presently to coach again and got early to London, and I found all well
at home, and Mr. Hunt and his wife had dined with my wife to-day, and
been very kind to my wife in my absence. After I had washed myself, it
having been the hottest day that has been this year, I took them all
by coach to Mrs. Hunt's, and I to Dr. Clerke's lady, and gave her her
letter and token. She is a very fine woman, and what with her person
and the number of fine ladies that were with her, I was much out of
countenance, and could hardly carry myself like a man among them; but
however, I staid till my courage was up again, and talked to them, and
viewed her house, which is most pleasant, and so drank and good-night.
And so to my Lord's lodgings, where by chance I spied my Lady's coach,
and found her and my Lady Wright there, and so I spoke to them, and they
being gone went to Mr. Hunt's for my wife, and so home and to bed.

3rd. Sir W. Pen and I by coach to St. James's, and there to the Duke's
Chamber, who had been a-hunting this morning and is come back again.
Thence to Westminster, where I met Mr. Moore, and hear that Mr. Watkins'
is suddenly dead since my going. To dinner to my Lady Sandwich, and Sir
Thomas Crew's children coming thither, I took them and all my Ladys to
the Tower and showed them the lions

[The Tower Menagerie was not abolished until the reign of
William IV.]

and all that was to be shown, and so took them to my house, and there
made much of them, and so saw them back to my Lady's. Sir Thomas Crew's
children being as pretty and the best behaved that ever I saw of their
age. Thence, at the goldsmith's, took my picture in little,--[Miniature
by Savill]--which is now done, home with me, and pleases me exceedingly
and my wife. So to supper and to bed, it being exceeding hot.

4th (Lord's day). Lay long talking with my wife, then Mr. Holliard came
to me and let me blood, about sixteen ounces, I being exceedingly full
of blood and very good. I begun to be sick; but lying upon my back I
was presently well again, and did give him 5s. for his pains, and so
we parted, and I, to my chamber to write down my journall from the
beginning of my late journey to this house. Dined well, and after
dinner, my arm tied up with a black ribbon, I walked with my wife to my
brother Tom's; our boy waiting on us with his sword, which this day
he begins to wear, to outdo Sir W. Pen's boy, who this day, and Six W.
Batten's too, begin to wear