Diary, June 1667 | Page 7

6th. Up, and to the office all the morning, where (which he hath not
done a great while) Sir G. Carteret come to advise with us for the
disposing of L10,000, which is the first sum the new Lords Treasurers
have provided us; but, unless we have more, this will not enable us to
cut off any of the growing charge which they seem to give it us for, and
expect we should discharge several ships quite off with it. So home and
with my father and wife to Sir W. Pen's to dinner, which they invited us
to out of their respect to my father, as a stranger; though I know them
as false as the devil himself, and that it is only that they think it fit to
oblige me; wherein I am a happy man, that all my fellow-officers are
desirous of my friendship. Here as merry as in so false a place, and
where I must dissemble my hatred, I could be, and after dinner my

father and wife to a play, and I to my office, and there busy all the
afternoon till late at night, and then my wife and I sang a song or two in
the garden, and so home to supper and to bed. This afternoon comes Mr.
Pierce to me about some business, and tells me that the Duke of
Cambridge is yet living, but every minute expected to die, and is given
over by all people, which indeed is a sad loss.

7th. Up, and after with my flageolet and Mr. Townsend, whom I sent
for to come to me to discourse about my Lord Sandwich's business; for
whom I am in some pain, lest the Accounts of the Wardrobe may not
be in so good order as may please the new Lords Treasurers, who are
quick-sighted, and under obligations of recommending themselves to
the King and the world, by their finding and mending of faults, and are,
most of them, not the best friends to my Lord, and to the office, and
there all the morning. At noon home to dinner, my father, wife, and I,
and a good dinner, and then to the office again, where busy all the
afternoon, also I have a desire to dispatch all business that hath lain
long on my hands, and so to it till the evening, and then home to sing
and pipe with my wife, and then to supper and to bed, my head full of
thoughts how to keep if I can some part of my wages as Surveyor of the
Victualling, which I see must now come to be taken away among the
other places that have been occasioned by this war, and the rather
because I have of late an inclination to keep a coach. Ever since my
drinking, two days ago, some very Goole drink at Sir W. Coventry's
table I have been full of wind and with some pain, and I was afraid last
night that it would amount to much, but, blessed be God! I find that the
worst is past, so that I do clearly see that all the indisposition I am
liable to-day as to sickness is only the Colique. This day I read (shown
me by Mr. Gibson) a discourse newly come forth of the King of France,
his pretence to Flanders, which is a very fine discourse, and the truth is,
hath so much of the Civil Law in it, that I am not a fit judge of it, but,
as it appears to me, he hath a good pretence to it by right of his Queene.
So to bed.

8th. Up, and to the office, where all the news this morning is, that the

Dutch are come with a fleete of eighty sail to Harwich, and that guns
were heard plain by Sir W. Rider's people at Bednallgreene, all
yesterday even. So to the office, we all sat all the morning, and then
home to dinner, where our dinner a ham of French bacon, boiled with
pigeons, an excellent dish. Here dined with us only W. Hewer and his
mother. After dinner to the office again, where busy till night, and then
home and to read a little and then to bed. The news is confirmed that
the Dutch are off of Harwich, but had done nothing last night. The
King hath sent down my Lord of Oxford to raise the countries there;
and all the Westerne barges are taken up to make a bridge over the
River, about the Hope, for horse to cross the River, if there be occasion.

9th (Lord's day). Up, and by water to White Hall, and so walked to St.
James's, where I hear that the Duke of Cambridge, who