I took leave of her and walked to the waterside, and
there took boat for the Tower; hearing that the Queen-Mother is come
this morning already as high as Woolwich: and that my Lord Sandwich was
with her; at which my heart was glad, and I sent the waterman, though
yet not very certain of it, to my wife to carry news thereof to my Lady.
So to my office all the morning abstracting the Duke's instructions in
the margin thereof. So home all alone to dinner, and then to the office
again, and in the evening Cooper comes, and he being gone, to my chamber
a little troubled and melancholy, to my lute late, and so to bed, Will
lying there at my feet, and the wench in my house in Will's bed.

29th. Early up, and brought all my money, which is near L300, out of my
house into this chamber; and so to the office, and there we sat all the
morning, Sir George Carteret and Mr. Coventry being come from sea. This
morning among other things I broached the business of our being abused
about flags, which I know doth trouble Sir W. Batten, but I care not.
At noon being invited I went with Sir George and Mr. Coventry to Sir W.
Batten's to dinner, and there merry, and very friendly to Sir Wm. and he
to me, and complies much with me, but I know he envies me, and I do not
value him. To the office again, and in the evening walked to Deptford
(Cooper with me talking of mathematiques), to send a fellow to prison
for cutting of buoy ropes, and to see the difference between the flags
sent in now-a-days, and I find the old ones, which were much cheaper,
to be wholly as good. So I took one of a sort with me, and Mr. Wayth
accompanying of me a good way, talking of the faults of the Navy, I
walked to Redriffe back, and so home by water, and after having done,
late, at the office, I went to my chamber and to bed.

30th. Up early, and to my office, where Cooper came to me and begun
his lecture upon the body of a ship, which my having of a modell in the
office is of great use to me, and very pleasant and useful it is. Then
by water to White Hall, and there waited upon my Lord Sandwich; and
joyed him, at his lodgings, of his safe coming home after all his
danger, which he confesses to be very great. And his people do tell me
how bravely my Lord did carry himself, while my Lord Crofts did cry; and
I perceive it is all the town talk how poorly he carried himself. But
the best was of one Mr. Rawlins, a courtier, that was with my Lord; and
in the greatest danger cr