6th In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr Coventry and Sir G Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy-Office, whereby my mind was a little cheered, but my hopes not great From thence Sir G Carteret and I to the Treasurer s Office, where he set some things in order.

8th (Lord’s day) To White Hall chapel, where I got in with ease by going before the Lord Chancellor with Mr Kipps Here I heard very good musique, the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and singing-men in surplices in my life. The Bishop of Chichester¹²⁴ preached before the King, and made a great flattering sermon, which I did not like that the Clergy should meddle with matters of state Dined with Mr Luellin and Salisbury at a cook’s shop Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon There till Mr Fairebrother¹²⁵ come to call us out to my father’s to supper He told me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by proxy,¹²⁶ which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin Roger Pepys¹²⁷ was the other day persuading me from it.

9th To the Navy-office,¹²⁸ where in the afternoon we met and sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first time.

10th This day I put on my new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life Home, and called my wife, and took her to Clodins’s to a great wedding of Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at Goring House¹²⁹ with very great state, cost, and noble company But among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest And finding my Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to the Secretary’s, which he did, and desired the dispatch of his and my bills to be signed by the King His bill is to be Earle of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbroke, and Baron of St Neot’s Home, with my mind pretty quiet not returning, as I said I would, to see the bride put to bed.

11th With Sir W Pen¹³⁰ by water to the Navy-office where we met, and dispatched business And that being done, we went all to dinner to the Dolphin, upon Major Brown’s invitation After that to the office again, where I was vexed, and so was Commissioner Pett, to see a busy fellow come to look out the best lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and the combining between him and Sir W Pen, and, indeed, was troubled much at it.

12th Up early and by coach to White Hall with Commissioner Pett, where, after we had talked with my Lord, I went to the Privy Seale and got my bill perfected there, and at the Signet and then to the House of Lords, and met with Mr Kipps, who directed me to Mr Beale to get my patent engrossed, but he not having time to get it done in Chancery-hand, I was forced to run all up and down Chancery-lane, and the Six Clerks’ Office, but could find none that could write the hand, that were at leisure And so in despair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first time there, my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, Mr Coventry, and all the rest of the principal Officers and Commissioners, except only the Controller, who is not yet chosen.

13th Up early, the first day that I put on my black camlett coat with silver buttons To Mr Spong, whom I found in his night-gown writing of my patent It being done, we carried it to Worcester House,¹³¹ to the Chancellor, where Mr Kipps got me the Chancellor’s recept to my bill, and so carried it to Mr Beale for a dockett, but he was very angry, and unwilling to do it, because he said it was ill writ, (because I had got it writ by another hand, and not by him), but by much importunity I got Mr Spong to go to his office and make an end of my patent,and in the mean time Mr Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him two pieces, after which it was strange how civil and tractable he was to me Met with Mr Spong, who still would be giving me council of getting my patent out, for fear of another change, and my Lord Montagu’s fall After that to Worcester House, where by Mr Kipps’s means, and my pressing in General Montagu’s name to the Chancellor I did beyond all expectation, get my seal passed, and while it was doing in one room, I was forced to keep Sir G Carteret (who by chance met me there, ignorant of my business) in talk I to my Lord’s, where I dispatched an order for a ship to fetch Sir R Honywood home Late writing letters, and great doings of musique at the next house, which was Whally’s, the King and Dukes there with Madame Palmer,¹³² a pretty woman that they had a fancy to Here at the old door that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W Howe, did stand listening a great while to the musique.