9th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, then at noon home to dinner with my people, and so to the office again writing of my letters, and then abroad to my bookseller’s, and up and down to the Duke of York’s playhouse, there to see, which I did, Sir W. Davenant’s corpse carried out towards Westminster, there to be buried.  Here were many coaches and six horses, and many hacknies, that made it look, methought, as if it were the buriall of a poor poet.  He seemed to have many children, by five or six in the first mourning-coach, all boys.  And there I left them coming forth, and I to the New Exchange, there to meet Mrs. Burroughs, and did take her in a carosse and carry elle towards the Park, kissing her . . . , but did not go into any house, but come back and set her down at White Hall, and did give her wrapt in paper for my Valentine’s gift for the last year before this, which I never did yet give her anything for, twelve half-crowns, and so back home and there to my office, where come a packet from the Downes from my brother Balty, who, with Harman, is arrived there, of which this day come the first news.  And now the Parliament will be satisfied, I suppose, about the business they have so long desired between Brouncker and Harman about not prosecuting the first victory.  Balty is very well, and I hope hath performed his work well, that I may get him into future employment.  I wrote to him this night, and so home, and there to the perfecting my getting the scale of musique without book, which I have done to perfection backward and forward, and so to supper and to bed.

10th (Friday) All the morning at Office.  At noon with W. Pen to Duke of York, and attended Council.  So to piper and Duck Lane, and there kissed bookseller’s wife, and bought Legend.  So home, coach.  Sailor.  Mrs. Hannam dead.  News of Peace.  Conning my gamut.

[The entries from April 10th to April 19th are transcribed from three leaves (six pages) of rough notes, which are inserted in the Ms. The rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book, but the amounts paid are often not registered in the fair copy when he came to transcribe his notes into the Diary.]

12th (Sunday).  Dined at Brouncker’s, and saw the new book.  Peace.  Cutting away sails.

13th (Monday).  Spent at Michel’s 6d.; in the Folly, 1s.;

     [The Folly was a floating house of entertainment on the Thames,
     which at this time was a fashionable resort.]

oysters, 1s.; coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s.; thence to Commissioners of Treasury, and so to Westminster Hall by water, 6d.  With G. Montagu and Roger Pepys, and spoke with Birch and Vaughan, all in trouble about the prize business.  So to Lord Crew’s (calling for a low pipe by the way), where Creed and G. M. and G. C. come, 1s.  So with Creed to a play.  Little laugh, 4s.  Thence towards the Park by coach, 2s. 6d.  Come home, met with order of Commissioners of Accounts, which put together with the rest vexed me, and so home to supper and to bed.