Diary, November 1666 | Page 7

of gentlemen they are; but above all I
was glad to see my Lord Hinchingbroke drink no wine at all. Here I got
them to appoint Wednesday come se'nnight to dine here at my house,
and so we broke up and all took coach again, and I carried the Doctor
to Chancery Lane, and thence I to White Hall, where I staid walking up
and down till night, and then got almost into the play house, having
much mind to go and see the play at Court this night; but fearing how I
should get home, because of the bonefires and the lateness of the night
to get a coach, I did not stay; but having this evening seen my Lady
Jemimah, who is come to towne, and looks very well and fat, and heard
how Mr. John Pickering is to be married this week, and to a fortune
with L5000, and seen a rich necklace of pearle and two pendants of
dyamonds, which Sir G. Carteret hath presented her with since her
coming to towne, I home by coach, but met not one bonefire through
the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and
speaks the melancholy disposition of the City at present, while never
more was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just
at this time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and
I to my chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed.

6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting. At noon home
to dinner, and after dinner down alone by water to Deptford, reading
"Duchesse of Malfy," the play, which is pretty good, and there did
some business, and so up again, and all the evening at the office. At
night home, and there find Mr. Batelier, who supped with us, and good
company he is, and so after supper to bed.

7th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where we attended as
usual the Duke of York and there was by the folly of Sir W. Batten
prevented in obtaining a bargain for Captain Cocke, which would, I
think have [been] at this time (during our great want of hempe), both
profitable to the King and of good convenience to me; but I matter it
not, it being done only by the folly, not any design, of Sir W. Batten's.
Thence to Westminster Hall, and, it being fast day, there was no shops
open, but meeting with Doll Lane, did go with her to the Rose taverne,

and there drank and played with her a good while. She went away, and
I staid a good while after, and was seen going out by one of our
neighbours near the office and two of the Hall people that I had no
mind to have been seen by, but there was no hurt in it nor can be
alledged from it. Therefore I am not solicitous in it, but took coach and
called at Faythorne's, to buy some prints for my wife to draw by this
winter, and here did see my Lady Castlemayne's picture, done by him
from Lilly's, in red chalke and other colours, by which he hath cut it in
copper to be printed. The picture in chalke is the finest thing I ever saw
in my life, I think; and did desire to buy it; but he says he must keep it
awhile to correct his copper-plate by, and when that is done he will sell
it me. Thence home and find my wife gone out with my brother to see
her brother. I to dinner and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the
office (it being a fast day and so a holiday), and then to Mrs. Turner's,
at her request to speake and advise about Sir Thomas Harvy's coming
to lodge there, which I think must be submitted to, and better now than
hereafter, when he gets more ground, for I perceive he intends to stay
by it, and begins to crow mightily upon his late being at the payment of
tickets; but a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of
the Navy. Thence home, and there find Mr. Batelier come to bring my
wife a very fine puppy of his mother's spaniel, a very fine one indeed,
which my wife is mighty proud of. He staid and supped with us, and
they to cards. I to my chamber to do some business, and then out to
them to play and were a little merry, and then to bed. By the Duke of
York his discourse to-day in his chamber, they have it at Court, as well
as