instructed him, which he thanked me for, owning that he needed my teaching him, my Lord Crewe come down and family, the young lady among the rest; and so by coaches to church four miles off: where a pretty good sermon, and a declaration of penitence of a man that had undergone the Churche’s censure for his wicked life Thence back again by coach, Mr Carteret having not had the confidence to take his lady once by the hand, coming or going, which I told him of when we come home, and he will hereafter do it So to dinner My Lord excellent discourse Then to walk in the gallery, and to sit down By and by my Lady Wright and I go out, (and then my Lord Crewe, he not by design,) and lastly my Lady Crewe come out, and left the young people together And a little pretty daughter of my Lady Wright’s most innocently come out afterwards, and shut the door to, as if she had done it, poor child, by inspiration: which made us without have good sport to laugh at They together an hour, and by and by church-time, whither he led her into the coach and into the church, where several handsome ladies But it was most extraordinary hot that ever I knew it Anon to supper, and excellent discourse and dispute between my Lord Crewe and the chaplin, who is a good scholler, but a nonconformist Here this evening I spoke with Mrs Carter, my old acquaintance, that hath lived with my lady these twelve or thirteen years, the sum of all whose discourse and others for her, is, that I would get her a good husband; which I have promised, but know not when I shall perform After Mr Carteret was carried to his chamber, we to prayers and then to bed.

17th Up all of us, and to billiards; my Lady Wright, Mr Carteret, myself, and every body By and by the young couple left together Anon to dinner; and after dinner Mr Carteret took my advice about giving to the servants £10 among them Before we went, I took my Lady Jem apart, and would know how she liked this gentleman, and whether she was under any difficulty concerning him She blushed, and hid her face awhile; but at last I forced her to tell me She answered that she could readily obey what her father and mother had done; which was all she could say, or I expect So anon took leave, and for London In our way Mr Carteret did give me mighty thanks for my care and pains for him, and is mightily pleased.

18th I was much troubled this day to hear at Westminster, how the officers do bury the dead in the open Tuttle-fields, pretending want of room elsewhere: whereas the new chapel church-yard was walled-in at the publick charge in the last plague-time, merely for want of room and now none, but such as are able to pay dear for it, can be buried there.

20th Walked to Redriffe, where I hear the sickness is, and indeed is scattered almost every where There dying 1089 of the plague this week My Lady Carteret did this day give me a bottle of plague-water home with me I received yesterday a letter from my Lord Sandwich, giving me thanks for my care about their marriage business, and desiring it to be dispatched, that no disappointment may happen therein.

21st Late in my chamber, setting some papers in order; the plague growing very raging, and my apprehensions of it great.

22nd The Duke of Albemarle being gone to dinner to my Lord of Canterbury’s, I thither, and there walked and viewed the new hall, a new old-fashion hall as possible Begun, and means left for the ending of it, by Bishop Juxon To Fox-hall, where to the Spring garden; but I do not see one guest there, the town being so empty of any body to come thither I by coach home, not meeting with but two coaches, and but two carts from White Hall to my own house, that I could observe; and the streets mighty thin of people All the news is great: that we must of necessity fall out with France, for He will side with the Dutch against us That Alderman Backewell is gone over (which indeed he is,) with money, and that Ostend is in our present possession But it is strange to see how poor Alderman Backewell is like to be put to it in his absence, Mr Shaw his right hand being ill And the Alderman’s absence gives doubts to people, and I perceive they are in great straits for money, besides what Sir G Carteret told me about fourteen days ago Our fleet under my Lord Sandwich being about the latitude 55 ½ (which is a great secret) to the Northward of the Texell.

23rd To Hampton Court, where I followed the King to chapel, and there heard a good sermon; and after sermon with my Lord Arlington, Sir Thomas Ingram and others, spoke to the Duke about Tangier, but not to much purpose I was not invited any whither to dinner, though a stranger, which did also trouble