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Saturday 14 March 1663

Up betimes and to my office, where we sat all the morning, and a great rant I did give to Mr. Davis, of Deptford, and others about their usage of Michell, in his Bewpers, which he serves in for flaggs, which did trouble me, but yet it was in defence of what was truth.  So home to dinner, where Creed dined with me, and walked a good while in the garden with me after dinner, talking, among other things, of the poor service which Sir J. Lawson did really do in the Streights, for which all this great fame and honour done him is risen.  So to my office, where all the afternoon giving maisters their warrants for this voyage, for which I hope hereafter to get something at their coming home.  In the evening my wife and I and Ashwell walked in the garden, and I find she is a pretty ingenuous1 girl at all sorts of fine work, which pleases me very well, and I hope will be very good entertainment for my wife without much cost.  So to write by the post, and so home to supper and to bed.