this night my bookseller Shrewsbury comes, and
brings my books of Martyrs, and I did pay him for them, and did this
night make the young women before supper to open all the volumes for me.
So to supper, and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set
out by Will. Pen, for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense,
that I was ashamed to read in it. So they gone, we to bed.

[Penn's first work, entitled, "Truth exalted, in a short but sure
testimony against all those religions, faiths, and worships, that
have been formed and followed, in the darkness of apostacy; and for
that glorious light which is now risen, and shines forth, in the
life and doctrine of the despised Quakers.... by W. Penn,
whom divine love constrains, in holy contempt, to trample on Egypt's
glory, not fearing the King's wrath, having beheld the Majesty of
Him who is invisible:" London, 1668.--B.]

13th. Up, and to the office, and before the office did speak with my
Lord Brouncker, and there did get his ready assent to T. Hater's having
of Mr. Turner's place, and so Sir J. Minnes's also: but when we come to
sit down at the Board, comes to us Mr. Wren this day to town, and
tells me that James Southern do petition the Duke of York for the
Storekeeper's place of Deptford, which did trouble me much, and also the
Board, though, upon discourse, after he was gone, we did resolve to move
hard for our Clerks, and that places of preferment may go according to
seniority and merit. So, the Board up, I home with my people to dinner,
and so to the office again, and there, after doing some business, I with
Mr. Turner to the Duke of Albemarle's at night; and there did speak to
him about his appearing to Mr. Wren a friend to Mr. Turner, which he did
take kindly from me; and so away thence, well pleased with what we had
now done, and so I with him home, stopping at my Lord Brouncker's, and
getting his hand to a letter I wrote to the Duke of York for T. Hater,
and also at my Lord Middleton's, to give him an account of what I had
done this day, with his man, at Alderman Backewell's, about the getting
of his L1000 paid;

[It was probably for this payment that the tally was obtained, the
loss of which caused Pepys so much anxiety. See November 26th,
1668]

and here he did take occasion to discourse about the business of the
Dutch war, which, he says, he was always an enemy to; and did discourse
ve