Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly through
the hangings that parts the King's closet and the closet where the ladies
sit. To my Lord's, where I found my wife, and she and I did dine with my
Lady (my Lord dining with my Lord Chamberlain), who did treat my wife with
a good deal of respect. In the evening we went home through the rain by
water in a sculler, having borrowed some coats of Mr. Sheply. So home,
wet and dirty, and to bed.

15th. Office all the morning. My wife and I by water; I landed her at
Whitefriars, she went to my father's to dinner, it being my father's
wedding day, there being a very great dinner, and only the Fenners and
Joyces there. This morning Mr. Carew

[John Carew signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I. He
held the religion of the Fifth Monarchists, and was tried October
12th, 1660. He refused to avail himself of many opportunities of
escape, and suffered death with much composure.]

was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a great
favour, are not to be hanged up. I was forced to go to my Lord's to get
him to meet the officers of the Navy this afternoon, and so could not go
along with her, but I missed my Lord, who was this day upon the bench at
the Sessions house. So I dined there, and went to White Hall, where I met
with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who with the Comptroller, Treasurer, and Mr.
Coventry (at his chamber) made up a list of such ships as are fit to be
kept out for the winter guard, and the rest to be paid off by the
Parliament when they can get money, which I doubt will not be a great
while. That done, I took coach, and called my wife at my father's, and so
homewards, calling at Thos. Pepys the turner's for some things that we
wanted. And so home, where I fell to read "The Fruitless Precaution" (a