28th.  At home looking over my papers and books and house as to the fitting of it to my mind till two in the afternoon.  Some time I spent this morning beginning to teach my wife some scale in music, and found her apt beyond imagination.  To the Privy Seal, where great store of work to-day.  Colonel Scroope—­[Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons who sat in judgment upon Charles I.]—­is this day excepted out of the Act of Indemnity, which has been now long in coming out, but it is expected to-morrow.  I carried home L80 from the Privy Seal, by coach, and at night spent a little more time with my wife about her music with great content.  This day I heard my poor mother had then two days been very ill, and I fear she will not last long.  To bed, a little troubled that I fear my boy Will

     [Pepys refers to two Wills.  This was Will Wayneman; the other was
     William Hewer.]

is a thief and has stole some money of mine, particularly a letter that Mr. Jenkins did leave the last week with me with half a crown in it to send to his son.

29th (Office day).  Before I went to the office my wife and I examined my boy Will about his stealing of things, but he denied all with the greatest subtlety and confidence in the world.  To the office, and after office then to the Church, where we took another view of the place where we had resolved to build a gallery, and have set men about doing it.  Home to dinner, and there I found my wife had discovered my boy Will’s theft and a great deal more than we imagined, at which I was vexed and intend to put him away.  To my office at the Privy Seal in the afternoon, and from thence at night to the Bull Head, with Mount, Luellin, and others, and hence to my father’s, and he being at my uncle Fenner’s, I went thither to him, and there sent for my boy’s father and talked with him about his son, and had his promise that if I will send home his boy, he will take him notwithstanding his indenture.  Home at night, and find that my wife had found out more of the boy’s stealing 6s. out of W. Hewer’s closet, and hid it in the house of office, at which my heart was troubled.  To bed, and caused the boy’s clothes to be brought up to my chamber.  But after we were all a-bed, the wench (which lies in our chamber) called us to listen of a sudden, which put my wife into such a fright that she shook every joint of her, and a long time that I could not get her out of it.  The noise was the boy, we did believe, got in a desperate mood out of his bed to do himself or William [Hewer] some mischief.  But the wench went down and got a candle lighted, and finding the boy in bed, and locking the doors fast, with a candle burning all night, we slept well, but with a great deal of fear.