and peace one with another; meaning the Bill of Comprehension.  The Commons coming to their House, it was moved that the vote passed this morning might be suspended, because of the King’s speech, till the House was full and called over, two days hence:  but it was denied, so furious they are against this Bill:  and thereby a great blow either given to the King or Presbyters, or, which is the rather of the two, to the House itself, by denying a thing desired by the King, and so much desired by much the greater part of the nation.  Whatever the consequence be, if the King be a man of any stomach and heat, all do believe that he will resent this vote.  Thence with Creed home to my house to dinner, where I met with Mr. Jackson, and find my wife angry with Deb., which vexes me.  After dinner by coach away to Westminster; taking up a friend of Mr. Jackson’s, a young lawyer, and parting with Creed at White Hall.  They and I to Westminster Hall, and there met Roger Pepys, and with him to his chamber, and there read over and agreed upon the Deed of Settlement to our minds:  my sister to have L600 presently, and she to be joyntured in L60 per annum; wherein I am very well satisfied.  Thence I to the Temple to Charles Porter’s lodgings, where Captain Cocke met me, and after long waiting, on Pemberton,

[Francis Pemberton, afterwards knighted, and made Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1679.  His career was a most singular one, he having been twice removed from the Bench, and twice imprisoned by the House of Commons.  He twice returned to the bar, and after his second return he practised with great success as a serjeant for the next fourteen years till his death, June 10th, 1697.  Evelyn says, “He was held to be the most learned of the judges and an honest man” ("Diary,” October 4th, 1683).]

an able lawyer, about the business of our prizes, and left the matter with him to think of against to-morrow, this being a matter that do much trouble my mind, though there be no fault in it that I need fear the owning that I know of.  Thence with Cocke home to his house and there left him, and I home, and there got my wife to read a book I bought to-day, and come out to-day licensed by Joseph Williamson for Lord Arlington, shewing the state of England’s affairs relating to France at this time, and the whole body of the book very good and solid, after a very foolish introduction as ever I read, and do give a very good account of the advantage of our league with Holland at this time.  So, vexed in my mind with the variety of cares I have upon me, and so to bed.