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Friday 31 May 1661

I went to my father's thinking to have met with my cozen John Holcroft, but he came not, but to my great grief I found my father and mother in a great deal of discontent one with another, and indeed my mother is grown now so pettish that I know not how my father is able to bear with it.  I did talk to her so as did not indeed become me, but I could not help it, she being so unsufferably foolish and simple, so that my father, poor man, is become a very unhappy man.  There I dined, and so home and to the office all the afternoon till 9 at night, and then home and to supper and to bed.  Great talk now how the Parliament intend to make a collection of free gifts to the King through the Kingdom; but I think it will not come to much.