he song without book, "Help, help Divinity,
&c." After supper my Lord called for the lieutenant's cittern, and
with two candlesticks with money in them for symballs, we made barber's
music,

[In the "Notices of Popular Histories," printed for the Percy
Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a
barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person
waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn
arrives. Decker also mentions a "barber's cittern," for every
serving-man to play upon. This is no doubt "the barber's music"
with which Lord Sandwich entertained himself.--B.]

with which my Lord was well pleased. So to bed.

6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me among other things,
that my Lord's place of Clerk of the Signet was fallen to him, which he
did most lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he could
not get a better employment for me at the end of the year. Because he
thought that the Duke of York would command all, but he hoped that the
Duke would not remove me but to my advantage.

I had a great deal of talk about my uncle Robert,

[Robert Pepys of Brampton, eldest son of Thomas Pepys the red, and
brother of Samuel's father.]

and he told me that he could not tell how his mind stood as to his
estate, but he would do all that lay in his power for me. After dinner
came Mr. Gooke from London, who told me that my wife he left well at
Huntsmore, though her health not altogether so constant as it used to
be, which my heart is troubled for. Mr. Moore's letters tell me that
he thinks my Lord will be suddenly sent for up to London, and so I got
myself in readiness to go.

My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy

[Edmund Calamy, D.D., the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born
February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II., 1660. He refused
the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him. Died October
29th, 1666.]

had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards
to be false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three more Lords, are made
Commissioners for the Treasury;

[The names of the Commissioners were--Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards
Earl of Clarendon, General Monk, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, John,
Lord Robartes, Thomas, Lord Colepeper, Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir
Edward Nicholas and Sir William Morrice as principal Secretaries of