daughter of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and wife of
Thomas Stradwick.]--and went to Westminster to Mr. Vines, where George and
I fiddled a good while, Dick and his wife (who was lately brought to bed)
and her sister being there, but Mr. Hudson not coming according to his
promise, I went away, and calling at my house on the wench, I took her and
the lanthorn with me to my cosen Stradwick, where, after a good supper,
there being there my father, mother, brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott
and his wife, Mr. Drawwater and his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick,
we had a brave cake brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and
Mr. Stradwick was King. After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home,
it being still a great frost.

7th. At my office as I was receiving money of the probate of wills, in
came Mrs. Turner, Theoph., Madame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I had done
I took them home to my house and Mr. Hawly came after, and I got a dish of
steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game or two at
cards. In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing came to
fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and was forced to stay
till night in expectation of the French Embassador, who at last came, and
I had a great deal of good discourse with one of his gentlemen concerning
the reason of the difference between the zeal of the French and the
Spaniard. After he was gone I went home, and found my friends still at
cards, and after that I went along with them to Dr. Whores (sending my
wife to Mrs. Jem's to a sack-posset), where I heard some symphony and
songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, and Mallard.
Afterwards I put my friends into a coach, and went to Mrs. Jem's, where I
wrote a letter to my Lord by the post, and had my part of the posset which
was saved for me, and so we went home, and put in at my Lord's lodgings,
where we staid late, eating of part of his turkey-pie, and reading of
Quarles' Emblems. So home and to bed.