Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon Nothing of the memory of a man, an houre after he is dead! Nothing is to be got without offending God and the King Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design Now above six months since (smoke from the cellars) Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place Offered to stop the fire near his house for such a reward Officers are four years behind-hand unpaid Once a week or so I know a gentleman must go . . . . Opening his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped Origin in the use of a plane against the grain of the wood Out also to and fro, to see and be seen Painful to keep money, as well as to get it Parliament being vehement against the Nonconformists Parliament hath voted 2s. per annum for every chimney in England Parliament do agree to throw down Popery Parson is a cunning fellow he is as any of his coat Peace with France, which, as a Presbyterian, he do not like Pen was then turned Quaker Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of its nits Peruques of hair, as the fashion now is for ladies to wear Pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house Petition against hackney coaches Pit, where the bears are baited Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665) Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here Plague, forty last night, the bell always going Play good, but spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense Pleases them mightily, and me not at all Poor seamen that lie starving in the streets Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves Pray God give me a heart to fear a fall, and to prepare for it! Presbyterians against the House of Lords Presse seamen, without which we cannot really raise men Pressing in it as if none of us had like care with him Pretends to a resolution of being hereafter very clean Pretty sayings, which are generally like paradoxes Pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men Pride of some persons and vice of most was but a sad story Pride and debauchery of the present clergy Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques Providing against a foule day to get as much money into my hands Put up with too much care, that I have forgot where they are Quakers being charmed by a string about their wrists Quakers do still continue, and rather grow than lessen Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them Rabbit not half roasted, which made me angry with my wife Raising of our roofs higher to enlarge our houses Reading to my wife and brother something in Chaucer Reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's Receive the applications of people, and hath presents Reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank Reduced the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands to English rule