did remember that I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he would have remembered the words that I said the day the King was beheaded (that, were I to preach upon him, my text should be -- ‘The memory of the wicked shall rot’), but I found afterwards that he did go away from school before that time.

2nd To White Hall, where I saw the boats coming very thick to Lambeth, and all the stairs to be full of people I was told the Queen was a-coming, so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again, but I could not get to see Queen, so come back, and to my Lord’s, where he was come, and I supt with him, he being very merry, telling me stories of the country mayors, how they entertained the King all the way as he come along, and how the country gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King, not taking his hand to kiss as they should do I took leave of my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at White Hall and carried Mr Childe as far as the Strand, and myself got as far as Ludgate by all the bonfires, but with a great deal of trouble, and there the coachman desired that I would release him, for he durst not go further for the fires In Paul’s churchyard I called at Kirton’s, and there they had got a masse book for me, which I bought and cost me twelve shillings, and, when I come home, sat up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear that she was long ago acquainted with it I observed this night very few bonfires in the City, not above three in all London, for the Queen’s coming, whereby I guess that (as I believed before) her coming do please but very few.

3rd Saturday In the afternoon to White Hall, where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queen’s hand.

4th (Lord’s day) In the morn to our own church, where Mr Mills¹⁸² did begin to nibble at the Common Prayer, by saying ‘Glory be to the Father, &c’ after he had read the two psalms but the people had been so little used to it, that they could not tell what to answer This declaration of the King’s do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction, and a pretence to read the Common Prayer, which they would not do before because of their former preaching against it After dinner to Westminster, where I went to my Lord’s, and, having spoken with him, I went to the Abbey, where the first time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral My wife seemed very pretty today, it being the first time I had given her leave to weare a black patch.

5th At the office at night, to make up an account of what the debts of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that should have been paid off, is increased since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being to sit again to-morrow This 5th day of November is observed exceeding well in the City, and at night great bonfires and fireworks.

6th Mr Chetwind told me that he did fear that this late business of the Duke of York’s would prove fatal to my Lord Chancellor To our office, where we met all, for the sale of two ships by an inch of candle (the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed how they do invite one another, and at last how they all do cry, and we have much to do to tell who did cry last The ships were the Indian sold for £1300 and the Half-moone, sold for £830.

7th Went by water to my Lord, where I dined with him, and he in a very merry humour (present Mr Borfett and Childe) at dinner he, in discourse of the great opinion of the virtue -- gratitude, (which he did account the greatest thing in the world to him, and had, therefore, in his mind been often troubled in the late times how to answer his gratitude to the King, who raised his father,) did say it was that did bring him to his obedience to the King, and did also bless himself with his good fortune, in comparison to what it was when I was with him in the Sound, when he durst not own his correspondence with the King, which is a thing that I never did hear of to this day before, and I do from this raise an opinion of him to be one of the most secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before After dinner he bid all go out of the room, and did tell me how the King had promised him £4000 per annum for ever, and had already given him a bill under his hand (which he showed me) for £4000 that Mr Fox is to pay him My Lord did advise with me how to get this received, and to put out £3000 into safe hands at use, and the other he will make use for his present occasion This he did advise with me about with great secresy After this he called for the fiddles and books, and we two and W Howe, and Mr Childe, did sing and play some