The Diary
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11th. Up and to the office. By and by to the Custome House to the Farmers, there with a letter of Sir G. Carteret’s for £3,000, which they ordered to be paid me. So away back again to the office, and at noon to dinner all of us by invitation to Sir W. Penn’s, and much other company. Among others, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Broome, his poet, and Dr. Whistler, and his (Sir W. Penn’s) son-in-law Lowder, servant to Mrs. Margaret Penn, and Sir Edward Spragg, a merry man, that sang a pleasant song pleasantly. Rose from table before half dined, and with Mr. Mountney of the Custome House to the East India House, and there delivered to him tallies for £3,000 and received a note for the money on Sir R. Viner. So ended the matter, and back to my company, where stayed a little, and thence away with my Lord Brouncker for discourse sake, and he and I to Gresham College to have seen Mr. Hooke and a new invented chariot of Dr. Wilkins, but met with nobody at home. So to Dr. Wilkins’s, where I never was before, and very kindly received and met with Dr. Merritt, and fine discourse among them to my great joy, so sober and so ingenious. He is now upon finishing his discourse of a universal character. So away and I home to my office about my letters, and so home to supper and to bed.