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Thursday 8 November 1660

This morning Sir Wm. and the Treasurer and I went by barge with Sir Wm. Doyley and Mr. Prin to Deptford, to pay off the Henrietta, and had a good dinner.  I went to Mr. Davys's and saw his house (where I was once before a great while ago) and I found him a very pretty man.  In the afternoon Commissioner Pett and I went on board the yacht, which indeed is one of the finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in so small a vessel.  Mr. Pett is to make one to outdo this for the honour of his country, which I fear he will scarce better.  From thence with him as far as Ratcliffe, where I left him going by water to London, and I (unwilling to leave the rest of the officers) went back again to Deptford, and being very much troubled with a sudden looseness, I went into a little alehouse at the end of Ratcliffe, and did give a groat for a pot of ale, and there I did .  .  . 1  So went forward in my walk with some men that were going that way a great pace, and in our way we met with many merry seamen that had got their money paid them to-day.  We sat very late doing the work and waiting for the tide, it being moonshine we got to London before two in the morning.  So home, where I found my wife up, she shewed me her head which was very well dressed to-day, she having been to see her father and mother.  So to bed.