r to my workmen, and I
am very much pleased with my alteracon there. About noon comes my uncle
Thomas to me to ask for his annuity, and I did tell him my mind freely.
We had some high words, but I was willing to end all in peace, and so I
made him' dine with me, and I have hopes to work my end upon him. After
dinner the barber trimmed me, and so to the office, where I do begin to
be exact in my duty there and exacting my privileges, and shall continue
to do so. None but Sir W. Batten and me here to-night, and so we broke
up early, and I home and to my chamber to put things in order, and so to
bed. My swelling I think do begin to go away again.

7th. Among my workmen this morning. By and by by water to Westminster
with Commissioner Pett (landing my wife at Black Friars) where I
hear the prisoners in the Tower that are to die are come to the
Parliament-house this morning. To the Wardrobe to dinner with my Lady;
where a civitt cat, parrot, apes, and many other things are come from my
Lord by Captain Hill, who dined with my Lady with us to-day. Thence to
the Paynter's, and am well pleased with our pictures. So by coach
home, where I found the joyners putting up my chimney-piece in the
dining-room, which pleases me well, only the frame for a picture they
have made so massy and heavy that I cannot tell what to do with it. This
evening came my she cozen Porter to see us (the first time that we had
seen her since we came to this end of the town) and after her Mr. Hart,
who both staid with us a pretty while and so went away. By and by,
hearing that Mr. Turner was much troubled at what I do in the office,
and do give ill words to Sir W. Pen and others of me, I am much troubled
in my mind, and so went to bed; not that I fear him at all, but the
natural aptness I have to be troubled at any thing that crosses me.

8th. All the morning in the cellar with the colliers, removing the coles
out of the old cole hole into the new one, which cost me 8s. the doing;
but now the cellar is done and made clean, it do please me exceedingly,
as much as any thing that was ever yet done to my house. I pray God keep
me from setting my mind too much upon it. About 3 o'clock the colliers
having done I went up to dinner (my wife having often urged me to come,
but my mind is so set upon these things that I cannot but be with the
workmen to see things done to my mind, which if I am not there is seldom
done), and so to the office, and thence to talk with S