The Diary
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5th. This day was kept publicly by the King’s command, as a fast day against the Dutch war, and I betimes with Mr. Tooker, whom I have brought into the Navy to serve us as a husband to see goods timely shipped off from hence to the Fleet and other places, and took him with me to Woolwich and Deptford, where by business I have been hindered a great while of going, did a very great deal of business, and home, and there by promise find Creed, and he and my wife, Mercer and I by coach to take the air; and, where we had formerly been, at Hackney, did there eat some pullets we carried with us, and some things of the house; and after a game or two at shuffleboard, home, and Creed lay with me; but, being sleepy, he had no mind to talk about business, which indeed I intended, by inviting him to lie with me, but I would not force it on him, and so to bed, he and I, and to sleep, being the first time I have been so much at my ease and taken so much fresh air these many weeks or months.