his aunt Blackburne) was come home not very well to his mother, and so
could not come home to-night. At which I was very sorry. I found my wife
still in pain. To bed, having not time to write letters, and indeed
having so many to write to all places that I have no heart to go about
them. Mrs. Shaw did die yesterday and her husband so sick that he is not
like to live.

5th. Lord's day. My wife being much in pain, I went this morning to Dr.
Williams (who had cured her once before of this business), in Holborn, and
he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my boy, and a plaister
which I took with me to Westminster (having called and seen my mother in
the morning as I went to the doctor), where I dined with Mr. Sheply (my
Lord dining at Kensington). After dinner to St. Margaret's, where the
first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that Church. I sat with Mr. Hill
in his pew; Mr. Hill that married in Axe Yard and that was aboard us in
the Hope. Church done I went and Mr. Sheply to see W. Howe at Mr.
Pierces, where I staid singing of songs and psalms an hour or two, and
were very pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him. Thence to my Lord's, where I
staid and talked and drank with Mr. Sheply. After that to Westminster
stairs, where I saw a fray between Mynheer Clinke, a Dutchman, that was at
Hartlibb's wedding, and a waterman, which made good sport. After that I
got a Gravesend boat, that was come up to fetch some bread on this side
the bridge, and got them to carry me to the bridge, and so home, where I
found my wife. After prayers I to bed to her, she having had a very bad
night of it. This morning before I was up Will came home pretty well
again, he having been only weary with riding, which he is not used to.

6th. This morning at the office, and, that being done, home to dinner all
alone, my wife being ill in pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, and not a
little impatient. After dinner to Whitehall at the Privy Seal all the