25th.  Up betimes and by water to White Hall, and there with Sir G. Carteret to Sir W. Coventry, who is come to his winter lodgings at White Hall, and there agreed upon a method of paying of tickets; and so I back again home and to the office, where we sate all the morning, but to little purpose but to receive clamours for money.  At noon home to dinner, where the two Mrs. Daniels come to see us, and dined with us.  After dinner I out with my wife to Mrs. Pierces, where she hath not been a great while, from some little unkindness of my wife’s to her when she was last here, but she received us with mighty respect and discretion, and was making herself mighty fine to go to a great ball to-night at Court, being the Queene’s birthday; so the ladies for this one day do wear laces, but to put them off again to-morrow.  Thence I to my Lord Bruncker’s, and with him to Mrs. Williams’s where we met Knipp.  I was glad to see the jade.  Made her sing; and she told us they begin at both houses to act on Monday next.  But I fear, after all this sorrow, their gains will be but little.  Mrs. Williams says, the Duke’s house will now be much the better of the two, because of their women; which I am glad to hear.  Thence with Lord Bruncker to White Hall and there spoke with Sir W. Coventry about some office business, and then I away to Mrs. Pierces, and there saw her new closet, which is mighty rich and fine.  Her daughter Betty grows mighty pretty.  Thence with my wife home and to do business at the office.  Then to Sir W. Batten’s, who tells me that the House of Parliament makes mighty little haste in settling the money, and that he knows not when it will be done; but they fall into faction, and libells have been found in the House.  Among others, one yesterday, wherein they reckon up divers great sums to be given away by the King, among others, L10,000 to Sir W. Coventry, for weare and teare (the point he stood upon to advance that sum by, for them to give the King); Sir G. Carteret L50,000 for something else, I think supernumerarys; and so to Matt.  Wren L5000 for passing the Canary Company’s patent; and so a great many other sums to other persons.  So home to supper and to bed.

26th.  Up, and all the morning and most of the afternoon within doors, beginning to set my accounts in order from before this fire, I being behindhand with them ever since; and this day I got most of my tradesmen to bring in their bills and paid them.  Dined at home, and busy again after dinner, and then abroad by water to Westminster Hall, where I walked till the evening, and then out, the first time I ever was abroad with Doll Lane, to the Dog tavern, and there drank with her, a bad face, but good bodied girle.  Did nothing but salute and play with her and talk, and thence away by coach, home, and so to do a little more in my accounts, and then to supper and to bed.  Nothing done in the House yet as to the finishing of the bill for money, which is a mighty sad thing, all lying at stake for it.