is great card of the body
of musique, which he cries up for a rare thing, and I do believe it cost
much pains, but is not so useful as he would have it. Then we sat down
and set "Nulla, nulla sit formido," and he has set it very finely. So
home and to supper, and then called Will up, and chid him before my wife
for refusing to go to church with the maids yesterday, and telling his
mistress that he would not be made a slave of, which vexes me. So to
bed.

25th. All the morning at the office. At noon with Mr. Moore to the
Coffee-house, where among other things the great talk was of the effects
of this late great wind; and I heard one say that he had five great
trees standing together blown down; and, beginning to lop them, one of
them, as soon as the lops were cut off, did, by the weight of the root,
rise again and fasten. We have letters from the forest of Deane, that
above 1000 Oakes and as many beeches are blown down in one walk there.
And letters from my father tell me of L20 hurt done to us at Brampton.
This day in the news-book I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows
have printed their case as they did give it in upon examination to a
justice of Peace, wherein they make themselves a very good tale that
they were in pursuit of thieves, and that they took this man for one of
them, and so killed him; and that he himself confessed it was the first
time of his robbing; and that he did pay dearly for it, for he was a
dead man. But I doubt things will be proved otherwise, as they say. Home
to dinner, and by and by comes Mr. Hunt and his wife to see us and staid
a good, while with us. Then parted, and I to my study in the office. The
first time since the alteracon that I have begun to do business myself
there, and I think I shall be well pleased with it. At night home to
supper and to bed.

26th. Mr. Berkenshaw with me all the morning composing of musique to
"This cursed jealousy, what is it," a song of Sir W. Davenant's. After
dinner I went to my Bookseller's, W. Joyce's, and several other places
to pay my debts and do business, I being resolved to cast up my accounts
within a day or two, for I fear I have run out too far. In coming home
I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of
the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding
it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the
office, I was much ashamed, but made a pretty good excuse that I took