the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more manners than to
invite me and to let me pay my club. All the afternoon with my Lord,
going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, and there the
principal Officers of the Navy,

[A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31st, 1660. From a
MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys's own handwriting.
His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral.
Sir George Carteret, Treasurer.
Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller.
Sir William Batten, Surveyor.
Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts.

John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton,)|
Sir William Penn, | Commissioners.
Peter Pett, Esq.--B,] |

among the rest myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow,
to draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into action before
our patents were passed. At which my heart was glad. At night supped
with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone by
ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my maid
pretty well again.

3d. All the morning the Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, we met at
Sir G. Carteret's

[Sir George Carteret, born 1599, had originally been bred to the sea
service, and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I., and
Governor of Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his