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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + FEBRUARY + 1659-60 + + +February 1st. In the morning went to my office where afterwards the old +man brought me my letters from the carrier. At noon I went home and +dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else. After that I went +to the Hall and there met with Mr. Swan and went with him to Mr. +Downing's Counsellor, who did put me in very little hopes about the +business between Mr. Downing and Squib, and told me that Squib would +carry it against him, at which I was much troubled, and with him went to +Lincoln's Inn and there spoke with his attorney, who told me the day that +was appointed for the trial. From thence I went to Sir Harry Wright's +and got him to give me his hand for the L60 which I am to-morrow to +receive from Mr. Calthrop and from thence to Mrs. Jem and spoke with +Madam Scott and her husband who did promise to have the thing for her +neck done this week. Thence home and took Gammer East, and James the +porter, a soldier, to my Lord's lodgings, who told me how they were drawn +into the field to-day, and that they were ordered to march away to-morrow +to make room for General Monk; but they did shut their Colonel Fitch, +and the rest of the officers out of the field, and swore they would not +go without their money, and if they would not give it them, they would go +where they might have it, and that was the City. So the Colonel went to +the Parliament, and commanded what money could be got, to be got against +to-morrow for them, and all the rest of the soldiers in town, who in all +places made a mutiny this day, and do agree together. Here I took some +bedding to send to Mrs. Ann for her to lie in now she hath her fits of +the ague. Thence I went to Will's and staid like a fool there and played +at cards till 9 o'clock and so came home, where I found Mr. Hunt and his +wife who staid and sat with me till 10 and so good night. + + + +2d. Drank at Harper's with Doling, and so to my office, where I found +all the officers of the regiments in town, waiting to receive money that +their soldiers might go out of town, and what was in the Exchequer they +had. At noon after dining at home I called at Harper's for Doling, and +he and I met with Luellin and drank with him at the Exchequer at Charing +Cross, and thence he and I went to the Temple to Mr. Calthrop's chamber, +and from thence had his man by water to London Bridge to Mr. Calthrop, a +grocer, and received L60 for my Lord. In our way we talked with our +waterman, White, who told us how the watermen had lately been abused by +some that had a desire to get in to be watermen to the State, and had +lately presented an address of nine or ten thousand hands to stand by +this Parliament, when it was only told them that it was to a petition +against hackney coaches; and that to-day they had put out another to +undeceive the world and to clear themselves, and that among the rest +Cropp, my waterman and one of great practice, was one that did cheat them +thus. After I had received the money we went to the Bridge Tavern and +drank a quart of wine and so back by water, landing Mr. Calthrop's man at +the Temple and we went homewards, but over against Somerset House, +hearing the noise of guns, we landed and found the Strand full of +soldiers. So I took my money and went to Mrs. Johnson, my Lord's +sempstress, and giving her my money to lay up, Doling and I went up +stairs to a window, and looked out and see the foot face the horse and +beat them back, and stood bawling and calling in the street for a free +Parliament and money. By and by a drum was heard to beat a march coming +towards them, and they got all ready again and faced them, and they +proved to be of the same mind with them; and so they made a great deal +of joy to see one another. After all this, I took my money, and went +home on foot and laying up my money, and changing my stockings and shoes, +I this day having left off my great skirt suit, and put on my white suit +with silver lace coat, and went over to Harper's, where I met with +W. Simons, Doling, Luellin and three merchants, one of which had occasion +to use a porter, so they sent for one, and James the soldier came, who +told us how they had been all day and night upon their guard at St. +James's, and that through the whole town they did resolve to stand to +what they had began, and that to-morrow he did believe they would go into +the City, and be received there. After all this we went to a sport +called, selling of a horse for a dish of eggs and herrings, and sat +talking there till almost twelve o'clock and then parted, they were to go +as far as Aldgate. Home and to bed. + + + +3rd. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and was told there that the +soldiers were all quiet upon promise of pay. Thence to St. James's Park, +and walked there to my place for my flageolet and then played a little, +it being a most pleasant morning and sunshine. Back to Whitehall, where +in the guard-chamber I saw about thirty or forty 'prentices of the City, +who were taken at twelve o'clock last night and brought prisoners hither. +Thence to my office, where I paid a little more money to some of the +soldiers under Lieut.-Col. Miller (who held out the Tower against the +Parliament after it was taken away from Fitch by the Committee of Safety, +and yet he continued in his office). About noon Mrs. Turner came to +speak with me, and Joyce, and I took them and shewed them the manner of +the Houses sitting, the doorkeeper very civilly opening the door for us. +Thence with my cozen Roger Pepys, + + [Roger Pepys, son of Talbot Pepys of Impington, a barrister of the + Middle Temple, M.P. for Cambridge, 1661-78, and Recorder of that + town, 1660-88. He married, for the third time, Parnell, daughter + and heiress of John Duke, of Workingham, co. Suffolk, and this was + the wedding for which the posy ring was required.] + +it being term time, we took him out of the Hall to Priors, the Rhenish +wine-house, and there had a pint or two of wine and a dish of anchovies, +and bespoke three or four dozen bottles of wine for him against his +wedding. After this done he went away, and left me order to call and pay +for all that Mrs. Turner would have. So we called for nothing more +there, but went and bespoke a shoulder of mutton at Wilkinson's to be +roasted as well as it could be done, and sent a bottle of wine home to my +house. In the meantime she and I and Joyce went walking all over White +Hall, whither General Monk was newly come, and we saw all his forces +march by in very good plight and stout officers. Thence to my house +where we dined, but with a great deal of patience, for the mutton came in +raw, and so we were fain to stay the stewing of it. In the meantime we +sat studying a Posy + + [It is supposed that the fashion of having mottoes inscribed on + rings was of Roman origin. In the fourteenth and fifteenth + centuries the posy was inscribed on the outside of the ring, and in + the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was placed inside. A + small volume was published in 1674, entitled "Love's Garland: or + Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves, and such pretty tokens + that Lovers send their Loves."] + +for a ring for her which she is to have at Roger Pepys his wedding. +After dinner I left them and went to hear news, but only found that the +Parliament House was most of them with Monk at White Hall, and that in +his passing through the town he had many calls to him for a free +Parliament, but little other welcome. I saw in the Palace Yard how +unwilling some of the old soldiers were yet to go out of town without +their money, and swore if they had it not in three days, as they were +promised, they would do them more mischief in the country than if they +had staid here; and that is very likely, the country being all +discontented. The town and guards are already full of Monk's soldiers. +I returned, and it growing dark I and they went to take a turn in the +park, where Theoph. (who was sent for to us to dinner) outran my wife and +another poor woman, that laid a pot of ale with me that she would outrun +her. After that I set them as far as Charing Cross, and there left them +and my wife, and I went to see Mrs. Ann, who began very high about a +flock bed I sent her, but I took her down. Here I played at cards till +9 o'clock. So home and to bed. + + + +4th. In the morning at my lute an hour, and so to my office, where I +staid expecting to have Mr. Squib come to me, but he did not. At noon +walking in the Hall I found Mr. Swan and got him and Captain Stone +together, and there advised about Mr. Downing's business. So to Will's, +and sat there till three o'clock and then to Mr. Swan's, where I found +his wife in very genteel mourning for her father, and took him out by +water to the Counsellor at the Temple, Mr. Stephens, and from thence to +Gray's Inn, thinking to speak with Sotherton Ellis, but found him not, so +we met with an acquaintance of his in the walks, and went and drank, +where I ate some bread and butter, having ate nothing all day, while they +were by chance discoursing of Marriot, the great eater, so that I was, I +remember, ashamed to eat what I would have done. Here Swan shewed us a +ballad to the tune of Mardike which was most incomparably wrote in a +printed hand, which I borrowed of him, but the song proved but silly, and +so I did not write it out. Thence we went and leaving Swan at his +master's, my Lord Widdrington, I met with Spicer, Washington, and +D. Vines in Lincoln's Inn Court, and they were buying of a hanging jack +to roast birds on of a fellow that was there selling of some. I was fain +to slip from there and went to Mrs. Crew's to her and advised about a +maid to come and be with Mrs. Jem while her maid is sick, but she could +spare none. Thence to Sir Harry Wright's, but my lady not being within I +spoke to Mrs. Carter about it, who will get one against Monday. So with +a link boy + + [Links were torches of tow or pitch to light the way. D.W.] + +to Scott's, where Mrs. Ann was in a heat, but I spoke not to her, +but told Mrs. Jem what I had done, and after that went home and wrote +letters into the country by the post, and then played awhile on my +lute, and so done, to supper and then to bed. All the news to-day is, +that the Parliament this morning voted the House to be made up four +hundred forthwith. This day my wife killed her turkeys that Mr. Sheply +gave her, that came out of Zealand with my Lord, and could not get her +m'd Jane by no means at any time to kill anything. + + + +5th,(Lord's day). In the morning before church time Mr. Hawly, who had +for this day or two looked something sadly, which methinks did speak +something in his breast concerning me, came to me telling me that he was +out L24 which he could not tell what was become of, and that he do +remember that he had such a sum in a bag the other day, and could not +tell what he did with it, at which I was very sorry but could not help +him. In the morning to Mr. Gunning, where a stranger, an old man, +preached a good honest sermon upon "What manner of love is this that we +should be called the sons of God." After sermon I could not find my +wife, who promised to be at the gate against my coming out, and waited +there a great while; then went to my house and finding her gone I +returned and called at the Chequers, thinking to dine at the ordinary +with Mr. Chetwind and Mr. Thomas, but they not being there I went to my +father and found her there, and there I dined. To their church in the +afternoon, and in Mrs. Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and +kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so read over the whole +book of the story of Tobit. After sermon home with Mrs. Turner, staid +with her a little while, then she went into the court to a christening +and we to my father's, where I wrote some notes for my brother John to +give to the Mercers' to-morrow, it being the day of their apposition. +After supper home, and before going to bed I staid writing of this day +its passages, while a drum came by, beating of a strange manner of beat, +now and then a single stroke, which my wife and I wondered at, what the +meaning of it should be. This afternoon at church I saw Dick Cumberland +newly come out of the country from his living, but did not speak to him. + + + +6th. Before I went to my office I went to Mr. Crew's and paid Mr. +Andrews the same L60 that he had received of Mr. Calthrop the last week. +So back to Westminster and walked with him thither, where we found the +soldiers all set in the Palace Yard, to make way for General Monk to come +to the House. At the Hall we parted, and meeting Swan, he and I to the +Swan and drank our morning draft. So back again to the Hall, where I +stood upon the steps and saw Monk go by, he making observance to the +judges as he went along. At noon my father dined with me upon my turkey +that was brought from Denmark, and after dinner he and I to the Bull Head +Tavern, where we drank half a pint of wine and so parted. I to Mrs. Ann, +and Mrs. Jem being gone out of the chamber she and I had a very high +bout, I rattled her up, she being in her bed, but she becoming more cool, +we parted pretty good friends. Thence I went to Will's, where I staid at +cards till 10 o'clock, losing half a crown, and so home to bed. + + + +7th. In the morning I went early to give Mr. Hawly notice of my being +forced to go into London, but he having also business we left our office +business to Mr. Spicer and he and I walked as far as the Temple, where I +halted a little and then went to Paul's School, but it being too soon, +went and drank my morning draft with my cozen Tom Pepys the turner, and +saw his house and shop, thence to school, where he that made the speech +for the seventh form in praise of the founder, did show a book which Mr. +Crumlum had lately got, which is believed to be of the Founder's own +writing. After all the speeches, in which my brother John came off as +well as any of the rest, I went straight home and dined, then to the +Hall, where in the Palace I saw Monk's soldiers abuse Billing and all the +Quakers, that were at a meeting-place there, and indeed the soldiers did +use them very roughly and were to blame. + + ["Fox, or some other 'weighty' friend, on hearing of this, + complained to Monk, who issued the following order, dated March 9th: + 'I do require all officers and soldiers to forbear to disturb + peaceable meetings of the Quakers, they doing nothing prejudicial to + the Parliament or the Commonwealth of England. George Monk.' This + order, we are told, had an excellent effect on the soldiers."--A. C. + Bickley's 'George Fox and the Early Quakers, London, 1884, p. 179. + The Quakers were at this time just coming into notice. The first + preaching of George Fox, the founder, was in 1648, and in 1655 the + preachers of the sect numbered seventy-three. Fox computed that + there were seldom less than a thousand quakers in prison. The + statute 13 and 14 Car. II. cap. i. (1662) was "An act for + preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain + persons called quakers and others, refusing to take lawful oaths." + Billing is mentioned again on July 22nd, 1667, when he addressed + Pepys in Westminster Hall.] + +So after drinking with Mr. Spicer, who had received L600 for me this +morning, I went to Capt. Stone and with him by coach to the Temple +Gardens (all the way talking of the disease of the stone), where we met +Mr. Squib, but would do nothing till to-morrow morning. Thence back on +foot home, where I found a letter from my Lord in character [private +cryptic code D.W.], which I construed, and after my wife had shewn me +some ribbon and shoes that she had taken out of a box of Mr. Montagu's +which formerly Mr. Kipps had left here when his master was at sea, I went +to Mr. Crew and advised with him about it, it being concerning my Lord's +coming up to Town, which he desires upon my advice the last week in my +letter. Thence calling upon Mrs. Ann I went home, and wrote in character +to my Lord in answer to his letter. This day Mr. Crew told me that my +Lord St. John is for a free Parliament, and that he is very great with +Monk, who hath now the absolute command and power to do any thing that he +hath a mind to do. Mr. Moore told me of a picture hung up at the +Exchange of a great pair of buttocks shooting of a turd into Lawson's +mouth, and over it was wrote "The thanks of the house." Boys do now cry +"Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]," so great and general a +contempt is the Rump come to among all the good and bad. + + + +8th. A little practice on my flageolet, and afterwards walking in my +yard to see my stock of pigeons, which begin now with the spring to breed +very fast. I was called on by Mr. Fossan, my fellow pupil at Cambridge, +and I took him to the Swan in the Palace yard, and drank together our +morning draft. Thence to my office, where I received money, and +afterwards Mr. Carter, my old friend at Cambridge, meeting me as I was +going out of my office I took him to the Swan, and in the way I met with +Captain Lidcott, and so we three went together and drank there, the +Captain talking as high as ever he did, and more because of the fall of +his brother Thurlow. + + [John Thurloe, born 1616; Secretary of State to Cromwell; M.P. for + Ely, 1656, and for the University of Cambridge in Richard Cromwell's + Parliament of December, 1658. He was never employed after the + Restoration, although the King solicited his services. He died + February 21st, 1668. Pepys spells the name Thurlow, which was a + common spelling at the time.] + +Hence I went to Captain Stone, who told me how Squib had been with him, +and that he could do nothing with him, so I returned to Mr. Carter and +with him to Will's, where I spent upon him and Monsieur L'Impertinent, +alias Mr. Butler, who I took thither with me, and thence to a Rhenish +wine house, and in our way met with Mr. Hoole, where I paid for my cozen +Roger Pepys his wine, and after drinking we parted. So I home, in my way +delivering a letter which among the rest I had from my Lord to-day to Sir +N. Wheeler. At home my wife's brother brought her a pretty black dog +which I liked very well, and went away again. Hence sending a porter +with the hamper of bottles to the Temple I called in my way upon Mrs. +Jem, who was much frighted till I came to tell her that her mother was +well. So to the Temple, where I delivered the wine and received the +money of my cos. Roger that I laid out, and thence to my father's, where +he shewed me a base angry letter that he had newly received from my uncle +Robert about my brother John, at which my father was very sad, but I +comforted him and wrote an answer. My brother John has an exhibition +granted him from the school. My father and I went down to his kitchen, +and there we eat and drank, and about 9 o'clock I went away homewards, +and in Fleet Street, received a great jostle from a man that had a mind +to take the wall, which I could not help? + + [This was a constant trouble to the pedestrian until the rule of + passing to the right of the person met was generally accepted. Gay + commences his "Trivia" with an allusion to this-- + + "When to assert the wall, and when resign--" + + and the epigram on the haughty courtier and the scholar is well + known.] + +I came home and to bed. Went to bed with my head not well by my too much +drinking to-day, and I had a boil under my chin which troubled me +cruelly. + + + +9th. Soon as out of my bed I wrote letters into the country to go by +carrier to-day. Before I was out of my bed, I heard the soldiers very +busy in the morning, getting their horses ready where they lay at +Hilton's, but I knew not then their meaning in so doing: After I had +wrote my letters I went to Westminster up and down the Hall, and with Mr. +Swan walked a good [deal] talking about Mr. Downing's business. I went +with him to Mr. Phelps's house where he had some business to solicit, +where we met Mr. Rogers my neighbour, who did solicit against him and +talked very high, saying that he would not for a L1000 appear in a +business that Swan did, at which Swan was very angry, but I believe he +might be guilty enough. In the Hall I understand how Monk is this +morning gone into London with his army; and met with Mr. Fage, who told +me that he do believe that Monk is gone to secure some of the Common- +council of the City, who were very high yesterday there, and did vote +that they would not pay any taxes till the House was filled up. I went +to my office, where I wrote to my Lord after I had been at the Upper +Bench, where Sir Robert Pye + + [Sir Robert Pye, the elder, was auditor of the Exchequer, and a + staunch Royalist. He garrisoned his house at Faringdon, which was + besieged by his son, of the same names, a decided Republican, son- + in-law to Hampden, and colonel of horse under Fairfax. The son, + here spoken of, was subsequently committed to the Tower for + presenting a petition to the House of Commons from the county of + Berks, which he represented in Parliament, complaining of the want + of a settled form of government. He had, however, the courage to + move for an habeas corpus, but judge Newdigate decided that the + courts of law had not the power to discharge him. Upon Monk's + coming to London, the secluded members passed a vote to liberate + Pye, and at the Restoration he was appointed equerry to the King. + He died in 1701.--B.] + +this morning came to desire his discharge from the Tower; but it could +not be granted. After that I went to Mrs. Jem, who I had promised to go +along with to her Aunt Wright's, but she was gone, so I went thither, and +after drinking a glass of sack I went back to Westminster Hall, and +meeting with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who would needs take me home, where +Mr. Lucy, Burrell, and others dined, and after dinner I went home and to +Westminster Hall, where meeting Swan I went with him by water to the +Temple to our Counsel, and did give him a fee to make a motion to-morrow +in the Exchequer for Mr. Downing. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I +heard an action very finely pleaded between my Lord Dorset and some other +noble persons, his lady and other ladies of quality being here, and it +was about; L330 per annum, that was to be paid to a poor Spittal, which +was given by some of his predecessors; and given on his side. Thence +Swan and I to a drinking-house near Temple Bar, where while he wrote I +played on my flageolet till a dish of poached eggs was got ready for us, +which we eat, and so by coach home. I called at Mr. Harper's, who told +me how Monk had this day clapt up many of the Common-council, and that +the Parliament had voted that he should pull down their gates and +portcullisses, their posts and their chains, which he do intend to do, +and do lie in the City all night. I went home and got some ahlum to my +mouth, where I have the beginnings of a cancer, and had also a plaster to +my boil underneath my chin. + + + +10th. In the morning I went to Mr. Swan, who took me to the Court of +Wards, where I saw the three Lords Commissioners sitting upon some cause +where Mr. Scobell was concerned, and my Lord Fountaine took him up very +roughly about some things that he said. After that we went to the +Exchequer, where the Barons were hearing of causes, and there I made +affidavit that Mr. Downing was gone into Holland by order of the Council +of State, and this affidavit I gave to Mr. Stevens our lawyer. Thence to +my office, where I got money of Mr. Hawly to pay the lawyer, and there +found Mr. Lenard, one of the Clerks of the Council, and took him to the +Swan and gave him his morning draft. Then home to dinner, and after that +to the Exchequer, where I heard all the afternoon a great many causes +before the Barons; in the end came ours, and Squib proved clearly by his +patent that the house and office did now belong to him. Our lawyer made +some kind of opposition, but to no purpose, and so the cause was found +against us, and the foreman of the jury brought in L10 damages, which the +whole Court cried shame of, and so he cried 12d. Thence I went home, +vexed about this business, and there I found Mr. Moore, and with him went +into London to Mr. Fage about the cancer in my mouth, which begins to +grow dangerous, who gave me something for it, and also told me what Monk +had done in the City, how he had pulled down the most part of the gates +and chains that they could break down, and that he was now gone back to +White Hall. The City look mighty blank, and cannot tell what in the +world to do; the Parliament having this day ordered that the Common- +council sit no more; but that new ones be chosen according to what +qualifications they shall give them. Thence I went and drank with Mr. +Moore at the Sugar Loaf by Temple Bar, where Swan and I were last night, +and so we parted. At home I found Mr. Hunt, who sat talking with me +awhile, and so to bed. + + + +11th. This morning I lay long abed, and then to my office, where I read +all the morning my Spanish book of Rome. At noon I walked in the Hall, +where I heard the news of a letter from Monk, who was now gone into the +City again, and did resolve to stand for the sudden filling up of the +House, and it was very strange how the countenance of men in the Hall was +all changed with joy in half an hour's time. So I went up to the lobby, +where I saw the Speaker reading of the letter; and after it was read, Sir +A. Haselrigge came out very angry, and Billing--[The quaker mentioned +before on the 7th of this month.]--standing at the door, took him by the +arm, and cried, "Thou man, will thy beast carry thee no longer? thou +must fall!" The House presently after rose, and appointed to meet again +at three o'clock. I went then down into the Hall, where I met with Mr. +Chetwind, who had not dined no more than myself, and so we went toward +London, in our way calling at two or three shops, but could have no +dinner. At last, within Temple Bar, we found a pullet ready roasted, and +there we dined. After that he went to his office in Chancery Lane, +calling at the Rolls, where I saw the lawyers pleading. Then to his +office, where I sat in his study singing, while he was with his man (Mr. +Powell's son) looking after his business. Thence we took coach for the +City to Guildhall, where the Hall was full of people expecting Monk and +Lord Mayor to come thither, and all very joyfull. Here we stayed a great +while, and at last meeting with a friend of his we went to the 3 Tun +tavern and drank half a pint of wine, and not liking the wine we went to +an alehouse, where we met with company of this third man's acquaintance, +and there we drank a little. Hence I went alone to Guildhall to see +whether Monk was come again or no, and met with him coming out of the +chamber where he had been with the Mayor and Aldermen, but such a shout +I never heard in all my life, crying out, "God bless your Excellence." +Here I met with Mr. Lock, and took him to an alehouse, and left him there +to fetch Chetwind; when we were come together, Lock told us the substance +of the letter that went from Monk to the Parliament; wherein, after +complaints that he and his officers were put upon such offices against +the City as they could not do with any content or honour, that there are +many members now in the House that were of the late tyrannical Committee +of Safety. That Lambert and Vane are now in town, contrary to the vote +of Parliament. That there were many in the House that do press for new +oaths to be put upon men; whereas we have more cause to be sorry for the +many oaths that we have already taken and broken. That the late petition +of the fanatique people presented by Barebone, for the imposing of an +oath upon all sorts of people, was received by the House with thanks. +That therefore he [Monk] do desire that all writs for filling up of the +House be issued by Friday next, and that in the mean time, he would +retire into the City and only leave them guards for the security of the +House and Council. The occasion of this was the order that he had last +night to go into the City and disarm them, and take away their charter; +whereby he and his officers say that the House had a mind to put them +upon things that should make them odious; and so it would be in their +power to do what they would with them. He told us that they [the +Parliament] had sent Scott and Robinson to him [Monk] this afternoon, but +he would not hear them. And that the Mayor and Aldermen had offered him +their own houses for himself and his officers; and that his soldiers +would lack for nothing. And indeed I saw many people give the soldiers +drink and money, and all along in the streets cried, "God bless them!" +and extraordinary good words. Hence we went to a merchant's house hard +by, where Lock wrote a note and left, where I saw Sir Nich. Crisp, and so +we went to the Star Tavern (Monk being then at Benson's), where we dined +and I wrote a letter to my Lord from thence. In Cheapside there was a +great many bonfires, and Bow bells and all the bells in all the churches +as we went home were a-ringing. Hence we went homewards, it being about +ten o'clock. But the common joy that was every where to be seen! The +number of bonfires, there being fourteen between St. Dunstan's and Temple +Bar, and at Strand Bridge' I could at one view tell thirty-one fires. In +King-street seven or eight; and all along burning, and roasting, and +drinking for rumps. There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up +and down. The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal with +their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate +Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and +another basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both the +greatness and the suddenness of it. At one end of the street you would +think there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to +keep still on the further side merely for heat. We came to the Chequers +at Charing Cross, where Chetwind wrote a letter and I gave him an account +of what I had wrote for him to write. Thence home and sent my letters to +the posthouse in London, and my wife and I (after Mr. Hunt was gone, whom +I found waiting at my house) went out again to show her the fires, and +after walking as far as the Exchange we returned and to bed. + + + +12th. In the morning, it being Lord's day, Mr. Pierce came to me to +enquire how things go. We drank our morning draft together and thence to +White Hall, where Dr. Hones preached; but I staid not to hear, but +walking in the court, I heard that Sir Arth. Haselrigge was newly gone +into the City to Monk, and that Monk's wife removed from White Hall last +night. Home again, where at noon came according to my invitation my cos. +Thos. Pepys and his partner and dined with me, but before dinner we went +and took a walk round the park, it being a most pleasant day as ever I +saw. After dinner we three went into London together, where I heard that +Monk had been at Paul's in the morning, and the people had shouted much +at his coming out of the church. In the afternoon he was at a church in +Broad-street, whereabout he do lodge. But not knowing how to see him we +went and walked half a hour in Moorfields, which were full of people, it +being so fine a day. Here I took leave of them, and so to Paul's, where +I met with Mr. Kirton's' apprentice (the crooked fellow) and walked up +and down with him two hours, sometimes in the street looking for a tavern +to drink in, but not finding any open, we durst not knock; other times in +the churchyard, where one told me that he had seen the letter printed. +Thence to Mr. Turner's, where I found my wife, Mr. Edw. Pepys, and Roger' +and Mr. Armiger being there, to whom I gave as good an account of things +as I could, and so to my father's, where Charles Glascocke was overjoyed +to see how things are now; who told me the boys had last night broke +Barebone's windows. Hence home, and being near home we missed our maid, +and were at a great loss and went back a great way to find her, but when +we could not see her we went homewards and found her there, got before us +which we wondered at greatly. So to bed, where my wife and I had some +high words upon my telling her that I would fling the dog which her +brother gave her out of window if he [dirtied] the house any more. + + + +13th. To my office till noon, thence home to dinner, my mouth being very +bad of the cancer and my left leg beginning to be sore again. After +dinner to see Mrs. Jem, and in the way met with Catan on foot in the +street and talked with her a little, so home and took my wife to my +father's. In my way I went to Playford's, and for two books that I had +and 6s. 6d. to boot I had my great book of songs which he sells always +for r 4s. At my father's I staid a while, while my mother sent her maid +Bess to Cheapside for some herbs to make a water for my mouth. Then I +went to see Mr. Cumberland, and after a little stay with him I returned, +and took my wife home, where after supper to bed. This day Monk was +invited to White Hall to dinner by my Lords; not seeming willing, he +would not come. I went to Mr. Fage from my father's, who had been this +afternoon with Monk, who do promise to live and die with the City, and +for the honour of the City; and indeed the City is very open-handed to +the soldiers, that they are most of them drunk all day, and have money +given them. He did give me something for my mouth which I did use this +night. + + + +14th. Called out in the morning by Mr. Moore, whose voice my wife +hearing in my dressing-chamber with me, got herself ready, and came down +and challenged him for her valentine, this being the day. + + [The practice of choosing valentines was very general at this time, + but some of the best examples of the custom are found in this + Diary.] + +To Westminster Hall, there being many new remonstrances and declarations +from many counties to Monk and the City, and one coming from the North +from Sir Thomas Fairfax. Hence I took him to the Swan and gave him his +morning draft. So to my office, where Mr. Hill of Worcestershire came to +see me and my partner in our office, with whom we went to Will's to +drink. At noon I went home and so to Mr. Crew's, but they had dined, and +so I went to see Mrs. Jem where I stayed a while, and home again where I +stayed an hour or two at my lute, and so forth to Westminster Hall, where +I heard that the Parliament hath now changed the oath so much talked of +to a promise; and that among other qualifications for the members that +are to be chosen, one is, that no man, nor the son of any man that hath +been in arms during the life of the father, shall be capable of being +chosen to sit in Parliament. To Will's, where like a fool I staid and +lost 6d. at cards. So home, and wrote a letter to my Lord by the post. +So after supper to bed. This day, by an order of the House, Sir H. Vane +was sent out of town to his house in Lincolnshire. + + + +15th. Called up in the morning by Captain Holland and Captain Cuttance, +and with them to Harper's, thence to my office, thence with Mr. Hill of +Worcestershire to Will's, where I gave him a letter to Nan Pepys, and +some merry pamphlets against the Rump to carry to her into the country. +So to Mr. Crew's, where the dining room being full, Mr. Walgrave and I +dined below in the buttery by ourselves upon a good dish of buttered +salmon. Thence to Hering' the merchant about my Lord's Worcester money +and back to Paul's Churchyard, where I staid reading in Fuller's History +of the Church of England an hour or two, and so to my father's, where Mr. +Hill came to me and I gave him direction what to do at Worcester about +the money. Thence to my Lady Wright's and gave her a letter from my Lord +privily. So to Mrs. Jem and sat with her, who dined at Mr. Crew's +to-day, and told me that there was at her coming away at least forty +gentlemen (I suppose members that were secluded, for Mr. Walgrave told me +that there were about thirty met there the last night) came dropping in +one after another thither. Thence home and wrote into the country +against to-morrow by the carrier and so to bed. At my father's I heard +how my cousin Kate Joyce had a fall yesterday from her horse and had some +hurt thereby. No news to-day, but all quiet to see what the Parliament +will do about the issuing of the writs to-morrow for filling up of the +House, according to Monk's desire. + + + +16th, In the morning at my lute. Then came Shaw and Hawly, and I gave +them their morning draft at my house. So to my office, where I wrote by +the carrier to my Lord and sealed my letter at Will's, and gave it old +East to carry it to the carrier's, and to take up a box of china oranges +and two little barrels of scallops at my house, which Captain Cuttance +sent to me for my Lord. Here I met with Osborne and with Shaw and +Spicer, and we went to the Sun Tavern in expectation of a dinner, where +we had sent us only two trenchers-full of meat, at which we were very +merry, while in came Mr. Wade and his friend Capt. Moyse (who told us of +his hopes to get an estate merely for his name's sake), and here we staid +till seven at night, I winning a quart of sack of Shaw that one +trencherfull that was sent us was all lamb and he that it was veal. I by +having but 3d. in my pocket made shift to spend no more, whereas if I had +had more I had spent more as the rest did, so that I see it is an +advantage to a man to carry little in his pocket. Home, and after +supper, and a little at my flute, I went to bed. + + + +17th. In the morning Tom that was my Lord's footboy came to see me and +had 10s. of me of the money which I have to keep of his. So that now I +have but 35s. more of his. Then came Mr. Hills the instrument maker, and +I consulted with him about the altering my lute and my viall. After that +I went into my study and did up my accounts, and found that I am about; +L40 beforehand in the world, and that is all. So to my office and from +thence brought Mr. Hawly home with me to dinner, and after dinner wrote a +letter to Mr. Downing about his business and gave it Hawly, and so went +to Mr. Gunning's to his weekly fast, and after sermon, meeting there with +Monsieur L'Impertinent, we went and walked in the park till it was dark. +I played on my pipe at the Echo, and then drank a cup of ale at Jacob's. +So to Westminster Hall, and he with me, where I heard that some of the +members of the House were gone to meet with some of the secluded members +and General Monk in the City. Hence we went to White Hall, thinking to +hear more news, where I met with Mr. Hunt, who told me how Monk had sent +for all his goods that he had here into the City; and yet again he told +me, that some of the members of the House had this day laid in firing +into their lodgings at White Hall for a good while, so that we are at a +great stand to think what will become of things, whether Monk will stand +to the Parliament or no. Hence Mons. L'Impertinent and I to Harper's, +and there drank a cup or two to the King, and to his fair sister Frances +--[Frances Butler, the great beauty, who is sometimes styled. la belle +Boteler.]--good health, of whom we had much discourse of her not being +much the worse for the small pox, which she had this last summer. So +home and to bed. This day we are invited to my uncle Fenner's wedding +feast, but went not, this being the 27th year. + + + +18th. A great while at my vial and voice, learning to sing "Fly boy, fly +boy," without book. So to my office, where little to do. In the Hall I +met with Mr. Eglin and one Looker, a famous gardener, servant to my Lord +Salsbury, and among other things the gardener told a strange passage in +good earnest . . . . Home to dinner, and then went to my Lord's +lodgings to my turret there and took away most of my books, and sent them +home by my maid. Thither came Capt. Holland to me who took me to the +Half Moon tavern and Mr. Southorne, Blackburne's clerk. Thence he took +me to the Mitre in Fleet Street, where we heard (in a room over the music +room) very plainly through the ceiling. Here we parted and I to Mr. +Wotton's, and with him to an alehouse and drank while he told me a great +many stories of comedies that he had formerly seen acted, and the names +of the principal actors, and gave me a very good account of it. Thence +to Whitehall, where I met with Luellin and in the clerk's chamber wrote a +letter to my Lord. So home and to bed. This day two soldiers were +hanged in the Strand for their late mutiny at Somerset-house. + + + +19th (Lord's day). Early in the morning I set my books that I brought +home yesterday up in order in my study. Thence forth to Mr. Harper's to +drink a draft of purle,--[Purl is hot beer flavoured with wormwood or +other aromatic herbs. The name is also given to hot beer flavoured with +gin, sugar, and ginger.]--whither by appointment Monsieur L'Impertinent, +who did intend too upon my desire to go along with me to St. +Bartholomew's, to hear one Mr. Sparks, but it raining very hard we went +to Mr. Gunning's and heard an excellent sermon, and speaking of the +character that the Scripture gives of Ann the mother of the blessed +Virgin, he did there speak largely in commendation of widowhood, and not +as we do to marry two or three wives or husbands, one after another. +Here I met with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner, where he +told me the discourse that happened between the secluded members and the +members of the House, before Monk last Friday. How the secluded said, +that they did not intend by coming in to express revenge upon these men, +but only to meet and dissolve themselves, and only to issue writs for a +free Parliament. He told me how Haselrigge was afraid to have the candle +carried before him, for fear that the people seeing him, would do him +hurt; and that he is afraid to appear in the City. That there is great +likelihood that the secluded members will come in, and so Mr. Crew and my +Lord are likely to be great men, at which I was very glad. After diner +there was many secluded members come in to Mr. Crew, which, it being the +Lord's day, did make Mr. Moore believe that there was something +extraordinary in the business. Hence home and brought my wife to Mr. +Mossum's to hear him, and indeed he made a very good sermon, but only too +eloquent for a pulpit. Here Mr. L'Impertinent helped me to a seat. +After sermon to my father's; and fell in discourse concerning our going +to Cambridge the next week with my brother John. To Mrs. Turner where +her brother, Mr. Edward Pepys, was there, and I sat a great while talking +of public business of the times with him. So to supper to my Father's, +all supper talking of John's going to Cambridge. So home, and it raining +my wife got my mother's French mantle and my brother John's hat, and so +we went all along home and to bed. + + + +20th. In the morning at my lute. Then to my office, where my partner +and I made even our balance. Took him home to dinner with me, where my +brother John came to dine with me. After dinner I took him to my study +at home and at my Lord's, and gave him some books and other things +against his going to Cambridge. After he was gone I went forth to +Westminster Hall, where I met with Chetwind, Simons, and Gregory. And +with them to Marsh's at Whitehall to drink, and staid there a pretty +while reading a pamphlet well writ and directed to General Monk, in +praise of the form of monarchy which was settled here before the wars. + + [This pamphlet is among the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts + (British Museum), and dated in MS. this same day, February 20th-- + "A Plea for Limited Monarchy as it was established in this Nation + before the late War. In an Humble Address to his Excellency General + Monck. By a Zealot for the good old Laws of his Country, before any + Faction or Caprice, with additions." "An Eccho to the Plea for + Limited Monarchy, &c.," was published soon afterwards.] + +They told me how the Speaker Lenthall do refuse to sign the writs for +choice of new members in the place of the excluded; and by that means the +writs could not go out to-day. In the evening Simons and I to the Coffee +Club, where nothing to do only I heard Mr. Harrington, and my Lord of +Dorset and another Lord, talking of getting another place as the Cockpit, +and they did believe it would come to something. After a small debate +upon the question whether learned or unlearned subjects are the best the +Club broke up very poorly, and I do not think they will meet any more. +Hence with Vines, &c. to Will's, and after a pot or two home, and so to +bed. + + + +21st. In the morning going out I saw many soldiers going towards +Westminster, and was told that they were going to admit the secluded +members again. So I to Westminster Hall, and in Chancery Row I saw about +twenty of them who had been at White Hall with General Monk, who came +thither this morning, and made a speech to them, and recommended to them +a Commonwealth, and against Charles Stuart. They came to the House and +went in one after another, and at last the Speaker came. But it is very +strange that this could be carried so private, that the other members of +the House heard nothing of all this, till they found them in the House, +insomuch that the soldiers that stood there to let in the secluded +members, they took for such as they had ordered to stand there to hinder +their coming in. Mr. Prin came with an old basket-hilt sword on, and had +a great many great shouts upon his going into the Hall. They sat till +noon, and at their coming out Mr. Crew saw me, and bid me come to his +house, which I did, and he would have me dine with him, which I did; and +he very joyful told me that the House had made General Monk, General of +all the Forces in England, Scotland, and Ireland; and that upon Monk's +desire, for the service that Lawson had lately done in pulling down the +Committee of Safety, he had the command of the Sea for the time being. +He advised me to send for my Lord forthwith, and told me that there is no +question that, if he will, he may now be employed again; and that the +House do intend to do nothing more than to issue writs, and to settle a +foundation for a free Parliament. After dinner I back to Westminster +Hall with him in his coach. Here I met with Mr. Lock and Pursell, +Masters of Music,--[Henry Purcell, father of the celebrated composer, was +gentleman of the Chapel Royal.]--and with them to the Coffee House, into +a room next the water, by ourselves, where we spent an hour or two till +Captain Taylor came to us, who told us, that the House had voted the +gates of the City to be made up again, and the members of the City that +are in prison to be set at liberty; and that Sir G. Booth's' case be +brought into the House to-morrow. Here we had variety of brave Italian +and Spanish songs, and a canon for eight voices, which Mr. Lock had +lately made on these words: "Domine salvum fac Regem," an admirable +thing. Here also Capt. Taylor began a discourse of something that he had +lately writ about Gavelkind in answer to one that had wrote a piece upon +the same subject; and indeed discovered a great deal of study in +antiquity in his discourse. Here out of the window it was a most +pleasant sight to see the City from one end to the other with a glory +about it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick round the +City, and the bells rang everywhere. Hence home and wrote to my Lord, +afterwards came down and found Mr. Hunt (troubled at this change) and Mr. +Spong, who staid late with me singing of a song or two, and so parted. +My wife not very well, went to bed before. This morning I met in the +Hall with Mr. Fuller, of Christ's, and told him of my design to go to +Cambridge, and whither. He told me very freely the temper of Mr. +Widdrington, how he did oppose all the fellows in the College, and that +there was a great distance between him and the rest, at which I was very +sorry, for that he told me he feared it would be little to my brother's +advantage to be his pupil. + + + +22nd. In the morning intended to have gone to Mr. Crew's to borrow some +money, but it raining I forbore, and went to my Lord's lodging and look +that all things were well there. Then home and sang a song to my viall, +so to my office and to Will's, where Mr. Pierce found me out, and told me +that he would go with me to Cambridge, where Colonel Ayre's regiment, to +which he was surgeon, lieth. Walking in the Hall, I saw Major-General +Brown, who had along time been banished by the Rump, but now with his +beard overgrown, he comes abroad and sat in the House. To my father's to +dinner, where nothing but a small dish of powdered beef--[Boiled salt +beef. To powder was to sprinkle with salt, and the powdering tub a +vessel in which meat was salted.]--and dish of carrots; they being all +busy to get things ready for my brother John to go to-morrow. After +dinner, my wife staying there, I went to Mr. Crew's, and got; L5 of Mr. +Andrews, and so to Mrs. Jemimah, who now hath her instrument about her +neck, and indeed is infinitely, altered, and holds her head upright. +I paid her, maid 40s. of the money that I have received of Mr. Andrews. +Hence home to my study, where I only wrote thus much of this day's +passages to this * and so out again. To White Hall, where I met with +Will. Simons and Mr. Mabbot at Marsh's, who told me how the House had +this day voted that the gates of the City should be set up at the cost of +the State. And that Major-General Brown's being proclaimed a traitor be +made void, and several other things of that nature. Home for my lanthorn +and so to my father's, where I directed John what books to put for +Cambridge. After that to supper, where my Uncle Fenner and my Aunt, The. +Turner, and Joyce, at a brave leg of veal roasted, and were very merry +against John's going to Cambridge. I observed this day how abominably +Barebone's windows are broke again last night. At past 9 o'clock my wife +and I went home. + + + +23rd. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven years. A pretty fair +morning, I rose and after writing a while in my study I went forth. To +my office, where I told Mr. Hawly of my thoughts to go out of town +to-morrow. Hither Mr. Fuller comes to me and my Uncle Thomas too, thence +I took them to drink, and so put off my uncle. So with Mr. Fuller home +to my house, where he dined with me, and he told my wife and me a great +many stories of his adversities, since these troubles, in being forced to +travel in the Catholic countries, &c. He shewed me his bills, but I had +not money to pay him. We parted, and I to Whitehall, where I was to see +my horse which Mr. Garthwayt lends me to-morrow. So home, where Mr. +Pierce comes to me about appointing time and place where and when to meet +tomorrow. So to Westminster Hall, where, after the House rose, I met +with Mr. Crew, who told me that my Lord was chosen by 73 voices, to be +one of the Council of State. Mr. Pierpoint had the most, 101, and +himself the next, too. He brought me in the coach home. He and Mr. +Anslow being in it. I back to the Hall, and at Mrs. Michell's shop staid +talking a great while with her and my Chaplain, Mr. Mumford, and drank a +pot or two of ale on a wager that Mr. Prin is not of the Council. Home +and wrote to my Lord the news of the choice of the Council by the post, +and so to bed. + + + +24th. I rose very early, and taking horse at Scotland Yard, at Mr. +Garthwayt's stable, I rode to Mr. Pierces, who rose, and in a quarter of +an hour, leaving his wife in bed (with whom Mr. Lucy methought was very +free as she lay in bed), we both mounted, and so set forth about seven of +the clock, the day and the way very foul. About Ware we overtook Mr. +Blayton, brother-in-law to Dick Vines, who went thenceforwards with us, +and at Puckeridge we baited, where we had a loin of mutton fried, and +were very merry, but the way exceeding bad from Ware thither. Then up +again and as far as Foulmer, within six miles of Cambridge, my mare being +almost tired: here we lay at the Chequer, playing at cards till supper, +which was a breast of veal roasted. I lay with Mr. Pierce, who we left +here the next morning upon his going to Hinchingbroke to speak with my +Lord before his going to London, and we two come to Cambridge by eight +o'clock in the morning. + + + +25th. To the Falcon, in the Petty Cury, + + [The old Falcon Inn is on the south side of Petty Cury. It is now + divided into three houses, one of which is the present Falcon Inn, + the other two being houses with shops. The Falcon yard is but + little changed. From the size of the whole building it must have + been the principal inn of the town. The room said to have been used + by Queen Elizabeth for receptions retains its original form.-M. B. + + The Petty Cury. The derivation of the name of this street, so well + known to all Cambridge men, is a matter of much dispute among + antiquaries. (See "Notes and Queries.") The most probable meaning + of it is the Parva Cokeria, or little cury, where the cooks of the + town lived, just as "The Poultry," where the Poulters (now + Poulterers) had their shops. "The Forme of Cury," a Roll of Antient + English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best + and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, + and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge, + 1780.--M. B.] + +where we found my father and brother very well. After dressing myself, +about ten o'clock, my father, brother, and I to Mr. Widdririgton, at +Christ's College, who received us very civilly, and caused my brother to +be admitted, while my father, he, and I, sat talking. After that done, +we take leave. My father and brother went to visit some friends, +Pepys's, scholars in Cambridge, while I went to Magdalene College, +to Mr. Hill, with whom I found Mr. Zanchy, Burton, and Hollins, and was +exceeding civilly received by them. I took leave on promise to sup with +them, and to my Inn again, where I dined with some others that were there +at an ordinary. After dinner my brother to the College, and my father +and I to my Cozen Angier's, to see them, where Mr. Fairbrother came to +us. Here we sat a while talking. My father he went to look after his +things at the carrier's, and my brother's chamber, while Mr. Fairbrother, +my Cozen Angier, and Mr. Zanchy, whom I met at Mr. Merton's shop (where I +bought 'Elenchus Motuum', having given my former to Mr. Downing when he +was here), to the Three Tuns, where we drank pretty hard and many healths +to the King, &c., till it began to be darkish: then we broke up and I and +Mr. Zanchy went to Magdalene College, where a very handsome supper at Mr. +Hill's chambers, I suppose upon a club among them, where in their +discourse I could find that there was nothing at all left of the old +preciseness in their discourse, specially on Saturday nights. And Mr. +Zanchy told me that there was no such thing now-a-days among them at any +time. After supper and some discourse then to my Inn, where I found my +father in his chamber, and after some discourse, and he well satisfied +with this day's work, we went to bed, my brother lying with me, his +things not being come by the carrier that he could not lie in the +College. + + + +26th (Sunday). My brother went to the College to Chapel. My father and +I went out in the morning, and walked out in the fields behind King's +College, and in King's College Chapel Yard, where we met with Mr. +Fairbrother, who took us to Botolph's Church, where we heard Mr. +Nicholas, of Queen's College, who I knew in my time to be Tripos, + + [The Tripos or Bachelor of the Stool, who made the speech on Ash + Wednesday, when the senior Proctor called him up and exhorted him to + be witty but modest withal. Their speeches, especially after the + Restoration, tended to be boisterous, and even scurrilous. + "26 Martii 1669. Da Hollis, fellow of Clare Hall is to make a + publick Recantation in the Bac. Schools for his Tripos speeche." + The Tripos verses still come out, and are circulated on Ash + Wednesday. The list of successful candidates for honours is printed + on the same paper, hence the term "Tripos" applied to it.] + +with great applause, upon this text, "For thy commandments are broad." +Thence my father and I to Mr. Widdrington's chamber to dinner, where he +used us very courteously again, and had two Fellow Commoners at table +with him, and Mr. Pepper, a Fellow of the College. After dinner, while +we sat talking by the fire, Mr. Pierces man came to tell me that his +master was come to town, so my father and I took leave, and found Mr. +Pierce at our Inn, who told us that he had lost his journey, for my Lord +was gone from Hinchingbroke to London on Thursday last, at which I was a +little put to a stand. So after a cup of drink I went to Magdalene +College to get the certificate of the College for my brother's entrance +there, that he might save his year. I met with Mr. Burton in the Court, +who took me to Mr. Pechell's chamber, where he was and Mr. Zanchy. By +and by, Mr. Pechell and Sanchy and I went out, Pechell to Church, Sanchy +and I to the Rose Tavern, where we sat and drank till sermon done, and +then Mr. Pechell came to us, and we three sat drinking the King's and his +whole family's health till it began to be dark. Then we parted; Sanchy +and I went to my lodging, where we found my father and Mr. Pierce at the +door, and I took them both and Mr. Blayton to the Rose Tavern, and there +gave them a quart or two of wine, not telling them that we had been there +before. After this we broke up, and my father, Mr. Zanchy, and I to my +Cosen Angier to supper, where I caused two bottles of wine to be carried +from the Rose Tavern; that was drunk up, and I had not the wit to let +them know at table that it was I that paid for them, and so I lost my +thanks for them. After supper Mr. Fairbrother, who supped there with us, +took me into a room by himself, and shewed me a pitiful copy of verses +upon Mr. Prinn which he esteemed very good, and desired that I would get +them given to Mr. Prinn, in hopes that he would get him some place for +it, which I said I would do, but did laugh in my sleeve to think of his +folly, though indeed a man that has always expressed great civility to +me. After that we sat down and talked; I took leave of all my friends, +and so to my Inn, where after I had wrote a note and enclosed the +certificate to Mr. Widdrington, I bade good night to my father, and John +went to bed, but I staid up a little while, playing the fool with the +lass of the house at the door of the chamber, and so to bed. + + + +27th. Up by four o'clock, and after I was ready, took my leave of my +father, whom I left in bed, and the same of my brother John, to whom I +gave 10s. Mr. Blayton and I took horse and straight to Saffron Walden, +where at the White Hart, we set up our horses, and took the master of the +house to shew us Audley End House, who took us on foot through the park, +and so to the house, where the housekeeper shewed us all the house, in +which the stateliness of the ceilings, chimney-pieces, and form of the +whole was exceedingly worth seeing. He took us into the cellar, where we +drank most admirable drink, a health to the King. Here I played on my +flageolette, there being an excellent echo. He shewed us excellent +pictures; two especially, those of the four Evangelists and Henry VIII. +After that I gave the man 2s. for his trouble, and went back again. In +our going, my landlord carried us through a very old hospital or +almshouse, where forty poor people was maintained; a very old foundation; +and over the chimney in the mantelpiece was an inscription in brass: +"Orate pre anima Thomae Bird," &c.; and the poor box also was on the same +chimney-piece, with an iron door and locks to it, into which I put 6d. +They brought me a draft of their drink in a brown bowl, tipt with silver, +which I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of the Virgin and the +child in her arms, done in silver. So we went to our Inn, and after +eating of something, and kissed the daughter of the house, she being very +pretty, we took leave, and so that night, the road pretty good, but the +weather rainy to Ep[p]ing, where we sat and played a game at cards, and +after supper, and some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house, we +went to bed. + + + +28th. Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, +while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole +as big as it was before. Then to horse, and for London through the +forest, where we found the way good, but only in one path, which we kept +as if we had rode through a canal all the way. We found the shops all +shut, and the militia of the red regiment in arms at the Old Exchange, +among whom I found and spoke to Nich. Osborne, who told me that it was a +thanksgiving-day through the City for the return of the Parliament. At +Paul's I light, Mr. Blayton holding my horse, where I found Dr. Reynolds' +in the pulpit, and General Monk there, who was to have a great +entertainment at Grocers' Hall. So home, where my wife and all well. +Shifted myself,--[Changed his dress.]-- and so to Mr. Crew's, and then to +Sir Harry Wright's, where I found my Lord at dinner, who called for me +in, and was glad to see me. There was at dinner also Mr. John Wright and +his lady, a very pretty lady, Alderman Allen's daughter. I dined here +with Will. Howe, and after dinner went out with him to buy a hat (calling +in my way and saw my mother), which we did at the Plough in Fleet Street +by my Lord's direction, but not as for him. Here we met with Mr. Pierce +a little before, and he took us to the Greyhound Tavern, and gave us a +pint of wine, and as the rest of the seamen do, talked very high again of +my Lord. After we had done about the hat we went homewards, he to Mr. +Crew's and I to Mrs. Jem, and sat with her a little. Then home, where I +found Mr. Sheply, almost drunk, come to see me, afterwards Mr. Spong +comes, with whom I went up and played with him a Duo or two, and so good +night. I was indeed a little vexed with Mr. Sheply, but said nothing, +about his breaking open of my study at my house, merely to give him the +key of the stair door at my Lord's, which lock he might better have broke +than mine. + + + +29th. To my office, and drank at Will's with Mr. Moore, who told me how +my Lord is chosen General at Sea by the Council, and that it is thought +that Monk will be joined with him therein. Home and dined, after dinner +my wife and I by water to London, and thence to Herring's, the merchant +in Coleman Street, about L50 which he promises I shall have on Saturday +next. So to my mother's, and then to Mrs. Turner's, of whom I took +leave, and her company, because she was to go out of town to-morrow with +Mr. Pepys into Norfolk. Here my cosen Norton gave me a brave cup of +metheglin, + + [A liquor made of honey and water, boiled and fermenting. By 12 + Charles II. cap. 23, a grant of certain impositions upon beer, ale, + and other liquors, a duty of 1d. per gallon was laid upon "all + metheglin or mead."] + +the first I ever drank. To my mother's and supped there. + +She shewed me a letter to my father from my uncle inviting him to come to +Brampton while he is in the country. So home and to bed. This day my +Lord came to the House, the first time since he came to town; but he had +been at the Council before. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else +Do press for new oaths to be put upon men +Hanging jack to roast birds on +Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]" +Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin +My wife and I had some high words +Petition against hackney coaches +Playing the fool with the lass of the house +Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves +Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house +To the Swan and drank our morning draft +Wedding for which the posy ring was required +Went to bed with my head not well by my too much drinking to-day + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v3 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |