13th.  In the morning we all went to church, and sat in the pew belonging to us, where a cold sermon of a young man that never had preached before.  Here Commissioner came with his wife and daughters, the eldest being his wife’s daughter is a very comely black woman.—­[The old expression for a brunette.]—­So to the Globe to dinner, and then with Commissioner Pett to his lodgings there (which he hath for the present while he is building the King’s yacht, which will be a pretty thing, and much beyond the Dutchman’s), and from thence with him and his wife and daughter-in-law by coach to Greenwich Church, where a good sermon, a fine church, and a great company of handsome women.  After sermon to Deptford again; where, at the Commissioner’s and the Globe, we staid long.  And so I to Mr. Davis’s to bed again.  But no sooner in bed, but we had an alarm, and so we rose:  and the Comptroller comes into the Yard to us; and seamen of all the ships present repair to us, and there we armed with every one a handspike, with which they were as fierce as could be.  At last we hear that it was only five or six men that did ride through the guard in the town, without stopping to the guard that was there; and, some say, shot at them.  But all being quiet there, we caused the seamen to go on board again:  And so we all to bed (after I had sat awhile with Mr. Davis in his study, which is filled with good books and some very good song books) I likewise to bed.

14th.  The arms being come this morning from the Tower, we caused them to be distributed.  I spent much time walking with Lieutenant Lambert, walking up and down the yards, who did give me much light into things there, and so went along with me and dined with us.  After dinner Mrs. Pett, her husband being gone this morning with Sir W. Batten to Chatham, lent us her coach, and carried us to Woolwich, where we did also dispose of the arms there and settle the guards.  So to Mr. Pett’s, the shipwright, and there supped, where he did treat us very handsomely (and strange it is to see what neat houses all the officers of the King’s yards have), his wife a proper woman, and has been handsome, and yet has a very pretty hand.  Thence I with Mr. Ackworth to his house, where he has a very pretty house, and a very proper lovely woman to his wife, who both sat with me in my chamber, and they being gone, I went to bed, which was also most neat and fine.

15th.  Up and down the yard all the morning and seeing the seamen exercise, which they do already very handsomely.  Then to dinner at Mr. Ackworth’s, where there also dined with us one Captain Bethell, a friend of the Comptroller’s.  A good dinner and very handsome.  After that and taking our leaves of the officers of the yard, we walked to the waterside and in our way walked into the rope-yard, where I do look into the tar-houses and other places, and took great notice of all the several works belonging to the making of a cable.  So after a cup of burnt