Diary, Sep/Oct 1663 | Page 9

elswhere,
and in my way met Mr. Moore, who tells me of the good peace that is
made at Tangier with the Moores, but to continue but from six months
to six months, and that the Mole is laid out, and likely to be done with
great ease and successe, we to have a quantity of ground for our cattle
about the town to our use. To my office late, and then home to supper,
after writing letters, and to bed. This day our cook maid (we having no
luck in maids now-adays), which was likely to prove a good servant,
though none of the best cooks, fell sick and is gone to her friends,
having been with us but 4 days.

11th. This morning, about two or three o'clock, knocked up in our back
yard, and rising to the window, being moonshine, I found it was the
constable and his watch, who had found our back yard door open, and
so came in to see what the matter was. So I desired them to shut the
door, and bid them good night, and so to bed again, and at 6 o'clock up
and a while to my vyall, and then to the office, where all the morning
upon the victualler's accounts, and then with him to dinner at the
Dolphin, where I eat well but drank no wine neither; which keeps me in
such good order that I am mightily pleased with myself for it. Hither

Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I home and advised about business,
and so after an hour's examining the state of the Navy debts lately cast
up, I took coach to Sir Philip Warwick's, but finding Sir G. Carteret
there I did not go in, but directly home, again, it raining hard, having
first of all been with Creed and Mrs. Harper about a cook maid, and am
like to have one from Creed's lodging. In my way home visited my
Lord Crew and Sir Thomas, thinking they might have enquired by the
by of me touching my Lord's matters at Chelsey, but they said nothing,
and so after some slight common talk I bid them good night. At home
to my office, and after a while doing business home to supper and bed.

12th. Up betimes, and by water to White Hall; and thence to Sir Philip
Warwick, and there had half an hour's private discourse with him; and
did give him some good satisfaction in our Navy matters, and he also
me, as to the money paid and due to the Navy; so as he makes me
assured by particulars, that Sir G. Carteret is paid within L80,000 every
farthing that we to this day, nay to Michaelmas day next have
demanded; and that, I am sure, is above L50,000 snore than truly our
expenses have been, whatever is become of the money. Home with
great content that I have thus begun an acquaintance with him, who is a
great man, and a man of as much business as any man in England;
which I will endeavour to deserve and keep. Thence by water to my
office, in here all the morning, and so to the 'Change at noon, and there
by appointment met and bring home my uncle Thomas, who resolves to
go with me to Brampton on Monday next. I wish he may hold his mind.
I do not tell him, and yet he believes that there is a Court to be that he
is to do some business for us there. The truth is I do find him a much
more cunning fellow than I ever took him for, nay in his very drink he
has his wits about him. I took him home to dinner, and after dinner he
began, after a glass of wine or two, to exclaim against Sir G. Carteret
and his family in Jersey, bidding me to have a care of him, and how
high, proud, false, and politique a fellow he is, and how low he has
been under his command in the island. After dinner, and long discourse,
he went away to meet on Monday morning, and I to my office, and
thence by water to White Hall and Westminster Hall about several
businesses, and so home, and to my office writing a laborious letter
about our last account to my Lord Treasurer, which took me to one

o'clock in the morning,

13th (Lord's day). So that Griffin was fain to carry it to Westminster to
go by express, and my other letters of import to my father and
elsewhere could not go at all. To bed between one and two and slept till
8, and lay talking till 9 with great pleasure with my wife. So up