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Saturday 9 August 1662

Up by four o'clock or a little after, and to my office, whither by and by comes Cooper, to whom I told my getting for him the Reserve, for which he was very thankful, and fell to work upon our modell, and did a good morning's work upon the rigging, and am very sorry that I must lose him so soon.  By and by comes Mr. Coventry, and he and I alone sat at the office all the morning upon business.  And so to dinner to Trinity House, and thence by his coach towards White Hall; but there being a stop at the Savoy, we 'light and took water, and my Lord Sandwich being out of town, we parted there, all the way having good discourse, and in short I find him the most ingenuous person I ever found in my life, and am happy in his acquaintance and my interest in him.  Home by water, and did business at my office.  Writing a letter to my brother John to dissuade him from being Moderator of his year, which I hear is proffered him, of which I am very glad.  By and by comes Cooper, and he and I by candlelight at my modell, being willing to learn as much of him as is possible before he goes.  So home and to bed.