Diary, May/Jun 1662 | Page 5

chamber to write down my journall from the

beginning of my late journey to this house. Dined well, and after dinner,
my arm tied up with a black ribbon, I walked with my wife to my
brother Tom's; our boy waiting on us with his sword, which this day he
begins to wear, to outdo Sir W. Pen's boy, who this day, and Six W.
Batten's too, begin to wear new livery; but I do take mine to be the
neatest of them all. I led my wife to Mrs. Turner's pew, and the church
being full, it being to hear a Doctor who is to preach a probacon [??
D.W.] sermon, I went out to the Temple and there walked, and so when
church was done went to Mrs. Turner's, and after a stay there, my wife
and I walked to Grays Inn, to observe fashions of the ladies, because of
my wife's making some clothes. Thence homewards, and called in at
Antony Joyce's, where we found his wife brought home sick from
church, and was in a convulsion fit. So home and to Sir W. Pen's and
there supped, and so to prayers at home and to bed.

5th. My arme not being well, I staid within all the morning, and dined
alone at home, my wife being gone out to buy some things for herself,
and a gown for me to dress myself in. And so all the afternoon looking
over my papers, and at night walked upon the leads, and so to bed.

6th. This morning I got my seat set up on the leads, which pleases me
well. So to the office, and thence to the Change, but could not meet
with my uncle Wight. So home to dinner and then out again to several
places to pay money and to understand my debts, and so home and
walked with my wife on the leads, and so to supper and to bed. I find it
a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.

7th. Walked to Westminster; where I understand the news that Mr.
Montagu is this last night come to the King with news, that he left the
Queen and fleet in the Bay of Biscay, coming this wayward; and that he
believes she is now at the Isle of Scilly. So at noon to my Lord Crew's
and there dined, and after dinner Sir Thos. Crew and I talked together,
and among other instances of the simple light discourse that sometimes
is in the Parliament House, he told me how in the late business of
Chymny money, when all occupiers were to pay, it was questioned
whether women were under that name to pay, and somebody rose and
said that they were not occupiers, but occupied. Thence to Paul's

Church Yard; where seeing my Lady's Sandwich and Carteret, and my
wife (who this day made a visit the first time to my Lady Carteret),
come by coach, and going to Hide Park, I was resolved to follow them;
and so went to Mrs. Turner's: and thence found her out at the Theatre,
where I saw the last act of the "Knight of the Burning Pestle," which
pleased me not at all. And so after the play done, she and The. Turner
and Mrs. Lucin and I, in her coach to the Park; and there found them
out, and spoke to them; and observed many fine ladies, and staid till all
were gone almost. And so to Mrs. Turner's, and there supped, and so
walked home, and by and by comes my wife home, brought by my
Lady Carteret to the gate, and so to bed.

8th. At the office all the morning doing business alone, and then to the
Wardrobe, where my, Lady going out with the children to dinner I staid
not, but returned home, and was overtaken in St. Paul's Churchyard by
Sir G. Carteret in his coach, and so he carried me to the Exchange,
where I staid awhile. He told me that the Queen and the fleet were in
Mount's Bay on Monday last, and that the Queen endures her sickness
pretty well. He also told me how Sir John Lawson hath done some
execution upon the Turks in the Straight, of which I am glad, and told
the news the first on the Exchange, and was much followed by
merchants to tell it. So home and to dinner, and by and by to the office,
and after the rest gone (my Lady Albemarle being this day at dinner at
Sir W. Batten's) Sir G. Carteret comes, and he and I walked in the
garden, and, among other discourse, tells me that it is Mr. Coventry that
is to come to us