Monday 28 July 1662 Up early, and by six o’clock, after my wife was ready, I walked with her to the George, at Holborn Conduit, where the coach stood ready to carry her and her maid to Bugden, but that not being ready, my brother Tom staid with them to see them gone … So I took

Wednesday 30 July 1662 Up early, and to my office, where Cooper came to me and begun his lecture upon the body of a ship, which my having of a modell in the office is of great use to me, and very pleasant and useful it is. Then by water to White Hall, and there waited upon my

Thursday 31 July 1662 Up early and among my workmen, I ordering my rooms above, which will please me very well. So to my office, and there we sat all the morning, where I begin more and more to grow considerable there. At noon Mr. Coventry and I by his coach to the Exchange

Saturday 2 August 1662 Up early, and got me ready in my riding clothes, and so to the office … I took boat with Will, and down to Greenwich, where Captain Cocke not being at home I was vexed, and went to walk in the Park till he come thither to me: and Will’s forgetting to

Sunday 3 August 1662 (Lord’s day). Up early, and with Captain Cocke to the dock-yard, a fine walk, and fine weather. Where we walked till Commissioner Pett come to us, and took us to his house, and showed us his garden and fine things, and did give us a fine breakfast of bread

Tuesday 4 August 1663 We (Mr. Coventry) were called up about four a-clock, and being ready went and took a Gravesend boat, and to London by nine a-clock.… My brother John I find come to town to my house, as I sent for him, on Saturday last; so at noon home and dined with him,

Wednesday 5 August 1663 All the morning at the office, whither Deane of Woolwich came to me and discoursed of the body of ships, which I am now going about to understand, and then I took him to the coffee-house, where he was very earnest against Mr. Grant’s report in favour of

Wednesday 6 August 1662 Up early, and, going to my office, met Sir G. Carteret in coming through the yard, and so walked a good while talking with him … Thence by water to White Hall; and so to St. James’s but there found Mr. Coventry gone … So to my Lord’s; and he is also

Friday 8 August 1662 Up by four o’clock in the morning, and at five by water to Woolwich, there to see the manner of tarring … At noon came Mr. Coventry … Thence we walked talking, very good discourse all the way to Greenwich, and I do find most excellent discourse from him.

Saturday 9 August 1662 Up by four o’clock or a little after, and to my office, whither by and by comes Cooper … and fell to work upon our modell, and did a good morning’s work upon the rigging, and am very sorry that I must lose him so soon. By and by comes Mr. Coventry, and

Sunday 10 August 1662 (Lord’s day). Being to dine at my brother’s, I walked to St. Dunstan’s, the church being now finished; and here I heard Dr. Bates, who made a most eloquent sermon; and I am sorry I have hitherto had so low an opinion of the man,* for I have not heard a

Monday 11 August 1662 All the morning at the office. Dined at home all alone, and so to my office again, whither Dean Fuller came to see me, and having business about a ship to carry his goods to Dublin, whither he is shortly to return, I went with him to the Hermitage, and the

Tuesday 12 August 1662 Up early at my office, and I find all people beginning to come to me. Among others Mr. Deane, the Assistant of Woolwich, who I find will discover to me the whole abuse that his Majesty suffers in the measuring of timber, of which I shall be glad. He

Thursday 14 August 1662 Up early and to look on my works, and find my house to go on apace. So to my office to prepare business, and then we met and sat till noon, and then Commissioner Pett and I being invited, went by Sir John Winter’s coach sent for us, to the Mitre, in

Friday 15 August 1662 At noon to the Change, and there hear of some Quakers that are seized on, that would have blown up the prison in Southwark where they are put. So to the Swan, in Old Fish Street, where Mr. Brigden and his father-in-law, Blackbury, of whom we had bought

16 August 1661 At the office all the morning, though little to be done; because all our clerks are gone to the buriall of Tom Whitton, one of the Controller’s clerks, a very ingenious, and a likely young man to live, as any in the Office. But it is such a sickly time both in

17 August 1661 At the Privy Seal, where we had a seal this morning. Then met with Ned Pickering, and walked with him into St. James’s Park (where I had not been a great while), and there found great and very noble alterations…. So he and I to the Wardrobe to dinner, and after

18 August 1661 (Lord’s day). To our own church in the morning and so home to dinner, where my father and Dr. Tom Pepys came to me to dine, and were very merry.… So I went to White Hall, and there hear that my Lord General Monkcontinues very ill: so I went to la belle Pierce and

Monday 19 August 1661 At the office all the morning … I am sent for to the Privy Seal, and there I found a thing* of my Lord Chancellor’s to be sealed this afternoon, and so I am forced to go to Worcester House, where severall Lords are met in Council this afternoon. And while