him for a gentleman of Gray's Inn who sings well, and so parted. Home
for all night and set things in order and so to bed.

27th. This morning came Mr. Berkenshaw to me and in our discourse I,
finding that he cries up his rules for most perfect (though I do grant
them to be very good, and the best I believe that ever yet were made),
and that I could not persuade him to grant wherein they were somewhat
lame, we fell to angry words, so that in a pet he flung out of my
chamber and I never stopped him, having intended to put him off today,
whether this had happened or no, because I think I have all the rules
that he hath to give. And so there remains not the practice now to do me
good, and it is not for me to continue with him at; L5 per month. So I
settled to put all his rules in fair order in a book, which was my work
all the morning till dinner. After dinner to the office till late at
night, and so home to write by the post, and so to bed.

28th. The boy failing to call us up as I commanded, I was angry, and
resolved to whip him for that and many other faults, to-day. Early with
Sir W. Pen by coach to Whitehall, to the Duke of York's chamber, and
there I presented him from my Lord a fine map of Tangier, done by one
Captain Beckman, a Swede, that is with my Lord. We staid looking it over
a great while with the Duke after he was ready. Thence I by water to the
Painter's, and there sat again for my face in little, and thence home to
dinner, and so at home all the afternoon. Then came Mr. Moore and
staid and talked with me, and then I to the office, there being all the
Admiralty papers brought hither this afternoon from Mr. Blackburne's,
where they have lain all this while ever since my coming into this
office. This afternoon Mr. Hater received half a year's salary for me,
so that now there is not owing me but this quarter, which will be out
the next month. Home, and to be as good as my word, I bade Will get me
a rod, and he and I called the boy up to one of the upper rooms of the
Comptroller's house towards the garden, and there I reckoned all his
faults, and whipped him soundly, but the rods were so small that I fear
they did not much hurt to him, but only to my arm, which I am already,
within a quarter of an hour, not able to stir almost. After supper to
bed.

MARCH 1661-1662

March 1st. This morning I paid Sir W. Batten L40, which I have owed him
this half year, having borrowed it of him. Then to the office all