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My wife did give
me so bad an account of her and my father's method in burying of
our gold, that made me mad: and she herself is not pleased with
it, she believing that my sister knows of it. My father and she
did it on Sunday, when they were gone to church, in open
daylight, in the midst of the garden; where, for aught they knew,
many eyes might see them: which put me into trouble, and
presently cast about how to have it back again to secure it here,
the times being a little better now.
20th. Mr. Barber told me that all the discourse yesterday, about
that part of the town where he was, was that Mr. Pett and I were
in the Tower; and I did hear the same before. Busy all the
afternoon: in the evening did treat with, and in the end agree,
but by some kind of compulsion, with the owners of six merchant-
ships, to serve the King as men-of-war. But, Lord! to see how
against the hair it is with these men, and everybody, to trust us
and the King; and how unreasonable it is to expect they should be
willing to lend their ships, and lay out 2 or 300l.


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