October 21, 1663.—I to the Exchange.... From my brother's with my wife to the Exchange, to buy things for her and myself, I being in the humour of laying out money, but not prodigally, but only in clothes, which I every day see that I suffer for want of.
October 30, 1663.—Then by coach with my wife to the New Exchange, and there bought and paid for several things.
November 4, 1663.—I to the New Exchange and several places to buy and bring home things.
November 19, 1663.—Thence with Sir G. Carteret by coach, and he set me down at the New Exchange.
January 9, 1664.—I took coach and called my wife and her mayd, and so to the New Exchange, where we bought several things of our pretty Mrs Dorothy Stacy, a pretty woman, and has the modestest look that ever I saw in my life.
February 1, 1664.—I hear how two men last night, justling for the wall about the New Exchange, did kill one another, each thrusting the other through; one of them of the King's Chappel, one Cave, and the other a retayner of my Lord Generall Middleton's.
February 13, 1664.—Walked to the New Exchange, and after a turn or two and talked, I took coach and home.
April 1, 1664.—Setting my wife down at the New Exchange, I to White Hall.... So with Creed to the 'Change, and there took up my wife and left him.
April 6, 1664.—Bought a pretty silke for a petticoate for my wife, and thence set her down at the New Exchange.... To the 'Change for my wife.
April 9, 1664.—With my wife by coach to her Tailor's and the New Exchange.