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Sunday 5 August 1660

Lord's day.  My wife being much in pain, I went this morning to Dr. Williams (who had cured her once before of this business), in Holborn, and he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my boy, and a plaister which I took with me to Westminster (having called and seen my mother in the morning as I went to the doctor), where I dined with Mr. Sheply (my Lord dining at Kensington).  After dinner to St. Margaret's, where the first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that Church.  I sat with Mr. Hill in his pew; Mr. Hill that married in Axe Yard and that was aboard us in the Hope.  Church done I went and Mr. Sheply to see W. Howe at Mr. Pierces, where I staid singing of songs and psalms an hour or two, and were very pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him.  Thence to my Lord's, where I staid and talked and drank with Mr. Sheply.  After that to Westminster stairs, where I saw a fray between Mynheer Clinke, a Dutchman, that was at Hartlibb's wedding, and a waterman, which made good sport.  After that I got a Gravesend boat, that was come up to fetch some bread on this side the bridge, and got them to carry me to the bridge, and so home, where I found my wife.  After prayers I to bed to her, she having had a very bad night of it.  This morning before I was up Will came home pretty well again, he having been only weary with riding, which he is not used to.