to Billingsgate, and went down on board
the Rosebush at Woolwich, and found all things out of order, but after
frightening the officers there, we left them to make more haste, and so
on shore to the yard, and did the same to the officers of the yard, that
the ship was not dispatched. Here we found Sir W. Batten going about his
survey, but so poorly and unlike a survey of the Navy, that I am ashamed
of it, and so is Mr. Coventry. We found fault with many things, and
among others the measure of some timber now serving in which Mr. Day the
assistant told us of, and so by water home again, all the way talking of
the office business and other very pleasant discourse, and much proud I
am of getting thus far into his books, which I think I am very much in.
So home late, and it being the last day of the month, I did make up my
accounts before I went to bed, and found myself worth about L650, for
which the Lord God be praised, and so to bed. I drank but two glasses of
wine this day, and yet it makes my head ake all night, and indisposed me
all the next day, of which I am glad. I am now in town only with my man
Will and Jane, and because my house is in building, I do lie at Sir W.
Pen's house, he being gone to Ireland. My wife, her maid and boy gone
to Brampton. I am very well entered into the business and esteem of the
office, and do ply it close, and find benefit by it.

AUGUST 1662

August 1st. Up, my head aching, and to my office, where Cooper read me
another lecture upon my modell very pleasant. So to my business all the
morning, which increases by people coming now to me to the office. At
noon to the Exchange, where meeting Mr. Creed and Moore we three to a
house hard by (which I was not pleased with) to dinner, and after dinner
and some discourse ordinary by coach home, it raining hard, and so at
the office all the afternoon till evening to my chamber, where, God
forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W. Pen's maid Betty was gone
away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before
she had gone, she being very pretty. I had also a mind to my own wench,
but I dare not for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then
tell my wife. I staid up late, putting things in order for my going
to Chatham to-morrow, and so to bed, being in pain... with the little
riding in a coach to-day from the Exchange, which do trouble me.

2nd. Up early, and got me ready in my riding clothes, and so to the
office, an