The Diary
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6th. Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning. We met upon a report to the Duke of York of the debts of the Navy, which we finished by three o’clock, and having eat one little bit of meate, I by water before the rest to Whitehall (and they to come after me) because of a Committee for Tangier, where I did my business of stating my accounts perfectly well, and to good liking, and do not discern, but the Duke of Albemarle is my friend in his intentions notwithstanding my general fears. After that to our Navy business, where my fellow officers were called in, and did that also very well, and then broke up, and I home by coach, Tooker with me, and stayed in Lombard Street at Viner’s, and sent home for the plate which my wife and I had a mind to change, and there changed it, about £50 worth, into things more useful, whereby we shall now have a very handsome cupboard of plate. So home to the office, wrote my letters by the post, and to bed.