10th (Friday) All the morning at Office.  At noon with W. Pen to Duke of York, and attended Council.  So to piper and Duck Lane, and there kissed bookseller’s wife, and bought Legend.  So home, coach.  Sailor.  Mrs. Hannam dead.  News of Peace.  Conning my gamut.

[The entries from April 10th to April 19th are transcribed from three leaves (six pages) of rough notes, which are inserted in the Ms. The rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book, but the amounts paid are often not registered in the fair copy when he came to transcribe his notes into the Diary.]

12th (Sunday).  Dined at Brouncker’s, and saw the new book.  Peace.  Cutting away sails.

13th (Monday).  Spent at Michel’s 6d.; in the Folly, 1s.;

     [The Folly was a floating house of entertainment on the Thames,
     which at this time was a fashionable resort.]

oysters, 1s.; coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s.; thence to Commissioners of Treasury, and so to Westminster Hall by water, 6d.  With G. Montagu and Roger Pepys, and spoke with Birch and Vaughan, all in trouble about the prize business.  So to Lord Crew’s (calling for a low pipe by the way), where Creed and G. M. and G. C. come, 1s.  So with Creed to a play.  Little laugh, 4s.  Thence towards the Park by coach, 2s. 6d.  Come home, met with order of Commissioners of Accounts, which put together with the rest vexed me, and so home to supper and to bed.

14th (Tuesday).  Up betimes by water to the Temple.  In the way read the Narrative about prizes; and so to Lord Crew’s bedside, and then to Westminster, where I hear Pen is, and sent for by messenger last night.  Thence to Commissioners of Accounts and there examined, and so back to Westminster Hall, where all the talk of committing all to the Tower, and Creed and I to the Quaker’s, dined together.  Thence to the House, where rose about four o’clock; and, with much ado, Pen got to Thursday to bring in his answer; so my Lord escapes to-day.  Thence with Godage and G. Montagu to G. Carteret’s, and there sat their dinner-time:  and hear myself, by many Parliament-men, mightily commended.  Thence to a play, “Love’s Cruelty,” and so to my Lord Crew’s, who glad of this day’s time got, and so home, and there office, and then home to supper and to bed, my eyes being the better upon leaving drinking at night.  Water, 1s.  Porter, 6d.  Water, 6d.  Dinner, 3s. 6d.  Play part, 2s.  Oranges, 1s.  Home coach, 1s. 6d.

15th.  After playing a little upon my new little flageolet, that is so soft that pleases me mightily, betimes to my office, where most of the morning.  Then by coach, 1s., and meeting Lord Brouncker, ’light at the Exchange, and thence by water to White Hall, 1s., and there to the Chapel, expecting wind musick and to the Harp-and-Ball, and drank all alone, 2d.  Back, and to the fiddling concert, and heard a practice mighty good of Grebus, and thence to Westminster Hall,