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Wednesday 21 January 1663

Up early leaving my wife very ill in bed .  .  .  and to my office till eight o'clock, there coming Ch. Pepys1 to demand his legacy of me, which I denied him upon good reason of his father and brother's suing us, and so he went away.  Then came Commissioner Pett, and he and I by agreement went to Deptford, and after a turn or two in the yard, to Greenwich, and thence walked to Woolwich. Here we did business, and I on board the Tangier-merchant, a ship freighted by us, that has long lain on hand in her despatch to Tangier, but is now ready for sailing.  Back, and dined at Mr. Ackworth's, where a pretty dinner, and she a pretty, modest woman; but above all things we saw her Rocke, --[??  D.W.]-- which is one of the finest things done by a woman that ever I saw.  I must have my wife to see it.  After dinner on board the Elias, and found the timber brought by her from the forest of Deane to be exceeding good.  The Captain gave each of us two barrels of pickled oysters put up for the Queen mother.  So to the Dock again, and took in Mrs. Ackworth and another gentlewoman, and carried them to London, and at the Globe tavern, in Eastcheap, did give them a glass of wine, and so parted.  I home, where I found my wife ill in bed all day, and her face swelled with pain.  My Will has received my last two quarters salary, of which I am glad.  So to my office till late and then home, and after the barber had done, to bed.