l noon and then parted, I by water
to the Wardrobe to meet my wife, but my Lady and they had dined, and so
I dined with the servants, and then up to my Lady, and there staid and
talked a good while, and then parted and walked into Cheapside, and
there saw my little picture, for which I am to sit again the next week.
So home, and staid late writing at my office, and so home and to bed,
troubled that now my boy is also fallen sick of an ague we fear.

22nd. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I by
water down to the Lewes, Captain Dekins, his ship, a merchantman, where
we met the owners, Sir John Lewes and Alderman Lewes, and several
other great merchants; among others one Jefferys, a merry man that is a
fumbler, and he and I called brothers, and he made all the mirth in the
company. We had a very fine dinner, and all our wives' healths, with
seven or nine guns apiece; and exceeding merry we were, and so home by
barge again, and I vexed to find Griffin leave the office door open, and
had a design to have carried away the screw or the carpet in revenge to
him, but at last I would not, but sent for him and chid him, and so to
supper and to bed, having drank a great deal of wine.

23rd (Lord's day). This morning was brought me my boy's fine livery,
which is very handsome, and I do think to keep to black and gold lace
upon gray, being the colour of my arms, for ever. To church in the
morning, and so home with Sir W. Batten, and there eat some boiled great
oysters, and so home, and while I was at dinner with my wife I was sick,
and was forced to vomit up my oysters again, and then I was well. By
and by a coach came to call me by my appointment, and so my wife and
I carried to Westminster to Mrs. Hunt's, and I to Whitehall, Worcester
House, and to my Lord Treasurer's to have found Sir G. Carteret, but
missed in all these places. So back to White Hall, and there met with
Captn. Isham, this day come from Lisbon, with letters from the Queen to
the King. And he did give me letters which speak that our fleet is all
at Lisbon;

[One of these letters was probably from John Creed. Mr. S. J.
Davey, of 47, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, in 1889 had in his
possession nine long letters from Creed to Pepys. In the first of
these, dated from Lisbon, March, 1662, Creed wrote: "My Lord
Embassador doth all he can to hasten the Queen's Majestie's
embarquement, there being reasons enoug