what is doubtful.  Thence home, and all the evening to set matters in order against my going to Brampton to-morrow, being resolved upon my journey, and having the Duke of York’s leave again to-day; though I do plainly see that I can very ill be spared now, there being much business, especially about this, which I have attended the Council about, and I the man that am alone consulted with; and, besides, my Lord Brouncker is at this time ill, and Sir W. Pen.  So things being put in order at the Office, I home to do the like there; and so to bed.

5th (Friday).

[The rough notes for the journal from this time to the 17th of June are contained on five leaves, inserted in the book; and after them follow several pages left blank for the fair copy which was never made.]

At Barnet, for milk, 6d.  On the highway, to menders of the highway, 6d.  Dinner at Stevenage, 5s. 6d.

6th (Saturday).  Spent at Huntingdon with Bowles, and Appleyard, and Shepley, 2s.

7th (Sunday).  My father, for money lent, and horse-hire L1 11s.

8th (Monday).  Father’s servants (father having in the garden told me bad stories of my wife’s ill words), 14s.; one that helped at the horses, 2s.; menders of the highway, 2s.  Pleasant country to Bedford, where, while they stay, I rode through the town; and a good country-town; and there, drinking, 1s.  We on to Newport; and there ’light, and I and W. Hewer to the Church, and there give the boy 1s.  So to Buckingham, a good old town.  Here I to see the Church, which very good, and the leads, and a school in it:  did give the sexton’s boy 1s.  A fair bridge here, with many arches:  vexed at my people’s making me lose so much time; reckoning, 13s. 4d.  Mighty pleased with the pleasure of the ground all the day.  At night to Newport Pagnell; and there a good pleasant country-town, but few people in it.  A very fair—­and like a Cathedral—­Church; and I saw the leads, and a vault that goes far under ground, and here lay with Betty Turner’s sparrow:  the town, and so most of this country, well watered.  Lay here well, and rose next day by four o’clock:  few people in the town:  and so away.  Reckoning for supper, 19s. 6d.; poor, 6d.  Mischance to the coach, but no time lost.

9th (Tuesday).  When come to Oxford, a very sweet place:  paid our guide, L1 2s. 6d.; barber, 2s. 6d.; book, Stonage, 4s.

[This must have been either Inigo Jones’s “The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stonehenge,” printed in 1655, or “Chorea Gigantum, or the most famous Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stones Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain, restor’d to the Danes,” by Walter Charleton, M.D., and published in 1663.]

To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord:  and to him that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us All Souls’ College, and Chichly’s picture, 5s.  So