sermon to my father's; and fell in discourse concerning our going to
Cambridge the next week with my brother John. To Mrs. Turner where her
brother, Mr. Edward Pepys, was there, and I sat a great while talking of
public business of the times with him. So to supper to my Father's, all
supper talking of John's going to Cambridge. So home, and it raining my
wife got my mother's French mantle and my brother John's hat, and so we
went all along home and to bed.

20th. In the morning at my lute. Then to my office, where my partner and
I made even our balance. Took him home to dinner with me, where my
brother John came to dine with me. After dinner I took him to my study at
home and at my Lord's, and gave him some books and other things against
his going to Cambridge. After he was gone I went forth to Westminster
Hall, where I met with Chetwind, Simons, and Gregory. And with them to
Marsh's at Whitehall to drink, and staid there a pretty while reading a
pamphlet well writ and directed to General Monk, in praise of the form of
monarchy which was settled here before the wars.

[This pamphlet is among the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts
(British Museum), and dated in MS. this same day, February 20th--
"A Plea for Limited Monarchy as it was established in this Nation
before the late War. In an Humble Address to his Excellency General
Monck. By a Zealot for the good old Laws of his Country, before any
Faction or Caprice, with additions." "An Eccho to the Plea for
Limited Monarchy, &c.," was published soon afterwards.]

They told me how the Speaker Lenthall do refuse to sign the writs for
choice of new members in the place of the excluded; and by that means the
writs could not go out to-day. In the evening Simons and I to the Coffee
Club, where nothing to do only I heard Mr. Harrington, and my Lord of