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  Up and to supper with Sir W. Batten upon a soused mullett, very good meat, and so home and to bed.

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  To supper, though with little comfort, I finding myself both head and breast in great pain, and what troubles me most my right ear is almost deaf.

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  Rode as far as Godmanchester, Mr. Moore having two falls, once in water and another in dirt, and there ’light and eat and drunk, being all of us very weary, but especially my uncle and wife.

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  To Brown’s for my measuring rule, which is made, and is certainly the best and the most commodious for carrying in one’s pocket, and most useful that ever was made, and myself have the honour of being as it were the inventor of this form of it.

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  To the Docke, and so on board the Mathias, where Commissioner Pett and he and I and a good many of the officers and others of the yard did hear an excellent sermon of Mr. Hudson’s upon “All is yours and you are God’s,” a most ready, learned, and good sermon.

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  Rode through Epsum, the whole town over, seeing the various companys that were there walking; which was very pleasant to see how they are there without knowing almost what to do, but only in the morning to drink waters.

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  I went towards Ashted, my old place of pleasure; and there by direction of one goodman Arthur, we went to Farmer Page’s, and there we got a lodging in a little hole we could not stand upright in, but rather than go further to look we staid there.

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  I went down to Woolwich, and mustered the three East India ships that lie there, believing that there is great-juggling between the Pursers and Clerks of the Cheque in cheating the King of the wages and victuals of men that do not give attendance, and I found very few on board.

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  To my brother Tom’s barber and had my hair cut, while his boy played on the viallin, a plain boy, but has a very good genius, and understands the book very well, but to see what a shift he made for a string of red silk was very pleasant.

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  To supper, and then to a little viall and to bed, sporting in my fancy with the Queen.

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  I met the Queen-Mother walking in the Pell Mell, led by my Lord St. Alban’s. And finding many coaches at the Gate, I found upon enquiry that the Duchess is brought to bed of a boy.

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  The curtains of my bed being drawn waked me, and I saw a man stand there by the inside of my bed calling me French dogg 20 times, and I starting, as if I would get out of the bed, he fell a-laughing as hard as he could drive, and laid his hand on my shoulder.

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  Up by 4 o’clock and to my office, and there continued all the morning upon my Navy book to my great content.

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  Lady Batten had sent twice to invite me to go with them to Walthamstow today, Mrs. Martha being married already this morning to Mr. Castle, at this parish church.

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  In the Duke’s chamber there being a Roman story in the hangings, and upon the standards written S.P.Q.R., Sir G. Carteret came to me to know the meaning; which ignorance is not to be borne in a Privy Counsellor, methinks, that a schoolboy should be whipt for not knowing.

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  To the Change, and meeting Sir J. Minnes there, he and I walked to look upon Backwell’s design of making another alley from his shop through over against the Exchange door, which will be very noble and quite put down the other two.

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  My last night’s physic worked and did give me a good stool, and then I rose and had three or four stools, and walked up and down my chamber.

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  To see my Lord Sandwich, who I found very merry and every day better and better.

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  My Lord Crew tells me of the order the House of Commons have made for the drawing an Act for the rendering none capable of preferment or employment in the State, but who have been loyall and constant to the King and Church; which will be fatal to a great many.

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  Up to Sir W. Pen to drink a glass of bad syder in his new far low dining room, which is very noble.

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  To church, where Sir W. Pen showed me the young lady which young Dawes hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth 1000l. per annum present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow.

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  I up to teach Ashwell the grounds of time and other things on the tryangle, and made her take out a Psalm very well, she having a good ear and hand.

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  To bed, my wife and I having a little falling out because I would not leave my discourse below with her and Ashwell to go up and talk with her alone upon something she has to say.

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  Looking over my wardrobe against summer, and laying things in order to send to my brother to alter.

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  The dancing-master came, whom standing by, seeing him instructing my wife, he would needs have me try the steps of a coranto, and what with his desire and my wife’s importunity, I did begin, and then was obliged to give him entry-money 10s., and am become his scholler.

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  Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen and I walked to White Hall; meeting the King we followed him into the Park, where Mr. Coventry and he talked of building a new yacht, which the King is resolved to have built out of his privy purse, he having some contrivance of his own.

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  I do suspect that all is not kind between the King and the Duke, and that the King’s fondness to the little Duke do occasion it; and it may be that there is some fear of his being made heir to the Crown.

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  I walked a good while up and down with Sir J. Minnes, he telling many old stories of the Navy, and of the state of the Navy at the beginning of the late troubles.

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  Deane of Woolwich went home with me and showed me the use of a little sliding ruler, less than that I bought the other day, which is the same with that, but more portable; however I did not seem to understand or even to have seen anything of it before.

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  To my office busy writing letters, and then came Sir W. Warren. I made it my business to enquire what way there is for a man bred like me to come to understand anything of trade.