The Diary
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17th. Up, and by appointment to a meeting of Sir John Lawson and Mr. Cholmly’s attorney and Mr. Povy at the Swan tavern at Westminster to settle their business about my being secured in the payment of money to Sir J. Lawson in the other’s absence. Thence at Langford’s, where I never was since my brother died there. I find my wife and Mercer, having with him agreed upon two rich silk suits for me, which is fit for me to have, but yet the money is too much, I doubt, to lay out altogether; but it is done, and so let it be, it being the expense of the world that I can the best bear with and the worst spare. Thence home, and after dinner to the office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed. Sir J. Minnes and I had an angry bout this afternoon with Commissioner Pett about his neglecting his duty and absenting himself, unknown to us, from his place at Chatham, but a most false man I every day find him more and more, and in this very full of equivocation. The fleet we doubt not come to Harwich by this time. Sir W. Batten is gone down this day thither, and the Duchess of York went down yesterday to meet the Duke.