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Sunday 29 March 1663

(Lord's day).  Waked as I used to do betimes, but being Sunday and very cold I lay long, it raining and snowing very hard, which I did never think it would have done any more this year.  Up and to church, home to dinner.  After dinner in comes Mr. Moore, and sat and talked with us a good while; among other things telling me, that [neither] my Lord nor he are under apprehensions of the late discourse in the House of Commons, concerning resumption of Crowne lands, which I am very glad of.  He being gone, up to my chamber, where my wife and Ashwell and I all the afternoon talking and laughing, and by and by I a while to my office, reading over some papers which I found in my man William's chest of drawers, among others some old precedents concerning the practice of this office heretofore, which I am glad to find and shall make use of, among others an oath, which the Principal Officers were bound to swear at their entrance into their offices, which I would be glad were in use still.  So home and fell hard to make up my monthly accounts, letting my family go to bed after prayers.  I staid up long, and find myself, as I think, fully worth 670l..  So with good comfort to bed, finding that though it be but little, yet I do get ground every month.  I pray God it may continue so with me.