My wife had been to day at White Hall to the Maunday, it being
Maunday Thursday; but the King did not wash the poor people's
feet himself, but the Bishop of London did it for him.
5th. Mr. Young was talking about the building of the City again:
and he told me that those few churches that are to be new built
are plainly not chosen with regard to the convenience of the
City; they stand a great many in a cluster about Cornhill: but
that all of them are either in the gift of the Lord Archbishop,
or Bishop of London, or Lord Chancellor, or gift of the City.
Thus all things, even to the building of churches, are done in
this world! This morning come to me the collectors for my Poll-
money; for which I paid for my title as Esquire and place of
Clerk of Acts, and my head and wife's servants', and their wages,
40l. 17s. And though this be a great deal, yet it is a shame I
should pay no more: that is, that I should not be assessed for
my pay, as in the victualling business and Tangier; and for my
money, which of my own accord I had determined to charge myself
with 1000l.
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