I sent my black manege horse and furniture with a friend to his Majestie then at Oxford.23rd.The Covenant being pressed, I absented myselfe; but finding it impossible to evade the doing very unhandsome things, and which had been a greate cause of my perpetual motions hitherto between Wotton and London, Oct.2nd.I obtayned a lycence of his Majestie, dated at Oxford and sign'd by the King, to travell againe.' Accordingly, on 7th.

November, he took boat at the Tower wharf for Sittingbourne, 'being only a payre of oares, expos'd to a hideous storm, thence posting to Dover accompanied by an Oxford friend, Mr.
Thicknesse, and crossing the Channel to Calais.' Proceeding by Boulogne, Monstreuil, Abbeville, Beauvais, Beaumont, and St.Denys to Paris, of which he gives a very interesting account, he threw himself into the social life of that gay capital.

His first step was to make his duty to Sir Richard Browne, afterwards his father-in-law, then in charge of British affairs pending the arrival of the Earl of Norwich, who came immediately after that as Ambassador Extraordinary.

That Evelyn's purse was fairly well lined the Parisian passages in his _Diary_ distinctly show.

He appears to have taken part in many gay excursions and junkettings, though he sometimes reckoned the cost.