4th.  This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office all alone, and being visited by Lieut.  Lambert of the Charles (to whom I was formerly much beholden), I took him along with me to a little alehouse hard by our office, whither my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner had sent for me to show me two gentlemen that had a great desire to be known to me, one his name is Pepys, of our family, but one that I never heard of before, and the other a younger son of Sir Tho.  Bendishes, and so we all called cozens.  After sitting awhile and drinking, my two new cozens, myself, and Lieut.  Lambert went by water to Whitehall, and from thence I and Lieut.  Lambert to Westminster Abbey, where we saw Dr. Frewen translated to the Archbishoprick of York.  Here I saw the Bishops of Winchester, Bangor, Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Salisbury, all in their habits, in King Henry Seventh’s chappell.  But, Lord! at their going out, how people did most of them look upon them as strange creatures, and few with any kind of love or respect.  From thence at 2 to my Lord’s, where we took Mr. Sheply and Wm. Howe to the Raindeer, and had some oysters, which were very good, the first I have eat this year.  So back to my Lord’s to dinner, and after dinner Lieut.  Lambert and I did look upon my Lord’s model, and he told me many things in a ship that I desired to understand.  From thence by water I (leaving Lieut.  Lambert at Blackfriars) went home, and there by promise met with Robert Shaw and Jack Spicer, who came to see me, and by the way I met upon Tower Hill with Mr. Pierce the surgeon and his wife, and took them home and did give them good wine, ale, and anchovies, and staid them till night, and so adieu.  Then to look upon my painters that are now at work in my house.  At night to bed.

5th.  Office day; dined at home, and all the afternoon at home to see my painters make an end of their work, which they did to-day to my content, and I am in great joy to see my house likely once again to be clean.  At night to bed.

6th.  Col.  Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch ready for the Prince de Ligne to carry his things away to-day, who is now going home again.  About noon comes my cozen H. Alcock, for whom I brought a letter for my Lord to sign to my Lord Broghill for some preferment in Ireland, whither he is now a-going.  After him comes Mr. Creed, who brought me some books from Holland with him, well bound and good books, which I thought he did intend to give me, but I found that I must pay him.  He dined with me at my house, and from thence to Whitehall together, where I was to give my Lord an account of the stations and victualls of the fleet in order to the choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, to bring over the Queen, but my Lord not coming in before 9 at night I staid no longer for him, but went back again home and so to bed.