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8th. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, in his coach, and Mr. Tippets to Whitehall; and there attended the Duke of York with the rest, where the Duke was mighty plain with the Treasurers, according to the advice my Lord Brouncker and I did give him the other night, and he did it fully; and so as, I believe, will make the Treasurers careful of themselves, unless they do resolve upon defying the Duke of York. Thence with W. Hewer home, and to dinner, and so out again, my wife and I and Mr. Hater to Whitehall, where she set us down, and she up and down to buy things, while we at the Treasury-Chamber, where I alone did manage the business of The Leopard against the whole Committee of the East India Company, with Mr. Blackburne with them; and to the silencing of them all, to my no great content. Thence walked to my wife, and so set out for home in our coach, it being very cold weather, and so to the office to do a little business, and then home to my wife’s chamber, my people having laid the cloth, and got the rooms all clean above-stairs tonight for our dinner tomorrow, and therefore I to bed.