19th. Come Mr. Cooper, Hales, Harris, Mr. Butler that wrote
Hudibras, and Mr. Cooper's cosen Jacke; and by and by come Mr.
Reeves and his wife, whom I never saw before. And there we
dined: a good dinner, and company that pleased me mightily,
being all eminent men in their way. Spent all the afternoon in
talk and mirth, and in the evening parted.
20th. To visit my Lord Crewe, who is very sick, to great danger,
by an erisypelas; the first day I heard of it.
21st. Went to my plate-maker's, and there spent an hour about
contriving my little plates for my books of the King's four
Yards.
22nd. Attending at the Committee of the Navy about the old
business of tickets; where the only expedient they have found is
to bind the commanders and officers by oaths. The Duke of York
told me how the Duke of Buckingham, after the Council the other
day, did make mirth at my position about the sufficiency of
present rules in the business of tickets; and here I took
occasion to desire a private discourse with the Duke of York, and
he granted it me on Friday next.
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