Minnes was too old, and so was Colonell
Middleton, and that my Lord Brouncker did mind his mathematics
too much. I did not give much encouragement to that of finding
fault with my fellow-officers; but did stand up for the
constitution, and did say that what faults there were in our
office would be found not to arise from the constitution, but
from the failures of the officers in whose hands it was. This he
did seem to give good ear to; but did give me of myself very good
words, which pleased me well, though I shall not build upon them
any thing. Thence home; and after dinner by water with Tom down
to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way coming and going my
collections out of the Duke of York's old manuscript of the Navy,
which I have bound up, and do please me mightily. At Greenwich I
came to Captain Cocke's, where the house full of company at the
burial of James Temple, who it seems hath been dead these five
days. Here I had a very good ring, which I did give my wife as
soon as I came home. I spent my time there walking in the garden
talking with James Pierce; who tells me that he is certain that
the Duke of Buckingham had been with his wenches all the time
that he was absent, which was all the last week, nobody knowing
where he was.
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