them to Welling, and there ’light, and dined very well and merry and glad to see my poor-wife.  Here very merry as being weary I could be, and after dinner, out again, and to London.  In our way all the way the mightiest merry, at a couple of young gentlemen, come down to meet the same gentlewoman, that ever I was in my life, and so W. Joyce too, to see how one of them was horsed upon a hard-trotting sorrell horse, and both of them soundly weary and galled.  But it is not to be set down how merry we were all the way.  We ’light in Holborne, and by another coach my wife and mayde home, and I by horseback, and found all things well and most mighty neate and clean.  So, after welcoming my wife a little, to the office, and so home to supper, and then weary and not very well to bed.

7th (Lord’s day).  Lay long caressing my wife and talking, she telling me sad stories of the ill, improvident, disquiett, and sluttish manner that my father and mother and Pall live in the country, which troubles me mightily, and I must seek to remedy it.  So up and ready, and my wife also, and then down and I showed my wife, to her great admiration and joy, Mr. Gauden’s present of plate, the two flaggons, which indeed are so noble that I hardly can think that they are yet mine.  So blessing God for it, we down to dinner mighty pleasant, and so up after dinner for a while, and I then to White Hall, walked thither, having at home met with a letter of Captain Cooke’s, with which he had sent a boy for me to see, whom he did intend to recommend to me.  I therefore went and there met and spoke with him.  He gives me great hopes of the boy, which pleases me, and at Chappell I there met Mr. Blagrave, who gives a report of the boy, and he showed me him, and I spoke to him, and the boy seems a good willing boy to come to me, and I hope will do well.  I am to speak to Mr. Townsend to hasten his clothes for him, and then he is to come.  So I walked homeward and met with Mr. Spong, and he with me as far as the Old Exchange talking of many ingenuous things, musique, and at last of glasses, and I find him still the same ingenuous man that ever he was, and do among other fine things tell me that by his microscope of his owne making he do discover that the wings of a moth is made just as the feathers of the wing of a bird, and that most plainly and certainly.  While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle.  They go like lambs, without any resistance.  I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched!  Thence parted with him, mightily pleased with his company, and away homeward, calling at Dan Rawlinson, and supped there with my uncle Wight, and then home and eat again for form sake with her, and then to prayers and to bed.