to be paid, however it may exceed the usual or legal rate of
interest."--Smyth's Sailor's WordBook.]

which I do not yet understand, but do believe there may be something in it
of great profit. After we were parted I went to the office, and there we
sat all the afternoon, and at night we went to a barrel of oysters at Sir
W. Batten's, and so home, and I to the setting of my papers in order,
which did keep me up late. So to bed.

17th. In the morning to Whitehall, where I inquired at the Privy Seal
Office for a form for a nobleman to make one his Chaplain. But I
understanding that there is not any, I did draw up one, and so to my
Lord's, and there I did give him it to sign for Mr. Turner to be his first
Chaplain. I did likewise get my Lord to sign my last sea accounts, so
that I am even to this day when I have received the balance of Mr. Creed.
I dined with my Lady and my Lady Pickering, where her son John dined with
us, who do continue a fool as he ever was since I knew him. His mother
would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Betty but he will not
hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who tells me that the
Regiment is now disbanded, and that there is some money coming to me for
it. I took him to my Lord to Mr. Crew's, and from thence with Mr. Shepley
and Mr. Moore to the Devil Tavern, and there we drank. So home and wrote
letters by the post. Then to my lyra viall,

[The lyre viol is a viol with extra open bass strings, holding the
same relation to the viol as the theorbo does to the lute. A volume
entitled "Musick's Recreation on the Lyra Viol," was printed by John
Playford in 1650.]

and to bed.