new livery; but I do take mine to be the
neatest of them all. I led my wife to Mrs. Turner's pew, and the church
being full, it being to hear a Doctor who is to preach a probacon
sermon, I went out to the Temple and there walked, and so when church
was done went to Mrs. Turner's, and after a stay there, my wife and I
walked to Grays Inn, to observe fashions of the ladies, because of my
wife's making some clothes. Thence homewards, and called in at Antony
Joyce's, where we found his wife brought home sick from church, and was
in a convulsion fit. So home and to Sir W. Pen's and there supped, and
so to prayers at home and to bed.

5th. My arme not being well, I staid within all the morning, and dined
alone at home, my wife being gone out to buy some things for herself,
and a gown for me to dress myself in. And so all the afternoon looking
over my papers, and at night walked upon the leads, and so to bed.

6th. This morning I got my seat set up on the leads, which pleases me
well. So to the office, and thence to the Change, but could not meet
with my uncle Wight. So home to dinner and then out again to several
places to pay money and to understand my debts, and so home and walked
with my wife on the leads, and so to supper and to bed. I find it a hard
matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.

7th. Walked to Westminster; where I understand the news that Mr. Montagu
is this last night come to the King with news, that he left the Queen
and fleet in the Bay of Biscay, coming this wayward; and that he
believes she is now at the Isle of Scilly. So at noon to my Lord Crew's
and there dined, and after dinner Sir Thos. Crew and I talked together,
and among other instances of the simple light discourse that sometimes
is in the Parliament House, he told me how in the late business of
Chymny money, when all occupiers were to pay, it was questioned whether
women were under that name to pay, and somebody rose and said that they
were not occupiers, but occupied. Thence to Paul's Church Yard; where
seeing my Lady's Sandwich and Carteret, and my wife (who this day made
a visit the first time to my Lady Carteret), come by coach, and going to
Hide Park, I was resolved to follow them; and so went to Mrs. Turner's:
and thence found her out at the Theatre, where I saw the last act of
the "Knight of the Burning Pestle," which pleased me not at all. And so
after the play done, she and The. Turner and Mrs. Lucin and I, in