ather, and so to bed.

9th (Lord's day). Church in the morning: dined at home, then to Church
again and heard Mr. Naylor, whom I knew formerly of Keye's College, make
a most eloquent sermon. Thence to Sir W. Batten's to see how he did,
then to walk an hour with Sir W. Pen in the garden: then he in to supper
with me at my house, and so to prayers and to bed.

10th. At the office doing business all the morning, and my wife being
gone to buy some things in the city I dined with Sir W. Batten, and in
the afternoon met Sir W. Pen at the Treasury Office, and there paid off
the Guift, where late at night, and so called in and eat a bit at Sir W.
Batten's again, and so home and to bed, to-morrow being washing day.

11th. At the office all the morning, and all the afternoon rummaging of
papers in my chamber, and tearing some and sorting others till late
at night, and so to bed, my wife being not well all this day. This
afternoon Mrs. Turner and The. came to see me, her mother not having
been abroad many a day before, but now is pretty well again and has made
me one of the first visits.

12th. At the office from morning till night putting of papers in order,
that so I may have my office in an orderly condition. I took much pains
in sorting and folding of papers. Dined at home, and there came Mrs.
Goldsborough about her old business, but I did give her a short answer
and sent away. This morning we had news from Mr. Coventry, that Sir
G. Downing (like a perfidious rogue, though the action is good and of
service to the King,

[("And hail the treason though we hate the traitor.") On the 21st
Charles returned his formal thanks to the States for their
assistance in the matter.--B.]

yet he cannot with any good conscience do it) hath taken Okey,
Corbet, and Barkestead at Delfe, in Holland, and sent them home in the
Blackmore. Sir W. Pen, talking to me this afternoon of what a strange
thing it is for Downing to do this, he told me of a speech he made
to the Lords States of Holland, telling them to their faces that he
observed that he was not received with the respect and observance now,
that he was when he came from the traitor and rebell Cromwell: by whom,
I am sure, he hath got all he hath in the world,--and they know it too.

[Charles, when residing at Brussels, went to the Hague at night to
pay a secret visit to his sister, the Princess of Orange. After his
arrival, "an old reverend-like man, wit