9th.  Up and to the office, where we sat the first day since the fire, I think.  At noon home, and my uncle Thomas was there, and dined with my brother and I (my father and I were gone abroad), and then to the office again in the afternoon, and there close all day long, and did much business.  At night to Sir W. Batten, where Sir R. Ford did occasion some discourse of sending a convoy to the Maderas; and this did put us upon some new thoughts of sending our privateer thither on merchants’ accounts, which I have more mind to, the profit being certain and occasion honest withall.  So home, and to supper with my father, and then to set my remainder of my books gilt in order with much pleasure, and so late to bed.

10th (Fast-day for the fire).  Up with Sir W. Batten by water to White Hall, and anon had a meeting before the Duke of York, where pretty to see how Sir W. Batten, that carried the surveys of all the fleete with him, to shew their ill condition to the Duke of York, when he found the Prince there, did not speak one word, though the meeting was of his asking—­for nothing else.  And when I asked him, he told me he knew the Prince too well to anger him, so that he was afeard to do it.  Thence with him to Westminster, to the parish church, where the Parliament-men, and Stillingfleete in the pulpit.  So full, no standing there; so he and I to eat herrings at the Dog Taverne.  And then to church again, and there was Mr. Frampton in the pulpit, they cry up so much, a young man, and of a mighty ready tongue.  I heard a little of his sermon, and liked it; but the crowd so great, I could not stay.  So to the Swan, and ’baise la fille’, and drank, and then home by coach, and took father, wife, brother, and W. Hewer to Islington, where I find mine host dead.  Here eat and drank, and merry; and so home, and to the office a while, and then to Sir W. Batten to talk a while, and with Captain Cocke into the office to hear his newes, who is mighty conversant with Garraway and those people, who tells me what they object as to the maladministration of things as to money.  But that they mean well, and will do well; but their reckonings are very good, and show great faults, as I will insert here.  They say the king hath had towards this war expressly thus much

Royal Ayde....................................  L2,450,000
More..........................................  1,250,000
Three months’ tax given the King by a power of
raising a month’s tax of L70,000 every
year for three years.....................  0,210,000
Customes, out of which the King did promise
to pay L240,000, which for two years
comes to.................................. 0,480,000
Prizes, which they moderately reckon at........ 0,300,000
A debt declared by the Navy, by us............. 0,900,000
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5,590,000

The whole charge of the Navy, as we state it
for two years and a month, hath been but.. 3,200,000

So what is become of all this sum?........ 2,390,000

He and I did bemoan our public condition.  He tells me the Duke of Albemarle is under a cloud, and they have a mind at Court to lay him aside.  This I know not; but all things are not right with him, and I am glad of it, but sorry for the time.  So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night,