16th.  Th[ursday].  Greeting’s book, is.  Begun this day to learn the Recorder.  To the office, where all the morning.  Dined with my clerks:  and merry at Sir W. Pen’s crying yesterday, as they say, to the King, that he was his martyr.  So to White Hall by coach to Commissioners of [the] Treasury about certificates, but they met not, 2s.  To Westminster by water.  To Westminster Hall, where I hear W. Pen is ordered to be impeached, 6d.  There spoke with many, and particularly with G. Montagu:  and went with him and Creed to his house, where he told how W. Pen hath been severe to Lord Sandwich; but the Coventrys both labouring to save him, by laying it on Lord Sandwich, which our friends cry out upon, and I am silent, but do believe they did it as the only way to save him.  It could not be carried to commit him.  It is thought the House do coole:  W. Coventry’s being for him, provoked Sir R. Howard and his party; Court, all for W. Pen.  Thence to White Hall, but no meeting of the Commissioners, and there met Mr. Hunt, and thence to Mrs. Martin’s, and, there did what I would, she troubled for want of employ for her husband, spent on her 1s.  Thence to the Hall to walk awhile and ribbon, spent is.  So [to] Lord Crew’s, and there with G. Carteret and my Lord to talk, and they look upon our matters much the better, and by this and that time is got, 1s.  So to the Temple late, and by water, by moonshine, home, 1s.  Cooks, 6d.  Wrote my letters to my Lady Sandwich, and so home, where displeased to have my maid bring her brother, a countryman, to lye there, and so to bed.

17th (Friday).  Called up by Balty’s coming, who gives me a good account of his voyage, and pleases me well, and I hope hath got something.  This morning paid the Royall Society L1 6s., and so to the office all the morning.  At noon home to dinner with my people, and there much pretty discourse of Balty’s.  So by coach to White Hall:  the coachman on Ludgate Hill ’lighted, and beat a fellow with a sword, 2s. 6d.  Did little business with the Duke of York.  Hear that the House is upon the business of Harman, who, they say, takes all on himself.  Thence, with Brouncker, to the King’s house, and saw “The Surprizall,” where base singing, only Knepp,’ who come, after her song in the clouds, to me in the pit, and there, oranges, 2s.  After the play, she, and I, and Rolt, by coach, 6s. 6d., to Kensington, and there to the Grotto, and had admirable pleasure with their singing, and fine ladies listening to us:  with infinite pleasure, I enjoyed myself:  so to the tavern there, and did spend 16s. 6d., and the gardener 2s.  Mighty merry, and sang all the way to the town, a most pleasant evening, moonshine, and set them at her house in Covent Garden, and I home and to bed.