28th.  My brother Tom came to me with patterns to choose for a suit.  I paid him all to this day, and did give him L10 upon account.  To Mr. Coventry, who told me that he would do me all right in my business.  To Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came.  He is so stingy a fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of his office, and did give him liberty to take any body in.  Hawly and he are parted too, he is going to serve Sir Thos.  Ingram.  I went also this morning to see Mrs. Pierce, the chirurgeon[’s wife].  I found her in bed in her house in Margaret churchyard.  Her husband returned to sea.  I did invite her to go to dinner with me and my wife to-day.  After all this to my Lord, who lay a-bed till eleven o’clock, it being almost five before he went to bed, they supped so late last night with the King.  This morning I saw poor Bishop Wren

[Matthew Wren, born 1585, successively Bishop of Hereford, Norwich, and Ely.  At the commencement of the Rebellion he was sent to the Tower, and remained a prisoner there eighteen years.  Died April 24th, 1667.]

going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day

     ["A Proclamation for setting apart a day of Solemn and Publick
     Thanksgiving throughout the whole Kingdom,” dated June 5th, 1660.]

for the King’s return.  After my Lord was awake, I went up to him to the Nursery, where he do lie, and, having talked with him a little, I took leave and carried my wife and Mrs. Pierce to Clothworkers’-Hall, to dinner, where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, met us.  We were invited by Mr. Chaplin, the Victualler, where Nich.  Osborne was.  Our entertainment very good, a brave hall, good company, and very good music.  Where among other things I was pleased that I could find out a man by his voice, whom I had never seen before, to be one that sang behind the curtaine formerly at Sir W. Davenant’s opera.  Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the victualler dined with us.  After dinner to Mr. Rawlinson’s,

[Daniel Rawlinson kept the Mitre in Fenchurch Street, and there is a farthing token of his extant, “At the Mitetr in Fenchurch Streete, D. M. R.”  The initials stand for Daniel and Margaret Rawlinson (see “Boyne’s Trade Tokens,” ed.  Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 595) In “Reliquiae Hearnianae” (ed.  Bliss, 1869, vol. ii. p. 39) is the following extract from Thomas Rawlinson’s Note Book R.:  “Of Daniel Rawlinson, my grandfather, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch Street, and of whose being sequestred in the Rump time I have heard much, the Whiggs tell this, that upon the king’s murder he hung his signe in mourning.  He certainly judged right.  The honour of the Mitre was much eclipsed through the loss of so good a parent of the church of England.  These rogues say, this endeared him so much to the churchmen that he soon throve amain and got a good estate.”  Mrs. Rawlinson died of the plague (see August