hat will follow upon it! After office I to my brother's again,
and thence to Madam Turner's, in both places preparing things against
to-morrow; and this night I have altered my resolution of burying him
in the church yarde among my young brothers and sisters, and bury him
in the church, in the middle isle, as near as I can to my mother's pew.
This costs me 20s. more. This being all, home by coach, bringing my
brother's silver tankard for safety along with me, and so to supper,
after writing to my father, and so to bed.

18th. Up betimes, and walked to my brother's, where a great while
putting things in order against anon; then to Madam Turner's and eat a
breakfast there, and so to Wotton, my shoemaker, and there got a pair of
shoes blacked on the soles against anon for me; so to my brother's and
to church, and with the grave-maker chose a place for my brother to lie
in, just under my mother's pew. But to see how a man's tombes are at the
mercy of such a fellow, that for sixpence he would, (as his owne words
were,) "I will justle them together but I will make room for him;"
speaking of the fulness of the middle isle, where he was to lie; and
that he would, for my father's sake, do my brother that is dead all the
civility he can; which was to disturb other corps that are not quite
rotten, to make room for him; and methought his manner of speaking it
was very remarkable; as of a thing that now was in his power to do a man
a courtesy or not. At noon my wife, though in pain, comes, but I being
forced to go home, she went back with me, where I dressed myself, and so
did Besse; and so to my brother's again: whither, though invited, as the
custom is, at one or two o'clock, they came not till four or five.
But at last one after another they come, many more than I bid: and my
reckoning that I bid was one hundred and twenty; but I believe there was
nearer one hundred and fifty. Their service was six biscuits apiece, and
what they pleased of burnt claret. My cosen Joyce Norton kept the wine
and cakes above; and did give out to them that served, who had white
gloves given them. But above all, I am beholden to Mrs. Holden, who was
most kind, and did take mighty pains not only in getting the house and
every thing else ready, but this day in going up and down to see, the
house filled and served, in order to mine, and their great content,
I think; the men sitting by themselves in some rooms, and women by
themselves in others, very close,