the war, of all sorts, and ended with good peace, and much seeming satisfaction; but I find them wise and reserved, and instructed to hit all our blots, as among others, that we reckon the ships full manned from the beginning.  They gone, and my heart eased of a great deale of fear and pain, and reckoning myself to come off with victory, because not overcome in anything or much foiled, I away to Sir W. Coventry’s chamber, but he not within, then to White Hall, and there among the ladies, and saw my Lady Castlemaine never looked so ill, nor Mrs. Stewart neither, as in this plain, natural dress.  I was not pleased with either of them.  Away, not finding [Sir] W. Coventry, and so home, and there find my father and my brother come to towne—­my father without my expectation; but glad I am to see him.  And so to supper with him, and to work again at the office; then home, to set up all my folio books, which are come home gilt on the backs, very handsome to the eye, and then at midnight to bed.  This night [Sir] W. Pen told me [Sir] W. Batten swears he will have nothing to do with the Privateer if his son do not go Lieutenant, which angers me and him; but we will be even with him, one way or other.

4th.  Up, and mighty betimes, to [Sir] W. Coventry, to give him an account of yesterday’s work, which do give him good content.  He did then tell me his speech lately to the House in his owne vindication about the report of his selling of places, he having a small occasion offered him by chance, which he did desire, and took, and did it to his content, and, he says, to the House’s seeming to approve of it by their hum.  He confessed how long he had done it, and how he desired to have something else; and, since then, he had taken nothing, and challenged all the world.  I was glad of this also.  Thence up to the Duke of York, by appointment, with fellow officers, to complaine, but to no purpose, of want of money, and so away.  I to Sir G. Carteret, to his lodging, and here discoursed much of the want of money and our being designed for destruction.  How the King hath lost his power, by submitting himself to this way of examining his accounts, and is become but as a private man.  He says the King is troubled at it, but they talk an entry shall be made, that it is not to be brought into example; that the King must, if they do not agree presently, make them a courageous speech, which he says he may do, the City of London being now burned, and himself master of an army, better than any prince before him, and so I believe.  Thence home, about noon, to dinner.  After dinner the book binder come, and I sent by him some more books to gild.  I to the office all day, and spent most of it with Sir W. Warren, whom I have had no discourse with a great while, and when all is done I do find him a mighty wise man as any I know, and his counsel as much to be followed.  Late with Mr. Hater upon comparing the charge and husbandry of the last Dutch war with ours now, and do find good roome to think we have done little worse than they, whereof good use may and will be made.  So home to supper, and to bed.