6th.  In the morning with my Lord at Whitehall, got the order of the Council for us to act.  From thence to Westminster Hall, and there met with the Doctor that shewed us so much kindness at the Hague, and took him to the Sun tavern, and drank with him.  So to my Lord’s and dined with W. Howe and Sarah, thinking it might be the last time that I might dine with them together.  In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy Office, whereby my mind was a little cheered, but my hopes not great.  From thence Sir G. Carteret and I to the Treasurer’s Office, where he set some things in order.  And so home, calling upon Sir Geoffry Palmer, who did give me advice about my patent, which put me to some doubt to know what to do, Barlow being alive.  Afterwards called at Mr. Pim’s, about getting me a coat of velvet, and he took me to the Half Moon, and the house so full that we staid above half an hour before we could get anything.  So to my Lord’s, where in the dark W. Howe and I did sing extemporys, and I find by use that we are able to sing a bass and a treble pretty well.  So home, and to bed.

7th.  To my Lord, one with me to buy a Clerk’s place, and I did demand L100.  To the Council Chamber, where I took an order for the advance of the salaries of the officers of the Navy, and I find mine to be raised to L350 per annum.  Thence to the Change, where I bought two fine prints of Ragotti from Rubens, and afterwards dined with my Uncle and Aunt Wight, where her sister Cox and her husband were.  After that to Mr. Rawlinson’s with my uncle, and thence to the Navy Office, where I began to take an inventory of the papers, and goods, and books of the office.  To my Lord’s, late writing letters.  So home to bed.

8th (Lord’s day).  To White Hall chapel, where I got in with ease by going before the Lord Chancellor with Mr. Kipps.  Here I heard very good music, the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and singing-men in surplices in my life.

[During the Commonwealth organs were destroyed all over the country, and the following is the title of the Ordinances under which this destruction took place:  “Two Ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the speedy demolishing of all organs, images, and all matters of superstitious monuments in all Cathedrals and Collegiate or Parish Churches and Chapels throughout the Kingdom of England and the dominion of Wales; the better to accomplish the blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and things illegal in the worship of God.  Dated May 9th, 1644.”  When at the period of the Restoration music again obtained its proper place in the services of the Church, there was much work for the organ builders.  According to Dr. Rimbault ("Hopkins on the Organ,” 1855, p. 74), it was more than fifty years after the Restoration when our parish churches began commonly to be