30th.  Up, and to my Lord Ashly, but did nothing, and to Sir Ph.  Warwicke and spoke with him about business, and so back to the office, where all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, and thence to the Tangier Committee, where, Lord! to see how they did run into the giving of Sir J. Lawson (who is come to towne to-day to get this business done) L4000 about his Mole business, and were going to give him 4s. per yarde more, which arises in the whole Mole to L36,000, is a strange thing, but the latter by chance was stopped, the former was given.  Thence to see Mrs. Martin, whose husband being it seems gone away, and as she is informed he hath another woman whom he uses, and has long done, as a wife, she is mighty reserved and resolved to keep herself so till the return of her husband, which a pleasant thing to think of her.  Thence home, and to my office, where late, and to bed.

31st.  Up betimes and walked to my Lord Ashly, and there with Creed after long waiting spoke with him, and was civilly used by him; thence to Sir Ph.  Warwicke, and then to visit my Lord of Falmouth, who did also receive me pretty civilly, but not as I expected; he, I perceive, believing that I had undertaken to justify Povy’s accounts, taking them upon myself, but I rectified him therein.  So to my Lady Sandwich’s to dinner, and up to her chamber after dinner, and there discoursed about Sir G. Carteret’s son, in proposition between us two for my Lady Jemimah.  So to Povy, and with him spent the afternoon very busy, till I was weary of following this and neglecting my navy business.  So at night called my wife at my Lady’s, and so home.  To my office and there made up my month’s account, which, God be praised! rose to L1300.  Which I bless God for.  So after 12 o’clock home to supper and to bed.  I find Creed mightily transported by my Lord of Falmouth’s kind words to him, and saying that he hath a place in his intention for him, which he believes will be considerable.  A witty man he is in every respect, but of no good nature, nor a man ordinarily to be dealt with.  My Lady Castlemayne is sicke again, people think, slipping her filly.

Diaryof Samuel Pepys. 
April
1665

April 1st.  All the morning very busy at the office preparing a last half-year’s account for my Lord Treasurer.  At noon eat a bit and stepped to Sir Ph.  Warwicke, by coach to my Lord Treasurer’s, and after some private conference and examining of my papers with him I did return into the City and to Sir G. Carteret, whom I found with the Commissioners of Prizes dining at Captain Cocke’s, in Broad Streete, very merry.  Among other tricks, there did come a blind fiddler to the doore, and Sir G. Carteret did go to the doore and lead the blind fiddler by the hand in.  Thence with Sir G. Carteret to my Lord Treasurer, and by and by come Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and anon we come to my Lord, and there did lay open the expence for the six months