up:  and I home with Sir Stephen Fox to his house to dinner, and the Cofferer with us.  There I find Sir S. Fox’s lady, a fine woman, and seven the prettiest children of theirs that ever I knew almost.  A very genteel dinner, and in great state and fashion, and excellent discourse; and nothing like an old experienced man and a courtier, and such is the Cofferer Ashburnham.  The House have been mighty hot to-day against the Paper Bill, showing all manner of averseness to give the King money; which these courtiers do take mighty notice of, and look upon the others as bad rebells as ever the last were.  But the courtiers did carry it against those men upon a division of the House, a great many, that it should be committed; and so it was:  which they reckon good news.  After dinner we three to the Excise Office, and there had long discourse about our monies, but nothing to satisfaction, that is, to shew any way of shortening the time which our tallies take up before they become payable, which is now full two years, which is 20 per, cent. for all the King’s money for interest, and the great disservice of his Majesty otherwise.  Thence in the evening round by coach home, where I find Foundes his present, of a fair pair of candlesticks, and half a dozen of plates come, which cost him full L50, and is a very good present; and here I met with, sealed up, from Sir H. Cholmly, the lampoone, or the Mocke-Advice to a Paynter,

     [In a broadside (1680), quoted by Mr. G. T. Drury in his edition of
     Waller’s Poems, 1893, satirical reference is made to the fashionable
     form of advice to the painters

               “Each puny brother of the rhyming trade
               At every turn implores the Painter’s aid,
               And fondly enamoured of own foul brat
               Cries in an ecstacy, Paint this, draw that.”

The series was continued, for we find “Advice to a Painter upon the Defeat of the Rebels in the West and the Execution of the late Duke of Monmouth” ("Poems on Affairs of State,” vol. ii., p. 148); “Advice to a Painter, being a Satire on the French King,” &c., 1692, and “Advice to a Painter,” 1697 ("Poems on Affairs of State,” vol. ii., p. 428).]

abusing the Duke of York and my Lord Sandwich, Pen, and every body, and the King himself, in all the matters of the navy and warr.  I am sorry for my Lord Sandwich’s having so great a part in it.  Then to supper and musique, and to bed.

15th.  Up and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker newly come to town, from his being at Chatham and Harwich to spy enormities:  and at noon I with him and his lady Williams, to Captain Cocke’s, where a good dinner, and very merry.  Good news to-day upon the Exchange, that our Hamburgh fleete is got in; and good hopes that we may soon have the like of our Gottenburgh, and then we shall be well for this winter.  Very merry at dinner.  And by and by comes in Matt.  Wren from the Parliament-house; and tells us that he and all his party of the House, which is the Court party, are fools, and have been made so this day by the wise men of the other side; for, after the Court party had carried it yesterday so powerfully for the Paper-Bill,