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Sunday 26 August 1660 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
(Lord’s day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish church, where we are placed in the highest pew of all, where a stranger preached a dry and tedious long sermon. Dined at home. To church again in the aftern...
Saturday 25 August 1660 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
This morning Mr. Turner and I by coach from our office to Whitehall (in our way I calling on Dr. Walker for the papers I did give him the other day, which he had perused and found that the Duke’s coun...
Friday 24 August 1660 25 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Office, and thence with Sir William Batten and Sir William Pen to the parish church to find out a place where to build a seat or a gallery to sit in, and did find one which is to be done speedily. Hen...
Thursday 23 August 1660 24 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
By water to Doctors’ Commons to Dr. Walker, to give him my Lord’s papers to view over concerning his being empowered to be Vice-Admiral under the Duke of York. There meeting with Mr. Pinkney, he and I...
Wednesday 22 August 1660 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Office, which done, Sir W. Pen took me into the garden, and there told me how Mr. Turner do intend to petition the Duke for an allowance extra as one of the Clerks of the Navy, which he desired me to ...
Tuesday 21 August 1660 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
This morning I went to White Hall with Sir W. Pen by water, who in our passage told me how he was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went to Mr. Coventry’s chamber, and consulted of drawing my papers of ...
Monday 20 August 1660 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
(Office day). As Sir W. Pen and I were walking in the garden, a messenger came to me from the Duke of York to fetch me to the Lord Chancellor. So (Mrs. Turner with her daughter The. being come to my h...
Sunday 19 August 1660 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
(Lord’s day). In the morning my wife tells me that the bitch has whelped four young ones and is very well after it, my wife having had a great fear that she would die thereof, the dog that got them be...
Saturday 18 August 1660 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
This morning I took my wife towards Westminster by water, and landed her at Whitefriars, with 5l. to buy her a petticoat, and I to the Privy Seal. By and by comes my wife to tell me that my father has...
Friday 17 August 1660 18 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
To the office, and that done home to dinner where Mr. Unthanke, my wife’s tailor, dined with us, we having nothing but a dish of sheep’s trotters. After dinner by water to Whitehall, where a great dea...
