Note 64 — Chapter II
Reading edition
The particulars of his accounts, as given in the “Diary,” are very curious, and it may be worth while here to tabulate some of them. On June 3, 1660, he was worth nearly £100 ″ Dec. 31, 1660, ″ £300 ″ May 24, 1661, ″ £500 ″ Aug. 31, 1662, ″ £686 19s. 2½d. About this time he appears to have made but little extra money, for his monthly balances vary only a few pounds, sometimes more and sometimes less:— Dec. 31, 1663 £800 (Of which £700 was in Lord Sandwich’s hands). March 31, 1664 £900 July 31, 1664 £1,014 Feb. 28, 1664–65 £1,270 Aug. 13, 1665 £2,164 This year he made money by prizes and fees for victualling, so that by Dec. 31 he had raised his estate to £4,400. April 30, 1666 £5,200 Dec. 31, 1666 £6,200 After this he did not pay so much attention to these details, and on Jan. 23, 1668–69, he says that he is two years behindhand.