lor and my Lord of
Bristol, about a proviso that my Lord Chancellor would have brought into
the Bill for Conformity, that it shall be in the power of the King, when
he sees fit, to dispense with the Act of Conformity; and though it be
carried in the House of Lords, yet it is believed it will hardly pass
in the Commons. Here I met with Chetwind, Parry, and several others, and
went to a little house behind the Lords' house to drink some wormwood
ale, which doubtless was a bawdy house, the mistress of the house having
the look and dress: Here we staid till noon and then parted, I by water
to the Wardrobe to meet my wife, but my Lady and they had dined, and so
I dined with the servants, and then up to my Lady, and there staid and
talked a good while, and then parted and walked into Cheapside, and
there saw my little picture, for which I am to sit again the next week.
So home, and staid late writing at my office, and so home and to bed,
troubled that now my boy is also fallen sick of an ague we fear.

22nd. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I by
water down to the Lewes, Captain Dekins, his ship, a merchantman, where
we met the owners, Sir John Lewes and Alderman Lewes, and several
other great merchants; among others one Jefferys, a merry man that is a
fumbler, and he and I called brothers, and he made all the mirth in the
company. We had a very fine dinner, and all our wives' healths, with
seven or nine guns apiece; and exceeding merry we were, and so home by
barge again, and I vexed to find Griffin leave the office door open, and
had a design to have carried away the screw or the carpet in revenge to
him, but at last I would not, but sent for him and chid him, and so to
supper and to bed, having drank a great deal of wine.

23rd (Lord's day). This morning was brought me my boy's fine livery,
which is very handsome, and I do think to keep to black and gold lace
upon gray, being the colour of my arms, for ever. To church in the
morning, and so home with Sir W. Batten, and there eat some boiled great
oysters, and so home, and while I was at dinner with my wife I was sick,
and was forced to vomit up my oysters again, and then I was well. By
and by a coach came to call me by my appointment, and so my wife and
I carried to Westminster to Mrs. Hunt's, and I to Whitehall, Worcester
House, and to my Lord Treasurer's to have found Sir G. Carteret, but
missed in all these places. So back to White Hall, and t