3rd.  Up, being well pleased with my new lodging and the convenience of having our mayds and none else about us, Will lying below.  So to the office, and there we sat full of business all the morning.  At noon I home to dinner, and then abroad to buy a bell to hang by our chamber door to call the mayds.  Then to the office, and met Mr. Blackburne, who came to know the reason of his kinsman (my Will) his being observed by his friends of late to droop much.  I told him my great displeasure against him and the reasons of it, to his great trouble yet satisfaction, for my care over him, and how every thing I said was for the good of the fellow, and he will take time to examine the fellow about all, and to desire my pleasure concerning him, which I told him was either that he should became a better servant or that we would not have him under my roof to be a trouble.  He tells me in a few days he will come to me again and we shall agree what to do therein.  I home and told my wife all, and am troubled to see that my servants and others should be the greatest trouble I have in the world, more than for myself.  We then to set up our bell with a smith very well, and then I late at the office.  So home to supper and to bed.

4th (Lord’s day).  Up and to church, my house being miserably overflooded with rayne last night, which makes me almost mad.  At home to dinner with my wife, and so to talk, and to church again, and so home, and all the evening most pleasantly passed the time in good discourse of our fortune and family till supper, and so to bed, in some pain below, through cold got.

5th.  Up with pain, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to the Temple, and then I to my brother’s, and up and down on business, and so to the New Exchange, and there met Creed, and he and I walked two or three hours, talking of many businesses, especially about Tangier, and my Lord Tiviot’s bringing in of high accounts, and yet if they were higher are like to pass without exception, and then of my Lord Sandwich sending a messenger to know whether the King intends to come to Newmarket, as is talked, that he may be ready to entertain him at Hinchingbroke.  Thence home and dined, and my wife all day putting up her hangings in her closett, which she do very prettily herself with her own hand, to my great content.  So I to the office till night, about several businesses, and then went and sat an hour or two with Sir W. Pen, talking very largely of Sir J. Minnes’s simplicity and unsteadiness, and of Sir W. Batten’s suspicious dealings, wherein I was open, and he sufficiently, so that I do not care for his telling of tales, for he said as much, but whether that were so or no I said nothing but what is my certain knowledge and belief concerning him.  Thence home to bed in great pain.