of an account of all monies within their cognizance, received and issued by me, I was willing, upon this hint, to give myself rest, by knowing whether their meaning therein might reach only to my Treasurership for Tangier, or the monies employed on this occasion. I went, therefore, to them this afternoon, to understand what monies they meant, where they answered me, by saying, the eleven months' tax, customs, and prize-money, without mentioning, any more than I demanding, the service they respected therein; and so, without further discourse, we parted, upon very good terms of respect, and with few words, but my mind not fully satisfied about the monies they mean. With my wife and brother spent the evening on the water, carrying our supper with us, as high as Chelsea, making sport with the Western bargees,1 and my wife and I singing, to my great content. 29th. (The King's birthday.) To Whitehall, where all very gay; and particularly the Prince of Tuscany very fine, and is the first day of his appearing out of mourning, since he came. I heard the Bishop of Peterborough 2 preach but dully; but a good anthem of Pelham's. Home to dinner, and then with my wife to Hyde Park, where all the evening; great store of company, and great preparations by the Prince of Tuscany to celebrate the night with fire-works, for the King's birthday. And so home. 30th. (Whitsunday.) By water to Whitehall, and thence to Sir W. Coventry, where all the morning by his bedside, he being indisposed. Our discourse was upon the notes I have lately prepared for Commanders' Instructions; but concluded that nothing will render them effectual, without an amendment in the choice of them, that they be seamen, and not gentlemen above the command of the Admiral, by the greatness of their relations at Court. Thence to Whitehall, and dined with Mr. Cheffinch and his sister; whither by and by came in Mr. Progers and Sir Thomas Allen, and by and by, fine Mrs. Wells, who is a great beauty; and there I had my full gaze upon her, to my great content, she being a woman of pretty conversation. Thence to the Duke of York, who, with the officers of the Navy, made a good entrance on my draught of my new Instructions to Commanders, as well expressing his general views of a reformation among them, as liking of my humble offers towards it. Thence being called by my wife, we to the Park, whence the rain sent us suddenly home. 31st. Up very betimes, and continued all the morning with W. Hewer, upon examining and stating my accounts, in order to the fitting myself to go abroad beyond sea, which the ill condition of my eyes, and my neglect for a year or two, hath kept me behindhand in, and so as to render it very difficult now, and troublesome to my mind to do it; but I this day made a satisfactory entrance therein. Had another meeting with the Duke of York at Whitehall on yesterday's work, and made a good advance; and so, being called by my wife, we to the Park, Mary Batelier, and a Dutch gentleman, a friend of hers, being with us. Thence to The World's End, a drinking-house by the Park; and there merry, and so home late. And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand; and, therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear; and, therefore, resolve, from this time forward, to have it kept by my people in longhand, and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know; or, if there be anything, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! May 31, 1669. S. P. Abbot of Crowland, 505 Lady, 244 Accounts, Bill for, 588, 593, 598, Commissioners for, 452-4, 456, 754 Ackworth, Mr., 65, 174, 636, 671, 697, 729 Ackworth, Mrs., 174 Acts and Monuments, Foxe's, Acts of Parliament, burned by the Acts of the Long Parliament, (Flagmen), portrait by Lely, The Fourth, 556 INDEX Agriculture, depressed state of, | Algiers (Argier), 60, 69, 72, 79, 483 Ah, Chloris, that I now could sit,' song, 647 53, 72, 120, 210, 350, 360, Alcocke, Harry, 135, 137, 652 Aldersgate Street, 284, 455, 520, Advice to a Son, Osborne's, 104, Ale, buttered, 164, 375, 561, 734 88, 101, 103, 116, 128, 129, Mole at, 116 Alington, Lord, 475, 477 All's Lost by Lust, 74 76, 77, 90, 140, 169, 209, 479, Thomas), 179, 203, 290, 296, Allen, Dr. Thomas, 227, 376 Allhallows Church, Barking, 155, Allhallows Church, Street, 21 Almanac, Booker's, 460 Thames Montelion 1660 (John Phillips), 55 |