[This was Speght’s edition of 1602, which is still in the Pepysian
     Library.  The book is bound in calf, with brass clasps and bosses. 
     It is not lettered.]

though they were not full neate enough for me, but pretty well it is; and thence to the clasp-maker’s to have it clasped and bossed.  So to the ’Change and home to dinner, and so to my office till 5 o’clock, and then came Mr. Hill and Andrews, and we sung an houre or two.  Then broke up and Mr. Alsop and his company came and consulted about our Tangier victualling and brought it to a good head.  So they parted, and I to supper and to bed.

9th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  In the afternoon by coach with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, and there to a Committee for Fishing; but the first thing was swearing to be true to the Company, and we were all sworne; but a great dispute we had, which, methought, is very ominous to the Company; some, that we should swear to be true to the best of our power, and others to the best of our understanding; and carried in the last, though in that we are the least able to serve the Company, because we would not be obliged to attend the business when we can, but when we list.  This consideration did displease me, but it was voted and so went.  We did nothing else, but broke up till a Committee of Guinny was set and ended, and then met again for Tangier, and there I did my business about my Lord Peterborough’s order and my own for my expenses for the garrison lately.  So home, by the way calling for my Chaucer and other books, and that is well done to my mind, which pleased me well.  So to my office till late writing letters, and so home to my wife to supper and bed, where we have not lain together because of the heat of the weather a good while, but now against her going into the country.

10th (Lord’s day).  Up and by water, towards noon, to Somersett House, and walked to my Lord Sandwich’s, and there dined with my Lady and the children.  And after some ordinary discourse with my Lady, after dinner took our leaves and my wife hers, in order to her going to the country to-morrow.  But my Lord took not occasion to speak one word of my father or mother about the children at all, which I wonder at, and begin I will not.  Here my Lady showed us my Lady Castlemayne’s picture, finely done; given my Lord; and a most beautiful picture it is.  Thence with my Lady Jemimah and Mr. Sidney to St. Gyles’s Church, and there heard a long, poore sermon.  Thence set them down and in their coach to Kate Joyce’s christening, where much company, good service of sweetmeates; and after an houre’s stay, left them, and in my Lord’s coach—­his noble, rich coach—­home, and there my wife fell to putting things in order against her going to-morrow, and I to read, and so to bed, where I not well, and so had no pleasure at all with my poor wife.

11th.  But betimes up this morning, and, getting ready, we by coach to Holborne, where, at nine o’clock, they set out, and I and my man Will on horseback, by my wife, to Barnett; a very pleasant day; and there dined with her company, which was very good; a pretty gentlewoman with her, that goes but to Huntington, and a neighbour to us in towne.  Here we staid two hours and then parted for all together, and my poor wife I shall soon want I am sure.  Thence I and Will to see the Wells, half a mile off,