15 August 1667 – 21 August 1667

Finished my account, amounting to £25,000.

To the funeral of Mr. Farringdon, a relation of my wife's. There was now a very gallant horse to be baited to death with dogs; but he fought them all, so as the fiercest of them could not fasten on him, till the men run him through with their swords. This wicked and barbarous sport deserved to have been punished in the cruel contrivers to get money, under pretense that the horse had killed a man, which was false. I would not be persuaded to be a spectator.

Saw the famous Italian puppet-play, for it was no other.