where all cry out that the House will be severe with Pen; but do hope well concerning the buyers, that we shall have no difficulty, which God grant!  Here met Creed, and, about noon, he and I, and Sir P. Neale to the Quaker’s, and there dined with a silly Executor of Bishop Juxon’s, and cozen Roger Pepys.  Business of money goes on slowly in the House.  Thence to White Hall by water, and there with the Duke of York a little, but stayed not, but saw him and his lady at his little pretty chapel, where I never was before:  but silly devotion, God knows!  Thence I left Creed, and to the King’s playhouse, into a corner of the 18d. box, and there saw “The Maid’s Tragedy,” a good play.  Coach, 1s.:  play and oranges, 2s. 6d.  Creed come, dropping presently here, but he did not see me, and come to the same place, nor would I be seen by him.  Thence to my Lord Crew’s, and there he come also after, and there with Sir T. Crew bemoaning my Lord’s folly in leaving his old interest, by which he hath now lost all.  An ill discourse in the morning of my Lord’s being killed, but this evening Godolphin tells us here that my Lord is well.  Thence with Creed to the Cock ale-house, and there spent 6d., and so by coach home, 2s. 6d., and so to bed.

16th.  Th[ursday].  Greeting’s book, is.  Begun this day to learn the Recorder.  To the office, where all the morning.  Dined with my clerks:  and merry at Sir W. Pen’s crying yesterday, as they say, to the King, that he was his martyr.  So to White Hall by coach to Commissioners of [the] Treasury about certificates, but they met not, 2s.  To Westminster by water.  To Westminster Hall, where I hear W. Pen is ordered to be impeached, 6d.  There spoke with many, and particularly with G. Montagu:  and went with him and Creed to his house, where he told how W. Pen hath been severe to Lord Sandwich; but the Coventrys both labouring to save him, by laying it on Lord Sandwich, which our friends cry out upon, and I am silent, but do believe they did it as the only way to save him.  It could not be carried to commit him.  It is thought the House do coole:  W. Coventry’s being for him, provoked Sir R. Howard and his party; Court, all for W. Pen.  Thence to White Hall, but no meeting of the Commissioners, and there met Mr. Hunt, and thence to Mrs. Martin’s, and, there did what I would, she troubled for want of employ for her husband, spent on her 1s.  Thence to the Hall to walk awhile and ribbon, spent is.  So [to] Lord Crew’s, and there with G. Carteret and my Lord to talk, and they look upon our matters much the better, and by this and that time is got, 1s.  So to the Temple late, and by water, by moonshine, home, 1s.  Cooks, 6d.  Wrote my letters to my Lady Sandwich, and so home, where displeased to have my maid bring her brother, a countryman, to lye there, and so to bed.