Diary, Jul/Aug 1662 | Page 9

ink in when one
travels I also got that of him, and that done I went home by water and
to finish some of my Lord's business, and so early to bed. This day I
was told that my Lady Castlemaine (being quite fallen out with her
husband) did yesterday go away from him, with all her plate, jewels,
and other best things; and is gone to Richmond to a brother of her's;
which, I am apt to think, was a design to get out of town, that the King
might come at her the better. But strange it is how for her beauty I am
willing to construe all this to the best and to pity her wherein it is to her
hurt, though I know well enough she is a whore.

17th. To my office, and by and by to our sitting; where much business.
Mr. Coventry took his leave, being to go with the Duke over for the
Queen-Mother. I dined at home, and so to my Lord's, where I presented
him with a true state of all his accounts to last Monday, being the 14th

of July, which did please him, and to my great joy I continue in his
great esteem and opinion. I this day took a general acquittance from my
Lord to the same day. So that now I have but very few persons to deal
withall for money in the world. Home and found much business to be
upon my hands, and was late at the office writing letters by candle light,
which is rare at this time of the year, but I do it with much content and
joy, and then I do please me to see that I begin to have people direct
themselves to me in all businesses. Very late I was forced to send for
Mr. Turner, Smith, Young, about things to be sent down early
to-morrow on board the King's pleasure boat, and so to bed with my
head full of business, but well contented in mind as ever in my life.

18th. Up very early, and got a-top of my house, seeing the design of my
work, and like it very well, and it comes into my head to have my
dining- room wainscoated, which will be very pretty. By-and-by by
water to Deptford, to put several things in order, being myself now only
left in town, and so back again to the office, and there doing business
all the morning and the afternoon also till night, and then comes
Cooper for my mathematiques, but, in good earnest, my head is so full
of business that I cannot understand it as otherwise I should do. At
night to bed, being much troubled at the rain coming into my house, the
top being open.

19th. Up early and to some business, and my wife coming to me I staid
long with her discoursing about her going into the country, and as she
is not very forward so am I at a great loss whether to have her go or no
because of the charge, and yet in some considerations I would be glad
she was there, because of the dirtiness of my house and the trouble of
having of a family there. So to my office, and there all the morning,
and then to dinner and my brother Tom dined with me only to see me.
In the afternoon I went upon the river to look after some tarr I am
sending down and some coles, and so home again; it raining hard upon
the water, I put ashore and sheltered myself, while the King came by in
his barge, going down towards the Downs to meet the Queen: the Duke
being gone yesterday. But methought it lessened my esteem of a king,
that he should not be able to command the rain. Home, and Cooper
coming (after I had dispatched several letters) to my mathematiques,

and so at night to bed to a chamber at Sir W. Pen's, my own house
being so foul that I cannot lie there any longer, and there the chamber
lies so as that I come into it over my leads without going about, but yet
I am not fully content with it, for there will be much trouble to have
servants running over the leads to and fro.

20th (Lord's day). My wife and I lay talking long in bed, and at last she
is come to be willing to stay two months in the country, for it is her
unwillingness to stay till the house is quite done that makes me at a loss
how to have her go or stay. But that which troubles me most is that it
has rained all this morning so furiously