are.  About one o’clock with both Sir Williams and another, one Sir Rich.  Branes, to the Trinity House, but came after they had dined, so we had something got ready for us.  Here Sir W. Batten was taken with a fit of coughing that lasted a great while and made him very ill, and so he went home sick upon it.  Sir W. Pen. and I to the office, whither afterward came Sir G. Carteret; and we sent for Sir Thos.  Allen, one of the Aldermen of the City, about the business of one Colonel Appesley, whom we had taken counterfeiting of bills with all our hands and the officers of the yards, so well counterfeited that I should never have mistrusted them.  We staid about this business at the office till ten at night, and at last did send him with a constable to the Counter; and did give warrants for the seizing of a complice of his, one Blinkinsopp.  So home and wrote to my father, and so to bed.

9th (Lord’s day).  Church in the morning:  dined at home, then to Church again and heard Mr. Naylor, whom I knew formerly of Keye’s College, make a most eloquent sermon.  Thence to Sir W. Batten’s to see how he did, then to walk an hour with Sir W. Pen in the garden:  then he in to supper with me at my house, and so to prayers and to bed.

10th.  At the office doing business all the morning, and my wife being gone to buy some things in the city I dined with Sir W. Batten, and in the afternoon met Sir W. Pen at the Treasury Office, and there paid off the Guift, where late at night, and so called in and eat a bit at Sir W. Batten’s again, and so home and to bed, to-morrow being washing day.

11th.  At the office all the morning, and all the afternoon rummaging of papers in my chamber, and tearing some and sorting others till late at night, and so to bed, my wife being not well all this day.  This afternoon Mrs. Turner and The. came to see me, her mother not having been abroad many a day before, but now is pretty well again and has made me one of the first visits.

12th.  At the office from morning till night putting of papers in order, that so I may have my office in an orderly condition.  I took much pains in sorting and folding of papers.  Dined at home, and there came Mrs. Goldsborough about her old business, but I did give her a short answer and sent away.  This morning we had news from Mr. Coventry, that Sir G. Downing (like a perfidious rogue, though the action is good and of service to the King,