20th.  We sat at the office this morning, Sir W. Batten and Mr. Pett being upon a survey to Chatham.  This morning I sent my wife to my father’s and he is to give me L5 worth of pewter.  After we rose at the office, I went to my father’s, where my Uncle Fenner and all his crew and Captain Holland and his wife and my wife were at dinner at a venison pasty of the venison that I did give my mother the other day.  I did this time show so much coldness to W. Joyce that I believe all the table took notice of it.  After that to Westminster about my Lord’s business and so home, my Lord having not been well these two or three days, and I hear that Mr. Barnwell at Hinchinbroke is fallen sick again.  Home and to bed.

21st.  This morning Mr. Barlow had appointed for me to bring him what form I would have the agreement between him and me to pass, which I did to his lodgings at the Golden Eagle in the new street—­[Still retains the name New Street.]—­between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane, where he liked it very well, and I from him went to get Mr. Spong to engross it in duplicates.  To my Lord and spoke to him about the business of the Privy Seal for me to be sworn, though I got nothing by it, but to do Mr. Moore a kindness, which he did give me a good answer to.  Went to the Six Clerks’ office to Mr. Spong for the writings, and dined with him at a club at the next door, where we had three voices to sing catches.  So to my house to write letters and so to Whitehall about business of my Lord’s concerning his creation,—­[As Earl of Sandwich.]—­and so home and to bed.

22nd.  Lord’s day.  All this last night it had rained hard.  My brother Tom came this morning the first time to see me, and I paid him all that I owe my father to this day.  Afterwards I went out and looked into several churches, and so to my uncle Fenner’s, whither my wife was got before me, and we, my father and mother, and all the Joyces, and my aunt Bell, whom I had not seen many a year before.  After dinner to White Hall (my wife to church with K. Joyce), where I find my Lord at home, and walked in the garden with him, he showing me all the respect that can be.  I left him and went to walk in the Park, where great endeavouring to get into the inward Park,—­[This is still railed off from St. James’s Park, and called the Enclosure.]—­but could not get in; one man was basted by the keeper, for carrying some people over on his back through the water.  Afterwards to my Lord’s, where I staid and drank with Mr. Sheply, having first sent to get a pair of oars.  It was the first time that ever I went by water on the Lord’s day.  Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house.  So to bed.