our report, and ordered his being secured till he
did give his security, which did fully content me,
and will I hope vindicate the office. It happened
that my Lord Arlington coming in by chance was at
the hearing of all this, which I was not sorry for,
for he did move or did second the Duke of York that
this roguery of his might be put in the News-book that
it might be made publique to satisfy for the wrong
the credit of this office hath received by this rogue’s
occasion. So with utmost content I away with
Sir G. Carteret to London, talking all the way; and
he do tell me that the business of my Lord Hinchingbroke
his marriage with my Lord Burlington’s daughter
is concluded on by all friends; and that my Lady is
now told of it, and do mightily please herself with
it; which I am mighty glad of. So home, and
there I find that my wife hath been at my desire at
the Inne, thinking that my father might be come up
with the coach, but he is not come this week, poor
man, but will be here the next. At noon to dinner,
and then to Sir W. Batten’s, where I hear the
news how our Embassadors were but ill received at
Flushing, nor at Bredah itself, there being only a
house and no furniture provided for them, though it
be said that they have as much as the French.
Here we staid talking a little, and then I to the
office about my business, and thence to the office,
where busy about my own papers of my office, and by
and by comes the office full to examine Sir W. Warren’s
account, which I do appear mighty fierce in against
him, and indeed am, for his accounts are so perplexed
that I am sure he cannot but expect to get many a
L1000 in it before it passes our hands, but I will
not favour him, but save what I can to the King.
At his accounts, wherein I very high against him,
till late, and then we broke up with little done,
and so broke up, and I to my office, where late doing
of business, and then home to supper and to bed.
News still that my Lord Treasurer is so ill as not
to be any man of this world; and it is said that the
Treasury shall be managed by Commission. I would
to God Sir G. Carteret, or my Lord Sandwich, be in
it! But the latter is the more fit for it.
This day going to White Hall, Sir W. Batten did tell
me strange stories of Sir W. Pen, how he is already
ashamed of the fine coach which his son-in-law and
daughter have made, and indeed it is one of the most
ridiculous things for people of their low, mean fashion
to make such a coach that ever I saw. He tells
me how his people come as they do to mine every day
to borrow one thing or other, and that his Lady hath
been forced to sell some coals (in the late dear time)
only to enable her to pay money that she hath borrowed
of Griffin to defray her family expense, which is a
strange story for a rogue that spends so much money
on clothes and other occasions himself as he do, but
that which is most strange, he tells me that Sir W.
Pen do not give L6000, as is usually [supposed], with
his daughter to him, and that Mr. Lowder is come to
use the tubb, that is to bathe and sweat himself,
and that his lady is come to use the tubb too, which
he takes to be that he hath, and hath given her the
pox, but I hope it is not so, but, says Sir W. Batten,
this is a fair joynture, that he hath made her, meaning
by that the costs the having of a bath.