ion forced to go thereabouts, and there not hearing
of any such man as Allbon, with whom my wife said she now was, I to the
Strand, and there by sending Drumbleby's boy, my flageolet maker, to
Eagle Court, where my wife also by discourse lately let fall that he did
lately live, I find that this Dr. Allbon is a kind of poor broken
fellow that dare not shew his head nor be known where he is gone, but
to Lincoln's Inn Fields I went to Mr. Povy's, but missed him, and so
hearing only that this Allbon is gone to Fleet Street, I did only call
at Martin's, my bookseller's, and there bought "Cassandra," and some
other French books for my wife's closet, and so home, having eat nothing
but two pennyworths of oysters, opened for me by a woman in the Strand,
while the boy went to and again to inform me about this man, and
therefore home and to dinner, and so all the afternoon at the office,
and there late busy, and so home to supper, and pretty pleasant with my
wife to bed, rested pretty well.

17th. Up, and to the Office all the morning, where the new Treasurers
come, their second time, and before they sat down, did discourse with
the Board, and particularly my Lord Brouncker, about their place,
which they challenge, as having been heretofore due, and given to their
predecessor; which, at last, my Lord did own hath been given him only
out of courtesy to his quality, and that he did not take it as a right
at the Board: so they, for the present, sat down, and did give him
the place, but, I think, with an intent to have the Duke of York's
directions about it. My wife and maids busy now, to make clean the house
above stairs, the upholsters having done there, in her closet and the
blue room, and they are mighty pretty. At my office all the afternoon
and at night busy, and so home to my wife, and pretty pleasant, and at
mighty ease in my mind, being in hopes to find Deb., and without trouble
or the knowledge of my wife. So to supper at night and to bed.

18th. Lay long in bed talking with my wife, she being unwilling to have
me go abroad, saying and declaring herself jealous of my going out for
fear of my going to Deb., which I do deny, for which God forgive me,
for I was no sooner out about noon but I did go by coach directly to
Somerset House, and there enquired among the porters there for Dr.
Allbun, and the first I spoke with told me he knew him, and that he was
newly gone into Lincoln's Inn Fields, but whither he could not tell me,