Within all day long, helping to put up my hangings in my house in my wife’s chamber, to my great content. In the afternoon I went to speak to Sir J. Minnes at his lodgings, where I found many great ladies, and his lodgings made very fine indeed.
At night to supper and to bed: this night having first put up a spitting sheet, which I find very convenient. This day come the King’s pleasure-boats from Calais, with the Dunkirk money, being 400,000 pistols.
within my amber tent
a peak
lodging where
I found a lodging
night having come
from a pistol
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 21 November 1662.