14th. Up very betimes, and with Jane to Lovett's, there to
conclude upon our dinner; and thence to the pewterer's, to buy a
pewter sesterne, which I have ever hitherto been without. Anon
comes my company, viz, my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady, Sir
Philip Carteret and his lady, Godolphin and my cosen Roger, and
Creed: and mighty merry; and by and by to dinner, which was very
good and plentifull: (and I should have said, and Mr. George
Montagu, who came at a very little warning, which was exceeding
kind of him.) And there, among other things, my Lord had Sir
Samuel Morland's late invention for casting up of sums of L. S.
D.; which is very pretty, but not very useful. Most of our
discourse was of my Lord Sandwich and his family, as being all of
us of the family. And with extraordinary pleasure all the
afternoon, thus together eating and looking over my closet; and
my Lady Hinchingbroke I find a very sweet-natured and well-
disposed lady, a lover of books and pictures, and, of good
understanding. About five o'clock they went; and then my wife
and I abroad by coach into Moore-fields, only for a little ayre.
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