nce to my Lord's, and
thither sent for Mr. Creed, who came, and walked together talking about
business, and then to his lodgings at Clerke's, the confectioner's,
where he did give me a little banquet, and I had liked to have begged
a parrot for my wife, but he hath put me in a way to get a better from
Steventon; at Portsmouth. But I did get of him a draught of Tangier to
take a copy by, which pleases me very well. So home by water and to my
office, where late, and so home to bed.

23d. Up early, and about my works in my house, to see what is done and
design more. Then to my office, and by and by we sat till noon at the
office. After sitting, Mr. Coventry and I did walk together a great
while in the Garden, where he did tell me his mind about Sir G.
Carteret's having so much the command of the money, which must be
removed. And indeed it is the bane of all our business. He observed
to me also how Sir W. Batten begins to struggle and to look after his
business, which he do indeed a little, but it will come to nothing. I
also put him upon getting an order from the Duke for our inquiries
into the Chest, which he will see done. So we parted, and Mr. Creed by
appointment being come, he and I went out together, and at an ordinary
in Lumbard Streete dined together, and so walked down to the Styllyard,
and so all along Thames-street, but could not get a boat: I offered
eight shillings for a boat to attend me this afternoon, and they would
not, it being the day of the Queen's coming to town from Hampton Court.
So we fairly walked it to White Hall, and through my Lord's lodgings we
got into White Hall garden, and so to the Bowling-green, and up to the
top of the new Banqueting House there, over the Thames, which was a
most pleasant place as any I could have got; and all the show consisted
chiefly in the number of boats and barges; and two pageants, one of a
King, and another of a Queen, with her Maydes of Honour sitting at her
feet very prettily; and they tell me the Queen is Sir. Richard Ford's
daughter. Anon come the King and Queen in a barge under a canopy with
10,000 barges and boats, I think, for we could see no water for them,
nor discern the King nor Queen. And so they landed at White Hall Bridge,
and the great guns on the other side went off: But that which pleased me
best was, that my Lady Castlemaine stood over against us upon a piece of
White Hall, where I glutted myself with looking on her. But methought it
was strange