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This month
ends with my mind full of business and concernment how this
office will speed with the Parliament, which begins to be mighty
severe in the examining our accounts, and the expence of the Navy
this war.
OCTOBER 1, 1666. All the morning at the office, getting the list
of all the ships and vessels employed since the war, for the
Committee of Parliament.
2nd. Sir G. Carteret tells me how our lists are referred to a
Sub-committee to consider and examine, and that I am ordered to
be there. By and by the Committee met, and appointed me to
attend them to-morrow at the office to examine our lists.
3rd. The Committee met, and I did make shift to answer them
better than I expected. Sir W. Batten, Lord Brouncker, W. Pen,
come in, but presently went out; and J. Minnes come in, and said
two or three words from the purpose but to do hurt; so away he
went also, and left me all the morning with them alone to stand
or fall. And it ended with good peace, and much seeming
satisfaction; but I find them wise and reserved, and instructed
to hit all our blots.


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