ing down the wages of servants, for which people
did curse me, which I do not love. At night, after I had eaten a cold
pullet, I walked by brave moonshine, with three or four armed men
to guard me, to Redriffe, it being a joy to my heart to think of the
condition that I am now in, that people should of themselves provide
this for me, unspoke to. I hear this walk is dangerous to walk alone by
night, and much robbery committed here. So from thence by water home,
and so to my lodgings to bed.

20th. Up betimes and to my office, where I found my brother Tom, who
tells me that his mistress's mother has wrote a letter to Mr. Lull of
her full satisfaction about Tom, of which I was glad, and do think the
business will take. All this morning we sat at the office, Sir J. Minnes
and I. And so dined at home, and among my workmen all the afternoon, and
in the evening Tom brought Mr. Lull to me, a friend of his mistress, a
serious man, with whom I spoke, and he gives me a good account of her
and of their satisfaction in Tom, all which pleases me well. We walked
a good while in the garden together, and did give him a glass of wine
at my office, and so parted. So to write letters by the post and news
of this to my father concerning Tom, and so home to supper and to my
lodgings and to bed. To-night my barber sent me his man to trim me, who
did live in King Street in Westminster lately, and tells me that three
or four that I knew in that street, tradesmen, are lately fallen mad,
and some of them dead, and the others continue mad. They live all within
a door or two one of another.

21st (Lord's day). Got up betimes and walked to St. James's, and there
to Mr. Coventry, and sat an hour with him, talking of business of the
office with great pleasure, and I do perceive he do speak his whole mind
to me. Thence to the Park, where by appointment I met my brother Tom
and Mr. Cooke, and there spoke about Tom's business, and to good
satisfaction. The Queen coming by in her coach, going to her chappell
at St. James's' (the first time it hath been ready for her), I crowded
after her, and I got up to the room where her closet is; and there stood
and saw the fine altar, ornaments, and the fryers in their habits,
and the priests come in with their fine copes and many other very fine
things. I heard their musique too; which may be good, but it did not
appear so to me, neither as to their manner of singing, nor was it good
concord to my ears, whatever th