inner comes Mr. Stephenson, one of the burgesses of the town, to
tell me that the Mayor and burgesses did desire my acceptance of a
burgess-ship, and were ready at the Mayor's to make me one. So I went,
and there they were all ready, and did with much civility give me my
oath, and after the oath, did by custom shake me all by the hand. So
I took them to a tavern and made them drink, and paying the reckoning,
went away. They having first in the tavern made Mr. Waith also a
burgess, he coming in while we were drinking. It cost me a piece in gold
to the Town Clerk, and 10s. to the Bayliffes, and spent 6s.

MAY 1662

May 1st. Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen, and myself, with our clerks,
set out this morning from Portsmouth very early, and got by noon to
Petersfield; several officers of the Yard accompanying us so far.
Here we dined and were merry. At dinner comes my Lord Carlingford
from London, going to Portsmouth: tells us that the Duchess of York
is brought to bed of a girl,--[Mary, afterwards Queen of England.]--at
which I find nobody pleased; and that Prince Rupert and the Duke of
Buckingham are sworn of the Privy Councell. He himself made a dish with
eggs of the butter of the Sparagus, which is very fine meat, which
I will practise hereafter. To horse again after dinner, and got to
Gilford, where after supper I to bed, having this day been offended by
Sir W. Pen's foolish talk, and I offending him with my answers. Among
others he in discourse complaining of want of confidence, did ask me to
lend him a grain or two, which I told him I thought he was better stored
with than myself, before Sir George. So that I see I must keep a
greater distance than I have done, and I hope I may do it because of
the interest which I am making with Sir George. To bed all alone, and my
Will in the truckle bed.

[According to the original Statutes of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxon,
a Scholar slept in a truckle bed below each Fellow. Called also
"a trindle bed." Compare Hall's description of an obsequious tutor:

"He lieth in a truckle bed
While his young master lieth o'er his head."

Satires, ii. 6, 5.

The bed was drawn in the daytime under the high bed of the tutor.
See Wordsworth's "University Life in the Eighteenth Century."--M. B.]

2nd. Early to coach again and to Kingston, where we baited a little, and