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Friday 10 April 1663

Up very betimes and to my office, where most hard at business alone all the morning.  At noon to the Exchange, where I hear that after great expectation from Ireland, and long stop of letters, there is good news come, that all is quiett after our great noise of troubles there, though some stir hath been as was reported.  Off the Exchange with Sir J. Cutler and Mr. Grant to the Royall Oak Tavern, in Lumbard Street, where Alexander Broome the poet was, a merry and witty man, I believe, if he be not a little conceited, and here drank a sort of French wine, called Ho Bryan,1 that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.  Home to dinner, and then by water abroad to Whitehall, my wife to see Mrs. Ferrers, I to Whitehall and the Park, doing no business.  Then to my Lord's lodgings, met my wife, and walked to the New Exchange.  There laid out 10s. upon pendents and painted leather gloves, very pretty and all the mode.  So by coach home and to my office till late, and so to supper and to bed.