And it was great pleasure to
me to see the method wherein their rolls are kept; that when the
master of the office, one Mr. Case, do call for them, (who is a
man that I have heretofore known by coming to my Lord
Sandwich's,) he did most readily turn to them. At noon they shut
up; and W. Hewer and I did walk to the Cocke, at the end of
Suffolke-street, where I never was, a great ordinary mightily
cried up, and there bespoke a pullet: which, while dressing, he
and I walked into St. James's Park, and thence back and dined
very handsome with good soup and a pullet for 4s. 6d. the whole.
Thence back to the Rolls, and did a little more business: and so
by water to White Hall, whither I went to speak with Mr.
Williamson (that if he hath any papers relating to the Navy I
might see them, which he promises me.) And so by water home with,
great content for what I have this day found, having got almost
as much as I desire of the history of the Navy, from 1618 to
1642, when the King and Parliament fell out.
16th. Comes to me Mr. Evelyn of Deptford, a worthy good man, and
dined with me (but a bad dinner): who is grieved for and speaks
openly to me his thoughts of the times, and our ruin approaching;
and all by the folly of the King.
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