9th.  Up betimes, 25s. the reckoning for very bare.  Paid the house and by boats to London, six boats.  Mr. Moore, W. Howe, and I, and then the child in the room of W. Howe.  Landed at the Temple.  To Mr. Crew’s.  To my father’s and put myself into a handsome posture to wait upon my Lord, dined there.  To White Hall with my Lord and Mr. Edwd.  Montagu.  Found the King in the Park.  There walked.  Gallantly great.

10th. (Lord’s day.) At my father’s found my wife and to walk with her in Lincoln’s Inn walks.

11th.  Betimes to my Lord.  Extremely much people and business.  So with him to Whitehall to the Duke.  Back with him by coach and left him in Covent Garden.  I back to Will’s and the Hall to see my father.  Then to the Leg in King Street with Mr. Moore, and sent for.  L’Impertinent to dinner with me.  After that with Mr. Moore about Privy Seal business.  To Mr. Watkins, so to Mr. Crew’s.  Then towards my father’s met my Lord and with him to Dorset House to the Chancellor.  So to Mr. Crew’s and saw my Lord at supper, and then home, and went to see Mrs. Turner, and so to bed.

12th.  Visited by the two Pierces, Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerk and Mr. Creed, and did give them a ham of bacon.  So to my Lord and with him to the Duke of Gloucester.  The two Dukes dined with the Speaker, and I saw there a fine entertainment and dined with the pages.  To Mr. Crew’s, whither came Mr. Greatorex, and with him to the Faithornes, and so to the Devils tavern.  To my Lord’s and staid till 12 at night about business.  So to my father’s, my father and mother in bed, who had been with my uncle Fenner, &c., and my wife all day and expected me.  But I found Mr. Cook there, and so to bed.

13th.  To my Lord’s and thence to the Treasurer’s of the Navy,’ with Mr. Creed and Pierce the Purser to Rawlinson’s, whither my uncle Wight came, and I spent 12s. upon them.  So to Mr. Crew’s, where I blotted a new carpet—­[It was customary to use carpets as table cloths.]—­that was hired, but got it out again with fair water.  By water with my Lord in a boat to Westminster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place.  After business done there to the Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne, Creed, and Wivell.  So to my Lord’s lodging and to my father’s, and to bed.

14th.  Up to my Lord and from him to the Treasurer of the Navy for L500.  After that to a tavern with Washington the Purser, very gallant, and ate and drank.  To Mr. Crew’s and laid my money.  To my Lady Pickering with the plate that she did give my Lord the other day.  Then to Will’s and met William Symons and Doling and Luellin, and with them to the Bull-head, and then to a new alehouse in Brewer’s Yard, where Winter that had the fray with Stoakes, and from them to my father’s.