21st.  Up about four o’clock, and settled some private business of my own, then made me ready and to the office to prepare things for our meeting to-day.  By and by we met, and at noon Sir W. Pen and I to the Trinity House; where was a feast made by the Wardens, when great good cheer, and much, but ordinary company.  The Lieutenant of the Tower, upon my demanding how Sir H. Vane died, told me that he died in a passion; but all confess with so much courage as never man died.  Thence to the office, where Sir W. Rider, Capt.  Cocke, and Mr. Cutler came by appointment to meet me to confer about the contract between us and them for 500 tons of hemp.  That being done, I did other business and so went home, and there found Mr. Creed, who staid talking with my wife and me an hour or two, and I put on my riding cloth suit, only for him to see how it is, and I think it will do very well.  He being gone, and I hearing from my wife and the maids’ complaints made of the boy, I called him up, and with my whip did whip him till I was not able to stir, and yet I could not make him confess any of the lies that they tax him with.  At last, not willing to let him go away a conqueror, I took him in task again, and pulled off his frock to his shirt, and whipped him till he did confess that he did drink the whey, which he had denied, and pulled a pink, and above all did lay the candlestick upon the ground in his chamber, which he had denied this quarter of a year.  I confess it is one of the greatest wonders that ever I met with that such a little boy as he could possibly be able to suffer half so much as he did to maintain a lie.  I think I must be forced to put him away.  So to bed, with my arm very weary.

22nd (Lord’s day).  This day I first put on my slasht doublet, which I like very well.  Mr. Shepley came to me in the morning, telling me that he and my Lord came to town from Hinchinbroke last night.  He and I spend an hour in looking over his account, and then walked to the Wardrobe, all the way discoursing of my Lord’s business.  He tells me to my great wonder that Mr. Barnwell is dead L500 in debt to my Lord.  By and by my Lord came from church, and I dined, with some others, with him, he very merry, and after dinner took me aside and talked of state and other matters.  By and by to my brother Tom’s and took him out with me homewards (calling at the Wardrobe to talk a little with Mr. Moore), and so to my house, where I paid him all I owed him, and did make the L20 I lately lent him up to L40, for which he shall give bond to Mr. Shepley, for it is his money.  So my wife and I to walk in the garden, where all our talk was against Sir W. Pen, against whom I have lately had cause to be much prejudiced.  By and by he and his daughter came out to walk, so we took no notice of them a great while, at last in going home spoke a word or two, and so good night, and to bed.  This day I am told of a Portugall lady, at Hampton Court, that hath dropped a child already since the