Diary, July 1667 | Page 8

hot weather that I had no pleasure in it. Anon the Court
rose, and I walked to Fleet streete for my belt at the beltmaker's, and so
home and to the office, wrote some letters, and then home to supper
and to bed.

5th. Up, and to the office, where Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] T.
Harvy and I met upon Mr. Gawden's accounts, and was at it all the
morning. This morning Sir G. Carteret did come to us, and walked in
the garden. It was to talk with me about some thing of my Lord
Sandwich's, but here he told us that the great seale is passed to my Lord
Annesly [Anglesey] for Treasurer of the Navy: so that now he do no
more belong to us: and I confess, for his sake, I am glad of it, and do
believe the other will have little content in it. At noon I home to dinner
with my wife, and after dinner to sing, and then to the office a little and
Sir W. Batten's, where I am vexed to hear that Nan Wright, now Mrs.
Markham, Sir W. Pen's mayde and whore, is come to sit in our pew at
church, and did so while my Lady Batten was there. I confess I am very
much vexed at it and ashamed. By and by out with [Sir] W. Pen to
White Hall, where I staid not, but to the New Exchange to buy gloves
and other little errands, and so home and to my office busy till night,
and then walked in the garden with my wife, and then to supper and to
sing, and so to bed. No news, but that the Dutch are gone clear from
Harwich northward, and have given out they are going to Yarmouth.

6th. Up, and to the office, where some of us sat busy all the morning.
At noon home to dinner, whither Creed come to dine with us and brings

the first word I hear of the news of a peace, the King having letters
come to him this noon signifying that it is concluded on, and that Mr.
Coventry is upon his way coming over for the King's satisfaction. The
news was so good and sudden that I went with great joy to [Sir] W.
Batten and then to [Sir] W. Pen to tell it them, and so home to dinner,
mighty merry, and light at my heart only on this ground, that a
continuing of the war must undo us, and so though peace may do the
like if we do not make good use of it to reform ourselves and get up
money, yet there is an opportunity for us to save ourselves. At least, for
my own particular, we shall continue well till I can get my money into
my hands, and then I will shift for myself. After dinner away, leaving
Creed there, by coach to Westminster, where to the Swan and drank,
and then to the Hall, and there talked a little with great joy of the peace,
and then to Mrs. Martin's, where I met with the good news que elle ne
est con child, the fear of which she did give me the other day, had
troubled me much. My joy in this made me send for wine, and thither
come her sister and Mrs. Cragg, and I staid a good while there. But here
happened the best instance of a woman's falseness in the world, that her
sister Doll, who went for a bottle of wine, did come home all
blubbering and swearing against one Captain Vandener, a Dutchman of
the Rhenish Wine House, that pulled her into a stable by the Dog tavern,
and there did tumble her and toss her, calling him all the rogues and
toads in the world, when she knows that elle hath suffered me to do any
thing with her a hundred times. Thence with joyful heart to White Hall
to ask Mr. Williamson the news, who told me that Mr. Coventry is
coming over with a project of a peace; which, if the States agree to, and
our King, when their Ministers on both sides have shewed it them, we
shall agree, and that is all: but the King, I hear, do give it out plain that
the peace is concluded. Thence by coach home, and there wrote a few
letters, and then to consult with my wife about going to Epsum
to-morrow, sometimes designing to go and then again not; and at last it
grew late and I bethought myself of business to employ me at home
tomorrow, and so I did not go. This afternoon I met with Mr. Rolt, who
tells me that he is going Cornett under