The Diary
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22nd. Up, and before I went out Mr. Peter Barr sent me a tierce of claret, which is very welcome. And so abroad down the river to Deptford and there did some business, and then to Westminster, and there did with much ado get my tallies (my small ones instead of one great one of £2,000), and so away home and there all day upon my Tangier accounts with Creed, and, he being gone, with myself, in settling other accounts till past twelve at night, and then everybody being in bed, I to bed, my father, wife, and sister late abroad upon the water, and Mercer being gone to her mother’s and stayed so long she could not get into the office, which vexed me.