articles against the Chancellor to be treasonable reflections against his Majesty.  So that the King is very high, as they say; and God knows what will follow upon it!  After office I to my brother’s again, and thence to Madam Turner’s, in both places preparing things against to-morrow; and this night I have altered my resolution of burying him in the church yarde among my young brothers and sisters, and bury him in the church, in the middle isle, as near as I can to my mother’s pew.  This costs me 20s. more.  This being all, home by coach, bringing my brother’s silver tankard for safety along with me, and so to supper, after writing to my father, and so to bed.

18th.  Up betimes, and walked to my brother’s, where a great while putting things in order against anon; then to Madam Turner’s and eat a breakfast there, and so to Wotton, my shoemaker, and there got a pair of shoes blacked on the soles against anon for me; so to my brother’s and to church, and with the grave-maker chose a place for my brother to lie in, just under my mother’s pew.  But to see how a man’s tombes are at the mercy of such a fellow, that for sixpence he would, (as his owne words were,) “I will justle them together but I will make room for him;” speaking of the fulness of the middle isle, where he was to lie; and that he would, for my father’s sake, do my brother that is dead all the civility he can; which was to disturb other corps that are not quite rotten, to make room for him; and methought his manner of speaking it was very remarkable; as of a thing that now was in his power to do a man a courtesy or not.  At noon my wife, though in pain, comes, but I being forced to go home, she went back with me, where I dressed myself, and so did Besse; and so to my brother’s again:  whither, though invited, as the custom is, at one or two o’clock, they came not till four or five.  But at last one after another they come, many more than I bid:  and my reckoning that I bid was one hundred and twenty; but I believe there was nearer one hundred and fifty.  Their service was six biscuits apiece, and what they pleased of burnt claret.  My cosen Joyce Norton kept the wine and cakes above; and did give out to them that served, who had white gloves given them.  But above all, I am beholden to Mrs. Holden, who was most kind, and did take mighty pains not only in getting the house and every thing else ready, but this day in going up and down to see, the house filled and served, in order to mine, and their great content, I think; the men sitting by themselves in some rooms, and women by themselves in others, very close, but yet room enough.  Anon to church, walking out into the streete to the Conduit, and so across the streete, and had a very good company along with the corps.  And being come to the grave as above, Dr. Pierson, the minister of the parish, did read the service for buriall:  and so I saw my poor brother laid into the grave; and so all broke up; and I and my wife and Madam Turner and her family to my