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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660 + Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian + Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors + Bright + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Commentator: Lord Braybrooke + +Editor: Henry B. Wheatley + +Release Date: March 22, 2009 [EBook #4125] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1660 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<br><br> + +<h1> + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. +</h1> +<center> +CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY +</center> +<center> +TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY<br> +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW<br> +AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE +</center> +<center> +(Unabridged) +</center> +<center> +WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES +</center><br><br> + +<h1>1660</h1> +<br><br> + +<h2> +By Samuel Pepys +</h2><br><br> + +<center> +Edited With Additions By +<br><br> +Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A. +</center><br><br> +<center> + LONDON<br> + GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN<br> + CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. +</center> +<h3> + 1893 +</h3> + + + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> + +<blockquote> +<p class="toc"><big><b>CONTENTS</b></big></p><br /> + +<a href="#2H_PREF1"> +PREFACE +</a><br><br> +<a href="#2H_4_0002"> +PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY. +</a><br><br><br> + + +<a href="#2H_4_0003"> +<big><b>1659-1660</b></big> +</a> + +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0003"> +JANUARY 1659-1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0004"> +FEBRUARY 1659-1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0005"> +MARCH 1659-1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0006"> +APRIL 1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0007"> +MAY 1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0008"> +JUNE 1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0009"> +JULY 1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0010"> +AUGUST 1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0011"> +SEPTEMBER 1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0012"> +OCTOBER 1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0013"> +NOVEMBER 1660 +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#2H_4_0014"> +DECEMBER 1660 +</a></p><br> + +</blockquote> + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> + + +<a name="2H_PREF1"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + PREFACE +</h2> +<p> +Although the Diary of Samuel Pepys has been in the hands of the public +for nearly seventy years, it has not hitherto appeared in its entirety. +In the original edition of 1825 scarcely half of the manuscript was +printed. Lord Braybrooke added some passages as the various editions +were published, but in the preface to his last edition he wrote: "there +appeared indeed no necessity to amplify or in any way to alter the text +of the Diary beyond the correction of a few verbal errors and corrupt +passages hitherto overlooked." +</p> +<p> +The public knew nothing as to what was left unprinted, and there was +therefore a general feeling of gratification when it was announced some +eighteen years ago that a new edition was to be published by the Rev. +Mynors Bright, with the addition of new matter equal to a third of the +whole. It was understood that at last the Diary was to appear in +its entirety, but there was a passage in Mr. Bright's preface which +suggested a doubt respecting the necessary completeness. He wrote: "It +would have been tedious to the reader if I had copied from the Diary the +account of his daily work at the office." +</p> +<p> +As a matter of fact, Mr. Bright left roughly speaking about one-fifth of +the whole Diary still unprinted, although he transcribed the whole, and +bequeathed his transcript to Magdalene College. +</p> +<p> +It has now been decided that the whole of the Diary shall be made +public, with the exception of a few passages which cannot possibly be +printed. It may be thought by some that these omissions are due to an +unnecessary squeamishness, but it is not really so, and readers are +therefore asked to have faith in the judgment of the editor. Where any +passages have been omitted marks of omission are added, so that in all +cases readers will know where anything has been left out. +</p> +<p> +Lord Braybrooke made the remark in his "Life of Pepys," that "the cipher +employed by him greatly resembles that known by the name of 'Rich's +system.'" When Mr. Bright came to decipher the MS., he discovered that +the shorthand system used by Pepys was an earlier one than Rich's, viz., +that of Thomas Shelton, who made his system public in 1620. +</p> +<p> +In his various editions Lord Braybrooke gave a large number of valuable +notes, in the collection and arrangement of which he was assisted by +the late Mr. John Holmes of the British Museum, and the late Mr. James +Yeowell, sometime sub-editor of "Notes and Queries." Where these notes +are left unaltered in the present edition the letter "B." has been +affixed to them, but in many instances the notes have been altered and +added to from later information, and in these cases no mark is affixed. +A large number of additional notes are now supplied, but still much has +had to be left unexplained. Many persons are mentioned in the Diary who +were little known in the outer world, and in some instances it has +been impossible to identify them. In other cases, however, it has been +possible to throw light upon these persons by reference to different +portions of the Diary itself. I would here ask the kind assistance +of any reader who is able to illustrate passages that have been left +unnoted. I have received much assistance from the various books in which +the Diary is quoted. Every writer on the period covered by the Diary +has been pleased to illustrate his subject by quotations from Pepys, and +from these books it has often been possible to find information which +helps to explain difficult passages in the Diary. +</p> +<p> +Much illustrative matter of value was obtained by Lord Braybrooke from +the "Diurnall" of Thomas Rugge, which is preserved in the British Museum +(Add. MSS. 10,116, 10,117). The following is the description of this +interesting work as given by Lord Braybrooke +</p> +<pre> + "MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS; + + or, A Collection of the most materiall occurrances and transactions + in Public Affairs since Anno Dni, 1659, untill + 28 March, 1672, + serving as an annuall diurnall for future satisfaction and + information, + BY THOMAS RUGGE. + + Est natura hominum novitatis avida.—Plinius. + + "This MS. belonged, in 1693, to Thomas Grey, second Earl of + Stamford. It has his autograph at the commencement, and on the + sides are his arms (four quarterings) in gold. In 1819, it was sold + by auction in London, as part of the collection of Thomas Lloyd, + Esq. (No. 1465), and was then bought by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller. + Whilst Mr. Lloyd was the possessor, the MS. was lent to Dr. Lingard, + whose note of thanks to Mr. Lloyd is preserved in the volume. From + Thorpe it appears to have passed to Mr. Heber, at the sale of whose + MSS. in Feb. 1836, by Mr. Evans, of Pall Mall, it was purchased by + the British Museum for L8 8s. + + "Thomas Rugge was descended from an ancient Norfolk family, and two + of his ancestors are described as Aldermen of Norwich. His death + has been ascertained to have occurred about 1672; and in the Diary + for the preceding year he complains that on account of his declining + health, his entries will be but few. Nothing has been traced of his + personal circumstances beyond the fact of his having lived for + fourteen years in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality." +</pre> +<p> +Another work I have found of the greatest value is the late Mr. J. E. +Doyle's "Official Baronage of England" (1886), which contains a mass of +valuable information not easily to be obtained elsewhere. By reference +to its pages I have been enabled to correct several erroneous dates in +previous notes caused by a very natural confusion of years in the case +of the months of January, February, and March, before it was finally +fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March. More +confusion has probably been introduced into history from this than from +any other cause of a like nature. The reference to two years, as in the +case of, say, Jan. 5, 1661-62, may appear clumsy, but it is the only +safe plan of notation. If one year only is mentioned, the reader is +never sure whether or not the correction has been made. It is a matter +for sincere regret that the popular support was withheld from Mr. +Doyle's important undertaking, so that the author's intention of +publishing further volumes, containing the Baronies not dealt with in +those already published, was frustrated. +</p> +<pre> +My labours have been much lightened by the kind help which I have +received from those interested in the subject. Lovers of Pepys are +numerous, and I have found those I have applied to ever willing to +give me such information as they possess. It is a singular pleasure, +therefore, to have an opportunity of expressing publicly my thanks +to these gentlemen, and among them I would especially mention Messrs. +Fennell, Danby P. Fry, J. Eliot Hodgkin, Henry Jackson, J. K. Laughton, +Julian Marshall, John Biddulph Martin, J. E. Matthew, Philip Norman, +Richard B. Prosser, and Hugh Callendar, Fellow of Trinity College, +who verified some of the passages in the manuscript. To the Master +and Fellows of Magdalene College, also, I am especially indebted for +allowing me to consult the treasures of the Pepysian Library, and more +particularly my thanks are due to Mr. Arthur G. Peskett, the Librarian. + + H. B. W. +BRAMPTON, OPPIDANS ROAD, LONDON, N.W. + February, 1893. +</pre> +<a name="2H_4_0002"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY. +</h2> +<p> +I. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in +the reigns of Charles II. and James II., comprising his Diary from 1659 +to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B., of St. John's College, +Cambridge, from the original Shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and +a Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord +Braybrooke. In two volumes. London, Henry Colburn... 1825. 4vo. +</p> +<p> +2. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S.... Second edition. In five +volumes. London, Henry Colburn.... 1828. 8vo. +</p> +<p> +3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the +Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II.; with a Life and +Notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke; the third edition, considerably +enlarged. London, Henry Colburn.... 1848-49. 5 vols. sm. 8vo. +</p> +<p> +4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.... The fourth +edition, revised and corrected. In four volumes. London, published for +Henry Colburn by his successors, Hurst and Blackett... 1854. 8vo. +</p> +<p> +The copyright of Lord Braybrooke's edition was purchased by the late Mr. +Henry G. Bohn, who added the book to his Historical Library. +</p> +<p> +5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from his MS. +Cypber in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard, +Lord Braybrooke. Deciphered, with additional notes, by the Rev. Mynors +Bright, M.A.... London, Bickers and Son, 1875-79. 6 vols. 8vo. +</p> +<p> +Nos. 1, 2 and 3 being out of copyright have been reprinted by various +publishers. +</p> +<p> +No. 5 is out of print. +</p> +<pre> + PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. +</pre> +<p> +The family of Pepys is one of considerable antiquity in the east of +England, and the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys +</p> +<pre> + [Mr. W. C. Pepys has paid great attention to the history of his + family, and in 1887 he published an interesting work entitled + "Genealogy of the Pepys Family, 1273-1887," London, George Bell and + Sons, which contains the fullest pedigrees of the family yet + issued.] +</pre> +<p> +says that the first mention of the name that he has been able to find is +in the Hundred Rolls (Edw. I, 1273), where Richard Pepis and John Pepes +are registered as holding lands in the county of Cambridge. In the next +century the name of William Pepis is found in deeds relating to lands in +the parish of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, dated 1329 and 1340 respectively +(Cole MSS., British Museum, vol. i., p. 56; vol. xlii., p. 44). +According to the Court Roll of the manor of Pelhams, in the parish of +Cottenham, Thomas Pepys was "bayliffe of the Abbot of Crowland in 1434," +but in spite of these references, as well as others to persons of +the same name at Braintree, Essex, Depedale, Norfolk, &c., the first +ancestor of the existing branches of the family from whom Mr. Walter +Pepys is able to trace an undoubted descent, is "William Pepis the +elder, of Cottenham, co. Cambridge," whose will is dated 20th March, +1519. +</p> +<p> +In 1852 a curious manuscript volume, bound in vellum, and entitled +"Liber Talboti Pepys de instrumentis ad Feoda pertinentibus +exemplificatis," was discovered in an old chest in the parish church of +Bolney, Sussex, by the vicar, the Rev. John Dale, who delivered it +to Henry Pepys, Bishop of Worcester, and the book is still in the +possession of the family. This volume contains various genealogical +entries, and among them are references to the Thomas Pepys of 1434 +mentioned above, and to the later William Pepys. The reference to the +latter runs thus:— +</p> +<pre> + "A Noate written out of an ould Booke of my uncle William Pepys." + + "William Pepys, who died at Cottenham, 10 H. 8, was brought up by + the Abbat of Crowland, in Huntingdonshire, and he was borne in + Dunbar, in Scotland, a gentleman, whom the said Abbat did make his + Bayliffe of all his lands in Cambridgeshire, and placed him in + Cottenham, which William aforesaid had three sonnes, Thomas, John, + and William, to whom Margaret was mother naturallie, all of whom + left issue." +</pre> +<p> +In illustration of this entry we may refer to the Diary of June 12th, +1667, where it is written that Roger Pepys told Samuel that "we +did certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland." The +references to various members of the family settled in Cottenham and +elsewhere, at an early date already alluded to, seem to show that there +is little foundation for this very positive statement. +</p> +<p> +With regard to the standing of the family, Mr. Walter Pepys writes:— +</p> +<pre> + "The first of the name in 1273 were evidently but small copyholders. + Within 150 years (1420) three or four of the name had entered the + priesthood, and others had become connected with the monastery of + Croyland as bailiffs, &c. In 250 years (1520) there were certainly + two families: one at Cottenham, co. Cambridge, and another at + Braintree, co. Essex, in comfortable circumstances as yeomen + farmers. Within fifty years more (1563), one of the family, Thomas, + of Southcreeke, co. Norfolk, had entered the ranks of the gentry + sufficiently to have his coat-of-arms recognized by the Herald + Cooke, who conducted the Visitation of Norfolk in that year. From + that date the majority of the family have been in good + circumstances, with perhaps more than the average of its members + taking up public positions." +</pre> +<p> +There is a very general notion that Samuel Pepys was of plebeian birth +because his father followed the trade of a tailor, and his own remark, +"But I believe indeed our family were never considerable,"—[February +10th, 1661-62.] has been brought forward in corroboration of this view, +but nothing can possibly be more erroneous, and there can be no doubt +that the Diarist was really proud of his descent. This may be seen from +the inscription on one of his book-plates, where he is stated to be:— +</p> +<pre> + "Samuel Pepys of Brampton in Huntingdonshire, Esq., Secretary of the + Admiralty to his Matr. King Charles the Second: Descended from ye + antient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire." +</pre> +<p> +Many members of the family have greatly distinguished themselves since +the Diarist's day, and of them Mr. Foss wrote ("Judges of England," vol. +vi., p. 467):— +</p> +<pre> + "In the family of Pepys is illustrated every gradation of legal rank + from Reader of an Inn of Court to Lord High Chancellor of England." +</pre> +<p> +The William Pepys of Cottenham who commences the pedigree had three sons +and three daughters; from the eldest son (Thomas) descended the +first Norfolk branch, from the second son (John Pepys of Southcreeke) +descended the second Norfolk branch, and from the third son (William) +descended the Impington branch. The latter William had four sons and two +daughters; two of these sons were named Thomas, and as they were both +living at the same time one was distinguished as "the black" and the +other as "the red." Thomas the red had four sons and four daughters. +John, born 1601, was the third son, and he became the father of Samuel +the Diarist. Little is known of John Pepys, but we learn when the Diary +opens that he was settled in London as a tailor. He does not appear to +have been a successful man, and his son on August 26th, 1661, found that +there was only L45 owing to him, and that he owed about the same sum. +He was a citizen of London in 1650, when his son Samuel was admitted +to Magdalene College, but at an earlier period he appears to have had +business relations with Holland. +</p> +<p> +In August, 1661, John Pepys retired to a small property at Brampton +(worth about L80 per annum), which had been left to him by his eldest +brother, Robert Pepys, where he died in 1680. +</p> +<p> +The following is a copy of John Pepys's will: +</p> +<pre> + "MY FATHER'S WILL. + [Indorsement by S. Pepys.] + + "Memorandum. That I, John Pepys of Ellington, in the county of + Huntingdon, Gent.", doe declare my mind in the disposall of my + worldly goods as followeth: + + "First, I desire that my lands and goods left mee by my brother, + Robert Pepys, deceased, bee delivered up to my eldest son, Samuell + Pepys, of London, Esqr., according as is expressed in the last Will + of my brother Robert aforesaid. + + "Secondly, As for what goods I have brought from London, or procured + since, and what moneys I shall leave behind me or due to me, I + desire may be disposed of as followeth: + + "Imprimis, I give to the stock of the poore of the parish of + Brampton, in which church I desire to be enterred, five pounds. + + "Item. I give to the Poore of Ellington forty shillings. + + "Item. I desire that my two grandsons, Samuell and John Jackson, + have ten pounds a piece. + + "Item. I desire that my daughter, Paulina Jackson, may have my + largest silver tankerd. + + "Item. I desire that my son John Pepys may have my gold seale-ring. + + "Lastly. I desire that the remainder of what I shall leave be + equally distributed between my sons Samuel and John Pepys and my + daughter Paulina Jackson. + + "All which I leave to the care of my eldest son Samuel Pepys, to see + performed, if he shall think fit. + + "In witness hereunto I set my hand." +</pre> +<p> +His wife Margaret, whose maiden name has not been discovered, died +on the 25th March, 1667, also at Brampton. The family of these two +consisted of six sons and five daughters: John (born 1632, died 1640), +Samuel (born 1633, died 1703), Thomas (born 1634, died 1664), Jacob +(born 1637, died young), Robert (born 1638, died young), and John (born +1641, died 1677); Mary (born 1627), Paulina (born 1628), Esther (born +1630), Sarah (born 1635; these four girls all died young), and Paulina +(born 1640, died 1680), who married John Jackson of Brampton, and had +two sons, Samuel and John. The latter was made his heir by Samuel Pepys. +</p> +<p> +Samuel Pepys was born on the 23rd February, 1632-3, but the place of +birth is not known with certainty. Samuel Knight, D.D., author of the +"Life of Colet," who was a connection of the family (having married +Hannah Pepys, daughter of Talbot Pepys of Impington), says positively +that it was at Brampton. His statement cannot be corroborated by the +registers of Brampton church, as these records do not commence until the +year 1654. +</p> +<p> +Samuel's early youth appears to have been spent pretty equally between +town and country. When he and his brother Tom were children they lived +with a nurse (Goody Lawrence) at Kingsland, and in after life Samuel +refers to his habit of shooting with bow and arrow in the fields around +that place. He then went to school at Huntingdon, from which he was +transferred to St. Paul's School in London. He remained at the latter +place until 1650, early in which year his name was entered as a sizar on +the boards of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted on the 21st June, +but subsequently he transferred his allegiance to Magdalene College, +where he was admitted a sizar on the 1st October of this same year. +He did not enter into residence until March 5th, 1650-51, but in the +following month he was elected to one of Mr. Spendluffe's scholarships, +and two years later (October 14th, 1653) he was preferred to one on Dr. +John Smith's foundation. +</p> +<p> +Little or nothing is known of Pepys's career at college, but soon +after obtaining the Smith scholarship he got into trouble, and, with a +companion, was admonished for being drunk. +</p> +<pre> + [October 21st, 1653. "Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were + solemnly admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for having been + scandalously over-served with drink ye night before. This was done + in the presence of all the Fellows then resident, in Mr. Hill's + chamber.—JOHN WOOD, Registrar." (From the Registrar's-book of + Magdalene College.)] +</pre> +<p> +His time, however, was not wasted, and there is evidence that he carried +into his busy life a fair stock of classical learning and a true love of +letters. Throughout his life he looked back with pleasure to the time he +spent at the University, and his college was remembered in his will +when he bequeathed his valuable library. In this same year, 1653, he +graduated B.A. On the 1st of December, 1655, when he was still without +any settled means of support, he married Elizabeth St. Michel, a +beautiful and portionless girl of fifteen. Her father, Alexander +Marchant, Sieur de St. Michel, was of a good family in Anjou, and son of +the High Sheriff of Bauge (in Anjou). Having turned Huguenot at the age +of twenty-one, when in the German service, his father disinherited him, +and he also lost the reversion of some L20,000 sterling which his uncle, +a rich French canon, intended to bequeath to him before he left the +Roman Catholic church. He came over to England in the retinue of +Henrietta Maria on her marriage with Charles I, but the queen dismissed +him on finding that he was a Protestant and did not attend mass. Being a +handsome man, with courtly manners, he found favour in the sight of +the widow of an Irish squire (daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill), +who married him against the wishes of her family. After the marriage, +Alexander St. Michel and his wife having raised some fifteen hundred +pounds, started, for France in the hope of recovering some part of the +family property. They were unfortunate in all their movements, and on +their journey to France were taken prisoners by the Dunkirkers, who +stripped them of all their property. They now settled at Bideford in +Devonshire, and here or near by were born Elizabeth and the rest of the +family. At a later period St. Michel served against the Spaniards at the +taking of Dunkirk and Arras, and settled at Paris. He was an unfortunate +man throughout life, and his son Balthasar says of him: "My father at +last grew full of whimsies and propositions of perpetual motion, &c., to +kings, princes and others, which soaked his pocket, and brought all our +family so low by his not minding anything else, spending all he had got +and getting no other employment to bring in more." While he was away +from Paris, some "deluding papists" and "pretended devouts" persuaded +Madame St. Michel to place her daughter in the nunnery of the Ursulines. +When the father heard of this, he hurried back, and managed to get +Elizabeth out of the nunnery after she had been there twelve days. +Thinking that France was a dangerous place to live in, he removed his +family to England, where soon afterwards his daughter was married, +although, as Lord Braybrooke remarks, we are not told how she became +acquainted with Pepys. St. Michel was greatly pleased that his daughter +had become the wife of a true Protestant, and she herself said to him, +kissing his eyes: "Dear father, though in my tender years I was by +my low fortune in this world deluded to popery, by the fond dictates +thereof I have now (joined with my riper years, which give me some +understanding) a man to my husband too wise and one too religious to the +Protestant religion to suffer my thoughts to bend that way any more." +</p> +<pre> + [These particulars are obtained from an interesting letter from + Balthasar St. Michel to Pepys, dated "Deal, Feb. 8, 1673-4," and + printed in "Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys," + 1841, vol. i., pp. 146-53.] +</pre> +<p> +Alexander St. Michel kept up his character for fecklessness through +life, and took out patents for curing smoking chimneys, purifying water, +and moulding bricks. In 1667 he petitioned the king, asserting that he +had discovered King Solomon's gold and silver mines, and the Diary +of the same date contains a curious commentary upon these visions of +wealth:— +</p> +<pre> + "March 29, 1667. 4s. a week which his (Balty St. Michel's) father + receives of the French church is all the subsistence his father and + mother have, and about; L20 a year maintains them." +</pre> +<p> +As already noted, Pepys was married on December 1st, 1655. This date +is given on the authority of the Registers of St. Margaret's Church, +Westminster, +</p> +<pre> + [The late Mr. T. C. Noble kindly communicated to me a copy of the + original marriage certificate, which is as follows: "Samuell Peps + of this parish Gent. & Elizabeth De Snt. Michell of Martins in the + fields, Spinster. Published October 19tn, 22nd, 29th 1655, and + were married by Richard Sherwin Esqr one of the justices of the + Peace of the Cittie and Lyberties of Westm. December 1st. (Signed) + Ri. Sherwin."] +</pre> +<p> +but strangely enough Pepys himself supposed his wedding day to have been +October 10th. Lord Braybrooke remarks on this, +</p> +<pre> + "It is notorious that the registers in those times were very ill + kept, of which we have here a striking instance.... Surely a + man who kept a diary could not have made such a blunder." +</pre> +<p> +What is even more strange than Pepys's conviction that he was married on +October 10th is Mrs. Pepys's agreement with him: On October 10th, 1666, +we read, +</p> +<pre> + "So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night, but how + many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten." +</pre> +<p> +Here Mrs. Pepys was wrong, as it was eleven years; so she may have been +wrong in the day also. In spite of the high authority of Mr. and Mrs. +Pepys on a question so interesting to them both, we must accept the +register as conclusive on this point until further evidence of its +incorrectness is forthcoming. +</p> +<p> +Sir Edward Montage (afterwards Earl of Sandwich), who was Pepys's +first cousin one remove (Pepys's grandfather and Montage's mother being +brother and sister), was a true friend to his poor kinsman, and he at +once held out a helping hand to the imprudent couple, allowing them +to live in his house. John Pepys does not appear to have been in +sufficiently good circumstances to pay for the education of his son, +and it seems probable that Samuel went to the university under his +influential cousin's patronage. At all events he owed his success in +life primarily to Montage, to whom he appears to have acted as a sort of +agent. +</p> +<p> +On March 26th, 1658, he underwent a successful operation for the stone, +and we find him celebrating each anniversary of this important event of +his life with thanksgiving. He went through life with little trouble +on this score, but when he died at the age of seventy a nest of seven +stones was found in his left kidney. +</p> +<pre> + ["June 10th, 1669. I went this evening to London, to carry Mr. + Pepys to my brother Richard, now exceedingly afflicted with the + stone, who had been successfully cut, and carried the stone, as big + as a tennis ball, to show him and encourage his resolution to go + thro' the operation."—Evelyn's Diary.] +</pre> +<p> +In June, 1659, Pepys accompanied Sir Edward Montage in the "Naseby," +when the Admiral of the Baltic Fleet and Algernon Sidney went to the +Sound as joint commissioners. It was then that Montage corresponded with +Charles II., but he had to be very secret in his movements on account of +the suspicions of Sidney. Pepys knew nothing of what was going on, as he +confesses in the Diary: +</p> +<pre> + "I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most + secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before." +</pre> +<p> +On Pepys's return to England he obtained an appointment in the office of +Mr., afterwards Sir George Downing, who was one of the Four Tellers of +the Receipt of the Exchequer. He was clerk to Downing when he commenced +his diary on January 1st, 1660, and then lived in Axe Yard, close by +King Street, Westminster, a place on the site of which was built Fludyer +Street. This, too, was swept away for the Government offices in 1864-65. +His salary was L50 a year. Downing invited Pepys to accompany him to +Holland, but he does not appear to have been very pressing, and a few +days later in this same January he got him appointed one of the Clerks +of the Council, but the recipient of the favour does not appear to +have been very grateful. A great change was now about to take place in +Pepys's fortunes, for in the following March he was made secretary to +Sir Edward Montage in his expedition to bring about the Restoration +of Charles II., and on the 23rd he went on board the "Swiftsure" with +Montage. On the 30th they transferred themselves to the "Naseby." Owing +to this appointment of Pepys we have in the Diary a very full account +of the daily movements of the fleet until, events having followed their +natural course, Montage had the honour of bringing Charles II. to Dover, +where the King was received with great rejoicing. Several of the ships +in the fleet had names which were obnoxious to Royalists, and on the +23rd May the King came on board the "Naseby" and altered there—the +"Naseby" to the "Charles," the "Richard" to the "Royal James," the +"Speaker" to the "Mary," the "Winsby" to the "Happy Return," the +"Wakefield" to the "Richmond," the "Lambert" to the "Henrietta," the +"Cheriton" to the "Speedwell," and the "Bradford" to the "Success." +This portion of the Diary is of particular interest, and the various +excursions in Holland which the Diarist made are described in a very +amusing manner. +</p> +<p> +When Montagu and Pepys had both returned to London, the former told the +latter that he had obtained the promise of the office of Clerk of the +Acts for him. Many difficulties occurred before Pepys actually secured +the place, so that at times he was inclined to accept the offers which +were made to him to give it up. General Monk was anxious to get the +office for Mr. Turner, who was Chief Clerk in the Navy Office, but in +the end Montagu's influence secured it for Pepys. Then Thomas Barlow, +who had been appointed Clerk of the Acts in 1638, turned up, and +appeared likely to become disagreeable. Pepys bought him off with an +annuity of too, which he did not have to pay for any length of time, +as Barlow died in February, 1664-65. It is not in human nature to be +greatly grieved at the death of one to whom you have to pay an annuity, +and Pepys expresses his feelings in a very naive manner:— +</p> +<pre> + "For which God knows my heart I could be as sorry as is possible for + one to be for a stranger by whose death he gets L100 per annum, he + being a worthy honest man; but when I come to consider the + providence of God by this means unexpectedly to give me L100 a year + more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and do it from the + bottom of my heart." +</pre> +<p> +This office was one of considerable importance, for not only was the +holder the secretary or registrar of the Navy Board, but he was also one +of the principal officers of the navy, and, as member of the board, of +equal rank with the other commissioners. This office Pepys held during +the whole period of the Diary, and we find him constantly fighting for +his position, as some of the other members wished to reduce his rank +merely to that of secretary. In his contention Pepys appears to have +been in the right, and a valuable MS. volume in the Pepysian library +contains an extract from the Old Instructions of about 1649, in which +this very point is argued out. The volume appears to have been made +up by William Penn the Quaker, from a collection of manuscripts on the +affairs of the navy found in his father's, "Sir William Penn's closet." +It was presented to Charles II., with a dedication ending thus:— +</p> +<pre> + "I hope enough to justifie soe much freedome with a Prince that is + so easie to excuse things well intended as this is + "BY + "Great Prince, + "Thy faithfull subject, + "WM. PENN" + + "London, the 22 of the Mo. called June, 1680." +</pre> +<p> +It does not appear how the volume came into Pepys's possession. It may +have been given him by the king, or he may have taken it as a perquisite +of his office. The book has an index, which was evidently added by +Pepys; in this are these entries, which show his appreciation of the +contents of the MS.:— +</p> +<pre> + "Clerk of the Acts, + his duty, + his necessity and usefulness." +</pre> +<p> +The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows +the importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is +not fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his +employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression +one would expect to find in an official document: +</p> +<pre> + "CLERKE OF THE ACTS. + + "The clarke of the Navye's duty depends principally upon rateing (by + the Board's approbation) of all bills and recording of them, and all + orders, contracts & warrants, making up and casting of accompts, + framing and writing answers to letters, orders, and commands from + the Councell, Lord High Admirall, or Commissioners of the Admiralty, + and he ought to be a very able accomptant, well versed in Navall + affairs and all inferior officers dutyes. + + "It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to + be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be + joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted + from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some + to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if + he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which + peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine + no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and + possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is + a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment. But why he should + not make as able a Commissioner as a Shipp wright lett wise men + judge." +</pre> +<p> +In Pepys's patent the salary is stated to be L33 6s. 8d., but this was +only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had been attached to +the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary had been previously +fixed at L350 a-year. +</p> +<p> +Neither of the two qualifications upon which particular stress is laid +in the above Instructions was possessed by Pepys. He knew nothing about +the navy, and so little of accounts that apparently he learned the +multiplication table for the first time in July, 1661. We see from +the particulars given in the Diary how hard he worked to obtain the +knowledge required in his office, and in consequence of his assiduity +he soon became a model official. When Pepys became Clerk of the Acts +he took up his residence at the Navy Office, a large building situated +between Crutched Friars and Seething Lane, with an entrance in each of +those places. On July 4th, 1660, he went with Commissioner Pett to view +the houses, and was very pleased with them, but he feared that the more +influential officers would jockey him out of his rights. His fears were +not well grounded, and on July 18th he records the fact that he dined in +his own apartments, which were situated in the Seething Lane front. +</p> +<p> +On July 24th, 1660, Pepys was sworn in as Lord Sandwich's deputy for a +Clerkship of the Privy Seal. This office, which he did not think much +of at first, brought him "in for a time L3 a day." In June, 1660, he was +made Master of Arts by proxy, and soon afterwards he was sworn in as +a justice of the Peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Hampshire, the +counties in which the chief dockyards were situated. +</p> +<p> +Pepys's life is written large in the Diary, and it is not necessary here +to do more than catalogue the chief incidents of it in chronological +order. In February, 1661-62, he was chosen a Younger Brother of +the Trinity House, and in April, 1662, when on an official visit to +Portsmouth Dockyard, he was made a burgess of the town. In August of the +same year he was appointed one of the commissioners for the affairs of +Tangier. Soon afterwards Thomas Povy, the treasurer, got his accounts +into a muddle, and showed himself incompetent for the place, so that +Pepys replaced him as treasurer to the commission. +</p> +<p> +In March, 1663-64, the Corporation of the Royal Fishery was appointed, +with the Duke of York as governor, and thirty-two assistants, mostly +"very great persons." Through Lord Sandwich's influence Pepys was made +one of these. +</p> +<p> +The time was now arriving when Pepys's general ability and devotion to +business brought him prominently into notice. During the Dutch war the +unreadiness of the ships, more particularly in respect to victualling, +was the cause of great trouble. The Clerk of the Acts did his utmost +to set things right, and he was appointed Surveyor-General of the +Victualling Office. The kind way in which Mr. Coventry proposed him +as "the fittest man in England" for the office, and the Duke of York's +expressed approval, greatly pleased him. +</p> +<p> +During the fearful period when the Plague was raging, Pepys stuck to his +business, and the chief management of naval affairs devolved upon him, +for the meetings at the Navy Office were but thinly attended. In a +letter to Coventry he wrote:— +</p> +<pre> + "The sickness in general thickens round us, and particularly upon + our neighbourhood. You, sir, took your turn of the sword; I must + not, therefore, grudge to take mine of the pestilence." +</pre> +<p> +At this time his wife was living at Woolwich, and he himself with his +clerks at Greenwich; one maid only remained in the house in London. +</p> +<p> +Pepys rendered special service at the time of the Fire of London. He +communicated the king's wishes to the Lord Mayor, and he saved the Navy +Office by having up workmen from Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards to pull +down the houses around, and so prevent the spread of the flames. +</p> +<p> +When peace was at length concluded with the Dutch, and people had +time to think over the disgrace which the country had suffered by the +presence of De Ruyter's fleet in the Medway, it was natural that a +public inquiry into the management of the war should be undertaken. A +Parliamentary Committee was appointed in October, 1667, to inquire into +the matter. Pepys made a statement which satisfied the committee, but +for months afterwards he was continually being summoned to answer some +charge, so that he confesses himself as mad to "become the hackney of +this office in perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least." +</p> +<p> +At last a storm broke out in the House of Commons against the principal +officers of the navy, and some members demanded that they should be put +out of their places. In the end they were ordered to be heard in their +own defence at the bar of the House. The whole labour of the defence +fell upon Pepys, but having made out his case with great skill, he was +rewarded by a most unexpected success. On the 5th March, 1667-68, he +made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours, with the +effect that he so far removed the prejudice against the officers of the +Navy Board, that no further proceedings were taken in parliament on the +subject. He was highly praised for his speech, and he was naturally much +elated at his brilliant success. +</p> +<p> +About the year 1664 we first hear of a defect in Pepys's eyesight. He +consulted the celebrated Cocker, and began to wear green spectacles, but +gradually this defect became more pronounced, and on the 31st of May, +1669, he wrote the last words in his Diary: +</p> +<pre> + "And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my + own eyes in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any + longer, having done now as long as to undo my eyes almost every time + that I take a pen in my hand." +</pre> +<p> +He feared blindness and was forced to desist, to his lasting regret and +our great loss. +</p> +<p> +At this time he obtained leave of absence from the duties of his office, +and he set out on a tour through France and Holland accompanied by his +wife. In his travels he was true to the occupation of his life, and made +collections respecting the French and Dutch navies. Some months after +his return he spoke of his journey as having been "full of health and +content," but no sooner had he and his wife returned to London than the +latter became seriously ill with a fever. The disease took a fatal turn, +and on the 10th of November, 1669, Elizabeth Pepys died at the early +age of twenty-nine years, to the great grief of her husband. She died +at their house in Crutched Friars, and was buried at St. Olave's Church, +Hart Street, where Pepys erected a monument to her memory. +</p> +<p> +Pepys's successful speech at the bar of the House of Commons made +him anxious to become a member, and the Duke of York and Sir William +Coventry heartily supported him in his resolution. An opening occurred +in due course, at Aldborough, in Suffolk, owing to the death of Sir +Robert Brooke in 1669, but, in consequence of the death of his wife, +Pepys was unable to take part in the election. His cause was warmly +espoused by the Duke of York and by Lord Henry Howard (afterwards Earl +of Norwich and sixth Duke of Norfolk), but the efforts of his supporters +failed, and the contest ended in favour of John Bruce, who represented +the popular party. In November, 1673, Pepys was more successful, and +was elected for Castle Rising on the elevation of the member, Sir Robert +Paston, to the peerage as Viscount Yarmouth. His unsuccessful opponent, +Mr. Offley, petitioned against the return, and the election was +determined to be void by the Committee of Privileges. The Parliament, +however, being prorogued the following month without the House's coming +to any vote on the subject, Pepys was permitted to retain his seat. A +most irrelevant matter was introduced into the inquiry, and Pepys was +charged with having a crucifix in his house, from which it was inferred +that he was "a papist or popishly inclined." The charge was grounded +upon reported assertions of Sir John Banks and the Earl of Shaftesbury, +which they did not stand to when examined on the subject, and the charge +was not proved to be good. +</p> +<pre> + ["The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election + for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the + first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. + Pepys. Information being given to the House that they had received + an account from a person of quality, that he saw an Altar with a + Crucifix upon it, in the house of Mr. Pepys; Mr. Pepys, standing up + in his place, did heartily and flatly deny that he ever had any + Altar or Crucifix, or the image or picture of any Saint whatsoever + in his house, from the top to the bottom of it; and the Members + being called upon to name the person that gave them the information, + they were unwilling to declare it without the order of the House; + which, being made, they named the Earl of Shaftesbury; and the House + being also informed that Sir J. Banks did likewise see the Altar, he + was ordered to attend the Bar of the House, to declare what he knew + of this matter. 'Ordered that Sir William Coventry, Sir Thomas + Meeres, and Mr. Garraway do attend Lord Shaftesbury on the like + occasion, and receive what information his Lordship, can give on + this matter.'"—Journals of the House of Commons, vol. ix., p. + 306.—" 13th February, Sir W. Coventry reports that they attended + the Earl of Shaftesbury, and received from him the account which + they had put in writing. The Earl of Shaftesbury denieth that he + ever saw an Altar in Mr. Pepys's house or lodgings; as to the + Crucifix, he saith he hath, some imperfect memory of seeing somewhat + which he conceived to be a Crucifix. When his Lordship was asked + the time, he said it was before the burning of the Office of the + Navy. Being asked concerning the manner, he said he could not + remember whether it were painted or carved, or in what manner the + thing was; and that his memory was so very imperfect in it, that if + he were upon his oath he could give no testimony."—. Ibid., vol. + ix., p. 309.—" 16th February—Sir John Banks was called in—The + Speaker desired him to answer what acquaintance he had with; Mr. + Pepys, and whether he used to have recourse to him to his house and + had ever seen there any Altar or Crucifix, or whether he knew of his + being a Papist, or Popishly inclined. Sir J. Banks said that he had + known and had been acquainted with Mr. Pepys several years, and had + often visited him and conversed with him at the Navy Office, and at + his house there upon several occasions, and that he never saw in his + house there any Altar or Crucifix, and that he does not believe him + to be a Papist, or that way inclined in the least, nor had any + reason or ground to think or believe it."—Ibid., vol, ix., p. 310.] +</pre> +<p> +It will be seen from the extracts from the Journals of the House of +Commons given in the note that Pepys denied ever having had an altar or +crucifix in his house. In the Diary there is a distinct statement of +his possession of a crucifix, but it is not clear from the following +extracts whether it was not merely a varnished engraving of the +Crucifixion which he possessed: +</p> +<pre> + July 20, 1666. "So I away to Lovett's, there to see how my picture + goes on to be varnished, a fine crucifix which will be very fine." + August 2. "At home find Lovett, who showed me my crucifix, which + will be very fine when done." Nov. 3. "This morning comes Mr. + Lovett and brings me my print of the Passion, varnished by him, and + the frame which is indeed very fine, though not so fine as I + expected; but pleases me exceedingly." +</pre> +<p> +Whether he had or had not a crucifix in his house was a matter for +himself alone, and the interference of the House of Commons was a gross +violation of the liberty of the subject. +</p> +<p> +In connection with Lord Shaftesbury's part in this matter, the late Mr. +W. D. Christie found the following letter to Sir Thomas Meres among the +papers at St. Giles's House, Dorsetshire:— +</p> +<pre> + "Exeter House, February 10th, 1674. + + "Sir,—That there might be no mistake, I thought best to put my + answer in writing to those questions that yourself, Sir William + Coventry, and Mr. Garroway were pleased to propose to me this + morning from the House of Commons, which is that I never designed to + be a witness against any man for what I either heard or saw, and + therefore did not take so exact notice of things inquired of as to + be able to remember them so clearly as is requisite to do in a + testimony upon honour or oath, or to so great and honourable a body + as the House of Commons, it being some years distance since I was at + Mr. Pepys his lodging. Only that particular of an altar is so + signal that I must needs have remembered it had I seen any such + thing, which I am sure I do not. This I desire you to communicate + with Sir William Coventry and Mr. Garroway to be delivered as my + answer to the House of Commons, it being the same I gave you this + morning. + + "I am, Sir, + "Your most humble servant, + "SHAFTESBURY." +</pre> +<p> +After reading this letter Sir William Coventry very justly remarked, +"There are a great many more Catholics than think themselves so, if +having a crucifix will make one." Mr. Christie resented the remarks +on Lord Shaftesbury's part in this persecution of Pepys made by Lord +Braybrooke, who said, "Painful indeed is it to reflect to what length +the bad passions which party violence inflames could in those days +carry a man of Shaftesbury's rank, station, and abilities." Mr. Christie +observes, "It is clear from the letter to Meres that Shaftesbury showed +no malice and much scrupulousness when a formal charge, involving +important results, was founded on his loose private conversations." This +would be a fair vindication if the above attack upon Pepys stood alone, +but we shall see later on that Shaftesbury was the moving spirit in a +still more unjustifiable attack. +</p> +<p> +Lord Sandwich died heroically in the naval action in Southwold Bay, and +on June 24th,1672, his remains were buried with some pomp in Westminster +Abbey. There were eleven earls among the mourners, and Pepys, as the +first among "the six Bannerolles," walked in the procession. +</p> +<p> +About this time Pepys was called from his old post of Clerk of the +Acts to the higher office of Secretary of the Admiralty. His first +appointment was a piece of favouritism, but it was due to his merits +alone that he obtained the secretaryship. In the summer of 1673, the +Duke of York having resigned all his appointments on the passing of +the Test Act, the King put the Admiralty into commission, and Pepys was +appointed Secretary for the Affairs of the Navy. +</p> +<pre> + [The office generally known as Secretary of the Admiralty dates back + many years, but the officer who filled it was sometimes Secretary to + the Lord High Admiral, and sometimes to the Commission for that + office. "His Majesties Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of + Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, + Esq., first Secretary therein," is dated June 10th, 1684.] +</pre> +<p> +He was thus brought into more intimate connection with Charles II., who +took the deepest interest in shipbuilding and all naval affairs. The +Duke of Buckingham said of the King:— +</p> +<pre> + "The great, almost the only pleasure of his mind to which he seemed + addicted was shipping and sea affairs, which seemed to be so much + his talent for knowledge as well as inclination, that a war of that + kind was rather an entertainment than any disturbance to his + thoughts." +</pre> +<p> +When Pepys ceased to be Clerk of the Acts he was able to obtain the +appointment for his clerk, Thomas Hayter, and his brother, John Pepys, +who held it jointly. The latter does not appear to have done much credit +to Samuel. He was appointed Clerk to the Trinity House in 1670 on his +brother's recommendation, and when he died in 1677 he was in debt L300 +to his employers, and this sum Samuel had to pay. In 1676 Pepys was +Master of the Trinity House, and in the following year Master of the +Clothworkers' Company, when he presented a richly-chased silver cup, +which is still used at the banquets of the company. On Tuesday, 10th +September, 1677, the Feast of the Hon. Artillery Company was held at +Merchant Taylors' Hall, when the Duke of York, the Duke of Somerset, the +Lord Chancellor, and other distinguished persons were present. On this +occasion Viscount Newport, Sir Joseph Williamson, and Samuel Pepys +officiated as stewards. +</p> +<p> +About this time it is evident that the secretary carried himself with +some haughtiness as a ruler of the navy, and that this was resented by +some. An amusing instance will be found in the Parliamentary Debates. +On May 11th, 1678, the King's verbal message to quicken the supply was +brought in by Mr. Secretary Williamson, when Pepys spoke to this effect: +</p> +<pre> + "When I promised that the ships should be ready by the 30th of May, + it was upon the supposition of the money for 90 ships proposed by + the King and voted by you, their sizes and rates, and I doubt not by + that time to have 90 ships, and if they fall short it will be only + from the failing of the Streights ships coming home and those but + two..... + + "Sir Robert Howard then rose and said, 'Pepys here speaks rather + like an Admiral than a Secretary, "I" and "we." I wish he knows + half as much of the Navy as he pretends.'" +</pre> +<p> +Pepys was chosen by the electors of Harwich as their member in the short +Parliament that sat from March to July, 1679, his colleague being Sir +Anthony Deane, but both members were sent to the Tower in May on a +baseless charge, and they were superseded in the next Parliament that +met on the 17th October, 1679. +</p> +<p> +The high-handed treatment which Pepys underwent at this time exhibits +a marked instance of the disgraceful persecution connected with the +so-called Popish plot. He was totally unconnected with the Roman +Catholic party, but his association with the Duke of York was sufficient +to mark him as a prey for the men who initiated this "Terror" of the +seventeenth century. Sir. Edmund Berry Godfrey came to his death in +October, 1678, and in December Samuel Atkins, Pepys's clerk, was brought +to trial as an accessory to his murder. Shaftesbury and the others not +having succeeded in getting at Pepys through his clerk, soon afterwards +attacked him more directly, using the infamous evidence of Colonel +Scott. Much light has lately been thrown upon the underhand dealings +of this miscreant by Mr. G. D. Scull, who printed privately in 1883 a +valuable work entitled, "Dorothea Scott, otherwise Gotherson, and Hogben +of Egerton House, Kent, 1611-1680." +</p> +<p> +John Scott (calling himself Colonel Scott) ingratiated himself into +acquaintance with Major Gotherson, and sold to the latter large tracts +of land in Long Island, to which he had no right whatever. Dorothea +Gotherson, after her husband's death, took steps to ascertain the exact +state of her property, and obtained the assistance of Colonel Francis +Lovelace, Governor of New York. Scott's fraud was discovered, and a +petition for redress was presented to the King. The result of this was +that the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott, +and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions and +information as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island, +Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preserved +among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian. Scott had his revenge, +and accused Pepys of betraying the Navy by sending secret particulars +to the French Government, and of a design to dethrone the king and +extirpate the Protestant religion. Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane were +committed to the Tower under the Speaker's warrant on May 22nd, 1679, +and Pepys's place at the Admiralty was filled by the appointment of +Thomas Hayter. When the two prisoners were brought to the bar of the +King's Bench on the 2nd of June, the Attorney-General refused bail, but +subsequently they were allowed to find security for L30,000. +</p> +<p> +Pepys was put to great expense in collecting evidence against Scott and +obtaining witnesses to clear himself of the charges brought against +him. He employed his brother-in-law, Balthasar St. Michel, to +collect evidence in France, as he himself explains in a letter to the +Commissioners of the Navy:— +</p> +<pre> + "His Majesty of his gracious regard to me, and the justification of + my innocence, was then pleased at my humble request to dispence with + my said brother goeing (with ye shippe about that time designed for + Tangier) and to give leave to his goeing into France (the scene of + ye villannys then in practice against me), he being the only person + whom (from his relation to me, together with his knowledge in the + place and language, his knowne dilligence and particular affection + towards mee) I could at that tyme and in soe greate a cause pitch + on, for committing the care of this affaire of detecting the + practice of my enemies there." +</pre> +<p> +In the end Scott refused to acknowledge to the truth of his original +deposition, and the prisoners were relieved from their bail on February +12th, 1679-80. John James, a butler previously in Pepys's service, +confessed on his deathbed in 1680 that he had trumped up the whole story +relating to his former master's change of religion at the instigation of +Mr. William Harbord, M.P. for Thetford. +</p> +<p> +Pepys wrote on July 1st, 1680, to Mrs. Skinner: +</p> +<pre> + "I would not omit giving you the knowledge of my having at last + obtained what with as much reason I might have expected a year ago, + my full discharge from the bondage I have, from one villain's + practice, so long lain under." +</pre> +<p> +William Harbord, of Cadbury, co. Somerset, second son of Sir Charles +Harbord, whom he succeeded in 1682 as Surveyor. General of the Land +Revenues of the Crown, was Pepys's most persistent enemy. Several papers +referring to Harbord's conduct were found at Scott's lodging after his +flight, and are now preserved among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian. +One of these was the following memorandum, which shows pretty plainly +Pepys's opinion of Harbord:— +</p> +<pre> + "That about the time of Mr. Pepys's surrender of his employment of + Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. Russell and myself being in + discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell delivered himself in these or + other words to this purport: That he thought it might be of + advantage to both, if a good understanding were had between his + brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose it to Mr. Pepys, + and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and went immediately + from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this discourse, he gave me + readily this answer in these very words: That he knew of no service + Mr. Harbord could doe him, or if he could, he should be the last man + in England he would receive any from." + + [William Harbord sat as M.P. for Thetford in several parliaments. + In 1689 he was chosen on the Privy Council, and in 1690 became Vice- + Treasurer for Ireland. He was appointed Ambassador to Turkey in + 1692, and died at Belgrade in July of that year.] +</pre> +<p> +Besides Scott's dishonesty in his dealings with Major Gotherson, it +came out that he had cheated the States of Holland out of L7,000, in +consequence of which he was hanged in effigy at the Hague in 1672. In +1682 he fled from England to escape from the law, as he had been guilty +of wilful murder by killing George Butler, a hackney coachman, and he +reached Norway in safety, where he remained till 1696. In that year some +of his influential friends obtained a pardon for him from William III., +and he returned to England. +</p> +<p> +In October, 1680, Pepys attended on Charles II. at Newmarket, and there +he took down from the King's own mouth the narrative of his Majesty's +escape from Worcester, which was first published in 1766 by Sir David +Dalrymple (Lord Hailes) from the MS., which now remains in the Pepysian +library both in shorthand and in longhand? It is creditable to Charles +II. and the Duke of York that both brothers highly appreciated the +abilities of Pepys, and availed themselves of his knowledge of naval +affairs. +</p> +<p> +In the following year there was some chance that Pepys might retire from +public affairs, and take upon himself the headship of one of the chief +Cambridge colleges. On the death of Sir Thomas Page, the Provost of +King's College, in August, 1681, Mr. S. Maryon, a Fellow of Clare +Hall, recommended Pepys to apply to the King for the appointment, being +assured that the royal mandate if obtained would secure his election. He +liked the idea, but replied that he believed Colonel Legge (afterwards +Lord Dartmouth) wanted to get the office for an old tutor. Nothing +further seems to have been done by Pepys, except that he promised if +he were chosen to give the whole profit of the first year, and at least +half of that of each succeeding year, to "be dedicated to the general +and public use of the college." In the end Dr. John Coplestone was +appointed to the post. +</p> +<p> +On May 22nd, 1681, the Rev. Dr. Milles, rector of St. Olave's, who is +so often mentioned in the Diary, gave Pepys a certificate as to his +attention to the services of the Church. It is not quite clear what was +the occasion of the certificate, but probably the Diarist wished to have +it ready in case of another attack upon him in respect to his tendency +towards the Church of Rome. +</p> +<p> +Early in 1682 Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, and +narrowly escaped shipwreck by the way. Before letters could arrive +in London to tell of his safety, the news came of the wreck of the +"Gloucester" (the Duke's ship), and of the loss of many lives. His +friends' anxiety was relieved by the arrival of a letter which Pepys +wrote from Edinburgh to Hewer on May 8th, in which he detailed the +particulars of the adventure. The Duke invited him to go on board the +"Gloucester" frigate, but he preferred his own yacht (the "Catherine "), +in which he had more room, and in consequence of his resolution he saved +himself from the risk of drowning. On May 5th the frigate struck upon +the sand called "The Lemon and Oar," about sixteen leagues from the +mouth of the Humber. This was caused by the carelessness of the pilot, +to whom Pepys imputed "an obstinate over-weening in opposition to the +contrary opinions of Sir I. Berry, his master, mates, Col. Legg, the +Duke himself, and several others, concurring unanimously in not being +yet clear of the sands." The Duke and his party escaped, but numbers +were drowned in the sinking ship, and it is said that had the wreck +occurred two hours earlier, and the accompanying yachts been at the +distance they had previously been, not a soul would have escaped. +</p> +<p> +Pepys stayed in Edinburgh for a short time, and the Duke of York allowed +him to be present at two councils. He then visited; with Colonel George +Legge, some of the principal places in the neighbourhood, such as +Stirling, Linlithgow, Hamilton, and Glasgow. The latter place he +describes as "a very extraordinary town indeed for beauty and trade, +much superior to any in Scotland." +</p> +<p> +Pepys had now been out of office for some time, but he was soon to have +employment again. Tangier, which was acquired at the marriage of the +King to Katharine of Braganza, had long been an incumbrance, and it +was resolved at last to destroy the place. Colonel Legge (now Lord +Dartmouth) was in August, 1683, constituted Captain-General of his +Majesty's forces in Africa, and Governor of Tangier, and sent with a +fleet of about twenty sail to demolish and blow up the works, destroy +the harbour, and bring home the garrison. Pepys received the King's +commands to accompany Lord Dartmouth on his expedition, but the latter's +instructions were secret, and Pepys therefore did not know what had been +decided upon. He saw quite enough, however, to form a strong opinion of +the uselessness of the place to England. Lord Dartmouth carried out +his instructions thoroughly, and on March 29th, 1684, he and his party +(including Pepys) arrived in the English Channel. +</p> +<p> +The King himself now resumed the office of Lord High Admiral, and +appointed Pepys Secretary of the Admiralty, with a salary of L500 per +annum. In the Pepysian Library is the original patent, dated June +10th, 1684: "His Majesty's Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of +Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, Esq., +first Secretary therein." In this office the Diarist remained until the +period of the Revolution, when his official career was concluded. +</p> +<p> +A very special honour was conferred upon Pepys in this year, when he was +elected President of the Royal Society in succession to Sir Cyril Wyche, +and he held the office for two years. Pepys had been admitted a fellow +of the society on February 15th, 1664-65, and from Birch's "History" we +find that in the following month he made a statement to the society:— +</p> +<p> +"Mr. Pepys gave an account of what information he had received from the +Master of the Jersey ship which had been in company with Major Holmes in +the Guinea voyage concerning the pendulum watches (March 15th, 1664-5)." +</p> +<p> +The records of the society show that he frequently made himself useful +by obtaining such information as might be required in his department. +After he retired from the presidency, he continued to entertain some of +the most distinguished members of the society on Saturday evenings at +his house in York Buildings. Evelyn expressed the strongest regret +when it was necessary to discontinue these meetings on account of the +infirmities of the host. +</p> +<p> +In 1685 Charles II. died, and was succeeded by James, Duke of York. From +his intimate association with James it might have been supposed that a +long period of official life was still before Pepys, but the new king's +bigotry and incapacity soon made this a practical impossibility. At +the coronation of James II. Pepys marched in the procession immediately +behind the king's canopy, as one of the sixteen barons of the Cinque +Ports. +</p> +<p> +In the year 1685 a new charter was granted to the Trinity Company, and +Pepys was named in it the first master, this being the second time that +he had held the office of master. +</p> +<p> +Evelyn specially refers to the event in his Diary, and mentions the +distinguished persons present at the dinner on July 20th. +</p> +<p> +It is evident that at this time Pepys was looked upon as a specially +influential man, and when a parliament was summoned to meet on May 19th, +1685, he was elected both for Harwich and for Sandwich. He chose to +serve for Harwich, and Sir Philip Parker was elected to fill his place +at Sandwich. +</p> +<p> +This parliament was dissolved by proclamation July 2nd, 1687, and on +August 24th the king declared in council that another parliament should +be summoned for November 27th, 1688, but great changes took place before +that date, and when the Convention Parliament was called together +in January and February, 1689-90, Pepys found no place in it. The +right-hand man of the exiled monarch was not likely to find favour in +the eyes of those who were now in possession. When the election for +Harwich came on, the electors refused to return him, and the streets +echoed to the cry of "No Tower men, no men out of the Tower!" They did +not wish to be represented in parliament by a disgraced official. +</p> +<p> +We have little or no information to guide us as to Pepys's proceedings +at the period of the Revolution. We know that James II. just before his +flight was sitting to Kneller for a portrait intended for the Secretary +to the Admiralty, and that Pepys acted in that office for the last time +on 20th February, 1688-89, but between those dates we know nothing of +the anxieties and troubles that he must have suffered. On the 9th March +an order was issued from the Commissioners of the Admiralty for him +to deliver up his books, &c., to Phineas Bowies, who superseded him as +secretary. +</p> +<p> +Pepys had many firm friends upon whom he could rely, but he had also +enemies who lost no opportunity of worrying him. On June 10th, 1690, +Evelyn has this entry in his Diary, which throws some light upon the +events of the time:— +</p> +<pre> + "Mr. Pepys read to me his Remonstrance, skewing with what malice and + injustice he was suspected with Sir Anth. Deane about the timber of + which the thirty ships were built by a late Act of Parliament, with + the exceeding danger which the fleete would shortly be in, by reason + of the tyranny and incompetency of those who now managed the + Admiralty and affairs of the Navy, of which he gave an accurate + state, and shew'd his greate ability." +</pre> +<p> +On the 25th of this same month Pepys was committed to the Gatehouse at +Westminster on a charge of having sent information to the French Court +of the state of the English navy. There was no evidence of any kind +against him, and at the end of July he was allowed to return to his own +house on account of ill-health. Nothing further was done in respect to +the charge, but he was not free till some time after, and he was long +kept in anxiety, for even in 1692 he still apprehended some fresh +persecution. +</p> +<p> +Sir Peter Palavicini, Mr. James Houblon, Mr. Blackburne, and Mr. Martin +bailed him, and he sent them the following circular letter:— +</p> +<pre> + "October 15, 1690. + + "Being this day become once again a free man in every respect, I + mean but that of my obligation to you and the rest of my friends, to + whom I stand indebted for my being so, I think it but a reasonable + part of my duty to pay you and them my thanks for it in a body; but + know not how otherwise to compass it than by begging you, which I + hereby do, to take your share with them and me here, to-morrow, of a + piece of mutton, which is all I dare promise you, besides that of + being ever, + + "Your most bounden and faithful humble servant, + "S. P." +</pre> +<p> +He employed the enforced idleness caused by being thrust out of his +employment in the collection of the materials for the valuable work +which he published in 1690, under the title of "Memoirs of the Navy." +Little more was left for him to do in life, but as the government became +more firmly established, and the absolute absurdity of the idea of +his disloyalty was proved, Pepys held up his head again as a man to be +respected and consulted, and for the remainder of his life he was looked +upon as the Nestor of the Navy. +</p> +<p> +There is little more to be told of Pepys's life. He continued to keep +up an extended correspondence with his many friends, and as Treasurer +of Christ's Hospital he took very great interest in the welfare of +that institution. He succeeded in preserving from impending ruin the +mathematical foundation which had been originally designed by him, and +through his anxious solicitations endowed and cherished by Charles +II. and James II. One of the last public acts of his life was the +presentation of the portrait of the eminent Dr. John Wallis, Savilian +Professor of Geometry, to the University of Oxford. +</p> +<p> +In 1701 he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, and +the University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeous +language the expression of thanks for his munificence.' +</p> +<p> +On the 26th May, 1703, Samuel Pepys, after long continued suffering, +breathed his last in the presence of the learned Dr. George Hickes, the +nonjuring Dean of Worcester, and the following letter from John Jackson +to his uncle's lifelong friend Evelyn contains particulars as to the +cause of death: +</p> +<pre> + Mr. Jackson to Mr. Evelyn. + + "Clapham, May 28th, 1703. + "Friday night. + + "Honoured Sir, + + "'Tis no small addition to my grief, to be obliged to interrupt the + quiet of your happy recess with the afflicting tidings of my Uncle + Pepys's death: knowing how sensibly you will partake with me herein. + But I should not be faithful to his desires, if I did not beg your + doing the honour to his memory of accepting mourning from him, as a + small instance of his most affectionate respect and honour for you. + I have thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the way at + that only time when you were pleased lately to touch here, and + express so great a desire of taking your leave of my Uncle; which + could not but have been admitted by him as a most welcome exception + to his general orders against being interrupted; and I could most + heartily wish that the circumstances of your health and distance did + not forbid me to ask the favour of your assisting in the holding up + of the pawll at his interment, which is intended to be on Thursday + next; for if the manes are affected with what passes below, I am + sure this would have been very grateful to his. + + "I must not omit acquainting you, sir, that upon opening his body, + (which the uncommonness of his case required of us, for our own + satisfaction as well as public good) there was found in his left + kidney a nest of no less than seven stones, of the most irregular, + figures your imagination can frame, and weighing together four + ounces and a half, but all fast linked together, and adhering to his + back; whereby they solve his having felt no greater pains upon + motion, nor other of the ordinary symptoms of the stone. Some other + lesser defects there also were in his body, proceeding from the same + cause. But his stamina, in general, were marvellously strong, and + not only supported him, under the most exquisite pains, weeks beyond + all expectations; but, in the conclusion, contended for nearly forty + hours (unassisted by any nourishment) with the very agonies of + death, some few minutes excepted, before his expiring, which were + very calm. + + "There remains only for me, under this affliction, to beg the + consolation and honour of succeeding to your patronage, for my + Uncle's sake; and leave to number myself, with the same sincerity he + ever did, among your greatest honourers, which I shall esteem as one + of the most valuable parts of my inheritances from him; being also, + with the faithfullest wishes of health and a happy long life to you, + + "Honoured Sir, + "Your most obedient and + "Most humble Servant, + "J. JACKSON. + + "Mr. Hewer, as my Uncle's Executor, and equally your faithful + Servant, joins with me in every part hereof. + + "The time of my Uncle's departure was about three-quarters past + three on Wednesday morning last." +</pre> +<p> +Evelyn alludes in his Diary to Pepys's death and the present to him of a +suit of mourning. He speaks in very high terms of his friend:— +</p> +<pre> + "1703, May 26th. This day died Mr. Sam Pepys, a very worthy, + industrious, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in + knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed thro' all the most + considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the + Admiralty, all which he performed with great integrity. When K. + James II. went out of England, he laid down his office, and would + serve no more, but withdrawing himselfe from all public affaires, he + liv'd at Clapham with his partner Mr. Hewer, formerly his clerk, in + a very noble and sweete place, where he enjoy'd the fruits of his + labours in greate prosperity. He was universally belov'd, + hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilfd in music, a + very greate cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation + .... Mr. Pepys had been for neere 40 yeeres so much my + particular friend that Mr. Jackson sent me compleat mourning, + desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his magnificent + obsequies, but my indisposition hinder'd me from doing him this last + office." +</pre> +<p> +The body was brought from Clapham and buried in St. Olave's Church, +Hart Street, on the 5th June, at nine o'clock at night, in a vault just +beneath the monument to the memory of Mrs. Pepys. Dr. Hickes performed +the last sad offices for his friend. +</p> +<p> +Pepys's faithful friend, Hewer, was his executor, and his nephew, John +Jackson, his heir. Mourning was presented to forty persons, and a large +number of rings to relations, godchildren, servants, and friends, +also to representatives of the Royal Society, of the Universities of +Cambridge and Oxford, of the Admiralty, and of the Navy Office. The bulk +of the property was bequeathed to Jackson, but the money which was left +was much less than might have been expected, for at the time of Pepys's +death there was a balance of L28,007 2s. 1d. due to him from the Crown, +and none of this was ever paid. The books and other collections were +left to Magdalene College, Cambridge, but Jackson was to have possession +of them during his lifetime. These were the most important portion of +Pepys's effects, for with them was the manuscript of the immortal Diary. +The following are the directions for the disposition of the library, +taken from Harl. MS., No. 7301: +</p> +<pre> + "For the further settlement and preservation of my said library, + after the death of my nephew. John Jackson, I do hereby declare, + That could I be sure of a constant succession of heirs from my said + nephew, qualified like himself for the use of such a library, I + should not entertain a thought of its ever being alienated from + them. But this uncertainty considered, with the infinite pains, and + time, and cost employed in my collecting, methodising and reducing + the same to the state it now is, I cannot but be greatly solicitous + that all possible provision should be made for its unalterable + preservation and perpetual security against the ordinary fate of + such collections falling into the hands of an incompetent heir, and + thereby being sold, dissipated, or embezzled. And since it has + pleased God to visit me in a manner that leaves little appearance of + being myself restored to a condition of concerting the necessary + measures for attaining these ends, I must and do with great + confidence rely upon the sincerity and direction of my executor and + said nephew for putting in execution the powers given them, by my + forementioned will relating hereto, requiring that the same be + brought to a determination in twelve months after my decease, and + that special regard be had therein to the following particulars + which I declare to be my present thoughts and prevailing + inclinations in this matter, viz.: + + "1. That after the death of my said nephew, my said library be + placed and for ever settled in one of our universities, and rather + in that of Cambridge than Oxford. + + "2. And rather in a private college there, than in the public + library. + + "3. And in the colleges of Trinity or Magdalen preferably to all + others. + + "4. And of these too, 'caeteris paribus', rather in the latter, for + the sake of my own and my nephew's education therein. + + "5. That in which soever of the two it is, a fair roome be provided + therein. + + "6. And if in Trinity, that the said roome be contiguous to, and + have communication with, the new library there. + + "7. And if in Magdalen, that it be in the new building there, and + any part thereof at my nephew's election. + + "8. That my said library be continued in its present form and no + other books mixed therein, save what my nephew may add to theirs of + his own collecting, in distinct presses. + + "9. That the said room and books so placed and adjusted be called + by the name of 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana.' + + "10. That this 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana' be under the sole power and + custody of the master of the college for the time being, who shall + neither himself convey, nor suffer to be conveyed by others, any of + the said books from thence to any other place, except to his own + lodge in the said college, nor there have more than ten of them at a + time; and that of those also a strict entry be made and account + kept, at the time of their having been taken out and returned, in a + book to be provided, and remain in the said library for that purpose + only. + + "11. That before my said library be put into the possession of + either of the said colleges, that college for which it shall be + designed, first enter into covenants for performance of the + foregoing articles. + + "12. And that for a yet further security herein, the said two + colleges of Trinity and Magdalen have a reciprocal check upon one + another; and that college which shall be in present possession of + the said library, be subject to an annual visitation from the other, + and to the forfeiture thereof to the life, possession, and use of + the other, upon conviction of any breach of their said covenants. + + "S. PEPYS." +</pre> +<p> +The library and the original book-cases were not transferred to +Magdalene College until 1724, and there they have been preserved in +safety ever since. +</p> +<p> +A large number of Pepys's manuscripts appear to have remained unnoticed +in York Buildings for some years. They never came into Jackson's hands, +and were thus lost to Magdalene College. Dr. Rawlinson afterwards +obtained them, and they were included in the bequest of his books to the +Bodleian Library. +</p> +<p> +Pepys was partial to having his portrait taken, and he sat to Savill, +Hales, Lely, and Kneller. Hales's portrait, painted in 1666, is now in +the National Portrait Gallery, and an etching from the original forms +the frontispiece to this volume. The portrait by Lely is in the Pepysian +Library. Of the three portraits by Kneller, one is in the hall of +Magdalene College, another at the Royal Society, and the third was lent +to the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, by the late +Mr. Andrew Pepys Cockerell. Several of the portraits have been engraved, +but the most interesting of these are those used by Pepys himself as +book-plates. These were both engraved by Robert White, and taken from +paintings by Kneller. +</p> +<p> +The church of St. Olave, Hart Street, is intimately associated with +Pepys both in his life and in his death, and for many years the question +had been constantly asked by visitors, "Where is Pepys's monument?" +On Wednesday, July 5th, 1882, a meeting was held in the vestry of the +church, when an influential committee was appointed, upon which all the +great institutions with which Pepys was connected were represented by +their masters, presidents, or other officers, with the object of taking +steps to obtain an adequate memorial of the Diarist. Mr. (now Sir) +Alfred Blomfield, architect of the church, presented an appropriate +design for a monument, and sufficient subscriptions having been obtained +for the purpose, he superintended its erection. On Tuesday afternoon, +March 18th, 1884, the monument, which was affixed to the wall of the +church where the gallery containing Pepys's pew formerly stood, was +unveiled in the presence of a large concourse of visitors. The Earl +of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, consented to unveil the +monument, but he was at the last moment prevented by public business +from attending. The late Mr. Russell Lowell, then the American Minister, +took Lord Northbrook's place, and made a very charming and appreciative +speech on the occasion, from which the following passages are +extracted:— +</p> +<pre> + "It was proper," his Excellency said, "that he should read a note he + had received from Lord Northbrook. This was dated that day from the + Admiralty, and was as follows: + + "'My dear Mr. Lowell, + + "'I am very much annoyed that I am prevented from assisting at the + ceremony to-day. It would be very good if you would say that + nothing but very urgent business would have kept me away. I was + anxious to give my testimony to the merits of Pepys as an Admiralty + official, leaving his literary merits to you. He was concerned with + the administration of the Navy from the Restoration to the + Revolution, and from 1673 as secretary. I believe his merits to be + fairly stated in a contemporary account, which I send. + + "'Yours very truly, + "'NORTHBROOK. + + "The contemporary account, which Lord Northbrook was good enough to + send him, said: + + "'Pepys was, without exception, the greatest and most useful + Minister that ever filled the same situations in England, the acts + and registers of the Admiralty proving this beyond contradiction. + The principal rules and establishments in present use in these + offices are well known to have been of his introducing, and most of + the officers serving therein since the Restoration, of his bringing- + up. He was a most studious promoter and strenuous asserter of order + and discipline. Sobriety, diligence, capacity, loyalty, and + subjection to command were essentials required in all whom he + advanced. Where any of these were found wanting, no interest or + authority was capable of moving him in favour of the highest + pretender. Discharging his duty to his Prince and country with a + religious application and perfect integrity, he feared no one, + courted no one, and neglected his own fortune.' + + "That was a character drawn, it was true, by a friendly hand, but to + those who were familiar with the life of Pepys, the praise hardly + seemed exaggerated. As regarded his official life, it was + unnecessary to dilate upon his peculiar merits, for they all knew + how faithful he was in his duties, and they all knew, too, how many + faithful officials there were working on in obscurity, who were not + only never honoured with a monument but who never expected one. The + few words, Mr. Lowell went on to remark, which he was expected to + say upon that occasion, therefore, referred rather to what he + believed was the true motive which had brought that assembly + together, and that was by no means the character of Pepys either as + Clerk of the Acts or as Secretary to the Admiralty. This was not + the place in which one could go into a very close examination of the + character of Pepys as a private man. He would begin by admitting + that Pepys was a type, perhaps, of what was now called a + 'Philistine'. We had no word in England which was equivalent to the + French adjective Bourgeois; but, at all events, Samuel Pepys was the + most perfect type that ever existed of the class of people whom this + word described. He had all its merits as well as many of its + defects. With all those defects, however perhaps in consequence of + them—Pepys had written one of the most delightful books that it was + man's privilege to read in the English language or in any other. + Whether Pepys intended this Diary to be afterwards read by the + general public or not—and this was a doubtful question when it was + considered that he had left, possibly by inadvertence, a key to his + cypher behind him—it was certain that he had left with us a most + delightful picture, or rather he had left the power in our hands of + drawing for ourselves some, of the most delightful pictures, of the + time in which he lived. There was hardly any book which was + analogous to it..... If one were asked what were the reasons + for liking Pepys, it would be found that they were as numerous as + the days upon which he made an entry in his Diary, and surely that + was sufficient argument in his favour. There was no book, Mr. + Lowell said, that he knew of, or that occurred to his memory, with + which Pepys's Diary could fairly be compared, except the journal of + L'Estoile, who had the same anxious curiosity and the same + commonness, not to say vulgarity of interest, and the book was + certainly unique in one respect, and that was the absolute sincerity + of the author with himself. Montaigne is conscious that we are + looking over his shoulder, and Rousseau secretive in comparison with + him. The very fact of that sincerity of the author with himself + argued a certain greatness of character. Dr. Hickes, who attended + Pepys at his deathbed, spoke of him as 'this great man,' and said he + knew no one who died so greatly. And yet there was something almost + of the ridiculous in the statement when the 'greatness' was compared + with the garrulous frankness which Pepys showed towards himself. + There was no parallel to the character of Pepys, he believed, in + respect of 'naivete', unless it were found in that of Falstaff, and + Pepys showed himself, too, like Falstaff, on terms of unbuttoned + familiarity with himself. Falstaff had just the same 'naivete', but + in Falstaff it was the 'naivete' of conscious humour. In Pepys it + was quite different, for Pepys's 'naivete' was the inoffensive + vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass. Falstaff had + a sense, too, of inadvertent humour, but it was questionable whether + Pepys could have had any sense of humour at all, and yet permitted + himself to be so delightful. There was probably, however, more + involuntary humour in Pepys's Diary than there was in any other book + extant. When he told his readers of the landing of Charles II. at + Dover, for instance, it would be remembered how Pepys chronicled the + fact that the Mayor of Dover presented the Prince with a Bible, for + which he returned his thanks and said it was the 'most precious Book + to him in the world.' Then, again, it would be remembered how, when + he received a letter addressed 'Samuel Pepys, Esq.,' he confesses in + the Diary that this pleased him mightily. When, too, he kicked his + cookmaid, he admits that he was not sorry for it, but was sorry that + the footboy of a worthy knight with whom he was acquainted saw him + do it. And the last instance he would mention of poor Pepys's + 'naivete' was when he said in the Diary that he could not help + having a certain pleasant and satisfied feeling when Barlow died. + Barlow, it must be remembered, received during his life the yearly + sum from Pepys of L100. The value of Pepys's book was simply + priceless, and while there was nothing in it approaching that single + page in St. Simon where he described that thunder of courtierly red + heels passing from one wing of the Palace to another as the Prince + was lying on his death-bed, and favour was to flow from another + source, still Pepys's Diary was unequalled in its peculiar quality + of amusement. The lightest part of the Diary was of value, + historically, for it enabled one to see London of 200 years ago, + and, what was more, to see it with the eager eyes of Pepys. It was + not Pepys the official who had brought that large gathering together + that day in honour of his memory: it was Pepys the Diarist." +</pre> +<p> +In concluding this account of the chief particulars of Pepys's life +it may be well to add a few words upon the pronunciation of his +name. Various attempts appear to have been made to represent this +phonetically. Lord Braybrooke, in quoting the entry of death from +St. Olave's Registers, where the spelling is "Peyps," wrote, "This is +decisive as to the proper pronunciation of the name." This spelling may +show that the name was pronounced as a monosyllable, but it is scarcely +conclusive as to anything else, and Lord Braybrooke does not say what +he supposes the sound of the vowels to have been. At present there are +three pronunciations in use—Peps, which is the most usual; Peeps, which +is the received one at Magdalene College, and Peppis, which I learn from +Mr. Walter C. Pepys is the one used by other branches of the family. Mr. +Pepys has paid particular attention to this point, and in his valuable +"Genealogy of the Pepys Family" (1887) he has collected seventeen +varieties of spelling of the name, which are as follows, the dates of +the documents in which the form appears being attached: +</p> +<p> +1. Pepis (1273); 2. Pepy (1439); 3. Pypys (1511); 4. Pipes (1511); 5. +Peppis (1518); 6. Peppes (1519); 7. Pepes (1520); 8. Peppys (1552); 9. +Peaps (1636); 10. Pippis (1639); 11. Peapys (1653); 12. Peps (1655); 13. +Pypes (1656); 14. Peypes (1656); 15. Peeps (1679); 16. Peepes (1683); +17. Peyps (1703). Mr. Walter Pepys adds:— +</p> +<pre> + "The accepted spelling of the name 'Pepys' was adopted generally + about the end of the seventeenth century, though it occurs many + years before that time. There have been numerous ways of + pronouncing the name, as 'Peps,' 'Peeps,' and 'Peppis.' The + Diarist undoubtedly pronounced it 'Peeps,' and the lineal + descendants of his sister Paulina, the family of 'Pepys Cockerell' + pronounce it so to this day. The other branches of the family all + pronounce it as 'Peppis,' and I am led to be satisfied that the + latter pronunciation is correct by the two facts that in the + earliest known writing it is spelt 'Pepis,' and that the French form + of the name is 'Pepy.'" +</pre> +<p> +The most probable explanation is that the name in the seventeenth +century was either pronounced 'Pips' or 'Papes'; for both the forms 'ea' +and 'ey' would represent the latter pronunciation. The general change in +the pronunciation of the spelling 'ea' from 'ai' to 'ee' took place in a +large number of words at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of +the eighteenth-century, and three words at least (yea, break, and great) +keep this old pronunciation still. The present Irish pronunciation +of English is really the same as the English pronunciation of the +seventeenth century, when the most extensive settlement of Englishmen +in Ireland took place, and the Irish always pronounce ea like ai (as, +He gave him a nate bating—neat beating). Again, the 'ey' of Peyps would +rhyme with they and obey. English literature is full of illustrations of +the old pronunciation of ea, as in "Hudibras;" +</p> +<pre> + "Doubtless the pleasure is as great + In being cheated as to cheat," +</pre> +<p> +which was then a perfect rhyme. In the "Rape of the Lock" tea (tay) +rhymes with obey, and in Cowper's verses on Alexander Selkirk sea rhymes +with survey.' It is not likely that the pronunciation of the name was +fixed, but there is every reason to suppose that the spellings of Peyps +and Peaps were intended to represent the sound Pepes rather than Peeps. +</p> +<p> +In spite of all the research which has brought to light so many +incidents of interest in the life of Samuel Pepys, we cannot but feel +how dry these facts are when placed by the side of the living details of +the Diary. It is in its pages that the true man is displayed, and it has +therefore not been thought necessary here to do more than set down in +chronological order such facts as are known of the life outside the +Diary. A fuller "appreciation" of the man must be left for some future +occasion. +</p> +<pre> + H. B. W. +</pre> +<a name="2H_4_0003"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + JANUARY 1659-1660 +</h2> +<div class="mynote"> + +<pre> + [The year did not legally begin in England before the 25th March + until the act for altering the style fixed the 1st of January as the + first day of the year, and previous to 1752 the year extended from + March 25th to the following March 24th. Thus since 1752 we have + been in the habit of putting the two dates for the months of January + and February and March 1 to 24—in all years previous to 1752. + Practically, however, many persons considered the year to commence + with January 1st, as it will be seen Pepys did. The 1st of January + was considered as New Year's day long before Pepys's time. The + fiscal year has not been altered; and the national accounts are + still reckoned from old Lady Day, which falls on the 6th of April.] +</pre> +<br> +</div> + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> + + +<p> +Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, +without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold. +</p> +<pre> + [Pepys was successfully cut for the stone on March 26th, 1658. See + March 26th below. Although not suffering from this cause again + until the end of his life, there are frequent references in the + Diary to pain whenever he caught cold. In a letter from Pepys to + his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the + breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the + cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the + greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil + so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and + with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that + the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone, + without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more + than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again." At the post-mortem + examination a nest of seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces, + was found in the left kidney, which was entirely ulcerated.] +</pre> +<p> +I lived in Axe Yard, +</p> +<pre> + [Pepys's house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster; + it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he + should have settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street + stands on the site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great + messuage or brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called "The + Axe," and referred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII—B.] +</pre> +<p> +having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. +My wife.... gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day +of the year....[the hope was belied.] +</p> +<p> +[Ed. note:.... are used to denote censored passages] +</p> +<p> +The condition of the State was thus; viz. the Rump, after being +disturbed by my Lord Lambert, +</p> +<pre> + [John Lambert, major-general in the Parliamentary army. The title + Lord was not his by right, but it was frequently given to the + republican officers. He was born in 1619, at Calton Hall, in the + parish of Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. + In 1642 he was appointed captain of horse under Fairfax, and acted + as major-general to Cromwell in 1650 during the war in Scotland. + After this Parliament conferred on him a grant of lands in Scotland + worth L1000 per annum. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to + Cromwell, for which the Protector deprived him of his commission. + After Cromwell's death he tried to set up a military government. + The Commons cashiered Lambert, Desborough, and other officers, + October 12th, 1659, but Lambert retaliated by thrusting out the + Commons, and set out to meet Monk. His men fell away from him, and + he was sent to the Tower, March 3rd, 1660, but escaped. In 1662 he + was tried on a charge of high treason and condemned, but his life + was spared. It is generally stated that he passed the remainder of + his life in the island of Guernsey, but this is proved to be + incorrect by a MS. in the Plymouth Athenaeum, entitled "Plimmouth + Memoirs collected by James Yonge, 1684" This will be seen from the + following extracts quoted by Mr. R. J. King, in "Notes and Queries," + "1667 Lambert the arch-rebel brought to this island [St. Nicholas, + at the entrance of Plymouth harbour]." "1683 Easter day Lambert + that olde rebell dyed this winter on Plimmouth Island where he had + been prisoner 15 years and more."] +</pre> +<p> +was lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced to +yield. Lawson +</p> +<pre> + [Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as + a common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished + himself during the Protectorate. Though a republican, he readily + closed with the design of restoring the King. He was vice-admiral + under the Earl of Sandwich, and commanded the "London" in the + squadron which conveyed Charles II. to England. He was mortally + wounded in the action with the Dutch off Harwich, June, 1665. He + must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of + Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II, + July 6th, 1665.] +</pre> +<p> +lies still in the river, and Monk—[George Monk, born 1608, created Duke +of Albemarle, 1660, married Ann Clarges, March, 1654, died January 3rd, +1676.]—is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord Lambert is not yet +come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will without being +forced to it. The new Common Council of the City do speak very high; and +had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint him with their desires +for a free and full Parliament, which is at present the desires, and the +hopes, and expectation of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded members +</p> +<pre> + ["The City sent and invited him [Monk] to dine the next day at + Guildhall, and there he declared for the members whom the army had + forced away in year forty-seven and forty-eight, who were known by + the names of secluded members."—Burnet's Hist. of his Own Time, + book i.] +</pre> +<p> +having been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance, but it +was denied them; and it is believed that [neither] they nor the people +will be satisfied till the House be filled. My own private condition +very handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goods +of my house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain. Mr. +Downing master of my office. +</p> +<pre> + [George Downing was one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the + Exchequer, and in his office Pepys was a clerk. He was the son of + Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple, afterwards of Salem, + Massachusetts, and of Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop. He is + supposed to have been born in August, 1623. He and his parents went + to New England in 1638, and he was the second graduate of Harvard + College. He returned to England about 1645, and acted as Colonel + Okey's chaplain before he entered into political life. Anthony a + Wood (who incorrectly describes him as the son of Dr. Calybute + Downing, vicar of Hackney) calls Downing a sider with all times and + changes: skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionally. + He was sent by Cromwell to Holland in 1657, as resident there. At + the Restoration, he espoused the King's cause, and was knighted and + elected M.P. for Morpeth, in 1661. Afterwards, becoming + Secretary to the Treasury and Commissioner of the Customs, he was in + 1663 created a Baronet of East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, and was + again sent Ambassador to Holland. His grandson of the same name, + who died in 1749, was the founder of Downing College, Cambridge. + The title became extinct in 1764, upon the decease of Sir John + Gerrard Downing, the last heir-male of the family. Sir George + Downing's character will be found in Lord Clarendon's "Life," vol. + iii. p. 4. Pepys's opinion seems to be somewhat of a mixed kind. + He died in July, 1684.] +</pre> +<p> +Jan. 1st (Lord's day). This morning (we living lately in the garret,) +I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any +other, clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning's +</p> +<pre> + [Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, + and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely. He had continued to + read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament + was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him. Evelyn + relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with + soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife + being among them. There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in + Evelyn's Diary. When he obtained the mastership of St. John's + College upon the ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that + Nonconformist divine a handsome annuity during his life. He was a + great controversialist, and a man of great reading. Burnet says he + "was a very honest sincere man, but of no sound judgment, and of no + prudence in affairs" ("Hist. of his Own. Time"). He died July 6th, + 1684, aged seventy-one.] +</pre> +<p> +chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these +words:—"That in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman," +&c.; showing, that, by "made under the law," is meant his circumcision, +which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the garret, where my wife +dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her +hand. I staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; then +went with my wife to my father's, and in going observed the great posts +which the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supt at my +father's, where in came Mrs. The. Turner—[Theophila Turner, daughter of +Sergeant John and Jane Turner, who married Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. She +died 1686.]—and Madam Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife and +I went home with them, and so to our own home. +</p> +<p> +2nd. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of +bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to +Mr. Sheply,—[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]—who +was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other places as a gift +from my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him order to give me +the dozen of bottles. Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. +Calthropp about the L60 due to my Lord, +</p> +<pre> + [Sir Edward Montagu, born 1625, son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by + Paulina, daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, married Jemima, + daughter of John Crew of Stene. He died in action against the Dutch + in Southwold Bay, May 28th, 1672. The title of "My Lord" here + applied to Montagu before he was created Earl of Sandwich is of the + same character as that given to General Lambert.] +</pre> +<p> +but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I went to Mr. Crew's +</p> +<pre> + [John Crew, born 1598, eldest son of Sir Thomas Crew, Sergeant-at- + Law and Speaker of the House of Commons. He sat for Brackley in the + Long Parliament. Created Baron Crew of Stene, in the county of + Northampton, at the coronation of Charles II. He married Jemima, + daughter and co-heir of Edward Walgrave (or Waldegrave) of Lawford, + Essex. His house was in Lincoln's Inn Fields. He died December + 12th, 1679.] +</pre> +<p> +and borrowed L10 of Mr. Andrewes for my own use, and so went to my +office, where there was nothing to do. Then I walked a great while in +Westminster Hall, where I heard that Lambert was coming up to London; +that my Lord Fairfax +</p> +<pre> + [Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces. + After the Restoration, he retired to his country seat, where he + lived in private till his death, 1671. In a volume (autograph) of + Lord Fairfax's Poems, preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42, + the following lines occur upon the 30th of January, on which day the + King was beheaded. It is believed that they have never been + printed. + + "O let that day from time be bloted quitt, + And beleef of 't in next age be waved, + In depest silence that act concealed might, + That so the creadet of our nation might be saved; + But if the powre devine hath ordered this, + His will's the law, and our must aquiess." + + These wretched verses have obviously no merit; but they are curious + as showing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles + I's judges; continued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror + for that unfortunate monarch's fate. It has recently been pointed + out to me, that the lines were not originally composed by Fairfax, + being only a poor translation of the spirited lines of Statius + (Sylvarum lib. v. cap. ii. l. 88) + + "Excidat illa dies aevo, ne postera credant + Secula, nos certe taceamus; et obruta multa + Nocte tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis." + + These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the + massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in + his memorable speech in the House of Commons, January, 1793, after + the murder of Louis XVI.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +was in the head of the Irish brigade, but it was not certain what he +would declare for. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for the +Council of State, which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers; +and were to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk that many +places have declared for a free Parliament; and it is believed that they +will be forced to fill up the House with the old members. From the Hall +I called at home, and so went to Mr. Crew's (my wife she was to go to +her father's), thinking to have dined, but I came too late, so Mr. Moore +and I and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of ale together +in the new market, and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner. +After that Mr. Moore and I went as far as Fleet-street together and +parted, he going into the City, I to find Mr. Calthrop, but failed again +of finding him, so returned to Mr. Crew's again, and from thence went +along with Mrs. Jemimah +</p> +<pre> + [Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir + Edward Montagu. At this time she and her sister, Mrs. Ann, seem to + have been living alone with their maids in London, and Pepys's duty + was to look after them.] +</pre> +<p> +home, and there she taught me how to play at cribbage. Then I went home, +and finding my wife gone to see Mrs. Hunt, I went to Will's, +</p> +<pre> + [Pepys constantly visited "Will's" about this time; but this could + not be the famous coffee-house in Covent Garden, because he mentions + visiting there for the first time, February 3rd, 1663-64. It was + most probably the house of William Joyce, who kept a place of + entertainment at Westminster (see Jan. 29th).] +</pre> +<p> +and there sat with Mr. Ashwell talking and singing till nine o'clock, +and so home, there, having not eaten anything but bread and cheese, my +wife cut me a slice of brawn which. I received from my Lady;—[Jemima, +wife of Sir Edward Montagu, daughter of John Crew of Stene, afterwards +Lord Crew.]—which proves as good as ever I had any. So to bed, and my +wife had a very bad night of it through wind and cold. +</p> +<p> +3rd. I went out in the morning, it being a great frost, and walked to +Mrs. Turner's +</p> +<pre> + [Jane, daughter of John Pepys of South Creake, Norfolk, married to + John Turner, Sergeant-at-law, Recorder of York; their only child, + Theophila, frequently mentioned as The. or Theoph., became the wife + of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart., of Stowford, Devon, and died 1686, + s.p.] +</pre> +<p> +to stop her from coming to see me to-day, because of Mrs. Jem's corning, +thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthrop, and walked in +his chamber an hour, but could not see him, so went to Westminster, +where I found soldiers in my office to receive money, and paid it them. +At noon went home, where Mrs. Jem, her maid, Mr. Sheply, Hawly, and +Moore dined with me on a piece of beef and cabbage, and a collar of +brawn. We then fell to cards till dark, and then I went home with Mrs. +Jem, and meeting Mr. Hawly got him to bear me company to Chancery Lane, +where I spoke with Mr. Calthrop, he told me that Sir James Calthrop was +lately dead, but that he would write to his Lady, that the money may be +speedily paid. Thence back to White Hall, where I understood that the +Parliament had passed the act for indemnity to the soldiers and officers +that would come in, in so many days, and that my Lord Lambert should +have benefit of the said act. They had also voted that all vacancies in +the House, by the death of any of the old members, shall be filled up; +but those that are living shall not be called in. Thence I went home, +and there found Mr. Hunt and his wife, and Mr. Hawly, who sat with me +till ten at night at cards, and so broke up and to bed. +</p> +<p> +4th. Early came Mr. Vanly—[Mr Vanley appears to have been Pepys's +landlord; he is mentioned again in the Diary on September 20th, +1660.]—to me for his half-year's rent, which I had not in the house, +but took his man to the office and there paid him. Then I went down +into the Hall and to Will's, where Hawly brought a piece of his Cheshire +cheese, and we were merry with it. Then into the Hall again, where I met +with the Clerk and Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and took them to +the Swan' and gave them their morning's draft, +</p> +<pre> + [It was not usual at this time to sit down to breakfast, but instead + a morning draught was taken at a tavern.] +</pre> +<p> +they being just come to town. Mr. Jenkins shewed me two bills of +exchange for money to receive upon my Lord's and my pay. It snowed hard +all this morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much swelled with +cold. Strange the difference of men's talk! Some say that Lambert must +of necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and that the +Fifth-monarchy-men [will] stick to him, if he declares for a free +Parliament. Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote of +pardon and indemnity from the Parliament. From the Hall I came home, +where I found letters from Hinchinbroke +</p> +<pre> + [Hinchinbroke was Sir Edward Montagu's seat, from which he + afterwards took his second title. Hinchinbroke House, so often + mentioned in the Diary, stood about half a mile to the westward of + the town of Huntingdon. It was erected late in the reign of + Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the site of a Benedictine + nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its appurtenances, to + his father, Richard Williams, who had assumed the name of Cromwell, + and whose grandson, Sir Oliver, was the uncle and godfather of the + Protector. The knight, who was renowned for, his hospitality, had + the honour of entertaining King James at Hinchinbroke, but, getting + into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his estates, which + were conveyed, July 28th, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu of Barnwell, + father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant they are + still vested. On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, during the + minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchinbroke was almost entirely + destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly saved, + and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the + interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore, + Esq., R.A.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +and news of Mr. Sheply's going thither the next week. I dined at home, +and from thence went to Will's to Shaw, who promised me to go along with +me to Atkinson's about some money, but I found him at cards with Spicer +and D. Vines, and could not get him along with me. I was vext at this, +and went and walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spent +this day in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters from +the North, that brought certain news that my Lord Lambent his forces +were all forsaking him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, and +that he did now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my Lord +Fairfax did also rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and that +what he had done was only to secure the country against my Lord Lambert +his raising of money, and free quarter. I went to Will's again, where +I found them still at cards, and Spicer had won 14s. of Shaw and Vines. +Then I spent a little time with G. Vines and Maylard at Vines's at our +viols. +</p> +<pre> + [It was usual to have a "chest of viols," which consisted of six, + viz., two trebles, two tenors, and two basses (see note in North's + "Memoirs of Musick," ed. Rimbault, p. 70). The bass viol was also + called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.] +</pre> +<p> +So home, and from thence to Mr. Hunt's, and sat with them and Mr. Hawly +at cards till ten at night, and was much made of by them. Home and so to +bed, but much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled. +</p> +<p> +5th. I went to my office, where the money was again expected from +the Excise office, but none brought, but was promised to be sent this +afternoon. I dined with Mr. Sheply, at my Lord's lodgings, upon his +turkey-pie. And so to my office again; where the Excise money was +brought, and some of it told to soldiers till it was dark. Then I went +home, and after writing a letter to my Lord and told him the news +that the Parliament hath this night voted that the members that were +discharged from sitting in the years 1648 and 49, were duly discharged; +and that there should be writs issued presently for the calling of +others in their places, and that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up to +town, and that the Prince's lodgings were to be provided for Monk at +Whitehall. Then my wife and I, it being a great frost, went to Mrs. +Jem's, in expectation to eat a sack-posset, but Mr. Edward—[Edward +Montage, son of Sir Edward, and afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]—not +coming it was put off; and so I left my wife playing at cards with her, +and went myself with my lanthorn to Mr. Fage, to consult concerning +my nose, who told me it was nothing but cold, and after that we did +discourse concerning public business; and he told me it is true the City +had not time enough to do much, but they are resolved to shake off the +soldiers; and that unless there be a free Parliament chosen, he did +believe there are half the Common Council will not levy any money by +order of this Parliament. From thence I went to my father's, where I +found Mrs. Ramsey and her grandchild, a pretty girl, and staid a while +and talked with them and my mother, and then took my leave, only +heard of an invitation to go to dinner to-morrow to my cosen Thomas +Pepys.—[Thomas Pepys, probably the son of Thomas Pepys of London (born, +1595), brother of Samuel's father, John Pepys.]—I went back to Mrs. +Jem, and took my wife and Mrs. Sheply, and went home. +</p> +<p> +6th. This morning Mr. Sheply and I did eat our breakfast at Mrs. +Harper's, (my brother John' being with me,) +</p> +<pre> + [John Pepys was born in 1641, and his brother Samuel took great + interest in his welfare, but he did not do any great credit to his + elder.] +</pre> +<p> +upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. From thence I went to my office, +where we paid money to the soldiers till one o'clock, at which time +we made an end, and I went home and took my wife and went to my cosen, +Thomas Pepys, and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very +good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not +handsome. After dinner I took my leave, leaving my wife with my cozen +Stradwick,—[Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of +Ireland, and wife of Thomas Stradwick.]—and went to Westminster to Mr. +Vines, where George and I fiddled a good while, Dick and his wife (who +was lately brought to bed) and her sister being there, but Mr. Hudson +not coming according to his promise, I went away, and calling at my +house on the wench, I took her and the lanthorn with me to my cosen +Stradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, +mother, brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott and his wife, Mr. Drawwater +and his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake +brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. Stradwick was +King. After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home, it being still a +great frost. +</p> +<p> +7th. At my office as I was receiving money of the probate of wills, in +came Mrs. Turner, Theoph., Madame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I had +done I took them home to my house and Mr. Hawly came after, and I got a +dish of steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game or +two at cards. In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing +came to fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and was +forced to stay till night in expectation of the French Embassador, who +at last came, and I had a great deal of good discourse with one of his +gentlemen concerning the reason of the difference between the zeal of +the French and the Spaniard. After he was gone I went home, and found +my friends still at cards, and after that I went along with them to Dr. +Whores (sending my wife to Mrs. Jem's to a sack-posset), where I +heard some symphony and songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, +Harding, and Mallard. Afterwards I put my friends into a coach, and went +to Mrs. Jem's, where I wrote a letter to my Lord by the post, and had my +part of the posset which was saved for me, and so we went home, and put +in at my Lord's lodgings, where we staid late, eating of part of his +turkey-pie, and reading of Quarles' Emblems. So home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +8th (Sunday). In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where a good +sermon, wherein he showed the life of Christ, and told us good authority +for us to believe that Christ did follow his father's trade, and was +a carpenter till thirty years of age. From thence to my father's to +dinner, where I found my wife, who was forced to dine there, we not +having one coal of fire in the house, and it being very hard frosty +weather. In the afternoon my father, he going to a man's to demand some +money due to my Aunt Bells my wife and I went to Mr. Mossum's, where a +strange doctor made a very good sermon. From thence sending my wife to +my father's, I went to Mrs. Turner's, and staid a little while, and then +to my father's, where I found Mr. Sheply, and after supper went home +together. Here I heard of the death of Mr. Palmer, and that he was to be +buried at Westminster tomorrow. +</p> +<p> +9th. For these two or three days I have been much troubled with thoughts +how to get money to pay them that I have borrowed money of, by reason +of my money being in my uncle's hands. I rose early this morning, and +looked over and corrected my brother John's speech, which he is to make +the next apposition,—[Declamations at St. Paul's School, in which +there were opponents and respondents.]—and after that I went towards my +office, and in my way met with W. Simons, Muddiman, and Jack Price, and +went with them to Harper's and in many sorts of talk I staid till two +of the clock in the afternoon. I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch +rogue; and owns that though he writes new books for the Parliament, +yet he did declare that he did it only to get money; and did talk very +basely of many of them. Among other things, W. Simons told me how his +uncle Scobel was on Saturday last called to the bar, for entering in +the journal of the House, for the year 1653, these words: "This day his +Excellence the Lord General Cromwell dissolved this House;" which words +the Parliament voted a forgery, and demanded of him how they came to be +entered. He answered that they were his own handwriting, and that he +did it by virtue of his office, and the practice of his predecessor; and +that the intent of the practice was to—let posterity know how such and +such a Parliament was dissolved, whether by the command of the King, or +by their own neglect, as the last House of Lords was; and that to this +end, he had said and writ that it was dissolved by his Excellence the +Lord G[eneral]; and that for the word dissolved, he never at the time +did hear of any other term; and desired pardon if he would not dare +to make a word himself when it was six years after, before they came +themselves to call it an interruption; but they were so little satisfied +with this answer, that they did chuse a committee to report to the +House, whether this crime of Mr. Scobell's did come within the act of +indemnity or no. Thence I went with Muddiman to the Coffee-House, and +gave 18d. to be entered of the Club. Thence into the Hall, where I +heard for certain that Monk was coming to London, and that Bradshaw's 2 +lodgings were preparing for him. Thence to Mrs. Jem's, and found her in +bed, and she was afraid that it would prove the small-pox. Thence back +to Westminster Hall, where I heard how Sir H. Vane—[Sir Harry Vane the +younger, an inflexible republican. He was executed in 1662, on a charge +of conspiring the death of Charles I.]—was this day voted out of the +House, and to sit no more there; and that he would retire himself to his +house at Raby, as also all the rest of the nine officers that had their +commissions formerly taken away from them, were commanded to their +farthest houses from London during the pleasure of the Parliament. Here +I met with the Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and his clerk Mr. +Jenings, and took them home, and gave them a bottle of wine, and the +remainder of my collar of brawn; and so good night. After that came in +Mr. Hawly, who told me that I was mist this day at my office, and that +to-morrow I must pay all the money that I have, at which I was put to a +great loss how I should get money to make up my cash, and so went to bed +in great trouble. +</p> +<p> +10th. Went out early, and in my way met with Greatorex,—[Ralph +Greatorex, the well-known mathematical instrument maker of his day. He +is frequently mentioned by Pepys.]—and at an alehouse he showed me the +first sphere of wire that ever he made, and indeed it was very pleasant; +thence to Mr. Crew's, and borrowed L10, and so to my office, and was +able to pay my money. Thence into the Hall, and meeting the Quarter +Master, Jenings, and Captain Rider, we four went to a cook's to dinner. +Thence Jenings and I into London (it being through heat of the sun a +great thaw and dirty) to show our bills of return, and coming back drank +a pint of wine at the Star in Cheapside. So to Westminster, overtaking +Captain Okeshott in his silk cloak, whose sword got hold of many people +in walking. Thence to the Coffee-house, where were a great confluence of +gentlemen; viz. Mr. Harrington, Poultny, chairman, Gold, Dr. Petty; &c., +where admirable discourse till at night. Thence with Doling to Mother +Lams, who told me how this day Scott +</p> +<pre> + [Thomas Scott, M.P., was made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth + on the 17th of this same January. He signed the death warrant of + Charles I., for which he was executed at Charing Cross, October + 16th, 1660. He gloried in his offence, and desired to have written + on his tombstone, "Thomas Scott who adjudged to death the late + king."] +</pre> +<p> +was made Intelligencer, and that the rest of the members that were +objected against last night, their business was to be heard this day +se'nnight. Thence I went home and wrote a letter, and went to Harper's, +and staid there till Tom carried it to the postboy at Whitehall. So home +to bed. +</p> +<p> +11th. Being at Will's with Captain Barker, who hath paid me L300 this +morning at my office, in comes my father, and with him I walked, and +leave him at W. Joyce's, and went myself to Mr. Crew's, but came too +late to dine, and therefore after a game at shittle-cocks—[The game +of battledore and shuttlecock was formerly much played even in tennis +courts, and was a very violent game.]—with Mr. Walgrave and Mr. Edward, +I returned to my father, and taking him from W. Joyce's, who was not +abroad himself, we inquired of a porter, and by his direction went to an +alehouse, where after a cup or two we parted. I went towards London, and +in my way went in to see Crowly, who was now grown a very great loon and +very tame. Thence to Mr. Steven's with a pair of silver snuffers, and +bought a pair of shears to cut silver, and so homeward again. From home +I went to see Mrs. Jem, who was in bed, and now granted to have the +small-pox. Back again, and went to the Coffee-house, but tarried not, +and so home. +</p> +<p> +12th. I drink my morning at Harper's with Mr. Sheply and a seaman, and +so to my office, where Captain Holland came to see me, and appointed a +meeting in the afternoon. Then wrote letters to Hinchinbroke and sealed +them at Will's, and after that went home, and thence to the Half Moon, +where I found the Captain and Mr. Billingsly and Newman, a barber, where +we were very merry, and had the young man that plays so well on the +Welsh harp. Billingsly paid for all. Thence home, and finding my letters +this day not gone by the carrier I new sealed them, but my brother Tom +coming we fell into discourse about my intention to feast the Joyces. +I sent for a bit of meat for him from the cook's, and forgot to send my +letters this night. So I went to bed, and in discourse broke to my wife +what my thoughts were concerning my design of getting money by, &c. +</p> +<p> +13th. Coming in the morning to my office, I met with Mr. Fage and took +him to the Swan? He told me how high Haselrigge, and Morly, the last +night began at my Lord Mayor's to exclaim against the City of London, +saying that they had forfeited their charter. And how the Chamberlain +of the City did take them down, letting them know how much they were +formerly beholding to the City, &c. He also told me that Monk's letter +that came to them by the sword-bearer was a cunning piece, and that +which they did not much trust to; but they were resolved to make no +more applications to the Parliament, nor to pay any money, unless the +secluded members be brought in, or a free Parliament chosen. Thence +to my office, where nothing to do. So to Will's with Mr. Pinkney, who +invited me to their feast at his Hall the next Monday. Thence I went +home and took my wife and dined at Mr. Wades, and after that we went and +visited Catan. From thence home again, and my wife was very unwilling to +let me go forth, but with some discontent would go out if I did, and I +going forth towards Whitehall, I saw she followed me, and so I staid and +took her round through Whitehall, and so carried her home angry. Thence +I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not +prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two +at cards with her. And so to Mr. Vines, where he and I and Mr. Hudson +played half-a-dozen things, there being there Dick's wife and her +sister. After that I went home and found my wife gone abroad to Mr. +Hunt's, and came in a little after me.—So to bed. +</p> +<p> +14th. Nothing to do at our office. Thence into the Hall, and just as I +was going to dinner from Westminster Hall with Mr. Moore (with whom +I had been in the lobby to hear news, and had spoke with Sir Anthony +Ashley Cooper about my Lord's lodgings) to his house, I met with Captain +Holland, who told me that he hath brought his wife to my house, so I +posted home and got a dish of meat for them. They staid with me all the +afternoon, and went hence in the evening. Then I went with my wife, +and left her at market, and went myself to the Coffee-house, and +heard exceeding good argument against Mr. Harrington's assertion, +that overbalance of propriety [i.e., property] was the foundation of +government. Home, and wrote to Hinchinbroke, and sent that and my other +letter that missed of going on Thursday last. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +15th. Having been exceedingly disturbed in the night with the barking +of a dog of one of our neighbours that I could not sleep for an hour +or two, I slept late, and then in the morning took physic, and so staid +within all day. At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as +well as I could his Greek speech to say the Apposition, though I believe +he himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that we went to +read in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of +Rome. After that my wife and I in pleasant discourse till night, then +I went to supper, and after that to make an end of this week's notes in +this book, and so to bed. It being a cold day and a great snow my physic +did not work so well as it should have done. +</p> +<p> +16th. In the morning I went up to Mr. Crew's, and at his bedside he gave +me direction to go to-morrow with Mr. Edward to Twickenham, and likewise +did talk to me concerning things of state; and expressed his mind how +just it was that the secluded members should come to sit again. I went +from thence, and in my way went into an alehouse and drank my morning +draft with Matthew Andrews and two or three more of his friends, +coachmen. And of one of them I did hire a coach to carry us to-morrow +to Twickenham. From thence to my office, where nothing to do; but Mr. +Downing he came and found me all alone; and did mention to me his going +back into Holland, and did ask me whether I would go or no, but gave me +little encouragement, but bid me consider of it; and asked me whether I +did not think that Mr. Hawly could perform the work of my office alone +or no. I confess I was at a great loss, all the day after, to bethink +myself how to carry this business. At noon, Harry Ethall came to me and +went along with Mr. Maylard by coach as far as Salsbury Court, and there +we set him down, and we went to the Clerks, where we came a little +too late, but in a closet we had a very good dinner by Mr. Pinkny's +courtesy, and after dinner we had pretty good singing, and one, Hazard, +sung alone after the old fashion, which was very much cried up, but I +did not like it. Thence we went to the Green Dragon, on Lambeth Hill, +both the Mr. Pinkney's, Smith, Harrison, Morrice, that sang the bass, +Sheply and I, and there we sang of all sorts of things, and I ventured +with good success upon things at first sight, and after that I played on +my flageolet, and staid there till nine o'clock, very merry and drawn +on with one song after another till it came to be so late. After that +Sheply, Harrison and myself, we went towards Westminster on foot, and +at the Golden Lion, near Charing Cross, we went in and drank a pint of +wine, and so parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and maid +a-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under +my window as I was writing of this very line, and cried, "Past one of +the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went to bed, and +left my wife and the maid a-washing still. +</p> +<p> +17th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's, and having given Mr. Edward money +to give the servants, I took him into the coach that waited for us and +carried him to my house, where the coach waited for me while I and the +child went to Westminster Hall, and bought him some pictures. In the +Hall I met Mr. Woodfine, and took him to Will's and drank with him. +Thence the child and I to the coach, where my wife was ready, and so +we went towards Twickenham. In our way, at Kensington we understood how +that my Lord Chesterfield had killed another gentleman about half an +hour before, and was fled. +</p> +<pre> + [Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, ob. 1713, act. suae + 80. We learn, from the memoir prefixed to his "Printed + Correspondence," that he fought three duels, disarming and wounding + his first and second antagonists, and killing the third. The name + of the unfortunate gentleman who fell on this occasion was Woolly. + Lord Chesterfield, absconding, went to Breda, where he obtained the + royal pardon from Charles II. He acted a busy part in the eventful + times in which he lived, and was remarkable for his steady adherence + to the Stuarts. Lord Chesterfield's letter to Charles II., and the + King's answer granting the royal pardon, occur in the Correspondence + published by General Sir John Murray, in 1829. + + "Jan. 17th, 1659. The Earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly's son of + Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a mare of eighteen pounds price; + the quarrel would not be reconciled, insomuch that a challenge + passed between them. They fought a duel on the backside of Mr. + Colby's house at Kensington, where the Earl and he had several + passes. The Earl wounded him in two places, and would fain have + then ended, but the stubbornness and pride of heart of Mr. Woolly + would not give over, and the next pass [he] was killed on the spot. + The Earl fled to Chelsea, and there took water and escaped. The + jury found it chance-medley."—Rugge's "Diurnal," Addit MSS., + British Museum.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +We went forward and came about one of the clock to Mr. Fuller's, but he +was out of town, so we had a dinner there, and I gave the child 40s. +to give to the two ushers. After that we parted and went homewards, it +being market day at Brainford [Brentford]. I set my wife down and went +with the coach to Mr. Crew's, thinking to have spoke with Mr. Moore +and Mrs. Jem, he having told me the reason of his melancholy was some +unkindness from her after so great expressions of love, and how he had +spoke to her friends and had their consent, and that he would desire +me to take an occasion of speaking with her, but by no means not to +heighten her discontent or distaste whatever it be, but to make it up if +I can. But he being out of doors, I went away and went to see Mrs. Jem, +who was now very well again, and after a game or two at cards, I left +her. So I went to the Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse; it +was in answer to Mr. Harrington's answer, who said that the state of the +Roman government was not a settled government, and so it was no wonder +that the balance of propriety [i.e., property] was in one hand, and the +command in another, it being therefore always in a posture of war; but +it was carried by ballot, that it was a steady government, though it is +true by the voices it had been carried before that it was an unsteady +government; so to-morrow it is to be proved by the opponents that the +balance lay in one hand, and the government in another. Thence I went +to Westminster, and met Shaw and Washington, who told me how this day +Sydenham +</p> +<pre> + [Colonel William Sydenham had been an active officer during the + Civil Wars, on the Parliament side; M.P. for Dorsetshire, Governor + of Melcombe, and one of the Committee of Safety. He was the elder + brother of the celebrated physician of that name.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +was voted out of the House for sitting any more this Parliament, and +that Salloway was voted out likewise and sent to the Tower, during +the pleasure of the House. Home and wrote by the Post, and carried to +Whitehall, and coming back turned in at Harper-'s, where Jack Price was, +and I drank with him and he told me, among other, things, how much the +Protector +</p> +<pre> + [Richard Cromwell, third son of Oliver Cromwell, born October 4th, + 1626, admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn, May 27th, 1647, fell into + debt and devoted himself to hunting and field sports. His + succession to his father as Protector was universally accepted at + first, but the army soon began to murmur because he was not a + general. Between the dissensions of various parties he fell, and + the country was left in a state of anarchy: He went abroad early in + the summer of 1660, and lived abroad for some years, returning to + England in 1680. After his fall he bore the name of John Clarke. + Died at Cheshunt, July 12th, 1712.] +</pre> +<p> +is altered, though he would seem to bear out his trouble very well, yet +he is scarce able to talk sense with a man; and how he will say that +"Who should a man trust, if he may not trust to a brother and an uncle;" +and "how much those men have to answer before God Almighty, for their +playing the knave with him as they did." He told me also, that there +was; L100,000 offered, and would have been taken for his restitution, +had not the Parliament come in as they did again; and that he do believe +that the Protector will live to give a testimony of his valour and +revenge yet before he dies, and that the Protector will say so himself +sometimes. Thence I went home, it being late and my wife in bed. +</p> +<p> +18th. To my office and from thence to Will's, and there Mr. Sheply +brought me letters from the carrier and so I went home. After that to +Wilkinson's, where we had a dinner for Mr. Talbot, Adams, Pinkny and his +son, but his son did not come. Here we were very merry, and while I was +here Mr. Fuller came thither and staid a little, while. +</p> +<p> +After that we all went to my Lord's, whither came afterwards Mr. +Harrison, and by chance seeing Mr. Butler—[Mr. Butler is usually styled +by Pepys Mons. l'Impertinent.]—coming by I called him in and so we +sat drinking a bottle of wine till night. At which time Mistress +Ann—[Probably Mrs. (afterwards Lady) Anne Montagu, daughter of Sir +Edward Montagu, and sister to Mrs. Jem.]—came with the key of my Lord's +study for some things, and so we all broke up and after I had gone to my +house and interpreted my Lord's letter by his character—[The making of +ciphers was a popular amusement about this time. Pepys made several for +Montagu, Downing, and others.]—I came to her again and went with her to +her lodging and from thence to Mr. Crew's, where I advised with him +what to do about my Lord's lodgings and what answer to give to Sir Ant. +Cooper and so I came home and to bed. All the world is at a loss to +think what Monk will do: the City saying that he will be for them, and +the Parliament saying he will be for them. +</p> +<p> +19th. This morning I was sent for to Mr. Downing, and at his bed side he +told me, that he had a kindness for me, and that he thought that he had +done me one; and that was, that he had got me to be one of the Clerks of +the Council; at which I was a little stumbled, and could not tell what +to do, whether to thank him or no; but by and by I did; but not very +heartily, for I feared that his doing of it was but only to ease himself +of the salary which he gives me. After that Mr. Sheply staying below all +this time for me we went thence and met Mr. Pierce, +</p> +<pre> + [Pepys had two friends named Pierce, one the surgeon and the other + the purser; he usually (but not always) distinguishes them. The one + here alluded to was probably the surgeon, and husband of pretty Mrs. + Pierce. After the Restoration James Pearse or Pierce became Surgeon + to the Duke of York, and he was also Surgeon-General of the Fleet.] +</pre> +<p> +so at the Harp and Ball drank our morning draft and so to Whitehall +where I met with Sir Ant. Cooper and did give him some answer from my +Lord and he did give us leave to keep the lodgings still. And so we did +determine thereupon that Mr. Sheply might now go into the country and +would do so to-morrow. Back I went by Mr. Downing's order and staid +there till twelve o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some +writings, but he came not, so I staid all alone reading the answer of +the Dutch Ambassador to our State, in answer to the reasons of my Lord's +coming home, which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein to +contradict my Lord's arguments for his coming home. Thence to my office +and so with Mr. Sheply and Moore, to dine upon a turkey with Mrs. Jem, +and after that Mr. Moore and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr. +Downing this day feasted Sir Arth. Haselrigge, and a great many more of +the Parliament, and did stay to put him in mind of me. Here he gave me +a note to go and invite some other members to dinner tomorrow. So I went +to White Hall, and did stay at Marsh's, with Simons, Luellin, and all +the rest of the Clerks of the Council, who I hear are all turned out, +only the two Leighs, and they do all tell me that my name was mentioned +the last night, but that nothing was done in it. Hence I went and did +leave some of my notes at the lodgings of the members and so home. To +bed. +</p> +<p> +20th. In the morning I went to Mr. Downing's bedside and gave him an +account what I had done as to his guests, land I went thence to my Lord +Widdrington who I met in the street, going to seal the patents for +the judges to-day, and so could not come to dinner. I called upon Mr. +Calthrop about the money due to my Lord. Here I met with Mr. Woodfine +and drank with him at the Sun in Chancery Lane and so to Westminster +Hall, where at the lobby I spoke with the rest of my guests and so to my +office. At noon went by water with Mr. Maylard and Hales to the Swan in +Fish Street at our Goal Feast, where we were very merry at our Jole +of Ling, and from thence after a great and good dinner Mr. Falconberge +would go drink a cup of ale at a place where I had like to have shot +at a scholar that lay over the house of office. Thence calling on Mr. +Stephens and Wootton (with whom I drank) about business of my Lord's I +went to the Coffee Club where there was nothing done but choosing of a +Committee for orders. Thence to Westminster Hall where Mrs. Lane and the +rest of the maids had their white scarfs, all having been at the burial +of a young bookseller in the Hall. +</p> +<pre> + [These stationers and booksellers, whose shops disfigured + Westminster Hall down to a late period, were a privileged class. + In the statutes for appointing licensers and regulating the press, + there is a clause exempting them from the pains and penalties of + these obnoxious laws.] +</pre> +<p> +Thence to Mr. Sheply's and took him to my house and drank with him in +order to his going to-morrow. So parted and I sat up late making up my +accounts before he go. This day three citizens of London went to meet +Monk from the Common Council! +</p> +<pre> + "Jan. 20th. Then there went out of the City, by desire of the Lord + Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Alderman Fowke and Alderman Vincett, + alias Vincent, and Mr. Broomfield, to compliment General Monk, who + lay at Harborough Town, in Leicestershire." + + "Jan. 21st. Because the Speaker was sick, and Lord General Monk so + near London, and everybody thought that the City would suffer for + their affronts to the soldiery, and because they had sent the sword- + bearer to, the General without the Parliament's consent, and the + three Aldermen were gone to give him the welcome to town, these four + lines were in almost everybody's mouth: + + "Monk under a hood, not well understood, + The City pull in their horns; + The Speaker is out, and sick of the gout, + And the Parliament sit upon thorns." + —Rugge's 'Diurnal.'—B." +</pre> +<p> +21st. Up early in finishing my accounts and writing to my Lord and from +thence to my Lord's and took leave of Mr. Sheply and possession of all +the keys and the house. Thence to my office for some money to pay Mr. +Sheply and sent it him by the old man. I then went to Mr. Downing who +chid me because I did not give him notice of some of his guests failed +him but I told him that I sent our porter to tell him and he was not +within, but he told me that he was within till past twelve o'clock. So +the porter or he lied. Thence to my office where nothing to do. Then +with Mr. Hawly, he and I went to Mr. Crew's and dined there. Thence +into London, to Mr. Vernon's and I received my L25 due by bill for my +troopers' pay. Then back again to Steadman's. At the Mitre, in Fleet +street, in our way calling on Mr. Fage, who told me how the City have +some hopes of Monk. Thence to the Mitre, where I drank a pint of wine, +the house being in fitting for Banister to come hither from Paget's. +Thence to Mrs. Jem and gave her L5. So home and left my money and to +Whitehall where Luellin and I drank and talked together an hour at +Marsh's and so up to the clerks' room, where poor Mr. Cook, a black man, +that is like to be put out of his clerk's place, came and railed at me +for endeavouring to put him out and get myself in, when I was already +in a good condition. But I satisfied him and after I had wrote a letter +there to my Lord, wherein I gave him an account how this day Lenthall +took his chair again, and [the House] resolved a declaration to be +brought in on Monday next to satisfy the world what they intend to do. +So home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +22nd. I went in the morning to Mr. Messum's, where I met with W. +Thurburn and sat with him in his pew. A very eloquent sermon about the +duty of all to give good example in our lives and conversation, which I +fear he himself was most guilty of not doing. After sermon, at the door +by appointment my wife met me, and so to my father's to dinner, where we +had not been to my shame in a fortnight before. After dinner my father +shewed me a letter from Mr. Widdrington, of Christ's College, in +Cambridge, wherein he do express very great kindness for my brother, +and my father intends that my brother shall go to him. To church in the +afternoon to Mr. Herring, where a lazy poor sermon. And so home with +Mrs. Turner and sitting with her a while we went to my father's where we +supt very merry, and so home. This day I began to put on buckles to my +shoes, which I have bought yesterday of Mr. Wotton. +</p> +<p> +23rd. In the morning called out to carry L20 to Mr. Downing, which I did +and came back, and finding Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, I took him to the +Axe and gave him his morning draft. Thence to my office and there did +nothing but make up my balance. Came home and found my wife dressing of +the girl's head, by which she was made to look very pretty. I went out +and paid Wilkinson what I did owe him, and brought a piece of beef home +for dinner. Thence I went out and paid Waters, the vintner, and went to +see Mrs. Jem, where I found my Lady Wright, but Scott was so drunk that +he could not be seen. Here I staid and made up Mrs. Ann's bills, and +played a game or two at cards, and thence to Westminster Hall, it being +very dark. I paid Mrs. Michell, my bookseller, and back to Whitehall, +and in the garden, going through to the Stone Gallery—[The Stone +Gallery was a long passage between the Privy Garden and the river. It +led from the Bowling Green to the Court of the Palace]—I fell into a +ditch, it being very dark. At the Clerk's chamber I met with Simons +and Luellin, and went with them to Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cock Pit, +where we had some rare pot venison, and ale to abundance till almost +twelve at night, and after a song round we went home. This day the +Parliament sat late, and resolved of the declaration to be printed for +the people's satisfaction, promising them a great many good things. +</p> +<p> +24th. In the morning to my office, where, after I had drank my morning +draft at Will's with Ethell and Mr. Stevens, I went and told part of the +excise money till twelve o'clock, and then called on my wife and took +her to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a +pair of new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late. There +when we came we found Mrs. Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, who +called one another husband and wife, and after dinner a great deal +of mad stir. There was pulling off Mrs. bride's and Mr. bridegroom's +ribbons; +</p> +<pre> + [The scramble for ribbons, here mentioned by Pepys in connection + with weddings (see also January 26th, 1660-61, and February 8th, + 1662-3), doubtless formed part of the ceremony of undressing the + bridegroom, which, as the age became more refined, fell into disuse. + All the old plays are silent on the custom; the earliest notice of + which occurs in the old ballad of the wedding of Arthur O'Bradley, + printed in the Appendix to "Robin Hood," 1795, where we read— + + "Then got they his points and his garters, + And cut them in pieces like martyrs; + And then they all did play + For the honour of Arthur O'Bradley." + + Sir Winston Churchill also observes ("Divi Britannici," p. 340) that + James I. was no more troubled at his querulous countrymen robbing + him than a bridegroom at the losing of his points and garters. Lady + Fanshawe, in her "Memoirs," says, that at the nuptials of Charles + II. and the Infanta, "the Bishop of London declared them married in + the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and then they + caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces; and + as far as they would go, every one had some." The practice still + survives in the form of wedding favours. + + A similar custom is still of every day's occurrence at Dieppe. Upon + the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom + perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests + at the wedding festival, two and two; each individual wearing two + bits of narrow ribbon, about two inches in length, of different + colours, which are pinned crossways upon the breast. These morsels + of ribbons originally formed the garters of the bride and + bridegroom, which had been divided amidst boisterous mirth among the + assembled company, the moment the happy pair had been formally + installed in the bridal bed.—Ex. inf. Mr. William.Hughes, + Belvedere, Jersey.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +with a great deal of fooling among them that I and my wife did not like. +Mr. Lucy and several other gentlemen coming in after dinner, swearing +and singing as if they were mad, only he singing very handsomely. There +came in afterwards Mr. Southerne, clerk to Mr. Blackburne, and with +him Lambert, lieutenant of my Lord's ship, and brought with them the +declaration that came out to-day from the Parliament, wherein they +declare for law and gospel, and for tythes; but I do not find people apt +to believe them. After this taking leave I went to my father's, and +my wife staying there, he and I went to speak with Mr. Crumlum (in the +meantime, while it was five o'clock, he being in the school, we went +to my cozen Tom Pepys' shop, the turner in Paul's Churchyard, and drank +with him a pot of ale); he gave my father directions what to do about +getting my brother an exhibition, and spoke very well of my brother. +Thence back with my father home, where he and I spoke privately in the +little room to my sister Pall about stealing of things as my wife's +scissars and my maid's book, at which my father was much troubled. Hence +home with my wife and so to Whitehall, where I met with Mr. Hunt and +Luellin, and drank with them at Marsh's, and afterwards went up and +wrote to my Lord by the post. This day the Parliament gave order that +the late Committee of Safety should come before them this day se'nnight, +and all their papers, and their model of Government that they had made, +to be brought in with them. So home and talked with my wife about our +dinner on Thursday. +</p> +<p> +25th. Called up early to Mr. Downing; he gave me a Character, such a one +as my Lord's, to make perfect, and likewise gave me his order for L500 +to carry to Mr. Frost, which I did and so to my office, where I did do +something about the character till twelve o'clock. Then home find +found my wife and the maid at my Lord's getting things ready against +to-morrow. I went by water to my Uncle White's' to dinner, where I +met my father, where we alone had a fine jole of Ling to dinner. After +dinner I took leave, and coming home heard that in Cheapside there had +been but a little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson +</p> +<pre> + [John Hewson, who, from a low origin, became a colonel in the + Parliament army, and sat in judgment on the King: he escaped hanging + by flight, and died in 1662, at Amsterdam. A curious notice of + Hewson occurs in Rugge's "Diurnal," December 5th, 1659, which states + that "he was a cobbler by trade, but a very stout man, and a very + good commander; but in regard of his former employment, they [the + city apprentices] threw at him old shoes, and slippers, and + turniptops, and brick-bats, stones, and tiles."... "At this + time [January, 1659-60] there came forth, almost every day, jeering + books: one was called 'Colonel Hewson's Confession; or, a Parley + with Pluto,' about his going into London, and taking down the gates + of Temple-Bar." He had but one eye, which did not escape the notice + of his enemies.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +hung upon it in the middle of the street. I called at Paul's Churchyard, +where I bought Buxtorf's Hebrew Grammar; and read a declaration of the +gentlemen of Northampton which came out this afternoon. Thence to my +father's, where I staid with my mother a while and then to Mr. Crew's +about a picture to be sent into the country, of Mr. Thomas Crew, to my +Lord. So [to] my Lady Wright to speak with her, but she was abroad, so +Mr. Evans, her butler, had me into his buttery, and gave me sack and +a lesson on his lute, which he played very well. Thence I went to my +Lord's and got most things ready against tomorrow, as fires and laying +the cloth, and my wife was making of her tarts and larding of her +pullets till eleven o'clock. This evening Mr. Downing sent for me, and +gave me order to go to Mr. Jessop for his papers concerning his dispatch +to Holland which were not ready, only his order for a ship to transport +him he gave me. To my Lord's again and so home with my wife, tired with +this day's work. +</p> +<p> +26th. To my office for L20 to carry to Mr. Downing, which I did and back +again. Then came Mr. Frost to pay Mr. Downing his L500, and I went to +him for the warrant and brought it Mr. Frost. Called for some papers at +Whitehall for Mr. Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council for +L1800 per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, Orders to the +Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods pass free. Home from my +office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine +dinner—viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; +a dish of fowl, three pullets, and two dozen of larks all in a dish; a +great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and +cheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. +Pierce, and all their wives, and my brother Tom. We were as merry as I +could frame myself to be in the company, W. Joyce talking after the old +rate and drinking hard, vexed his father and mother and wife. And I did +perceive that Mrs. Pierce her coming so gallant, that it put the two +young women quite out of courage. When it became dark they all went +away but Mr. Pierce, and W. Joyce, and their wives and Tom, and drank a +bottle of wine afterwards, so that Will did heartily vex his father and +mother by staying. At which I and my wife were much pleased. Then they +all went and I fell to writing of two characters for Mr. Downing, and +carried them to him at nine o'clock at night, and he did not like them +but corrected them, so that to-morrow I am to do them anew. To my Lord's +lodging again and sat by the great log, it being now a very good fire, +with my wife, and ate a bit and so home. The news this day is a letter +that speaks absolutely Monk's concurrence with this Parliament, and +nothing else, which yet I hardly believe. After dinner to-day my +father showed me a letter from my Uncle Robert, in answer to my last, +concerning my money which I would have out of my Coz. Beck's' hand, +wherein Beck desires it four months longer, which I know not how to +spare. +</p> +<p> +27th. Going to my office I met with Tom Newton, my old comrade, and took +him to the Crown in the Palace, and gave him his morning draft. And as +he always did, did talk very high what he would do with the Parliament, +that he would have what place he would, and that he might be one of the +Clerks to the Council if he would. Here I staid talking with him till +the offices were all shut, and then I looked in the Hall, and was told +by my bookseller, Mrs. Michell, that Mr. G. Montagu had inquired there +for me. So I went to his house, and was forced by him to dine with him, +and had a plenteous brave dinner and the greatest civility that ever I +had from any man. Thence home and so to Mrs. Jem, and played with her +at cards, and coming home again my wife told me that Mr. Hawly had been +there to speak with me, and seemed angry that I had not been at the +office that day, and she told me she was afraid that Mr. Downing may +have a mind to pick some hole in my coat. So I made haste to him, but +found no such thing from him, but he sent me to Mr. Sherwin's about +getting Mr. Squib to come to him tomorrow, and I carried him an answer. +So home and fell a writing the characters for Mr. Downing, and about +nine at night Mr. Hawly came, and after he was gone I sat up till almost +twelve writing, and—wrote two of them. In the morning up early and +wrote another, my wife lying in bed and reading to me. +</p> +<p> +28th. I went to Mr. Downing and carried him three characters, and then +to my office and wrote another, while Mr. Frost staid telling money. And +after I had done it Mr. Hawly came into the office and I left him and +carried it to Mr. Downing, who then told me that he was resolved to be +gone for Holland this morning. So I to my office again, and dispatch my +business there, and came with Mr. Hawly to Mr. Downing's lodging, and +took Mr. Squib from White Hall in a coach thither with me, and there we +waited in his chamber a great while, till he came in; and in the mean +time, sent all his things to the barge that lay at Charing-Cross +Stairs. Then came he in, and took a very civil leave of me, beyond my +expectation, for I was afraid that he would have told me something of +removing me from my office; but he did not, but that he would do me any +service that lay in his power. So I went down and sent a porter to my +house for my best fur cap, but he coming too late with it I did not +present it to him. Thence I went to Westminster Hall, and bound up my +cap at Mrs. Michell's, who was much taken with my cap, and endeavoured +to overtake the coach at the Exchange and to give it him there, but I +met with one that told me that he was gone, and so I returned and went +to Heaven, +</p> +<pre> + [A place of entertainment within or adjoining Westminster Hall. It + is called in "Hudibras," "False Heaven, at the end of the Hall." + There were two other alehouses near Westminster Hall, called Hell + and Purgatory. + + "Nor break his fast + In Heaven and Hell." + + Ben Jonson's Alchemist, act v. SC. 2.] +</pre> +<p> +where Luellin and I dined on a breast of mutton all alone, discoursing +of the changes that we have seen and the happiness of them that have +estates of their own, and so parted, and I went by appointment to my +office and paid young Mr. Walton L500; it being very dark he took L300 +by content. He gave me half a piece and carried me in his coach to +St. Clement's, from whence I went to Mr. Crew's and made even with Mr. +Andrews, and took in all my notes and gave him one for all. Then to +my Lady Wright and gave her my Lord's letter which he bade me give her +privately. So home and then to Will's for a little news, then came home +again and wrote to my Lord, and so to Whitehall and gave them to the +post-boy. Back again home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +29th. In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where he made an excellent +sermon upon the 2d of the Galatians, about the difference that fell +between St. Paul and St. Peter (the feast day of St. Paul being a day +or two ago), whereby he did prove, that, contrary to the doctrine of +the Roman Church, St. Paul did never own any dependance, or that he was +inferior to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only one a particular +charge of preaching to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles. Here +I met with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner to Mr. Crew's, +where Mr. Spurrier being in town did dine with us. From thence I went +home and spent the afternoon in casting up my accounts, and do find +myself to be worth L40 and more, which I did not think, but am afraid +that I have forgot something. To my father's to supper, where I heard by +my brother Tom how W. Joyce would the other day have Mr. Pierce and his +wife to the tavern after they were gone from my house, and that he had +so little manners as to make Tom pay his share notwithstanding that +he went upon his account, and by my father I understand that my uncle +Fenner and my aunt were much pleased with our entertaining them. After +supper home without going to see Mrs. Turner. +</p> +<p> +30th. This morning, before I was up, I fell a-singing of my song, +"Great, good, and just," &c. +</p> +<pre> + [This is the beginning of the Marquis of Montrose's verses on the + execution of Charles I., which Pepys had set to music: + + "Great, good, and just, could I but rate + My grief and thy too rigid fate, + I'd weep the world to such a strain + That it should deluge once again. + But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies + More from Briareus' hands, than Argus eyes, + I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, + And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds."] +</pre> +<p> +and put myself thereby in mind that this was the fatal day, now ten +years since, his Majesty died. Scull the waterman came and brought me +a note from the Hope from Mr. Hawly with direction, about his money, he +tarrying there till his master be gone. To my office, where I received +money of the excise of Mr. Ruddyer, and after we had done went to Will's +and staid there till 3 o'clock and then I taking my L12 10s. 0d. due to +me for my last quarter's salary, I went with them by water to London to +the house where Signr. Torriano used to be and staid there a while with +Mr. Ashwell, Spicer and Ruddier. Then I went and paid L12 17s. 6d. due +from me to Captn. Dick Matthews according to his direction the last week +in a letter. After that I came back by water playing on my flageolette +and not finding my wife come home again from her father's I went and sat +awhile and played at cards with Mrs. Jam, whose maid had newly got an +ague and was ill thereupon. So homewards again, having great need to +do my business, and so pretending to meet Mr. Shott the wood monger of +Whitehall I went and eased myself at the Harp and Ball, and thence home +where I sat writing till bed-time and so to bed. There seems now to be +a general cease of talk, it being taken for granted that Monk do resolve +to stand to the Parliament, and nothing else. Spent a little time this +night in knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber. +</p> +<p> +31st. In the morning I fell to my lute till 9 o'clock. Then to my Lord's +lodgings and set out a barrel of soap to be carried to Mrs. Ann. Here I +met with Nick Bartlet, one that had been a servant of my Lord's at sea +and at Harper's gave him his morning draft. So to my office where I +paid; L1200 to Mr. Frost and at noon went to Will's to give one of the +Excise office a pot of ale that came to-day to tell over a bag of his +that wanted; L7 in it, which he found over in another bag. Then home and +dined with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard +from his master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in +his lawsuit with Squib about his house and office. After dinner to +Westminster Hall, where all we clerks had orders to wait upon the +Committee, at the Star Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones, +</p> +<pre> + [Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles + Corbet, for treasonable practices in Ireland.] +</pre> +<p> +and were to give an account what money we had paid him; but the +Committee did not sit to-day. Hence to Will's, where I sat an hour or +two with Mr. Godfrey Austin, a scrivener in King Street. Here I met and +afterwards bought the answer to General Monk's letter, which is a very +good one, and I keep it by me. Thence to Mrs. Jem, where I found her +maid in bed in a fit of the ague, and Mrs. Jem among the people below at +work and by and by she came up hot and merry, as if they had given her +wine, at which I was troubled, but said nothing; after a game at cards, +I went home and wrote by the post and coming back called in at Harper's +and drank with Mr. Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse, who tells me, +that whereas my Lord Fleetwood should have answered to the Parliament +to-day, he wrote a letter and desired a little more time, he being a +great way out of town. And how that he is quite ashamed of himself, and +confesses how he had deserved this, for his baseness to his brother. +And that he is like to pay part of the money, paid out of the Exchequer +during the Committee of Safety, out of his own purse again, which I am +glad of. Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in Polixandre. +</p> +<pre> + ["Polexandre," by Louis Le Roy de Gomberville, was first published + in 1632. "The History of Polexander" was "done into English by W. + Browne," and published in folio, London, 1647. It was the earliest + of the French heroic romances, and it appears to have been the model + for the works of Calprenede and Mdlle. de Scuderi; see Dunlop's + "History of Fiction" for the plot of the romance.] +</pre> +<p> +I could find nothing in Mr. Downing's letter, which Hawly brought me, +concerning my office; but I could discern that Hawly had a mind that I +would get to be Clerk of the Council, I suppose that he might have the +greater salary; but I think it not safe yet to change this for a public +employment. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0004"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + FEBRUARY 1659-1660 +</h2> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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, +</p> +<pre> + [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.] +</pre> +<p> +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 +</p> +<pre> + [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."] +</pre> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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 +</p> +<pre> + [Links were torches of tow or pitch to light the way. Ed.] +</pre> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<pre> + ["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.] +</pre> +<p> +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 Ed.], 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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<pre> + [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.] +</pre> +<p> +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? +</p> +<pre> + [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.] +</pre> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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 +</p> +<pre> + [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.] +</pre> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<pre> + [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.] +</pre> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<pre> + [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.] +</pre> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +25th. To the Falcon, in the Petty Cury, +</p> +<pre> + [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.] +</pre> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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, +</p> +<pre> + [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.] +</pre> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<p> +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, +</p> +<pre> + [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."] +</pre> +<p> +the first I ever drank. To my mother's and supped there. +</p> +<p> +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. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0005"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + MARCH 1659-1660 +</h2> +<p> +March 1st. In the morning went to my Lord's lodgings, thinking to have +spoke with Mr. Sheply, having not been to visit him since my coming to +town. But he being not within I went up, and out of the box where my +Lord's pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own +use and left the rest. Then to my office, where little to do, abut +Mr. Sheply comes to me, so at dinner time he and I went to Mr. Crew's, +whither Mr. Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. +Yelverton, a my old school-fellow at Paul's School, to bring the thanks +of the county to General Monk for the return of the Parliament. But old +Mr. Crew and my Lord not coming home to dinner, we tarried late before +we went to dinner, it being the day that John, Mr. John Crew's coachman, +was to be buried in the afternoon, he being a day or two before killed +with a blow of one of his horses that struck his skull into his brain. +From thence Mr. Sheply and I went into London to Mr. Laxton's; my Lord's +apothecary, and so by water to Westminster, where at the Sun [tavern] he +and I spent two or three hours in a pint or two of wine, discoursing of +matters in the country, among other things telling me that my uncle +did to him make a very kind mention of me, and what he would do for me. +Thence I went home, and went to bed betimes. This day the Parliament did +vote that they would not sit longer than the 15th day of this month. +</p> +<p> +2d. This morning I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, where I spoke to +him. Here were a great many come to see him, as Secretary Thurlow who is +now by this Parliament chosen again Secretary of State. There were also +General Monk's trumpeters to give my Lord a sound of their trumpets this +morning. Thence I went to my office, and wrote a letter to Mr. Downing +about the business of his house. Then going home, I met with Mr. Eglin, +Chetwind, and Thomas, who took me to the Leg [another tavern] in King's +street, where we had two brave dishes of meat, one of fish, a carp and +some other fishes, as well done as ever I ate any. After that to the +Swan tavern, where we drank a quart or two of wine, and so parted. So +I to Mrs. Jem and took Mr. Moore with me (who I met in the street), and +there I met W. Howe and Sheply. After that to Westminster Hall, where +I saw Sir G. Booth at liberty. This day I hear the City militia is put +into good posture, and it is thought that Monk will not be able to do +any great matter against them now, if he have a mind. I understand that +my Lord Lambert did yesterday send a letter to the Council, and that +to-night he is to come and appear to the Council in person. Sir Arthur +Haselrigge do not yet appear in the House. Great is the talk of a +single person, and that it would now be Charles, George, or Richard +again.—[Charles II., or George Monk, or Richard Cromwell.]—For the +last of which, my Lord St. John is said to speak high. Great also is the +dispute now in the House, in whose name the writs shall run for the next +Parliament; and it is said that Mr. Prin, in open House, said, "In King +Charles's." From Westminster Hall home. Spent the evening in my study, +and so after some talk with my wife, then to bed. +</p> +<p> +3d. To Westminster Hall, where I found that my Lord was last night voted +one of the Generals at Sea, and Monk the other. I met my Lord in the +Hall, who bid me come to him at noon. I met with Mr. Pierce the purser, +Lieut. Lambert, Mr. Creed, and Will. Howe, and went with them to the +Swan tavern. Up to my office, but did nothing. At noon home to dinner to +a sheep's head. My brother Tom came and dined with me, and told me that +my mother was not very well, and that my Aunt Fenner was very ill too. +After dinner I to Warwick House, in Holborn, to my Lord, where he dined +with my Lord of Manchester, Sir Dudley North, my Lord Fiennes, and my +Lord Barkly. I staid in the great hall, talking with some gentlemen +there, till they all come out. Then I, by coach with my Lord, to Mr. +Crew's, in our way talking of publick things, and how I should look +after getting of his Commissioner's despatch. He told me he feared there +was new design hatching, as if Monk had a mind to get into the saddle. +Here I left him, and went by appointment to Hering, the merchant, but +missed of my money, at which I was much troubled, but could not help +myself. Returning, met Mr. Gifford, who took me and gave me half a pint +of wine, and told me, as I hear this day from many, that things are in a +very doubtful posture, some of the Parliament being willing to keep the +power in their hands. After I had left him, I met with Tom Harper, +who took me into a place in Drury Lane, where we drank a great deal +of strong water, more than ever I did in my life at onetime before. He +talked huge high that my Lord Protector would come in place again, which +indeed is much discoursed of again, though I do not see it possible. +Hence home and wrote to my father at Brampton by the post. So to bed. +This day I was told that my Lord General Fleetwood told my lord that he +feared the King of Sweden is dead of a fever at Gottenburg. +</p> +<p> +4th. Lord's day. Before I went to church I sang Orpheus' Hymn to my +viall. After that to Mr. Gunning's, an excellent sermon upon charity. +Then to my mother to dinner, where my wife and the maid were come. After +dinner we three to Mr. Messum's where we met Mons. L'Impertinent, who +got us a seat and told me a ridiculous story how that last week he had +caused a simple citizen to spend; L80 in entertainments of him and some +friends of his upon pretence of some service that he would do him in his +suit after a widow. Then to my mother again, and after supper she and I +talked very high about religion, I in defence of the religion I was born +in. Then home. +</p> +<p> +5th. Early in the morning Mr. Hill comes to string my theorbo, +</p> +<pre> + [The theorbo was a bass lute. Having gut strings it was played with + the fingers. There is a humorous comparison of the long waists of + ladies, which came into fashion about 1621, with the theorbo, by + Bishop Corbet: + + "She was barr'd up in whale-bones, that did leese + None of the whale's length, for they reached her knees; + Off with her head, and then she hath a middle + As her waste stands, just like the new found fiddle, + The favourite Theorbo, truth to tell ye, + Whose neck and throat are deeper than the belly." + + Corbet, 'Iter Boreale'.] +</pre> +<p> +which we were about till past ten o'clock, with a great deal of +pleasure. Then to Westminster, where I met with Mr. Sheply and Mr. +Pinkney at Will's, who took me by water to Billingsgate, at the +Salutation Tavern, whither by-and-by, Mr. Talbot and Adams came, and +bring a great [deal of] good meat, a ham of bacon, &c. Here we staid +and drank till Mr. Adams began to be overcome. Then we parted, and so to +Westminster by water, only seeing Mr. Pinkney at his own house, where he +shewed me how he had alway kept the Lion and Unicorn, in the back of his +chimney, bright, in expectation of the King's coming again. At home +I found Mr. Hunt, who told me how the Parliament had voted that the +Covenant be printed and hung in churches again. Great hopes of the +King's coming again. To bed. +</p> +<p> +6th. (Shrove Tuesday.) I called Mr. Sheply and we both went up to my +Lord's lodgings at Mr. Crew's, where he bade us to go home again, and +get a fire against an hour after. Which we did at White Hall, whither +he came, and after talking with him and me about his going to sea, he +called me by myself to go along with him into the garden, where he asked +me how things were with me, and what he had endeavoured to do with my +uncle to get him to do something for me but he would say nothing too. He +likewise bade me look out now at this turn some good place, and he would +use all his own, and all the interest of his friends that he had in +England, to do me good. And asked me whether I could, without too much +inconvenience, go to sea as his secretary, and bid me think of it. He +also began to talk of things of State, and told me that he should want +one in that capacity at sea, that he might trust in, and therefore he +would have me to go. He told me also, that he did believe the King would +come in, and did discourse with me about it, and about the affection +of the people and City, at which I was full glad. After he was gone, I +waiting upon him through the garden till he came to the Hall, where I +left him and went up to my office, where Mr. Hawly brought one to me, +a seaman, that had promised Rio to him if he get him a purser's place, +which I think to endeavour to do. Here comes my uncle Tom, whom I +took to Will's and drank with, poor man, he comes to inquire about the +knights of Windsor, of which he desires to get to be one. +</p> +<pre> + [The body of Poor Knights of Windsor was founded by Edward III. The + intention of the king with regard to the poor knights was to provide + relief and comfortable subsistence for such valiant soldiers as + happened in their old age to fall into poverty and decay. On + September 20th, 1659, a Report having been read respecting the Poor + Knights of Windsor, the House "ordered that it be referred to a + Committee, to look into the revenue for maintenance of the Poor + Knights of Windsor," &c. (See Tighe and Davis's "Annals of + Windsor.")] +</pre> +<p> +While we were drinking, in comes Mr. Day, a carpenter in Westminster, to +tell me that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that I must go with him to their +yearly Club upon this day, which I confess I had quite forgot. So I went +to the Bell, where were Mr. Eglin, Veezy, Vincent a butcher, one more, +and Mr. Tanner, with whom I played upon a viall, and he a viallin, after +dinner, and were very merry, with a special good dinner, a leg of veal +and bacon, two capons and sausages and fritters, with abundance of wine. +After that I went home, where I found Kate Sterpin who hath not been +here a great while before. She gone I went to see Mrs. Jem, at whose +chamber door I found a couple of ladies, but she not being there, we +hunted her out, and found that she and another had hid themselves behind +a door. Well, they all went down into the dining-room, where it was full +of tag, rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, of which I was +ashamed, and after I had staid a dance or two I went away. Going home, +called at my Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with a +pewterer, that he had bought pewter to-day of. With them I drank, and so +home and wrote by the post, by my Lord's command, for J. Goods to come +up presently. For my Lord intends to go forthwith into the Swiftsure +till the Nazeby be ready. This day I hear that the Lords do intend to +sit, and great store of them are now in town, and I see in the Hall +to-day. Overton at Hull do stand out, but can, it is thought, do +nothing; and Lawson, it is said, is gone with some ships thither, but +all that is nothing. My Lord told me, that there was great endeavours to +bring in the Protector again; but he told me, too, that he did believe +it would not last long if he were brought in; no, nor the King neither +(though he seems to think that he will come in), unless he carry himself +very soberly and well. Every body now drinks the King's health without +any fear, whereas before it was very private that a man dare do it. Monk +this day is feasted at Mercers' Hall, and is invited one after another +to all the twelve Halls in London! Many think that he is honest yet, and +some or more think him to be a fool that would raise himself, but think +that he will undo himself by endeavouring it. My mind, I must needs +remember, has been very much eased and joyed at my Lord's great +expressions of kindness this day, and in discourse thereupon my wife and +I lay awake an hour or two in our bed. +</p> +<p> +7th. (Ash Wednesday.) In the morning I went to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, +in my way Washington overtook me and told me upon my question whether +he knew of any place now void that I might have, by power over friends, +that this day Mr. G. Montagu was to be made 'Custos Rotulorum' for +Westminster, and that by friends I might get to be named by him Clerk of +the Peace, with which I was, as I am at all new things, very much joyed, +so when I came to Mr. Crew's, I spoke to my Lord about it, who told me +he believed Mr. Montagu had already promised it, and that it was given +him only that he might gratify one person with the place I look for. +Here, among many that were here, I met with Mr. Lynes, the surgeon, who +promised me some seeds of the sensitive plant. +</p> +<pre> + [Evelyn, about the same date (August 9th, 1661), "tried several + experiments on the sensitive plant and humilis, which contracted + with the least touch of the sun through a burning glass, though it + rises and opens only when it shines on it"] +</pre> +<p> +I spoke too with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who gave me great encouragement +to go to sea with my Lord. Thence going homewards, my Lord overtook me +in his coach, and called me in, and so I went with him to St. James's, +and G. Montagu being gone to White Hall, we walked over the Park +thither, all the way he discoursing of the times, and of the change +of things since the last year, and wondering how he could bear with so +great disappointment as he did. He did give me the best advice that he +could what was best for me, whether to stay or go with him, and offered +all the ways that could be, how he might do me good, with the greatest +liberty and love that could be. I left him at Whitehall, and myself went +to Westminster to my office, whither nothing to do, but I did discourse +with Mr. Falconbridge about Le Squire's place, and had his consent to +get it if I could. I afterwards in the Hall met with W. Simons, who +put me in the best way how to get it done. Thence by appointment to +the Angel in King Street, where Chetwind, Mr. Thomas and Doling were at +oysters, and beginning Lent this day with a fish dinner. After dinner +Mr. Thomas and I by water to London, where I went to Herring's and +received the L50 of my Lord's upon Frank's bill from Worcester. I gave +in the bill and set my hand to his bill. Thence I went to the Pope's +Head Alley and called on Adam Chard, and bought a catcall there, it cost +me two groats. Thence went and gave him a cup of ale. After that to the +Sun behind the Exchange, where meeting my uncle Wight by the way, took +him with me thither, and after drinking a health or two round at the +Cock (Mr. Thomas being gone thither), we parted, he and I homewards, +parted at Fleet Street, where I found my father newly come home from +Brampton very well. He left my uncle with his leg very dangerous, and do +believe he cannot continue in that condition long. He tells me that my +uncle did acquaint him very largely what he did intend to do with his +estate, to make me his heir and give my brother Tom something, and that +my father and mother should have likewise something, to raise portions +for John and Pall. I pray God he may be as good as his word. Here I +staid and supped and so home, there being Joyce Norton there and Ch. +Glascock. Going home I called at Wotton's and took home a piece of +cheese. At home Mr. Sheply sat with me a little while, and so we all +to bed. This news and my Lord's great kindness makes me very cheerful +within. I pray God make me thankful. This day, according to order, Sir +Arthur [Haselrigge] appeared at the House; what was done I know not, but +there was all the Rumpers almost come to the House to-day. My Lord did +seem to wonder much why Lambert was so willing to be put into the Tower, +and thinks he has some design in it; but I think that he is so poor that +he cannot use his liberty for debts, if he were at liberty; and so it is +as good and better for him to be there, than any where else. +</p> +<p> +8th. To Whitehall to bespeak some firing for my father at Short's, and +likewise to speak to Mr. Blackburne about Batters being gunner in the +"Wexford." Then to Westminster Hall, where there was a general damp over +men's minds and faces upon some of the Officers of the Army being about +making a remonstrance against Charles Stuart or any single person; but +at noon it was told, that the General had put a stop to it, so all was +well again. Here I met with Jasper, who was to look for me to bring me +to my Lord at the lobby; whither sending a note to my Lord, he comes out +to me and gives me direction to look after getting some money for him +from the Admiralty, seeing that things are so unsafe, that he would not +lay out a farthing for the State, till he had received some money of +theirs. Home about two o'clock, and took my wife by land to Paternoster +Row, to buy some Paragon for a petticoat and so home again. In my way +meeting Mr. Moore, who went home with me while I ate a bit and so back +to Whitehall again, both of us. He waited at the Council for Mr. Crew. +I to the Admiralty, where I got the order for the money, and have taken +care for the getting of it assigned upon Mr. Hutchinson, Treasurer for +the Navy, against tomorrow. Hence going home I met with Mr. King that +belonged to the Treasurers at War and took him to Harper's, who told me +that he and the rest of his fellows are cast out of office by the new +Treasurers. This afternoon, some of the Officers of the Army, and some +of the Parliament, had a conference at White Hall to make all right +again, but I know not what is done. This noon I met at the Dog tavern +Captain Philip Holland, with whom I advised how to make some advantage +of my Lord's going to sea, which he told me might be by having of +five or six servants entered on board, and I to give them what wages I +pleased, and so their pay to be mine; he was also very urgent to have +me take the Secretary's place, that my Lord did proffer me. At the same +time in comes Mr. Wade and Mr. Sterry, secretary to the plenipotentiary +in Denmark, who brought the news of the death of the King of Sweden +at Gottenburgh the 3rd of the last month, and he told me what a great +change he found when he came here, the secluded members being restored. +He also spoke very freely of Mr. Wades profit, which he made while he +was in Zeeland, how he did believe that he cheated Mr. Powell, and that +he made above L500 on the voyage, which Mr. Wade did very angrily deny, +though I believe he was guilty enough. +</p> +<p> +9th. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to Westminster with him in the +coach, with Mr. Dudley with him, and he in the Painted Chamber +</p> +<pre> + [The Painted Chamber, or St. Edward's Chamber, in the old Palace at + Westminster. The first name was given to it from the curious + paintings on the walls, and the second from the tradition that + Edward the Confessor died in it.] +</pre> +<p> +walked a good while; and I telling him that I was willing and ready +to go with him to sea, he agreed that I should, and advised me what +to write to Mr. Downing about it, which I did at my office, that by my +Lord's desire I offered that my place might for a while be supplied by +Mr. Moore, and that I and my security should be bound by the same bond +for him. I went and dined at Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hawly comes to me, +and I told him the business and shewed him the letter promising him L20 +a year, which he liked very well of. I did the same to Mr. Moore, which +he also took for a courtesy. In the afternoon by coach, taking Mr. +Butler with me to the Navy Office, about the L500 for my Lord, which I +am promised to have to-morrow morning. Then by coach back again, and at +White Hall at the Council Chamber spoke with my Lord and got him to sign +the acquittance for the L500, and he also told me that he had spoke to +Mr. Blackburne to put off Mr. Creed and that I should come to him for +direction in the employment. After this Mr. Butler and I to Harper's, +where we sat and drank for two hours till ten at night; the old woman +she was drunk and began to talk foolishly in commendation of her son +James. Home and to bed. All night troubled in my thoughts how to order +my business upon this great change with me that I could not sleep, and +being overheated with drink I made a promise the next morning to drink +no strong drink this week, for I find that it makes me sweat and puts me +quite out of order. This day it was resolved that the writs do go out in +the name of the Keepers of the Liberty, and I hear that it is resolved +privately that a treaty be offered with the King. And that Monk did +check his soldiers highly for what they did yesterday. +</p> +<p> +10th. In the morning went to my father's, whom I took in his cutting +house,—[His father was a tailor, and this was his cutting-out +room.]—and there I told him my resolution to go to sea with my Lord, +and consulted with him how to dispose of my wife, and we resolved of +letting her be at Mr. Bowyer's. Thence to the Treasurer of the Navy, +where I received L500 for my Lord, and having left L200 of it with +Mr. Rawlinson at his house for Sheply, I went with the rest to the Sun +tavern on Fish Street Hill, where Mr. Hill, Stevens and Mr. Hater of +the Navy Office had invited me, where we had good discourse and a fine +breakfast of Mr. Hater. Then by coach home, where I took occasion to +tell my wife of my going to sea, who was much troubled at it, and was +with some dispute at last willing to continue at Mr. Bowyer's in my +absence. After this to see Mrs. Jem and paid her maid L7, and then to +Mr. Blackburne, who told me what Mr. Creed did say upon the news of my +coming into his place, and that he did propose to my Lord that there +should be two Secretaries, which made me go to Sir H. Wright's where my +Lord dined and spoke with him about it, but he seemed not to agree to +the motion. Hither W. Howe comes to me and so to Westminster. In the way +he told me, what I was to provide and so forth against my going. He went +with me to my office, whither also Mr. Madge comes half foxed and played +the fool upon the violin that made me weary. Then to Whitehall and so +home and set many of my things in order against my going. My wife was +late making of caps for me, and the wench making an end of a pair of +stockings that she was knitting of. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +11th. (Sunday.) All the day busy without my band on, putting up my books +and things, in order to my going to sea. At night my wife and I went to +my father's to supper, where J. Norton and Chas. Glascocke supt with us, +and after supper home, where the wench had provided all things against +tomorrow to wash, and so to bed, where I much troubled with my cold and +coughing. +</p> +<p> +12th. This day the wench rose at two in the morning to wash, and my wife +and I lay talking a great while. I by reason of my cold could not tell +how to sleep. My wife and I to the Exchange, where we bought a great +many things, where I left her and went into London, and at Bedells the +bookseller's at the Temple gate I paid L12 10s. 6d. for Mr. Fuller by +his direction. So came back and at Wilkinson's found Mr. Sheply and some +sea people, as the cook of the Nazeby and others, at dinner. Then to the +White Horse in King Street, where I got Mr. Buddle's horse to ride to +Huntsmore to Mr. Bowyer's, where I found him and all well, and willing +to have my wife come and board with them while I was at sea, which was +the business I went about. Here I lay and took a thing for my cold, +namely a spoonful of honey and a nutmeg scraped into it, by Mr. Bowyer's +direction, and so took it into my mouth, which I found did do me much +good. +</p> +<p> +13th. It rained hard and I got up early, and got to London by 8 o'clock +at my Lord's lodgings, who told me that I was to be secretary, and Creed +to be deputy treasurer to the Fleet, at which I was troubled, but I +could not help it. After that to my father's to look after things, and +so at my shoemaker's and others. At night to Whitehall, where I met with +Simons and Luellin at drink with them at Roberts at Whitehall. Then to +the Admiralty, where I talked with Mr. Creed till the Brothers, and they +were very seemingly willing and glad that I have the place since my Lord +would dispose of it otherwise than to them. Home and to bed. This day +the Parliament voted all that had been done by the former Rump against +the House of Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out without +any qualification. Things seem very doubtful what will be the end of +all; for the Parliament seems to be strong for the King, while the +soldiers do all talk against. +</p> +<p> +14th. To my Lord, where infinity of applications to him and to me. To my +great trouble, my Lord gives me all the papers that was given to him, to +put in order and give him an account of them. Here I got half-a-piece of +a person of Mr. Wright's recommending to my Lord to be Preacher of the +Speaker frigate. I went hence to St. James's and Mr. Pierce the surgeon +with me, to speak with Mr. Clerke, Monk's secretary, about getting some +soldiers removed out of Huntingdon to Oundle, which my Lord told me +he did to do a courtesy to the town, that he might have the greater +interest in them, in the choice of the next Parliament; not that he +intends to be chosen himself, but that he might have Mr. G. Montagu +and my Lord Mandeville chose there in spite of the Bernards. This done +(where I saw General Monk and methought he seemed a dull heavy man), he +and I to Whitehall, where with Luellin we dined at Marsh's. Coming home +telling my wife what we had to dinner, she had a mind to some cabbage, +and I sent for some and she had it. Went to the Admiralty, where a +strange thing how I am already courted by the people. This morning among +others that came to me I hired a boy of Jenkins of Westminster and Burr +to be my clerk. This night I went to Mr. Creed's chamber where he gave +me the former book of the proceedings in the fleet and the Seal. Then to +Harper's where old Beard was and I took him by coach to my Lord's, but +he was not at home, but afterwards I found him out at Sir H. Wright's. +Thence by coach, it raining hard, to Mrs. Jem, where I staid a while, +and so home, and late in the night put up my things in a sea-chest that +Mr. Sheply lent me, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +15th. Early packing up my things to be sent by cart with the rest of my +Lord's. So to Will's, where I took leave of some of my friends. Here I +met Tom Alcock, one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I had +not seen him these sixteen years. So in the Hall paid and made even with +Mrs. Michell; afterwards met with old Beale, and at the Axe paid him +this quarter to Ladyday next. In the afternoon Dick Mathews comes to +dine, and I went and drank with him at Harper's. So into London by +water, and in Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d. +and went to the Sun Tavern and ate it, where I did promise to give her +all that I have in the world but my books, in case I should die at sea. +From thence homewards; in the way my wife bought linen for three smocks +and other things. I went to my Lord's and spoke with him. So home with +Mrs. Jem by coach and then home to my own house. From thence to the Fox +in King-street to supper on a brave turkey of Mr. Hawly's, with +some friends of his there, Will Bowyer, &c. After supper I went to +Westminster Hall, and the Parliament sat till ten at night, thinking and +being expected to dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not. Great +talk to-night that the discontented officers did think this night to +make a stir, but prevented. To the Fox again. Home with my wife, and to +bed extraordinary sleepy. +</p> +<p> +16th. No sooner out of bed but troubled with abundance of clients, +seamen. My landlord Vanly's man came to me by my direction yesterday, +for I was there at his house as I was going to London by water, and I +paid him rent for my house for this quarter ending at Lady day, and took +an acquittance that he wrote me from his master. Then to Mr. Sheply, to +the Rhenish Tavern House, where Mr. Pim, the tailor, was, and gave us a +morning draft and a neat's tongue. Home and with my wife to London, we +dined at my father's, where Joyce Norton and Mr. Armiger dined also. +After dinner my wife took leave of them in order to her going to-morrow +to Huntsmore. In my way home I went to the Chapel in Chancery Lane +to bespeak papers of all sorts and other things belonging to writing +against my voyage. So home, where I spent an hour or two about my +business in my study. Thence to the Admiralty, and staid a while, so +home again, where Will Bowyer came to tell us that he would bear my wife +company in the coach to-morrow. Then to Westminster Hall, where I heard +how the Parliament had this day dissolved themselves, and did pass very +cheerfully through the Hall, and the Speaker without his mace. The whole +Hall was joyful thereat, as well as themselves, and now they begin to +talk loud of the King. To-night I am told, that yesterday, about five +o'clock in the afternoon, one came with a ladder to the Great Exchange, +and wiped with a brush the inscription that was upon King Charles, and +that there was a great bonfire made in the Exchange, and people called +out "God bless. King Charles the Second!" +</p> +<pre> + ["Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the + statue of Charles I, in the Royal Exchange ('Exit tyrannus, Regum + ultimus, anno libertatis Angliae, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx.) + was washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, + and with a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down + his pot and brush and said it should never do him any more service, + in regard that it had the honour to put out rebels' hand-writing. + He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, + and by whose order it was done was not then known. The merchants + were glad and joyful, many people were gathered together, and + against the Exchange made a bonfire. "Rugge's Diurnal." In the + Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts at the British Museum is a + pamphlet which is dated in MS. March 21st, 1659-60, where this act + is said to be by order of Monk: "The Loyal Subjects Teares for the + Sufferings and Absence of their Sovereign Charles II., King of + England, Scotland, and Ireland; with an Observation upon the + expunging of 'Exit Tyrannus, Regum ultimus', by order of General + Monk, and some Advice to the Independents, Anabaptists, Phanatiques, + &c. London, 1660."] +</pre> +<p> +From the Hall I went home to bed, very sad in mind to part with my wife, +but God's will be done. +</p> +<p> +17th. This morning bade adieu in bed to the company of my wife. We rose +and I gave my wife some money to serve her for a time, and what papers +of consequence I had. Then I left her to get her ready and went to my +Lord's with my boy Eliezer to my Lord's lodging at Mr. Crew's. Here I +had much business with my Lord, and papers, great store, given me by my +Lord to dispose of as of the rest. After that, with Mr. Moore home to my +house and took my wife by coach to the Chequer in Holborn, where, after +we had drank, &c., she took coach and so farewell. I staid behind with +Tom Alcock and Mr. Anderson, my old chamber fellow at Cambridge his +brother, and drank with them there, who were come to me thither about +one that would have a place at sea. Thence with Mr. Hawly to dinner at +Mr. Crew's. After dinner to my own house, where all things were put up +into the dining-room and locked up, and my wife took the keys along with +her. +</p> +<p> +This day, in the presence of Mr. Moore (who made it) and Mr. Hawly, I +did before I went out with my wife, seal my will to her, whereby I did +give her all that I have in the world, but my books which I give to my +brother John, excepting only French books, which my wife is to have. In +the evening at the Admiralty, I met my Lord there and got a commission +for Williamson to be captain of the Harp frigate, and afterwards went +by coach taking Mr. Crips with me to my Lord and got him to sign it at +table as he was at supper. And so to Westminster back again with him +with me, who had a great desire to go to sea and my Lord told me that he +would do him any favour. So I went home with him to his mother's house +by me in Axe Yard, where I found Dr. Clodius's wife and sat there +talking and hearing of old Mrs. Crisp playing of her old lessons upon +the harpsichon till it was time to go to bed. After that to bed, and +Laud, her son lay with me in the best chamber in her house, which indeed +was finely furnished. +</p> +<p> +18th. I rose early and went to the barber's (Jervas) in Palace Yard and +I was trimmed by him, and afterwards drank with him a cup or two of ale, +and did begin to hire his man to go with me to sea. Then to my Lord's +lodging where I found Captain Williamson and gave him his commission +to be Captain of the Harp, and he gave me a piece of gold and 20s. in +silver. So to my own house, where I staid a while and then to dinner +with Mr. Shepley at my Lord's lodgings. After that to Mr. Mossum's, +where he made a very gallant sermon upon "Pray for the life of the King +and the King's son." (Ezra vi. 10.) From thence to Mr. Crew's, but my +Lord not being within I did not stay, but went away and met with Mr. +Woodfine, who took me to an alehouse in Drury Lane, and we sat and drank +together, and ate toasted cakes which were very good, and we had a great +deal of mirth with the mistress of the house about them. From thence +homewards, and called at Mr. Blagrave's, where I took up my note that he +had of mine for 40s., which he two years ago did give me as a pawn while +he had my lute. So that all things are even between him and I. So to +Mrs. Crisp, where she and her daughter and son and I sat talking +till ten o'clock at night, I giving them the best advice that I could +concerning their son, how he should go to sea, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business to do, which makes +my head full; and indeed, for these two or three days, I have not been +without a great many cares and thoughts concerning them. After that to +the Admiralty, where a good while with Mr. Blackburne, who told me that +it was much to be feared that the King would come in, for all good men +and good things were now discouraged. Thence to Wilkinson's, where +Mr. Sheply and I dined; and while we were at dinner, my Lord Monk's +lifeguard come by with the Serjeant at Arms before them, with two +Proclamations, that all Cavaliers do depart the town; but the other that +all officers that were lately disbanded should do the same. The last of +which Mr. R. Creed, I remember, said, that he looked upon it as if they +had said, that all God's people should depart the town. Thence with some +sea officers to the Swan, where we drank wine till one comes to me to +pay me some money from Worcester, viz., L25. His name is Wilday. I sat +in another room and took my money and drank with him till the rest of my +company were gone and so we parted. Going home the water was high, +and so I got Crockford to carry me over it. So home, and left my money +there. All the discourse now-a-day is, that the King will come again; +and for all I see, it is the wishes of all; and all do believe that it +will be so. My mind is still much troubled for my poor wife, but I hope +that this undertaking will be worth my pains. To Whitehall and staid +about business at the Admiralty late, then to Tony Robins's, where Capt. +Stokes, Mr. Luddington and others were, and I did solicit the Captain +for Laud Crisp, who gave me a promise that he would entertain him. After +that to Mrs. Crisp's where Dr. Clodius and his wife were. He very merry +with drink. We played at cards late and so to bed. This day my Lord +dined at my Lord Mayor's [Allen], and Jasper was made drunk, which my +Lord was very angry at. +</p> +<p> +20th. This morning I rose early and went to my house to put things in a +little order against my going, which I conceive will be to-morrow (the +weather still very rainy). After that to my Lord, where I found very +great deal of business, he giving me all letters and papers that come +to him about business, for me to give him account of when we come +on shipboard. Hence with Capt. Isham by coach to Whitehall to the +Admiralty. He and I and Chetwind, Doling and Luellin dined together at +Marsh's at Whitehall. So to the Bull Head whither W. Simons comes to us +and I gave them my foy +</p> +<pre> + [Foy. A feast given by one who is about to leave a place. In Kent, + according to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or + coming home. See Diary, November 25th, 1661.] +</pre> +<p> +against my going to sea; and so we took leave one of another, they +promising me to write to me to sea. Hither comes Pim's boy, by my +direction, with two monteeres—[Monteeres, montero (Spanish), a kind of +huntsman's cap.]—for me to take my choice of, and I chose the saddest +colour and left the other for Mr. Sheply. Hence by coach to London, and +took a short melancholy leave of my father and mother, without having +them to drink, or say anything of business one to another. And indeed I +had a fear upon me I should scarce ever see my mother again, she having +a great cold then upon her. Then to Westminster, where by reason of rain +and an easterly wind, the water was so high that there was boats rowed +in King Street and all our yard was drowned, that one could not go to my +house, so as no man has seen the like almost, most houses full of water. +</p> +<pre> + ["In this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, so + that great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King + Street being quite drowned. The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and + twelve persons with her. Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon + the mainland; and in Kent was very much damage done; so that report + said, there was L20,000 worth of harm done."—Rugge's Diurnal.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +Then back by coach to my Lord's; where I met Mr. Sheply, who staid with +me waiting for my Lord's coming in till very late. Then he and I, and +William Howe went with our swords to bring my Lord home from Sir H. +Wright's. He resolved to go to-morrow if the wind ceased. Sheply and I +home by coach. I to Mrs. Crisp's, who had sat over a good supper long +looking for me. So we sat talking and laughing till it was very late, +and so Laud and I to bed. +</p> +<p> +21st. To my Lord's, but the wind very high against us, and the weather +bad we could not go to-day; here I did very much business, and then to +my Lord Widdrington's from my Lord, with his desire that he might have +the disposal of the writs of the Cinque Ports. My Lord was very civil to +me, and called for wine, and writ a long letter in answer. Thence I went +to a tavern over against Mr. Pierce's with judge Advocate Fowler and Mr. +Burr, and sat and drank with them two or three pints of wine. After that +to Mr. Crew's again and gave my Lord an account of what I had done, and +so about my business to take leave of my father and mother, which by +a mistake I have put down yesterday. Thence to Westminster to Crisp's, +where we were very merry; the old woman sent for a supper for me, and +gave me a handkercher with strawberry buttons on it, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +22nd. Up very early and set things in order at my house, and so took +leave of Mrs. Crispe and her daughter (who was in bed) and of Mrs. Hunt. +Then to my Lord's lodging at the gate and did so there, where Mr. Hawly +came to me and I gave him the key of my house to keep, and he went with +me to Mr. Crew's, and there I took my last leave of him. But the weather +continuing very bad my Lord would not go to-day. My Lord spent this +morning private in sealing of his last will and testament with Mr. W. +Mountagu. After that I went forth about my own business to buy a pair of +riding grey serge stockings and sword and belt and hose, and after that +took Wotton and Brigden to the Pope's Head Tavern in Chancery Lane, +where Gilb. Holland and Shelston were, and we dined and drank a great +deal of wine, and they paid all. Strange how these people do now promise +me anything; one a rapier, the other a vessel of wine or a gun, and one +offered me his silver hatband to do him a courtesy. I pray God to +keep me from being proud or too much lifted up hereby. After that to +Westminster, and took leave of Kate Sterpin who was very sorry to part +with me, and after that of Mr. George Mountagu, and received my warrant +of Mr. Blackburne, to be Secretary to the two Generals of the Fleet. +Then to take my leave of the Clerks of the Council, and thence Doling +and Luellin would have me go with them to Mount's chamber, where we +sat and talked and then I went away. So to my Lord (in my way meeting +Chetwind and Swan and bade them farewell) where I lay all night with Mr. +Andrews. This day Mr. Sheply went away on board and I sent my boy with +him. This day also Mrs. Jemimah went to Marrowbone, so I could not see +her. Mr. Moore being out of town to-night I could not take leave of him +nor speak to him about business which troubled me much. I left my small +case therefore with Mr. Andrews for him. +</p> +<p> +23rd. Up early, carried my Lord's will in a black box to Mr. William +Montagu for him to keep for him. Then to the barber's and put on my +cravat there. So to my Lord again, who was almost ready to be gone and +had staid for me. Hither came Gilb. Holland, and brought me a stick +rapier and Shelston a sugar-loaf, and had brought his wife who he said +was a very pretty woman to the Ship tavern hard by for me to see but +I could not go. Young Reeve also brought me a little perspective glass +which I bought for my Lord, it cost me 8s. So after that my Lord in Sir +H. Wright's coach with Captain Isham, Mr. Thomas, John Crew, W. Howe, +and I in a Hackney to the Tower, where the barges staid for us; my Lord +and the Captain in one, and W. Howe and I, &c., in the other, to the +Long Reach, where the Swiftsure lay at anchor; (in our way we saw the +great breach which the late high water had made, to the loss of many +L1000 to the people about Limehouse.) Soon as my Lord on board, the +guns went off bravely from the ships. And a little while after comes the +Vice-Admiral Lawson, and seemed very respectful to my Lord, and so did +the rest of the Commanders of the frigates that were thereabouts. I to +the cabin allotted for me, which was the best that any had that belonged +to my Lord. I got out some things out of my chest for writing and to +work presently, Mr. Burr and I both. I supped at the deck table with Mr. +Sheply. We were late writing of orders for the getting of ships ready, +&c.; and also making of others to all the seaports between Hastings and +Yarmouth, to stop all dangerous persons that are going or coming between +Flanders and there. After that to bed in my cabin, which was but short; +however I made shift with it and slept very well, and the weather being +good I was not sick at all yet, I know not what I shall be. +</p> +<p> +24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to the Council, &c. This +day Mr. Creed came on: board and dined very boldly with my Lord, but +he could not get a bed there. At night Capt. Isham who had been at +Gravesend all last night and to-day came and brought Mr. Lucy (one +acquainted with Mrs. Pierce, with whom I had been at her house), I drank +with him in the Captain's cabin, but my business could not stay with +him. I despatch many letters to-day abroad and it was late before we +could get to bed. Mr. Sheply and Howe supped with me in my cabin. The +boy Eliezer flung down a can of beer upon my papers which made me give +him a box of the ear, it having all spoiled my papers and cost me a +great deal of work. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +25th. (Lord's day). About two o'clock in the morning, letters came from +London by our coxon, so they waked me, but I would not rise but bid him +stay till morning, which he did, and then I rose and carried them in +to my Lord, who read them a-bed. Among the rest, there was the writ +and mandate for him to dispose to the Cinque Ports for choice of +Parliament-men. There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with +his own hand superscribes it to S.P. Esq., of which God knows I was +not a little proud. After that I wrote a letter to the Clerk of Dover +Castle, to come to my Lord about issuing of those writs. About ten +o'clock Mr. Ibbott, at the end of the long table, begun to pray +and preach and indeed made a very good sermon, upon the duty of all +Christians to be stedfast in faith. After that Captain Cuttance and +I had oysters, my Lord being in his cabin not intending to stir out +to-day. After that up into the great cabin above to dinner with the +Captain, where was Captain Isham and all the officers of the ship. I +took place of all but the Captains; after dinner I wrote a great many +letters to my friends at London. After that, sermon again, at which I +slept, God forgive me! After that, it being a fair day, I walked with +the Captain upon the deck talking. At night I supped with him and after +that had orders from my Lord about some business to be done against +to-morrow, which I sat up late and did and then to bed. +</p> +<p> +26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God that I was cut of +the stone at Mrs. Turner's in Salisbury Court. And did resolve while I +live to keep it a festival, as I did the last year at my house, and for +ever to have Mrs. Turner and her company with me. But now it pleases God +that I am where I am and so prevented to do it openly; only within my +soul I can and do rejoice, and bless God, being at this time blessed be +his holy name, in as good health as ever I was in my life. This morning +I rose early, and went about making of an establishment of the whole +Fleet, and a list of all the ships, with the number of men and guns: +About an hour after that, we had a meeting of the principal commanders +and seamen, to proportion out the number of these things. After that +to dinner, there being very many commanders on board. All the afternoon +very many orders were made, till I was very weary. At night Mr. Sheply +and W. Howe came and brought some bottles of wine and some things to eat +in my cabin, where we were very merry, remembering the day of being +cut for the stone. Captain Cuttance came afterwards and sat drinking a +bottle of wine till eleven, a kindness he do not usually do the greatest +officer in the ship. After that to bed. +</p> +<p> +27th. Early in the morning at making a fair new establishment of the +Fleet to send to the Council. This morning, the wind came about, and we +fell into the Hope,—[A reach of the Thames near Tilbury.]—and in our +passing by the Vice-Admiral, he and the rest of the frigates, with him, +did give us abundance of guns and we them, so much that the report of +them broke all the windows in my cabin and broke off the iron bar that +was upon it to keep anybody from creeping in at the Scuttle.—["A small +hole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for +ventilation. That in the deck is a small hatch-way."—Smyth's Sailor's +Word-Book.]—This noon I sat the first time with my Lord at table since +my coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in writing of letters +and orders. In the afternoon, Sir Harry Wright came onboard us, about +his business of being chosen Parliament-man. My Lord brought him to see +my cabin, when I was hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord too, +with the Captain, and after that to work again till it be very late. So +to bed. +</p> +<p> +28th. This morning and the whole day busy, and that the more because Mr. +Burr was about his own business all the day at Gravesend. At night there +was a gentleman very well bred, his name was Banes, going for Flushing, +who spoke French and Latin very well, brought by direction from Captain +Clerke hither, as a prisoner, because he called out of the vessel that +he went in, "Where is your King, we have done our business, Vive le +Roi." He confessed himself a Cavalier in his heart, and that he and his +whole family had fought for the King; but that he was then drunk, having +been all night taking his leave at Gravesend the night before, and +so could not remember what it was that he said; but in his words and +carriage showed much of a gentleman. My Lord had a great kindness for +him, but did not think it safe to release him, but commanded him to +be used civilly, so he was taken to the Master's Cabin and had supper +there. In the meantime I wrote a letter to the Council about him, and an +order for the vessel to be sent for back that he was taken out of. But +a while after, he sent a letter down to my Lord, which my Lord did like +very well, and did advise with me what was best to be done. So I put in +something to my Lord and then to the Captain that the gentleman was to +be released and the letter stopped, which was done. So I went up and sat +and talked with him in Latin and French, and drank a bottle or two with +him; and about eleven at night he took boat again, and so God bless him. +Thence I to my cabin and to bed. This day we had news of the election at +Huntingdon for Bernard and Pedly, at which my Lord was much troubled for +his friends' missing of it. +</p> +<p> +29th. We lie still a little below Gravesend. At night Mr. Sheply +returned from London, and told us of several elections for the next +Parliament. That the King's effigies was new making to be set up in +the Exchange again. This evening was a great whispering of some of the +Vice-Admiral's captains that they were dissatisfied, and did intend to +fight themselves, to oppose the General. But it was soon hushed, and the +Vice-Admiral did wholly deny any such thing, and protested to stand by +the General. At night Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, and I supped in my cabin. So +up to the Master's cabin, where we sat talking, and then to bed. +</p> +<p> +30th. I was saluted in the morning with two letters, from some that I +had done a favour to, which brought me in each a piece of gold. This +day, while my Lord and we were at dinner, the Nazeby came in sight +towards us, and at last came to anchor close by us. After dinner my Lord +and many others went on board her, where every thing was out of order, +and a new chimney made for my Lord in his bedchamber, which he was much +pleased with. My Lord, in his discourse, discovered a great deal of love +to this ship. +</p> +<p> +31st. This morning Captain Jowles of the "Wexford" came on board, for +whom I got commission from my Lord to be commander of the ship. Upon the +doing thereof he was to make the 20s. piece that he sent me yesterday, +up L5; wherefore he sent me a bill that he did owe me L4., which I sent +my boy to Gravesend with him, and he did give the boy L4 for me, and the +boy gave him the bill under his hand. This morning, Mr. Hill that lives +in Axe-yard was here on board with the Vice-Admiral. I did give him a +bottle of wine, and was exceedingly satisfied of the power that I have +to make my friends welcome. Many orders to make all the afternoon. At +night Mr. Sheply, Howe, Ibbott, and I supped in my cabin together. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0006"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + APRIL 1660 +</h2> +<p> +April 1st (Lord's day). Mr. Ibbott preached very well. After dinner my +Lord did give me a private list of all the ships that were to be set out +this summer, wherein I do discern that he bath made it his care to put +by as much of the Anabaptists as he can. By reason of my Lord and my +being busy to send away the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it was +four o'clock before we could begin sermon again. This day Captain Guy +come on board from Dunkirk, who tells me that the King will come in, and +that the soldiers at Dunkirk do drink the King's health in the streets. +At night the Captain, Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Sheply, and I did sup together +in the Captain's cabin. I made a commission for Captain Wilgness, of +the Bear, to-night, which got me 30s. So after writing a while I went to +bed. +</p> +<p> +2d. Up very early, and to get all my things and my boy's packed up. +Great concourse of commanders here this morning to take leave of my Lord +upon his going into the Nazeby, so that the table was full, so there +dined below many commanders, and Mr. Creed, who was much troubled to +hear that he could not go along with my Lord, for he had already got all +his things thither, thinking to stay there, but W. Howe was very high +against it, and he indeed did put him out, though everybody was glad of +it. After dinner I went in one of the boats with my boy before my Lord, +and made shift before night to get my cabin in pretty good order. It +is but little, but very convenient, having one window to the sea +and another to the deck, and a good bed. This morning comes Mr. Ed. +Pickering, like a coxcomb as he always was. He tells me that the King +will come in, but that Monk did resolve to have the doing of it himself, +or else to hinder it. +</p> +<p> +3d. Late to bed. About three in the morning there was great knocking at +my cabin, which with much difficulty (so they say) waked me, and I +rose, but it was only for a packet, so went to my bed again, and in the +morning gave it my Lord. This morning Capt. Isham comes on board to see +my Lord and drunk his wine before he went into the Downs, there likewise +come many merchants to get convoy to the Baltique, which a course was +taken for. They dined with my Lord, and one of them by name Alderman +Wood talked much to my Lord of the hopes that we have now to be settled, +(under the King he meant); but my Lord took no notice of it. After +dinner which was late my Lord went on shore, and after him I and Capt. +Sparling went in his boat, but the water being almost at low water we +could not stay for fear of not getting into our boat again. So back +again. This day come the Lieutenant of the Swiftsure, who was sent by +my Lord to Hastings, one of the Cinque Ports, to have got Mr. Edward +Montagu to have been one of their burgesses, but could not, for they +were all promised before. After he had done his message, I took him and +Mr. Pierce, the surgeon (who this day came on board, and not before), to +my cabin, where we drank a bottle of wine. At night, busy a-writing, and +so to bed. My heart exceeding heavy for not hearing of my dear wife, and +indeed I do not remember that ever my heart was so apprehensive of her +absence as at this very time. +</p> +<p> +4th. This morning I dispatch many letters of my own private business to +London. There come Colonel Thomson with the wooden leg, and General Pen, +</p> +<pre> + [This is the first mention in the Diary of Admiral (afterwards Sir + William) Penn, with whom Pepys was subsequently so particularly + intimate. At this time admirals were sometimes styled generals. + William Penn was born at Bristol in 1621, of the ancient family of + the Penns of Penn Lodge, Wilts. He was Captain at the age of + twenty-one; Rear-Admiral of Ireland at twenty-three; Vice-Admiral of + England and General in the first Dutch war, at thirty-two. He was + subsequently M.P. for Weymouth, Governor of Kingsale, and Vice- + Admiral of Munster. He was a highly successful commander, and in + 1654 he obtained possession of Jamaica. He was appointed a + Commissioner of the Navy in 1660, in which year he was knighted. + After the Dutch fight in 1665, where he distinguished himself as + second in command under the Duke of York, he took leave of the sea, + but continued to act as a Commissioner for the Navy till 1669, when + he retired to Wanstead, on account of his bodily infirmities, and + dying there, September 16th, 1670, aged forty-nine, was buried in + the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, where a monument to + his memory was erected.] +</pre> +<p> +and dined with my Lord and Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it was +certain now that the King must of necessity come in, and that one of the +Council told him there is something doing in order to a treaty already +among them. And it was strange to hear how Mr. Blackburne did already +begin to commend him for a sober man, and how quiet he would be under +his government, &c. I dined all alone to prevent company, which was +exceeding great to-day, in my cabin. After these two were gone Sir W. +Wheeler and Sir John Petters came on board and staid about two or three +hours, and so went away. The Commissioners came to-day, only to consult +about a further reducement of the Fleet, and to pay them as fast as they +can. I did give Davis, their servant, L5 10s. to give to Mr. Moore from +me, in part of the L7 that I borrowed of him, and he is to discount the +rest out of the 36s. that he do owe me. At night, my Lord resolved to +send the Captain of our ship to Waymouth and promote his being chosen +there, which he did put himself into a readiness to do the next morning. +</p> +<p> +5th. Infinity of business all the morning of orders to make, that I +was very much perplexed that Mr. Burr had failed me of coming back last +night, and we ready to set sail, which we did about noon, and came in +the evening to Lee roads and anchored. At night Mr. Sheply overtook us +who had been at Gray's Market this morning. I spent all the afternoon +upon the deck, it being very pleasant weather. This afternoon Sir Rich. +Stayner and Mr. Creed, after we were come to anchor, did come on board, +and Creed brought me L30, which my Lord had ordered him to pay me upon +account, and Captain Clerke brought me a noted caudle. At night very +sleepy to bed. +</p> +<p> +6th. This morning came my brother-in-law Balty to see me, and to desire +to be here with me as Reformado,—["a broken or disbanded officer."] +which did much trouble me. But after dinner (my Lord using him very +civilly, at table) I spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter to +Captain Stokes for him that he should be there. All the day with +him walking and talking, we under sail as far as the Spitts. In the +afternoon, W. Howe and I to our viallins, the first time since we came +on board. This afternoon I made even with my Lord to this day, and did +give him all the money remaining in my hands. In the evening, it being +fine moonshine, I staid late walking upon the quarter-deck with Mr. +Cuttance, learning of some sea terms; and so down to supper and to bed, +having an hour before put Balty into Burr's cabin, he being out of the +ship. +</p> +<p> +7th. This day, about nine o'clock in the morning, the wind grew high, +and we being among the sands lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy and +squeamish. Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some oysters, +the best my Lord said that ever he ate in his life, though I have ate as +good at Bardsey. After dinner, and all the afternoon I walked upon the +deck to keep myself from being sick, and at last about five o'clock, +went to bed and got a caudle made me, and sleep upon it very well. This +day Mr. Sheply went to Sheppy. +</p> +<p> +8th (Lord's day). Very calm again, and I pretty well, but my head aked +all day. About noon set sail; in our way I see many vessels and masts, +which are now the greatest guides for ships. We had a brave wind all the +afternoon, and overtook two good merchantmen that overtook us yesterday, +going to the East Indies. The lieutenant and I lay out of his window +with his glass, looking at the women that were on board them, being +pretty handsome. This evening Major Willoughby, who had been here three +or four days on board with Mr. Pickering, went on board a catch [ketch] +for Dunkirk. We continued sailing when I went to bed, being somewhat +ill again, and Will Howe, the surgeon, parson, and Balty supped in the +Lieutenant's cabin and afterwards sat disputing, the parson for and I +against extemporary prayers, very hot. +</p> +<p> +9th. We having sailed all night, were come in sight of the Nore and +South Forelands in the morning, and so sailed all day. In the afternoon +we had a very fresh gale, which I brooked better than I thought I should +be able to do. This afternoon I first saw France and Calais, with which +I was much pleased, though it was at a distance. About five o'clock we +came to the Goodwin, so to the Castles about Deal; where our Fleet lay, +among whom we anchored. Great was the shout of guns from the castles +and ships, and our answers, that I never heard yet so great rattling of +guns. Nor could we see one another on board for the smoke that was among +us, nor one ship from another. Soon as we came to anchor, the captains +came from on board their ships all to us on board. This afternoon I +wrote letters for my Lord to the Council, &c., which Mr. Dickering was +to carry, who took his leave this night of my Lord, and Balty after I +had wrote two or three letters by him to my wife and Mr. Bowyer, and had +drank a bottle of wine with him in my cabin which J. Goods and W. Howe +brought on purpose, he took leave of me too to go away to-morrow morning +with Mr. Dickering. I lent Balty 15s. which he was to pay to my wife. It +was one in the morning before we parted. This evening Mr. Sheply came +on board, having escaped a very great danger upon a sand coming from +Chatham. +</p> +<p> +10th. This morning many or most of the commanders in the Fleet came on +board and dined here, so that some of them and I dined together in the +Round-house, where we were very merry. Hither came the Vice-Admiral to +us, and sat and talked and seemed a very good-natured man. At night as I +was all alone in my cabin, in a melancholy fit playing on my viallin, my +Lord and Sir R. Stayner came into the coach +</p> +<pre> + ["A sort of chamber or apartment in a large ship of war, just before + the great cabin. The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of + the quarter deck, and the roof of it by the poop: it is generally + the habitation of the flag-captain."—Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book.] +</pre> +<p> +and supped there, and called me out to supper with them. After that up +to the Lieutenant's cabin, where he and I and Sir Richard sat till 11 +o'clock talking, and so to bed. This day my Lord Goring returned from +France, and landed at Dover. +</p> +<p> +11th. A Gentleman came this morning from my Lord of Manchester to +my Lord for a pass for Mr. Boyle,' which was made him. I ate a good +breakfast by my Lord's orders with him in the great cabin below. The +wind all this day was very high, so that a gentleman that was at dinner +with my Lord that came along with Sir John Bloys (who seemed a fine man) +was forced to rise from table. This afternoon came a great packet of +letters from London directed to me, among the rest two from my wife, +the first that I have since coming away from London. All the news from +London is that things go on further towards a King. That the Skinners' +Company the other day at their entertaining of General Monk had took +down the Parliament Arms in their Hall, and set up the King's. In the +evening my Lord and I had a great deal of discourse about the several +Captains of the Fleet and his interest among them, and had his mind +clear to bring in the King. He confessed to me that he was not sure of +his own Captain [Cuttance] to be true to him, and that he did not like +Captain Stokes. At night W. Howe and I at our viallins in my cabin, +where Mr. Ibbott and the lieutenant were late. I staid the lieutenant +late, shewing him my manner of keeping a journal. After that to bed. It +comes now into my mind to observe that I am sensible that I have been a +little too free to make mirth with the minister of our ship, he being a +very sober and an upright man. +</p> +<p> +12th. This day, the weather being very bad, we had no strangers on +board. In the afternoon came the Vice-Admiral on board, with whom my +Lord consulted, and I sent a packet to London at night with several +letters to my friends, as to my wife about my getting of money for +her when she should need it, to Mr. Bowyer that he tell me when the +Messieurs of the offices be paid, to Mr. Moore about the business of my +office, and making even with him as to matter of money. At night after I +had despatched my letters, to bed. +</p> +<p> +13th. This day very foul all day for rain and wind. In the afternoon set +my own things in my cabin and chests in better order than hitherto, and +set my papers in order. At night sent another packet to London by the +post, and after that was done I went up to the lieutenant's cabin and +there we broached a vessel of ale that we had sent for among us from +Deal to-day. There was the minister and doctor with us. After that +till one o'clock in the morning writing letters to Mr. Downing about my +business of continuing my office to myself, only Mr. Moore to execute it +for me. I had also a very serious and effectual letter from my Lord +to him to that purpose. After that done then to bed, and it being very +rainy, and the rain coming upon my bed, I went and lay with John Goods +in the great cabin below, the wind being so high that we were faro to +lower some of the masts. I to bed, and what with the goodness of the bed +and the rocking of the ship I slept till almost ten o'clock, and then— +</p> +<p> +14th. Rose and drank a good morning draught there with Mr. Sheply, +which occasioned my thinking upon the happy life that I live now, had I +nothing to care for but myself. The sea was this morning very high, +and looking out of the window I saw our boat come with Mr. Pierce, the +surgeon, in it in great danger, who endeavouring to come on board us, +had like to have been drowned had it not been for a rope. This day I was +informed that my Lord Lambert is got out of the Towers and that there is +L100 proffered to whoever shall bring him forth to the Council of State. +</p> +<pre> + [The manner of the escape of John Lambert, out of the Tower, on the + 11th inst., as related by Rugge:—"That about eight of the clock at + night he escaped by a rope tied fast to his window, by which he slid + down, and in each hand he had a handkerchief; and six men were ready + to receive him, who had a barge to hasten him away. She who made + the bed, being privy to his escape, that night, to blind the warder + when he came to lock the chamber-door, went to bed, and possessed + Colonel Lambert's place, and put on his night-cap. So, when the + said warder came to lock the door, according to his usual manner, he + found the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be Colonel John + Lambert, he said, 'Good night, my Lord.' To which a seeming voice + replied, and prevented all further jealousies. The next morning, on + coming to unlock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, 'In + the name of God, Joan, what makes you here? Where is my Lord + Lambert?' She said, 'He is gone; but I cannot tell whither.' + Whereupon he caused her to rise, and carried her before the officer + in the Tower, and [she] was committed to custody. Some said that a + lady knit for him a garter of silk, by which he was conveyed down, + and that she received L100 for her pains."—B] +</pre> +<p> +My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedom +brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is +capable of being elected for them. This day I heard that the Army had in +general declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do. At night +supped with my Lord. +</p> +<p> +15th (Lord's day). Up early and was trimmed by the barber in the great +cabin below. After that to put my clothes on and then to sermon, and +then to dinner, where my Lord told us that the University of Cambridge +had a mind to choose him for their burgess, which he pleased himself +with, to think that they do look upon him as a thriving man, and said +so openly at table. At dinner-time Mr. Cook came back from London with a +packet which caused my Lord to be full of thoughts all day, and at night +he bid me privately to get two commissions ready, one for Capt. Robert +Blake to be captain of the Worcester, in the room of Capt. Dekings, an +anabaptist, and one that had witnessed a great deal of discontent with +the present proceedings. The other for Capt. Coppin to come out of that +into the Newbury in the room of Blake, whereby I perceive that General +Monk do resolve to make a thorough change, to make way for the King. +From London I hear that since Lambert got out of the Tower, the +Fanatiques had held up their heads high, but I hope all that will come +to nothing. Late a writing of letters to London to get ready for Mr. +Cook. Then to bed. +</p> +<p> +16th. And about 4 o'clock in the morning Mr. Cook waked me where I lay +in the great cabin below, and I did give him his packet and directions +for London. So to sleep again. All the morning giving out orders and +tickets to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all supernumeraries +that they had above the number that the Council had set in their last +establishment. After dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so till +night, then to bed. +</p> +<p> +17th. All the morning getting ready commissions for the Vice-Admiral and +the Rear-Admiral, wherein my Lord was very careful to express the +utmost of his own power, commanding them to obey what orders they should +receive from the Parliament, &c., or both or either of the Generals. +</p> +<pre> + [Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High + Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of + the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward + himself, or from the Rump Parliament.—Kennett's Register, p. 163.] +</pre> +<p> +The Vice-Admiral dined with us, and in the afternoon my Lord called +me to give him the commission for him, which I did, and he gave it him +himself. A very pleasant afternoon, and I upon the deck all the day, it +was so clear that my Lord's glass shewed us Calais very plain, and the +cliffs were as plain to be seen as Kent, and my Lord at first made me +believe that it was Kent. At night, after supper, my Lord called for +the Rear-Admiral's commission, which I brought him, and I sitting in +my study heard my Lord discourse with him concerning D. King's and +Newberry's being put out of commission. And by the way I did observe +that my Lord did speak more openly his mind to me afterwards at night +than I can find that he did to the Rear-Admiral, though his great +confidant. For I was with him an hour together, when he told me clearly +his thoughts that the King would carry it, and that he did think himself +very happy that he was now at sea, as well for his own sake, as that he +thought he might do his country some service in keeping things quiet. +To bed, and shifting myself from top to toe, there being J. Goods and W. +Howe sat late by my bedside talking. So to sleep, every day bringing me +a fresh sense of the pleasure of my present life. +</p> +<p> +18th. This morning very early came Mr. Edward Montagu on board, but what +was the business of his coming again or before without any servant +and making no stay at all I cannot guess. This day Sir R. Stayner, Mr. +Sheply, and as many of my Lord's people as could be spared went to Dover +to get things ready against to-morrow for the election there. I all +the afternoon dictating in my cabin (my own head being troubled with +multiplicity of business) to Burr, who wrote for me above a dozen +letters, by which I have made my mind more light and clear than I have +had it yet since I came on board. At night sent a packet to London, and +Mr. Cook returned hence bringing me this news, that the Sectaries do +talk high what they will do, but I believe all to no purpose, but the +Cavaliers are something unwise to talk so high on the other side as they +do. That the Lords do meet every day at my Lord of Manchester's, and +resolve to sit the first day of the Parliament. That it is evident now +that the General and the Council do resolve to make way for the King's +coming. And it is now clear that either the Fanatiques must now be +undone, or the gentry and citizens throughout England, and clergy must +fall, in spite of their militia and army, which is not at all possible +I think. At night I supped with W. Howe and Mr. Luellin (being the first +time that I had been so long with him) in the great cabin below. After +that to bed, and W. Howe sat by my bedside, and he and I sang a psalm or +two and so I to sleep. +</p> +<p> +19th. A great deal of business all this day, and Burr being gone to +shore without my leave did vex me much. At dinner news was brought us +that my Lord was chosen at Dover. This afternoon came one Mr. Mansell on +board as a Reformado, to whom my Lord did shew exceeding great respect, +but upon what account I do not yet know. This day it has rained much, so +that when I came to go to bed I found it wet through, so I was fain to +wrap myself up in a dry sheet, and so lay all night. +</p> +<p> +20th. All the morning I was busy to get my window altered, and to +have my table set as I would have it, which after it was done I was +infinitely pleased with it, and also to see what a command I have to +have every one ready to come and go at my command. This evening came Mr. +Boyle on board, for whom I writ an order for a ship to transport him +to Flushing. He supped with my Lord, my Lord using him as a person +of honour. This evening too came Mr. John Pickering on board us. +This evening my head ached exceedingly, which I impute to my sitting +backwards in my cabin, otherwise than I am used to do. To-night Mr. +Sheply told me that he heard for certain at Dover that Mr. Edw. Montagu +did go beyond sea when he was here first the other day, and I am apt to +believe that he went to speak with the King. This day one told me how +that at the election at Cambridge for knights of the shire, Wendby and +Thornton by declaring to stand for the Parliament and a King and the +settlement of the Church, did carry it against all expectation against +Sir Dudley North and Sir Thomas Willis! I supped to-night with Mr. +Sheply below at the half-deck table, and after that I saw Mr. Pickering +whom my Lord brought down to his cabin, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +21st. This day dined Sir John Boys +</p> +<pre> + [Of Bonnington and Sandwich, Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to + Charles I. He defended Donnington Castle, Berkshire, for the King + against Jeremiah Horton, 1644, and received an augmentation to his + arms in consequence.] +</pre> +<p> +and some other gentlemen formerly great Cavaliers, and among the rest +one Mr. Norwood, for whom my Lord give a convoy to carry him to the +Brill,—[Brielle, or Den Briel, a seaport town in the province of South +Holland.]—but he is certainly going to the King. For my Lord commanded +me that I should not enter his name in my book. My Lord do show them and +that sort of people great civility. All their discourse and others are +of the King's coming, and we begin to speak of it very freely. And heard +how in many churches in London, and upon many signs there, and upon +merchants' ships in the river, they had set up the King's arms. In the +afternoon the Captain would by all means have me up to his cabin, and +there treated me huge nobly, giving me a barrel of pickled oysters, +and opened another for me, and a bottle of wine, which was a very great +favour. At night late singing with W. Howe, and under the barber's hands +in the coach. This night there came one with a letter from Mr. Edw. +Montagu to my Lord, with command to deliver it to his own hands. I do +believe that he do carry some close business on for the King. +</p> +<pre> + [Pepys's guess at E. Montagu's business is confirmed by Clarendon's + account of his employment of him to negotiate with Lord Sandwich on + behalf of the King. ("History of the Rebellion," book xvi.)—Notes + and Queries, vol. x. p. 3—M. B.] +</pre> +<p> +This day I had a large letter from Mr. Moore, giving me an account of +the present dispute at London that is like to be at the beginning of +the Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve to sit with the +Commons, as not thinking themselves dissolved yet. Which, whether it +be granted or no, or whether they will sit or no, it will bring a great +many inconveniences. His letter I keep, it being a very well writ one. +</p> +<p> +22d (Easter Sunday). Several Londoners, strangers, friends of the +Captains, dined here, who, among other things told us, how the King's +Arms are every day set up in houses and churches, particularly in +Allhallows Church in Thames-street, John Simpson's church, which being +privately done was, a great eye-sore to his people when they came to +church and saw it. Also they told us for certain, that the King's statue +is making by the Mercers' Company (who are bound to do it) to set up in +the Exchange. After sermon in the afternoon I fell to writing letters +against to-morrow to send to London. After supper to bed. +</p> +<p> +23rd. All the morning very busy getting my packet ready for London, only +for an hour or two had the Captain and Mr. Sheply in my cabin at the +barrel of pickled oysters that the Captain did give me on Saturday last. +After dinner I sent Mr. Dunn to London with the packet. This afternoon +I had 40s. given me by Captain Cowes of the Paradox.' In the evening the +first time that we had any sport among the seamen, and indeed there was +extraordinary good sport after my Lord had done playing at ninepins. +After that W. Howe and I went to play two trebles in the great +cabin below, which my Lord hearing, after supper he called for our +instruments, and played a set of Lock's, two trebles, and a base, and +that being done, he fell to singing of a song made upon the Rump, with +which he played himself well, to the tune of "The Blacksmith." After all +that done, then to bed. +</p> +<pre> + ["The Blacksmith" was the same tune as "Green Sleeves." The + earliest known copy of "The Praise of the Blacksmith" is in "An + Antidote against Melancholy," 1661. See "Roxburghe Ballads," ed. + W. Chappell, 1872, vol. ii. p. 126. (Ballad Society:)] +</pre> +<p> +24th. This morning I had Mr. Luellin and Mr. Sheply to the remainder +of my oysters that were left yesterday. After that very busy all +the morning. While I was at dinner with my Lord, the Coxon of the +Vice-Admiral came for me to the Vice-Admiral to dinner. So I told my +Lord and he gave me leave to go. I rose therefore from table and went, +where there was very many commanders, and very pleasant we were on board +the London, which hath a state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but not +so rich. After that, with the Captain on board our own ship, where we +were saluted with the news of Lambert's being taken, which news was +brought to London on Sunday last. He was taken in Northamptonshire by +Colonel Ingoldsby, at the head of a party, by which means their whole +design is broke, and things now very open and safe. And every man begins +to be merry and full of hopes. In the afternoon my Lord gave a great +large character to write out, so I spent all the day about it, and after +supper my Lord and we had some more very good musique and singing of +"Turne Amaryllis," as it is printed in the song book, with which my Lord +was very much pleased. After that to bed. +</p> +<p> +25th. All the morning about my Lord's character. Dined to-day with +Captain Clerke on board the Speaker (a very brave ship) where was the +Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and many other commanders. After dinner +home, not a little contented to see how I am treated, and with what +respect made a fellow to the best commanders in the Fleet. All the +afternoon finishing of the character, which I did and gave it my Lord, +it being very handsomely done and a very good one in itself, but that +not truly Alphabetical. Supped with Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, &c. in Mr. +Pierce, the Purser's cabin, where very merry, and so to bed. Captain +Isham came hither to-day. +</p> +<p> +26th. This day came Mr. Donne back from London, who brought letters with +him that signify the meeting of the Parliament yesterday. And in the +afternoon by other letters I hear, that about twelve of the Lords met +and had chosen my Lord of Manchester' Speaker of the House of Lords (the +young Lords that never sat yet, do forbear to sit for the present); and +Sir Harbottle Grimstone, Speaker for the House of Commons. The House of +Lords sent to have a conference with the House of Commons, which, after +a little debate, was granted. Dr. Reynolds' preached before the Commons +before they sat. My Lord told me how Sir H. Yelverton (formerly my +school-fellow) was chosen in the first place for Northamptonshire +and Mr. Crew in the second. And told me how he did believe that the +Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians. All the +afternoon I was writing of letters, among the rest one to W. Simons, +Peter Luellin and Tom Doling, which because it is somewhat merry I keep +a copy of. After that done Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I down with J. Goods +into my Lord's storeroom of wine and other drink, where it was very +pleasant to observe the massy timbers that the ship is made of. We in +the room were wholly under water and yet a deck below that. After that +to supper, where Tom Guy supped with us, and we had very good laughing, +and after that some musique, where Mr. Pickering beginning to play a +bass part upon the viall did it so like a fool that I was ashamed of +him. After that to bed. +</p> +<p> +27th. This morning Burr was absent again from on board, which I was +troubled at, and spoke to Mr. Pierce, Purser, to speak to him of it, and +it is my mind. This morning Pim [the tailor] spent in my cabin, putting +a great many ribbons to a suit. After dinner in the afternoon came on +board Sir Thomas Hatton and Sir R. Maleverer going for Flushing; but all +the world know that they go where the rest of the many gentlemen go that +every day flock to the King at Breda. +</p> +<pre> + [The King arrived at Breda on the 14th April. Sir W. Lower writes + ("Voiage and Residence of Charles II. in Holland," p. 5): "Many + considerations obliged him to depart the territories under the + obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs."] +</pre> +<p> +They supped here, and my Lord treated them as he do the rest that go +thither, with a great deal of civility. While we were at supper a packet +came, wherein much news from several friends. The chief is that, that I +had from Mr. Moore, viz. that he fears the Cavaliers in the House will +be so high, that the others will be forced to leave the House and fall +in with General Monk, and so offer things to the King so high on the +Presbyterian account that he may refuse, and so they will endeavour some +more mischief; but when I told my Lord it, he shook his head and told +me, that the Presbyterians are deceived, for the General is certainly +for the King's interest, and so they will not be able to prevail that +way with him. After supper the two knights went on board the Grantham, +that is to convey them to Flushing. I am informed that the Exchequer +is now so low, that there is not L20 there, to give the messenger that +brought the news of Lambert's being taken; which story is very strange +that he should lose his reputation of being a man of courage now at +one blow, for that he was not able to fight one stroke, but desired of +Colonel Ingoldsby several times for God's sake to let him escape. Late +reading my letters, my mind being much troubled to think that, after +all our hopes, we should have any cause to fear any more disappointments +therein. To bed. This day I made even with Mr. Creed, by sending him my +bill and he me my money by Burr whom I sent for it. +</p> +<p> +28th. This morning sending a packet by Mr. Dunne to London. In the +afternoon I played at ninepins with Mr. Pickering, I and Mr. Pett +against him and Ted Osgood, and won a crown apiece of him. He had not +money enough to pay me. After supper my Lord exceeding merry, and he and +I and W. Howe to sing, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +29th (Sunday). This day I put on first my fine cloth suit made of a +cloak that had like to have been [dirted] a year ago, the very day that +I put it on. After sermon in the morning Mr. Cook came from London with +a packet, bringing news how all the young lords that were not in arms +against the Parliament do now sit. That a letter is come from the King +to the House, which is locked up by the Council 'till next Tuesday +that it may be read in the open House when they meet again, they having +adjourned till then to keep a fast tomorrow. And so the contents is not +yet known. L13,000 of the L20,000 given to General Monk is paid out of +the Exchequer, he giving L12 among the teller clerks of Exchequer. My +Lord called me into the great cabin below, where I opened my letters and +he told me that the Presbyterians are quite mastered by the Cavaliers, +and that he fears Mr. Crew did go a little too far the other day in +keeping out the young lords from sitting. That he do expect that the +King should be brought over suddenly, without staying to make any terms +at all, saying that the Presbyterians did intend to have brought him +in with such conditions as if he had been in chains. But he shook his +shoulders when he told me how Monk had betrayed him, for it was he that +did put them upon standing to put out the lords and other members that +came not within the qualifications, which he [Montagu] did not like, but +however he [Monk] had done his business, though it be with some kind +of baseness. After dinner I walked a great while upon the deck with the +chyrurgeon and purser, and other officers of the ship, and they all pray +for the King's coming, which I pray God send. +</p> +<p> +30th. All the morning getting instructions ready for the Squadron of +ships that are going to-day to the Streights, among others Captain +Teddiman, Curtis, and Captain Robert Blake to be commander of the whole +Squadron. After dinner to ninepins, W. Howe and I against Mr. Creed and +the Captain. We lost 5s. apiece to them. After that W. Howe, Mr. Sheply +and I got my Lord's leave to go to see Captain Sparling. So we took boat +and first went on shore, it being very pleasant in the fields; but a +very pitiful town Deal is. We went to Fuller's (the famous place for +ale), but they have none but what was in the vat. After that to Poole's, +a tavern in the town, where we drank, and so to boat again, and went to +the Assistance, where we were treated very civilly by the Captain, and +he did give us such music upon the harp by a fellow that he keeps on +board that I never expect to hear the like again, yet he is a drunken +simple fellow to look on as any I ever saw. After that on board the +Nazeby, where we found my Lord at supper, so I sat down and very +pleasant my Lord was with Mr. Creed and Sheply, who he puzzled about +finding out the meaning of the three notes which my Lord had cut over +the chrystal of his watch. After supper some musique. Then Mr. Sheply, +W. Howe and I up to the Lieutenant's cabin, where we drank, and I and W. +Howe were very merry, and among other frolics he pulls out the spigot of +the little vessel of ale that was there in the cabin and drew some into +his mounteere, and after he had drank, I endeavouring to dash it in his +face, he got my velvet studying cap and drew some into mine too, that +we made ourselves a great deal of mirth, but spoiled my clothes with the +ale that we dashed up and down. After that to bed very late with drink +enough in my head. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0007"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + MAY 1660 +</h2> +<p> +May 1st. This morning I was told how the people of Deal have set up two +or three Maypoles, and have hung up their flags upon the top of them, +and do resolve to be very merry to-day. It being a very pleasant day, I +wished myself in Hide Park. This day I do count myself to have had full +two years of perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heaven +be blessed. This day Captain Parker came on board, and without his +expectation I had a commission for him for the Nonsuch frigate +</p> +<pre> + [The "Nonsuch" was a fourth-rate of thirty-two guns, built at + Deptford in 1646 by Peter Pett, jun. The captain was John Parker.] +</pre> +<p> +(he being now in the Cheriton), for which he gave me a French pistole. +Captain H. Cuttance has commission for the Cheriton. After dinner to +nine-pins, and won something. The rest of the afternoon in my cabin +writing and piping. While we were at supper we heard a great noise upon +the Quarter Deck, so we all rose instantly, and found it was to save the +coxon of the Cheriton, who, dropping overboard, could not be saved, but +was drowned. To-day I put on my suit that was altered from the great +skirts to little ones. To-day I hear they were very merry at Deal, +setting up the King's flag upon one of their maypoles, and drinking his +health upon their knees in the streets, and firing the guns, which the +soldiers of the Castle threatened; but durst not oppose. +</p> +<p> +2nd. In the morning at a breakfast of radishes at the Purser's cabin. +After that to writing till dinner. At which time comes Dunne from +London, with letters that tell us the welcome news of the Parliament's +votes yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest May-day that +bath been many a year to England. The King's letter was read in the +House, wherein he submits himself and all things to them, as to an Act +of Oblivion to all, +</p> +<pre> + ["His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the + safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for + having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it, + and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and + the calling in of their lawful Prince. It is printed and published + as well as the letter, but that shall not hinder me to say, that + there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most + excellent natural qualities, and of all the venues, as well Royal as + Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, than was found + in those two wonderful productions."—Sir William Lowers 'Relation + ... of the voiage and Residence Which... Charles the II. + Hath made in Holland,' Hague, 1660, folio, p. 3.] +</pre> +<p> +unless they shall please to except any, as to the confirming of the +sales of the King's and Church lands, if they see good. The House upon +reading the letter, ordered L50,000 to be forthwith provided to send to +His Majesty for his present supply; and a committee chosen to return an +answer of thanks to His Majesty for his gracious letter; and that the +letter be kept among the records of the Parliament; and in all this not +so much as one No. So that Luke Robinson himself stood up and made a +recantation for what he had done, and promises to be a loyal subject +to his Prince for the time to come. The City of London have put a +Declaration, wherein they do disclaim their owing any other government +but that of a King, Lords, and Commons. Thanks was given by the House to +Sir John Greenville, +</p> +<pre> + [Created Earl of Bath, 1661; son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at + the battle of Lansdowne; he was, when a boy, left for dead on the + field at the second battle of Newbury, and said to have been the + only person entrusted by Charles II. and Monk in bringing about the + Restoration.] +</pre> +<p> +one of the bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and they +continued bare all the time it was reading. Upon notice made from the +Lords to the Commons, of their desire that the Commons would join with +them in their vote for King, Lords, and Commons; the Commons did concur +and voted that all books whatever that are out against the Government of +King, Lords, and Commons, should be brought into the House and burned. +Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever, +and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their knees +in the streets, which methinks is a little too much. But every +body seems to be very joyfull in the business, insomuch that our +sea-commanders now begin to say so too, which a week ago they would not +do. +</p> +<pre> + ["The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses, + without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a + hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated + and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any + Parliament rumps and kidneys?' And it was a very ordinary thing to + see little children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps." + —Rugge's Diurnal.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +And our seamen, as many as had money or credit for drink, did do nothing +else this evening. This day came Mr. North (Sir Dudley North's son) on +board, to spend a little time here, which my Lord was a little troubled +at, but he seems to be a fine gentleman, and at night did play his part +exceeding well at first sight. After musique I went up to the Captain's +Cabin with him and Lieutenant Ferrers, who came hither to-day from +London to bring this news to my Lord, and after a bottle of wine we all +to bed. +</p> +<p> +3d. This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter +to the two Generals to be communicated to the fleet. +</p> +<pre> + ["King Charles II. his Declaration to all his loving Subjects of the + Kingdome of England, dated from his Court at Breda in Holland 4/14 + of April, 1660, and read in Parliament with his Majesties Letter of + the same date to his Excellence the Ld. Gen. Monck to be + communicated to the Ld. President of the Council of State and + to the Officers of the Army under his Command. London, Printed by + W. Godbid for John Playford in the Temple, 1660." 40, pp. 8.] +</pre> +<p> +The contents of the letter are his offer of grace to all that will come +in within forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament shall +hereafter except. That the sales of lands during these troubles, and all +other things, shall be left to the Parliament, by which he will stand. +The letter dated at Breda, April, 4 1660, in the 12th year of his reign. +Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, one +of the messengers of the Council from General Monk, my Lord summoned a +council of war, and in the mean time did dictate to me how he would have +the vote ordered which he would have pass this council. Which done, +the Commanders all came on board, and the council sat in the coach (the +first council of war that had been in my time), where I read the letter +and declaration; and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to +draw up a vote, which being offered, they passed. Not one man seemed to +say no to it, though I am confident many in their hearts were against +it. After this was done, I went up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and +the Commanders, and there read both the papers and the vote; which done, +and demanding their opinion, the seamen did all of them cry out, "God +bless King Charles!" with the greatest joy imaginable. That being done, +Sir R. Stayner, who had invited us yesterday, took all the Commanders +and myself on board him to dinner, which not being ready, I went with +Captain Hayward to the Plimouth and Essex, and did what I had to do +there and returned, where very merry at dinner. After dinner, to the +rest of the ships (staid at the Assistance to hear the harper a good +while) quite through the fleet. Which was a very brave sight to visit +all the ships, and to be received with the respect and honour that I was +on board them all; and much more to see the great joy that I brought to +all men; not one through the whole fleet showing the least dislike of +the business. In the evening as I was going on board the Vice-Admiral, +the General began to fire his guns, which he did all that he had in the +ship, and so did all the rest of the Commanders, which was very gallant, +and to hear the bullets go hissing over our heads as we were in the +boat. This done and finished my Proclamation, I returned to the Nazeby, +where my Lord was much pleased to hear how all the fleet took it in a +transport of joy, showed me a private letter of the King's to him, and +another from the Duke of York in such familiar style as to their common +friend, with all kindness imaginable. And I found by the letters, and +so my Lord told me too, that there had been many letters passed between +them for a great while, and I perceive unknown to Monk. And among the +rest that had carried these letters Sir John Boys is one, and that Mr. +Norwood, which had a ship to carry him over the other day, when my Lord +would not have me put down his name in the book. The King speaks of +his being courted to come to the Hague, but do desire my Lord's advice +whither to come to take ship. And the Duke offers to learn the seaman's +trade of him, in such familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had writ +them. This was very strange to me, that my Lord should carry all things +so wisely and prudently as he do, and I was over joyful to see him in so +good condition, and he did not a little please himself to tell me how he +had provided for himself so great a hold on the King. +</p> +<p> +After this to supper, and then to writing of letters till twelve at +night, and so up again at three in the morning. My Lord seemed to put +great confidence in me, and would take my advice in many things. I +perceive his being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk, +and to let him have all the honour of doing the business, though he will +many times express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool. +So that I do believe there is some agreement more than ordinary between +the King and my Lord to let Monk carry on the business, for it is he +that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not +flattered and observed. This, my Lord will hint himself sometimes. My +Lord, I perceive by the King's letter, had writ to him about his father, +Crew,—[When only seventeen years old, Montagu had married Jemima, +daughter of John Crew, created afterwards Baron Crew of Stene.]—and the +King did speak well of him; but my Lord tells me, that he is afeard that +he hath too much concerned himself with the Presbyterians against the +House of Lords, which will do him a great discourtesy. +</p> +<p> +4th. I wrote this morning many letters, and to all the copies of the +vote of the council of war I put my name, that if it should come in +print my name maybe at it. I sent a copy of the vote to Doling, inclosed +in this letter: +</p> +<pre> + "SIR, + + "He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride, with pendants + loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud 'Vive le Roys,' + echoed from one ship's company to another, he, and he only, can + apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was received with, or the + blessing he thought himself possessed of that bore it, and is + + "Your humble servant." +</pre> +<p> +About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and sent them by the +messenger that came yesterday. This morning came Captain Isham on board +with a gentleman going to the King, by whom very cunningly, my Lord +tells me, he intends to send an account of this day's and yesterday's +actions here, notwithstanding he had writ to the Parliament to have +leave of them to send the King the answer of the fleet. Since my writing +of the last paragraph, my Lord called me to him to read his letter to +the King, to see whether I could find any slips in it or no. And as much +of the letter' as I can remember, is thus: +</p> +<pre> + "May it please your Most Excellent Majesty," and so begins. + + "That he yesterday received from General Monk his Majesty's letter + and direction; and that General Monk had desired him to write to the + Parliament to have leave to send the vote of the seamen before he + did send it to him, which he had done by writing to both Speakers; + but for his private satisfaction he had sent it thus privately (and + so the copy of the proceedings yesterday was sent him), and that + this come by a gentleman that came this day on board, intending to + wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord's countryman, and one + whose friends have suffered much on his Majesty's behalf. That my + Lords Pembroke and Salisbury are put out of the House of Lords. + That my Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him the + civility and respect due to him; and that he do much rejoice to see + that the King do resolve to receive none of their assistance (or + some such words), from them, he having strength enough in the love + and loyalty of his own subjects to support him. That his Majesty + had chosen the best place, Scheveling,—[Schevingen, the port of the + Hague]—for his embarking, and that there is nothing in the world of + which he is more ambitious, than to have the honour of attending his + Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy. That he had commanded the + vessel to attend at Helversluce—[Hellevoetsluis, in South Holland] + —till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do not think + it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that he may be there to + receive his commands and bring them to his Lordship. He ends his + letter, that he is confounded with the thoughts of the high + expressions of love to him in the King's letter, and concludes, + + "Your most loyall, dutifull, faithfull and obedient subject and + servant, E. M." +</pre> +<p> +The rest of the afternoon at ninepins. In the evening came a packet from +London, among the rest a letter from my wife, which tells me that she +has not been well, which did exceedingly trouble me, but my Lord sending +Mr. Cook at night, I wrote to her and sent a piece of gold enclosed to +her, and wrote also to Mrs. Bowyer, and enclosed a half piece to her +for a token. After supper at the table in the coach, my Lord talking +concerning the uncertainty of the places of the Exchequer to them that +had them now; he did at last think of an office which do belong to him +in case the King do restore every man to his places that ever had been +patent, which is to be one of the clerks of the signet, which will be a +fine employment for one of his sons. After all this discourse we broke +up and to bed. +</p> +<p> +In the afternoon came a minister on board, one Mr. Sharpe, who is going +to the King; who tells me that Commissioners are chosen both of Lords +and Commons to go to the King; and that Dr. Clarges +</p> +<pre> + [Thomas Clarges, physician to the army, created a baronet, 1674, + died 1695. He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married + General Monk. "The Parliament also permitted General Monk to send + Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some officers of + the army, to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the + army, which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof, after + the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the + General."—Sir William Lowers Relation... of the Voiage and + Residence which... Charles the II. Hath made in Holland, + Hague, 1660, folio.] +</pre> +<p> +is going to him from the Army, and that he will be here to-morrow. My +letters at night tell me, that the House did deliver their letter to Sir +John Greenville, in answer to the King's sending, and that they give +him L500 for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that besides the L50,000 +ordered to be borrowed of the City for the present use of the King, the +twelve companies of the City do give every one of them to his Majesty, +as a present, L1000. +</p> +<p> +5th. All the morning very busy writing letters to London, and a packet +to Mr. Downing, to acquaint him with what had been done lately in the +fleet. And this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him, did of +himself think of doing it, to do me a kindness, for he writ a letter +himself to him, thanking him for his kindness to me. All the afternoon +at ninepins, at night after supper good musique, my Lord, Mr. North, I +and W. Howe. After that to bed. This evening came Dr. Clarges to Deal, +going to the King; where the towns-people strewed the streets with +herbes against his coming, for joy of his going. Never was there so +general a content as there is now. I cannot but remember that our parson +did, in his prayer to-night, pray for the long life and happiness of +our King and dread Soveraign, that may last as long as the sun and moon +endureth. +</p> +<p> +6th (Lord's day). This morning while we were at sermon comes in Dr. +Clarges and a dozen gentlemen to see my Lord, who, after sermon, +dined with him; I remember that last night upon discourse +concerning Clarges my Lord told me that he was a man of small +entendimiento.—[Entendimiento, Spanish: the understanding.]—This +afternoon there was a gentleman with me, an officer of Dunkirk going +over, who came to me for an order and told me he was lately with my +uncle and Aunt Fenner and that Kate's fits of the convulsions did hold +her still. It fell very well to-day, a stranger preached here for Mr. +Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for King Charles, by the Grace of +God, &c., which gave great contentment to the gentlemen that were on +board here, and they said they would talk of it, when they come to +Breda, as not having it done yet in London so publickly. After they were +gone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to the King and give it to +me to carry privately to Sir William Compton' on board the Assistance, +which I did, and after a health to his Majesty on board there, I left +them under sail for Breda. Back again and found them at sermon. I went +up to my cabin and looked over my accounts, and find that, all my debts +paid and my preparations to sea paid for, I have L640 clear in my purse. +After supper to bed. +</p> +<p> +7th. This morning Captain Cuttance sent me 12 bottles of Margate ale. +Three of them I drank presently with some friends in the Coach. My +Lord went this morning about the flag-ships in a boat, to see what +alterations there must be, as to the arms and flags. He did give me +order also to write for silk flags and scarlett waistcloathes. +</p> +<pre> + [Waist-cloths are the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which + are stowed in the waist-nettings.] +</pre> +<p> +For a rich barge; for a noise of trumpets, +</p> +<pre> + [A set or company of musicians, an expression constantly used by old + writers without any disparaging meaning. It is sometimes applied to + voices as well as to instruments.] +</pre> +<p> +and a set of fidlers. Very great deal of company come today, among +others Mr. Bellasses, Sir Thomas Lenthropp, Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel +Philip Honiwood, and Captain Titus, the last of whom my Lord showed all +our cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice what room there will be +for the King's entertainment. Here were also all the Jurates of the town +of Dover come to give my Lord a visit, and after dinner all went away. +I could not but observe that the Vice-Admiral after dinner came into the +great cabin below, where the Jurates and I and the commanders for want +of room dined, and there told us we must drink a health to the King, +and himself called for a bottle of wine, and begun his and the Duke of +York's. In the afternoon I lost 5s. at ninepins. After supper musique, +and to bed. Having also among us at the Coach table wrote a letter to +the French ambassador, in French, about the release of a ship we had +taken. After I was in bed Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came and sat in my +cabin, where I gave them three bottles of Margate ale, and sat laughing +and very merry, till almost one o'clock in the morning, and so good +night. +</p> +<p> +8th. All the morning busy. After dinner come several persons of honour, +as my Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great giving +of them salutes. My Lord and we at nine-pins: I lost 9s. While we were +at play Mr. Cook brings me word of my wife. He went to Huntsmore to see +her, and brought her and my father Bowyer to London, where he left her +at my father's, very well, and speaks very well of her love to me. +My letters to-day tell me how it was intended that the King should be +proclaimed to-day in London, with a great deal of pomp. I had also news +who they are that are chosen of the Lords and Commons to attend the +King. And also the whole story of what we did the other day in the +fleet, at reading of the King's declaration, and my name at the bottom +of it. After supper some musique and to bed. I resolving to rise betimes +to-morrow to write letters to London. +</p> +<p> +9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as from the two +Generals of the fleet, in answer to his letter to them, wherein my Lord +do give most humble thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; and +promises all duty and obedience to him. This letter was carried this +morning to Sir Peter Killigrew, +</p> +<pre> + [Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as + "Peter the Post," from the alacrity with which he despatched "like + wild fire" all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him + in the King's cause. His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as + second baronet in 1665, was M.P. for Camelford in 1660.] +</pre> +<p> +who came hither this morning early to bring an order from the Lords' +House to my Lord, giving him power to write an answer to the King. This +morning my Lord St. John and other persons of honour were here to see +my Lord, and so away to Flushing. After they were gone my Lord and I +to write letters to London, which we sent by Mr. Cook, who was very +desirous to go because of seeing my wife before she went out of town. +As we were sitting down to dinner, in comes Noble with a letter from the +House of Lords to my Lord, to desire him to provide ships to transport +the Commissioners to the King, which are expected here this week. He +brought us certain news that the King was proclaimed yesterday with +great pomp, and brought down one of the Proclamations, with great joy to +us all; for which God be praised. After dinner to ninepins and lost 5s. +This morning came Mr. Saunderson, +</p> +<pre> + [Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author + of the "History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I., and Charles I." + His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids.] +</pre> +<p> +that writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over to the King. +He calls me cozen and seems a very knowing man. After supper to bed +betimes, leaving my Lord talking in the Coach with the Captain. +</p> +<p> +10th. This morning came on board Mr. Pinkney and his son, going to the +King with a petition finely writ by Mr. Whore, for to be the King's +embroiderer; for whom and Mr. Saunderson I got a ship. This morning come +my Lord Winchelsea and a great deal of company, and dined here. In +the afternoon, while my Lord and we were at musique in the great cabin +below, comes in a messenger to tell us that Mr. Edward Montagu, +</p> +<pre> + [Sir Edward Montagu's eldest son, afterwards second Earl of + Sandwich, called by Pepys "The child."] +</pre> +<p> +my Lord's son, was come to Deal, who afterwards came on board with Mr. +Pickering with him. The child was sick in the evening. At night, +while my Lord was at supper, in comes my Lord Lauderdale and Sir John +Greenville, who supped here, and so went away. After they were gone, my +Lord called me into his cabin, and told me how he was commanded to set +sail presently for the King, +</p> +<pre> + ["Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty + for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty's returning + home to England to his kingly government: and that all proceedings + in law be in His Majesty's name."—Rugge's Diurnal.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +and was very glad thereof, and so put me to writing of letters and +other work that night till it was very late, he going to bed. I got him +afterwards to sign things in bed. After I had done some more work I to +bed also. +</p> +<p> +11th. Up very early in the morning, and so about a great deal of +business in order to our going hence to-day. Burr going on shore last +night made me very angry. So that I sent for Mr. Pitts to come tome from +the Vice-Admiral's, intending not to have employed Burr any more. But +Burr by and by coming and desiring humbly that I would forgive him and +Pitts not coming I did set him to work. This morning we began to pull +down all the State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to Dover +for painters and others to come to set up the King's. The rest of the +morning writing of letters to London which I afterwards sent by Dunne. I +had this morning my first opportunity of discoursing with Dr. Clarke, +</p> +<pre> + [Timothy Clarke, M. D., one of the original Fellows of the Royal + Society. He was appointed one of the physicians in ordinary to + Charles II. on the death of Dr. Quartermaine in 1667.] +</pre> +<p> +whom I found to be a very pretty man and very knowing. He is now going +in this ship to the King. There dined here my Lord Crafford and my Lord +Cavendish, and other Scotchmen whom I afterwards ordered to be received +on board the Plymouth, and to go along with us. After dinner we set +sail from the Downs, I leaving my boy to go to Deal for my linen. In the +afternoon overtook us three or four gentlemen; two of the Berties, and +one Mr. Dormerhoy, a Scotch gentleman, whom I afterwards found to be a +very fine man, who, telling my Lord that they heard the Commissioners +were come out of London to-day, my Lord dropt anchor over against Dover +Castle (which give us about thirty guns in passing), and upon a high +debate with the Vice and Rear Admiral whether it were safe to go and +not stay for the Commissioners, he did resolve to send Sir R. Stayner to +Dover, to enquire of my Lord Winchelsea, whether or no they are come out +of London, and then to resolve to-morrow morning of going or not; which +was done. It blew very hard all this night that I was afeard of my +boy. About 11 at night came the boats from Deal, with great store of +provisions, by the same token John Goods told me that above 20 of the +fowls are smothered, but my boy was put on board the Northwich. To bed. +</p> +<p> +12th. This morning I inquired for my boy, whether he was come well or +no, and it was told me that he was well in bed. My Lord called me to his +chamber, he being in bed, and gave me many orders to make for direction +for the ships that are left in the Downs, giving them the greatest +charge in the world to bring no passengers with them, when they come +after us to Scheveling Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. Thomas +Crew, and Sir H. Wright. Sir R. Stayner hath been here early in the +morning and told my Lord, that my Lord Winchelsea understands by +letters, that the Commissioners are only to come to Dover to attend the +coming over of the King. So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, +which we did, and sailed all day. In our way in the morning, coming +in the midway between Dover and Calais, we could see both places very +easily, and very pleasant it was to me that the further we went the more +we lost sight of both lands. In the afternoon at cards with Mr. North +and the Doctor.—[Clarke]—There by us, in the Lark frigate, Sir R. +Freeman and some others, going from the King to England, come to see +my Lord and so onward on their voyage. In the afternoon upon the +quarterdeck the Doctor told Mr. North and me an admirable story called +"The Fruitless Precaution," an exceeding pretty story and worthy my +getting without book when I can get the book.[??] This evening came Mr. +Sheply on board, whom we had left at Deal and Dover getting of provision +and borrowing of money. In the evening late, after discoursing with the +Doctor, &c., to bed. +</p> +<p> +13th (Lord's day). Trimmed in the morning, after that to the cook's room +with Mr. Sheply, the first time that I was there this voyage. Then to +the quarter-deck, upon which the tailors and painters were at work, +cutting out some pieces of yellow cloth into the fashion of a crown and +C. R. and put it upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of +the State's arms, which after dinner was finished and set up after +it had been shewn to my Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his +chamber, and liked it so well as to bid me give the tailors 20s. among +them for doing of it. This morn Sir J. Boys and Capt. Isham met us in +the Nonsuch, the first of whom, after a word or two with my Lord, went +forward, the other staid. I heard by them how Mr. Downing had never +made any address to the King, and for that was hated exceedingly by the +Court, and that he was in a Dutch ship which sailed by us, then going +to England with disgrace. Also how Mr. Morland was knighted by the King +this week, and that the King did give the reason of it openly, that +it was for his giving him intelligence all the time he was clerk to +Secretary Thurloe. In the afternoon a council of war, only to acquaint +them that the Harp must be taken out of all their flags, +</p> +<pre> + [In May, 1658, the old Union Jack (being the crosses of St. George + and St. Andrew combined) was revived, with the Irish harp over the + centre of the flag. This harp was taken off at the Restoration. + (See "The National Flags of the Commonwealth," by H. W. Henfrey," + Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc.," vol. xxxi, p. 54.) The sign of the + "Commonwealth Arms" was an uncommon one, but a token of one exists— + "Francis Wood at ye Commonwealth arms in Mary Maudlens" [St. Mary + Magdalen, Old Fish Street].] +</pre> +<p> +it being very offensive to the King. Mr. Cook, who came after us in the +Yarmouth, bringing me a letter from my wife and a Latin letter from my +brother John, with both of which I was exceedingly pleased. No sermon +all day, we being under sail, only at night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbott +prayed for all that were related to us in a spiritual and fleshly way. +We came within sight of Middle's shore. Late at night we writ letters +to the King of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward Picketing carried +them. Capt. Isham went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect; so +the old man very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldly +bid him "God be with you," which was very strange, but that I hear that +he keeps a great deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, at the +King's Courts, what command he had with my Lord, &c. After letters were +gone then to bed. +</p> +<p> +14th. In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw myself out of the +scuttle close by the shore, which afterwards I was told to be the Dutch +shore; the Hague was clearly to be seen by us. My Lord went up in his +nightgown into the cuddy, +</p> +<pre> + ["A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but + sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden."—Smyth's + Sailor's Word-Book.] +</pre> +<p> +to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him, to +give order for our removal to-day. Some nasty Dutchmen came on board to +proffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, &c., to get money +by us. Before noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to kiss +my Lord's hands. And by and by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss the +Queen of Bohemia's' hands, from my Lord, with twelve attendants from on +board to wait on them, among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, is +with child to see any strange thing. After noon they came back again +after having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's hand, and were sent again by +my Lord to do the same to the Prince of Orange. +</p> +<pre> + [Son of the Prince of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I. + —afterwards William III. He was then in his tenth year, having + been born in 1650.] +</pre> +<p> +So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, which my Lord did give, +and I taking my boy and judge Advocate with me, went in company with +them. The weather bad; we were sadly washed when we came near the shore, +it being very hard to land there. The shore is, as all the country +between that and the Hague, all sand. The rest of the company got a +coach by themselves; Mr. Creed and I went in the fore part of a coach +wherein were two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with black +patches, who very merrily sang all the way and that very well, and were +very free to kiss the two blades that were with them. I took out my +flageolette and piped, but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but when +I came to the Hague, I sent my boy back again for it and he found it, +for which I did give him 6d., but some horses had gone over it and broke +the scabbard. The Hague is a most neat place in all respects. The houses +so neat in all places and things as is possible. Here we walked up and +down a great while, the town being now very full of Englishmen, for +that the Londoners were come on shore today. But going to see the +Prince,—[Prince of Orange, afterwards William III.]—he was gone forth +with his governor, and so we walked up and down the town and court to +see the place; and by the help of a stranger, an Englishman, we saw +a great many places, and were made to understand many things, as the +intention of may-poles, which we saw there standing at every great man's +door, of different greatness according to the quality of the person. +About 10 at night the Prince comes home, and we found an easy admission. +His attendance very inconsiderable as for a prince; but yet handsome, +and his tutor a fine man, and himself a very pretty boy. It was bright +moonshine to-night. This done we went to a place we had taken to sup +in, where a sallet and two or three bones of mutton were provided for a +matter of ten of us which was very strange. After supper the Judge and I +to another house, leaving them there, and he and I lay in one press bed, +there being two more in the same room, but all very neat and handsome, +my boy sleeping upon a bench by me. +</p> +<p> +15th. We lay till past three o'clock, then up and down the town, to see +it by daylight, where we saw the soldiers of the Prince's guard, all +very fine, and the burghers of the town with their arms and muskets as +bright as silver. And meeting this morning a schoolmaster that spoke +good English and French, he went along with us and shewed us the whole +town, and indeed I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of the town. +Every body of fashion speaks French or Latin, or both. The women many +of them very pretty and in good habits, fashionable and black spots. He +went with me to buy a couple of baskets, one of them for Mrs. Pierce, +the other for my wife. After he was gone, we having first drank with him +at our lodging, the judge and I to the Grande Salle where we were shewed +the place where the States General sit in council. The hall is a great +place, where the flags that they take from their enemies are all hung +up; and things to be sold, as in Westminster Hall, and not much unlike +it, but that not so big, but much neater. After that to a bookseller's +and bought for the love of the binding three books: the French Psalms in +four parts, Bacon's Organon, and Farnab. Rhetor. +</p> +<pre> + ["Index Rhetoricus" of Thomas Farnaby was a book which went through + several editions. The first was published at London by R. Allot in + 1633.] +</pre> +<p> +After that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, where +we went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind being +very high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to be +pulled on shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, +and feathers, were swimming in the sea. Among others I saw the ministers +that come along with the Commissioners (Mr. Case among the rest) sadly +dipped. +</p> +<pre> + [Thomas Case, born 1598, was a famous preacher and a zealous + advocate for the Solemn League and Covenant, a member of the + assembly of divines, and rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. He + was one of the deputation to Charles II. at Breda, and appointed a + royal chaplain. He was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, but + remained in London after his ejection. Died May 30th, 1682.] +</pre> +<p> +So they came in where we were, and I being in haste left my Copenhagen +knife, and so lost it. Having staid here a great while a gentleman that +was going to kiss my Lord's hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hired +a Dutch boat for four rixdollars to carry us on board. We were fain to +wait a great while before we could get off from the shore, the sea being +very rough. The Dutchman would fain have made all pay that came into +our boat besides us two and our company, there being many of our ship's +company got in who were on shore, but some of them had no money, having +spent all on shore. Coming on board we found all the Commissioners of +the House of Lords at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went away +for shore. Mr. Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not +find that my Lord or any body did give him any respect, he being looked +upon by him and all men as a knave. Among others he betrayed Sir Rich. +Willis +</p> +<pre> + [This is somewhat different to the usual account of Morland's + connection with Sir Richard Willis. In the beginning of 1659 + Cromwell, Thurloe, and Willis formed a plot to inveigle Charles II. + into England and into the hands of his enemies. The plot was + discussed in Thurloe's office, and Morland, who pretended to be + asleep, heard it and discovered it. Willis sent for Morland, and + received him in a cellar. He said that one of them must have + discovered the plot. He laid his hand upon the Bible and swore that + he had not been the discoverer, calling upon Morland to do the same. + Morland, with presence of mind, said he was ready to do so if Willis + would give him a reason why he should suspect him. By this ready + answer he is said to have escaped the ordeal (see Birch's "Life of + Thurloe").] +</pre> +<p> +that married Dr. F. Jones's daughter, that he had paid him L1000 at one +time by the Protector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for intelligence +that he sent concerning the King. In the afternoon my Lord called me +on purpose to show me his fine cloathes which are now come hither, and +indeed are very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword he +and I do not like. In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in +the coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: as +religion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I, +saying, that indeed the Protestants as to the Church of Rome are +wholly fanatiques: he likes uniformity and form of prayer; about +State-business, among other things he told me that his conversion to +the King's cause (for so I was saying that I wondered from what time the +King could look upon him to become his friend), commenced from his being +in the Sound, when he found what usage he was likely to have from a +Commonwealth. My Lord, the Captain, and I supped in my Lord's chamber, +where I did perceive that he did begin to show me much more respect than +ever he did yet. After supper, my Lord sent for me, intending to have +me play at cards with him, but I not knowing cribbage, we fell into +discourse of many things, till it was so rough sea and the ship rolled +so much that I was not able to stand, and so he bid me go to bed. +</p> +<p> +16th. Soon as I was up I went down to be trimmed below in the great +cabin, but then come in some with visits, among the rest one from +Admiral Opdam, +</p> +<pre> + [The admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset's ballad, "To all you ladies + now at land." + + "Should foggy Opdam chance to know + Our sad and dismal story; + The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe, + And quit their fort at Goree + For what resistance can they find + From men who've left their hearts behind?"—B.] +</pre> +<p> +who spoke Latin well, but not French nor English, to whom my Lord made +me to give his answer and to entertain; he brought my Lord a tierce of +wine and a barrel of butter, as a present from the Admiral. After that +to finish my trimming, and while I was doing of it in comes Mr. North +very sea-sick from shore, and to bed he goes. After that to dinner, +where Commissioner Pett was come to take care to get all things ready +for the King on board. My Lord in his best suit, this the first day, in +expectation to wait upon the King. But Mr. Edw. Pickering coming from +the King brought word that the King would not put my Lord to the trouble +of coming to him; but that he would come to the shore to look upon the +fleet to-day, which we expected, and had our guns ready to fire, and +our scarlet waistcloathes out and silk pendants, but he did not come. My +Lord and we at ninepins this afternoon upon the Quarterdeck, which was +very pretty sport. This evening came Mr. John Pickering on board, like +an ass, with his feathers and new suit that he had made at the Hague. My +Lord very angry for his staying on shore, bidding me a little before to +send to him, telling me that he was afraid that for his father's sake he +might have some mischief done him, unless he used the General's name. To +supper, and after supper to cards. I stood by and looked on till 11 at +night and so to bed. This afternoon Mr. Edwd. Pickering told me in what +a sad, poor condition for clothes and money the King was, and all his +attendants, when he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes not +being worth forty shillings the best of them. +</p> +<pre> + [Andrew Marvell alludes to the poor condition, for clothes and + money, in which the King was at this time, in "A Historical Poem":— + + "At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, + The people call him back to help the State; + And what is more, they send him money, too, + And clothe him all from head to foot anew."] +</pre> +<p> +And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some +money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to +look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out. +My Lord told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High Admiral of +England. +</p> +<p> +17th. Up early to write down my last two days' observations. Dr. Clerke +came to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that are +come on board already to see the ship, that there was a Portuguese taken +yesterday at the Hague, that had a design to kill the King. But this I +heard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being observed to walk +with his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard. Before dinner Mr. +Edw. Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and my boy,—[Edward Montagu, +afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]—to Scheveling, where we took coach, and +so to the Hague, where walking, intending to find one that might show +us the King incognito, I met with Captain Whittington (that had formerly +brought a letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promise +me to do it, but first we went and dined at a French house, but paid +16s. for our part of the club. At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry mad +parson of the King's. And they two after dinner got the child and me +(the others not being able to crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the +child very affectionately. Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York's, +and the Princess Royal's hands. The King seems to be a very sober man; +and a very splendid Court he hath in the number of persons of quality +that are about him, English very rich in habit. From the King to the +Lord Chancellor, +</p> +<pre> + [On January 29th, 1658, Charles II. entrusted the Great Seal to Sir + Edward Hyde, with the title of Lord Chancellor, and in that + character Sir Edward accompanied the King to England.] +</pre> +<p> +who did lie bed-rid of the gout: he spoke very merrily to the child +and me. After that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met with Dr. +Fullers whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I and +the rest went to see the Queen,—[Henrietta Maria.]—who used us very +respectfully; her hand we all kissed. She seems a very debonaire, but +plain lady. After that to the Dr.'s, where we drank a while or so. In a +coach of a friend's of Dr. Cade we went to see a house of the Princess +Dowager's in a park about half-a-mile or a mile from the Hague, where +there is one, the most beautiful room for pictures in the whole world. +She had here one picture upon the top, with these words, dedicating it +to the memory of her husband:—"Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis +vidua." +</p> +<pre> + [Mary, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Charles I., and widow of + William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. She was not supposed to be + inconsolable, and scandal followed her at the court of Charles II., + where she died of small-pox, December 24th, 1660.] +</pre> +<p> +Here I met with Mr. Woodcock of Cambridge, Mr. Hardy and another, and +Mr. Woodcock beginning we had two or three fine songs, he and I, and +W. Howe to the Echo, which was very pleasant, and the more because in a +heaven of pleasure and in a strange country, that I never was taken up +more with a sense of pleasure in my life. After that we parted and back +to the Hague and took a tour or two about the Forehault,—[The Voorhout +is the principal street of the Hague, and it is lined with handsome +trees.]—where the ladies in the evening do as our ladies do in Hide +Park. But for my life I could not find one handsome, but their coaches +very rich and themselves so too. From thence, taking leave of the +Doctor, we took wagon to Scheveling, where we had a fray with the +Boatswain of the Richmond, who would not freely carry us on board, but +at last he was willing to it, but then it was so late we durst not go. +So we returned between 10 and 11 at night in the dark with a wagon with +one horse to the Hague, where being come we went to bed as well as we +could be accommodated, and so to sleep. +</p> +<p> +18th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, our Lord High +Admiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon for +Scheveling, leaving the child in Mr. Pierces hands, with directions to +keep him within doors all day till he heard from me. But the wind being +very high that no boats could get off from shore, we returned to +the Hague (having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's, and +Commissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice to my Lord of his +coming), where I hear that the child is gone to Delfe to see the town. +So we all and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit—[The trekschuit +(drag-boat) along the canal is still described as an agreeable +conveyance from Leyden to Delft.]—and very much pleased with the manner +and conversation of the passengers, where most speak French; went after +them, but met them by the way. But however we went forward making no +stop. Where when we were come we got a smith's boy of the town to go +along with us, but could speak nothing but Dutch, and he showed us the +church where Van Trump lies entombed with a very fine monument. His +epitaph concluded thus:—"Tandem Bello Anglico tantum non victor, certe +invictus, vivere et vincere desiit." There is a sea-fight cut in marble, +with the smoke, the best expressed that ever I saw in my life. From +thence to the great church, that stands in a fine great market-place, +over against the Stadt-house, and there I saw a stately tomb of the +old Prince of Orange, of marble and brass; wherein among other rarities +there are the angels with their trumpets expressed as it were crying. +Here were very fine organs in both the churches. It is a most sweet +town, with bridges, and a river in every street. Observing that in every +house of entertainment there hangs in every room a poor-man's box, and +desiring to know the reason thereof, it was told me that it is their +custom to confirm all bargains by putting something into the poor +people's box, and that binds as fast as any thing. We also saw the +Guesthouse, where it was very pleasant to see what neat preparation +there is for the poor. We saw one poor man a-dying there. After we had +seen all, we light by chance of an English house to drink in, where we +were very merry, discoursing of the town and the thing that hangs up in +the Stadthouse like a bushel, which I was told is a sort of punishment +for some sort of offenders to carry through the streets of the town over +his head, which is a great weight. Back by water, where a pretty sober +Dutch lass sat reading all the way, and I could not fasten any discourse +upon her. At our landing we met with Commissioner Pett going down to the +water-side with Major Harly, who is going upon a dispatch into England. +They having a coach I left the Parson and my boy and went along with +Commissioner Pett, Mr. Ackworth and Mr. Dawes his friends, to the +Princess Dowager's house again. Thither also my Lord Fairfax and some +other English Lords did come to see it, and my pleasure was increased by +seeing of it again. Besides we went into the garden, wherein are gallant +nuts better than ever I saw, and a fine Echo under the house in a vault +made on purpose with pillars, where I played on my flageolette to great +advantage. Back to the Hague, where not finding Mr. Edward, I was much +troubled, but went with the Parson to supper to Commissioner Pett, +where we sat late. And among other mirth Mr. Ackworth vyed wives, each +endeavouring to set his own wife out to the best advantage, he having as +they said an extraordinary handsome wife. But Mr. Dawes could not be got +to say anything of his. After that to our lodging where W. Howe and I +exceeding troubled not to know what is become of our young gentleman. So +to bed. +</p> +<p> +19th. Up early, hearing nothing of the child, and went to Scheveling, +where I found no getting on board, though the Duke of York sent every +day to see whether he could do it or no. Here I met with Mr. Pinkney and +his sons, and with them went back to the Hague, in our way lighting and +going to see a woman that makes pretty rock-work in shells, &c., which +could I have carried safe I would have bought some of. At the Hague +we went to buy some pictures, where I saw a sort of painting done upon +woollen cloth, drawn as if there was a curtain over it, which was very +pleasant, but dear. Another pretty piece of painting I saw, on which +there was a great wager laid by young Pinkney and me whether it was a +principal or a copy. But not knowing how to decide, it was broken off, +and I got the old man to lay out as much as my piece of gold come to, +and so saved my money, which had been 24s. lost, I fear. While we were +here buying of pictures, we saw Mr. Edward and his company land. Who +told me that they had been at Leyden all night, at which I was very +angry with Mr. Pierce, and shall not be friends I believe a good while. +To our lodging to dinner. After that out to buy some linen to wear +against to-morrow, and so to the barber's. After that by waggon to +Lausdune, where the 365 children were born. We saw the hill where they +say the house stood and sunk wherein the children were born. The basins +wherein the male and female children were baptized do stand over a large +table that hangs upon a wall, with the whole story of the thing in Dutch +and Latin, beginning, "Margarita Herman Comitissa," &c. The thing was +done about 200 years ago. +</p> +<p> +The town is a little small village which answers much to one of our +small villages, such a one as Chesterton in all respects, and one could +have thought it in England but for the language of the people. We went +into a little drinking house where there were a great many Dutch boors +eating of fish in a boorish manner, but very merry in their way. But +the houses here as neat as in the great places. From thence to the Hague +again playing at crambo—[Crambo is described as "a play at short verses +in which a word is given, and the parties contend who can find most +rhymes to it."]—in the waggon, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. +Pinkney, and I. When we were come thither W. Howe, and Mr. Ibbott, and +Mr. Pinckney went away for Scheveling, while I and the child to walk up +and down the town, where I met my old chamber-fellow, Mr. Ch. Anderson, +and a friend of his (both Physicians), Mr. Wright, who took me to a +Dutch house, where there was an exceeding pretty lass, and right for the +sport, but it being Saturday we could not have much of her company, +but however I staid with them (having left the child with my uncle +Pickering, whom I met in the street) till 12 at night. By that time +Charles was almost drunk, and then broke up, he resolving to go thither +again, after he had seen me at my lodging, and lie with the girl, which +he told me he had done in the morning. Going to my lodging we met with +the bellman, who struck upon a clapper, which I took in my hand, and it +is just like the clapper that our boys frighten the birds away from the +corn with in summer time in England. To bed. +</p> +<p> +20th. Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the child by waggon to +Scheveling, where it not being yet fit to go off, I went to lie down in +a chamber in the house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch +woman in bed alone, but though I had a month's-mind +</p> +<pre> + [Month's-mind. An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding + to "a woman's longing." See Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona," + act i. sc. 2: + + "I see you have a month's mind to them."—M. B.] +</pre> +<p> +I had not the boldness to go to her. So there I slept an hour or two. At +last she rose, and then I rose and walked up and down the chamber, and +saw her dress herself after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as much +as I could, and took occasion, from her ring which she wore on her first +finger, to kiss her hand, but had not the face to offer anything more. +So at last I left her there and went to my company. About 8 o'clock I +went into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty handsome, and +in the chancel a very great upper part of the mouth of a whale, which +indeed was of a prodigious bigness, bigger than one of our long boats +that belong to one of our ships. Commissioner Pett at last came to our +lodging, and caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some in +another we all bid adieu to the shore. But through badness of weather we +were in great danger, and a great while before we could get to the +ship, so that of all the company not one but myself that was not sick. +I keeping myself in the open air, though I was soundly wet for it. This +hath not been known four days together such weather at this time of +year, a great while. Indeed our fleet was thought to be in great danger, +but we found all well, and Mr. Thos. Crew came on board. I having spoke +a word or two with my Lord, being not very well settled, partly through +last night's drinking and want of sleep, I lay down in my gown upon my +bed and slept till the 4 o'clock gun the next morning waked me, which I +took for 8 at night, and rising ... mistook the sun rising for the sun +setting on Sunday night. +</p> +<p> +21st. So into my naked bed +</p> +<pre> + [This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once + universal. It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in + bed without any nightlinen. + + "Who sees his true love in her naked bed, + Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white." + + Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. + + Nares ("Glossary") notes the expression so late as in the very odd + novel by T. Amory, called "John Bunde," where a young lady declares, + after an alarm, "that she would never go into naked bed on board + ship again." Octavo edition, vol. i. p. 90.] +</pre> +<p> +and slept till 9 o'clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by the +captain's boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which Captain +Tatnell had sent me from Murlace.—[Apparently Mallows stands for St. +Malo and Murlace for Morlaise.]—The weather foul all this day also. +After dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my +papers in order, having been so long absent. At night Mr. Pierce, Purser +(the other Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fell +out about Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and supped +with me, and then I went to bed. By letters that came hither in my +absence, I understand that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be +secured, in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late King's +death, and all the officers too attending the Court. Sir John Lenthall +moving in the House, that all that had borne arms against the King +should be exempted from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, +and after a severe reproof he was degraded his knighthood. At Court I +find that all things grow high. The old clergy talk as being sure of +their lands again, and laugh at the Presbytery; and it is believed that +the sales of the King's and Bishops' lands will never be confirmed by +Parliament, there being nothing now in any man's, power to hinder them +and the King from doing what they have a mind, but every body willing +to submit to any thing. We expect every day to have the King and Duke +on board as soon as it is fair. My Lord do nothing now, but offers all +things to the pleasure of the Duke as Lord High Admiral. So that I am at +a loss what to do. +</p> +<p> +22nd. Up very early, and now beginning to be settled in my wits again, +I went about setting down my last four days' observations this morning. +After that, was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me yet, my +Spaniard being on shore. News brought that the two Dukes are coming on +board, which, by and by, they did, in a Dutch boats the Duke of York in +yellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester +</p> +<pre> + [Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Charles L, born + July 6th, 16—, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a + meeting with his father on the night before the King's execution. + Burnet says: "He was active, and loved business; was apt to have + particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was + generally very acceptable. The King loved him much better than the + Duke of York." He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th, + 1660, and was buried in Henry VII's Chapel.] +</pre> +<p> +in grey and red. My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Captain, +myself, and others, standing at the entering port. So soon as they were +entered we shot the guns off round the fleet. After that they went to +view the ship all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it. +They seem to be both very fine gentlemen. After that done, upon the +quarter-deck table, under the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. +Coventry, +</p> +<pre> + [William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached + afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the + Lord Keeper. He was born in 1628, and entered at Queen's College, + Oxford, in 1642; after the Restoration he became private secretary + to the Duke of York, his commission as Secretary to the Lord High + Admiral not being conferred until 1664; elected M.P. for Great + Yarmouth in 1661. In 1662 he was appointed an extra Commissioner of + the Navy, an office he held until 1667; in 1665, knighted and sworn + a Privy Councillor, and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the + Treasury; but, having been forbid the court on account of his + challenging the Duke of Buckingham, he retired into the country, nor + could he subsequently be prevailed upon to accept of any official + employment. Burnet calls Sir William Coventry the best speaker in + the House of Commons, and "a man of the finest and best temper that + belonged to the court," and Pepys never omits an opportunity of + paying a tribute to his public and private worth. He died, 1686, of + gout in the stomach.] +</pre> +<p> +and I, spent an hour at allotting to every ship their service, in their +return to England; which having done, they went to dinner, where the +table was very full: the two Dukes at the upper end, my Lord Opdam next +on one side, and my Lord on the other. Two guns given to every man while +he was drinking the King's health, and so likewise to the Duke's health. +I took down Monsieur d'Esquier to the great cabin below, and dined with +him in state alone with only one or two friends of his. All dinner the +harper belonging to Captain Sparling played to the Dukes. After dinner, +the Dukes and my Lord to see the Vice and Rear-Admirals; and I in a boat +after them. After that done, they made to the shore in the Dutch boat +that brought them, and I got into the boat with them; but the shore was +so full of people to expect their coming, as that it was as black (which +otherwise is white sand), as every one could stand by another. When we +came near the shore, my Lord left them and came into his own boat, and +General Pen and I with him; my Lord being very well pleased with this +day's work. By the time we came on board again, news is sent us that the +King is on shore; so my Lord fired all his guns round twice, and all the +fleet after him, which in the end fell into disorder, which seemed very +handsome. The gun over against my cabin I fired myself to the King, +which was the first time that he had been saluted by his own ships since +this change; but holding my head too much over the gun, I had almost +spoiled my right eye. Nothing in the world but going of guns almost all +this day. In the evening we began to remove cabins; I to the carpenter's +cabin, and Dr. Clerke with me, who came on board this afternoon, having +been twice ducked in the sea to-day coming from shore, and Mr. North +and John Pickering the like. Many of the King's servants came on board +to-night; and so many Dutch of all sorts came to see the ship till it +was quite dark, that we could not pass by one another, which was a +great trouble to us all. This afternoon Mr. Downing (who was knighted +yesterday by the King') was here on board, and had a ship for his +passage into England, with his lady and servants. +</p> +<pre> + ["About midnight arrived there Mr. Downing, who did the affairs of + England to the Lords the Estates, in quality of Resident under + Oliver Cromwell, and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which + having changed the form of the government, after having cast forth + the last Protector, had continued him in his imploiment, under the + quality of Extraordinary Envoy. He began to have respect for the + King's person, when he knew that all England declared for a free + parliament, and departed from Holland without order, as soon as he + understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re- + establishment of monarchal government, with a design to crave + letters of recommendation to General Monk. This lord considered + him, as well because of the birth of his wife, which is illustrious, + as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when + that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions. He had + his letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish + Embassador, as we have said. He presented them forthwith to the + King, who arose from table a while after, read the letters, receiv'd + the submissions of Downing, and granted him the pardon and grace + which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing. Some daies + after the King knighted him, and would it should be believed, that + the strong aversions which this minister of the Protector had made + appear against him on all occasions, and with all sorts of persons + indifferently, even a few daies before the publick and general + declaration of all England, proceeded not from any evil intention, + but only from a deep dissimulation, wherewith he was constrained to + cover his true sentiments, for fear to prejudice the affairs of his + Majesty."—Sir William Lowers Relation... of the Voiage and + Residence which... Charles the II. hath made in Holland, + Hague, 1660, folio, pp. 72-73.] +</pre> +<p> +By the same token he called me to him when I was going to write the +order, to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing. My Lord lay in +the roundhouse to-night. This evening I was late writing a French letter +myself by my Lord's order to Monsieur Kragh, Embassador de Denmarke a la +Haye, which my Lord signed in bed. After that I to bed, and the Doctor, +and sleep well. +</p> +<p> +23rd. The Doctor and I waked very merry, only my eye was very red and +ill in the morning from yesterday's hurt. In the morning came infinity +of people on board from the King to go along with him. My Lord, Mr. +Crew, and others, go on shore to meet the King as he comes off from +shore, where Sir R. Stayner bringing His Majesty into the boat, I hear +that His Majesty did with a great deal of affection kiss my Lord upon +his first meeting. The King, with the two Dukes and Queen of Bohemia, +Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, came on board, where I in their +coming in kissed the King's, Queen's, and Princess's hands, having +done the other before. Infinite shooting off of the guns, and that in a +disorder on purpose, which was better than if it had been otherwise. +All day nothing but Lords and persons of honour on board, that we were +exceeding full. Dined in a great deal of state, the Royall company by +themselves in the coach, which was a blessed sight to see. I dined with +Dr. Clerke, Dr. Quarterman, and Mr. Darcy in my cabin. This morning +Mr. Lucy came on board, to whom and his company of the King's Guard in +another ship my Lord did give three dozen of bottles of wine. He made +friends between Mr. Pierce and me. After dinner the King and Duke +altered the name of some of the ships, viz. the Nazeby into Charles; the +Richard, James; the Speakers Mary; the Dunbar (which was not in company +with us), the Henry; Winsly, Happy Return; Wakefield, Richmond; Lambert; +the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell; Bradford, the Success. That +done, the Queen, Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, took leave of +the King, and the Duke of York went on board the London, and the Duke +of Gloucester, the Swiftsure. Which done, we weighed anchor, and with +a fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England. All the +afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down (quite contrary +to what I thought him to have been), very active and stirring. Upon the +quarterdeck he fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester, +</p> +<pre> + [For the King's own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see + "Boscobel" (Bohn's "Standard Library").] +</pre> +<p> +where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of his +difficulties that he had passed through, as his travelling four days and +three nights on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing +but a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair of +country shoes that made him so sore all over his feet, that he could +scarce stir. Yet he was forced to run away from a miller and other +company, that took them for rogues. His sitting at table at one place, +where the master of the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did +know him, but kept it private; when at the same table there was one that +had been of his own regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made +him drink the King's health, and said that the King was at least four +fingers higher than he. At another place he was by some servants of the +house made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead, +which they swore he was. In another place at his inn, the master of the +house, +</p> +<pre> + [This was at Brighton. The inn was the "George," and the innkeeper + was named Smith. Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys + in October, 1680. He then said, "And here also I ran into another + very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of + the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside, + leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being + gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a- + talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was + nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon + the back of the chair, and said to me, 'God bless you wheresoever + you go! I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife + a lady.' So I laughed, and went away into the next room."] +</pre> +<p> +as the King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by the +fire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, saying, that +he would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he was +going. Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France, where +he was fain to plot with the master thereof to keep his design from the +four men and a boy (which was all his ship's company), and so got to +Fecamp in France. +</p> +<pre> + [On Saturday, October 11th, 1651, Colonel Gunter made an agreement + at Chichester with Nicholas Tettersell, through Francis Mansell (a + French merchant), to have Tettersell's vessel ready at an hour's + warning. Charles II., in his narrative dictated to Pepys in 1680, + said, "We went to a place, four miles off Shoreham, called + Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet with the master of the ship, + as thinking it more convenient to meet there than just at Shoreham, + where the ship was. So when we came to the inn at Brighthelmstone + we met with one, the merchant Francis Mansell] who had hired the + vessel, in company with her master [Tettersell], the merchant only + knowing me, as having hired her only to carry over a person of + quality that was escaped from the battle of Worcester without naming + anybody." + + The boat was supposed to be bound for Poole, but Charles says in his + narrative: "As we were sailing the master came to me, and desired me + that I would persuade his men to use their best endeavours with him + to get him to set us on shore in France, the better to cover him + from any suspicion thereof, upon which I went to the men, which were + four and a boy." + + After the Restoration Mansell was granted a pension of L200 a year, + and Tettersell one of L100 a year. (See "Captain Nicholas + Tettersell and the Escape of Charles II.," by F. E. Sawyer, F.S.A., + "Sussex Archaeological Collections," vol. xxxii. pp. 81-104).) +</pre> +<p> +At Rouen he looked so poorly, that the people went into the rooms before +he went away to see whether he had not stole something or other. In the +evening I went up to my Lord to write letters for England, which we sent +away with word of our coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King supped +alone in the coach; after that I got a dish, and we four supped in my +cabin, as at noon. About bed-time my Lord Bartlett +</p> +<pre> + [A mistake for Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who had been deputed, with + Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords to + present an address of congratulation to the King.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +(who I had offered my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed, +who with much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the great +cabin below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could dispose of him, +and quit myself of him. So to my cabin again, where the company still +was, and were talking more of the King's difficulties; as how he was +fain to eat a piece of bread and cheese out of a poor boy's pocket; how, +at a Catholique house, he was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good +while in the house for his privacy. After that our company broke up, and +the Doctor and I to bed. We have all the Lords Commissioners on board +us, and many others. Under sail all night, and most glorious weather. +</p> +<p> +24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the Tinning stockings +on and wide canons—["Cannions, boot hose tops; an old-fashioned +ornament for the legs." That is to say, a particular addition to +breeches.]—that I bought the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press +of noble company, and great mirth all the day. There dined with me in my +cabin (that is, the carpenter's) Dr. Earle +</p> +<pre> + [John Earle, born about 1601; appointed in 1643 one of the + Westminster Assembly of Divines, but his principles did not allow + him to act. He accompanied Charles II. when he was obliged to fly + from England. Dean of Westminster at the Restoration, Bishop of + Worcester, November 30th, 1662, and translated to Salisbury, + September 28th, 1663. He was tender to the Nonconformists, and + Baxter wrote of him, "O that they were all such!" Author of + "Microcosmography." Died November 17th, 1665, and was buried in the + chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow. Charles + II. had the highest esteem for him.] +</pre> +<p> +and Mr. Hollis, +</p> +<pre> + [Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at + Houghton, Notts, in 1597. He was one of the five members charged + with high treason by Charles I. in 1641. He was a Presbyterian, and + one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II. + at the Hague. Sir William Lower, in his "Relation," 1660, writes: + "All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor + expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was + orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London + were joined." He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on + the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.] +</pre> +<p> +the King's Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough, +</p> +<pre> + [Charles Scarburgh, M.D., an eminent physician who suffered for the + royal cause during the Civil Wars. He was born in London, and + educated at St. Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge. He was + ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to Oxford. He + entered himself at Merton College, then presided over by Harvey, + with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. He was knighted by + Charles II. in 1669, and attended the King in his last illness. He + was also physician to James II. and to William III., and died + February 26th, 1693-4.] +</pre> +<p> +Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Fox +</p> +<pre> + [Stephen Fox, born 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in + Salisbury Cathedral. He was the first person to announce the death + of Cromwell to Charles II., and at the Restoration he was made Clerk + of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces. He was + knighted in 1665. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle + of Lancashire. (See June 25th, 1660.) Fox died in 1716. His sons + Stephen and Henry were created respectively Earl of Ilchester and + Lord Holland.] +</pre> +<p> +(both very fine gentlemen), the King's servants, where we had brave +discourse. Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all the +afternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a merry droll, but a +gentleman of great esteem with the King), who told us many merry +stories: one, how he wrote a letter three or four days ago to the +Princess Royal, about a Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that was +at the Hague incognita, that made love to the King, &c., which was Mr. +Cary (a courtier's) wife that had been a nun, who are all married to +Jesus. At supper the three Drs. of Physic again at my cabin; where I +put Dr. Scarborough in mind of what I heard him say about the use of the +eyes, which he owned, that children do, in every day's experience, look +several ways with both their eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise. +And that we do now see but with one eye, our eyes looking in parallel +lines. After this discourse I was called to write a pass for my Lord +Mandeville to take up horses to London, which I wrote in the King's +name,—[This right of purveyance was abolished in Charles's reign.]—and +carried it to him to sign, which was the first and only one that ever +he signed in the ship Charles. To bed, coming in sight of land a little +before night. +</p> +<p> +25th. By the morning we were come close to the land, and every body +made ready to get on shore. The King and the two Dukes did eat their +breakfast before they went, and there being set some ship's diet before +them, only to show them the manner of the ship's diet, they eat of +nothing else but pease and pork, and boiled beef. I had Mr. Darcy in my +cabin and Dr. Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the King had given +L50 to Mr. Sheply for my Lord's servants, and L500 among the officers +and common men of the ship. I spoke with the Duke of York about +business, who called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did promise me +his future favour. Great expectation of the King's making some Knights, +but there was none. About noon (though the brigantine that Beale made +was there ready to carry him) yet he would go in my Lord's barge with +the two Dukes. Our Captain steered, and my Lord went along bare with +him. I went, and Mr. Mansell, and one of the King's footmen, with a dog +that the King loved, +</p> +<pre> + [Charles II.'s love of dogs is well known, but it is not so well + known that his dogs were continually being stolen from him. In the + "Mercurius Publicus," June 28-July 5, 1660, is the following + advertisement, apparently drawn up by the King himself: "We must + call upon you again for a Black Dog between a greyhound and a + spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, and his + tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless + was stoln, for the dog was not born nor bred in England, and would + never forsake His master. Whoesoever findes him may acquaint any at + Whitehal for the Dog was better known at Court, than those who stole + him. Will they never leave robbing his Majesty! Must he not keep a + Dog? This dog's place (though better than some imagine) is the only + place which nobody offers to beg." (Quoted in "Notes and Queries," + 7th S., vii. 26, where are printed two other advertisements of + Charles's lost dogs.)] +</pre> +<p> +(which [dirted] the boat, which made us laugh, and me think that a King +and all that belong to him are but just as others are), in a boat by +ourselves, and so got on shore when the King did, who was received by +General Monk with all imaginable love and respect at his entrance +upon the land of Dover. Infinite the crowd of people and the horsemen, +citizens, and noblemen of all sorts. The Mayor of the town came and gave +him his white staff, the badge of his place, which the King did give +him again. The Mayor also presented him from the town a very rich Bible, +which he took and said it was the thing that he loved above all things +in the world. A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which he +did, and talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so into a +stately coach there set for him, and so away through the town towards +Canterbury, without making any stay at Dover. The shouting and joy +expressed by all is past imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not stir +out of his barge, I got into a boat, and so into his barge, whither Mr. +John Crew stepped, and spoke a word or two to my Lord, and so returned, +we back to the ship, and going did see a man almost drowned that fell +out of his boat into the sea, but with much ado was got out. My Lord +almost transported with joy that he had done all this without any the +least blur or obstruction in the world, that could give an offence to +any, and with the great honour he thought it would be to him. Being +overtook by the brigantine, my Lord and we went out of our barge into +it, and so went on board with Sir W. Batten, +</p> +<pre> + [Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and, + although unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made + Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity + against the King. The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the + Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay, + knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning + that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a + hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her + majesty's chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for + safety into the open fields. This act, brutal as it was, found + favour with the Parliament. But Batten became afterwards + discontented; and, when a portion of the fleet revolted, he carried + the "Constant Warwick," one of the best ships in the Parliament + navy, over into Holland, with several seamen of note. For this act + of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral by Prince + Charles. We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when he + became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M.P. for + Rochester. See an account of his second wife, in note to November + 24th, 1660, and of his illness and death, October 5th, 1667. He had + a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first wife.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +and the Vice and Rear-Admirals. At night my Lord supped and Mr. Thomas +Crew with Captain Stoakes, I supped with the Captain, who told me what +the King had given us. My Lord returned late, and at his coming did give +me order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. to be +made at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own +hand did mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do, +and is now done as is to be seen. +</p> +<p> +26th. Thanks to God I got to bed in my own poor cabin, and slept well +till 9 o'clock this morning. Mr. North and Dr. Clerke and all the great +company being gone, I found myself very uncouth all this day for +want thereof. My Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral to-day (who is as +officious, poor man! as any spaniel can be; but I believe all to no +purpose, for I believe he will not hold his place), so I dined commander +at the coach table to-day, and all the officers of the ship with me, and +Mr. White of Dover. After a game or two at nine-pins, to work all the +afternoon, making above twenty orders. In the evening my Lord having +been a-shore, the first time that he hath been a-shore since he came out +of the Hope (having resolved not to go till he had brought his Majesty +into England), returned on board with a great deal of pleasure. I +supped with the Captain in his cabin with young Captain Cuttance, and +afterwards a messenger from the King came with a letter, and to go into +France, and by that means we supped again with him at 12 o'clock at +night. This night the Captain told me that my Lord had appointed me L30 +out of the 1000 ducats which the King had given to the ship, at which my +heart was very much joyed. To bed. +</p> +<p> +27th (Lord's day). Called up by John Goods to see the Garter and Heralds +coat, which lay in the coach, brought by Sir Edward Walker, +</p> +<pre> + [Edward Walker was knighted February 2nd, 1644-5, and on the 24th of + the same month was sworn in as Garter King at Arms. He adhered to + the cause of the king, and published "Iter Carolinum", being a + succinct account of the necessitated marches, retreats, and + sufferings of his Majesty King Charles I., from Jan. 10, 1641, to + the time of his death in 1648, collected by a daily attendant upon + his sacred Majesty during all that time: He joined Charles II. in + exile, and received the reward of his loyalty at the Restoration. + He died at Whitehall, February 19th, 1676-7, and was buried at + Stratford-on-Avon, his daughter having married Sir John Clepton of + that place.] +</pre> +<p> +King at Arms, this morning, for my Lord. My Lord hath summoned all the +Commanders on board him, to see the ceremony, which was thus: Sir Edward +putting on his coat, and having laid the George and Garter, and the +King's letter to my Lord, upon a crimson cushion (in the coach, all the +Commanders standing by), makes three congees to him, holding the cushion +in his arms. Then laying it down with the things upon it upon a chair, +he takes the letter, and delivers it to my Lord, which my Lord breaks +open and gives him to read. It was directed to our trusty and well +beloved Sir Edward Montagu, Knight, one of our Generals at sea, and our +Companion elect of our Noble Order of the Garter. The contents of the +letter is to show that the Kings of England have for many years made +use of this honour, as a special mark of favour, to persons of good +extraction and virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes of +other countries have borne this honour), and that whereas my Lord is of +a noble family, and hath now done the King such service by sea, at this +time, as he hath done; he do send him this George and Garter to wear as +Knight of the Order, with a dispensation for the other ceremonies of +the habit of the Order, and other things, till hereafter, when it can +be done. So the herald putting the ribbon about his neck, and the Garter +about his left leg, he salutes him with joy as Knight of the Garter, and +that was all. After that was done, and the Captain and I had breakfasted +with Sir Edward while my Lord was writing of a letter, he took his leave +of my Lord, and so to shore again to the King at Canterbury, where he +yesterday gave the like honour to General Monk, +</p> +<pre> + ["His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes + put on the Garter. The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for + the restoration of that lawful family."—Rugge's Diurnal.] +</pre> +<p> +who are the only two for many years that have had the Garter given them, +before they had other honours of Earldom, or the like, excepting only +the Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George Villiers when he was +made Knight of the Garter. A while after Mr. Thos. Crew and Mr. J. +Pickering (who had staid long enough to make all the world see him to be +a fool), took ship for London. So there now remain no strangers with +my Lord but Mr. Hetley, who had been with us a day before the King went +from us. My Lord and the ship's company down to sermon. I staid above to +write and look over my new song book, which came last night to me from +London in lieu of that that my Lord had of me. The officers being all +on board, there was not room for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, +where, among other things, Mr. Drum brought me a lobster and a bottle of +oil, instead of a bottle of vinegar, whereby I spoiled my dinner. Many +orders in the ordering of ships this afternoon. Late to a sermon. After +that up to the Lieutenant's cabin, where Mr. Sheply, I, and the Minister +supped, and after that I went down to W. Howe's cabin, and there, with a +great deal of pleasure, singing till it was late. After that to bed. +</p> +<p> +28th. Called up at two in the morning for letters for my Lord from +the Duke of York, but I went to bed again till 5. Trimmed early this +morning. This morning the Captain did call over all the men in the ship +(not the boys), and give every one of them a ducat of the King's money +that he gave the ship, and the officers according to their quality. I +received in the Captain's cabin, for my share, sixty ducats. The rest of +the morning busy writing letters. So was my Lord that he would not come +to dinner. After dinner to write again in order to sending to London, +but my Lord did not finish his, so we did not send to London to-day. A +great part of the afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley. +I lost about 4s. Supped with my Lord, and after that to bed. At night I +had a strange dream of—myself, which I really did, and having kicked my +clothes off, I got cold; and found myself all much wet in the morning, +and had a great deal of pain... which made me very melancholy. +</p> +<p> +29th. The King's birthday. Busy all the morning writing letters to +London, among the rest one to Mr. Chetwind to give me an account of +the fees due to the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my Lord +desires to know. After dinner got all ready and sent away Mr. Cook to +London with a letter and token to my wife. After that abroad to shore +with my Lord (which he offered me of himself, saying that I had a great +deal of work to do this month, which was very true). On shore we took +horses, my Lord and Mr. Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four +servants, and had a great deal of pleasure in riding. Among other things +my Lord showed me a house that cost a great deal of money, and is built +in so barren and inconvenient a place that my Lord calls it the fool's +house. At last we came upon a very high cliff by the sea-side, and rode +under it, we having laid great wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was +not so high as Paul's; my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was. But we riding +under it, my Lord made a pretty good measure of it with two sticks, and +found it to be not above thirty-five yards high, and Paul's is reckoned +to be about ninety. From thence toward the barge again, and in our way +found the people at Deal going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, it +being the King's birthday, and had some guns which they did fire at my +Lord's coming by. For which I did give twenty shillings among them to +drink. While we were on the top of the cliffe, we saw and heard our guns +in the fleet go off for the same joy. And it being a pretty fair day we +could see above twenty miles into France. Being returned on board, my +Lord called for Mr. Sheply's book of Paul's, by which we were confirmed +in our wager. After that to supper and then to musique, and so to +bed. The pain that I have got last night by cold is not yet gone, but +troubles me at the time of.... This day, it is thought, the King do +enter the city of London. +</p> +<pre> + ["Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a + petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship + to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of + his passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that + they will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats, + and other ornaments of triumph and rejoicing."-Rugge's Diurnal, May, + 1660.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +30th. About eight o'clock in the morning the lieutenant came to me +to know whether I would eat a dish of mackerel, newly catched, for my +breakfast, which the Captain and we did in the coach. All yesterday +and to-day I had a great deal of pain... and in my back, which made me +afeard. But it proved nothing but cold, which I took yesterday night. +All this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had +made myself now worth about L80, at which my heart was glad, and blessed +God. Many Dover men come and dine with my Lord. My Lord at ninepins in +the afternoon. In the afternoon Mr. Sheply told me how my Lord had put +me down for 70 guilders among the money which was given to my Lord's +servants, which my heart did much rejoice at. My Lord supped alone in +his chamber. Sir R. Stayner supped with us, and among other things told +us how some of his men did grumble that no more of the Duke's money +come to their share and so would not receive any; whereupon he called up +those that had taken it, and gives them three shares apiece more, which +was very good, and made good sport among the seamen. To bed. +</p> +<p> +31st. This day my Lord took physic, and came not out of his chamber. +</p> +<p> +All the morning making orders. After dinner a great while below in the +great cabin trying with W. Howe some of Mr. Laws' songs,' particularly +that of "What is a kiss," with which we had a great deal of pleasure. +After that to making of orders again. Captain Sparling of the Assistance +brought me a pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I was +much pleased with. The Captain and I to supper, and after that a most +pleasant walk till to at night with him upon the deck, it being a fine +evening. My pain was gone again that I had yesterday, blessed be God. +This day the month ends, I in very good health, and all the world in a +merry mood because of the King's coming. This day I began to teach Mr. +Edward; who I find to have a very good foundation laid for his Latin by +Mr. Fuller. I expect every minute to hear how my poor wife do. I find +myself in all things well as to body and mind, but troubled for the +absence of my wife. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0008"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + JUNE 1660 +</h2> +<p> +June 1st. This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the Duke +of York did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my share, +whereof he told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord left him +out. +</p> +<pre> + [Foreign coins were in frequent use at this time. A Proclamation, + January 29th, 1660-61, declared certain foreign gold and silver + coins to be current at certain rates. The rate of the ducatoon was + at 5s. 9d.] +</pre> +<p> +I did give Mr. Sheply the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I bought +myself about five years ago. My Lord took physic to-day, and so come not +out all day. The Captain on shore all day. After dinner Captain Jefferys +and W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and I to ninepins, where I lost about +two shillings and so fooled away all the afternoon. At night Mr. Cooke +comes from London with letters, leaving all things there very gallant +and joyful. And brought us word that the Parliament had ordered the +29th of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of +thanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny, and the King's return to +his Government, he entering London that day. My wife was in London when +he came thither, and had been there a week with Mr. Bowyer and his wife. +My poor wife has not been well a week before, but thanks be to God is +well again. She would fain see me and be at her house again, but we +must be content. She writes word how the Joyces grow very rich and very +proud, but it is no matter, and that there was a talk that I should +be knighted by the King, which they (the Joyces) laugh at; but I think +myself happier in my wife and estate than they are in theirs. To bed. +The Captain come on board, when I was going to bed, quite fuddled; +and himself the next morning told me so too, that the Vice-Admiral, +Rear-Admiral, and he had been drinking all day. +</p> +<p> +2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in his cabin, I +took occasion to give him thanks for his love to me in the share that +he had given me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. He told the he +hoped to do me a more lasting kindness, if all things stand as they +are now between him and the King, but, says he, "We must have a little +patience and we will rise together; in the mean time I will do you all +the good jobs I can." Which was great content for me to hear from my +Lord. All the morning with the Captain, computing how much the thirty +ships that come with the King from Scheveling their pay comes to for a +month (because the King promised to give them all a month's pay), and +it comes to L6,538, and the Charles particularly L777. I wish we had +the money. All the afternoon with two or three captains in the Captain's +cabin, drinking of white wine and sugar, and eating pickled oysters, +where Captain Sparling told us the best story that ever I heard, about +a gentleman that persuaded a country fool to let him gut his oysters or +else they would stink. At night writing letters to London and Weymouth, +for my Lord being now to sit in the House of Peers he endeavours to get +Mr. Edward Montagu for Weymouth and Mr. George for Dover. Mr. Cooke late +with me in my cabin while I wrote to my wife, and drank a bottle of wine +and so took leave of me on his journey and I to bed. +</p> +<p> +3d. Waked in the morning by one who when I asked who it was, he told me +one from Bridewell, which proved Captain Holland. I rose presently to +him. He is come to get an order for the setting out of his ship, and to +renew his commission. He tells me how every man goes to the Lord Mayor +to set down their names, as such as do accept of his Majesty's pardon, +and showed me a certificate under the Lord Mayor's hand that he had done +so. +</p> +<p> +At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my cabin, to cast my +accounts up, and find myself to be worth near L100, for which I bless +Almighty God, it being more than I hoped for so soon, being I believe +not clearly worth L25 when I came to sea besides my house and goods. +Then to set my papers in order, they being increased much upon my hands +through want of time to put them in order. The ship's company all this +while at sermon. After sermon my Lord did give me instruction to write +to London about business, which done, after supper to bed. +</p> +<p> +4th. Waked in the morning at four o'clock to give some money to Mr. +Hetly, who was to go to London with the letters that I wrote yesterday +night. After he was gone I went and lay down in my gown upon my bed +again an hour or two. At last waked by a messenger come for a Post +Warrant for Mr. Hetly and Mr. Creed, who stood to give so little for +their horses that the men would not let them have any without a warrant, +which I sent them. All the morning getting Captain Holland's commission +done, which I did, and he at noon went away. I took my leave of him upon +the quarter-deck with a bottle of sack, my Lord being just set down to +dinner. Then he being gone I went to dinner and after dinner to my cabin +to write. This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed, +and so I think myself to be worth near L100 now. In the evening I made +an order for Captain Sparling of the Assistance to go to Middleburgh, to +fetch over some of the King's goods. I took the opportunity to send all +my Dutch money, 70 ducatoons and 29 gold ducats to be changed, if he +can, for English money, which is the first venture that ever I made, and +so I have been since a little afeard of it. After supper some music +and so to bed. This morning the King's Proclamation against drinking, +swearing, and debauchery, was read to our ships' companies in the fleet, +and indeed it gives great satisfaction to all. +</p> +<pre> + [The King's "Proclamation against vicious, debauched, and prophane + Persons" is dated May 30th. It is printed in "Somers's Tracts," ed. + 1812, vol. vii. p. 423.] +</pre> +<p> +5th. A-bed late. In the morning my Lord went on shore with the +Vice-Admiral a-fishing, and at dinner returned. In the afternoon I +played at ninepins with my Lord, and when he went in again I got him to +sign my accounts for L115, and so upon my private balance I find myself +confirmed in my estimation that I am worth L100. In the evening in my +cabin a great while getting the song without book, "Help, help Divinity, +&c." After supper my Lord called for the lieutenant's cittern, and +with two candlesticks with money in them for symballs, we made barber's +music, +</p> +<pre> + [In the "Notices of Popular Histories," printed for the Percy + Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a + barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person + waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn + arrives. Decker also mentions a "barber's cittern," for every + serving-man to play upon. This is no doubt "the barber's music" + with which Lord Sandwich entertained himself.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +with which my Lord was well pleased. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me among other things, +that my Lord's place of Clerk of the Signet was fallen to him, which he +did most lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he could +not get a better employment for me at the end of the year. Because he +thought that the Duke of York would command all, but he hoped that the +Duke would not remove me but to my advantage. +</p> +<p> +I had a great deal of talk about my uncle Robert, +</p> +<pre> + [Robert Pepys of Brampton, eldest son of Thomas Pepys the red, and + brother of Samuel's father.] +</pre> +<p> +and he told me that he could not tell how his mind stood as to his +estate, but he would do all that lay in his power for me. After dinner +came Mr. Gooke from London, who told me that my wife he left well at +Huntsmore, though her health not altogether so constant as it used to +be, which my heart is troubled for. Mr. Moore's letters tell me that +he thinks my Lord will be suddenly sent for up to London, and so I got +myself in readiness to go. +</p> +<p> +My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy +</p> +<pre> + [Edmund Calamy, D.D., the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born + February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II., 1660. He refused + the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him. Died October + 29th, 1666.] +</pre> +<p> +had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards +to be false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three more Lords, are made +Commissioners for the Treasury; +</p> +<pre> + [The names of the Commissioners were—Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards + Earl of Clarendon, General Monk, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, John, + Lord Robartes, Thomas, Lord Colepeper, Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir + Edward Nicholas and Sir William Morrice as principal Secretaries of + State. The patents are dated June 19th, 1660.] +</pre> +<p> +that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Master +of the Wardrobe; +</p> +<pre> + [The duty of the Master of the Wardrobe was to provide "proper + furniture for coronations, marriages, and funerals" of the sovereign + and royal family, "cloaths of state, beds, hangings, and other + necessaries for the houses of foreign ambassadors, cloaths of state + for Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Prince of Wales, and ambassadors + abroad," as also to provide robes for Ministers of State, Knights of + the Garter, &c. The last Master of the Wardrobe was Ralph, Duke of + Montague, who died 1709.] +</pre> +<p> +that the two Dukes—[Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester.]—do haunt the +Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene,—["Epicene, or +the Silent Woman," a comedy, by Ben Jonson.]—the other day; that Sir. +Ant. Cooper, Mr. Hollis, and Mr. Annesly,& late President of the Council +of State, are made Privy Councillors to the King. At night very busy +sending Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father for a coat to +be made me against I come to London, which I think will not be long. At +night Mr. Edward Montagu came on board and staid long up with my Lord. I +to bed and about one in the morning, +</p> +<p> +7th. W. Howe called me up to give him a letter to carry to my Lord that +came to me to-day, which I did and so to, sleep again. About three +in the morning the people began to wash the deck, and the water came +pouring into my mouth, which waked me, and I was fain to rise and get +on my gown, and sleep leaning on my table. This morning Mr. Montagu went +away again. After dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. Moore, with the +sight of whom my heart was very glad. They brought an order for my +Lord's coming up to London, which my Lord resolved to do tomorrow. All +the afternoon getting my things in order to set forth to-morrow. At +night walked up and down with Mr. Moore, who did give me an account of +all things at London. Among others, how the Presbyterians would be angry +if they durst, but they will not be able to do any thing. Most of the +Commanders on board and supped with my Lord. Late at night came Mr. Edw. +Pickering from London, but I could not see him this night. I went with +Mr. Moore to the Master's cabin, and saw him there in order to going to +bed. After that to my own cabin to put things in order and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +8th. Out early, took horses at Deale. I troubled much with the King's +gittar, and Fairbrother, the rogue that I intrusted with the carrying of +it on foot, whom I thought I had lost. Col. Dixwell's horse taken by a +soldier and delivered to my Lord, and by him to me to carry to London. +Came to Canterbury, dined there. I saw the minster and the remains of +Becket's tomb. To Sittiligborne and Rochester. At Chatham and Rochester +the ships and bridge. Mr. Hetly's mistake about dinner. Come to +Gravesend. A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen +a great while. Supped with my Lord, drank late below with Penrose, +the Captain. To bed late, having first laid out all my things against +to-morrow to put myself in a walking garb. Weary and hot to bed to Mr. +Moore. +</p> +<p> +9th. Up betimes, 25s. the reckoning for very bare. Paid the house and +by boats to London, six boats. Mr. Moore, W. Howe, and I, and then the +child in the room of W. Howe. Landed at the Temple. To Mr. Crew's. To +my father's and put myself into a handsome posture to wait upon my Lord, +dined there. To White Hall with my Lord and Mr. Edwd. Montagu. Found the +King in the Park. There walked. Gallantly great. +</p> +<p> +10th. (Lord's day.) At my father's found my wife and to walk with her in +Lincoln's Inn walks. +</p> +<p> +11th. Betimes to my Lord. Extremely much people and business. So with +him to Whitehall to the Duke. Back with him by coach and left him in +Covent Garden. I back to Will's and the Hall to see my father. Then to +the Leg in King Street with Mr. Moore, and sent for. L'Impertinent to +dinner with me. After that with Mr. Moore about Privy Seal business. To +Mr. Watkins, so to Mr. Crew's. Then towards my father's met my Lord and +with him to Dorset House to the Chancellor. So to Mr. Crew's and saw my +Lord at supper, and then home, and went to see Mrs. Turner, and so to +bed. +</p> +<p> +12th. Visited by the two Pierces, Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerk and Mr. +Creed, and did give them a ham of bacon. So to my Lord and with him to +the Duke of Gloucester. The two Dukes dined with the Speaker, and I +saw there a fine entertainment and dined with the pages. To Mr. Crew's, +whither came Mr. Greatorex, and with him to the Faithornes, and so +to the Devils tavern. To my Lord's and staid till 12 at night about +business. So to my father's, my father and mother in bed, who had been +with my uncle Fenner, &c., and my wife all day and expected me. But I +found Mr. Cook there, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +13th. To my Lord's and thence to the Treasurer's of the Navy,' with Mr. +Creed and Pierce the Purser to Rawlinson's, whither my uncle Wight came, +and I spent 12s. upon them. So to Mr. Crew's, where I blotted a new +carpet—[It was customary to use carpets as table cloths.]—that was +hired, but got it out again with fair water. By water with my Lord in +a boat to Westminster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place. After +business done there to the Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne, +Creed, and Wivell. So to my Lord's lodging and to my father's, and to +bed. +</p> +<p> +14th. Up to my Lord and from him to the Treasurer of the Navy for L500. +After that to a tavern with Washington the Purser, very gallant, and ate +and drank. To Mr. Crew's and laid my money. To my Lady Pickering with +the plate that she did give my Lord the other day. Then to Will's +and met William Symons and Doling and Luellin, and with them to the +Bull-head, and then to a new alehouse in Brewer's Yard, where Winter +that had the fray with Stoakes, and from them to my father's. +</p> +<p> +15th. All the morning at the Commissioners of the Navy about getting +out my bill for L650 for the last quarter, which I got done with a great +deal of ease, which is not common. After that with Mr. Turner to the +Dolphin and drunk, and so by water to W. Symons, where D. Scobell with +his wife, a pretty and rich woman. Mrs. Symons, a very fine woman, very +merry after dinner with marrying of Luellin and D. Scobell's kinswoman +that was there. Then to my Lord who told me how the King has given him +the place of the great Wardrobe. My Lord resolves to have Sarah again. I +to my father's, and then to see my uncle and aunt Fenner. So home and to +bed. +</p> +<p> +16th. Rose betimes and abroad in one shirt, which brought me a great +cold and pain. Murford took me to Harvey's by my father's to drink and +told me of a business that I hope to get L5 by. To my Lord, and so to +White Hall with him about the Clerk of the Privy Seal's place, which he +is to have. +</p> +<p> +Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote same letters. Here Coll. Thompson +told me, as a great secret; that the Nazeby was on fire when the King +was there, but that is not known; when God knows it is quite false. Got +a piece of gold from Major Holmes for the horse of Dixwell's I +brought to town. Dined at Mr. Crew's, and after dinner with my Lord to +Whitehall. Court attendance infinite tedious. Back with my Lord to my +Lady Wright's and staid till it had done raining, which it had not done +a great while. After that at night home to my father's and to bed. +</p> +<p> +17th (Lord's day). Lay long abed. To Mr. Mossum's; a good sermon. This +day the organs did begin to play at White Hall before the King.—[All +organs were removed from churches by an ordinance dated 1644.]—Dined at +my father's. After dinner to Mr. Mossum's again, and so in the garden, +and heard Chippell's father preach, that was Page to the Protector, and +just by the window that I stood at sat Mrs. Butler, the great beauty. +After sermon to my Lord. Mr. Edward and I into Gray's Inn walks, and saw +many beauties. So to my father's, where Mr. Cook, W. Bowyer, and my coz +Roger Wharton supped and to bed. +</p> +<p> +18th. To my Lord's, where much business and some hopes of getting some +money thereby. With him to the Parliament House, where he did intend to +have gone to have made his appearance to-day, but he met Mr. Crew upon +the stairs, and would not go in. He went to Mrs. Brown's, and staid till +word was brought him what was done in the House. This day they made an +end of the twenty men to be excepted from pardon to their estates. +By barge to Stepny with my Lord, where at Trinity House we had great +entertainment. With, my Lord there went Sir W. Pen, Sir H. Wright, +Hetly, Pierce; Creed, Hill, I and other servants. Back again to the +Admiralty, and so to my Lord's lodgings, where he told me that he did +look after the place of the Clerk of the Acts—[The letters patent +appointing Pepys to the office of Clerk of the Acts is dated July 13th, +1660.]—for me. So to Mr. Crew's and my father's and to bed. My wife +went this day to Huntsmore for her things, and I was very lonely all +night. This evening my wife's brother, Balty, came to me to let me know +his bad condition and to get a place for him, but I perceive he stands +upon a place for a gentleman, that may not stain his family when, God +help him, he wants bread. +</p> +<p> +19th. Called on betimes by Murford, who showed me five pieces to get a +business done for him and I am resolved to do it., Much business at my +Lord's. This morning my Lord went into the House of Commons, and there +had the thanks of the House, in the name of the Parliament and Commons +of England, for his late service to his King and Country. A motion was +made for a reward for him, but it was quashed by Mr. Annesly, who, above +most men, is engaged to my Lord's and Mr. Crew's families. Meeting with +Captain Stoakes at Whitehall, I dined with him and Mr. Gullop, a +parson (with whom afterwards I was much offended at his importunity and +impertinence, such another as Elborough), +</p> +<pre> + [Thomas Elborough was one of Pepys's schoolfellows, and afterwards + curate of St. Lawrence Poultney.] +</pre> +<p> +and Mr. Butler, who complimented much after the same manner as the +parson did. After that towards my Lord's at Mr. Crew's, but was met with +by a servant of my Lady Pickering, who took me to her and she told me +the story of her husband's case and desired my assistance with my Lord, +and did give me, wrapped up in paper, L5 in silver. After that to my +Lord's, and with him to Whitehall and my Lady Pickering. My Lord went +at night with the King to Baynard's Castle' to supper, and I home to my +father's to bed. My wife and the girl and dog came home to-day. When I +came home I found a quantity of chocolate left for me, I know not from +whom. We hear of W. Howe being sick to-day, but he was well at night. +</p> +<p> +20th. Up by 4 in the morning to write letters to sea and a commission +for him that Murford solicited for. Called on by Captain Sparling, who +did give me my Dutch money again, and so much as he had changed into +English money, by which my mind was eased of a great deal of trouble. +Some other sea captains. I did give them a good morning draught, and so +to my Lord (who lay long in bed this day, because he came home late from +supper with the King). With my Lord to the Parliament House, and, after +that, with him to General Monk's, where he dined at the Cock-pit. I home +and dined with my wife, now making all things ready there again. Thence +to my Lady Pickering, who did give me the best intelligence about the +Wardrobe. Afterwards to the Cockpit to my Lord with Mr. Townsend, one +formerly and now again to be employed as Deputy of the Wardrobe. Thence +to the Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. Cooke to sea; whose business +was a letter from my Lord about Mr. G. Montagu to be chosen as +a Parliament-man in my Lord's room at Dover;' and another to the +Vice-Admiral to give my Lord a constant account of all things in the +fleet, merely that he may thereby keep up his power there; another +letter to Captn. Cuttance to send the barge that brought the King on +shore, to Hinchingbroke by Lynne. To my own house, meeting G. Vines, +and drank with him at Charing Cross, now the King's Head Tavern. With +my wife to my father's, where met with Swan,—[William Swan is called +a fanatic and a very rogue in other parts of the Diary.]—an old +hypocrite, and with him, his friend and my father, and my cozen Scott to +the Bear Tavern. To my father's and to bed. +</p> +<p> +21st. To my Lord, much business. With him to the Council Chamber, where +he was sworn; and the charge of his being admitted Privy Counsellor is +L26. To the Dog Tavern at Westminster, where Murford with Captain Curle +and two friends of theirs went to drink. Captain Curle, late of the +Maria, gave me five pieces in gold and a silver can for my wife for the +Commission I did give him this day for his ship, dated April 20, 1660 +last. Thence to the Parliament door and came to Mr. Crew's to dinner +with my Lord, and with my Lord to see the great Wardrobe, where Mr. +Townsend brought us to the governor of some poor children in tawny +clothes; who had been maintained there these eleven years, which put my +Lord to a stand how to dispose of them, that he may have the house for +his use. The children did sing finely, and my Lord did bid me give them +five pieces in gold at his going away. Thence back to White Hall, +where, the King being gone abroad, my Lord and I walked a great while +discoursing of the simplicity of the Protector, in his losing all that +his father had left him. My Lord told me, that the last words that he +parted with the Protector with (when he went to the Sound), were, that +he should rejoice more to see him in his grave at his return home, than +that he should give way to such things as were then in hatching, and +afterwards did ruin him: and the Protector said, that whatever G. +Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones, and the Secretary, would have him to +do, he would do it, be it what it would. Thence to my wife, meeting +Mr. Blagrave, who went home with me, and did give me a lesson upon +the flageolet, and handselled my silver can with my wife and me. To +my father's, where Sir Thomas Honeywood and his family were come of a +sudden, and so we forced to lie all together in a little chamber, three +stories high. +</p> +<p> +22d. To my Lord, where much business. With him to White Hall, where the +Duke of York not being up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery. +Mr. Hill (who for these two or three days hath constantly attended my +Lord) told me of an offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity, which I told +my Lord of in the balcone in this gallery, and he said he would think of +it. I to my Lord's and gave order for horses to be got to draw my Lord's +great coach to Mr. Crew's. Mr. Morrice the upholsterer came himself +to-day to take notice what furniture we lack for our lodgings at +Whitehall. My dear friend Mr. Fuller of Twickenham and I dined alone at +the Sun Tavern, where he told me how he had the grant of being Dean +of St. Patrick's, in Ireland; and I told him my condition, and both +rejoiced one for another. Thence to my Lord's, and had the great coach +to Brigham's, who went with me to the Half Moon, and gave me a can of +good julep, and told me how my Lady Monk deals with him and others +for their places, asking him L500, though he was formerly the King's +coach-maker, and sworn to it. My Lord abroad, and I to my house and +set things in a little order there. So with Mr. Moore to my father's, I +staying with Mrs. Turner who stood at her door as I passed. Among other +things she told me for certain how my old Lady Middlesex——herself the +other day in the presence of the King, and people took notice of it. +Thence called at my father's, and so to Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hetley had +sent a letter for me, and two pair of silk stockings, one for W. Howe, +and the other for me. To Sir H. Wright's to my Lord, where he, was, and +took direction about business, and so by link home about 11 o'clock. To +bed, the first time since my coming from sea, in my own house, for which +God be praised. +</p> +<p> +23d. By water with Mr. Hill towards my Lord's lodging and so to my +Lord. With him to Whitehall, where I left him and went to Mr. Holmes to +deliver him the horse of Dixwell's that had staid there fourteen days at +the Bell. So to my Lord's lodgings, where Tom Guy came to me, and there +staid to see the King touch people for the King's evil. But he did not +come at all, it rayned so; and the poor people were forced to stand all +the morning in the rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in the +Banquetting-house. +</p> +<pre> + [This ceremony is usually traced to Edward the Confessor, but there + is no direct evidence of the early Norman kings having touched for + the evil. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the House of + Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not + descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form + of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called + the King's evil. Burn asserts, "History of Parish Registers," 1862, + p. 179, that "between 1660 and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for + the evil." Everyone coming to the court for that purpose, brought a + certificate signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had + not at any time been touched by His Majesty. The practice was + supposed to have expired with the Stuarts, but the point being + disputed, reference was made to the library of the Duke of Sussex, + and four several Oxford editions of the Book of Common Prayer were + found, all printed after the accession of the house of Hanover, and + all containing, as an integral part of the service, "The Office for + the Healing." The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the + sore of the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten + shillings. It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon + was drawn, and the angel was hanged about the patient's neck till + the cure was perfected. The stamp has the impression of St. Michael + the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other. + "My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King's evil with three + others on Tuesday."—MS. Letter of William Greenhill to Lady Bacon, + dated December 31st, 1629, preserved at Audley End. Charles II. + "touched" before he came to the throne. "It is certain that the + King hath very often touched the sick, as well at Breda, where he + touched 260 from Saturday the 17 of April to Sunday the 23 of May, + as at Bruges and Bruxels, during the residence he made there; and + the English assure... it was not without success, since it was + the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those + diseased even from the most remote provinces of Germany."—Sir + William Lower's Relation of the Voiage and Residence which Charles + the II. hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, p. 78. Sir William Lower + gives a long account of the touching for the evil by Charles before + the Restoration.] +</pre> +<p> +With my Lord, to my Lord Frezendorfe's, where he dined to-day. Where he +told me that he had obtained a promise of the Clerk of the Acts place +for me, at which I was glad. Met with Mr. Chetwind, and dined with him +at Hargrave's, the Cornchandler, in St. Martin's Lane, where a good +dinner, where he showed me some good pictures, and an instrument he +called an Angelique. +</p> +<pre> + [An angelique is described as a species of guitar in Murray's "New + English Dictionary," and this passage from the Diary is given as a + quotation. The word appears as angelot in Phillips's "English + Dictionary" (1678), and is used in Browning's "Sordello," as a + "plaything of page or girl."] +</pre> +<p> +With him to London, changing all my Dutch money at Backwell's +</p> +<pre> + [Alderman Edward Backwell, an eminent banker and goldsmith, who is + frequently mentioned in the Diary. His shop was in Lombard Street. + He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles II. in + 1672. The crown then owed him L295,994 16s. 6d., in lieu of which + the King gave him an annuity of L17,759 13s. 8d. Backwell retired + into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in + 1679. See Hilton Price's "Handbook of London Bankers," 1876.] +</pre> +<p> +for English, and then to Cardinal's Cap, where he and the City +Remembrancer who paid for all. Back to Westminster, where my Lord was, +and discoursed with him awhile about his family affairs. So he went +away, I home and wrote letters into the country, and to bed. +</p> +<p> +24th. Sunday. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and bought a pair of +gloves there. So to Mr. G. Montagu, and told him what I had received +from Dover, about his business likely to be chosen there. So home and +thence with my wife towards my father's. She went thither, I to Mr. +Crew's, where I dined and my Lord at my Lord Montagu of Boughton in +Little Queen Street. In the afternoon to Mr. Mossum's with Mr. Moore, +and we sat in Mr. Butler's pew. Then to Whitehall looking for my Lord +but in vain, and back again to Mr. Crew's where I found him and did give +him letters. Among others some simple ones from our Lieutenant, Lieut. +Lambert to him and myself, which made Mr. Crew and us all laugh. I went +to my father's to tell him that I would not come to supper, and so after +my business done at Mr. Crew's I went home and my wife within a little +while after me, my mind all this while full of thoughts for my place of +Clerk of the Acts. +</p> +<p> +25th. With my Lord at White Hall, all the morning. I spoke with Mr. +Coventry about my business, who promised me all the assistance I could +expect. Dined with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound, being +amused at our great changes here, and Mr. Southerne, now Clerk to Mr. +Coventry, at the Leg in King-street. Thence to the Admiralty, where I +met with Mr. Turner +</p> +<pre> + [Thomas Turner (or Tourner) was General Clerk at the Navy Office, + and on June 30th he offered Pepys L150 to be made joint Clerk of the + Acts with him. In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the + King came in, preserved in the British Museum, there occur, Richard + Hutchinson; Treasury of the Navy, salary L1500; Thomas Tourner, + General Clerk, for himself and clerk, L100.] +</pre> +<p> +of the Navy-office, who did look after the place of Clerk of the Acts. +He was very civil to me, and I to him, and shall be so. There came +a letter from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening, but he +refused to come to her, but meeting in White Hall, with Sir Thomas +Clarges, her brother, my Lord returned answer, that he could not desist +in my business; and that he believed that General Monk would take it +ill if my Lord should name the officers in his army; and therefore he +desired to have the naming of one officer in the fleet. With my Lord by +coach to Mr. Crew's, and very merry by the way, discoursing of the late +changes and his good fortune. Thence home, and then with my wife to +Dorset House, to deliver a list of the names of the justices of the +peace for Huntingdonshire. By coach, taking Mr. Fox part of the way with +me, that was with us with the King on board the Nazeby, who I found +to have married Mrs. Whittle, that lived at Mr. Geer's so long. A very +civil gentleman. At Dorset House I met with Mr. Kipps, my old friend, +with whom the world is well changed, he being now sealbearer to the Lord +Chancellor, at which my wife and I are well pleased, he being a very +good natured man. Home and late writing letters. Then to my Lord's +lodging, this being the first night of his coming to Whitehall to lie +since his coming from sea. +</p> +<p> +26th. My Lord dined at his lodgings all alone to-day. I went to +Secretary Nicholas +</p> +<pre> + [Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I. and II. + He was dismissed from his office through the intrigues of Lady + Castlemaine in 1663. He died 1669, aged seventy-seven.] +</pre> +<p> +to carry him my Lord's resolutions about his title, which he had chosen, +and that is Portsmouth. +</p> +<pre> + [Montagu changed his mind, and ultimately took his title from the + town of Sandwich, leaving that of Portsmouth for the use of a King's + mistress.] +</pre> +<p> +I met with Mr. Throgmorton, a merchant, who went with me to the old +Three Tuns, at Charing Cross, who did give me five pieces of gold for to +do him a small piece of service about a convoy to Bilbo, which I did. In +the afternoon, one Mr. Watts came to me, a merchant, to offer me L500 if +I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place. I pray God direct me in +what I do herein. Went to my house, where I found my father, and carried +him and my wife to Whitefriars, and myself to Puddlewharf, to +the Wardrobe, to Mr. Townsend, who went with me to Backwell, the +goldsmith's, and there we chose L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give +Secretary Nicholas. Back and staid at my father's, and so home to bed. +</p> +<p> +27th. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke to Mr. Coventry to +despatch my business of the Acts, in which place every body gives me +joy, as if I were in it, which God send. +</p> +<pre> + [The letters patent, dated July 13th, 12 Charles II., recite and + revoke letters patent of February 16th, 14 Charles I., whereby the + office of Clerk of the Ships had been given to Dennis Fleming and + Thomas Barlow, or the survivor. D. F. was then dead, but T. B. + living, and Samuel Pepys was appointed in his room, at a salary of + L33 6s. 8d. per annum, with 3s. 4d. for each day employed in + travelling, and L6 per annum for boathire, and all fees due. This + salary was only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had + been attached to the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary + had been previously fixed at L350 a year.] +</pre> +<p> +Dined with my Lord and all the officers of his regiment, who invited my +Lord and his friends, as many as he would bring, to dinner, at the Swan, +at Dowgate, a poor house and ill dressed, but very good fish and plenty. +Here Mr. Symons, the Surgeon, told me how he was likely to lose his +estate that he had bought, at which I was not a little pleased. To +Westminster, and with Mr. Howe by coach to the Speaker's, where my Lord +supped with the King, but I could not get in. So back again, and after +a song or two in my chamber in the dark, which do (now that the bed is +out) sound very well, I went home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +28th. My brother Tom came to me with patterns to choose for a suit. +I paid him all to this day, and did give him L10 upon account. To Mr. +Coventry, who told me that he would do me all right in my business. To +Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came. He is +so stingy a fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of his +office, and did give him liberty to take any body in. Hawly and he are +parted too, he is going to serve Sir Thos. Ingram. I went also this +morning to see Mrs. Pierce, the chirurgeon['s wife]. I found her in bed +in her house in Margaret churchyard. Her husband returned to sea. I did +invite her to go to dinner with me and my wife to-day. After all this to +my Lord, who lay a-bed till eleven o'clock, it being almost five before +he went to bed, they supped so late last night with the King. This +morning I saw poor Bishop Wren +</p> +<pre> + [Matthew Wren, born 1585, successively Bishop of Hereford, Norwich, + and Ely. At the commencement of the Rebellion he was sent to the + Tower, and remained a prisoner there eighteen years. Died April + 24th, 1667.] +</pre> +<p> +going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day +</p> +<pre> + ["A Proclamation for setting apart a day of Solemn and Publick + Thanksgiving throughout the whole Kingdom," dated June 5th, 1660.] +</pre> +<p> +for the King's return. After my Lord was awake, I went up to him to the +Nursery, where he do lie, and, having talked with him a little, I took +leave and carried my wife and Mrs. Pierce to Clothworkers'-Hall, to +dinner, where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, met us. We were invited by Mr. +Chaplin, the Victualler, where Nich. Osborne was. Our entertainment very +good, a brave hall, good company, and very good music. Where among other +things I was pleased that I could find out a man by his voice, whom I +had never seen before, to be one that sang behind the curtaine +formerly at Sir W. Davenant's opera. Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the +victualler dined with us. After dinner to Mr. Rawlinson's, +</p> +<pre> + [Daniel Rawlinson kept the Mitre in Fenchurch Street, and there is a + farthing token of his extant, "At the Mitetr in Fenchurch Streete, + D. M. R." The initials stand for Daniel and Margaret Rawlinson (see + "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 595) In + "Reliquiae Hearnianae" (ed. Bliss, 1869, vol. ii. p. 39) is the + following extract from Thomas Rawlinson's Note Book R.: "Of Daniel + Rawlinson, my grandfather, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch + Street, and of whose being sequestred in the Rump time I have heard + much, the Whiggs tell this, that upon the king's murder he hung his + signe in mourning. He certainly judged right. The honour of the + Mitre was much eclipsed through the loss of so good a parent of the + church of England. These rogues say, this endeared him so much to + the churchmen that he soon throve amain and got a good estate." + Mrs. Rawlinson died of the plague (see August 9th, 1666), and the + house was burnt in the Great Fire. Mr. Rawlinson rebuilt the Mitre, + and he had the panels of the great room painted with allegorical + figures by Isaac Fuller. Daniel was father of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, + of whom Thomas Hearne writes (October 1st, 1705): "Sir Thomas + Rawlinson is chosen Lord Mayor of London for ye ensueing + notwithstanding the great opposition of ye Whigg party" (Hearne's + "Collections," ed. Doble, 1885, vol. i. p. 51). The well-known + antiquaries, Thomas and Richard Rawlinson, sons of Sir Thomas, were + therefore grandsons of Daniel.] +</pre> +<p> +to see him and his wife, and would have gone to my Aunt Wight, but that +her only child, a daughter, died last night. Home and to my Lord, who +supped within, and Mr. E. Montagu, Mr. Thos. Crew, and others with him +sat up late. I home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +29th. This day or two my maid Jane—[Jane Wayneman.]—has been lame, +that we cannot tell what to do for want of her. Up and to White Hall, +where I got my warrant from the Duke to be Clerk of the Acts. Also I +got my Lord's warrant from the Secretary for his honour of Earle of +Portsmouth, and Viscount Montagu of Hinchingbroke. So to my Lord, to +give him an account of what I had done. Then to Sir Geffery Palmer, to +give them to him to have bills drawn upon them, who told me that my Lord +must have some good Latinist to make the preamble to his Patent, which +must express his late service in the best terms that he can, and he told +me in what high flaunting terms Sir J. Greenville had caused his to +be done, which he do not like; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe had done +General Monk's very well. Back to Westminster, and meeting Mr. Townsend +in the Palace, he and I and another or two went and dined at the Leg +there. Then to White Hall, where I was told by Mr. Hutchinson at the +Admiralty, that Mr. Barlow, my predecessor, Clerk of the Acts, is yet +alive, and coming up to town to look after his place, which made my +heart sad a little. At night told my Lord thereof, and he bade me get +possession of my Patent; and he would do all that could be done to keep +him out. This night my Lord and I looked over the list of the Captains,. +and marked some that my Lord had a mind to have put out. Home and to +bed. Our wench very lame, abed these two days. +</p> +<p> +30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe to draw up the preamble to my Lord's +Patent. So to my Lord, and with him to White Hall, where I saw a great +many fine antique heads of marble, that my Lord Northumberland had given +the King. Here meeting with Mr. De Cretz, he looked over many of the +pieces, in the gallery with me and told me [by] whose hands they were, +with great pleasure. Dined at home and Mr. Hawly with me upon six of my +pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill here. This day came Will, +</p> +<pre> + [William Wayneman was constantly getting into trouble, and Pepys had + to cane him. He was dismissed on July 7th, 1663.] +</pre> +<p> +my boy, to me; the wench continuing lame, so that my wife could not be +longer without somebody to help her. In the afternoon with Sir Edward +Walker, at his lodgings by St. Giles Church, for my Lord's pedigree, and +carried it to Sir R. Fanshawe. To Mr. Crew's, and there took money and +paid Mrs. Anne, Mrs. Jemima's maid, off quite, and so she went away and +another came to her. To White Hall with Mr. Moore, where I met with +a letter from Mr. Turner, offering me L150 to be joined with me in my +patent, and to advise me how to improve the advantage of my place, and +to keep off Barlow. To my Lord's till late at night, and so home. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0009"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + JULY 1660 +</h2> +<h3> + July 1st. This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, +</h3> +<pre> + [Camlet was a mixed stuff of wool and silk. It was very expensive, + and later Pepys gave L24 for a suit. (See June 1st, 1664.)] +</pre> +<p> +with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray +God to make me able to pay for it. I went to the cook's and got a good +joint of meat, and my wife and I dined at home alone. In the afternoon +to the Abbey, where a good sermon by a stranger, but no Common Prayer +yet. After sermon called in at Mrs. Crisp's, where I saw Mynheer Roder, +that is to marry Sam Hartlib's sister, a great fortune for her to +light on, she being worth nothing in the world. Here I also saw Mrs. +Greenlife, who is come again to live in Axe Yard with her new husband +Mr. Adams. Then to my Lord's, where I staid a while. So to see for Mr. +Creed to speak about getting a copy of Barlow's patent. To my Lord's, +where late at night comes Mr. Morland, whom I left prating with my Lord, +and so home. +</p> +<p> +2nd. Infinite of business that my heart and head and all were full. Met +with purser Washington, with whom and a lady, a friend of his, I dined +at the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more manners +than to invite me and to let me pay my club. All the afternoon with my +Lord, going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, and +there the principal Officers of the Navy, +</p> +<pre> + [A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31st, 1660. From a + MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys's own handwriting. + His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral. + Sir George Carteret, Treasurer. + Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller. + Sir William Batten, Surveyor. + Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts. + + John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton,)| + Sir William Penn, | Commissioners. + Peter Pett, Esq.—B,] | +</pre> +<p> +among the rest myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow, +to draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into action +before our patents were passed. At which my heart was glad. At night +supped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone +by ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my +maid pretty well again. +</p> +<p> +3d. All the morning the Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, we met +at Sir G. Carteret's +</p> +<pre> + [Sir George Carteret, born 1599, had originally been bred to the sea + service, and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I., and + Governor of Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his + gallant defence of that island against the Parliament forces. At + the Restoration he was made Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer + of the Navy, and a Privy Councillor, and in 1661 he was elected M.P. + for Portsmouth. In 1666 he exchanged the Treasurership of the Navy + with the Earl of Anglesea for the Vice-Treasurership of Ireland. He + became a Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1673. He continued in + favour with Charles II. till his death, January 14th, 1679, in his + eightieth year. He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir + Philip Carteret, Knight of St. Ouen, and had issue three sons and + five daughters.] +</pre> +<p> +chamber, and agreed upon orders for the Council to supersede the old +ones, and empower us to act. Dined with Mr. Stephens, the Treasurer's +man of the Navy, and Mr. Turner, to whom I offered L50 out of my own +purse for one year, and the benefit of a Clerk's allowance beside, which +he thanked me for; but I find he hath some design yet in his head, which +I could not think of. In the afternoon my heart was quite pulled down, +by being told that Mr. Barlow was to enquire to-day for Mr. Coventry; +but at night I met with my Lord, who told me that I need not fear, for +he would get me the place against the world. And when I came to W. Howe, +he told me that Dr. Petty had been with my Lord, and did tell him +that Barlow was a sickly man, and did not intend to execute the place +himself, which put me in great comfort again. Till 2 in the morning +writing letters and things for my Lord to send to sea. So home to my +wife to bed. +</p> +<p> +4th. Up very early in the morning and landing my wife at White Friars +stairs, I went to the Bridge and so to the Treasurer's of the Navy, with +whom I spake about the business of my office, who put me into very good +hopes of my business. At his house comes Commissioner Pett, and he and I +went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, +</p> +<pre> + [The Navy Office was erected on the site of Lumley House, formerly + belonging to the Fratres Sancta Crucis (or Crutched Friars), and all + business connected with naval concerns was transacted there till its + removal to Somerset House.—The ground was afterwards occupied by + the East India Company's warehouses. The civil business of the + Admiralty was removed from Somerset House to Spring Gardens in + 1869.] +</pre> +<p> +where I find the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind that +they will shuffle me out of them, which troubles me. From thence to the +Excise Office in Broad Street, where I received L500 for my Lord, by +appointment of the Treasurer, and went afterwards down with Mr. Luddyard +and drank my morning draft with him and other officers. Thence to Mr. +Backewell's, the goldsmith, where I took my Lord's L100 in plate for Mr. +Secretary Nicholas, and my own piece of plate, being a state dish and +cup in chased work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above L19. Carried these +and the money by coach to my Lord's at White Hall, and from thence +carried Nicholas's plate to his house and left it there, intending +to speak with him anon. So to Westminster Hall, where meeting with M. +L'Impertinent and W. Bowyer, I took them to the Sun Tavern, and gave +them a lobster and some wine, and sat talking like a fool till 4 +o'clock. So to my Lord's, and walking all the afternoon in White Hall +Court, in expectation of what shall be done in the Council as to our +business. It was strange to see how all the people flocked together +bare, to see the King looking out of the Council window. At night my +Lord told me how my orders that I drew last night about giving us power +to act, are granted by the Council. At which he and I were very glad. +Home and to bed, my boy lying in my house this night the first time. +</p> +<p> +5th. This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with +silver buttons. It rained this morning, which makes us fear that the +glory of this great day will be lost; the King and Parliament being to +be entertained by the City to-day with great pomp. +</p> +<pre> + ["July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the + House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. + Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His + Majesty; the Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets + between Temple Bar and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that + day spent in the City of London."—Rugge's Diurnal.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +Mr. Hater' was with me to-day, and I agreed with him to be my clerk. +</p> +<pre> + [Thomas Hayter. He remained with Pepys for some time; and by his + assistance was made Petty Purveyor of Petty Missions. He succeeded + Pepys as Clerk of the Acts in 1673, and in 1679 he was Secretary of + the Admiralty, and Comptroller of the Navy from 1680 to 1682.] +</pre> +<p> +Being at White Hall, I saw the King, the Dukes, and all their attendants +go forth in the rain to the City, and it bedraggled many a fine suit of +clothes. I was forced to walk all the morning in White Hall, not knowing +how to get out because of the rain. Met with Mr. Cooling, my Lord +Chamberlain's secretary, who took me to dinner among the gentlemen +waiters, and after dinner into the wine-cellar. He told me how he had +a project for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money by +bringing all business into our hands. Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. +Blackburne and I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour or +two in the Park, he giving of me light in many things in my way in this +office that I go about. And in the evening I got my present of plate +carried to Mr. Coventry's. At my Lord's at night comes Dr. Petty to me, +to tell me that Barlow had come to town, and other things, which put me +into a despair, and I went to bed very sad. +</p> +<p> +6th. In the morning with my Lord at Whitehall, got the order of the +Council for us to act. From thence to Westminster Hall, and there met +with the Doctor that shewed us so much kindness at the Hague, and took +him to the Sun tavern, and drank with him. So to my Lord's and dined +with W. Howe and Sarah, thinking it might be the last time that I +might dine with them together. In the afternoon my Lord and I, and +Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy +Office, whereby my mind was a little cheered, but my hopes not great. +From thence Sir G. Carteret and I to the Treasurer's Office, where he +set some things in order. And so home, calling upon Sir Geoffry Palmer, +who did give me advice about my patent, which put me to some doubt to +know what to do, Barlow being alive. Afterwards called at Mr. Pim's, +about getting me a coat of velvet, and he took me to the Half Moon, and +the house so full that we staid above half an hour before we could get +anything. So to my Lord's, where in the dark W. Howe and I did sing +extemporys, and I find by use that we are able to sing a bass and a +treble pretty well. So home, and to bed. +</p> +<p> +7th. To my Lord, one with me to buy a Clerk's place, and I did demand +L100. To the Council Chamber, where I took an order for the advance of +the salaries of the officers of the Navy, and I find mine to be raised +to L350 per annum. Thence to the Change, where I bought two fine prints +of Ragotti from Rubens, and afterwards dined with my Uncle and Aunt +Wight, where her sister Cox and her husband were. After that to Mr. +Rawlinson's with my uncle, and thence to the Navy Office, where I began +to take an inventory of the papers, and goods, and books of the office. +To my Lord's, late writing letters. So home to bed. +</p> +<p> +8th (Lord's day). To White Hall chapel, where I got in with ease by +going before the Lord Chancellor with Mr. Kipps. Here I heard very good +music, the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and +singing-men in surplices in my life. +</p> +<pre> + [During the Commonwealth organs were destroyed all over the country, + and the following is the title of the Ordinances under which this + destruction took place: "Two Ordinances of the Lords and Commons + assembled in Parliament, for the speedy demolishing of all organs, + images, and all matters of superstitious monuments in all Cathedrals + and Collegiate or Parish Churches and Chapels throughout the Kingdom + of England and the dominion of Wales; the better to accomplish the + blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and + things illegal in the worship of God. Dated May 9th, 1644." When + at the period of the Restoration music again obtained its proper + place in the services of the Church, there was much work for the + organ builders. According to Dr. Rimbault ("Hopkins on the Organ," + 1855, p. 74), it was more than fifty years after the Restoration + when our parish churches began commonly to be supplied with organs. + Drake says, in his "Eboracum" (published in 1733), that at that date + only one parish church in the city of York possessed an organ. + Bernard Schmidt, better known as "Father Smith," came to England + from Germany at the time of the Restoration, and he it was who built + the organ at the Chapel Royal. He was in high favour with Charles + II., who allowed, him apartments in Whitehall Palace.] +</pre> +<p> +The Bishop of Chichester preached before the King, and made a great +flattering sermon, which I did not like that Clergy should meddle with +matters of state. Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook's shop. +Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon. There +till Mr. Fairebrother came to call us out to my father's to supper. He +told me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by +proxy, which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin Roger +Pepys was the other day persuading me from it. While we were at supper +came Win. Howe to supper to us, and after supper went home to bed. +</p> +<p> +9th. All the morning at Sir G. Palmer's advising about getting my bill +drawn. From thence to the Navy office, where in the afternoon we met and +sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first time. From +thence Captain Holland and Mr. Browne of Harwich took me to a tavern and +did give me a collation. From thence to the Temple to further my bills +being done, and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed. +</p> +<p> +10th. This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever I +wore in my life. This morning came Nan Pepys' husband Mr. Hall to see +me being lately come to town. I had never seen him before. I took him to +the Swan tavern with Mr. Eglin and there drank our morning draft. Home, +and called my wife, and took her to Dr. Clodius's to a great wedding of +Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at Goring House with very +great state, cost, and noble company. But, among all the beauties there, +my wife was thought the greatest. After dinner I left the company, and +carried my wife to Mrs. Turner's. I went to the Attorney-General's, and +had my bill which cost me seven pieces. I called my wife, and set her +home. And finding my Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to the +Secretary's, which he did, and desired the dispatch of his and my bills +to be signed by the King. His bill is to be Earl of Sandwich, Viscount +Hinchingbroke, and Baron of St. Neot's. +</p> +<pre> + [The motive for Sir Edward Montagu's so suddenly altering his + intended title is not explained; probably, the change was adopted as + a compliment to the town of Sandwich, off which the Fleet was lying + before it sailed to bring Charles from Scheveling. Montagu had also + received marked attentions from Sir John Boys and other principal + men at Sandwich; and it may be recollected, as an additional reason, + that one or both of the seats for that borough have usually been + placed at the disposal of the Admiralty. The title of Portsmouth + was given, in 1673, for her life, to the celebrated Louise de + Querouaille, and becoming extinct with her, was, in 1743, conferred + upon John Wallop, Viscount Lymington, the ancestor of the present + Earl of Portsmouth.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +Home, with my mind pretty quiet: not returning, as I said I would, to +see the bride put to bed. +</p> +<p> +11th. With Sir W. Pen by water to the Navy office, where we met, and +dispatched business. And that being done, we went all to dinner to the +Dolphin, upon Major Brown's invitation. After that to the office again, +where I was vexed, and so was Commissioner Pett, to see a busy fellow +come to look out the best lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and the +combining between him and Sir W. Pen; and, indeed, was troubled much +at it. Home to White Hall, and took out my bill signed by the King, and +carried it to Mr. Watkins of the Privy Seal to be despatched there, and +going home to take a cap, I borrowed a pair of sheets of Mr. Howe, and +by coach went to the Navy office, and lay (Mr. Hater, my clerk, with me) +at Commissioner Willoughby's' house, where I was received by him very +civilly and slept well. +</p> +<p> +12th. Up early and by coach to White Hall with Commissioner Pett, where, +after we had talked with my Lord, I went to the Privy Seal and got my +bill perfected there, and at the Signet: and then to the House of Lords, +and met with Mr. Kipps, who directed me to Mr. Beale to get my patent +engrossed; but he not having time to get it done in Chancery-hand, I was +forced to run all up and down Chancery-lane, and the Six Clerks' Office +</p> +<pre> + [The Six Clerks' Office was in Chancery Lane, near the Holborn end. + The business of the office was to enrol commissions, pardons, + patents, warrants, &c., that had passed the Great Seal; also other + business in Chancery. In the early history of the Court of + Chancery, the Six Clerks and their under-clerks appear to have acted + as the attorneys of the suitors. As business increased, these + under-clerks became a distinct body, and were recognized by the + court under the denomination of 'sworn clerks,' or 'clerks in + court.' The advance of commerce, with its consequent accession of + wealth, so multiplied the subjects requiring the judgment of a Court + of Equity, that the limits of a public office were found wholly + inadequate to supply a sufficient number of officers to conduct the + business of the suitors. Hence originated the 'Solicitors' of the + "Court of Chancery." See Smith's "Chancery Practice," p. 62, 3rd + edit. The "Six Clerks" were abolished by act of Parliament, + 5 Vict. c. 5.] +</pre> +<p> +but could find none that could write the hand, that were at leisure. +And so in a despair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first time +there, my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, Mr. Coventry, and all the +rest of the principal Officers and Commissioners, [except] only the +Controller, who is not yet chosen. At night to Mr. Kipps's lodgings, but +not finding him, I went to Mr. Spong's and there I found him and got him +to come to me to my Lord's lodgings at 11 o'clock of night, when I got +him to take my bill to write it himself (which was a great providence +that he could do it) against to-morrow morning. I late writing letters +to sea by the post, and so home to bed. In great trouble because I heard +at Mr. Beale's to-day that Barlow had been there and said that he would +make a stop in the business. +</p> +<p> +13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black camlett coat with +silver buttons. To Mr. Spong, whom I found in his night-down writing +of my patent, and he had done as far as he could "for that &c." by +8 o'clock. It being done, we carried it to Worcester House to the +Chancellor, where Mr. Kipps (a strange providence that he should now be +in a condition to do me a kindness, which I never thought him capable of +doing for me), got me the Chancellor's recepi to my bill; and so carried +it to Mr. Beale for a dockett; but he was very angry, and unwilling to +do it, because he said it was ill writ (because I had got it writ by +another hand, and not by him); but by much importunity I got Mr. Spong +to go to his office and make an end of my patent; and in the mean time +Mr. Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him +two pieces, after which it was strange how civil and tractable he was +to me. From thence I went to the Navy office, where we despatched much +business, and resolved of the houses for the Officers and Commissioners, +which I was glad of, and I got leave to have a door made me into the +leads. From thence, much troubled in mind about my patent, I went to Mr. +Beale again, who had now finished my patent and made it ready for the +Seal, about an hour after I went to meet him at the Chancellor's. So +I went away towards Westminster, and in my way met with Mr. Spong, and +went with him to Mr. Lilly and ate some bread and cheese, and drank with +him, who still would be giving me council of getting my patent out, +for fear of another change, and my Lord Montagu's fall. After that to +Worcester House, where by Mr. Kipps's means, and my pressing in General +Montagu's name to the Chancellor, I did, beyond all expectation, get my +seal passed; and while it was doing in one room, I was forced to keep +Sir G. Carteret (who by chance met me there, ignorant of my business) in +talk, while it was a doing. Went home and brought my wife with me into +London, and some money, with which I paid Mr. Beale L9 in all, and took +my patent of him and went to my wife again, whom I had left in a coach +at the door of Hinde Court, and presented her with my patent at which +she was overjoyed; so to the Navy office, and showed her my house, and +were both mightily pleased at all things there, and so to my business. +So home with her, leaving her at her mother's door. I to my Lord's, +where I dispatched an order for a ship to fetch Sir R. Honywood home, +for which I got two pieces of my Lady Honywood by young Mr. Powell. Late +writing letters; and great doings of music at the next house, which was +Whally's; the King and Dukes there with Madame Palmer, +</p> +<pre> + [Barbara Villiers, only child of William, second Viscount Grandison, + born November, 1640, married April 14th, 1659, to Roger Palmer, + created Earl of Castlemaine, 1661. She became the King's mistress + soon after the Restoration, and was in 1670 made Baroness Nonsuch, + Countess of Southampton, and Duchess of Cleveland. She had six + children by the King, one of them being created Duke of Grafton, and + the eldest son succeeding her as Duke of Cleveland. She + subsequently married Beau Fielding, whom she prosecuted for bigamy. + She died October 9th, 1709, aged sixty-nine. Her life was written + by G. Steinman Steinman, and privately printed 1871, with addenda + 1874, and second addenda 1878.] +</pre> +<p> +a pretty woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold. +Here at the old door that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W. +Howe, did stand listening a great while to the music. After that home to +bed. This day I should have been at Guildhall to have borne witness for +my brother Hawly against Black Collar, but I could not, at which I was +troubled. To bed with the greatest quiet of mind that I have had a +great while, having ate nothing but a bit of bread and cheese at Lilly's +to-day, and a bit of bread and butter after I was a-bed. +</p> +<p> +14th. Up early and advised with my wife for the putting of all our +things in a readiness to be sent to our new house. To my Lord's, where +he was in bed very late. So with Major Tollhurst and others to Harper's, +and I sent for my barrel of pickled oysters and there ate them; while we +were doing so, comes in Mr. Pagan Fisher; the poet, and promises me what +he had long ago done, a book in praise of the King of France, with my +armes, and a dedication to me very handsome. After him comes Mr. Sheply +come from sea yesterday, whom I was glad to see that he may ease me of +the trouble of my Lord's business. So to my Lord's, where I staid doing +his business and taking his commands. After that to Westminster Hall, +where I paid all my debts in order to my going away from hence. Here I +met with Mr. Eglin, who would needs take me to the Leg in King +Street and gave me a dish of meat to dinner; and so I sent for Mons. +L'Impertinent, where we sat long and were merry. After that parted, and +I took Mr. Butler [Mons. L'Impertinent] with me into London by coach +and shewed him my house at the Navy Office, and did give order for the +laying in coals. So into Fenchurch Street, and did give him a glass of +wine at Rawlinson's, and was trimmed in the street. So to my Lord's late +writing letters, and so home, where I found my wife had packed up all +her goods in the house fit for a removal. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +15th. Lay long in bed to recover my rest. Going forth met with Mr. +Sheply, and went and drank my morning draft with him at Wilkinson's, +and my brother Spicer.—[Jack Spicer, brother clerk of the Privy +Seal.]—After that to Westminster Abbey, and in Henry the Seventh's +Chappell heard part of a sermon, the first that ever I heard there. To +my Lord's and dined all alone at the table with him. After dinner he and +I alone fell to discourse, and I find him plainly to be a sceptic in all +things of religion, and to make no great matter of anything therein, but +to be a perfect Stoic. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's Chappell, +where I heard service and a sermon there, and after that meeting W. +Bowyer there, he and I to the Park, and walked a good while till night. +So to Harper's and drank together, and Captain Stokes came to us and so +I fell into discourse of buying paper at the first hand in my office, +and the Captain promised me to buy it for me in France. After that to +my Lord's lodgings, where I wrote some business and so home. My wife +at home all the day, she having no clothes out, all being packed up +yesterday. For this month I have wholly neglected anything of news, and +so have beyond belief been ignorant how things go, but now by my patent +my mind is in some quiet, which God keep. I was not at my father's +to-day, I being afraid to go for fear he should still solicit me to +speak to my Lord for a place in the Wardrobe, which I dare not do, +because of my own business yet. My wife and I mightily pleased with our +new house that we hope to have. My patent has cost me a great deal of +money, about L40, which is the only thing at present which do trouble +me much. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's chapel, where I heard +a sermon and spent (God forgive me) most of my time in looking upon Mrs. +Butler. After that with W. Bowyer to walk in the Park. Afterwards to +my Lord's lodgings, and so home to bed, having not been at my father's +to-day. +</p> +<p> +16th, This morning it proved very rainy weather so that I could not +remove my goods to my house. I to my office and did business there, and +so home, it being then sunrise, but by the time that I got to my house +it began to rain again, so that I could not carry my goods by cart as I +would have done. After that to my Lord's and so home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +17th. This morning (as indeed all the mornings nowadays) much business +at my Lord's. There came to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, an +old consumptive man, and fair conditioned, with whom I did discourse a +great while, and after much talk I did grant him what he asked, viz., +L50 per annum, if my salary be not increased, and (100 per annum, in +case it be to L350), at which he was very well pleased to be paid as I +received my money and not otherwise. Going to my Lord's I found my Lord +had got a great cold and kept his bed, and so I brought him to my Lord's +bedside, and he and I did agree together to this purpose what I should +allow him. That done and the day proving fair I went home and got all my +goods packed up and sent away, and my wife and I and Mrs. Hunt went by +coach, overtaking the carts a-drinking in the Strand. Being come to my +house and set in the goods, and at night sent my wife and Mrs. Hunt to +buy something for supper; they bought a Quarter of Lamb, and so we ate +it, but it was not half roasted. Will, Mr. Blackburne's nephew, is so +obedient, that I am greatly glad of him. At night he and I and Mrs. Hunt +home by water to Westminster. I to my Lord, and after having done some +business with him in his chamber in the Nursery, which has been now +his chamber since he came from sea, I went on foot with a linkboy to my +home, where I found my wife in bed and Jane washing the house, and Will +the boy sleeping, and a great deal of sport I had before I could wake +him. I to bed the first night that I ever lay here with my wife. +</p> +<p> +18th. This morning the carpenter made an end of my door out of my +chamber upon the leads. +</p> +<p> +This morning we met at the office: I dined at my house in Seething Lane, +and after that, going about 4 o'clock to Westminster, I met with Mr. +Carter and Mr. Cooke coming to see me in a coach, and so I returned +home. I did also meet with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, with a porter with +him, with a barrel of Lemons, which my man Burr sends me from sea. I +took all these people home to my house and did give them some drink, +and after them comes Mr. Sheply, and after a little stay we all went by +water to Westminster as far as the New Exchange. Thence to my Lord +about business, and being in talk in comes one with half a buck from +Hinchinbroke, and it smelling a little strong my Lord did give it me +(though it was as good as any could be). I did carry it to my mother, +where I had not been a great while, and indeed had no great mind to go, +because my father did lay upon me continually to do him a kindness at +the Wardrobe, which I could not do because of my own business being so +fresh with my Lord. But my father was not at home, and so I did leave +the venison with her to dispose of as she pleased. After that home, +where W. Hewer now was, and did lie this night with us, the first night. +My mind very quiet, only a little trouble I have for the great debts +which I have still upon me to the Secretary, Mr. Kipps, and Mr. Spong +for my patent. +</p> +<p> +19th. I did lie late a-bed. I and my wife by water, landed her at +Whitefriars with her boy with an iron of our new range which is already +broke and my wife will have changed, and many other things she has to +buy with the help of my father to-day. I to my Lord and found him in +bed. This day I received my commission to swear people the oath of +allegiance and supremacy delivered me by my Lord. After talk with my +Lord I went to Westminster Hall, where I took Mr. Michell and his wife, +and Mrs. Murford we sent for afterwards, to the Dog Tavern, where I did +give them a dish of anchovies and olives and paid for all, and did talk +of our old discourse when we did use to talk of the King, in the time of +the Rump, privately; after that to the Admiralty Office, in White Hall, +where I staid and writ my last observations for these four days +last past. Great talk of the difference between the Episcopal and +Presbyterian Clergy, but I believe it will come to nothing. So home and +to bed. +</p> +<p> +20th. We sat at the office this morning, Sir W. Batten and Mr. Pett +being upon a survey to Chatham. This morning I sent my wife to my +father's and he is to give me L5 worth of pewter. After we rose at the +office, I went to my father's, where my Uncle Fenner and all his crew +and Captain Holland and his wife and my wife were at dinner at a venison +pasty of the venison that I did give my mother the other day. I did this +time show so much coldness to W. Joyce that I believe all the table took +notice of it. After that to Westminster about my Lord's business and so +home, my Lord having not been well these two or three days, and I hear +that Mr. Barnwell at Hinchinbroke is fallen sick again. Home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +21st. This morning Mr. Barlow had appointed for me to bring him what +form I would have the agreement between him and me to pass, which I did +to his lodgings at the Golden Eagle in the new street—[Still retains +the name New Street.]—between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane, where he liked +it very well, and I from him went to get Mr. Spong to engross it in +duplicates. To my Lord and spoke to him about the business of the Privy +Seal for me to be sworn, though I got nothing by it, but to do Mr. +Moore a kindness, which he did give me a good answer to. Went to the Six +Clerks' office to Mr. Spong for the writings, and dined with him at a +club at the next door, where we had three voices to sing catches. So +to my house to write letters and so to Whitehall about business of my +Lord's concerning his creation,—[As Earl of Sandwich.]—and so home and +to bed. +</p> +<p> +22nd. Lord's day. All this last night it had rained hard. My brother Tom +came this morning the first time to see me, and I paid him all that I +owe my father to this day. Afterwards I went out and looked into several +churches, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my wife was got before +me, and we, my father and mother, and all the Joyces, and my aunt Bell, +whom I had not seen many a year before. After dinner to White Hall (my +wife to church with K. Joyce), where I find my Lord at home, and walked +in the garden with him, he showing me all the respect that can be. I +left him and went to walk in the Park, where great endeavouring to get +into the inward Park,—[This is still railed off from St. James's Park, +and called the Enclosure.]—but could not get in; one man was basted by +the keeper, for carrying some people over on his back through the water. +Afterwards to my Lord's, where I staid and drank with Mr. Sheply, having +first sent to get a pair of oars. It was the first time that ever I went +by water on the Lord's day. Home, and at night had a chapter read; and +I read prayers out of the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever I +read prayers in this house. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +23rd. This morning Mr. Barlow comes to me, and he and I went forth to +a scrivener in Fenchurch Street, whom we found sick of the gout in bed, +and signed and sealed our agreement before him. He urged to have these +words (in consideration whereof) to be interlined, which I granted, +though against my will. Met this morning at the office, and afterwards +Mr. Barlow by appointment came and dined with me, and both of us very +pleasant and pleased. After dinner to my Lord, who took me to Secretary +Nicholas, and there before him and Secretary Morris, my Lord and I upon +our knees together took our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; and the +Oath of the Privy Seal, of which I was much glad, though I am not likely +to get anything by it at present; but I do desire it, for fear of a +turn-out of our office. That done and my Lord gone from me, I went with +Mr. Cooling and his brother, and Sam Hartlibb, little Jennings and some +others to the King's Head Tavern at Charing Cross, where after drinking +I took boat and so home, where we supped merrily among ourselves (our +little boy proving a droll) and so after prayers to bed. This day my +Lord had heard that Mr. Barnwell was dead, but it is not so yet, though +he be very ill. I was troubled all this day with Mr. Cooke, being +willing to do him good, but my mind is so taken up with my own business +that I cannot. +</p> +<p> +24th. To White Hall, where I did acquaint Mr. Watkins with my being +sworn into the Privy Seal, at which he was much troubled, but put it up +and did offer me a kinsman of his to be my clerk, which I did give him +some hope of, though I never intend it. In the afternoon I spent much +time in walking in White Hall Court with Mr. Bickerstaffe, who was very +glad of my Lord's being sworn, because of his business with his +brother Baron, which is referred to my Lord Chancellor, and to be ended +to-morrow. Baron had got a grant beyond sea, to come in before the +reversionary of the Privy Seal. This afternoon Mr. Mathews came to me, +to get a certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn, which I put in +some forwardness, and so home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +25th. In the morning at the office, and after that down to Whitehall, +where I met with Mr. Creed, and with him and a Welsh schoolmaster, a +good scholar but a very pedagogue, to the ordinary at the Leg in King +Street.' I got my certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn. This +morning my Lord took leave of the House of Commons, and had the thanks +of the House for his great services to his country. In the afternoon +(but this is a mistake, for it was yesterday in the afternoon) Monsieur +L'Impertinent and I met and I took him to the Sun and drank with him, +and in the evening going away we met his mother and sisters and father +coming from the Gatehouse; where they lodge, where I did the first time +salute them all, and very pretty Madame Frances—[Frances Butler, the +beauty.]—is indeed. After that very late home and called in Tower +Street, and there at a barber's was trimmed the first time. Home and to +bed. +</p> +<p> +26th. Early to White Hall, thinking to have a meeting of my Lord and the +principal officers, but my Lord could not, it being the day that he +was to go and be admitted in the House of Lords, his patent being done, +which he presented upon his knees to the Speaker; and so it was read in +the House, and he took his place. I at the Privy Seal Office with Mr. +Hooker, who brought me acquainted with Mr. Crofts of the Signet, and +I invited them to a dish of meat at the Leg in King Street, and so we +dined there and I paid for all and had very good light given me as to my +employment there. Afterwards to Mr. Pierces, where I should have dined +but I could not, but found Mr. Sheply and W. Howe there. After we had +drunk hard we parted, and I went away and met Dr. Castle, who is one of +the Clerks of the Privy Seal, and told him how things were with my Lord +and me, which he received very gladly. I was this day told how Baron +against all expectation and law has got the place of Bickerstaffe, and +so I question whether he will not lay claim to wait the next month, but +my Lord tells me that he will stand for it. In the evening I met with T. +Doling, who carried me to St. James's Fair, +</p> +<pre> + [August, 1661: "This year the Fair, called St. James's Fair, was + kept the full appointed time, being a fortnight; but during that + time many lewd and infamous persons were by his Majesty's express + command to the Lord Chamberlain, and his Lordship's direction to + Robert Nelson, Esq., committed to the House of Correction."—Rugge's + Diurnal. St; James's fair was held first in the open space near St. + James's Palace, and afterwards in St. James's Market. It was + prohibited by the Parliament in 1651, but revived at the + Restoration. It was, however, finally suppressed before the close + of the reign of Charles II.] +</pre> +<p> +and there meeting with W. Symons and his wife, and Luellin, and D. +Scobell's wife and cousin, we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell +</p> +<pre> + [This is one of the earliest references to Pall Mall as an inhabited + street, and also one of the earliest uses of the word clubbing.] +</pre> +<p> +(our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till 10 at night, at +which time I sent to my Lord's for my clerk Will to come to me, and so +by link home to bed. Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sent +for all his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a little +disappointment, but it is better than pay too dear for them. +</p> +<p> +27th: The last night Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen came to their houses +at the office. Met this morning and did business till noon. Dined at +home and from thence to my Lord's where Will, my clerk, and I were all +the afternoon making up my accounts, which we had done by night, and I +find myself worth about L100 after all my expenses. At night I sent to +W. Bowyer to bring me L100, being that he had in his hands of my Lord's. +in keeping, out of which I paid Mr. Sheply all that remained due to my +Lord upon my balance, and took the rest home with me late at night. We +got a coach, but the horses were tired and could not carry us farther +than St. Dunstan's. So we 'light and took a link and so home weary to +bed. +</p> +<p> +28th. Early in the morning rose, and a boy brought me a letter from +Poet Fisher, who tells me that he is upon a panegyrique of the King, +and desired to borrow a piece of me; and I sent him half a piece. To +Westminster, and there dined with Mr. Sheply and W. Howe, afterwards +meeting with Mr. Henson, who had formerly had the brave clock that went +with bullets (which is now taken away from him by the King, it being his +goods). +</p> +<pre> + [Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an + inclined plane, which turns every minute. The King's clocks + probably dropped bullets. Gainsborough the painter had a brother + who was a dissenting minister at Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a + strong genius for mechanics. He invented a clock of a very peculiar + construction, which, after his death, was deposited in the British + Museum. It told the hour by a little bell, and was kept in motion + by a leaden bullet, which dropped from a spiral reservoir at the top + of the clock, into a little ivory bucket. This was so contrived as + to discharge it at the bottom, and by means of a counter-weight was + carried up to the top of the clock, where it received another + bullet, which was discharged as the former. This seems to have been + an attempt at the perpetual motion.—Gentleman's Magazine, 1785, + p. 931.—B.] +</pre> +<p> +I went with him to the Swan Tavern and sent for Mr. Butler, who was now +all full of his high discourse in praise of Ireland, whither he and his +whole family are going by Coll. Dillon's persuasion, but so many lies I +never heard in praise of anything as he told of Ireland. So home late at +night and to bed. +</p> +<p> +29th. Lord's day. I and my boy Will to Whitehall, and I with my Lord +to White Hall Chappell, where I heard a cold sermon of the Bishop of +Salisbury's, and the ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo +them. My Lord went to dinner at Kensington with my Lord Camden. So I +dined and took Mr. Birfett, my Lord's chaplain, and his friend along +with me, with Mr. Sheply at my Lord's. In the afternoon with Dick Vines +and his brother Payton, we walked to Lisson Green and Marybone and back +again, and finding my Lord at home I got him to look over my accounts, +which he did approve of and signed them, and so we are even to this day. +Of this I was glad, and do think myself worth clear money about L120. +Home late, calling in at my father's without stay. To bed. +</p> +<p> +30th. Sat at our office to-day, and my father came this day the first +time to see us at my new office. And Mrs. Crisp by chance came in and +sat with us, looked over our house and advised about the furnishing of +it. This afternoon I got my L50, due to me for my first quarter's salary +as Secretary to my Lord, paid to Tho. Hater for me, which he received +and brought home to me, of which I am full glad. To Westminster and +among other things met with Mr. Moore, and took him and his friend, a +bookseller of Paul's Churchyard, to the Rhenish Winehouse, and drinking +there the sword-bearer of London (Mr. Man) came to ask for us, with whom +we sat late, discoursing about the worth of my office of Clerk of the +Acts, which he hath a mind to buy, and I asked four years' purchase. We +are to speak more of it to-morrow. Home on foot, and seeing him at home +at Butler's merry, he lent me a torch, which Will carried, and so home. +</p> +<p> +31st. To White Hall, where my Lord and the principal officers met, and +had a great discourse about raising of money for the Navy, which is in +very sad condition, and money must be raised for it. Mr. Blackburne, Dr. +Clerke, and I to the Quaker's and dined there. I back to the Admiralty, +and there was doing things in order to the calculating of the debts of +the Navy and other business, all the afternoon. At night I went to the +Privy Seal, where I found Mr. Crofts and Mathews making up all their +things to leave the office tomorrow, to those that come to wait the +next month. I took them to the Sun Tavern and there made them drink, +and discoursed concerning the office, and what I was to expect tomorrow +about Baron, who pretends to the next month. Late home by coach so far +as Ludgate with Mr. Mathews, and thence home on foot with W. Hewer with +me, and so to bed. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0010"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + AUGUST 1660 +</h2> +<p> +August 1st. Up very early, and by water to Whitehall to my Lord's, and +there up to my Lord's lodging (Win. Howe being now ill of the gout at +Mr. Pierce's), and there talked with him about the affairs of the Navy, +and how I was now to wait today at the Privy Seal. Commissioner Pett +went with me, whom I desired to make my excuse at the office for my +absence this day. Hence to the Privy Seal Office, where I got (by +Mr. Mathews' means) possession of the books and table, but with some +expectation of Baron's bringing of a warrant from the King to have this +month. Nothing done this morning, Baron having spoke to Mr. Woodson and +Groome (clerks to Mr. Trumbull of the Signet) to keep all work in their +hands till the afternoon, at which time he expected to have his warrant +from the King for this month.—[The clerks of the Privy Seal took the +duty of attendance for a month by turns.]—I took at noon Mr. Harper +to the Leg in King Street, and did give him his dinner, who did still +advise me much to act wholly myself at the Privy Seal, but I told him +that I could not, because I had other business to take up my time. In +the afternoon at, the office again, where we had many things to sign; +and I went to the Council Chamber, and there got my Lord to sign the +first bill, and the rest all myself; but received no money today. After +I had signed all, I went with Dick Scobell and Luellin to drink at a +bottle beer house in the Strand, and after staying there a while (had +sent W. Hewer home before), I took boat and homewards went, and in Fish +Street bought a Lobster, and as I had bought it I met with Winter and +Mr. Delabarr, and there with a piece of sturgeon of theirs we went to +the Sun Tavern in the street and ate them. Late home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +2d. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen (our +servants in another boat) to the Admiralty; and from thence I went to +my Lord's to fetch him thither, where we stayed in the morning about +ordering of money for the victuailers, and advising how to get a sum of +money to carry on the business of the Navy. From thence dined with Mr. +Blackburne at his house with his friends (his wife being in the country +and just upon her return to London), where we were very well treated and +merry. From thence W. Hewer and I to the office of Privy Seal, where +I stayed all the afternoon, and received about L40 for yesterday and +to-day, at which my heart rejoiced for God's blessing to me, to give me +this advantage by chance, there being of this L40 about L10 due to me +for this day's work. So great is the present profit of this office, +above what it was in the King's time; there being the last month about +300 bills; whereas in the late King's time it was much to have 40. With +my money home by coach, it, being the first time that I could get home +before our gates were shut since I came to the Navy office. When I came +home I found my wife not very well of her old pain.... which she had +when we were married first. I went and cast up the expense that I laid +out upon my former house (because there are so many that are desirous of +it, and I am, in my mind, loth to let it go out of my hands, for fear of +a turn). I find my layings-out to come to about L20, which with my fine +will come to about L22 to him that shall hire my house of me.—[Pepys +wished to let his house in Axe Yard now that he had apartments at the +Navy Office.]—To bed. +</p> +<p> +3rd. Up betimes this morning, and after the barber had done with me, +then to the office, where I and Sir William Pen only did meet and +despatch business. At noon my wife and I by coach to Dr. Clerke's to +dinner: I was very much taken with his lady, a comely, proper woman, +though not handsome; but a woman of the best language I ever heard. Here +dined Mrs. Pierce and her husband. After dinner I took leave to go +to Westminster, where I was at the Privy Seal Office all day, signing +things and taking money, so that I could not do as I had intended, that +is to return to them and go to the Red Bull Playhouse, +</p> +<pre> + [This well-known theatre was situated in St. John's Street on the + site of Red Bull Yard. Pepys went there on March 23rd, 1661, when + he expressed a very poor opinion of the place. T. Carew, in some + commendatory lines on Sir William. Davenant's play, "The just + Italian," 1630, abuses both audiences and actors:— + + "There are the men in crowded heaps that throng + To that adulterate stage, where not a tongue + Of th' untun'd kennel can a line repeat + Of serious sense." + + There is a token of this house (see "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. + Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 725).] +</pre> +<p> +but I took coach and went to see whether it was done so or no, and I +found it done. So I returned to Dr. Clerke's, where I found them and my +wife, and by and by took leave and went away home. +</p> +<p> +4th. To White Hall, where I found my Lord gone with the King by water +to dine at the Tower with Sir J. Robinson,' Lieutenant. I found my Lady +Jemimah—[Lady Jemima Montage, daughter of Lord Sandwich, previously +described as Mrs. Jem.]—at my Lord's, with whom I staid and dined, all +alone; after dinner to the Privy Seal Office, where I did business. So +to a Committee of Parliament (Sir Hen[eage] Finch, Chairman), to give +them an answer to an order of theirs, "that we could not give them any +account of the Accounts of the Navy in the years 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, as +they desire." After that I went and bespoke some linen of Betty Lane +in the Hall, and after that to the Trumpet, where I sat and talked with +her, &c. At night, it being very rainy, and it thundering and lightning +exceedingly, I took coach at the Trumpet door, taking Monsieur +L'Impertinent along with me as far as the Savoy, where he said he went +to lie with Cary Dillon, +</p> +<pre> + [Colonel Cary Dillon, a friend of the Butlers, who courted the fair + Frances; but the engagement was subsequently broken off, see + December 31 st, 1661.] +</pre> +<p> +and is still upon the mind of going (he and his whole family) to +Ireland. Having set him down I made haste home, and in the courtyard, +it being very dark, I heard a man inquire for my house, and having asked +his business, he told me that my man William (who went this morning—out +of town to meet his aunt Blackburne) was come home not very well to his +mother, and so could not come home to-night. At which I was very sorry. +I found my wife still in pain. To bed, having not time to write letters, +and indeed having so many to write to all places that I have no heart to +go about them. Mrs. Shaw did die yesterday and her husband so sick that +he is not like to live. +</p> +<p> +5th. Lord's day. My wife being much in pain, I went this morning to Dr. +Williams (who had cured her once before of this business), in Holborn, +and he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my boy, and a +plaister which I took with me to Westminster (having called and seen my +mother in the morning as I went to the doctor), where I dined with Mr. +Sheply (my Lord dining at Kensington). After dinner to St. Margaret's, +where the first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that Church. I sat +with Mr. Hill in his pew; Mr. Hill that married in Axe Yard and that was +aboard us in the Hope. Church done I went and Mr. Sheply to see W. Howe +at Mr. Pierces, where I staid singing of songs and psalms an hour or +two, and were very pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him. Thence to my +Lord's, where I staid and talked and drank with Mr. Sheply. After that +to Westminster stairs, where I saw a fray between Mynheer Clinke, a +Dutchman, that was at Hartlibb's wedding, and a waterman, which made +good sport. After that I got a Gravesend boat, that was come up to fetch +some bread on this side the bridge, and got them to carry me to the +bridge, and so home, where I found my wife. After prayers I to bed to +her, she having had a very bad night of it. This morning before I was up +Will came home pretty well again, he having been only weary with riding, +which he is not used to. +</p> +<p> +6th. This morning at the office, and, that being done, home to dinner +all alone, my wife being ill in pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, and +not a little impatient. After dinner to Whitehall at the Privy Seal all +the afternoon, and at night with Mr. Man to Mr. Rawlinson's in Fenchurch +Street, where we staid till eleven o'clock at night. So home and to bed, +my wife being all this day in great pain. This night Mr. Man offered me +L1000 for my office of Clerk of the Acts, which made my mouth water; but +yet I dare not take it till I speak with my Lord to have his consent. +</p> +<p> +7th. This morning to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and took Mr. Moore and +myself and dined at my Lord's with Mr. Sheply. While I was at dinner in +come Sam. Hartlibb and his brother-in-law, now knighted by the King, to +request my promise of a ship for them to Holland, which I had promised +to get for them. After dinner to the Privy Seal all the afternoon. At +night, meeting Sam. Hartlibb, he took me by coach to Kensington, to +my Lord of Holland's; I staid in the coach while he went in about his +business. He staying long I left the coach and walked back again before +on foot (a very pleasant walk) to Kensington, where I drank and staid +very long waiting for him. At last he came, and after drinking at the +inn we went towards Westminster. Here I endeavoured to have looked out +Jane that formerly lived at Dr. Williams' at Cambridge, whom I had long +thought to live at present here, but I found myself in an error, meeting +one in the place where I expected to have found her, but she proved not +she though very like her. We went to the Bullhead, where he and I sat +and drank till 11 at night, and so home on foot. Found my wife pretty +well again, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +8th. We met at the office, and after that to dinner at home, and +from thence with my wife by water to Catan Sterpin, with whom and her +mistress Pye we sat discoursing of Kate's marriage to Mons. Petit, her +mistress and I giving the best advice we could for her to suspend +her marriage till Mons. Petit had got some place that may be able to +maintain her, and not for him to live upon the portion that she shall +bring him. From thence to Mr. Butler's to see his daughters, the first +time that ever we made a visit to them. We found them very pretty, and +Coll. Dillon there, a very merry and witty companion, but methinks they +live in a gaudy but very poor condition. From thence, my wife and I +intending to see Mrs. Blackburne, who had been a day or two again to see +my wife, but my wife was not in condition to be seen, but she not being +at home my wife went to her mother's and I to the Privy Seal. At night +from the Privy Seal, Mr. Woodson and Mr. Jennings and I to the Sun +Tavern till it was late, and from thence to my Lord's, where my wife was +come from Mrs. Blackburne's to me, and after I had done some business +with my Lord, she and I went to Mrs. Hunt's, who would needs have us to +lie at her house to-night, she being with my wife so late at my Lord's +with us, and would not let us go home to-night. We lay there all night +very pleasantly and at ease... +</p> +<p> +9th. Left my wife at Mrs. Hunt's and I to my Lord's, and from thence +with judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Sheply to the Rhenish +Wine-house, and Captain Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to +carry my Lord Winchelsea, Embassador to Constantinople. We were +very merry, and judge Advocate did give Captain Hayward his Oath of +Allegiance and Supremacy. Thence to my office of Privy Seal, and, having +signed some things there, with Mr. Moore and Dean Fuller to the Leg in +King Street, and, sending for my wife, we dined there very merry, and +after dinner, parted. After dinner with my wife to Mrs. Blackburne to +visit her. She being within I left my wife there, and I to the Privy +Seal, where I despatch some business, and from thence to Mrs. Blackburne +again, who did treat my wife and me with a great deal of civility, and +did give us a fine collation of collar of beef, &c. Thence I, having +my head full of drink from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in the +morning, and more in the afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne's, came home and +so to bed, not well, and very ill all night. +</p> +<p> +10th. I had a great deal of pain all night, and a great loosing upon me +so that I could not sleep. In the morning I rose with much pain and to +the office. I went and dined at home, and after dinner with great pain +in my back I went by water to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and that done +with Mr. Moore and Creed to Hide Park by coach, and saw a fine foot-race +three times round the Park between an Irishman and Crow, that was once +my Lord Claypoole's footman. (By the way I cannot forget that my Lord +Claypoole did the other day make enquiry of Mrs. Hunt, concerning my +House in Axe-yard, and did set her on work to get it of me for him, +which methinks is a very great change.) Crow beat the other by above two +miles. Returned from Hide Park, I went to my Lord's, and took Will (who +waited for me there) by coach and went home, taking my lute home with +me. It had been all this while since I came from sea at my Lord's for +him to play on. To bed in some pain still. For this month or two it is +not imaginable how busy my head has been, so that I have neglected to +write letters to my uncle Robert in answer to many of his, and to +other friends, nor indeed have I done anything as to my own family, and +especially this month my waiting at the Privy Seal makes me much more +unable to think of anything, because of my constant attendance there +after I have done at the Navy Office. But blessed be God for my good +chance of the Privy Seal, where I get every day I believe about L3. This +place I got by chance, and my Lord did give it me by chance, neither he +nor I thinking it to be of the worth that he and I find it to be. Never +since I was a man in the world was I ever so great a stranger to public +affairs as now I am, having not read a new book or anything like it, or +enquiring after any news, or what the Parliament do, or in any wise how +things go. Many people look after my house in Axe-yard to hire it, so +that I am troubled with them, and I have a mind to get the money to buy +goods for my house at the Navy Office, and yet I am loth to put it off +because that Mr. Man bids me L1000 for my office, which is so great a +sum that I am loth to settle myself at my new house, lest I should take +Mr. Man's offer in case I found my Lord willing to it. +</p> +<p> +11th. I rose to-day without any pain, which makes me think that my pain +yesterday was nothing but from my drinking too much the day before. To +my Lord this morning, who did give me order to get some things ready +against the afternoon for the Admiralty where he would meet. To the +Privy Seal, and from thence going to my own house in Axeyard, I went +in to Mrs. Crisp's, where I met with Mr. Hartlibb; for whom I wrote a +letter for my Lord to sign for a ship for his brother and sister, who +went away hence this day to Gravesend, and from thence to Holland. I +found by discourse with Mrs. Crisp that he is very jealous of her, for +that she is yet very kind to her old servant Meade. Hence to my Lord's +to dinner with Mr. Sheply, so to the Privy Seal; and at night home, and +then sent for the barber, and was trimmed in the kitchen, the first +time that ever I was so. I was vexed this night that W. Hewer was out of +doors till ten at night but was pretty well satisfied again when my wife +told me that he wept because I was angry, though indeed he did give me +a good reason for his being out; but I thought it a good occasion to let +him know that I do expect his being at home. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +12th. Lord's day. To my Lord, and with him to White Hall Chappell, where +Mr. Calamy preached, and made a good sermon upon these words "To whom +much is given, of him much is required." He was very officious with his +three reverences to the King, as others do. After sermon a brave anthem +of Captain Cooke's, +</p> +<pre> + [Henry Cooke, chorister of the Chapel Royal, adhered to the royal + cause at the breaking out of the Civil Wars, and for his bravery + obtained a captain's commission. At the Restoration he received the + appointment of Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal; he was an + excellent musician, and three of his pupils turned out very + distinguished musicians, viz, Pelham Humphrey, John Blow, and + Michael Wise. He was one of the original performers in the "Siege, + of Rhodes." He died July 13th, 1672,: and was buried in the + cloisters of Westminster Abbey. In another place, Pepys says, "a + vain coxcomb he is, though he sings so well."] +</pre> +<p> +which he himself sung, and the King was well pleased with it. My Lord +dined at my Lord Chamberlain's, and I at his house with Mr. Sheply. +After dinner I did give Mr. Donne; who is going to sea, the key of my +cabin and direction for the putting up of my things. +</p> +<p> +After, that I went to walk, and meeting Mrs. Lane of Westminster Hall, I +took her to my Lord's, and did give her a bottle of wine in the garden, +where Mr. Fairbrother, of Cambridge, did come and found us, and drank +with us. After that I took her to my house, where I was exceeding free +in dallying with her, and she not unfree to take it. At night home and +called at my father's, where I found Mr. Fairbrother, but I did not stay +but went homewards and called in at Mr. Rawlinson's, whither my uncle +Wight was coming and did come, but was exceeding angry (he being a +little fuddled, and I think it was that I should see him in that case) +as I never saw him in my life, which I was somewhat troubled at. Home +and to bed. +</p> +<p> +13th. A sitting day at our office. After dinner to Whitehall; to the +Privy Seal, whither my father came to me, and staid talking with me a +great while, telling me that he had propounded Mr. John Pickering for +Sir Thomas Honywood's daughter, which I think he do not deserve for his +own merit: I know not what he may do for his estate. My father and Creed +and I to the old Rhenish Winehouse, and talked and drank till night. +Then my father home, and I to my Lord's; where he told me that he would +suddenly go into the country, and so did commend the business of his sea +commission to me in his absence. After that home by coach, and took my +L100 that I had formerly left at Mr. Rawlinson's, home with me, which is +the first that ever I was master of at once. To prayers, and to bed. +</p> +<p> +14th. To the Privy Seal, and thence to my Lord's, where Mr. Pim, the +tailor, and I agreed upon making me a velvet coat. From thence to the +Privy Seal again, where Sir Samuel Morland came in with a Baronet's +grant to pass, which the King had given him to make money of. Here he +staid with me a great while; and told me the whole manner of his serving +the King in the time of the Protector; and how Thurloe's bad usage made +him to do it; how he discovered Sir R. Willis, and how he hath sunk his +fortune for the King; and that now the King hath given him a pension of +L500 per annum out of the Post Office for life, and the benefit of two +Baronets; all which do make me begin to think that he is not so much a +fool as I took him to be. Home by water to the Tower, where my father, +Mr. Fairbrother, and Cooke dined with me. After dinner in comes young +Captain Cuttance of the Speedwell, who is sent up for the gratuity given +the seamen that brought the King over. He brought me a firkin of butter +for my wife, which is very welcome. My father, after dinner, takes +leave, after I had given him 40s. for the last half year for my brother +John at Cambridge. I did also make even with Mr. Fairbrother for my +degree of Master of Arts, which cost me about L9 16s. To White Hall, and +my wife with me by water, where at the Privy Seal and elsewhere all the +afternoon. At night home with her by water, where I made good sport with +having the girl and the boy to comb my head, before I went to bed, in +the kitchen. +</p> +<p> +15th. To the office, and after dinner by water to White Hall, where +I found the King gone this morning by 5 of the clock to see a Dutch +pleasure-boat below bridge, +</p> +<pre> + [A yacht which was greatly admired, and was imitated and improved by + Commissioner Pett, who built a yacht for the King in 1661, which was + called the "Jenny." Queen Elizabeth had a yacht, and one was built + by Phineas Pett in 1604.] +</pre> +<p> +where he dines, and my Lord with him. The King do tire all his people +that are about him with early rising since he came. To the office, all +the afternoon I staid there, and in the evening went to Westminster +Hall, where I staid at Mrs. Michell's, and with her and her husband +sent for some drink, and drank with them. By the same token she and +Mrs. Murford and another old woman of the Hall were going a gossiping +tonight. From thence to my Lord's, where I found him within, and he did +give me direction about his business in his absence, he intending to +go into the country to-morrow morning. Here I lay all night in the old +chamber which I had now given up to W. Howe, with whom I did intend to +lie, but he and I fell to play with one another, so that I made him to +go lie with Mr. Sheply. So I lay alone all night. +</p> +<p> +16th. This morning my Lord (all things being ready) carried me by coach +to Mr. Crew's, (in the way talking how good he did hope my place would +be to me, and in general speaking that it was not the salary of any +place that did make a man rich, but the opportunity of getting money +while he is in the place) where he took leave, and went into the coach, +and so for Hinchinbroke. My Lady Jemimah and Mr. Thomas Crew in the +coach with him. Hence to Whitehall about noon, where I met with Mr. +Madge, who took me along with him and Captain Cooke (the famous singer) +and other masters of music to dinner at an ordinary about Charing Cross +where we dined, all paying their club. Hence to the Privy Seal, where +there has been but little work these two days. In the evening home. +</p> +<p> +17th. To the office, and that done home to dinner where Mr. Unthanke, +my wife's tailor, dined with us, we having nothing but a dish of sheep's +trotters. After dinner by water to Whitehall, where a great deal of +business at the Privy Seal. At night I and Creed and the judge-Advocate +went to Mr. Pim, the tailor's, who took us to the Half Moon, and there +did give us great store of wine and anchovies, and would pay for them +all. This night I saw Mr. Creed show many the strangest emotions to +shift off his drink I ever saw in my life. By coach home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +18th. This morning I took my wife towards Westminster by water, and +landed her at Whitefriars, with L5 to buy her a petticoat, and I to +the Privy Seal. By and by comes my wife to tell me that my father has +persuaded her to buy a most fine cloth of 26s. a yard, and a rich lace, +that the petticoat will come to L5, at which I was somewhat troubled, +but she doing it very innocently, I could not be angry. I did give her +more money, and sent her away, and I and Creed and Captain Hayward (who +is now unkindly put out of the Plymouth to make way for Captain Allen to +go to Constantinople, and put into his ship the Dover, which I know will +trouble my Lord) went and dined at the Leg in King Street, where Captain +Ferrers, my Lord's Cornet, comes to us, who after dinner took me and +Creed to the Cockpitt play, +</p> +<pre> + [The Cockpit Theatre, situated in Drury Lane, was occupied as a + playhouse in the reign of James I. It was occupied by Davenant and + his company in 1658, and they remained in it until November 15th, + 1660, when they removed to Salisbury Court.] +</pre> +<p> +the first that I have had time to see since my coming from sea, "The +Loyall Subject," where one Kinaston, a boy, acted the Duke's sister, but +made the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life, only her voice not +very good. After the play done, we three went to drink, and by Captain +Ferrers' means, Kinaston and another that acted Archas, the General, +came and drank with us. Hence home by coach, and after being trimmed, +leaving my wife to look after her little bitch, which was just now +a-whelping, I to bed. +</p> +<p> +19th (Lord's day). In the morning my wife tells me that the bitch has +whelped four young ones and is very well after it, my wife having had a +great fear that she would die thereof, the dog that got them being very +big. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself, went to church to the +churchwardens, to demand a pew, which at present could not be given us, +but we are resolved to have one built. So we staid and heard Mr. Mills;' +a very, good minister. Home to dinner, where my wife had on her new +petticoat that she bought yesterday, which indeed is a very fine cloth +and a fine lace; but that being of a light colour, and the lace all +silver, it makes no great show. Mr. Creed and my brother Tom dined with +me. After dinner my wife went and fetched the little puppies to us, +which are very pretty ones. After they were gone, I went up to put my +papers in order, and finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up, +I was angry with her, which I was troubled for. After that my wife and I +went and walked in the garden, and so home to bed. +</p> +<p> +20th (Office day). As Sir W. Pen and I were walking in the garden, +a messenger came to me from the Duke of York to fetch me to the Lord +Chancellor. So (Mrs. Turner with her daughter The. being come to my +house to speak with me about a friend of hers to send to sea) I went +with her in her coach as far as Worcester House, but my Lord Chancellor +being gone to the House of Lords, I went thither, and (there being a +law case before them this day) got in, and there staid all the morning, +seeing their manner of sitting on woolpacks, &c., which I never did +before. +</p> +<pre> + [It is said that these woolpacks were placed in the House of Lords + for the judges to sit on, so that the fact that wool was a main + source of our national wealth might be kept in the popular mind. + The Lord Chancellor's seat is now called the Woolsack.] +</pre> +<p> +After the House was up, I spoke to my Lord, and had order from him to +come to him at night. This morning Mr. Creed did give me the Papers that +concern my Lord's sea commission, which he left in my hands and went to +sea this day to look after the gratuity money. +</p> +<p> +This afternoon at the Privy Seal, where reckoning with Mr. Moore, he had +got L100 for me together, which I was glad of, guessing that the profits +of this month would come to L100. +</p> +<p> +In the evening I went all alone to drink at Mr. Harper's, where I found +Mrs. Crisp's daughter, with whom and her friends I staid and drank, and +so with W. Hewer by coach to Worcester House, where I light, sending him +home with the L100 that I received to-day. Here I staid, and saw my Lord +Chancellor come into his Great Hall, where wonderful how much company +there was to expect him at a Seal. Before he would begin any business, +he took my papers of the state of the debts of the Fleet, and there +viewed them before all the people, and did give me his advice privately +how to order things, to get as much money as we can of the Parliament. +That being done, I went home, where I found all my things come home from +sea (sent by desire by Mr. Dun), of which I was glad, though many of +my things are quite spoilt with mould by reason of lying so long a +shipboard, and my cabin being not tight. I spent much time to dispose of +them tonight, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +21st. This morning I went to White Hall with Sir W. Pen by water, who in +our passage told me how he was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went to +Mr. Coventry's chamber, and consulted of drawing my papers of debts of +the Navy against the afternoon for the Committee. So to the Admiralty, +where W. Hewer and I did them, and after that he went to his Aunt's +Blackburn (who has a kinswoman dead at her house to-day, and was to +be buried to-night, by which means he staid very late out). I to +Westminster Hall, where I met Mr. Crew and dined with him, where there +dined one Mr. Hickeman, an Oxford man, who spoke very much against the +height of the now old clergy, for putting out many of the religious +fellows of Colleges, and inveighing against them for their being drunk, +which, if true, I am sorry to hear. After that towards Westminster, +where I called on Mr. Pim, and there found my velvet coat (the first +that ever I had) done, and a velvet mantle, which I took to the Privy +Seal Office, and there locked them up, and went to the Queen's Court, +and there, after much waiting, spoke with Colonel Birch, who read my +papers, and desired some addition, which done I returned to the Privy +Seal, where little to do, and with Mr. Moore towards London, and in our +way meeting Monsieur Eschar (Mr. Montagu's man), about the Savoy, he +took us to the Brazennose Tavern, and there drank and so parted, and +I home by coach, and there, it being post-night, I wrote to my Lord +to give him notice that all things are well; that General Monk is made +Lieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not like +of, to be Deputy to any man but the King himself. After that to bed. +</p> +<p> +22nd. Office, which done, Sir W. Pen took me into the garden, and there +told me how Mr. Turner do intend to petition the Duke for an allowance +extra as one of the Clerks of the Navy, which he desired me to join +with him in the furthering of, which I promised to do so that it did not +reflect upon me or to my damage to have any other added, as if I was not +able to perform my place; which he did wholly disown to be any of his +intention, but far from it. I took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, +with whom I did advise, who did give me the same counsel. After dinner +he and I to the office about doing something more as to the debts of the +Navy than I had done yesterday, and so to Whitehall to the Privy +Seal, and having done there, with my father (who came to see me) to +Westminster Hall and the Parliament House to look for Col. Birch, but +found him not. In the House, after the Committee was up, I met with Mr. +G. Montagu, and joyed him in his entrance (this being his 3d day) for +Dover. Here he made me sit all alone in the House, none but he and I, +half an hour, discoursing how things stand, and in short he told me +how there was like to be many factions at Court between Marquis Ormond, +General Monk, and the Lord Roberts, about the business of Ireland; as +there is already between the two Houses about the Act of Indemnity; and +in the House of Commons, between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian men. +Hence to my father's (walking with Mr. Herring, the minister of St. +Bride's), and took them to the Sun Tavern, where I found George, my old +drawer, come again. From thence by water, landed them at Blackfriars, +and so home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +23rd. By water to Doctors' Commons to Dr. Walker, to give him my Lord's +papers to view over concerning his being empowered to be Vice-Admiral +under the Duke of York. There meeting with Mr. Pinkney, he and I to +a morning draft, and thence by water to White Hall, to the Parliament +House, where I spoke with Colonel Birch, and so to the Admiralty +chamber, where we and Mr. Coventry had a meeting about several +businesses. Amongst others, it was moved that Phineas Pett (kinsman to +the Commissioner) of Chatham, should be suspended his employment till +he had answered some articles put in against him, as that he should +formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore. Hence +to Westminster Hall, where I met with my father Bowyer, and Mr. Spicer, +and them I took to the Leg in King Street, and did give them a dish or +two of meat, and so away to the Privy Seal, where, the King being out +of town, we have had nothing to do these two days. To Westminster Hall, +where I met with W. Symons, T. Doling, and Mr. Booth, and with them to +the Dogg, where we eat a musk melon +</p> +<pre> + ["Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner + brought one from Spain, when they became in general estimation. The + ordinary price was five or six shillings."—Quarterly Review, vol, + xix.] +</pre> +<p> +(the first that I have eat this year), and were very merry with W. +Symons, calling him Mr. Dean, because of the Dean's lands that his uncle +had left him, which are like to be lost all. Hence home by water, and +very late at night writing letters to my Lord to Hinchinbroke, and also +to the Vice-Admiral in the Downs, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +24th. Office, and thence with Sir William Batten and Sir William Pen to +the parish church to find out a place where to build a seat or a gallery +to sit in, and did find one which is to be done speedily. Hence with +them to dinner at a tavern in Thames Street, where they were invited to +a roasted haunch of venison and other very good victuals and company. +Hence to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, but nothing to do. At night by +land to my father's, where I found my mother not very well. I did give +her a pint of sack. My father came in, and Dr. T. Pepys, who talked with +me in French about looking out for a place for him. But I found him a +weak man, and speaks the worst French that ever I heard of one that +had been so long beyond sea. Hence into Pant's Churchyard and bought +Barkley's Argenis in Latin, and so home and to bed. I found at home that +Captain Burr had sent me 4 dozen bottles of wine today. The King came +back to Whitehall to-night. +</p> +<p> +25th. This morning Mr. Turner and I by coach from our office to +Whitehall (in our way I calling on Dr. Walker for the papers I did +give him the other day, which he had perused and found that the Duke's +counsel had abated something of the former draught which Dr. Walker drew +for my Lord) to Sir G. Carteret, where we there made up an estimate of +the debts of the Navy for the Council. At noon I took Mr. Turner and +Mr. Moore to the Leg in King Street, and did give them a dinner, and +afterward to the Sun Tavern, and did give Mr. Turner a glass of wine, +there coming to us Mr. Fowler the apothecary (the judge's son) with a +book of lute lessons which his father had left there for me, such as he +formerly did use to play when a young man, and had the use of his hand. +To the Privy Seal, and found some business now again to do there. To +Westminster Hall for a new half-shirt of Mrs. Lane, and so home by +water. Wrote letters by the post to my Lord and to sea. This night W. +Hewer brought me home from Mr. Pim's my velvet coat and cap, the first +that ever I had. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +26th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish church, where we are +placed in the highest pew of all, where a stranger preached a dry and +tedious long sermon. Dined at home. To church again in the afternoon +with my wife; in the garden and on the leads at night, and so to supper +and to bed. +</p> +<p> +27th. This morning comes one with a vessel of Northdown ale from Mr. +Pierce, the purser, to me, and after him another with a brave Turkey +carpet and a jar of olives from Captain Cuttance, and a pair of fine +turtle-doves from John Burr to my wife. These things came up to-day in +our smack, and my boy Ely came along with them, and came after office +was done to see me. I did give him half a crown because I saw that he +was ready to cry to see that he could not be entertained by me here. In +the afternoon to the Privy Seal, where good store of work now toward the +end of the month. From thence with Mr. Mount, Luellin, and others to the +Bull head till late, and so home, where about to o'clock Major Hart came +to me, whom I did receive with wine and anchovies, which made me so dry +that I was ill with them all night, and was fain to have the girle rise +and fetch me some drink. +</p> +<p> +28th. At home looking over my papers and books and house as to the +fitting of it to my mind till two in the afternoon. Some time I spent +this morning beginning to teach my wife some scale in music, and found +her apt beyond imagination. To the Privy Seal, where great store of work +to-day. Colonel Scroope—[Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons who +sat in judgment upon Charles I.]—is this day excepted out of the Act +of Indemnity, which has been now long in coming out, but it is expected +to-morrow. I carried home L80 from the Privy Seal, by coach, and at +night spent a little more time with my wife about her music with great +content. This day I heard my poor mother had then two days been very +ill, and I fear she will not last long. To bed, a little troubled that I +fear my boy Will +</p> +<pre> + [Pepys refers to two Wills. This was Will Wayneman; the other was + William Hewer.] +</pre> +<p> +is a thief and has stole some money of mine, particularly a letter that +Mr. Jenkins did leave the last week with me with half a crown in it to +send to his son. +</p> +<p> +29th (Office day). Before I went to the office my wife and I examined +my boy Will about his stealing of things, but he denied all with the +greatest subtlety and confidence in the world. To the office, and after +office then to the Church, where we took another view of the place where +we had resolved to build a gallery, and have set men about doing it. +Home to dinner, and there I found my wife had discovered my boy Will's +theft and a great deal more than we imagined, at which I was vexed and +intend to put him away. To my office at the Privy Seal in the afternoon, +and from thence at night to the Bull Head, with Mount, Luellin, and +others, and hence to my father's, and he being at my uncle Fenner's, I +went thither to him, and there sent for my boy's father and talked with +him about his son, and had his promise that if I will send home his boy, +he will take him notwithstanding his indenture. Home at night, and find +that my wife had found out more of the boy's stealing 6s. out of W. +Hewer's closet, and hid it in the house of office, at which my heart was +troubled. To bed, and caused the boy's clothes to be brought up to +my chamber. But after we were all a-bed, the wench (which lies in our +chamber) called us to listen of a sudden, which put my wife into such a +fright that she shook every joint of her, and a long time that I could +not get her out of it. The noise was the boy, we did believe, got in +a desperate mood out of his bed to do himself or William [Hewer] some +mischief. But the wench went down and got a candle lighted, and finding +the boy in bed, and locking the doors fast, with a candle burning all +night, we slept well, but with a great deal of fear. +</p> +<p> +30th. We found all well in the morning below stairs, bu the boy in a sad +plight of seeming sorrow; but he is the most cunning rogue that ever +I met with of his age. To White Hall, where I met with the Act of +Indemnity—[12 Car. II. cap. II, an act of free and general pardon, +indemnity, and oblivion.]—(so long talked of and hoped for), with the +Act of Rate for Pole-money, an for judicial proceedings. At Westminster +Hall I met with Mr. Paget the lawyer, and dined with him at Heaven. This +afternoon my wife went to Mr. Pierce's wife's child's christening, and +was urged to be godmother, but I advised her before-hand not to do it, +so she did not, but as proxy for my Lady Jemimah. This the first day +that ever I saw my wife wear black patches since we were married! +</p> +<pre> + [The fashion of placing black patches on the face was introduced + towards the close of the reign of Charles I., and the practice is + ridiculed in the "Spectator."] +</pre> +<p> +My Lord came to town to-day, but coming not home till very late I staid +till 10 at night, and so home on foot. Mr. Sheply and Mr. Childe this +night at the tavern. +</p> +<p> +31st. Early to wait upon my Lord at White Hall, and with him to the +Duke's chamber. So to my office in Seething Lane. Dined at home, and +after dinner to my Lord again, who told me that he is ordered to go +suddenly to sea, and did give me some orders to be drawing up against +his going. This afternoon I agreed to let my house quite out of my hands +to Mr. Dalton (one of the wine sellers to the King, with whom I had +drunk in the old wine cellar two or three times) for L41. At night +made even at Privy Seal for this month against tomorrow to give +up possession, but we know not to whom, though we most favour Mr. +Bickerstaffe, with whom and Mr. Matthews we drank late after office was +done at the Sun, discoursing what to do about it tomorrow against Baron, +and so home and to bed. Blessed be God all things continue well with and +for me. I pray God fit me for a change of my fortune. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0011"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + SEPTEMBER 1660 +</h2> +<p> +September 1st. This morning I took care to get a vessel to carry my +Lord's things to the Downs on Monday next, and so to White Hall to my +Lord, where he and I did look over the Commission drawn for him by the +Duke's Council, which I do not find my Lord displeased with, though +short of what Dr. Walker did formerly draw for him. Thence to the Privy +Seal to see how things went there, and I find that Mr. Baron had by +a severe warrant from the King got possession of the office from his +brother Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, +it being against all open justice. Mr. Moore and I and several others +being invited to-day by Mr. Goodman, a friend of his, we dined at the +Bullhead upon the best venison pasty that ever I eat of in my life, and +with one dish more, it was the best dinner I ever was at. Here rose +in discourse at table a dispute between Mr. Moore and Dr. Clerke, the +former affirming that it was essential to a tragedy to have the argument +of it true, which the Doctor denied, and left it to me to be judge, and +the cause to be determined next Tuesday morning at the same place, upon +the eating of the remains of the pasty, and the loser to spend 10s. All +this afternoon sending express to the fleet, to order things against my +Lord's coming and taking direction of my Lord about some rich furniture +to take along with him for the Princess!—[Mary, Princess Royal and +Princess of Orange, who died in December of this year.]—And talking +of this, I hear by Mr. Townsend, that there is the greatest preparation +against the Prince de Ligne's a coming over from the King of Spain, +that ever was in England for their Embassador. Late home, and what with +business and my boy's roguery my mind being unquiet, I went to bed. +</p> +<p> +2nd (Sunday). To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming to +chapel. I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my Privy +Seal fees and gratuity money, &c., to this day between my Lord and me. +After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon "The +Lord is my shield." After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord's (he +dining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply. So, to St. Margarett's, and +heard a good sermon upon the text "Teach us the old way," or something +like it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion, +which have brought us into all our late divisions. From church to Mrs. +Crisp's (having sent Win. Hewer home to tell my wife that I could +not come home to-night because of my Lord's going out early to-morrow +morning), where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, it +being a farewell cup to Laud Crisp. I drank till the daughter began to +be very loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should +be. To my Lord's, and to bed with Mr. Sheply. +</p> +<p> +3rd. Up and to Mr.——-, the goldsmith near the new Exchange, where I +bought my wedding ring, and there, with much ado, got him to put a gold +ring to the jewell, which the King of Sweden did give my Lord: out of +which my Lord had now taken the King's picture, and intends to make a +George of it. This morning at my Lord's I had an opportunity to speak +with Sir George Downing, who has promised me to give me up my bond, and +to pay me for my last quarter while I was at sea, that so I may pay Mr. +Moore and Hawly. About noon my Lord, having taken leave of the King in +the Shield Gallery (where I saw with what kindness the King did hug my +Lord at his parting), I went over with him and saw him in his coach at +Lambeth, and there took leave of him, he going to the Downs, which put +me in mind of his first voyage that ever he made, which he did begin +like this from Lambeth. In the afternoon with Mr. Moore to my house to +cast up our Privy Seal accounts, where I found that my Lord's comes to +400 and odd pounds, and mine to L132, out of which I do give him as good +as L25 for his pains, with which I doubt he is not satisfied, but my +heart is full glad. Thence with him to Mr. Crew's, and did fetch as much +money as did make even our accounts between him and me. Home, and there +found Mr. Cooke come back from my Lord for me to get him some things +bought for him to be brought after them, a toilet cap and comb case of +silk, to make use of in Holland, for he goes to the Hague, which I can +do to-morrow morning. This day my father and my uncle Fenner, and both +his sons, have been at my house to see it, and my wife did treat them +nobly with wine and anchovies. By reason of my Lord's going to-day I +could not get the office to meet to-day. +</p> +<p> +4th. I did many things this morning at home before I went out, as +looking over the joiners, who are flooring my diningroom, and doing +business with Sir Williams +</p> +<pre> + ["Both Sir Williams" is a favourite expression with Pepys, meaning + Sir William Batten and Sir William Penn.] +</pre> +<p> +both at the office, and so to Whitehall, and so to the Bullhead, where +we had the remains of our pasty, where I did give my verdict against Mr. +Moore upon last Saturday's wager, where Dr. Fuller coming in do confirm +me in my verdict. From thence to my Lord's and despatched Mr. Cooke away +with the things to my Lord. From thence to Axe Yard to my house, where +standing at the door Mrs. Diana comes by, whom I took into my house +upstairs, and there did dally with her a great while, and found that +in Latin "Nulla puella negat." So home by water, and there sat up late +setting my papers in order, and my money also, and teaching my wife her +music lesson, in which I take great pleasure. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +5th. To the office. From thence by coach upon the desire of the +principal officers to a Master of Chancery to give Mr. Stowell his oath, +whereby he do answer that he did hear Phineas Pett say very high words +against the King a great while ago. Coming back our coach broke, and so +Stowell and I to Mr. Rawlinson's, and after a glass of wine parted, and +I to the office, home to dinner, where (having put away my boy in the +morning) his father brought him again, but I did so clear up my boy's +roguery to his father, that he could not speak against my putting him +away, and so I did give him 10s. for the boy's clothes that I made +him, and so parted and tore his indenture. All the afternoon with the +principal officers at Sir W. Batten's about Pett's business (where I +first saw Col. Slingsby, who has now his appointment for Comptroller), +but did bring it to no issue. This day I saw our Dedimus to be sworn +in the peace by, which will be shortly. In the evening my wife being a +little impatient I went along with her to buy her a necklace of pearl, +which will cost L4 10s., which I am willing to comply with her in for +her encouragement, and because I have lately got money, having now above +L200 in cash beforehand in the world. Home, and having in our way bought +a rabbit and two little lobsters, my wife and I did sup late, and so to +bed. Great news now-a-day of the Duke d'Anjou's +</p> +<pre> + [Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis + XIV. (born 1640, died 1701), married the Princess Henrietta, + youngest daughter of Charles I., who was born June 16th, 1644, at + Exeter. She was known as "La belle Henriette." In May, 1670, she + came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV. to her brother + Charles II., but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of + her husband. Her death occurred on her return to France, and + was attributed to poison. It was the occasion of one of the finest + of Bossuet's "Oraisons Funebres."] +</pre> +<p> +desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta. Hugh Peters is said to be +taken, +</p> +<pre> + [Hugh Peters, born at Fowey, Cornwall, and educated at Trinity + College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. 1622. He was tried as + one of the regicides, and executed. A broadside, entitled "The + Welsh Hubub, or the Unkennelling and earthing of Hugh Peters that + crafty Fox," was printed October 3rd, 1660.] +</pre> +<p> +and the Duke of Gloucester is ill, and it is said it will prove the +small-pox. +</p> +<p> +6th. To Whitehall by water with Sir W. Batten, and in our passage told +me how Commissioner Pett did pay himself for the entertainment that he +did give the King at Chatham at his coming in, and 20s. a day all the +time he was in Holland, which I wonder at, and so I see there is a great +deal of envy between the two. At Whitehall I met with Commissioner Pett, +who told me how Mr. Coventry and Fairbank his solicitor are falling out, +one complaining of the other for taking too great fees, which is too +true. I find that Commissioner Pett is under great discontent, and is +loth to give too much money for his place, and so do greatly desire me +to go along with him in what we shall agree to give Mr. Coventry, which +I have promised him, but am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that +is going down the wind. We all met this morning and afterwards at the +Admiralty, where our business is to ask provision of victuals ready for +the ships in the Downs, which we did, Mr. Gauden promising to go himself +thither and see it done. Dined Will and I at my Lord's upon a joint of +meat that I sent Mrs. Sarah for. Afterwards to my office and sent all my +books to my Lord's, in order to send them to my house that I now dwell +in. Home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +7th. Not office day, and in the afternoon at home all the day, it being +the first that I have been at home all day since I came hither. Putting +my papers, books and other things in order, and writing of letters. This +day my Lord set sail from the Downs for Holland. +</p> +<p> +8th. All day also at home. At night sent for by Sir W. Pen, with whom I +sat late drinking a glass of wine and discoursing, and I find him to be +a very sociable man, and an able man, and very cunning. +</p> +<p> +9th (Sunday). In the morning with Sir W. Pen to church, and a very good +sermon of Mr. Mills. Home to dinner, and Sir W. Pen with me to such as I +had, and it was very handsome, it being the first time that he ever saw +my wife or house since we came hither. Afternoon to church with my wife, +and after that home, and there walked with Major Hart, who came to see +me, in the garden, who tells me that we are all like to be speedily +disbanded; +</p> +<pre> + [The Trained Bands were abolished in 1663, but those of the City of + London were specially excepted. The officers of the Trained Bands + were supplied by the Hon. Artillery Company.] +</pre> +<p> +and then I lose the benefit of a muster. After supper to bed. +</p> +<p> +10th (Office day). News of the Duke's intention to go tomorrow to +the fleet for a day or two to meet his sister. Col. Slingsby and I to +Whitehall, thinking to proffer our service to the Duke to wait upon him, +but meeting with Sir G. Carteret he sent us in all haste back again to +hire two Catches for the present use of the Duke. So we returned and +landed at the Bear at the Bridge foot, where we saw Southwark Fair (I +having not at all seen Bartholomew Fair), and so to the Tower wharf, +where we did hire two catches. So to the office and found Sir W. Batten +at dinner with some friends upon a good chine of beef, on which I ate +heartily, I being very hungry. Home, where Mr. Snow (whom afterwards +we called one another cozen) came to me to see me, and with him and one +Shelston, a simple fellow that looks after an employment (that was with +me just upon my going to sea last), to a tavern, where till late with +them. So home, having drunk too much, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +11th. At Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen we drank our morning draft, and +from thence for an hour in the office and dispatch a little business. +Dined at Sir W. Batten's, and by this time I see that we are like to +have a very good correspondence and neighbourhood, but chargeable. All +the afternoon at home looking over my carpenters. At night I called +Thos. Hater out of the office to my house to sit and talk with me. After +he was gone I caused the girl to wash the wainscot of our parlour, +which she did very well, which caused my wife and I good sport. Up to +my chamber to read a little, and wrote my Diary for three or four days +past. The Duke of York did go to-day by break of day to the Downs. The +Duke of Gloucester ill. The House of Parliament was to adjourn to-day. I +know not yet whether it be done or no. To bed. +</p> +<p> +12th (Office day). This noon I expected to have had my cousin Snow and +my father come to dine with me, but it being very rainy they did not +come. My brother Tom came to my house with a letter from my brother +John, wherein he desires some books: Barthol. Anatom., Rosin. Rom. +Antiq., and Gassend. Astronom., the last of which I did give him, and an +angel—[A gold coin varying in value at different times from 6s. 8d. to +10s.]—against my father buying of the others. At home all the afternoon +looking after my workmen, whose laziness do much trouble me. This day +the Parliament adjourned. +</p> +<p> +13th. Old East comes to me in the morning with letters, and I did give +him a bottle of Northdown ale, which made the poor man almost drunk. In +the afternoon my wife went to the burial of a child of my cozen Scott's, +and it is observable that within this month my Aunt Wight was brought to +bed of two girls, my cozen Stradwick of a girl and a boy, and my cozen +Scott of a boy, and all died. In the afternoon to Westminster, where Mr. +Dalton was ready with his money to pay me for my house, but our writings +not being drawn it could not be done to-day. I met with Mr. Hawly, who +was removing his things from Mr. Bowyer's, where he has lodged a great +while, and I took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and drank, and Mr. +Hawly did give me a little black rattoon,—[Probably an Indian rattan +cane.]—painted and gilt. Home by water. This day the Duke of Gloucester +died of the small-pox, by the great negligence of the doctors. +</p> +<p> +14th (Office day). I got L42 15s. appointed me by bill for my employment +of Secretary to the 4th of this month, it being the last money I shall +receive upon that score. My wife went this afternoon to see my mother, +who I hear is very ill, at which my heart is very sad. In the afternoon +Luellin comes to my house, and takes me out to the Mitre in Wood Street, +where Mr. Samford, W. Symons and his wife, and Mr. Scobell, Mr. Mount +and Chetwind, where they were very merry, Luellin being drunk, and I +being to defend the ladies from his kissing them, I kissed them myself +very often with a great deal of mirth. Parted very late, they by coach +to Westminster, and I on foot. +</p> +<p> +15th. Met very early at our office this morning to pick out the +twenty-five ships which are to be first paid off: After that to +Westminster and dined with Mr. Dalton at his office, where we had one +great court dish, but our papers not being done we could [not] make an +end of our business till Monday next. Mr. Dalton and I over the water to +our landlord Vanly, with whom we agree as to Dalton becoming a tenant. +Back to Westminster, where I met with Dr. Castles, who chidd me for some +errors in our Privy-Seal business; among the rest, for letting the fees +of the six judges pass unpaid, which I know not what to say to, till I +speak to Mr. Moore. I was much troubled, for fear of being forced to pay +the money myself. Called at my father's going home, and bespoke mourning +for myself, for the death of the Duke of Gloucester. I found my mother +pretty well. So home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +16th (Sunday). To Dr. Hardy's church, and sat with Mr. Rawlinson and +heard a good sermon upon the occasion of the Duke's death. His text was, +"And is there any evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" Home +to dinner, having some sport with Win. [Hewer], who never had been at +Common Prayer before. After dinner I alone to Westminster, where I spent +my time walking up and down in Westminster Abbey till sermon time with +Ben. Palmer and Fetters the watchmaker, who told me that my Lord of +Oxford is also dead of the small-pox; in whom his family dies, after 600 +years having that honour in their family and name. From thence to the +Park, where I saw how far they had proceeded in the Pell-mell, and in +making a river through the Park, which I had never seen before since it +was begun. +</p> +<pre> + [This is the Mall in St. James's Park, which was made by Charles + II., the former Mall (Pall Mall) having been built upon during the + Commonwealth. Charles II. also formed the canal by throwing the + several small ponds into one.] +</pre> +<p> +Thence to White Hall garden, where I saw the King in purple mourning for +his brother. +</p> +<pre> + ["The Queen-mother of France," says Ward, in his Diary, p. 177, + "died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, for whom King + Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, which is Prince's mourning."] +</pre> +<p> +So home, and in my way met with Dinah, who spoke to me and told me she +had a desire to speak too about some business when I came to Westminster +again. Which she spoke in such a manner that I was afraid she might tell +me something that I would not hear of our last meeting at my house at +Westminster. Home late, being very dark. A gentleman in the Poultry had +a great and dirty fall over a waterpipe that lay along the channel. +</p> +<p> +17th. Office very early about casting up the debts of those twenty-five +ships which are to be paid off, which we are to present to the Committee +of Parliament. I did give my wife L15 this morning to go to buy mourning +things for her and me, which she did. Dined at home and Mr. Moore with +me, and afterwards to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and drank in the Cellar, +where Mr. Vanly according to appointment was. Thence forth to see the +Prince de Ligne, Spanish Embassador, come in to his audience, which was +done in very great state. That being done, Dalton, Vanly, Scrivener +and some friends of theirs and I to the Axe, and signed and sealed our +writings, and hence to the Wine cellar again, where I received L41 for +my interest in my house, out of which I paid my Landlord to Michaelmas +next, and so all is even between him and me, and I freed of my poor +little house. Home by link with my money under my arm. So to bed after +I had looked over the things my wife had bought to-day, with which +being not very well pleased, they costing too much, I went to bed in a +discontent. Nothing yet from sea, where my Lord and the Princess are. +</p> +<p> +18th. At home all the morning looking over my workmen in my house. After +dinner Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself by coach to Westminster Hall, +where we met Mr. Wayte the lawyer to the Treasurer, and so we went up to +the Committee of Parliament, which are to consider of the debts of the +Army and Navy, and did give in our account of the twenty-five ships. +Col. Birch was very impertinent and troublesome. But at last we did +agree to fit the accounts of our ships more perfectly for their view +within a few days, that they might see what a trouble it is to do what +they desire. From thence Sir Williams both going by water home, I took +Mr. Wayte to the Rhenish winehouse, and drank with him and so parted. +Thence to Mr. Crew's and spoke with Mr. Moore about the business of +paying off Baron our share of the dividend. So on foot home, by the way +buying a hat band and other things for my mourning to-morrow. So home +and to bed. This day I heard that the Duke of York, upon the news of the +death of his brother yesterday, came hither by post last night. +</p> +<p> +19th (Office day). I put on my mourning and went to the office. At noon +thinking to have found my wife in hers, I found that the tailor had +failed her, at which I was vexed because of an invitation that we have +to a dinner this day, but after having waited till past one o'clock I +went, and left her to put on some other clothes and come after me to the +Mitre tavern in Wood-street (a house of the greatest note in London), +where I met W. Symons, and D. Scobell, and their wives, Mr. Samford, +Luellin, Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. White, +</p> +<pre> + [According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell's + waiting-woman, in Oliver's lifetime, and they lived together fifty + years. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John + Russell of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years + dying 1721-22 The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to + Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have + been soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver + compelled him to marry. (Noble's "Life of Cromwell," vol. ii. + pp. 151, 152.) White was born in 1629 and died 1707.] +</pre> +<p> +formerly chaplin to the Lady Protectresse—[Elizabeth, wife of Oliver +Cromwell.]—(and still so, and one they say that is likely to get my +Lady Francess for his wife). Here we were very merry and had a very good +dinner, my wife coming after me hither to us. +</p> +<p> +Among other pleasures some of us fell to handycapp, +</p> +<pre> + ["A game at cards not unlike Loo, but with this difference, the + winner of one trick has to put in a double stake, the winner of two + tricks a triple stake, and so on. Thus, if six persons are playing, + and the general stake is 1s., suppose A gains the three tricks, he + gains 6s., and has to 'hand i' the cap,' or pool, 4s. for the next + deal. Suppose A gains two tricks and B one, then A gains 4s. and B + 2s., and A has to stake 3s. and B 2s. for the next deal."—Hindley's + Tavern Anecdotes.—M. B.] +</pre> +<p> +a sport that I never knew before, which was very good. We staid till +it was very late; it rained sadly, but we made shift to get coaches. So +home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +20th. At home, and at the office, and in the garden walking with both +Sir Williams all the morning. After dinner to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton, +and with him to my house and took away all my papers that were left in +my closet, and so I have now nothing more in the house or to do with +it. We called to speak with my Landlord Beale, but he was not within but +spoke with the old woman, who takes it very ill that I did not let her +have it, but I did give her an answer. From thence to Sir G. Downing and +staid late there (he having sent for me to come to him), which was to +tell me how my Lord Sandwich had disappointed him of a ship to bring +over his child and goods, and made great complaint thereof; but I got +him to write a letter to Lawson, which it may be may do the business for +him, I writing another also about it. While he was writing, and his Lady +and I had a great deal of discourse in praise of Holland. By water to +the Bridge, and so to Major Hart's lodgings in Cannon-street, who used +me very kindly with wine and good discourse, particularly upon the ill +method which Colonel Birch and the Committee use in defending of the +army and the navy; promising the Parliament to save them a great deal +of money, when we judge that it will cost the King more than if they had +nothing to do with it, by reason of their delays and scrupulous enquirys +into the account of both. So home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +21st (Office day). There all the morning and afternoon till 4 o'clock. +Hence to Whitehall, thinking to have put up my books at my Lord's, but +am disappointed from want of a chest which I had at Mr. Bowyer's. Back +by water about 8 o'clock, and upon the water saw the corpse of the Duke +of Gloucester brought down Somerset House stairs, to go by water to +Westminster, to be buried to-night. I landed at the old Swan and went to +the Hoop Tavern, and (by a former agreement) sent for Mr. Chaplin, who +with Nicholas Osborne and one Daniel came to us and we drank off two +or three quarts of wine, which was very good; the drawing of our wine +causing a great quarrel in the house between the two drawers which +should draw us the best, which caused a great deal of noise and falling +out till the master parted them, and came up to us and did give us a +large account of the liberty that he gives his servants, all alike, to +draw what wine they will to please his customers; and we did eat above +200 walnuts. About to o'clock we broke up and so home, and in my way I +called in with them at Mr. Chaplin's, where Nicholas Osborne did give me +a barrel of samphire, +</p> +<pre> + [Samphire was formerly a favourite pickle; hence the "dangerous + trade" of the samphire gatherer ("King Lear," act iv. sc. 6) who + supplied the demand. It was sold in the streets, and one of the old + London cries was "I ha' Rock Samphier, Rock Samphier!"] +</pre> +<p> +and showed me the keys of Mardyke Fort, +</p> +<pre> + [A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that + town was sold to Louis XIV.] +</pre> +<p> +which he that was commander of the fort sent him as a token when the +fort was demolished, which I was mightily pleased to see, and will get +them of him if I can. Home, where I found my boy (my maid's brother) +come out of the country to-day, but was gone to bed and so I could not +see him to-night. To bed. +</p> +<p> +22nd. This morning I called up my boy, and found him a pretty, +well-looked boy, and one that I think will please me. I went this +morning by land to Westminster along with Luellin, who came to my house +this morning to get me to go with him to Capt. Allen to speak with him +for his brother to go with him to Constantinople, but could not find +him. We walked on to Fleet street, where at Mr. Standing's in Salsbury +Court we drank our morning draft and had a pickled herring. Among other +discourse here he told me how the pretty woman that I always loved at +the beginning of Cheapside that sells child's coats was served by the +Lady Bennett (a famous strumpet), who by counterfeiting to fall into a +swoon upon the sight of her in her shop, became acquainted with her, and +at last got her ends of her to lie with a gentleman that had hired her +to procure this poor soul for him. To Westminster to my Lord's, and +there in the house of office vomited up all my breakfast, my stomach +being ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch. Here I +sent to Mr. Bowyer's for my chest and put up my books and sent them +home. I staid here all day in my Lord's chamber and upon the leads +gazing upon Diana, who looked out of a window upon me. At last I went +out to Mr. Harper's, and she standing over the way at the gate, I went +over to her and appointed to meet to-morrow in the afternoon at my +Lord's. Here I bought a hanging jack. From thence by coach home by the +way at the New Exchange +</p> +<pre> + [In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I., in 1608, out + of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi. + The New Exchange stood where Coutts's banking-house now is. "It was + built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars + beneath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly + with milliners, sempstresses, and the like." It was also called + "Britain's Burse." "He has a lodging in the Strand... to + watch when ladies are gone to the china houses, or to the Exchange, + that he may meet them by chance and give them presents, some two or + three hundred pounds worth of toys, to be laughed at"—Ben Jonson, + The Silent Woman, act i. sc. 1.] +</pre> +<p> +I bought a pair of short black stockings, to wear over a pair of silk +ones for mourning; and here I met with The. Turner and Joyce, buying of +things to go into mourning too for the Duke, (which is now the mode +of all the ladies in town), where I wrote some letters by the post to +Hinchinbroke to let them know that this day Mr. Edw. Pickering is come +from my Lord, and says that he left him well in Holland, and that he +will be here within three or four days. To-day not well of my last +night's drinking yet. I had the boy up to-night for his sister to teach +him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he did pretty well. +</p> +<p> +23rd (Lord's day). My wife got up to put on her mourning to-day and to +go to Church this morning. I up and set down my journall for these 5 +days past. This morning came one from my father's with a black cloth +coat, made of my short cloak, to walk up and down in. To church my +wife and I, with Sir W. Batten, where we heard of Mr. Mills a very good +sermon upon these words, "So run that ye may obtain." After dinner all +alone to Westminster. At Whitehall I met with Mr. Pierce and his wife +(she newly come forth after childbirth) both in mourning for the Duke of +Gloucester. She went with Mr. Child to Whitehall chapel and Mr. Pierce +with me to the Abbey, where I expected to hear Mr. Baxter or Mr. Rowe +preach their farewell sermon, and in Mr. Symons's pew I sat and heard +Mr. Rowe. Before sermon I laughed at the reader, who in his prayer +desires of God that He would imprint his word on the thumbs of our right +hands and on the right great toes of our right feet. In the midst of the +sermon some plaster fell from the top of the Abbey, that made me and all +the rest in our pew afeard, and I wished myself out. After sermon with +Mr. Pierce to Whitehall, and from thence to my Lord, but Diana did not +come according to our agreement. So calling at my father's (where +my wife had been this afternoon but was gone home) I went home. This +afternoon, the King having news of the Princess being come to Margate, +he and the Duke of York went down thither in barges to her. +</p> +<p> +24th (Office day). From thence to dinner by coach with my wife to my +Cozen Scott's, and the company not being come, I went over the way to +the Barber's. So thither again to dinner, where was my uncle Fenner and +my aunt, my father and mother, and others. Among the rest my Cozen Rich. +Pepys, +</p> +<pre> + [Richard Pepys, eldest son of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of + Ireland. He went to Boston, Mass., in 1634, and returned to England + about 1646.] +</pre> +<p> +their elder brother, whom I had not seen these fourteen years, ever +since he came from New England. It was strange for us to go a gossiping +to her, she having newly buried her child that she was brought to +bed of. I rose from table and went to the Temple church, where I had +appointed Sir W. Batten to meet him; and there at Sir Heneage Finch +Sollicitor General's chambers, before him and Sir W. Wilde, +</p> +<pre> + [William Wilde, elected Recorder on November 3rd, 1659, and + appointed one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles + II. to return to England immediately. He was knighted after the + King's return, called to the degree of Serjeant, and created a + baronet, all in the same year. In 1668 he ceased to be Recorder, + and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1673 he + was removed to the King's Bench. He was turned out of his office in + 1679 on account of his action in connection with the Popish Plot, + and died November 23rd of the same year.] +</pre> +<p> +Recorder of London (whom we sent for from his chamber) we were sworn +justices of peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton; with +which honour I did find myself mightily pleased, though I am wholly +ignorant in the duty of a justice of peace. From thence with Sir William +to Whitehall by water (old Mr. Smith with us) intending to speak with +Secretary Nicholas about the augmentation of our salaries, but being +forth we went to the Three Tuns tavern, where we drank awhile, and then +came in Col. Slingsby and another gentleman and sat with us. From thence +to my Lord's to enquire whether they have had any thing from my Lord +or no. Knocking at the door, there passed me Mons. L'Impertinent [Mr. +Butler] for whom I took a coach and went with him to a dancing meeting +in Broad Street, at the house that was formerly the glass-house, Luke +Channel, Master of the School, where I saw good dancing, but it growing +late, and the room very full of people and so very hot, I went home. +</p> +<p> +25th. To the office, where Sir W. Batten, Colonel Slingsby, and I sat +awhile, and Sir R. Ford +</p> +<pre> + [Sir Richard Ford was one of the commissioners sent to Breda to + desire Charles II. to return to England immediately.] +</pre> +<p> +coming to us about some business, we talked together of the interest +of this kingdom to have a peace with Spain and a war with France +and Holland; where Sir R. Ford talked like a man of great reason and +experience. And afterwards I did send for a cup of tee' +</p> +<pre> + [That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called + by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the + Sultaness Head Coffee-House, in Sweetings Rents, by the "Royal + Exchange, London." "Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called + tee, sold in almost every street in 1659."—Rugge's Diurnal. It is + stated in "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, + p. 593 "that the word tea occurs on no other tokens than those + issued from 'the Great Turk' (Morat ye Great) coffeehouse in + Exchange Alley. The Dutch East India Company introduced tea into + Europe in 1610, and it is said to have been first imported into + England from Holland about 1650. The English "East India Company" + purchased and presented 2 lbs. of tea to Charles II. in 1660, and 23 + lbs. in 1666. The first order for its importation by the company + was in 1668, and the first consignment of it, amounting to 143 lbs., + was received from Bantam in 1669 (see Sir George Birdwood's "Report + on the Old Records at the India Office," 1890, p. 26). By act 12 + Car. II., capp. 23, 24, a duty of 8d. per gallon was imposed upon + the infusion of tea, as well as on chocolate and sherbet.] +</pre> +<p> +(a China drink) of which I never had drank before, and went away. Then +came Col. Birch and Sir R. Browne by a former appointment, and with +them from Tower wharf in the barge belonging to our office we went to +Deptford to pay off the ship Success, which (Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. +Pen coming afterwards to us) we did, Col. Birch being a mighty busy man +and one that is the most indefatigable and forward to make himself work +of any man that ever I knew in my life. At the Globe we had a very +good dinner, and after that to the pay again, which being finished we +returned by water again, and I from our office with Col. Slingsby by +coach to Westminster (I setting him down at his lodgings by the way) to +inquire for my Lord's coming thither (the King and the Princess +</p> +<pre> + ["The Princess Royall came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water, + attended by a noble retinue of about one hundred persons, gentry, + and servants, and tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took + that opportunity to advance their fortunes, by coming in with so + excellent a Princess as without question she is."-Rugge's Diurnal. + A broadside, entitled "Ourania, the High and Mighty Lady the + Princess Royal of Aurange, congratulated on her most happy arrival, + September the 25th, 1660," was printed on the 29th.] +</pre> +<p> +coming up the river this afternoon as we were at our pay), and I found +him gone to Mr. Crew's, where I found him well, only had got some corns +upon his foot which was not well yet. My Lord told me how the ship that +brought the Princess and him (The Tredagh) did knock six times upon the +Kentish Knock, +</p> +<pre> + [A shoal in the North Sea, off the Thames mouth, outside the Long + Sand, fifteen miles N.N.E. of the North Foreland. It measures seven + miles north-eastward, and about two miles in breadth. It is partly + dry at low water. A revolving light was set up in 1840.] +</pre> +<p> +which put them in great fear for the ship; but got off well. He told +me also how the King had knighted Vice-Admiral Lawson and Sir Richard +Stayner. From him late and by coach home, where the plasterers being at +work in all the rooms in my house, my wife was fain to make a bed upon +the ground for her and me, and so there we lay all night. +</p> +<p> +26th. Office day. That done to the church, to consult about our gallery. +So home to dinner, where I found Mrs. Hunt, who brought me a letter for +me to get my Lord to sign for her husband, which I shall do for her. At +home with the workmen all the afternoon, our house being in a most sad +pickle. In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speed's +Geography for a while. So home thinking to have found Will at home, but +he not being come home but gone somewhere else I was very angry, and +when he came did give him a very great check for it, and so I went to +bed. +</p> +<p> +27th. To my Lord at Mr. Crew's, and there took order about some business +of his, and from thence home to my workmen all the afternoon. In the +evening to my Lord's, and there did read over with him and Dr. Walker +my lord's new commission for sea, and advised thereupon how to have it +drawn. So home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +28th (Office day). This morning Sir W. Batten and Col. Slingsby went +with Col. Birch and Sir Wm. Doyly to Chatham to pay off a ship there. +So only Sir W. Pen and I left here in town. All the afternoon among my +workmen till 10 or 11 at night, and did give them drink and very merry +with them, it being my luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on +all occasions. To bed. +</p> +<p> +29th. All day at home to make an end of our dirty work of the +plasterers, and indeed my kitchen is now so handsome that I did not +repent of all the trouble that I have been put to, to have it done. This +day or yesterday, I hear, Prince Rupert +</p> +<pre> + [This is the first mention in the Diary of this famous prince, third + son of Frederick, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth, + daughter of James I., born December 17th, 1619. He died at his + house in Spring Gardens, November 29th, 1682.] +</pre> +<p> +is come to Court; but welcome to nobody. +</p> +<p> +30th (Lord's day). To our Parish church both forenoon and afternoon all +alone. At night went to bed without prayers, my house being every where +foul above stairs. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0012"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + OCTOBER 1660 +</h2> +<p> +October 1st. Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give me +some work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office. Dined at +home, and my father by chance with me. After dinner he and I advised +about hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, the +painters beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to the +Miter, where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), while +I drank a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of +the Charles, who came to see me. Here we staid and drank three or four +pints of wine and so parted. I home to look after my workmen, and at +night to bed. The Commissioners are very busy disbanding of the army, +which they say do cause great robbing. My layings out upon my house an +furniture are so great that I fear I shall not be able to go through +them without breaking one of my bags of L100, I having but L200 yet in +the world. +</p> +<p> +2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning visited +before I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his lying out +of doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come any more +into his house, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide him for +doing so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would speak to my +father. At Whitehall I met with Captain Clerk, and took him to the Leg +in King Street, and did give him a dish or two of meat, and his purser +that was with him, for his old kindness to me on board. After dinner I +to Whitehall, where I met with Mrs. Hunt, and was forced to wait upon +Mr. Scawen at a committee to speak for her husband, which I did. After +that met with Luellin, Mr. Fage, and took them both to the Dog, and did +give them a glass of wine. After that at Will's I met with Mr. Spicer, +and with him to the Abbey to see them at vespers. There I found but a +thin congregation already. So I see that religion, be it what it will, +is but a humour, +</p> +<pre> + [The four humours of the body described by the old physicians were + supposed to exert their influence upon the mind, and in course of + time the mind as well as the body was credited with its own + particular humours. The modern restricted use of the word humour + did not become general until the eighteenth century.] +</pre> +<p> +and so the esteem of it passeth as other things do. From thence with him +to see Robin Shaw, who has been a long time ill, and I have not seen +him since I came from sea. He is much changed, but in hopes to be well +again. From thence by coach to my father's, and discoursed with him +about Tom, and did give my advice to take him home again, which I think +he will do in prudence rather than put him upon learning the way of +being worse. So home, and from home to Major Hart, who is just going +out of town to-morrow, and made much of me, and did give me the oaths of +supremacy and allegiance, that I may be capable of my arrears. So home +again, where my wife tells me what she has bought to-day, namely, a bed +and furniture for her chamber, with which very well pleased I went to +bed. +</p> +<p> +3d. With Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to White Hall, where a meeting +of the Dukes of York and Albemarle, my Lord Sandwich and all the +principal officers, about the Winter Guard, but we determined of +nothing. To my Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to White Hall; and +I saw it carried, into the King's closet, where I saw most incomparable +pictures. Among the rest a book open upon a desk, which I durst have +sworn was a reall book, and back again to my Lord, and dined all alone +with him, who do treat me with a great deal of respect; and after dinner +did discourse an hour with me, and advise about some way to get himself +some money to make up for all his great expenses, saying that he +believed that he might have any thing that he would ask of the King. +This day Mr. Sheply and all my Lord's goods came from sea, some of them +laid of the Wardrobe and some brought to my Lord's house. From thence +to our office, where we met and did business, and so home and spent the +evening looking upon the painters that are at work in my house. This day +I heard the Duke speak of a great design that he and my Lord of Pembroke +have, and a great many others, of sending a venture to some parts of +Africa to dig for gold ore there. They intend to admit as many as will +venture their money, and so make themselves a company. L250 is the +lowest share for every man. But I do not find that my Lord do much like +it. At night Dr. Fairbrother (for so he is lately made of the Civil Law) +brought home my wife by coach, it being rainy weather, she having been +abroad today to buy more furniture for her house. +</p> +<p> +4th. This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office all +alone, and being visited by Lieut. Lambert of the Charles (to whom I was +formerly much beholden), I took him along with me to a little alehouse +hard by our office, whither my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner had sent +for me to show me two gentlemen that had a great desire to be known to +me, one his name is Pepys, of our family, but one that I never heard of +before, and the other a younger son of Sir Tho. Bendishes, and so we +all called cozens. After sitting awhile and drinking, my two new cozens, +myself, and Lieut. Lambert went by water to Whitehall, and from thence +I and Lieut. Lambert to Westminster Abbey, where we saw Dr. Frewen +translated to the Archbishoprick of York. Here I saw the Bishops of +Winchester, Bangor, Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Salisbury, all in +their habits, in King Henry Seventh's chappell. But, Lord! at their +going out, how people did most of them look upon them as strange +creatures, and few with any kind of love or respect. From thence at 2 +to my Lord's, where we took Mr. Sheply and Wm. Howe to the Raindeer, and +had some oysters, which were very good, the first I have eat this year. +So back to my Lord's to dinner, and after dinner Lieut. Lambert and I +did look upon my Lord's model, and he told me many things in a ship that +I desired to understand. From thence by water I (leaving Lieut. Lambert +at Blackfriars) went home, and there by promise met with Robert Shaw and +Jack Spicer, who came to see me, and by the way I met upon Tower Hill +with Mr. Pierce the surgeon and his wife, and took them home and did +give them good wine, ale, and anchovies, and staid them till night, +and so adieu. Then to look upon my painters that are now at work in my +house. At night to bed. +</p> +<p> +5th. Office day; dined at home, and all the afternoon at home to see my +painters make an end of their work, which they did to-day to my content, +and I am in great joy to see my house likely once again to be clean. At +night to bed. +</p> +<p> +6th. Col. Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch ready for the +Prince de Ligne to carry his things away to-day, who is now going home +again. About noon comes my cozen H. Alcock, for whom I brought a letter +for my Lord to sign to my Lord Broghill for some preferment in Ireland, +whither he is now a-going. After him comes Mr. Creed, who brought me +some books from Holland with him, well bound and good books, which I +thought he did intend to give me, but I found that I must pay him. He +dined with me at my house, and from thence to Whitehall together, where +I was to give my Lord an account of the stations and victualls of the +fleet in order to the choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, +to bring over the Queen, but my Lord not coming in before 9 at night I +staid no longer for him, but went back again home and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +7th (Lord's day). To White Hall on foot, calling at my father's to +change my long black cloak for a short one (long cloaks being now quite +out); but he being gone to church, I could not get one, and therefore +I proceeded on and came to my Lord before he went to chapel and so went +with him, where I heard Dr. Spurstow preach before the King a poor dry +sermon; but a very good anthem of Captn. Cooke's afterwards. Going out +of chapel I met with Jack Cole, my old friend (whom I had not seen a +great while before), and have promised to renew acquaintance in London +together. To my Lord's and dined with him; he all dinner time talking +French to me, and telling me the story how the Duke of York hath got my +Lord Chancellor's daughter with child, +</p> +<pre> + [Anne Hyde, born March 12th, 1637, daughter of Edward, first Earl of + Clarendon. She was attached to the court of the Princess of Orange, + daughter of Charles I., 1654, and contracted to James, Duke of York, + at Breda, November 24th, 1659. The marriage was avowed in London + September 3rd, 1660. She joined the Church of Rome in 1669, and + died March 31st, 1671.] +</pre> +<p> +and that she, do lay it to him, and that for certain he did promise her +marriage, and had signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth had +got the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King would have him to +marry her, but that he will not. +</p> +<pre> + [The Duke of York married Anne Hyde, and he avowed the marriage + September 3rd, so that Pepys was rather behindhand in his + information.] +</pre> +<p> +So that the thing is very bad for the Duke, and them all; but my Lord do +make light of it, as a thing that he believes is not a new thing for the +Duke to do abroad. Discoursing concerning what if the Duke should marry +her, my Lord told me that among his father's many old sayings that he +had wrote in a book of his, this is one—that he that do get a wench +with child and marry her afterwards is as if a man should——in his hat +and then clap it on his head. I perceive my Lord is grown a man very +indifferent in all matters of religion, and so makes nothing of +these things. After dinner to the Abbey, where I heard them read the +church-service, but very ridiculously, that indeed I do not in myself +like it at all. A poor cold sermon of Dr. Lamb's, one of the prebends, +in his habit, came afterwards, and so all ended, and by my troth a +pitiful sorry devotion that these men pay. So walked home by land, and +before supper I read part of the Marian persecution in Mr. Fuller. So to +supper, prayers, and to bed. +</p> +<p> +8th. Office day, and my wife being gone out to buy some household stuff, +I dined all alone, and after dinner to Westminster, in my way meeting +Mr. Moore coming to me, who went back again with me calling at several +places about business, at my father's about gilded leather for my +dining room, at Mr. Crew's about money, at my Lord's about the same, but +meeting not Mr. Sheply there I went home by water, and Mr. Moore with +me, who staid and supped with me till almost 9 at night. We love one +another's discourse so that we cannot part when we do meet. He tells me +that the profit of the Privy Seal is much fallen, for which I am very +sorry. He gone and I to bed. +</p> +<p> +9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to Deptford, to pay +off two ships. Sir W. Pen and I staid to do business, and afterwards +together to White Hall, where I went to my Lord, and found him in bed +not well, and saw in his chamber his picture,—[Lord Sandwich's portrait +by Lely, see post, 22nd of this same month.]—very well done; and am +with child +</p> +<pre> + [A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall + and by Spenser. The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the + "New English Dictionary," is Bailey in 1725.] +</pre> +<p> +till I get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone to sea. To +Whitehall again, where at Mr. Coventry's chamber I met with Sir W. Pen +again, and so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence walked +over the fields to Deptford (the first pleasant walk I have had a great +while), and in our way had a great deal of merry discourse, and find +him to be a merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings very bawdy +songs. So we came and found our gentlemen and Mr. Prin at the pay. About +noon we dined together, and were very merry at table telling of tales. +After dinner to the pay of another ship till 10 at night, and so home in +our barge, a clear moonshine night, and it was 12 o'clock before we got +home, where I found my wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-day +by the upholster, but not being well done I was fretted, and so in a +discontent to bed. I found Mr. Prin a good, honest, plain man, but in +his discourse not very free or pleasant. Among all the tales that passed +among us to-day, he told us of one Damford, that, being a black man, did +scald his beard with mince-pie, and it came up again all white in that +place, and continued to his dying day. Sir W. Pen told us a good jest +about some gentlemen blinding of the drawer, and who he catched was to +pay the reckoning, and so they got away, and the master of the house +coming up to see what his man did, his man got hold of him, thinking +it to be one of the gentlemen, and told him that he was to pay the +reckoning. +</p> +<p> +10th. Office day all the morning. In the afternoon with the upholster +seeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my chamber +and my wife's. At night comes Mr. Moore, and staid late with me to tell +me how Sir Hards. Waller—[Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of Charles I. +judges. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.]—(who only +pleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison, +</p> +<pre> + [General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme, + appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from Windsor to + Whitehall, in order to his trial. He signed the warrant for the + execution of the King. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the + 13th.] +</pre> +<p> +&c. were this day arraigned at the bar at the Sessions House, there +being upon the bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, +&c.; such a bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in England! They +all seem to be dismayed, and will all be condemned without question. In +Sir Orlando Bridgman's charge, he did wholly rip up the unjustness of +the war against the King from the beginning, and so it much reflects +upon all the Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned them, yet +they must hereby confess that the King do look upon them as traitors. +To-morrow they are to plead what they have to say. At night to bed. +</p> +<p> +11th. In the morning to my Lord's, where I met with Mr. Creed, and with +him and Mr. Blackburne to the Rhenish wine house, where we sat drinking +of healths a great while, a thing which Mr. Blackburne formerly would +not upon any terms have done. After we had done there Mr. Creed and I to +the Leg in King Street, to dinner, where he and I and my Will had a good +udder to dinner, and from thence to walk in St. James's Park, where we +observed the several engines at work to draw up water, with which sight +I was very much pleased. Above all the rest, I liked best that which Mr. +Greatorex brought, which is one round thing going within all with a pair +of stairs round; round which being laid at an angle of 45 deg., do carry +up the water with a great deal of ease. Here, in the Park, we met with +Mr. Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpitt to see "The +Moore of Venice," which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; 'by the +same token, a very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see +Desdemona smothered. From thence with Mr. Creed to Hercules Pillars, +where we drank and so parted, and I went home. +</p> +<p> +12th. Office day all the morning, and from thence with Sir W. Batten and +the rest of the officers to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin, where +dined withal Col. Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major Norwood, very +noble company. After dinner I went home, where I found Mr. Cooke, who +told me that my Lady Sandwich is come to town to-day, whereupon I went +to Westminster to see her, and found her at super, so she made me sit +down all alone with her, and after supper staid and talked with her, +she showing me most extraordinary love and kindness, and do give me good +assurance of my uncle's resolution to make me his heir. From thence home +and to bed. +</p> +<p> +13th. To my Lord's in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, +but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see +Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was done +there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He +was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at +which there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he +was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that +now had judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again. Thus +it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the +first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross. +From thence to my Lord's, and took Captain Cuttance and Mr. Sheply to +the Sun Tavern, and did give them some oysters. After that I went by +water home, where I was angry with my wife for her things lying about, +and in my passion kicked the little fine basket, which I bought her in +Holland, and broke it, which troubled me after I had done it. Within all +the afternoon setting up shelves in my study. At night to bed. +</p> +<p> +14th (Lord's day). Early to my Lord's, in my way meeting with Dr. +Fairbrother, who walked with me to my father's back again, and there we +drank my morning draft, my father having gone to church and my mother +asleep in bed. Here he caused me to put my hand among a great many +honorable hands to a paper or certificate in his behalf. To White Hall +chappell, where one Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after it +an anthem, ill sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first did see the +Princess Royal since she came into England. Here I also observed, how +the Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly +through the hangings that parts the King's closet and the closet where +the ladies sit. To my Lord's, where I found my wife, and she and I did +dine with my Lady (my Lord dining with my Lord Chamberlain), who did +treat my wife with a good deal of respect. In the evening we went home +through the rain by water in a sculler, having borrowed some coats of +Mr. Sheply. So home, wet and dirty, and to bed. +</p> +<p> +15th. Office all the morning. My wife and I by water; I landed her at +Whitefriars, she went to my father's to dinner, it being my father's +wedding day, there being a very great dinner, and only the Fenners and +Joyces there. This morning Mr. Carew +</p> +<pre> + [John Carew signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I. He + held the religion of the Fifth Monarchists, and was tried October + 12th, 1660. He refused to avail himself of many opportunities of + escape, and suffered death with much composure.] +</pre> +<p> +was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a great +favour, are not to be hanged up. I was forced to go to my Lord's to get +him to meet the officers of the Navy this afternoon, and so could not go +along with her, but I missed my Lord, who was this day upon the bench +at the Sessions house. So I dined there, and went to White Hall, where I +met with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who with the Comptroller, Treasurer, and +Mr. Coventry (at his chamber) made up a list of such ships as are fit +to be kept out for the winter guard, and the rest to be paid off by the +Parliament when they can get money, which I doubt will not be a great +while. That done, I took coach, and called my wife at my father's, and +so homewards, calling at Thos. Pepys the turner's for some things that +we wanted. And so home, where I fell to read "The Fruitless Precaution" +(a book formerly recommended by Dr. Clerke at sea to me), which I read +in bed till I had made an end of it, and do find it the best writ tale +that ever I read in my life. After that done to sleep, which I did not +very well do, because that my wife having a stopping in her nose she +snored much, which I never did hear her do before. +</p> +<p> +16th. This morning my brother Tom came to me, with whom I made even for +my last clothes to this day, and having eaten a dish of anchovies with +him in the morning, my wife and I did intend to go forth to see a play +at the Cockpit this afternoon, but Mr. Moore coming to me, my wife +staid at home, and he and I went out together, with whom I called at +the upholsters and several other places that I had business with, and +so home with him to the Cockpit, where, understanding that "Wit without +money" was acted, I would not stay, but went home by water, by the way +reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last +night, which I do not like so well as it. Being come home, Will. told +me that my Lord had a mind to speak with me to-night; so I returned +by water, and, coming there, it was only to enquire how the ships were +provided with victuals that are to go with him to fetch over the Queen, +which I gave him a good account of. He seemed to be in a melancholy +humour, which, I was told by W. Howe, was for that he had lately lost +a great deal of money at cards, which he fears he do too much addict +himself to now-a-days. So home by water and to bed. +</p> +<p> +17th. Office day. At noon came Mr. Creed to me, whom I took along +with me to the Feathers in Fish Street, where I was invited by Captain +Cuttance to dinner, a dinner made by Mr. Dawes and his brother. We had +two or three dishes of meat well done; their great design was to get me +concerned in a business of theirs about a vessel of theirs that is in +the service, hired by the King, in which I promise to do them all the +service I can. From thence home again with Mr. Crew, where I finding +Mrs. The. Turner and her aunt Duke I would not be seen but walked in the +garden till they were gone, where Mr. Spong came to me and Mr. Creed, +Mr. Spong and I went to our music to sing, and he being gone, my wife +and I went to put up my books in order in closet, and I to give her her +books. After that to bed. +</p> +<p> +18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtell +should die, I went to Newgate, but found they were reprieved till +to-morrow. So to my aunt Fenner's, where with her and my uncle I drank +my morning draft. So to my father's, and did give orders for a pair +of black baize linings to be made me for my breeches against to-morrow +morning, which was done. So to my Lord's, where I spoke with my Lord, +and he would have had me dine with him, but I went thence to Mr. +Blackburne, where I met my wife and my Will's father and mother (the +first time that ever I saw them), where we had a very fine dinner. +Mr. Creed was also there. This day by her high discourse I found Mrs. +Blackburne to be a very high dame and a costly one. Home with my wife +by coach. This afternoon comes Mr. Chaplin and N. Osborn to my house, of +whom I made very much, and kept them with me till late, and so to bed. +At my coming home. I did find that The. Turner hath sent for a pair of +doves that my wife had promised her; and because she did not send them +in the best cage, she sent them back again with a scornful letter, with +which I was angry, but yet pretty well pleased that she was crossed. +</p> +<p> +19th. Office in the morning. This morning my dining-room was finished +with green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome. This +morning Hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. +This night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrow +for my Lord. I found him to be above L80 in my debt, which is a good +sight, and I bless God for it. +</p> +<p> +20th. This morning one came to me to advise with me where to make me a +window into my cellar in lieu of one which Sir W. Batten had stopped +up, and going down into my cellar to look I stepped into a great heap +of——by which I found that Mr. Turner's house of office is full and +comes into my cellar, which do trouble me, but I shall have it helped. +To my Lord's by land, calling at several places about business, where I +dined with my Lord and Lady; when he was very merry, and did talk very +high how he would have a French cook, and a master of his horse, and his +lady and child to wear black patches; which methought was strange, but +he is become a perfect courtier; and, among other things, my Lady saying +that she could get a good merchant for her daughter Jem., he answered, +that he would rather see her with a pedlar's pack at her back, so she +married a gentleman, than she should marry a citizen. This afternoon, +going through London, and calling at Crowe's the upholster's, in Saint +Bartholomew's, I saw the limbs of some of our new traitors set upon +Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to see; and a bloody week this and the +last have been, there being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered. Home, and +after writing a letter to my uncle by the post, I went to bed. +</p> +<p> +21st (Lord's day). To the Parish church in the morning, where a good +sermon by Mr. Mills. After dinner to my Lord's, and from thence to the +Abbey, where I met Spicer and D. Vines and others of the old crew. So +leaving my boy at the Abbey against I came back, we went to Prior's by +the Hall back door, but there being no drink to be had we went away, +and so to the Crown in the Palace Yard, I and George Vines by the way +calling at their house, where he carried me up to the top of his turret, +where there is Cooke's head set up for a traytor, and Harrison's set up +on the other side of Westminster Hall. Here I could see them plainly, as +also a very fair prospect about London. From the Crown to the Abbey to +look for my boy, but he was gone thence, and so he being a novice I was +at a loss what was become of him. I called at my Lord's (where I found +Mr. Adams, Mr. Sheply's friend) and at my father's, but found him not. +So home, where I found him, but he had found the way home well enough, +of which I was glad. So after supper, and reading of some chapters, I +went to bed. This day or two my wife has been troubled with her boils in +the old place, which do much trouble her. Today at noon (God forgive me) +I strung my lute, which I had not touched a great while before. +</p> +<p> +22nd. Office day; after that to dinner at home upon some ribs of roast +beef from the Cook's (which of late we have been forced to do because +of our house being always under the painters' and other people's hands, +that we could not dress it ourselves). After dinner to my Lord's, where +I found all preparing for my Lord's going to sea to fetch the Queen +tomorrow. At night my Lord came home, with whom I staid long, and talked +of many things. Among others I got leave to have his picture, that was +done by Lilly, +</p> +<pre> + [Peter Lely, afterwards knighted. He lived in the Piazza, Covent + Garden. This portrait was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys + Cockerell's sale in 1848, and is now at Audley End.] +</pre> +<p> +copied, and talking of religion, I found him to be a perfect Sceptic, +and said that all things would not be well while there was so much +preaching, and that it would be better if nothing but Homilies were +to be read in Churches. This afternoon (he told me) there hath been a +meeting before the King and my Lord Chancellor, of some Episcopalian and +Presbyterian Divines; but what had passed he could not tell me. After +I had done talk with him, I went to bed with Mr. Sheply in his chamber, +but could hardly get any sleep all night, the bed being ill made and he +a bad bedfellow. +</p> +<p> +23rd. We rose early in the morning to get things ready for My Lord, and +Mr. Sheply going to put up his pistols (which were charged with bullets) +into the holsters, one of them flew off, and it pleased God that, the +mouth of the gun being downwards, it did us no hurt, but I think I never +was in more danger in my life, which put me into a great fright. About +eight o'clock my Lord went; and going through the garden my Lord met +with Mr. William Montagu, who told him of an estate of land lately come +into the King's hands, that he had a mind my Lord should beg. To which +end my Lord writ a letter presently to my Lord Chancellor to do it for +him, which (after leave taken of my Lord at White Hall bridge) I did +carry to Warwick House to him; and had a fair promise of him, that +he would do it this day for my Lord. In my way thither I met the +Lord Chancellor and all the judges riding on horseback and going to +Westminster Hall, it being the first day of the term, which was the +first time I ever saw any such solemnity. Having done there I returned +to Whitehall, where meeting with my brother Ashwell and his cozen Sam. +Ashwell and Mr. Mallard, I took them to the Leg in King Street and gave +them a dish of meat for dinner and paid for it. From thence going to +Whitehall I met with Catan Stirpin in mourning, who told me that her +mistress was lately dead of the small pox, and that herself was now +married to Monsieur Petit, as also what her mistress had left her, which +was very well. She also took me to her lodging at an Ironmonger's in +King Street, which was but very poor, and I found by a letter that she +shewed me of her husband's to the King, that he is a right Frenchman, +and full of their own projects, he having a design to reform the +universities, and to institute schools for the learning of all +languages, to speak them naturally and not by rule, which I know will +come to nothing. From thence to my Lord's, where I went forth by coach +to Mrs. Parker's with my Lady, and so to her house again. From thence I +took my Lord's picture, and carried it to Mr. de Cretz to be copied. So +to White Hall, where I met Mr. Spong, and went home with him and played, +and sang, and eat with him and his mother. After supper we looked over +many books, and instruments of his, especially his wooden jack in his +chimney, which goes with the smoke, which indeed is very pretty. I found +him to be as ingenious and good-natured a man as ever I met with in my +life, and cannot admire him enough, he being so plain and illiterate a +man as he is. From thence by coach home and to bed, which was welcome to +me after a night's absence. +</p> +<p> +24th. I lay and slept long to-day. Office day. I took occasion to be +angry with my wife before I rose about her putting up of half a crown of +mine in a paper box, which she had forgot where she had lain it. But we +were friends again as we are always. Then I rose to Jack Cole, who came +to see me. Then to the office, so home to dinner, where I found Captain +Murford, who did put L3 into my hands for a friendship I had done him, +but I would not take it, but bade him keep it till he has enough to buy +my wife a necklace. This afternoon people at work in my house to make a +light in my yard into my cellar. To White Hall, in my way met with Mr. +Moore, who went back with me. He tells me, among other things, that +the Duke of York is now sorry for his lying with my Lord Chancellor's +daughter, who is now brought to bed of a boy. From Whitehall to Mr. De +Cretz, who I found about my Lord's picture. From thence to Mr. Lilly's, +where, not finding Mr. Spong, I went to Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, +and so to an alehouse, where I bought of him a drawing-pen; and he did +show me the manner of the lamp-glasses, which carry the light a great +way, good to read in bed by, and I intend to have one of them. So to Mr. +Lilly's with Mr. Spong, where well received, there being a club to-night +among his friends. Among the rest Esquire Ashmole, who I found was a +very ingenious gentleman. With him we two sang afterward in Mr. Lilly's +study. That done, we all pared; and I home by coach, taking Mr. Booker' +with me, who did tell me a great many fooleries, which may be done by +nativities, and blaming Mr. Lilly for writing to please his friends and +to keep in with the times (as he did formerly to his own dishonour), and +not according to the rules of art, by which he could not well err, as he +had done. I set him down at Lime-street end, and so home, where I found +a box of Carpenter's tools sent by my cozen, Thomas Pepys, which I had +bespoke of him for to employ myself with sometimes. To bed. +</p> +<p> +25th. All day at home doing something in order to the fitting of my +house. In the evening to Westminster about business. So home and to bed. +This night the vault at the end of the cellar was emptied. +</p> +<p> +26th. Office. My father and Dr. Thomas Pepys dined at my house, the last +of whom I did almost fox with Margate ale. My father is mightily pleased +with my ordering of my house. I did give him money to pay several bills. +After that I to Westminster to White Hall, where I saw the Duke de +Soissons go from his audience with a very great deal of state: his own +coach all red velvet covered with gold lace, and drawn by six barbes, +and attended by twenty pages very rich in clothes. To Westminster Hall, +and bought, among, other books, one of the Life of our Queen, which I +read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ, that we did nothing +but laugh at it: among other things it is dedicated to that paragon of +virtue and beauty, the Duchess of Albemarle. Great talk as if the +Duke of York do now own the marriage between him and the Chancellor's +daughter. +</p> +<p> +27th. In London and Westminster all this day paying of money and buying +of things for my house. In my going I went by chance by my new Lord +Mayor's house (Sir Richard Browne), by Goldsmith's Hall, which is now +fitting, and indeed is a very pretty house. In coming back I called at +Paul's Churchyard and bought Alsted's Encyclopaedia,' which cost me 38s. +Home and to bed, my wife being much troubled with her old pain. +</p> +<p> +28th (Lord's day). There came some pills and plaister this morning +from Dr. Williams for my wife. I to Westminster Abbey, where with much +difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being a +great day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done after +sermon; but I could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappell. So I went +to my Lord's, where I dined with my Lady, and my young Lord, and Mr. +Sidney, who was sent for from Twickenham to see my Lord Mayor's show +to-morrow. Mr. Child did also dine with us. After dinner to White Hall +chappell; my Lady and my Lady Jemimah and I up to the King's closet (who +is now gone to meet the Queen). So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did +know my Lady, he did take us into the King's closet, and there we did +stay all service-time, which I did think a great honour. We went home to +my Lord's lodgings afterwards, and there I parted with my Lady and went +home, where I did find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor's day, +</p> +<pre> + [When the calendar was reformed in England by the act 24 Geo. II. + c. 23, different provisions were made as regards those anniversaries + which affect directly the rights of property and those which do not. + Thus the old quarter days are still noted in our almanacs, and a + curious survival of this is brought home to payers of income tax. + The fiscal year still begins on old Lady-day, which now falls on + April 6th. All ecclesiastical fasts and feasts and other + commemorations which did not affect the rights of property were left + on their nominal days, such as the execution of Charles I. on + January 30th and the restoration of Charles II. on May 29th. The + change of Lord Mayor's day from the 29th of October to the 9th of + November was not made by the act for reforming the calendar (c. + 23), but by another act of the same session (c. 48), entitled "An + Act for the Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term," by which it was + enacted, "that from and after the said feast of St. Michael, which + shall be in the year 1752, the said solemnity of presenting and + swearing the mayors of the city of London, after every annual + election into the said office, in the manner and form heretofore + used on the 29th day of October, shall be kept and observed on the + ninth day of November in every year, unless the same shall fall on + a Sunday, and in that case on the day following."] +</pre> +<p> +(Sir Richd. Browne), and neglecting my office I went to the Wardrobe, +where I met my Lady Sandwich and all the children; and after drinking of +some strange and incomparable good clarett of Mr. Rumball's he and Mr. +Townsend did take us, and set the young Lords at one Mr. Nevill's, a +draper in Paul's churchyard; and my Lady and my Lady Pickering and I to +one Mr. Isaacson's, a linendraper at the Key in Cheapside; where there +was a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had +a very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe +good, for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. +After the ladies were placed I took Mr. Townsend and Isaacson to the +next door, a tavern, and did spend 5s. upon them. The show being done, +we got as far as Paul's with much ado, where I left my Lady in the +coach, and went on foot with my Lady Pickering to her lodging, which was +a poor one in Blackfryars, where she never invited me to go in at all, +which methought was very strange for her to do. So home, where I was +told how my Lady Davis is now come to our next lodgings, and has locked +up the leads door from me, which puts me into so great a disquiet that I +went to bed, and could not sleep till morning at it. +</p> +<p> +30th. Within all the morning and dined at home, my mind being so +troubled that I could not mind nor do anything till I spoke with the +Comptroller to whom the lodgings belong. In the afternoon, to ease my +mind, I went to the Cockpit all alone, and there saw a very fine play +called "The Tamer Tamed;" very well acted. That being done, I went to +Mr. Crew's, where I had left my boy, and so with him and Mr. Moore +(who would go a little way with me home, as he will always do) to the +Hercules Pillars to drink, where we did read over the King's declaration +in matters of religion, which is come out to-day, which is very well +penned, I think to the satisfaction of most people. So home, where I +am told Mr. Davis's people have broken open the bolt of my chamber door +that goes upon the leads, which I went up to see and did find it so, +which did still trouble me more and more. And so I sent for Griffith, +and got him to search their house to see what the meaning of it might +be, but can learn nothing to-night. But I am a little pleased that I +have found this out. I hear nothing yet of my Lord, whether he be gone +for the Queen from the Downs or no; but I believe he is, and that he is +now upon coming back again. +</p> +<p> +31st Office day. Much troubled all this morning in my mind about the +business of my walk on the leads. I spoke of it to the Comptroller and +the rest of the principal officers, who are all unwilling to meddle in +anything that may anger my Lady Davis. And so I am fain to give over for +the time that she do continue therein. Dined at home, and after dinner +to Westminster Hall, where I met with Billing the quaker at Mrs. +Michell's shop, who is still of the former opinion he was of against the +clergymen of all sorts, and a cunning fellow I find him to be. Home, and +there I had news that Sir W. Pen is resolved to ride to Sir W. Batten's +country house to-morrow, and would have me go with him, so I sat up +late, getting together my things to ride in, and was fain to cut an old +pair of boots to make leathers for those I was to wear. This month I +conclude with my mind very heavy for the loss of the leads, as also for +the greatness of my late expenses, insomuch that I do not think that I +have above L150 clear money in the world, but I have, I believe, got +a great deal of good household stuff: I hear to-day that the Queen is +landed at Dover, and will be here on Friday next, November 2nd. My wife +has been so ill of late of her old pain that I have not known her this +fortnight almost, which is a pain to me. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0013"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + NOVEMBER 1660 +</h2> +<p> +November 1st. This morning Sir W. Pen and I were mounted early, and had +very merry discourse all the way, he being very good company. We came +to Sir W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we were made very +welcome. Among other things he showed us my Lady's closet, where was +great store of rarities; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry's +chair, where he that sits down is catched with two irons, that come +round about him, which makes good sport. Here dined with us two or +three more country gentle men; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my old +school-fellow, with whom I had much talk. He did remember that I was a +great Roundhead when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he would +have remembered the words that I said the day the King was beheaded +(that, were I to preach upon him, my text should be "The memory of the +wicked shall rot"); but I found afterwards that he did go away from +school before that time. +</p> +<pre> + [Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this + year Phieas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was + dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken + disrespectfully of the King. See ante, August 23rd.] +</pre> +<p> +He did make us good sport in imitating Mr. Case, Ash, and Nye, the +ministers, which he did very well, but a deadly drinker he is, and grown +exceeding fat. From his house to an ale-house near the church, where we +sat and drank and were merry, and so we mounted for London again, Sir W. +Batten with us. We called at Bow and drank there, and took leave of Mr. +Johnson of Blackwall, who dined with us and rode with us thus far. So +home by moonlight, it being about 9 o'clock before we got home. +</p> +<p> +2nd. Office. Then dined at home, and by chance Mr. Holliard +</p> +<pre> + [Thomas Holliard or Hollier was appointed in 1638 surgeon for scald + heads at St. Thomas's Hospital, and on January 25th, 1643-4, he was + chosen surgeon in place of Edward Molins. In 1670 his son of the + same names was allowed to take his place during his illness. Ward, + in his Diary, p. 235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas's + Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr. Holyard's having cut thirty for + the stone in one year, who all lived.] +</pre> +<p> +called at dinner time and dined with me, with whom I had great discourse +concerning the cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether any +effect at all. In the afternoon I went forth and saw some silver bosses +put upon my new Bible, which cost me 6s. 6d. the making, and 7s. 6d. the +silver, which, with 9s. 6d. the book, comes in all to L1 3s. 6d. From +thence with Mr. Cooke that made them, and Mr. Stephens the silversmith +to the tavern, and did give them a pint of wine. So to White Hall, where +when I came I saw the boats going very thick to Lambeth, and all the +stairs to be full of people. I was told the Queen was a-coming; +</p> +<pre> + ["Nov. 2. The Queen-mother and the Princess Henrietta came into + London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago. Her + coming was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and the + Duke of York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all + safely arrived at Whitehall.—"Rugge's Diurnal."] +</pre> +<p> +so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again, but +I could not get to see the Queen; so come back, and to my Lord's, where +he was come; and I supt with him, he being very merry, telling merry +stories of the country mayors, how they entertained the King all the +way as he come along; and how the country gentlewomen did hold up their +heads to be kissed by the King, not taking his hand to kiss as they +should do. I took leave of my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at White +Hall and carried Mr. Childe as far as the Strand, and myself got as far +as Ludgate by all the bonfires, but with a great deal of trouble; and +there the coachman desired that I would release him, for he durst not +go further for the fires. So he would have had a shilling or 6d. for +bringing of me so far; but I had but 3d. about me and did give him it. +In Paul's church-yard I called at Kirton's, and there they had got a +mass book for me, which I bought and cost me twelve shillings; and, when +I came home, sat up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, +to hear that she was long ago so well acquainted with. So to bed. I +observed this night very few bonfires in the City, not above three in +all London, for the Queen's coming; whereby I guess that (as I believed +before) her coming do please but very few. +</p> +<p> +3d. Saturday. At home all the morning. In the afternoon to White +Hall, where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queene's hand. To +Westminster Hall, where I met with Tom Doling, and we two took Mrs. Lane +to the alehouse, where I made her angry with commending of Tom Newton +and her new sweetheart to be both too good for her, so that we parted +with much anger, which made Tom and me good sport. So home to write +letters by the post, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +4th (Lord's day). In the morn to our own church, where Mr. Mills did +begin to nibble at the Common Prayer, by saying "Glory be to the Father, +&c." after he had read the two psalms; but the people had been so little +used to it, that they could not tell what to answer. This declaration of +the King's do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction, and a pretence +to read the Common Prayer, which they would not do before because of +their former preaching against it. After dinner to Westminster, where I +went to my Lord's, and having spoke with him, I went to the Abbey, where +the first time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral! Thence to +my Lord's, where I found Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and with him and Mr. +Sheply, in our way calling at the Bell to see the seven Flanders mares +that my Lord has bought lately, where we drank several bottles of Hull +ale. Much company I found to come to her, and cannot wonder at it, for +she is very pretty and wanton. Hence to my father's, where I found my +mother in greater and greater pain of the stone. I staid long and drank +with them, and so home and to bed. My wife seemed very pretty to-day, it +being the first time I had given her leave to wear a black patch. +</p> +<p> +5th (Office day). Being disappointed of money, we failed of going to +Deptford to pay off the Henrietta to-day. Dined at home, and at home all +day, and at the office at night, to make up an account of what the debts +of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that should have been paid off, +is increased since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being to sit +again to-morrow. This 5th of November is observed exceeding well in the +City; and at night great bonfires and fireworks. At night Mr. Moore came +and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many +law notions, in which I took great pleasure. To bed. +</p> +<p> +6th. In the morning with Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to Westminster, +where at my Lord's I met with Mr. Creed. With him to see my Lord's +picture (now almost done), and thence to Westminster Hall, where we +found the Parliament met to-day, and thence meeting with Mr. Chetwind, +I took them to the Sun, and did give them a barrel of oysters, and had +good discourse; among other things Mr. Chetwind told me how he did fear +that this late business of the Duke of York's would prove fatal to my +Lord Chancellor. From thence Mr. Creed and I to Wilkinson's, and dined +together, and in great haste thence to our office, where we met all, for +the sale of two ships by an inch of candle +</p> +<pre> + [The old-fashioned custom of sale by auction by inch of candle was + continued in sales by the Admiralty to a somewhat late date. See + September 3rd, 1662.] +</pre> +<p> +(the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed how +they do invite one another, and at last how they all do cry,—[To cry +was to bid.]—and we have much to do to tell who did cry last. The ships +were the Indian, sold for L1,300, and the Half-moon, sold for L830. +Home, and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged +for the King's death, and found good satisfaction in reading thereof. At +night to bed, and my wife and I did fall out about the dog's being put +down into the cellar, which I had a mind to have done because of his +fouling the house, and I would have my will, and so we went to bed and +lay all night in a quarrel. This night I was troubled all night with a +dream that my wife was dead, which made me that I slept ill all night. +</p> +<p> +7th (Office day). This day my father came to dine at my house, but being +sent for in the morning I could not stay, but went by water to my Lord, +where I dined with him, and he in a very merry humour (present Mr. +Borfett and Childe) at dinner: he, in discourse of the great opinion of +the virtue—gratitude (which he did account the greatest thing in the +world to him, and had, therefore, in his mind been often troubled in +the late times how to answer his gratitude to the King, who raised his +father), did say it was that did bring him to his obedience to the King; +and did also bless himself with his good fortune, in comparison to +what it was when I was with him in the Sound, when he durst not own his +correspondence with the King; which is a thing that I never did hear of +to this day before; and I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be +one of the most secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of +before. After dinner he bid all go out of the room, and did tell me +how the King had promised him L4000 per annum for ever, and had already +given him a bill under his hand (which he showed me) for L4000 that Mr. +Fox is to pay him. My Lord did advise with me how to get this received, +and to put out L3000 into safe hands at use, and the other he will make +use of for his present occasion. This he did advise with me about with +much secresy. After all this he called for the fiddles and books, and we +two and W. Howe, and Mr. Childe, did sing and play some psalmes of Will. +Lawes's, and some songs; and so I went away. So I went to see my Lord's +picture, which is almost done, and do please me very well. Hence to +Whitehall to find out Mr. Fox, which I did, and did use me very civilly, +but I did not see his lady, whom I had so long known when she was a +maid, Mrs. Whittle. From thence meeting my father Bowyer, I took him to +Mr. Harper's, and there drank with him. Among other things in discourse +he told me how my wife's brother had a horse at grass with him, which +I was troubled to hear, it being his boldness upon my score. Home by +coach, and read late in the last night's book of Trials, and told +my wife about her brother's horse at Mr. Bowyer's, who is also much +troubled for it, and do intend to go to-morrow to inquire the truth. +Notwithstanding this was the first day of the King's proclamation +against hackney coaches coming into the streets to stand to be hired, +yet I got one to carry me home. +</p> +<pre> + ["A Proclamation to restrain the abuses of Hackney Coaches in the + Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof." This is + printed in "Notes and Queries," First Series, vol. viii. p. 122. + "In April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned for + some relief, as the parliament had reduced the number of coaches to + 400; there were before, in and about London, more than 2,000." + —Rugge's Diurnal.] +</pre> +<p> +8th. This morning Sir Wm. and the Treasurer and I went by barge with Sir +Wm. Doyley and Mr. Prin to Deptford, to pay off the Henrietta, and had +a good dinner. I went to Mr. Davys's and saw his house (where I was +once before a great while ago) and I found him a very pretty man. In the +afternoon Commissioner Pett and I went on board the yacht, which indeed +is one of the finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in so +small a vessel. Mr. Pett is to make one to outdo this for the honour of +his country, which I fear he will scarce better. From thence with him +as far as Ratcliffe, where I left him going by water to London, and +I (unwilling to leave the rest of the officers) went back again to +Deptford, and being very much troubled with a sudden looseness, I went +into a little alehouse at the end of Ratcliffe, and did give a groat for +a pot of ale, and there I did... So went forward in my walk with some +men that were going that way a great pace, and in our way we met with +many merry seamen that had got their money paid them to-day. We sat very +late doing the work and waiting for the tide, it being moonshine we got +to London before two in the morning. So home, where I found my wife up, +she shewed me her head which was very well dressed to-day, she having +been to see her father and mother. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +9th. Lay long in bed this morning though an office day, because of our +going to bed late last night. Before I went to my office Mr. Creed came +to me about business, and also Mr. Carter, my old Cambridge friend, came +to give me a visit, and I did give them a morning draught in my study. +So to the office, and from thence to dinner with Mr. Wivell at the +Hoop Tavern, where we had Mr. Shepley, Talbot, Adams, Mr. Chaplin and +Osborne, and our dinner given us by Mr. Ady and another, Mr. Wine, the +King's fishmonger. Good sport with Mr. Talbot, who eats no sort of fish, +and there was nothing else till we sent for a neat's tongue. From thence +to Whitehall where I found my Lord, who had an organ set up to-day in +his dining-room, but it seems an ugly one in the form of Bridewell. +Thence I went to Sir Harry Wright's, where my Lord was busy at cards, +and so I staid below with Mrs. Carter and Evans (who did give me a +lesson upon the lute), till he came down, and having talked with him +at the door about his late business of money, I went to my father's and +staid late talking with my father about my sister Pall's coming to live +with me if she would come and be as a servant (which my wife did seem to +be pretty willing to do to-day), and he seems to take it very well, and +intends to consider of it. Home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +10th. Up early. Sir Wm. Batten and I to make up an account of the wages +of the officers and mariners at sea, ready to present to the Committee +of Parliament this afternoon. Afterwards came the Treasurer and +Comptroller, and sat all the morning with us till the business was done. +So we broke up, leaving the thing to be wrote over fair and carried to +Trinity House for Sir Wm. Batten's hand. When staying very long I found +(as appointed) the Treasurer and Comptroller at Whitehall, and so we +went with a foul copy to the Parliament house, where we met with +Sir Thos. Clarges and Mr. Spry, and after we had given them good +satisfaction we parted. The Comptroller and I to the coffee-house, +where he shewed me the state of his case; how the King did owe him about +L6000. But I do not see great likelihood for them to be paid, since they +begin already in Parliament to dispute the paying of the just sea-debts, +which were already promised to be paid, and will be the undoing of +thousands if they be not paid. So to Whitehall to look but could not +find Mr. Fox, and then to Mr. Moore at Mr. Crew's, but missed of him +also. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there bought Montelion, which this +year do not prove so good as the last was; so after reading it I burnt +it. After reading of that and the comedy of the Rump, which is also very +silly, I went to bed. This night going home, Will and I bought a goose. +</p> +<p> +11th (Lord's day). This morning I went to Sir W. Batten's about going +to Deptford to-morrow, and so eating some hog's pudding of my Lady's +making, of the hog that I saw a fattening the other day at her house, he +and I went to Church into our new gallery, the first time it was used, +and it not being yet quite finished, there came after us Sir W. Pen, Mr. +Davis, and his eldest son. There being no woman this day, we sat in the +foremost pew, and behind us our servants, and I hope it will not always +be so, it not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us. +This day also did Mr. Mills begin to read all the Common Prayer, which I +was glad of. Home to dinner, and then walked to Whitehall, it being +very cold and foul and rainy weather. I found my Lord at home, and +after giving him an account of some business, I returned and went to +my father's where I found my wife, and there we supped, and Dr. Thomas +Pepys, who my wife told me after I was come home, that he had told my +brother Thomas that he loved my wife so well that if she had a child +he would never marry, but leave all that he had to my child, and after +supper we walked home, my little boy carrying a link, and Will leading +my wife. So home and to prayers and to bed. I should have said that +before I got to my Lord's this day I went to Mr. Fox's at Whitehall, +when I first saw his lady, formerly Mrs. Elizabeth Whittle, whom I had +formerly a great opinion of, and did make an anagram or two upon her +name when I was a boy. She proves a very fine lady, and mother to fine +children. To-day I agreed with Mr. Fox about my taking of the; L4000 of +him that the King had given my Lord. +</p> +<p> +12th. Lay long in bed to-day. Sir Wm. Batten went this morning to +Deptford to pay off the Wolf. Mr. Comptroller and I sat a while at the +office to do business, and thence I went with him to his house in Lime +Street, a fine house, and where I never was before, and from thence by +coach (setting down his sister at the new Exchange) to Westminster Hall, +where first I met with Jack Spicer and agreed with him to help me to +tell money this afternoon. Hence to De Cretz, where I saw my Lord's +picture finished, which do please me very well. So back to the Hall, +where by appointment I met the Comptroller, and with him and three or +four Parliament men I dined at Heaven, and after dinner called at Will's +on Jack Spicer, and took him to Mr. Fox's, who saved me the labour of +telling me the money by giving me; L3000 by consent (the other L1000 I +am to have on Thursday next), which I carried by coach to the Exchequer, +and put it up in a chest in Spicer's office. From thence walked to my +father's, where I found my wife, who had been with my father to-day, +buying of a tablecloth and a dozen of napkins of diaper the first that +ever I bought in my life. My father and I took occasion to go forth, and +went and drank at Mr. Standing's, and there discoursed seriously about +my sister's coming to live with me, which I have much mind for her good +to have, and yet I am much afeard of her ill-nature. Coming home again, +he and I, and my wife, my mother and Pall, went all together into the +little room, and there I told her plainly what my mind was, to have +her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant, which she +promised me that she would, and with many thanks did weep for joy, which +did give me and my wife some content and satisfaction. So by coach home +and to bed. The last night I should have mentioned how my wife and I +were troubled all night with the sound of drums in our ears, which in +the morning we found to be Mr. Davys's jack, +</p> +<pre> + [The date of the origin of smoke jacks does not appear to be known, + but the first patent taken out for an improved smoke-jack by Peter + Clare is dated December 24th, 1770. The smoke jack consists of a + wind-wheel fixed in the chimney, which communicates motion by means + of an endless band to a pulley, whence the motion is transmitted to + the spit by gearing. In the valuable introduction to the volume of + "Abridgments of Specifications relating to Cooking, 1634-1866" + (Patent Office), mention is made of an Italian work by Bartolomeo + Scappi, published first at Rome in 1572, and afterwards reprinted at + Venice in 1622, which gives a complete account of the kitchens of + the time and the utensils used in them. In the plates several + roasting-jacks are represented, one worked by smoke or hot air and + one by a spring.] +</pre> +<p> +but not knowing the cause of its going all night, I understand to-day +that they have had a great feast to-day. +</p> +<p> +13th. Early going to my Lord's I met with Mr. Moore, who was going to my +house, and indeed I found him to be a most careful, painful,—[Painful, +i.e. painstaking or laborious. Latimer speaks of the "painful +magistrates."]—and able man in business, and took him by water to the +Wardrobe, and shewed him all the house; and indeed there is a great deal +of room in it, but very ugly till my Lord hath bestowed great cost upon +it. So to the Exchequer, and there took Spicer and his fellow clerks +to the Dog tavern, and did give them a peck of oysters, and so home to +dinner, where I found my wife making of pies and tarts to try, her oven +with, which she has never yet done, but not knowing the nature of it, +did heat it too hot, and so a little overbake her things, but knows how +to do better another time. At home all the afternoon. At night made up +my accounts of my sea expenses in order to my clearing off my imprest +bill of L30 which I had in my hands at the beginning of my voyage; which +I intend to shew to my Lord to-morrow. To bed. +</p> +<p> +14th (Office day). But this day was the first that we do begin to sit +in the afternoon, and not in the forenoon, and therefore I went into +Cheapside to Mr. Beauchamp's, the goldsmith, to look out a piece of +plate to give Mr. Fox from my Lord, for his favour about the L4,000, +and did choose a gilt tankard. So to Paul's Churchyard and bought +"Cornelianum dolium:" +</p> +<pre> + ["Cornelianum dolium" is a Latin comedy, by T. R., published at + London in 1638. Douce attributed it to Thomas Randolph (d. 1635). + The book has a frontispiece representing the sweating tub which, + from the name of the patient, was styled Cornelius's tub. There is + a description of the play in the "European Magazine," vol. xxxvii. + (1805), p. 343] +</pre> +<p> +So home to dinner, and after that to the office till late at night, and +so Sir W. Pen, the Comptroller, and I to the Dolphin, where we found Sir +W. Batten, who is seldom a night from hence, and there we did drink +a great quantity of sack and did tell many merry stories, and in good +humours we were all. So home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +15th. To Westminster, and it being very cold upon the water I went all +alone to the Sun and drank a draft of mulled white wine, and so to Mr. +de Cretz, whither I sent for J. Spicer (to appoint him to expect me this +afternoon at the office, with the other L1000 from Whitehall), and +here we staid and did see him give some finishing touches to my Lord's +picture, so at last it is complete to my mind, and I leave mine with him +to copy out another for himself, and took the original by a porter with +me to my Lord's, where I found my Lord within, and staid hearing him and +Mr. Child playing upon my Lord's new organ, the first time I ever heard +it. My Lord did this day show me the King's picture, which was done in +Flanders, that the King did promise my Lord before he ever saw him, and +that we did expect to have had at sea before the King came to us; but +it came but to-day, and indeed it is the most pleasant and the most like +him that ever I saw picture in my life. As dinner was coming on table, +my wife came to my Lord's, and I got her carried in to my Lady, who took +physic to-day, and was just now hiring of a French maid that was with +her, and they could not understand one another till my wife came to +interpret. Here I did leave my wife to dine with my Lord, the first time +he ever did take notice of her as my wife, and did seem to have a just +esteem for her. And did myself walk homewards (hearing that Sir W. Pen +was gone before in a coach) to overtake him and with much ado at last +did in Fleet Street, and there I went in to him, and there was Sir +Arnold Brames, and we all three to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, he having +a couple of Servants married to-day; and so there was a great number of +merchants, and others of good quality on purpose after dinner to make +an offering, which, when dinner was done, we did, and I did give ten +shillings and no more, though I believe most of the rest did give more, +and did believe that I did so too. From thence to Whitehall again by +water to Mr. Fox and by two porters carried away the other L1000. He was +not within himself, but I had it of his kinsman, and did give him L4. +and other servants something; but whereas I did intend to have given Mr. +Fox himself a piece of plate of L50 I was demanded L100, for the fee of +the office at 6d. a pound, at which I was surprised, but, however, I +did leave it there till I speak with my Lord. So I carried it to the +Exchequer, where at Will's I found Mr. Spicer, and so lodged it at his +office with the rest. From thence after a pot of ale at Will's I took +boat in the dark and went for all that to the old Swan, and so to Sir +Wm. Batten's, and leaving some of the gallants at cards I went home, +where I found my wife much satisfied with my Lord's discourse and +respect to her, and so after prayers to bed. +</p> +<p> +16th. Up early to my father's, where by appointment Mr. Moore came to +me, and he and I to the Temple, and thence to Westminster Hall to speak +with Mr. Wm. Montagu about his looking upon the title of those lands +which I do take as security for L3000 of my Lord's money. That being +done Mr. Moore and I parted, and in the Hall I met with Mr. Fontleroy +(my old acquaintance, whom I had not seen a long time), and he and I to +the Swan, and in discourse he seems to be wise and say little, though I +know things are changed against his mind. Thence home by water, where my +father, Mr. Snow, and Mr. Moore did dine with me. After dinner Mr. Snow +and I went up together to discourse about the putting out of L80 to a +man who lacks the money and would give me L15 per annum for 8 years +for it, which I did not think profit enough, and so he seemed to be +disappointed by my refusal of it, but I would not now part with my money +easily. He seems to do it as a great favour to me to offer to come in +upon a way of getting of money, which they call Bottomry, +</p> +<pre> + ["The contract of bottomry is a negotiable instrument, which may be + put in suit by the person to whom it is transferred; it is in use in + all countries of maritime commerce and interests. A contract in the + nature of a mortgage of a ship, when the owner of it borrows money + to enable him to carry on the voyage, and pledges the keel or bottom + of the ship as a security for the repayment. If the ship be lost + the lender loses his whole money; but if it returns in safety, then + he shall receive back his principal, and also the premium stipulated + to be paid, however it may exceed the usual or legal rate of + interest."—Smyth's "Sailor's Word Book".] +</pre> +<p> +which I do not yet understand, but do believe there may be something in +it of great profit. After we were parted I went to the office, and there +we sat all the afternoon, and at night we went to a barrel of oysters +at Sir W. Batten's, and so home, and I to the setting of my papers in +order, which did keep me up late. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +17th. In the morning to Whitehall, where I inquired at the Privy +Seal Office for a form for a nobleman to make one his Chaplain. But I +understanding that there is not any, I did draw up one, and so to my +Lord's, and there I did give him it to sign for Mr. Turner to be his +first Chaplain. I did likewise get my Lord to sign my last sea accounts, +so that I am even to this day when I have received the balance of Mr. +Creed. I dined with my Lady and my Lady Pickering, where her son John +dined with us, who do continue a fool as he ever was since I knew him. +His mother would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Betty +but he will not hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who tells +me that the Regiment is now disbanded, and that there is some money +coming to me for it. I took him to my Lord to Mr. Crew's, and from +thence with Mr. Shepley and Mr. Moore to the Devil Tavern, and there we +drank. So home and wrote letters by the post. Then to my lyra viall, +</p> +<pre> + [The lyre viol is a viol with extra open bass strings, holding the + same relation to the viol as the theorbo does to the lute. A volume + entitled "Musick's Recreation on the Lyra Viol," was printed by John + Playford in 1650.] +</pre> +<p> +and to bed. +</p> +<p> +18th (Lord's day). In the morning to our own church, Where Mr. Powel (a +crook legged man that went formerly with me to Paul's School), preached +a good sermon. In the afternoon to our own church and my wife with me +(the first time that she and my Lady Batten came to sit in our new pew), +and after sermon my Lady took us home and there we supped with her and +Sir W. Batten, and Pen, and were much made of. The first time that ever +my wife was there. So home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +19th (Office day). After we had done a little at the office this +morning, I went with the Treasurer in his coach to White Hall, and in +our way, in discourse, do find him a very good-natured man; and, talking +of those men who now stand condemned for murdering the King, he says +that he believes that, if the law would give leave, the King is a man of +so great compassion that he would wholly acquit them. Going to my Lord's +I met with Mr. Shepley, and so he and I to the Sun, and I did give him a +morning draft of Muscadine. +</p> +<pre> + [Muscadine or muscadel, a rich sort of wine. 'Vinum muscatum quod + moschi odorem referat.' + + "Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops + All in the sexton's face." + + Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii. SC. 2.—M. B.] +</pre> +<p> +And so to see my Lord's picture at De Cretz, and he says it is very like +him, and I say so too. After that to Westminster Hall, and there hearing +that Sir W. Batten was at the Leg in the Palace, I went thither, and +there dined with him and some of the Trinity House men who had obtained +something to-day at the House of Lords concerning the Ballast Office. +After dinner I went by water to London to the Globe in Cornhill, and +there did choose two pictures to hang up in my house, which my wife +did not like when I came home, and so I sent the picture of Paris back +again. To the office, where we sat all the afternoon till night. So +home, and there came Mr. Beauchamp to me with the gilt tankard, and I +did pay him for it L20. So to my musique and sat up late at it, and so +to bed, leaving my wife to sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the +wench up to wash. +</p> +<p> +20th. About two o'clock my wife wakes me, and comes to bed, and so both +to sleep and the wench to wash. I rose and with Will to my Lord's by +land, it being a very hard frost, the first we have had this year. There +I staid with my Lord and Mr. Shepley, looking over my Lord's accounts +and to set matters straight between him and Shepley, and he did commit +the viewing of these accounts to me, which was a great joy to me to see +that my Lord do look upon me as one to put trust in. Hence to the organ, +where Mr. Child and one Mr Mackworth (who plays finely upon the violin) +were playing, and so we played till dinner and then dined, where my Lord +in a very good humour and kind to me. After dinner to the Temple, where +I met Mr. Moore and discoursed with him about the business of putting +out my Lord's L3000, and that done, Mr. Shepley and I to the new +Play-house near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon's +tennis-court), where the play of "Beggar's Bush" was newly begun; and so +we went in and saw it, it was well acted: and here I saw the first time +one Moone, +</p> +<pre> + [Michael Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had borne a + major's commission in the King's army. The period of his death is + uncertain, but he is known to have been dead in 1691. Downes + relates that an eminent poet [Lee] seeing him act Mithridates + "vented suddenly this saying: 'Oh, Mohun, Mohun, thou little man of + mettle, if I should write a 100, I'd write a part for thy mouth.'" + —Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17.] +</pre> +<p> +who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over with the +King, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was +in England. From thence, after a pot of ale with Mr. Shepley at a house +hard by, I went by link home, calling a little by the way at my father's +and my uncle Fenner's, where all pretty well, and so home, where I found +the house in a washing pickle, and my wife in a very joyful condition +when I told her that she is to see the Queen next Thursday, which puts +me in mind to say that this morning I found my Lord in bed late, he +having been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the Cockpit +</p> +<pre> + [The Cockpit at Whitehall. The plays at the Cockpit in Drury Lane + were acted in the afternoon.] +</pre> +<p> +all night, where. General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, +where the King did put a great affront upon Singleton's' musique, he +bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, +do much outdo all ours. But while my Lord was rising, I went to Mr. +Fox's, and there did leave the gilt tankard for Mrs. Fox, and then to +the counting-house to him, who hath invited me and my wife to dine with +him on Thursday next, and so to see the Queen and Princesses. +</p> +<p> +21st. Lay long in bed. This morning my cozen Thomas Pepys, the turner, +sent me a cupp of lignum vitae +</p> +<pre> + [A hard, compact, black-green wood, obtained from 'Guaiacum + offcinale', from which pestles, ship-blocks, rollers, castors, &c., + are turned.] +</pre> +<p> +for a token. This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and +there we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate. And +after that we went to Mr. Cade's' to choose some pictures for our house. +After that my wife went home, and I to Pope's Head, and bought me an +aggate hafted knife, which cost me 5s. So home to dinner, and so to the +office all the afternoon, and at night to my viallin (the first time +that I have played on it since I came to this house) in my dining room, +and afterwards to my lute there, and I took much pleasure to have the +neighbours come forth into the yard to hear me. So down to supper, and +sent for the barber, who staid so long with me that he was locked into +the house, and we were fain to call up Griffith, to let him out. So up +to bed, leaving my wife to wash herself, and to do other things against +to-morrow to go to court. +</p> +<p> +22d. This morning came the carpenters to make me a door at the other +side of my house, going into the entry, which I was much pleased with. +At noon my wife and I walked to the Old Exchange, and there she bought +her a white whisk +</p> +<pre> + [A gorget or neckerchief worn by women at this time. "A woman's + neck whisk is used both plain and laced, and is called of most a + gorget or falling whisk, because it falleth about the shoulders." + —Randle Hohnt (quoted by Planche).] +</pre> +<p> +and put it on, and I a pair of gloves, and so we took coach for +Whitehall to Mr. Fox's, where we found Mrs. Fox within, and an alderman +of London paying L1000 or L1500 in gold upon the table for the King, +which was the most gold that ever I saw together in my life. Mr. Fox +came in presently and did receive us with a great deal of respect; and +then did take my wife and I to the Queen's presence-chamber; where he +got my wife placed behind the Queen's chair, and I got into the crowd, +and by and by the Queen and the two Princesses came to dinner. The Queen +a very little plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any +respect nor garb than any ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I had +often seen before. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below +my expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short +up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me. But my wife +standing near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, +did seem to me much handsomer than she. Dinner being done, we went to +Mr. Fox's again, where many gentlemen dined with us, and most princely +dinner, all provided for me and my friends, but I bringing none but +myself and wife, he did call the company to help to eat up so much good +victuals. At the end of dinner, my Lord Sandwich's health was drunk in +the gilt tankard that I did give to Mrs. Fox the other day. After dinner +I had notice given me by Will my man that my Lord did inquire for me, +so I went to find him, and met him and the Duke of York in a coach going +towards Charing Cross. I endeavoured to follow them but could not, so +I returned to Mr. Fox, and after much kindness and good discourse we +parted from thence. I took coach for my wife and me homewards, and I +light at the Maypole in the Strand, and sent my wife home. I to the new +playhouse and saw part of the "Traitor," a very good Tragedy; Mr. Moon +did act the Traitor very well. So to my Lord's, and sat there with my +Lady a great while talking. Among other things, she took occasion to +inquire (by Madame Dury's late discourse with her) how I did treat my +wife's father and mother. At which I did give her a good account, and +she seemed to be very well opinioned of my wife. From thence to White +Hall at about 9 at night, and there, with Laud the page that went with +me, we could not get out of Henry the Eighth's gallery into the further +part of the boarded gallery, where my Lord was walking with my Lord +Ormond; and we had a key of Sir S. Morland's, but all would not do; till +at last, by knocking, Mr. Harrison the door-keeper did open us the door, +and, after some talk with my Lord about getting a catch to carry my Lord +St. Albans a goods to France, I parted and went home on foot, it being +very late and dirty, and so weary to bed. +</p> +<p> +23rd. This morning standing looking upon the workmen doing of my new +door to my house, there comes Captain Straughan the Scot (to whom the +King has given half of the money that the two ships lately sold do +bring), and he would needs take me to the Dolphin, and give me a glass +of ale and a peck of oysters, he and I. He did talk much what he is able +to advise the King for good husbandry in his ships, as by ballasting +them with lead ore and many other tricks, but I do believe that he is a +knowing man in sea-business. Home and dined, and in the afternoon to the +office, where till late, and that being done Mr. Creed did come to speak +with me, and I took him to the Dolphin, where there was Mr. Pierce the +purser and his wife and some friends of theirs. So I did spend a crown +upon them behind the bar, they being akin to the people of the house, +and this being the house where Mr. Pierce was apprentice. After they +were gone Mr. Creed and I spent an hour in looking over the account +which he do intend to pass in our office for his lending moneys, which +I did advise about and approve or disapprove of as I saw cause. After +an hour being, serious at this we parted about 11 o'clock at night. So I +home and to bed, leaving my wife and the maid at their linen to get up. +</p> +<p> +24th. To my Lord's, where after I had done talking with him Mr. +Townsend, Rumball, Blackburn, Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenish +winehouse, and there I did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine, +</p> +<pre> + [Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is celebrated for its intensely + bitter, tonic, and stimulating qualities, which have caused it to be + used in various medicinal preparations, and also in the making of + liqueurs, as wormwood wine and creme d'absinthe.] +</pre> +<p> +and so we broke up. So we parted, and I and Mr. Creed to Westminster +Hall and looked over a book or two, and so to my Lord's, where I dined +with my lady, there being Mr. Child and Mrs. Borfett, who are never +absent at dinner there, under pretence of a wooing. From thence I to Mr. +de Cretz and did take away my Lord's picture, which is now finished for +me, and I paid L3 10s. for it and the frame, and am well pleased with it +and the price. So carried it home by water, Will being with me. At home, +and had a fire made in my closet, and put my papers and books and things +in order, and that being done I fell to entering these two good songs of +Mr. Lawes, "Helpe, helpe, O helpe," and "O God of Heaven and Hell" in my +song book, to which I have got Mr. Child to set the base to the Theorbo, +and that done to bed. +</p> +<p> +25th (Lord's day). In the forenoon I alone to our church, and after +dinner I went and ranged about to many churches, among the rest to the +Temple, where I heard Dr. Wilkins' a little (late Maister of Trinity +in Cambridge). That being done to my father's to see my mother who is +troubled much with the stone, and that being done I went home, where I +had a letter brought me from my Lord to get a ship ready to carry the +Queen's things over to France, she being to go within five or six days. +So to supper and to bed. +</p> +<p> +26th (Office day). To it all the morning, and dined at home where my +father come and dined with me, who seems to take much pleasure to have +a son that is neat in his house. I being now making my new door into the +entry, which he do please himself much with. After dinner to the office +again, and there till night. And that being done the Comptroller and +I to the Mitre to a glass of wine, when we fell into a discourse of +poetry, and he did repeat some verses of his own making which were very +good. Home, there hear that my Lady Batten had given my wife a visit +(the first that ever she made her), which pleased me exceedingly. So +after supper to bed. +</p> +<p> +27th. To Whitehall, where I found my Lord gone abroad to the Wardrobe, +whither he do now go every other morning, and do seem to resolve +to understand and look after the business himself. From thence to +Westminster Hall, and in King Street there being a great stop of +coaches, there was a falling out between a drayman and my Lord +Chesterfield's coachman, and one of his footmen killed. At the Hall I +met with Mr. Creed, and he and I to Hell to drink our morning draught, +and so to my Lord's again, where I found my wife, and she and I dined +with him and my Lady, and great company of my Lord's friends, and my +Lord did show us great respect. Soon as dinner was done my wife took +her leave, and went with Mr. Blackburne and his wife to London to a +christening of a Brother's child of his on Tower Hill, and I to a play, +"The Scorn-full Lady," and that being done, I went homewards, and met +Mr. Moore, who had been at my house, and took him to my father's, and we +three to Standing's to drink. Here Mr. Moore told me how the House had +this day voted the King to have all the Excise for ever. This day I do +also hear that the Queen's going to France is stopt, which do like, me +well, because then the King will be in town the next month, which is my +month again at the Privy Seal. From thence home, where when I come I +do remember that I did leave my boy Waineman at Whitehall with order to +stay there for me in the court, at which I was much troubled, but about +11 o'clock at night the boy came home well, and so we all to bed. +</p> +<p> +28th. This morning went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where Major Hart did +pay me; L23 14s. 9d., due to me upon my pay in my Lord's troop at the +time of our disbanding, which is a great blessing to have without taking +any law in the world for. But now I must put an end to any hopes of +getting any more, so that I bless God for this. From thence with Mr. +Shepley and Pinkney to the Sun, and did give them a glass of wine and a +peck of oysters for joy of my getting this money. So home, where I +found that Mr. Creed had sent me the L11 5s. that is due to me upon +the remains of account for my sea business, which is also so much clear +money to me, and my bill of impresse +</p> +<pre> + [For "bill of impress" In Italian 'imprestare' means "to lend." In + the ancient accounts of persons officially employed by the crown, + money advanced, paid on, account, was described as "de prestito," or + "in prestitis."—M. B.] +</pre> +<p> +for L30 is also cleared, so that I am wholly clear as to the sea in all +respects. To the office, and was there till late at night, and among +the officers do hear that they may have our salaries allowed by the +Treasurer, which do make me very glad, and praise God for it. Home to +supper, and Mr. Hater supped with me, whom I did give order to take up +my money of the Treasurer to-morrow if it can be had. So to bed. +</p> +<p> +29th. In the morning seeing a great deal of foul water come into my +parlour from under the partition between me and Mr. Davis, I did step +thither to him and tell him of it, and he did seem very ready to have +it stopt, and did also tell me how thieves did attempt to rob his house +last night, which do make us all afraid. This noon I being troubled that +the workmen that I have to do my door were called to Mr. Davis's away, +I sent for them, when Mr. Davis sent to inquire a reason of, and I did +give him a good one, that they were come on purpose to do some work with +me that they had already begun, with which he was well pleased, and I +glad, being unwilling to anger them. In the afternoon Sir W. Batten and +I met and did sell the ship Church for L440; and we asked L391, and that +being done, I went home, and Dr. Petty came to me about Mr. Barlow's +money, and I being a little troubled to be so importuned before I had +received it, and that they would have it stopt in Mr. Fenn's hands, I +did force the Doctor to go fetch the letter of attorney that he had to +receive it only to make him same labour, which he did bring, and Mr. +Hales came along with him from the Treasury with my money for the first +quarter (Michaelmas last) that ever I received for this employment. So I +paid the Dr. L25 and had L62 10s. for myself, and L7 10s. to myself also +for Will's salary, which I do intend yet to keep for myself. With this +my heart is much rejoiced, and do bless Almighty God that he is pleased +to send so sudden and unexpected payment of my salary so soon after my +great disbursements. So that now I am worth L200 again. In a great +ease of mind and spirit I fell about the auditing of Mr. Shepley's last +accounts with my Lord by my Lord's desire, and about that I sat till +12 o'clock at night, till I began to doze, and so to bed, with my heart +praising God for his mercy to us. +</p> +<p> +30th (Office day). To the office, where Sir G. Carteret did give us an +account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the Parliament to try +his project of discharging the seamen all at present by ticket, and so +promise interest to all men that will lend money upon them at eight per +cent., for so long as they are unpaid; whereby he do think to take away +the growing debt, which do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of present +money to discharge the seamen. But this we are, troubled at as some +diminution to us. I having two barrels of oysters at home, I caused one +of them and some wine to be brought to the inner room in the office, and +there the Principal Officers did go and eat them. So we sat till noon, +and then to dinner, and to it again in the afternoon till night. At +home I sent for Mr. Hater, and broke the other barrel with him, and did +afterwards sit down discoursing of sea terms to learn of him. And he +being gone I went up and sat till twelve at night again to make an end +of my Lord's accounts, as I did the last night. Which at last I made a +good end of, and so to bed. +</p> +<a name="2H_4_0014"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> + +<h2> + DECEMBER 1660 +</h2> +<p> +December 1st. This morning, observing some things to be laid up not as +they should be by the girl, I took a broom and basted her till she +cried extremely, which made me vexed, but before I went out I left her +appeased. So to Whitehall, where I found Mr. Moore attending for me at +the Privy Seal, but nothing to do to-day. I went to my Lord St. Albans +lodgings, and found him in bed, talking to a priest (he looked like one) +that leaned along over the side of the bed, and there I desired to know +his mind about making the catch stay longer, which I got ready for him +the other day. He seems to be a fine civil gentleman. To my Lord's, and +did give up my audit of his accounts, which I had been then two days +about, and was well received by my Lord. I dined with my Lord and Lady, +and we had a venison pasty. Mr. Shepley and I went into London, and +calling upon Mr. Pinkney, the goldsmith, he took us to the tavern, and +gave us a pint of wine, and there fell into our company old Mr. Flower +and another gentleman; who tell us how a Scotch knight was killed basely +the other day at the Fleece in Covent Garden, where there had been a +great many formerly killed. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there I took +the little man at Mr. Kirton's and Mr. Shepley to Ringstead's at the +Star, and after a pint of wine I went home, my brains somewhat troubled +with so much wine, and after a letter or two by the post I went to bed. +</p> +<p> +2d (Lord's day). My head not very well, and my body out of order by last +night's drinking, which is my great folly. To church, and Mr. Mills made +a good sermon; so home to dinner. My wife and I all alone to a leg of +mutton, the sawce of which being made sweet, I was angry at it, and eat +none, but only dined upon the marrow bone that we had beside. To church +in the afternoon, and after sermon took Tom Fuller's Church History and +read over Henry the 8th's life in it, and so to supper and to bed. +</p> +<p> +3rd. This morning I took a resolution to rise early in the morning, and +so I rose by candle, which I have not done all this winter, and spent my +morning in fiddling till time to go to the office, where Sir G. Carteret +did begin again discourse on Mr. Holland's proposition, which the King +do take very ill, and so Sir George in lieu of that do propose that the +seamen should have half in ready money and tickets for the other half, +to be paid in three months after, which we judge to be very practicable. +After office home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by chance, and +I had a very good capon to dinner. So to the office till night, and so +home, and then come Mr. Davis, of Deptford (the first time that ever +he was at my house), and after him Mons. L'Impertinent, who is to go to +Ireland to-morrow, and so came to take his leave of me. They both found +me under the barber's hand; but I had a bottle of good sack in the +house, and so made them very welcome. Mr. Davis sat with me a good while +after the other was gone, talking of his hard usage and of the endeavour +to put him out of his place in the time of the late Commissioners, and +he do speak very highly of their corruption. After he was gone I fell +a reading 'Cornelianum dolium' till 11 o'clock at night with great +pleasure, and after that to bed. +</p> +<p> +4th. To Whitehall to Sir G. Carteret's chamber, where all the officers +met, and so we went up to the Duke of York, and he took us into his +closet, and we did open to him our project of stopping the growing +charge of the fleet by paying them in hand one moyety, and the other +four months hence. This he do like, and we returned by his order to Sir +G. Carteret's chamber, and there we did draw up this design in order to +be presented to the Parliament. From thence I to my Lord's, and dined +with him and told him what we had done to-day. Sir Tho. Crew dined with +my Lord to-day, and we were very merry with Mrs. Borfett, who dined +there still as she has always done lately. After dinner Sir Tho. and my +Lady to the Playhouse to see "The Silent Woman." I home by water, and +with Mr. Hater in my chamber all alone he and I did put this morning's +design into order, which being done I did carry it to Sir W. Batten, +where I found some gentlemen with him (Sir W. Pen among the rest pretty +merry with drink) playing at cards, and there I staid looking upon them +till one o'clock in the morning, and so Sir W. Pen and I went away, +and I to bed. This day the Parliament voted that the bodies of Oliver, +Ireton, Bradshaw, &c., should be taken up out of their graves in the +Abbey, and drawn to the gallows, and there hanged and buried under it: +which (methinks) do trouble me that a man of so great courage as he was, +should have that dishonour, though otherwise he might deserve it enough. +</p> +<p> +5th. This morning the Proposal which I wrote the last night I showed to +the officers this morning, and was well liked of, and I wrote it fair +for Sir. G. Carteret to show to the King, and so it is to go to the +Parliament. I dined at home, and after dinner I went to the new Theatre +and there I saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor" acted, the humours of the +country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but +very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe t as bad as any. From thence to Mr. +Will. Montagu's chamber to have sealed some writings tonight between Sir +R. Parkhurst and myself about my Lord's L2000, but he not coming, I went +to my father's and there found my mother still ill of the stone, and +had just newly voided one, which she had let drop into the chimney, and +looked and found it to shew it me. From thence home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +6th. This morning some of the Commissioners of Parliament and Sir W. +Batten went to Sir G. Carteret's office here in town, and paid off the +Chesnut. I carried my wife to White Friars and landed her there, and +myself to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, where abundance of pardons to +seal, but I was much troubled for it because that there are no fees now +coming for them to me. Thence Mr. Moore and I alone to the Leg in King +Street, and dined together on a neat's tongue and udder. From thence +by coach to Mr. Crew's to my Lord, who told me of his going out of town +to-morrow to settle the militia in Huntingdonshire, and did desire me to +lay up a box of some rich jewels and things that there are in it, which +I promised to do. After much free discourse with my Lord, who tells me +his mind as to his enlarging his family, &c., and desiring me to look +him out a Master of the Horse and other servants, we parted. From thence +I walked to Greatorex (he was not within), but there I met with Mr. +Jonas Moore, +</p> +<pre> + [Jonas Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617, + and was appointed by Charles I. tutor to the Duke of York. Soon + after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor-General of + the Ordnance. He was famous as a mathematician, and was one of the + founders of the Royal Society. He died August 27th, 1679, and at + his funeral sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower.] +</pre> +<p> +and took him to the Five Bells,' and drank a glass of wine and left him. +To the Temple, when Sir R. Parkhurst (as was intended the last night) +did seal the writings, and is to have the L2000 told to-morrow. From, +thence by water to Parliament Stairs, and there at an alehouse to Doling +(who is suddenly to go into Ireland to venture his fortune); Simonds +(who is at a great loss for L200 present money, which I was loth to let +him have, though I could now do it, and do love him and think him honest +and sufficient, yet lothness to part with money did dissuade me from +it); Luellin (who was very drowsy from a dose that he had got the last +night), Mr. Mount and several others, among the rest one Mr. Pierce, +an army man, who did make us the best sport for songs and stories in +a Scotch tone (which he do very well) that ever I heard in my life. I +never knew so good a companion in all my observation. From thence to +the bridge by water, it being a most pleasant moonshine night, with +a waterman who did tell such a company of bawdy stories, how once he +carried a lady from Putney in such a night as this, and she bade him lie +down by her, which he did, and did give her content, and a great deal +more roguery. Home and found my girl knocking at the door (it being 11 +o'clock at night), her mistress having sent her out for some trivial +business, which did vex me when I came in, and so I took occasion to go +up and to bed in a pet. Before I went forth this morning, one came to +me to give me notice that the justices of Middlesex do meet to-morrow +at Hicks Hall, and that I as one am desired to be there, but I fear I +cannot be there though I much desire it. +</p> +<p> +7th. This morning the judge Advocate Fowler came to see me, and he and +I sat talking till it was time to go to the office. To the office and +there staid till past 12 o'clock, and so I left the Comptroller and +Surveyor and went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found my Lord gone +this morning to Huntingdon, as he told me yesterday he would. I staid +and dined with my Lady, there being Laud the page's mother' there, and +dined also with us, and seemed to have been a very pretty woman and of +good discourse. Before dinner I examined Laud in his Latin and found him +a very pretty boy and gone a great way in Latin. After dinner I took a +box of some things of value that my Lord had left for me to carry to the +Exchequer, which I did, and left them with my Brother Spicer, who also +had this morning paid L1000 for me by appointment to Sir R. Parkhurst. +So to the Privy Seal, where I signed a deadly number of pardons, which +do trouble me to get nothing by. Home by water, and there was much +pleased to see that my little room is likely to come to be finished +soon. I fell a-reading Fuller's History of Abbys, and my wife in Great +Cyrus till twelve at night, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +8th. To Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and thence to Mr. Pierces the +Surgeon to tell them that I would call by and by to go to dinner. But I +going into Westminster Hall met with Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen (who +were in a great fear that we had committed a great error of L100,000 in +our late account gone into the Parliament in making it too little), and +so I was fain to send order to Mr. Pierces to come to my house; and also +to leave the key of the chest with Mr. Spicer; wherein my Lord's money +is, and went along with Sir W. Pen by water to the office, and there +with Mr. Huchinson we did find that we were in no mistake. And so I +went to dinner with my wife and Mr. and Mrs. Pierce the Surgeon to Mr. +Pierce, the Purser (the first time that ever I was at his house) who +does live very plentifully and finely. We had a lovely chine of beef and +other good things very complete and drank a great deal of wine, and her +daughter played after dinner upon the virginals, +</p> +<pre> + [All instruments of the harpsichord and spinet kind were styled + virginals.] +</pre> +<p> +and at night by lanthorn home again, and Mr. Pierce and his wife being +gone home I went to bed, having drunk so much wine that my head was +troubled and was not very well all night, and the wind I observed was +rose exceedingly before I went to bed. +</p> +<p> +9th (Lord's day). Being called up early by Sir W. Batten I rose and went +to his house and he told me the ill news that he had this morning from +Woolwich, that the Assurance (formerly Captain Holland's ship, and now +Captain Stoakes's, designed for Guiny and manned and victualled), was by +a gust of wind sunk down to the bottom. Twenty men drowned. Sir Williams +both went by barge thither to see how things are, and I am sent to the +Duke of York to tell him, and by boat with some other company going to +Whitehall from the Old Swan. I went to the Duke. And first calling upon +Mr. Coventry at his chamber, I went to the Duke's bed-side, who had sat +up late last night, and lay long this morning, who was much surprised, +therewith. This being done I went to chappell, and sat in Mr. Blagrave's +pew, and there did sing my part along with another before the King, and +with much ease. From thence going to my Lady I met with a letter from +my Lord (which Andrew had been at my house to bring me and missed me), +commanding me to go to Mr. Denham, to get a man to go to him to-morrow +to Hinchinbroke, to contrive with him about some alterations in his +house, which I did and got Mr. Kennard. Dined with my Lady and staid all +the afternoon with her, and had infinite of talk of all kind of things, +especially of beauty of men and women, with which she seems to be much +pleased to talk of. From thence at night to Mr. Kennard and took him to +Mr. Denham, the Surveyor's. Where, while we could not speak with him, +his chief man (Mr. Cooper) did give us a cup of good sack. From thence +with Mr. Kennard to my Lady who is much pleased with him, and after a +glass of sack there; we parted, having taken order for a horse or two +for him and his servant to be gone to-morrow. So to my father's, where +I sat while they were at supper, and I found my mother below, stairs +and pretty well. Thence home, where I hear that the Comptroller had some +business with me, and (with Giffin's lanthorn) I went to him and there +staid in discourse an hour 'till late, and among other things he showed +me a design of his, by the King's making an Order of Knights of the Seal +to give an encouragement for persons of honour to undertake the service +of the sea, and he had done it with great pains and very ingeniously. So +home and to prayers and to bed. +</p> +<p> +10th. Up exceedingly early to go to the Comptroller, but he not being +up and it being a very fine, bright, moonshine morning I went and walked +all alone twenty turns in Cornhill, from Gracious Street corner to the +Stockes and back again, from 6 o'clock till past 7, so long that I was +weary, and going to the Comptroller's thinking to find him ready, I +found him gone, at which I was troubled, and being weary went home, +and from thence with my wife by water to Westminster, and put her to my +father Bowyer's (they being newly come out of the country), but I could +not stay there, but left her there. I to the Hall and there met with +Col. Slingsby. So hearing that the Duke of York is gone down this +morning, to see the ship sunk yesterday at Woolwich, he and I returned +by his coach to the office, and after that to dinner. After dinner he +came to me again and sat with me at my house, ands among other discourse +he told me that it is expected that the Duke will marry the Lord +Chancellor's daughter at last which is likely to be the ruin of Mr. +Davis and my Lord Barkley, who have carried themselves so high against +the Chancellor; Sir Chas. Barkley swearing that he and others had lain +with her often, which all believe to be a lie. He and I in the evening +to the Coffee House in Cornhill, the first time that ever I was there, +and I found much pleasure in it, through the diversity of company and +discourse. Home and found my wife at my Lady Batten's, and have made a +bargain to go see the ship sunk at Woolwich, where both the Sir Williams +are still since yesterday, and I do resolve to go along with them. From +thence home and up to bed, having first been into my study, and to ease +my mind did go to cast up how my cash stands, and I do find as near as I +can that I am worth in money clear L240, for which God be praised. This +afternoon there was a couple of men with me with a book in each of their +hands, demanding money for pollmoney, +</p> +<pre> + [Pepys seems to have been let off very easily, for, by Act of + Parliament 18 Car. II. cap. I (1666), servants were to pay one + shilling in the pound of their wages, and others from one shilling + to three shillings in the pound.] +</pre> +<p> +and I overlooked the book and saw myself set down Samuel Pepys, gent. +10s. for himself and for his servants 2s., which I did presently pay +without any dispute, but I fear I have not escaped so, and therefore +I have long ago laid by L10 for them, but I think I am not bound to +discover myself. +</p> +<p> +11th. My wife and I up very early this day, and though the weather was +very bad and the wind high, yet my Lady Batten and her maid and we two +did go by our barge to Woolwich (my Lady being very fearfull) where we +found both Sir Williams and much other company, expecting the weather +to be better, that they might go about weighing up the Assurance, +which lies there (poor ship, that I have been twice merry in, in Captn. +Holland's time,) under water, only the upper deck may be seen and the +masts. Captain Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search for some +clothes and money of his, which he says he hath lost out of his cabin. +I did the first office of a justice of Peace to examine a seaman +thereupon, but could find no reason to commit him. This last tide the +Kingsale was also run aboard and lost her mainmast, by another ship, +which makes us think it ominous to the Guiny voyage, to have two of +her ships spoilt before they go out. After dinner, my Lady being very +fearfull she staid and kept my wife there, and I and another gentleman, +a friend of Sir W. Pen's, went back in the barge, very merry by the +way, as far as Whitehall in her. To the Privy Seal, where I signed +many pardons and some few things else. From thence Mr. Moore and I into +London to a tavern near my house, and there we drank and discoursed of +ways how to put out a little money to the best advantage, and at present +he has persuaded me to put out L250 for L50 per annum for eight years, +and I think I shall do it. Thence home, where I found the wench washing, +and I up to my study, and there did make up an even L100, and sealed it +to lie by. After that to bed. +</p> +<p> +12th. Troubled with the absence of my wife. This morning I went (after +the Comptroller and I had sat an hour at the office) to Whitehall +to dine with my Lady, and after dinner to the Privy Seal and sealed +abundance of pardons and little else. From thence to the Exchequer and +did give my mother Bowyer a visit and her daughters, the first time that +I have seen them since I went last to sea. From thence up with J. Spicer +to his office and took L100, and by coach with it as far as my father's, +where I called to see them, and my father did offer me six pieces of +gold, in lieu of six pounds that he borrowed of me the other day, but +it went against me to take it of him and therefore did not, though I was +afterwards a little troubled that I did not. Thence home, and took out +this L100 and sealed it up with the other last night, it being the first +L200 that ever I saw together of my own in my life. For which God be +praised. So to my Lady Batten, and sat an hour or two, and talked with +her daughter and people in the absence of her father and mother and my +wife to pass away the time. After that home and to bed, reading myself +asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside. +</p> +<p> +13th. All the day long looking upon my workmen who this day began to +paint my parlour. Only at noon my Lady Batten and my wife came home, +and so I stepped to my Lady's, where were Sir John Lawson and Captain +Holmes, and there we dined and had very good red wine of my Lady's own +making in England. +</p> +<p> +14th. Also all this day looking upon my workmen. Only met with the +Comptroller at the office a little both forenoon and afternoon, and at +night step a little with him to the Coffee House where we light upon +very good company and had very good discourse concerning insects and +their having a generative faculty as well as other creatures. This +night in discourse the Comptroller told me among other persons that were +heretofore the principal officers of the Navy, there was one Sir Peter +Buck, a Clerk of the Acts, of which to myself I was not a little proud. +</p> +<p> +15th. All day at home looking upon my workmen, only at noon Mr. Moore +came and brought me some things to sign for the Privy Seal and dined +with me. We had three eels that my wife and I bought this morning of +a man, that cried them about, for our dinner, and that was all I did +to-day. +</p> +<p> +16th. In the morning to church, and then dined at home. In the afternoon +I to White Hall, where I was surprised with the news of a plot against +the King's person and my Lord Monk's; and that since last night there +are about forty taken up on suspicion; and, amongst others, it was my +lot to meet with Simon Beale, the Trumpeter, who took me and Tom Doling +into the Guard in Scotland Yard, and showed us Major-General Overton, +where I heard him deny that he is guilty of any such things; but that +whereas it is said that he is found to have brought many arms to town, +he says it is only to sell them, as he will prove by oath. From thence +with Tom Doling and Boston and D. Vines (whom we met by the way) to +Price's, and there we drank, and in discourse I learnt a pretty trick to +try whether a woman be a maid or no, by a string going round her head to +meet at the end of her nose, which if she be not will come a great way +beyond. Thence to my Lady's and staid with her an hour or two talking of +the Duke of York and his lady, the Chancellor's daughter, between whom, +she tells me, that all is agreed and he will marry her. But I know not +how true yet. It rained hard, and my Lady would have had me have the +coach, but I would not, but to my father's, where I met my wife, and +there supped, and after supper by link home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +17th. All day looking after my workmen, only in the afternoon to the +office where both Sir Williams were come from Woolwich, and tell us +that, contrary to their expectations, the Assurance is got up, without +much damage to her body, only to the goods that she hath within her, +which argues her to be a strong, good ship. This day my parlour is +gilded, which do please me well. +</p> +<p> +18th. All day at home, without stirring at all, looking after my +workmen. +</p> +<p> +19th. At noon I went and dined with my Lady at Whitehall, and so back +again to the office, and after that home to my workmen. This night Mr. +Gauden sent me a great chine of beef and half a dozen of tongues. +</p> +<p> +20th. All day at home with my workmen, that I may get all done before +Christmas. This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox. +</p> +<p> +21st. By water to Whitehall (leaving my wife at Whitefriars going to my +father's to buy her a muff and mantle), there I signed many things at +the Privy Seal, and carried L200 from thence to the Exchequer, and laid +it up with Mr. Hales, and afterwards took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan +and drank with them. They told me that this is St. Thomas's [day], and +that by an old custom, this day the Exchequer men had formerly, and do +intend this night to have a supper; which if I could I promised to +come to, but did not. To my Lady's, and dined with her: she told me how +dangerously ill the Princess Royal is and that this morning she was said +to be dead. But she hears that she hath married herself to young +Jermyn, which is worse than the Duke of York's marrying the Chancellor's +daughter, which is now publicly owned. After dinner to the office all +the afternoon. At seven at night I walked through the dirt to Whitehall +to see whether my Lord be come to town, and I found him come and at +supper, and I supped with him. He tells me that my aunt at Brampton has +voided a great stone (the first time that ever I heard she was troubled +therewith) and cannot possibly live long, that my uncle is pretty well, +but full of pain still. After supper home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +22nd. All the morning with my painters, who will make an end of all this +day I hope. At noon I went to the Sun tavern; on Fish Street hill, to a +dinner of Captn. Teddimans, where was my Lord Inchiquin (who seems to be +a very fine person), Sir W. Pen, Captn. Cuttance, and one Mr. Lawrence +(a fine gentleman now going to Algiers), and other good company, where +we had a very fine dinner, good musique, and a great deal of wine. We +staid here very late, at last Sir W. Pen and I home together, he so +overcome with wine that he could hardly go; I was forced to lead him +through the streets and he was in a very merry and kind mood. I home +(found my house clear of the workmen and their work ended), my head +troubled with wine, and I very merry went to bed, my head akeing all +night. +</p> +<p> +23rd (Lord's day). In the morning to Church, where our pew all covered +with rosemary and baize. A stranger made a dull sermon. Home and found +my wife and maid with much ado had made shift to spit a great turkey +sent me this week from Charles Carter, my old colleague, now minister in +Huntingdonshire, but not at all roasted, and so I was fain to stay till +two o'clock, and after that to church with my wife, and a good sermon +there was, and so home. All the evening at my book, and so to supper and +to bed. +</p> +<p> +24th. In the morning to the office and Commissioner Pett (who seldom +comes there) told me that he had lately presented a piece of plate +(being a couple of flaggons) to Mr. Coventry, but he did not receive +them, which also put me upon doing the same too; and so after dinner +I went and chose a payre of candlesticks to be made ready for me at +Alderman Backwell's. To the office again in the afternoon till night, +and so home, and with the painters till 10 at night, making an end of my +house and the arch before my door, and so this night I was rid of them +and all other work, and my house was made ready against to-morrow being +Christmas day. This day the Princess Royal died at Whitehall. +</p> +<p> +25th (Christmas day). In the morning very much pleased to see my house +once more clear of workmen and to be clean, and indeed it is so, far +better than it was that I do not repent of my trouble that I have been +at. In the morning to church, where Mr. Mills made a very good sermon. +After that home to dinner, where my wife and I and my brother Tom (who +this morning came to see my wife's new mantle put on, which do please me +very well), to a good shoulder of mutton and a chicken. After dinner to +church again, my wife and I, where we had a dull sermon of a stranger, +which made me sleep, and so home, and I, before and after supper, to my +lute and Fuller's History, at which I staid all alone in my chamber till +12 at night, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +26th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's for the candlesticks for Mr. +Coventry, but they being not done I went away, and so by coach to Mr. +Crew's, and there took some money of Mr. Moore's for my Lord, and so to +my Lord's, where I found Sir Thomas Bond (whom I never saw before) with +a message from the Queen about vessells for the carrying over of her +goods, and so with him to Mr. Coventry, and thence to the office (being +soundly washed going through the bridge) to Sir Wm. Batten and Pen (the +last of whom took physic to-day), and so I went up to his chamber, and +there having made an end of the business I returned to White Hall by +water, and dined with my Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell me how +much fault was laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of the Doctors, for the +death of the Princess! My Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, +in order to his going to sea with the Queen. Thence to my father +Bowyer's where I met my wife, and with her home by water. +</p> +<p> +27th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's again, where I found the +candlesticks done, and went along with him in his coach to my Lord's and +left the candlesticks with Mr. Shepley. I staid in the garden talking +much with my Lord, who do show me much of his love and do communicate +his mind in most things to me, which is my great content. Home and with +my wife to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, where much and good company. My +wife not very well went home, I staid late there seeing them play at +cards, and so home to bed. This afternoon there came in a strange lord +to Sir William Batten's by a mistake and enters discourse with him, so +that we could not be rid of him till Sir Arn. Breames and Mr. Bens and +Sir W. Pen fell a-drinking to him till he was drunk, and so sent him +away. About the middle of the night I was very ill—I think with eating +and drinking too much—and so I was forced to call the maid, who pleased +my wife and I in her running up and down so innocently in her smock, +and vomited in the bason, and so to sleep, and in the morning was pretty +well, only got cold, and so had pain.... as I used to have. +</p> +<p> +28th. Office day. There all the morning. Dined at home alone with my +wife, and so staid within all the afternoon and evening; at my lute, +with great pleasure, and so to bed with great content. +</p> +<p> +29th. Within all the morning. Several people to speak with me; Mr. +Shepley for L100; Mr. Kennard and Warren, the merchant, about deals for +my Lord. Captain Robert Blake lately come from the Straights about +some Florence Wine for my Lord, and with him I went to Sir W. Pen, +who offering me a barrel of oysters I took them both home to my house +(having by chance a good piece of roast beef at the fire for dinner), +and there they dined with me, and sat talking all the afternoon-good +company. Thence to Alderman Backwell's and took a brave state-plate and +cupp in lieu of the candlesticks that I had the other day and carried +them by coach to my Lord's and left them there. And so back to my +father's and saw my mother, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my +father came to me, and there we talked and drank, and so away; I home +with my father, he telling me what bad wives both my cozen Joyces +make to their husbands, which I much wondered at. After talking of my +sister's coming to me next week, I went home and to bed. +</p> +<p> +30th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and being up, I went with Will to +my Lord's, calling in at many churches in my way. There I found Mr. +Shepley, in his Venetian cap, taking physique in his chamber, and with +him I sat till dinner. My Lord dined abroad and my Lady in her chamber, +so Mr. Hetly, Child and I dined together, and after dinner Mr. Child and +I spent some time at the lute, and so promising to prick me some lessons +to my theorbo he went away to see Henry Laws, who lies very sick. I to +the Abby and walked there, seeing the great confusion of people that +come there to hear the organs. So home, calling in at my father's, +but staid not, my father and mother being both forth. At home I fell +a-reading of Fuller's Church History till it was late, and so to bed. +</p> +<p> +31st. At the office all the morning and after that home, and not staying +to dine I went out, and in Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of +"Henry the Fourth," and so went to the new Theatre (only calling at Mr. +Crew's and eat a bit with the people there at dinner) and saw it acted; +but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I +believe it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little. +That being done I went to my Lord's, where I found him private at cards +with my Lord Lauderdale and some persons of honour. So Mr. Shepley and +I over to Harper's, and there drank a pot or two, and so parted. My boy +taking a cat home with him from my Lord's, which Sarah had given him for +my wife, we being much troubled with mice. At Whitehall inquiring for a +coach, there was a Frenchman with one eye that was going my way, so he +and I hired the coach between us and he set me down in Fenchurch Street. +Strange how the fellow, without asking, did tell me all what he was, and +how he had ran away from his father and come into England to serve the +King, and now going back again. Home and to bed. +</p> + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> + +<pre> + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS FOR 1960 N.S. PEPY'S DIARY + + A very fine dinner + A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen + Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest + An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport + An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity + And in all this not so much as one + Asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside + Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often + Bought for the love of the binding three books + Boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed + But we were friends again as we are always + But I think I am not bound to discover myself + Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians + Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.) + Court attendance infinite tedious + Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether + Diana did not come according to our agreement + Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state + Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else + Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill + Do press for new oaths to be put upon men + Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand + Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets + Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton + Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment + Fashionable and black spots + Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up + First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch + First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral + Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service + Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March + Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore + Gave him his morning draft + Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King + God help him, he wants bread. + Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay + Hand i' the cap + Hanging jack to roast birds on + Have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant + Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me + He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more + He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I + He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it + He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while + He did very well, but a deadly drinker he is + He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours + He knew nothing about the navy + Hired her to procure this poor soul for him + How the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst + I fear is not so good as she should be + I never designed to be a witness against any man + I was demanded L100, for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound + I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely + I pray God to make me able to pay for it. + I was angry with her, which I was troubled for + I went to the cook's and got a good joint of meat + I was exceeding free in dallying with her, and she not unfree + I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy + If it should come in print my name maybe at it + Ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch + In discourse he seems to be wise and say little + In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore + In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least + Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass + It not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us + John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers + King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising + King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery + Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]" + Kissed them myself very often with a great deal of mirth + L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas + Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 + Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no + Long cloaks being now quite out + Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead + Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder + Most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler + Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin + Much troubled with thoughts how to get money + My luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions + My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life + My wife and I had some high words + My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth + My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets + My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber + Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon + Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place + Petition against hackney coaches + Playing the fool with the lass of the house + Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves + Presbyterians against the House of Lords + Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques + Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash + Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it + Sceptic in all things of religion + She had six children by the King + Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink + Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash + Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney + So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel + So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet + Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house + Strange thing how I am already courted by the people + Strange how civil and tractable he was to me + The present Irish pronunciation of English + The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too + The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them + There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered + This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed + This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes + Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall + To see the bride put to bed + To the Swan and drank our morning draft + To see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered + Upon the leads gazing upon Diana + We cannot tell what to do for want of her (the maid) + Wedding for which the posy ring was required + Went to bed with my head not well by my too much drinking to-day + Where I find the worst very good + Which I did give him some hope of, though I never intend it + Woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold +</pre> + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1660 *** + +***** This file should be named 4125-h.htm or 4125-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/2/4125/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660 + Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian + Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors + Bright + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Commentator: Lord Braybrooke + +Editor: Henry B. Wheatley + +Release Date: October 7, 2006 [EBook #4125] +Posting Date: March 22, 2009 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1660 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + + +THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + +CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + +TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW +AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + +(Unabridged) + +WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + +By Samuel Pepys + +Edited With Additions By + +Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A. + + + + + LONDON + GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN + CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. + + + 1893 + + + + + +PREFACE + +Although the Diary of Samuel Pepys has been in the hands of the public +for nearly seventy years, it has not hitherto appeared in its entirety. +In the original edition of 1825 scarcely half of the manuscript was +printed. Lord Braybrooke added some passages as the various editions +were published, but in the preface to his last edition he wrote: "there +appeared indeed no necessity to amplify or in any way to alter the text +of the Diary beyond the correction of a few verbal errors and corrupt +passages hitherto overlooked." + +The public knew nothing as to what was left unprinted, and there was +therefore a general feeling of gratification when it was announced some +eighteen years ago that a new edition was to be published by the Rev. +Mynors Bright, with the addition of new matter equal to a third of the +whole. It was understood that at last the Diary was to appear in +its entirety, but there was a passage in Mr. Bright's preface which +suggested a doubt respecting the necessary completeness. He wrote: "It +would have been tedious to the reader if I had copied from the Diary the +account of his daily work at the office." + +As a matter of fact, Mr. Bright left roughly speaking about one-fifth of +the whole Diary still unprinted, although he transcribed the whole, and +bequeathed his transcript to Magdalene College. + +It has now been decided that the whole of the Diary shall be made +public, with the exception of a few passages which cannot possibly be +printed. It may be thought by some that these omissions are due to an +unnecessary squeamishness, but it is not really so, and readers are +therefore asked to have faith in the judgment of the editor. Where any +passages have been omitted marks of omission are added, so that in all +cases readers will know where anything has been left out. + +Lord Braybrooke made the remark in his "Life of Pepys," that "the cipher +employed by him greatly resembles that known by the name of 'Rich's +system.'" When Mr. Bright came to decipher the MS., he discovered that +the shorthand system used by Pepys was an earlier one than Rich's, viz., +that of Thomas Shelton, who made his system public in 1620. + +In his various editions Lord Braybrooke gave a large number of valuable +notes, in the collection and arrangement of which he was assisted by +the late Mr. John Holmes of the British Museum, and the late Mr. James +Yeowell, sometime sub-editor of "Notes and Queries." Where these notes +are left unaltered in the present edition the letter "B." has been +affixed to them, but in many instances the notes have been altered and +added to from later information, and in these cases no mark is affixed. +A large number of additional notes are now supplied, but still much has +had to be left unexplained. Many persons are mentioned in the Diary who +were little known in the outer world, and in some instances it has +been impossible to identify them. In other cases, however, it has been +possible to throw light upon these persons by reference to different +portions of the Diary itself. I would here ask the kind assistance +of any reader who is able to illustrate passages that have been left +unnoted. I have received much assistance from the various books in which +the Diary is quoted. Every writer on the period covered by the Diary +has been pleased to illustrate his subject by quotations from Pepys, and +from these books it has often been possible to find information which +helps to explain difficult passages in the Diary. + +Much illustrative matter of value was obtained by Lord Braybrooke from +the "Diurnall" of Thomas Rugge, which is preserved in the British Museum +(Add. MSS. 10,116, 10,117). The following is the description of this +interesting work as given by Lord Braybrooke + + "MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS; + + or, A Collection of the most materiall occurrances and transactions + in Public Affairs since Anno Dni, 1659, untill + 28 March, 1672, + serving as an annuall diurnall for future satisfaction and + information, + BY THOMAS RUGGE. + + Est natura hominum novitatis avida.--Plinius. + + "This MS. belonged, in 1693, to Thomas Grey, second Earl of + Stamford. It has his autograph at the commencement, and on the + sides are his arms (four quarterings) in gold. In 1819, it was sold + by auction in London, as part of the collection of Thomas Lloyd, + Esq. (No. 1465), and was then bought by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller. + Whilst Mr. Lloyd was the possessor, the MS. was lent to Dr. Lingard, + whose note of thanks to Mr. Lloyd is preserved in the volume. From + Thorpe it appears to have passed to Mr. Heber, at the sale of whose + MSS. in Feb. 1836, by Mr. Evans, of Pall Mall, it was purchased by + the British Museum for L8 8s. + + "Thomas Rugge was descended from an ancient Norfolk family, and two + of his ancestors are described as Aldermen of Norwich. His death + has been ascertained to have occurred about 1672; and in the Diary + for the preceding year he complains that on account of his declining + health, his entries will be but few. Nothing has been traced of his + personal circumstances beyond the fact of his having lived for + fourteen years in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality." + +Another work I have found of the greatest value is the late Mr. J. E. +Doyle's "Official Baronage of England" (1886), which contains a mass of +valuable information not easily to be obtained elsewhere. By reference +to its pages I have been enabled to correct several erroneous dates in +previous notes caused by a very natural confusion of years in the case +of the months of January, February, and March, before it was finally +fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March. More +confusion has probably been introduced into history from this than from +any other cause of a like nature. The reference to two years, as in the +case of, say, Jan. 5, 1661-62, may appear clumsy, but it is the only +safe plan of notation. If one year only is mentioned, the reader is +never sure whether or not the correction has been made. It is a matter +for sincere regret that the popular support was withheld from Mr. +Doyle's important undertaking, so that the author's intention of +publishing further volumes, containing the Baronies not dealt with in +those already published, was frustrated. + +My labours have been much lightened by the kind help which I have +received from those interested in the subject. Lovers of Pepys are +numerous, and I have found those I have applied to ever willing to +give me such information as they possess. It is a singular pleasure, +therefore, to have an opportunity of expressing publicly my thanks +to these gentlemen, and among them I would especially mention Messrs. +Fennell, Danby P. Fry, J. Eliot Hodgkin, Henry Jackson, J. K. Laughton, +Julian Marshall, John Biddulph Martin, J. E. Matthew, Philip Norman, +Richard B. Prosser, and Hugh Callendar, Fellow of Trinity College, +who verified some of the passages in the manuscript. To the Master +and Fellows of Magdalene College, also, I am especially indebted for +allowing me to consult the treasures of the Pepysian Library, and more +particularly my thanks are due to Mr. Arthur G. Peskett, the Librarian. + + H. B. W. +BRAMPTON, OPPIDANS ROAD, LONDON, N.W. + February, 1893. + + + + +PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY. + +I. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in +the reigns of Charles II. and James II., comprising his Diary from 1659 +to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B., of St. John's College, +Cambridge, from the original Shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and +a Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord +Braybrooke. In two volumes. London, Henry Colburn... 1825. 4vo. + +2. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S.... Second edition. In five +volumes. London, Henry Colburn.... 1828. 8vo. + +3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the +Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II.; with a Life and +Notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke; the third edition, considerably +enlarged. London, Henry Colburn.... 1848-49. 5 vols. sm. 8vo. + +4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.... The fourth +edition, revised and corrected. In four volumes. London, published for +Henry Colburn by his successors, Hurst and Blackett... 1854. 8vo. + +The copyright of Lord Braybrooke's edition was purchased by the late Mr. +Henry G. Bohn, who added the book to his Historical Library. + +5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from his MS. +Cypber in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard, +Lord Braybrooke. Deciphered, with additional notes, by the Rev. Mynors +Bright, M.A.... London, Bickers and Son, 1875-79. 6 vols. 8vo. + +Nos. 1, 2 and 3 being out of copyright have been reprinted by various +publishers. + +No. 5 is out of print. + + PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + +The family of Pepys is one of considerable antiquity in the east of +England, and the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys + + [Mr. W. C. Pepys has paid great attention to the history of his + family, and in 1887 he published an interesting work entitled + "Genealogy of the Pepys Family, 1273-1887," London, George Bell and + Sons, which contains the fullest pedigrees of the family yet + issued.] + +says that the first mention of the name that he has been able to find is +in the Hundred Rolls (Edw. I, 1273), where Richard Pepis and John Pepes +are registered as holding lands in the county of Cambridge. In the next +century the name of William Pepis is found in deeds relating to lands in +the parish of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, dated 1329 and 1340 respectively +(Cole MSS., British Museum, vol. i., p. 56; vol. xlii., p. 44). +According to the Court Roll of the manor of Pelhams, in the parish of +Cottenham, Thomas Pepys was "bayliffe of the Abbot of Crowland in 1434," +but in spite of these references, as well as others to persons of +the same name at Braintree, Essex, Depedale, Norfolk, &c., the first +ancestor of the existing branches of the family from whom Mr. Walter +Pepys is able to trace an undoubted descent, is "William Pepis the +elder, of Cottenham, co. Cambridge," whose will is dated 20th March, +1519. + +In 1852 a curious manuscript volume, bound in vellum, and entitled +"Liber Talboti Pepys de instrumentis ad Feoda pertinentibus +exemplificatis," was discovered in an old chest in the parish church of +Bolney, Sussex, by the vicar, the Rev. John Dale, who delivered it +to Henry Pepys, Bishop of Worcester, and the book is still in the +possession of the family. This volume contains various genealogical +entries, and among them are references to the Thomas Pepys of 1434 +mentioned above, and to the later William Pepys. The reference to the +latter runs thus:-- + + "A Noate written out of an ould Booke of my uncle William Pepys." + + "William Pepys, who died at Cottenham, 10 H. 8, was brought up by + the Abbat of Crowland, in Huntingdonshire, and he was borne in + Dunbar, in Scotland, a gentleman, whom the said Abbat did make his + Bayliffe of all his lands in Cambridgeshire, and placed him in + Cottenham, which William aforesaid had three sonnes, Thomas, John, + and William, to whom Margaret was mother naturallie, all of whom + left issue." + +In illustration of this entry we may refer to the Diary of June 12th, +1667, where it is written that Roger Pepys told Samuel that "we +did certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland." The +references to various members of the family settled in Cottenham and +elsewhere, at an early date already alluded to, seem to show that there +is little foundation for this very positive statement. + +With regard to the standing of the family, Mr. Walter Pepys writes:-- + + "The first of the name in 1273 were evidently but small copyholders. + Within 150 years (1420) three or four of the name had entered the + priesthood, and others had become connected with the monastery of + Croyland as bailiffs, &c. In 250 years (1520) there were certainly + two families: one at Cottenham, co. Cambridge, and another at + Braintree, co. Essex, in comfortable circumstances as yeomen + farmers. Within fifty years more (1563), one of the family, Thomas, + of Southcreeke, co. Norfolk, had entered the ranks of the gentry + sufficiently to have his coat-of-arms recognized by the Herald + Cooke, who conducted the Visitation of Norfolk in that year. From + that date the majority of the family have been in good + circumstances, with perhaps more than the average of its members + taking up public positions." + +There is a very general notion that Samuel Pepys was of plebeian birth +because his father followed the trade of a tailor, and his own remark, +"But I believe indeed our family were never considerable,"--[February +10th, 1661-62.] has been brought forward in corroboration of this view, +but nothing can possibly be more erroneous, and there can be no doubt +that the Diarist was really proud of his descent. This may be seen from +the inscription on one of his book-plates, where he is stated to be:-- + + "Samuel Pepys of Brampton in Huntingdonshire, Esq., Secretary of the + Admiralty to his Matr. King Charles the Second: Descended from ye + antient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire." + +Many members of the family have greatly distinguished themselves since +the Diarist's day, and of them Mr. Foss wrote ("Judges of England," vol. +vi., p. 467):-- + + "In the family of Pepys is illustrated every gradation of legal rank + from Reader of an Inn of Court to Lord High Chancellor of England." + +The William Pepys of Cottenham who commences the pedigree had three sons +and three daughters; from the eldest son (Thomas) descended the +first Norfolk branch, from the second son (John Pepys of Southcreeke) +descended the second Norfolk branch, and from the third son (William) +descended the Impington branch. The latter William had four sons and two +daughters; two of these sons were named Thomas, and as they were both +living at the same time one was distinguished as "the black" and the +other as "the red." Thomas the red had four sons and four daughters. +John, born 1601, was the third son, and he became the father of Samuel +the Diarist. Little is known of John Pepys, but we learn when the Diary +opens that he was settled in London as a tailor. He does not appear to +have been a successful man, and his son on August 26th, 1661, found that +there was only L45 owing to him, and that he owed about the same sum. +He was a citizen of London in 1650, when his son Samuel was admitted +to Magdalene College, but at an earlier period he appears to have had +business relations with Holland. + +In August, 1661, John Pepys retired to a small property at Brampton +(worth about L80 per annum), which had been left to him by his eldest +brother, Robert Pepys, where he died in 1680. + +The following is a copy of John Pepys's will: + + "MY FATHER'S WILL. + [Indorsement by S. Pepys.] + + "Memorandum. That I, John Pepys of Ellington, in the county of + Huntingdon, Gent.", doe declare my mind in the disposall of my + worldly goods as followeth: + + "First, I desire that my lands and goods left mee by my brother, + Robert Pepys, deceased, bee delivered up to my eldest son, Samuell + Pepys, of London, Esqr., according as is expressed in the last Will + of my brother Robert aforesaid. + + "Secondly, As for what goods I have brought from London, or procured + since, and what moneys I shall leave behind me or due to me, I + desire may be disposed of as followeth: + + "Imprimis, I give to the stock of the poore of the parish of + Brampton, in which church I desire to be enterred, five pounds. + + "Item. I give to the Poore of Ellington forty shillings. + + "Item. I desire that my two grandsons, Samuell and John Jackson, + have ten pounds a piece. + + "Item. I desire that my daughter, Paulina Jackson, may have my + largest silver tankerd. + + "Item. I desire that my son John Pepys may have my gold seale-ring. + + "Lastly. I desire that the remainder of what I shall leave be + equally distributed between my sons Samuel and John Pepys and my + daughter Paulina Jackson. + + "All which I leave to the care of my eldest son Samuel Pepys, to see + performed, if he shall think fit. + + "In witness hereunto I set my hand." + +His wife Margaret, whose maiden name has not been discovered, died +on the 25th March, 1667, also at Brampton. The family of these two +consisted of six sons and five daughters: John (born 1632, died 1640), +Samuel (born 1633, died 1703), Thomas (born 1634, died 1664), Jacob +(born 1637, died young), Robert (born 1638, died young), and John (born +1641, died 1677); Mary (born 1627), Paulina (born 1628), Esther (born +1630), Sarah (born 1635; these four girls all died young), and Paulina +(born 1640, died 1680), who married John Jackson of Brampton, and had +two sons, Samuel and John. The latter was made his heir by Samuel Pepys. + +Samuel Pepys was born on the 23rd February, 1632-3, but the place of +birth is not known with certainty. Samuel Knight, D.D., author of the +"Life of Colet," who was a connection of the family (having married +Hannah Pepys, daughter of Talbot Pepys of Impington), says positively +that it was at Brampton. His statement cannot be corroborated by the +registers of Brampton church, as these records do not commence until the +year 1654. + +Samuel's early youth appears to have been spent pretty equally between +town and country. When he and his brother Tom were children they lived +with a nurse (Goody Lawrence) at Kingsland, and in after life Samuel +refers to his habit of shooting with bow and arrow in the fields around +that place. He then went to school at Huntingdon, from which he was +transferred to St. Paul's School in London. He remained at the latter +place until 1650, early in which year his name was entered as a sizar on +the boards of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted on the 21st June, +but subsequently he transferred his allegiance to Magdalene College, +where he was admitted a sizar on the 1st October of this same year. +He did not enter into residence until March 5th, 1650-51, but in the +following month he was elected to one of Mr. Spendluffe's scholarships, +and two years later (October 14th, 1653) he was preferred to one on Dr. +John Smith's foundation. + +Little or nothing is known of Pepys's career at college, but soon +after obtaining the Smith scholarship he got into trouble, and, with a +companion, was admonished for being drunk. + + [October 21st, 1653. "Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were + solemnly admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for having been + scandalously over-served with drink ye night before. This was done + in the presence of all the Fellows then resident, in Mr. Hill's + chamber.--JOHN WOOD, Registrar." (From the Registrar's-book of + Magdalene College.)] + +His time, however, was not wasted, and there is evidence that he carried +into his busy life a fair stock of classical learning and a true love of +letters. Throughout his life he looked back with pleasure to the time he +spent at the University, and his college was remembered in his will +when he bequeathed his valuable library. In this same year, 1653, he +graduated B.A. On the 1st of December, 1655, when he was still without +any settled means of support, he married Elizabeth St. Michel, a +beautiful and portionless girl of fifteen. Her father, Alexander +Marchant, Sieur de St. Michel, was of a good family in Anjou, and son of +the High Sheriff of Bauge (in Anjou). Having turned Huguenot at the age +of twenty-one, when in the German service, his father disinherited him, +and he also lost the reversion of some L20,000 sterling which his uncle, +a rich French canon, intended to bequeath to him before he left the +Roman Catholic church. He came over to England in the retinue of +Henrietta Maria on her marriage with Charles I, but the queen dismissed +him on finding that he was a Protestant and did not attend mass. Being a +handsome man, with courtly manners, he found favour in the sight of +the widow of an Irish squire (daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill), +who married him against the wishes of her family. After the marriage, +Alexander St. Michel and his wife having raised some fifteen hundred +pounds, started, for France in the hope of recovering some part of the +family property. They were unfortunate in all their movements, and on +their journey to France were taken prisoners by the Dunkirkers, who +stripped them of all their property. They now settled at Bideford in +Devonshire, and here or near by were born Elizabeth and the rest of the +family. At a later period St. Michel served against the Spaniards at the +taking of Dunkirk and Arras, and settled at Paris. He was an unfortunate +man throughout life, and his son Balthasar says of him: "My father at +last grew full of whimsies and propositions of perpetual motion, &c., to +kings, princes and others, which soaked his pocket, and brought all our +family so low by his not minding anything else, spending all he had got +and getting no other employment to bring in more." While he was away +from Paris, some "deluding papists" and "pretended devouts" persuaded +Madame St. Michel to place her daughter in the nunnery of the Ursulines. +When the father heard of this, he hurried back, and managed to get +Elizabeth out of the nunnery after she had been there twelve days. +Thinking that France was a dangerous place to live in, he removed his +family to England, where soon afterwards his daughter was married, +although, as Lord Braybrooke remarks, we are not told how she became +acquainted with Pepys. St. Michel was greatly pleased that his daughter +had become the wife of a true Protestant, and she herself said to him, +kissing his eyes: "Dear father, though in my tender years I was by +my low fortune in this world deluded to popery, by the fond dictates +thereof I have now (joined with my riper years, which give me some +understanding) a man to my husband too wise and one too religious to the +Protestant religion to suffer my thoughts to bend that way any more." + + [These particulars are obtained from an interesting letter from + Balthasar St. Michel to Pepys, dated "Deal, Feb. 8, 1673-4," and + printed in "Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys," + 1841, vol. i., pp. 146-53.] + +Alexander St. Michel kept up his character for fecklessness through +life, and took out patents for curing smoking chimneys, purifying water, +and moulding bricks. In 1667 he petitioned the king, asserting that he +had discovered King Solomon's gold and silver mines, and the Diary +of the same date contains a curious commentary upon these visions of +wealth:-- + + "March 29, 1667. 4s. a week which his (Balty St. Michel's) father + receives of the French church is all the subsistence his father and + mother have, and about; L20 a year maintains them." + +As already noted, Pepys was married on December 1st, 1655. This date +is given on the authority of the Registers of St. Margaret's Church, +Westminster, + + [The late Mr. T. C. Noble kindly communicated to me a copy of the + original marriage certificate, which is as follows: "Samuell Peps + of this parish Gent. & Elizabeth De Snt. Michell of Martins in the + fields, Spinster. Published October 19tn, 22nd, 29th 1655, and + were married by Richard Sherwin Esqr one of the justices of the + Peace of the Cittie and Lyberties of Westm. December 1st. (Signed) + Ri. Sherwin."] + +but strangely enough Pepys himself supposed his wedding day to have been +October 10th. Lord Braybrooke remarks on this, + + "It is notorious that the registers in those times were very ill + kept, of which we have here a striking instance.... Surely a + man who kept a diary could not have made such a blunder." + +What is even more strange than Pepys's conviction that he was married on +October 10th is Mrs. Pepys's agreement with him: On October 10th, 1666, +we read, + + "So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night, but how + many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten." + +Here Mrs. Pepys was wrong, as it was eleven years; so she may have been +wrong in the day also. In spite of the high authority of Mr. and Mrs. +Pepys on a question so interesting to them both, we must accept the +register as conclusive on this point until further evidence of its +incorrectness is forthcoming. + +Sir Edward Montage (afterwards Earl of Sandwich), who was Pepys's +first cousin one remove (Pepys's grandfather and Montage's mother being +brother and sister), was a true friend to his poor kinsman, and he at +once held out a helping hand to the imprudent couple, allowing them +to live in his house. John Pepys does not appear to have been in +sufficiently good circumstances to pay for the education of his son, +and it seems probable that Samuel went to the university under his +influential cousin's patronage. At all events he owed his success in +life primarily to Montage, to whom he appears to have acted as a sort of +agent. + +On March 26th, 1658, he underwent a successful operation for the stone, +and we find him celebrating each anniversary of this important event of +his life with thanksgiving. He went through life with little trouble +on this score, but when he died at the age of seventy a nest of seven +stones was found in his left kidney. + + ["June 10th, 1669. I went this evening to London, to carry Mr. + Pepys to my brother Richard, now exceedingly afflicted with the + stone, who had been successfully cut, and carried the stone, as big + as a tennis ball, to show him and encourage his resolution to go + thro' the operation."--Evelyn's Diary.] + +In June, 1659, Pepys accompanied Sir Edward Montage in the "Naseby," +when the Admiral of the Baltic Fleet and Algernon Sidney went to the +Sound as joint commissioners. It was then that Montage corresponded with +Charles II., but he had to be very secret in his movements on account of +the suspicions of Sidney. Pepys knew nothing of what was going on, as he +confesses in the Diary: + + "I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most + secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before." + +On Pepys's return to England he obtained an appointment in the office of +Mr., afterwards Sir George Downing, who was one of the Four Tellers of +the Receipt of the Exchequer. He was clerk to Downing when he commenced +his diary on January 1st, 1660, and then lived in Axe Yard, close by +King Street, Westminster, a place on the site of which was built Fludyer +Street. This, too, was swept away for the Government offices in 1864-65. +His salary was L50 a year. Downing invited Pepys to accompany him to +Holland, but he does not appear to have been very pressing, and a few +days later in this same January he got him appointed one of the Clerks +of the Council, but the recipient of the favour does not appear to +have been very grateful. A great change was now about to take place in +Pepys's fortunes, for in the following March he was made secretary to +Sir Edward Montage in his expedition to bring about the Restoration +of Charles II., and on the 23rd he went on board the "Swiftsure" with +Montage. On the 30th they transferred themselves to the "Naseby." Owing +to this appointment of Pepys we have in the Diary a very full account +of the daily movements of the fleet until, events having followed their +natural course, Montage had the honour of bringing Charles II. to Dover, +where the King was received with great rejoicing. Several of the ships +in the fleet had names which were obnoxious to Royalists, and on the +23rd May the King came on board the "Naseby" and altered there--the +"Naseby" to the "Charles," the "Richard" to the "Royal James," the +"Speaker" to the "Mary," the "Winsby" to the "Happy Return," the +"Wakefield" to the "Richmond," the "Lambert" to the "Henrietta," the +"Cheriton" to the "Speedwell," and the "Bradford" to the "Success." +This portion of the Diary is of particular interest, and the various +excursions in Holland which the Diarist made are described in a very +amusing manner. + +When Montagu and Pepys had both returned to London, the former told the +latter that he had obtained the promise of the office of Clerk of the +Acts for him. Many difficulties occurred before Pepys actually secured +the place, so that at times he was inclined to accept the offers which +were made to him to give it up. General Monk was anxious to get the +office for Mr. Turner, who was Chief Clerk in the Navy Office, but in +the end Montagu's influence secured it for Pepys. Then Thomas Barlow, +who had been appointed Clerk of the Acts in 1638, turned up, and +appeared likely to become disagreeable. Pepys bought him off with an +annuity of too, which he did not have to pay for any length of time, +as Barlow died in February, 1664-65. It is not in human nature to be +greatly grieved at the death of one to whom you have to pay an annuity, +and Pepys expresses his feelings in a very naive manner:-- + + "For which God knows my heart I could be as sorry as is possible for + one to be for a stranger by whose death he gets L100 per annum, he + being a worthy honest man; but when I come to consider the + providence of God by this means unexpectedly to give me L100 a year + more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and do it from the + bottom of my heart." + +This office was one of considerable importance, for not only was the +holder the secretary or registrar of the Navy Board, but he was also one +of the principal officers of the navy, and, as member of the board, of +equal rank with the other commissioners. This office Pepys held during +the whole period of the Diary, and we find him constantly fighting for +his position, as some of the other members wished to reduce his rank +merely to that of secretary. In his contention Pepys appears to have +been in the right, and a valuable MS. volume in the Pepysian library +contains an extract from the Old Instructions of about 1649, in which +this very point is argued out. The volume appears to have been made +up by William Penn the Quaker, from a collection of manuscripts on the +affairs of the navy found in his father's, "Sir William Penn's closet." +It was presented to Charles II., with a dedication ending thus:-- + + "I hope enough to justifie soe much freedome with a Prince that is + so easie to excuse things well intended as this is + "BY + "Great Prince, + "Thy faithfull subject, + "WM. PENN" + + "London, the 22 of the Mo. called June, 1680." + +It does not appear how the volume came into Pepys's possession. It may +have been given him by the king, or he may have taken it as a perquisite +of his office. The book has an index, which was evidently added by +Pepys; in this are these entries, which show his appreciation of the +contents of the MS.:-- + + "Clerk of the Acts, + his duty, + his necessity and usefulness." + +The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows +the importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is +not fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his +employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression +one would expect to find in an official document: + + "CLERKE OF THE ACTS. + + "The clarke of the Navye's duty depends principally upon rateing (by + the Board's approbation) of all bills and recording of them, and all + orders, contracts & warrants, making up and casting of accompts, + framing and writing answers to letters, orders, and commands from + the Councell, Lord High Admirall, or Commissioners of the Admiralty, + and he ought to be a very able accomptant, well versed in Navall + affairs and all inferior officers dutyes. + + "It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to + be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be + joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted + from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some + to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if + he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which + peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine + no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and + possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is + a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment. But why he should + not make as able a Commissioner as a Shipp wright lett wise men + judge." + +In Pepys's patent the salary is stated to be L33 6s. 8d., but this was +only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had been attached to +the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary had been previously +fixed at L350 a-year. + +Neither of the two qualifications upon which particular stress is laid +in the above Instructions was possessed by Pepys. He knew nothing about +the navy, and so little of accounts that apparently he learned the +multiplication table for the first time in July, 1661. We see from +the particulars given in the Diary how hard he worked to obtain the +knowledge required in his office, and in consequence of his assiduity +he soon became a model official. When Pepys became Clerk of the Acts +he took up his residence at the Navy Office, a large building situated +between Crutched Friars and Seething Lane, with an entrance in each of +those places. On July 4th, 1660, he went with Commissioner Pett to view +the houses, and was very pleased with them, but he feared that the more +influential officers would jockey him out of his rights. His fears were +not well grounded, and on July 18th he records the fact that he dined in +his own apartments, which were situated in the Seething Lane front. + +On July 24th, 1660, Pepys was sworn in as Lord Sandwich's deputy for a +Clerkship of the Privy Seal. This office, which he did not think much +of at first, brought him "in for a time L3 a day." In June, 1660, he was +made Master of Arts by proxy, and soon afterwards he was sworn in as +a justice of the Peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Hampshire, the +counties in which the chief dockyards were situated. + +Pepys's life is written large in the Diary, and it is not necessary here +to do more than catalogue the chief incidents of it in chronological +order. In February, 1661-62, he was chosen a Younger Brother of +the Trinity House, and in April, 1662, when on an official visit to +Portsmouth Dockyard, he was made a burgess of the town. In August of the +same year he was appointed one of the commissioners for the affairs of +Tangier. Soon afterwards Thomas Povy, the treasurer, got his accounts +into a muddle, and showed himself incompetent for the place, so that +Pepys replaced him as treasurer to the commission. + +In March, 1663-64, the Corporation of the Royal Fishery was appointed, +with the Duke of York as governor, and thirty-two assistants, mostly +"very great persons." Through Lord Sandwich's influence Pepys was made +one of these. + +The time was now arriving when Pepys's general ability and devotion to +business brought him prominently into notice. During the Dutch war the +unreadiness of the ships, more particularly in respect to victualling, +was the cause of great trouble. The Clerk of the Acts did his utmost +to set things right, and he was appointed Surveyor-General of the +Victualling Office. The kind way in which Mr. Coventry proposed him +as "the fittest man in England" for the office, and the Duke of York's +expressed approval, greatly pleased him. + +During the fearful period when the Plague was raging, Pepys stuck to his +business, and the chief management of naval affairs devolved upon him, +for the meetings at the Navy Office were but thinly attended. In a +letter to Coventry he wrote:-- + + "The sickness in general thickens round us, and particularly upon + our neighbourhood. You, sir, took your turn of the sword; I must + not, therefore, grudge to take mine of the pestilence." + +At this time his wife was living at Woolwich, and he himself with his +clerks at Greenwich; one maid only remained in the house in London. + +Pepys rendered special service at the time of the Fire of London. He +communicated the king's wishes to the Lord Mayor, and he saved the Navy +Office by having up workmen from Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards to pull +down the houses around, and so prevent the spread of the flames. + +When peace was at length concluded with the Dutch, and people had +time to think over the disgrace which the country had suffered by the +presence of De Ruyter's fleet in the Medway, it was natural that a +public inquiry into the management of the war should be undertaken. A +Parliamentary Committee was appointed in October, 1667, to inquire into +the matter. Pepys made a statement which satisfied the committee, but +for months afterwards he was continually being summoned to answer some +charge, so that he confesses himself as mad to "become the hackney of +this office in perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least." + +At last a storm broke out in the House of Commons against the principal +officers of the navy, and some members demanded that they should be put +out of their places. In the end they were ordered to be heard in their +own defence at the bar of the House. The whole labour of the defence +fell upon Pepys, but having made out his case with great skill, he was +rewarded by a most unexpected success. On the 5th March, 1667-68, he +made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours, with the +effect that he so far removed the prejudice against the officers of the +Navy Board, that no further proceedings were taken in parliament on the +subject. He was highly praised for his speech, and he was naturally much +elated at his brilliant success. + +About the year 1664 we first hear of a defect in Pepys's eyesight. He +consulted the celebrated Cocker, and began to wear green spectacles, but +gradually this defect became more pronounced, and on the 31st of May, +1669, he wrote the last words in his Diary: + + "And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my + own eyes in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any + longer, having done now as long as to undo my eyes almost every time + that I take a pen in my hand." + +He feared blindness and was forced to desist, to his lasting regret and +our great loss. + +At this time he obtained leave of absence from the duties of his office, +and he set out on a tour through France and Holland accompanied by his +wife. In his travels he was true to the occupation of his life, and made +collections respecting the French and Dutch navies. Some months after +his return he spoke of his journey as having been "full of health and +content," but no sooner had he and his wife returned to London than the +latter became seriously ill with a fever. The disease took a fatal turn, +and on the 10th of November, 1669, Elizabeth Pepys died at the early +age of twenty-nine years, to the great grief of her husband. She died +at their house in Crutched Friars, and was buried at St. Olave's Church, +Hart Street, where Pepys erected a monument to her memory. + +Pepys's successful speech at the bar of the House of Commons made +him anxious to become a member, and the Duke of York and Sir William +Coventry heartily supported him in his resolution. An opening occurred +in due course, at Aldborough, in Suffolk, owing to the death of Sir +Robert Brooke in 1669, but, in consequence of the death of his wife, +Pepys was unable to take part in the election. His cause was warmly +espoused by the Duke of York and by Lord Henry Howard (afterwards Earl +of Norwich and sixth Duke of Norfolk), but the efforts of his supporters +failed, and the contest ended in favour of John Bruce, who represented +the popular party. In November, 1673, Pepys was more successful, and +was elected for Castle Rising on the elevation of the member, Sir Robert +Paston, to the peerage as Viscount Yarmouth. His unsuccessful opponent, +Mr. Offley, petitioned against the return, and the election was +determined to be void by the Committee of Privileges. The Parliament, +however, being prorogued the following month without the House's coming +to any vote on the subject, Pepys was permitted to retain his seat. A +most irrelevant matter was introduced into the inquiry, and Pepys was +charged with having a crucifix in his house, from which it was inferred +that he was "a papist or popishly inclined." The charge was grounded +upon reported assertions of Sir John Banks and the Earl of Shaftesbury, +which they did not stand to when examined on the subject, and the charge +was not proved to be good. + + ["The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election + for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the + first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. + Pepys. Information being given to the House that they had received + an account from a person of quality, that he saw an Altar with a + Crucifix upon it, in the house of Mr. Pepys; Mr. Pepys, standing up + in his place, did heartily and flatly deny that he ever had any + Altar or Crucifix, or the image or picture of any Saint whatsoever + in his house, from the top to the bottom of it; and the Members + being called upon to name the person that gave them the information, + they were unwilling to declare it without the order of the House; + which, being made, they named the Earl of Shaftesbury; and the House + being also informed that Sir J. Banks did likewise see the Altar, he + was ordered to attend the Bar of the House, to declare what he knew + of this matter. 'Ordered that Sir William Coventry, Sir Thomas + Meeres, and Mr. Garraway do attend Lord Shaftesbury on the like + occasion, and receive what information his Lordship, can give on + this matter.'"--Journals of the House of Commons, vol. ix., p. + 306.--" 13th February, Sir W. Coventry reports that they attended + the Earl of Shaftesbury, and received from him the account which + they had put in writing. The Earl of Shaftesbury denieth that he + ever saw an Altar in Mr. Pepys's house or lodgings; as to the + Crucifix, he saith he hath, some imperfect memory of seeing somewhat + which he conceived to be a Crucifix. When his Lordship was asked + the time, he said it was before the burning of the Office of the + Navy. Being asked concerning the manner, he said he could not + remember whether it were painted or carved, or in what manner the + thing was; and that his memory was so very imperfect in it, that if + he were upon his oath he could give no testimony."--. Ibid., vol. + ix., p. 309.--" 16th February--Sir John Banks was called in--The + Speaker desired him to answer what acquaintance he had with; Mr. + Pepys, and whether he used to have recourse to him to his house and + had ever seen there any Altar or Crucifix, or whether he knew of his + being a Papist, or Popishly inclined. Sir J. Banks said that he had + known and had been acquainted with Mr. Pepys several years, and had + often visited him and conversed with him at the Navy Office, and at + his house there upon several occasions, and that he never saw in his + house there any Altar or Crucifix, and that he does not believe him + to be a Papist, or that way inclined in the least, nor had any + reason or ground to think or believe it."--Ibid., vol, ix., p. 310.] + +It will be seen from the extracts from the Journals of the House of +Commons given in the note that Pepys denied ever having had an altar or +crucifix in his house. In the Diary there is a distinct statement of +his possession of a crucifix, but it is not clear from the following +extracts whether it was not merely a varnished engraving of the +Crucifixion which he possessed: + + July 20, 1666. "So I away to Lovett's, there to see how my picture + goes on to be varnished, a fine crucifix which will be very fine." + August 2. "At home find Lovett, who showed me my crucifix, which + will be very fine when done." Nov. 3. "This morning comes Mr. + Lovett and brings me my print of the Passion, varnished by him, and + the frame which is indeed very fine, though not so fine as I + expected; but pleases me exceedingly." + +Whether he had or had not a crucifix in his house was a matter for +himself alone, and the interference of the House of Commons was a gross +violation of the liberty of the subject. + +In connection with Lord Shaftesbury's part in this matter, the late Mr. +W. D. Christie found the following letter to Sir Thomas Meres among the +papers at St. Giles's House, Dorsetshire:-- + + "Exeter House, February 10th, 1674. + + "Sir,--That there might be no mistake, I thought best to put my + answer in writing to those questions that yourself, Sir William + Coventry, and Mr. Garroway were pleased to propose to me this + morning from the House of Commons, which is that I never designed to + be a witness against any man for what I either heard or saw, and + therefore did not take so exact notice of things inquired of as to + be able to remember them so clearly as is requisite to do in a + testimony upon honour or oath, or to so great and honourable a body + as the House of Commons, it being some years distance since I was at + Mr. Pepys his lodging. Only that particular of an altar is so + signal that I must needs have remembered it had I seen any such + thing, which I am sure I do not. This I desire you to communicate + with Sir William Coventry and Mr. Garroway to be delivered as my + answer to the House of Commons, it being the same I gave you this + morning. + + "I am, Sir, + "Your most humble servant, + "SHAFTESBURY." + +After reading this letter Sir William Coventry very justly remarked, +"There are a great many more Catholics than think themselves so, if +having a crucifix will make one." Mr. Christie resented the remarks +on Lord Shaftesbury's part in this persecution of Pepys made by Lord +Braybrooke, who said, "Painful indeed is it to reflect to what length +the bad passions which party violence inflames could in those days +carry a man of Shaftesbury's rank, station, and abilities." Mr. Christie +observes, "It is clear from the letter to Meres that Shaftesbury showed +no malice and much scrupulousness when a formal charge, involving +important results, was founded on his loose private conversations." This +would be a fair vindication if the above attack upon Pepys stood alone, +but we shall see later on that Shaftesbury was the moving spirit in a +still more unjustifiable attack. + +Lord Sandwich died heroically in the naval action in Southwold Bay, and +on June 24th,1672, his remains were buried with some pomp in Westminster +Abbey. There were eleven earls among the mourners, and Pepys, as the +first among "the six Bannerolles," walked in the procession. + +About this time Pepys was called from his old post of Clerk of the +Acts to the higher office of Secretary of the Admiralty. His first +appointment was a piece of favouritism, but it was due to his merits +alone that he obtained the secretaryship. In the summer of 1673, the +Duke of York having resigned all his appointments on the passing of +the Test Act, the King put the Admiralty into commission, and Pepys was +appointed Secretary for the Affairs of the Navy. + + [The office generally known as Secretary of the Admiralty dates back + many years, but the officer who filled it was sometimes Secretary to + the Lord High Admiral, and sometimes to the Commission for that + office. "His Majesties Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of + Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, + Esq., first Secretary therein," is dated June 10th, 1684.] + +He was thus brought into more intimate connection with Charles II., who +took the deepest interest in shipbuilding and all naval affairs. The +Duke of Buckingham said of the King:-- + + "The great, almost the only pleasure of his mind to which he seemed + addicted was shipping and sea affairs, which seemed to be so much + his talent for knowledge as well as inclination, that a war of that + kind was rather an entertainment than any disturbance to his + thoughts." + +When Pepys ceased to be Clerk of the Acts he was able to obtain the +appointment for his clerk, Thomas Hayter, and his brother, John Pepys, +who held it jointly. The latter does not appear to have done much credit +to Samuel. He was appointed Clerk to the Trinity House in 1670 on his +brother's recommendation, and when he died in 1677 he was in debt L300 +to his employers, and this sum Samuel had to pay. In 1676 Pepys was +Master of the Trinity House, and in the following year Master of the +Clothworkers' Company, when he presented a richly-chased silver cup, +which is still used at the banquets of the company. On Tuesday, 10th +September, 1677, the Feast of the Hon. Artillery Company was held at +Merchant Taylors' Hall, when the Duke of York, the Duke of Somerset, the +Lord Chancellor, and other distinguished persons were present. On this +occasion Viscount Newport, Sir Joseph Williamson, and Samuel Pepys +officiated as stewards. + +About this time it is evident that the secretary carried himself with +some haughtiness as a ruler of the navy, and that this was resented by +some. An amusing instance will be found in the Parliamentary Debates. +On May 11th, 1678, the King's verbal message to quicken the supply was +brought in by Mr. Secretary Williamson, when Pepys spoke to this effect: + + "When I promised that the ships should be ready by the 30th of May, + it was upon the supposition of the money for 90 ships proposed by + the King and voted by you, their sizes and rates, and I doubt not by + that time to have 90 ships, and if they fall short it will be only + from the failing of the Streights ships coming home and those but + two..... + + "Sir Robert Howard then rose and said, 'Pepys here speaks rather + like an Admiral than a Secretary, "I" and "we." I wish he knows + half as much of the Navy as he pretends.'" + +Pepys was chosen by the electors of Harwich as their member in the short +Parliament that sat from March to July, 1679, his colleague being Sir +Anthony Deane, but both members were sent to the Tower in May on a +baseless charge, and they were superseded in the next Parliament that +met on the 17th October, 1679. + +The high-handed treatment which Pepys underwent at this time exhibits +a marked instance of the disgraceful persecution connected with the +so-called Popish plot. He was totally unconnected with the Roman +Catholic party, but his association with the Duke of York was sufficient +to mark him as a prey for the men who initiated this "Terror" of the +seventeenth century. Sir. Edmund Berry Godfrey came to his death in +October, 1678, and in December Samuel Atkins, Pepys's clerk, was brought +to trial as an accessory to his murder. Shaftesbury and the others not +having succeeded in getting at Pepys through his clerk, soon afterwards +attacked him more directly, using the infamous evidence of Colonel +Scott. Much light has lately been thrown upon the underhand dealings +of this miscreant by Mr. G. D. Scull, who printed privately in 1883 a +valuable work entitled, "Dorothea Scott, otherwise Gotherson, and Hogben +of Egerton House, Kent, 1611-1680." + +John Scott (calling himself Colonel Scott) ingratiated himself into +acquaintance with Major Gotherson, and sold to the latter large tracts +of land in Long Island, to which he had no right whatever. Dorothea +Gotherson, after her husband's death, took steps to ascertain the exact +state of her property, and obtained the assistance of Colonel Francis +Lovelace, Governor of New York. Scott's fraud was discovered, and a +petition for redress was presented to the King. The result of this was +that the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott, +and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions and +information as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island, +Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preserved +among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian. Scott had his revenge, +and accused Pepys of betraying the Navy by sending secret particulars +to the French Government, and of a design to dethrone the king and +extirpate the Protestant religion. Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane were +committed to the Tower under the Speaker's warrant on May 22nd, 1679, +and Pepys's place at the Admiralty was filled by the appointment of +Thomas Hayter. When the two prisoners were brought to the bar of the +King's Bench on the 2nd of June, the Attorney-General refused bail, but +subsequently they were allowed to find security for L30,000. + +Pepys was put to great expense in collecting evidence against Scott and +obtaining witnesses to clear himself of the charges brought against +him. He employed his brother-in-law, Balthasar St. Michel, to +collect evidence in France, as he himself explains in a letter to the +Commissioners of the Navy:-- + + "His Majesty of his gracious regard to me, and the justification of + my innocence, was then pleased at my humble request to dispence with + my said brother goeing (with ye shippe about that time designed for + Tangier) and to give leave to his goeing into France (the scene of + ye villannys then in practice against me), he being the only person + whom (from his relation to me, together with his knowledge in the + place and language, his knowne dilligence and particular affection + towards mee) I could at that tyme and in soe greate a cause pitch + on, for committing the care of this affaire of detecting the + practice of my enemies there." + +In the end Scott refused to acknowledge to the truth of his original +deposition, and the prisoners were relieved from their bail on February +12th, 1679-80. John James, a butler previously in Pepys's service, +confessed on his deathbed in 1680 that he had trumped up the whole story +relating to his former master's change of religion at the instigation of +Mr. William Harbord, M.P. for Thetford. + +Pepys wrote on July 1st, 1680, to Mrs. Skinner: + + "I would not omit giving you the knowledge of my having at last + obtained what with as much reason I might have expected a year ago, + my full discharge from the bondage I have, from one villain's + practice, so long lain under." + +William Harbord, of Cadbury, co. Somerset, second son of Sir Charles +Harbord, whom he succeeded in 1682 as Surveyor. General of the Land +Revenues of the Crown, was Pepys's most persistent enemy. Several papers +referring to Harbord's conduct were found at Scott's lodging after his +flight, and are now preserved among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian. +One of these was the following memorandum, which shows pretty plainly +Pepys's opinion of Harbord:-- + + "That about the time of Mr. Pepys's surrender of his employment of + Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. Russell and myself being in + discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell delivered himself in these or + other words to this purport: That he thought it might be of + advantage to both, if a good understanding were had between his + brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose it to Mr. Pepys, + and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and went immediately + from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this discourse, he gave me + readily this answer in these very words: That he knew of no service + Mr. Harbord could doe him, or if he could, he should be the last man + in England he would receive any from." + + [William Harbord sat as M.P. for Thetford in several parliaments. + In 1689 he was chosen on the Privy Council, and in 1690 became Vice- + Treasurer for Ireland. He was appointed Ambassador to Turkey in + 1692, and died at Belgrade in July of that year.] + +Besides Scott's dishonesty in his dealings with Major Gotherson, it +came out that he had cheated the States of Holland out of L7,000, in +consequence of which he was hanged in effigy at the Hague in 1672. In +1682 he fled from England to escape from the law, as he had been guilty +of wilful murder by killing George Butler, a hackney coachman, and he +reached Norway in safety, where he remained till 1696. In that year some +of his influential friends obtained a pardon for him from William III., +and he returned to England. + +In October, 1680, Pepys attended on Charles II. at Newmarket, and there +he took down from the King's own mouth the narrative of his Majesty's +escape from Worcester, which was first published in 1766 by Sir David +Dalrymple (Lord Hailes) from the MS., which now remains in the Pepysian +library both in shorthand and in longhand? It is creditable to Charles +II. and the Duke of York that both brothers highly appreciated the +abilities of Pepys, and availed themselves of his knowledge of naval +affairs. + +In the following year there was some chance that Pepys might retire from +public affairs, and take upon himself the headship of one of the chief +Cambridge colleges. On the death of Sir Thomas Page, the Provost of +King's College, in August, 1681, Mr. S. Maryon, a Fellow of Clare +Hall, recommended Pepys to apply to the King for the appointment, being +assured that the royal mandate if obtained would secure his election. He +liked the idea, but replied that he believed Colonel Legge (afterwards +Lord Dartmouth) wanted to get the office for an old tutor. Nothing +further seems to have been done by Pepys, except that he promised if +he were chosen to give the whole profit of the first year, and at least +half of that of each succeeding year, to "be dedicated to the general +and public use of the college." In the end Dr. John Coplestone was +appointed to the post. + +On May 22nd, 1681, the Rev. Dr. Milles, rector of St. Olave's, who is +so often mentioned in the Diary, gave Pepys a certificate as to his +attention to the services of the Church. It is not quite clear what was +the occasion of the certificate, but probably the Diarist wished to have +it ready in case of another attack upon him in respect to his tendency +towards the Church of Rome. + +Early in 1682 Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, and +narrowly escaped shipwreck by the way. Before letters could arrive +in London to tell of his safety, the news came of the wreck of the +"Gloucester" (the Duke's ship), and of the loss of many lives. His +friends' anxiety was relieved by the arrival of a letter which Pepys +wrote from Edinburgh to Hewer on May 8th, in which he detailed the +particulars of the adventure. The Duke invited him to go on board the +"Gloucester" frigate, but he preferred his own yacht (the "Catherine "), +in which he had more room, and in consequence of his resolution he saved +himself from the risk of drowning. On May 5th the frigate struck upon +the sand called "The Lemon and Oar," about sixteen leagues from the +mouth of the Humber. This was caused by the carelessness of the pilot, +to whom Pepys imputed "an obstinate over-weening in opposition to the +contrary opinions of Sir I. Berry, his master, mates, Col. Legg, the +Duke himself, and several others, concurring unanimously in not being +yet clear of the sands." The Duke and his party escaped, but numbers +were drowned in the sinking ship, and it is said that had the wreck +occurred two hours earlier, and the accompanying yachts been at the +distance they had previously been, not a soul would have escaped. + +Pepys stayed in Edinburgh for a short time, and the Duke of York allowed +him to be present at two councils. He then visited; with Colonel George +Legge, some of the principal places in the neighbourhood, such as +Stirling, Linlithgow, Hamilton, and Glasgow. The latter place he +describes as "a very extraordinary town indeed for beauty and trade, +much superior to any in Scotland." + +Pepys had now been out of office for some time, but he was soon to have +employment again. Tangier, which was acquired at the marriage of the +King to Katharine of Braganza, had long been an incumbrance, and it +was resolved at last to destroy the place. Colonel Legge (now Lord +Dartmouth) was in August, 1683, constituted Captain-General of his +Majesty's forces in Africa, and Governor of Tangier, and sent with a +fleet of about twenty sail to demolish and blow up the works, destroy +the harbour, and bring home the garrison. Pepys received the King's +commands to accompany Lord Dartmouth on his expedition, but the latter's +instructions were secret, and Pepys therefore did not know what had been +decided upon. He saw quite enough, however, to form a strong opinion of +the uselessness of the place to England. Lord Dartmouth carried out +his instructions thoroughly, and on March 29th, 1684, he and his party +(including Pepys) arrived in the English Channel. + +The King himself now resumed the office of Lord High Admiral, and +appointed Pepys Secretary of the Admiralty, with a salary of L500 per +annum. In the Pepysian Library is the original patent, dated June +10th, 1684: "His Majesty's Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of +Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, Esq., +first Secretary therein." In this office the Diarist remained until the +period of the Revolution, when his official career was concluded. + +A very special honour was conferred upon Pepys in this year, when he was +elected President of the Royal Society in succession to Sir Cyril Wyche, +and he held the office for two years. Pepys had been admitted a fellow +of the society on February 15th, 1664-65, and from Birch's "History" we +find that in the following month he made a statement to the society:-- + +"Mr. Pepys gave an account of what information he had received from the +Master of the Jersey ship which had been in company with Major Holmes in +the Guinea voyage concerning the pendulum watches (March 15th, 1664-5)." + +The records of the society show that he frequently made himself useful +by obtaining such information as might be required in his department. +After he retired from the presidency, he continued to entertain some of +the most distinguished members of the society on Saturday evenings at +his house in York Buildings. Evelyn expressed the strongest regret +when it was necessary to discontinue these meetings on account of the +infirmities of the host. + +In 1685 Charles II. died, and was succeeded by James, Duke of York. From +his intimate association with James it might have been supposed that a +long period of official life was still before Pepys, but the new king's +bigotry and incapacity soon made this a practical impossibility. At +the coronation of James II. Pepys marched in the procession immediately +behind the king's canopy, as one of the sixteen barons of the Cinque +Ports. + +In the year 1685 a new charter was granted to the Trinity Company, and +Pepys was named in it the first master, this being the second time that +he had held the office of master. + +Evelyn specially refers to the event in his Diary, and mentions the +distinguished persons present at the dinner on July 20th. + +It is evident that at this time Pepys was looked upon as a specially +influential man, and when a parliament was summoned to meet on May 19th, +1685, he was elected both for Harwich and for Sandwich. He chose to +serve for Harwich, and Sir Philip Parker was elected to fill his place +at Sandwich. + +This parliament was dissolved by proclamation July 2nd, 1687, and on +August 24th the king declared in council that another parliament should +be summoned for November 27th, 1688, but great changes took place before +that date, and when the Convention Parliament was called together +in January and February, 1689-90, Pepys found no place in it. The +right-hand man of the exiled monarch was not likely to find favour in +the eyes of those who were now in possession. When the election for +Harwich came on, the electors refused to return him, and the streets +echoed to the cry of "No Tower men, no men out of the Tower!" They did +not wish to be represented in parliament by a disgraced official. + +We have little or no information to guide us as to Pepys's proceedings +at the period of the Revolution. We know that James II. just before his +flight was sitting to Kneller for a portrait intended for the Secretary +to the Admiralty, and that Pepys acted in that office for the last time +on 20th February, 1688-89, but between those dates we know nothing of +the anxieties and troubles that he must have suffered. On the 9th March +an order was issued from the Commissioners of the Admiralty for him +to deliver up his books, &c., to Phineas Bowies, who superseded him as +secretary. + +Pepys had many firm friends upon whom he could rely, but he had also +enemies who lost no opportunity of worrying him. On June 10th, 1690, +Evelyn has this entry in his Diary, which throws some light upon the +events of the time:-- + + "Mr. Pepys read to me his Remonstrance, skewing with what malice and + injustice he was suspected with Sir Anth. Deane about the timber of + which the thirty ships were built by a late Act of Parliament, with + the exceeding danger which the fleete would shortly be in, by reason + of the tyranny and incompetency of those who now managed the + Admiralty and affairs of the Navy, of which he gave an accurate + state, and shew'd his greate ability." + +On the 25th of this same month Pepys was committed to the Gatehouse at +Westminster on a charge of having sent information to the French Court +of the state of the English navy. There was no evidence of any kind +against him, and at the end of July he was allowed to return to his own +house on account of ill-health. Nothing further was done in respect to +the charge, but he was not free till some time after, and he was long +kept in anxiety, for even in 1692 he still apprehended some fresh +persecution. + +Sir Peter Palavicini, Mr. James Houblon, Mr. Blackburne, and Mr. Martin +bailed him, and he sent them the following circular letter:-- + + "October 15, 1690. + + "Being this day become once again a free man in every respect, I + mean but that of my obligation to you and the rest of my friends, to + whom I stand indebted for my being so, I think it but a reasonable + part of my duty to pay you and them my thanks for it in a body; but + know not how otherwise to compass it than by begging you, which I + hereby do, to take your share with them and me here, to-morrow, of a + piece of mutton, which is all I dare promise you, besides that of + being ever, + + "Your most bounden and faithful humble servant, + "S. P." + +He employed the enforced idleness caused by being thrust out of his +employment in the collection of the materials for the valuable work +which he published in 1690, under the title of "Memoirs of the Navy." +Little more was left for him to do in life, but as the government became +more firmly established, and the absolute absurdity of the idea of +his disloyalty was proved, Pepys held up his head again as a man to be +respected and consulted, and for the remainder of his life he was looked +upon as the Nestor of the Navy. + +There is little more to be told of Pepys's life. He continued to keep +up an extended correspondence with his many friends, and as Treasurer +of Christ's Hospital he took very great interest in the welfare of +that institution. He succeeded in preserving from impending ruin the +mathematical foundation which had been originally designed by him, and +through his anxious solicitations endowed and cherished by Charles +II. and James II. One of the last public acts of his life was the +presentation of the portrait of the eminent Dr. John Wallis, Savilian +Professor of Geometry, to the University of Oxford. + +In 1701 he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, and +the University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeous +language the expression of thanks for his munificence.' + +On the 26th May, 1703, Samuel Pepys, after long continued suffering, +breathed his last in the presence of the learned Dr. George Hickes, the +nonjuring Dean of Worcester, and the following letter from John Jackson +to his uncle's lifelong friend Evelyn contains particulars as to the +cause of death: + + Mr. Jackson to Mr. Evelyn. + + "Clapham, May 28th, 1703. + "Friday night. + + "Honoured Sir, + + "'Tis no small addition to my grief, to be obliged to interrupt the + quiet of your happy recess with the afflicting tidings of my Uncle + Pepys's death: knowing how sensibly you will partake with me herein. + But I should not be faithful to his desires, if I did not beg your + doing the honour to his memory of accepting mourning from him, as a + small instance of his most affectionate respect and honour for you. + I have thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the way at + that only time when you were pleased lately to touch here, and + express so great a desire of taking your leave of my Uncle; which + could not but have been admitted by him as a most welcome exception + to his general orders against being interrupted; and I could most + heartily wish that the circumstances of your health and distance did + not forbid me to ask the favour of your assisting in the holding up + of the pawll at his interment, which is intended to be on Thursday + next; for if the manes are affected with what passes below, I am + sure this would have been very grateful to his. + + "I must not omit acquainting you, sir, that upon opening his body, + (which the uncommonness of his case required of us, for our own + satisfaction as well as public good) there was found in his left + kidney a nest of no less than seven stones, of the most irregular, + figures your imagination can frame, and weighing together four + ounces and a half, but all fast linked together, and adhering to his + back; whereby they solve his having felt no greater pains upon + motion, nor other of the ordinary symptoms of the stone. Some other + lesser defects there also were in his body, proceeding from the same + cause. But his stamina, in general, were marvellously strong, and + not only supported him, under the most exquisite pains, weeks beyond + all expectations; but, in the conclusion, contended for nearly forty + hours (unassisted by any nourishment) with the very agonies of + death, some few minutes excepted, before his expiring, which were + very calm. + + "There remains only for me, under this affliction, to beg the + consolation and honour of succeeding to your patronage, for my + Uncle's sake; and leave to number myself, with the same sincerity he + ever did, among your greatest honourers, which I shall esteem as one + of the most valuable parts of my inheritances from him; being also, + with the faithfullest wishes of health and a happy long life to you, + + "Honoured Sir, + "Your most obedient and + "Most humble Servant, + "J. JACKSON. + + "Mr. Hewer, as my Uncle's Executor, and equally your faithful + Servant, joins with me in every part hereof. + + "The time of my Uncle's departure was about three-quarters past + three on Wednesday morning last." + +Evelyn alludes in his Diary to Pepys's death and the present to him of a +suit of mourning. He speaks in very high terms of his friend:-- + + "1703, May 26th. This day died Mr. Sam Pepys, a very worthy, + industrious, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in + knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed thro' all the most + considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the + Admiralty, all which he performed with great integrity. When K. + James II. went out of England, he laid down his office, and would + serve no more, but withdrawing himselfe from all public affaires, he + liv'd at Clapham with his partner Mr. Hewer, formerly his clerk, in + a very noble and sweete place, where he enjoy'd the fruits of his + labours in greate prosperity. He was universally belov'd, + hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilfd in music, a + very greate cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation + .... Mr. Pepys had been for neere 40 yeeres so much my + particular friend that Mr. Jackson sent me compleat mourning, + desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his magnificent + obsequies, but my indisposition hinder'd me from doing him this last + office." + +The body was brought from Clapham and buried in St. Olave's Church, +Hart Street, on the 5th June, at nine o'clock at night, in a vault just +beneath the monument to the memory of Mrs. Pepys. Dr. Hickes performed +the last sad offices for his friend. + +Pepys's faithful friend, Hewer, was his executor, and his nephew, John +Jackson, his heir. Mourning was presented to forty persons, and a large +number of rings to relations, godchildren, servants, and friends, +also to representatives of the Royal Society, of the Universities of +Cambridge and Oxford, of the Admiralty, and of the Navy Office. The bulk +of the property was bequeathed to Jackson, but the money which was left +was much less than might have been expected, for at the time of Pepys's +death there was a balance of L28,007 2s. 1d. due to him from the Crown, +and none of this was ever paid. The books and other collections were +left to Magdalene College, Cambridge, but Jackson was to have possession +of them during his lifetime. These were the most important portion of +Pepys's effects, for with them was the manuscript of the immortal Diary. +The following are the directions for the disposition of the library, +taken from Harl. MS., No. 7301: + + "For the further settlement and preservation of my said library, + after the death of my nephew. John Jackson, I do hereby declare, + That could I be sure of a constant succession of heirs from my said + nephew, qualified like himself for the use of such a library, I + should not entertain a thought of its ever being alienated from + them. But this uncertainty considered, with the infinite pains, and + time, and cost employed in my collecting, methodising and reducing + the same to the state it now is, I cannot but be greatly solicitous + that all possible provision should be made for its unalterable + preservation and perpetual security against the ordinary fate of + such collections falling into the hands of an incompetent heir, and + thereby being sold, dissipated, or embezzled. And since it has + pleased God to visit me in a manner that leaves little appearance of + being myself restored to a condition of concerting the necessary + measures for attaining these ends, I must and do with great + confidence rely upon the sincerity and direction of my executor and + said nephew for putting in execution the powers given them, by my + forementioned will relating hereto, requiring that the same be + brought to a determination in twelve months after my decease, and + that special regard be had therein to the following particulars + which I declare to be my present thoughts and prevailing + inclinations in this matter, viz.: + + "1. That after the death of my said nephew, my said library be + placed and for ever settled in one of our universities, and rather + in that of Cambridge than Oxford. + + "2. And rather in a private college there, than in the public + library. + + "3. And in the colleges of Trinity or Magdalen preferably to all + others. + + "4. And of these too, 'caeteris paribus', rather in the latter, for + the sake of my own and my nephew's education therein. + + "5. That in which soever of the two it is, a fair roome be provided + therein. + + "6. And if in Trinity, that the said roome be contiguous to, and + have communication with, the new library there. + + "7. And if in Magdalen, that it be in the new building there, and + any part thereof at my nephew's election. + + "8. That my said library be continued in its present form and no + other books mixed therein, save what my nephew may add to theirs of + his own collecting, in distinct presses. + + "9. That the said room and books so placed and adjusted be called + by the name of 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana.' + + "10. That this 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana' be under the sole power and + custody of the master of the college for the time being, who shall + neither himself convey, nor suffer to be conveyed by others, any of + the said books from thence to any other place, except to his own + lodge in the said college, nor there have more than ten of them at a + time; and that of those also a strict entry be made and account + kept, at the time of their having been taken out and returned, in a + book to be provided, and remain in the said library for that purpose + only. + + "11. That before my said library be put into the possession of + either of the said colleges, that college for which it shall be + designed, first enter into covenants for performance of the + foregoing articles. + + "12. And that for a yet further security herein, the said two + colleges of Trinity and Magdalen have a reciprocal check upon one + another; and that college which shall be in present possession of + the said library, be subject to an annual visitation from the other, + and to the forfeiture thereof to the life, possession, and use of + the other, upon conviction of any breach of their said covenants. + + "S. PEPYS." + +The library and the original book-cases were not transferred to +Magdalene College until 1724, and there they have been preserved in +safety ever since. + +A large number of Pepys's manuscripts appear to have remained unnoticed +in York Buildings for some years. They never came into Jackson's hands, +and were thus lost to Magdalene College. Dr. Rawlinson afterwards +obtained them, and they were included in the bequest of his books to the +Bodleian Library. + +Pepys was partial to having his portrait taken, and he sat to Savill, +Hales, Lely, and Kneller. Hales's portrait, painted in 1666, is now in +the National Portrait Gallery, and an etching from the original forms +the frontispiece to this volume. The portrait by Lely is in the Pepysian +Library. Of the three portraits by Kneller, one is in the hall of +Magdalene College, another at the Royal Society, and the third was lent +to the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, by the late +Mr. Andrew Pepys Cockerell. Several of the portraits have been engraved, +but the most interesting of these are those used by Pepys himself as +book-plates. These were both engraved by Robert White, and taken from +paintings by Kneller. + +The church of St. Olave, Hart Street, is intimately associated with +Pepys both in his life and in his death, and for many years the question +had been constantly asked by visitors, "Where is Pepys's monument?" +On Wednesday, July 5th, 1882, a meeting was held in the vestry of the +church, when an influential committee was appointed, upon which all the +great institutions with which Pepys was connected were represented by +their masters, presidents, or other officers, with the object of taking +steps to obtain an adequate memorial of the Diarist. Mr. (now Sir) +Alfred Blomfield, architect of the church, presented an appropriate +design for a monument, and sufficient subscriptions having been obtained +for the purpose, he superintended its erection. On Tuesday afternoon, +March 18th, 1884, the monument, which was affixed to the wall of the +church where the gallery containing Pepys's pew formerly stood, was +unveiled in the presence of a large concourse of visitors. The Earl +of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, consented to unveil the +monument, but he was at the last moment prevented by public business +from attending. The late Mr. Russell Lowell, then the American Minister, +took Lord Northbrook's place, and made a very charming and appreciative +speech on the occasion, from which the following passages are +extracted:-- + + "It was proper," his Excellency said, "that he should read a note he + had received from Lord Northbrook. This was dated that day from the + Admiralty, and was as follows: + + "'My dear Mr. Lowell, + + "'I am very much annoyed that I am prevented from assisting at the + ceremony to-day. It would be very good if you would say that + nothing but very urgent business would have kept me away. I was + anxious to give my testimony to the merits of Pepys as an Admiralty + official, leaving his literary merits to you. He was concerned with + the administration of the Navy from the Restoration to the + Revolution, and from 1673 as secretary. I believe his merits to be + fairly stated in a contemporary account, which I send. + + "'Yours very truly, + "'NORTHBROOK. + + "The contemporary account, which Lord Northbrook was good enough to + send him, said: + + "'Pepys was, without exception, the greatest and most useful + Minister that ever filled the same situations in England, the acts + and registers of the Admiralty proving this beyond contradiction. + The principal rules and establishments in present use in these + offices are well known to have been of his introducing, and most of + the officers serving therein since the Restoration, of his bringing- + up. He was a most studious promoter and strenuous asserter of order + and discipline. Sobriety, diligence, capacity, loyalty, and + subjection to command were essentials required in all whom he + advanced. Where any of these were found wanting, no interest or + authority was capable of moving him in favour of the highest + pretender. Discharging his duty to his Prince and country with a + religious application and perfect integrity, he feared no one, + courted no one, and neglected his own fortune.' + + "That was a character drawn, it was true, by a friendly hand, but to + those who were familiar with the life of Pepys, the praise hardly + seemed exaggerated. As regarded his official life, it was + unnecessary to dilate upon his peculiar merits, for they all knew + how faithful he was in his duties, and they all knew, too, how many + faithful officials there were working on in obscurity, who were not + only never honoured with a monument but who never expected one. The + few words, Mr. Lowell went on to remark, which he was expected to + say upon that occasion, therefore, referred rather to what he + believed was the true motive which had brought that assembly + together, and that was by no means the character of Pepys either as + Clerk of the Acts or as Secretary to the Admiralty. This was not + the place in which one could go into a very close examination of the + character of Pepys as a private man. He would begin by admitting + that Pepys was a type, perhaps, of what was now called a + 'Philistine'. We had no word in England which was equivalent to the + French adjective Bourgeois; but, at all events, Samuel Pepys was the + most perfect type that ever existed of the class of people whom this + word described. He had all its merits as well as many of its + defects. With all those defects, however perhaps in consequence of + them--Pepys had written one of the most delightful books that it was + man's privilege to read in the English language or in any other. + Whether Pepys intended this Diary to be afterwards read by the + general public or not--and this was a doubtful question when it was + considered that he had left, possibly by inadvertence, a key to his + cypher behind him--it was certain that he had left with us a most + delightful picture, or rather he had left the power in our hands of + drawing for ourselves some, of the most delightful pictures, of the + time in which he lived. There was hardly any book which was + analogous to it..... If one were asked what were the reasons + for liking Pepys, it would be found that they were as numerous as + the days upon which he made an entry in his Diary, and surely that + was sufficient argument in his favour. There was no book, Mr. + Lowell said, that he knew of, or that occurred to his memory, with + which Pepys's Diary could fairly be compared, except the journal of + L'Estoile, who had the same anxious curiosity and the same + commonness, not to say vulgarity of interest, and the book was + certainly unique in one respect, and that was the absolute sincerity + of the author with himself. Montaigne is conscious that we are + looking over his shoulder, and Rousseau secretive in comparison with + him. The very fact of that sincerity of the author with himself + argued a certain greatness of character. Dr. Hickes, who attended + Pepys at his deathbed, spoke of him as 'this great man,' and said he + knew no one who died so greatly. And yet there was something almost + of the ridiculous in the statement when the 'greatness' was compared + with the garrulous frankness which Pepys showed towards himself. + There was no parallel to the character of Pepys, he believed, in + respect of 'naivete', unless it were found in that of Falstaff, and + Pepys showed himself, too, like Falstaff, on terms of unbuttoned + familiarity with himself. Falstaff had just the same 'naivete', but + in Falstaff it was the 'naivete' of conscious humour. In Pepys it + was quite different, for Pepys's 'naivete' was the inoffensive + vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass. Falstaff had + a sense, too, of inadvertent humour, but it was questionable whether + Pepys could have had any sense of humour at all, and yet permitted + himself to be so delightful. There was probably, however, more + involuntary humour in Pepys's Diary than there was in any other book + extant. When he told his readers of the landing of Charles II. at + Dover, for instance, it would be remembered how Pepys chronicled the + fact that the Mayor of Dover presented the Prince with a Bible, for + which he returned his thanks and said it was the 'most precious Book + to him in the world.' Then, again, it would be remembered how, when + he received a letter addressed 'Samuel Pepys, Esq.,' he confesses in + the Diary that this pleased him mightily. When, too, he kicked his + cookmaid, he admits that he was not sorry for it, but was sorry that + the footboy of a worthy knight with whom he was acquainted saw him + do it. And the last instance he would mention of poor Pepys's + 'naivete' was when he said in the Diary that he could not help + having a certain pleasant and satisfied feeling when Barlow died. + Barlow, it must be remembered, received during his life the yearly + sum from Pepys of L100. The value of Pepys's book was simply + priceless, and while there was nothing in it approaching that single + page in St. Simon where he described that thunder of courtierly red + heels passing from one wing of the Palace to another as the Prince + was lying on his death-bed, and favour was to flow from another + source, still Pepys's Diary was unequalled in its peculiar quality + of amusement. The lightest part of the Diary was of value, + historically, for it enabled one to see London of 200 years ago, + and, what was more, to see it with the eager eyes of Pepys. It was + not Pepys the official who had brought that large gathering together + that day in honour of his memory: it was Pepys the Diarist." + +In concluding this account of the chief particulars of Pepys's life +it may be well to add a few words upon the pronunciation of his +name. Various attempts appear to have been made to represent this +phonetically. Lord Braybrooke, in quoting the entry of death from +St. Olave's Registers, where the spelling is "Peyps," wrote, "This is +decisive as to the proper pronunciation of the name." This spelling may +show that the name was pronounced as a monosyllable, but it is scarcely +conclusive as to anything else, and Lord Braybrooke does not say what +he supposes the sound of the vowels to have been. At present there are +three pronunciations in use--Peps, which is the most usual; Peeps, which +is the received one at Magdalene College, and Peppis, which I learn from +Mr. Walter C. Pepys is the one used by other branches of the family. Mr. +Pepys has paid particular attention to this point, and in his valuable +"Genealogy of the Pepys Family" (1887) he has collected seventeen +varieties of spelling of the name, which are as follows, the dates of +the documents in which the form appears being attached: + +1. Pepis (1273); 2. Pepy (1439); 3. Pypys (1511); 4. Pipes (1511); 5. +Peppis (1518); 6. Peppes (1519); 7. Pepes (1520); 8. Peppys (1552); 9. +Peaps (1636); 10. Pippis (1639); 11. Peapys (1653); 12. Peps (1655); 13. +Pypes (1656); 14. Peypes (1656); 15. Peeps (1679); 16. Peepes (1683); +17. Peyps (1703). Mr. Walter Pepys adds:-- + + "The accepted spelling of the name 'Pepys' was adopted generally + about the end of the seventeenth century, though it occurs many + years before that time. There have been numerous ways of + pronouncing the name, as 'Peps,' 'Peeps,' and 'Peppis.' The + Diarist undoubtedly pronounced it 'Peeps,' and the lineal + descendants of his sister Paulina, the family of 'Pepys Cockerell' + pronounce it so to this day. The other branches of the family all + pronounce it as 'Peppis,' and I am led to be satisfied that the + latter pronunciation is correct by the two facts that in the + earliest known writing it is spelt 'Pepis,' and that the French form + of the name is 'Pepy.'" + +The most probable explanation is that the name in the seventeenth +century was either pronounced 'Pips' or 'Papes'; for both the forms 'ea' +and 'ey' would represent the latter pronunciation. The general change in +the pronunciation of the spelling 'ea' from 'ai' to 'ee' took place in a +large number of words at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of +the eighteenth-century, and three words at least (yea, break, and great) +keep this old pronunciation still. The present Irish pronunciation +of English is really the same as the English pronunciation of the +seventeenth century, when the most extensive settlement of Englishmen +in Ireland took place, and the Irish always pronounce ea like ai (as, +He gave him a nate bating--neat beating). Again, the 'ey' of Peyps would +rhyme with they and obey. English literature is full of illustrations of +the old pronunciation of ea, as in "Hudibras;" + + "Doubtless the pleasure is as great + In being cheated as to cheat," + +which was then a perfect rhyme. In the "Rape of the Lock" tea (tay) +rhymes with obey, and in Cowper's verses on Alexander Selkirk sea rhymes +with survey.' It is not likely that the pronunciation of the name was +fixed, but there is every reason to suppose that the spellings of Peyps +and Peaps were intended to represent the sound Pepes rather than Peeps. + +In spite of all the research which has brought to light so many +incidents of interest in the life of Samuel Pepys, we cannot but feel +how dry these facts are when placed by the side of the living details of +the Diary. It is in its pages that the true man is displayed, and it has +therefore not been thought necessary here to do more than set down in +chronological order such facts as are known of the life outside the +Diary. A fuller "appreciation" of the man must be left for some future +occasion. + + H. B. W. + + + + + +JANUARY 1659-1660 + + [The year did not legally begin in England before the 25th March + until the act for altering the style fixed the 1st of January as the + first day of the year, and previous to 1752 the year extended from + March 25th to the following March 24th. Thus since 1752 we have + been in the habit of putting the two dates for the months of January + and February and March 1 to 24--in all years previous to 1752. + Practically, however, many persons considered the year to commence + with January 1st, as it will be seen Pepys did. The 1st of January + was considered as New Year's day long before Pepys's time. The + fiscal year has not been altered; and the national accounts are + still reckoned from old Lady Day, which falls on the 6th of April.] + +Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, +without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold. + + [Pepys was successfully cut for the stone on March 26th, 1658. See + March 26th below. Although not suffering from this cause again + until the end of his life, there are frequent references in the + Diary to pain whenever he caught cold. In a letter from Pepys to + his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the + breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the + cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the + greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil + so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and + with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that + the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone, + without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more + than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again." At the post-mortem + examination a nest of seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces, + was found in the left kidney, which was entirely ulcerated.] + +I lived in Axe Yard, + + [Pepys's house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster; + it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he + should have settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street + stands on the site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great + messuage or brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called "The + Axe," and referred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII--B.] + +having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. +My wife.... gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day +of the year....[the hope was belied.] + +[Ed. note:.... are used to denote censored passages] + +The condition of the State was thus; viz. the Rump, after being +disturbed by my Lord Lambert, + + [John Lambert, major-general in the Parliamentary army. The title + Lord was not his by right, but it was frequently given to the + republican officers. He was born in 1619, at Calton Hall, in the + parish of Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. + In 1642 he was appointed captain of horse under Fairfax, and acted + as major-general to Cromwell in 1650 during the war in Scotland. + After this Parliament conferred on him a grant of lands in Scotland + worth L1000 per annum. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to + Cromwell, for which the Protector deprived him of his commission. + After Cromwell's death he tried to set up a military government. + The Commons cashiered Lambert, Desborough, and other officers, + October 12th, 1659, but Lambert retaliated by thrusting out the + Commons, and set out to meet Monk. His men fell away from him, and + he was sent to the Tower, March 3rd, 1660, but escaped. In 1662 he + was tried on a charge of high treason and condemned, but his life + was spared. It is generally stated that he passed the remainder of + his life in the island of Guernsey, but this is proved to be + incorrect by a MS. in the Plymouth Athenaeum, entitled "Plimmouth + Memoirs collected by James Yonge, 1684" This will be seen from the + following extracts quoted by Mr. R. J. King, in "Notes and Queries," + "1667 Lambert the arch-rebel brought to this island [St. Nicholas, + at the entrance of Plymouth harbour]." "1683 Easter day Lambert + that olde rebell dyed this winter on Plimmouth Island where he had + been prisoner 15 years and more."] + +was lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced to +yield. Lawson + + [Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as + a common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished + himself during the Protectorate. Though a republican, he readily + closed with the design of restoring the King. He was vice-admiral + under the Earl of Sandwich, and commanded the "London" in the + squadron which conveyed Charles II. to England. He was mortally + wounded in the action with the Dutch off Harwich, June, 1665. He + must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of + Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II, + July 6th, 1665.] + +lies still in the river, and Monk--[George Monk, born 1608, created Duke +of Albemarle, 1660, married Ann Clarges, March, 1654, died January 3rd, +1676.]--is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord Lambert is not yet +come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will without being +forced to it. The new Common Council of the City do speak very high; and +had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint him with their desires +for a free and full Parliament, which is at present the desires, and the +hopes, and expectation of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded members + + ["The City sent and invited him [Monk] to dine the next day at + Guildhall, and there he declared for the members whom the army had + forced away in year forty-seven and forty-eight, who were known by + the names of secluded members."--Burnet's Hist. of his Own Time, + book i.] + +having been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance, but it +was denied them; and it is believed that [neither] they nor the people +will be satisfied till the House be filled. My own private condition +very handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goods +of my house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain. Mr. +Downing master of my office. + + [George Downing was one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the + Exchequer, and in his office Pepys was a clerk. He was the son of + Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple, afterwards of Salem, + Massachusetts, and of Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop. He is + supposed to have been born in August, 1623. He and his parents went + to New England in 1638, and he was the second graduate of Harvard + College. He returned to England about 1645, and acted as Colonel + Okey's chaplain before he entered into political life. Anthony a + Wood (who incorrectly describes him as the son of Dr. Calybute + Downing, vicar of Hackney) calls Downing a sider with all times and + changes: skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionally. + He was sent by Cromwell to Holland in 1657, as resident there. At + the Restoration, he espoused the King's cause, and was knighted and + elected M.P. for Morpeth, in 1661. Afterwards, becoming + Secretary to the Treasury and Commissioner of the Customs, he was in + 1663 created a Baronet of East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, and was + again sent Ambassador to Holland. His grandson of the same name, + who died in 1749, was the founder of Downing College, Cambridge. + The title became extinct in 1764, upon the decease of Sir John + Gerrard Downing, the last heir-male of the family. Sir George + Downing's character will be found in Lord Clarendon's "Life," vol. + iii. p. 4. Pepys's opinion seems to be somewhat of a mixed kind. + He died in July, 1684.] + +Jan. 1st (Lord's day). This morning (we living lately in the garret,) +I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any +other, clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning's + + [Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, + and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely. He had continued to + read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament + was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him. Evelyn + relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with + soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife + being among them. There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in + Evelyn's Diary. When he obtained the mastership of St. John's + College upon the ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that + Nonconformist divine a handsome annuity during his life. He was a + great controversialist, and a man of great reading. Burnet says he + "was a very honest sincere man, but of no sound judgment, and of no + prudence in affairs" ("Hist. of his Own. Time"). He died July 6th, + 1684, aged seventy-one.] + +chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these +words:--"That in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman," +&c.; showing, that, by "made under the law," is meant his circumcision, +which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the garret, where my wife +dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her +hand. I staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; then +went with my wife to my father's, and in going observed the great posts +which the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supt at my +father's, where in came Mrs. The. Turner--[Theophila Turner, daughter of +Sergeant John and Jane Turner, who married Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. She +died 1686.]--and Madam Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife and +I went home with them, and so to our own home. + +2nd. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of +bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to +Mr. Sheply,--[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]--who +was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other places as a gift +from my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him order to give me +the dozen of bottles. Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. +Calthropp about the L60 due to my Lord, + + [Sir Edward Montagu, born 1625, son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by + Paulina, daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, married Jemima, + daughter of John Crew of Stene. He died in action against the Dutch + in Southwold Bay, May 28th, 1672. The title of "My Lord" here + applied to Montagu before he was created Earl of Sandwich is of the + same character as that given to General Lambert.] + +but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I went to Mr. Crew's + + [John Crew, born 1598, eldest son of Sir Thomas Crew, Sergeant-at- + Law and Speaker of the House of Commons. He sat for Brackley in the + Long Parliament. Created Baron Crew of Stene, in the county of + Northampton, at the coronation of Charles II. He married Jemima, + daughter and co-heir of Edward Walgrave (or Waldegrave) of Lawford, + Essex. His house was in Lincoln's Inn Fields. He died December + 12th, 1679.] + +and borrowed L10 of Mr. Andrewes for my own use, and so went to my +office, where there was nothing to do. Then I walked a great while in +Westminster Hall, where I heard that Lambert was coming up to London; +that my Lord Fairfax + + [Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces. + After the Restoration, he retired to his country seat, where he + lived in private till his death, 1671. In a volume (autograph) of + Lord Fairfax's Poems, preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42, + the following lines occur upon the 30th of January, on which day the + King was beheaded. It is believed that they have never been + printed. + + "O let that day from time be bloted quitt, + And beleef of 't in next age be waved, + In depest silence that act concealed might, + That so the creadet of our nation might be saved; + But if the powre devine hath ordered this, + His will's the law, and our must aquiess." + + These wretched verses have obviously no merit; but they are curious + as showing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles + I's judges; continued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror + for that unfortunate monarch's fate. It has recently been pointed + out to me, that the lines were not originally composed by Fairfax, + being only a poor translation of the spirited lines of Statius + (Sylvarum lib. v. cap. ii. l. 88) + + "Excidat illa dies aevo, ne postera credant + Secula, nos certe taceamus; et obruta multa + Nocte tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis." + + These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the + massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in + his memorable speech in the House of Commons, January, 1793, after + the murder of Louis XVI.--B.] + +was in the head of the Irish brigade, but it was not certain what he +would declare for. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for the +Council of State, which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers; +and were to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk that many +places have declared for a free Parliament; and it is believed that they +will be forced to fill up the House with the old members. From the Hall +I called at home, and so went to Mr. Crew's (my wife she was to go to +her father's), thinking to have dined, but I came too late, so Mr. Moore +and I and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of ale together +in the new market, and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner. +After that Mr. Moore and I went as far as Fleet-street together and +parted, he going into the City, I to find Mr. Calthrop, but failed again +of finding him, so returned to Mr. Crew's again, and from thence went +along with Mrs. Jemimah + + [Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir + Edward Montagu. At this time she and her sister, Mrs. Ann, seem to + have been living alone with their maids in London, and Pepys's duty + was to look after them.] + +home, and there she taught me how to play at cribbage. Then I went home, +and finding my wife gone to see Mrs. Hunt, I went to Will's, + + [Pepys constantly visited "Will's" about this time; but this could + not be the famous coffee-house in Covent Garden, because he mentions + visiting there for the first time, February 3rd, 1663-64. It was + most probably the house of William Joyce, who kept a place of + entertainment at Westminster (see Jan. 29th).] + +and there sat with Mr. Ashwell talking and singing till nine o'clock, +and so home, there, having not eaten anything but bread and cheese, my +wife cut me a slice of brawn which. I received from my Lady;--[Jemima, +wife of Sir Edward Montagu, daughter of John Crew of Stene, afterwards +Lord Crew.]--which proves as good as ever I had any. So to bed, and my +wife had a very bad night of it through wind and cold. + +3rd. I went out in the morning, it being a great frost, and walked to +Mrs. Turner's + + [Jane, daughter of John Pepys of South Creake, Norfolk, married to + John Turner, Sergeant-at-law, Recorder of York; their only child, + Theophila, frequently mentioned as The. or Theoph., became the wife + of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart., of Stowford, Devon, and died 1686, + s.p.] + +to stop her from coming to see me to-day, because of Mrs. Jem's corning, +thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthrop, and walked in +his chamber an hour, but could not see him, so went to Westminster, +where I found soldiers in my office to receive money, and paid it them. +At noon went home, where Mrs. Jem, her maid, Mr. Sheply, Hawly, and +Moore dined with me on a piece of beef and cabbage, and a collar of +brawn. We then fell to cards till dark, and then I went home with Mrs. +Jem, and meeting Mr. Hawly got him to bear me company to Chancery Lane, +where I spoke with Mr. Calthrop, he told me that Sir James Calthrop was +lately dead, but that he would write to his Lady, that the money may be +speedily paid. Thence back to White Hall, where I understood that the +Parliament had passed the act for indemnity to the soldiers and officers +that would come in, in so many days, and that my Lord Lambert should +have benefit of the said act. They had also voted that all vacancies in +the House, by the death of any of the old members, shall be filled up; +but those that are living shall not be called in. Thence I went home, +and there found Mr. Hunt and his wife, and Mr. Hawly, who sat with me +till ten at night at cards, and so broke up and to bed. + +4th. Early came Mr. Vanly--[Mr Vanley appears to have been Pepys's +landlord; he is mentioned again in the Diary on September 20th, +1660.]--to me for his half-year's rent, which I had not in the house, +but took his man to the office and there paid him. Then I went down +into the Hall and to Will's, where Hawly brought a piece of his Cheshire +cheese, and we were merry with it. Then into the Hall again, where I met +with the Clerk and Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and took them to +the Swan' and gave them their morning's draft, + + [It was not usual at this time to sit down to breakfast, but instead + a morning draught was taken at a tavern.] + +they being just come to town. Mr. Jenkins shewed me two bills of +exchange for money to receive upon my Lord's and my pay. It snowed hard +all this morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much swelled with +cold. Strange the difference of men's talk! Some say that Lambert must +of necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and that the +Fifth-monarchy-men [will] stick to him, if he declares for a free +Parliament. Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote of +pardon and indemnity from the Parliament. From the Hall I came home, +where I found letters from Hinchinbroke + + [Hinchinbroke was Sir Edward Montagu's seat, from which he + afterwards took his second title. Hinchinbroke House, so often + mentioned in the Diary, stood about half a mile to the westward of + the town of Huntingdon. It was erected late in the reign of + Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the site of a Benedictine + nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its appurtenances, to + his father, Richard Williams, who had assumed the name of Cromwell, + and whose grandson, Sir Oliver, was the uncle and godfather of the + Protector. The knight, who was renowned for, his hospitality, had + the honour of entertaining King James at Hinchinbroke, but, getting + into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his estates, which + were conveyed, July 28th, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu of Barnwell, + father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant they are + still vested. On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, during the + minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchinbroke was almost entirely + destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly saved, + and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the + interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore, + Esq., R.A.--B.] + +and news of Mr. Sheply's going thither the next week. I dined at home, +and from thence went to Will's to Shaw, who promised me to go along with +me to Atkinson's about some money, but I found him at cards with Spicer +and D. Vines, and could not get him along with me. I was vext at this, +and went and walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spent +this day in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters from +the North, that brought certain news that my Lord Lambent his forces +were all forsaking him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, and +that he did now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my Lord +Fairfax did also rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and that +what he had done was only to secure the country against my Lord Lambert +his raising of money, and free quarter. I went to Will's again, where +I found them still at cards, and Spicer had won 14s. of Shaw and Vines. +Then I spent a little time with G. Vines and Maylard at Vines's at our +viols. + + [It was usual to have a "chest of viols," which consisted of six, + viz., two trebles, two tenors, and two basses (see note in North's + "Memoirs of Musick," ed. Rimbault, p. 70). The bass viol was also + called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.] + +So home, and from thence to Mr. Hunt's, and sat with them and Mr. Hawly +at cards till ten at night, and was much made of by them. Home and so to +bed, but much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled. + +5th. I went to my office, where the money was again expected from +the Excise office, but none brought, but was promised to be sent this +afternoon. I dined with Mr. Sheply, at my Lord's lodgings, upon his +turkey-pie. And so to my office again; where the Excise money was +brought, and some of it told to soldiers till it was dark. Then I went +home, and after writing a letter to my Lord and told him the news +that the Parliament hath this night voted that the members that were +discharged from sitting in the years 1648 and 49, were duly discharged; +and that there should be writs issued presently for the calling of +others in their places, and that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up to +town, and that the Prince's lodgings were to be provided for Monk at +Whitehall. Then my wife and I, it being a great frost, went to Mrs. +Jem's, in expectation to eat a sack-posset, but Mr. Edward--[Edward +Montage, son of Sir Edward, and afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]--not +coming it was put off; and so I left my wife playing at cards with her, +and went myself with my lanthorn to Mr. Fage, to consult concerning +my nose, who told me it was nothing but cold, and after that we did +discourse concerning public business; and he told me it is true the City +had not time enough to do much, but they are resolved to shake off the +soldiers; and that unless there be a free Parliament chosen, he did +believe there are half the Common Council will not levy any money by +order of this Parliament. From thence I went to my father's, where I +found Mrs. Ramsey and her grandchild, a pretty girl, and staid a while +and talked with them and my mother, and then took my leave, only +heard of an invitation to go to dinner to-morrow to my cosen Thomas +Pepys.--[Thomas Pepys, probably the son of Thomas Pepys of London (born, +1595), brother of Samuel's father, John Pepys.]--I went back to Mrs. +Jem, and took my wife and Mrs. Sheply, and went home. + +6th. This morning Mr. Sheply and I did eat our breakfast at Mrs. +Harper's, (my brother John' being with me,) + + [John Pepys was born in 1641, and his brother Samuel took great + interest in his welfare, but he did not do any great credit to his + elder.] + +upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. From thence I went to my office, +where we paid money to the soldiers till one o'clock, at which time +we made an end, and I went home and took my wife and went to my cosen, +Thomas Pepys, and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very +good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not +handsome. After dinner I took my leave, leaving my wife with my cozen +Stradwick,--[Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of +Ireland, and wife of Thomas Stradwick.]--and went to Westminster to Mr. +Vines, where George and I fiddled a good while, Dick and his wife (who +was lately brought to bed) and her sister being there, but Mr. Hudson +not coming according to his promise, I went away, and calling at my +house on the wench, I took her and the lanthorn with me to my cosen +Stradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, +mother, brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott and his wife, Mr. Drawwater +and his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake +brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. Stradwick was +King. After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home, it being still a +great frost. + +7th. At my office as I was receiving money of the probate of wills, in +came Mrs. Turner, Theoph., Madame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I had +done I took them home to my house and Mr. Hawly came after, and I got a +dish of steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game or +two at cards. In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing +came to fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and was +forced to stay till night in expectation of the French Embassador, who +at last came, and I had a great deal of good discourse with one of his +gentlemen concerning the reason of the difference between the zeal of +the French and the Spaniard. After he was gone I went home, and found +my friends still at cards, and after that I went along with them to Dr. +Whores (sending my wife to Mrs. Jem's to a sack-posset), where I +heard some symphony and songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, +Harding, and Mallard. Afterwards I put my friends into a coach, and went +to Mrs. Jem's, where I wrote a letter to my Lord by the post, and had my +part of the posset which was saved for me, and so we went home, and put +in at my Lord's lodgings, where we staid late, eating of part of his +turkey-pie, and reading of Quarles' Emblems. So home and to bed. + +8th (Sunday). In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where a good +sermon, wherein he showed the life of Christ, and told us good authority +for us to believe that Christ did follow his father's trade, and was +a carpenter till thirty years of age. From thence to my father's to +dinner, where I found my wife, who was forced to dine there, we not +having one coal of fire in the house, and it being very hard frosty +weather. In the afternoon my father, he going to a man's to demand some +money due to my Aunt Bells my wife and I went to Mr. Mossum's, where a +strange doctor made a very good sermon. From thence sending my wife to +my father's, I went to Mrs. Turner's, and staid a little while, and then +to my father's, where I found Mr. Sheply, and after supper went home +together. Here I heard of the death of Mr. Palmer, and that he was to be +buried at Westminster tomorrow. + +9th. For these two or three days I have been much troubled with thoughts +how to get money to pay them that I have borrowed money of, by reason +of my money being in my uncle's hands. I rose early this morning, and +looked over and corrected my brother John's speech, which he is to make +the next apposition,--[Declamations at St. Paul's School, in which +there were opponents and respondents.]--and after that I went towards my +office, and in my way met with W. Simons, Muddiman, and Jack Price, and +went with them to Harper's and in many sorts of talk I staid till two +of the clock in the afternoon. I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch +rogue; and owns that though he writes new books for the Parliament, +yet he did declare that he did it only to get money; and did talk very +basely of many of them. Among other things, W. Simons told me how his +uncle Scobel was on Saturday last called to the bar, for entering in +the journal of the House, for the year 1653, these words: "This day his +Excellence the Lord General Cromwell dissolved this House;" which words +the Parliament voted a forgery, and demanded of him how they came to be +entered. He answered that they were his own handwriting, and that he +did it by virtue of his office, and the practice of his predecessor; and +that the intent of the practice was to--let posterity know how such and +such a Parliament was dissolved, whether by the command of the King, or +by their own neglect, as the last House of Lords was; and that to this +end, he had said and writ that it was dissolved by his Excellence the +Lord G[eneral]; and that for the word dissolved, he never at the time +did hear of any other term; and desired pardon if he would not dare +to make a word himself when it was six years after, before they came +themselves to call it an interruption; but they were so little satisfied +with this answer, that they did chuse a committee to report to the +House, whether this crime of Mr. Scobell's did come within the act of +indemnity or no. Thence I went with Muddiman to the Coffee-House, and +gave 18d. to be entered of the Club. Thence into the Hall, where I +heard for certain that Monk was coming to London, and that Bradshaw's 2 +lodgings were preparing for him. Thence to Mrs. Jem's, and found her in +bed, and she was afraid that it would prove the small-pox. Thence back +to Westminster Hall, where I heard how Sir H. Vane--[Sir Harry Vane the +younger, an inflexible republican. He was executed in 1662, on a charge +of conspiring the death of Charles I.]--was this day voted out of the +House, and to sit no more there; and that he would retire himself to his +house at Raby, as also all the rest of the nine officers that had their +commissions formerly taken away from them, were commanded to their +farthest houses from London during the pleasure of the Parliament. Here +I met with the Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and his clerk Mr. +Jenings, and took them home, and gave them a bottle of wine, and the +remainder of my collar of brawn; and so good night. After that came in +Mr. Hawly, who told me that I was mist this day at my office, and that +to-morrow I must pay all the money that I have, at which I was put to a +great loss how I should get money to make up my cash, and so went to bed +in great trouble. + +10th. Went out early, and in my way met with Greatorex,--[Ralph +Greatorex, the well-known mathematical instrument maker of his day. He +is frequently mentioned by Pepys.]--and at an alehouse he showed me the +first sphere of wire that ever he made, and indeed it was very pleasant; +thence to Mr. Crew's, and borrowed L10, and so to my office, and was +able to pay my money. Thence into the Hall, and meeting the Quarter +Master, Jenings, and Captain Rider, we four went to a cook's to dinner. +Thence Jenings and I into London (it being through heat of the sun a +great thaw and dirty) to show our bills of return, and coming back drank +a pint of wine at the Star in Cheapside. So to Westminster, overtaking +Captain Okeshott in his silk cloak, whose sword got hold of many people +in walking. Thence to the Coffee-house, where were a great confluence of +gentlemen; viz. Mr. Harrington, Poultny, chairman, Gold, Dr. Petty; &c., +where admirable discourse till at night. Thence with Doling to Mother +Lams, who told me how this day Scott + + [Thomas Scott, M.P., was made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth + on the 17th of this same January. He signed the death warrant of + Charles I., for which he was executed at Charing Cross, October + 16th, 1660. He gloried in his offence, and desired to have written + on his tombstone, "Thomas Scott who adjudged to death the late + king."] + +was made Intelligencer, and that the rest of the members that were +objected against last night, their business was to be heard this day +se'nnight. Thence I went home and wrote a letter, and went to Harper's, +and staid there till Tom carried it to the postboy at Whitehall. So home +to bed. + +11th. Being at Will's with Captain Barker, who hath paid me L300 this +morning at my office, in comes my father, and with him I walked, and +leave him at W. Joyce's, and went myself to Mr. Crew's, but came too +late to dine, and therefore after a game at shittle-cocks--[The game +of battledore and shuttlecock was formerly much played even in tennis +courts, and was a very violent game.]--with Mr. Walgrave and Mr. Edward, +I returned to my father, and taking him from W. Joyce's, who was not +abroad himself, we inquired of a porter, and by his direction went to an +alehouse, where after a cup or two we parted. I went towards London, and +in my way went in to see Crowly, who was now grown a very great loon and +very tame. Thence to Mr. Steven's with a pair of silver snuffers, and +bought a pair of shears to cut silver, and so homeward again. From home +I went to see Mrs. Jem, who was in bed, and now granted to have the +small-pox. Back again, and went to the Coffee-house, but tarried not, +and so home. + +12th. I drink my morning at Harper's with Mr. Sheply and a seaman, and +so to my office, where Captain Holland came to see me, and appointed a +meeting in the afternoon. Then wrote letters to Hinchinbroke and sealed +them at Will's, and after that went home, and thence to the Half Moon, +where I found the Captain and Mr. Billingsly and Newman, a barber, where +we were very merry, and had the young man that plays so well on the +Welsh harp. Billingsly paid for all. Thence home, and finding my letters +this day not gone by the carrier I new sealed them, but my brother Tom +coming we fell into discourse about my intention to feast the Joyces. +I sent for a bit of meat for him from the cook's, and forgot to send my +letters this night. So I went to bed, and in discourse broke to my wife +what my thoughts were concerning my design of getting money by, &c. + +13th. Coming in the morning to my office, I met with Mr. Fage and took +him to the Swan? He told me how high Haselrigge, and Morly, the last +night began at my Lord Mayor's to exclaim against the City of London, +saying that they had forfeited their charter. And how the Chamberlain +of the City did take them down, letting them know how much they were +formerly beholding to the City, &c. He also told me that Monk's letter +that came to them by the sword-bearer was a cunning piece, and that +which they did not much trust to; but they were resolved to make no +more applications to the Parliament, nor to pay any money, unless the +secluded members be brought in, or a free Parliament chosen. Thence +to my office, where nothing to do. So to Will's with Mr. Pinkney, who +invited me to their feast at his Hall the next Monday. Thence I went +home and took my wife and dined at Mr. Wades, and after that we went and +visited Catan. From thence home again, and my wife was very unwilling to +let me go forth, but with some discontent would go out if I did, and I +going forth towards Whitehall, I saw she followed me, and so I staid and +took her round through Whitehall, and so carried her home angry. Thence +I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not +prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two +at cards with her. And so to Mr. Vines, where he and I and Mr. Hudson +played half-a-dozen things, there being there Dick's wife and her +sister. After that I went home and found my wife gone abroad to Mr. +Hunt's, and came in a little after me.--So to bed. + +14th. Nothing to do at our office. Thence into the Hall, and just as I +was going to dinner from Westminster Hall with Mr. Moore (with whom +I had been in the lobby to hear news, and had spoke with Sir Anthony +Ashley Cooper about my Lord's lodgings) to his house, I met with Captain +Holland, who told me that he hath brought his wife to my house, so I +posted home and got a dish of meat for them. They staid with me all the +afternoon, and went hence in the evening. Then I went with my wife, +and left her at market, and went myself to the Coffee-house, and +heard exceeding good argument against Mr. Harrington's assertion, +that overbalance of propriety [i.e., property] was the foundation of +government. Home, and wrote to Hinchinbroke, and sent that and my other +letter that missed of going on Thursday last. So to bed. + +15th. Having been exceedingly disturbed in the night with the barking +of a dog of one of our neighbours that I could not sleep for an hour +or two, I slept late, and then in the morning took physic, and so staid +within all day. At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as +well as I could his Greek speech to say the Apposition, though I believe +he himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that we went to +read in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of +Rome. After that my wife and I in pleasant discourse till night, then +I went to supper, and after that to make an end of this week's notes in +this book, and so to bed. It being a cold day and a great snow my physic +did not work so well as it should have done. + +16th. In the morning I went up to Mr. Crew's, and at his bedside he gave +me direction to go to-morrow with Mr. Edward to Twickenham, and likewise +did talk to me concerning things of state; and expressed his mind how +just it was that the secluded members should come to sit again. I went +from thence, and in my way went into an alehouse and drank my morning +draft with Matthew Andrews and two or three more of his friends, +coachmen. And of one of them I did hire a coach to carry us to-morrow +to Twickenham. From thence to my office, where nothing to do; but Mr. +Downing he came and found me all alone; and did mention to me his going +back into Holland, and did ask me whether I would go or no, but gave me +little encouragement, but bid me consider of it; and asked me whether I +did not think that Mr. Hawly could perform the work of my office alone +or no. I confess I was at a great loss, all the day after, to bethink +myself how to carry this business. At noon, Harry Ethall came to me and +went along with Mr. Maylard by coach as far as Salsbury Court, and there +we set him down, and we went to the Clerks, where we came a little +too late, but in a closet we had a very good dinner by Mr. Pinkny's +courtesy, and after dinner we had pretty good singing, and one, Hazard, +sung alone after the old fashion, which was very much cried up, but I +did not like it. Thence we went to the Green Dragon, on Lambeth Hill, +both the Mr. Pinkney's, Smith, Harrison, Morrice, that sang the bass, +Sheply and I, and there we sang of all sorts of things, and I ventured +with good success upon things at first sight, and after that I played on +my flageolet, and staid there till nine o'clock, very merry and drawn +on with one song after another till it came to be so late. After that +Sheply, Harrison and myself, we went towards Westminster on foot, and +at the Golden Lion, near Charing Cross, we went in and drank a pint of +wine, and so parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and maid +a-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under +my window as I was writing of this very line, and cried, "Past one of +the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went to bed, and +left my wife and the maid a-washing still. + +17th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's, and having given Mr. Edward money +to give the servants, I took him into the coach that waited for us and +carried him to my house, where the coach waited for me while I and the +child went to Westminster Hall, and bought him some pictures. In the +Hall I met Mr. Woodfine, and took him to Will's and drank with him. +Thence the child and I to the coach, where my wife was ready, and so +we went towards Twickenham. In our way, at Kensington we understood how +that my Lord Chesterfield had killed another gentleman about half an +hour before, and was fled. + + [Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, ob. 1713, act. suae + 80. We learn, from the memoir prefixed to his "Printed + Correspondence," that he fought three duels, disarming and wounding + his first and second antagonists, and killing the third. The name + of the unfortunate gentleman who fell on this occasion was Woolly. + Lord Chesterfield, absconding, went to Breda, where he obtained the + royal pardon from Charles II. He acted a busy part in the eventful + times in which he lived, and was remarkable for his steady adherence + to the Stuarts. Lord Chesterfield's letter to Charles II., and the + King's answer granting the royal pardon, occur in the Correspondence + published by General Sir John Murray, in 1829. + + "Jan. 17th, 1659. The Earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly's son of + Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a mare of eighteen pounds price; + the quarrel would not be reconciled, insomuch that a challenge + passed between them. They fought a duel on the backside of Mr. + Colby's house at Kensington, where the Earl and he had several + passes. The Earl wounded him in two places, and would fain have + then ended, but the stubbornness and pride of heart of Mr. Woolly + would not give over, and the next pass [he] was killed on the spot. + The Earl fled to Chelsea, and there took water and escaped. The + jury found it chance-medley."--Rugge's "Diurnal," Addit MSS., + British Museum.--B.] + +We went forward and came about one of the clock to Mr. Fuller's, but he +was out of town, so we had a dinner there, and I gave the child 40s. +to give to the two ushers. After that we parted and went homewards, it +being market day at Brainford [Brentford]. I set my wife down and went +with the coach to Mr. Crew's, thinking to have spoke with Mr. Moore +and Mrs. Jem, he having told me the reason of his melancholy was some +unkindness from her after so great expressions of love, and how he had +spoke to her friends and had their consent, and that he would desire +me to take an occasion of speaking with her, but by no means not to +heighten her discontent or distaste whatever it be, but to make it up if +I can. But he being out of doors, I went away and went to see Mrs. Jem, +who was now very well again, and after a game or two at cards, I left +her. So I went to the Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse; it +was in answer to Mr. Harrington's answer, who said that the state of the +Roman government was not a settled government, and so it was no wonder +that the balance of propriety [i.e., property] was in one hand, and the +command in another, it being therefore always in a posture of war; but +it was carried by ballot, that it was a steady government, though it is +true by the voices it had been carried before that it was an unsteady +government; so to-morrow it is to be proved by the opponents that the +balance lay in one hand, and the government in another. Thence I went +to Westminster, and met Shaw and Washington, who told me how this day +Sydenham + + [Colonel William Sydenham had been an active officer during the + Civil Wars, on the Parliament side; M.P. for Dorsetshire, Governor + of Melcombe, and one of the Committee of Safety. He was the elder + brother of the celebrated physician of that name.--B.] + +was voted out of the House for sitting any more this Parliament, and +that Salloway was voted out likewise and sent to the Tower, during +the pleasure of the House. Home and wrote by the Post, and carried to +Whitehall, and coming back turned in at Harper-'s, where Jack Price was, +and I drank with him and he told me, among other, things, how much the +Protector + + [Richard Cromwell, third son of Oliver Cromwell, born October 4th, + 1626, admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn, May 27th, 1647, fell into + debt and devoted himself to hunting and field sports. His + succession to his father as Protector was universally accepted at + first, but the army soon began to murmur because he was not a + general. Between the dissensions of various parties he fell, and + the country was left in a state of anarchy: He went abroad early in + the summer of 1660, and lived abroad for some years, returning to + England in 1680. After his fall he bore the name of John Clarke. + Died at Cheshunt, July 12th, 1712.] + +is altered, though he would seem to bear out his trouble very well, yet +he is scarce able to talk sense with a man; and how he will say that +"Who should a man trust, if he may not trust to a brother and an uncle;" +and "how much those men have to answer before God Almighty, for their +playing the knave with him as they did." He told me also, that there +was; L100,000 offered, and would have been taken for his restitution, +had not the Parliament come in as they did again; and that he do believe +that the Protector will live to give a testimony of his valour and +revenge yet before he dies, and that the Protector will say so himself +sometimes. Thence I went home, it being late and my wife in bed. + +18th. To my office and from thence to Will's, and there Mr. Sheply +brought me letters from the carrier and so I went home. After that to +Wilkinson's, where we had a dinner for Mr. Talbot, Adams, Pinkny and his +son, but his son did not come. Here we were very merry, and while I was +here Mr. Fuller came thither and staid a little, while. + +After that we all went to my Lord's, whither came afterwards Mr. +Harrison, and by chance seeing Mr. Butler--[Mr. Butler is usually styled +by Pepys Mons. l'Impertinent.]--coming by I called him in and so we +sat drinking a bottle of wine till night. At which time Mistress +Ann--[Probably Mrs. (afterwards Lady) Anne Montagu, daughter of Sir +Edward Montagu, and sister to Mrs. Jem.]--came with the key of my Lord's +study for some things, and so we all broke up and after I had gone to my +house and interpreted my Lord's letter by his character--[The making of +ciphers was a popular amusement about this time. Pepys made several for +Montagu, Downing, and others.]--I came to her again and went with her to +her lodging and from thence to Mr. Crew's, where I advised with him +what to do about my Lord's lodgings and what answer to give to Sir Ant. +Cooper and so I came home and to bed. All the world is at a loss to +think what Monk will do: the City saying that he will be for them, and +the Parliament saying he will be for them. + +19th. This morning I was sent for to Mr. Downing, and at his bed side he +told me, that he had a kindness for me, and that he thought that he had +done me one; and that was, that he had got me to be one of the Clerks of +the Council; at which I was a little stumbled, and could not tell what +to do, whether to thank him or no; but by and by I did; but not very +heartily, for I feared that his doing of it was but only to ease himself +of the salary which he gives me. After that Mr. Sheply staying below all +this time for me we went thence and met Mr. Pierce, + + [Pepys had two friends named Pierce, one the surgeon and the other + the purser; he usually (but not always) distinguishes them. The one + here alluded to was probably the surgeon, and husband of pretty Mrs. + Pierce. After the Restoration James Pearse or Pierce became Surgeon + to the Duke of York, and he was also Surgeon-General of the Fleet.] + +so at the Harp and Ball drank our morning draft and so to Whitehall +where I met with Sir Ant. Cooper and did give him some answer from my +Lord and he did give us leave to keep the lodgings still. And so we did +determine thereupon that Mr. Sheply might now go into the country and +would do so to-morrow. Back I went by Mr. Downing's order and staid +there till twelve o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some +writings, but he came not, so I staid all alone reading the answer of +the Dutch Ambassador to our State, in answer to the reasons of my Lord's +coming home, which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein to +contradict my Lord's arguments for his coming home. Thence to my office +and so with Mr. Sheply and Moore, to dine upon a turkey with Mrs. Jem, +and after that Mr. Moore and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr. +Downing this day feasted Sir Arth. Haselrigge, and a great many more of +the Parliament, and did stay to put him in mind of me. Here he gave me +a note to go and invite some other members to dinner tomorrow. So I went +to White Hall, and did stay at Marsh's, with Simons, Luellin, and all +the rest of the Clerks of the Council, who I hear are all turned out, +only the two Leighs, and they do all tell me that my name was mentioned +the last night, but that nothing was done in it. Hence I went and did +leave some of my notes at the lodgings of the members and so home. To +bed. + +20th. In the morning I went to Mr. Downing's bedside and gave him an +account what I had done as to his guests, land I went thence to my Lord +Widdrington who I met in the street, going to seal the patents for +the judges to-day, and so could not come to dinner. I called upon Mr. +Calthrop about the money due to my Lord. Here I met with Mr. Woodfine +and drank with him at the Sun in Chancery Lane and so to Westminster +Hall, where at the lobby I spoke with the rest of my guests and so to my +office. At noon went by water with Mr. Maylard and Hales to the Swan in +Fish Street at our Goal Feast, where we were very merry at our Jole +of Ling, and from thence after a great and good dinner Mr. Falconberge +would go drink a cup of ale at a place where I had like to have shot +at a scholar that lay over the house of office. Thence calling on Mr. +Stephens and Wootton (with whom I drank) about business of my Lord's I +went to the Coffee Club where there was nothing done but choosing of a +Committee for orders. Thence to Westminster Hall where Mrs. Lane and the +rest of the maids had their white scarfs, all having been at the burial +of a young bookseller in the Hall. + + [These stationers and booksellers, whose shops disfigured + Westminster Hall down to a late period, were a privileged class. + In the statutes for appointing licensers and regulating the press, + there is a clause exempting them from the pains and penalties of + these obnoxious laws.] + +Thence to Mr. Sheply's and took him to my house and drank with him in +order to his going to-morrow. So parted and I sat up late making up my +accounts before he go. This day three citizens of London went to meet +Monk from the Common Council! + + "Jan. 20th. Then there went out of the City, by desire of the Lord + Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Alderman Fowke and Alderman Vincett, + alias Vincent, and Mr. Broomfield, to compliment General Monk, who + lay at Harborough Town, in Leicestershire." + + "Jan. 21st. Because the Speaker was sick, and Lord General Monk so + near London, and everybody thought that the City would suffer for + their affronts to the soldiery, and because they had sent the sword- + bearer to, the General without the Parliament's consent, and the + three Aldermen were gone to give him the welcome to town, these four + lines were in almost everybody's mouth: + + "Monk under a hood, not well understood, + The City pull in their horns; + The Speaker is out, and sick of the gout, + And the Parliament sit upon thorns." + --Rugge's 'Diurnal.'--B." + +21st. Up early in finishing my accounts and writing to my Lord and from +thence to my Lord's and took leave of Mr. Sheply and possession of all +the keys and the house. Thence to my office for some money to pay Mr. +Sheply and sent it him by the old man. I then went to Mr. Downing who +chid me because I did not give him notice of some of his guests failed +him but I told him that I sent our porter to tell him and he was not +within, but he told me that he was within till past twelve o'clock. So +the porter or he lied. Thence to my office where nothing to do. Then +with Mr. Hawly, he and I went to Mr. Crew's and dined there. Thence +into London, to Mr. Vernon's and I received my L25 due by bill for my +troopers' pay. Then back again to Steadman's. At the Mitre, in Fleet +street, in our way calling on Mr. Fage, who told me how the City have +some hopes of Monk. Thence to the Mitre, where I drank a pint of wine, +the house being in fitting for Banister to come hither from Paget's. +Thence to Mrs. Jem and gave her L5. So home and left my money and to +Whitehall where Luellin and I drank and talked together an hour at +Marsh's and so up to the clerks' room, where poor Mr. Cook, a black man, +that is like to be put out of his clerk's place, came and railed at me +for endeavouring to put him out and get myself in, when I was already +in a good condition. But I satisfied him and after I had wrote a letter +there to my Lord, wherein I gave him an account how this day Lenthall +took his chair again, and [the House] resolved a declaration to be +brought in on Monday next to satisfy the world what they intend to do. +So home and to bed. + +22nd. I went in the morning to Mr. Messum's, where I met with W. +Thurburn and sat with him in his pew. A very eloquent sermon about the +duty of all to give good example in our lives and conversation, which I +fear he himself was most guilty of not doing. After sermon, at the door +by appointment my wife met me, and so to my father's to dinner, where we +had not been to my shame in a fortnight before. After dinner my father +shewed me a letter from Mr. Widdrington, of Christ's College, in +Cambridge, wherein he do express very great kindness for my brother, +and my father intends that my brother shall go to him. To church in the +afternoon to Mr. Herring, where a lazy poor sermon. And so home with +Mrs. Turner and sitting with her a while we went to my father's where we +supt very merry, and so home. This day I began to put on buckles to my +shoes, which I have bought yesterday of Mr. Wotton. + +23rd. In the morning called out to carry L20 to Mr. Downing, which I did +and came back, and finding Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, I took him to the +Axe and gave him his morning draft. Thence to my office and there did +nothing but make up my balance. Came home and found my wife dressing of +the girl's head, by which she was made to look very pretty. I went out +and paid Wilkinson what I did owe him, and brought a piece of beef home +for dinner. Thence I went out and paid Waters, the vintner, and went to +see Mrs. Jem, where I found my Lady Wright, but Scott was so drunk that +he could not be seen. Here I staid and made up Mrs. Ann's bills, and +played a game or two at cards, and thence to Westminster Hall, it being +very dark. I paid Mrs. Michell, my bookseller, and back to Whitehall, +and in the garden, going through to the Stone Gallery--[The Stone +Gallery was a long passage between the Privy Garden and the river. It +led from the Bowling Green to the Court of the Palace]--I fell into a +ditch, it being very dark. At the Clerk's chamber I met with Simons +and Luellin, and went with them to Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cock Pit, +where we had some rare pot venison, and ale to abundance till almost +twelve at night, and after a song round we went home. This day the +Parliament sat late, and resolved of the declaration to be printed for +the people's satisfaction, promising them a great many good things. + +24th. In the morning to my office, where, after I had drank my morning +draft at Will's with Ethell and Mr. Stevens, I went and told part of the +excise money till twelve o'clock, and then called on my wife and took +her to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a +pair of new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late. There +when we came we found Mrs. Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, who +called one another husband and wife, and after dinner a great deal +of mad stir. There was pulling off Mrs. bride's and Mr. bridegroom's +ribbons; + + [The scramble for ribbons, here mentioned by Pepys in connection + with weddings (see also January 26th, 1660-61, and February 8th, + 1662-3), doubtless formed part of the ceremony of undressing the + bridegroom, which, as the age became more refined, fell into disuse. + All the old plays are silent on the custom; the earliest notice of + which occurs in the old ballad of the wedding of Arthur O'Bradley, + printed in the Appendix to "Robin Hood," 1795, where we read-- + + "Then got they his points and his garters, + And cut them in pieces like martyrs; + And then they all did play + For the honour of Arthur O'Bradley." + + Sir Winston Churchill also observes ("Divi Britannici," p. 340) that + James I. was no more troubled at his querulous countrymen robbing + him than a bridegroom at the losing of his points and garters. Lady + Fanshawe, in her "Memoirs," says, that at the nuptials of Charles + II. and the Infanta, "the Bishop of London declared them married in + the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and then they + caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces; and + as far as they would go, every one had some." The practice still + survives in the form of wedding favours. + + A similar custom is still of every day's occurrence at Dieppe. Upon + the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom + perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests + at the wedding festival, two and two; each individual wearing two + bits of narrow ribbon, about two inches in length, of different + colours, which are pinned crossways upon the breast. These morsels + of ribbons originally formed the garters of the bride and + bridegroom, which had been divided amidst boisterous mirth among the + assembled company, the moment the happy pair had been formally + installed in the bridal bed.--Ex. inf. Mr. William.Hughes, + Belvedere, Jersey.--B.] + +with a great deal of fooling among them that I and my wife did not like. +Mr. Lucy and several other gentlemen coming in after dinner, swearing +and singing as if they were mad, only he singing very handsomely. There +came in afterwards Mr. Southerne, clerk to Mr. Blackburne, and with +him Lambert, lieutenant of my Lord's ship, and brought with them the +declaration that came out to-day from the Parliament, wherein they +declare for law and gospel, and for tythes; but I do not find people apt +to believe them. After this taking leave I went to my father's, and +my wife staying there, he and I went to speak with Mr. Crumlum (in the +meantime, while it was five o'clock, he being in the school, we went +to my cozen Tom Pepys' shop, the turner in Paul's Churchyard, and drank +with him a pot of ale); he gave my father directions what to do about +getting my brother an exhibition, and spoke very well of my brother. +Thence back with my father home, where he and I spoke privately in the +little room to my sister Pall about stealing of things as my wife's +scissars and my maid's book, at which my father was much troubled. Hence +home with my wife and so to Whitehall, where I met with Mr. Hunt and +Luellin, and drank with them at Marsh's, and afterwards went up and +wrote to my Lord by the post. This day the Parliament gave order that +the late Committee of Safety should come before them this day se'nnight, +and all their papers, and their model of Government that they had made, +to be brought in with them. So home and talked with my wife about our +dinner on Thursday. + +25th. Called up early to Mr. Downing; he gave me a Character, such a one +as my Lord's, to make perfect, and likewise gave me his order for L500 +to carry to Mr. Frost, which I did and so to my office, where I did do +something about the character till twelve o'clock. Then home find +found my wife and the maid at my Lord's getting things ready against +to-morrow. I went by water to my Uncle White's' to dinner, where I +met my father, where we alone had a fine jole of Ling to dinner. After +dinner I took leave, and coming home heard that in Cheapside there had +been but a little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson + + [John Hewson, who, from a low origin, became a colonel in the + Parliament army, and sat in judgment on the King: he escaped hanging + by flight, and died in 1662, at Amsterdam. A curious notice of + Hewson occurs in Rugge's "Diurnal," December 5th, 1659, which states + that "he was a cobbler by trade, but a very stout man, and a very + good commander; but in regard of his former employment, they [the + city apprentices] threw at him old shoes, and slippers, and + turniptops, and brick-bats, stones, and tiles."... "At this + time [January, 1659-60] there came forth, almost every day, jeering + books: one was called 'Colonel Hewson's Confession; or, a Parley + with Pluto,' about his going into London, and taking down the gates + of Temple-Bar." He had but one eye, which did not escape the notice + of his enemies.--B.] + +hung upon it in the middle of the street. I called at Paul's Churchyard, +where I bought Buxtorf's Hebrew Grammar; and read a declaration of the +gentlemen of Northampton which came out this afternoon. Thence to my +father's, where I staid with my mother a while and then to Mr. Crew's +about a picture to be sent into the country, of Mr. Thomas Crew, to my +Lord. So [to] my Lady Wright to speak with her, but she was abroad, so +Mr. Evans, her butler, had me into his buttery, and gave me sack and +a lesson on his lute, which he played very well. Thence I went to my +Lord's and got most things ready against tomorrow, as fires and laying +the cloth, and my wife was making of her tarts and larding of her +pullets till eleven o'clock. This evening Mr. Downing sent for me, and +gave me order to go to Mr. Jessop for his papers concerning his dispatch +to Holland which were not ready, only his order for a ship to transport +him he gave me. To my Lord's again and so home with my wife, tired with +this day's work. + +26th. To my office for L20 to carry to Mr. Downing, which I did and back +again. Then came Mr. Frost to pay Mr. Downing his L500, and I went to +him for the warrant and brought it Mr. Frost. Called for some papers at +Whitehall for Mr. Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council for +L1800 per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, Orders to the +Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods pass free. Home from my +office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine +dinner--viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; +a dish of fowl, three pullets, and two dozen of larks all in a dish; a +great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and +cheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. +Pierce, and all their wives, and my brother Tom. We were as merry as I +could frame myself to be in the company, W. Joyce talking after the old +rate and drinking hard, vexed his father and mother and wife. And I did +perceive that Mrs. Pierce her coming so gallant, that it put the two +young women quite out of courage. When it became dark they all went +away but Mr. Pierce, and W. Joyce, and their wives and Tom, and drank a +bottle of wine afterwards, so that Will did heartily vex his father and +mother by staying. At which I and my wife were much pleased. Then they +all went and I fell to writing of two characters for Mr. Downing, and +carried them to him at nine o'clock at night, and he did not like them +but corrected them, so that to-morrow I am to do them anew. To my Lord's +lodging again and sat by the great log, it being now a very good fire, +with my wife, and ate a bit and so home. The news this day is a letter +that speaks absolutely Monk's concurrence with this Parliament, and +nothing else, which yet I hardly believe. After dinner to-day my +father showed me a letter from my Uncle Robert, in answer to my last, +concerning my money which I would have out of my Coz. Beck's' hand, +wherein Beck desires it four months longer, which I know not how to +spare. + +27th. Going to my office I met with Tom Newton, my old comrade, and took +him to the Crown in the Palace, and gave him his morning draft. And as +he always did, did talk very high what he would do with the Parliament, +that he would have what place he would, and that he might be one of the +Clerks to the Council if he would. Here I staid talking with him till +the offices were all shut, and then I looked in the Hall, and was told +by my bookseller, Mrs. Michell, that Mr. G. Montagu had inquired there +for me. So I went to his house, and was forced by him to dine with him, +and had a plenteous brave dinner and the greatest civility that ever I +had from any man. Thence home and so to Mrs. Jem, and played with her +at cards, and coming home again my wife told me that Mr. Hawly had been +there to speak with me, and seemed angry that I had not been at the +office that day, and she told me she was afraid that Mr. Downing may +have a mind to pick some hole in my coat. So I made haste to him, but +found no such thing from him, but he sent me to Mr. Sherwin's about +getting Mr. Squib to come to him tomorrow, and I carried him an answer. +So home and fell a writing the characters for Mr. Downing, and about +nine at night Mr. Hawly came, and after he was gone I sat up till almost +twelve writing, and--wrote two of them. In the morning up early and +wrote another, my wife lying in bed and reading to me. + +28th. I went to Mr. Downing and carried him three characters, and then +to my office and wrote another, while Mr. Frost staid telling money. And +after I had done it Mr. Hawly came into the office and I left him and +carried it to Mr. Downing, who then told me that he was resolved to be +gone for Holland this morning. So I to my office again, and dispatch my +business there, and came with Mr. Hawly to Mr. Downing's lodging, and +took Mr. Squib from White Hall in a coach thither with me, and there we +waited in his chamber a great while, till he came in; and in the mean +time, sent all his things to the barge that lay at Charing-Cross +Stairs. Then came he in, and took a very civil leave of me, beyond my +expectation, for I was afraid that he would have told me something of +removing me from my office; but he did not, but that he would do me any +service that lay in his power. So I went down and sent a porter to my +house for my best fur cap, but he coming too late with it I did not +present it to him. Thence I went to Westminster Hall, and bound up my +cap at Mrs. Michell's, who was much taken with my cap, and endeavoured +to overtake the coach at the Exchange and to give it him there, but I +met with one that told me that he was gone, and so I returned and went +to Heaven, + + [A place of entertainment within or adjoining Westminster Hall. It + is called in "Hudibras," "False Heaven, at the end of the Hall." + There were two other alehouses near Westminster Hall, called Hell + and Purgatory. + + "Nor break his fast + In Heaven and Hell." + + Ben Jonson's Alchemist, act v. SC. 2.] + +where Luellin and I dined on a breast of mutton all alone, discoursing +of the changes that we have seen and the happiness of them that have +estates of their own, and so parted, and I went by appointment to my +office and paid young Mr. Walton L500; it being very dark he took L300 +by content. He gave me half a piece and carried me in his coach to +St. Clement's, from whence I went to Mr. Crew's and made even with Mr. +Andrews, and took in all my notes and gave him one for all. Then to +my Lady Wright and gave her my Lord's letter which he bade me give her +privately. So home and then to Will's for a little news, then came home +again and wrote to my Lord, and so to Whitehall and gave them to the +post-boy. Back again home and to bed. + +29th. In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where he made an excellent +sermon upon the 2d of the Galatians, about the difference that fell +between St. Paul and St. Peter (the feast day of St. Paul being a day +or two ago), whereby he did prove, that, contrary to the doctrine of +the Roman Church, St. Paul did never own any dependance, or that he was +inferior to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only one a particular +charge of preaching to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles. Here +I met with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner to Mr. Crew's, +where Mr. Spurrier being in town did dine with us. From thence I went +home and spent the afternoon in casting up my accounts, and do find +myself to be worth L40 and more, which I did not think, but am afraid +that I have forgot something. To my father's to supper, where I heard by +my brother Tom how W. Joyce would the other day have Mr. Pierce and his +wife to the tavern after they were gone from my house, and that he had +so little manners as to make Tom pay his share notwithstanding that +he went upon his account, and by my father I understand that my uncle +Fenner and my aunt were much pleased with our entertaining them. After +supper home without going to see Mrs. Turner. + +30th. This morning, before I was up, I fell a-singing of my song, +"Great, good, and just," &c. + + [This is the beginning of the Marquis of Montrose's verses on the + execution of Charles I., which Pepys had set to music: + + "Great, good, and just, could I but rate + My grief and thy too rigid fate, + I'd weep the world to such a strain + That it should deluge once again. + But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies + More from Briareus' hands, than Argus eyes, + I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, + And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds."] + +and put myself thereby in mind that this was the fatal day, now ten +years since, his Majesty died. Scull the waterman came and brought me +a note from the Hope from Mr. Hawly with direction, about his money, he +tarrying there till his master be gone. To my office, where I received +money of the excise of Mr. Ruddyer, and after we had done went to Will's +and staid there till 3 o'clock and then I taking my L12 10s. 0d. due to +me for my last quarter's salary, I went with them by water to London to +the house where Signr. Torriano used to be and staid there a while with +Mr. Ashwell, Spicer and Ruddier. Then I went and paid L12 17s. 6d. due +from me to Captn. Dick Matthews according to his direction the last week +in a letter. After that I came back by water playing on my flageolette +and not finding my wife come home again from her father's I went and sat +awhile and played at cards with Mrs. Jam, whose maid had newly got an +ague and was ill thereupon. So homewards again, having great need to +do my business, and so pretending to meet Mr. Shott the wood monger of +Whitehall I went and eased myself at the Harp and Ball, and thence home +where I sat writing till bed-time and so to bed. There seems now to be +a general cease of talk, it being taken for granted that Monk do resolve +to stand to the Parliament, and nothing else. Spent a little time this +night in knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber. + +31st. In the morning I fell to my lute till 9 o'clock. Then to my Lord's +lodgings and set out a barrel of soap to be carried to Mrs. Ann. Here I +met with Nick Bartlet, one that had been a servant of my Lord's at sea +and at Harper's gave him his morning draft. So to my office where I +paid; L1200 to Mr. Frost and at noon went to Will's to give one of the +Excise office a pot of ale that came to-day to tell over a bag of his +that wanted; L7 in it, which he found over in another bag. Then home and +dined with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard +from his master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in +his lawsuit with Squib about his house and office. After dinner to +Westminster Hall, where all we clerks had orders to wait upon the +Committee, at the Star Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones, + + [Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles + Corbet, for treasonable practices in Ireland.] + +and were to give an account what money we had paid him; but the +Committee did not sit to-day. Hence to Will's, where I sat an hour or +two with Mr. Godfrey Austin, a scrivener in King Street. Here I met and +afterwards bought the answer to General Monk's letter, which is a very +good one, and I keep it by me. Thence to Mrs. Jem, where I found her +maid in bed in a fit of the ague, and Mrs. Jem among the people below at +work and by and by she came up hot and merry, as if they had given her +wine, at which I was troubled, but said nothing; after a game at cards, +I went home and wrote by the post and coming back called in at Harper's +and drank with Mr. Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse, who tells me, +that whereas my Lord Fleetwood should have answered to the Parliament +to-day, he wrote a letter and desired a little more time, he being a +great way out of town. And how that he is quite ashamed of himself, and +confesses how he had deserved this, for his baseness to his brother. +And that he is like to pay part of the money, paid out of the Exchequer +during the Committee of Safety, out of his own purse again, which I am +glad of. Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in Polixandre. + + ["Polexandre," by Louis Le Roy de Gomberville, was first published + in 1632. "The History of Polexander" was "done into English by W. + Browne," and published in folio, London, 1647. It was the earliest + of the French heroic romances, and it appears to have been the model + for the works of Calprenede and Mdlle. de Scuderi; see Dunlop's + "History of Fiction" for the plot of the romance.] + +I could find nothing in Mr. Downing's letter, which Hawly brought me, +concerning my office; but I could discern that Hawly had a mind that I +would get to be Clerk of the Council, I suppose that he might have the +greater salary; but I think it not safe yet to change this for a public +employment. + + + + +FEBRUARY 1659-1660 + +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. Ed.] + +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 Ed.], 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. + + + + +MARCH 1659-1660 + +March 1st. In the morning went to my Lord's lodgings, thinking to have +spoke with Mr. Sheply, having not been to visit him since my coming to +town. But he being not within I went up, and out of the box where my +Lord's pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own +use and left the rest. Then to my office, where little to do, abut +Mr. Sheply comes to me, so at dinner time he and I went to Mr. Crew's, +whither Mr. Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. +Yelverton, a my old school-fellow at Paul's School, to bring the thanks +of the county to General Monk for the return of the Parliament. But old +Mr. Crew and my Lord not coming home to dinner, we tarried late before +we went to dinner, it being the day that John, Mr. John Crew's coachman, +was to be buried in the afternoon, he being a day or two before killed +with a blow of one of his horses that struck his skull into his brain. +From thence Mr. Sheply and I went into London to Mr. Laxton's; my Lord's +apothecary, and so by water to Westminster, where at the Sun [tavern] he +and I spent two or three hours in a pint or two of wine, discoursing of +matters in the country, among other things telling me that my uncle +did to him make a very kind mention of me, and what he would do for me. +Thence I went home, and went to bed betimes. This day the Parliament did +vote that they would not sit longer than the 15th day of this month. + +2d. This morning I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, where I spoke to +him. Here were a great many come to see him, as Secretary Thurlow who is +now by this Parliament chosen again Secretary of State. There were also +General Monk's trumpeters to give my Lord a sound of their trumpets this +morning. Thence I went to my office, and wrote a letter to Mr. Downing +about the business of his house. Then going home, I met with Mr. Eglin, +Chetwind, and Thomas, who took me to the Leg [another tavern] in King's +street, where we had two brave dishes of meat, one of fish, a carp and +some other fishes, as well done as ever I ate any. After that to the +Swan tavern, where we drank a quart or two of wine, and so parted. So +I to Mrs. Jem and took Mr. Moore with me (who I met in the street), and +there I met W. Howe and Sheply. After that to Westminster Hall, where +I saw Sir G. Booth at liberty. This day I hear the City militia is put +into good posture, and it is thought that Monk will not be able to do +any great matter against them now, if he have a mind. I understand that +my Lord Lambert did yesterday send a letter to the Council, and that +to-night he is to come and appear to the Council in person. Sir Arthur +Haselrigge do not yet appear in the House. Great is the talk of a +single person, and that it would now be Charles, George, or Richard +again.--[Charles II., or George Monk, or Richard Cromwell.]--For the +last of which, my Lord St. John is said to speak high. Great also is the +dispute now in the House, in whose name the writs shall run for the next +Parliament; and it is said that Mr. Prin, in open House, said, "In King +Charles's." From Westminster Hall home. Spent the evening in my study, +and so after some talk with my wife, then to bed. + +3d. To Westminster Hall, where I found that my Lord was last night voted +one of the Generals at Sea, and Monk the other. I met my Lord in the +Hall, who bid me come to him at noon. I met with Mr. Pierce the purser, +Lieut. Lambert, Mr. Creed, and Will. Howe, and went with them to the +Swan tavern. Up to my office, but did nothing. At noon home to dinner to +a sheep's head. My brother Tom came and dined with me, and told me that +my mother was not very well, and that my Aunt Fenner was very ill too. +After dinner I to Warwick House, in Holborn, to my Lord, where he dined +with my Lord of Manchester, Sir Dudley North, my Lord Fiennes, and my +Lord Barkly. I staid in the great hall, talking with some gentlemen +there, till they all come out. Then I, by coach with my Lord, to Mr. +Crew's, in our way talking of publick things, and how I should look +after getting of his Commissioner's despatch. He told me he feared there +was new design hatching, as if Monk had a mind to get into the saddle. +Here I left him, and went by appointment to Hering, the merchant, but +missed of my money, at which I was much troubled, but could not help +myself. Returning, met Mr. Gifford, who took me and gave me half a pint +of wine, and told me, as I hear this day from many, that things are in a +very doubtful posture, some of the Parliament being willing to keep the +power in their hands. After I had left him, I met with Tom Harper, +who took me into a place in Drury Lane, where we drank a great deal +of strong water, more than ever I did in my life at onetime before. He +talked huge high that my Lord Protector would come in place again, which +indeed is much discoursed of again, though I do not see it possible. +Hence home and wrote to my father at Brampton by the post. So to bed. +This day I was told that my Lord General Fleetwood told my lord that he +feared the King of Sweden is dead of a fever at Gottenburg. + +4th. Lord's day. Before I went to church I sang Orpheus' Hymn to my +viall. After that to Mr. Gunning's, an excellent sermon upon charity. +Then to my mother to dinner, where my wife and the maid were come. After +dinner we three to Mr. Messum's where we met Mons. L'Impertinent, who +got us a seat and told me a ridiculous story how that last week he had +caused a simple citizen to spend; L80 in entertainments of him and some +friends of his upon pretence of some service that he would do him in his +suit after a widow. Then to my mother again, and after supper she and I +talked very high about religion, I in defence of the religion I was born +in. Then home. + +5th. Early in the morning Mr. Hill comes to string my theorbo, + + [The theorbo was a bass lute. Having gut strings it was played with + the fingers. There is a humorous comparison of the long waists of + ladies, which came into fashion about 1621, with the theorbo, by + Bishop Corbet: + + "She was barr'd up in whale-bones, that did leese + None of the whale's length, for they reached her knees; + Off with her head, and then she hath a middle + As her waste stands, just like the new found fiddle, + The favourite Theorbo, truth to tell ye, + Whose neck and throat are deeper than the belly." + + Corbet, 'Iter Boreale'.] + +which we were about till past ten o'clock, with a great deal of +pleasure. Then to Westminster, where I met with Mr. Sheply and Mr. +Pinkney at Will's, who took me by water to Billingsgate, at the +Salutation Tavern, whither by-and-by, Mr. Talbot and Adams came, and +bring a great [deal of] good meat, a ham of bacon, &c. Here we staid +and drank till Mr. Adams began to be overcome. Then we parted, and so to +Westminster by water, only seeing Mr. Pinkney at his own house, where he +shewed me how he had alway kept the Lion and Unicorn, in the back of his +chimney, bright, in expectation of the King's coming again. At home +I found Mr. Hunt, who told me how the Parliament had voted that the +Covenant be printed and hung in churches again. Great hopes of the +King's coming again. To bed. + +6th. (Shrove Tuesday.) I called Mr. Sheply and we both went up to my +Lord's lodgings at Mr. Crew's, where he bade us to go home again, and +get a fire against an hour after. Which we did at White Hall, whither +he came, and after talking with him and me about his going to sea, he +called me by myself to go along with him into the garden, where he asked +me how things were with me, and what he had endeavoured to do with my +uncle to get him to do something for me but he would say nothing too. He +likewise bade me look out now at this turn some good place, and he would +use all his own, and all the interest of his friends that he had in +England, to do me good. And asked me whether I could, without too much +inconvenience, go to sea as his secretary, and bid me think of it. He +also began to talk of things of State, and told me that he should want +one in that capacity at sea, that he might trust in, and therefore he +would have me to go. He told me also, that he did believe the King would +come in, and did discourse with me about it, and about the affection +of the people and City, at which I was full glad. After he was gone, I +waiting upon him through the garden till he came to the Hall, where I +left him and went up to my office, where Mr. Hawly brought one to me, +a seaman, that had promised Rio to him if he get him a purser's place, +which I think to endeavour to do. Here comes my uncle Tom, whom I +took to Will's and drank with, poor man, he comes to inquire about the +knights of Windsor, of which he desires to get to be one. + + [The body of Poor Knights of Windsor was founded by Edward III. The + intention of the king with regard to the poor knights was to provide + relief and comfortable subsistence for such valiant soldiers as + happened in their old age to fall into poverty and decay. On + September 20th, 1659, a Report having been read respecting the Poor + Knights of Windsor, the House "ordered that it be referred to a + Committee, to look into the revenue for maintenance of the Poor + Knights of Windsor," &c. (See Tighe and Davis's "Annals of + Windsor.")] + +While we were drinking, in comes Mr. Day, a carpenter in Westminster, to +tell me that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that I must go with him to their +yearly Club upon this day, which I confess I had quite forgot. So I went +to the Bell, where were Mr. Eglin, Veezy, Vincent a butcher, one more, +and Mr. Tanner, with whom I played upon a viall, and he a viallin, after +dinner, and were very merry, with a special good dinner, a leg of veal +and bacon, two capons and sausages and fritters, with abundance of wine. +After that I went home, where I found Kate Sterpin who hath not been +here a great while before. She gone I went to see Mrs. Jem, at whose +chamber door I found a couple of ladies, but she not being there, we +hunted her out, and found that she and another had hid themselves behind +a door. Well, they all went down into the dining-room, where it was full +of tag, rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, of which I was +ashamed, and after I had staid a dance or two I went away. Going home, +called at my Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with a +pewterer, that he had bought pewter to-day of. With them I drank, and so +home and wrote by the post, by my Lord's command, for J. Goods to come +up presently. For my Lord intends to go forthwith into the Swiftsure +till the Nazeby be ready. This day I hear that the Lords do intend to +sit, and great store of them are now in town, and I see in the Hall +to-day. Overton at Hull do stand out, but can, it is thought, do +nothing; and Lawson, it is said, is gone with some ships thither, but +all that is nothing. My Lord told me, that there was great endeavours to +bring in the Protector again; but he told me, too, that he did believe +it would not last long if he were brought in; no, nor the King neither +(though he seems to think that he will come in), unless he carry himself +very soberly and well. Every body now drinks the King's health without +any fear, whereas before it was very private that a man dare do it. Monk +this day is feasted at Mercers' Hall, and is invited one after another +to all the twelve Halls in London! Many think that he is honest yet, and +some or more think him to be a fool that would raise himself, but think +that he will undo himself by endeavouring it. My mind, I must needs +remember, has been very much eased and joyed at my Lord's great +expressions of kindness this day, and in discourse thereupon my wife and +I lay awake an hour or two in our bed. + +7th. (Ash Wednesday.) In the morning I went to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, +in my way Washington overtook me and told me upon my question whether +he knew of any place now void that I might have, by power over friends, +that this day Mr. G. Montagu was to be made 'Custos Rotulorum' for +Westminster, and that by friends I might get to be named by him Clerk of +the Peace, with which I was, as I am at all new things, very much joyed, +so when I came to Mr. Crew's, I spoke to my Lord about it, who told me +he believed Mr. Montagu had already promised it, and that it was given +him only that he might gratify one person with the place I look for. +Here, among many that were here, I met with Mr. Lynes, the surgeon, who +promised me some seeds of the sensitive plant. + + [Evelyn, about the same date (August 9th, 1661), "tried several + experiments on the sensitive plant and humilis, which contracted + with the least touch of the sun through a burning glass, though it + rises and opens only when it shines on it"] + +I spoke too with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who gave me great encouragement +to go to sea with my Lord. Thence going homewards, my Lord overtook me +in his coach, and called me in, and so I went with him to St. James's, +and G. Montagu being gone to White Hall, we walked over the Park +thither, all the way he discoursing of the times, and of the change +of things since the last year, and wondering how he could bear with so +great disappointment as he did. He did give me the best advice that he +could what was best for me, whether to stay or go with him, and offered +all the ways that could be, how he might do me good, with the greatest +liberty and love that could be. I left him at Whitehall, and myself went +to Westminster to my office, whither nothing to do, but I did discourse +with Mr. Falconbridge about Le Squire's place, and had his consent to +get it if I could. I afterwards in the Hall met with W. Simons, who +put me in the best way how to get it done. Thence by appointment to +the Angel in King Street, where Chetwind, Mr. Thomas and Doling were at +oysters, and beginning Lent this day with a fish dinner. After dinner +Mr. Thomas and I by water to London, where I went to Herring's and +received the L50 of my Lord's upon Frank's bill from Worcester. I gave +in the bill and set my hand to his bill. Thence I went to the Pope's +Head Alley and called on Adam Chard, and bought a catcall there, it cost +me two groats. Thence went and gave him a cup of ale. After that to the +Sun behind the Exchange, where meeting my uncle Wight by the way, took +him with me thither, and after drinking a health or two round at the +Cock (Mr. Thomas being gone thither), we parted, he and I homewards, +parted at Fleet Street, where I found my father newly come home from +Brampton very well. He left my uncle with his leg very dangerous, and do +believe he cannot continue in that condition long. He tells me that my +uncle did acquaint him very largely what he did intend to do with his +estate, to make me his heir and give my brother Tom something, and that +my father and mother should have likewise something, to raise portions +for John and Pall. I pray God he may be as good as his word. Here I +staid and supped and so home, there being Joyce Norton there and Ch. +Glascock. Going home I called at Wotton's and took home a piece of +cheese. At home Mr. Sheply sat with me a little while, and so we all +to bed. This news and my Lord's great kindness makes me very cheerful +within. I pray God make me thankful. This day, according to order, Sir +Arthur [Haselrigge] appeared at the House; what was done I know not, but +there was all the Rumpers almost come to the House to-day. My Lord did +seem to wonder much why Lambert was so willing to be put into the Tower, +and thinks he has some design in it; but I think that he is so poor that +he cannot use his liberty for debts, if he were at liberty; and so it is +as good and better for him to be there, than any where else. + +8th. To Whitehall to bespeak some firing for my father at Short's, and +likewise to speak to Mr. Blackburne about Batters being gunner in the +"Wexford." Then to Westminster Hall, where there was a general damp over +men's minds and faces upon some of the Officers of the Army being about +making a remonstrance against Charles Stuart or any single person; but +at noon it was told, that the General had put a stop to it, so all was +well again. Here I met with Jasper, who was to look for me to bring me +to my Lord at the lobby; whither sending a note to my Lord, he comes out +to me and gives me direction to look after getting some money for him +from the Admiralty, seeing that things are so unsafe, that he would not +lay out a farthing for the State, till he had received some money of +theirs. Home about two o'clock, and took my wife by land to Paternoster +Row, to buy some Paragon for a petticoat and so home again. In my way +meeting Mr. Moore, who went home with me while I ate a bit and so back +to Whitehall again, both of us. He waited at the Council for Mr. Crew. +I to the Admiralty, where I got the order for the money, and have taken +care for the getting of it assigned upon Mr. Hutchinson, Treasurer for +the Navy, against tomorrow. Hence going home I met with Mr. King that +belonged to the Treasurers at War and took him to Harper's, who told me +that he and the rest of his fellows are cast out of office by the new +Treasurers. This afternoon, some of the Officers of the Army, and some +of the Parliament, had a conference at White Hall to make all right +again, but I know not what is done. This noon I met at the Dog tavern +Captain Philip Holland, with whom I advised how to make some advantage +of my Lord's going to sea, which he told me might be by having of +five or six servants entered on board, and I to give them what wages I +pleased, and so their pay to be mine; he was also very urgent to have +me take the Secretary's place, that my Lord did proffer me. At the same +time in comes Mr. Wade and Mr. Sterry, secretary to the plenipotentiary +in Denmark, who brought the news of the death of the King of Sweden +at Gottenburgh the 3rd of the last month, and he told me what a great +change he found when he came here, the secluded members being restored. +He also spoke very freely of Mr. Wades profit, which he made while he +was in Zeeland, how he did believe that he cheated Mr. Powell, and that +he made above L500 on the voyage, which Mr. Wade did very angrily deny, +though I believe he was guilty enough. + +9th. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to Westminster with him in the +coach, with Mr. Dudley with him, and he in the Painted Chamber + + [The Painted Chamber, or St. Edward's Chamber, in the old Palace at + Westminster. The first name was given to it from the curious + paintings on the walls, and the second from the tradition that + Edward the Confessor died in it.] + +walked a good while; and I telling him that I was willing and ready +to go with him to sea, he agreed that I should, and advised me what +to write to Mr. Downing about it, which I did at my office, that by my +Lord's desire I offered that my place might for a while be supplied by +Mr. Moore, and that I and my security should be bound by the same bond +for him. I went and dined at Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hawly comes to me, +and I told him the business and shewed him the letter promising him L20 +a year, which he liked very well of. I did the same to Mr. Moore, which +he also took for a courtesy. In the afternoon by coach, taking Mr. +Butler with me to the Navy Office, about the L500 for my Lord, which I +am promised to have to-morrow morning. Then by coach back again, and at +White Hall at the Council Chamber spoke with my Lord and got him to sign +the acquittance for the L500, and he also told me that he had spoke to +Mr. Blackburne to put off Mr. Creed and that I should come to him for +direction in the employment. After this Mr. Butler and I to Harper's, +where we sat and drank for two hours till ten at night; the old woman +she was drunk and began to talk foolishly in commendation of her son +James. Home and to bed. All night troubled in my thoughts how to order +my business upon this great change with me that I could not sleep, and +being overheated with drink I made a promise the next morning to drink +no strong drink this week, for I find that it makes me sweat and puts me +quite out of order. This day it was resolved that the writs do go out in +the name of the Keepers of the Liberty, and I hear that it is resolved +privately that a treaty be offered with the King. And that Monk did +check his soldiers highly for what they did yesterday. + +10th. In the morning went to my father's, whom I took in his cutting +house,--[His father was a tailor, and this was his cutting-out +room.]--and there I told him my resolution to go to sea with my Lord, +and consulted with him how to dispose of my wife, and we resolved of +letting her be at Mr. Bowyer's. Thence to the Treasurer of the Navy, +where I received L500 for my Lord, and having left L200 of it with +Mr. Rawlinson at his house for Sheply, I went with the rest to the Sun +tavern on Fish Street Hill, where Mr. Hill, Stevens and Mr. Hater of +the Navy Office had invited me, where we had good discourse and a fine +breakfast of Mr. Hater. Then by coach home, where I took occasion to +tell my wife of my going to sea, who was much troubled at it, and was +with some dispute at last willing to continue at Mr. Bowyer's in my +absence. After this to see Mrs. Jem and paid her maid L7, and then to +Mr. Blackburne, who told me what Mr. Creed did say upon the news of my +coming into his place, and that he did propose to my Lord that there +should be two Secretaries, which made me go to Sir H. Wright's where my +Lord dined and spoke with him about it, but he seemed not to agree to +the motion. Hither W. Howe comes to me and so to Westminster. In the way +he told me, what I was to provide and so forth against my going. He went +with me to my office, whither also Mr. Madge comes half foxed and played +the fool upon the violin that made me weary. Then to Whitehall and so +home and set many of my things in order against my going. My wife was +late making of caps for me, and the wench making an end of a pair of +stockings that she was knitting of. So to bed. + +11th. (Sunday.) All the day busy without my band on, putting up my books +and things, in order to my going to sea. At night my wife and I went to +my father's to supper, where J. Norton and Chas. Glascocke supt with us, +and after supper home, where the wench had provided all things against +tomorrow to wash, and so to bed, where I much troubled with my cold and +coughing. + +12th. This day the wench rose at two in the morning to wash, and my wife +and I lay talking a great while. I by reason of my cold could not tell +how to sleep. My wife and I to the Exchange, where we bought a great +many things, where I left her and went into London, and at Bedells the +bookseller's at the Temple gate I paid L12 10s. 6d. for Mr. Fuller by +his direction. So came back and at Wilkinson's found Mr. Sheply and some +sea people, as the cook of the Nazeby and others, at dinner. Then to the +White Horse in King Street, where I got Mr. Buddle's horse to ride to +Huntsmore to Mr. Bowyer's, where I found him and all well, and willing +to have my wife come and board with them while I was at sea, which was +the business I went about. Here I lay and took a thing for my cold, +namely a spoonful of honey and a nutmeg scraped into it, by Mr. Bowyer's +direction, and so took it into my mouth, which I found did do me much +good. + +13th. It rained hard and I got up early, and got to London by 8 o'clock +at my Lord's lodgings, who told me that I was to be secretary, and Creed +to be deputy treasurer to the Fleet, at which I was troubled, but I +could not help it. After that to my father's to look after things, and +so at my shoemaker's and others. At night to Whitehall, where I met with +Simons and Luellin at drink with them at Roberts at Whitehall. Then to +the Admiralty, where I talked with Mr. Creed till the Brothers, and they +were very seemingly willing and glad that I have the place since my Lord +would dispose of it otherwise than to them. Home and to bed. This day +the Parliament voted all that had been done by the former Rump against +the House of Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out without +any qualification. Things seem very doubtful what will be the end of +all; for the Parliament seems to be strong for the King, while the +soldiers do all talk against. + +14th. To my Lord, where infinity of applications to him and to me. To my +great trouble, my Lord gives me all the papers that was given to him, to +put in order and give him an account of them. Here I got half-a-piece of +a person of Mr. Wright's recommending to my Lord to be Preacher of the +Speaker frigate. I went hence to St. James's and Mr. Pierce the surgeon +with me, to speak with Mr. Clerke, Monk's secretary, about getting some +soldiers removed out of Huntingdon to Oundle, which my Lord told me +he did to do a courtesy to the town, that he might have the greater +interest in them, in the choice of the next Parliament; not that he +intends to be chosen himself, but that he might have Mr. G. Montagu +and my Lord Mandeville chose there in spite of the Bernards. This done +(where I saw General Monk and methought he seemed a dull heavy man), he +and I to Whitehall, where with Luellin we dined at Marsh's. Coming home +telling my wife what we had to dinner, she had a mind to some cabbage, +and I sent for some and she had it. Went to the Admiralty, where a +strange thing how I am already courted by the people. This morning among +others that came to me I hired a boy of Jenkins of Westminster and Burr +to be my clerk. This night I went to Mr. Creed's chamber where he gave +me the former book of the proceedings in the fleet and the Seal. Then to +Harper's where old Beard was and I took him by coach to my Lord's, but +he was not at home, but afterwards I found him out at Sir H. Wright's. +Thence by coach, it raining hard, to Mrs. Jem, where I staid a while, +and so home, and late in the night put up my things in a sea-chest that +Mr. Sheply lent me, and so to bed. + +15th. Early packing up my things to be sent by cart with the rest of my +Lord's. So to Will's, where I took leave of some of my friends. Here I +met Tom Alcock, one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I had +not seen him these sixteen years. So in the Hall paid and made even with +Mrs. Michell; afterwards met with old Beale, and at the Axe paid him +this quarter to Ladyday next. In the afternoon Dick Mathews comes to +dine, and I went and drank with him at Harper's. So into London by +water, and in Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d. +and went to the Sun Tavern and ate it, where I did promise to give her +all that I have in the world but my books, in case I should die at sea. +From thence homewards; in the way my wife bought linen for three smocks +and other things. I went to my Lord's and spoke with him. So home with +Mrs. Jem by coach and then home to my own house. From thence to the Fox +in King-street to supper on a brave turkey of Mr. Hawly's, with +some friends of his there, Will Bowyer, &c. After supper I went to +Westminster Hall, and the Parliament sat till ten at night, thinking and +being expected to dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not. Great +talk to-night that the discontented officers did think this night to +make a stir, but prevented. To the Fox again. Home with my wife, and to +bed extraordinary sleepy. + +16th. No sooner out of bed but troubled with abundance of clients, +seamen. My landlord Vanly's man came to me by my direction yesterday, +for I was there at his house as I was going to London by water, and I +paid him rent for my house for this quarter ending at Lady day, and took +an acquittance that he wrote me from his master. Then to Mr. Sheply, to +the Rhenish Tavern House, where Mr. Pim, the tailor, was, and gave us a +morning draft and a neat's tongue. Home and with my wife to London, we +dined at my father's, where Joyce Norton and Mr. Armiger dined also. +After dinner my wife took leave of them in order to her going to-morrow +to Huntsmore. In my way home I went to the Chapel in Chancery Lane +to bespeak papers of all sorts and other things belonging to writing +against my voyage. So home, where I spent an hour or two about my +business in my study. Thence to the Admiralty, and staid a while, so +home again, where Will Bowyer came to tell us that he would bear my wife +company in the coach to-morrow. Then to Westminster Hall, where I heard +how the Parliament had this day dissolved themselves, and did pass very +cheerfully through the Hall, and the Speaker without his mace. The whole +Hall was joyful thereat, as well as themselves, and now they begin to +talk loud of the King. To-night I am told, that yesterday, about five +o'clock in the afternoon, one came with a ladder to the Great Exchange, +and wiped with a brush the inscription that was upon King Charles, and +that there was a great bonfire made in the Exchange, and people called +out "God bless. King Charles the Second!" + + ["Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the + statue of Charles I, in the Royal Exchange ('Exit tyrannus, Regum + ultimus, anno libertatis Angliae, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx.) + was washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, + and with a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down + his pot and brush and said it should never do him any more service, + in regard that it had the honour to put out rebels' hand-writing. + He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, + and by whose order it was done was not then known. The merchants + were glad and joyful, many people were gathered together, and + against the Exchange made a bonfire. "Rugge's Diurnal." In the + Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts at the British Museum is a + pamphlet which is dated in MS. March 21st, 1659-60, where this act + is said to be by order of Monk: "The Loyal Subjects Teares for the + Sufferings and Absence of their Sovereign Charles II., King of + England, Scotland, and Ireland; with an Observation upon the + expunging of 'Exit Tyrannus, Regum ultimus', by order of General + Monk, and some Advice to the Independents, Anabaptists, Phanatiques, + &c. London, 1660."] + +From the Hall I went home to bed, very sad in mind to part with my wife, +but God's will be done. + +17th. This morning bade adieu in bed to the company of my wife. We rose +and I gave my wife some money to serve her for a time, and what papers +of consequence I had. Then I left her to get her ready and went to my +Lord's with my boy Eliezer to my Lord's lodging at Mr. Crew's. Here I +had much business with my Lord, and papers, great store, given me by my +Lord to dispose of as of the rest. After that, with Mr. Moore home to my +house and took my wife by coach to the Chequer in Holborn, where, after +we had drank, &c., she took coach and so farewell. I staid behind with +Tom Alcock and Mr. Anderson, my old chamber fellow at Cambridge his +brother, and drank with them there, who were come to me thither about +one that would have a place at sea. Thence with Mr. Hawly to dinner at +Mr. Crew's. After dinner to my own house, where all things were put up +into the dining-room and locked up, and my wife took the keys along with +her. + +This day, in the presence of Mr. Moore (who made it) and Mr. Hawly, I +did before I went out with my wife, seal my will to her, whereby I did +give her all that I have in the world, but my books which I give to my +brother John, excepting only French books, which my wife is to have. In +the evening at the Admiralty, I met my Lord there and got a commission +for Williamson to be captain of the Harp frigate, and afterwards went +by coach taking Mr. Crips with me to my Lord and got him to sign it at +table as he was at supper. And so to Westminster back again with him +with me, who had a great desire to go to sea and my Lord told me that he +would do him any favour. So I went home with him to his mother's house +by me in Axe Yard, where I found Dr. Clodius's wife and sat there +talking and hearing of old Mrs. Crisp playing of her old lessons upon +the harpsichon till it was time to go to bed. After that to bed, and +Laud, her son lay with me in the best chamber in her house, which indeed +was finely furnished. + +18th. I rose early and went to the barber's (Jervas) in Palace Yard and +I was trimmed by him, and afterwards drank with him a cup or two of ale, +and did begin to hire his man to go with me to sea. Then to my Lord's +lodging where I found Captain Williamson and gave him his commission +to be Captain of the Harp, and he gave me a piece of gold and 20s. in +silver. So to my own house, where I staid a while and then to dinner +with Mr. Shepley at my Lord's lodgings. After that to Mr. Mossum's, +where he made a very gallant sermon upon "Pray for the life of the King +and the King's son." (Ezra vi. 10.) From thence to Mr. Crew's, but my +Lord not being within I did not stay, but went away and met with Mr. +Woodfine, who took me to an alehouse in Drury Lane, and we sat and drank +together, and ate toasted cakes which were very good, and we had a great +deal of mirth with the mistress of the house about them. From thence +homewards, and called at Mr. Blagrave's, where I took up my note that he +had of mine for 40s., which he two years ago did give me as a pawn while +he had my lute. So that all things are even between him and I. So to +Mrs. Crisp, where she and her daughter and son and I sat talking +till ten o'clock at night, I giving them the best advice that I could +concerning their son, how he should go to sea, and so to bed. + +19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business to do, which makes +my head full; and indeed, for these two or three days, I have not been +without a great many cares and thoughts concerning them. After that to +the Admiralty, where a good while with Mr. Blackburne, who told me that +it was much to be feared that the King would come in, for all good men +and good things were now discouraged. Thence to Wilkinson's, where +Mr. Sheply and I dined; and while we were at dinner, my Lord Monk's +lifeguard come by with the Serjeant at Arms before them, with two +Proclamations, that all Cavaliers do depart the town; but the other that +all officers that were lately disbanded should do the same. The last of +which Mr. R. Creed, I remember, said, that he looked upon it as if they +had said, that all God's people should depart the town. Thence with some +sea officers to the Swan, where we drank wine till one comes to me to +pay me some money from Worcester, viz., L25. His name is Wilday. I sat +in another room and took my money and drank with him till the rest of my +company were gone and so we parted. Going home the water was high, +and so I got Crockford to carry me over it. So home, and left my money +there. All the discourse now-a-day is, that the King will come again; +and for all I see, it is the wishes of all; and all do believe that it +will be so. My mind is still much troubled for my poor wife, but I hope +that this undertaking will be worth my pains. To Whitehall and staid +about business at the Admiralty late, then to Tony Robins's, where Capt. +Stokes, Mr. Luddington and others were, and I did solicit the Captain +for Laud Crisp, who gave me a promise that he would entertain him. After +that to Mrs. Crisp's where Dr. Clodius and his wife were. He very merry +with drink. We played at cards late and so to bed. This day my Lord +dined at my Lord Mayor's [Allen], and Jasper was made drunk, which my +Lord was very angry at. + +20th. This morning I rose early and went to my house to put things in a +little order against my going, which I conceive will be to-morrow (the +weather still very rainy). After that to my Lord, where I found very +great deal of business, he giving me all letters and papers that come +to him about business, for me to give him account of when we come +on shipboard. Hence with Capt. Isham by coach to Whitehall to the +Admiralty. He and I and Chetwind, Doling and Luellin dined together at +Marsh's at Whitehall. So to the Bull Head whither W. Simons comes to us +and I gave them my foy + + [Foy. A feast given by one who is about to leave a place. In Kent, + according to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or + coming home. See Diary, November 25th, 1661.] + +against my going to sea; and so we took leave one of another, they +promising me to write to me to sea. Hither comes Pim's boy, by my +direction, with two monteeres--[Monteeres, montero (Spanish), a kind of +huntsman's cap.]--for me to take my choice of, and I chose the saddest +colour and left the other for Mr. Sheply. Hence by coach to London, and +took a short melancholy leave of my father and mother, without having +them to drink, or say anything of business one to another. And indeed I +had a fear upon me I should scarce ever see my mother again, she having +a great cold then upon her. Then to Westminster, where by reason of rain +and an easterly wind, the water was so high that there was boats rowed +in King Street and all our yard was drowned, that one could not go to my +house, so as no man has seen the like almost, most houses full of water. + + ["In this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, so + that great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King + Street being quite drowned. The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and + twelve persons with her. Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon + the mainland; and in Kent was very much damage done; so that report + said, there was L20,000 worth of harm done."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +Then back by coach to my Lord's; where I met Mr. Sheply, who staid with +me waiting for my Lord's coming in till very late. Then he and I, and +William Howe went with our swords to bring my Lord home from Sir H. +Wright's. He resolved to go to-morrow if the wind ceased. Sheply and I +home by coach. I to Mrs. Crisp's, who had sat over a good supper long +looking for me. So we sat talking and laughing till it was very late, +and so Laud and I to bed. + +21st. To my Lord's, but the wind very high against us, and the weather +bad we could not go to-day; here I did very much business, and then to +my Lord Widdrington's from my Lord, with his desire that he might have +the disposal of the writs of the Cinque Ports. My Lord was very civil to +me, and called for wine, and writ a long letter in answer. Thence I went +to a tavern over against Mr. Pierce's with judge Advocate Fowler and Mr. +Burr, and sat and drank with them two or three pints of wine. After that +to Mr. Crew's again and gave my Lord an account of what I had done, and +so about my business to take leave of my father and mother, which by +a mistake I have put down yesterday. Thence to Westminster to Crisp's, +where we were very merry; the old woman sent for a supper for me, and +gave me a handkercher with strawberry buttons on it, and so to bed. + +22nd. Up very early and set things in order at my house, and so took +leave of Mrs. Crispe and her daughter (who was in bed) and of Mrs. Hunt. +Then to my Lord's lodging at the gate and did so there, where Mr. Hawly +came to me and I gave him the key of my house to keep, and he went with +me to Mr. Crew's, and there I took my last leave of him. But the weather +continuing very bad my Lord would not go to-day. My Lord spent this +morning private in sealing of his last will and testament with Mr. W. +Mountagu. After that I went forth about my own business to buy a pair of +riding grey serge stockings and sword and belt and hose, and after that +took Wotton and Brigden to the Pope's Head Tavern in Chancery Lane, +where Gilb. Holland and Shelston were, and we dined and drank a great +deal of wine, and they paid all. Strange how these people do now promise +me anything; one a rapier, the other a vessel of wine or a gun, and one +offered me his silver hatband to do him a courtesy. I pray God to +keep me from being proud or too much lifted up hereby. After that to +Westminster, and took leave of Kate Sterpin who was very sorry to part +with me, and after that of Mr. George Mountagu, and received my warrant +of Mr. Blackburne, to be Secretary to the two Generals of the Fleet. +Then to take my leave of the Clerks of the Council, and thence Doling +and Luellin would have me go with them to Mount's chamber, where we +sat and talked and then I went away. So to my Lord (in my way meeting +Chetwind and Swan and bade them farewell) where I lay all night with Mr. +Andrews. This day Mr. Sheply went away on board and I sent my boy with +him. This day also Mrs. Jemimah went to Marrowbone, so I could not see +her. Mr. Moore being out of town to-night I could not take leave of him +nor speak to him about business which troubled me much. I left my small +case therefore with Mr. Andrews for him. + +23rd. Up early, carried my Lord's will in a black box to Mr. William +Montagu for him to keep for him. Then to the barber's and put on my +cravat there. So to my Lord again, who was almost ready to be gone and +had staid for me. Hither came Gilb. Holland, and brought me a stick +rapier and Shelston a sugar-loaf, and had brought his wife who he said +was a very pretty woman to the Ship tavern hard by for me to see but +I could not go. Young Reeve also brought me a little perspective glass +which I bought for my Lord, it cost me 8s. So after that my Lord in Sir +H. Wright's coach with Captain Isham, Mr. Thomas, John Crew, W. Howe, +and I in a Hackney to the Tower, where the barges staid for us; my Lord +and the Captain in one, and W. Howe and I, &c., in the other, to the +Long Reach, where the Swiftsure lay at anchor; (in our way we saw the +great breach which the late high water had made, to the loss of many +L1000 to the people about Limehouse.) Soon as my Lord on board, the +guns went off bravely from the ships. And a little while after comes the +Vice-Admiral Lawson, and seemed very respectful to my Lord, and so did +the rest of the Commanders of the frigates that were thereabouts. I to +the cabin allotted for me, which was the best that any had that belonged +to my Lord. I got out some things out of my chest for writing and to +work presently, Mr. Burr and I both. I supped at the deck table with Mr. +Sheply. We were late writing of orders for the getting of ships ready, +&c.; and also making of others to all the seaports between Hastings and +Yarmouth, to stop all dangerous persons that are going or coming between +Flanders and there. After that to bed in my cabin, which was but short; +however I made shift with it and slept very well, and the weather being +good I was not sick at all yet, I know not what I shall be. + +24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to the Council, &c. This +day Mr. Creed came on: board and dined very boldly with my Lord, but +he could not get a bed there. At night Capt. Isham who had been at +Gravesend all last night and to-day came and brought Mr. Lucy (one +acquainted with Mrs. Pierce, with whom I had been at her house), I drank +with him in the Captain's cabin, but my business could not stay with +him. I despatch many letters to-day abroad and it was late before we +could get to bed. Mr. Sheply and Howe supped with me in my cabin. The +boy Eliezer flung down a can of beer upon my papers which made me give +him a box of the ear, it having all spoiled my papers and cost me a +great deal of work. So to bed. + +25th. (Lord's day). About two o'clock in the morning, letters came from +London by our coxon, so they waked me, but I would not rise but bid him +stay till morning, which he did, and then I rose and carried them in +to my Lord, who read them a-bed. Among the rest, there was the writ +and mandate for him to dispose to the Cinque Ports for choice of +Parliament-men. There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with +his own hand superscribes it to S.P. Esq., of which God knows I was +not a little proud. After that I wrote a letter to the Clerk of Dover +Castle, to come to my Lord about issuing of those writs. About ten +o'clock Mr. Ibbott, at the end of the long table, begun to pray +and preach and indeed made a very good sermon, upon the duty of all +Christians to be stedfast in faith. After that Captain Cuttance and +I had oysters, my Lord being in his cabin not intending to stir out +to-day. After that up into the great cabin above to dinner with the +Captain, where was Captain Isham and all the officers of the ship. I +took place of all but the Captains; after dinner I wrote a great many +letters to my friends at London. After that, sermon again, at which I +slept, God forgive me! After that, it being a fair day, I walked with +the Captain upon the deck talking. At night I supped with him and after +that had orders from my Lord about some business to be done against +to-morrow, which I sat up late and did and then to bed. + +26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God that I was cut of +the stone at Mrs. Turner's in Salisbury Court. And did resolve while I +live to keep it a festival, as I did the last year at my house, and for +ever to have Mrs. Turner and her company with me. But now it pleases God +that I am where I am and so prevented to do it openly; only within my +soul I can and do rejoice, and bless God, being at this time blessed be +his holy name, in as good health as ever I was in my life. This morning +I rose early, and went about making of an establishment of the whole +Fleet, and a list of all the ships, with the number of men and guns: +About an hour after that, we had a meeting of the principal commanders +and seamen, to proportion out the number of these things. After that +to dinner, there being very many commanders on board. All the afternoon +very many orders were made, till I was very weary. At night Mr. Sheply +and W. Howe came and brought some bottles of wine and some things to eat +in my cabin, where we were very merry, remembering the day of being +cut for the stone. Captain Cuttance came afterwards and sat drinking a +bottle of wine till eleven, a kindness he do not usually do the greatest +officer in the ship. After that to bed. + +27th. Early in the morning at making a fair new establishment of the +Fleet to send to the Council. This morning, the wind came about, and we +fell into the Hope,--[A reach of the Thames near Tilbury.]--and in our +passing by the Vice-Admiral, he and the rest of the frigates, with him, +did give us abundance of guns and we them, so much that the report of +them broke all the windows in my cabin and broke off the iron bar that +was upon it to keep anybody from creeping in at the Scuttle.--["A small +hole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for +ventilation. That in the deck is a small hatch-way."--Smyth's Sailor's +Word-Book.]--This noon I sat the first time with my Lord at table since +my coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in writing of letters +and orders. In the afternoon, Sir Harry Wright came onboard us, about +his business of being chosen Parliament-man. My Lord brought him to see +my cabin, when I was hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord too, +with the Captain, and after that to work again till it be very late. So +to bed. + +28th. This morning and the whole day busy, and that the more because Mr. +Burr was about his own business all the day at Gravesend. At night there +was a gentleman very well bred, his name was Banes, going for Flushing, +who spoke French and Latin very well, brought by direction from Captain +Clerke hither, as a prisoner, because he called out of the vessel that +he went in, "Where is your King, we have done our business, Vive le +Roi." He confessed himself a Cavalier in his heart, and that he and his +whole family had fought for the King; but that he was then drunk, having +been all night taking his leave at Gravesend the night before, and +so could not remember what it was that he said; but in his words and +carriage showed much of a gentleman. My Lord had a great kindness for +him, but did not think it safe to release him, but commanded him to +be used civilly, so he was taken to the Master's Cabin and had supper +there. In the meantime I wrote a letter to the Council about him, and an +order for the vessel to be sent for back that he was taken out of. But +a while after, he sent a letter down to my Lord, which my Lord did like +very well, and did advise with me what was best to be done. So I put in +something to my Lord and then to the Captain that the gentleman was to +be released and the letter stopped, which was done. So I went up and sat +and talked with him in Latin and French, and drank a bottle or two with +him; and about eleven at night he took boat again, and so God bless him. +Thence I to my cabin and to bed. This day we had news of the election at +Huntingdon for Bernard and Pedly, at which my Lord was much troubled for +his friends' missing of it. + +29th. We lie still a little below Gravesend. At night Mr. Sheply +returned from London, and told us of several elections for the next +Parliament. That the King's effigies was new making to be set up in +the Exchange again. This evening was a great whispering of some of the +Vice-Admiral's captains that they were dissatisfied, and did intend to +fight themselves, to oppose the General. But it was soon hushed, and the +Vice-Admiral did wholly deny any such thing, and protested to stand by +the General. At night Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, and I supped in my cabin. So +up to the Master's cabin, where we sat talking, and then to bed. + +30th. I was saluted in the morning with two letters, from some that I +had done a favour to, which brought me in each a piece of gold. This +day, while my Lord and we were at dinner, the Nazeby came in sight +towards us, and at last came to anchor close by us. After dinner my Lord +and many others went on board her, where every thing was out of order, +and a new chimney made for my Lord in his bedchamber, which he was much +pleased with. My Lord, in his discourse, discovered a great deal of love +to this ship. + +31st. This morning Captain Jowles of the "Wexford" came on board, for +whom I got commission from my Lord to be commander of the ship. Upon the +doing thereof he was to make the 20s. piece that he sent me yesterday, +up L5; wherefore he sent me a bill that he did owe me L4., which I sent +my boy to Gravesend with him, and he did give the boy L4 for me, and the +boy gave him the bill under his hand. This morning, Mr. Hill that lives +in Axe-yard was here on board with the Vice-Admiral. I did give him a +bottle of wine, and was exceedingly satisfied of the power that I have +to make my friends welcome. Many orders to make all the afternoon. At +night Mr. Sheply, Howe, Ibbott, and I supped in my cabin together. + + + + +APRIL 1660 + +April 1st (Lord's day). Mr. Ibbott preached very well. After dinner my +Lord did give me a private list of all the ships that were to be set out +this summer, wherein I do discern that he bath made it his care to put +by as much of the Anabaptists as he can. By reason of my Lord and my +being busy to send away the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it was +four o'clock before we could begin sermon again. This day Captain Guy +come on board from Dunkirk, who tells me that the King will come in, and +that the soldiers at Dunkirk do drink the King's health in the streets. +At night the Captain, Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Sheply, and I did sup together +in the Captain's cabin. I made a commission for Captain Wilgness, of +the Bear, to-night, which got me 30s. So after writing a while I went to +bed. + +2d. Up very early, and to get all my things and my boy's packed up. +Great concourse of commanders here this morning to take leave of my Lord +upon his going into the Nazeby, so that the table was full, so there +dined below many commanders, and Mr. Creed, who was much troubled to +hear that he could not go along with my Lord, for he had already got all +his things thither, thinking to stay there, but W. Howe was very high +against it, and he indeed did put him out, though everybody was glad of +it. After dinner I went in one of the boats with my boy before my Lord, +and made shift before night to get my cabin in pretty good order. It +is but little, but very convenient, having one window to the sea +and another to the deck, and a good bed. This morning comes Mr. Ed. +Pickering, like a coxcomb as he always was. He tells me that the King +will come in, but that Monk did resolve to have the doing of it himself, +or else to hinder it. + +3d. Late to bed. About three in the morning there was great knocking at +my cabin, which with much difficulty (so they say) waked me, and I +rose, but it was only for a packet, so went to my bed again, and in the +morning gave it my Lord. This morning Capt. Isham comes on board to see +my Lord and drunk his wine before he went into the Downs, there likewise +come many merchants to get convoy to the Baltique, which a course was +taken for. They dined with my Lord, and one of them by name Alderman +Wood talked much to my Lord of the hopes that we have now to be settled, +(under the King he meant); but my Lord took no notice of it. After +dinner which was late my Lord went on shore, and after him I and Capt. +Sparling went in his boat, but the water being almost at low water we +could not stay for fear of not getting into our boat again. So back +again. This day come the Lieutenant of the Swiftsure, who was sent by +my Lord to Hastings, one of the Cinque Ports, to have got Mr. Edward +Montagu to have been one of their burgesses, but could not, for they +were all promised before. After he had done his message, I took him and +Mr. Pierce, the surgeon (who this day came on board, and not before), to +my cabin, where we drank a bottle of wine. At night, busy a-writing, and +so to bed. My heart exceeding heavy for not hearing of my dear wife, and +indeed I do not remember that ever my heart was so apprehensive of her +absence as at this very time. + +4th. This morning I dispatch many letters of my own private business to +London. There come Colonel Thomson with the wooden leg, and General Pen, + + [This is the first mention in the Diary of Admiral (afterwards Sir + William) Penn, with whom Pepys was subsequently so particularly + intimate. At this time admirals were sometimes styled generals. + William Penn was born at Bristol in 1621, of the ancient family of + the Penns of Penn Lodge, Wilts. He was Captain at the age of + twenty-one; Rear-Admiral of Ireland at twenty-three; Vice-Admiral of + England and General in the first Dutch war, at thirty-two. He was + subsequently M.P. for Weymouth, Governor of Kingsale, and Vice- + Admiral of Munster. He was a highly successful commander, and in + 1654 he obtained possession of Jamaica. He was appointed a + Commissioner of the Navy in 1660, in which year he was knighted. + After the Dutch fight in 1665, where he distinguished himself as + second in command under the Duke of York, he took leave of the sea, + but continued to act as a Commissioner for the Navy till 1669, when + he retired to Wanstead, on account of his bodily infirmities, and + dying there, September 16th, 1670, aged forty-nine, was buried in + the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, where a monument to + his memory was erected.] + +and dined with my Lord and Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it was +certain now that the King must of necessity come in, and that one of the +Council told him there is something doing in order to a treaty already +among them. And it was strange to hear how Mr. Blackburne did already +begin to commend him for a sober man, and how quiet he would be under +his government, &c. I dined all alone to prevent company, which was +exceeding great to-day, in my cabin. After these two were gone Sir W. +Wheeler and Sir John Petters came on board and staid about two or three +hours, and so went away. The Commissioners came to-day, only to consult +about a further reducement of the Fleet, and to pay them as fast as they +can. I did give Davis, their servant, L5 10s. to give to Mr. Moore from +me, in part of the L7 that I borrowed of him, and he is to discount the +rest out of the 36s. that he do owe me. At night, my Lord resolved to +send the Captain of our ship to Waymouth and promote his being chosen +there, which he did put himself into a readiness to do the next morning. + +5th. Infinity of business all the morning of orders to make, that I +was very much perplexed that Mr. Burr had failed me of coming back last +night, and we ready to set sail, which we did about noon, and came in +the evening to Lee roads and anchored. At night Mr. Sheply overtook us +who had been at Gray's Market this morning. I spent all the afternoon +upon the deck, it being very pleasant weather. This afternoon Sir Rich. +Stayner and Mr. Creed, after we were come to anchor, did come on board, +and Creed brought me L30, which my Lord had ordered him to pay me upon +account, and Captain Clerke brought me a noted caudle. At night very +sleepy to bed. + +6th. This morning came my brother-in-law Balty to see me, and to desire +to be here with me as Reformado,--["a broken or disbanded officer."] +which did much trouble me. But after dinner (my Lord using him very +civilly, at table) I spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter to +Captain Stokes for him that he should be there. All the day with +him walking and talking, we under sail as far as the Spitts. In the +afternoon, W. Howe and I to our viallins, the first time since we came +on board. This afternoon I made even with my Lord to this day, and did +give him all the money remaining in my hands. In the evening, it being +fine moonshine, I staid late walking upon the quarter-deck with Mr. +Cuttance, learning of some sea terms; and so down to supper and to bed, +having an hour before put Balty into Burr's cabin, he being out of the +ship. + +7th. This day, about nine o'clock in the morning, the wind grew high, +and we being among the sands lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy and +squeamish. Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some oysters, +the best my Lord said that ever he ate in his life, though I have ate as +good at Bardsey. After dinner, and all the afternoon I walked upon the +deck to keep myself from being sick, and at last about five o'clock, +went to bed and got a caudle made me, and sleep upon it very well. This +day Mr. Sheply went to Sheppy. + +8th (Lord's day). Very calm again, and I pretty well, but my head aked +all day. About noon set sail; in our way I see many vessels and masts, +which are now the greatest guides for ships. We had a brave wind all the +afternoon, and overtook two good merchantmen that overtook us yesterday, +going to the East Indies. The lieutenant and I lay out of his window +with his glass, looking at the women that were on board them, being +pretty handsome. This evening Major Willoughby, who had been here three +or four days on board with Mr. Pickering, went on board a catch [ketch] +for Dunkirk. We continued sailing when I went to bed, being somewhat +ill again, and Will Howe, the surgeon, parson, and Balty supped in the +Lieutenant's cabin and afterwards sat disputing, the parson for and I +against extemporary prayers, very hot. + +9th. We having sailed all night, were come in sight of the Nore and +South Forelands in the morning, and so sailed all day. In the afternoon +we had a very fresh gale, which I brooked better than I thought I should +be able to do. This afternoon I first saw France and Calais, with which +I was much pleased, though it was at a distance. About five o'clock we +came to the Goodwin, so to the Castles about Deal; where our Fleet lay, +among whom we anchored. Great was the shout of guns from the castles +and ships, and our answers, that I never heard yet so great rattling of +guns. Nor could we see one another on board for the smoke that was among +us, nor one ship from another. Soon as we came to anchor, the captains +came from on board their ships all to us on board. This afternoon I +wrote letters for my Lord to the Council, &c., which Mr. Dickering was +to carry, who took his leave this night of my Lord, and Balty after I +had wrote two or three letters by him to my wife and Mr. Bowyer, and had +drank a bottle of wine with him in my cabin which J. Goods and W. Howe +brought on purpose, he took leave of me too to go away to-morrow morning +with Mr. Dickering. I lent Balty 15s. which he was to pay to my wife. It +was one in the morning before we parted. This evening Mr. Sheply came +on board, having escaped a very great danger upon a sand coming from +Chatham. + +10th. This morning many or most of the commanders in the Fleet came on +board and dined here, so that some of them and I dined together in the +Round-house, where we were very merry. Hither came the Vice-Admiral to +us, and sat and talked and seemed a very good-natured man. At night as I +was all alone in my cabin, in a melancholy fit playing on my viallin, my +Lord and Sir R. Stayner came into the coach + + ["A sort of chamber or apartment in a large ship of war, just before + the great cabin. The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of + the quarter deck, and the roof of it by the poop: it is generally + the habitation of the flag-captain."--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book.] + +and supped there, and called me out to supper with them. After that up +to the Lieutenant's cabin, where he and I and Sir Richard sat till 11 +o'clock talking, and so to bed. This day my Lord Goring returned from +France, and landed at Dover. + +11th. A Gentleman came this morning from my Lord of Manchester to +my Lord for a pass for Mr. Boyle,' which was made him. I ate a good +breakfast by my Lord's orders with him in the great cabin below. The +wind all this day was very high, so that a gentleman that was at dinner +with my Lord that came along with Sir John Bloys (who seemed a fine man) +was forced to rise from table. This afternoon came a great packet of +letters from London directed to me, among the rest two from my wife, +the first that I have since coming away from London. All the news from +London is that things go on further towards a King. That the Skinners' +Company the other day at their entertaining of General Monk had took +down the Parliament Arms in their Hall, and set up the King's. In the +evening my Lord and I had a great deal of discourse about the several +Captains of the Fleet and his interest among them, and had his mind +clear to bring in the King. He confessed to me that he was not sure of +his own Captain [Cuttance] to be true to him, and that he did not like +Captain Stokes. At night W. Howe and I at our viallins in my cabin, +where Mr. Ibbott and the lieutenant were late. I staid the lieutenant +late, shewing him my manner of keeping a journal. After that to bed. It +comes now into my mind to observe that I am sensible that I have been a +little too free to make mirth with the minister of our ship, he being a +very sober and an upright man. + +12th. This day, the weather being very bad, we had no strangers on +board. In the afternoon came the Vice-Admiral on board, with whom my +Lord consulted, and I sent a packet to London at night with several +letters to my friends, as to my wife about my getting of money for +her when she should need it, to Mr. Bowyer that he tell me when the +Messieurs of the offices be paid, to Mr. Moore about the business of my +office, and making even with him as to matter of money. At night after I +had despatched my letters, to bed. + +13th. This day very foul all day for rain and wind. In the afternoon set +my own things in my cabin and chests in better order than hitherto, and +set my papers in order. At night sent another packet to London by the +post, and after that was done I went up to the lieutenant's cabin and +there we broached a vessel of ale that we had sent for among us from +Deal to-day. There was the minister and doctor with us. After that +till one o'clock in the morning writing letters to Mr. Downing about my +business of continuing my office to myself, only Mr. Moore to execute it +for me. I had also a very serious and effectual letter from my Lord +to him to that purpose. After that done then to bed, and it being very +rainy, and the rain coming upon my bed, I went and lay with John Goods +in the great cabin below, the wind being so high that we were faro to +lower some of the masts. I to bed, and what with the goodness of the bed +and the rocking of the ship I slept till almost ten o'clock, and then-- + +14th. Rose and drank a good morning draught there with Mr. Sheply, +which occasioned my thinking upon the happy life that I live now, had I +nothing to care for but myself. The sea was this morning very high, +and looking out of the window I saw our boat come with Mr. Pierce, the +surgeon, in it in great danger, who endeavouring to come on board us, +had like to have been drowned had it not been for a rope. This day I was +informed that my Lord Lambert is got out of the Towers and that there is +L100 proffered to whoever shall bring him forth to the Council of State. + + [The manner of the escape of John Lambert, out of the Tower, on the + 11th inst., as related by Rugge:--"That about eight of the clock at + night he escaped by a rope tied fast to his window, by which he slid + down, and in each hand he had a handkerchief; and six men were ready + to receive him, who had a barge to hasten him away. She who made + the bed, being privy to his escape, that night, to blind the warder + when he came to lock the chamber-door, went to bed, and possessed + Colonel Lambert's place, and put on his night-cap. So, when the + said warder came to lock the door, according to his usual manner, he + found the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be Colonel John + Lambert, he said, 'Good night, my Lord.' To which a seeming voice + replied, and prevented all further jealousies. The next morning, on + coming to unlock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, 'In + the name of God, Joan, what makes you here? Where is my Lord + Lambert?' She said, 'He is gone; but I cannot tell whither.' + Whereupon he caused her to rise, and carried her before the officer + in the Tower, and [she] was committed to custody. Some said that a + lady knit for him a garter of silk, by which he was conveyed down, + and that she received L100 for her pains."--B] + +My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedom +brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is +capable of being elected for them. This day I heard that the Army had in +general declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do. At night +supped with my Lord. + +15th (Lord's day). Up early and was trimmed by the barber in the great +cabin below. After that to put my clothes on and then to sermon, and +then to dinner, where my Lord told us that the University of Cambridge +had a mind to choose him for their burgess, which he pleased himself +with, to think that they do look upon him as a thriving man, and said +so openly at table. At dinner-time Mr. Cook came back from London with a +packet which caused my Lord to be full of thoughts all day, and at night +he bid me privately to get two commissions ready, one for Capt. Robert +Blake to be captain of the Worcester, in the room of Capt. Dekings, an +anabaptist, and one that had witnessed a great deal of discontent with +the present proceedings. The other for Capt. Coppin to come out of that +into the Newbury in the room of Blake, whereby I perceive that General +Monk do resolve to make a thorough change, to make way for the King. +From London I hear that since Lambert got out of the Tower, the +Fanatiques had held up their heads high, but I hope all that will come +to nothing. Late a writing of letters to London to get ready for Mr. +Cook. Then to bed. + +16th. And about 4 o'clock in the morning Mr. Cook waked me where I lay +in the great cabin below, and I did give him his packet and directions +for London. So to sleep again. All the morning giving out orders and +tickets to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all supernumeraries +that they had above the number that the Council had set in their last +establishment. After dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so till +night, then to bed. + +17th. All the morning getting ready commissions for the Vice-Admiral and +the Rear-Admiral, wherein my Lord was very careful to express the +utmost of his own power, commanding them to obey what orders they should +receive from the Parliament, &c., or both or either of the Generals. + + [Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High + Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of + the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward + himself, or from the Rump Parliament.--Kennett's Register, p. 163.] + +The Vice-Admiral dined with us, and in the afternoon my Lord called +me to give him the commission for him, which I did, and he gave it him +himself. A very pleasant afternoon, and I upon the deck all the day, it +was so clear that my Lord's glass shewed us Calais very plain, and the +cliffs were as plain to be seen as Kent, and my Lord at first made me +believe that it was Kent. At night, after supper, my Lord called for +the Rear-Admiral's commission, which I brought him, and I sitting in +my study heard my Lord discourse with him concerning D. King's and +Newberry's being put out of commission. And by the way I did observe +that my Lord did speak more openly his mind to me afterwards at night +than I can find that he did to the Rear-Admiral, though his great +confidant. For I was with him an hour together, when he told me clearly +his thoughts that the King would carry it, and that he did think himself +very happy that he was now at sea, as well for his own sake, as that he +thought he might do his country some service in keeping things quiet. +To bed, and shifting myself from top to toe, there being J. Goods and W. +Howe sat late by my bedside talking. So to sleep, every day bringing me +a fresh sense of the pleasure of my present life. + +18th. This morning very early came Mr. Edward Montagu on board, but what +was the business of his coming again or before without any servant +and making no stay at all I cannot guess. This day Sir R. Stayner, Mr. +Sheply, and as many of my Lord's people as could be spared went to Dover +to get things ready against to-morrow for the election there. I all +the afternoon dictating in my cabin (my own head being troubled with +multiplicity of business) to Burr, who wrote for me above a dozen +letters, by which I have made my mind more light and clear than I have +had it yet since I came on board. At night sent a packet to London, and +Mr. Cook returned hence bringing me this news, that the Sectaries do +talk high what they will do, but I believe all to no purpose, but the +Cavaliers are something unwise to talk so high on the other side as they +do. That the Lords do meet every day at my Lord of Manchester's, and +resolve to sit the first day of the Parliament. That it is evident now +that the General and the Council do resolve to make way for the King's +coming. And it is now clear that either the Fanatiques must now be +undone, or the gentry and citizens throughout England, and clergy must +fall, in spite of their militia and army, which is not at all possible +I think. At night I supped with W. Howe and Mr. Luellin (being the first +time that I had been so long with him) in the great cabin below. After +that to bed, and W. Howe sat by my bedside, and he and I sang a psalm or +two and so I to sleep. + +19th. A great deal of business all this day, and Burr being gone to +shore without my leave did vex me much. At dinner news was brought us +that my Lord was chosen at Dover. This afternoon came one Mr. Mansell on +board as a Reformado, to whom my Lord did shew exceeding great respect, +but upon what account I do not yet know. This day it has rained much, so +that when I came to go to bed I found it wet through, so I was fain to +wrap myself up in a dry sheet, and so lay all night. + +20th. All the morning I was busy to get my window altered, and to +have my table set as I would have it, which after it was done I was +infinitely pleased with it, and also to see what a command I have to +have every one ready to come and go at my command. This evening came Mr. +Boyle on board, for whom I writ an order for a ship to transport him +to Flushing. He supped with my Lord, my Lord using him as a person +of honour. This evening too came Mr. John Pickering on board us. +This evening my head ached exceedingly, which I impute to my sitting +backwards in my cabin, otherwise than I am used to do. To-night Mr. +Sheply told me that he heard for certain at Dover that Mr. Edw. Montagu +did go beyond sea when he was here first the other day, and I am apt to +believe that he went to speak with the King. This day one told me how +that at the election at Cambridge for knights of the shire, Wendby and +Thornton by declaring to stand for the Parliament and a King and the +settlement of the Church, did carry it against all expectation against +Sir Dudley North and Sir Thomas Willis! I supped to-night with Mr. +Sheply below at the half-deck table, and after that I saw Mr. Pickering +whom my Lord brought down to his cabin, and so to bed. + +21st. This day dined Sir John Boys + + [Of Bonnington and Sandwich, Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to + Charles I. He defended Donnington Castle, Berkshire, for the King + against Jeremiah Horton, 1644, and received an augmentation to his + arms in consequence.] + +and some other gentlemen formerly great Cavaliers, and among the rest +one Mr. Norwood, for whom my Lord give a convoy to carry him to the +Brill,--[Brielle, or Den Briel, a seaport town in the province of South +Holland.]--but he is certainly going to the King. For my Lord commanded +me that I should not enter his name in my book. My Lord do show them and +that sort of people great civility. All their discourse and others are +of the King's coming, and we begin to speak of it very freely. And heard +how in many churches in London, and upon many signs there, and upon +merchants' ships in the river, they had set up the King's arms. In the +afternoon the Captain would by all means have me up to his cabin, and +there treated me huge nobly, giving me a barrel of pickled oysters, +and opened another for me, and a bottle of wine, which was a very great +favour. At night late singing with W. Howe, and under the barber's hands +in the coach. This night there came one with a letter from Mr. Edw. +Montagu to my Lord, with command to deliver it to his own hands. I do +believe that he do carry some close business on for the King. + + [Pepys's guess at E. Montagu's business is confirmed by Clarendon's + account of his employment of him to negotiate with Lord Sandwich on + behalf of the King. ("History of the Rebellion," book xvi.)--Notes + and Queries, vol. x. p. 3--M. B.] + +This day I had a large letter from Mr. Moore, giving me an account of +the present dispute at London that is like to be at the beginning of +the Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve to sit with the +Commons, as not thinking themselves dissolved yet. Which, whether it +be granted or no, or whether they will sit or no, it will bring a great +many inconveniences. His letter I keep, it being a very well writ one. + +22d (Easter Sunday). Several Londoners, strangers, friends of the +Captains, dined here, who, among other things told us, how the King's +Arms are every day set up in houses and churches, particularly in +Allhallows Church in Thames-street, John Simpson's church, which being +privately done was, a great eye-sore to his people when they came to +church and saw it. Also they told us for certain, that the King's statue +is making by the Mercers' Company (who are bound to do it) to set up in +the Exchange. After sermon in the afternoon I fell to writing letters +against to-morrow to send to London. After supper to bed. + +23rd. All the morning very busy getting my packet ready for London, only +for an hour or two had the Captain and Mr. Sheply in my cabin at the +barrel of pickled oysters that the Captain did give me on Saturday last. +After dinner I sent Mr. Dunn to London with the packet. This afternoon +I had 40s. given me by Captain Cowes of the Paradox.' In the evening the +first time that we had any sport among the seamen, and indeed there was +extraordinary good sport after my Lord had done playing at ninepins. +After that W. Howe and I went to play two trebles in the great +cabin below, which my Lord hearing, after supper he called for our +instruments, and played a set of Lock's, two trebles, and a base, and +that being done, he fell to singing of a song made upon the Rump, with +which he played himself well, to the tune of "The Blacksmith." After all +that done, then to bed. + + ["The Blacksmith" was the same tune as "Green Sleeves." The + earliest known copy of "The Praise of the Blacksmith" is in "An + Antidote against Melancholy," 1661. See "Roxburghe Ballads," ed. + W. Chappell, 1872, vol. ii. p. 126. (Ballad Society:)] + +24th. This morning I had Mr. Luellin and Mr. Sheply to the remainder +of my oysters that were left yesterday. After that very busy all +the morning. While I was at dinner with my Lord, the Coxon of the +Vice-Admiral came for me to the Vice-Admiral to dinner. So I told my +Lord and he gave me leave to go. I rose therefore from table and went, +where there was very many commanders, and very pleasant we were on board +the London, which hath a state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but not +so rich. After that, with the Captain on board our own ship, where we +were saluted with the news of Lambert's being taken, which news was +brought to London on Sunday last. He was taken in Northamptonshire by +Colonel Ingoldsby, at the head of a party, by which means their whole +design is broke, and things now very open and safe. And every man begins +to be merry and full of hopes. In the afternoon my Lord gave a great +large character to write out, so I spent all the day about it, and after +supper my Lord and we had some more very good musique and singing of +"Turne Amaryllis," as it is printed in the song book, with which my Lord +was very much pleased. After that to bed. + +25th. All the morning about my Lord's character. Dined to-day with +Captain Clerke on board the Speaker (a very brave ship) where was the +Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and many other commanders. After dinner +home, not a little contented to see how I am treated, and with what +respect made a fellow to the best commanders in the Fleet. All the +afternoon finishing of the character, which I did and gave it my Lord, +it being very handsomely done and a very good one in itself, but that +not truly Alphabetical. Supped with Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, &c. in Mr. +Pierce, the Purser's cabin, where very merry, and so to bed. Captain +Isham came hither to-day. + +26th. This day came Mr. Donne back from London, who brought letters with +him that signify the meeting of the Parliament yesterday. And in the +afternoon by other letters I hear, that about twelve of the Lords met +and had chosen my Lord of Manchester' Speaker of the House of Lords (the +young Lords that never sat yet, do forbear to sit for the present); and +Sir Harbottle Grimstone, Speaker for the House of Commons. The House of +Lords sent to have a conference with the House of Commons, which, after +a little debate, was granted. Dr. Reynolds' preached before the Commons +before they sat. My Lord told me how Sir H. Yelverton (formerly my +school-fellow) was chosen in the first place for Northamptonshire +and Mr. Crew in the second. And told me how he did believe that the +Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians. All the +afternoon I was writing of letters, among the rest one to W. Simons, +Peter Luellin and Tom Doling, which because it is somewhat merry I keep +a copy of. After that done Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I down with J. Goods +into my Lord's storeroom of wine and other drink, where it was very +pleasant to observe the massy timbers that the ship is made of. We in +the room were wholly under water and yet a deck below that. After that +to supper, where Tom Guy supped with us, and we had very good laughing, +and after that some musique, where Mr. Pickering beginning to play a +bass part upon the viall did it so like a fool that I was ashamed of +him. After that to bed. + +27th. This morning Burr was absent again from on board, which I was +troubled at, and spoke to Mr. Pierce, Purser, to speak to him of it, and +it is my mind. This morning Pim [the tailor] spent in my cabin, putting +a great many ribbons to a suit. After dinner in the afternoon came on +board Sir Thomas Hatton and Sir R. Maleverer going for Flushing; but all +the world know that they go where the rest of the many gentlemen go that +every day flock to the King at Breda. + + [The King arrived at Breda on the 14th April. Sir W. Lower writes + ("Voiage and Residence of Charles II. in Holland," p. 5): "Many + considerations obliged him to depart the territories under the + obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs."] + +They supped here, and my Lord treated them as he do the rest that go +thither, with a great deal of civility. While we were at supper a packet +came, wherein much news from several friends. The chief is that, that I +had from Mr. Moore, viz. that he fears the Cavaliers in the House will +be so high, that the others will be forced to leave the House and fall +in with General Monk, and so offer things to the King so high on the +Presbyterian account that he may refuse, and so they will endeavour some +more mischief; but when I told my Lord it, he shook his head and told +me, that the Presbyterians are deceived, for the General is certainly +for the King's interest, and so they will not be able to prevail that +way with him. After supper the two knights went on board the Grantham, +that is to convey them to Flushing. I am informed that the Exchequer +is now so low, that there is not L20 there, to give the messenger that +brought the news of Lambert's being taken; which story is very strange +that he should lose his reputation of being a man of courage now at +one blow, for that he was not able to fight one stroke, but desired of +Colonel Ingoldsby several times for God's sake to let him escape. Late +reading my letters, my mind being much troubled to think that, after +all our hopes, we should have any cause to fear any more disappointments +therein. To bed. This day I made even with Mr. Creed, by sending him my +bill and he me my money by Burr whom I sent for it. + +28th. This morning sending a packet by Mr. Dunne to London. In the +afternoon I played at ninepins with Mr. Pickering, I and Mr. Pett +against him and Ted Osgood, and won a crown apiece of him. He had not +money enough to pay me. After supper my Lord exceeding merry, and he and +I and W. Howe to sing, and so to bed. + +29th (Sunday). This day I put on first my fine cloth suit made of a +cloak that had like to have been [dirted] a year ago, the very day that +I put it on. After sermon in the morning Mr. Cook came from London with +a packet, bringing news how all the young lords that were not in arms +against the Parliament do now sit. That a letter is come from the King +to the House, which is locked up by the Council 'till next Tuesday +that it may be read in the open House when they meet again, they having +adjourned till then to keep a fast tomorrow. And so the contents is not +yet known. L13,000 of the L20,000 given to General Monk is paid out of +the Exchequer, he giving L12 among the teller clerks of Exchequer. My +Lord called me into the great cabin below, where I opened my letters and +he told me that the Presbyterians are quite mastered by the Cavaliers, +and that he fears Mr. Crew did go a little too far the other day in +keeping out the young lords from sitting. That he do expect that the +King should be brought over suddenly, without staying to make any terms +at all, saying that the Presbyterians did intend to have brought him +in with such conditions as if he had been in chains. But he shook his +shoulders when he told me how Monk had betrayed him, for it was he that +did put them upon standing to put out the lords and other members that +came not within the qualifications, which he [Montagu] did not like, but +however he [Monk] had done his business, though it be with some kind +of baseness. After dinner I walked a great while upon the deck with the +chyrurgeon and purser, and other officers of the ship, and they all pray +for the King's coming, which I pray God send. + +30th. All the morning getting instructions ready for the Squadron of +ships that are going to-day to the Streights, among others Captain +Teddiman, Curtis, and Captain Robert Blake to be commander of the whole +Squadron. After dinner to ninepins, W. Howe and I against Mr. Creed and +the Captain. We lost 5s. apiece to them. After that W. Howe, Mr. Sheply +and I got my Lord's leave to go to see Captain Sparling. So we took boat +and first went on shore, it being very pleasant in the fields; but a +very pitiful town Deal is. We went to Fuller's (the famous place for +ale), but they have none but what was in the vat. After that to Poole's, +a tavern in the town, where we drank, and so to boat again, and went to +the Assistance, where we were treated very civilly by the Captain, and +he did give us such music upon the harp by a fellow that he keeps on +board that I never expect to hear the like again, yet he is a drunken +simple fellow to look on as any I ever saw. After that on board the +Nazeby, where we found my Lord at supper, so I sat down and very +pleasant my Lord was with Mr. Creed and Sheply, who he puzzled about +finding out the meaning of the three notes which my Lord had cut over +the chrystal of his watch. After supper some musique. Then Mr. Sheply, +W. Howe and I up to the Lieutenant's cabin, where we drank, and I and W. +Howe were very merry, and among other frolics he pulls out the spigot of +the little vessel of ale that was there in the cabin and drew some into +his mounteere, and after he had drank, I endeavouring to dash it in his +face, he got my velvet studying cap and drew some into mine too, that +we made ourselves a great deal of mirth, but spoiled my clothes with the +ale that we dashed up and down. After that to bed very late with drink +enough in my head. + + + + +MAY 1660 + +May 1st. This morning I was told how the people of Deal have set up two +or three Maypoles, and have hung up their flags upon the top of them, +and do resolve to be very merry to-day. It being a very pleasant day, I +wished myself in Hide Park. This day I do count myself to have had full +two years of perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heaven +be blessed. This day Captain Parker came on board, and without his +expectation I had a commission for him for the Nonsuch frigate + + [The "Nonsuch" was a fourth-rate of thirty-two guns, built at + Deptford in 1646 by Peter Pett, jun. The captain was John Parker.] + +(he being now in the Cheriton), for which he gave me a French pistole. +Captain H. Cuttance has commission for the Cheriton. After dinner to +nine-pins, and won something. The rest of the afternoon in my cabin +writing and piping. While we were at supper we heard a great noise upon +the Quarter Deck, so we all rose instantly, and found it was to save the +coxon of the Cheriton, who, dropping overboard, could not be saved, but +was drowned. To-day I put on my suit that was altered from the great +skirts to little ones. To-day I hear they were very merry at Deal, +setting up the King's flag upon one of their maypoles, and drinking his +health upon their knees in the streets, and firing the guns, which the +soldiers of the Castle threatened; but durst not oppose. + +2nd. In the morning at a breakfast of radishes at the Purser's cabin. +After that to writing till dinner. At which time comes Dunne from +London, with letters that tell us the welcome news of the Parliament's +votes yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest May-day that +bath been many a year to England. The King's letter was read in the +House, wherein he submits himself and all things to them, as to an Act +of Oblivion to all, + + ["His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the + safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for + having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it, + and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and + the calling in of their lawful Prince. It is printed and published + as well as the letter, but that shall not hinder me to say, that + there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most + excellent natural qualities, and of all the venues, as well Royal as + Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, than was found + in those two wonderful productions."--Sir William Lowers 'Relation + ... of the voiage and Residence Which... Charles the II. + Hath made in Holland,' Hague, 1660, folio, p. 3.] + +unless they shall please to except any, as to the confirming of the +sales of the King's and Church lands, if they see good. The House upon +reading the letter, ordered L50,000 to be forthwith provided to send to +His Majesty for his present supply; and a committee chosen to return an +answer of thanks to His Majesty for his gracious letter; and that the +letter be kept among the records of the Parliament; and in all this not +so much as one No. So that Luke Robinson himself stood up and made a +recantation for what he had done, and promises to be a loyal subject +to his Prince for the time to come. The City of London have put a +Declaration, wherein they do disclaim their owing any other government +but that of a King, Lords, and Commons. Thanks was given by the House to +Sir John Greenville, + + [Created Earl of Bath, 1661; son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at + the battle of Lansdowne; he was, when a boy, left for dead on the + field at the second battle of Newbury, and said to have been the + only person entrusted by Charles II. and Monk in bringing about the + Restoration.] + +one of the bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and they +continued bare all the time it was reading. Upon notice made from the +Lords to the Commons, of their desire that the Commons would join with +them in their vote for King, Lords, and Commons; the Commons did concur +and voted that all books whatever that are out against the Government of +King, Lords, and Commons, should be brought into the House and burned. +Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever, +and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their knees +in the streets, which methinks is a little too much. But every +body seems to be very joyfull in the business, insomuch that our +sea-commanders now begin to say so too, which a week ago they would not +do. + + ["The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses, + without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a + hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated + and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any + Parliament rumps and kidneys?' And it was a very ordinary thing to + see little children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps." + --Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +And our seamen, as many as had money or credit for drink, did do nothing +else this evening. This day came Mr. North (Sir Dudley North's son) on +board, to spend a little time here, which my Lord was a little troubled +at, but he seems to be a fine gentleman, and at night did play his part +exceeding well at first sight. After musique I went up to the Captain's +Cabin with him and Lieutenant Ferrers, who came hither to-day from +London to bring this news to my Lord, and after a bottle of wine we all +to bed. + +3d. This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter +to the two Generals to be communicated to the fleet. + + ["King Charles II. his Declaration to all his loving Subjects of the + Kingdome of England, dated from his Court at Breda in Holland 4/14 + of April, 1660, and read in Parliament with his Majesties Letter of + the same date to his Excellence the Ld. Gen. Monck to be + communicated to the Ld. President of the Council of State and + to the Officers of the Army under his Command. London, Printed by + W. Godbid for John Playford in the Temple, 1660." 40, pp. 8.] + +The contents of the letter are his offer of grace to all that will come +in within forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament shall +hereafter except. That the sales of lands during these troubles, and all +other things, shall be left to the Parliament, by which he will stand. +The letter dated at Breda, April, 4 1660, in the 12th year of his reign. +Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, one +of the messengers of the Council from General Monk, my Lord summoned a +council of war, and in the mean time did dictate to me how he would have +the vote ordered which he would have pass this council. Which done, +the Commanders all came on board, and the council sat in the coach (the +first council of war that had been in my time), where I read the letter +and declaration; and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to +draw up a vote, which being offered, they passed. Not one man seemed to +say no to it, though I am confident many in their hearts were against +it. After this was done, I went up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and +the Commanders, and there read both the papers and the vote; which done, +and demanding their opinion, the seamen did all of them cry out, "God +bless King Charles!" with the greatest joy imaginable. That being done, +Sir R. Stayner, who had invited us yesterday, took all the Commanders +and myself on board him to dinner, which not being ready, I went with +Captain Hayward to the Plimouth and Essex, and did what I had to do +there and returned, where very merry at dinner. After dinner, to the +rest of the ships (staid at the Assistance to hear the harper a good +while) quite through the fleet. Which was a very brave sight to visit +all the ships, and to be received with the respect and honour that I was +on board them all; and much more to see the great joy that I brought to +all men; not one through the whole fleet showing the least dislike of +the business. In the evening as I was going on board the Vice-Admiral, +the General began to fire his guns, which he did all that he had in the +ship, and so did all the rest of the Commanders, which was very gallant, +and to hear the bullets go hissing over our heads as we were in the +boat. This done and finished my Proclamation, I returned to the Nazeby, +where my Lord was much pleased to hear how all the fleet took it in a +transport of joy, showed me a private letter of the King's to him, and +another from the Duke of York in such familiar style as to their common +friend, with all kindness imaginable. And I found by the letters, and +so my Lord told me too, that there had been many letters passed between +them for a great while, and I perceive unknown to Monk. And among the +rest that had carried these letters Sir John Boys is one, and that Mr. +Norwood, which had a ship to carry him over the other day, when my Lord +would not have me put down his name in the book. The King speaks of +his being courted to come to the Hague, but do desire my Lord's advice +whither to come to take ship. And the Duke offers to learn the seaman's +trade of him, in such familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had writ +them. This was very strange to me, that my Lord should carry all things +so wisely and prudently as he do, and I was over joyful to see him in so +good condition, and he did not a little please himself to tell me how he +had provided for himself so great a hold on the King. + +After this to supper, and then to writing of letters till twelve at +night, and so up again at three in the morning. My Lord seemed to put +great confidence in me, and would take my advice in many things. I +perceive his being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk, +and to let him have all the honour of doing the business, though he will +many times express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool. +So that I do believe there is some agreement more than ordinary between +the King and my Lord to let Monk carry on the business, for it is he +that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not +flattered and observed. This, my Lord will hint himself sometimes. My +Lord, I perceive by the King's letter, had writ to him about his father, +Crew,--[When only seventeen years old, Montagu had married Jemima, +daughter of John Crew, created afterwards Baron Crew of Stene.]--and the +King did speak well of him; but my Lord tells me, that he is afeard that +he hath too much concerned himself with the Presbyterians against the +House of Lords, which will do him a great discourtesy. + +4th. I wrote this morning many letters, and to all the copies of the +vote of the council of war I put my name, that if it should come in +print my name maybe at it. I sent a copy of the vote to Doling, inclosed +in this letter: + + "SIR, + + "He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride, with pendants + loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud 'Vive le Roys,' + echoed from one ship's company to another, he, and he only, can + apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was received with, or the + blessing he thought himself possessed of that bore it, and is + + "Your humble servant." + +About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and sent them by the +messenger that came yesterday. This morning came Captain Isham on board +with a gentleman going to the King, by whom very cunningly, my Lord +tells me, he intends to send an account of this day's and yesterday's +actions here, notwithstanding he had writ to the Parliament to have +leave of them to send the King the answer of the fleet. Since my writing +of the last paragraph, my Lord called me to him to read his letter to +the King, to see whether I could find any slips in it or no. And as much +of the letter' as I can remember, is thus: + + "May it please your Most Excellent Majesty," and so begins. + + "That he yesterday received from General Monk his Majesty's letter + and direction; and that General Monk had desired him to write to the + Parliament to have leave to send the vote of the seamen before he + did send it to him, which he had done by writing to both Speakers; + but for his private satisfaction he had sent it thus privately (and + so the copy of the proceedings yesterday was sent him), and that + this come by a gentleman that came this day on board, intending to + wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord's countryman, and one + whose friends have suffered much on his Majesty's behalf. That my + Lords Pembroke and Salisbury are put out of the House of Lords. + That my Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him the + civility and respect due to him; and that he do much rejoice to see + that the King do resolve to receive none of their assistance (or + some such words), from them, he having strength enough in the love + and loyalty of his own subjects to support him. That his Majesty + had chosen the best place, Scheveling,--[Schevingen, the port of the + Hague]--for his embarking, and that there is nothing in the world of + which he is more ambitious, than to have the honour of attending his + Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy. That he had commanded the + vessel to attend at Helversluce--[Hellevoetsluis, in South Holland] + --till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do not think + it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that he may be there to + receive his commands and bring them to his Lordship. He ends his + letter, that he is confounded with the thoughts of the high + expressions of love to him in the King's letter, and concludes, + + "Your most loyall, dutifull, faithfull and obedient subject and + servant, E. M." + +The rest of the afternoon at ninepins. In the evening came a packet from +London, among the rest a letter from my wife, which tells me that she +has not been well, which did exceedingly trouble me, but my Lord sending +Mr. Cook at night, I wrote to her and sent a piece of gold enclosed to +her, and wrote also to Mrs. Bowyer, and enclosed a half piece to her +for a token. After supper at the table in the coach, my Lord talking +concerning the uncertainty of the places of the Exchequer to them that +had them now; he did at last think of an office which do belong to him +in case the King do restore every man to his places that ever had been +patent, which is to be one of the clerks of the signet, which will be a +fine employment for one of his sons. After all this discourse we broke +up and to bed. + +In the afternoon came a minister on board, one Mr. Sharpe, who is going +to the King; who tells me that Commissioners are chosen both of Lords +and Commons to go to the King; and that Dr. Clarges + + [Thomas Clarges, physician to the army, created a baronet, 1674, + died 1695. He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married + General Monk. "The Parliament also permitted General Monk to send + Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some officers of + the army, to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the + army, which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof, after + the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the + General."--Sir William Lowers Relation... of the Voiage and + Residence which... Charles the II. Hath made in Holland, + Hague, 1660, folio.] + +is going to him from the Army, and that he will be here to-morrow. My +letters at night tell me, that the House did deliver their letter to Sir +John Greenville, in answer to the King's sending, and that they give +him L500 for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that besides the L50,000 +ordered to be borrowed of the City for the present use of the King, the +twelve companies of the City do give every one of them to his Majesty, +as a present, L1000. + +5th. All the morning very busy writing letters to London, and a packet +to Mr. Downing, to acquaint him with what had been done lately in the +fleet. And this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him, did of +himself think of doing it, to do me a kindness, for he writ a letter +himself to him, thanking him for his kindness to me. All the afternoon +at ninepins, at night after supper good musique, my Lord, Mr. North, I +and W. Howe. After that to bed. This evening came Dr. Clarges to Deal, +going to the King; where the towns-people strewed the streets with +herbes against his coming, for joy of his going. Never was there so +general a content as there is now. I cannot but remember that our parson +did, in his prayer to-night, pray for the long life and happiness of +our King and dread Soveraign, that may last as long as the sun and moon +endureth. + +6th (Lord's day). This morning while we were at sermon comes in Dr. +Clarges and a dozen gentlemen to see my Lord, who, after sermon, +dined with him; I remember that last night upon discourse +concerning Clarges my Lord told me that he was a man of small +entendimiento.--[Entendimiento, Spanish: the understanding.]--This +afternoon there was a gentleman with me, an officer of Dunkirk going +over, who came to me for an order and told me he was lately with my +uncle and Aunt Fenner and that Kate's fits of the convulsions did hold +her still. It fell very well to-day, a stranger preached here for Mr. +Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for King Charles, by the Grace of +God, &c., which gave great contentment to the gentlemen that were on +board here, and they said they would talk of it, when they come to +Breda, as not having it done yet in London so publickly. After they were +gone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to the King and give it to +me to carry privately to Sir William Compton' on board the Assistance, +which I did, and after a health to his Majesty on board there, I left +them under sail for Breda. Back again and found them at sermon. I went +up to my cabin and looked over my accounts, and find that, all my debts +paid and my preparations to sea paid for, I have L640 clear in my purse. +After supper to bed. + +7th. This morning Captain Cuttance sent me 12 bottles of Margate ale. +Three of them I drank presently with some friends in the Coach. My +Lord went this morning about the flag-ships in a boat, to see what +alterations there must be, as to the arms and flags. He did give me +order also to write for silk flags and scarlett waistcloathes. + + [Waist-cloths are the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which + are stowed in the waist-nettings.] + +For a rich barge; for a noise of trumpets, + + [A set or company of musicians, an expression constantly used by old + writers without any disparaging meaning. It is sometimes applied to + voices as well as to instruments.] + +and a set of fidlers. Very great deal of company come today, among +others Mr. Bellasses, Sir Thomas Lenthropp, Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel +Philip Honiwood, and Captain Titus, the last of whom my Lord showed all +our cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice what room there will be +for the King's entertainment. Here were also all the Jurates of the town +of Dover come to give my Lord a visit, and after dinner all went away. +I could not but observe that the Vice-Admiral after dinner came into the +great cabin below, where the Jurates and I and the commanders for want +of room dined, and there told us we must drink a health to the King, +and himself called for a bottle of wine, and begun his and the Duke of +York's. In the afternoon I lost 5s. at ninepins. After supper musique, +and to bed. Having also among us at the Coach table wrote a letter to +the French ambassador, in French, about the release of a ship we had +taken. After I was in bed Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came and sat in my +cabin, where I gave them three bottles of Margate ale, and sat laughing +and very merry, till almost one o'clock in the morning, and so good +night. + +8th. All the morning busy. After dinner come several persons of honour, +as my Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great giving +of them salutes. My Lord and we at nine-pins: I lost 9s. While we were +at play Mr. Cook brings me word of my wife. He went to Huntsmore to see +her, and brought her and my father Bowyer to London, where he left her +at my father's, very well, and speaks very well of her love to me. +My letters to-day tell me how it was intended that the King should be +proclaimed to-day in London, with a great deal of pomp. I had also news +who they are that are chosen of the Lords and Commons to attend the +King. And also the whole story of what we did the other day in the +fleet, at reading of the King's declaration, and my name at the bottom +of it. After supper some musique and to bed. I resolving to rise betimes +to-morrow to write letters to London. + +9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as from the two +Generals of the fleet, in answer to his letter to them, wherein my Lord +do give most humble thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; and +promises all duty and obedience to him. This letter was carried this +morning to Sir Peter Killigrew, + + [Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as + "Peter the Post," from the alacrity with which he despatched "like + wild fire" all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him + in the King's cause. His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as + second baronet in 1665, was M.P. for Camelford in 1660.] + +who came hither this morning early to bring an order from the Lords' +House to my Lord, giving him power to write an answer to the King. This +morning my Lord St. John and other persons of honour were here to see +my Lord, and so away to Flushing. After they were gone my Lord and I +to write letters to London, which we sent by Mr. Cook, who was very +desirous to go because of seeing my wife before she went out of town. +As we were sitting down to dinner, in comes Noble with a letter from the +House of Lords to my Lord, to desire him to provide ships to transport +the Commissioners to the King, which are expected here this week. He +brought us certain news that the King was proclaimed yesterday with +great pomp, and brought down one of the Proclamations, with great joy to +us all; for which God be praised. After dinner to ninepins and lost 5s. +This morning came Mr. Saunderson, + + [Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author + of the "History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I., and Charles I." + His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids.] + +that writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over to the King. +He calls me cozen and seems a very knowing man. After supper to bed +betimes, leaving my Lord talking in the Coach with the Captain. + +10th. This morning came on board Mr. Pinkney and his son, going to the +King with a petition finely writ by Mr. Whore, for to be the King's +embroiderer; for whom and Mr. Saunderson I got a ship. This morning come +my Lord Winchelsea and a great deal of company, and dined here. In +the afternoon, while my Lord and we were at musique in the great cabin +below, comes in a messenger to tell us that Mr. Edward Montagu, + + [Sir Edward Montagu's eldest son, afterwards second Earl of + Sandwich, called by Pepys "The child."] + +my Lord's son, was come to Deal, who afterwards came on board with Mr. +Pickering with him. The child was sick in the evening. At night, +while my Lord was at supper, in comes my Lord Lauderdale and Sir John +Greenville, who supped here, and so went away. After they were gone, my +Lord called me into his cabin, and told me how he was commanded to set +sail presently for the King, + + ["Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty + for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty's returning + home to England to his kingly government: and that all proceedings + in law be in His Majesty's name."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +and was very glad thereof, and so put me to writing of letters and +other work that night till it was very late, he going to bed. I got him +afterwards to sign things in bed. After I had done some more work I to +bed also. + +11th. Up very early in the morning, and so about a great deal of +business in order to our going hence to-day. Burr going on shore last +night made me very angry. So that I sent for Mr. Pitts to come tome from +the Vice-Admiral's, intending not to have employed Burr any more. But +Burr by and by coming and desiring humbly that I would forgive him and +Pitts not coming I did set him to work. This morning we began to pull +down all the State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to Dover +for painters and others to come to set up the King's. The rest of the +morning writing of letters to London which I afterwards sent by Dunne. I +had this morning my first opportunity of discoursing with Dr. Clarke, + + [Timothy Clarke, M. D., one of the original Fellows of the Royal + Society. He was appointed one of the physicians in ordinary to + Charles II. on the death of Dr. Quartermaine in 1667.] + +whom I found to be a very pretty man and very knowing. He is now going +in this ship to the King. There dined here my Lord Crafford and my Lord +Cavendish, and other Scotchmen whom I afterwards ordered to be received +on board the Plymouth, and to go along with us. After dinner we set +sail from the Downs, I leaving my boy to go to Deal for my linen. In the +afternoon overtook us three or four gentlemen; two of the Berties, and +one Mr. Dormerhoy, a Scotch gentleman, whom I afterwards found to be a +very fine man, who, telling my Lord that they heard the Commissioners +were come out of London to-day, my Lord dropt anchor over against Dover +Castle (which give us about thirty guns in passing), and upon a high +debate with the Vice and Rear Admiral whether it were safe to go and +not stay for the Commissioners, he did resolve to send Sir R. Stayner to +Dover, to enquire of my Lord Winchelsea, whether or no they are come out +of London, and then to resolve to-morrow morning of going or not; which +was done. It blew very hard all this night that I was afeard of my +boy. About 11 at night came the boats from Deal, with great store of +provisions, by the same token John Goods told me that above 20 of the +fowls are smothered, but my boy was put on board the Northwich. To bed. + +12th. This morning I inquired for my boy, whether he was come well or +no, and it was told me that he was well in bed. My Lord called me to his +chamber, he being in bed, and gave me many orders to make for direction +for the ships that are left in the Downs, giving them the greatest +charge in the world to bring no passengers with them, when they come +after us to Scheveling Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. Thomas +Crew, and Sir H. Wright. Sir R. Stayner hath been here early in the +morning and told my Lord, that my Lord Winchelsea understands by +letters, that the Commissioners are only to come to Dover to attend the +coming over of the King. So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, +which we did, and sailed all day. In our way in the morning, coming +in the midway between Dover and Calais, we could see both places very +easily, and very pleasant it was to me that the further we went the more +we lost sight of both lands. In the afternoon at cards with Mr. North +and the Doctor.--[Clarke]--There by us, in the Lark frigate, Sir R. +Freeman and some others, going from the King to England, come to see +my Lord and so onward on their voyage. In the afternoon upon the +quarterdeck the Doctor told Mr. North and me an admirable story called +"The Fruitless Precaution," an exceeding pretty story and worthy my +getting without book when I can get the book.[??] This evening came Mr. +Sheply on board, whom we had left at Deal and Dover getting of provision +and borrowing of money. In the evening late, after discoursing with the +Doctor, &c., to bed. + +13th (Lord's day). Trimmed in the morning, after that to the cook's room +with Mr. Sheply, the first time that I was there this voyage. Then to +the quarter-deck, upon which the tailors and painters were at work, +cutting out some pieces of yellow cloth into the fashion of a crown and +C. R. and put it upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of +the State's arms, which after dinner was finished and set up after +it had been shewn to my Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his +chamber, and liked it so well as to bid me give the tailors 20s. among +them for doing of it. This morn Sir J. Boys and Capt. Isham met us in +the Nonsuch, the first of whom, after a word or two with my Lord, went +forward, the other staid. I heard by them how Mr. Downing had never +made any address to the King, and for that was hated exceedingly by the +Court, and that he was in a Dutch ship which sailed by us, then going +to England with disgrace. Also how Mr. Morland was knighted by the King +this week, and that the King did give the reason of it openly, that +it was for his giving him intelligence all the time he was clerk to +Secretary Thurloe. In the afternoon a council of war, only to acquaint +them that the Harp must be taken out of all their flags, + + [In May, 1658, the old Union Jack (being the crosses of St. George + and St. Andrew combined) was revived, with the Irish harp over the + centre of the flag. This harp was taken off at the Restoration. + (See "The National Flags of the Commonwealth," by H. W. Henfrey," + Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc.," vol. xxxi, p. 54.) The sign of the + "Commonwealth Arms" was an uncommon one, but a token of one exists-- + "Francis Wood at ye Commonwealth arms in Mary Maudlens" [St. Mary + Magdalen, Old Fish Street].] + +it being very offensive to the King. Mr. Cook, who came after us in the +Yarmouth, bringing me a letter from my wife and a Latin letter from my +brother John, with both of which I was exceedingly pleased. No sermon +all day, we being under sail, only at night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbott +prayed for all that were related to us in a spiritual and fleshly way. +We came within sight of Middle's shore. Late at night we writ letters +to the King of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward Picketing carried +them. Capt. Isham went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect; so +the old man very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldly +bid him "God be with you," which was very strange, but that I hear that +he keeps a great deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, at the +King's Courts, what command he had with my Lord, &c. After letters were +gone then to bed. + +14th. In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw myself out of the +scuttle close by the shore, which afterwards I was told to be the Dutch +shore; the Hague was clearly to be seen by us. My Lord went up in his +nightgown into the cuddy, + + ["A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but + sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden."--Smyth's + Sailor's Word-Book.] + +to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him, to +give order for our removal to-day. Some nasty Dutchmen came on board to +proffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, &c., to get money +by us. Before noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to kiss +my Lord's hands. And by and by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss the +Queen of Bohemia's' hands, from my Lord, with twelve attendants from on +board to wait on them, among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, is +with child to see any strange thing. After noon they came back again +after having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's hand, and were sent again by +my Lord to do the same to the Prince of Orange. + + [Son of the Prince of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I. + --afterwards William III. He was then in his tenth year, having + been born in 1650.] + +So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, which my Lord did give, +and I taking my boy and judge Advocate with me, went in company with +them. The weather bad; we were sadly washed when we came near the shore, +it being very hard to land there. The shore is, as all the country +between that and the Hague, all sand. The rest of the company got a +coach by themselves; Mr. Creed and I went in the fore part of a coach +wherein were two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with black +patches, who very merrily sang all the way and that very well, and were +very free to kiss the two blades that were with them. I took out my +flageolette and piped, but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but when +I came to the Hague, I sent my boy back again for it and he found it, +for which I did give him 6d., but some horses had gone over it and broke +the scabbard. The Hague is a most neat place in all respects. The houses +so neat in all places and things as is possible. Here we walked up and +down a great while, the town being now very full of Englishmen, for +that the Londoners were come on shore today. But going to see the +Prince,--[Prince of Orange, afterwards William III.]--he was gone forth +with his governor, and so we walked up and down the town and court to +see the place; and by the help of a stranger, an Englishman, we saw +a great many places, and were made to understand many things, as the +intention of may-poles, which we saw there standing at every great man's +door, of different greatness according to the quality of the person. +About 10 at night the Prince comes home, and we found an easy admission. +His attendance very inconsiderable as for a prince; but yet handsome, +and his tutor a fine man, and himself a very pretty boy. It was bright +moonshine to-night. This done we went to a place we had taken to sup +in, where a sallet and two or three bones of mutton were provided for a +matter of ten of us which was very strange. After supper the Judge and I +to another house, leaving them there, and he and I lay in one press bed, +there being two more in the same room, but all very neat and handsome, +my boy sleeping upon a bench by me. + +15th. We lay till past three o'clock, then up and down the town, to see +it by daylight, where we saw the soldiers of the Prince's guard, all +very fine, and the burghers of the town with their arms and muskets as +bright as silver. And meeting this morning a schoolmaster that spoke +good English and French, he went along with us and shewed us the whole +town, and indeed I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of the town. +Every body of fashion speaks French or Latin, or both. The women many +of them very pretty and in good habits, fashionable and black spots. He +went with me to buy a couple of baskets, one of them for Mrs. Pierce, +the other for my wife. After he was gone, we having first drank with him +at our lodging, the judge and I to the Grande Salle where we were shewed +the place where the States General sit in council. The hall is a great +place, where the flags that they take from their enemies are all hung +up; and things to be sold, as in Westminster Hall, and not much unlike +it, but that not so big, but much neater. After that to a bookseller's +and bought for the love of the binding three books: the French Psalms in +four parts, Bacon's Organon, and Farnab. Rhetor. + + ["Index Rhetoricus" of Thomas Farnaby was a book which went through + several editions. The first was published at London by R. Allot in + 1633.] + +After that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, where +we went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind being +very high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to be +pulled on shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, +and feathers, were swimming in the sea. Among others I saw the ministers +that come along with the Commissioners (Mr. Case among the rest) sadly +dipped. + + [Thomas Case, born 1598, was a famous preacher and a zealous + advocate for the Solemn League and Covenant, a member of the + assembly of divines, and rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. He + was one of the deputation to Charles II. at Breda, and appointed a + royal chaplain. He was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, but + remained in London after his ejection. Died May 30th, 1682.] + +So they came in where we were, and I being in haste left my Copenhagen +knife, and so lost it. Having staid here a great while a gentleman that +was going to kiss my Lord's hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hired +a Dutch boat for four rixdollars to carry us on board. We were fain to +wait a great while before we could get off from the shore, the sea being +very rough. The Dutchman would fain have made all pay that came into +our boat besides us two and our company, there being many of our ship's +company got in who were on shore, but some of them had no money, having +spent all on shore. Coming on board we found all the Commissioners of +the House of Lords at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went away +for shore. Mr. Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not +find that my Lord or any body did give him any respect, he being looked +upon by him and all men as a knave. Among others he betrayed Sir Rich. +Willis + + [This is somewhat different to the usual account of Morland's + connection with Sir Richard Willis. In the beginning of 1659 + Cromwell, Thurloe, and Willis formed a plot to inveigle Charles II. + into England and into the hands of his enemies. The plot was + discussed in Thurloe's office, and Morland, who pretended to be + asleep, heard it and discovered it. Willis sent for Morland, and + received him in a cellar. He said that one of them must have + discovered the plot. He laid his hand upon the Bible and swore that + he had not been the discoverer, calling upon Morland to do the same. + Morland, with presence of mind, said he was ready to do so if Willis + would give him a reason why he should suspect him. By this ready + answer he is said to have escaped the ordeal (see Birch's "Life of + Thurloe").] + +that married Dr. F. Jones's daughter, that he had paid him L1000 at one +time by the Protector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for intelligence +that he sent concerning the King. In the afternoon my Lord called me +on purpose to show me his fine cloathes which are now come hither, and +indeed are very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword he +and I do not like. In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in +the coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: as +religion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I, +saying, that indeed the Protestants as to the Church of Rome are +wholly fanatiques: he likes uniformity and form of prayer; about +State-business, among other things he told me that his conversion to +the King's cause (for so I was saying that I wondered from what time the +King could look upon him to become his friend), commenced from his being +in the Sound, when he found what usage he was likely to have from a +Commonwealth. My Lord, the Captain, and I supped in my Lord's chamber, +where I did perceive that he did begin to show me much more respect than +ever he did yet. After supper, my Lord sent for me, intending to have +me play at cards with him, but I not knowing cribbage, we fell into +discourse of many things, till it was so rough sea and the ship rolled +so much that I was not able to stand, and so he bid me go to bed. + +16th. Soon as I was up I went down to be trimmed below in the great +cabin, but then come in some with visits, among the rest one from +Admiral Opdam, + + [The admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset's ballad, "To all you ladies + now at land." + + "Should foggy Opdam chance to know + Our sad and dismal story; + The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe, + And quit their fort at Goree + For what resistance can they find + From men who've left their hearts behind?"--B.] + +who spoke Latin well, but not French nor English, to whom my Lord made +me to give his answer and to entertain; he brought my Lord a tierce of +wine and a barrel of butter, as a present from the Admiral. After that +to finish my trimming, and while I was doing of it in comes Mr. North +very sea-sick from shore, and to bed he goes. After that to dinner, +where Commissioner Pett was come to take care to get all things ready +for the King on board. My Lord in his best suit, this the first day, in +expectation to wait upon the King. But Mr. Edw. Pickering coming from +the King brought word that the King would not put my Lord to the trouble +of coming to him; but that he would come to the shore to look upon the +fleet to-day, which we expected, and had our guns ready to fire, and +our scarlet waistcloathes out and silk pendants, but he did not come. My +Lord and we at ninepins this afternoon upon the Quarterdeck, which was +very pretty sport. This evening came Mr. John Pickering on board, like +an ass, with his feathers and new suit that he had made at the Hague. My +Lord very angry for his staying on shore, bidding me a little before to +send to him, telling me that he was afraid that for his father's sake he +might have some mischief done him, unless he used the General's name. To +supper, and after supper to cards. I stood by and looked on till 11 at +night and so to bed. This afternoon Mr. Edwd. Pickering told me in what +a sad, poor condition for clothes and money the King was, and all his +attendants, when he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes not +being worth forty shillings the best of them. + + [Andrew Marvell alludes to the poor condition, for clothes and + money, in which the King was at this time, in "A Historical Poem":-- + + "At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, + The people call him back to help the State; + And what is more, they send him money, too, + And clothe him all from head to foot anew."] + +And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some +money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to +look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out. +My Lord told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High Admiral of +England. + +17th. Up early to write down my last two days' observations. Dr. Clerke +came to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that are +come on board already to see the ship, that there was a Portuguese taken +yesterday at the Hague, that had a design to kill the King. But this I +heard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being observed to walk +with his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard. Before dinner Mr. +Edw. Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and my boy,--[Edward Montagu, +afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]--to Scheveling, where we took coach, and +so to the Hague, where walking, intending to find one that might show +us the King incognito, I met with Captain Whittington (that had formerly +brought a letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promise +me to do it, but first we went and dined at a French house, but paid +16s. for our part of the club. At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry mad +parson of the King's. And they two after dinner got the child and me +(the others not being able to crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the +child very affectionately. Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York's, +and the Princess Royal's hands. The King seems to be a very sober man; +and a very splendid Court he hath in the number of persons of quality +that are about him, English very rich in habit. From the King to the +Lord Chancellor, + + [On January 29th, 1658, Charles II. entrusted the Great Seal to Sir + Edward Hyde, with the title of Lord Chancellor, and in that + character Sir Edward accompanied the King to England.] + +who did lie bed-rid of the gout: he spoke very merrily to the child +and me. After that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met with Dr. +Fullers whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I and +the rest went to see the Queen,--[Henrietta Maria.]--who used us very +respectfully; her hand we all kissed. She seems a very debonaire, but +plain lady. After that to the Dr.'s, where we drank a while or so. In a +coach of a friend's of Dr. Cade we went to see a house of the Princess +Dowager's in a park about half-a-mile or a mile from the Hague, where +there is one, the most beautiful room for pictures in the whole world. +She had here one picture upon the top, with these words, dedicating it +to the memory of her husband:--"Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis +vidua." + + [Mary, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Charles I., and widow of + William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. She was not supposed to be + inconsolable, and scandal followed her at the court of Charles II., + where she died of small-pox, December 24th, 1660.] + +Here I met with Mr. Woodcock of Cambridge, Mr. Hardy and another, and +Mr. Woodcock beginning we had two or three fine songs, he and I, and +W. Howe to the Echo, which was very pleasant, and the more because in a +heaven of pleasure and in a strange country, that I never was taken up +more with a sense of pleasure in my life. After that we parted and back +to the Hague and took a tour or two about the Forehault,--[The Voorhout +is the principal street of the Hague, and it is lined with handsome +trees.]--where the ladies in the evening do as our ladies do in Hide +Park. But for my life I could not find one handsome, but their coaches +very rich and themselves so too. From thence, taking leave of the +Doctor, we took wagon to Scheveling, where we had a fray with the +Boatswain of the Richmond, who would not freely carry us on board, but +at last he was willing to it, but then it was so late we durst not go. +So we returned between 10 and 11 at night in the dark with a wagon with +one horse to the Hague, where being come we went to bed as well as we +could be accommodated, and so to sleep. + +18th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, our Lord High +Admiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon for +Scheveling, leaving the child in Mr. Pierces hands, with directions to +keep him within doors all day till he heard from me. But the wind being +very high that no boats could get off from shore, we returned to +the Hague (having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's, and +Commissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice to my Lord of his +coming), where I hear that the child is gone to Delfe to see the town. +So we all and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit--[The trekschuit +(drag-boat) along the canal is still described as an agreeable +conveyance from Leyden to Delft.]--and very much pleased with the manner +and conversation of the passengers, where most speak French; went after +them, but met them by the way. But however we went forward making no +stop. Where when we were come we got a smith's boy of the town to go +along with us, but could speak nothing but Dutch, and he showed us the +church where Van Trump lies entombed with a very fine monument. His +epitaph concluded thus:--"Tandem Bello Anglico tantum non victor, certe +invictus, vivere et vincere desiit." There is a sea-fight cut in marble, +with the smoke, the best expressed that ever I saw in my life. From +thence to the great church, that stands in a fine great market-place, +over against the Stadt-house, and there I saw a stately tomb of the +old Prince of Orange, of marble and brass; wherein among other rarities +there are the angels with their trumpets expressed as it were crying. +Here were very fine organs in both the churches. It is a most sweet +town, with bridges, and a river in every street. Observing that in every +house of entertainment there hangs in every room a poor-man's box, and +desiring to know the reason thereof, it was told me that it is their +custom to confirm all bargains by putting something into the poor +people's box, and that binds as fast as any thing. We also saw the +Guesthouse, where it was very pleasant to see what neat preparation +there is for the poor. We saw one poor man a-dying there. After we had +seen all, we light by chance of an English house to drink in, where we +were very merry, discoursing of the town and the thing that hangs up in +the Stadthouse like a bushel, which I was told is a sort of punishment +for some sort of offenders to carry through the streets of the town over +his head, which is a great weight. Back by water, where a pretty sober +Dutch lass sat reading all the way, and I could not fasten any discourse +upon her. At our landing we met with Commissioner Pett going down to the +water-side with Major Harly, who is going upon a dispatch into England. +They having a coach I left the Parson and my boy and went along with +Commissioner Pett, Mr. Ackworth and Mr. Dawes his friends, to the +Princess Dowager's house again. Thither also my Lord Fairfax and some +other English Lords did come to see it, and my pleasure was increased by +seeing of it again. Besides we went into the garden, wherein are gallant +nuts better than ever I saw, and a fine Echo under the house in a vault +made on purpose with pillars, where I played on my flageolette to great +advantage. Back to the Hague, where not finding Mr. Edward, I was much +troubled, but went with the Parson to supper to Commissioner Pett, +where we sat late. And among other mirth Mr. Ackworth vyed wives, each +endeavouring to set his own wife out to the best advantage, he having as +they said an extraordinary handsome wife. But Mr. Dawes could not be got +to say anything of his. After that to our lodging where W. Howe and I +exceeding troubled not to know what is become of our young gentleman. So +to bed. + +19th. Up early, hearing nothing of the child, and went to Scheveling, +where I found no getting on board, though the Duke of York sent every +day to see whether he could do it or no. Here I met with Mr. Pinkney and +his sons, and with them went back to the Hague, in our way lighting and +going to see a woman that makes pretty rock-work in shells, &c., which +could I have carried safe I would have bought some of. At the Hague +we went to buy some pictures, where I saw a sort of painting done upon +woollen cloth, drawn as if there was a curtain over it, which was very +pleasant, but dear. Another pretty piece of painting I saw, on which +there was a great wager laid by young Pinkney and me whether it was a +principal or a copy. But not knowing how to decide, it was broken off, +and I got the old man to lay out as much as my piece of gold come to, +and so saved my money, which had been 24s. lost, I fear. While we were +here buying of pictures, we saw Mr. Edward and his company land. Who +told me that they had been at Leyden all night, at which I was very +angry with Mr. Pierce, and shall not be friends I believe a good while. +To our lodging to dinner. After that out to buy some linen to wear +against to-morrow, and so to the barber's. After that by waggon to +Lausdune, where the 365 children were born. We saw the hill where they +say the house stood and sunk wherein the children were born. The basins +wherein the male and female children were baptized do stand over a large +table that hangs upon a wall, with the whole story of the thing in Dutch +and Latin, beginning, "Margarita Herman Comitissa," &c. The thing was +done about 200 years ago. + +The town is a little small village which answers much to one of our +small villages, such a one as Chesterton in all respects, and one could +have thought it in England but for the language of the people. We went +into a little drinking house where there were a great many Dutch boors +eating of fish in a boorish manner, but very merry in their way. But +the houses here as neat as in the great places. From thence to the Hague +again playing at crambo--[Crambo is described as "a play at short verses +in which a word is given, and the parties contend who can find most +rhymes to it."]--in the waggon, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. +Pinkney, and I. When we were come thither W. Howe, and Mr. Ibbott, and +Mr. Pinckney went away for Scheveling, while I and the child to walk up +and down the town, where I met my old chamber-fellow, Mr. Ch. Anderson, +and a friend of his (both Physicians), Mr. Wright, who took me to a +Dutch house, where there was an exceeding pretty lass, and right for the +sport, but it being Saturday we could not have much of her company, +but however I staid with them (having left the child with my uncle +Pickering, whom I met in the street) till 12 at night. By that time +Charles was almost drunk, and then broke up, he resolving to go thither +again, after he had seen me at my lodging, and lie with the girl, which +he told me he had done in the morning. Going to my lodging we met with +the bellman, who struck upon a clapper, which I took in my hand, and it +is just like the clapper that our boys frighten the birds away from the +corn with in summer time in England. To bed. + +20th. Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the child by waggon to +Scheveling, where it not being yet fit to go off, I went to lie down in +a chamber in the house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch +woman in bed alone, but though I had a month's-mind + + [Month's-mind. An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding + to "a woman's longing." See Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona," + act i. sc. 2: + + "I see you have a month's mind to them."--M. B.] + +I had not the boldness to go to her. So there I slept an hour or two. At +last she rose, and then I rose and walked up and down the chamber, and +saw her dress herself after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as much +as I could, and took occasion, from her ring which she wore on her first +finger, to kiss her hand, but had not the face to offer anything more. +So at last I left her there and went to my company. About 8 o'clock I +went into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty handsome, and +in the chancel a very great upper part of the mouth of a whale, which +indeed was of a prodigious bigness, bigger than one of our long boats +that belong to one of our ships. Commissioner Pett at last came to our +lodging, and caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some in +another we all bid adieu to the shore. But through badness of weather we +were in great danger, and a great while before we could get to the +ship, so that of all the company not one but myself that was not sick. +I keeping myself in the open air, though I was soundly wet for it. This +hath not been known four days together such weather at this time of +year, a great while. Indeed our fleet was thought to be in great danger, +but we found all well, and Mr. Thos. Crew came on board. I having spoke +a word or two with my Lord, being not very well settled, partly through +last night's drinking and want of sleep, I lay down in my gown upon my +bed and slept till the 4 o'clock gun the next morning waked me, which I +took for 8 at night, and rising ... mistook the sun rising for the sun +setting on Sunday night. + +21st. So into my naked bed + + [This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once + universal. It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in + bed without any nightlinen. + + "Who sees his true love in her naked bed, + Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white." + + Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. + + Nares ("Glossary") notes the expression so late as in the very odd + novel by T. Amory, called "John Bunde," where a young lady declares, + after an alarm, "that she would never go into naked bed on board + ship again." Octavo edition, vol. i. p. 90.] + +and slept till 9 o'clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by the +captain's boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which Captain +Tatnell had sent me from Murlace.--[Apparently Mallows stands for St. +Malo and Murlace for Morlaise.]--The weather foul all this day also. +After dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my +papers in order, having been so long absent. At night Mr. Pierce, Purser +(the other Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fell +out about Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and supped +with me, and then I went to bed. By letters that came hither in my +absence, I understand that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be +secured, in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late King's +death, and all the officers too attending the Court. Sir John Lenthall +moving in the House, that all that had borne arms against the King +should be exempted from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, +and after a severe reproof he was degraded his knighthood. At Court I +find that all things grow high. The old clergy talk as being sure of +their lands again, and laugh at the Presbytery; and it is believed that +the sales of the King's and Bishops' lands will never be confirmed by +Parliament, there being nothing now in any man's, power to hinder them +and the King from doing what they have a mind, but every body willing +to submit to any thing. We expect every day to have the King and Duke +on board as soon as it is fair. My Lord do nothing now, but offers all +things to the pleasure of the Duke as Lord High Admiral. So that I am at +a loss what to do. + +22nd. Up very early, and now beginning to be settled in my wits again, +I went about setting down my last four days' observations this morning. +After that, was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me yet, my +Spaniard being on shore. News brought that the two Dukes are coming on +board, which, by and by, they did, in a Dutch boats the Duke of York in +yellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester + + [Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Charles L, born + July 6th, 16--, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a + meeting with his father on the night before the King's execution. + Burnet says: "He was active, and loved business; was apt to have + particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was + generally very acceptable. The King loved him much better than the + Duke of York." He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th, + 1660, and was buried in Henry VII's Chapel.] + +in grey and red. My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Captain, +myself, and others, standing at the entering port. So soon as they were +entered we shot the guns off round the fleet. After that they went to +view the ship all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it. +They seem to be both very fine gentlemen. After that done, upon the +quarter-deck table, under the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. +Coventry, + + [William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached + afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the + Lord Keeper. He was born in 1628, and entered at Queen's College, + Oxford, in 1642; after the Restoration he became private secretary + to the Duke of York, his commission as Secretary to the Lord High + Admiral not being conferred until 1664; elected M.P. for Great + Yarmouth in 1661. In 1662 he was appointed an extra Commissioner of + the Navy, an office he held until 1667; in 1665, knighted and sworn + a Privy Councillor, and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the + Treasury; but, having been forbid the court on account of his + challenging the Duke of Buckingham, he retired into the country, nor + could he subsequently be prevailed upon to accept of any official + employment. Burnet calls Sir William Coventry the best speaker in + the House of Commons, and "a man of the finest and best temper that + belonged to the court," and Pepys never omits an opportunity of + paying a tribute to his public and private worth. He died, 1686, of + gout in the stomach.] + +and I, spent an hour at allotting to every ship their service, in their +return to England; which having done, they went to dinner, where the +table was very full: the two Dukes at the upper end, my Lord Opdam next +on one side, and my Lord on the other. Two guns given to every man while +he was drinking the King's health, and so likewise to the Duke's health. +I took down Monsieur d'Esquier to the great cabin below, and dined with +him in state alone with only one or two friends of his. All dinner the +harper belonging to Captain Sparling played to the Dukes. After dinner, +the Dukes and my Lord to see the Vice and Rear-Admirals; and I in a boat +after them. After that done, they made to the shore in the Dutch boat +that brought them, and I got into the boat with them; but the shore was +so full of people to expect their coming, as that it was as black (which +otherwise is white sand), as every one could stand by another. When we +came near the shore, my Lord left them and came into his own boat, and +General Pen and I with him; my Lord being very well pleased with this +day's work. By the time we came on board again, news is sent us that the +King is on shore; so my Lord fired all his guns round twice, and all the +fleet after him, which in the end fell into disorder, which seemed very +handsome. The gun over against my cabin I fired myself to the King, +which was the first time that he had been saluted by his own ships since +this change; but holding my head too much over the gun, I had almost +spoiled my right eye. Nothing in the world but going of guns almost all +this day. In the evening we began to remove cabins; I to the carpenter's +cabin, and Dr. Clerke with me, who came on board this afternoon, having +been twice ducked in the sea to-day coming from shore, and Mr. North +and John Pickering the like. Many of the King's servants came on board +to-night; and so many Dutch of all sorts came to see the ship till it +was quite dark, that we could not pass by one another, which was a +great trouble to us all. This afternoon Mr. Downing (who was knighted +yesterday by the King') was here on board, and had a ship for his +passage into England, with his lady and servants. + + ["About midnight arrived there Mr. Downing, who did the affairs of + England to the Lords the Estates, in quality of Resident under + Oliver Cromwell, and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which + having changed the form of the government, after having cast forth + the last Protector, had continued him in his imploiment, under the + quality of Extraordinary Envoy. He began to have respect for the + King's person, when he knew that all England declared for a free + parliament, and departed from Holland without order, as soon as he + understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re- + establishment of monarchal government, with a design to crave + letters of recommendation to General Monk. This lord considered + him, as well because of the birth of his wife, which is illustrious, + as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when + that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions. He had + his letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish + Embassador, as we have said. He presented them forthwith to the + King, who arose from table a while after, read the letters, receiv'd + the submissions of Downing, and granted him the pardon and grace + which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing. Some daies + after the King knighted him, and would it should be believed, that + the strong aversions which this minister of the Protector had made + appear against him on all occasions, and with all sorts of persons + indifferently, even a few daies before the publick and general + declaration of all England, proceeded not from any evil intention, + but only from a deep dissimulation, wherewith he was constrained to + cover his true sentiments, for fear to prejudice the affairs of his + Majesty."--Sir William Lowers Relation... of the Voiage and + Residence which... Charles the II. hath made in Holland, + Hague, 1660, folio, pp. 72-73.] + +By the same token he called me to him when I was going to write the +order, to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing. My Lord lay in +the roundhouse to-night. This evening I was late writing a French letter +myself by my Lord's order to Monsieur Kragh, Embassador de Denmarke a la +Haye, which my Lord signed in bed. After that I to bed, and the Doctor, +and sleep well. + +23rd. The Doctor and I waked very merry, only my eye was very red and +ill in the morning from yesterday's hurt. In the morning came infinity +of people on board from the King to go along with him. My Lord, Mr. +Crew, and others, go on shore to meet the King as he comes off from +shore, where Sir R. Stayner bringing His Majesty into the boat, I hear +that His Majesty did with a great deal of affection kiss my Lord upon +his first meeting. The King, with the two Dukes and Queen of Bohemia, +Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, came on board, where I in their +coming in kissed the King's, Queen's, and Princess's hands, having +done the other before. Infinite shooting off of the guns, and that in a +disorder on purpose, which was better than if it had been otherwise. +All day nothing but Lords and persons of honour on board, that we were +exceeding full. Dined in a great deal of state, the Royall company by +themselves in the coach, which was a blessed sight to see. I dined with +Dr. Clerke, Dr. Quarterman, and Mr. Darcy in my cabin. This morning +Mr. Lucy came on board, to whom and his company of the King's Guard in +another ship my Lord did give three dozen of bottles of wine. He made +friends between Mr. Pierce and me. After dinner the King and Duke +altered the name of some of the ships, viz. the Nazeby into Charles; the +Richard, James; the Speakers Mary; the Dunbar (which was not in company +with us), the Henry; Winsly, Happy Return; Wakefield, Richmond; Lambert; +the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell; Bradford, the Success. That +done, the Queen, Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, took leave of +the King, and the Duke of York went on board the London, and the Duke +of Gloucester, the Swiftsure. Which done, we weighed anchor, and with +a fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England. All the +afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down (quite contrary +to what I thought him to have been), very active and stirring. Upon the +quarterdeck he fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester, + + [For the King's own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see + "Boscobel" (Bohn's "Standard Library").] + +where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of his +difficulties that he had passed through, as his travelling four days and +three nights on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing +but a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair of +country shoes that made him so sore all over his feet, that he could +scarce stir. Yet he was forced to run away from a miller and other +company, that took them for rogues. His sitting at table at one place, +where the master of the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did +know him, but kept it private; when at the same table there was one that +had been of his own regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made +him drink the King's health, and said that the King was at least four +fingers higher than he. At another place he was by some servants of the +house made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead, +which they swore he was. In another place at his inn, the master of the +house, + + [This was at Brighton. The inn was the "George," and the innkeeper + was named Smith. Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys + in October, 1680. He then said, "And here also I ran into another + very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of + the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside, + leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being + gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a- + talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was + nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon + the back of the chair, and said to me, 'God bless you wheresoever + you go! I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife + a lady.' So I laughed, and went away into the next room."] + +as the King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by the +fire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, saying, that +he would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he was +going. Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France, where +he was fain to plot with the master thereof to keep his design from the +four men and a boy (which was all his ship's company), and so got to +Fecamp in France. + + [On Saturday, October 11th, 1651, Colonel Gunter made an agreement + at Chichester with Nicholas Tettersell, through Francis Mansell (a + French merchant), to have Tettersell's vessel ready at an hour's + warning. Charles II., in his narrative dictated to Pepys in 1680, + said, "We went to a place, four miles off Shoreham, called + Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet with the master of the ship, + as thinking it more convenient to meet there than just at Shoreham, + where the ship was. So when we came to the inn at Brighthelmstone + we met with one, the merchant Francis Mansell] who had hired the + vessel, in company with her master [Tettersell], the merchant only + knowing me, as having hired her only to carry over a person of + quality that was escaped from the battle of Worcester without naming + anybody." + + The boat was supposed to be bound for Poole, but Charles says in his + narrative: "As we were sailing the master came to me, and desired me + that I would persuade his men to use their best endeavours with him + to get him to set us on shore in France, the better to cover him + from any suspicion thereof, upon which I went to the men, which were + four and a boy." + + After the Restoration Mansell was granted a pension of L200 a year, + and Tettersell one of L100 a year. (See "Captain Nicholas + Tettersell and the Escape of Charles II.," by F. E. Sawyer, F.S.A., + "Sussex Archaeological Collections," vol. xxxii. pp. 81-104).) + +At Rouen he looked so poorly, that the people went into the rooms before +he went away to see whether he had not stole something or other. In the +evening I went up to my Lord to write letters for England, which we sent +away with word of our coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King supped +alone in the coach; after that I got a dish, and we four supped in my +cabin, as at noon. About bed-time my Lord Bartlett + + [A mistake for Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who had been deputed, with + Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords to + present an address of congratulation to the King.--B.] + +(who I had offered my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed, +who with much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the great +cabin below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could dispose of him, +and quit myself of him. So to my cabin again, where the company still +was, and were talking more of the King's difficulties; as how he was +fain to eat a piece of bread and cheese out of a poor boy's pocket; how, +at a Catholique house, he was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good +while in the house for his privacy. After that our company broke up, and +the Doctor and I to bed. We have all the Lords Commissioners on board +us, and many others. Under sail all night, and most glorious weather. + +24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the Tinning stockings +on and wide canons--["Cannions, boot hose tops; an old-fashioned +ornament for the legs." That is to say, a particular addition to +breeches.]--that I bought the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press +of noble company, and great mirth all the day. There dined with me in my +cabin (that is, the carpenter's) Dr. Earle + + [John Earle, born about 1601; appointed in 1643 one of the + Westminster Assembly of Divines, but his principles did not allow + him to act. He accompanied Charles II. when he was obliged to fly + from England. Dean of Westminster at the Restoration, Bishop of + Worcester, November 30th, 1662, and translated to Salisbury, + September 28th, 1663. He was tender to the Nonconformists, and + Baxter wrote of him, "O that they were all such!" Author of + "Microcosmography." Died November 17th, 1665, and was buried in the + chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow. Charles + II. had the highest esteem for him.] + +and Mr. Hollis, + + [Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at + Houghton, Notts, in 1597. He was one of the five members charged + with high treason by Charles I. in 1641. He was a Presbyterian, and + one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II. + at the Hague. Sir William Lower, in his "Relation," 1660, writes: + "All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor + expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was + orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London + were joined." He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on + the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.] + +the King's Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough, + + [Charles Scarburgh, M.D., an eminent physician who suffered for the + royal cause during the Civil Wars. He was born in London, and + educated at St. Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge. He was + ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to Oxford. He + entered himself at Merton College, then presided over by Harvey, + with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. He was knighted by + Charles II. in 1669, and attended the King in his last illness. He + was also physician to James II. and to William III., and died + February 26th, 1693-4.] + +Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Fox + + [Stephen Fox, born 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in + Salisbury Cathedral. He was the first person to announce the death + of Cromwell to Charles II., and at the Restoration he was made Clerk + of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces. He was + knighted in 1665. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle + of Lancashire. (See June 25th, 1660.) Fox died in 1716. His sons + Stephen and Henry were created respectively Earl of Ilchester and + Lord Holland.] + +(both very fine gentlemen), the King's servants, where we had brave +discourse. Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all the +afternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a merry droll, but a +gentleman of great esteem with the King), who told us many merry +stories: one, how he wrote a letter three or four days ago to the +Princess Royal, about a Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that was +at the Hague incognita, that made love to the King, &c., which was Mr. +Cary (a courtier's) wife that had been a nun, who are all married to +Jesus. At supper the three Drs. of Physic again at my cabin; where I +put Dr. Scarborough in mind of what I heard him say about the use of the +eyes, which he owned, that children do, in every day's experience, look +several ways with both their eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise. +And that we do now see but with one eye, our eyes looking in parallel +lines. After this discourse I was called to write a pass for my Lord +Mandeville to take up horses to London, which I wrote in the King's +name,--[This right of purveyance was abolished in Charles's reign.]--and +carried it to him to sign, which was the first and only one that ever +he signed in the ship Charles. To bed, coming in sight of land a little +before night. + +25th. By the morning we were come close to the land, and every body +made ready to get on shore. The King and the two Dukes did eat their +breakfast before they went, and there being set some ship's diet before +them, only to show them the manner of the ship's diet, they eat of +nothing else but pease and pork, and boiled beef. I had Mr. Darcy in my +cabin and Dr. Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the King had given +L50 to Mr. Sheply for my Lord's servants, and L500 among the officers +and common men of the ship. I spoke with the Duke of York about +business, who called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did promise me +his future favour. Great expectation of the King's making some Knights, +but there was none. About noon (though the brigantine that Beale made +was there ready to carry him) yet he would go in my Lord's barge with +the two Dukes. Our Captain steered, and my Lord went along bare with +him. I went, and Mr. Mansell, and one of the King's footmen, with a dog +that the King loved, + + [Charles II.'s love of dogs is well known, but it is not so well + known that his dogs were continually being stolen from him. In the + "Mercurius Publicus," June 28-July 5, 1660, is the following + advertisement, apparently drawn up by the King himself: "We must + call upon you again for a Black Dog between a greyhound and a + spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, and his + tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless + was stoln, for the dog was not born nor bred in England, and would + never forsake His master. Whoesoever findes him may acquaint any at + Whitehal for the Dog was better known at Court, than those who stole + him. Will they never leave robbing his Majesty! Must he not keep a + Dog? This dog's place (though better than some imagine) is the only + place which nobody offers to beg." (Quoted in "Notes and Queries," + 7th S., vii. 26, where are printed two other advertisements of + Charles's lost dogs.)] + +(which [dirted] the boat, which made us laugh, and me think that a King +and all that belong to him are but just as others are), in a boat by +ourselves, and so got on shore when the King did, who was received by +General Monk with all imaginable love and respect at his entrance +upon the land of Dover. Infinite the crowd of people and the horsemen, +citizens, and noblemen of all sorts. The Mayor of the town came and gave +him his white staff, the badge of his place, which the King did give +him again. The Mayor also presented him from the town a very rich Bible, +which he took and said it was the thing that he loved above all things +in the world. A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which he +did, and talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so into a +stately coach there set for him, and so away through the town towards +Canterbury, without making any stay at Dover. The shouting and joy +expressed by all is past imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not stir +out of his barge, I got into a boat, and so into his barge, whither Mr. +John Crew stepped, and spoke a word or two to my Lord, and so returned, +we back to the ship, and going did see a man almost drowned that fell +out of his boat into the sea, but with much ado was got out. My Lord +almost transported with joy that he had done all this without any the +least blur or obstruction in the world, that could give an offence to +any, and with the great honour he thought it would be to him. Being +overtook by the brigantine, my Lord and we went out of our barge into +it, and so went on board with Sir W. Batten, + + [Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and, + although unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made + Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity + against the King. The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the + Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay, + knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning + that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a + hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her + majesty's chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for + safety into the open fields. This act, brutal as it was, found + favour with the Parliament. But Batten became afterwards + discontented; and, when a portion of the fleet revolted, he carried + the "Constant Warwick," one of the best ships in the Parliament + navy, over into Holland, with several seamen of note. For this act + of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral by Prince + Charles. We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when he + became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M.P. for + Rochester. See an account of his second wife, in note to November + 24th, 1660, and of his illness and death, October 5th, 1667. He had + a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first wife.--B.] + +and the Vice and Rear-Admirals. At night my Lord supped and Mr. Thomas +Crew with Captain Stoakes, I supped with the Captain, who told me what +the King had given us. My Lord returned late, and at his coming did give +me order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. to be +made at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own +hand did mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do, +and is now done as is to be seen. + +26th. Thanks to God I got to bed in my own poor cabin, and slept well +till 9 o'clock this morning. Mr. North and Dr. Clerke and all the great +company being gone, I found myself very uncouth all this day for +want thereof. My Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral to-day (who is as +officious, poor man! as any spaniel can be; but I believe all to no +purpose, for I believe he will not hold his place), so I dined commander +at the coach table to-day, and all the officers of the ship with me, and +Mr. White of Dover. After a game or two at nine-pins, to work all the +afternoon, making above twenty orders. In the evening my Lord having +been a-shore, the first time that he hath been a-shore since he came out +of the Hope (having resolved not to go till he had brought his Majesty +into England), returned on board with a great deal of pleasure. I +supped with the Captain in his cabin with young Captain Cuttance, and +afterwards a messenger from the King came with a letter, and to go into +France, and by that means we supped again with him at 12 o'clock at +night. This night the Captain told me that my Lord had appointed me L30 +out of the 1000 ducats which the King had given to the ship, at which my +heart was very much joyed. To bed. + +27th (Lord's day). Called up by John Goods to see the Garter and Heralds +coat, which lay in the coach, brought by Sir Edward Walker, + + [Edward Walker was knighted February 2nd, 1644-5, and on the 24th of + the same month was sworn in as Garter King at Arms. He adhered to + the cause of the king, and published "Iter Carolinum", being a + succinct account of the necessitated marches, retreats, and + sufferings of his Majesty King Charles I., from Jan. 10, 1641, to + the time of his death in 1648, collected by a daily attendant upon + his sacred Majesty during all that time: He joined Charles II. in + exile, and received the reward of his loyalty at the Restoration. + He died at Whitehall, February 19th, 1676-7, and was buried at + Stratford-on-Avon, his daughter having married Sir John Clepton of + that place.] + +King at Arms, this morning, for my Lord. My Lord hath summoned all the +Commanders on board him, to see the ceremony, which was thus: Sir Edward +putting on his coat, and having laid the George and Garter, and the +King's letter to my Lord, upon a crimson cushion (in the coach, all the +Commanders standing by), makes three congees to him, holding the cushion +in his arms. Then laying it down with the things upon it upon a chair, +he takes the letter, and delivers it to my Lord, which my Lord breaks +open and gives him to read. It was directed to our trusty and well +beloved Sir Edward Montagu, Knight, one of our Generals at sea, and our +Companion elect of our Noble Order of the Garter. The contents of the +letter is to show that the Kings of England have for many years made +use of this honour, as a special mark of favour, to persons of good +extraction and virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes of +other countries have borne this honour), and that whereas my Lord is of +a noble family, and hath now done the King such service by sea, at this +time, as he hath done; he do send him this George and Garter to wear as +Knight of the Order, with a dispensation for the other ceremonies of +the habit of the Order, and other things, till hereafter, when it can +be done. So the herald putting the ribbon about his neck, and the Garter +about his left leg, he salutes him with joy as Knight of the Garter, and +that was all. After that was done, and the Captain and I had breakfasted +with Sir Edward while my Lord was writing of a letter, he took his leave +of my Lord, and so to shore again to the King at Canterbury, where he +yesterday gave the like honour to General Monk, + + ["His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes + put on the Garter. The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for + the restoration of that lawful family."--Rugge's Diurnal.] + +who are the only two for many years that have had the Garter given them, +before they had other honours of Earldom, or the like, excepting only +the Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George Villiers when he was +made Knight of the Garter. A while after Mr. Thos. Crew and Mr. J. +Pickering (who had staid long enough to make all the world see him to be +a fool), took ship for London. So there now remain no strangers with +my Lord but Mr. Hetley, who had been with us a day before the King went +from us. My Lord and the ship's company down to sermon. I staid above to +write and look over my new song book, which came last night to me from +London in lieu of that that my Lord had of me. The officers being all +on board, there was not room for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, +where, among other things, Mr. Drum brought me a lobster and a bottle of +oil, instead of a bottle of vinegar, whereby I spoiled my dinner. Many +orders in the ordering of ships this afternoon. Late to a sermon. After +that up to the Lieutenant's cabin, where Mr. Sheply, I, and the Minister +supped, and after that I went down to W. Howe's cabin, and there, with a +great deal of pleasure, singing till it was late. After that to bed. + +28th. Called up at two in the morning for letters for my Lord from +the Duke of York, but I went to bed again till 5. Trimmed early this +morning. This morning the Captain did call over all the men in the ship +(not the boys), and give every one of them a ducat of the King's money +that he gave the ship, and the officers according to their quality. I +received in the Captain's cabin, for my share, sixty ducats. The rest of +the morning busy writing letters. So was my Lord that he would not come +to dinner. After dinner to write again in order to sending to London, +but my Lord did not finish his, so we did not send to London to-day. A +great part of the afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley. +I lost about 4s. Supped with my Lord, and after that to bed. At night I +had a strange dream of--myself, which I really did, and having kicked my +clothes off, I got cold; and found myself all much wet in the morning, +and had a great deal of pain... which made me very melancholy. + +29th. The King's birthday. Busy all the morning writing letters to +London, among the rest one to Mr. Chetwind to give me an account of +the fees due to the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my Lord +desires to know. After dinner got all ready and sent away Mr. Cook to +London with a letter and token to my wife. After that abroad to shore +with my Lord (which he offered me of himself, saying that I had a great +deal of work to do this month, which was very true). On shore we took +horses, my Lord and Mr. Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four +servants, and had a great deal of pleasure in riding. Among other things +my Lord showed me a house that cost a great deal of money, and is built +in so barren and inconvenient a place that my Lord calls it the fool's +house. At last we came upon a very high cliff by the sea-side, and rode +under it, we having laid great wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was +not so high as Paul's; my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was. But we riding +under it, my Lord made a pretty good measure of it with two sticks, and +found it to be not above thirty-five yards high, and Paul's is reckoned +to be about ninety. From thence toward the barge again, and in our way +found the people at Deal going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, it +being the King's birthday, and had some guns which they did fire at my +Lord's coming by. For which I did give twenty shillings among them to +drink. While we were on the top of the cliffe, we saw and heard our guns +in the fleet go off for the same joy. And it being a pretty fair day we +could see above twenty miles into France. Being returned on board, my +Lord called for Mr. Sheply's book of Paul's, by which we were confirmed +in our wager. After that to supper and then to musique, and so to +bed. The pain that I have got last night by cold is not yet gone, but +troubles me at the time of.... This day, it is thought, the King do +enter the city of London. + + ["Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a + petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship + to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of + his passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that + they will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats, + and other ornaments of triumph and rejoicing."-Rugge's Diurnal, May, + 1660.--B.] + +30th. About eight o'clock in the morning the lieutenant came to me +to know whether I would eat a dish of mackerel, newly catched, for my +breakfast, which the Captain and we did in the coach. All yesterday +and to-day I had a great deal of pain... and in my back, which made me +afeard. But it proved nothing but cold, which I took yesterday night. +All this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had +made myself now worth about L80, at which my heart was glad, and blessed +God. Many Dover men come and dine with my Lord. My Lord at ninepins in +the afternoon. In the afternoon Mr. Sheply told me how my Lord had put +me down for 70 guilders among the money which was given to my Lord's +servants, which my heart did much rejoice at. My Lord supped alone in +his chamber. Sir R. Stayner supped with us, and among other things told +us how some of his men did grumble that no more of the Duke's money +come to their share and so would not receive any; whereupon he called up +those that had taken it, and gives them three shares apiece more, which +was very good, and made good sport among the seamen. To bed. + +31st. This day my Lord took physic, and came not out of his chamber. + +All the morning making orders. After dinner a great while below in the +great cabin trying with W. Howe some of Mr. Laws' songs,' particularly +that of "What is a kiss," with which we had a great deal of pleasure. +After that to making of orders again. Captain Sparling of the Assistance +brought me a pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I was +much pleased with. The Captain and I to supper, and after that a most +pleasant walk till to at night with him upon the deck, it being a fine +evening. My pain was gone again that I had yesterday, blessed be God. +This day the month ends, I in very good health, and all the world in a +merry mood because of the King's coming. This day I began to teach Mr. +Edward; who I find to have a very good foundation laid for his Latin by +Mr. Fuller. I expect every minute to hear how my poor wife do. I find +myself in all things well as to body and mind, but troubled for the +absence of my wife. + + + + +JUNE 1660 + +June 1st. This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the Duke +of York did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my share, +whereof he told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord left him +out. + + [Foreign coins were in frequent use at this time. A Proclamation, + January 29th, 1660-61, declared certain foreign gold and silver + coins to be current at certain rates. The rate of the ducatoon was + at 5s. 9d.] + +I did give Mr. Sheply the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I bought +myself about five years ago. My Lord took physic to-day, and so come not +out all day. The Captain on shore all day. After dinner Captain Jefferys +and W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and I to ninepins, where I lost about +two shillings and so fooled away all the afternoon. At night Mr. Cooke +comes from London with letters, leaving all things there very gallant +and joyful. And brought us word that the Parliament had ordered the +29th of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of +thanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny, and the King's return to +his Government, he entering London that day. My wife was in London when +he came thither, and had been there a week with Mr. Bowyer and his wife. +My poor wife has not been well a week before, but thanks be to God is +well again. She would fain see me and be at her house again, but we +must be content. She writes word how the Joyces grow very rich and very +proud, but it is no matter, and that there was a talk that I should +be knighted by the King, which they (the Joyces) laugh at; but I think +myself happier in my wife and estate than they are in theirs. To bed. +The Captain come on board, when I was going to bed, quite fuddled; +and himself the next morning told me so too, that the Vice-Admiral, +Rear-Admiral, and he had been drinking all day. + +2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in his cabin, I +took occasion to give him thanks for his love to me in the share that +he had given me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. He told the he +hoped to do me a more lasting kindness, if all things stand as they +are now between him and the King, but, says he, "We must have a little +patience and we will rise together; in the mean time I will do you all +the good jobs I can." Which was great content for me to hear from my +Lord. All the morning with the Captain, computing how much the thirty +ships that come with the King from Scheveling their pay comes to for a +month (because the King promised to give them all a month's pay), and +it comes to L6,538, and the Charles particularly L777. I wish we had +the money. All the afternoon with two or three captains in the Captain's +cabin, drinking of white wine and sugar, and eating pickled oysters, +where Captain Sparling told us the best story that ever I heard, about +a gentleman that persuaded a country fool to let him gut his oysters or +else they would stink. At night writing letters to London and Weymouth, +for my Lord being now to sit in the House of Peers he endeavours to get +Mr. Edward Montagu for Weymouth and Mr. George for Dover. Mr. Cooke late +with me in my cabin while I wrote to my wife, and drank a bottle of wine +and so took leave of me on his journey and I to bed. + +3d. Waked in the morning by one who when I asked who it was, he told me +one from Bridewell, which proved Captain Holland. I rose presently to +him. He is come to get an order for the setting out of his ship, and to +renew his commission. He tells me how every man goes to the Lord Mayor +to set down their names, as such as do accept of his Majesty's pardon, +and showed me a certificate under the Lord Mayor's hand that he had done +so. + +At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my cabin, to cast my +accounts up, and find myself to be worth near L100, for which I bless +Almighty God, it being more than I hoped for so soon, being I believe +not clearly worth L25 when I came to sea besides my house and goods. +Then to set my papers in order, they being increased much upon my hands +through want of time to put them in order. The ship's company all this +while at sermon. After sermon my Lord did give me instruction to write +to London about business, which done, after supper to bed. + +4th. Waked in the morning at four o'clock to give some money to Mr. +Hetly, who was to go to London with the letters that I wrote yesterday +night. After he was gone I went and lay down in my gown upon my bed +again an hour or two. At last waked by a messenger come for a Post +Warrant for Mr. Hetly and Mr. Creed, who stood to give so little for +their horses that the men would not let them have any without a warrant, +which I sent them. All the morning getting Captain Holland's commission +done, which I did, and he at noon went away. I took my leave of him upon +the quarter-deck with a bottle of sack, my Lord being just set down to +dinner. Then he being gone I went to dinner and after dinner to my cabin +to write. This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed, +and so I think myself to be worth near L100 now. In the evening I made +an order for Captain Sparling of the Assistance to go to Middleburgh, to +fetch over some of the King's goods. I took the opportunity to send all +my Dutch money, 70 ducatoons and 29 gold ducats to be changed, if he +can, for English money, which is the first venture that ever I made, and +so I have been since a little afeard of it. After supper some music +and so to bed. This morning the King's Proclamation against drinking, +swearing, and debauchery, was read to our ships' companies in the fleet, +and indeed it gives great satisfaction to all. + + [The King's "Proclamation against vicious, debauched, and prophane + Persons" is dated May 30th. It is printed in "Somers's Tracts," ed. + 1812, vol. vii. p. 423.] + +5th. A-bed late. In the morning my Lord went on shore with the +Vice-Admiral a-fishing, and at dinner returned. In the afternoon I +played at ninepins with my Lord, and when he went in again I got him to +sign my accounts for L115, and so upon my private balance I find myself +confirmed in my estimation that I am worth L100. In the evening in my +cabin a great while getting the song without book, "Help, help Divinity, +&c." After supper my Lord called for the lieutenant's cittern, and +with two candlesticks with money in them for symballs, we made barber's +music, + + [In the "Notices of Popular Histories," printed for the Percy + Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a + barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person + waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn + arrives. Decker also mentions a "barber's cittern," for every + serving-man to play upon. This is no doubt "the barber's music" + with which Lord Sandwich entertained himself.--B.] + +with which my Lord was well pleased. So to bed. + +6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me among other things, +that my Lord's place of Clerk of the Signet was fallen to him, which he +did most lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he could +not get a better employment for me at the end of the year. Because he +thought that the Duke of York would command all, but he hoped that the +Duke would not remove me but to my advantage. + +I had a great deal of talk about my uncle Robert, + + [Robert Pepys of Brampton, eldest son of Thomas Pepys the red, and + brother of Samuel's father.] + +and he told me that he could not tell how his mind stood as to his +estate, but he would do all that lay in his power for me. After dinner +came Mr. Gooke from London, who told me that my wife he left well at +Huntsmore, though her health not altogether so constant as it used to +be, which my heart is troubled for. Mr. Moore's letters tell me that +he thinks my Lord will be suddenly sent for up to London, and so I got +myself in readiness to go. + +My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy + + [Edmund Calamy, D.D., the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born + February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II., 1660. He refused + the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him. Died October + 29th, 1666.] + +had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards +to be false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three more Lords, are made +Commissioners for the Treasury; + + [The names of the Commissioners were--Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards + Earl of Clarendon, General Monk, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, John, + Lord Robartes, Thomas, Lord Colepeper, Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir + Edward Nicholas and Sir William Morrice as principal Secretaries of + State. The patents are dated June 19th, 1660.] + +that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Master +of the Wardrobe; + + [The duty of the Master of the Wardrobe was to provide "proper + furniture for coronations, marriages, and funerals" of the sovereign + and royal family, "cloaths of state, beds, hangings, and other + necessaries for the houses of foreign ambassadors, cloaths of state + for Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Prince of Wales, and ambassadors + abroad," as also to provide robes for Ministers of State, Knights of + the Garter, &c. The last Master of the Wardrobe was Ralph, Duke of + Montague, who died 1709.] + +that the two Dukes--[Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester.]--do haunt the +Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene,--["Epicene, or +the Silent Woman," a comedy, by Ben Jonson.]--the other day; that Sir. +Ant. Cooper, Mr. Hollis, and Mr. Annesly,& late President of the Council +of State, are made Privy Councillors to the King. At night very busy +sending Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father for a coat to +be made me against I come to London, which I think will not be long. At +night Mr. Edward Montagu came on board and staid long up with my Lord. I +to bed and about one in the morning, + +7th. W. Howe called me up to give him a letter to carry to my Lord that +came to me to-day, which I did and so to, sleep again. About three +in the morning the people began to wash the deck, and the water came +pouring into my mouth, which waked me, and I was fain to rise and get +on my gown, and sleep leaning on my table. This morning Mr. Montagu went +away again. After dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. Moore, with the +sight of whom my heart was very glad. They brought an order for my +Lord's coming up to London, which my Lord resolved to do tomorrow. All +the afternoon getting my things in order to set forth to-morrow. At +night walked up and down with Mr. Moore, who did give me an account of +all things at London. Among others, how the Presbyterians would be angry +if they durst, but they will not be able to do any thing. Most of the +Commanders on board and supped with my Lord. Late at night came Mr. Edw. +Pickering from London, but I could not see him this night. I went with +Mr. Moore to the Master's cabin, and saw him there in order to going to +bed. After that to my own cabin to put things in order and so to bed. + +8th. Out early, took horses at Deale. I troubled much with the King's +gittar, and Fairbrother, the rogue that I intrusted with the carrying of +it on foot, whom I thought I had lost. Col. Dixwell's horse taken by a +soldier and delivered to my Lord, and by him to me to carry to London. +Came to Canterbury, dined there. I saw the minster and the remains of +Becket's tomb. To Sittiligborne and Rochester. At Chatham and Rochester +the ships and bridge. Mr. Hetly's mistake about dinner. Come to +Gravesend. A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen +a great while. Supped with my Lord, drank late below with Penrose, +the Captain. To bed late, having first laid out all my things against +to-morrow to put myself in a walking garb. Weary and hot to bed to Mr. +Moore. + +9th. Up betimes, 25s. the reckoning for very bare. Paid the house and +by boats to London, six boats. Mr. Moore, W. Howe, and I, and then the +child in the room of W. Howe. Landed at the Temple. To Mr. Crew's. To +my father's and put myself into a handsome posture to wait upon my Lord, +dined there. To White Hall with my Lord and Mr. Edwd. Montagu. Found the +King in the Park. There walked. Gallantly great. + +10th. (Lord's day.) At my father's found my wife and to walk with her in +Lincoln's Inn walks. + +11th. Betimes to my Lord. Extremely much people and business. So with +him to Whitehall to the Duke. Back with him by coach and left him in +Covent Garden. I back to Will's and the Hall to see my father. Then to +the Leg in King Street with Mr. Moore, and sent for. L'Impertinent to +dinner with me. After that with Mr. Moore about Privy Seal business. To +Mr. Watkins, so to Mr. Crew's. Then towards my father's met my Lord and +with him to Dorset House to the Chancellor. So to Mr. Crew's and saw my +Lord at supper, and then home, and went to see Mrs. Turner, and so to +bed. + +12th. Visited by the two Pierces, Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerk and Mr. +Creed, and did give them a ham of bacon. So to my Lord and with him to +the Duke of Gloucester. The two Dukes dined with the Speaker, and I +saw there a fine entertainment and dined with the pages. To Mr. Crew's, +whither came Mr. Greatorex, and with him to the Faithornes, and so +to the Devils tavern. To my Lord's and staid till 12 at night about +business. So to my father's, my father and mother in bed, who had been +with my uncle Fenner, &c., and my wife all day and expected me. But I +found Mr. Cook there, and so to bed. + +13th. To my Lord's and thence to the Treasurer's of the Navy,' with Mr. +Creed and Pierce the Purser to Rawlinson's, whither my uncle Wight came, +and I spent 12s. upon them. So to Mr. Crew's, where I blotted a new +carpet--[It was customary to use carpets as table cloths.]--that was +hired, but got it out again with fair water. By water with my Lord in +a boat to Westminster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place. After +business done there to the Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne, +Creed, and Wivell. So to my Lord's lodging and to my father's, and to +bed. + +14th. Up to my Lord and from him to the Treasurer of the Navy for L500. +After that to a tavern with Washington the Purser, very gallant, and ate +and drank. To Mr. Crew's and laid my money. To my Lady Pickering with +the plate that she did give my Lord the other day. Then to Will's +and met William Symons and Doling and Luellin, and with them to the +Bull-head, and then to a new alehouse in Brewer's Yard, where Winter +that had the fray with Stoakes, and from them to my father's. + +15th. All the morning at the Commissioners of the Navy about getting +out my bill for L650 for the last quarter, which I got done with a great +deal of ease, which is not common. After that with Mr. Turner to the +Dolphin and drunk, and so by water to W. Symons, where D. Scobell with +his wife, a pretty and rich woman. Mrs. Symons, a very fine woman, very +merry after dinner with marrying of Luellin and D. Scobell's kinswoman +that was there. Then to my Lord who told me how the King has given him +the place of the great Wardrobe. My Lord resolves to have Sarah again. I +to my father's, and then to see my uncle and aunt Fenner. So home and to +bed. + +16th. Rose betimes and abroad in one shirt, which brought me a great +cold and pain. Murford took me to Harvey's by my father's to drink and +told me of a business that I hope to get L5 by. To my Lord, and so to +White Hall with him about the Clerk of the Privy Seal's place, which he +is to have. + +Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote same letters. Here Coll. Thompson +told me, as a great secret; that the Nazeby was on fire when the King +was there, but that is not known; when God knows it is quite false. Got +a piece of gold from Major Holmes for the horse of Dixwell's I +brought to town. Dined at Mr. Crew's, and after dinner with my Lord to +Whitehall. Court attendance infinite tedious. Back with my Lord to my +Lady Wright's and staid till it had done raining, which it had not done +a great while. After that at night home to my father's and to bed. + +17th (Lord's day). Lay long abed. To Mr. Mossum's; a good sermon. This +day the organs did begin to play at White Hall before the King.--[All +organs were removed from churches by an ordinance dated 1644.]--Dined at +my father's. After dinner to Mr. Mossum's again, and so in the garden, +and heard Chippell's father preach, that was Page to the Protector, and +just by the window that I stood at sat Mrs. Butler, the great beauty. +After sermon to my Lord. Mr. Edward and I into Gray's Inn walks, and saw +many beauties. So to my father's, where Mr. Cook, W. Bowyer, and my coz +Roger Wharton supped and to bed. + +18th. To my Lord's, where much business and some hopes of getting some +money thereby. With him to the Parliament House, where he did intend to +have gone to have made his appearance to-day, but he met Mr. Crew upon +the stairs, and would not go in. He went to Mrs. Brown's, and staid till +word was brought him what was done in the House. This day they made an +end of the twenty men to be excepted from pardon to their estates. +By barge to Stepny with my Lord, where at Trinity House we had great +entertainment. With, my Lord there went Sir W. Pen, Sir H. Wright, +Hetly, Pierce; Creed, Hill, I and other servants. Back again to the +Admiralty, and so to my Lord's lodgings, where he told me that he did +look after the place of the Clerk of the Acts--[The letters patent +appointing Pepys to the office of Clerk of the Acts is dated July 13th, +1660.]--for me. So to Mr. Crew's and my father's and to bed. My wife +went this day to Huntsmore for her things, and I was very lonely all +night. This evening my wife's brother, Balty, came to me to let me know +his bad condition and to get a place for him, but I perceive he stands +upon a place for a gentleman, that may not stain his family when, God +help him, he wants bread. + +19th. Called on betimes by Murford, who showed me five pieces to get a +business done for him and I am resolved to do it., Much business at my +Lord's. This morning my Lord went into the House of Commons, and there +had the thanks of the House, in the name of the Parliament and Commons +of England, for his late service to his King and Country. A motion was +made for a reward for him, but it was quashed by Mr. Annesly, who, above +most men, is engaged to my Lord's and Mr. Crew's families. Meeting with +Captain Stoakes at Whitehall, I dined with him and Mr. Gullop, a +parson (with whom afterwards I was much offended at his importunity and +impertinence, such another as Elborough), + + [Thomas Elborough was one of Pepys's schoolfellows, and afterwards + curate of St. Lawrence Poultney.] + +and Mr. Butler, who complimented much after the same manner as the +parson did. After that towards my Lord's at Mr. Crew's, but was met with +by a servant of my Lady Pickering, who took me to her and she told me +the story of her husband's case and desired my assistance with my Lord, +and did give me, wrapped up in paper, L5 in silver. After that to my +Lord's, and with him to Whitehall and my Lady Pickering. My Lord went +at night with the King to Baynard's Castle' to supper, and I home to my +father's to bed. My wife and the girl and dog came home to-day. When I +came home I found a quantity of chocolate left for me, I know not from +whom. We hear of W. Howe being sick to-day, but he was well at night. + +20th. Up by 4 in the morning to write letters to sea and a commission +for him that Murford solicited for. Called on by Captain Sparling, who +did give me my Dutch money again, and so much as he had changed into +English money, by which my mind was eased of a great deal of trouble. +Some other sea captains. I did give them a good morning draught, and so +to my Lord (who lay long in bed this day, because he came home late from +supper with the King). With my Lord to the Parliament House, and, after +that, with him to General Monk's, where he dined at the Cock-pit. I home +and dined with my wife, now making all things ready there again. Thence +to my Lady Pickering, who did give me the best intelligence about the +Wardrobe. Afterwards to the Cockpit to my Lord with Mr. Townsend, one +formerly and now again to be employed as Deputy of the Wardrobe. Thence +to the Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. Cooke to sea; whose business +was a letter from my Lord about Mr. G. Montagu to be chosen as +a Parliament-man in my Lord's room at Dover;' and another to the +Vice-Admiral to give my Lord a constant account of all things in the +fleet, merely that he may thereby keep up his power there; another +letter to Captn. Cuttance to send the barge that brought the King on +shore, to Hinchingbroke by Lynne. To my own house, meeting G. Vines, +and drank with him at Charing Cross, now the King's Head Tavern. With +my wife to my father's, where met with Swan,--[William Swan is called +a fanatic and a very rogue in other parts of the Diary.]--an old +hypocrite, and with him, his friend and my father, and my cozen Scott to +the Bear Tavern. To my father's and to bed. + +21st. To my Lord, much business. With him to the Council Chamber, where +he was sworn; and the charge of his being admitted Privy Counsellor is +L26. To the Dog Tavern at Westminster, where Murford with Captain Curle +and two friends of theirs went to drink. Captain Curle, late of the +Maria, gave me five pieces in gold and a silver can for my wife for the +Commission I did give him this day for his ship, dated April 20, 1660 +last. Thence to the Parliament door and came to Mr. Crew's to dinner +with my Lord, and with my Lord to see the great Wardrobe, where Mr. +Townsend brought us to the governor of some poor children in tawny +clothes; who had been maintained there these eleven years, which put my +Lord to a stand how to dispose of them, that he may have the house for +his use. The children did sing finely, and my Lord did bid me give them +five pieces in gold at his going away. Thence back to White Hall, +where, the King being gone abroad, my Lord and I walked a great while +discoursing of the simplicity of the Protector, in his losing all that +his father had left him. My Lord told me, that the last words that he +parted with the Protector with (when he went to the Sound), were, that +he should rejoice more to see him in his grave at his return home, than +that he should give way to such things as were then in hatching, and +afterwards did ruin him: and the Protector said, that whatever G. +Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones, and the Secretary, would have him to +do, he would do it, be it what it would. Thence to my wife, meeting +Mr. Blagrave, who went home with me, and did give me a lesson upon +the flageolet, and handselled my silver can with my wife and me. To +my father's, where Sir Thomas Honeywood and his family were come of a +sudden, and so we forced to lie all together in a little chamber, three +stories high. + +22d. To my Lord, where much business. With him to White Hall, where the +Duke of York not being up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery. +Mr. Hill (who for these two or three days hath constantly attended my +Lord) told me of an offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity, which I told +my Lord of in the balcone in this gallery, and he said he would think of +it. I to my Lord's and gave order for horses to be got to draw my Lord's +great coach to Mr. Crew's. Mr. Morrice the upholsterer came himself +to-day to take notice what furniture we lack for our lodgings at +Whitehall. My dear friend Mr. Fuller of Twickenham and I dined alone at +the Sun Tavern, where he told me how he had the grant of being Dean +of St. Patrick's, in Ireland; and I told him my condition, and both +rejoiced one for another. Thence to my Lord's, and had the great coach +to Brigham's, who went with me to the Half Moon, and gave me a can of +good julep, and told me how my Lady Monk deals with him and others +for their places, asking him L500, though he was formerly the King's +coach-maker, and sworn to it. My Lord abroad, and I to my house and +set things in a little order there. So with Mr. Moore to my father's, I +staying with Mrs. Turner who stood at her door as I passed. Among other +things she told me for certain how my old Lady Middlesex----herself the +other day in the presence of the King, and people took notice of it. +Thence called at my father's, and so to Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hetley had +sent a letter for me, and two pair of silk stockings, one for W. Howe, +and the other for me. To Sir H. Wright's to my Lord, where he, was, and +took direction about business, and so by link home about 11 o'clock. To +bed, the first time since my coming from sea, in my own house, for which +God be praised. + +23d. By water with Mr. Hill towards my Lord's lodging and so to my +Lord. With him to Whitehall, where I left him and went to Mr. Holmes to +deliver him the horse of Dixwell's that had staid there fourteen days at +the Bell. So to my Lord's lodgings, where Tom Guy came to me, and there +staid to see the King touch people for the King's evil. But he did not +come at all, it rayned so; and the poor people were forced to stand all +the morning in the rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in the +Banquetting-house. + + [This ceremony is usually traced to Edward the Confessor, but there + is no direct evidence of the early Norman kings having touched for + the evil. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the House of + Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not + descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form + of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called + the King's evil. Burn asserts, "History of Parish Registers," 1862, + p. 179, that "between 1660 and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for + the evil." Everyone coming to the court for that purpose, brought a + certificate signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had + not at any time been touched by His Majesty. The practice was + supposed to have expired with the Stuarts, but the point being + disputed, reference was made to the library of the Duke of Sussex, + and four several Oxford editions of the Book of Common Prayer were + found, all printed after the accession of the house of Hanover, and + all containing, as an integral part of the service, "The Office for + the Healing." The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the + sore of the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten + shillings. It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon + was drawn, and the angel was hanged about the patient's neck till + the cure was perfected. The stamp has the impression of St. Michael + the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other. + "My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King's evil with three + others on Tuesday."--MS. Letter of William Greenhill to Lady Bacon, + dated December 31st, 1629, preserved at Audley End. Charles II. + "touched" before he came to the throne. "It is certain that the + King hath very often touched the sick, as well at Breda, where he + touched 260 from Saturday the 17 of April to Sunday the 23 of May, + as at Bruges and Bruxels, during the residence he made there; and + the English assure... it was not without success, since it was + the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those + diseased even from the most remote provinces of Germany."--Sir + William Lower's Relation of the Voiage and Residence which Charles + the II. hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, p. 78. Sir William Lower + gives a long account of the touching for the evil by Charles before + the Restoration.] + +With my Lord, to my Lord Frezendorfe's, where he dined to-day. Where he +told me that he had obtained a promise of the Clerk of the Acts place +for me, at which I was glad. Met with Mr. Chetwind, and dined with him +at Hargrave's, the Cornchandler, in St. Martin's Lane, where a good +dinner, where he showed me some good pictures, and an instrument he +called an Angelique. + + [An angelique is described as a species of guitar in Murray's "New + English Dictionary," and this passage from the Diary is given as a + quotation. The word appears as angelot in Phillips's "English + Dictionary" (1678), and is used in Browning's "Sordello," as a + "plaything of page or girl."] + +With him to London, changing all my Dutch money at Backwell's + + [Alderman Edward Backwell, an eminent banker and goldsmith, who is + frequently mentioned in the Diary. His shop was in Lombard Street. + He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles II. in + 1672. The crown then owed him L295,994 16s. 6d., in lieu of which + the King gave him an annuity of L17,759 13s. 8d. Backwell retired + into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in + 1679. See Hilton Price's "Handbook of London Bankers," 1876.] + +for English, and then to Cardinal's Cap, where he and the City +Remembrancer who paid for all. Back to Westminster, where my Lord was, +and discoursed with him awhile about his family affairs. So he went +away, I home and wrote letters into the country, and to bed. + +24th. Sunday. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and bought a pair of +gloves there. So to Mr. G. Montagu, and told him what I had received +from Dover, about his business likely to be chosen there. So home and +thence with my wife towards my father's. She went thither, I to Mr. +Crew's, where I dined and my Lord at my Lord Montagu of Boughton in +Little Queen Street. In the afternoon to Mr. Mossum's with Mr. Moore, +and we sat in Mr. Butler's pew. Then to Whitehall looking for my Lord +but in vain, and back again to Mr. Crew's where I found him and did give +him letters. Among others some simple ones from our Lieutenant, Lieut. +Lambert to him and myself, which made Mr. Crew and us all laugh. I went +to my father's to tell him that I would not come to supper, and so after +my business done at Mr. Crew's I went home and my wife within a little +while after me, my mind all this while full of thoughts for my place of +Clerk of the Acts. + +25th. With my Lord at White Hall, all the morning. I spoke with Mr. +Coventry about my business, who promised me all the assistance I could +expect. Dined with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound, being +amused at our great changes here, and Mr. Southerne, now Clerk to Mr. +Coventry, at the Leg in King-street. Thence to the Admiralty, where I +met with Mr. Turner + + [Thomas Turner (or Tourner) was General Clerk at the Navy Office, + and on June 30th he offered Pepys L150 to be made joint Clerk of the + Acts with him. In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the + King came in, preserved in the British Museum, there occur, Richard + Hutchinson; Treasury of the Navy, salary L1500; Thomas Tourner, + General Clerk, for himself and clerk, L100.] + +of the Navy-office, who did look after the place of Clerk of the Acts. +He was very civil to me, and I to him, and shall be so. There came +a letter from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening, but he +refused to come to her, but meeting in White Hall, with Sir Thomas +Clarges, her brother, my Lord returned answer, that he could not desist +in my business; and that he believed that General Monk would take it +ill if my Lord should name the officers in his army; and therefore he +desired to have the naming of one officer in the fleet. With my Lord by +coach to Mr. Crew's, and very merry by the way, discoursing of the late +changes and his good fortune. Thence home, and then with my wife to +Dorset House, to deliver a list of the names of the justices of the +peace for Huntingdonshire. By coach, taking Mr. Fox part of the way with +me, that was with us with the King on board the Nazeby, who I found +to have married Mrs. Whittle, that lived at Mr. Geer's so long. A very +civil gentleman. At Dorset House I met with Mr. Kipps, my old friend, +with whom the world is well changed, he being now sealbearer to the Lord +Chancellor, at which my wife and I are well pleased, he being a very +good natured man. Home and late writing letters. Then to my Lord's +lodging, this being the first night of his coming to Whitehall to lie +since his coming from sea. + +26th. My Lord dined at his lodgings all alone to-day. I went to +Secretary Nicholas + + [Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I. and II. + He was dismissed from his office through the intrigues of Lady + Castlemaine in 1663. He died 1669, aged seventy-seven.] + +to carry him my Lord's resolutions about his title, which he had chosen, +and that is Portsmouth. + + [Montagu changed his mind, and ultimately took his title from the + town of Sandwich, leaving that of Portsmouth for the use of a King's + mistress.] + +I met with Mr. Throgmorton, a merchant, who went with me to the old +Three Tuns, at Charing Cross, who did give me five pieces of gold for to +do him a small piece of service about a convoy to Bilbo, which I did. In +the afternoon, one Mr. Watts came to me, a merchant, to offer me L500 if +I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place. I pray God direct me in +what I do herein. Went to my house, where I found my father, and carried +him and my wife to Whitefriars, and myself to Puddlewharf, to +the Wardrobe, to Mr. Townsend, who went with me to Backwell, the +goldsmith's, and there we chose L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give +Secretary Nicholas. Back and staid at my father's, and so home to bed. + +27th. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke to Mr. Coventry to +despatch my business of the Acts, in which place every body gives me +joy, as if I were in it, which God send. + + [The letters patent, dated July 13th, 12 Charles II., recite and + revoke letters patent of February 16th, 14 Charles I., whereby the + office of Clerk of the Ships had been given to Dennis Fleming and + Thomas Barlow, or the survivor. D. F. was then dead, but T. B. + living, and Samuel Pepys was appointed in his room, at a salary of + L33 6s. 8d. per annum, with 3s. 4d. for each day employed in + travelling, and L6 per annum for boathire, and all fees due. This + salary was only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had + been attached to the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary + had been previously fixed at L350 a year.] + +Dined with my Lord and all the officers of his regiment, who invited my +Lord and his friends, as many as he would bring, to dinner, at the Swan, +at Dowgate, a poor house and ill dressed, but very good fish and plenty. +Here Mr. Symons, the Surgeon, told me how he was likely to lose his +estate that he had bought, at which I was not a little pleased. To +Westminster, and with Mr. Howe by coach to the Speaker's, where my Lord +supped with the King, but I could not get in. So back again, and after +a song or two in my chamber in the dark, which do (now that the bed is +out) sound very well, I went home and to bed. + +28th. My brother Tom came to me with patterns to choose for a suit. +I paid him all to this day, and did give him L10 upon account. To Mr. +Coventry, who told me that he would do me all right in my business. To +Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came. He is +so stingy a fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of his +office, and did give him liberty to take any body in. Hawly and he are +parted too, he is going to serve Sir Thos. Ingram. I went also this +morning to see Mrs. Pierce, the chirurgeon['s wife]. I found her in bed +in her house in Margaret churchyard. Her husband returned to sea. I did +invite her to go to dinner with me and my wife to-day. After all this to +my Lord, who lay a-bed till eleven o'clock, it being almost five before +he went to bed, they supped so late last night with the King. This +morning I saw poor Bishop Wren + + [Matthew Wren, born 1585, successively Bishop of Hereford, Norwich, + and Ely. At the commencement of the Rebellion he was sent to the + Tower, and remained a prisoner there eighteen years. Died April + 24th, 1667.] + +going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day + + ["A Proclamation for setting apart a day of Solemn and Publick + Thanksgiving throughout the whole Kingdom," dated June 5th, 1660.] + +for the King's return. After my Lord was awake, I went up to him to the +Nursery, where he do lie, and, having talked with him a little, I took +leave and carried my wife and Mrs. Pierce to Clothworkers'-Hall, to +dinner, where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, met us. We were invited by Mr. +Chaplin, the Victualler, where Nich. Osborne was. Our entertainment very +good, a brave hall, good company, and very good music. Where among other +things I was pleased that I could find out a man by his voice, whom I +had never seen before, to be one that sang behind the curtaine +formerly at Sir W. Davenant's opera. Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the +victualler dined with us. After dinner to Mr. Rawlinson's, + + [Daniel Rawlinson kept the Mitre in Fenchurch Street, and there is a + farthing token of his extant, "At the Mitetr in Fenchurch Streete, + D. M. R." The initials stand for Daniel and Margaret Rawlinson (see + "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 595) In + "Reliquiae Hearnianae" (ed. Bliss, 1869, vol. ii. p. 39) is the + following extract from Thomas Rawlinson's Note Book R.: "Of Daniel + Rawlinson, my grandfather, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch + Street, and of whose being sequestred in the Rump time I have heard + much, the Whiggs tell this, that upon the king's murder he hung his + signe in mourning. He certainly judged right. The honour of the + Mitre was much eclipsed through the loss of so good a parent of the + church of England. These rogues say, this endeared him so much to + the churchmen that he soon throve amain and got a good estate." + Mrs. Rawlinson died of the plague (see August 9th, 1666), and the + house was burnt in the Great Fire. Mr. Rawlinson rebuilt the Mitre, + and he had the panels of the great room painted with allegorical + figures by Isaac Fuller. Daniel was father of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, + of whom Thomas Hearne writes (October 1st, 1705): "Sir Thomas + Rawlinson is chosen Lord Mayor of London for ye ensueing + notwithstanding the great opposition of ye Whigg party" (Hearne's + "Collections," ed. Doble, 1885, vol. i. p. 51). The well-known + antiquaries, Thomas and Richard Rawlinson, sons of Sir Thomas, were + therefore grandsons of Daniel.] + +to see him and his wife, and would have gone to my Aunt Wight, but that +her only child, a daughter, died last night. Home and to my Lord, who +supped within, and Mr. E. Montagu, Mr. Thos. Crew, and others with him +sat up late. I home and to bed. + +29th. This day or two my maid Jane--[Jane Wayneman.]--has been lame, +that we cannot tell what to do for want of her. Up and to White Hall, +where I got my warrant from the Duke to be Clerk of the Acts. Also I +got my Lord's warrant from the Secretary for his honour of Earle of +Portsmouth, and Viscount Montagu of Hinchingbroke. So to my Lord, to +give him an account of what I had done. Then to Sir Geffery Palmer, to +give them to him to have bills drawn upon them, who told me that my Lord +must have some good Latinist to make the preamble to his Patent, which +must express his late service in the best terms that he can, and he told +me in what high flaunting terms Sir J. Greenville had caused his to +be done, which he do not like; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe had done +General Monk's very well. Back to Westminster, and meeting Mr. Townsend +in the Palace, he and I and another or two went and dined at the Leg +there. Then to White Hall, where I was told by Mr. Hutchinson at the +Admiralty, that Mr. Barlow, my predecessor, Clerk of the Acts, is yet +alive, and coming up to town to look after his place, which made my +heart sad a little. At night told my Lord thereof, and he bade me get +possession of my Patent; and he would do all that could be done to keep +him out. This night my Lord and I looked over the list of the Captains,. +and marked some that my Lord had a mind to have put out. Home and to +bed. Our wench very lame, abed these two days. + +30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe to draw up the preamble to my Lord's +Patent. So to my Lord, and with him to White Hall, where I saw a great +many fine antique heads of marble, that my Lord Northumberland had given +the King. Here meeting with Mr. De Cretz, he looked over many of the +pieces, in the gallery with me and told me [by] whose hands they were, +with great pleasure. Dined at home and Mr. Hawly with me upon six of my +pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill here. This day came Will, + + [William Wayneman was constantly getting into trouble, and Pepys had + to cane him. He was dismissed on July 7th, 1663.] + +my boy, to me; the wench continuing lame, so that my wife could not be +longer without somebody to help her. In the afternoon with Sir Edward +Walker, at his lodgings by St. Giles Church, for my Lord's pedigree, and +carried it to Sir R. Fanshawe. To Mr. Crew's, and there took money and +paid Mrs. Anne, Mrs. Jemima's maid, off quite, and so she went away and +another came to her. To White Hall with Mr. Moore, where I met with +a letter from Mr. Turner, offering me L150 to be joined with me in my +patent, and to advise me how to improve the advantage of my place, and +to keep off Barlow. To my Lord's till late at night, and so home. + + + + +JULY 1660 + +July 1st. This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, + + [Camlet was a mixed stuff of wool and silk. It was very expensive, + and later Pepys gave L24 for a suit. (See June 1st, 1664.)] + +with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray +God to make me able to pay for it. I went to the cook's and got a good +joint of meat, and my wife and I dined at home alone. In the afternoon +to the Abbey, where a good sermon by a stranger, but no Common Prayer +yet. After sermon called in at Mrs. Crisp's, where I saw Mynheer Roder, +that is to marry Sam Hartlib's sister, a great fortune for her to +light on, she being worth nothing in the world. Here I also saw Mrs. +Greenlife, who is come again to live in Axe Yard with her new husband +Mr. Adams. Then to my Lord's, where I staid a while. So to see for Mr. +Creed to speak about getting a copy of Barlow's patent. To my Lord's, +where late at night comes Mr. Morland, whom I left prating with my Lord, +and so home. + +2nd. Infinite of business that my heart and head and all were full. Met +with purser Washington, with whom and a lady, a friend of his, I dined +at the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more manners +than to invite me and to let me pay my club. All the afternoon with my +Lord, going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, and +there the principal Officers of the Navy, + + [A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31st, 1660. From a + MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys's own handwriting. + His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral. + Sir George Carteret, Treasurer. + Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller. + Sir William Batten, Surveyor. + Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts. + + John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton,)| + Sir William Penn, | Commissioners. + Peter Pett, Esq.--B,] | + +among the rest myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow, +to draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into action +before our patents were passed. At which my heart was glad. At night +supped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone +by ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my +maid pretty well again. + +3d. All the morning the Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, we met +at Sir G. Carteret's + + [Sir George Carteret, born 1599, had originally been bred to the sea + service, and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I., and + Governor of Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his + gallant defence of that island against the Parliament forces. At + the Restoration he was made Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer + of the Navy, and a Privy Councillor, and in 1661 he was elected M.P. + for Portsmouth. In 1666 he exchanged the Treasurership of the Navy + with the Earl of Anglesea for the Vice-Treasurership of Ireland. He + became a Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1673. He continued in + favour with Charles II. till his death, January 14th, 1679, in his + eightieth year. He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir + Philip Carteret, Knight of St. Ouen, and had issue three sons and + five daughters.] + +chamber, and agreed upon orders for the Council to supersede the old +ones, and empower us to act. Dined with Mr. Stephens, the Treasurer's +man of the Navy, and Mr. Turner, to whom I offered L50 out of my own +purse for one year, and the benefit of a Clerk's allowance beside, which +he thanked me for; but I find he hath some design yet in his head, which +I could not think of. In the afternoon my heart was quite pulled down, +by being told that Mr. Barlow was to enquire to-day for Mr. Coventry; +but at night I met with my Lord, who told me that I need not fear, for +he would get me the place against the world. And when I came to W. Howe, +he told me that Dr. Petty had been with my Lord, and did tell him +that Barlow was a sickly man, and did not intend to execute the place +himself, which put me in great comfort again. Till 2 in the morning +writing letters and things for my Lord to send to sea. So home to my +wife to bed. + +4th. Up very early in the morning and landing my wife at White Friars +stairs, I went to the Bridge and so to the Treasurer's of the Navy, with +whom I spake about the business of my office, who put me into very good +hopes of my business. At his house comes Commissioner Pett, and he and I +went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, + + [The Navy Office was erected on the site of Lumley House, formerly + belonging to the Fratres Sancta Crucis (or Crutched Friars), and all + business connected with naval concerns was transacted there till its + removal to Somerset House.--The ground was afterwards occupied by + the East India Company's warehouses. The civil business of the + Admiralty was removed from Somerset House to Spring Gardens in + 1869.] + +where I find the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind that +they will shuffle me out of them, which troubles me. From thence to the +Excise Office in Broad Street, where I received L500 for my Lord, by +appointment of the Treasurer, and went afterwards down with Mr. Luddyard +and drank my morning draft with him and other officers. Thence to Mr. +Backewell's, the goldsmith, where I took my Lord's L100 in plate for Mr. +Secretary Nicholas, and my own piece of plate, being a state dish and +cup in chased work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above L19. Carried these +and the money by coach to my Lord's at White Hall, and from thence +carried Nicholas's plate to his house and left it there, intending +to speak with him anon. So to Westminster Hall, where meeting with M. +L'Impertinent and W. Bowyer, I took them to the Sun Tavern, and gave +them a lobster and some wine, and sat talking like a fool till 4 +o'clock. So to my Lord's, and walking all the afternoon in White Hall +Court, in expectation of what shall be done in the Council as to our +business. It was strange to see how all the people flocked together +bare, to see the King looking out of the Council window. At night my +Lord told me how my orders that I drew last night about giving us power +to act, are granted by the Council. At which he and I were very glad. +Home and to bed, my boy lying in my house this night the first time. + +5th. This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with +silver buttons. It rained this morning, which makes us fear that the +glory of this great day will be lost; the King and Parliament being to +be entertained by the City to-day with great pomp. + + ["July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the + House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. + Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His + Majesty; the Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets + between Temple Bar and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that + day spent in the City of London."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +Mr. Hater' was with me to-day, and I agreed with him to be my clerk. + + [Thomas Hayter. He remained with Pepys for some time; and by his + assistance was made Petty Purveyor of Petty Missions. He succeeded + Pepys as Clerk of the Acts in 1673, and in 1679 he was Secretary of + the Admiralty, and Comptroller of the Navy from 1680 to 1682.] + +Being at White Hall, I saw the King, the Dukes, and all their attendants +go forth in the rain to the City, and it bedraggled many a fine suit of +clothes. I was forced to walk all the morning in White Hall, not knowing +how to get out because of the rain. Met with Mr. Cooling, my Lord +Chamberlain's secretary, who took me to dinner among the gentlemen +waiters, and after dinner into the wine-cellar. He told me how he had +a project for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money by +bringing all business into our hands. Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. +Blackburne and I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour or +two in the Park, he giving of me light in many things in my way in this +office that I go about. And in the evening I got my present of plate +carried to Mr. Coventry's. At my Lord's at night comes Dr. Petty to me, +to tell me that Barlow had come to town, and other things, which put me +into a despair, and I went to bed very sad. + +6th. In the morning with my Lord at Whitehall, got the order of the +Council for us to act. From thence to Westminster Hall, and there met +with the Doctor that shewed us so much kindness at the Hague, and took +him to the Sun tavern, and drank with him. So to my Lord's and dined +with W. Howe and Sarah, thinking it might be the last time that I +might dine with them together. In the afternoon my Lord and I, and +Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy +Office, whereby my mind was a little cheered, but my hopes not great. +From thence Sir G. Carteret and I to the Treasurer's Office, where he +set some things in order. And so home, calling upon Sir Geoffry Palmer, +who did give me advice about my patent, which put me to some doubt to +know what to do, Barlow being alive. Afterwards called at Mr. Pim's, +about getting me a coat of velvet, and he took me to the Half Moon, and +the house so full that we staid above half an hour before we could get +anything. So to my Lord's, where in the dark W. Howe and I did sing +extemporys, and I find by use that we are able to sing a bass and a +treble pretty well. So home, and to bed. + +7th. To my Lord, one with me to buy a Clerk's place, and I did demand +L100. To the Council Chamber, where I took an order for the advance of +the salaries of the officers of the Navy, and I find mine to be raised +to L350 per annum. Thence to the Change, where I bought two fine prints +of Ragotti from Rubens, and afterwards dined with my Uncle and Aunt +Wight, where her sister Cox and her husband were. After that to Mr. +Rawlinson's with my uncle, and thence to the Navy Office, where I began +to take an inventory of the papers, and goods, and books of the office. +To my Lord's, late writing letters. So home to bed. + +8th (Lord's day). To White Hall chapel, where I got in with ease by +going before the Lord Chancellor with Mr. Kipps. Here I heard very good +music, the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and +singing-men in surplices in my life. + + [During the Commonwealth organs were destroyed all over the country, + and the following is the title of the Ordinances under which this + destruction took place: "Two Ordinances of the Lords and Commons + assembled in Parliament, for the speedy demolishing of all organs, + images, and all matters of superstitious monuments in all Cathedrals + and Collegiate or Parish Churches and Chapels throughout the Kingdom + of England and the dominion of Wales; the better to accomplish the + blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and + things illegal in the worship of God. Dated May 9th, 1644." When + at the period of the Restoration music again obtained its proper + place in the services of the Church, there was much work for the + organ builders. According to Dr. Rimbault ("Hopkins on the Organ," + 1855, p. 74), it was more than fifty years after the Restoration + when our parish churches began commonly to be supplied with organs. + Drake says, in his "Eboracum" (published in 1733), that at that date + only one parish church in the city of York possessed an organ. + Bernard Schmidt, better known as "Father Smith," came to England + from Germany at the time of the Restoration, and he it was who built + the organ at the Chapel Royal. He was in high favour with Charles + II., who allowed, him apartments in Whitehall Palace.] + +The Bishop of Chichester preached before the King, and made a great +flattering sermon, which I did not like that Clergy should meddle with +matters of state. Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook's shop. +Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon. There +till Mr. Fairebrother came to call us out to my father's to supper. He +told me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by +proxy, which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin Roger +Pepys was the other day persuading me from it. While we were at supper +came Win. Howe to supper to us, and after supper went home to bed. + +9th. All the morning at Sir G. Palmer's advising about getting my bill +drawn. From thence to the Navy office, where in the afternoon we met and +sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first time. From +thence Captain Holland and Mr. Browne of Harwich took me to a tavern and +did give me a collation. From thence to the Temple to further my bills +being done, and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed. + +10th. This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever I +wore in my life. This morning came Nan Pepys' husband Mr. Hall to see +me being lately come to town. I had never seen him before. I took him to +the Swan tavern with Mr. Eglin and there drank our morning draft. Home, +and called my wife, and took her to Dr. Clodius's to a great wedding of +Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at Goring House with very +great state, cost, and noble company. But, among all the beauties there, +my wife was thought the greatest. After dinner I left the company, and +carried my wife to Mrs. Turner's. I went to the Attorney-General's, and +had my bill which cost me seven pieces. I called my wife, and set her +home. And finding my Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to the +Secretary's, which he did, and desired the dispatch of his and my bills +to be signed by the King. His bill is to be Earl of Sandwich, Viscount +Hinchingbroke, and Baron of St. Neot's. + + [The motive for Sir Edward Montagu's so suddenly altering his + intended title is not explained; probably, the change was adopted as + a compliment to the town of Sandwich, off which the Fleet was lying + before it sailed to bring Charles from Scheveling. Montagu had also + received marked attentions from Sir John Boys and other principal + men at Sandwich; and it may be recollected, as an additional reason, + that one or both of the seats for that borough have usually been + placed at the disposal of the Admiralty. The title of Portsmouth + was given, in 1673, for her life, to the celebrated Louise de + Querouaille, and becoming extinct with her, was, in 1743, conferred + upon John Wallop, Viscount Lymington, the ancestor of the present + Earl of Portsmouth.--B.] + +Home, with my mind pretty quiet: not returning, as I said I would, to +see the bride put to bed. + +11th. With Sir W. Pen by water to the Navy office, where we met, and +dispatched business. And that being done, we went all to dinner to the +Dolphin, upon Major Brown's invitation. After that to the office again, +where I was vexed, and so was Commissioner Pett, to see a busy fellow +come to look out the best lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and the +combining between him and Sir W. Pen; and, indeed, was troubled much +at it. Home to White Hall, and took out my bill signed by the King, and +carried it to Mr. Watkins of the Privy Seal to be despatched there, and +going home to take a cap, I borrowed a pair of sheets of Mr. Howe, and +by coach went to the Navy office, and lay (Mr. Hater, my clerk, with me) +at Commissioner Willoughby's' house, where I was received by him very +civilly and slept well. + +12th. Up early and by coach to White Hall with Commissioner Pett, where, +after we had talked with my Lord, I went to the Privy Seal and got my +bill perfected there, and at the Signet: and then to the House of Lords, +and met with Mr. Kipps, who directed me to Mr. Beale to get my patent +engrossed; but he not having time to get it done in Chancery-hand, I was +forced to run all up and down Chancery-lane, and the Six Clerks' Office + + [The Six Clerks' Office was in Chancery Lane, near the Holborn end. + The business of the office was to enrol commissions, pardons, + patents, warrants, &c., that had passed the Great Seal; also other + business in Chancery. In the early history of the Court of + Chancery, the Six Clerks and their under-clerks appear to have acted + as the attorneys of the suitors. As business increased, these + under-clerks became a distinct body, and were recognized by the + court under the denomination of 'sworn clerks,' or 'clerks in + court.' The advance of commerce, with its consequent accession of + wealth, so multiplied the subjects requiring the judgment of a Court + of Equity, that the limits of a public office were found wholly + inadequate to supply a sufficient number of officers to conduct the + business of the suitors. Hence originated the 'Solicitors' of the + "Court of Chancery." See Smith's "Chancery Practice," p. 62, 3rd + edit. The "Six Clerks" were abolished by act of Parliament, + 5 Vict. c. 5.] + +but could find none that could write the hand, that were at leisure. +And so in a despair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first time +there, my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, Mr. Coventry, and all the +rest of the principal Officers and Commissioners, [except] only the +Controller, who is not yet chosen. At night to Mr. Kipps's lodgings, but +not finding him, I went to Mr. Spong's and there I found him and got him +to come to me to my Lord's lodgings at 11 o'clock of night, when I got +him to take my bill to write it himself (which was a great providence +that he could do it) against to-morrow morning. I late writing letters +to sea by the post, and so home to bed. In great trouble because I heard +at Mr. Beale's to-day that Barlow had been there and said that he would +make a stop in the business. + +13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black camlett coat with +silver buttons. To Mr. Spong, whom I found in his night-down writing +of my patent, and he had done as far as he could "for that &c." by +8 o'clock. It being done, we carried it to Worcester House to the +Chancellor, where Mr. Kipps (a strange providence that he should now be +in a condition to do me a kindness, which I never thought him capable of +doing for me), got me the Chancellor's recepi to my bill; and so carried +it to Mr. Beale for a dockett; but he was very angry, and unwilling to +do it, because he said it was ill writ (because I had got it writ by +another hand, and not by him); but by much importunity I got Mr. Spong +to go to his office and make an end of my patent; and in the mean time +Mr. Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him +two pieces, after which it was strange how civil and tractable he was +to me. From thence I went to the Navy office, where we despatched much +business, and resolved of the houses for the Officers and Commissioners, +which I was glad of, and I got leave to have a door made me into the +leads. From thence, much troubled in mind about my patent, I went to Mr. +Beale again, who had now finished my patent and made it ready for the +Seal, about an hour after I went to meet him at the Chancellor's. So +I went away towards Westminster, and in my way met with Mr. Spong, and +went with him to Mr. Lilly and ate some bread and cheese, and drank with +him, who still would be giving me council of getting my patent out, +for fear of another change, and my Lord Montagu's fall. After that to +Worcester House, where by Mr. Kipps's means, and my pressing in General +Montagu's name to the Chancellor, I did, beyond all expectation, get my +seal passed; and while it was doing in one room, I was forced to keep +Sir G. Carteret (who by chance met me there, ignorant of my business) in +talk, while it was a doing. Went home and brought my wife with me into +London, and some money, with which I paid Mr. Beale L9 in all, and took +my patent of him and went to my wife again, whom I had left in a coach +at the door of Hinde Court, and presented her with my patent at which +she was overjoyed; so to the Navy office, and showed her my house, and +were both mightily pleased at all things there, and so to my business. +So home with her, leaving her at her mother's door. I to my Lord's, +where I dispatched an order for a ship to fetch Sir R. Honywood home, +for which I got two pieces of my Lady Honywood by young Mr. Powell. Late +writing letters; and great doings of music at the next house, which was +Whally's; the King and Dukes there with Madame Palmer, + + [Barbara Villiers, only child of William, second Viscount Grandison, + born November, 1640, married April 14th, 1659, to Roger Palmer, + created Earl of Castlemaine, 1661. She became the King's mistress + soon after the Restoration, and was in 1670 made Baroness Nonsuch, + Countess of Southampton, and Duchess of Cleveland. She had six + children by the King, one of them being created Duke of Grafton, and + the eldest son succeeding her as Duke of Cleveland. She + subsequently married Beau Fielding, whom she prosecuted for bigamy. + She died October 9th, 1709, aged sixty-nine. Her life was written + by G. Steinman Steinman, and privately printed 1871, with addenda + 1874, and second addenda 1878.] + +a pretty woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold. +Here at the old door that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W. +Howe, did stand listening a great while to the music. After that home to +bed. This day I should have been at Guildhall to have borne witness for +my brother Hawly against Black Collar, but I could not, at which I was +troubled. To bed with the greatest quiet of mind that I have had a +great while, having ate nothing but a bit of bread and cheese at Lilly's +to-day, and a bit of bread and butter after I was a-bed. + +14th. Up early and advised with my wife for the putting of all our +things in a readiness to be sent to our new house. To my Lord's, where +he was in bed very late. So with Major Tollhurst and others to Harper's, +and I sent for my barrel of pickled oysters and there ate them; while we +were doing so, comes in Mr. Pagan Fisher; the poet, and promises me what +he had long ago done, a book in praise of the King of France, with my +armes, and a dedication to me very handsome. After him comes Mr. Sheply +come from sea yesterday, whom I was glad to see that he may ease me of +the trouble of my Lord's business. So to my Lord's, where I staid doing +his business and taking his commands. After that to Westminster Hall, +where I paid all my debts in order to my going away from hence. Here I +met with Mr. Eglin, who would needs take me to the Leg in King +Street and gave me a dish of meat to dinner; and so I sent for Mons. +L'Impertinent, where we sat long and were merry. After that parted, and +I took Mr. Butler [Mons. L'Impertinent] with me into London by coach +and shewed him my house at the Navy Office, and did give order for the +laying in coals. So into Fenchurch Street, and did give him a glass of +wine at Rawlinson's, and was trimmed in the street. So to my Lord's late +writing letters, and so home, where I found my wife had packed up all +her goods in the house fit for a removal. So to bed. + +15th. Lay long in bed to recover my rest. Going forth met with Mr. +Sheply, and went and drank my morning draft with him at Wilkinson's, +and my brother Spicer.--[Jack Spicer, brother clerk of the Privy +Seal.]--After that to Westminster Abbey, and in Henry the Seventh's +Chappell heard part of a sermon, the first that ever I heard there. To +my Lord's and dined all alone at the table with him. After dinner he and +I alone fell to discourse, and I find him plainly to be a sceptic in all +things of religion, and to make no great matter of anything therein, but +to be a perfect Stoic. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's Chappell, +where I heard service and a sermon there, and after that meeting W. +Bowyer there, he and I to the Park, and walked a good while till night. +So to Harper's and drank together, and Captain Stokes came to us and so +I fell into discourse of buying paper at the first hand in my office, +and the Captain promised me to buy it for me in France. After that to +my Lord's lodgings, where I wrote some business and so home. My wife +at home all the day, she having no clothes out, all being packed up +yesterday. For this month I have wholly neglected anything of news, and +so have beyond belief been ignorant how things go, but now by my patent +my mind is in some quiet, which God keep. I was not at my father's +to-day, I being afraid to go for fear he should still solicit me to +speak to my Lord for a place in the Wardrobe, which I dare not do, +because of my own business yet. My wife and I mightily pleased with our +new house that we hope to have. My patent has cost me a great deal of +money, about L40, which is the only thing at present which do trouble +me much. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's chapel, where I heard +a sermon and spent (God forgive me) most of my time in looking upon Mrs. +Butler. After that with W. Bowyer to walk in the Park. Afterwards to +my Lord's lodgings, and so home to bed, having not been at my father's +to-day. + +16th, This morning it proved very rainy weather so that I could not +remove my goods to my house. I to my office and did business there, and +so home, it being then sunrise, but by the time that I got to my house +it began to rain again, so that I could not carry my goods by cart as I +would have done. After that to my Lord's and so home and to bed. + +17th. This morning (as indeed all the mornings nowadays) much business +at my Lord's. There came to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, an +old consumptive man, and fair conditioned, with whom I did discourse a +great while, and after much talk I did grant him what he asked, viz., +L50 per annum, if my salary be not increased, and (100 per annum, in +case it be to L350), at which he was very well pleased to be paid as I +received my money and not otherwise. Going to my Lord's I found my Lord +had got a great cold and kept his bed, and so I brought him to my Lord's +bedside, and he and I did agree together to this purpose what I should +allow him. That done and the day proving fair I went home and got all my +goods packed up and sent away, and my wife and I and Mrs. Hunt went by +coach, overtaking the carts a-drinking in the Strand. Being come to my +house and set in the goods, and at night sent my wife and Mrs. Hunt to +buy something for supper; they bought a Quarter of Lamb, and so we ate +it, but it was not half roasted. Will, Mr. Blackburne's nephew, is so +obedient, that I am greatly glad of him. At night he and I and Mrs. Hunt +home by water to Westminster. I to my Lord, and after having done some +business with him in his chamber in the Nursery, which has been now +his chamber since he came from sea, I went on foot with a linkboy to my +home, where I found my wife in bed and Jane washing the house, and Will +the boy sleeping, and a great deal of sport I had before I could wake +him. I to bed the first night that I ever lay here with my wife. + +18th. This morning the carpenter made an end of my door out of my +chamber upon the leads. + +This morning we met at the office: I dined at my house in Seething Lane, +and after that, going about 4 o'clock to Westminster, I met with Mr. +Carter and Mr. Cooke coming to see me in a coach, and so I returned +home. I did also meet with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, with a porter with +him, with a barrel of Lemons, which my man Burr sends me from sea. I +took all these people home to my house and did give them some drink, +and after them comes Mr. Sheply, and after a little stay we all went by +water to Westminster as far as the New Exchange. Thence to my Lord +about business, and being in talk in comes one with half a buck from +Hinchinbroke, and it smelling a little strong my Lord did give it me +(though it was as good as any could be). I did carry it to my mother, +where I had not been a great while, and indeed had no great mind to go, +because my father did lay upon me continually to do him a kindness at +the Wardrobe, which I could not do because of my own business being so +fresh with my Lord. But my father was not at home, and so I did leave +the venison with her to dispose of as she pleased. After that home, +where W. Hewer now was, and did lie this night with us, the first night. +My mind very quiet, only a little trouble I have for the great debts +which I have still upon me to the Secretary, Mr. Kipps, and Mr. Spong +for my patent. + +19th. I did lie late a-bed. I and my wife by water, landed her at +Whitefriars with her boy with an iron of our new range which is already +broke and my wife will have changed, and many other things she has to +buy with the help of my father to-day. I to my Lord and found him in +bed. This day I received my commission to swear people the oath of +allegiance and supremacy delivered me by my Lord. After talk with my +Lord I went to Westminster Hall, where I took Mr. Michell and his wife, +and Mrs. Murford we sent for afterwards, to the Dog Tavern, where I did +give them a dish of anchovies and olives and paid for all, and did talk +of our old discourse when we did use to talk of the King, in the time of +the Rump, privately; after that to the Admiralty Office, in White Hall, +where I staid and writ my last observations for these four days +last past. Great talk of the difference between the Episcopal and +Presbyterian Clergy, but I believe it will come to nothing. So home and +to bed. + +20th. We sat at the office this morning, Sir W. Batten and Mr. Pett +being upon a survey to Chatham. This morning I sent my wife to my +father's and he is to give me L5 worth of pewter. After we rose at the +office, I went to my father's, where my Uncle Fenner and all his crew +and Captain Holland and his wife and my wife were at dinner at a venison +pasty of the venison that I did give my mother the other day. I did this +time show so much coldness to W. Joyce that I believe all the table took +notice of it. After that to Westminster about my Lord's business and so +home, my Lord having not been well these two or three days, and I hear +that Mr. Barnwell at Hinchinbroke is fallen sick again. Home and to bed. + +21st. This morning Mr. Barlow had appointed for me to bring him what +form I would have the agreement between him and me to pass, which I did +to his lodgings at the Golden Eagle in the new street--[Still retains +the name New Street.]--between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane, where he liked +it very well, and I from him went to get Mr. Spong to engross it in +duplicates. To my Lord and spoke to him about the business of the Privy +Seal for me to be sworn, though I got nothing by it, but to do Mr. +Moore a kindness, which he did give me a good answer to. Went to the Six +Clerks' office to Mr. Spong for the writings, and dined with him at a +club at the next door, where we had three voices to sing catches. So +to my house to write letters and so to Whitehall about business of my +Lord's concerning his creation,--[As Earl of Sandwich.]--and so home and +to bed. + +22nd. Lord's day. All this last night it had rained hard. My brother Tom +came this morning the first time to see me, and I paid him all that I +owe my father to this day. Afterwards I went out and looked into several +churches, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my wife was got before +me, and we, my father and mother, and all the Joyces, and my aunt Bell, +whom I had not seen many a year before. After dinner to White Hall (my +wife to church with K. Joyce), where I find my Lord at home, and walked +in the garden with him, he showing me all the respect that can be. I +left him and went to walk in the Park, where great endeavouring to get +into the inward Park,--[This is still railed off from St. James's Park, +and called the Enclosure.]--but could not get in; one man was basted by +the keeper, for carrying some people over on his back through the water. +Afterwards to my Lord's, where I staid and drank with Mr. Sheply, having +first sent to get a pair of oars. It was the first time that ever I went +by water on the Lord's day. Home, and at night had a chapter read; and +I read prayers out of the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever I +read prayers in this house. So to bed. + +23rd. This morning Mr. Barlow comes to me, and he and I went forth to +a scrivener in Fenchurch Street, whom we found sick of the gout in bed, +and signed and sealed our agreement before him. He urged to have these +words (in consideration whereof) to be interlined, which I granted, +though against my will. Met this morning at the office, and afterwards +Mr. Barlow by appointment came and dined with me, and both of us very +pleasant and pleased. After dinner to my Lord, who took me to Secretary +Nicholas, and there before him and Secretary Morris, my Lord and I upon +our knees together took our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; and the +Oath of the Privy Seal, of which I was much glad, though I am not likely +to get anything by it at present; but I do desire it, for fear of a +turn-out of our office. That done and my Lord gone from me, I went with +Mr. Cooling and his brother, and Sam Hartlibb, little Jennings and some +others to the King's Head Tavern at Charing Cross, where after drinking +I took boat and so home, where we supped merrily among ourselves (our +little boy proving a droll) and so after prayers to bed. This day my +Lord had heard that Mr. Barnwell was dead, but it is not so yet, though +he be very ill. I was troubled all this day with Mr. Cooke, being +willing to do him good, but my mind is so taken up with my own business +that I cannot. + +24th. To White Hall, where I did acquaint Mr. Watkins with my being +sworn into the Privy Seal, at which he was much troubled, but put it up +and did offer me a kinsman of his to be my clerk, which I did give him +some hope of, though I never intend it. In the afternoon I spent much +time in walking in White Hall Court with Mr. Bickerstaffe, who was very +glad of my Lord's being sworn, because of his business with his +brother Baron, which is referred to my Lord Chancellor, and to be ended +to-morrow. Baron had got a grant beyond sea, to come in before the +reversionary of the Privy Seal. This afternoon Mr. Mathews came to me, +to get a certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn, which I put in +some forwardness, and so home and to bed. + +25th. In the morning at the office, and after that down to Whitehall, +where I met with Mr. Creed, and with him and a Welsh schoolmaster, a +good scholar but a very pedagogue, to the ordinary at the Leg in King +Street.' I got my certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn. This +morning my Lord took leave of the House of Commons, and had the thanks +of the House for his great services to his country. In the afternoon +(but this is a mistake, for it was yesterday in the afternoon) Monsieur +L'Impertinent and I met and I took him to the Sun and drank with him, +and in the evening going away we met his mother and sisters and father +coming from the Gatehouse; where they lodge, where I did the first time +salute them all, and very pretty Madame Frances--[Frances Butler, the +beauty.]--is indeed. After that very late home and called in Tower +Street, and there at a barber's was trimmed the first time. Home and to +bed. + +26th. Early to White Hall, thinking to have a meeting of my Lord and the +principal officers, but my Lord could not, it being the day that he +was to go and be admitted in the House of Lords, his patent being done, +which he presented upon his knees to the Speaker; and so it was read in +the House, and he took his place. I at the Privy Seal Office with Mr. +Hooker, who brought me acquainted with Mr. Crofts of the Signet, and +I invited them to a dish of meat at the Leg in King Street, and so we +dined there and I paid for all and had very good light given me as to my +employment there. Afterwards to Mr. Pierces, where I should have dined +but I could not, but found Mr. Sheply and W. Howe there. After we had +drunk hard we parted, and I went away and met Dr. Castle, who is one of +the Clerks of the Privy Seal, and told him how things were with my Lord +and me, which he received very gladly. I was this day told how Baron +against all expectation and law has got the place of Bickerstaffe, and +so I question whether he will not lay claim to wait the next month, but +my Lord tells me that he will stand for it. In the evening I met with T. +Doling, who carried me to St. James's Fair, + + [August, 1661: "This year the Fair, called St. James's Fair, was + kept the full appointed time, being a fortnight; but during that + time many lewd and infamous persons were by his Majesty's express + command to the Lord Chamberlain, and his Lordship's direction to + Robert Nelson, Esq., committed to the House of Correction."--Rugge's + Diurnal. St; James's fair was held first in the open space near St. + James's Palace, and afterwards in St. James's Market. It was + prohibited by the Parliament in 1651, but revived at the + Restoration. It was, however, finally suppressed before the close + of the reign of Charles II.] + +and there meeting with W. Symons and his wife, and Luellin, and D. +Scobell's wife and cousin, we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell + + [This is one of the earliest references to Pall Mall as an inhabited + street, and also one of the earliest uses of the word clubbing.] + +(our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till 10 at night, at +which time I sent to my Lord's for my clerk Will to come to me, and so +by link home to bed. Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sent +for all his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a little +disappointment, but it is better than pay too dear for them. + +27th: The last night Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen came to their houses +at the office. Met this morning and did business till noon. Dined at +home and from thence to my Lord's where Will, my clerk, and I were all +the afternoon making up my accounts, which we had done by night, and I +find myself worth about L100 after all my expenses. At night I sent to +W. Bowyer to bring me L100, being that he had in his hands of my Lord's. +in keeping, out of which I paid Mr. Sheply all that remained due to my +Lord upon my balance, and took the rest home with me late at night. We +got a coach, but the horses were tired and could not carry us farther +than St. Dunstan's. So we 'light and took a link and so home weary to +bed. + +28th. Early in the morning rose, and a boy brought me a letter from +Poet Fisher, who tells me that he is upon a panegyrique of the King, +and desired to borrow a piece of me; and I sent him half a piece. To +Westminster, and there dined with Mr. Sheply and W. Howe, afterwards +meeting with Mr. Henson, who had formerly had the brave clock that went +with bullets (which is now taken away from him by the King, it being his +goods). + + [Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an + inclined plane, which turns every minute. The King's clocks + probably dropped bullets. Gainsborough the painter had a brother + who was a dissenting minister at Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a + strong genius for mechanics. He invented a clock of a very peculiar + construction, which, after his death, was deposited in the British + Museum. It told the hour by a little bell, and was kept in motion + by a leaden bullet, which dropped from a spiral reservoir at the top + of the clock, into a little ivory bucket. This was so contrived as + to discharge it at the bottom, and by means of a counter-weight was + carried up to the top of the clock, where it received another + bullet, which was discharged as the former. This seems to have been + an attempt at the perpetual motion.--Gentleman's Magazine, 1785, + p. 931.--B.] + +I went with him to the Swan Tavern and sent for Mr. Butler, who was now +all full of his high discourse in praise of Ireland, whither he and his +whole family are going by Coll. Dillon's persuasion, but so many lies I +never heard in praise of anything as he told of Ireland. So home late at +night and to bed. + +29th. Lord's day. I and my boy Will to Whitehall, and I with my Lord +to White Hall Chappell, where I heard a cold sermon of the Bishop of +Salisbury's, and the ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo +them. My Lord went to dinner at Kensington with my Lord Camden. So I +dined and took Mr. Birfett, my Lord's chaplain, and his friend along +with me, with Mr. Sheply at my Lord's. In the afternoon with Dick Vines +and his brother Payton, we walked to Lisson Green and Marybone and back +again, and finding my Lord at home I got him to look over my accounts, +which he did approve of and signed them, and so we are even to this day. +Of this I was glad, and do think myself worth clear money about L120. +Home late, calling in at my father's without stay. To bed. + +30th. Sat at our office to-day, and my father came this day the first +time to see us at my new office. And Mrs. Crisp by chance came in and +sat with us, looked over our house and advised about the furnishing of +it. This afternoon I got my L50, due to me for my first quarter's salary +as Secretary to my Lord, paid to Tho. Hater for me, which he received +and brought home to me, of which I am full glad. To Westminster and +among other things met with Mr. Moore, and took him and his friend, a +bookseller of Paul's Churchyard, to the Rhenish Winehouse, and drinking +there the sword-bearer of London (Mr. Man) came to ask for us, with whom +we sat late, discoursing about the worth of my office of Clerk of the +Acts, which he hath a mind to buy, and I asked four years' purchase. We +are to speak more of it to-morrow. Home on foot, and seeing him at home +at Butler's merry, he lent me a torch, which Will carried, and so home. + +31st. To White Hall, where my Lord and the principal officers met, and +had a great discourse about raising of money for the Navy, which is in +very sad condition, and money must be raised for it. Mr. Blackburne, Dr. +Clerke, and I to the Quaker's and dined there. I back to the Admiralty, +and there was doing things in order to the calculating of the debts of +the Navy and other business, all the afternoon. At night I went to the +Privy Seal, where I found Mr. Crofts and Mathews making up all their +things to leave the office tomorrow, to those that come to wait the +next month. I took them to the Sun Tavern and there made them drink, +and discoursed concerning the office, and what I was to expect tomorrow +about Baron, who pretends to the next month. Late home by coach so far +as Ludgate with Mr. Mathews, and thence home on foot with W. Hewer with +me, and so to bed. + + + + +AUGUST 1660 + +August 1st. Up very early, and by water to Whitehall to my Lord's, and +there up to my Lord's lodging (Win. Howe being now ill of the gout at +Mr. Pierce's), and there talked with him about the affairs of the Navy, +and how I was now to wait today at the Privy Seal. Commissioner Pett +went with me, whom I desired to make my excuse at the office for my +absence this day. Hence to the Privy Seal Office, where I got (by +Mr. Mathews' means) possession of the books and table, but with some +expectation of Baron's bringing of a warrant from the King to have this +month. Nothing done this morning, Baron having spoke to Mr. Woodson and +Groome (clerks to Mr. Trumbull of the Signet) to keep all work in their +hands till the afternoon, at which time he expected to have his warrant +from the King for this month.--[The clerks of the Privy Seal took the +duty of attendance for a month by turns.]--I took at noon Mr. Harper +to the Leg in King Street, and did give him his dinner, who did still +advise me much to act wholly myself at the Privy Seal, but I told him +that I could not, because I had other business to take up my time. In +the afternoon at, the office again, where we had many things to sign; +and I went to the Council Chamber, and there got my Lord to sign the +first bill, and the rest all myself; but received no money today. After +I had signed all, I went with Dick Scobell and Luellin to drink at a +bottle beer house in the Strand, and after staying there a while (had +sent W. Hewer home before), I took boat and homewards went, and in Fish +Street bought a Lobster, and as I had bought it I met with Winter and +Mr. Delabarr, and there with a piece of sturgeon of theirs we went to +the Sun Tavern in the street and ate them. Late home and to bed. + +2d. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen (our +servants in another boat) to the Admiralty; and from thence I went to +my Lord's to fetch him thither, where we stayed in the morning about +ordering of money for the victuailers, and advising how to get a sum of +money to carry on the business of the Navy. From thence dined with Mr. +Blackburne at his house with his friends (his wife being in the country +and just upon her return to London), where we were very well treated and +merry. From thence W. Hewer and I to the office of Privy Seal, where +I stayed all the afternoon, and received about L40 for yesterday and +to-day, at which my heart rejoiced for God's blessing to me, to give me +this advantage by chance, there being of this L40 about L10 due to me +for this day's work. So great is the present profit of this office, +above what it was in the King's time; there being the last month about +300 bills; whereas in the late King's time it was much to have 40. With +my money home by coach, it, being the first time that I could get home +before our gates were shut since I came to the Navy office. When I came +home I found my wife not very well of her old pain.... which she had +when we were married first. I went and cast up the expense that I laid +out upon my former house (because there are so many that are desirous of +it, and I am, in my mind, loth to let it go out of my hands, for fear of +a turn). I find my layings-out to come to about L20, which with my fine +will come to about L22 to him that shall hire my house of me.--[Pepys +wished to let his house in Axe Yard now that he had apartments at the +Navy Office.]--To bed. + +3rd. Up betimes this morning, and after the barber had done with me, +then to the office, where I and Sir William Pen only did meet and +despatch business. At noon my wife and I by coach to Dr. Clerke's to +dinner: I was very much taken with his lady, a comely, proper woman, +though not handsome; but a woman of the best language I ever heard. Here +dined Mrs. Pierce and her husband. After dinner I took leave to go +to Westminster, where I was at the Privy Seal Office all day, signing +things and taking money, so that I could not do as I had intended, that +is to return to them and go to the Red Bull Playhouse, + + [This well-known theatre was situated in St. John's Street on the + site of Red Bull Yard. Pepys went there on March 23rd, 1661, when + he expressed a very poor opinion of the place. T. Carew, in some + commendatory lines on Sir William. Davenant's play, "The just + Italian," 1630, abuses both audiences and actors:-- + + "There are the men in crowded heaps that throng + To that adulterate stage, where not a tongue + Of th' untun'd kennel can a line repeat + Of serious sense." + + There is a token of this house (see "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. + Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 725).] + +but I took coach and went to see whether it was done so or no, and I +found it done. So I returned to Dr. Clerke's, where I found them and my +wife, and by and by took leave and went away home. + +4th. To White Hall, where I found my Lord gone with the King by water +to dine at the Tower with Sir J. Robinson,' Lieutenant. I found my Lady +Jemimah--[Lady Jemima Montage, daughter of Lord Sandwich, previously +described as Mrs. Jem.]--at my Lord's, with whom I staid and dined, all +alone; after dinner to the Privy Seal Office, where I did business. So +to a Committee of Parliament (Sir Hen[eage] Finch, Chairman), to give +them an answer to an order of theirs, "that we could not give them any +account of the Accounts of the Navy in the years 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, as +they desire." After that I went and bespoke some linen of Betty Lane +in the Hall, and after that to the Trumpet, where I sat and talked with +her, &c. At night, it being very rainy, and it thundering and lightning +exceedingly, I took coach at the Trumpet door, taking Monsieur +L'Impertinent along with me as far as the Savoy, where he said he went +to lie with Cary Dillon, + + [Colonel Cary Dillon, a friend of the Butlers, who courted the fair + Frances; but the engagement was subsequently broken off, see + December 31 st, 1661.] + +and is still upon the mind of going (he and his whole family) to +Ireland. Having set him down I made haste home, and in the courtyard, +it being very dark, I heard a man inquire for my house, and having asked +his business, he told me that my man William (who went this morning--out +of town to meet his aunt Blackburne) was come home not very well to his +mother, and so could not come home to-night. At which I was very sorry. +I found my wife still in pain. To bed, having not time to write letters, +and indeed having so many to write to all places that I have no heart to +go about them. Mrs. Shaw did die yesterday and her husband so sick that +he is not like to live. + +5th. Lord's day. My wife being much in pain, I went this morning to Dr. +Williams (who had cured her once before of this business), in Holborn, +and he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my boy, and a +plaister which I took with me to Westminster (having called and seen my +mother in the morning as I went to the doctor), where I dined with Mr. +Sheply (my Lord dining at Kensington). After dinner to St. Margaret's, +where the first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that Church. I sat +with Mr. Hill in his pew; Mr. Hill that married in Axe Yard and that was +aboard us in the Hope. Church done I went and Mr. Sheply to see W. Howe +at Mr. Pierces, where I staid singing of songs and psalms an hour or +two, and were very pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him. Thence to my +Lord's, where I staid and talked and drank with Mr. Sheply. After that +to Westminster stairs, where I saw a fray between Mynheer Clinke, a +Dutchman, that was at Hartlibb's wedding, and a waterman, which made +good sport. After that I got a Gravesend boat, that was come up to fetch +some bread on this side the bridge, and got them to carry me to the +bridge, and so home, where I found my wife. After prayers I to bed to +her, she having had a very bad night of it. This morning before I was up +Will came home pretty well again, he having been only weary with riding, +which he is not used to. + +6th. This morning at the office, and, that being done, home to dinner +all alone, my wife being ill in pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, and +not a little impatient. After dinner to Whitehall at the Privy Seal all +the afternoon, and at night with Mr. Man to Mr. Rawlinson's in Fenchurch +Street, where we staid till eleven o'clock at night. So home and to bed, +my wife being all this day in great pain. This night Mr. Man offered me +L1000 for my office of Clerk of the Acts, which made my mouth water; but +yet I dare not take it till I speak with my Lord to have his consent. + +7th. This morning to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and took Mr. Moore and +myself and dined at my Lord's with Mr. Sheply. While I was at dinner in +come Sam. Hartlibb and his brother-in-law, now knighted by the King, to +request my promise of a ship for them to Holland, which I had promised +to get for them. After dinner to the Privy Seal all the afternoon. At +night, meeting Sam. Hartlibb, he took me by coach to Kensington, to +my Lord of Holland's; I staid in the coach while he went in about his +business. He staying long I left the coach and walked back again before +on foot (a very pleasant walk) to Kensington, where I drank and staid +very long waiting for him. At last he came, and after drinking at the +inn we went towards Westminster. Here I endeavoured to have looked out +Jane that formerly lived at Dr. Williams' at Cambridge, whom I had long +thought to live at present here, but I found myself in an error, meeting +one in the place where I expected to have found her, but she proved not +she though very like her. We went to the Bullhead, where he and I sat +and drank till 11 at night, and so home on foot. Found my wife pretty +well again, and so to bed. + +8th. We met at the office, and after that to dinner at home, and +from thence with my wife by water to Catan Sterpin, with whom and her +mistress Pye we sat discoursing of Kate's marriage to Mons. Petit, her +mistress and I giving the best advice we could for her to suspend +her marriage till Mons. Petit had got some place that may be able to +maintain her, and not for him to live upon the portion that she shall +bring him. From thence to Mr. Butler's to see his daughters, the first +time that ever we made a visit to them. We found them very pretty, and +Coll. Dillon there, a very merry and witty companion, but methinks they +live in a gaudy but very poor condition. From thence, my wife and I +intending to see Mrs. Blackburne, who had been a day or two again to see +my wife, but my wife was not in condition to be seen, but she not being +at home my wife went to her mother's and I to the Privy Seal. At night +from the Privy Seal, Mr. Woodson and Mr. Jennings and I to the Sun +Tavern till it was late, and from thence to my Lord's, where my wife was +come from Mrs. Blackburne's to me, and after I had done some business +with my Lord, she and I went to Mrs. Hunt's, who would needs have us to +lie at her house to-night, she being with my wife so late at my Lord's +with us, and would not let us go home to-night. We lay there all night +very pleasantly and at ease... + +9th. Left my wife at Mrs. Hunt's and I to my Lord's, and from thence +with judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Sheply to the Rhenish +Wine-house, and Captain Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to +carry my Lord Winchelsea, Embassador to Constantinople. We were +very merry, and judge Advocate did give Captain Hayward his Oath of +Allegiance and Supremacy. Thence to my office of Privy Seal, and, having +signed some things there, with Mr. Moore and Dean Fuller to the Leg in +King Street, and, sending for my wife, we dined there very merry, and +after dinner, parted. After dinner with my wife to Mrs. Blackburne to +visit her. She being within I left my wife there, and I to the Privy +Seal, where I despatch some business, and from thence to Mrs. Blackburne +again, who did treat my wife and me with a great deal of civility, and +did give us a fine collation of collar of beef, &c. Thence I, having +my head full of drink from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in the +morning, and more in the afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne's, came home and +so to bed, not well, and very ill all night. + +10th. I had a great deal of pain all night, and a great loosing upon me +so that I could not sleep. In the morning I rose with much pain and to +the office. I went and dined at home, and after dinner with great pain +in my back I went by water to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and that done +with Mr. Moore and Creed to Hide Park by coach, and saw a fine foot-race +three times round the Park between an Irishman and Crow, that was once +my Lord Claypoole's footman. (By the way I cannot forget that my Lord +Claypoole did the other day make enquiry of Mrs. Hunt, concerning my +House in Axe-yard, and did set her on work to get it of me for him, +which methinks is a very great change.) Crow beat the other by above two +miles. Returned from Hide Park, I went to my Lord's, and took Will (who +waited for me there) by coach and went home, taking my lute home with +me. It had been all this while since I came from sea at my Lord's for +him to play on. To bed in some pain still. For this month or two it is +not imaginable how busy my head has been, so that I have neglected to +write letters to my uncle Robert in answer to many of his, and to +other friends, nor indeed have I done anything as to my own family, and +especially this month my waiting at the Privy Seal makes me much more +unable to think of anything, because of my constant attendance there +after I have done at the Navy Office. But blessed be God for my good +chance of the Privy Seal, where I get every day I believe about L3. This +place I got by chance, and my Lord did give it me by chance, neither he +nor I thinking it to be of the worth that he and I find it to be. Never +since I was a man in the world was I ever so great a stranger to public +affairs as now I am, having not read a new book or anything like it, or +enquiring after any news, or what the Parliament do, or in any wise how +things go. Many people look after my house in Axe-yard to hire it, so +that I am troubled with them, and I have a mind to get the money to buy +goods for my house at the Navy Office, and yet I am loth to put it off +because that Mr. Man bids me L1000 for my office, which is so great a +sum that I am loth to settle myself at my new house, lest I should take +Mr. Man's offer in case I found my Lord willing to it. + +11th. I rose to-day without any pain, which makes me think that my pain +yesterday was nothing but from my drinking too much the day before. To +my Lord this morning, who did give me order to get some things ready +against the afternoon for the Admiralty where he would meet. To the +Privy Seal, and from thence going to my own house in Axeyard, I went +in to Mrs. Crisp's, where I met with Mr. Hartlibb; for whom I wrote a +letter for my Lord to sign for a ship for his brother and sister, who +went away hence this day to Gravesend, and from thence to Holland. I +found by discourse with Mrs. Crisp that he is very jealous of her, for +that she is yet very kind to her old servant Meade. Hence to my Lord's +to dinner with Mr. Sheply, so to the Privy Seal; and at night home, and +then sent for the barber, and was trimmed in the kitchen, the first +time that ever I was so. I was vexed this night that W. Hewer was out of +doors till ten at night but was pretty well satisfied again when my wife +told me that he wept because I was angry, though indeed he did give me +a good reason for his being out; but I thought it a good occasion to let +him know that I do expect his being at home. So to bed. + +12th. Lord's day. To my Lord, and with him to White Hall Chappell, where +Mr. Calamy preached, and made a good sermon upon these words "To whom +much is given, of him much is required." He was very officious with his +three reverences to the King, as others do. After sermon a brave anthem +of Captain Cooke's, + + [Henry Cooke, chorister of the Chapel Royal, adhered to the royal + cause at the breaking out of the Civil Wars, and for his bravery + obtained a captain's commission. At the Restoration he received the + appointment of Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal; he was an + excellent musician, and three of his pupils turned out very + distinguished musicians, viz, Pelham Humphrey, John Blow, and + Michael Wise. He was one of the original performers in the "Siege, + of Rhodes." He died July 13th, 1672,: and was buried in the + cloisters of Westminster Abbey. In another place, Pepys says, "a + vain coxcomb he is, though he sings so well."] + +which he himself sung, and the King was well pleased with it. My Lord +dined at my Lord Chamberlain's, and I at his house with Mr. Sheply. +After dinner I did give Mr. Donne; who is going to sea, the key of my +cabin and direction for the putting up of my things. + +After, that I went to walk, and meeting Mrs. Lane of Westminster Hall, I +took her to my Lord's, and did give her a bottle of wine in the garden, +where Mr. Fairbrother, of Cambridge, did come and found us, and drank +with us. After that I took her to my house, where I was exceeding free +in dallying with her, and she not unfree to take it. At night home and +called at my father's, where I found Mr. Fairbrother, but I did not stay +but went homewards and called in at Mr. Rawlinson's, whither my uncle +Wight was coming and did come, but was exceeding angry (he being a +little fuddled, and I think it was that I should see him in that case) +as I never saw him in my life, which I was somewhat troubled at. Home +and to bed. + +13th. A sitting day at our office. After dinner to Whitehall; to the +Privy Seal, whither my father came to me, and staid talking with me a +great while, telling me that he had propounded Mr. John Pickering for +Sir Thomas Honywood's daughter, which I think he do not deserve for his +own merit: I know not what he may do for his estate. My father and Creed +and I to the old Rhenish Winehouse, and talked and drank till night. +Then my father home, and I to my Lord's; where he told me that he would +suddenly go into the country, and so did commend the business of his sea +commission to me in his absence. After that home by coach, and took my +L100 that I had formerly left at Mr. Rawlinson's, home with me, which is +the first that ever I was master of at once. To prayers, and to bed. + +14th. To the Privy Seal, and thence to my Lord's, where Mr. Pim, the +tailor, and I agreed upon making me a velvet coat. From thence to the +Privy Seal again, where Sir Samuel Morland came in with a Baronet's +grant to pass, which the King had given him to make money of. Here he +staid with me a great while; and told me the whole manner of his serving +the King in the time of the Protector; and how Thurloe's bad usage made +him to do it; how he discovered Sir R. Willis, and how he hath sunk his +fortune for the King; and that now the King hath given him a pension of +L500 per annum out of the Post Office for life, and the benefit of two +Baronets; all which do make me begin to think that he is not so much a +fool as I took him to be. Home by water to the Tower, where my father, +Mr. Fairbrother, and Cooke dined with me. After dinner in comes young +Captain Cuttance of the Speedwell, who is sent up for the gratuity given +the seamen that brought the King over. He brought me a firkin of butter +for my wife, which is very welcome. My father, after dinner, takes +leave, after I had given him 40s. for the last half year for my brother +John at Cambridge. I did also make even with Mr. Fairbrother for my +degree of Master of Arts, which cost me about L9 16s. To White Hall, and +my wife with me by water, where at the Privy Seal and elsewhere all the +afternoon. At night home with her by water, where I made good sport with +having the girl and the boy to comb my head, before I went to bed, in +the kitchen. + +15th. To the office, and after dinner by water to White Hall, where +I found the King gone this morning by 5 of the clock to see a Dutch +pleasure-boat below bridge, + + [A yacht which was greatly admired, and was imitated and improved by + Commissioner Pett, who built a yacht for the King in 1661, which was + called the "Jenny." Queen Elizabeth had a yacht, and one was built + by Phineas Pett in 1604.] + +where he dines, and my Lord with him. The King do tire all his people +that are about him with early rising since he came. To the office, all +the afternoon I staid there, and in the evening went to Westminster +Hall, where I staid at Mrs. Michell's, and with her and her husband +sent for some drink, and drank with them. By the same token she and +Mrs. Murford and another old woman of the Hall were going a gossiping +tonight. From thence to my Lord's, where I found him within, and he did +give me direction about his business in his absence, he intending to +go into the country to-morrow morning. Here I lay all night in the old +chamber which I had now given up to W. Howe, with whom I did intend to +lie, but he and I fell to play with one another, so that I made him to +go lie with Mr. Sheply. So I lay alone all night. + +16th. This morning my Lord (all things being ready) carried me by coach +to Mr. Crew's, (in the way talking how good he did hope my place would +be to me, and in general speaking that it was not the salary of any +place that did make a man rich, but the opportunity of getting money +while he is in the place) where he took leave, and went into the coach, +and so for Hinchinbroke. My Lady Jemimah and Mr. Thomas Crew in the +coach with him. Hence to Whitehall about noon, where I met with Mr. +Madge, who took me along with him and Captain Cooke (the famous singer) +and other masters of music to dinner at an ordinary about Charing Cross +where we dined, all paying their club. Hence to the Privy Seal, where +there has been but little work these two days. In the evening home. + +17th. To the office, and that done home to dinner where Mr. Unthanke, +my wife's tailor, dined with us, we having nothing but a dish of sheep's +trotters. After dinner by water to Whitehall, where a great deal of +business at the Privy Seal. At night I and Creed and the judge-Advocate +went to Mr. Pim, the tailor's, who took us to the Half Moon, and there +did give us great store of wine and anchovies, and would pay for them +all. This night I saw Mr. Creed show many the strangest emotions to +shift off his drink I ever saw in my life. By coach home and to bed. + +18th. This morning I took my wife towards Westminster by water, and +landed her at Whitefriars, with L5 to buy her a petticoat, and I to +the Privy Seal. By and by comes my wife to tell me that my father has +persuaded her to buy a most fine cloth of 26s. a yard, and a rich lace, +that the petticoat will come to L5, at which I was somewhat troubled, +but she doing it very innocently, I could not be angry. I did give her +more money, and sent her away, and I and Creed and Captain Hayward (who +is now unkindly put out of the Plymouth to make way for Captain Allen to +go to Constantinople, and put into his ship the Dover, which I know will +trouble my Lord) went and dined at the Leg in King Street, where Captain +Ferrers, my Lord's Cornet, comes to us, who after dinner took me and +Creed to the Cockpitt play, + + [The Cockpit Theatre, situated in Drury Lane, was occupied as a + playhouse in the reign of James I. It was occupied by Davenant and + his company in 1658, and they remained in it until November 15th, + 1660, when they removed to Salisbury Court.] + +the first that I have had time to see since my coming from sea, "The +Loyall Subject," where one Kinaston, a boy, acted the Duke's sister, but +made the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life, only her voice not +very good. After the play done, we three went to drink, and by Captain +Ferrers' means, Kinaston and another that acted Archas, the General, +came and drank with us. Hence home by coach, and after being trimmed, +leaving my wife to look after her little bitch, which was just now +a-whelping, I to bed. + +19th (Lord's day). In the morning my wife tells me that the bitch has +whelped four young ones and is very well after it, my wife having had a +great fear that she would die thereof, the dog that got them being very +big. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself, went to church to the +churchwardens, to demand a pew, which at present could not be given us, +but we are resolved to have one built. So we staid and heard Mr. Mills;' +a very, good minister. Home to dinner, where my wife had on her new +petticoat that she bought yesterday, which indeed is a very fine cloth +and a fine lace; but that being of a light colour, and the lace all +silver, it makes no great show. Mr. Creed and my brother Tom dined with +me. After dinner my wife went and fetched the little puppies to us, +which are very pretty ones. After they were gone, I went up to put my +papers in order, and finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up, +I was angry with her, which I was troubled for. After that my wife and I +went and walked in the garden, and so home to bed. + +20th (Office day). As Sir W. Pen and I were walking in the garden, +a messenger came to me from the Duke of York to fetch me to the Lord +Chancellor. So (Mrs. Turner with her daughter The. being come to my +house to speak with me about a friend of hers to send to sea) I went +with her in her coach as far as Worcester House, but my Lord Chancellor +being gone to the House of Lords, I went thither, and (there being a +law case before them this day) got in, and there staid all the morning, +seeing their manner of sitting on woolpacks, &c., which I never did +before. + + [It is said that these woolpacks were placed in the House of Lords + for the judges to sit on, so that the fact that wool was a main + source of our national wealth might be kept in the popular mind. + The Lord Chancellor's seat is now called the Woolsack.] + +After the House was up, I spoke to my Lord, and had order from him to +come to him at night. This morning Mr. Creed did give me the Papers that +concern my Lord's sea commission, which he left in my hands and went to +sea this day to look after the gratuity money. + +This afternoon at the Privy Seal, where reckoning with Mr. Moore, he had +got L100 for me together, which I was glad of, guessing that the profits +of this month would come to L100. + +In the evening I went all alone to drink at Mr. Harper's, where I found +Mrs. Crisp's daughter, with whom and her friends I staid and drank, and +so with W. Hewer by coach to Worcester House, where I light, sending him +home with the L100 that I received to-day. Here I staid, and saw my Lord +Chancellor come into his Great Hall, where wonderful how much company +there was to expect him at a Seal. Before he would begin any business, +he took my papers of the state of the debts of the Fleet, and there +viewed them before all the people, and did give me his advice privately +how to order things, to get as much money as we can of the Parliament. +That being done, I went home, where I found all my things come home from +sea (sent by desire by Mr. Dun), of which I was glad, though many of +my things are quite spoilt with mould by reason of lying so long a +shipboard, and my cabin being not tight. I spent much time to dispose of +them tonight, and so to bed. + +21st. This morning I went to White Hall with Sir W. Pen by water, who in +our passage told me how he was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went to +Mr. Coventry's chamber, and consulted of drawing my papers of debts of +the Navy against the afternoon for the Committee. So to the Admiralty, +where W. Hewer and I did them, and after that he went to his Aunt's +Blackburn (who has a kinswoman dead at her house to-day, and was to +be buried to-night, by which means he staid very late out). I to +Westminster Hall, where I met Mr. Crew and dined with him, where there +dined one Mr. Hickeman, an Oxford man, who spoke very much against the +height of the now old clergy, for putting out many of the religious +fellows of Colleges, and inveighing against them for their being drunk, +which, if true, I am sorry to hear. After that towards Westminster, +where I called on Mr. Pim, and there found my velvet coat (the first +that ever I had) done, and a velvet mantle, which I took to the Privy +Seal Office, and there locked them up, and went to the Queen's Court, +and there, after much waiting, spoke with Colonel Birch, who read my +papers, and desired some addition, which done I returned to the Privy +Seal, where little to do, and with Mr. Moore towards London, and in our +way meeting Monsieur Eschar (Mr. Montagu's man), about the Savoy, he +took us to the Brazennose Tavern, and there drank and so parted, and +I home by coach, and there, it being post-night, I wrote to my Lord +to give him notice that all things are well; that General Monk is made +Lieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not like +of, to be Deputy to any man but the King himself. After that to bed. + +22nd. Office, which done, Sir W. Pen took me into the garden, and there +told me how Mr. Turner do intend to petition the Duke for an allowance +extra as one of the Clerks of the Navy, which he desired me to join +with him in the furthering of, which I promised to do so that it did not +reflect upon me or to my damage to have any other added, as if I was not +able to perform my place; which he did wholly disown to be any of his +intention, but far from it. I took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, +with whom I did advise, who did give me the same counsel. After dinner +he and I to the office about doing something more as to the debts of the +Navy than I had done yesterday, and so to Whitehall to the Privy +Seal, and having done there, with my father (who came to see me) to +Westminster Hall and the Parliament House to look for Col. Birch, but +found him not. In the House, after the Committee was up, I met with Mr. +G. Montagu, and joyed him in his entrance (this being his 3d day) for +Dover. Here he made me sit all alone in the House, none but he and I, +half an hour, discoursing how things stand, and in short he told me +how there was like to be many factions at Court between Marquis Ormond, +General Monk, and the Lord Roberts, about the business of Ireland; as +there is already between the two Houses about the Act of Indemnity; and +in the House of Commons, between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian men. +Hence to my father's (walking with Mr. Herring, the minister of St. +Bride's), and took them to the Sun Tavern, where I found George, my old +drawer, come again. From thence by water, landed them at Blackfriars, +and so home and to bed. + +23rd. By water to Doctors' Commons to Dr. Walker, to give him my Lord's +papers to view over concerning his being empowered to be Vice-Admiral +under the Duke of York. There meeting with Mr. Pinkney, he and I to +a morning draft, and thence by water to White Hall, to the Parliament +House, where I spoke with Colonel Birch, and so to the Admiralty +chamber, where we and Mr. Coventry had a meeting about several +businesses. Amongst others, it was moved that Phineas Pett (kinsman to +the Commissioner) of Chatham, should be suspended his employment till +he had answered some articles put in against him, as that he should +formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore. Hence +to Westminster Hall, where I met with my father Bowyer, and Mr. Spicer, +and them I took to the Leg in King Street, and did give them a dish or +two of meat, and so away to the Privy Seal, where, the King being out +of town, we have had nothing to do these two days. To Westminster Hall, +where I met with W. Symons, T. Doling, and Mr. Booth, and with them to +the Dogg, where we eat a musk melon + + ["Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner + brought one from Spain, when they became in general estimation. The + ordinary price was five or six shillings."--Quarterly Review, vol, + xix.] + +(the first that I have eat this year), and were very merry with W. +Symons, calling him Mr. Dean, because of the Dean's lands that his uncle +had left him, which are like to be lost all. Hence home by water, and +very late at night writing letters to my Lord to Hinchinbroke, and also +to the Vice-Admiral in the Downs, and so to bed. + +24th. Office, and thence with Sir William Batten and Sir William Pen to +the parish church to find out a place where to build a seat or a gallery +to sit in, and did find one which is to be done speedily. Hence with +them to dinner at a tavern in Thames Street, where they were invited to +a roasted haunch of venison and other very good victuals and company. +Hence to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, but nothing to do. At night by +land to my father's, where I found my mother not very well. I did give +her a pint of sack. My father came in, and Dr. T. Pepys, who talked with +me in French about looking out for a place for him. But I found him a +weak man, and speaks the worst French that ever I heard of one that +had been so long beyond sea. Hence into Pant's Churchyard and bought +Barkley's Argenis in Latin, and so home and to bed. I found at home that +Captain Burr had sent me 4 dozen bottles of wine today. The King came +back to Whitehall to-night. + +25th. This morning Mr. Turner and I by coach from our office to +Whitehall (in our way I calling on Dr. Walker for the papers I did +give him the other day, which he had perused and found that the Duke's +counsel had abated something of the former draught which Dr. Walker drew +for my Lord) to Sir G. Carteret, where we there made up an estimate of +the debts of the Navy for the Council. At noon I took Mr. Turner and +Mr. Moore to the Leg in King Street, and did give them a dinner, and +afterward to the Sun Tavern, and did give Mr. Turner a glass of wine, +there coming to us Mr. Fowler the apothecary (the judge's son) with a +book of lute lessons which his father had left there for me, such as he +formerly did use to play when a young man, and had the use of his hand. +To the Privy Seal, and found some business now again to do there. To +Westminster Hall for a new half-shirt of Mrs. Lane, and so home by +water. Wrote letters by the post to my Lord and to sea. This night W. +Hewer brought me home from Mr. Pim's my velvet coat and cap, the first +that ever I had. So to bed. + +26th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish church, where we are +placed in the highest pew of all, where a stranger preached a dry and +tedious long sermon. Dined at home. To church again in the afternoon +with my wife; in the garden and on the leads at night, and so to supper +and to bed. + +27th. This morning comes one with a vessel of Northdown ale from Mr. +Pierce, the purser, to me, and after him another with a brave Turkey +carpet and a jar of olives from Captain Cuttance, and a pair of fine +turtle-doves from John Burr to my wife. These things came up to-day in +our smack, and my boy Ely came along with them, and came after office +was done to see me. I did give him half a crown because I saw that he +was ready to cry to see that he could not be entertained by me here. In +the afternoon to the Privy Seal, where good store of work now toward the +end of the month. From thence with Mr. Mount, Luellin, and others to the +Bull head till late, and so home, where about to o'clock Major Hart came +to me, whom I did receive with wine and anchovies, which made me so dry +that I was ill with them all night, and was fain to have the girle rise +and fetch me some drink. + +28th. At home looking over my papers and books and house as to the +fitting of it to my mind till two in the afternoon. Some time I spent +this morning beginning to teach my wife some scale in music, and found +her apt beyond imagination. To the Privy Seal, where great store of work +to-day. Colonel Scroope--[Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons who +sat in judgment upon Charles I.]--is this day excepted out of the Act +of Indemnity, which has been now long in coming out, but it is expected +to-morrow. I carried home L80 from the Privy Seal, by coach, and at +night spent a little more time with my wife about her music with great +content. This day I heard my poor mother had then two days been very +ill, and I fear she will not last long. To bed, a little troubled that I +fear my boy Will + + [Pepys refers to two Wills. This was Will Wayneman; the other was + William Hewer.] + +is a thief and has stole some money of mine, particularly a letter that +Mr. Jenkins did leave the last week with me with half a crown in it to +send to his son. + +29th (Office day). Before I went to the office my wife and I examined +my boy Will about his stealing of things, but he denied all with the +greatest subtlety and confidence in the world. To the office, and after +office then to the Church, where we took another view of the place where +we had resolved to build a gallery, and have set men about doing it. +Home to dinner, and there I found my wife had discovered my boy Will's +theft and a great deal more than we imagined, at which I was vexed and +intend to put him away. To my office at the Privy Seal in the afternoon, +and from thence at night to the Bull Head, with Mount, Luellin, and +others, and hence to my father's, and he being at my uncle Fenner's, I +went thither to him, and there sent for my boy's father and talked with +him about his son, and had his promise that if I will send home his boy, +he will take him notwithstanding his indenture. Home at night, and find +that my wife had found out more of the boy's stealing 6s. out of W. +Hewer's closet, and hid it in the house of office, at which my heart was +troubled. To bed, and caused the boy's clothes to be brought up to +my chamber. But after we were all a-bed, the wench (which lies in our +chamber) called us to listen of a sudden, which put my wife into such a +fright that she shook every joint of her, and a long time that I could +not get her out of it. The noise was the boy, we did believe, got in +a desperate mood out of his bed to do himself or William [Hewer] some +mischief. But the wench went down and got a candle lighted, and finding +the boy in bed, and locking the doors fast, with a candle burning all +night, we slept well, but with a great deal of fear. + +30th. We found all well in the morning below stairs, bu the boy in a sad +plight of seeming sorrow; but he is the most cunning rogue that ever +I met with of his age. To White Hall, where I met with the Act of +Indemnity--[12 Car. II. cap. II, an act of free and general pardon, +indemnity, and oblivion.]--(so long talked of and hoped for), with the +Act of Rate for Pole-money, an for judicial proceedings. At Westminster +Hall I met with Mr. Paget the lawyer, and dined with him at Heaven. This +afternoon my wife went to Mr. Pierce's wife's child's christening, and +was urged to be godmother, but I advised her before-hand not to do it, +so she did not, but as proxy for my Lady Jemimah. This the first day +that ever I saw my wife wear black patches since we were married! + + [The fashion of placing black patches on the face was introduced + towards the close of the reign of Charles I., and the practice is + ridiculed in the "Spectator."] + +My Lord came to town to-day, but coming not home till very late I staid +till 10 at night, and so home on foot. Mr. Sheply and Mr. Childe this +night at the tavern. + +31st. Early to wait upon my Lord at White Hall, and with him to the +Duke's chamber. So to my office in Seething Lane. Dined at home, and +after dinner to my Lord again, who told me that he is ordered to go +suddenly to sea, and did give me some orders to be drawing up against +his going. This afternoon I agreed to let my house quite out of my hands +to Mr. Dalton (one of the wine sellers to the King, with whom I had +drunk in the old wine cellar two or three times) for L41. At night +made even at Privy Seal for this month against tomorrow to give +up possession, but we know not to whom, though we most favour Mr. +Bickerstaffe, with whom and Mr. Matthews we drank late after office was +done at the Sun, discoursing what to do about it tomorrow against Baron, +and so home and to bed. Blessed be God all things continue well with and +for me. I pray God fit me for a change of my fortune. + + + + +SEPTEMBER 1660 + +September 1st. This morning I took care to get a vessel to carry my +Lord's things to the Downs on Monday next, and so to White Hall to my +Lord, where he and I did look over the Commission drawn for him by the +Duke's Council, which I do not find my Lord displeased with, though +short of what Dr. Walker did formerly draw for him. Thence to the Privy +Seal to see how things went there, and I find that Mr. Baron had by +a severe warrant from the King got possession of the office from his +brother Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, +it being against all open justice. Mr. Moore and I and several others +being invited to-day by Mr. Goodman, a friend of his, we dined at the +Bullhead upon the best venison pasty that ever I eat of in my life, and +with one dish more, it was the best dinner I ever was at. Here rose +in discourse at table a dispute between Mr. Moore and Dr. Clerke, the +former affirming that it was essential to a tragedy to have the argument +of it true, which the Doctor denied, and left it to me to be judge, and +the cause to be determined next Tuesday morning at the same place, upon +the eating of the remains of the pasty, and the loser to spend 10s. All +this afternoon sending express to the fleet, to order things against my +Lord's coming and taking direction of my Lord about some rich furniture +to take along with him for the Princess!--[Mary, Princess Royal and +Princess of Orange, who died in December of this year.]--And talking +of this, I hear by Mr. Townsend, that there is the greatest preparation +against the Prince de Ligne's a coming over from the King of Spain, +that ever was in England for their Embassador. Late home, and what with +business and my boy's roguery my mind being unquiet, I went to bed. + +2nd (Sunday). To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming to +chapel. I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my Privy +Seal fees and gratuity money, &c., to this day between my Lord and me. +After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon "The +Lord is my shield." After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord's (he +dining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply. So, to St. Margarett's, and +heard a good sermon upon the text "Teach us the old way," or something +like it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion, +which have brought us into all our late divisions. From church to Mrs. +Crisp's (having sent Win. Hewer home to tell my wife that I could +not come home to-night because of my Lord's going out early to-morrow +morning), where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, it +being a farewell cup to Laud Crisp. I drank till the daughter began to +be very loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should +be. To my Lord's, and to bed with Mr. Sheply. + +3rd. Up and to Mr.-----, the goldsmith near the new Exchange, where I +bought my wedding ring, and there, with much ado, got him to put a gold +ring to the jewell, which the King of Sweden did give my Lord: out of +which my Lord had now taken the King's picture, and intends to make a +George of it. This morning at my Lord's I had an opportunity to speak +with Sir George Downing, who has promised me to give me up my bond, and +to pay me for my last quarter while I was at sea, that so I may pay Mr. +Moore and Hawly. About noon my Lord, having taken leave of the King in +the Shield Gallery (where I saw with what kindness the King did hug my +Lord at his parting), I went over with him and saw him in his coach at +Lambeth, and there took leave of him, he going to the Downs, which put +me in mind of his first voyage that ever he made, which he did begin +like this from Lambeth. In the afternoon with Mr. Moore to my house to +cast up our Privy Seal accounts, where I found that my Lord's comes to +400 and odd pounds, and mine to L132, out of which I do give him as good +as L25 for his pains, with which I doubt he is not satisfied, but my +heart is full glad. Thence with him to Mr. Crew's, and did fetch as much +money as did make even our accounts between him and me. Home, and there +found Mr. Cooke come back from my Lord for me to get him some things +bought for him to be brought after them, a toilet cap and comb case of +silk, to make use of in Holland, for he goes to the Hague, which I can +do to-morrow morning. This day my father and my uncle Fenner, and both +his sons, have been at my house to see it, and my wife did treat them +nobly with wine and anchovies. By reason of my Lord's going to-day I +could not get the office to meet to-day. + +4th. I did many things this morning at home before I went out, as +looking over the joiners, who are flooring my diningroom, and doing +business with Sir Williams + + ["Both Sir Williams" is a favourite expression with Pepys, meaning + Sir William Batten and Sir William Penn.] + +both at the office, and so to Whitehall, and so to the Bullhead, where +we had the remains of our pasty, where I did give my verdict against Mr. +Moore upon last Saturday's wager, where Dr. Fuller coming in do confirm +me in my verdict. From thence to my Lord's and despatched Mr. Cooke away +with the things to my Lord. From thence to Axe Yard to my house, where +standing at the door Mrs. Diana comes by, whom I took into my house +upstairs, and there did dally with her a great while, and found that +in Latin "Nulla puella negat." So home by water, and there sat up late +setting my papers in order, and my money also, and teaching my wife her +music lesson, in which I take great pleasure. So to bed. + +5th. To the office. From thence by coach upon the desire of the +principal officers to a Master of Chancery to give Mr. Stowell his oath, +whereby he do answer that he did hear Phineas Pett say very high words +against the King a great while ago. Coming back our coach broke, and so +Stowell and I to Mr. Rawlinson's, and after a glass of wine parted, and +I to the office, home to dinner, where (having put away my boy in the +morning) his father brought him again, but I did so clear up my boy's +roguery to his father, that he could not speak against my putting him +away, and so I did give him 10s. for the boy's clothes that I made +him, and so parted and tore his indenture. All the afternoon with the +principal officers at Sir W. Batten's about Pett's business (where I +first saw Col. Slingsby, who has now his appointment for Comptroller), +but did bring it to no issue. This day I saw our Dedimus to be sworn +in the peace by, which will be shortly. In the evening my wife being a +little impatient I went along with her to buy her a necklace of pearl, +which will cost L4 10s., which I am willing to comply with her in for +her encouragement, and because I have lately got money, having now above +L200 in cash beforehand in the world. Home, and having in our way bought +a rabbit and two little lobsters, my wife and I did sup late, and so to +bed. Great news now-a-day of the Duke d'Anjou's + + [Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis + XIV. (born 1640, died 1701), married the Princess Henrietta, + youngest daughter of Charles I., who was born June 16th, 1644, at + Exeter. She was known as "La belle Henriette." In May, 1670, she + came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV. to her brother + Charles II., but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of + her husband. Her death occurred on her return to France, and + was attributed to poison. It was the occasion of one of the finest + of Bossuet's "Oraisons Funebres."] + +desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta. Hugh Peters is said to be +taken, + + [Hugh Peters, born at Fowey, Cornwall, and educated at Trinity + College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. 1622. He was tried as + one of the regicides, and executed. A broadside, entitled "The + Welsh Hubub, or the Unkennelling and earthing of Hugh Peters that + crafty Fox," was printed October 3rd, 1660.] + +and the Duke of Gloucester is ill, and it is said it will prove the +small-pox. + +6th. To Whitehall by water with Sir W. Batten, and in our passage told +me how Commissioner Pett did pay himself for the entertainment that he +did give the King at Chatham at his coming in, and 20s. a day all the +time he was in Holland, which I wonder at, and so I see there is a great +deal of envy between the two. At Whitehall I met with Commissioner Pett, +who told me how Mr. Coventry and Fairbank his solicitor are falling out, +one complaining of the other for taking too great fees, which is too +true. I find that Commissioner Pett is under great discontent, and is +loth to give too much money for his place, and so do greatly desire me +to go along with him in what we shall agree to give Mr. Coventry, which +I have promised him, but am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that +is going down the wind. We all met this morning and afterwards at the +Admiralty, where our business is to ask provision of victuals ready for +the ships in the Downs, which we did, Mr. Gauden promising to go himself +thither and see it done. Dined Will and I at my Lord's upon a joint of +meat that I sent Mrs. Sarah for. Afterwards to my office and sent all my +books to my Lord's, in order to send them to my house that I now dwell +in. Home and to bed. + +7th. Not office day, and in the afternoon at home all the day, it being +the first that I have been at home all day since I came hither. Putting +my papers, books and other things in order, and writing of letters. This +day my Lord set sail from the Downs for Holland. + +8th. All day also at home. At night sent for by Sir W. Pen, with whom I +sat late drinking a glass of wine and discoursing, and I find him to be +a very sociable man, and an able man, and very cunning. + +9th (Sunday). In the morning with Sir W. Pen to church, and a very good +sermon of Mr. Mills. Home to dinner, and Sir W. Pen with me to such as I +had, and it was very handsome, it being the first time that he ever saw +my wife or house since we came hither. Afternoon to church with my wife, +and after that home, and there walked with Major Hart, who came to see +me, in the garden, who tells me that we are all like to be speedily +disbanded; + + [The Trained Bands were abolished in 1663, but those of the City of + London were specially excepted. The officers of the Trained Bands + were supplied by the Hon. Artillery Company.] + +and then I lose the benefit of a muster. After supper to bed. + +10th (Office day). News of the Duke's intention to go tomorrow to +the fleet for a day or two to meet his sister. Col. Slingsby and I to +Whitehall, thinking to proffer our service to the Duke to wait upon him, +but meeting with Sir G. Carteret he sent us in all haste back again to +hire two Catches for the present use of the Duke. So we returned and +landed at the Bear at the Bridge foot, where we saw Southwark Fair (I +having not at all seen Bartholomew Fair), and so to the Tower wharf, +where we did hire two catches. So to the office and found Sir W. Batten +at dinner with some friends upon a good chine of beef, on which I ate +heartily, I being very hungry. Home, where Mr. Snow (whom afterwards +we called one another cozen) came to me to see me, and with him and one +Shelston, a simple fellow that looks after an employment (that was with +me just upon my going to sea last), to a tavern, where till late with +them. So home, having drunk too much, and so to bed. + +11th. At Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen we drank our morning draft, and +from thence for an hour in the office and dispatch a little business. +Dined at Sir W. Batten's, and by this time I see that we are like to +have a very good correspondence and neighbourhood, but chargeable. All +the afternoon at home looking over my carpenters. At night I called +Thos. Hater out of the office to my house to sit and talk with me. After +he was gone I caused the girl to wash the wainscot of our parlour, +which she did very well, which caused my wife and I good sport. Up to +my chamber to read a little, and wrote my Diary for three or four days +past. The Duke of York did go to-day by break of day to the Downs. The +Duke of Gloucester ill. The House of Parliament was to adjourn to-day. I +know not yet whether it be done or no. To bed. + +12th (Office day). This noon I expected to have had my cousin Snow and +my father come to dine with me, but it being very rainy they did not +come. My brother Tom came to my house with a letter from my brother +John, wherein he desires some books: Barthol. Anatom., Rosin. Rom. +Antiq., and Gassend. Astronom., the last of which I did give him, and an +angel--[A gold coin varying in value at different times from 6s. 8d. to +10s.]--against my father buying of the others. At home all the afternoon +looking after my workmen, whose laziness do much trouble me. This day +the Parliament adjourned. + +13th. Old East comes to me in the morning with letters, and I did give +him a bottle of Northdown ale, which made the poor man almost drunk. In +the afternoon my wife went to the burial of a child of my cozen Scott's, +and it is observable that within this month my Aunt Wight was brought to +bed of two girls, my cozen Stradwick of a girl and a boy, and my cozen +Scott of a boy, and all died. In the afternoon to Westminster, where Mr. +Dalton was ready with his money to pay me for my house, but our writings +not being drawn it could not be done to-day. I met with Mr. Hawly, who +was removing his things from Mr. Bowyer's, where he has lodged a great +while, and I took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and drank, and Mr. +Hawly did give me a little black rattoon,--[Probably an Indian rattan +cane.]--painted and gilt. Home by water. This day the Duke of Gloucester +died of the small-pox, by the great negligence of the doctors. + +14th (Office day). I got L42 15s. appointed me by bill for my employment +of Secretary to the 4th of this month, it being the last money I shall +receive upon that score. My wife went this afternoon to see my mother, +who I hear is very ill, at which my heart is very sad. In the afternoon +Luellin comes to my house, and takes me out to the Mitre in Wood Street, +where Mr. Samford, W. Symons and his wife, and Mr. Scobell, Mr. Mount +and Chetwind, where they were very merry, Luellin being drunk, and I +being to defend the ladies from his kissing them, I kissed them myself +very often with a great deal of mirth. Parted very late, they by coach +to Westminster, and I on foot. + +15th. Met very early at our office this morning to pick out the +twenty-five ships which are to be first paid off: After that to +Westminster and dined with Mr. Dalton at his office, where we had one +great court dish, but our papers not being done we could [not] make an +end of our business till Monday next. Mr. Dalton and I over the water to +our landlord Vanly, with whom we agree as to Dalton becoming a tenant. +Back to Westminster, where I met with Dr. Castles, who chidd me for some +errors in our Privy-Seal business; among the rest, for letting the fees +of the six judges pass unpaid, which I know not what to say to, till I +speak to Mr. Moore. I was much troubled, for fear of being forced to pay +the money myself. Called at my father's going home, and bespoke mourning +for myself, for the death of the Duke of Gloucester. I found my mother +pretty well. So home and to bed. + +16th (Sunday). To Dr. Hardy's church, and sat with Mr. Rawlinson and +heard a good sermon upon the occasion of the Duke's death. His text was, +"And is there any evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" Home +to dinner, having some sport with Win. [Hewer], who never had been at +Common Prayer before. After dinner I alone to Westminster, where I spent +my time walking up and down in Westminster Abbey till sermon time with +Ben. Palmer and Fetters the watchmaker, who told me that my Lord of +Oxford is also dead of the small-pox; in whom his family dies, after 600 +years having that honour in their family and name. From thence to the +Park, where I saw how far they had proceeded in the Pell-mell, and in +making a river through the Park, which I had never seen before since it +was begun. + + [This is the Mall in St. James's Park, which was made by Charles + II., the former Mall (Pall Mall) having been built upon during the + Commonwealth. Charles II. also formed the canal by throwing the + several small ponds into one.] + +Thence to White Hall garden, where I saw the King in purple mourning for +his brother. + + ["The Queen-mother of France," says Ward, in his Diary, p. 177, + "died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, for whom King + Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, which is Prince's mourning."] + +So home, and in my way met with Dinah, who spoke to me and told me she +had a desire to speak too about some business when I came to Westminster +again. Which she spoke in such a manner that I was afraid she might tell +me something that I would not hear of our last meeting at my house at +Westminster. Home late, being very dark. A gentleman in the Poultry had +a great and dirty fall over a waterpipe that lay along the channel. + +17th. Office very early about casting up the debts of those twenty-five +ships which are to be paid off, which we are to present to the Committee +of Parliament. I did give my wife L15 this morning to go to buy mourning +things for her and me, which she did. Dined at home and Mr. Moore with +me, and afterwards to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and drank in the Cellar, +where Mr. Vanly according to appointment was. Thence forth to see the +Prince de Ligne, Spanish Embassador, come in to his audience, which was +done in very great state. That being done, Dalton, Vanly, Scrivener +and some friends of theirs and I to the Axe, and signed and sealed our +writings, and hence to the Wine cellar again, where I received L41 for +my interest in my house, out of which I paid my Landlord to Michaelmas +next, and so all is even between him and me, and I freed of my poor +little house. Home by link with my money under my arm. So to bed after +I had looked over the things my wife had bought to-day, with which +being not very well pleased, they costing too much, I went to bed in a +discontent. Nothing yet from sea, where my Lord and the Princess are. + +18th. At home all the morning looking over my workmen in my house. After +dinner Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself by coach to Westminster Hall, +where we met Mr. Wayte the lawyer to the Treasurer, and so we went up to +the Committee of Parliament, which are to consider of the debts of the +Army and Navy, and did give in our account of the twenty-five ships. +Col. Birch was very impertinent and troublesome. But at last we did +agree to fit the accounts of our ships more perfectly for their view +within a few days, that they might see what a trouble it is to do what +they desire. From thence Sir Williams both going by water home, I took +Mr. Wayte to the Rhenish winehouse, and drank with him and so parted. +Thence to Mr. Crew's and spoke with Mr. Moore about the business of +paying off Baron our share of the dividend. So on foot home, by the way +buying a hat band and other things for my mourning to-morrow. So home +and to bed. This day I heard that the Duke of York, upon the news of the +death of his brother yesterday, came hither by post last night. + +19th (Office day). I put on my mourning and went to the office. At noon +thinking to have found my wife in hers, I found that the tailor had +failed her, at which I was vexed because of an invitation that we have +to a dinner this day, but after having waited till past one o'clock I +went, and left her to put on some other clothes and come after me to the +Mitre tavern in Wood-street (a house of the greatest note in London), +where I met W. Symons, and D. Scobell, and their wives, Mr. Samford, +Luellin, Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. White, + + [According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell's + waiting-woman, in Oliver's lifetime, and they lived together fifty + years. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John + Russell of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years + dying 1721-22 The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to + Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have + been soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver + compelled him to marry. (Noble's "Life of Cromwell," vol. ii. + pp. 151, 152.) White was born in 1629 and died 1707.] + +formerly chaplin to the Lady Protectresse--[Elizabeth, wife of Oliver +Cromwell.]--(and still so, and one they say that is likely to get my +Lady Francess for his wife). Here we were very merry and had a very good +dinner, my wife coming after me hither to us. + +Among other pleasures some of us fell to handycapp, + + ["A game at cards not unlike Loo, but with this difference, the + winner of one trick has to put in a double stake, the winner of two + tricks a triple stake, and so on. Thus, if six persons are playing, + and the general stake is 1s., suppose A gains the three tricks, he + gains 6s., and has to 'hand i' the cap,' or pool, 4s. for the next + deal. Suppose A gains two tricks and B one, then A gains 4s. and B + 2s., and A has to stake 3s. and B 2s. for the next deal."--Hindley's + Tavern Anecdotes.--M. B.] + +a sport that I never knew before, which was very good. We staid till +it was very late; it rained sadly, but we made shift to get coaches. So +home and to bed. + +20th. At home, and at the office, and in the garden walking with both +Sir Williams all the morning. After dinner to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton, +and with him to my house and took away all my papers that were left in +my closet, and so I have now nothing more in the house or to do with +it. We called to speak with my Landlord Beale, but he was not within but +spoke with the old woman, who takes it very ill that I did not let her +have it, but I did give her an answer. From thence to Sir G. Downing and +staid late there (he having sent for me to come to him), which was to +tell me how my Lord Sandwich had disappointed him of a ship to bring +over his child and goods, and made great complaint thereof; but I got +him to write a letter to Lawson, which it may be may do the business for +him, I writing another also about it. While he was writing, and his Lady +and I had a great deal of discourse in praise of Holland. By water to +the Bridge, and so to Major Hart's lodgings in Cannon-street, who used +me very kindly with wine and good discourse, particularly upon the ill +method which Colonel Birch and the Committee use in defending of the +army and the navy; promising the Parliament to save them a great deal +of money, when we judge that it will cost the King more than if they had +nothing to do with it, by reason of their delays and scrupulous enquirys +into the account of both. So home and to bed. + +21st (Office day). There all the morning and afternoon till 4 o'clock. +Hence to Whitehall, thinking to have put up my books at my Lord's, but +am disappointed from want of a chest which I had at Mr. Bowyer's. Back +by water about 8 o'clock, and upon the water saw the corpse of the Duke +of Gloucester brought down Somerset House stairs, to go by water to +Westminster, to be buried to-night. I landed at the old Swan and went to +the Hoop Tavern, and (by a former agreement) sent for Mr. Chaplin, who +with Nicholas Osborne and one Daniel came to us and we drank off two +or three quarts of wine, which was very good; the drawing of our wine +causing a great quarrel in the house between the two drawers which +should draw us the best, which caused a great deal of noise and falling +out till the master parted them, and came up to us and did give us a +large account of the liberty that he gives his servants, all alike, to +draw what wine they will to please his customers; and we did eat above +200 walnuts. About to o'clock we broke up and so home, and in my way I +called in with them at Mr. Chaplin's, where Nicholas Osborne did give me +a barrel of samphire, + + [Samphire was formerly a favourite pickle; hence the "dangerous + trade" of the samphire gatherer ("King Lear," act iv. sc. 6) who + supplied the demand. It was sold in the streets, and one of the old + London cries was "I ha' Rock Samphier, Rock Samphier!"] + +and showed me the keys of Mardyke Fort, + + [A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that + town was sold to Louis XIV.] + +which he that was commander of the fort sent him as a token when the +fort was demolished, which I was mightily pleased to see, and will get +them of him if I can. Home, where I found my boy (my maid's brother) +come out of the country to-day, but was gone to bed and so I could not +see him to-night. To bed. + +22nd. This morning I called up my boy, and found him a pretty, +well-looked boy, and one that I think will please me. I went this +morning by land to Westminster along with Luellin, who came to my house +this morning to get me to go with him to Capt. Allen to speak with him +for his brother to go with him to Constantinople, but could not find +him. We walked on to Fleet street, where at Mr. Standing's in Salsbury +Court we drank our morning draft and had a pickled herring. Among other +discourse here he told me how the pretty woman that I always loved at +the beginning of Cheapside that sells child's coats was served by the +Lady Bennett (a famous strumpet), who by counterfeiting to fall into a +swoon upon the sight of her in her shop, became acquainted with her, and +at last got her ends of her to lie with a gentleman that had hired her +to procure this poor soul for him. To Westminster to my Lord's, and +there in the house of office vomited up all my breakfast, my stomach +being ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch. Here I +sent to Mr. Bowyer's for my chest and put up my books and sent them +home. I staid here all day in my Lord's chamber and upon the leads +gazing upon Diana, who looked out of a window upon me. At last I went +out to Mr. Harper's, and she standing over the way at the gate, I went +over to her and appointed to meet to-morrow in the afternoon at my +Lord's. Here I bought a hanging jack. From thence by coach home by the +way at the New Exchange + + [In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I., in 1608, out + of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi. + The New Exchange stood where Coutts's banking-house now is. "It was + built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars + beneath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly + with milliners, sempstresses, and the like." It was also called + "Britain's Burse." "He has a lodging in the Strand... to + watch when ladies are gone to the china houses, or to the Exchange, + that he may meet them by chance and give them presents, some two or + three hundred pounds worth of toys, to be laughed at"--Ben Jonson, + The Silent Woman, act i. sc. 1.] + +I bought a pair of short black stockings, to wear over a pair of silk +ones for mourning; and here I met with The. Turner and Joyce, buying of +things to go into mourning too for the Duke, (which is now the mode +of all the ladies in town), where I wrote some letters by the post to +Hinchinbroke to let them know that this day Mr. Edw. Pickering is come +from my Lord, and says that he left him well in Holland, and that he +will be here within three or four days. To-day not well of my last +night's drinking yet. I had the boy up to-night for his sister to teach +him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he did pretty well. + +23rd (Lord's day). My wife got up to put on her mourning to-day and to +go to Church this morning. I up and set down my journall for these 5 +days past. This morning came one from my father's with a black cloth +coat, made of my short cloak, to walk up and down in. To church my +wife and I, with Sir W. Batten, where we heard of Mr. Mills a very good +sermon upon these words, "So run that ye may obtain." After dinner all +alone to Westminster. At Whitehall I met with Mr. Pierce and his wife +(she newly come forth after childbirth) both in mourning for the Duke of +Gloucester. She went with Mr. Child to Whitehall chapel and Mr. Pierce +with me to the Abbey, where I expected to hear Mr. Baxter or Mr. Rowe +preach their farewell sermon, and in Mr. Symons's pew I sat and heard +Mr. Rowe. Before sermon I laughed at the reader, who in his prayer +desires of God that He would imprint his word on the thumbs of our right +hands and on the right great toes of our right feet. In the midst of the +sermon some plaster fell from the top of the Abbey, that made me and all +the rest in our pew afeard, and I wished myself out. After sermon with +Mr. Pierce to Whitehall, and from thence to my Lord, but Diana did not +come according to our agreement. So calling at my father's (where +my wife had been this afternoon but was gone home) I went home. This +afternoon, the King having news of the Princess being come to Margate, +he and the Duke of York went down thither in barges to her. + +24th (Office day). From thence to dinner by coach with my wife to my +Cozen Scott's, and the company not being come, I went over the way to +the Barber's. So thither again to dinner, where was my uncle Fenner and +my aunt, my father and mother, and others. Among the rest my Cozen Rich. +Pepys, + + [Richard Pepys, eldest son of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of + Ireland. He went to Boston, Mass., in 1634, and returned to England + about 1646.] + +their elder brother, whom I had not seen these fourteen years, ever +since he came from New England. It was strange for us to go a gossiping +to her, she having newly buried her child that she was brought to +bed of. I rose from table and went to the Temple church, where I had +appointed Sir W. Batten to meet him; and there at Sir Heneage Finch +Sollicitor General's chambers, before him and Sir W. Wilde, + + [William Wilde, elected Recorder on November 3rd, 1659, and + appointed one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles + II. to return to England immediately. He was knighted after the + King's return, called to the degree of Serjeant, and created a + baronet, all in the same year. In 1668 he ceased to be Recorder, + and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1673 he + was removed to the King's Bench. He was turned out of his office in + 1679 on account of his action in connection with the Popish Plot, + and died November 23rd of the same year.] + +Recorder of London (whom we sent for from his chamber) we were sworn +justices of peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton; with +which honour I did find myself mightily pleased, though I am wholly +ignorant in the duty of a justice of peace. From thence with Sir William +to Whitehall by water (old Mr. Smith with us) intending to speak with +Secretary Nicholas about the augmentation of our salaries, but being +forth we went to the Three Tuns tavern, where we drank awhile, and then +came in Col. Slingsby and another gentleman and sat with us. From thence +to my Lord's to enquire whether they have had any thing from my Lord +or no. Knocking at the door, there passed me Mons. L'Impertinent [Mr. +Butler] for whom I took a coach and went with him to a dancing meeting +in Broad Street, at the house that was formerly the glass-house, Luke +Channel, Master of the School, where I saw good dancing, but it growing +late, and the room very full of people and so very hot, I went home. + +25th. To the office, where Sir W. Batten, Colonel Slingsby, and I sat +awhile, and Sir R. Ford + + [Sir Richard Ford was one of the commissioners sent to Breda to + desire Charles II. to return to England immediately.] + +coming to us about some business, we talked together of the interest +of this kingdom to have a peace with Spain and a war with France +and Holland; where Sir R. Ford talked like a man of great reason and +experience. And afterwards I did send for a cup of tee' + + [That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called + by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the + Sultaness Head Coffee-House, in Sweetings Rents, by the "Royal + Exchange, London." "Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called + tee, sold in almost every street in 1659."--Rugge's Diurnal. It is + stated in "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, + p. 593 "that the word tea occurs on no other tokens than those + issued from 'the Great Turk' (Morat ye Great) coffeehouse in + Exchange Alley. The Dutch East India Company introduced tea into + Europe in 1610, and it is said to have been first imported into + England from Holland about 1650. The English "East India Company" + purchased and presented 2 lbs. of tea to Charles II. in 1660, and 23 + lbs. in 1666. The first order for its importation by the company + was in 1668, and the first consignment of it, amounting to 143 lbs., + was received from Bantam in 1669 (see Sir George Birdwood's "Report + on the Old Records at the India Office," 1890, p. 26). By act 12 + Car. II., capp. 23, 24, a duty of 8d. per gallon was imposed upon + the infusion of tea, as well as on chocolate and sherbet.] + +(a China drink) of which I never had drank before, and went away. Then +came Col. Birch and Sir R. Browne by a former appointment, and with +them from Tower wharf in the barge belonging to our office we went to +Deptford to pay off the ship Success, which (Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. +Pen coming afterwards to us) we did, Col. Birch being a mighty busy man +and one that is the most indefatigable and forward to make himself work +of any man that ever I knew in my life. At the Globe we had a very +good dinner, and after that to the pay again, which being finished we +returned by water again, and I from our office with Col. Slingsby by +coach to Westminster (I setting him down at his lodgings by the way) to +inquire for my Lord's coming thither (the King and the Princess + + ["The Princess Royall came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water, + attended by a noble retinue of about one hundred persons, gentry, + and servants, and tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took + that opportunity to advance their fortunes, by coming in with so + excellent a Princess as without question she is."-Rugge's Diurnal. + A broadside, entitled "Ourania, the High and Mighty Lady the + Princess Royal of Aurange, congratulated on her most happy arrival, + September the 25th, 1660," was printed on the 29th.] + +coming up the river this afternoon as we were at our pay), and I found +him gone to Mr. Crew's, where I found him well, only had got some corns +upon his foot which was not well yet. My Lord told me how the ship that +brought the Princess and him (The Tredagh) did knock six times upon the +Kentish Knock, + + [A shoal in the North Sea, off the Thames mouth, outside the Long + Sand, fifteen miles N.N.E. of the North Foreland. It measures seven + miles north-eastward, and about two miles in breadth. It is partly + dry at low water. A revolving light was set up in 1840.] + +which put them in great fear for the ship; but got off well. He told +me also how the King had knighted Vice-Admiral Lawson and Sir Richard +Stayner. From him late and by coach home, where the plasterers being at +work in all the rooms in my house, my wife was fain to make a bed upon +the ground for her and me, and so there we lay all night. + +26th. Office day. That done to the church, to consult about our gallery. +So home to dinner, where I found Mrs. Hunt, who brought me a letter for +me to get my Lord to sign for her husband, which I shall do for her. At +home with the workmen all the afternoon, our house being in a most sad +pickle. In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speed's +Geography for a while. So home thinking to have found Will at home, but +he not being come home but gone somewhere else I was very angry, and +when he came did give him a very great check for it, and so I went to +bed. + +27th. To my Lord at Mr. Crew's, and there took order about some business +of his, and from thence home to my workmen all the afternoon. In the +evening to my Lord's, and there did read over with him and Dr. Walker +my lord's new commission for sea, and advised thereupon how to have it +drawn. So home and to bed. + +28th (Office day). This morning Sir W. Batten and Col. Slingsby went +with Col. Birch and Sir Wm. Doyly to Chatham to pay off a ship there. +So only Sir W. Pen and I left here in town. All the afternoon among my +workmen till 10 or 11 at night, and did give them drink and very merry +with them, it being my luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on +all occasions. To bed. + +29th. All day at home to make an end of our dirty work of the +plasterers, and indeed my kitchen is now so handsome that I did not +repent of all the trouble that I have been put to, to have it done. This +day or yesterday, I hear, Prince Rupert + + [This is the first mention in the Diary of this famous prince, third + son of Frederick, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth, + daughter of James I., born December 17th, 1619. He died at his + house in Spring Gardens, November 29th, 1682.] + +is come to Court; but welcome to nobody. + +30th (Lord's day). To our Parish church both forenoon and afternoon all +alone. At night went to bed without prayers, my house being every where +foul above stairs. + + + + +OCTOBER 1660 + +October 1st. Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give me +some work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office. Dined at +home, and my father by chance with me. After dinner he and I advised +about hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, the +painters beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to the +Miter, where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), while +I drank a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of +the Charles, who came to see me. Here we staid and drank three or four +pints of wine and so parted. I home to look after my workmen, and at +night to bed. The Commissioners are very busy disbanding of the army, +which they say do cause great robbing. My layings out upon my house an +furniture are so great that I fear I shall not be able to go through +them without breaking one of my bags of L100, I having but L200 yet in +the world. + +2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning visited +before I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his lying out +of doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come any more +into his house, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide him for +doing so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would speak to my +father. At Whitehall I met with Captain Clerk, and took him to the Leg +in King Street, and did give him a dish or two of meat, and his purser +that was with him, for his old kindness to me on board. After dinner I +to Whitehall, where I met with Mrs. Hunt, and was forced to wait upon +Mr. Scawen at a committee to speak for her husband, which I did. After +that met with Luellin, Mr. Fage, and took them both to the Dog, and did +give them a glass of wine. After that at Will's I met with Mr. Spicer, +and with him to the Abbey to see them at vespers. There I found but a +thin congregation already. So I see that religion, be it what it will, +is but a humour, + + [The four humours of the body described by the old physicians were + supposed to exert their influence upon the mind, and in course of + time the mind as well as the body was credited with its own + particular humours. The modern restricted use of the word humour + did not become general until the eighteenth century.] + +and so the esteem of it passeth as other things do. From thence with him +to see Robin Shaw, who has been a long time ill, and I have not seen +him since I came from sea. He is much changed, but in hopes to be well +again. From thence by coach to my father's, and discoursed with him +about Tom, and did give my advice to take him home again, which I think +he will do in prudence rather than put him upon learning the way of +being worse. So home, and from home to Major Hart, who is just going +out of town to-morrow, and made much of me, and did give me the oaths of +supremacy and allegiance, that I may be capable of my arrears. So home +again, where my wife tells me what she has bought to-day, namely, a bed +and furniture for her chamber, with which very well pleased I went to +bed. + +3d. With Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to White Hall, where a meeting +of the Dukes of York and Albemarle, my Lord Sandwich and all the +principal officers, about the Winter Guard, but we determined of +nothing. To my Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to White Hall; and +I saw it carried, into the King's closet, where I saw most incomparable +pictures. Among the rest a book open upon a desk, which I durst have +sworn was a reall book, and back again to my Lord, and dined all alone +with him, who do treat me with a great deal of respect; and after dinner +did discourse an hour with me, and advise about some way to get himself +some money to make up for all his great expenses, saying that he +believed that he might have any thing that he would ask of the King. +This day Mr. Sheply and all my Lord's goods came from sea, some of them +laid of the Wardrobe and some brought to my Lord's house. From thence +to our office, where we met and did business, and so home and spent the +evening looking upon the painters that are at work in my house. This day +I heard the Duke speak of a great design that he and my Lord of Pembroke +have, and a great many others, of sending a venture to some parts of +Africa to dig for gold ore there. They intend to admit as many as will +venture their money, and so make themselves a company. L250 is the +lowest share for every man. But I do not find that my Lord do much like +it. At night Dr. Fairbrother (for so he is lately made of the Civil Law) +brought home my wife by coach, it being rainy weather, she having been +abroad today to buy more furniture for her house. + +4th. This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office all +alone, and being visited by Lieut. Lambert of the Charles (to whom I was +formerly much beholden), I took him along with me to a little alehouse +hard by our office, whither my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner had sent +for me to show me two gentlemen that had a great desire to be known to +me, one his name is Pepys, of our family, but one that I never heard of +before, and the other a younger son of Sir Tho. Bendishes, and so we +all called cozens. After sitting awhile and drinking, my two new cozens, +myself, and Lieut. Lambert went by water to Whitehall, and from thence +I and Lieut. Lambert to Westminster Abbey, where we saw Dr. Frewen +translated to the Archbishoprick of York. Here I saw the Bishops of +Winchester, Bangor, Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Salisbury, all in +their habits, in King Henry Seventh's chappell. But, Lord! at their +going out, how people did most of them look upon them as strange +creatures, and few with any kind of love or respect. From thence at 2 +to my Lord's, where we took Mr. Sheply and Wm. Howe to the Raindeer, and +had some oysters, which were very good, the first I have eat this year. +So back to my Lord's to dinner, and after dinner Lieut. Lambert and I +did look upon my Lord's model, and he told me many things in a ship that +I desired to understand. From thence by water I (leaving Lieut. Lambert +at Blackfriars) went home, and there by promise met with Robert Shaw and +Jack Spicer, who came to see me, and by the way I met upon Tower Hill +with Mr. Pierce the surgeon and his wife, and took them home and did +give them good wine, ale, and anchovies, and staid them till night, +and so adieu. Then to look upon my painters that are now at work in my +house. At night to bed. + +5th. Office day; dined at home, and all the afternoon at home to see my +painters make an end of their work, which they did to-day to my content, +and I am in great joy to see my house likely once again to be clean. At +night to bed. + +6th. Col. Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch ready for the +Prince de Ligne to carry his things away to-day, who is now going home +again. About noon comes my cozen H. Alcock, for whom I brought a letter +for my Lord to sign to my Lord Broghill for some preferment in Ireland, +whither he is now a-going. After him comes Mr. Creed, who brought me +some books from Holland with him, well bound and good books, which I +thought he did intend to give me, but I found that I must pay him. He +dined with me at my house, and from thence to Whitehall together, where +I was to give my Lord an account of the stations and victualls of the +fleet in order to the choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, +to bring over the Queen, but my Lord not coming in before 9 at night I +staid no longer for him, but went back again home and so to bed. + +7th (Lord's day). To White Hall on foot, calling at my father's to +change my long black cloak for a short one (long cloaks being now quite +out); but he being gone to church, I could not get one, and therefore +I proceeded on and came to my Lord before he went to chapel and so went +with him, where I heard Dr. Spurstow preach before the King a poor dry +sermon; but a very good anthem of Captn. Cooke's afterwards. Going out +of chapel I met with Jack Cole, my old friend (whom I had not seen a +great while before), and have promised to renew acquaintance in London +together. To my Lord's and dined with him; he all dinner time talking +French to me, and telling me the story how the Duke of York hath got my +Lord Chancellor's daughter with child, + + [Anne Hyde, born March 12th, 1637, daughter of Edward, first Earl of + Clarendon. She was attached to the court of the Princess of Orange, + daughter of Charles I., 1654, and contracted to James, Duke of York, + at Breda, November 24th, 1659. The marriage was avowed in London + September 3rd, 1660. She joined the Church of Rome in 1669, and + died March 31st, 1671.] + +and that she, do lay it to him, and that for certain he did promise her +marriage, and had signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth had +got the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King would have him to +marry her, but that he will not. + + [The Duke of York married Anne Hyde, and he avowed the marriage + September 3rd, so that Pepys was rather behindhand in his + information.] + +So that the thing is very bad for the Duke, and them all; but my Lord do +make light of it, as a thing that he believes is not a new thing for the +Duke to do abroad. Discoursing concerning what if the Duke should marry +her, my Lord told me that among his father's many old sayings that he +had wrote in a book of his, this is one--that he that do get a wench +with child and marry her afterwards is as if a man should----in his hat +and then clap it on his head. I perceive my Lord is grown a man very +indifferent in all matters of religion, and so makes nothing of +these things. After dinner to the Abbey, where I heard them read the +church-service, but very ridiculously, that indeed I do not in myself +like it at all. A poor cold sermon of Dr. Lamb's, one of the prebends, +in his habit, came afterwards, and so all ended, and by my troth a +pitiful sorry devotion that these men pay. So walked home by land, and +before supper I read part of the Marian persecution in Mr. Fuller. So to +supper, prayers, and to bed. + +8th. Office day, and my wife being gone out to buy some household stuff, +I dined all alone, and after dinner to Westminster, in my way meeting +Mr. Moore coming to me, who went back again with me calling at several +places about business, at my father's about gilded leather for my +dining room, at Mr. Crew's about money, at my Lord's about the same, but +meeting not Mr. Sheply there I went home by water, and Mr. Moore with +me, who staid and supped with me till almost 9 at night. We love one +another's discourse so that we cannot part when we do meet. He tells me +that the profit of the Privy Seal is much fallen, for which I am very +sorry. He gone and I to bed. + +9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to Deptford, to pay +off two ships. Sir W. Pen and I staid to do business, and afterwards +together to White Hall, where I went to my Lord, and found him in bed +not well, and saw in his chamber his picture,--[Lord Sandwich's portrait +by Lely, see post, 22nd of this same month.]--very well done; and am +with child + + [A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall + and by Spenser. The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the + "New English Dictionary," is Bailey in 1725.] + +till I get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone to sea. To +Whitehall again, where at Mr. Coventry's chamber I met with Sir W. Pen +again, and so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence walked +over the fields to Deptford (the first pleasant walk I have had a great +while), and in our way had a great deal of merry discourse, and find +him to be a merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings very bawdy +songs. So we came and found our gentlemen and Mr. Prin at the pay. About +noon we dined together, and were very merry at table telling of tales. +After dinner to the pay of another ship till 10 at night, and so home in +our barge, a clear moonshine night, and it was 12 o'clock before we got +home, where I found my wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-day +by the upholster, but not being well done I was fretted, and so in a +discontent to bed. I found Mr. Prin a good, honest, plain man, but in +his discourse not very free or pleasant. Among all the tales that passed +among us to-day, he told us of one Damford, that, being a black man, did +scald his beard with mince-pie, and it came up again all white in that +place, and continued to his dying day. Sir W. Pen told us a good jest +about some gentlemen blinding of the drawer, and who he catched was to +pay the reckoning, and so they got away, and the master of the house +coming up to see what his man did, his man got hold of him, thinking +it to be one of the gentlemen, and told him that he was to pay the +reckoning. + +10th. Office day all the morning. In the afternoon with the upholster +seeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my chamber +and my wife's. At night comes Mr. Moore, and staid late with me to tell +me how Sir Hards. Waller--[Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of Charles I. +judges. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.]--(who only +pleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison, + + [General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme, + appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from Windsor to + Whitehall, in order to his trial. He signed the warrant for the + execution of the King. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the + 13th.] + +&c. were this day arraigned at the bar at the Sessions House, there +being upon the bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, +&c.; such a bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in England! They +all seem to be dismayed, and will all be condemned without question. In +Sir Orlando Bridgman's charge, he did wholly rip up the unjustness of +the war against the King from the beginning, and so it much reflects +upon all the Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned them, yet +they must hereby confess that the King do look upon them as traitors. +To-morrow they are to plead what they have to say. At night to bed. + +11th. In the morning to my Lord's, where I met with Mr. Creed, and with +him and Mr. Blackburne to the Rhenish wine house, where we sat drinking +of healths a great while, a thing which Mr. Blackburne formerly would +not upon any terms have done. After we had done there Mr. Creed and I to +the Leg in King Street, to dinner, where he and I and my Will had a good +udder to dinner, and from thence to walk in St. James's Park, where we +observed the several engines at work to draw up water, with which sight +I was very much pleased. Above all the rest, I liked best that which Mr. +Greatorex brought, which is one round thing going within all with a pair +of stairs round; round which being laid at an angle of 45 deg., do carry +up the water with a great deal of ease. Here, in the Park, we met with +Mr. Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpitt to see "The +Moore of Venice," which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; 'by the +same token, a very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see +Desdemona smothered. From thence with Mr. Creed to Hercules Pillars, +where we drank and so parted, and I went home. + +12th. Office day all the morning, and from thence with Sir W. Batten and +the rest of the officers to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin, where +dined withal Col. Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major Norwood, very +noble company. After dinner I went home, where I found Mr. Cooke, who +told me that my Lady Sandwich is come to town to-day, whereupon I went +to Westminster to see her, and found her at super, so she made me sit +down all alone with her, and after supper staid and talked with her, +she showing me most extraordinary love and kindness, and do give me good +assurance of my uncle's resolution to make me his heir. From thence home +and to bed. + +13th. To my Lord's in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, +but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see +Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was done +there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He +was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at +which there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he +was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that +now had judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again. Thus +it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the +first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross. +From thence to my Lord's, and took Captain Cuttance and Mr. Sheply to +the Sun Tavern, and did give them some oysters. After that I went by +water home, where I was angry with my wife for her things lying about, +and in my passion kicked the little fine basket, which I bought her in +Holland, and broke it, which troubled me after I had done it. Within all +the afternoon setting up shelves in my study. At night to bed. + +14th (Lord's day). Early to my Lord's, in my way meeting with Dr. +Fairbrother, who walked with me to my father's back again, and there we +drank my morning draft, my father having gone to church and my mother +asleep in bed. Here he caused me to put my hand among a great many +honorable hands to a paper or certificate in his behalf. To White Hall +chappell, where one Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after it +an anthem, ill sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first did see the +Princess Royal since she came into England. Here I also observed, how +the Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly +through the hangings that parts the King's closet and the closet where +the ladies sit. To my Lord's, where I found my wife, and she and I did +dine with my Lady (my Lord dining with my Lord Chamberlain), who did +treat my wife with a good deal of respect. In the evening we went home +through the rain by water in a sculler, having borrowed some coats of +Mr. Sheply. So home, wet and dirty, and to bed. + +15th. Office all the morning. My wife and I by water; I landed her at +Whitefriars, she went to my father's to dinner, it being my father's +wedding day, there being a very great dinner, and only the Fenners and +Joyces there. This morning Mr. Carew + + [John Carew signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I. He + held the religion of the Fifth Monarchists, and was tried October + 12th, 1660. He refused to avail himself of many opportunities of + escape, and suffered death with much composure.] + +was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a great +favour, are not to be hanged up. I was forced to go to my Lord's to get +him to meet the officers of the Navy this afternoon, and so could not go +along with her, but I missed my Lord, who was this day upon the bench +at the Sessions house. So I dined there, and went to White Hall, where I +met with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who with the Comptroller, Treasurer, and +Mr. Coventry (at his chamber) made up a list of such ships as are fit +to be kept out for the winter guard, and the rest to be paid off by the +Parliament when they can get money, which I doubt will not be a great +while. That done, I took coach, and called my wife at my father's, and +so homewards, calling at Thos. Pepys the turner's for some things that +we wanted. And so home, where I fell to read "The Fruitless Precaution" +(a book formerly recommended by Dr. Clerke at sea to me), which I read +in bed till I had made an end of it, and do find it the best writ tale +that ever I read in my life. After that done to sleep, which I did not +very well do, because that my wife having a stopping in her nose she +snored much, which I never did hear her do before. + +16th. This morning my brother Tom came to me, with whom I made even for +my last clothes to this day, and having eaten a dish of anchovies with +him in the morning, my wife and I did intend to go forth to see a play +at the Cockpit this afternoon, but Mr. Moore coming to me, my wife +staid at home, and he and I went out together, with whom I called at +the upholsters and several other places that I had business with, and +so home with him to the Cockpit, where, understanding that "Wit without +money" was acted, I would not stay, but went home by water, by the way +reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last +night, which I do not like so well as it. Being come home, Will. told +me that my Lord had a mind to speak with me to-night; so I returned +by water, and, coming there, it was only to enquire how the ships were +provided with victuals that are to go with him to fetch over the Queen, +which I gave him a good account of. He seemed to be in a melancholy +humour, which, I was told by W. Howe, was for that he had lately lost +a great deal of money at cards, which he fears he do too much addict +himself to now-a-days. So home by water and to bed. + +17th. Office day. At noon came Mr. Creed to me, whom I took along +with me to the Feathers in Fish Street, where I was invited by Captain +Cuttance to dinner, a dinner made by Mr. Dawes and his brother. We had +two or three dishes of meat well done; their great design was to get me +concerned in a business of theirs about a vessel of theirs that is in +the service, hired by the King, in which I promise to do them all the +service I can. From thence home again with Mr. Crew, where I finding +Mrs. The. Turner and her aunt Duke I would not be seen but walked in the +garden till they were gone, where Mr. Spong came to me and Mr. Creed, +Mr. Spong and I went to our music to sing, and he being gone, my wife +and I went to put up my books in order in closet, and I to give her her +books. After that to bed. + +18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtell +should die, I went to Newgate, but found they were reprieved till +to-morrow. So to my aunt Fenner's, where with her and my uncle I drank +my morning draft. So to my father's, and did give orders for a pair +of black baize linings to be made me for my breeches against to-morrow +morning, which was done. So to my Lord's, where I spoke with my Lord, +and he would have had me dine with him, but I went thence to Mr. +Blackburne, where I met my wife and my Will's father and mother (the +first time that ever I saw them), where we had a very fine dinner. +Mr. Creed was also there. This day by her high discourse I found Mrs. +Blackburne to be a very high dame and a costly one. Home with my wife +by coach. This afternoon comes Mr. Chaplin and N. Osborn to my house, of +whom I made very much, and kept them with me till late, and so to bed. +At my coming home. I did find that The. Turner hath sent for a pair of +doves that my wife had promised her; and because she did not send them +in the best cage, she sent them back again with a scornful letter, with +which I was angry, but yet pretty well pleased that she was crossed. + +19th. Office in the morning. This morning my dining-room was finished +with green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome. This +morning Hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. +This night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrow +for my Lord. I found him to be above L80 in my debt, which is a good +sight, and I bless God for it. + +20th. This morning one came to me to advise with me where to make me a +window into my cellar in lieu of one which Sir W. Batten had stopped +up, and going down into my cellar to look I stepped into a great heap +of----by which I found that Mr. Turner's house of office is full and +comes into my cellar, which do trouble me, but I shall have it helped. +To my Lord's by land, calling at several places about business, where I +dined with my Lord and Lady; when he was very merry, and did talk very +high how he would have a French cook, and a master of his horse, and his +lady and child to wear black patches; which methought was strange, but +he is become a perfect courtier; and, among other things, my Lady saying +that she could get a good merchant for her daughter Jem., he answered, +that he would rather see her with a pedlar's pack at her back, so she +married a gentleman, than she should marry a citizen. This afternoon, +going through London, and calling at Crowe's the upholster's, in Saint +Bartholomew's, I saw the limbs of some of our new traitors set upon +Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to see; and a bloody week this and the +last have been, there being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered. Home, and +after writing a letter to my uncle by the post, I went to bed. + +21st (Lord's day). To the Parish church in the morning, where a good +sermon by Mr. Mills. After dinner to my Lord's, and from thence to the +Abbey, where I met Spicer and D. Vines and others of the old crew. So +leaving my boy at the Abbey against I came back, we went to Prior's by +the Hall back door, but there being no drink to be had we went away, +and so to the Crown in the Palace Yard, I and George Vines by the way +calling at their house, where he carried me up to the top of his turret, +where there is Cooke's head set up for a traytor, and Harrison's set up +on the other side of Westminster Hall. Here I could see them plainly, as +also a very fair prospect about London. From the Crown to the Abbey to +look for my boy, but he was gone thence, and so he being a novice I was +at a loss what was become of him. I called at my Lord's (where I found +Mr. Adams, Mr. Sheply's friend) and at my father's, but found him not. +So home, where I found him, but he had found the way home well enough, +of which I was glad. So after supper, and reading of some chapters, I +went to bed. This day or two my wife has been troubled with her boils in +the old place, which do much trouble her. Today at noon (God forgive me) +I strung my lute, which I had not touched a great while before. + +22nd. Office day; after that to dinner at home upon some ribs of roast +beef from the Cook's (which of late we have been forced to do because +of our house being always under the painters' and other people's hands, +that we could not dress it ourselves). After dinner to my Lord's, where +I found all preparing for my Lord's going to sea to fetch the Queen +tomorrow. At night my Lord came home, with whom I staid long, and talked +of many things. Among others I got leave to have his picture, that was +done by Lilly, + + [Peter Lely, afterwards knighted. He lived in the Piazza, Covent + Garden. This portrait was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys + Cockerell's sale in 1848, and is now at Audley End.] + +copied, and talking of religion, I found him to be a perfect Sceptic, +and said that all things would not be well while there was so much +preaching, and that it would be better if nothing but Homilies were +to be read in Churches. This afternoon (he told me) there hath been a +meeting before the King and my Lord Chancellor, of some Episcopalian and +Presbyterian Divines; but what had passed he could not tell me. After +I had done talk with him, I went to bed with Mr. Sheply in his chamber, +but could hardly get any sleep all night, the bed being ill made and he +a bad bedfellow. + +23rd. We rose early in the morning to get things ready for My Lord, and +Mr. Sheply going to put up his pistols (which were charged with bullets) +into the holsters, one of them flew off, and it pleased God that, the +mouth of the gun being downwards, it did us no hurt, but I think I never +was in more danger in my life, which put me into a great fright. About +eight o'clock my Lord went; and going through the garden my Lord met +with Mr. William Montagu, who told him of an estate of land lately come +into the King's hands, that he had a mind my Lord should beg. To which +end my Lord writ a letter presently to my Lord Chancellor to do it for +him, which (after leave taken of my Lord at White Hall bridge) I did +carry to Warwick House to him; and had a fair promise of him, that +he would do it this day for my Lord. In my way thither I met the +Lord Chancellor and all the judges riding on horseback and going to +Westminster Hall, it being the first day of the term, which was the +first time I ever saw any such solemnity. Having done there I returned +to Whitehall, where meeting with my brother Ashwell and his cozen Sam. +Ashwell and Mr. Mallard, I took them to the Leg in King Street and gave +them a dish of meat for dinner and paid for it. From thence going to +Whitehall I met with Catan Stirpin in mourning, who told me that her +mistress was lately dead of the small pox, and that herself was now +married to Monsieur Petit, as also what her mistress had left her, which +was very well. She also took me to her lodging at an Ironmonger's in +King Street, which was but very poor, and I found by a letter that she +shewed me of her husband's to the King, that he is a right Frenchman, +and full of their own projects, he having a design to reform the +universities, and to institute schools for the learning of all +languages, to speak them naturally and not by rule, which I know will +come to nothing. From thence to my Lord's, where I went forth by coach +to Mrs. Parker's with my Lady, and so to her house again. From thence I +took my Lord's picture, and carried it to Mr. de Cretz to be copied. So +to White Hall, where I met Mr. Spong, and went home with him and played, +and sang, and eat with him and his mother. After supper we looked over +many books, and instruments of his, especially his wooden jack in his +chimney, which goes with the smoke, which indeed is very pretty. I found +him to be as ingenious and good-natured a man as ever I met with in my +life, and cannot admire him enough, he being so plain and illiterate a +man as he is. From thence by coach home and to bed, which was welcome to +me after a night's absence. + +24th. I lay and slept long to-day. Office day. I took occasion to be +angry with my wife before I rose about her putting up of half a crown of +mine in a paper box, which she had forgot where she had lain it. But we +were friends again as we are always. Then I rose to Jack Cole, who came +to see me. Then to the office, so home to dinner, where I found Captain +Murford, who did put L3 into my hands for a friendship I had done him, +but I would not take it, but bade him keep it till he has enough to buy +my wife a necklace. This afternoon people at work in my house to make a +light in my yard into my cellar. To White Hall, in my way met with Mr. +Moore, who went back with me. He tells me, among other things, that +the Duke of York is now sorry for his lying with my Lord Chancellor's +daughter, who is now brought to bed of a boy. From Whitehall to Mr. De +Cretz, who I found about my Lord's picture. From thence to Mr. Lilly's, +where, not finding Mr. Spong, I went to Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, +and so to an alehouse, where I bought of him a drawing-pen; and he did +show me the manner of the lamp-glasses, which carry the light a great +way, good to read in bed by, and I intend to have one of them. So to Mr. +Lilly's with Mr. Spong, where well received, there being a club to-night +among his friends. Among the rest Esquire Ashmole, who I found was a +very ingenious gentleman. With him we two sang afterward in Mr. Lilly's +study. That done, we all pared; and I home by coach, taking Mr. Booker' +with me, who did tell me a great many fooleries, which may be done by +nativities, and blaming Mr. Lilly for writing to please his friends and +to keep in with the times (as he did formerly to his own dishonour), and +not according to the rules of art, by which he could not well err, as he +had done. I set him down at Lime-street end, and so home, where I found +a box of Carpenter's tools sent by my cozen, Thomas Pepys, which I had +bespoke of him for to employ myself with sometimes. To bed. + +25th. All day at home doing something in order to the fitting of my +house. In the evening to Westminster about business. So home and to bed. +This night the vault at the end of the cellar was emptied. + +26th. Office. My father and Dr. Thomas Pepys dined at my house, the last +of whom I did almost fox with Margate ale. My father is mightily pleased +with my ordering of my house. I did give him money to pay several bills. +After that I to Westminster to White Hall, where I saw the Duke de +Soissons go from his audience with a very great deal of state: his own +coach all red velvet covered with gold lace, and drawn by six barbes, +and attended by twenty pages very rich in clothes. To Westminster Hall, +and bought, among, other books, one of the Life of our Queen, which I +read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ, that we did nothing +but laugh at it: among other things it is dedicated to that paragon of +virtue and beauty, the Duchess of Albemarle. Great talk as if the +Duke of York do now own the marriage between him and the Chancellor's +daughter. + +27th. In London and Westminster all this day paying of money and buying +of things for my house. In my going I went by chance by my new Lord +Mayor's house (Sir Richard Browne), by Goldsmith's Hall, which is now +fitting, and indeed is a very pretty house. In coming back I called at +Paul's Churchyard and bought Alsted's Encyclopaedia,' which cost me 38s. +Home and to bed, my wife being much troubled with her old pain. + +28th (Lord's day). There came some pills and plaister this morning +from Dr. Williams for my wife. I to Westminster Abbey, where with much +difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being a +great day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done after +sermon; but I could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappell. So I went +to my Lord's, where I dined with my Lady, and my young Lord, and Mr. +Sidney, who was sent for from Twickenham to see my Lord Mayor's show +to-morrow. Mr. Child did also dine with us. After dinner to White Hall +chappell; my Lady and my Lady Jemimah and I up to the King's closet (who +is now gone to meet the Queen). So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did +know my Lady, he did take us into the King's closet, and there we did +stay all service-time, which I did think a great honour. We went home to +my Lord's lodgings afterwards, and there I parted with my Lady and went +home, where I did find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed. + +29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor's day, + + [When the calendar was reformed in England by the act 24 Geo. II. + c. 23, different provisions were made as regards those anniversaries + which affect directly the rights of property and those which do not. + Thus the old quarter days are still noted in our almanacs, and a + curious survival of this is brought home to payers of income tax. + The fiscal year still begins on old Lady-day, which now falls on + April 6th. All ecclesiastical fasts and feasts and other + commemorations which did not affect the rights of property were left + on their nominal days, such as the execution of Charles I. on + January 30th and the restoration of Charles II. on May 29th. The + change of Lord Mayor's day from the 29th of October to the 9th of + November was not made by the act for reforming the calendar (c. + 23), but by another act of the same session (c. 48), entitled "An + Act for the Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term," by which it was + enacted, "that from and after the said feast of St. Michael, which + shall be in the year 1752, the said solemnity of presenting and + swearing the mayors of the city of London, after every annual + election into the said office, in the manner and form heretofore + used on the 29th day of October, shall be kept and observed on the + ninth day of November in every year, unless the same shall fall on + a Sunday, and in that case on the day following."] + +(Sir Richd. Browne), and neglecting my office I went to the Wardrobe, +where I met my Lady Sandwich and all the children; and after drinking of +some strange and incomparable good clarett of Mr. Rumball's he and Mr. +Townsend did take us, and set the young Lords at one Mr. Nevill's, a +draper in Paul's churchyard; and my Lady and my Lady Pickering and I to +one Mr. Isaacson's, a linendraper at the Key in Cheapside; where there +was a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had +a very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe +good, for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. +After the ladies were placed I took Mr. Townsend and Isaacson to the +next door, a tavern, and did spend 5s. upon them. The show being done, +we got as far as Paul's with much ado, where I left my Lady in the +coach, and went on foot with my Lady Pickering to her lodging, which was +a poor one in Blackfryars, where she never invited me to go in at all, +which methought was very strange for her to do. So home, where I was +told how my Lady Davis is now come to our next lodgings, and has locked +up the leads door from me, which puts me into so great a disquiet that I +went to bed, and could not sleep till morning at it. + +30th. Within all the morning and dined at home, my mind being so +troubled that I could not mind nor do anything till I spoke with the +Comptroller to whom the lodgings belong. In the afternoon, to ease my +mind, I went to the Cockpit all alone, and there saw a very fine play +called "The Tamer Tamed;" very well acted. That being done, I went to +Mr. Crew's, where I had left my boy, and so with him and Mr. Moore +(who would go a little way with me home, as he will always do) to the +Hercules Pillars to drink, where we did read over the King's declaration +in matters of religion, which is come out to-day, which is very well +penned, I think to the satisfaction of most people. So home, where I +am told Mr. Davis's people have broken open the bolt of my chamber door +that goes upon the leads, which I went up to see and did find it so, +which did still trouble me more and more. And so I sent for Griffith, +and got him to search their house to see what the meaning of it might +be, but can learn nothing to-night. But I am a little pleased that I +have found this out. I hear nothing yet of my Lord, whether he be gone +for the Queen from the Downs or no; but I believe he is, and that he is +now upon coming back again. + +31st Office day. Much troubled all this morning in my mind about the +business of my walk on the leads. I spoke of it to the Comptroller and +the rest of the principal officers, who are all unwilling to meddle in +anything that may anger my Lady Davis. And so I am fain to give over for +the time that she do continue therein. Dined at home, and after dinner +to Westminster Hall, where I met with Billing the quaker at Mrs. +Michell's shop, who is still of the former opinion he was of against the +clergymen of all sorts, and a cunning fellow I find him to be. Home, and +there I had news that Sir W. Pen is resolved to ride to Sir W. Batten's +country house to-morrow, and would have me go with him, so I sat up +late, getting together my things to ride in, and was fain to cut an old +pair of boots to make leathers for those I was to wear. This month I +conclude with my mind very heavy for the loss of the leads, as also for +the greatness of my late expenses, insomuch that I do not think that I +have above L150 clear money in the world, but I have, I believe, got +a great deal of good household stuff: I hear to-day that the Queen is +landed at Dover, and will be here on Friday next, November 2nd. My wife +has been so ill of late of her old pain that I have not known her this +fortnight almost, which is a pain to me. + + + + +NOVEMBER 1660 + +November 1st. This morning Sir W. Pen and I were mounted early, and had +very merry discourse all the way, he being very good company. We came +to Sir W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we were made very +welcome. Among other things he showed us my Lady's closet, where was +great store of rarities; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry's +chair, where he that sits down is catched with two irons, that come +round about him, which makes good sport. Here dined with us two or +three more country gentle men; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my old +school-fellow, with whom I had much talk. He did remember that I was a +great Roundhead when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he would +have remembered the words that I said the day the King was beheaded +(that, were I to preach upon him, my text should be "The memory of the +wicked shall rot"); but I found afterwards that he did go away from +school before that time. + + [Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this + year Phieas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was + dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken + disrespectfully of the King. See ante, August 23rd.] + +He did make us good sport in imitating Mr. Case, Ash, and Nye, the +ministers, which he did very well, but a deadly drinker he is, and grown +exceeding fat. From his house to an ale-house near the church, where we +sat and drank and were merry, and so we mounted for London again, Sir W. +Batten with us. We called at Bow and drank there, and took leave of Mr. +Johnson of Blackwall, who dined with us and rode with us thus far. So +home by moonlight, it being about 9 o'clock before we got home. + +2nd. Office. Then dined at home, and by chance Mr. Holliard + + [Thomas Holliard or Hollier was appointed in 1638 surgeon for scald + heads at St. Thomas's Hospital, and on January 25th, 1643-4, he was + chosen surgeon in place of Edward Molins. In 1670 his son of the + same names was allowed to take his place during his illness. Ward, + in his Diary, p. 235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas's + Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr. Holyard's having cut thirty for + the stone in one year, who all lived.] + +called at dinner time and dined with me, with whom I had great discourse +concerning the cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether any +effect at all. In the afternoon I went forth and saw some silver bosses +put upon my new Bible, which cost me 6s. 6d. the making, and 7s. 6d. the +silver, which, with 9s. 6d. the book, comes in all to L1 3s. 6d. From +thence with Mr. Cooke that made them, and Mr. Stephens the silversmith +to the tavern, and did give them a pint of wine. So to White Hall, where +when I came I saw the boats going very thick to Lambeth, and all the +stairs to be full of people. I was told the Queen was a-coming; + + ["Nov. 2. The Queen-mother and the Princess Henrietta came into + London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago. Her + coming was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and the + Duke of York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all + safely arrived at Whitehall.--"Rugge's Diurnal."] + +so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again, but +I could not get to see the Queen; so come back, and to my Lord's, where +he was come; and I supt with him, he being very merry, telling merry +stories of the country mayors, how they entertained the King all the +way as he come along; and how the country gentlewomen did hold up their +heads to be kissed by the King, not taking his hand to kiss as they +should do. I took leave of my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at White +Hall and carried Mr. Childe as far as the Strand, and myself got as far +as Ludgate by all the bonfires, but with a great deal of trouble; and +there the coachman desired that I would release him, for he durst not +go further for the fires. So he would have had a shilling or 6d. for +bringing of me so far; but I had but 3d. about me and did give him it. +In Paul's church-yard I called at Kirton's, and there they had got a +mass book for me, which I bought and cost me twelve shillings; and, when +I came home, sat up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, +to hear that she was long ago so well acquainted with. So to bed. I +observed this night very few bonfires in the City, not above three in +all London, for the Queen's coming; whereby I guess that (as I believed +before) her coming do please but very few. + +3d. Saturday. At home all the morning. In the afternoon to White +Hall, where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queene's hand. To +Westminster Hall, where I met with Tom Doling, and we two took Mrs. Lane +to the alehouse, where I made her angry with commending of Tom Newton +and her new sweetheart to be both too good for her, so that we parted +with much anger, which made Tom and me good sport. So home to write +letters by the post, and so to bed. + +4th (Lord's day). In the morn to our own church, where Mr. Mills did +begin to nibble at the Common Prayer, by saying "Glory be to the Father, +&c." after he had read the two psalms; but the people had been so little +used to it, that they could not tell what to answer. This declaration of +the King's do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction, and a pretence +to read the Common Prayer, which they would not do before because of +their former preaching against it. After dinner to Westminster, where I +went to my Lord's, and having spoke with him, I went to the Abbey, where +the first time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral! Thence to +my Lord's, where I found Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and with him and Mr. +Sheply, in our way calling at the Bell to see the seven Flanders mares +that my Lord has bought lately, where we drank several bottles of Hull +ale. Much company I found to come to her, and cannot wonder at it, for +she is very pretty and wanton. Hence to my father's, where I found my +mother in greater and greater pain of the stone. I staid long and drank +with them, and so home and to bed. My wife seemed very pretty to-day, it +being the first time I had given her leave to wear a black patch. + +5th (Office day). Being disappointed of money, we failed of going to +Deptford to pay off the Henrietta to-day. Dined at home, and at home all +day, and at the office at night, to make up an account of what the debts +of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that should have been paid off, +is increased since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being to sit +again to-morrow. This 5th of November is observed exceeding well in the +City; and at night great bonfires and fireworks. At night Mr. Moore came +and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many +law notions, in which I took great pleasure. To bed. + +6th. In the morning with Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to Westminster, +where at my Lord's I met with Mr. Creed. With him to see my Lord's +picture (now almost done), and thence to Westminster Hall, where we +found the Parliament met to-day, and thence meeting with Mr. Chetwind, +I took them to the Sun, and did give them a barrel of oysters, and had +good discourse; among other things Mr. Chetwind told me how he did fear +that this late business of the Duke of York's would prove fatal to my +Lord Chancellor. From thence Mr. Creed and I to Wilkinson's, and dined +together, and in great haste thence to our office, where we met all, for +the sale of two ships by an inch of candle + + [The old-fashioned custom of sale by auction by inch of candle was + continued in sales by the Admiralty to a somewhat late date. See + September 3rd, 1662.] + +(the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed how +they do invite one another, and at last how they all do cry,--[To cry +was to bid.]--and we have much to do to tell who did cry last. The ships +were the Indian, sold for L1,300, and the Half-moon, sold for L830. +Home, and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged +for the King's death, and found good satisfaction in reading thereof. At +night to bed, and my wife and I did fall out about the dog's being put +down into the cellar, which I had a mind to have done because of his +fouling the house, and I would have my will, and so we went to bed and +lay all night in a quarrel. This night I was troubled all night with a +dream that my wife was dead, which made me that I slept ill all night. + +7th (Office day). This day my father came to dine at my house, but being +sent for in the morning I could not stay, but went by water to my Lord, +where I dined with him, and he in a very merry humour (present Mr. +Borfett and Childe) at dinner: he, in discourse of the great opinion of +the virtue--gratitude (which he did account the greatest thing in the +world to him, and had, therefore, in his mind been often troubled in +the late times how to answer his gratitude to the King, who raised his +father), did say it was that did bring him to his obedience to the King; +and did also bless himself with his good fortune, in comparison to +what it was when I was with him in the Sound, when he durst not own his +correspondence with the King; which is a thing that I never did hear of +to this day before; and I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be +one of the most secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of +before. After dinner he bid all go out of the room, and did tell me +how the King had promised him L4000 per annum for ever, and had already +given him a bill under his hand (which he showed me) for L4000 that Mr. +Fox is to pay him. My Lord did advise with me how to get this received, +and to put out L3000 into safe hands at use, and the other he will make +use of for his present occasion. This he did advise with me about with +much secresy. After all this he called for the fiddles and books, and we +two and W. Howe, and Mr. Childe, did sing and play some psalmes of Will. +Lawes's, and some songs; and so I went away. So I went to see my Lord's +picture, which is almost done, and do please me very well. Hence to +Whitehall to find out Mr. Fox, which I did, and did use me very civilly, +but I did not see his lady, whom I had so long known when she was a +maid, Mrs. Whittle. From thence meeting my father Bowyer, I took him to +Mr. Harper's, and there drank with him. Among other things in discourse +he told me how my wife's brother had a horse at grass with him, which +I was troubled to hear, it being his boldness upon my score. Home by +coach, and read late in the last night's book of Trials, and told +my wife about her brother's horse at Mr. Bowyer's, who is also much +troubled for it, and do intend to go to-morrow to inquire the truth. +Notwithstanding this was the first day of the King's proclamation +against hackney coaches coming into the streets to stand to be hired, +yet I got one to carry me home. + + ["A Proclamation to restrain the abuses of Hackney Coaches in the + Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof." This is + printed in "Notes and Queries," First Series, vol. viii. p. 122. + "In April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned for + some relief, as the parliament had reduced the number of coaches to + 400; there were before, in and about London, more than 2,000." + --Rugge's Diurnal.] + +8th. This morning Sir Wm. and the Treasurer and I went by barge with Sir +Wm. Doyley and Mr. Prin to Deptford, to pay off the Henrietta, and had +a good dinner. I went to Mr. Davys's and saw his house (where I was +once before a great while ago) and I found him a very pretty man. In the +afternoon Commissioner Pett and I went on board the yacht, which indeed +is one of the finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in so +small a vessel. Mr. Pett is to make one to outdo this for the honour of +his country, which I fear he will scarce better. From thence with him +as far as Ratcliffe, where I left him going by water to London, and +I (unwilling to leave the rest of the officers) went back again to +Deptford, and being very much troubled with a sudden looseness, I went +into a little alehouse at the end of Ratcliffe, and did give a groat for +a pot of ale, and there I did... So went forward in my walk with some +men that were going that way a great pace, and in our way we met with +many merry seamen that had got their money paid them to-day. We sat very +late doing the work and waiting for the tide, it being moonshine we got +to London before two in the morning. So home, where I found my wife up, +she shewed me her head which was very well dressed to-day, she having +been to see her father and mother. So to bed. + +9th. Lay long in bed this morning though an office day, because of our +going to bed late last night. Before I went to my office Mr. Creed came +to me about business, and also Mr. Carter, my old Cambridge friend, came +to give me a visit, and I did give them a morning draught in my study. +So to the office, and from thence to dinner with Mr. Wivell at the +Hoop Tavern, where we had Mr. Shepley, Talbot, Adams, Mr. Chaplin and +Osborne, and our dinner given us by Mr. Ady and another, Mr. Wine, the +King's fishmonger. Good sport with Mr. Talbot, who eats no sort of fish, +and there was nothing else till we sent for a neat's tongue. From thence +to Whitehall where I found my Lord, who had an organ set up to-day in +his dining-room, but it seems an ugly one in the form of Bridewell. +Thence I went to Sir Harry Wright's, where my Lord was busy at cards, +and so I staid below with Mrs. Carter and Evans (who did give me a +lesson upon the lute), till he came down, and having talked with him +at the door about his late business of money, I went to my father's and +staid late talking with my father about my sister Pall's coming to live +with me if she would come and be as a servant (which my wife did seem to +be pretty willing to do to-day), and he seems to take it very well, and +intends to consider of it. Home and to bed. + +10th. Up early. Sir Wm. Batten and I to make up an account of the wages +of the officers and mariners at sea, ready to present to the Committee +of Parliament this afternoon. Afterwards came the Treasurer and +Comptroller, and sat all the morning with us till the business was done. +So we broke up, leaving the thing to be wrote over fair and carried to +Trinity House for Sir Wm. Batten's hand. When staying very long I found +(as appointed) the Treasurer and Comptroller at Whitehall, and so we +went with a foul copy to the Parliament house, where we met with +Sir Thos. Clarges and Mr. Spry, and after we had given them good +satisfaction we parted. The Comptroller and I to the coffee-house, +where he shewed me the state of his case; how the King did owe him about +L6000. But I do not see great likelihood for them to be paid, since they +begin already in Parliament to dispute the paying of the just sea-debts, +which were already promised to be paid, and will be the undoing of +thousands if they be not paid. So to Whitehall to look but could not +find Mr. Fox, and then to Mr. Moore at Mr. Crew's, but missed of him +also. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there bought Montelion, which this +year do not prove so good as the last was; so after reading it I burnt +it. After reading of that and the comedy of the Rump, which is also very +silly, I went to bed. This night going home, Will and I bought a goose. + +11th (Lord's day). This morning I went to Sir W. Batten's about going +to Deptford to-morrow, and so eating some hog's pudding of my Lady's +making, of the hog that I saw a fattening the other day at her house, he +and I went to Church into our new gallery, the first time it was used, +and it not being yet quite finished, there came after us Sir W. Pen, Mr. +Davis, and his eldest son. There being no woman this day, we sat in the +foremost pew, and behind us our servants, and I hope it will not always +be so, it not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us. +This day also did Mr. Mills begin to read all the Common Prayer, which I +was glad of. Home to dinner, and then walked to Whitehall, it being +very cold and foul and rainy weather. I found my Lord at home, and +after giving him an account of some business, I returned and went to +my father's where I found my wife, and there we supped, and Dr. Thomas +Pepys, who my wife told me after I was come home, that he had told my +brother Thomas that he loved my wife so well that if she had a child +he would never marry, but leave all that he had to my child, and after +supper we walked home, my little boy carrying a link, and Will leading +my wife. So home and to prayers and to bed. I should have said that +before I got to my Lord's this day I went to Mr. Fox's at Whitehall, +when I first saw his lady, formerly Mrs. Elizabeth Whittle, whom I had +formerly a great opinion of, and did make an anagram or two upon her +name when I was a boy. She proves a very fine lady, and mother to fine +children. To-day I agreed with Mr. Fox about my taking of the; L4000 of +him that the King had given my Lord. + +12th. Lay long in bed to-day. Sir Wm. Batten went this morning to +Deptford to pay off the Wolf. Mr. Comptroller and I sat a while at the +office to do business, and thence I went with him to his house in Lime +Street, a fine house, and where I never was before, and from thence by +coach (setting down his sister at the new Exchange) to Westminster Hall, +where first I met with Jack Spicer and agreed with him to help me to +tell money this afternoon. Hence to De Cretz, where I saw my Lord's +picture finished, which do please me very well. So back to the Hall, +where by appointment I met the Comptroller, and with him and three or +four Parliament men I dined at Heaven, and after dinner called at Will's +on Jack Spicer, and took him to Mr. Fox's, who saved me the labour of +telling me the money by giving me; L3000 by consent (the other L1000 I +am to have on Thursday next), which I carried by coach to the Exchequer, +and put it up in a chest in Spicer's office. From thence walked to my +father's, where I found my wife, who had been with my father to-day, +buying of a tablecloth and a dozen of napkins of diaper the first that +ever I bought in my life. My father and I took occasion to go forth, and +went and drank at Mr. Standing's, and there discoursed seriously about +my sister's coming to live with me, which I have much mind for her good +to have, and yet I am much afeard of her ill-nature. Coming home again, +he and I, and my wife, my mother and Pall, went all together into the +little room, and there I told her plainly what my mind was, to have +her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant, which she +promised me that she would, and with many thanks did weep for joy, which +did give me and my wife some content and satisfaction. So by coach home +and to bed. The last night I should have mentioned how my wife and I +were troubled all night with the sound of drums in our ears, which in +the morning we found to be Mr. Davys's jack, + + [The date of the origin of smoke jacks does not appear to be known, + but the first patent taken out for an improved smoke-jack by Peter + Clare is dated December 24th, 1770. The smoke jack consists of a + wind-wheel fixed in the chimney, which communicates motion by means + of an endless band to a pulley, whence the motion is transmitted to + the spit by gearing. In the valuable introduction to the volume of + "Abridgments of Specifications relating to Cooking, 1634-1866" + (Patent Office), mention is made of an Italian work by Bartolomeo + Scappi, published first at Rome in 1572, and afterwards reprinted at + Venice in 1622, which gives a complete account of the kitchens of + the time and the utensils used in them. In the plates several + roasting-jacks are represented, one worked by smoke or hot air and + one by a spring.] + +but not knowing the cause of its going all night, I understand to-day +that they have had a great feast to-day. + +13th. Early going to my Lord's I met with Mr. Moore, who was going to my +house, and indeed I found him to be a most careful, painful,--[Painful, +i.e. painstaking or laborious. Latimer speaks of the "painful +magistrates."]--and able man in business, and took him by water to the +Wardrobe, and shewed him all the house; and indeed there is a great deal +of room in it, but very ugly till my Lord hath bestowed great cost upon +it. So to the Exchequer, and there took Spicer and his fellow clerks +to the Dog tavern, and did give them a peck of oysters, and so home to +dinner, where I found my wife making of pies and tarts to try, her oven +with, which she has never yet done, but not knowing the nature of it, +did heat it too hot, and so a little overbake her things, but knows how +to do better another time. At home all the afternoon. At night made up +my accounts of my sea expenses in order to my clearing off my imprest +bill of L30 which I had in my hands at the beginning of my voyage; which +I intend to shew to my Lord to-morrow. To bed. + +14th (Office day). But this day was the first that we do begin to sit +in the afternoon, and not in the forenoon, and therefore I went into +Cheapside to Mr. Beauchamp's, the goldsmith, to look out a piece of +plate to give Mr. Fox from my Lord, for his favour about the L4,000, +and did choose a gilt tankard. So to Paul's Churchyard and bought +"Cornelianum dolium:" + + ["Cornelianum dolium" is a Latin comedy, by T. R., published at + London in 1638. Douce attributed it to Thomas Randolph (d. 1635). + The book has a frontispiece representing the sweating tub which, + from the name of the patient, was styled Cornelius's tub. There is + a description of the play in the "European Magazine," vol. xxxvii. + (1805), p. 343] + +So home to dinner, and after that to the office till late at night, and +so Sir W. Pen, the Comptroller, and I to the Dolphin, where we found Sir +W. Batten, who is seldom a night from hence, and there we did drink +a great quantity of sack and did tell many merry stories, and in good +humours we were all. So home and to bed. + +15th. To Westminster, and it being very cold upon the water I went all +alone to the Sun and drank a draft of mulled white wine, and so to Mr. +de Cretz, whither I sent for J. Spicer (to appoint him to expect me this +afternoon at the office, with the other L1000 from Whitehall), and +here we staid and did see him give some finishing touches to my Lord's +picture, so at last it is complete to my mind, and I leave mine with him +to copy out another for himself, and took the original by a porter with +me to my Lord's, where I found my Lord within, and staid hearing him and +Mr. Child playing upon my Lord's new organ, the first time I ever heard +it. My Lord did this day show me the King's picture, which was done in +Flanders, that the King did promise my Lord before he ever saw him, and +that we did expect to have had at sea before the King came to us; but +it came but to-day, and indeed it is the most pleasant and the most like +him that ever I saw picture in my life. As dinner was coming on table, +my wife came to my Lord's, and I got her carried in to my Lady, who took +physic to-day, and was just now hiring of a French maid that was with +her, and they could not understand one another till my wife came to +interpret. Here I did leave my wife to dine with my Lord, the first time +he ever did take notice of her as my wife, and did seem to have a just +esteem for her. And did myself walk homewards (hearing that Sir W. Pen +was gone before in a coach) to overtake him and with much ado at last +did in Fleet Street, and there I went in to him, and there was Sir +Arnold Brames, and we all three to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, he having +a couple of Servants married to-day; and so there was a great number of +merchants, and others of good quality on purpose after dinner to make +an offering, which, when dinner was done, we did, and I did give ten +shillings and no more, though I believe most of the rest did give more, +and did believe that I did so too. From thence to Whitehall again by +water to Mr. Fox and by two porters carried away the other L1000. He was +not within himself, but I had it of his kinsman, and did give him L4. +and other servants something; but whereas I did intend to have given Mr. +Fox himself a piece of plate of L50 I was demanded L100, for the fee of +the office at 6d. a pound, at which I was surprised, but, however, I +did leave it there till I speak with my Lord. So I carried it to the +Exchequer, where at Will's I found Mr. Spicer, and so lodged it at his +office with the rest. From thence after a pot of ale at Will's I took +boat in the dark and went for all that to the old Swan, and so to Sir +Wm. Batten's, and leaving some of the gallants at cards I went home, +where I found my wife much satisfied with my Lord's discourse and +respect to her, and so after prayers to bed. + +16th. Up early to my father's, where by appointment Mr. Moore came to +me, and he and I to the Temple, and thence to Westminster Hall to speak +with Mr. Wm. Montagu about his looking upon the title of those lands +which I do take as security for L3000 of my Lord's money. That being +done Mr. Moore and I parted, and in the Hall I met with Mr. Fontleroy +(my old acquaintance, whom I had not seen a long time), and he and I to +the Swan, and in discourse he seems to be wise and say little, though I +know things are changed against his mind. Thence home by water, where my +father, Mr. Snow, and Mr. Moore did dine with me. After dinner Mr. Snow +and I went up together to discourse about the putting out of L80 to a +man who lacks the money and would give me L15 per annum for 8 years +for it, which I did not think profit enough, and so he seemed to be +disappointed by my refusal of it, but I would not now part with my money +easily. He seems to do it as a great favour to me to offer to come in +upon a way of getting of money, which they call Bottomry, + + ["The contract of bottomry is a negotiable instrument, which may be + put in suit by the person to whom it is transferred; it is in use in + all countries of maritime commerce and interests. A contract in the + nature of a mortgage of a ship, when the owner of it borrows money + to enable him to carry on the voyage, and pledges the keel or bottom + of the ship as a security for the repayment. If the ship be lost + the lender loses his whole money; but if it returns in safety, then + he shall receive back his principal, and also the premium stipulated + to be paid, however it may exceed the usual or legal rate of + interest."--Smyth's "Sailor's Word Book".] + +which I do not yet understand, but do believe there may be something in +it of great profit. After we were parted I went to the office, and there +we sat all the afternoon, and at night we went to a barrel of oysters +at Sir W. Batten's, and so home, and I to the setting of my papers in +order, which did keep me up late. So to bed. + +17th. In the morning to Whitehall, where I inquired at the Privy +Seal Office for a form for a nobleman to make one his Chaplain. But I +understanding that there is not any, I did draw up one, and so to my +Lord's, and there I did give him it to sign for Mr. Turner to be his +first Chaplain. I did likewise get my Lord to sign my last sea accounts, +so that I am even to this day when I have received the balance of Mr. +Creed. I dined with my Lady and my Lady Pickering, where her son John +dined with us, who do continue a fool as he ever was since I knew him. +His mother would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Betty +but he will not hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who tells +me that the Regiment is now disbanded, and that there is some money +coming to me for it. I took him to my Lord to Mr. Crew's, and from +thence with Mr. Shepley and Mr. Moore to the Devil Tavern, and there we +drank. So home and wrote letters by the post. Then to my lyra viall, + + [The lyre viol is a viol with extra open bass strings, holding the + same relation to the viol as the theorbo does to the lute. A volume + entitled "Musick's Recreation on the Lyra Viol," was printed by John + Playford in 1650.] + +and to bed. + +18th (Lord's day). In the morning to our own church, Where Mr. Powel (a +crook legged man that went formerly with me to Paul's School), preached +a good sermon. In the afternoon to our own church and my wife with me +(the first time that she and my Lady Batten came to sit in our new pew), +and after sermon my Lady took us home and there we supped with her and +Sir W. Batten, and Pen, and were much made of. The first time that ever +my wife was there. So home and to bed. + +19th (Office day). After we had done a little at the office this +morning, I went with the Treasurer in his coach to White Hall, and in +our way, in discourse, do find him a very good-natured man; and, talking +of those men who now stand condemned for murdering the King, he says +that he believes that, if the law would give leave, the King is a man of +so great compassion that he would wholly acquit them. Going to my Lord's +I met with Mr. Shepley, and so he and I to the Sun, and I did give him a +morning draft of Muscadine. + + [Muscadine or muscadel, a rich sort of wine. 'Vinum muscatum quod + moschi odorem referat.' + + "Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops + All in the sexton's face." + + Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii. SC. 2.--M. B.] + +And so to see my Lord's picture at De Cretz, and he says it is very like +him, and I say so too. After that to Westminster Hall, and there hearing +that Sir W. Batten was at the Leg in the Palace, I went thither, and +there dined with him and some of the Trinity House men who had obtained +something to-day at the House of Lords concerning the Ballast Office. +After dinner I went by water to London to the Globe in Cornhill, and +there did choose two pictures to hang up in my house, which my wife +did not like when I came home, and so I sent the picture of Paris back +again. To the office, where we sat all the afternoon till night. So +home, and there came Mr. Beauchamp to me with the gilt tankard, and I +did pay him for it L20. So to my musique and sat up late at it, and so +to bed, leaving my wife to sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the +wench up to wash. + +20th. About two o'clock my wife wakes me, and comes to bed, and so both +to sleep and the wench to wash. I rose and with Will to my Lord's by +land, it being a very hard frost, the first we have had this year. There +I staid with my Lord and Mr. Shepley, looking over my Lord's accounts +and to set matters straight between him and Shepley, and he did commit +the viewing of these accounts to me, which was a great joy to me to see +that my Lord do look upon me as one to put trust in. Hence to the organ, +where Mr. Child and one Mr Mackworth (who plays finely upon the violin) +were playing, and so we played till dinner and then dined, where my Lord +in a very good humour and kind to me. After dinner to the Temple, where +I met Mr. Moore and discoursed with him about the business of putting +out my Lord's L3000, and that done, Mr. Shepley and I to the new +Play-house near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon's +tennis-court), where the play of "Beggar's Bush" was newly begun; and so +we went in and saw it, it was well acted: and here I saw the first time +one Moone, + + [Michael Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had borne a + major's commission in the King's army. The period of his death is + uncertain, but he is known to have been dead in 1691. Downes + relates that an eminent poet [Lee] seeing him act Mithridates + "vented suddenly this saying: 'Oh, Mohun, Mohun, thou little man of + mettle, if I should write a 100, I'd write a part for thy mouth.'" + --Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17.] + +who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over with the +King, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was +in England. From thence, after a pot of ale with Mr. Shepley at a house +hard by, I went by link home, calling a little by the way at my father's +and my uncle Fenner's, where all pretty well, and so home, where I found +the house in a washing pickle, and my wife in a very joyful condition +when I told her that she is to see the Queen next Thursday, which puts +me in mind to say that this morning I found my Lord in bed late, he +having been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the Cockpit + + [The Cockpit at Whitehall. The plays at the Cockpit in Drury Lane + were acted in the afternoon.] + +all night, where. General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, +where the King did put a great affront upon Singleton's' musique, he +bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, +do much outdo all ours. But while my Lord was rising, I went to Mr. +Fox's, and there did leave the gilt tankard for Mrs. Fox, and then to +the counting-house to him, who hath invited me and my wife to dine with +him on Thursday next, and so to see the Queen and Princesses. + +21st. Lay long in bed. This morning my cozen Thomas Pepys, the turner, +sent me a cupp of lignum vitae + + [A hard, compact, black-green wood, obtained from 'Guaiacum + offcinale', from which pestles, ship-blocks, rollers, castors, &c., + are turned.] + +for a token. This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and +there we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate. And +after that we went to Mr. Cade's' to choose some pictures for our house. +After that my wife went home, and I to Pope's Head, and bought me an +aggate hafted knife, which cost me 5s. So home to dinner, and so to the +office all the afternoon, and at night to my viallin (the first time +that I have played on it since I came to this house) in my dining room, +and afterwards to my lute there, and I took much pleasure to have the +neighbours come forth into the yard to hear me. So down to supper, and +sent for the barber, who staid so long with me that he was locked into +the house, and we were fain to call up Griffith, to let him out. So up +to bed, leaving my wife to wash herself, and to do other things against +to-morrow to go to court. + +22d. This morning came the carpenters to make me a door at the other +side of my house, going into the entry, which I was much pleased with. +At noon my wife and I walked to the Old Exchange, and there she bought +her a white whisk + + [A gorget or neckerchief worn by women at this time. "A woman's + neck whisk is used both plain and laced, and is called of most a + gorget or falling whisk, because it falleth about the shoulders." + --Randle Hohnt (quoted by Planche).] + +and put it on, and I a pair of gloves, and so we took coach for +Whitehall to Mr. Fox's, where we found Mrs. Fox within, and an alderman +of London paying L1000 or L1500 in gold upon the table for the King, +which was the most gold that ever I saw together in my life. Mr. Fox +came in presently and did receive us with a great deal of respect; and +then did take my wife and I to the Queen's presence-chamber; where he +got my wife placed behind the Queen's chair, and I got into the crowd, +and by and by the Queen and the two Princesses came to dinner. The Queen +a very little plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any +respect nor garb than any ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I had +often seen before. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below +my expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short +up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me. But my wife +standing near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, +did seem to me much handsomer than she. Dinner being done, we went to +Mr. Fox's again, where many gentlemen dined with us, and most princely +dinner, all provided for me and my friends, but I bringing none but +myself and wife, he did call the company to help to eat up so much good +victuals. At the end of dinner, my Lord Sandwich's health was drunk in +the gilt tankard that I did give to Mrs. Fox the other day. After dinner +I had notice given me by Will my man that my Lord did inquire for me, +so I went to find him, and met him and the Duke of York in a coach going +towards Charing Cross. I endeavoured to follow them but could not, so +I returned to Mr. Fox, and after much kindness and good discourse we +parted from thence. I took coach for my wife and me homewards, and I +light at the Maypole in the Strand, and sent my wife home. I to the new +playhouse and saw part of the "Traitor," a very good Tragedy; Mr. Moon +did act the Traitor very well. So to my Lord's, and sat there with my +Lady a great while talking. Among other things, she took occasion to +inquire (by Madame Dury's late discourse with her) how I did treat my +wife's father and mother. At which I did give her a good account, and +she seemed to be very well opinioned of my wife. From thence to White +Hall at about 9 at night, and there, with Laud the page that went with +me, we could not get out of Henry the Eighth's gallery into the further +part of the boarded gallery, where my Lord was walking with my Lord +Ormond; and we had a key of Sir S. Morland's, but all would not do; till +at last, by knocking, Mr. Harrison the door-keeper did open us the door, +and, after some talk with my Lord about getting a catch to carry my Lord +St. Albans a goods to France, I parted and went home on foot, it being +very late and dirty, and so weary to bed. + +23rd. This morning standing looking upon the workmen doing of my new +door to my house, there comes Captain Straughan the Scot (to whom the +King has given half of the money that the two ships lately sold do +bring), and he would needs take me to the Dolphin, and give me a glass +of ale and a peck of oysters, he and I. He did talk much what he is able +to advise the King for good husbandry in his ships, as by ballasting +them with lead ore and many other tricks, but I do believe that he is a +knowing man in sea-business. Home and dined, and in the afternoon to the +office, where till late, and that being done Mr. Creed did come to speak +with me, and I took him to the Dolphin, where there was Mr. Pierce the +purser and his wife and some friends of theirs. So I did spend a crown +upon them behind the bar, they being akin to the people of the house, +and this being the house where Mr. Pierce was apprentice. After they +were gone Mr. Creed and I spent an hour in looking over the account +which he do intend to pass in our office for his lending moneys, which +I did advise about and approve or disapprove of as I saw cause. After +an hour being, serious at this we parted about 11 o'clock at night. So I +home and to bed, leaving my wife and the maid at their linen to get up. + +24th. To my Lord's, where after I had done talking with him Mr. +Townsend, Rumball, Blackburn, Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenish +winehouse, and there I did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine, + + [Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is celebrated for its intensely + bitter, tonic, and stimulating qualities, which have caused it to be + used in various medicinal preparations, and also in the making of + liqueurs, as wormwood wine and creme d'absinthe.] + +and so we broke up. So we parted, and I and Mr. Creed to Westminster +Hall and looked over a book or two, and so to my Lord's, where I dined +with my lady, there being Mr. Child and Mrs. Borfett, who are never +absent at dinner there, under pretence of a wooing. From thence I to Mr. +de Cretz and did take away my Lord's picture, which is now finished for +me, and I paid L3 10s. for it and the frame, and am well pleased with it +and the price. So carried it home by water, Will being with me. At home, +and had a fire made in my closet, and put my papers and books and things +in order, and that being done I fell to entering these two good songs of +Mr. Lawes, "Helpe, helpe, O helpe," and "O God of Heaven and Hell" in my +song book, to which I have got Mr. Child to set the base to the Theorbo, +and that done to bed. + +25th (Lord's day). In the forenoon I alone to our church, and after +dinner I went and ranged about to many churches, among the rest to the +Temple, where I heard Dr. Wilkins' a little (late Maister of Trinity +in Cambridge). That being done to my father's to see my mother who is +troubled much with the stone, and that being done I went home, where I +had a letter brought me from my Lord to get a ship ready to carry the +Queen's things over to France, she being to go within five or six days. +So to supper and to bed. + +26th (Office day). To it all the morning, and dined at home where my +father come and dined with me, who seems to take much pleasure to have +a son that is neat in his house. I being now making my new door into the +entry, which he do please himself much with. After dinner to the office +again, and there till night. And that being done the Comptroller and +I to the Mitre to a glass of wine, when we fell into a discourse of +poetry, and he did repeat some verses of his own making which were very +good. Home, there hear that my Lady Batten had given my wife a visit +(the first that ever she made her), which pleased me exceedingly. So +after supper to bed. + +27th. To Whitehall, where I found my Lord gone abroad to the Wardrobe, +whither he do now go every other morning, and do seem to resolve +to understand and look after the business himself. From thence to +Westminster Hall, and in King Street there being a great stop of +coaches, there was a falling out between a drayman and my Lord +Chesterfield's coachman, and one of his footmen killed. At the Hall I +met with Mr. Creed, and he and I to Hell to drink our morning draught, +and so to my Lord's again, where I found my wife, and she and I dined +with him and my Lady, and great company of my Lord's friends, and my +Lord did show us great respect. Soon as dinner was done my wife took +her leave, and went with Mr. Blackburne and his wife to London to a +christening of a Brother's child of his on Tower Hill, and I to a play, +"The Scorn-full Lady," and that being done, I went homewards, and met +Mr. Moore, who had been at my house, and took him to my father's, and we +three to Standing's to drink. Here Mr. Moore told me how the House had +this day voted the King to have all the Excise for ever. This day I do +also hear that the Queen's going to France is stopt, which do like, me +well, because then the King will be in town the next month, which is my +month again at the Privy Seal. From thence home, where when I come I +do remember that I did leave my boy Waineman at Whitehall with order to +stay there for me in the court, at which I was much troubled, but about +11 o'clock at night the boy came home well, and so we all to bed. + +28th. This morning went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where Major Hart did +pay me; L23 14s. 9d., due to me upon my pay in my Lord's troop at the +time of our disbanding, which is a great blessing to have without taking +any law in the world for. But now I must put an end to any hopes of +getting any more, so that I bless God for this. From thence with Mr. +Shepley and Pinkney to the Sun, and did give them a glass of wine and a +peck of oysters for joy of my getting this money. So home, where I +found that Mr. Creed had sent me the L11 5s. that is due to me upon +the remains of account for my sea business, which is also so much clear +money to me, and my bill of impresse + + [For "bill of impress" In Italian 'imprestare' means "to lend." In + the ancient accounts of persons officially employed by the crown, + money advanced, paid on, account, was described as "de prestito," or + "in prestitis."--M. B.] + +for L30 is also cleared, so that I am wholly clear as to the sea in all +respects. To the office, and was there till late at night, and among +the officers do hear that they may have our salaries allowed by the +Treasurer, which do make me very glad, and praise God for it. Home to +supper, and Mr. Hater supped with me, whom I did give order to take up +my money of the Treasurer to-morrow if it can be had. So to bed. + +29th. In the morning seeing a great deal of foul water come into my +parlour from under the partition between me and Mr. Davis, I did step +thither to him and tell him of it, and he did seem very ready to have +it stopt, and did also tell me how thieves did attempt to rob his house +last night, which do make us all afraid. This noon I being troubled that +the workmen that I have to do my door were called to Mr. Davis's away, +I sent for them, when Mr. Davis sent to inquire a reason of, and I did +give him a good one, that they were come on purpose to do some work with +me that they had already begun, with which he was well pleased, and I +glad, being unwilling to anger them. In the afternoon Sir W. Batten and +I met and did sell the ship Church for L440; and we asked L391, and that +being done, I went home, and Dr. Petty came to me about Mr. Barlow's +money, and I being a little troubled to be so importuned before I had +received it, and that they would have it stopt in Mr. Fenn's hands, I +did force the Doctor to go fetch the letter of attorney that he had to +receive it only to make him same labour, which he did bring, and Mr. +Hales came along with him from the Treasury with my money for the first +quarter (Michaelmas last) that ever I received for this employment. So I +paid the Dr. L25 and had L62 10s. for myself, and L7 10s. to myself also +for Will's salary, which I do intend yet to keep for myself. With this +my heart is much rejoiced, and do bless Almighty God that he is pleased +to send so sudden and unexpected payment of my salary so soon after my +great disbursements. So that now I am worth L200 again. In a great +ease of mind and spirit I fell about the auditing of Mr. Shepley's last +accounts with my Lord by my Lord's desire, and about that I sat till +12 o'clock at night, till I began to doze, and so to bed, with my heart +praising God for his mercy to us. + +30th (Office day). To the office, where Sir G. Carteret did give us an +account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the Parliament to try +his project of discharging the seamen all at present by ticket, and so +promise interest to all men that will lend money upon them at eight per +cent., for so long as they are unpaid; whereby he do think to take away +the growing debt, which do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of present +money to discharge the seamen. But this we are, troubled at as some +diminution to us. I having two barrels of oysters at home, I caused one +of them and some wine to be brought to the inner room in the office, and +there the Principal Officers did go and eat them. So we sat till noon, +and then to dinner, and to it again in the afternoon till night. At +home I sent for Mr. Hater, and broke the other barrel with him, and did +afterwards sit down discoursing of sea terms to learn of him. And he +being gone I went up and sat till twelve at night again to make an end +of my Lord's accounts, as I did the last night. Which at last I made a +good end of, and so to bed. + + + + +DECEMBER 1660 + +December 1st. This morning, observing some things to be laid up not as +they should be by the girl, I took a broom and basted her till she +cried extremely, which made me vexed, but before I went out I left her +appeased. So to Whitehall, where I found Mr. Moore attending for me at +the Privy Seal, but nothing to do to-day. I went to my Lord St. Albans +lodgings, and found him in bed, talking to a priest (he looked like one) +that leaned along over the side of the bed, and there I desired to know +his mind about making the catch stay longer, which I got ready for him +the other day. He seems to be a fine civil gentleman. To my Lord's, and +did give up my audit of his accounts, which I had been then two days +about, and was well received by my Lord. I dined with my Lord and Lady, +and we had a venison pasty. Mr. Shepley and I went into London, and +calling upon Mr. Pinkney, the goldsmith, he took us to the tavern, and +gave us a pint of wine, and there fell into our company old Mr. Flower +and another gentleman; who tell us how a Scotch knight was killed basely +the other day at the Fleece in Covent Garden, where there had been a +great many formerly killed. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there I took +the little man at Mr. Kirton's and Mr. Shepley to Ringstead's at the +Star, and after a pint of wine I went home, my brains somewhat troubled +with so much wine, and after a letter or two by the post I went to bed. + +2d (Lord's day). My head not very well, and my body out of order by last +night's drinking, which is my great folly. To church, and Mr. Mills made +a good sermon; so home to dinner. My wife and I all alone to a leg of +mutton, the sawce of which being made sweet, I was angry at it, and eat +none, but only dined upon the marrow bone that we had beside. To church +in the afternoon, and after sermon took Tom Fuller's Church History and +read over Henry the 8th's life in it, and so to supper and to bed. + +3rd. This morning I took a resolution to rise early in the morning, and +so I rose by candle, which I have not done all this winter, and spent my +morning in fiddling till time to go to the office, where Sir G. Carteret +did begin again discourse on Mr. Holland's proposition, which the King +do take very ill, and so Sir George in lieu of that do propose that the +seamen should have half in ready money and tickets for the other half, +to be paid in three months after, which we judge to be very practicable. +After office home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by chance, and +I had a very good capon to dinner. So to the office till night, and so +home, and then come Mr. Davis, of Deptford (the first time that ever +he was at my house), and after him Mons. L'Impertinent, who is to go to +Ireland to-morrow, and so came to take his leave of me. They both found +me under the barber's hand; but I had a bottle of good sack in the +house, and so made them very welcome. Mr. Davis sat with me a good while +after the other was gone, talking of his hard usage and of the endeavour +to put him out of his place in the time of the late Commissioners, and +he do speak very highly of their corruption. After he was gone I fell +a reading 'Cornelianum dolium' till 11 o'clock at night with great +pleasure, and after that to bed. + +4th. To Whitehall to Sir G. Carteret's chamber, where all the officers +met, and so we went up to the Duke of York, and he took us into his +closet, and we did open to him our project of stopping the growing +charge of the fleet by paying them in hand one moyety, and the other +four months hence. This he do like, and we returned by his order to Sir +G. Carteret's chamber, and there we did draw up this design in order to +be presented to the Parliament. From thence I to my Lord's, and dined +with him and told him what we had done to-day. Sir Tho. Crew dined with +my Lord to-day, and we were very merry with Mrs. Borfett, who dined +there still as she has always done lately. After dinner Sir Tho. and my +Lady to the Playhouse to see "The Silent Woman." I home by water, and +with Mr. Hater in my chamber all alone he and I did put this morning's +design into order, which being done I did carry it to Sir W. Batten, +where I found some gentlemen with him (Sir W. Pen among the rest pretty +merry with drink) playing at cards, and there I staid looking upon them +till one o'clock in the morning, and so Sir W. Pen and I went away, +and I to bed. This day the Parliament voted that the bodies of Oliver, +Ireton, Bradshaw, &c., should be taken up out of their graves in the +Abbey, and drawn to the gallows, and there hanged and buried under it: +which (methinks) do trouble me that a man of so great courage as he was, +should have that dishonour, though otherwise he might deserve it enough. + +5th. This morning the Proposal which I wrote the last night I showed to +the officers this morning, and was well liked of, and I wrote it fair +for Sir. G. Carteret to show to the King, and so it is to go to the +Parliament. I dined at home, and after dinner I went to the new Theatre +and there I saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor" acted, the humours of the +country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but +very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe t as bad as any. From thence to Mr. +Will. Montagu's chamber to have sealed some writings tonight between Sir +R. Parkhurst and myself about my Lord's L2000, but he not coming, I went +to my father's and there found my mother still ill of the stone, and +had just newly voided one, which she had let drop into the chimney, and +looked and found it to shew it me. From thence home and to bed. + +6th. This morning some of the Commissioners of Parliament and Sir W. +Batten went to Sir G. Carteret's office here in town, and paid off the +Chesnut. I carried my wife to White Friars and landed her there, and +myself to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, where abundance of pardons to +seal, but I was much troubled for it because that there are no fees now +coming for them to me. Thence Mr. Moore and I alone to the Leg in King +Street, and dined together on a neat's tongue and udder. From thence +by coach to Mr. Crew's to my Lord, who told me of his going out of town +to-morrow to settle the militia in Huntingdonshire, and did desire me to +lay up a box of some rich jewels and things that there are in it, which +I promised to do. After much free discourse with my Lord, who tells me +his mind as to his enlarging his family, &c., and desiring me to look +him out a Master of the Horse and other servants, we parted. From thence +I walked to Greatorex (he was not within), but there I met with Mr. +Jonas Moore, + + [Jonas Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617, + and was appointed by Charles I. tutor to the Duke of York. Soon + after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor-General of + the Ordnance. He was famous as a mathematician, and was one of the + founders of the Royal Society. He died August 27th, 1679, and at + his funeral sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower.] + +and took him to the Five Bells,' and drank a glass of wine and left him. +To the Temple, when Sir R. Parkhurst (as was intended the last night) +did seal the writings, and is to have the L2000 told to-morrow. From, +thence by water to Parliament Stairs, and there at an alehouse to Doling +(who is suddenly to go into Ireland to venture his fortune); Simonds +(who is at a great loss for L200 present money, which I was loth to let +him have, though I could now do it, and do love him and think him honest +and sufficient, yet lothness to part with money did dissuade me from +it); Luellin (who was very drowsy from a dose that he had got the last +night), Mr. Mount and several others, among the rest one Mr. Pierce, +an army man, who did make us the best sport for songs and stories in +a Scotch tone (which he do very well) that ever I heard in my life. I +never knew so good a companion in all my observation. From thence to +the bridge by water, it being a most pleasant moonshine night, with +a waterman who did tell such a company of bawdy stories, how once he +carried a lady from Putney in such a night as this, and she bade him lie +down by her, which he did, and did give her content, and a great deal +more roguery. Home and found my girl knocking at the door (it being 11 +o'clock at night), her mistress having sent her out for some trivial +business, which did vex me when I came in, and so I took occasion to go +up and to bed in a pet. Before I went forth this morning, one came to +me to give me notice that the justices of Middlesex do meet to-morrow +at Hicks Hall, and that I as one am desired to be there, but I fear I +cannot be there though I much desire it. + +7th. This morning the judge Advocate Fowler came to see me, and he and +I sat talking till it was time to go to the office. To the office and +there staid till past 12 o'clock, and so I left the Comptroller and +Surveyor and went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found my Lord gone +this morning to Huntingdon, as he told me yesterday he would. I staid +and dined with my Lady, there being Laud the page's mother' there, and +dined also with us, and seemed to have been a very pretty woman and of +good discourse. Before dinner I examined Laud in his Latin and found him +a very pretty boy and gone a great way in Latin. After dinner I took a +box of some things of value that my Lord had left for me to carry to the +Exchequer, which I did, and left them with my Brother Spicer, who also +had this morning paid L1000 for me by appointment to Sir R. Parkhurst. +So to the Privy Seal, where I signed a deadly number of pardons, which +do trouble me to get nothing by. Home by water, and there was much +pleased to see that my little room is likely to come to be finished +soon. I fell a-reading Fuller's History of Abbys, and my wife in Great +Cyrus till twelve at night, and so to bed. + +8th. To Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and thence to Mr. Pierces the +Surgeon to tell them that I would call by and by to go to dinner. But I +going into Westminster Hall met with Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen (who +were in a great fear that we had committed a great error of L100,000 in +our late account gone into the Parliament in making it too little), and +so I was fain to send order to Mr. Pierces to come to my house; and also +to leave the key of the chest with Mr. Spicer; wherein my Lord's money +is, and went along with Sir W. Pen by water to the office, and there +with Mr. Huchinson we did find that we were in no mistake. And so I +went to dinner with my wife and Mr. and Mrs. Pierce the Surgeon to Mr. +Pierce, the Purser (the first time that ever I was at his house) who +does live very plentifully and finely. We had a lovely chine of beef and +other good things very complete and drank a great deal of wine, and her +daughter played after dinner upon the virginals, + + [All instruments of the harpsichord and spinet kind were styled + virginals.] + +and at night by lanthorn home again, and Mr. Pierce and his wife being +gone home I went to bed, having drunk so much wine that my head was +troubled and was not very well all night, and the wind I observed was +rose exceedingly before I went to bed. + +9th (Lord's day). Being called up early by Sir W. Batten I rose and went +to his house and he told me the ill news that he had this morning from +Woolwich, that the Assurance (formerly Captain Holland's ship, and now +Captain Stoakes's, designed for Guiny and manned and victualled), was by +a gust of wind sunk down to the bottom. Twenty men drowned. Sir Williams +both went by barge thither to see how things are, and I am sent to the +Duke of York to tell him, and by boat with some other company going to +Whitehall from the Old Swan. I went to the Duke. And first calling upon +Mr. Coventry at his chamber, I went to the Duke's bed-side, who had sat +up late last night, and lay long this morning, who was much surprised, +therewith. This being done I went to chappell, and sat in Mr. Blagrave's +pew, and there did sing my part along with another before the King, and +with much ease. From thence going to my Lady I met with a letter from +my Lord (which Andrew had been at my house to bring me and missed me), +commanding me to go to Mr. Denham, to get a man to go to him to-morrow +to Hinchinbroke, to contrive with him about some alterations in his +house, which I did and got Mr. Kennard. Dined with my Lady and staid all +the afternoon with her, and had infinite of talk of all kind of things, +especially of beauty of men and women, with which she seems to be much +pleased to talk of. From thence at night to Mr. Kennard and took him to +Mr. Denham, the Surveyor's. Where, while we could not speak with him, +his chief man (Mr. Cooper) did give us a cup of good sack. From thence +with Mr. Kennard to my Lady who is much pleased with him, and after a +glass of sack there; we parted, having taken order for a horse or two +for him and his servant to be gone to-morrow. So to my father's, where +I sat while they were at supper, and I found my mother below, stairs +and pretty well. Thence home, where I hear that the Comptroller had some +business with me, and (with Giffin's lanthorn) I went to him and there +staid in discourse an hour 'till late, and among other things he showed +me a design of his, by the King's making an Order of Knights of the Seal +to give an encouragement for persons of honour to undertake the service +of the sea, and he had done it with great pains and very ingeniously. So +home and to prayers and to bed. + +10th. Up exceedingly early to go to the Comptroller, but he not being +up and it being a very fine, bright, moonshine morning I went and walked +all alone twenty turns in Cornhill, from Gracious Street corner to the +Stockes and back again, from 6 o'clock till past 7, so long that I was +weary, and going to the Comptroller's thinking to find him ready, I +found him gone, at which I was troubled, and being weary went home, +and from thence with my wife by water to Westminster, and put her to my +father Bowyer's (they being newly come out of the country), but I could +not stay there, but left her there. I to the Hall and there met with +Col. Slingsby. So hearing that the Duke of York is gone down this +morning, to see the ship sunk yesterday at Woolwich, he and I returned +by his coach to the office, and after that to dinner. After dinner he +came to me again and sat with me at my house, ands among other discourse +he told me that it is expected that the Duke will marry the Lord +Chancellor's daughter at last which is likely to be the ruin of Mr. +Davis and my Lord Barkley, who have carried themselves so high against +the Chancellor; Sir Chas. Barkley swearing that he and others had lain +with her often, which all believe to be a lie. He and I in the evening +to the Coffee House in Cornhill, the first time that ever I was there, +and I found much pleasure in it, through the diversity of company and +discourse. Home and found my wife at my Lady Batten's, and have made a +bargain to go see the ship sunk at Woolwich, where both the Sir Williams +are still since yesterday, and I do resolve to go along with them. From +thence home and up to bed, having first been into my study, and to ease +my mind did go to cast up how my cash stands, and I do find as near as I +can that I am worth in money clear L240, for which God be praised. This +afternoon there was a couple of men with me with a book in each of their +hands, demanding money for pollmoney, + + [Pepys seems to have been let off very easily, for, by Act of + Parliament 18 Car. II. cap. I (1666), servants were to pay one + shilling in the pound of their wages, and others from one shilling + to three shillings in the pound.] + +and I overlooked the book and saw myself set down Samuel Pepys, gent. +10s. for himself and for his servants 2s., which I did presently pay +without any dispute, but I fear I have not escaped so, and therefore +I have long ago laid by L10 for them, but I think I am not bound to +discover myself. + +11th. My wife and I up very early this day, and though the weather was +very bad and the wind high, yet my Lady Batten and her maid and we two +did go by our barge to Woolwich (my Lady being very fearfull) where we +found both Sir Williams and much other company, expecting the weather +to be better, that they might go about weighing up the Assurance, +which lies there (poor ship, that I have been twice merry in, in Captn. +Holland's time,) under water, only the upper deck may be seen and the +masts. Captain Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search for some +clothes and money of his, which he says he hath lost out of his cabin. +I did the first office of a justice of Peace to examine a seaman +thereupon, but could find no reason to commit him. This last tide the +Kingsale was also run aboard and lost her mainmast, by another ship, +which makes us think it ominous to the Guiny voyage, to have two of +her ships spoilt before they go out. After dinner, my Lady being very +fearfull she staid and kept my wife there, and I and another gentleman, +a friend of Sir W. Pen's, went back in the barge, very merry by the +way, as far as Whitehall in her. To the Privy Seal, where I signed +many pardons and some few things else. From thence Mr. Moore and I into +London to a tavern near my house, and there we drank and discoursed of +ways how to put out a little money to the best advantage, and at present +he has persuaded me to put out L250 for L50 per annum for eight years, +and I think I shall do it. Thence home, where I found the wench washing, +and I up to my study, and there did make up an even L100, and sealed it +to lie by. After that to bed. + +12th. Troubled with the absence of my wife. This morning I went (after +the Comptroller and I had sat an hour at the office) to Whitehall +to dine with my Lady, and after dinner to the Privy Seal and sealed +abundance of pardons and little else. From thence to the Exchequer and +did give my mother Bowyer a visit and her daughters, the first time that +I have seen them since I went last to sea. From thence up with J. Spicer +to his office and took L100, and by coach with it as far as my father's, +where I called to see them, and my father did offer me six pieces of +gold, in lieu of six pounds that he borrowed of me the other day, but +it went against me to take it of him and therefore did not, though I was +afterwards a little troubled that I did not. Thence home, and took out +this L100 and sealed it up with the other last night, it being the first +L200 that ever I saw together of my own in my life. For which God be +praised. So to my Lady Batten, and sat an hour or two, and talked with +her daughter and people in the absence of her father and mother and my +wife to pass away the time. After that home and to bed, reading myself +asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside. + +13th. All the day long looking upon my workmen who this day began to +paint my parlour. Only at noon my Lady Batten and my wife came home, +and so I stepped to my Lady's, where were Sir John Lawson and Captain +Holmes, and there we dined and had very good red wine of my Lady's own +making in England. + +14th. Also all this day looking upon my workmen. Only met with the +Comptroller at the office a little both forenoon and afternoon, and at +night step a little with him to the Coffee House where we light upon +very good company and had very good discourse concerning insects and +their having a generative faculty as well as other creatures. This +night in discourse the Comptroller told me among other persons that were +heretofore the principal officers of the Navy, there was one Sir Peter +Buck, a Clerk of the Acts, of which to myself I was not a little proud. + +15th. All day at home looking upon my workmen, only at noon Mr. Moore +came and brought me some things to sign for the Privy Seal and dined +with me. We had three eels that my wife and I bought this morning of +a man, that cried them about, for our dinner, and that was all I did +to-day. + +16th. In the morning to church, and then dined at home. In the afternoon +I to White Hall, where I was surprised with the news of a plot against +the King's person and my Lord Monk's; and that since last night there +are about forty taken up on suspicion; and, amongst others, it was my +lot to meet with Simon Beale, the Trumpeter, who took me and Tom Doling +into the Guard in Scotland Yard, and showed us Major-General Overton, +where I heard him deny that he is guilty of any such things; but that +whereas it is said that he is found to have brought many arms to town, +he says it is only to sell them, as he will prove by oath. From thence +with Tom Doling and Boston and D. Vines (whom we met by the way) to +Price's, and there we drank, and in discourse I learnt a pretty trick to +try whether a woman be a maid or no, by a string going round her head to +meet at the end of her nose, which if she be not will come a great way +beyond. Thence to my Lady's and staid with her an hour or two talking of +the Duke of York and his lady, the Chancellor's daughter, between whom, +she tells me, that all is agreed and he will marry her. But I know not +how true yet. It rained hard, and my Lady would have had me have the +coach, but I would not, but to my father's, where I met my wife, and +there supped, and after supper by link home and to bed. + +17th. All day looking after my workmen, only in the afternoon to the +office where both Sir Williams were come from Woolwich, and tell us +that, contrary to their expectations, the Assurance is got up, without +much damage to her body, only to the goods that she hath within her, +which argues her to be a strong, good ship. This day my parlour is +gilded, which do please me well. + +18th. All day at home, without stirring at all, looking after my +workmen. + +19th. At noon I went and dined with my Lady at Whitehall, and so back +again to the office, and after that home to my workmen. This night Mr. +Gauden sent me a great chine of beef and half a dozen of tongues. + +20th. All day at home with my workmen, that I may get all done before +Christmas. This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox. + +21st. By water to Whitehall (leaving my wife at Whitefriars going to my +father's to buy her a muff and mantle), there I signed many things at +the Privy Seal, and carried L200 from thence to the Exchequer, and laid +it up with Mr. Hales, and afterwards took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan +and drank with them. They told me that this is St. Thomas's [day], and +that by an old custom, this day the Exchequer men had formerly, and do +intend this night to have a supper; which if I could I promised to +come to, but did not. To my Lady's, and dined with her: she told me how +dangerously ill the Princess Royal is and that this morning she was said +to be dead. But she hears that she hath married herself to young +Jermyn, which is worse than the Duke of York's marrying the Chancellor's +daughter, which is now publicly owned. After dinner to the office all +the afternoon. At seven at night I walked through the dirt to Whitehall +to see whether my Lord be come to town, and I found him come and at +supper, and I supped with him. He tells me that my aunt at Brampton has +voided a great stone (the first time that ever I heard she was troubled +therewith) and cannot possibly live long, that my uncle is pretty well, +but full of pain still. After supper home and to bed. + +22nd. All the morning with my painters, who will make an end of all this +day I hope. At noon I went to the Sun tavern; on Fish Street hill, to a +dinner of Captn. Teddimans, where was my Lord Inchiquin (who seems to be +a very fine person), Sir W. Pen, Captn. Cuttance, and one Mr. Lawrence +(a fine gentleman now going to Algiers), and other good company, where +we had a very fine dinner, good musique, and a great deal of wine. We +staid here very late, at last Sir W. Pen and I home together, he so +overcome with wine that he could hardly go; I was forced to lead him +through the streets and he was in a very merry and kind mood. I home +(found my house clear of the workmen and their work ended), my head +troubled with wine, and I very merry went to bed, my head akeing all +night. + +23rd (Lord's day). In the morning to Church, where our pew all covered +with rosemary and baize. A stranger made a dull sermon. Home and found +my wife and maid with much ado had made shift to spit a great turkey +sent me this week from Charles Carter, my old colleague, now minister in +Huntingdonshire, but not at all roasted, and so I was fain to stay till +two o'clock, and after that to church with my wife, and a good sermon +there was, and so home. All the evening at my book, and so to supper and +to bed. + +24th. In the morning to the office and Commissioner Pett (who seldom +comes there) told me that he had lately presented a piece of plate +(being a couple of flaggons) to Mr. Coventry, but he did not receive +them, which also put me upon doing the same too; and so after dinner +I went and chose a payre of candlesticks to be made ready for me at +Alderman Backwell's. To the office again in the afternoon till night, +and so home, and with the painters till 10 at night, making an end of my +house and the arch before my door, and so this night I was rid of them +and all other work, and my house was made ready against to-morrow being +Christmas day. This day the Princess Royal died at Whitehall. + +25th (Christmas day). In the morning very much pleased to see my house +once more clear of workmen and to be clean, and indeed it is so, far +better than it was that I do not repent of my trouble that I have been +at. In the morning to church, where Mr. Mills made a very good sermon. +After that home to dinner, where my wife and I and my brother Tom (who +this morning came to see my wife's new mantle put on, which do please me +very well), to a good shoulder of mutton and a chicken. After dinner to +church again, my wife and I, where we had a dull sermon of a stranger, +which made me sleep, and so home, and I, before and after supper, to my +lute and Fuller's History, at which I staid all alone in my chamber till +12 at night, and so to bed. + +26th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's for the candlesticks for Mr. +Coventry, but they being not done I went away, and so by coach to Mr. +Crew's, and there took some money of Mr. Moore's for my Lord, and so to +my Lord's, where I found Sir Thomas Bond (whom I never saw before) with +a message from the Queen about vessells for the carrying over of her +goods, and so with him to Mr. Coventry, and thence to the office (being +soundly washed going through the bridge) to Sir Wm. Batten and Pen (the +last of whom took physic to-day), and so I went up to his chamber, and +there having made an end of the business I returned to White Hall by +water, and dined with my Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell me how +much fault was laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of the Doctors, for the +death of the Princess! My Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, +in order to his going to sea with the Queen. Thence to my father +Bowyer's where I met my wife, and with her home by water. + +27th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's again, where I found the +candlesticks done, and went along with him in his coach to my Lord's and +left the candlesticks with Mr. Shepley. I staid in the garden talking +much with my Lord, who do show me much of his love and do communicate +his mind in most things to me, which is my great content. Home and with +my wife to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, where much and good company. My +wife not very well went home, I staid late there seeing them play at +cards, and so home to bed. This afternoon there came in a strange lord +to Sir William Batten's by a mistake and enters discourse with him, so +that we could not be rid of him till Sir Arn. Breames and Mr. Bens and +Sir W. Pen fell a-drinking to him till he was drunk, and so sent him +away. About the middle of the night I was very ill--I think with eating +and drinking too much--and so I was forced to call the maid, who pleased +my wife and I in her running up and down so innocently in her smock, +and vomited in the bason, and so to sleep, and in the morning was pretty +well, only got cold, and so had pain.... as I used to have. + +28th. Office day. There all the morning. Dined at home alone with my +wife, and so staid within all the afternoon and evening; at my lute, +with great pleasure, and so to bed with great content. + +29th. Within all the morning. Several people to speak with me; Mr. +Shepley for L100; Mr. Kennard and Warren, the merchant, about deals for +my Lord. Captain Robert Blake lately come from the Straights about +some Florence Wine for my Lord, and with him I went to Sir W. Pen, +who offering me a barrel of oysters I took them both home to my house +(having by chance a good piece of roast beef at the fire for dinner), +and there they dined with me, and sat talking all the afternoon-good +company. Thence to Alderman Backwell's and took a brave state-plate and +cupp in lieu of the candlesticks that I had the other day and carried +them by coach to my Lord's and left them there. And so back to my +father's and saw my mother, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my +father came to me, and there we talked and drank, and so away; I home +with my father, he telling me what bad wives both my cozen Joyces +make to their husbands, which I much wondered at. After talking of my +sister's coming to me next week, I went home and to bed. + +30th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and being up, I went with Will to +my Lord's, calling in at many churches in my way. There I found Mr. +Shepley, in his Venetian cap, taking physique in his chamber, and with +him I sat till dinner. My Lord dined abroad and my Lady in her chamber, +so Mr. Hetly, Child and I dined together, and after dinner Mr. Child and +I spent some time at the lute, and so promising to prick me some lessons +to my theorbo he went away to see Henry Laws, who lies very sick. I to +the Abby and walked there, seeing the great confusion of people that +come there to hear the organs. So home, calling in at my father's, +but staid not, my father and mother being both forth. At home I fell +a-reading of Fuller's Church History till it was late, and so to bed. + +31st. At the office all the morning and after that home, and not staying +to dine I went out, and in Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of +"Henry the Fourth," and so went to the new Theatre (only calling at Mr. +Crew's and eat a bit with the people there at dinner) and saw it acted; +but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I +believe it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little. +That being done I went to my Lord's, where I found him private at cards +with my Lord Lauderdale and some persons of honour. So Mr. Shepley and +I over to Harper's, and there drank a pot or two, and so parted. My boy +taking a cat home with him from my Lord's, which Sarah had given him for +my wife, we being much troubled with mice. At Whitehall inquiring for a +coach, there was a Frenchman with one eye that was going my way, so he +and I hired the coach between us and he set me down in Fenchurch Street. +Strange how the fellow, without asking, did tell me all what he was, and +how he had ran away from his father and come into England to serve the +King, and now going back again. Home and to bed. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS FOR 1960 N.S. PEPY'S DIARY + + A very fine dinner + A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen + Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest + An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport + An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity + And in all this not so much as one + Asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside + Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often + Bought for the love of the binding three books + Boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed + But we were friends again as we are always + But I think I am not bound to discover myself + Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians + Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.) + Court attendance infinite tedious + Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether + Diana did not come according to our agreement + Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state + Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else + Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill + Do press for new oaths to be put upon men + Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand + Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets + Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton + Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment + Fashionable and black spots + Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up + First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch + First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral + Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service + Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March + Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore + Gave him his morning draft + Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King + God help him, he wants bread. + Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay + Hand i' the cap + Hanging jack to roast birds on + Have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant + Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me + He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more + He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I + He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it + He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while + He did very well, but a deadly drinker he is + He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours + He knew nothing about the navy + Hired her to procure this poor soul for him + How the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst + I fear is not so good as she should be + I never designed to be a witness against any man + I was demanded L100, for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound + I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely + I pray God to make me able to pay for it. + I was angry with her, which I was troubled for + I went to the cook's and got a good joint of meat + I was exceeding free in dallying with her, and she not unfree + I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy + If it should come in print my name maybe at it + Ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch + In discourse he seems to be wise and say little + In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore + In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least + Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass + It not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us + John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers + King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising + King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery + Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]" + Kissed them myself very often with a great deal of mirth + L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas + Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 + Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no + Long cloaks being now quite out + Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead + Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder + Most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler + Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin + Much troubled with thoughts how to get money + My luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions + My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life + My wife and I had some high words + My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth + My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets + My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber + Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon + Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place + Petition against hackney coaches + Playing the fool with the lass of the house + Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves + Presbyterians against the House of Lords + Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques + Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash + Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it + Sceptic in all things of religion + She had six children by the King + Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink + Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash + Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney + So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel + So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet + Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house + Strange thing how I am already courted by the people + Strange how civil and tractable he was to me + The present Irish pronunciation of English + The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too + The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them + There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered + This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed + This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes + Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall + To see the bride put to bed + To the Swan and drank our morning draft + To see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered + Upon the leads gazing upon Diana + We cannot tell what to do for want of her (the maid) + Wedding for which the posy ring was required + Went to bed with my head not well by my too much drinking to-day + Where I find the worst very good + Which I did give him some hope of, though I never intend it + Woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1660 *** + +***** This file should be named 4125.txt or 4125.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/2/4125/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so 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Complete + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: October 7, 2006 [EBook #4125] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1660 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + +LONDON +GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN +CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. + + +1893 + + + + + PREFACE + +Although the Diary of Samuel Pepys has been in the hands of the public for +nearly seventy years, it has not hitherto appeared in its entirety. In the +original edition of 1825 scarcely half of the manuscript was printed. +Lord Braybrooke added some passages as the various editions were +published, but in the preface to his last edition he wrote: "there +appeared indeed no necessity to amplify or in any way to alter the text of +the Diary beyond the correction of a few verbal errors and corrupt +passages hitherto overlooked." + +The public knew nothing as to what was left unprinted, and there was +therefore a general feeling of gratification when it was announced some +eighteen years ago that a new edition was to be published by the Rev. +Mynors Bright, with the addition of new matter equal to a third of the +whole. It was understood that at last the Diary was to appear in its +entirety, but there was a passage in Mr. Bright's preface which suggested +a doubt respecting the necessary completeness. He wrote: "It would have +been tedious to the reader if I had copied from the Diary the account of +his daily work at the office." + +As a matter of fact, Mr. Bright left roughly speaking about one-fifth of +the whole Diary still unprinted, although he transcribed the whole, and +bequeathed his transcript to Magdalene College. + +It has now been decided that the whole of the Diary shall be made public, +with the exception of a few passages which cannot possibly be printed. It +may be thought by some that these omissions are due to an unnecessary +squeamishness, but it is not really so, and readers are therefore asked to +have faith in the judgment of the editor. Where any passages have been +omitted marks of omission are added, so that in all cases readers will +know where anything has been left out. + +Lord Braybrooke made the remark in his "Life of Pepys," that "the cipher +employed by him greatly resembles that known by the name of 'Rich's +system.'" When Mr. Bright came to decipher the MS., he discovered that +the shorthand system used by Pepys was an earlier one than Rich's, viz., +that of Thomas Shelton, who made his system public in 1620. + +In his various editions Lord Braybrooke gave a large number of valuable +notes, in the collection and arrangement of which he was assisted by the +late Mr. John Holmes of the British Museum, and the late Mr. James +Yeowell, sometime sub-editor of "Notes and Queries." Where these notes +are left unaltered in the present edition the letter "B." has been affixed +to them, but in many instances the notes have been altered and added to +from later information, and in these cases no mark is affixed. A large +number of additional notes are now supplied, but still much has had to be +left unexplained. Many persons are mentioned in the Diary who were little +known in the outer world, and in some instances it has been impossible to +identify them. In other cases, however, it has been possible to throw +light upon these persons by reference to different portions of the Diary +itself. I would here ask the kind assistance of any reader who is able to +illustrate passages that have been left unnoted. I have received much +assistance from the various books in which the Diary is quoted. Every +writer on the period covered by the Diary has been pleased to illustrate +his subject by quotations from Pepys, and from these books it has often +been possible to find information which helps to explain difficult +passages in the Diary. + +Much illustrative matter of value was obtained by Lord Braybrooke from the +"Diurnall" of Thomas Rugge, which is preserved in the British Museum (Add. +MSS. 10,116, 10,117). The following is the description of this +interesting work as given by Lord Braybrooke + + "MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS; + + or, A Collection of the most materiall occurrances and transactions + in Public Affairs since Anno Dni, 1659, untill + 28 March, 1672, + serving as an annuall diurnall for future satisfaction and + information, + BY THOMAS RUGGE. + + Est natura hominum novitatis avida.--Plinius. + + "This MS. belonged, in 1693, to Thomas Grey, second Earl of + Stamford. It has his autograph at the commencement, and on the + sides are his arms (four quarterings) in gold. In 1819, it was sold + by auction in London, as part of the collection of Thomas Lloyd, + Esq. (No. 1465), and was then bought by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller. + Whilst Mr. Lloyd was the possessor, the MS. was lent to Dr. Lingard, + whose note of thanks to Mr. Lloyd is preserved in the volume. From + Thorpe it appears to have passed to Mr. Heber, at the sale of whose + MSS. in Feb. 1836, by Mr. Evans, of Pall Mall, it was purchased by + the British Museum for L8 8s. + + "Thomas Rugge was descended from an ancient Norfolk family, and two + of his ancestors are described as Aldermen of Norwich. His death + has been ascertained to have occurred about 1672; and in the Diary + for the preceding year he complains that on account of his declining + health, his entries will be but few. Nothing has been traced of his + personal circumstances beyond the fact of his having lived for + fourteen years in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality." + +Another work I have found of the greatest value is the late Mr. J. E. +Doyle's "Official Baronage of England" (1886), which contains a mass of +valuable information not easily to be obtained elsewhere. By reference to +its pages I have been enabled to correct several erroneous dates in +previous notes caused by a very natural confusion of years in the case of +the months of January, February, and March, before it was finally fixed +that the year should commence in January instead of March. More confusion +has probably been introduced into history from this than from any other +cause of a like nature. The reference to two years, as in the case of, +say, Jan. 5, 1661-62, may appear clumsy, but it is the only safe plan of +notation. If one year only is mentioned, the reader is never sure whether +or not the correction has been made. It is a matter for sincere regret +that the popular support was withheld from Mr. Doyle's important +undertaking, so that the author's intention of publishing further volumes, +containing the Baronies not dealt with in those already published, was +frustrated. + +My labours have been much lightened by the kind help which I have +received from those interested in the subject. Lovers of Pepys are +numerous, and I have found those I have applied to ever willing to give +me such information as they possess. It is a singular pleasure, +therefore, to have an opportunity of expressing publicly my thanks to +these gentlemen, and among them I would especially mention Messrs. +Fennell, Danby P. Fry, J. Eliot Hodgkin, Henry Jackson, J. K. Laughton, +Julian Marshall, John Biddulph Martin, J. E. Matthew, Philip Norman, +Richard B. Prosser, and Hugh Callendar, Fellow of Trinity College, who +verified some of the passages in the manuscript. To the Master and +Fellows of Magdalene College, also, I am especially indebted for allowing +me to consult the treasures of the Pepysian Library, and more +particularly my thanks are due to Mr. Arthur G. Peskett, the Librarian. + + H. B. W. +BRAMPTON, OPPIDANS ROAD, + LONDON, N.W. + February, 1893. + + + + +PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY. + +I. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in +the reigns of Charles II. and James II., comprising his Diary from 1659 +to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B., of St. John's College, +Cambridge, from the original Shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a +Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord +Braybrooke. In two volumes. London, Henry Colburn . . . 1825. 4vo. + +2. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S. . . . Second edition. In +five volumes. London, Henry Colburn . . . . 1828. 8vo. + +3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the +Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II.; with a Life and +Notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke; the third edition, considerably +enlarged. London, Henry Colburn . . . . 1848-49. 5 vols. sm. 8vo. + +4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. . . . The fourth +edition, revised and corrected. In four volumes. London, published for +Henry Colburn by his successors, Hurst and Blackett . . . 1854. 8vo. + +The copyright of Lord Braybrooke's edition was purchased by the late Mr. +Henry G. Bohn, who added the book to his Historical Library. + +5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from his MS. +Cypber in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard, Lord +Braybrooke. Deciphered, with additional notes, by the Rev. Mynors Bright, +M.A. . . . London, Bickers and Son, 1875-79. 6 vols. 8vo. + +Nos. 1, 2 and 3 being out of copyright have been reprinted by various +publishers. + +No. 5 is out of print. + + PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + +The family of Pepys is one of considerable antiquity in the east of +England, and the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys + + [Mr. W. C. Pepys has paid great attention to the history of his + family, and in 1887 he published an interesting work entitled + "Genealogy of the Pepys Family, 1273-1887," London, George Bell and + Sons, which contains the fullest pedigrees of the family yet + issued.] + +says that the first mention of the name that he has been able to find is +in the Hundred Rolls (Edw. I, 1273), where Richard Pepis and John Pepes +are registered as holding lands in the county of Cambridge. In the next +century the name of William Pepis is found in deeds relating to lands in +the parish of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, dated 1329 and 1340 respectively +(Cole MSS., British Museum, vol. i., p. 56; vol. xlii., p. 44). According +to the Court Roll of the manor of Pelhams, in the parish of Cottenham, +Thomas Pepys was "bayliffe of the Abbot of Crowland in 1434," but in spite +of these references, as well as others to persons of the same name at +Braintree, Essex, Depedale, Norfolk, &c., the first ancestor of the +existing branches of the family from whom Mr. Walter Pepys is able to +trace an undoubted descent, is "William Pepis the elder, of Cottenham, co. +Cambridge," whose will is dated 20th March, 1519. + +In 1852 a curious manuscript volume, bound in vellum, and entitled "Liber +Talboti Pepys de instrumentis ad Feoda pertinentibus exemplificatis," was +discovered in an old chest in the parish church of Bolney, Sussex, by the +vicar, the Rev. John Dale, who delivered it to Henry Pepys, Bishop of +Worcester, and the book is still in the possession of the family. This +volume contains various genealogical entries, and among them are +references to the Thomas Pepys of 1434 mentioned above, and to the later +William Pepys. The reference to the latter runs thus:-- + + "A Noate written out of an ould Booke of my uncle William Pepys." + + "William Pepys, who died at Cottenham, 10 H. 8, was brought up by + the Abbat of Crowland, in Huntingdonshire, and he was borne in + Dunbar, in Scotland, a gentleman, whom the said Abbat did make his + Bayliffe of all his lands in Cambridgeshire, and placed him in + Cottenham, which William aforesaid had three sonnes, Thomas, John, + and William, to whom Margaret was mother naturallie, all of whom + left issue." + +In illustration of this entry we may refer to the Diary of June 12th, +1667, where it is written that Roger Pepys told Samuel that "we did +certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland." The +references to various members of the family settled in Cottenham and +elsewhere, at an early date already alluded to, seem to show that there is +little foundation for this very positive statement. + +With regard to the standing of the family, Mr. Walter Pepys writes:-- + + "The first of the name in 1273 were evidently but small copyholders. + Within 150 years (1420) three or four of the name had entered the + priesthood, and others had become connected with the monastery of + Croyland as bailiffs, &c. In 250 years (1520) there were certainly + two families: one at Cottenham, co. Cambridge, and another at + Braintree, co. Essex, in comfortable circumstances as yeomen + farmers. Within fifty years more (1563), one of the family, Thomas, + of Southcreeke, co. Norfolk, had entered the ranks of the gentry + sufficiently to have his coat-of-arms recognized by the Herald + Cooke, who conducted the Visitation of Norfolk in that year. From + that date the majority of the family have been in good + circumstances, with perhaps more than the average of its members + taking up public positions." + +There is a very general notion that Samuel Pepys was of plebeian birth +because his father followed the trade of a tailor, and his own remark, +"But I believe indeed our family were never considerable,"--[February +10th, 1661-62.] has been brought forward in corroboration of this view, +but nothing can possibly be more erroneous, and there can be no doubt that +the Diarist was really proud of his descent. This may be seen from the +inscription on one of his book-plates, where he is stated to be:-- + + "Samuel Pepys of Brampton in Huntingdonshire, Esq., Secretary of the + Admiralty to his Matr. King Charles the Second: Descended from ye + antient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire." + +Many members of the family have greatly distinguished themselves since the +Diarist's day, and of them Mr. Foss wrote ("Judges of England," vol. vi., +p. 467):-- + + "In the family of Pepys is illustrated every gradation of legal rank + from Reader of an Inn of Court to Lord High Chancellor of England." + +The William Pepys of Cottenham who commences the pedigree had three sons +and three daughters; from the eldest son (Thomas) descended the first +Norfolk branch, from the second son (John Pepys of Southcreeke) descended +the second Norfolk branch, and from the third son (William) descended the +Impington branch. The latter William had four sons and two daughters; two +of these sons were named Thomas, and as they were both living at the same +time one was distinguished as "the black" and the other as "the red." +Thomas the red had four sons and four daughters. John, born 1601, was the +third son, and he became the father of Samuel the Diarist. Little is known +of John Pepys, but we learn when the Diary opens that he was settled in +London as a tailor. He does not appear to have been a successful man, and +his son on August 26th, 1661, found that there was only L45 owing to him, +and that he owed about the same sum. He was a citizen of London in 1650, +when his son Samuel was admitted to Magdalene College, but at an earlier +period he appears to have had business relations with Holland. + +In August, 1661, John Pepys retired to a small property at Brampton (worth +about L80 per annum), which had been left to him by his eldest brother, +Robert Pepys, where he died in 1680. + +The following is a copy of John Pepys's will: + + "MY FATHER'S WILL. + [Indorsement by S. Pepys.] + + "Memorandum. That I, John Pepys of Ellington, in the county of + Huntingdon, Gent.", doe declare my mind in the disposall of my + worldly goods as followeth: + + "First, I desire that my lands and goods left mee by my brother, + Robert Pepys, deceased, bee delivered up to my eldest son, Samuell + Pepys, of London, Esqr., according as is expressed in the last Will + of my brother Robert aforesaid. + + "Secondly, As for what goods I have brought from London, or procured + since, and what moneys I shall leave behind me or due to me, I + desire may be disposed of as followeth: + + "Imprimis, I give to the stock of the poore of the parish of + Brampton, in which church I desire to be enterred, five pounds. + + "Item. I give to the Poore of Ellington forty shillings. + + "Item. I desire that my two grandsons, Samuell and John Jackson, + have ten pounds a piece. + + "Item. I desire that my daughter, Paulina Jackson, may have my + largest silver tankerd. + + "Item. I desire that my son John Pepys may have my gold seale-ring. + + "Lastly. I desire that the remainder of what I shall leave be + equally distributed between my sons Samuel and John Pepys and my + daughter Paulina Jackson. + + "All which I leave to the care of my eldest son Samuel Pepys, to see + performed, if he shall think fit. + + "In witness hereunto I set my hand." + +His wife Margaret, whose maiden name has not been discovered, died on the +25th March, 1667, also at Brampton. The family of these two consisted of +six sons and five daughters: John (born 1632, died 1640), Samuel (born +1633, died 1703), Thomas (born 1634, died 1664), Jacob (born 1637, died +young), Robert (born 1638, died young), and John (born 1641, died 1677); +Mary (born 1627), Paulina (born 1628), Esther (born 1630), Sarah (born +1635; these four girls all died young), and Paulina (born 1640, died +1680), who married John Jackson of Brampton, and had two sons, Samuel and +John. The latter was made his heir by Samuel Pepys. + +Samuel Pepys was born on the 23rd February, 1632-3, but the place of birth +is not known with certainty. Samuel Knight, D.D., author of the "Life of +Colet," who was a connection of the family (having married Hannah Pepys, +daughter of Talbot Pepys of Impington), says positively that it was at +Brampton. His statement cannot be corroborated by the registers of +Brampton church, as these records do not commence until the year 1654. + +Samuel's early youth appears to have been spent pretty equally between +town and country. When he and his brother Tom were children they lived +with a nurse (Goody Lawrence) at Kingsland, and in after life Samuel +refers to his habit of shooting with bow and arrow in the fields around +that place. He then went to school at Huntingdon, from which he was +transferred to St. Paul's School in London. He remained at the latter +place until 1650, early in which year his name was entered as a sizar on +the boards of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted on the 21st June, +but subsequently he transferred his allegiance to Magdalene College, where +he was admitted a sizar on the 1st October of this same year. He did not +enter into residence until March 5th, 1650-51, but in the following month +he was elected to one of Mr. Spendluffe's scholarships, and two years +later (October 14th, 1653) he was preferred to one on Dr. John Smith's +foundation. + +Little or nothing is known of Pepys's career at college, but soon after +obtaining the Smith scholarship he got into trouble, and, with a +companion, was admonished for being drunk. + + [October 21st, 1653. "Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were + solemnly admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for having been + scandalously over-served with drink ye night before. This was done + in the presence of all the Fellows then resident, in Mr. Hill's + chamber.--JOHN WOOD, Registrar." (From the Registrar's-book of + Magdalene College.)] + +His time, however, was not wasted, and there is evidence that he carried +into his busy life a fair stock of classical learning and a true love of +letters. Throughout his life he looked back with pleasure to the time he +spent at the University, and his college was remembered in his will when +he bequeathed his valuable library. In this same year, 1653, he graduated +B.A. On the 1st of December, 1655, when he was still without any settled +means of support, he married Elizabeth St. Michel, a beautiful and +portionless girl of fifteen. Her father, Alexander Marchant, Sieur de St. +Michel, was of a good family in Anjou, and son of the High Sheriff of +Bauge (in Anjou). Having turned Huguenot at the age of twenty-one, when +in the German service, his father disinherited him, and he also lost the +reversion of some L20,000 sterling which his uncle, a rich French canon, +intended to bequeath to him before he left the Roman Catholic church. He +came over to England in the retinue of Henrietta Maria on her marriage +with Charles I, but the queen dismissed him on finding that he was a +Protestant and did not attend mass. Being a handsome man, with courtly +manners, he found favour in the sight of the widow of an Irish squire +(daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill), who married him against the wishes of +her family. After the marriage, Alexander St. Michel and his wife having +raised some fifteen hundred pounds, started, for France in the hope of +recovering some part of the family property. They were unfortunate in all +their movements, and on their journey to France were taken prisoners by +the Dunkirkers, who stripped them of all their property. They now settled +at Bideford in Devonshire, and here or near by were born Elizabeth and the +rest of the family. At a later period St. Michel served against the +Spaniards at the taking of Dunkirk and Arras, and settled at Paris. He +was an unfortunate man throughout life, and his son Balthasar says of him: +"My father at last grew full of whimsies and propositions of perpetual +motion, &c., to kings, princes and others, which soaked his pocket, and +brought all our family so low by his not minding anything else, spending +all he had got and getting no other employment to bring in more." While +he was away from Paris, some "deluding papists" and "pretended devouts" +persuaded Madame St. Michel to place her daughter in the nunnery of the +Ursulines. When the father heard of this, he hurried back, and managed to +get Elizabeth out of the nunnery after she had been there twelve days. +Thinking that France was a dangerous place to live in, he removed his +family to England, where soon afterwards his daughter was married, +although, as Lord Braybrooke remarks, we are not told how she became +acquainted with Pepys. St. Michel was greatly pleased that his daughter +had become the wife of a true Protestant, and she herself said to him, +kissing his eyes: "Dear father, though in my tender years I was by my low +fortune in this world deluded to popery, by the fond dictates thereof I +have now (joined with my riper years, which give me some understanding) a +man to my husband too wise and one too religious to the Protestant +religion to suffer my thoughts to bend that way any more." + + [These particulars are obtained from an interesting letter from + Balthasar St. Michel to Pepys, dated "Deal, Feb. 8, 1673-4," and + printed in "Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys," + 1841, vol. i., pp. 146-53.] + +Alexander St. Michel kept up his character for fecklessness through life, +and took out patents for curing smoking chimneys, purifying water, and +moulding bricks. In 1667 he petitioned the king, asserting that he had +discovered King Solomon's gold and silver mines, and the Diary of the same +date contains a curious commentary upon these visions of wealth:-- + + "March 29, 1667. 4s. a week which his (Balty St. Michel's) father + receives of the French church is all the subsistence his father and + mother have, and about; L20 a year maintains them." + +As already noted, Pepys was married on December 1st, 1655. This date is +given on the authority of the Registers of St. Margaret's Church, +Westminster, + + [The late Mr. T. C. Noble kindly communicated to me a copy of the + original marriage certificate, which is as follows: "Samuell Peps + of this parish Gent. & Elizabeth De Snt. Michell of Martins in the + fields, Spinster. Published October 19tn, 22nd, 29th 1655, and + were married by Richard Sherwin Esqr one of the justices of the + Peace of the Cittie and Lyberties of Westm. December 1st. (Signed) + Ri. Sherwin."] + +but strangely enough Pepys himself supposed his wedding day to have been +October 10th. Lord Braybrooke remarks on this, + + "It is notorious that the registers in those times were very ill + kept, of which we have here a striking instance . . . . Surely a + man who kept a diary could not have made such a blunder." + +What is even more strange than Pepys's conviction that he was married on +October 10th is Mrs. Pepys's agreement with him: On October 10th, 1666, we +read, + + "So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night, but how + many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten." + +Here Mrs. Pepys was wrong, as it was eleven years; so she may have been +wrong in the day also. In spite of the high authority of Mr. and Mrs. +Pepys on a question so interesting to them both, we must accept the +register as conclusive on this point until further evidence of its +incorrectness is forthcoming. + +Sir Edward Montage (afterwards Earl of Sandwich), who was Pepys's first +cousin one remove (Pepys's grandfather and Montage's mother being brother +and sister), was a true friend to his poor kinsman, and he at once held +out a helping hand to the imprudent couple, allowing them to live in his +house. John Pepys does not appear to have been in sufficiently good +circumstances to pay for the education of his son, and it seems probable +that Samuel went to the university under his influential cousin's +patronage. At all events he owed his success in life primarily to +Montage, to whom he appears to have acted as a sort of agent. + +On March 26th, 1658, he underwent a successful operation for the stone, +and we find him celebrating each anniversary of this important event of +his life with thanksgiving. He went through life with little trouble on +this score, but when he died at the age of seventy a nest of seven stones +was found in his left kidney. + + ["June 10th, 1669. I went this evening to London, to carry Mr. + Pepys to my brother Richard, now exceedingly afflicted with the + stone, who had been successfully cut, and carried the stone, as big + as a tennis ball, to show him and encourage his resolution to go + thro' the operation."--Evelyn's Diary.] + +In June, 1659, Pepys accompanied Sir Edward Montage in the "Naseby," when +the Admiral of the Baltic Fleet and Algernon Sidney went to the Sound as +joint commissioners. It was then that Montage corresponded with Charles +II., but he had to be very secret in his movements on account of the +suspicions of Sidney. Pepys knew nothing of what was going on, as he +confesses in the Diary: + + "I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most + secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before." + +On Pepys's return to England he obtained an appointment in the office of +Mr., afterwards Sir George Downing, who was one of the Four Tellers of the +Receipt of the Exchequer. He was clerk to Downing when he commenced his +diary on January 1st, 1660, and then lived in Axe Yard, close by King +Street, Westminster, a place on the site of which was built Fludyer +Street. This, too, was swept away for the Government offices in 1864-65. +His salary was L50 a year. Downing invited Pepys to accompany him to +Holland, but he does not appear to have been very pressing, and a few days +later in this same January he got him appointed one of the Clerks of the +Council, but the recipient of the favour does not appear to have been very +grateful. A great change was now about to take place in Pepys's fortunes, +for in the following March he was made secretary to Sir Edward Montage in +his expedition to bring about the Restoration of Charles II., and on the +23rd he went on board the "Swiftsure" with Montage. On the 30th they +transferred themselves to the "Naseby." Owing to this appointment of +Pepys we have in the Diary a very full account of the daily movements of +the fleet until, events having followed their natural course, Montage had +the honour of bringing Charles II. to Dover, where the King was received +with great rejoicing. Several of the ships in the fleet had names which +were obnoxious to Royalists, and on the 23rd May the King came on board +the "Naseby" and altered there--the "Naseby" to the "Charles," the +"Richard" to the "Royal James," the "Speaker" to the "Mary," the "Winsby" +to the "Happy Return," the "Wakefield" to the "Richmond," the "Lambert" to +the "Henrietta," the "Cheriton" to the "Speedwell," and the "Bradford" to +the "Success." This portion of the Diary is of particular interest, and +the various excursions in Holland which the Diarist made are described in +a very amusing manner. + +When Montagu and Pepys had both returned to London, the former told the +latter that he had obtained the promise of the office of Clerk of the Acts +for him. Many difficulties occurred before Pepys actually secured the +place, so that at times he was inclined to accept the offers which were +made to him to give it up. General Monk was anxious to get the office for +Mr. Turner, who was Chief Clerk in the Navy Office, but in the end +Montagu's influence secured it for Pepys. Then Thomas Barlow, who had +been appointed Clerk of the Acts in 1638, turned up, and appeared likely +to become disagreeable. Pepys bought him off with an annuity of too, +which he did not have to pay for any length of time, as Barlow died in +February, 1664-65. It is not in human nature to be greatly grieved at the +death of one to whom you have to pay an annuity, and Pepys expresses his +feelings in a very naive manner:-- + + "For which God knows my heart I could be as sorry as is possible for + one to be for a stranger by whose death he gets L100 per annum, he + being a worthy honest man; but when I come to consider the + providence of God by this means unexpectedly to give me L100 a year + more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and do it from the + bottom of my heart." + +This office was one of considerable importance, for not only was the +holder the secretary or registrar of the Navy Board, but he was also one +of the principal officers of the navy, and, as member of the board, of +equal rank with the other commissioners. This office Pepys held during +the whole period of the Diary, and we find him constantly fighting for his +position, as some of the other members wished to reduce his rank merely to +that of secretary. In his contention Pepys appears to have been in the +right, and a valuable MS. volume in the Pepysian library contains an +extract from the Old Instructions of about 1649, in which this very point +is argued out. The volume appears to have been made up by William Penn +the Quaker, from a collection of manuscripts on the affairs of the navy +found in his father's, "Sir William Penn's closet." It was presented to +Charles II., with a dedication ending thus:-- + + "I hope enough to justifie soe much freedome with a Prince that is + so easie to excuse things well intended as this is + "BY + "Great Prince, + "Thy faithfull subject, + "WM. PENN" + + "London, the 22 of the Mo. called June, 1680." + +It does not appear how the volume came into Pepys's possession. It may +have been given him by the king, or he may have taken it as a perquisite +of his office. The book has an index, which was evidently added by Pepys; +in this are these entries, which show his appreciation of the contents of +the MS.:-- + + "Clerk of the Acts, + his duty, + his necessity and usefulness." + +The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows the +importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is not +fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his +employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression one +would expect to find in an official document: + + "CLERKE OF THE ACTS. + + "The clarke of the Navye's duty depends principally upon rateing (by + the Board's approbation) of all bills and recording of them, and all + orders, contracts & warrants, making up and casting of accompts, + framing and writing answers to letters, orders, and commands from + the Councell, Lord High Admirall, or Commissioners of the Admiralty, + and he ought to be a very able accomptant, well versed in Navall + affairs and all inferior officers dutyes. + + "It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to + be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be + joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted + from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some + to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if + he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which + peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine + no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and + possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is + a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment. But why he should + not make as able a Commissioner as a Shipp wright lett wise men + judge." + +In Pepys's patent the salary is stated to be L33 6s. 8d., but this was +only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had been attached to +the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary had been previously +fixed at L350 a-year. + +Neither of the two qualifications upon which particular stress is laid in +the above Instructions was possessed by Pepys. He knew nothing about the +navy, and so little of accounts that apparently he learned the +multiplication table for the first time in July, 1661. We see from the +particulars given in the Diary how hard he worked to obtain the knowledge +required in his office, and in consequence of his assiduity he soon became +a model official. When Pepys became Clerk of the Acts he took up his +residence at the Navy Office, a large building situated between Crutched +Friars and Seething Lane, with an entrance in each of those places. On +July 4th, 1660, he went with Commissioner Pett to view the houses, and was +very pleased with them, but he feared that the more influential officers +would jockey him out of his rights. His fears were not well grounded, and +on July 18th he records the fact that he dined in his own apartments, +which were situated in the Seething Lane front. + +On July 24th, 1660, Pepys was sworn in as Lord Sandwich's deputy for a +Clerkship of the Privy Seal. This office, which he did not think much of +at first, brought him "in for a time L3 a day." In June, 1660, he was +made Master of Arts by proxy, and soon afterwards he was sworn in as a +justice of the Peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Hampshire, the +counties in which the chief dockyards were situated. + +Pepys's life is written large in the Diary, and it is not necessary here +to do more than catalogue the chief incidents of it in chronological +order. In February, 1661-62, he was chosen a Younger Brother of the +Trinity House, and in April, 1662, when on an official visit to Portsmouth +Dockyard, he was made a burgess of the town. In August of the same year +he was appointed one of the commissioners for the affairs of Tangier. +Soon afterwards Thomas Povy, the treasurer, got his accounts into a +muddle, and showed himself incompetent for the place, so that Pepys +replaced him as treasurer to the commission. + +In March, 1663-64, the Corporation of the Royal Fishery was appointed, +with the Duke of York as governor, and thirty-two assistants, mostly "very +great persons." Through Lord Sandwich's influence Pepys was made one of +these. + +The time was now arriving when Pepys's general ability and devotion to +business brought him prominently into notice. During the Dutch war the +unreadiness of the ships, more particularly in respect to victualling, was +the cause of great trouble. The Clerk of the Acts did his utmost to set +things right, and he was appointed Surveyor-General of the Victualling +Office. The kind way in which Mr. Coventry proposed him as "the fittest +man in England" for the office, and the Duke of York's expressed approval, +greatly pleased him. + +During the fearful period when the Plague was raging, Pepys stuck to his +business, and the chief management of naval affairs devolved upon him, for +the meetings at the Navy Office were but thinly attended. In a letter to +Coventry he wrote:-- + + "The sickness in general thickens round us, and particularly upon + our neighbourhood. You, sir, took your turn of the sword; I must + not, therefore, grudge to take mine of the pestilence." + +At this time his wife was living at Woolwich, and he himself with his +clerks at Greenwich; one maid only remained in the house in London. + +Pepys rendered special service at the time of the Fire of London. He +communicated the king's wishes to the Lord Mayor, and he saved the Navy +Office by having up workmen from Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards to pull +down the houses around, and so prevent the spread of the flames. + +When peace was at length concluded with the Dutch, and people had time to +think over the disgrace which the country had suffered by the presence of +De Ruyter's fleet in the Medway, it was natural that a public inquiry into +the management of the war should be undertaken. A Parliamentary Committee +was appointed in October, 1667, to inquire into the matter. Pepys made a +statement which satisfied the committee, but for months afterwards he was +continually being summoned to answer some charge, so that he confesses +himself as mad to "become the hackney of this office in perpetual trouble +and vexation that need it least." + +At last a storm broke out in the House of Commons against the principal +officers of the navy, and some members demanded that they should be put +out of their places. In the end they were ordered to be heard in their +own defence at the bar of the House. The whole labour of the defence fell +upon Pepys, but having made out his case with great skill, he was rewarded +by a most unexpected success. On the 5th March, 1667-68, he made the +great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours, with the effect that +he so far removed the prejudice against the officers of the Navy Board, +that no further proceedings were taken in parliament on the subject. He +was highly praised for his speech, and he was naturally much elated at his +brilliant success. + +About the year 1664 we first hear of a defect in Pepys's eyesight. He +consulted the celebrated Cocker, and began to wear green spectacles, but +gradually this defect became more pronounced, and on the 31st of May, +1669, he wrote the last words in his Diary: + + "And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my + own eyes in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any + longer, having done now as long as to undo my eyes almost every time + that I take a pen in my hand." + +He feared blindness and was forced to desist, to his lasting regret and +our great loss. + +At this time he obtained leave of absence from the duties of his office, +and he set out on a tour through France and Holland accompanied by his +wife. In his travels he was true to the occupation of his life, and made +collections respecting the French and Dutch navies. Some months after his +return he spoke of his journey as having been "full of health and +content," but no sooner had he and his wife returned to London than the +latter became seriously ill with a fever. The disease took a fatal turn, +and on the 10th of November, 1669, Elizabeth Pepys died at the early age +of twenty-nine years, to the great grief of her husband. She died at +their house in Crutched Friars, and was buried at St. Olave's Church, Hart +Street, where Pepys erected a monument to her memory. + +Pepys's successful speech at the bar of the House of Commons made him +anxious to become a member, and the Duke of York and Sir William Coventry +heartily supported him in his resolution. An opening occurred in due +course, at Aldborough, in Suffolk, owing to the death of Sir Robert Brooke +in 1669, but, in consequence of the death of his wife, Pepys was unable +to take part in the election. His cause was warmly espoused by the Duke +of York and by Lord Henry Howard (afterwards Earl of Norwich and sixth +Duke of Norfolk), but the efforts of his supporters failed, and the +contest ended in favour of John Bruce, who represented the popular party. +In November, 1673, Pepys was more successful, and was elected for Castle +Rising on the elevation of the member, Sir Robert Paston, to the peerage +as Viscount Yarmouth. His unsuccessful opponent, Mr. Offley, petitioned +against the return, and the election was determined to be void by the +Committee of Privileges. The Parliament, however, being prorogued the +following month without the House's coming to any vote on the subject, +Pepys was permitted to retain his seat. A most irrelevant matter was +introduced into the inquiry, and Pepys was charged with having a crucifix +in his house, from which it was inferred that he was "a papist or popishly +inclined." The charge was grounded upon reported assertions of Sir John +Banks and the Earl of Shaftesbury, which they did not stand to when +examined on the subject, and the charge was not proved to be good. + + ["The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election + for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the + first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. + Pepys. Information being given to the House that they had received + an account from a person of quality, that he saw an Altar with a + Crucifix upon it, in the house of Mr. Pepys; Mr. Pepys, standing up + in his place, did heartily and flatly deny that he ever had any + Altar or Crucifix, or the image or picture of any Saint whatsoever + in his house, from the top to the bottom of it; and the Members + being called upon to name the person that gave them the information, + they were unwilling to declare it without the order of the House; + which, being made, they named the Earl of Shaftesbury; and the House + being also informed that Sir J. Banks did likewise see the Altar, he + was ordered to attend the Bar of the House, to declare what he knew + of this matter. 'Ordered that Sir William Coventry, Sir Thomas + Meeres, and Mr. Garraway do attend Lord Shaftesbury on the like + occasion, and receive what information his Lordship, can give on + this matter.'"--Journals of the House of Commons, vol. ix., p. + 306.--" 13th February, Sir W. Coventry reports that they attended + the Earl of Shaftesbury, and received from him the account which + they had put in writing. The Earl of Shaftesbury denieth that he + ever saw an Altar in Mr. Pepys's house or lodgings; as to the + Crucifix, he saith he hath, some imperfect memory of seeing somewhat + which he conceived to be a Crucifix. When his Lordship was asked + the time, he said it was before the burning of the Office of the + Navy. Being asked concerning the manner, he said he could not + remember whether it were painted or carved, or in what manner the + thing was; and that his memory was so very imperfect in it, that if + he were upon his oath he could give no testimony."--. Ibid., vol. + ix., p. 309.--" 16th February--Sir John Banks was called in--The + Speaker desired him to answer what acquaintance he had with; Mr. + Pepys, and whether he used to have recourse to him to his house and + had ever seen there any Altar or Crucifix, or whether he knew of his + being a Papist, or Popishly inclined. Sir J. Banks said that he had + known and had been acquainted with Mr. Pepys several years, and had + often visited him and conversed with him at the Navy Office, and at + his house there upon several occasions, and that he never saw in his + house there any Altar or Crucifix, and that he does not believe him + to be a Papist, or that way inclined in the least, nor had any + reason or ground to think or believe it."--Ibid., vol, ix., p. 310.] + +It will be seen from the extracts from the Journals of the House of +Commons given in the note that Pepys denied ever having had an altar or +crucifix in his house. In the Diary there is a distinct statement of his +possession of a crucifix, but it is not clear from the following extracts +whether it was not merely a varnished engraving of the Crucifixion which +he possessed: + + July 20, 1666. "So I away to Lovett's, there to see how my picture + goes on to be varnished, a fine crucifix which will be very fine." + August 2. "At home find Lovett, who showed me my crucifix, which + will be very fine when done." Nov. 3. "This morning comes Mr. + Lovett and brings me my print of the Passion, varnished by him, and + the frame which is indeed very fine, though not so fine as I + expected; but pleases me exceedingly." + +Whether he had or had not a crucifix in his house was a matter for himself +alone, and the interference of the House of Commons was a gross violation +of the liberty of the subject. + +In connection with Lord Shaftesbury's part in this matter, the late Mr. W. +D. Christie found the following letter to Sir Thomas Meres among the +papers at St. Giles's House, Dorsetshire:-- + + "Exeter House, February 10th, 1674. + + "Sir,--That there might be no mistake, I thought best to put my + answer in writing to those questions that yourself, Sir William + Coventry, and Mr. Garroway were pleased to propose to me this + morning from the House of Commons, which is that I never designed to + be a witness against any man for what I either heard or saw, and + therefore did not take so exact notice of things inquired of as to + be able to remember them so clearly as is requisite to do in a + testimony upon honour or oath, or to so great and honourable a body + as the House of Commons, it being some years distance since I was at + Mr. Pepys his lodging. Only that particular of an altar is so + signal that I must needs have remembered it had I seen any such + thing, which I am sure I do not. This I desire you to communicate + with Sir William Coventry and Mr. Garroway to be delivered as my + answer to the House of Commons, it being the same I gave you this + morning. + + "I am, Sir, + "Your most humble servant, + "SHAFTESBURY." + +After reading this letter Sir William Coventry very justly remarked, +"There are a great many more Catholics than think themselves so, if having +a crucifix will make one." Mr. Christie resented the remarks on Lord +Shaftesbury's part in this persecution of Pepys made by Lord Braybrooke, +who said, "Painful indeed is it to reflect to what length the bad passions +which party violence inflames could in those days carry a man of +Shaftesbury's rank, station, and abilities." Mr. Christie observes, "It +is clear from the letter to Meres that Shaftesbury showed no malice and +much scrupulousness when a formal charge, involving important results, was +founded on his loose private conversations." This would be a fair +vindication if the above attack upon Pepys stood alone, but we shall see +later on that Shaftesbury was the moving spirit in a still more +unjustifiable attack. + +Lord Sandwich died heroically in the naval action in Southwold Bay, and on +June 24th,1672, his remains were buried with some pomp in Westminster +Abbey. There were eleven earls among the mourners, and Pepys, as the +first among "the six Bannerolles," walked in the procession. + +About this time Pepys was called from his old post of Clerk of the Acts to +the higher office of Secretary of the Admiralty. His first appointment +was a piece of favouritism, but it was due to his merits alone that he +obtained the secretaryship. In the summer of 1673, the Duke of York +having resigned all his appointments on the passing of the Test Act, the +King put the Admiralty into commission, and Pepys was appointed Secretary +for the Affairs of the Navy. + + [The office generally known as Secretary of the Admiralty dates back + many years, but the officer who filled it was sometimes Secretary to + the Lord High Admiral, and sometimes to the Commission for that + office. "His Majesties Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of + Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, + Esq., first Secretary therein," is dated June 10th, 1684.] + +He was thus brought into more intimate connection with Charles II., who +took the deepest interest in shipbuilding and all naval affairs. The Duke +of Buckingham said of the King:-- + + "The great, almost the only pleasure of his mind to which he seemed + addicted was shipping and sea affairs, which seemed to be so much + his talent for knowledge as well as inclination, that a war of that + kind was rather an entertainment than any disturbance to his + thoughts." + +When Pepys ceased to be Clerk of the Acts he was able to obtain the +appointment for his clerk, Thomas Hayter, and his brother, John Pepys, who +held it jointly. The latter does not appear to have done much credit to +Samuel. He was appointed Clerk to the Trinity House in 1670 on his +brother's recommendation, and when he died in 1677 he was in debt L300 to +his employers, and this sum Samuel had to pay. In 1676 Pepys was Master +of the Trinity House, and in the following year Master of the +Clothworkers' Company, when he presented a richly-chased silver cup, which +is still used at the banquets of the company. On Tuesday, 10th September, +1677, the Feast of the Hon. Artillery Company was held at Merchant +Taylors' Hall, when the Duke of York, the Duke of Somerset, the Lord +Chancellor, and other distinguished persons were present. On this +occasion Viscount Newport, Sir Joseph Williamson, and Samuel Pepys +officiated as stewards. + +About this time it is evident that the secretary carried himself with some +haughtiness as a ruler of the navy, and that this was resented by some. +An amusing instance will be found in the Parliamentary Debates. On May +11th, 1678, the King's verbal message to quicken the supply was brought in +by Mr. Secretary Williamson, when Pepys spoke to this effect: + + "When I promised that the ships should be ready by the 30th of May, + it was upon the supposition of the money for 90 ships proposed by + the King and voted by you, their sizes and rates, and I doubt not by + that time to have 90 ships, and if they fall short it will be only + from the failing of the Streights ships coming home and those but + two . . . . . + + "Sir Robert Howard then rose and said, 'Pepys here speaks rather + like an Admiral than a Secretary, "I" and "we." I wish he knows + half as much of the Navy as he pretends.'" + +Pepys was chosen by the electors of Harwich as their member in the short +Parliament that sat from March to July, 1679, his colleague being Sir +Anthony Deane, but both members were sent to the Tower in May on a +baseless charge, and they were superseded in the next Parliament that met +on the 17th October, 1679. + +The high-handed treatment which Pepys underwent at this time exhibits a +marked instance of the disgraceful persecution connected with the +so-called Popish plot. He was totally unconnected with the Roman Catholic +party, but his association with the Duke of York was sufficient to mark +him as a prey for the men who initiated this "Terror" of the seventeenth +century. Sir. Edmund Berry Godfrey came to his death in October, 1678, +and in December Samuel Atkins, Pepys's clerk, was brought to trial as an +accessory to his murder. Shaftesbury and the others not having succeeded +in getting at Pepys through his clerk, soon afterwards attacked him more +directly, using the infamous evidence of Colonel Scott. Much light has +lately been thrown upon the underhand dealings of this miscreant by Mr. G. +D. Scull, who printed privately in 1883 a valuable work entitled, +"Dorothea Scott, otherwise Gotherson, and Hogben of Egerton House, Kent, +1611-1680." + +John Scott (calling himself Colonel Scott) ingratiated himself into +acquaintance with Major Gotherson, and sold to the latter large tracts of +land in Long Island, to which he had no right whatever. Dorothea +Gotherson, after her husband's death, took steps to ascertain the exact +state of her property, and obtained the assistance of Colonel Francis +Lovelace, Governor of New York. Scott's fraud was discovered, and a +petition for redress was presented to the King. The result of this was +that the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott, +and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions and +information as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island, +Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preserved +among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian. Scott had his revenge, +and accused Pepys of betraying the Navy by sending secret particulars to +the French Government, and of a design to dethrone the king and extirpate +the Protestant religion. Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane were committed to +the Tower under the Speaker's warrant on May 22nd, 1679, and Pepys's place +at the Admiralty was filled by the appointment of Thomas Hayter. When the +two prisoners were brought to the bar of the King's Bench on the 2nd of +June, the Attorney-General refused bail, but subsequently they were +allowed to find security for L30,000. + +Pepys was put to great expense in collecting evidence against Scott and +obtaining witnesses to clear himself of the charges brought against him. +He employed his brother-in-law, Balthasar St. Michel, to collect evidence +in France, as he himself explains in a letter to the Commissioners of the +Navy:-- + + "His Majesty of his gracious regard to me, and the justification of + my innocence, was then pleased at my humble request to dispence with + my said brother goeing (with ye shippe about that time designed for + Tangier) and to give leave to his goeing into France (the scene of + ye villannys then in practice against me), he being the only person + whom (from his relation to me, together with his knowledge in the + place and language, his knowne dilligence and particular affection + towards mee) I could at that tyme and in soe greate a cause pitch + on, for committing the care of this affaire of detecting the + practice of my enemies there." + +In the end Scott refused to acknowledge to the truth of his original +deposition, and the prisoners were relieved from their bail on February +12th, 1679-80. John James, a butler previously in Pepys's service, +confessed on his deathbed in 1680 that he had trumped up the whole story +relating to his former master's change of religion at the instigation of +Mr. William Harbord, M.P. for Thetford. + +Pepys wrote on July 1st, 1680, to Mrs. Skinner: + + "I would not omit giving you the knowledge of my having at last + obtained what with as much reason I might have expected a year ago, + my full discharge from the bondage I have, from one villain's + practice, so long lain under." + +William Harbord, of Cadbury, co. Somerset, second son of Sir Charles +Harbord, whom he succeeded in 1682 as Surveyor. General of the Land +Revenues of the Crown, was Pepys's most persistent enemy. Several papers +referring to Harbord's conduct were found at Scott's lodging after his +flight, and are now preserved among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian. +One of these was the following memorandum, which shows pretty plainly +Pepys's opinion of Harbord:-- + + "That about the time of Mr. Pepys's surrender of his employment of + Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. Russell and myself being in + discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell delivered himself in these or + other words to this purport: That he thought it might be of + advantage to both, if a good understanding were had between his + brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose it to Mr. Pepys, + and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and went immediately + from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this discourse, he gave me + readily this answer in these very words: That he knew of no service + Mr. Harbord could doe him, or if he could, he should be the last man + in England he would receive any from." + + [William Harbord sat as M.P. for Thetford in several parliaments. + In 1689 he was chosen on the Privy Council, and in 1690 became Vice- + Treasurer for Ireland. He was appointed Ambassador to Turkey in + 1692, and died at Belgrade in July of that year.] + +Besides Scott's dishonesty in his dealings with Major Gotherson, it came +out that he had cheated the States of Holland out of L7,000, in +consequence of which he was hanged in effigy at the Hague in 1672. In +1682 he fled from England to escape from the law, as he had been guilty of +wilful murder by killing George Butler, a hackney coachman, and he reached +Norway in safety, where he remained till 1696. In that year some of his +influential friends obtained a pardon for him from William III., and he +returned to England. + +In October, 1680, Pepys attended on Charles II. at Newmarket, and there he +took down from the King's own mouth the narrative of his Majesty's escape +from Worcester, which was first published in 1766 by Sir David Dalrymple +(Lord Hailes) from the MS., which now remains in the Pepysian library both +in shorthand and in longhand? It is creditable to Charles II. and the +Duke of York that both brothers highly appreciated the abilities of Pepys, +and availed themselves of his knowledge of naval affairs. + +In the following year there was some chance that Pepys might retire from +public affairs, and take upon himself the headship of one of the chief +Cambridge colleges. On the death of Sir Thomas Page, the Provost of +King's College, in August, 1681, Mr. S. Maryon, a Fellow of Clare Hall, +recommended Pepys to apply to the King for the appointment, being assured +that the royal mandate if obtained would secure his election. He liked +the idea, but replied that he believed Colonel Legge (afterwards Lord +Dartmouth) wanted to get the office for an old tutor. Nothing further +seems to have been done by Pepys, except that he promised if he were +chosen to give the whole profit of the first year, and at least half of +that of each succeeding year, to "be dedicated to the general and public +use of the college." In the end Dr. John Coplestone was appointed to the +post. + +On May 22nd, 1681, the Rev. Dr. Milles, rector of St. Olave's, who is so +often mentioned in the Diary, gave Pepys a certificate as to his attention +to the services of the Church. It is not quite clear what was the +occasion of the certificate, but probably the Diarist wished to have it +ready in case of another attack upon him in respect to his tendency +towards the Church of Rome. + +Early in 1682 Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, and narrowly +escaped shipwreck by the way. Before letters could arrive in London to +tell of his safety, the news came of the wreck of the "Gloucester" (the +Duke's ship), and of the loss of many lives. His friends' anxiety was +relieved by the arrival of a letter which Pepys wrote from Edinburgh to +Hewer on May 8th, in which he detailed the particulars of the adventure. +The Duke invited him to go on board the "Gloucester" frigate, but he +preferred his own yacht (the "Catherine "), in which he had more room, and +in consequence of his resolution he saved himself from the risk of +drowning. On May 5th the frigate struck upon the sand called "The Lemon +and Oar," about sixteen leagues from the mouth of the Humber. This was +caused by the carelessness of the pilot, to whom Pepys imputed "an +obstinate over-weening in opposition to the contrary opinions of Sir I. +Berry, his master, mates, Col. Legg, the Duke himself, and several others, +concurring unanimously in not being yet clear of the sands." The Duke and +his party escaped, but numbers were drowned in the sinking ship, and it is +said that had the wreck occurred two hours earlier, and the accompanying +yachts been at the distance they had previously been, not a soul would +have escaped. + +Pepys stayed in Edinburgh for a short time, and the Duke of York allowed +him to be present at two councils. He then visited; with Colonel George +Legge, some of the principal places in the neighbourhood, such as +Stirling, Linlithgow, Hamilton, and Glasgow. The latter place he +describes as "a very extraordinary town indeed for beauty and trade, much +superior to any in Scotland." + +Pepys had now been out of office for some time, but he was soon to have +employment again. Tangier, which was acquired at the marriage of the King +to Katharine of Braganza, had long been an incumbrance, and it was +resolved at last to destroy the place. Colonel Legge (now Lord Dartmouth) +was in August, 1683, constituted Captain-General of his Majesty's forces +in Africa, and Governor of Tangier, and sent with a fleet of about twenty +sail to demolish and blow up the works, destroy the harbour, and bring +home the garrison. Pepys received the King's commands to accompany Lord +Dartmouth on his expedition, but the latter's instructions were secret, +and Pepys therefore did not know what had been decided upon. He saw quite +enough, however, to form a strong opinion of the uselessness of the place +to England. Lord Dartmouth carried out his instructions thoroughly, and +on March 29th, 1684, he and his party (including Pepys) arrived in the +English Channel. + +The King himself now resumed the office of Lord High Admiral, and +appointed Pepys Secretary of the Admiralty, with a salary of L500 per +annum. In the Pepysian Library is the original patent, dated June 10th, +1684: "His Majesty's Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of +Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, Esq., +first Secretary therein." In this office the Diarist remained until the +period of the Revolution, when his official career was concluded. + +A very special honour was conferred upon Pepys in this year, when he was +elected President of the Royal Society in succession to Sir Cyril Wyche, +and he held the office for two years. Pepys had been admitted a fellow of +the society on February 15th, 1664-65, and from Birch's "History" we find +that in the following month he made a statement to the society:-- + +"Mr. Pepys gave an account of what information he had received from the +Master of the Jersey ship which had been in company with Major Holmes in +the Guinea voyage concerning the pendulum watches (March 15th, 1664-5)." + +The records of the society show that he frequently made himself useful by +obtaining such information as might be required in his department. After +he retired from the presidency, he continued to entertain some of the most +distinguished members of the society on Saturday evenings at his house in +York Buildings. Evelyn expressed the strongest regret when it was +necessary to discontinue these meetings on account of the infirmities of +the host. + +In 1685 Charles II. died, and was succeeded by James, Duke of York. From +his intimate association with James it might have been supposed that a +long period of official life was still before Pepys, but the new king's +bigotry and incapacity soon made this a practical impossibility. At the +coronation of James II. Pepys marched in the procession immediately +behind the king's canopy, as one of the sixteen barons of the Cinque +Ports. + +In the year 1685 a new charter was granted to the Trinity Company, and +Pepys was named in it the first master, this being the second time that he +had held the office of master. + +Evelyn specially refers to the event in his Diary, and mentions the +distinguished persons present at the dinner on July 20th. + +It is evident that at this time Pepys was looked upon as a specially +influential man, and when a parliament was summoned to meet on May 19th, +1685, he was elected both for Harwich and for Sandwich. He chose to serve +for Harwich, and Sir Philip Parker was elected to fill his place at +Sandwich. + +This parliament was dissolved by proclamation July 2nd, 1687, and on +August 24th the king declared in council that another parliament should be +summoned for November 27th, 1688, but great changes took place before that +date, and when the Convention Parliament was called together in January +and February, 1689-90, Pepys found no place in it. The right-hand man of +the exiled monarch was not likely to find favour in the eyes of those who +were now in possession. When the election for Harwich came on, the +electors refused to return him, and the streets echoed to the cry of "No +Tower men, no men out of the Tower!" They did not wish to be represented +in parliament by a disgraced official. + +We have little or no information to guide us as to Pepys's proceedings at +the period of the Revolution. We know that James II. just before his +flight was sitting to Kneller for a portrait intended for the Secretary to +the Admiralty, and that Pepys acted in that office for the last time on +20th February, 1688-89, but between those dates we know nothing of the +anxieties and troubles that he must have suffered. On the 9th March an +order was issued from the Commissioners of the Admiralty for him to +deliver up his books, &c., to Phineas Bowies, who superseded him as +secretary. + +Pepys had many firm friends upon whom he could rely, but he had also +enemies who lost no opportunity of worrying him. On June 10th, 1690, +Evelyn has this entry in his Diary, which throws some light upon the +events of the time:-- + + "Mr. Pepys read to me his Remonstrance, skewing with what malice and + injustice he was suspected with Sir Anth. Deane about the timber of + which the thirty ships were built by a late Act of Parliament, with + the exceeding danger which the fleete would shortly be in, by reason + of the tyranny and incompetency of those who now managed the + Admiralty and affairs of the Navy, of which he gave an accurate + state, and shew'd his greate ability." + +On the 25th of this same month Pepys was committed to the Gatehouse at +Westminster on a charge of having sent information to the French Court of +the state of the English navy. There was no evidence of any kind against +him, and at the end of July he was allowed to return to his own house on +account of ill-health. Nothing further was done in respect to the charge, +but he was not free till some time after, and he was long kept in anxiety, +for even in 1692 he still apprehended some fresh persecution. + +Sir Peter Palavicini, Mr. James Houblon, Mr. Blackburne, and Mr. Martin +bailed him, and he sent them the following circular letter:-- + + "October 15, 1690. + + "Being this day become once again a free man in every respect, I + mean but that of my obligation to you and the rest of my friends, to + whom I stand indebted for my being so, I think it but a reasonable + part of my duty to pay you and them my thanks for it in a body; but + know not how otherwise to compass it than by begging you, which I + hereby do, to take your share with them and me here, to-morrow, of a + piece of mutton, which is all I dare promise you, besides that of + being ever, + + "Your most bounden and faithful humble servant, + "S. P." + +He employed the enforced idleness caused by being thrust out of his +employment in the collection of the materials for the valuable work which +he published in 1690, under the title of "Memoirs of the Navy." Little +more was left for him to do in life, but as the government became more +firmly established, and the absolute absurdity of the idea of his +disloyalty was proved, Pepys held up his head again as a man to be +respected and consulted, and for the remainder of his life he was looked +upon as the Nestor of the Navy. + +There is little more to be told of Pepys's life. He continued to keep up +an extended correspondence with his many friends, and as Treasurer of +Christ's Hospital he took very great interest in the welfare of that +institution. He succeeded in preserving from impending ruin the +mathematical foundation which had been originally designed by him, and +through his anxious solicitations endowed and cherished by Charles II. and +James II. One of the last public acts of his life was the presentation of +the portrait of the eminent Dr. John Wallis, Savilian Professor of +Geometry, to the University of Oxford. + +In 1701 he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, and +the University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeous +language the expression of thanks for his munificence.' + +On the 26th May, 1703, Samuel Pepys, after long continued suffering, +breathed his last in the presence of the learned Dr. George Hickes, the +nonjuring Dean of Worcester, and the following letter from John Jackson to +his uncle's lifelong friend Evelyn contains particulars as to the cause of +death: + + Mr. Jackson to Mr. Evelyn. + + "Clapham, May 28th, 1703. + "Friday night. + + "Honoured Sir, + + "'Tis no small addition to my grief, to be obliged to interrupt the + quiet of your happy recess with the afflicting tidings of my Uncle + Pepys's death: knowing how sensibly you will partake with me herein. + But I should not be faithful to his desires, if I did not beg your + doing the honour to his memory of accepting mourning from him, as a + small instance of his most affectionate respect and honour for you. + I have thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the way at + that only time when you were pleased lately to touch here, and + express so great a desire of taking your leave of my Uncle; which + could not but have been admitted by him as a most welcome exception + to his general orders against being interrupted; and I could most + heartily wish that the circumstances of your health and distance did + not forbid me to ask the favour of your assisting in the holding up + of the pawll at his interment, which is intended to be on Thursday + next; for if the manes are affected with what passes below, I am + sure this would have been very grateful to his. + + "I must not omit acquainting you, sir, that upon opening his body, + (which the uncommonness of his case required of us, for our own + satisfaction as well as public good) there was found in his left + kidney a nest of no less than seven stones, of the most irregular, + figures your imagination can frame, and weighing together four + ounces and a half, but all fast linked together, and adhering to his + back; whereby they solve his having felt no greater pains upon + motion, nor other of the ordinary symptoms of the stone. Some other + lesser defects there also were in his body, proceeding from the same + cause. But his stamina, in general, were marvellously strong, and + not only supported him, under the most exquisite pains, weeks beyond + all expectations; but, in the conclusion, contended for nearly forty + hours (unassisted by any nourishment) with the very agonies of + death, some few minutes excepted, before his expiring, which were + very calm. + + "There remains only for me, under this affliction, to beg the + consolation and honour of succeeding to your patronage, for my + Uncle's sake; and leave to number myself, with the same sincerity he + ever did, among your greatest honourers, which I shall esteem as one + of the most valuable parts of my inheritances from him; being also, + with the faithfullest wishes of health and a happy long life to you, + + "Honoured Sir, + "Your most obedient and + "Most humble Servant, + "J. JACKSON. + + "Mr. Hewer, as my Uncle's Executor, and equally your faithful + Servant, joins with me in every part hereof. + + "The time of my Uncle's departure was about three-quarters past + three on Wednesday morning last." + +Evelyn alludes in his Diary to Pepys's death and the present to him of a +suit of mourning. He speaks in very high terms of his friend:-- + + "1703, May 26th. This day died Mr. Sam Pepys, a very worthy, + industrious, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in + knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed thro' all the most + considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the + Admiralty, all which he performed with great integrity. When K. + James II. went out of England, he laid down his office, and would + serve no more, but withdrawing himselfe from all public affaires, he + liv'd at Clapham with his partner Mr. Hewer, formerly his clerk, in + a very noble and sweete place, where he enjoy'd the fruits of his + labours in greate prosperity. He was universally belov'd, + hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilfd in music, a + very greate cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation + . . . . Mr. Pepys had been for neere 40 yeeres so much my + particular friend that Mr. Jackson sent me compleat mourning, + desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his magnificent + obsequies, but my indisposition hinder'd me from doing him this last + office." + +The body was brought from Clapham and buried in St. Olave's Church, Hart +Street, on the 5th June, at nine o'clock at night, in a vault just beneath +the monument to the memory of Mrs. Pepys. Dr. Hickes performed the last +sad offices for his friend. + +Pepys's faithful friend, Hewer, was his executor, and his nephew, John +Jackson, his heir. Mourning was presented to forty persons, and a large +number of rings to relations, godchildren, servants, and friends, also to +representatives of the Royal Society, of the Universities of Cambridge and +Oxford, of the Admiralty, and of the Navy Office. The bulk of the +property was bequeathed to Jackson, but the money which was left was much +less than might have been expected, for at the time of Pepys's death +there was a balance of L28,007 2s. 1d. due to him from the Crown, and +none of this was ever paid. The books and other collections were left to +Magdalene College, Cambridge, but Jackson was to have possession of them +during his lifetime. These were the most important portion of Pepys's +effects, for with them was the manuscript of the immortal Diary. The +following are the directions for the disposition of the library, taken +from Harl. MS., No. 7301: + + "For the further settlement and preservation of my said library, + after the death of my nephew. John Jackson, I do hereby declare, + That could I be sure of a constant succession of heirs from my said + nephew, qualified like himself for the use of such a library, I + should not entertain a thought of its ever being alienated from + them. But this uncertainty considered, with the infinite pains, and + time, and cost employed in my collecting, methodising and reducing + the same to the state it now is, I cannot but be greatly solicitous + that all possible provision should be made for its unalterable + preservation and perpetual security against the ordinary fate of + such collections falling into the hands of an incompetent heir, and + thereby being sold, dissipated, or embezzled. And since it has + pleased God to visit me in a manner that leaves little appearance of + being myself restored to a condition of concerting the necessary + measures for attaining these ends, I must and do with great + confidence rely upon the sincerity and direction of my executor and + said nephew for putting in execution the powers given them, by my + forementioned will relating hereto, requiring that the same be + brought to a determination in twelve months after my decease, and + that special regard be had therein to the following particulars + which I declare to be my present thoughts and prevailing + inclinations in this matter, viz.: + + "1. That after the death of my said nephew, my said library be + placed and for ever settled in one of our universities, and rather + in that of Cambridge than Oxford. + + "2. And rather in a private college there, than in the public + library. + + "3. And in the colleges of Trinity or Magdalen preferably to all + others. + + "4. And of these too, 'caeteris paribus', rather in the latter, for + the sake of my own and my nephew's education therein. + + "5. That in which soever of the two it is, a fair roome be provided + therein. + + "6. And if in Trinity, that the said roome be contiguous to, and + have communication with, the new library there. + + "7. And if in Magdalen, that it be in the new building there, and + any part thereof at my nephew's election. + + "8. That my said library be continued in its present form and no + other books mixed therein, save what my nephew may add to theirs of + his own collecting, in distinct presses. + + "9. That the said room and books so placed and adjusted be called + by the name of 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana.' + + "10. That this 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana' be under the sole power and + custody of the master of the college for the time being, who shall + neither himself convey, nor suffer to be conveyed by others, any of + the said books from thence to any other place, except to his own + lodge in the said college, nor there have more than ten of them at a + time; and that of those also a strict entry be made and account + kept, at the time of their having been taken out and returned, in a + book to be provided, and remain in the said library for that purpose + only. + + "11. That before my said library be put into the possession of + either of the said colleges, that college for which it shall be + designed, first enter into covenants for performance of the + foregoing articles. + + "12. And that for a yet further security herein, the said two + colleges of Trinity and Magdalen have a reciprocal check upon one + another; and that college which shall be in present possession of + the said library, be subject to an annual visitation from the other, + and to the forfeiture thereof to the life, possession, and use of + the other, upon conviction of any breach of their said covenants. + + "S. PEPYS." + +The library and the original book-cases were not transferred to Magdalene +College until 1724, and there they have been preserved in safety ever +since. + +A large number of Pepys's manuscripts appear to have remained unnoticed in +York Buildings for some years. They never came into Jackson's hands, and +were thus lost to Magdalene College. Dr. Rawlinson afterwards obtained +them, and they were included in the bequest of his books to the Bodleian +Library. + +Pepys was partial to having his portrait taken, and he sat to Savill, +Hales, Lely, and Kneller. Hales's portrait, painted in 1666, is now in +the National Portrait Gallery, and an etching from the original forms the +frontispiece to this volume. The portrait by Lely is in the Pepysian +Library. Of the three portraits by Kneller, one is in the hall of +Magdalene College, another at the Royal Society, and the third was lent to +the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, by the late Mr. +Andrew Pepys Cockerell. Several of the portraits have been engraved, but +the most interesting of these are those used by Pepys himself as +book-plates. These were both engraved by Robert White, and taken from +paintings by Kneller. + +The church of St. Olave, Hart Street, is intimately associated with Pepys +both in his life and in his death, and for many years the question had +been constantly asked by visitors, "Where is Pepys's monument?" On +Wednesday, July 5th, 1882, a meeting was held in the vestry of the church, +when an influential committee was appointed, upon which all the great +institutions with which Pepys was connected were represented by their +masters, presidents, or other officers, with the object of taking steps to +obtain an adequate memorial of the Diarist. Mr. (now Sir) Alfred +Blomfield, architect of the church, presented an appropriate design for a +monument, and sufficient subscriptions having been obtained for the +purpose, he superintended its erection. On Tuesday afternoon, March 18th, +1884, the monument, which was affixed to the wall of the church where the +gallery containing Pepys's pew formerly stood, was unveiled in the +presence of a large concourse of visitors. The Earl of Northbrook, First +Lord of the Admiralty, consented to unveil the monument, but he was at the +last moment prevented by public business from attending. The late Mr. +Russell Lowell, then the American Minister, took Lord Northbrook's place, +and made a very charming and appreciative speech on the occasion, from +which the following passages are extracted:-- + + "It was proper," his Excellency said, "that he should read a note he + had received from Lord Northbrook. This was dated that day from the + Admiralty, and was as follows: + + "'My dear Mr. Lowell, + + "'I am very much annoyed that I am prevented from assisting at the + ceremony to-day. It would be very good if you would say that + nothing but very urgent business would have kept me away. I was + anxious to give my testimony to the merits of Pepys as an Admiralty + official, leaving his literary merits to you. He was concerned with + the administration of the Navy from the Restoration to the + Revolution, and from 1673 as secretary. I believe his merits to be + fairly stated in a contemporary account, which I send. + + "'Yours very truly, + "'NORTHBROOK. + + "The contemporary account, which Lord Northbrook was good enough to + send him, said: + + "'Pepys was, without exception, the greatest and most useful + Minister that ever filled the same situations in England, the acts + and registers of the Admiralty proving this beyond contradiction. + The principal rules and establishments in present use in these + offices are well known to have been of his introducing, and most of + the officers serving therein since the Restoration, of his bringing- + up. He was a most studious promoter and strenuous asserter of order + and discipline. Sobriety, diligence, capacity, loyalty, and + subjection to command were essentials required in all whom he + advanced. Where any of these were found wanting, no interest or + authority was capable of moving him in favour of the highest + pretender. Discharging his duty to his Prince and country with a + religious application and perfect integrity, he feared no one, + courted no one, and neglected his own fortune.' + + "That was a character drawn, it was true, by a friendly hand, but to + those who were familiar with the life of Pepys, the praise hardly + seemed exaggerated. As regarded his official life, it was + unnecessary to dilate upon his peculiar merits, for they all knew + how faithful he was in his duties, and they all knew, too, how many + faithful officials there were working on in obscurity, who were not + only never honoured with a monument but who never expected one. The + few words, Mr. Lowell went on to remark, which he was expected to + say upon that occasion, therefore, referred rather to what he + believed was the true motive which had brought that assembly + together, and that was by no means the character of Pepys either as + Clerk of the Acts or as Secretary to the Admiralty. This was not + the place in which one could go into a very close examination of the + character of Pepys as a private man. He would begin by admitting + that Pepys was a type, perhaps, of what was now called a + 'Philistine'. We had no word in England which was equivalent to the + French adjective Bourgeois; but, at all events, Samuel Pepys was the + most perfect type that ever existed of the class of people whom this + word described. He had all its merits as well as many of its + defects. With all those defects, however perhaps in consequence of + them--Pepys had written one of the most delightful books that it was + man's privilege to read in the English language or in any other. + Whether Pepys intended this Diary to be afterwards read by the + general public or not--and this was a doubtful question when it was + considered that he had left, possibly by inadvertence, a key to his + cypher behind him--it was certain that he had left with us a most + delightful picture, or rather he had left the power in our hands of + drawing for ourselves some, of the most delightful pictures, of the + time in which he lived. There was hardly any book which was + analogous to it . .. . . If one were asked what were the reasons + for liking Pepys, it would be found that they were as numerous as + the days upon which he made an entry in his Diary, and surely that + was sufficient argument in his favour. There was no book, Mr. + Lowell said, that he knew of, or that occurred to his memory, with + which Pepys's Diary could fairly be compared, except the journal of + L'Estoile, who had the same anxious curiosity and the same + commonness, not to say vulgarity of interest, and the book was + certainly unique in one respect, and that was the absolute sincerity + of the author with himself. Montaigne is conscious that we are + looking over his shoulder, and Rousseau secretive in comparison with + him. The very fact of that sincerity of the author with himself + argued a certain greatness of character. Dr. Hickes, who attended + Pepys at his deathbed, spoke of him as 'this great man,' and said he + knew no one who died so greatly. And yet there was something almost + of the ridiculous in the statement when the 'greatness' was compared + with the garrulous frankness which Pepys showed towards himself. + There was no parallel to the character of Pepys, he believed, in + respect of 'naivete', unless it were found in that of Falstaff, and + Pepys showed himself, too, like Falstaff, on terms of unbuttoned + familiarity with himself. Falstaff had just the same 'naivete', but + in Falstaff it was the 'naivete' of conscious humour. In Pepys it + was quite different, for Pepys's 'naivete' was the inoffensive + vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass. Falstaff had + a sense, too, of inadvertent humour, but it was questionable whether + Pepys could have had any sense of humour at all, and yet permitted + himself to be so delightful. There was probably, however, more + involuntary humour in Pepys's Diary than there was in any other book + extant. When he told his readers of the landing of Charles II. at + Dover, for instance, it would be remembered how Pepys chronicled the + fact that the Mayor of Dover presented the Prince with a Bible, for + which he returned his thanks and said it was the 'most precious Book + to him in the world.' Then, again, it would be remembered how, when + he received a letter addressed 'Samuel Pepys, Esq.,' he confesses in + the Diary that this pleased him mightily. When, too, he kicked his + cookmaid, he admits that he was not sorry for it, but was sorry that + the footboy of a worthy knight with whom he was acquainted saw him + do it. And the last instance he would mention of poor Pepys's + 'naivete' was when he said in the Diary that he could not help + having a certain pleasant and satisfied feeling when Barlow died. + Barlow, it must be remembered, received during his life the yearly + sum from Pepys of L100. The value of Pepys's book was simply + priceless, and while there was nothing in it approaching that single + page in St. Simon where he described that thunder of courtierly red + heels passing from one wing of the Palace to another as the Prince + was lying on his death-bed, and favour was to flow from another + source, still Pepys's Diary was unequalled in its peculiar quality + of amusement. The lightest part of the Diary was of value, + historically, for it enabled one to see London of 200 years ago, + and, what was more, to see it with the eager eyes of Pepys. It was + not Pepys the official who had brought that large gathering together + that day in honour of his memory: it was Pepys the Diarist." + +In concluding this account of the chief particulars of Pepys's life it may +be well to add a few words upon the pronunciation of his name. Various +attempts appear to have been made to represent this phonetically. Lord +Braybrooke, in quoting the entry of death from St. Olave's Registers, +where the spelling is "Peyps," wrote, "This is decisive as to the proper +pronunciation of the name." This spelling may show that the name was +pronounced as a monosyllable, but it is scarcely conclusive as to anything +else, and Lord Braybrooke does not say what he supposes the sound of the +vowels to have been. At present there are three pronunciations in +use--Peps, which is the most usual; Peeps, which is the received one at +Magdalene College, and Peppis, which I learn from Mr. Walter C. Pepys is +the one used by other branches of the family. Mr. Pepys has paid +particular attention to this point, and in his valuable "Genealogy of the +Pepys Family" (1887) he has collected seventeen varieties of spelling of +the name, which are as follows, the dates of the documents in which the +form appears being attached: + +1. Pepis (1273); 2. Pepy (1439); 3. Pypys (1511); 4. Pipes (1511); +5. Peppis (1518); 6. Peppes (1519); 7. Pepes (1520); 8. Peppys (1552); +9. Peaps (1636); 10. Pippis (1639); 11. Peapys (1653); 12. Peps (1655); +13. Pypes (1656); 14. Peypes (1656); 15. Peeps (1679); 16. Peepes (1683); +17. Peyps (1703). Mr. Walter Pepys adds:-- + + "The accepted spelling of the name 'Pepys' was adopted generally + about the end of the seventeenth century, though it occurs many + years before that time. There have been numerous ways of + pronouncing the name, as 'Peps,' 'Peeps,' and 'Peppis.' The + Diarist undoubtedly pronounced it 'Peeps,' and the lineal + descendants of his sister Paulina, the family of 'Pepys Cockerell' + pronounce it so to this day. The other branches of the family all + pronounce it as 'Peppis,' and I am led to be satisfied that the + latter pronunciation is correct by the two facts that in the + earliest known writing it is spelt 'Pepis,' and that the French form + of the name is 'Pepy.'" + +The most probable explanation is that the name in the seventeenth century +was either pronounced 'Pips' or 'Papes'; for both the forms 'ea' and 'ey' +would represent the latter pronunciation. The general change in the +pronunciation of the spelling 'ea' from 'ai' to 'ee' took place in a large +number of words at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the +eighteenth-century, and three words at least (yea, break, and great) keep +this old pronunciation still. The present Irish pronunciation of English +is really the same as the English pronunciation of the seventeenth +century, when the most extensive settlement of Englishmen in Ireland took +place, and the Irish always pronounce ea like ai (as, He gave him a nate +bating--neat beating). Again, the 'ey' of Peyps would rhyme with they and +obey. English literature is full of illustrations of the old +pronunciation of ea, as in "Hudibras;" + + "Doubtless the pleasure is as great + In being cheated as to cheat," + +which was then a perfect rhyme. In the "Rape of the Lock" tea (tay) +rhymes with obey, and in Cowper's verses on Alexander Selkirk sea rhymes +with survey.' It is not likely that the pronunciation of the name was +fixed, but there is every reason to suppose that the spellings of Peyps +and Peaps were intended to represent the sound Pepes rather than Peeps. + +In spite of all the research which has brought to light so many incidents +of interest in the life of Samuel Pepys, we cannot but feel how dry these +facts are when placed by the side of the living details of the Diary. It +is in its pages that the true man is displayed, and it has therefore not +been thought necessary here to do more than set down in chronological +order such facts as are known of the life outside the Diary. A fuller +"appreciation" of the man must be left for some future occasion. + + H. B. W. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.) + Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment + Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March + He knew nothing about the navy + He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours + I never designed to be a witness against any man + In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least + Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass + Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 + Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder + Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon + The present Irish pronunciation of English + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS + 1660 N.S. COMPLETE + + JANUARY + 1659-60 + + [The year did not legally begin in England before the 25th March + until the act for altering the style fixed the 1st of January as the + first day of the year, and previous to 1752 the year extended from + March 25th to the following March 24th. Thus since 1752 we have + been in the habit of putting the two dates for the months of January + and February and March 1 to 24--in all years previous to 1752. + Practically, however, many persons considered the year to commence + with January 1st, as it will be seen Pepys did. The 1st of January + was considered as New Year's day long before Pepys's time. The + fiscal year has not been altered; and the national accounts are + still reckoned from old Lady Day, which falls on the 6th of April.] + +Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, +without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold. + + [Pepys was successfully cut for the stone on March 26th, 1658. See + March 26th below. Although not suffering from this cause again + until the end of his life, there are frequent references in the + Diary to pain whenever he caught cold. In a letter from Pepys to + his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the + breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the + cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the + greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil + so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and + with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that + the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone, + without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more + than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again." At the post-mortem + examination a nest of seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces, + was found in the left kidney, which was entirely ulcerated.] + +I lived in Axe Yard, + + [Pepys's house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster; + it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he + should have settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street + stands on the site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great + messuage or brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called "The + Axe," and referred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII--B.] + +having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. My +wife . . . . gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day +of the year . . . .[the hope was belied.] + + [Ed. note: . . . . are used to denote censored passages] + +The condition of the State was thus; viz. the Rump, after being disturbed +by my Lord Lambert, + + [John Lambert, major-general in the Parliamentary army. The title + Lord was not his by right, but it was frequently given to the + republican officers. He was born in 1619, at Calton Hall, in the + parish of Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. + In 1642 he was appointed captain of horse under Fairfax, and acted + as major-general to Cromwell in 1650 during the war in Scotland. + After this Parliament conferred on him a grant of lands in Scotland + worth L1000 per annum. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to + Cromwell, for which the Protector deprived him of his commission. + After Cromwell's death he tried to set up a military government. + The Commons cashiered Lambert, Desborough, and other officers, + October 12th, 1659, but Lambert retaliated by thrusting out the + Commons, and set out to meet Monk. His men fell away from him, and + he was sent to the Tower, March 3rd, 1660, but escaped. In 1662 he + was tried on a charge of high treason and condemned, but his life + was spared. It is generally stated that he passed the remainder of + his life in the island of Guernsey, but this is proved to be + incorrect by a MS. in the Plymouth Athenaeum, entitled "Plimmouth + Memoirs collected by James Yonge, 1684" This will be seen from the + following extracts quoted by Mr. R. J. King, in "Notes and Queries," + "1667 Lambert the arch-rebel brought to this island [St. Nicholas, + at the entrance of Plymouth harbour]." "1683 Easter day Lambert + that olde rebell dyed this winter on Plimmouth Island where he had + been prisoner 15 years and more."] + +was lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced to +yield. Lawson + + [Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as + a common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished + himself during the Protectorate. Though a republican, he readily + closed with the design of restoring the King. He was vice-admiral + under the Earl of Sandwich, and commanded the "London" in the + squadron which conveyed Charles II. to England. He was mortally + wounded in the action with the Dutch off Harwich, June, 1665. He + must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of + Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II, + July 6th, 1665.] + +lies still in the river, and Monk--[George Monk, born 1608, created Duke +of Albemarle, 1660, married Ann Clarges, March, 1654, died January 3rd, +1676.]--is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord Lambert is not yet +come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will without being +forced to it. The new Common Council of the City do speak very high; and +had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint him with their desires +for a free and full Parliament, which is at present the desires, and the +hopes, and expectation of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded members + + ["The City sent and invited him [Monk] to dine the next day at + Guildhall, and there he declared for the members whom the army had + forced away in year forty-seven and forty-eight, who were known by + the names of secluded members."--Burnet's Hist. of his Own Time, + book i.] + +having been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance, but it was +denied them; and it is believed that [neither] they nor the people will be +satisfied till the House be filled. My own private condition very +handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goods of my +house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain. Mr. Downing +master of my office. + + [George Downing was one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the + Exchequer, and in his office Pepys was a clerk. He was the son of + Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple, afterwards of Salem, + Massachusetts, and of Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop. He is + supposed to have been born in August, 1623. He and his parents went + to New England in 1638, and he was the second graduate of Harvard + College. He returned to England about 1645, and acted as Colonel + Okey's chaplain before he entered into political life. Anthony a + Wood (who incorrectly describes him as the son of Dr. Calybute + Downing, vicar of Hackney) calls Downing a sider with all times and + changes: skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionally. + He was sent by Cromwell to Holland in 1657, as resident there. At + the Restoration, he espoused the King's cause, and was knighted and + elected M.P. for Morpeth, in 1661. Afterwards, becoming + Secretary to the Treasury and Commissioner of the Customs, he was in + 1663 created a Baronet of East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, and was + again sent Ambassador to Holland. His grandson of the same name, + who died in 1749, was the founder of Downing College, Cambridge. + The title became extinct in 1764, upon the decease of Sir John + Gerrard Downing, the last heir-male of the family. Sir George + Downing's character will be found in Lord Clarendon's "Life," vol. + iii. p. 4. Pepys's opinion seems to be somewhat of a mixed kind. + He died in July, 1684.] + +Jan. 1st (Lord's day). This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I +rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other, +clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning's + + [Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, + and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely. He had continued to + read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament + was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him. Evelyn + relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with + soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife + being among them. There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in + Evelyn's Diary. When he obtained the mastership of St. John's + College upon the ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that + Nonconformist divine a handsome annuity during his life. He was a + great controversialist, and a man of great reading. Burnet says he + "was a very honest sincere man, but of no sound judgment, and of no + prudence in affairs" ("Hist. of his Own. Time"). He died July 6th, + 1684, aged seventy-one.] + +chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these +words:--"That in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman," +&c.; showing, that, by "made under the law," is meant his circumcision, +which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the garret, where my wife +dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her +hand. I staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; then +went with my wife to my father's, and in going observed the great posts +which the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supt at my, +father's, where in came Mrs. The. Turner--[Theophila Turner, daughter of +Sergeant John and Jane Turner, who married Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. She +died 1686.]--and Madam Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife and +I went home with them, and so to our own home. + +2nd. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of +bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to +Mr. Sheply,--[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]--who +was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other places as a gift +from my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him order to give me the +dozen of bottles. Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthropp +about the L60 due to my Lord, + + [Sir Edward Montagu, born 1625, son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by + Paulina, daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, married Jemima, + daughter of John Crew of Stene. He died in action against the Dutch + in Southwold Bay, May 28th, 1672. The title of "My Lord" here + applied to Montagu before he was created Earl of Sandwich is of the + same character as that given to General Lambert.] + +but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I went to Mr. Crew's + + [John Crew, born 1598, eldest son of Sir Thomas Crew, Sergeant-at- + Law and Speaker of the House of Commons. He sat for Brackley in the + Long Parliament. Created Baron Crew of Stene, in the county of + Northampton, at the coronation of Charles II. He married Jemima, + daughter and co-heir of Edward Walgrave (or Waldegrave) of Lawford, + Essex. His house was in Lincoln's Inn Fields. He died December + 12th, 1679.] + +and borrowed L10 of Mr. Andrewes for my own use, and so went to my office, +where there was nothing to do. Then I walked a great while in Westminster +Hall, where I heard that Lambert was coming up to London; that my Lord +Fairfax + + [Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces. + After the Restoration, he retired to his country seat, where he + lived in private till his death, 1671. In a volume (autograph) of + Lord Fairfax's Poems, preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42, + the following lines occur upon the 30th of January, on which day the + King was beheaded. It is believed that they have never been + printed. + + "O let that day from time be bloted quitt, + And beleef of 't in next age be waved, + In depest silence that act concealed might, + That so the creadet of our nation might be saved; + But if the powre devine hath ordered this, + His will's the law, and our must aquiess." + + These wretched verses have obviously no merit; but they are curious + as showing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles + I's judges; continued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror + for that unfortunate monarch's fate. It has recently been pointed + out to me, that the lines were not originally composed by Fairfax, + being only a poor translation of the spirited lines of Statius + (Sylvarum lib. v. cap. ii. l. 88) + + "Excidat illa dies aevo, ne postera credant + Secula, nos certe taceamus; et obruta multa + Nocte tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis." + + These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the + massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in + his memorable speech in the House of Commons, January, 1793, after + the murder of Louis XVI.--B.] + +was in the head of the Irish brigade, but it was not certain what he would +declare for. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for the Council +of State, which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers; and were +to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk that many places have +declared for a free Parliament; and it is believed that they will be +forced to fill up the House with the old members. From the Hall I called +at home, and so went to Mr. Crew's (my wife she was to go to her +father's), thinking to have dined, but I came too late, so Mr. Moore and I +and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of ale together in the new +market, and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner. After that +Mr. Moore and I went as far as Fleet-street together and parted, he going +into the City, I to find Mr. Calthrop, but failed again of finding him, so +returned to Mr. Crew's again, and from thence went along with Mrs. Jemimah + + [Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir + Edward Montagu. At this time she and her sister, Mrs. Ann, seem to + have been living alone with their maids in London, and Pepys's duty + was to look after them.] + +home, and there she taught me how to play at cribbage. Then I went home, +and finding my wife gone to see Mrs. Hunt, I went to Will's, + + [Pepys constantly visited "Will's" about this time; but this could + not be the famous coffee-house in Covent Garden, because he mentions + visiting there for the first time, February 3rd, 1663-64. It was + most probably the house of William Joyce, who kept a place of + entertainment at Westminster (see Jan. 29th).] + +and there sat with Mr. Ashwell talking and singing till nine o'clock, and +so home, there, having not eaten anything but bread and cheese, my wife +cut me a slice of brawn which. I received from my Lady;--[Jemima, wife of +Sir Edward Montagu, daughter of John Crew of Stene, afterwards Lord +Crew.]--which proves as good as ever I had any. So to bed, and my wife +had a very bad night of it through wind and cold. + +3rd. I went out in the morning, it being a great frost, and walked to +Mrs. Turner's + + [Jane, daughter of John Pepys of South Creake, Norfolk, married to + John Turner, Sergeant-at-law, Recorder of York; their only child, + Theophila, frequently mentioned as The. or Theoph., became the wife + of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart., of Stowford, Devon, and died 1686, + s.p.] + +to stop her from coming to see me to-day, because of Mrs. Jem's corning, +thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthrop, and walked in his +chamber an hour, but could not see him, so went to Westminster, where I +found soldiers in my office to receive money, and paid it them. At noon +went home, where Mrs. Jem, her maid, Mr. Sheply, Hawly, and Moore dined +with me on a piece of beef and cabbage, and a collar of brawn. We then +fell to cards till dark, and then I went home with Mrs. Jem, and meeting +Mr. Hawly got him to bear me company to Chancery Lane, where I spoke with +Mr. Calthrop, he told me that Sir James Calthrop was lately dead, but that +he would write to his Lady, that the money may be speedily paid. Thence +back to White Hall, where I understood that the Parliament had passed the +act for indemnity to the soldiers and officers that would come in, in so +many days, and that my Lord Lambert should have benefit of the said act. +They had also voted that all vacancies in the House, by the death of any +of the old members, shall be filled up; but those that are living shall +not be called in. Thence I went home, and there found Mr. Hunt and his +wife, and Mr. Hawly, who sat with me till ten at night at cards, and so +broke up and to bed. + +4th. Early came Mr. Vanly--[Mr Vanley appears to have been Pepys's +landlord; he is mentioned again in the Diary on September 20th, 1660.]--to +me for his half-year's rent, which I had not in the house, but took his +man to the office and there paid him. Then I went down into the Hall and +to Will's, where Hawly brought a piece of his Cheshire cheese, and we were +merry with it. Then into the Hall again, where I met with the Clerk and +Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and took them to the Swan' and gave +them their morning's draft, + + [It was not usual at this time to sit down to breakfast, but instead + a morning draught was taken at a tavern.] + +they being just come to town. Mr. Jenkins shewed me two bills of exchange +for money to receive upon my Lord's and my pay. It snowed hard all this +morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much swelled with cold. +Strange the difference of men's talk! Some say that Lambert must of +necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and that the +Fifth-monarchy-men [will] stick to him, if he declares for a free +Parliament. Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote of pardon +and indemnity from the Parliament. From the Hall I came home, where I +found letters from Hinchinbroke + + [Hinchinbroke was Sir Edward Montagu's seat, from which he + afterwards took his second title. Hinchinbroke House, so often + mentioned in the Diary, stood about half a mile to the westward of + the town of Huntingdon. It was erected late in the reign of + Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the site of a Benedictine + nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its appurtenances, to + his father, Richard Williams, who had assumed the name of Cromwell, + and whose grandson, Sir Oliver, was the uncle and godfather of the + Protector. The knight, who was renowned for, his hospitality, had + the honour of entertaining King James at Hinchinbroke, but, getting + into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his estates, which + were conveyed, July 28th, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu of Barnwell, + father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant they are + still vested. On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, during the + minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchinbroke was almost entirely + destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly saved, + and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the + interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore, + Esq., R.A.--B.] + +and news of Mr. Sheply's going thither the next week. I dined at home, +and from thence went to Will's to Shaw, who promised me to go along with +me to Atkinson's about some money, but I found him at cards with Spicer +and D. Vines, and could not get him along with me. I was vext at this, +and went and walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spent +this day in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters from the +North, that brought certain news that my Lord Lambent his forces were all +forsaking him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, and that he did +now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my Lord Fairfax did also +rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and that what he had done was +only to secure the country against my Lord Lambert his raising of money, +and free quarter. I went to Will's again, where I found them still at +cards, and Spicer had won 14s. of Shaw and Vines. Then I spent a little +time with G. Vines and Maylard at Vines's at our viols. + + [It was usual to have a "chest of viols," which consisted of six, + viz., two trebles, two tenors, and two basses (see note in North's + "Memoirs of Musick," ed. Rimbault, p. 70). The bass viol was also + called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.] + +So home, and from thence to Mr. Hunt's, and sat with them and Mr. Hawly at +cards till ten at night, and was much made of by them. Home and so to +bed, but much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled. + +5th. I went to my office, where the money was again expected from the +Excise office, but none brought, but was promised to be sent this +afternoon. I dined with Mr. Sheply, at my Lord's lodgings, upon his +turkey-pie. And so to my office again; where the Excise money was +brought, and some of it told to soldiers till it was dark. Then I went +home, and after writing a letter to my Lord and told him the news that the +Parliament hath this night voted that the members that were discharged +from sitting in the years 1648 and 49, were duly discharged; and that +there should be writs issued presently for the calling of others in their +places, and that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up to town, and that the +Prince's lodgings were to be provided for Monk at Whitehall. Then my wife +and I, it being a great frost, went to Mrs. Jem's, in expectation to eat a +sack-posset, but Mr. Edward--[Edward Montage, son of Sir Edward, and +afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]--not coming it was put off; and so I left +my wife playing at cards with her, and went myself with my lanthorn to Mr. +Fage, to consult concerning my nose, who told me it was nothing but cold, +and after that we did discourse concerning public business; and he told me +it is true the City had not time enough to do much, but they are resolved +to shake off the soldiers; and that unless there be a free Parliament +chosen, he did believe there are half the Common Council will not levy any +money by order of this Parliament. From thence I went to my father's, +where I found Mrs. Ramsey and her grandchild, a pretty girl, and staid a +while and talked with them and my mother, and then took my leave, only +heard of an invitation to go to dinner to-morrow to my cosen Thomas +Pepys.--[Thomas Pepys, probably the son of Thomas Pepys of London (born, +1595), brother of Samuel's father, John Pepys.]--I went back to Mrs. Jem, +and took my wife and Mrs. Sheply, and went home. + +6th. This morning Mr. Sheply and I did eat our breakfast at Mrs. +Harper's, (my brother John' being with me,) + + [John Pepys was born in 1641, and his brother Samuel took great + interest in his welfare, but he did not do any great credit to his + elder.] + +upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. From thence I went to my office, +where we paid money to the soldiers till one o'clock, at which time we +made an end, and I went home and took my wife and went to my cosen, Thomas +Pepys, and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only +the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome. After dinner +I took my leave, leaving my wife with my cozen Stradwick,--[Elizabeth, +daughter of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and wife of +Thomas Stradwick.]--and went to Westminster to Mr. Vines, where George and +I fiddled a good while, Dick and his wife (who was lately brought to bed) +and her sister being there, but Mr. Hudson not coming according to his +promise, I went away, and calling at my house on the wench, I took her and +the lanthorn with me to my cosen Stradwick, where, after a good supper, +there being there my father, mother, brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott +and his wife, Mr. Drawwater and his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, +we had a brave cake brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and +Mr. Stradwick was King. After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home, +it being still a great frost. + +7th. At my office as I was receiving money of the probate of wills, in +came Mrs. Turner, Theoph., Madame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I had done +I took them home to my house and Mr. Hawly came after, and I got a dish of +steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game or two at +cards. In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing came to +fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and was forced to stay +till night in expectation of the French Embassador, who at last came, and +I had a great deal of good discourse with one of his gentlemen concerning +the reason of the difference between the zeal of the French and the +Spaniard. After he was gone I went home, and found my friends still at +cards, and after that I went along with them to Dr. Whores (sending my +wife to Mrs. Jem's to a sack-posset), where I heard some symphony and +songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, and Mallard. +Afterwards I put my friends into a coach, and went to Mrs. Jem's, where I +wrote a letter to my Lord by the post, and had my part of the posset which +was saved for me, and so we went home, and put in at my Lord's lodgings, +where we staid late, eating of part of his turkey-pie, and reading of +Quarles' Emblems. So home and to bed. + +8th (Sunday). In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where a good +sermon, wherein he showed the life of Christ, and told us good authority +for us to believe that Christ did follow his father's trade, and was a +carpenter till thirty years of age. From thence to my father's to dinner, +where I found my wife, who was forced to dine there, we not having one +coal of fire in the house, and it being very hard frosty weather. In the +afternoon my father, he going to a man's to demand some money due to my +Aunt Bells my wife and I went to Mr. Mossum's, where a strange doctor made +a very good sermon. From thence sending my wife to my father's, I went to +Mrs. Turner's, and staid a little while, and then to my father's, where I +found Mr. Sheply, and after supper went home together. Here I heard of +the death of Mr. Palmer, and that he was to be buried at Westminster +tomorrow. + +9th. For these two or three days I have been much troubled with thoughts +how to get money to pay them that I have borrowed money of, by reason of +my money being in my uncle's hands. I rose early this morning, and looked +over and corrected my brother John's speech, which he is to make the next +apposition,--[Declamations at St. Paul's School, in which there were +opponents and respondents.]--and after that I went towards my office, and +in my way met with W. Simons, Muddiman, and Jack Price, and went with them +to Harper's and in many sorts of talk I staid till two of the clock in the +afternoon. I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch rogue; and owns that +though he writes new books for the Parliament, yet he did declare that he +did it only to get money; and did talk very basely of many of them. Among +other things, W. Simons told me how his uncle Scobel was on Saturday last +called to the bar, for entering in the journal of the House, for the year +1653, these words: "This day his Excellence the Lord General Cromwell +dissolved this House;" which words the Parliament voted a forgery, and +demanded of him how they came to be entered. He answered that they were +his own handwriting, and that he did it by virtue of his office, and the +practice of his predecessor; and that the intent of the practice was +to--let posterity know how such and such a Parliament was dissolved, +whether by the command of the King, or by their own neglect, as the last +House of Lords was; and that to this end, he had said and writ that it was +dissolved by his Excellence the Lord G[eneral]; and that for the word +dissolved, he never at the time did hear of any other term; and desired +pardon if he would not dare to make a word himself when it was six years +after, before they came themselves to call it an interruption; but they +were so little satisfied with this answer, that they did chuse a committee +to report to the House, whether this crime of Mr. Scobell's did come +within the act of indemnity or no. Thence I went with Muddiman to the +Coffee-House, and gave 18d. to be entered of the Club. Thence into the +Hall, where I heard for certain that Monk was coming to London, and that +Bradshaw's 2 lodgings were preparing for him. Thence to Mrs. Jem's, and +found her in bed, and she was afraid that it would prove the small-pox. +Thence back to Westminster Hall, where I heard how Sir H. Vane--[Sir Harry +Vane the younger, an inflexible republican. He was executed in 1662, on a +charge of conspiring the death of Charles I.]--was this day voted out of +the House, and to sit no more there; and that he would retire himself to +his house at Raby, as also all the rest of the nine officers that had +their commissions formerly taken away from them, were commanded to their +farthest houses from London during the pleasure of the Parliament. Here I +met with the Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and his clerk Mr. Jenings, +and took them home, and gave them a bottle of wine, and the remainder of +my collar of brawn; and so good night. After that came in Mr. Hawly, who +told me that I was mist this day at my office, and that to-morrow I must +pay all the money that I have, at which I was put to a great loss how I +should get money to make up my cash, and so went to bed in great trouble. + +10th. Went out early, and in my way met with Greatorex,--[Ralph +Greatorex, the well-known mathematical instrument maker of his day. He is +frequently mentioned by Pepys.]--and at an alehouse he showed me the first +sphere of wire that ever he made, and indeed it was very pleasant; thence +to Mr. Crew's, and borrowed L10, and so to my office, and was able to pay +my money. Thence into the Hall, and meeting the Quarter Master, Jenings, +and Captain Rider, we four went to a cook's to dinner. Thence Jenings and +I into London (it being through heat of the sun a great thaw and dirty) to +show our bills of return, and coming back drank a pint of wine at the Star +in Cheapside. So to Westminster, overtaking Captain Okeshott in his silk +cloak, whose sword got hold of many people in walking. Thence to the +Coffee-house, where were a great confluence of gentlemen; viz. Mr. +Harrington, Poultny, chairman, Gold, Dr, Petty; &c., where admirable +discourse till at night. Thence with Doling to Mother Lams, who told me +how this day Scott + + [Thomas Scott, M.P., was made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth + on the 17th of this same January. He signed the death warrant of + Charles I., for which he was executed at Charing Cross, October + 16th, 1660. He gloried in his offence, and desired to have written + on his tombstone, "Thomas Scott who adjudged to death the late + king."] + +was made Intelligencer, and that the rest of the members that were +objected against last night, their business was to be heard this day +se'nnight. Thence I went home and wrote a letter, and went to Harper's, +and staid there till Tom carried it to the postboy at Whitehall. So home +to bed. + +11th. Being at Will's with Captain Barker, who hath paid me L300 this +morning at my office, in comes my father, and with him I walked, and leave +him at W. Joyce's, and went myself to Mr. Crew's, but came too late to +dine, and therefore after a game at shittle-cocks--[The game of battledore +and shuttlecock was formerly much played even in tennis courts, and was a +very violent game.]--with Mr. Walgrave and Mr. Edward, I returned to my +father, and taking him from W. Joyce's, who was not abroad himself, we +inquired of a porter, and by his direction went to an alehouse, where +after a cup or two we parted. I went towards London, and in my way went +in to see Crowly, who was now grown a very great loon and very tame. +Thence to Mr. Steven's with a pair of silver snuffers, and bought a pair +of shears to cut silver, and so homeward again. From home I went to see +Mrs. Jem, who was in bed, and now granted to have the small-pox. Back +again, and went to the Coffee-house, but tarried not, and so home. + +12th. I drink my morning at Harper's with Mr. Sheply and a seaman, and so +to my office, where Captain Holland came to see me, and appointed a +meeting in the afternoon. Then wrote letters to Hinchinbroke and sealed +them at Will's, and after that went home, and thence to the Half Moon, +where I found the Captain and Mr. Billingsly and Newman, a barber, where +we were very merry, and had the young man that plays so well on the Welsh +harp. Billingsly paid for all. Thence home, and finding my letters this +day not gone by the carrier I new sealed them, but my brother Tom coming +we fell into discourse about my intention to feast the Joyces. I sent for +a bit of meat for him from the cook's, and forgot to send my letters this +night. So I went to bed, and in discourse broke to my wife what my +thoughts were concerning my design of getting money by, &c. + +13th. Coming in the morning to my office, I met with Mr. Fage and took +him to the Swan? He told me how high Haselrigge, and Morly, the last +night began at my Lord Mayor's to exclaim against the City of London, +saying that they had forfeited their charter. And how the Chamberlain of +the City did take them down, letting them know how much they were formerly +beholding to the City, &c. He also told me that Monk's letter that came +to them by the sword-bearer was a cunning piece, and that which they did +not much trust to; but they were resolved to make no more applications to +the Parliament, nor to pay any money, unless the secluded members be +brought in, or a free Parliament chosen. Thence to my office, where +nothing to do. So to Will's with Mr. Pinkney, who invited me to their +feast at his Hall the next Monday. Thence I went home and took my wife +and dined at Mr. Wades, and after that we went and visited Catan. From +thence home again, and my wife was very unwilling to let me go forth, but +with some discontent would go out if I did, and I going forth towards +Whitehall, I saw she followed me, and so I staid and took her round +through Whitehall, and so carried her home angry. Thence I went to Mrs. +Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox, +but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards with her. And +so to Mr. Vines, where he and I and Mr. Hudson played half-a-dozen things, +there being there Dick's wife and her sister. After that I went home and +found my wife gone abroad to Mr. Hunt's, and came in a little after +me.--So to bed. + +14th. Nothing to do at our office. Thence into the Hall, and just as I +was going to dinner from Westminster Hall with Mr. Moore (with whom I had +been in the lobby to hear news, and had spoke with Sir Anthony Ashley +Cooper about my Lord's lodgings) to his house, I met with Captain Holland, +who told me that he hath brought his wife to my house, so I posted home +and got a dish of meat for them. They staid with me all the afternoon, +and went hence in the evening. Then I went with my wife, and left her at +market, and went myself to the Coffee-house, and heard exceeding good +argument against Mr. Harrington's assertion, that overbalance of propriety +[i.e., property] was the foundation of government. Home, and wrote to +Hinchinbroke, and sent that and my other letter that missed of going on +Thursday last. So to bed. + +15th. Having been exceedingly disturbed in the night with the barking of +a dog of one of our neighbours that I could not sleep for an hour or two, +I slept late, and then in the morning took physic, and so staid within all +day. At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I +could his Greek speech to say the Apposition, though I believe he himself +was as well able to do it as myself. After that we went to read in the +great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome. After +that my wife and I in pleasant discourse till night, then I went to +supper, and after that to make an end of this week's notes in this book, +and so to bed. It being a cold day and a great snow my physic did not +work so well as it should have done. + +16th. In the morning I went up to Mr. Crew's, and at his bedside he gave +me direction to go to-morrow with Mr. Edward to Twickenham, and likewise +did talk to me concerning things of state; and expressed his mind how just +it was that the secluded members should come to sit again. I went from +thence, and in my way went into an alehouse and drank my morning draft +with Matthew Andrews and two or three more of his friends, coachmen. And +of one of them I did hire a coach to carry us to-morrow to Twickenham. +From thence to my office, where nothing to do; but Mr. Downing he came and +found me all alone; and did mention to me his going back into Holland, and +did ask me whether I would go or no, but gave me little encouragement, but +bid me consider of it; and asked me whether I did not think that Mr. Hawly +could perform the work of my office alone or no. I confess I was at a +great loss, all the day after, to bethink myself how to carry this +business. At noon, Harry Ethall came to me and went along with Mr. +Maylard by coach as far as Salsbury Court, and there we set him down, and +we went to the Clerks, where we came a little too late, but in a closet we +had a very good dinner by Mr. Pinkny's courtesy, and after dinner we had +pretty good singing, and one, Hazard, sung alone after the old fashion, +which was very much cried up, but I did not like it. Thence we went to +the Green Dragon, on Lambeth Hill, both the Mr. Pinkney's, Smith, +Harrison, Morrice, that sang the bass, Sheply and I, and there we sang of +all sorts of things, and I ventured with good success upon things at first +sight, and after that I played on my flageolet, and staid there till nine +o'clock, very merry and drawn on with one song after another till it came +to be so late. After that Sheply, Harrison and myself, we went towards +Westminster on foot, and at the Golden Lion, near Charing Cross, we went +in and drank a pint of wine, and so parted, and thence home, where I found +my wife and maid a-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his +bell just under my window as I was writing of this very line, and cried, +"Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went +to bed, and left my wife and the maid a-washing still. + +17th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's, and having given Mr. Edward money to +give the servants, I took him into the coach that waited for us and +carried him to my house, where the coach waited for me while I and the +child went to Westminster Hall, and bought him some pictures. In the Hall +I met Mr. Woodfine, and took him to Will's and drank with him. Thence the +child and I to the coach, where my wife was ready, and so we went towards +Twickenham. In our way, at Kensington we understood how that my Lord +Chesterfield had killed another gentleman about half an hour before, and +was fled. + + [Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, ob. 1713, act. suae + 80. We learn, from the memoir prefixed to his "Printed + Correspondence," that he fought three duels, disarming and wounding + his first and second antagonists, and killing the third. The name + of the unfortunate gentleman who fell on this occasion was Woolly. + Lord Chesterfield, absconding, went to Breda, where he obtained the + royal pardon from Charles II. He acted a busy part in the eventful + times in which he lived, and was remarkable for his steady adherence + to the Stuarts. Lord Chesterfield's letter to Charles II., and the + King's answer granting the royal pardon, occur in the Correspondence + published by General Sir John Murray, in 1829. + + "Jan. 17th, 1659. The Earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly's son of + Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a mare of eighteen pounds price; + the quarrel would not be reconciled, insomuch that a challenge + passed between them. They fought a duel on the backside of Mr. + Colby's house at Kensington, where the Earl and he had several + passes. The Earl wounded him in two places, and would fain have + then ended, but the stubbornness and pride of heart of Mr. Woolly + would not give over, and the next pass [he] was killed on the spot. + The Earl fled to Chelsea, and there took water and escaped. The + jury found it chance-medley."--Rugge's "Diurnal," Addit MSS., + British Museum.--B.] + +We went forward and came about one of the clock to Mr. Fuller's, but he +was out of town, so we had a dinner there, and I gave the child 40s. to +give to the two ushers. After that we parted and went homewards, it being +market day at Brainford [Brentford]. I set my wife down and went with the +coach to Mr. Crew's, thinking to have spoke with Mr. Moore and Mrs. Jem, +he having told me the reason of his melancholy was some unkindness from +her after so great expressions of love, and how he had spoke to her +friends and had their consent, and that he would desire me to take an +occasion of speaking with her, but by no means not to heighten her +discontent or distaste whatever it be, but to make it up if I can. But he +being out of doors, I went away and went to see Mrs. Jem, who was now very +well again, and after a game or two at cards, I left her. So I went to +the Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse; it was in answer to Mr. +Harrington's answer, who said that the state of the Roman government was +not a settled government, and so it was no wonder that the balance of +propriety [i.e., property] was in one hand, and the command in another, it +being therefore always in a posture of war; but it was carried by ballot, +that it was a steady government, though it is true by the voices it had +been carried before that it was an unsteady government; so to-morrow it is +to be proved by the opponents that the balance lay in one hand, and the +government in another. Thence I went to Westminster, and met Shaw and +Washington, who told me how this day Sydenham + + [Colonel William Sydenham had been an active officer during the + Civil Wars, on the Parliament side; M.P. for Dorsetshire, Governor + of Melcombe, and one of the Committee of Safety. He was the elder + brother of the celebrated physician of that name.--B.] + +was voted out of the House for sitting any more this Parliament, and that +Salloway was voted out likewise and sent to the Tower, during the pleasure +of the House. Home and wrote by the Post, and carried to Whitehall, and +coming back turned in at Harper-'s, where Jack Price was, and I drank with +him and he told me, among other, things, how much the Protector + + [Richard Cromwell, third son of Oliver Cromwell, born October 4th, + 1626, admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn, May 27th, 1647, fell into + debt and devoted himself to hunting and field sports. His + succession to his father as Protector was universally accepted at + first, but the army soon began to murmur because he was not a + general. Between the dissensions of various parties he fell, and + the country was left in a state of anarchy: He went abroad early in + the summer of 1660, and lived abroad for some years, returning to + England in 1680. After his fall he bore the name of John Clarke. + Died at Cheshunt, July 12th, 1712.] + +is altered, though he would seem to bear out his trouble very well, yet he +is scarce able to talk sense with a man; and how he will say that "Who +should a man trust, if he may not trust to a brother and an uncle;" and +"how much those men have to answer before God Almighty, for their playing +the knave with him as they did." He told me also, that there was; +L100,000 offered, and would have been taken for his restitution, had not +the Parliament come in as they did again; and that he do believe that the +Protector will live to give a testimony of his valour and revenge yet +before he dies, and that the Protector will say so himself sometimes. +Thence I went home, it being late and my wife in bed. + +18th. To my office and from thence to Will's, and there Mr. Sheply +brought me letters from the carrier and so I went home. After that to +Wilkinson's, where we had a dinner for Mr. Talbot, Adams, Pinkny and his +son, but his son did not come. Here we were very merry, and while I was +here Mr. Fuller came thither and staid a little, while. + +After that we all went to my Lord's, whither came afterwards Mr. Harrison, +and by chance seeing Mr. Butler--[Mr. Butler is usually styled by Pepys +Mons. l'Impertinent.]--coming by I called him in and so we sat drinking a +bottle of wine till night. At which time Mistress Ann--[Probably Mrs. +(afterwards Lady) Anne Montagu, daughter of Sir Edward Montagu, and sister +to Mrs. Jem.]--came with the key of my Lord's study for some things, and +so we all broke up and after I had gone to my house and interpreted my +Lord's letter by his character--[The making of ciphers was a popular +amusement about this time. Pepys made several for Montagu, Downing, and +others.]--I came to her again and went with her to her lodging and from +thence to Mr. Crew's, where I advised with him what to do about my Lord's +lodgings and what answer to give to Sir Ant. Cooper and so I came home and +to bed. All the world is at a loss to think what Monk will do: the City +saying that he will be for them, and the Parliament saying he will be for +them. + +19th. This morning I was sent for to Mr. Downing, and at his bed side he +told me, that he had a kindness for me, and that he thought that he had +done me one; and that was, that he had got me to be one of the Clerks of +the Council; at which I was a little stumbled, and could not tell what to +do, whether to thank him or no; but by and by I did; but not very +heartily, for I feared that his doing of it was but only to ease himself +of the salary which he gives me. After that Mr. Sheply staying below all +this time for me we went thence and met Mr. Pierce, + + [Pepys had two friends named Pierce, one the surgeon and the other + the purser; he usually (but not always) distinguishes them. The one + here alluded to was probably the surgeon, and husband of pretty Mrs. + Pierce. After the Restoration James Pearse or Pierce became Surgeon + to the Duke of York, and he was also Surgeon-General of the Fleet.] + +so at the Harp and Ball drank our morning draft and so to Whitehall where +I met with Sir Ant. Cooper and did give him some answer from my Lord and +he did give us leave to keep the lodgings still. And so we did determine +thereupon that Mr. Sheply might now go into the country and would do so +to-morrow. Back I went by Mr. Downing's order and staid there till twelve +o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but he came +not, so I staid all alone reading the answer of the Dutch Ambassador to +our State, in answer to the reasons of my Lord's coming home, which he +gave for his coming, and did labour herein to contradict my Lord's +arguments for his coming home. Thence to my office and so with Mr. Sheply +and Moore, to dine upon a turkey with Mrs. Jem, and after that Mr. Moore +and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr. Downing this day feasted Sir +Arth. Haselrigge, and a great many more of the Parliament, and did stay to +put him in mind of me. Here he gave me a note to go and invite some other +members to dinner tomorrow. So I went to White Hall, and did stay at +Marsh's, with Simons, Luellin, and all the rest of the Clerks of the +Council, who I hear are all turned out, only the two Leighs, and they do +all tell me that my name was mentioned the last night, but that nothing +was done in it. Hence I went and did leave some of my notes at the +lodgings of the members and so home. To bed. + +20th. In the morning I went to Mr. Downing's bedside and gave him an +account what I had done as to his guests, land I went thence to my Lord +Widdrington who I met in the street, going to seal the patents for the +judges to-day, and so could not come to dinner. I called upon Mr. +Calthrop about the money due to my Lord. Here I met with Mr. Woodfine and +drank with him at the Sun in Chancery Lane and so to Westminster Hall, +where at the lobby I spoke with the rest of my guests and so to my office. +At noon went by water with Mr. Maylard and Hales to the Swan in Fish +Street at our Goal Feast, where we were very merry at our Jole of Ling, +and from thence after a great and good dinner Mr. Falconberge would go +drink a cup of ale at a place where I had like to have shot at a scholar +that lay over the house of office. Thence calling on Mr. Stephens and +Wootton (with whom I drank) about business of my Lord's I went to the +Coffee Club where there was nothing done but choosing of a Committee for +orders. Thence to Westminster Hall where Mrs. Lane and the rest of the +maids had their white scarfs, all having been at the burial of a young +bookseller in the Hall. + + [These stationers and booksellers, whose shops disfigured + Westminster Hall down to a late period, were a privileged class. + In the statutes for appointing licensers and regulating the press, + there is a clause exempting them from the pains and penalties of + these obnoxious laws.] + +Thence to Mr. Sheply's and took him to my house and drank with him in +order to his going to-morrow. So parted and I sat up late making up my +accounts before he go. This day three citizens of London went to meet +Monk from the Common Council! + + "Jan. 20th. Then there went out of the City, by desire of the Lord + Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Alderman Fowke and Alderman Vincett, + alias Vincent, and Mr. Broomfield, to compliment General Monk, who + lay at Harborough Town, in Leicestershire." + + "Jan. 21st. Because the Speaker was sick, and Lord General Monk so + near London, and everybody thought that the City would suffer for + their affronts to the soldiery, and because they had sent the sword- + bearer to, the General without the Parliament's consent, and the + three Aldermen were gone to give him the welcome to town, these four + lines were in almost everybody's mouth: + + "Monk under a hood, not well understood, + The City pull in their horns; + The Speaker is out, and sick of the gout, + And the Parliament sit upon thorns." + --Rugge's 'Diurnal.'--B." + +21st. Up early in finishing my accounts and writing to my Lord and from +thence to my Lord's and took leave of Mr. Sheply and possession of all the +keys and the house. Thence to my office for some money to pay Mr. Sheply +and sent it him by the old man. I then went to Mr. Downing who chid me +because I did not give him notice of some of his guests failed him but I +told him that I sent our porter to tell him and he was not within, but he +told me that he was within till past twelve o'clock. So the porter or he +lied. Thence to my office where nothing to do. Then with Mr. Hawly, he +and I went to Mr. Crew's and dined there. Thence into London, to Mr. +Vernon's and I received my L25 due by bill for my troopers' pay. Then +back again to Steadman's. At the Mitre, in Fleet street, in our way +calling on Mr. Fage, who told me how the City have some hopes of Monk. +Thence to the Mitre, where I drank a pint of wine, the house being in +fitting for Banister to come hither from Paget's. Thence to Mrs. Jem and +gave her L5. So home and left my money and to Whitehall where Luellin and +I drank and talked together an hour at Marsh's and so up to the clerks' +room, where poor Mr. Cook, a black man, that is like to be put out of his +clerk's place, came and railed at me for endeavouring to put him out and +get myself in, when I was already in a good condition. But I satisfied +him and after I had wrote a letter there to my Lord, wherein I gave him an +account how this day Lenthall took his chair again, and [the House] +resolved a declaration to be brought in on Monday next to satisfy the +world what they intend to do. So home and to bed. + +22nd. I went in the morning to Mr. Messum's, where I met with W. Thurburn +and sat with him in his pew. A very eloquent sermon about the duty of all +to give good example in our lives and conversation, which I fear he +himself was most guilty of not doing. After sermon, at the door by +appointment my wife met me, and so to my father's to dinner, where we had +not been to my shame in a fortnight before. After dinner my father shewed +me a letter from Mr. Widdrington, of Christ's College, in Cambridge, +wherein he do express very great kindness for my brother, and my father +intends that my brother shall go to him. To church in the afternoon to +Mr. Herring, where a lazy poor sermon. And so home with Mrs. Turner and +sitting with her a while we went to my father's where we supt very merry, +and so home. This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes, which I have +bought yesterday of Mr. Wotton. + +23rd. In the morning called out to carry L20 to Mr. Downing, which I did +and came back, and finding Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, I took him to the Axe +and gave him his morning draft. Thence to my office and there did nothing +but make up my balance. Came home and found my wife dressing of the +girl's head, by which she was made to look very pretty. I went out and +paid Wilkinson what I did owe him, and brought a piece of beef home for +dinner. Thence I went out and paid Waters, the vintner, and went to see +Mrs. Jem, where I found my Lady Wright, but Scott was so drunk that he +could not be seen. Here I staid and made up Mrs. Ann's bills, and played +a game or two at cards, and thence to Westminster Hall, it being very +dark. I paid Mrs. Michell, my bookseller, and back to Whitehall, and in +the garden, going through to the Stone Gallery--[The Stone Gallery was a +long passage between the Privy Garden and the river. It led from the +Bowling Green to the Court of the Palace]--I fell into a ditch, it being +very dark. At the Clerk's chamber I met with Simons and Luellin, and went +with them to Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cock Pit, where we had some rare +pot venison, and ale to abundance till almost twelve at night, and after a +song round we went home. This day the Parliament sat late, and resolved +of the declaration to be printed for the people's satisfaction, promising +them a great many good things. + +24th. In the morning to my office, where, after I had drank my morning +draft at Will's with Ethell and Mr. Stevens, I went and told part of the +excise money till twelve o'clock, and then called on my wife and took her +to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a pair of +new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late. There when we came +we found Mrs. Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, who called one another +husband and wife, and after dinner a great deal of mad stir. There was +pulling off Mrs. bride's and Mr. bridegroom's ribbons; + + [The scramble for ribbons, here mentioned by Pepys in connection + with weddings (see also January 26th, 1660-61, and February 8th, + 1662-3), doubtless formed part of the ceremony of undressing the + bridegroom, which, as the age became more refined, fell into disuse. + All the old plays are silent on the custom; the earliest notice of + which occurs in the old ballad of the wedding of Arthur O'Bradley, + printed in the Appendix to "Robin Hood," 1795, where we read-- + + "Then got they his points and his garters, + And cut them in pieces like martyrs; + And then they all did play + For the honour of Arthur O'Bradley." + + Sir Winston Churchill also observes ("Divi Britannici," p. 340) that + James I. was no more troubled at his querulous countrymen robbing + him than a bridegroom at the losing of his points and garters. Lady + Fanshawe, in her "Memoirs," says, that at the nuptials of Charles + II. and the Infanta, "the Bishop of London declared them married in + the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and then they + caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces; and + as far as they would go, every one had some." The practice still + survives in the form of wedding favours. + + A similar custom is still of every day's occurrence at Dieppe. Upon + the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom + perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests + at the wedding festival, two and two; each individual wearing two + bits of narrow ribbon, about two inches in length, of different + colours, which are pinned crossways upon the breast. These morsels + of ribbons originally formed the garters of the bride and + bridegroom, which had been divided amidst boisterous mirth among the + assembled company, the moment the happy pair had been formally + installed in the bridal bed.--Ex. inf. Mr. William .Hughes, + Belvedere, Jersey.--B.] + +with a great deal of fooling among them that I and my wife did not like. +Mr. Lucy and several other gentlemen coming in after dinner, swearing and +singing as if they were mad, only he singing very handsomely. There came +in afterwards Mr. Southerne, clerk to Mr. Blackburne, and with him +Lambert, lieutenant of my Lord's ship, and brought with them the +declaration that came out to-day from the Parliament, wherein they declare +for law and gospel, and for tythes; but I do not find people apt to +believe them. After this taking leave I went to my father's, and my wife +staying there, he and I went to speak with Mr. Crumlum (in the meantime, +while it was five o'clock, he being in the school, we went to my cozen Tom +Pepys' shop, the turner in Paul's Churchyard, and drank with him a pot of +ale); he gave my father directions what to do about getting my brother an +exhibition, and spoke very well of my brother. Thence back with my father +home, where he and I spoke privately in the little room to my sister Pall +about stealing of things as my wife's scissars and my maid's book, at +which my father was much troubled. Hence home with my wife and so to +Whitehall, where I met with Mr. Hunt and Luellin, and drank with them at +Marsh's, and afterwards went up and wrote to my Lord by the post. This +day the Parliament gave order that the late Committee of Safety should +come before them this day se'nnight, and all their papers, and their model +of Government that they had made, to be brought in with them. So home and +talked with my wife about our dinner on Thursday. + +25th. Called up early to Mr. Downing; he gave me a Character, such a one +as my Lord's, to make perfect, and likewise gave me his order for L500 to +carry to Mr. Frost, which I did and so to my office, where I did do +something about the character till twelve o'clock. Then home find found +my wife and the maid at my Lord's getting things ready against to-morrow. +I went by water to my Uncle White's' to dinner, where I met my father, +where we alone had a fine jole of Ling to dinner. After dinner I took +leave, and coming home heard that in Cheapside there had been but a little +before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson + + [John Hewson, who, from a low origin, became a colonel in the + Parliament army, and sat in judgment on the King: he escaped hanging + by flight, and died in 1662, at Amsterdam. A curious notice of + Hewson occurs in Rugge's "Diurnal," December 5th, 1659, which states + that "he was a cobbler by trade, but a very stout man, and a very + good commander; but in regard of his former employment, they [the + city apprentices] threw at him old shoes, and slippers, and + turniptops, and brick-bats, stones, and tiles." . . . "At this + time [January, 1659-60] there came forth, almost every day, jeering + books: one was called 'Colonel Hewson's Confession; or, a Parley + with Pluto,' about his going into London, and taking down the gates + of Temple-Bar." He had but one eye, which did not escape the notice + of his enemies.--B.] + +hung upon it in the middle of the street. I called at Paul's Churchyard, +where I bought Buxtorf's Hebrew Grammar; and read a declaration of the +gentlemen of Northampton which came out this afternoon. Thence to my +father's, where I staid with my mother a while and then to Mr. Crew's +about a picture to be sent into the country, of Mr. Thomas Crew, to my +Lord. So [to] my Lady Wright to speak with her, but she was abroad, so +Mr. Evans, her butler, had me into his buttery, and gave me sack and a +lesson on his lute, which he played very well. Thence I went to my Lord's +and got most things ready against tomorrow, as fires and laying the cloth, +and my wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets till eleven +o'clock. This evening Mr. Downing sent for me, and gave me order to go to +Mr. Jessop for his papers concerning his dispatch to Holland which were +not ready, only his order for a ship to transport him he gave me. To my +Lord's again and so home with my wife, tired with this day's work. + +26th. To my office for L20 to carry to Mr. Downing, which I did and back +again. Then came Mr. Frost to pay Mr. Downing his L500, and I went to him +for the warrant and brought it Mr. Frost. Called for some papers at +Whitehall for Mr. Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council for +L1800 per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, Orders to the +Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods pass free. Home from my office +to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner--viz. +a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, +three pullets, and two dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a +neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese. My +company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. Pierce, and all +their wives, and my brother Tom. We were as merry as I could frame myself +to be in the company, W. Joyce talking after the old rate and drinking +hard, vexed his father and mother and wife. And I did perceive that Mrs. +Pierce her coming so gallant, that it put the two young women quite out of +courage. When it became dark they all went away but Mr. Pierce, and W. +Joyce, and their wives and Tom, and drank a bottle of wine afterwards, so +that Will did heartily vex his father and mother by staying. At which I +and my wife were much pleased. Then they all went and I fell to writing +of two characters for Mr. Downing, and carried them to him at nine o'clock +at night, and he did not like them but corrected them, so that to-morrow I +am to do them anew. To my Lord's lodging again and sat by the great log, +it being now a very good fire, with my wife, and ate a bit and so home. +The news this day is a letter that speaks absolutely Monk's concurrence +with this Parliament, and nothing else, which yet I hardly believe. After +dinner to-day my father showed me a letter from my Uncle Robert, in +answer to my last, concerning my money which I would have out of my Coz. +Beck's' hand, wherein Beck desires it four months longer, which I know not +how to spare. + +27th. Going to my office I met with Tom Newton, my old comrade, and took +him to the Crown in the Palace, and gave him his morning draft. And as he +always did, did talk very high what he would do with the Parliament, that +he would have what place he would, and that he might be one of the Clerks +to the Council if he would. Here I staid talking with him till the +offices were all shut, and then I looked in the Hall, and was told by my +bookseller, Mrs. Michell, that Mr. G. Montagu had inquired there for me. +So I went to his house, and was forced by him to dine with him, and had a +plenteous brave dinner and the greatest civility that ever I had from any +man. Thence home and so to Mrs. Jem, and played with her at cards, and +coming home again my wife told me that Mr. Hawly had been there to speak +with me, and seemed angry that I had not been at the office that day, and +she told me she was afraid that Mr. Downing may have a mind to pick some +hole in my coat. So I made haste to him, but found no such thing from +him, but he sent me to Mr. Sherwin's about getting Mr. Squib to come to +him tomorrow, and I carried him an answer. So home and fell a writing the +characters for Mr. Downing, and about nine at night Mr. Hawly came, and +after he was gone I sat up till almost twelve writing, and--wrote two of +them. In the morning up early and wrote another, my wife lying in bed and +reading to me. + +28th. I went to Mr. Downing and carried him three characters, and then to +my office and wrote another, while Mr. Frost staid telling money. And +after I had done it Mr. Hawly came into the office and I left him and +carried it to Mr. Downing, who then told me that he was resolved to be +gone for Holland this morning. So I to my office again, and dispatch my +business there, and came with Mr. Hawly to Mr. Downing's lodging, and took +Mr. Squib from White Hall in a coach thither with me, and there we waited +in his chamber a great while, till he came in; and in the mean time, sent +all his things to the barge that lay at Charing-Cross Stairs. Then came he +in, and took a very civil leave of me, beyond my expectation, for I was +afraid that he would have told me something of removing me from my office; +but he did not, but that he would do me any service that lay in his power. +So I went down and sent a porter to my house for my best fur cap, but he +coming too late with it I did not present it to him. Thence I went to +Westminster Hall, and bound up my cap at Mrs. Michell's, who was much +taken with my cap, and endeavoured to overtake the coach at the Exchange +and to give it him there, but I met with one that told me that he was +gone, and so I returned and went to Heaven, + + [A place of entertainment within or adjoining Westminster Hall. It + is called in "Hudibras," "False Heaven, at the end of the Hall." + There were two other alehouses near Westminster Hall, called Hell + and Purgatory. + + "Nor break his fast + In Heaven and Hell." + + Ben Jonson's Alchemist, act v. SC. 2.] + +where Luellin and I dined on a breast of mutton all alone, discoursing of +the changes that we have seen and the happiness of them that have estates +of their own, and so parted, and I went by appointment to my office and +paid young Mr. Walton L500; it being very dark he took L300 by content. He +gave me half a piece and carried me in his coach to St. Clement's, from +whence I went to Mr. Crew's and made even with Mr. Andrews, and took in +all my notes and gave him one for all. Then to my Lady Wright and gave +her my Lord's letter which he bade me give her privately. So home and +then to Will's for a little news, then came home again and wrote to my +Lord, and so to Whitehall and gave them to the post-boy. Back again home +and to bed. + +29th. In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where he made an excellent +sermon upon the 2d of the Galatians, about the difference that fell +between St. Paul and St. Peter (the feast day of St. Paul being a day or +two ago), whereby he did prove, that, contrary to the doctrine of the +Roman Church, St. Paul did never own any dependance, or that he was +inferior to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only one a particular +charge of preaching to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles. Here I +met with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner to Mr. Crew's, where +Mr. Spurrier being in town did dine with us. From thence I went home and +spent the afternoon in casting up my accounts, and do find myself to be +worth L40 and more, which I did not think, but am afraid that I have +forgot something. To my father's to supper, where I heard by my brother +Tom how W. Joyce would the other day have Mr. Pierce and his wife to the +tavern after they were gone from my house, and that he had so little +manners as to make Tom pay his share notwithstanding that he went upon his +account, and by my father I understand that my uncle Fenner and my aunt +were much pleased with our entertaining them. After supper home without +going to see Mrs. Turner. + +30th. This morning, before I was up, I fell a-singing of my song, "Great, +good, and just," &c. + + [This is the beginning of the Marquis of Montrose's verses on the + execution of Charles I., which Pepys had set to music: + + "Great, good, and just, could I but rate + My grief and thy too rigid fate, + I'd weep the world to such a strain + That it should deluge once again. + But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies + More from Briareus' hands, than Argus eyes, + I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, + And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds."] + +and put myself thereby in mind that this was the fatal day, now ten years +since, his Majesty died. Scull the waterman came and brought me a note +from the Hope from Mr. Hawly with direction, about his money, he tarrying +there till his master be gone. To my office, where I received money of +the excise of Mr. Ruddyer, and after we had done went to Will's and staid +there till 3 o'clock and then I taking my L12 10s. 0d. due to me for my +last quarter's salary, I went with them by water to London to the house +where Signr. Torriano used to be and staid there a while with Mr. +Ashwell, Spicer and Ruddier. Then I went and paid L12 17s. 6d. due from +me to Captn. Dick Matthews according to his direction the last week in a +letter. After that I came back by water playing on my flageolette and not +finding my wife come home again from her father's I went and sat awhile +and played at cards with Mrs. Jam, whose maid had newly got an ague and +was ill thereupon. So homewards again, having great need to do my +business, and so pretending to meet Mr. Shott the wood monger of Whitehall +I went and eased myself at the Harp and Ball, and thence home where I sat +writing till bed-time and so to bed. There seems now to be a general +cease of talk, it being taken for granted that Monk do resolve to stand to +the Parliament, and nothing else. Spent a little time this night in +knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber. + +31st. In the morning I fell to my lute till 9 o'clock. Then to my Lord's +lodgings and set out a barrel of soap to be carried to Mrs. Ann. Here I +met with Nick Bartlet, one that had been a servant of my Lord's at sea and +at Harper's gave him his morning draft. So to my office where I paid; +L1200 to Mr. Frost and at noon went to Will's to give one of the Excise +office a pot of ale that came to-day to tell over a bag of his that +wanted; L7 in it, which he found over in another bag. Then home and dined +with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard from his +master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in his lawsuit +with Squib about his house and office. After dinner to Westminster Hall, +where all we clerks had orders to wait upon the Committee, at the Star +Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones, + + [Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles + Corbet, for treasonable practices in Ireland.] + +and were to give an account what money we had paid him; but the Committee +did not sit to-day. Hence to Will's, where I sat an hour or two with Mr. +Godfrey Austin, a scrivener in King Street. Here I met and afterwards +bought the answer to General Monk's letter, which is a very good one, and +I keep it by me. Thence to Mrs. Jem, where I found her maid in bed in a +fit of the ague, and Mrs. Jem among the people below at work and by and by +she came up hot and merry, as if they had given her wine, at which I was +troubled, but said nothing; after a game at cards, I went home and wrote +by the post and coming back called in at Harper's and drank with Mr. +Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse, who tells me, that whereas my Lord +Fleetwood should have answered to the Parliament to-day, he wrote a letter +and desired a little more time, he being a great way out of town. And how +that he is quite ashamed of himself, and confesses how he had deserved +this, for his baseness to his brother. And that he is like to pay part of +the money, paid out of the Exchequer during the Committee of Safety, out +of his own purse again, which I am glad of. Home and to bed, leaving my +wife reading in Polixandre. + + ["Polexandre," by Louis Le Roy de Gomberville, was first published + in 1632. "The History of Polexander" was "done into English by W. + Browne," and published in folio, London, 1647. It was the earliest + of the French heroic romances, and it appears to have been the model + for the works of Calprenede and Mdlle. de Scuderi; see Dunlop's + "History of Fiction" for the plot of the romance.] + +I could find nothing in Mr. Downing's letter, which Hawly brought me, +concerning my office; but I could discern that Hawly had a mind that I +would get to be Clerk of the Council, I suppose that he might have the +greater salary; but I think it not safe yet to change this for a public +employment. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + A very fine dinner + Gave him his morning draft + Much troubled with thoughts how to get money + My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets + My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth + Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash + This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. 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. Ed.] + +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 +Ed.], 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 + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH & APRIL + 1659-60 + +March 1st. In the morning went to my Lord's lodgings, thinking to have +spoke with Mr. Sheply, having not been to visit him since my coming to +town. But he being not within I went up, and out of the box where my +Lord's pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own +use and left the rest. Then to my office, where little to do, abut Mr. +Sheply comes to me, so at dinner time he and I went to Mr. Crew's, whither +Mr. Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. Yelverton, a my +old school-fellow at Paul's School, to bring the thanks of the county to +General Monk for the return of the Parliament. But old Mr. Crew and my +Lord not coming home to dinner, we tarried late before we went to dinner, +it being the day that John, Mr. John Crew's coachman, was to be buried in +the afternoon, he being a day or two before killed with a blow of one of +his horses that struck his skull into his brain. From thence Mr. Sheply +and I went into London to Mr. Laxton's; my Lord's apothecary, and so by +water to Westminster, where at the Sun [tavern] he and I spent two or +three hours in a pint or two of wine, discoursing of matters in the +country, among other things telling me that my uncle did to him make a +very kind mention of me, and what he would do for me. Thence I went home, +and went to bed betimes. This day the Parliament did vote that they would +not sit longer than the 15th day of this month. + +2d. This morning I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, where I spoke to +him. Here were a great many come to see him, as Secretary Thurlow who is +now by this Parliament chosen again Secretary of State. There were also +General Monk's trumpeters to give my Lord a sound of their trumpets this +morning. Thence I went to my office, and wrote a letter to Mr. Downing +about the business of his house. Then going home, I met with Mr. Eglin, +Chetwind, and Thomas, who took me to the Leg [another tavern] in King's +street, where we had two brave dishes of meat, one of fish, a carp and +some other fishes, as well done as ever I ate any. After that to the Swan +tavern, where we drank a quart or two of wine, and so parted. So I to +Mrs. Jem and took Mr. Moore with me (who I met in the street), and there I +met W. Howe and Sheply. After that to Westminster Hall, where I saw Sir +G. Booth at liberty. This day I hear the City militia is put into good +posture, and it is thought that Monk will not be able to do any great +matter against them now, if he have a mind. I understand that my Lord +Lambert did yesterday send a letter to the Council, and that to-night he +is to come and appear to the Council in person. Sir Arthur Haselrigge do +not yet appear in the House. Great is the talk of a single person, and +that it would now be Charles, George, or Richard again.--[Charles II., or +George Monk, or Richard Cromwell.]--For the last of which, my Lord St. +John is said to speak high. Great also is the dispute now in the House, +in whose name the writs shall run for the next Parliament; and it is said +that Mr. Prin, in open House, said, "In King Charles's." From Westminster +Hall home. Spent the evening in my study, and so after some talk with my +wife, then to bed. + +3d. To Westminster Hall, where I found that my Lord was last night voted +one of the Generals at Sea, and Monk the other. I met my Lord in the +Hall, who bid me come to him at noon. I met with Mr. Pierce the purser, +Lieut. Lambert, Mr. Creed, and Will. Howe, and went with them to the Swan +tavern. Up to my office, but did nothing. At noon home to dinner to a +sheep's head. My brother Tom came and dined with me, and told me that my +mother was not very well, and that my Aunt Fenner was very ill too. After +dinner I to Warwick House, in Holborn, to my Lord, where he dined with my +Lord of Manchester, Sir Dudley North, my Lord Fiennes, and my Lord Barkly. +I staid in the great hall, talking with some gentlemen there, till they +all come out. Then I, by coach with my Lord, to Mr. Crew's, in our way +talking of publick things, and how I should look after getting of his +Commissioner's despatch. He told me he feared there was new design +hatching, as if Monk had a mind to get into the saddle. Here I left him, +and went by appointment to Hering, the merchant, but missed of my money, +at which I was much troubled, but could not help myself. Returning, met +Mr. Gifford, who took me and gave me half a pint of wine, and told me, as +I hear this day from many, that things are in a very doubtful posture, +some of the Parliament being willing to keep the power in their hands. +After I had left him, I met with Tom Harper, who took me into a place in +Drury Lane, where we drank a great deal of strong water, more than ever I +did in my life at onetime before. He talked huge high that my Lord +Protector would come in place again, which indeed is much discoursed of +again, though I do not see it possible. Hence home and wrote to my father +at Brampton by the post. So to bed. This day I was told that my Lord +General Fleetwood told my lord that he feared the King of Sweden is dead +of a fever at Gottenburg. + +4th. Lord's day. Before I went to church I sang Orpheus' Hymn to my +viall. After that to Mr. Gunning's, an excellent sermon upon charity. +Then to my mother to dinner, where my wife and the maid were come. After +dinner we three to Mr. Messum's where we met Mons. L'Impertinent, who got +us a seat and told me a ridiculous story how that last week he had caused +a simple citizen to spend; L80 in entertainments of him and some friends +of his upon pretence of some service that he would do him in his suit +after a widow. Then to my mother again, and after supper she and I talked +very high about religion, I in defence of the religion I was born in. +Then home. + +5th. Early in the morning Mr. Hill comes to string my theorbo, + + [The theorbo was a bass lute. Having gut strings it was played with + the fingers. There is a humorous comparison of the long waists of + ladies, which came into fashion about 1621, with the theorbo, by + Bishop Corbet: + + "She was barr'd up in whale-bones, that did leese + None of the whale's length, for they reached her knees; + Off with her head, and then she hath a middle + As her waste stands, just like the new found fiddle, + The favourite Theorbo, truth to tell ye, + Whose neck and throat are deeper than the belly." + + Corbet, 'Iter Boreale'.] + +which we were about till past ten o'clock, with a great deal of pleasure. +Then to Westminster, where I met with Mr. Sheply and Mr. Pinkney at +Will's, who took me by water to Billingsgate, at the Salutation Tavern, +whither by-and-by, Mr. Talbot and Adams came, and bring a great [deal of] +good meat, a ham of bacon, &c. Here we staid and drank till Mr. Adams +began to be overcome. Then we parted, and so to Westminster by water, +only seeing Mr. Pinkney at his own house, where he shewed me how he had +alway kept the Lion and Unicorn, in the back of his chimney, bright, in +expectation of the King's coming again. At home I found Mr. Hunt, who +told me how the Parliament had voted that the Covenant be printed and +hung in churches again. Great hopes of the King's coming again. To bed. + +6th. (Shrove Tuesday.) I called Mr. Sheply and we both went up to my +Lord's lodgings at Mr. Crew's, where he bade us to go home again, and get +a fire against an hour after. Which we did at White Hall, whither he +came, and after talking with him and me about his going to sea, he called +me by myself to go along with him into the garden, where he asked me how +things were with me, and what he had endeavoured to do with my uncle to +get him to do something for me but he would say nothing too. He likewise +bade me look out now at this turn some good place, and he would use all +his own, and all the interest of his friends that he had in England, to do +me good. And asked me whether I could, without too much inconvenience, go +to sea as his secretary, and bid me think of it. He also began to talk of +things of State, and told me that he should want one in that capacity at +sea, that he might trust in, and therefore he would have me to go. He +told me also, that he did believe the King would come in, and did +discourse with me about it, and about the affection of the people and +City, at which I was full glad. After he was gone, I waiting upon him +through the garden till he came to the Hall, where I left him and went up +to my office, where Mr. Hawly brought one to me, a seaman, that had +promised Rio to him if he get him a purser's place, which I think to +endeavour to do. Here comes my uncle Tom, whom I took to Will's and drank +with, poor man, he comes to inquire about the knights of Windsor, of which +he desires to get to be one. + + [The body of Poor Knights of Windsor was founded by Edward III. The + intention of the king with regard to the poor knights was to provide + relief and comfortable subsistence for such valiant soldiers as + happened in their old age to fall into poverty and decay. On + September 20th, 1659, a Report having been read respecting the Poor + Knights of Windsor, the House "ordered that it be referred to a + Committee, to look into the revenue for maintenance of the Poor + Knights of Windsor," &c. (See Tighe and Davis's "Annals of + Windsor.")] + +While we were drinking, in comes Mr. Day, a carpenter in Westminster, to +tell me that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that I must go with him to their +yearly Club upon this day, which I confess I had quite forgot. So I went +to the Bell, where were Mr. Eglin, Veezy, Vincent a butcher, one more, and +Mr. Tanner, with whom I played upon a viall, and he a viallin, after +dinner, and were very merry, with a special good dinner, a leg of veal and +bacon, two capons and sausages and fritters, with abundance of wine. After +that I went home, where I found Kate Sterpin who hath not been here a +great while before. She gone I went to see Mrs. Jem, at whose chamber +door I found a couple of ladies, but she not being there, we hunted her +out, and found that she and another had hid themselves behind a door. +Well, they all went down into the dining-room, where it was full of tag, +rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, of which I was ashamed, +and after I had staid a dance or two I went away. Going home, called at +my Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with a pewterer, that +he had bought pewter to-day of. With them I drank, and so home and wrote +by the post, by my Lord's command, for J. Goods to come up presently. For +my Lord intends to go forthwith into the Swiftsure till the Nazeby be +ready. This day I hear that the Lords do intend to sit, and great store +of them are now in town, and I see in the Hall to-day. Overton at Hull do +stand out, but can, it is thought, do nothing; and Lawson, it is said, is +gone with some ships thither, but all that is nothing. My Lord told me, +that there was great endeavours to bring in the Protector again; but he +told me, too, that he did believe it would not last long if he were +brought in; no, nor the King neither (though he seems to think that he +will come in), unless he carry himself very soberly and well. Every body +now drinks the King's health without any fear, whereas before it was very +private that a man dare do it. Monk this day is feasted at Mercers' Hall, +and is invited one after another to all the twelve Halls in London! Many +think that he is honest yet, and some or more think him to be a fool that +would raise himself, but think that he will undo himself by endeavouring +it. My mind, I must needs remember, has been very much eased and joyed at +my Lord's great expressions of kindness this day, and in discourse +thereupon my wife and I lay awake an hour or two in our bed. + +7th. (Ash Wednesday.) In the morning I went to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, in +my way Washington overtook me and told me upon my question whether he knew +of any place now void that I might have, by power over friends, that this +day Mr. G. Montagu was to be made 'Custos Rotulorum' for Westminster, and +that by friends I might get to be named by him Clerk of the Peace, with +which I was, as I am at all new things, very much joyed, so when I came to +Mr. Crew's, I spoke to my Lord about it, who told me he believed Mr. +Montagu had already promised it, and that it was given him only that he +might gratify one person with the place I look for. Here, among many that +were here, I met with Mr. Lynes, the surgeon, who promised me some seeds +of the sensitive plant. + + [Evelyn, about the same date (August 9th, 1661), "tried several + experiments on the sensitive plant and humilis, which contracted + with the least touch of the sun through a burning glass, though it + rises and opens only when it shines on it"] + +I spoke too with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who gave me great encouragement +to go to sea with my Lord. Thence going homewards, my Lord overtook me in +his coach, and called me in, and so I went with him to St. James's, and G. +Montagu being gone to White Hall, we walked over the Park thither, all the +way he discoursing of the times, and of the change of things since the +last year, and wondering how he could bear with so great disappointment as +he did. He did give me the best advice that he could what was best for +me, whether to stay or go with him, and offered all the ways that could +be, how he might do me good, with the greatest liberty and love that could +be. I left him at Whitehall, and myself went to Westminster to my office, +whither nothing to do, but I did discourse with Mr. Falconbridge about Le +Squire's place, and had his consent to get it if I could. I afterwards in +the Hall met with W. Simons, who put me in the best way how to get it +done. Thence by appointment to the Angel in King Street, where Chetwind, +Mr. Thomas and Doling were at oysters, and beginning Lent this day with a +fish dinner. After dinner Mr. Thomas and I by water to London, where I +went to Herring's and received the L50 of my Lord's upon Frank's bill from +Worcester. I gave in the bill and set my hand to his bill. Thence I went +to the Pope's Head Alley and called on Adam Chard, and bought a catcall +there, it cost me two groats. Thence went and gave him a cup of ale. +After that to the Sun behind the Exchange, where meeting my uncle Wight +by the way, took him with me thither, and after drinking a health or two +round at the Cock (Mr. Thomas being gone thither), we parted, he and I +homewards, parted at Fleet Street, where I found my father newly come home +from Brampton very well. He left my uncle with his leg very dangerous, and +do believe he cannot continue in that condition long. He tells me that my +uncle did acquaint him very largely what he did intend to do with his +estate, to make me his heir and give my brother Tom something, and that my +father and mother should have likewise something, to raise portions for +John and Pall. I pray God he may be as good as his word. Here I staid +and supped and so home, there being Joyce Norton there and Ch. Glascock. +Going home I called at Wotton's and took home a piece of cheese. At home +Mr. Sheply sat with me a little while, and so we all to bed. This news +and my Lord's great kindness makes me very cheerful within. I pray God +make me thankful. This day, according to order, Sir Arthur [Haselrigge] +appeared at the House; what was done I know not, but there was all the +Rumpers almost come to the House to-day. My Lord did seem to wonder much +why Lambert was so willing to be put into the Tower, and thinks he has +some design in it; but I think that he is so poor that he cannot use his +liberty for debts, if he were at liberty; and so it is as good and better +for him to be there, than any where else. + +8th. To Whitehall to bespeak some firing for my father at Short's, and +likewise to speak to Mr. Blackburne about Batters being gunner in the +"Wexford." Then to Westminster Hall, where there was a general damp over +men's minds and faces upon some of the Officers of the Army being about +making a remonstrance against Charles Stuart or any single person; but at +noon it was told, that the General had put a stop to it, so all was well +again. Here I met with Jasper, who was to look for me to bring me to my +Lord at the lobby; whither sending a note to my Lord, he comes out to me +and gives me direction to look after getting some money for him from the +Admiralty, seeing that things are so unsafe, that he would not lay out a +farthing for the State, till he had received some money of theirs. Home +about two o'clock, and took my wife by land to Paternoster Row, to buy +some Paragon for a petticoat and so home again. In my way meeting Mr. +Moore, who went home with me while I ate a bit and so back to Whitehall +again, both of us. He waited at the Council for Mr. Crew. I to the +Admiralty, where I got the order for the money, and have taken care for +the getting of it assigned upon Mr. Hutchinson, Treasurer for the Navy, +against tomorrow. Hence going home I met with Mr. King that belonged to +the Treasurers at War and took him to Harper's, who told me that he and +the rest of his fellows are cast out of office by the new Treasurers. This +afternoon, some of the Officers of the Army, and some of the Parliament, +had a conference at White Hall to make all right again, but I know not +what is done. This noon I met at the Dog tavern Captain Philip Holland, +with whom I advised how to make some advantage of my Lord's going to sea, +which he told me might be by having of five or six servants entered on +board, and I to give them what wages I pleased, and so their pay to be +mine; he was also very urgent to have me take the Secretary's place, that +my Lord did proffer me. At the same time in comes Mr. Wade and Mr. +Sterry, secretary to the plenipotentiary in Denmark, who brought the news +of the death of the King of Sweden at Gottenburgh the 3rd of the last +month, and he told me what a great change he found when he came here, the +secluded members being restored. He also spoke very freely of Mr. Wades +profit, which he made while he was in Zeeland, how he did believe that he +cheated Mr. Powell, and that he made above L500 on the voyage, which Mr. +Wade did very angrily deny, though I believe he was guilty enough. + +9th. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to Westminster with him in the +coach, with Mr. Dudley with him, and he in the Painted Chamber + + [The Painted Chamber, or St. Edward's Chamber, in the old Palace at + Westminster. The first name was given to it from the curious + paintings on the walls, and the second from the tradition that + Edward the Confessor died in it.] + +walked a good while; and I telling him that I was willing and ready to go +with him to sea, he agreed that I should, and advised me what to write to +Mr. Downing about it, which I did at my office, that by my Lord's desire I +offered that my place might for a while be supplied by Mr. Moore, and that +I and my security should be bound by the same bond for him. I went and +dined at Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hawly comes to me, and I told him the +business and shewed him the letter promising him L20 a year, which he +liked very well of. I did the same to Mr. Moore, which he also took for a +courtesy. In the afternoon by coach, taking Mr. Butler with me to the +Navy Office, about the L500 for my Lord, which I am promised to have +to-morrow morning. Then by coach back again, and at White Hall at the +Council Chamber spoke with my Lord and got him to sign the acquittance for +the L500, and he also told me that he had spoke to Mr. Blackburne to put +off Mr. Creed and that I should come to him for direction in the +employment. After this Mr. Butler and I to Harper's, where we sat and +drank for two hours till ten at night; the old woman she was drunk and +began to talk foolishly in commendation of her son James. Home and to +bed. All night troubled in my thoughts how to order my business upon this +great change with me that I could not sleep, and being overheated with +drink I made a promise the next morning to drink no strong drink this +week, for I find that it makes me sweat and puts me quite out of order. +This day it was resolved that the writs do go out in the name of the +Keepers of the Liberty, and I hear that it is resolved privately that a +treaty be offered with the King. And that Monk did check his soldiers +highly for what they did yesterday. + +10th. In the morning went to my father's, whom I took in his cutting +house,--[His father was a tailor, and this was his cutting-out room.]--and +there I told him my resolution to go to sea with my Lord, and consulted +with him how to dispose of my wife, and we resolved of letting her be at +Mr. Bowyer's. Thence to the Treasurer of the Navy, where I received L500 +for my Lord, and having left L200 of it with Mr. Rawlinson at his house +for Sheply, I went with the rest to the Sun tavern on Fish Street Hill, +where Mr. Hill, Stevens and Mr. Hater of the Navy Office had invited me, +where we had good discourse and a fine breakfast of Mr. Hater. Then by +coach home, where I took occasion to tell my wife of my going to sea, who +was much troubled at it, and was with some dispute at last willing to +continue at Mr. Bowyer's in my absence. After this to see Mrs. Jem and +paid her maid L7, and then to Mr. Blackburne, who told me what Mr. Creed +did say upon the news of my coming into his place, and that he did propose +to my Lord that there should be two Secretaries, which made me go to Sir +H. Wright's where my Lord dined and spoke with him about it, but he seemed +not to agree to the motion. Hither W. Howe comes to me and so to +Westminster. In the way he told me, what I was to provide and so forth +against my going. He went with me to my office, whither also Mr. Madge +comes half foxed and played the fool upon the violin that made me weary. +Then to Whitehall and so home and set many of my things in order against +my going. My wife was late making of caps for me, and the wench making an +end of a pair of stockings that she was knitting of. So to bed. + +11th. (Sunday.) All the day busy without my band on, putting up my books +and things, in order to my going to sea. At night my wife and I went to +my father's to supper, where J. Norton and Chas. Glascocke supt with us, +and after supper home, where the wench had provided all things against +tomorrow to wash, and so to bed, where I much troubled with my cold and +coughing. + +12th. This day the wench rose at two in the morning to wash, and my wife +and I lay talking a great while. I by reason of my cold could not tell +how to sleep. My wife and I to the Exchange, where we bought a great many +things, where I left her and went into London, and at Bedells the +bookseller's at the Temple gate I paid L12 10s. 6d. for Mr. Fuller by his +direction. So came back and at Wilkinson's found Mr. Sheply and some sea +people, as the cook of the Nazeby and others, at dinner. Then to the +White Horse in King Street, where I got Mr. Buddle's horse to ride to +Huntsmore to Mr. Bowyer's, where I found him and all well, and willing to +have my wife come and board with them while I was at sea, which was the +business I went about. Here I lay and took a thing for my cold, namely a +spoonful of honey and a nutmeg scraped into it, by Mr. Bowyer's direction, +and so took it into my mouth, which I found did do me much good. + +13th. It rained hard and I got up early, and got to London by 8 o'clock +at my Lord's lodgings, who told me that I was to be secretary, and Creed +to be deputy treasurer to the Fleet, at which I was troubled, but I could +not help it. After that to my father's to look after things, and so at my +shoemaker's and others. At night to Whitehall, where I met with Simons +and Luellin at drink with them at Roberts at Whitehall. Then to the +Admiralty, where I talked with Mr. Creed till the Brothers, and they were +very seemingly willing and glad that I have the place since my Lord would +dispose of it otherwise than to them. Home and to bed. This day the +Parliament voted all that had been done by the former Rump against the +House of Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out without any +qualification. Things seem very doubtful what will be the end of all; for +the Parliament seems to be strong for the King, while the soldiers do all +talk against. + +14th. To my Lord, where infinity of applications to him and to me. To my +great trouble, my Lord gives me all the papers that was given to him, to +put in order and give him an account of them. Here I got half-a-piece of +a person of Mr. Wright's recommending to my Lord to be Preacher of the +Speaker frigate. I went hence to St. James's and Mr. Pierce the surgeon +with me, to speak with Mr. Clerke, Monk's secretary, about getting some +soldiers removed out of Huntingdon to Oundle, which my Lord told me he did +to do a courtesy to the town, that he might have the greater interest in +them, in the choice of the next Parliament; not that he intends to be +chosen himself, but that he might have Mr. G. Montagu and my Lord +Mandeville chose there in spite of the Bernards. This done (where I saw +General Monk and methought he seemed a dull heavy man), he and I to +Whitehall, where with Luellin we dined at Marsh's. Coming home telling my +wife what we had to dinner, she had a mind to some cabbage, and I sent for +some and she had it. Went to the Admiralty, where a strange thing how I +am already courted by the people. This morning among others that came to +me I hired a boy of Jenkins of Westminster and Burr to be my clerk. This +night I went to Mr. Creed's chamber where he gave me the former book of +the proceedings in the fleet and the Seal. Then to Harper's where old +Beard was and I took him by coach to my Lord's, but he was not at home, +but afterwards I found him out at Sir H. Wright's. Thence by coach, it +raining hard, to Mrs. Jem, where I staid a while, and so home, and late in +the night put up my things in a sea-chest that Mr. Sheply lent me, and so +to bed. + +15th. Early packing up my things to be sent by cart with the rest of my +Lord's. So to Will's, where I took leave of some of my friends. Here I +met Tom Alcock, one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I had +not seen him these sixteen years. So in the Hall paid and made even with +Mrs. Michell; afterwards met with old Beale, and at the Axe paid him this +quarter to Ladyday next. In the afternoon Dick Mathews comes to dine, and +I went and drank with him at Harper's. So into London by water, and in +Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d. and went to the +Sun Tavern and ate it, where I did promise to give her all that I have in +the world but my books, in case I should die at sea. From thence +homewards; in the way my wife bought linen for three smocks and other +things. I went to my Lord's and spoke with him. So home with Mrs. Jem by +coach and then home to my own house. From thence to the Fox in +King-street to supper on a brave turkey of Mr. Hawly's, with some friends +of his there, Will Bowyer, &c. After supper I went to Westminster Hall, +and the Parliament sat till ten at night, thinking and being expected to +dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not. Great talk to-night that +the discontented officers did think this night to make a stir, but +prevented. To the Fox again. Home with my wife, and to bed extraordinary +sleepy. + +16th. No sooner out of bed but troubled with abundance of clients, +seamen. My landlord Vanly's man came to me by my direction yesterday, for +I was there at his house as I was going to London by water, and I paid him +rent for my house for this quarter ending at Lady day, and took an +acquittance that he wrote me from his master. Then to Mr. Sheply, to the +Rhenish Tavern House, where Mr. Pim, the tailor, was, and gave us a +morning draft and a neat's tongue. Home and with my wife to London, we +dined at my father's, where Joyce Norton and Mr. Armiger dined also. After +dinner my wife took leave of them in order to her going to-morrow to +Huntsmore. In my way home I went to the Chapel in Chancery Lane to +bespeak papers of all sorts and other things belonging to writing against +my voyage. So home, where I spent an hour or two about my business in my +study. Thence to the Admiralty, and staid a while, so home again, where +Will Bowyer came to tell us that he would bear my wife company in the +coach to-morrow. Then to Westminster Hall, where I heard how the +Parliament had this day dissolved themselves, and did pass very cheerfully +through the Hall, and the Speaker without his mace. The whole Hall was +joyful thereat, as well as themselves, and now they begin to talk loud of +the King. To-night I am told, that yesterday, about five o'clock in the +afternoon, one came with a ladder to the Great Exchange, and wiped with a +brush the inscription that was upon King Charles, and that there was a +great bonfire made in the Exchange, and people called out "God bless. +King Charles the Second!" + + ["Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the + statue of Charles I, in the Royal Exchange ('Exit tyrannus, Regum + ultimus, anno libertatis Angliae, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx.) + was washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, + and with a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down + his pot and brush and said it should never do him any more service, + in regard that it had the honour to put out rebels' hand-writing. + He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, + and by whose order it was done was not then known. The merchants + were glad and joyful, many people were gathered together, and + against the Exchange made a bonfire. "Rugge's Diurnal." In the + Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts at the British Museum is a + pamphlet which is dated in MS. March 21st, 1659-60, where this act + is said to be by order of Monk: "The Loyal Subjects Teares for the + Sufferings and Absence of their Sovereign Charles II., King of + England, Scotland, and Ireland; with an Observation upon the + expunging of 'Exit Tyrannus, Regum ultimus', by order of General + Monk, and some Advice to the Independents, Anabaptists, Phanatiques, + &c. London, 1660."] + +From the Hall I went home to bed, very sad in mind to part with my wife, +but God's will be done. + +17th. This morning bade adieu in bed to the company of my wife. We rose +and I gave my wife some money to serve her for a time, and what papers of +consequence I had. Then I left her to get her ready and went to my Lord's +with my boy Eliezer to my Lord's lodging at Mr. Crew's. Here I had much +business with my Lord, and papers, great store, given me by my Lord to +dispose of as of the rest. After that, with Mr. Moore home to my house +and took my wife by coach to the Chequer in Holborn, where, after we had +drank, &c., she took coach and so farewell. I staid behind with Tom +Alcock and Mr. Anderson, my old chamber fellow at Cambridge his brother, +and drank with them there, who were come to me thither about one that +would have a place at sea. Thence with Mr. Hawly to dinner at Mr. Crew's. +After dinner to my own house, where all things were put up into the +dining-room and locked up, and my wife took the keys along with her. + +This day, in the presence of Mr. Moore (who made it) and Mr. Hawly, I did +before I went out with my wife, seal my will to her, whereby I did give +her all that I have in the world, but my books which I give to my brother +John, excepting only French books, which my wife is to have. In the +evening at the Admiralty, I met my Lord there and got a commission for +Williamson to be captain of the Harp frigate, and afterwards went by coach +taking Mr. Crips with me to my Lord and got him to sign it at table as he +was at supper. And so to Westminster back again with him with me, who had +a great desire to go to sea and my Lord told me that he would do him any +favour. So I went home with him to his mother's house by me in Axe Yard, +where I found Dr. Clodius's wife and sat there talking and hearing of old +Mrs. Crisp playing of her old lessons upon the harpsichon till it was time +to go to bed. After that to bed, and Laud, her son lay with me in the +best chamber in her house, which indeed was finely furnished. + +18th. I rose early and went to the barber's (Jervas) in Palace Yard and I +was trimmed by him, and afterwards drank with him a cup or two of ale, and +did begin to hire his man to go with me to sea. Then to my Lord's lodging +where I found Captain Williamson and gave him his commission to be Captain +of the Harp, and he gave me a piece of gold and 20s. in silver. So to my +own house, where I staid a while and then to dinner with Mr. Shepley at my +Lord's lodgings. After that to Mr. Mossum's, where he made a very gallant +sermon upon "Pray for the life of the King and the King's son." (Ezra vi. +10.) From thence to Mr. Crew's, but my Lord not being within I did not +stay, but went away and met with Mr. Woodfine, who took me to an alehouse +in Drury Lane, and we sat and drank together, and ate toasted cakes which +were very good, and we had a great deal of mirth with the mistress of the +house about them. From thence homewards, and called at Mr. Blagrave's, +where I took up my note that he had of mine for 40s., which he two years +ago did give me as a pawn while he had my lute. So that all things are +even between him and I. So to Mrs. Crisp, where she and her daughter and +son and I sat talking till ten o'clock at night, I giving them the best +advice that I could concerning their son, how he should go to sea, and so +to bed. + +19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business to do, which makes my +head full; and indeed, for these two or three days, I have not been +without a great many cares and thoughts concerning them. After that to +the Admiralty, where a good while with Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it +was much to be feared that the King would come in, for all good men and +good things were now discouraged. Thence to Wilkinson's, where Mr. Sheply +and I dined; and while we were at dinner, my Lord Monk's lifeguard come by +with the Serjeant at Arms before them, with two Proclamations, that all +Cavaliers do depart the town; but the other that all officers that were +lately disbanded should do the same. The last of which Mr. R. Creed, I +remember, said, that he looked upon it as if they had said, that all God's +people should depart the town. Thence with some sea officers to the Swan, +where we drank wine till one comes to me to pay me some money from +Worcester, viz., L25. His name is Wilday. I sat in another room and took +my money and drank with him till the rest of my company were gone and so +we parted. Going home the water was high, and so I got Crockford to carry +me over it. So home, and left my money there. All the discourse +now-a-day is, that the King will come again; and for all I see, it is the +wishes of all; and all do believe that it will be so. My mind is still +much troubled for my poor wife, but I hope that this undertaking will be +worth my pains. To Whitehall and staid about business at the Admiralty +late, then to Tony Robins's, where Capt. Stokes, Mr. Luddington and others +were, and I did solicit the Captain for Laud Crisp, who gave me a promise +that he would entertain him. After that to Mrs. Crisp's where Dr. Clodius +and his wife were. He very merry with drink. We played at cards late and +so to bed. This day my Lord dined at my Lord Mayor's [Allen], and Jasper +was made drunk, which my Lord was very angry at. + +20th. This morning I rose early and went to my house to put things in a +little order against my going, which I conceive will be to-morrow (the +weather still very rainy). After that to my Lord, where I found very +great deal of business, he giving me all letters and papers that come to +him about business, for me to give him account of when we come on +shipboard. Hence with Capt. Isham by coach to Whitehall to the Admiralty. +He and I and Chetwind, Doling and Luellin dined together at Marsh's at +Whitehall. So to the Bull Head whither W. Simons comes to us and I gave +them my foy + + [Foy. A feast given by one who is about to leave a place. In Kent, + according to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or + coming home. See Diary, November 25th, 1661.] + +against my going to sea; and so we took leave one of another, they +promising me to write to me to sea. Hither comes Pim's boy, by my +direction, with two monteeres--[Monteeres, montero (Spanish), a kind of +huntsman's cap.]--for me to take my choice of, and I chose the saddest +colour and left the other for Mr. Sheply. Hence by coach to London, and +took a short melancholy leave of my father and mother, without having them +to drink, or say anything of business one to another. And indeed I had a +fear upon me I should scarce ever see my mother again, she having a great +cold then upon her. Then to Westminster, where by reason of rain and an +easterly wind, the water was so high that there was boats rowed in King +Street and all our yard was drowned, that one could not go to my house, so +as no man has seen the like almost, most houses full of water. + + ["In this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, so + that great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King + Street being quite drowned. The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and + twelve persons with her. Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon + the mainland; and in Kent was very much damage done; so that report + said, there was L20,000 worth of harm done."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +Then back by coach to my Lord's; where I met Mr. Sheply, who staid with me +waiting for my Lord's coming in till very late. Then he and I, and +William Howe went with our swords to bring my Lord home from Sir H. +Wright's. He resolved to go to-morrow if the wind ceased. Sheply and I +home by coach. I to Mrs. Crisp's, who had sat over a good supper long +looking for me. So we sat talking and laughing till it was very late, and +so Laud and I to bed. + +21st. To my Lord's, but the wind very high against us, and the weather +bad we could not go to-day; here I did very much business, and then to my +Lord Widdrington's from my Lord, with his desire that he might have the +disposal of the writs of the Cinque Ports. My Lord was very civil to me, +and called for wine, and writ a long letter in answer. Thence I went to a +tavern over against Mr. Pierce's with judge Advocate Fowler and Mr. Burr, +and sat and drank with them two or three pints of wine. After that to Mr. +Crew's again and gave my Lord an account of what I had done, and so about +my business to take leave of my father and mother, which by a mistake I +have put down yesterday. Thence to Westminster to Crisp's, where we were +very merry; the old woman sent for a supper for me, and gave me a +handkercher with strawberry buttons on it, and so to bed. + +22nd. Up very early and set things in order at my house, and so took +leave of Mrs. Crispe and her daughter (who was in bed) and of Mrs. Hunt. +Then to my Lord's lodging at the gate and did so there, where Mr. Hawly +came to me and I gave him the key of my house to keep, and he went with me +to Mr. Crew's, and there I took my last leave of him. But the weather +continuing very bad my Lord would not go to-day. My Lord spent this +morning private in sealing of his last will and testament with Mr. W. +Mountagu. After that I went forth about my own business to buy a pair of +riding grey serge stockings and sword and belt and hose, and after that +took Wotton and Brigden to the Pope's Head Tavern in Chancery Lane, where +Gilb. Holland and Shelston were, and we dined and drank a great deal of +wine, and they paid all. Strange how these people do now promise me +anything; one a rapier, the other a vessel of wine or a gun, and one +offered me his silver hatband to do him a courtesy. I pray God to keep me +from being proud or too much lifted up hereby. After that to Westminster, +and took leave of Kate Sterpin who was very sorry to part with me, and +after that of Mr. George Mountagu, and received my warrant of Mr. +Blackburne, to be Secretary to the two Generals of the Fleet. Then to take +my leave of the Clerks of the Council, and thence Doling and Luellin would +have me go with them to Mount's chamber, where we sat and talked and then +I went away. So to my Lord (in my way meeting Chetwind and Swan and bade +them farewell) where I lay all night with Mr. Andrews. This day Mr. Sheply +went away on board and I sent my boy with him. This day also Mrs. Jemimah +went to Marrowbone, so I could not see her. Mr. Moore being out of town +to-night I could not take leave of him nor speak to him about business +which troubled me much. I left my small case therefore with Mr. Andrews +for him. + +23rd. Up early, carried my Lord's will in a black box to Mr. William +Montagu for him to keep for him. Then to the barber's and put on my +cravat there. So to my Lord again, who was almost ready to be gone and +had staid for me. Hither came Gilb. Holland, and brought me a stick +rapier and Shelston a sugar-loaf, and had brought his wife who he said was +a very pretty woman to the Ship tavern hard by for me to see but I could +not go. Young Reeve also brought me a little perspective glass which I +bought for my Lord, it cost me 8s. So after that my Lord in Sir H. +Wright's coach with Captain Isham, Mr. Thomas, John Crew, W. Howe, and I +in a Hackney to the Tower, where the barges staid for us; my Lord and the +Captain in one, and W. Howe and I, &c., in the other, to the Long Reach, +where the Swiftsure lay at anchor; (in our way we saw the great breach +which the late high water had made, to the loss of many L1000 to the +people about Limehouse.) Soon as my Lord on board, the guns went off +bravely from the ships. And a little while after comes the Vice-Admiral +Lawson, and seemed very respectful to my Lord, and so did the rest of the +Commanders of the frigates that were thereabouts. I to the cabin allotted +for me, which was the best that any had that belonged to my Lord. I got +out some things out of my chest for writing and to work presently, Mr, +Burr and I both. I supped at the deck table with Mr. Sheply. We were +late writing of orders for the getting of ships ready, &c.; and also +making of others to all the seaports between Hastings and Yarmouth, to +stop all dangerous persons that are going or coming between Flanders and +there. After that to bed in my cabin, which was but short; however I made +shift with it and slept very well, and the weather being good I was not +sick at all yet, I know not what I shall be. + +24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to the Council, &c. This +day Mr. Creed came on: board and dined very boldly with my Lord, but he +could not get a bed there. At night Capt. Isham who had been at +Gravesend all last night and to-day came and brought Mr. Lucy (one +acquainted with Mrs. Pierce, with whom I had been at her house), I drank +with him in the Captain's cabin, but my business could not stay with him. +I despatch many letters to-day abroad and it was late before we could get +to bed. Mr. Sheply and Howe supped with me in my cabin. The boy Eliezer +flung down a can of beer upon my papers which made me give him a box of +the ear, it having all spoiled my papers and cost me a great deal of work. +So to bed. + +25th. (Lord's day). About two o'clock in the morning, letters came from +London by our coxon, so they waked me, but I would not rise but bid him +stay till morning, which he did, and then I rose and carried them in to my +Lord, who read them a-bed. Among the rest, there was the writ and mandate +for him to dispose to the Cinque Ports for choice of Parliament-men. +There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with his own hand +superscribes it to S.P. Esq., of which God knows I was not a little proud. +After that I wrote a letter to the Clerk of Dover Castle, to come to my +Lord about issuing of those writs. About ten o'clock Mr. Ibbott, at the +end of the long table, begun to pray and preach and indeed made a very +good sermon, upon the duty of all Christians to be stedfast in faith. +After that Captain Cuttance and I had oysters, my Lord being in his cabin +not intending to stir out to-day. After that up into the great cabin +above to dinner with the Captain, where was Captain Isham and all the +officers of the ship. I took place of all but the Captains; after dinner +I wrote a great many letters to my friends at London. After that, sermon +again, at which I slept, God forgive me! After that, it being a fair day, +I walked with the Captain upon the deck talking. At night I supped with +him and after that had orders from my Lord about some business to be done +against to-morrow, which I sat up late and did and then to bed. + +26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God that I was cut of the +stone at Mrs. Turner's in Salisbury Court. And did resolve while I live +to keep it a festival, as I did the last year at my house, and for ever to +have Mrs. Turner and her company with me. But now it pleases God that I +am where I am and so prevented to do it openly; only within my soul I can +and do rejoice, and bless God, being at this time blessed be his holy +name, in as good health as ever I was in my life. This morning I rose +early, and went about making of an establishment of the whole Fleet, and a +list of all the ships, with the number of men and guns: About an hour +after that, we had a meeting of the principal commanders and seamen, to +proportion out the number of these things. After that to dinner, there +being very many commanders on board. All the afternoon very many orders +were made, till I was very weary. At night Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came +and brought some bottles of wine and some things to eat in my cabin, where +we were very merry, remembering the day of being cut for the stone. +Captain Cuttance came afterwards and sat drinking a bottle of wine till +eleven, a kindness he do not usually do the greatest officer in the ship. +After that to bed. + +27th. Early in the morning at making a fair new establishment of the +Fleet to send to the Council. This morning, the wind came about, and we +fell into the Hope,--[A reach of the Thames near Tilbury.]--and in our +passing by the Vice-Admiral, he and the rest of the frigates, with him, +did give us abundance of guns and we them, so much that the report of them +broke all the windows in my cabin and broke off the iron bar that was upon +it to keep anybody from creeping in at the Scuttle.--["A small hole or +port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for ventilation. +That in the deck is a small hatch-way."--Smyth's Sailor's +Word-Book.]--This noon I sat the first time with my Lord at table since my +coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in writing of letters and +orders. In the afternoon, Sir Harry Wright came onboard us, about his +business of being chosen Parliament-man. My Lord brought him to see my +cabin, when I was hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord too, with +the Captain, and after that to work again till it be very late. So to +bed. + +28th. This morning and the whole day busy, and that the more because Mr. +Burr was about his own business all the day at Gravesend. At night there +was a gentleman very well bred, his name was Banes, going for Flushing, +who spoke French and Latin very well, brought by direction from Captain +Clerke hither, as a prisoner, because he called out of the vessel that he +went in, "Where is your King, we have done our business, Vive le Roi." He +confessed himself a Cavalier in his heart, and that he and his whole +family had fought for the King; but that he was then drunk, having been +all night taking his leave at Gravesend the night before, and so could not +remember what it was that he said; but in his words and carriage showed +much of a gentleman. My Lord had a great kindness for him, but did not +think it safe to release him, but commanded him to be used civilly, so he +was taken to the Master's Cabin and had supper there. In the meantime I +wrote a letter to the Council about him, and an order for the vessel to be +sent for back that he was taken out of. But a while after, he sent a +letter down to my Lord, which my Lord did like very well, and did advise +with me what was best to be done. So I put in something to my Lord and +then to the Captain that the gentleman was to be released and the letter +stopped, which was done. So I went up and sat and talked with him in +Latin and French, and drank a bottle or two with him; and about eleven at +night he took boat again, and so God bless him. Thence I to my cabin and +to bed. This day we had news of the election at Huntingdon for Bernard +and Pedly, at which my Lord was much troubled for his friends' missing of +it. + +29th. We lie still a little below Gravesend. At night Mr. Sheply +returned from London, and told us of several elections for the next +Parliament. That the King's effigies was new making to be set up in the +Exchange again. This evening was a great whispering of some of the +Vice-Admiral's captains that they were dissatisfied, and did intend to +fight themselves, to oppose the General. But it was soon hushed, and the +Vice-Admiral did wholly deny any such thing, and protested to stand by the +General. At night Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, and I supped in my cabin. So up +to the Master's cabin, where we sat talking, and then to bed. + +30th. I was saluted in the morning with two letters, from some that I had +done a favour to, which brought me in each a piece of gold. This day, +while my Lord and we were at dinner, the Nazeby came in sight towards us, +and at last came to anchor close by us. After dinner my Lord and many +others went on board her, where every thing was out of order, and a new +chimney made for my Lord in his bedchamber, which he was much pleased +with. My Lord, in his discourse, discovered a great deal of love to this +ship. + +31st. This morning Captain Jowles of the "Wexford" came on board, for +whom I got commission from my Lord to be commander of the ship. Upon the +doing thereof he was to make the 20s. piece that he sent me yesterday, up +L5; wherefore he sent me a bill that he did owe me L4., which I sent my +boy to Gravesend with him, and he did give the boy L4 for me, and the boy +gave him the bill under his hand. This morning, Mr. Hill that lives in +Axe-yard was here on board with the Vice-Admiral. I did give him a bottle +of wine, and was exceedingly satisfied of the power that I have to make my +friends welcome. Many orders to make all the afternoon. At night Mr. +Sheply, Howe, Ibbott, and I supped in my cabin together. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + APRIL + 1660 + +April 1st (Lord's day). Mr. Ibbott preached very well. After dinner my +Lord did give me a private list of all the ships that were to be set out +this summer, wherein I do discern that he bath made it his care to put by +as much of the Anabaptists as he can. By reason of my Lord and my being +busy to send away the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it was four +o'clock before we could begin sermon again. This day Captain Guy come on +board from Dunkirk, who tells me that the King will come in, and that the +soldiers at Dunkirk do drink the King's health in the streets. At night +the Captain, Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Sheply, and I did sup together in the +Captain's cabin. I made a commission for Captain Wilgness, of the Bear, +to-night, which got me 30s. So after writing a while I went to bed. + +2d. Up very early, and to get all my things and my boy's packed up. Great +concourse of commanders here this morning to take leave of my Lord upon +his going into the Nazeby, so that the table was full, so there dined +below many commanders, and Mr. Creed, who was much troubled to hear that +he could not go along with my Lord, for he had already got all his things +thither, thinking to stay there, but W. Howe was very high against it, and +he indeed did put him out, though everybody was glad of it. After dinner I +went in one of the boats with my boy before my Lord, and made shift before +night to get my cabin in pretty good order. It is but little, but very +convenient, having one window to the sea and another to the deck, and a +good bed. This morning comes Mr. Ed. Pickering, like a coxcomb as he +always was. He tells me that the King will come in, but that Monk did +resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it. + +3d. Late to bed. About three in the morning there was great knocking at +my cabin, which with much difficulty (so they say) waked me, and I rose, +but it was only for a packet, so went to my bed again, and in the morning +gave it my Lord. This morning Capt. Isham comes on board to see my Lord +and drunk his wine before he went into the Downs, there likewise come many +merchants to get convoy to the Baltique, which a course was taken for. +They dined with my Lord, and one of them by name Alderman Wood talked much +to my Lord of the hopes that we have now to be settled, (under the King he +meant); but my Lord took no notice of it. After dinner which was late my +Lord went on shore, and after him I and Capt. Sparling went in his boat, +but the water being almost at low water we could not stay for fear of not +getting into our boat again. So back again. This day come the Lieutenant +of the Swiftsure, who was sent by my Lord to Hastings, one of the Cinque +Ports, to have got Mr. Edward Montagu to have been one of their burgesses, +but could not, for they were all promised before. After he had done his +message, I took him and Mr. Pierce, the surgeon (who this day came on +board, and not before), to my cabin, where we drank a bottle of wine. At +night, busy a-writing, and so to bed. My heart exceeding heavy for not +hearing of my dear wife, and indeed I do not remember that ever my heart +was so apprehensive of her absence as at this very time. + +4th. This morning I dispatch many letters of my own private business to +London. There come Colonel Thomson with the wooden leg, and General Pen, + + [This is the first mention in the Diary of Admiral (afterwards Sir + William) Penn, with whom Pepys was subsequently so particularly + intimate. At this time admirals were sometimes styled generals. + William Penn was born at Bristol in 1621, of the ancient family of + the Penns of Penn Lodge, Wilts. He was Captain at the age of + twenty-one; Rear-Admiral of Ireland at twenty-three; Vice-Admiral of + England and General in the first Dutch war, at thirty-two. He was + subsequently M.P. for Weymouth, Governor of Kingsale, and Vice- + Admiral of Munster. He was a highly successful commander, and in + 1654 he obtained possession of Jamaica. He was appointed a + Commissioner of the Navy in 1660, in which year he was knighted. + After the Dutch fight in 1665, where he distinguished himself as + second in command under the Duke of York, he took leave of the sea, + but continued to act as a Commissioner for the Navy till 1669, when + he retired to Wanstead, on account of his bodily infirmities, and + dying there, September 16th, 1670, aged forty-nine, was buried in + the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, where a monument to + his memory was erected.] + +and dined with my Lord and Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it was certain +now that the King must of necessity come in, and that one of the Council +told him there is something doing in order to a treaty already among them. +And it was strange to hear how Mr. Blackburne did already begin to commend +him for a sober man, and how quiet he would be under his government, &c. +I dined all alone to prevent company, which was exceeding great to-day, in +my cabin. After these two were gone Sir W. Wheeler and Sir John Petters +came on board and staid about two or three hours, and so went away. The +Commissioners came to-day, only to consult about a further reducement of +the Fleet, and to pay them as fast as they can. I did give Davis, their +servant, L5 10s. to give to Mr. Moore from me, in part of the L7 that I +borrowed of him, and he is to discount the rest out of the 36s. that he do +owe me. At night, my Lord resolved to send the Captain of our ship to +Waymouth and promote his being chosen there, which he did put himself into +a readiness to do the next morning. + +5th. Infinity of business all the morning of orders to make, that I was +very much perplexed that Mr. Burr had failed me of coming back last night, +and we ready to set sail, which we did about noon, and came in the evening +to Lee roads and anchored. At night Mr. Sheply overtook us who had been +at Gray's Market this morning. I spent all the afternoon upon the deck, +it being very pleasant weather. This afternoon Sir Rich. Stayner and Mr. +Creed, after we were come to anchor, did come on board, and Creed brought +me L30, which my Lord had ordered him to pay me upon account, and Captain +Clerke brought me a noted caudle. At night very sleepy to bed. + +6th. This morning came my brother-in-law Balty to see me, and to desire +to be here with me as Reformado,--["a broken or disbanded officer."] which +did much trouble me. But after dinner (my Lord using him very civilly, at +table) I spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter to Captain Stokes +for him that he should be there. All the day with him walking and +talking, we under sail as far as the Spitts. In the afternoon, W. Howe +and I to our viallins, the first time since we came on board. This +afternoon I made even with my Lord to this day, and did give him all the +money remaining in my hands. In the evening, it being fine moonshine, I +staid late walking upon the quarter-deck with Mr. Cuttance, learning of +some sea terms; and so down to supper and to bed, having an hour before +put Balty into Burr's cabin, he being out of the ship. + +7th. This day, about nine o'clock in the morning, the wind grew high, and +we being among the sands lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy and squeamish. +Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some oysters, the best my +Lord said that ever he ate in his life, though I have ate as good at +Bardsey. After dinner, and all the afternoon I walked upon the deck to +keep myself from being sick, and at last about five o'clock, went to bed +and got a caudle made me, and sleep upon it very well. This day Mr. +Sheply went to Sheppy. + +8th (Lord's day). Very calm again, and I pretty well, but my head aked +all day. About noon set sail; in our way I see many vessels and masts, +which are now the greatest guides for ships. We had a brave wind all the +afternoon, and overtook two good merchantmen that overtook us yesterday, +going to the East Indies. The lieutenant and I lay out of his window with +his glass, looking at the women that were on board them, being pretty +handsome. This evening Major Willoughby, who had been here three or four +days on board with Mr. Pickering, went on board a catch [ketch] for +Dunkirk. We continued sailing when I went to bed, being somewhat ill +again, and Will Howe, the surgeon, parson, and Balty supped in the +Lieutenant's cabin and afterwards sat disputing, the parson for and I +against extemporary prayers, very hot. + +9th. We having sailed all night, were come in sight of the Nore and South +Forelands in the morning, and so sailed all day. In the afternoon we had +a very fresh gale, which I brooked better than I thought I should be able +to do. This afternoon I first saw France and Calais, with which I was +much pleased, though it was at a distance. About five o'clock we came to +the Goodwin, so to the Castles about Deal; where our Fleet lay, among whom +we anchored. Great was the shout of guns from the castles and ships, and +our answers, that I never heard yet so great rattling of guns. Nor could +we see one another on board for the smoke that was among us, nor one ship +from another. Soon as we came to anchor, the captains came from on board +their ships all to us on board. This afternoon I wrote letters for my +Lord to the Council, &c., which Mr. Dickering was to carry, who took his +leave this night of my Lord, and Balty after I had wrote two or three +letters by him to my wife and Mr. Bowyer, and had drank a bottle of wine +with him in my cabin which J. Goods and W. Howe brought on purpose, he +took leave of me too to go away to-morrow morning with Mr. Dickering. I +lent Balty 15s. which he was to pay to my wife. It was one in the morning +before we parted. This evening Mr. Sheply came on board, having escaped a +very great danger upon a sand coming from Chatham. + +10th. This morning many or most of the commanders in the Fleet came on +board and dined here, so that some of them and I dined together in the +Round-house, where we were very merry. Hither came the Vice-Admiral to +us, and sat and talked and seemed a very good-natured man. At night as I +was all alone in my cabin, in a melancholy fit playing on my viallin, my +Lord and Sir R. Stayner came into the coach + + ["A sort of chamber or apartment in a large ship of war, just before + the great cabin. The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of + the quarter deck, and the roof of it by the poop: it is generally + the habitation of the flag-captain."--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book.] + +and supped there, and called me out to supper with them. After that up to +the Lieutenant's cabin, where he and I and Sir Richard sat till 11 o'clock +talking, and so to bed. This day my Lord Goring returned from France, and +landed at Dover. + +11th. A Gentleman came this morning from my Lord of Manchester to my Lord +for a pass for Mr. Boyle,' which was made him. I ate a good breakfast by +my Lord's orders with him in the great cabin below. The wind all this day +was very high, so that a gentleman that was at dinner with my Lord that +came along with Sir John Bloys (who seemed a fine man) was forced to rise +from table. This afternoon came a great packet of letters from London +directed to me, among the rest two from my wife, the first that I have +since coming away from London. All the news from London is that things go +on further towards a King. That the Skinners' Company the other day at +their entertaining of General Monk had took down the Parliament Arms in +their Hall, and set up the King's. In the evening my Lord and I had a +great deal of discourse about the several Captains of the Fleet and his +interest among them, and had his mind clear to bring in the King. He +confessed to me that he was not sure of his own Captain [Cuttance] to be +true to him, and that he did not like Captain Stokes. At night W. Howe and +I at our viallins in my cabin, where Mr. Ibbott and the lieutenant were +late. I staid the lieutenant late, shewing him my manner of keeping a +journal. After that to bed. It comes now into my mind to observe that I +am sensible that I have been a little too free to make mirth with the +minister of our ship, he being a very sober and an upright man. + +12th. This day, the weather being very bad, we had no strangers on board. +In the afternoon came the Vice-Admiral on board, with whom my Lord +consulted, and I sent a packet to London at night with several letters to +my friends, as to my wife about my getting of money for her when she +should need it, to Mr. Bowyer that he tell me when the Messieurs of the +offices be paid, to Mr. Moore about the business of my office, and making +even with him as to matter of money. At night after I had despatched my +letters, to bed. + +13th. This day very foul all day for rain and wind. In the afternoon set +my own things in my cabin and chests in better order than hitherto, and +set my papers in order. At night sent another packet to London by the +post, and after that was done I went up to the lieutenant's cabin and +there we broached a vessel of ale that we had sent for among us from Deal +to-day. There was the minister and doctor with us. After that till one +o'clock in the morning writing letters to Mr. Downing about my business of +continuing my office to myself, only Mr. Moore to execute it for me. I had +also a very serious and effectual letter from my Lord to him to that +purpose. After that done then to bed, and it being very rainy, and the +rain coming upon my bed, I went and lay with John Goods in the great cabin +below, the wind being so high that we were faro to lower some of the +masts. I to bed, and what with the goodness of the bed and the rocking of +the ship I slept till almost ten o'clock, and then-- + +14th. Rose and drank a good morning draught there with Mr. Sheply, which +occasioned my thinking upon the happy life that I live now, had I nothing +to care for but myself. The sea was this morning very high, and looking +out of the window I saw our boat come with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, in it +in great danger, who endeavouring to come on board us, had like to have +been drowned had it not been for a rope. This day I was informed that my +Lord Lambert is got out of the Towers and that there is L100 proffered to +whoever shall bring him forth to the Council of State. + + [The manner of the escape of John Lambert, out of the Tower, on the + 11th inst., as related by Rugge:--"That about eight of the clock at + night he escaped by a rope tied fast to his window, by which he slid + down, and in each hand he had a handkerchief; and six men were ready + to receive him, who had a barge to hasten him away. She who made + the bed, being privy to his escape, that night, to blind the warder + when he came to lock the chamber-door, went to bed, and possessed + Colonel Lambert's place, and put on his night-cap. So, when the + said warder came to lock the door, according to his usual manner, he + found the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be Colonel John + Lambert, he said, 'Good night, my Lord.' To which a seeming voice + replied, and prevented all further jealousies. The next morning, on + coming to unlock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, 'In + the name of God, Joan, what makes you here? Where is my Lord + Lambert?' She said, 'He is gone; but I cannot tell whither.' + Whereupon he caused her to rise, and carried her before the officer + in the Tower, and [she] was committed to custody. Some said that a + lady knit for him a garter of silk, by which he was conveyed down, + and that she received L100 for her pains."--B] + +My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedom +brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is +capable of being elected for them. This day I heard that the Army had in +general declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do. At night +supped with my Lord. + +15th (Lord's day). Up early and was trimmed by the barber in the great +cabin below. After that to put my clothes on and then to sermon, and then +to dinner, where my Lord told us that the University of Cambridge had a +mind to choose him for their burgess, which he pleased himself with, to +think that they do look upon him as a thriving man, and said so openly at +table. At dinner-time Mr. Cook came back from London with a packet which +caused my Lord to be full of thoughts all day, and at night he bid me +privately to get two commissions ready, one for Capt. Robert Blake to be +captain of the Worcester, in the room of Capt. Dekings, an anabaptist, and +one that had witnessed a great deal of discontent with the present +proceedings. The other for Capt. Coppin to come out of that into the +Newbury in the room of Blake, whereby I perceive that General Monk do +resolve to make a thorough change, to make way for the King. From London I +hear that since Lambert got out of the Tower, the Fanatiques had held up +their heads high, but I hope all that will come to nothing. Late a +writing of letters to London to get ready for Mr. Cook. Then to bed. + +16th. And about 4 o'clock in the morning Mr. Cook waked me where I lay in +the great cabin below, and I did give him his packet and directions for +London. So to sleep again. All the morning giving out orders and tickets +to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all supernumeraries that they +had above the number that the Council had set in their last establishment. +After dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so till night, then to +bed. + +17th. All the morning getting ready commissions for the Vice-Admiral and +the Rear-Admiral, wherein my Lord was very careful to express the utmost +of his own power, commanding them to obey what orders they should receive +from the Parliament, &c., or both or either of the Generals. + + [Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High + Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of + the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward + himself, or from the Rump Parliament.--Kennett's Register, p. 163.] + +The Vice-Admiral dined with us, and in the afternoon my Lord called me to +give him the commission for him, which I did, and he gave it him himself. +A very pleasant afternoon, and I upon the deck all the day, it was so +clear that my Lord's glass shewed us Calais very plain, and the cliffs +were as plain to be seen as Kent, and my Lord at first made me believe +that it was Kent. At night, after supper, my Lord called for the +Rear-Admiral's commission, which I brought him, and I sitting in my study +heard my Lord discourse with him concerning D. King's and Newberry's being +put out of commission. And by the way I did observe that my Lord did +speak more openly his mind to me afterwards at night than I can find that +he did to the Rear-Admiral, though his great confidant. For I was with +him an hour together, when he told me clearly his thoughts that the King +would carry it, and that he did think himself very happy that he was now +at sea, as well for his own sake, as that he thought he might do his +country some service in keeping things quiet. To bed, and shifting myself +from top to toe, there being J. Goods and W. Howe sat late by my bedside +talking. So to sleep, every day bringing me a fresh sense of the pleasure +of my present life. + +18th. This morning very early came Mr. Edward Montagu on board, but what +was the business of his coming again or before without any servant and +making no stay at all I cannot guess. This day Sir R. Stayner, Mr. +Sheply, and as many of my Lord's people as could be spared went to Dover +to get things ready against to-morrow for the election there. I all the +afternoon dictating in my cabin (my own head being troubled with +multiplicity of business) to Burr, who wrote for me above a dozen letters, +by which I have made my mind more light and clear than I have had it yet +since I came on board. At night sent a packet to London, and Mr. Cook +returned hence bringing me this news, that the Sectaries do talk high what +they will do, but I believe all to no purpose, but the Cavaliers are +something unwise to talk so high on the other side as they do. That the +Lords do meet every day at my Lord of Manchester's, and resolve to sit the +first day of the Parliament. That it is evident now that the General and +the Council do resolve to make way for the King's coming. And it is now +clear that either the Fanatiques must now be undone, or the gentry and +citizens throughout England, and clergy must fall, in spite of their +militia and army, which is not at all possible I think. At night I supped +with W. Howe and Mr. Luellin (being the first time that I had been so long +with him) in the great cabin below. After that to bed, and W. Howe sat by +my bedside, and he and I sang a psalm or two and so I to sleep. + +19th. A great deal of business all this day, and Burr being gone to shore +without my leave did vex me much. At dinner news was brought us that my +Lord was chosen at Dover. This afternoon came one Mr. Mansell on board as +a Reformado, to whom my Lord did shew exceeding great respect, but upon +what account I do not yet know. This day it has rained much, so that when +I came to go to bed I found it wet through, so I was fain to wrap myself +up in a dry sheet, and so lay all night. + +20th. All the morning I was busy to get my window altered, and to have my +table set as I would have it, which after it was done I was infinitely +pleased with it, and also to see what a command I have to have every one +ready to come and go at my command. This evening came Mr. Boyle on board, +for whom I writ an order for a ship to transport him to Flushing. He +supped with my Lord, my Lord using him as a person of honour. This +evening too came Mr. John Pickering on board us. This evening my head +ached exceedingly, which I impute to my sitting backwards in my cabin, +otherwise than I am used to do. To-night Mr. Sheply told me that he heard +for certain at Dover that Mr. Edw. Montagu did go beyond sea when he was +here first the other day, and I am apt to believe that he went to speak +with the King. This day one told me how that at the election at Cambridge +for knights of the shire, Wendby and Thornton by declaring to stand for +the Parliament and a King and the settlement of the Church, did carry it +against all expectation against Sir Dudley North and Sir Thomas Willis! I +supped to-night with Mr. Sheply below at the half-deck table, and after +that I saw Mr. Pickering whom my Lord brought down to his cabin, and so to +bed. + +21st. This day dined Sir John Boys + + [Of Bonnington and Sandwich, Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to + Charles I. He defended Donnington Castle, Berkshire, for the King + against Jeremiah Horton, 1644, and received an augmentation to his + arms in consequence.] + +and some other gentlemen formerly great Cavaliers, and among the rest one +Mr. Norwood, for whom my Lord give a convoy to carry him to the +Brill,--[Brielle, or Den Briel, a seaport town in the province of South +Holland.]--but he is certainly going to the King. For my Lord commanded +me that I should not enter his name in my book. My Lord do show them and +that sort of people great civility. All their discourse and others are of +the King's coming, and we begin to speak of it very freely. And heard how +in many churches in London, and upon many signs there, and upon merchants' +ships in the river, they had set up the King's arms. In the afternoon the +Captain would by all means have me up to his cabin, and there treated me +huge nobly, giving me a barrel of pickled oysters, and opened another for +me, and a bottle of wine, which was a very great favour. At night late +singing with W. Howe, and under the barber's hands in the coach. This +night there came one with a letter from Mr. Edw. Montagu to my Lord, with +command to deliver it to his own hands. I do believe that he do carry +some close business on for the King. + + [Pepys's guess at E. Montagu's business is confirmed by Clarendon's + account of his employment of him to negotiate with Lord Sandwich on + behalf of the King. ("History of the Rebellion," book xvi.)--Notes + and Queries, vol. x. p. 3--M. B.] + +This day I had a large letter from Mr. Moore, giving me an account of the +present dispute at London that is like to be at the beginning of the +Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve to sit with the +Commons, as not thinking themselves dissolved yet. Which, whether it be +granted or no, or whether they will sit or no, it will bring a great many +inconveniences. His letter I keep, it being a very well writ one. + +22d (Easter Sunday). Several Londoners, strangers, friends of the +Captains, dined here, who, among other things told us, how the King's Arms +are every day set up in houses and churches, particularly in Allhallows +Church in Thames-street, John Simpson's church, which being privately done +was, a great eye-sore to his people when they came to church and saw it. +Also they told us for certain, that the King's statue is making by the +Mercers' Company (who are bound to do it) to set up in the Exchange. +After sermon in the afternoon I fell to writing letters against to-morrow +to send to London. After supper to bed. + +23rd. All the morning very busy getting my packet ready for London, only +for an hour or two had the Captain and Mr. Sheply in my cabin at the +barrel of pickled oysters that the Captain did give me on Saturday last. +After dinner I sent Mr. Dunn to London with the packet. This afternoon I +had 40s. given me by Captain Cowes of the Paradox.' In the evening the +first time that we had any sport among the seamen, and indeed there was +extraordinary good sport after my Lord had done playing at ninepins. After +that W. Howe and I went to play two trebles in the great cabin below, +which my Lord hearing, after supper he called for our instruments, and +played a set of Lock's, two trebles, and a base, and that being done, he +fell to singing of a song made upon the Rump, with which he played himself +well, to the tune of "The Blacksmith." After all that done, then to bed. + + ["The Blacksmith" was the same tune as "Green Sleeves." The + earliest known copy of "The Praise of the Blacksmith" is in "An + Antidote against Melancholy," 1661. See "Roxburghe Ballads," ed. + W. Chappell, 1872, vol. ii. p. 126. (Ballad Society:)] + +24th. This morning I had Mr. Luellin and Mr. Sheply to the remainder of +my oysters that were left yesterday. After that very busy all the +morning. While I was at dinner with my Lord, the Coxon of the +Vice-Admiral came for me to the Vice-Admiral to dinner. So I told my Lord +and he gave me leave to go. I rose therefore from table and went, where +there was very many commanders, and very pleasant we were on board the +London, which hath a state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but not so +rich. After that, with the Captain on board our own ship, where we were +saluted with the news of Lambert's being taken, which news was brought to +London on Sunday last. He was taken in Northamptonshire by Colonel +Ingoldsby, at the head of a party, by which means their whole design is +broke, and things now very open and safe. And every man begins to be +merry and full of hopes. In the afternoon my Lord gave a great large +character to write out, so I spent all the day about it, and after supper +my Lord and we had some more very good musique and singing of "Turne +Amaryllis," as it is printed in the song book, with which my Lord was very +much pleased. After that to bed. + +25th. All the morning about my Lord's character. Dined to-day with +Captain Clerke on board the Speaker (a very brave ship) where was the +Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and many other commanders. After dinner home, +not a little contented to see how I am treated, and with what respect made +a fellow to the best commanders in the Fleet. All the afternoon finishing +of the character, which I did and gave it my Lord, it being very +handsomely done and a very good one in itself, but that not truly +Alphabetical. Supped with Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, &c. in Mr. Pierce, the +Purser's cabin, where very merry, and so to bed. Captain Isham came +hither to-day. + +26th. This day came Mr. Donne back from London, who brought letters with +him that signify the meeting of the Parliament yesterday. And in the +afternoon by other letters I hear, that about twelve of the Lords met and +had chosen my Lord of Manchester' Speaker of the House of Lords (the young +Lords that never sat yet, do forbear to sit for the present); and Sir +Harbottle Grimstone, Speaker for the House of Commons. The House of Lords +sent to have a conference with the House of Commons, which, after a little +debate, was granted. Dr. Reynolds' preached before the Commons before +they sat. My Lord told me how Sir H. Yelverton (formerly my +school-fellow) was chosen in the first place for Northamptonshire and Mr. +Crew in the second. And told me how he did believe that the Cavaliers +have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians. All the afternoon I +was writing of letters, among the rest one to W. Simons, Peter Luellin and +Tom Doling, which because it is somewhat merry I keep a copy of. After +that done Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I down with J. Goods into my Lord's +storeroom of wine and other drink, where it was very pleasant to observe +the massy timbers that the ship is made of. We in the room were wholly +under water and yet a deck below that. After that to supper, where Tom +Guy supped with us, and we had very good laughing, and after that some +musique, where Mr. Pickering beginning to play a bass part upon the viall +did it so like a fool that I was ashamed of him. After that to bed. + +27th. This morning Burr was absent again from on board, which I was +troubled at, and spoke to Mr. Pierce, Purser, to speak to him of it, and +it is my mind. This morning Pim [the tailor] spent in my cabin, putting a +great many ribbons to a suit. After dinner in the afternoon came on board +Sir Thomas Hatton and Sir R. Maleverer going for Flushing; but all the +world know that they go where the rest of the many gentlemen go that every +day flock to the King at Breda. + + [The King arrived at Breda on the 14th April. Sir W. Lower writes + ("Voiage and Residence of Charles II. in Holland," p. 5): "Many + considerations obliged him to depart the territories under the + obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs."] + +They supped here, and my Lord treated them as he do the rest that go +thither, with a great deal of civility. While we were at supper a packet +came, wherein much news from several friends. The chief is that, that I +had from Mr. Moore, viz. that he fears the Cavaliers in the House will be +so high, that the others will be forced to leave the House and fall in +with General Monk, and so offer things to the King so high on the +Presbyterian account that he may refuse, and so they will endeavour some +more mischief; but when I told my Lord it, he shook his head and told me, +that the Presbyterians are deceived, for the General is certainly for the +King's interest, and so they will not be able to prevail that way with +him. After supper the two knights went on board the Grantham, that is to +convey them to Flushing. I am informed that the Exchequer is now so low, +that there is not L20 there, to give the messenger that brought the news +of Lambert's being taken; which story is very strange that he should lose +his reputation of being a man of courage now at one blow, for that he was +not able to fight one stroke, but desired of Colonel Ingoldsby several +times for God's sake to let him escape. Late reading my letters, my mind +being much troubled to think that, after all our hopes, we should have any +cause to fear any more disappointments therein. To bed. This day I made +even with Mr. Creed, by sending him my bill and he me my money by Burr +whom I sent for it. + +28th. This morning sending a packet by Mr. Dunne to London. In the +afternoon I played at ninepins with Mr. Pickering, I and Mr. Pett against +him and Ted Osgood, and won a crown apiece of him. He had not money +enough to pay me. After supper my Lord exceeding merry, and he and I and +W. Howe to sing, and so to bed. + +29th (Sunday). This day I put on first my fine cloth suit made of a cloak +that had like to have been [dirted] a year ago, the very day that I put it +on. After sermon in the morning Mr. Cook came from London with a packet, +bringing news how all the young lords that were not in arms against the +Parliament do now sit. That a letter is come from the King to the House, +which is locked up by the Council 'till next Tuesday that it may be read +in the open House when they meet again, they having adjourned till then to +keep a fast tomorrow. And so the contents is not yet known. L13,000 of +the L20,000 given to General Monk is paid out of the Exchequer, he giving +L12 among the teller clerks of Exchequer. My Lord called me into the +great cabin below, where I opened my letters and he told me that the +Presbyterians are quite mastered by the Cavaliers, and that he fears Mr. +Crew did go a little too far the other day in keeping out the young lords +from sitting. That he do expect that the King should be brought over +suddenly, without staying to make any terms at all, saying that the +Presbyterians did intend to have brought him in with such conditions as if +he had been in chains. But he shook his shoulders when he told me how +Monk had betrayed him, for it was he that did put them upon standing to +put out the lords and other members that came not within the +qualifications, which he [Montagu] did not like, but however he [Monk] had +done his business, though it be with some kind of baseness. After dinner +I walked a great while upon the deck with the chyrurgeon and purser, and +other officers of the ship, and they all pray for the King's coming, which +I pray God send. + +30th. All the morning getting instructions ready for the Squadron of +ships that are going to-day to the Streights, among others Captain +Teddiman, Curtis, and Captain Robert Blake to be commander of the whole +Squadron. After dinner to ninepins, W. Howe and I against Mr. Creed and +the Captain. We lost 5s. apiece to them. After that W. Howe, Mr. Sheply +and I got my Lord's leave to go to see Captain Sparling. So we took boat +and first went on shore, it being very pleasant in the fields; but a very +pitiful town Deal is. We went to Fuller's (the famous place for ale), but +they have none but what was in the vat. After that to Poole's, a tavern +in the town, where we drank, and so to boat again, and went to the +Assistance, where we were treated very civilly by the Captain, and he did +give us such music upon the harp by a fellow that he keeps on board that I +never expect to hear the like again, yet he is a drunken simple fellow to +look on as any I ever saw. After that on board the Nazeby, where we found +my Lord at supper, so I sat down and very pleasant my Lord was with Mr. +Creed and Sheply, who he puzzled about finding out the meaning of the +three notes which my Lord had cut over the chrystal of his watch. After +supper some musique. Then Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I up to the +Lieutenant's cabin, where we drank, and I and W. Howe were very merry, and +among other frolics he pulls out the spigot of the little vessel of ale +that was there in the cabin and drew some into his mounteere, and after he +had drank, I endeavouring to dash it in his face, he got my velvet +studying cap and drew some into mine too, that we made ourselves a great +deal of mirth, but spoiled my clothes with the ale that we dashed up and +down. After that to bed very late with drink enough in my head. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians + Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it + Strange thing how I am already courted by the people + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MAY + 1660 + +May 1st. This morning I was told how the people of Deal have set up two +or three Maypoles, and have hung up their flags upon the top of them, and +do resolve to be very merry to-day. It being a very pleasant day, I +wished myself in Hide Park. This day I do count myself to have had full +two years of perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heaven be +blessed. This day Captain Parker came on board, and without his +expectation I had a commission for him for the Nonsuch frigate + + [The "Nonsuch" was a fourth-rate of thirty-two guns, built at + Deptford in 1646 by Peter Pett, jun. The captain was John Parker.] + +(he being now in the Cheriton), for which he gave me a French pistole. +Captain H. Cuttance has commission for the Cheriton. After dinner to +nine-pins, and won something. The rest of the afternoon in my cabin +writing and piping. While we were at supper we heard a great noise upon +the Quarter Deck, so we all rose instantly, and found it was to save the +coxon of the Cheriton, who, dropping overboard, could not be saved, but +was drowned. To-day I put on my suit that was altered from the great +skirts to little ones. To-day I hear they were very merry at Deal, +setting up the King's flag upon one of their maypoles, and drinking his +health upon their knees in the streets, and firing the guns, which the +soldiers of the Castle threatened; but durst not oppose. + +2nd. In the morning at a breakfast of radishes at the Purser's cabin. +After that to writing till dinner. At which time comes Dunne from London, +with letters that tell us the welcome news of the Parliament's votes +yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest May-day that bath +been many a year to England. The King's letter was read in the House, +wherein he submits himself and all things to them, as to an Act of +Oblivion to all, + + ["His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the + safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for + having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it, + and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and + the calling in of their lawful Prince. It is printed and published + as well as the letter, but that shall not hinder me to say, that + there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most + excellent natural qualities, and of all the venues, as well Royal as + Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, than was found + in those two wonderful productions."--Sir William Lowers 'Relation + . . . of the voiage and Residence Which . . . Charles the II. + Hath made in Holland,' Hague, 1660, folio, p. 3.] + +unless they shall please to except any, as to the confirming of the sales +of the King's and Church lands, if they see good. The House upon reading +the letter, ordered L50,000 to be forthwith provided to send to His +Majesty for his present supply; and a committee chosen to return an answer +of thanks to His Majesty for his gracious letter; and that the letter be +kept among the records of the Parliament; and in all this not so much as +one No. So that Luke Robinson himself stood up and made a recantation for +what he had done, and promises to be a loyal subject to his Prince for the +time to come. The City of London have put a Declaration, wherein they do +disclaim their owing any other government but that of a King, Lords, and +Commons. Thanks was given by the House to Sir John Greenville, + + [Created Earl of Bath, 1661; son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at + the battle of Lansdowne; he was, when a boy, left for dead on the + field at the second battle of Newbury, and said to have been the + only person entrusted by Charles II. and Monk in bringing about the + Restoration.] + +one of the bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and they +continued bare all the time it was reading. Upon notice made from the +Lords to the Commons, of their desire that the Commons would join with +them in their vote for King, Lords, and Commons; the Commons did concur +and voted that all books whatever that are out against the Government of +King, Lords, and Commons, should be brought into the House and burned. +Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever, +and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their knees +in the streets, which methinks is a little too much. But every body seems +to be very joyfull in the business, insomuch that our sea-commanders now +begin to say so too, which a week ago they would not do. + + ["The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses, + without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a + hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated + and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any + Parliament rumps and kidneys?' And it was a very ordinary thing to + see little children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps." + --Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +And our seamen, as many as had money or credit for drink, did do nothing +else this evening. This day came Mr. North (Sir Dudley North's son) on +board, to spend a little time here, which my Lord was a little troubled +at, but he seems to be a fine gentleman, and at night did play his part +exceeding well at first sight. After musique I went up to the Captain's +Cabin with him and Lieutenant Ferrers, who came hither to-day from London +to bring this news to my Lord, and after a bottle of wine we all to bed. + +3d. This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter +to the two Generals to be communicated to the fleet. + + ["King Charles II. his Declaration to all his loving Subjects of the + Kingdome of England, dated from his Court at Breda in Holland 4/14 + of April, 1660, and read in Parliament with his Majesties Letter of + the same date to his Excellence the Ld. Gen. Monck to be + communicated to the Ld. President of the Council of State and + to the Officers of the Army under his Command. London, Printed by + W. Godbid for John Playford in the Temple, 1660." 40, pp. 8.] + +The contents of the letter are his offer of grace to all that will come in +within forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament shall hereafter +except. That the sales of lands during these troubles, and all other +things, shall be left to the Parliament, by which he will stand. The +letter dated at Breda, April, 4 1660, in the 12th year of his reign. Upon +the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, one of the +messengers of the Council from General Monk, my Lord summoned a council of +war, and in the mean time did dictate to me how he would have the vote +ordered which he would have pass this council. Which done, the Commanders +all came on board, and the council sat in the coach (the first council of +war that had been in my time), where I read the letter and declaration; +and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to draw up a vote, which +being offered, they passed. Not one man seemed to say no to it, though I +am confident many in their hearts were against it. After this was done, I +went up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and the Commanders, and there +read both the papers and the vote; which done, and demanding their +opinion, the seamen did all of them cry out, "God bless King Charles!" +with the greatest joy imaginable. That being done, Sir R. Stayner, who +had invited us yesterday, took all the Commanders and myself on board him +to dinner, which not being ready, I went with Captain Hayward to the +Plimouth and Essex, and did what I had to do there and returned, where +very merry at dinner. After dinner, to the rest of the ships (staid at +the Assistance to hear the harper a good while) quite through the fleet. +Which was a very brave sight to visit all the ships, and to be received +with the respect and honour that I was on board them all; and much more to +see the great joy that I brought to all men; not one through the whole +fleet showing the least dislike of the business. In the evening as I was +going on board the Vice-Admiral, the General began to fire his guns, which +he did all that he had in the ship, and so did all the rest of the +Commanders, which was very gallant, and to hear the bullets go hissing +over our heads as we were in the boat. This done and finished my +Proclamation, I returned to the Nazeby, where my Lord was much pleased to +hear how all the fleet took it in a transport of joy, showed me a private +letter of the King's to him, and another from the Duke of York in such +familiar style as to their common friend, with all kindness imaginable. +And I found by the letters, and so my Lord told me too, that there had +been many letters passed between them for a great while, and I perceive +unknown to Monk. And among the rest that had carried these letters Sir +John Boys is one, and that Mr. Norwood, which had a ship to carry him over +the other day, when my Lord would not have me put down his name in the +book. The King speaks of his being courted to come to the Hague, but do +desire my Lord's advice whither to come to take ship. And the Duke offers +to learn the seaman's trade of him, in such familiar words as if Jack Cole +and I had writ them. This was very strange to me, that my Lord should +carry all things so wisely and prudently as he do, and I was over joyful +to see him in so good condition, and he did not a little please himself to +tell me how he had provided for himself so great a hold on the King. + +After this to supper, and then to writing of letters till twelve at night, +and so up again at three in the morning. My Lord seemed to put great +confidence in me, and would take my advice in many things. I perceive his +being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk, and to let him +have all the honour of doing the business, though he will many times +express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool. So that I do +believe there is some agreement more than ordinary between the King and my +Lord to let Monk carry on the business, for it is he that must do the +business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not flattered and +observed. This, my Lord will hint himself sometimes. My Lord, I perceive +by the King's letter, had writ to him about his father, Crew,--[When only +seventeen years old, Montagu had married Jemima, daughter of John Crew, +created afterwards Baron Crew of Stene.]--and the King did speak well of +him; but my Lord tells me, that he is afeard that he hath too much +concerned himself with the Presbyterians against the House of Lords, which +will do him a great discourtesy. + +4th. I wrote this morning many letters, and to all the copies of the vote +of the council of war I put my name, that if it should come in print my +name maybe at it. I sent a copy of the vote to Doling, inclosed in this +letter: + + "SIR, + + "He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride, with pendants + loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud 'Vive le Roys,' + echoed from one ship's company to another, he, and he only, can + apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was received with, or the + blessing he thought himself possessed of that bore it, and is + + "Your humble servant." + +About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and sent them by the +messenger that came yesterday. This morning came Captain Isham on board +with a gentleman going to the King, by whom very cunningly, my Lord tells +me, he intends to send an account of this day's and yesterday's actions +here, notwithstanding he had writ to the Parliament to have leave of them +to send the King the answer of the fleet. Since my writing of the last +paragraph, my Lord called me to him to read his letter to the King, to see +whether I could find any slips in it or no. And as much of the letter' as +I can remember, is thus: + + "May it please your Most Excellent Majesty," and so begins. + + "That he yesterday received from General Monk his Majesty's letter + and direction; and that General Monk had desired him to write to the + Parliament to have leave to send the vote of the seamen before he + did send it to him, which he had done by writing to both Speakers; + but for his private satisfaction he had sent it thus privately (and + so the copy of the proceedings yesterday was sent him), and that + this come by a gentleman that came this day on board, intending to + wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord's countryman, and one + whose friends have suffered much on his Majesty's behalf. That my + Lords Pembroke and Salisbury are put out of the House of Lords. + That my Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him the + civility and respect due to him; and that he do much rejoice to see + that the King do resolve to receive none of their assistance (or + some such words), from them, he having strength enough in the love + and loyalty of his own subjects to support him. That his Majesty + had chosen the best place, Scheveling,--[Schevingen, the port of the + Hague]--for his embarking, and that there is nothing in the world of + which he is more ambitious, than to have the honour of attending his + Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy. That he had commanded the + vessel to attend at Helversluce--[Hellevoetsluis, in South Holland] + --till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do not think + it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that he may be there to + receive his commands and bring them to his Lordship. He ends his + letter, that he is confounded with the thoughts of the high + expressions of love to him in the King's letter, and concludes, + + "Your most loyall, dutifull, faithfull and obedient subject and + servant, E. M." + +The rest of the afternoon at ninepins. In the evening came a packet from +London, among the rest a letter from my wife, which tells me that she has +not been well, which did exceedingly trouble me, but my Lord sending Mr. +Cook at night, I wrote to her and sent a piece of gold enclosed to her, +and wrote also to Mrs. Bowyer, and enclosed a half piece to her for a +token. After supper at the table in the coach, my Lord talking concerning +the uncertainty of the places of the Exchequer to them that had them now; +he did at last think of an office which do belong to him in case the King +do restore every man to his places that ever had been patent, which is to +be one of the clerks of the signet, which will be a fine employment for +one of his sons. After all this discourse we broke up and to bed. + +In the afternoon came a minister on board, one Mr. Sharpe, who is going to +the King; who tells me that Commissioners are chosen both of Lords and +Commons to go to the King; and that Dr. Clarges + + [Thomas Clarges, physician to the army, created a baronet, 1674, + died 1695. He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married + General Monk. "The Parliament also permitted General Monk to send + Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some officers of + the army, to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the + army, which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof, after + the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the + General."--Sir William Lowers Relation . . . of the Voiage and + Residence which . . . Charles the II. Hath made in Holland, + Hague, 1660, folio.] + +is going to him from the Army, and that he will be here to-morrow. My +letters at night tell me, that the House did deliver their letter to Sir +John Greenville, in answer to the King's sending, and that they give him +L500 for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that besides the L50,000 +ordered to be borrowed of the City for the present use of the King, the +twelve companies of the City do give every one of them to his Majesty, as +a present, L1000. + +5th. All the morning very busy writing letters to London, and a packet to +Mr. Downing, to acquaint him with what had been done lately in the fleet. +And this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him, did of himself +think of doing it, to do me a kindness, for he writ a letter himself to +him, thanking him for his kindness to me. All the afternoon at ninepins, +at night after supper good musique, my Lord, Mr. North, I and W. Howe. +After that to bed. This evening came Dr. Clarges to Deal, going to the +King; where the towns-people strewed the streets with herbes against his +coming, for joy of his going. Never was there so general a content as +there is now. I cannot but remember that our parson did, in his prayer +to-night, pray for the long life and happiness of our King and dread +Soveraign, that may last as long as the sun and moon endureth. + +6th (Lord's day). This morning while we were at sermon comes in Dr. +Clarges and a dozen gentlemen to see my Lord, who, after sermon, dined +with him; I remember that last night upon discourse concerning Clarges my +Lord told me that he was a man of small entendimiento.--[Entendimiento, +Spanish: the understanding.]--This afternoon there was a gentleman with +me, an officer of Dunkirk going over, who came to me for an order and told +me he was lately with my uncle and Aunt Fenner and that Kate's fits of the +convulsions did hold her still. It fell very well to-day, a stranger +preached here for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for King Charles, +by the Grace of God, &c., which gave great contentment to the gentlemen +that were on board here, and they said they would talk of it, when they +come to Breda, as not having it done yet in London so publickly. After +they were gone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to the King and give +it to me to carry privately to Sir William Compton' on board the +Assistance, which I did, and after a health to his Majesty on board there, +I left them under sail for Breda. Back again and found them at sermon. I +went up to my cabin and looked over my accounts, and find that, all my +debts paid and my preparations to sea paid for, I have L640 clear in my +purse. After supper to bed. + +7th. This morning Captain Cuttance sent me 12 bottles of Margate ale. +Three of them I drank presently with some friends in the Coach. My Lord +went this morning about the flag-ships in a boat, to see what alterations +there must be, as to the arms and flags. He did give me order also to +write for silk flags and scarlett waistcloathes. + + [Waist-cloths are the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which + are stowed in the waist-nettings.] + +For a rich barge; for a noise of trumpets, + + [A set or company of musicians, an expression constantly used by old + writers without any disparaging meaning. It is sometimes applied to + voices as well as to instruments.] + +and a set of fidlers. Very great deal of company come today, among others +Mr. Bellasses, Sir Thomas Lenthropp, Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel Philip +Honiwood, and Captain Titus, the last of whom my Lord showed all our +cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice what room there will be for the +King's entertainment. Here were also all the Jurates of the town of Dover +come to give my Lord a visit, and after dinner all went away. I could not +but observe that the Vice-Admiral after dinner came into the great cabin +below, where the Jurates and I and the commanders for want of room dined, +and there told us we must drink a health to the King, and himself called +for a bottle of wine, and begun his and the Duke of York's. In the +afternoon I lost 5s. at ninepins. After supper musique, and to bed. +Having also among us at the Coach table wrote a letter to the French +ambassador, in French, about the release of a ship we had taken. After I +was in bed Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came and sat in my cabin, where I gave +them three bottles of Margate ale, and sat laughing and very merry, till +almost one o'clock in the morning, and so good night. + +8th. All the morning busy. After dinner come several persons of honour, +as my Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great giving +of them salutes. My Lord and we at nine-pins: I lost 9s. While we were +at play Mr. Cook brings me word of my wife. He went to Huntsmore to see +her, and brought her and my father Bowyer to London, where he left her at +my father's, very well, and speaks very well of her love to me. My +letters to-day tell me how it was intended that the King should be +proclaimed to-day in London, with a great deal of pomp. I had also news +who they are that are chosen of the Lords and Commons to attend the King. +And also the whole story of what we did the other day in the fleet, at +reading of the King's declaration, and my name at the bottom of it. After +supper some musique and to bed. I resolving to rise betimes to-morrow to +write letters to London. + +9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as from the two +Generals of the fleet, in answer to his letter to them, wherein my Lord do +give most humble thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; and +promises all duty and obedience to him. This letter was carried this +morning to Sir Peter Killigrew, + + [Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as + "Peter the Post," from the alacrity with which he despatched "like + wild fire" all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him + in the King's cause. His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as + second baronet in 1665, was M.P. for Camelford in 1660.] + +who came hither this morning early to bring an order from the Lords' House +to my Lord, giving him power to write an answer to the King. This morning +my Lord St. John and other persons of honour were here to see my Lord, and +so away to Flushing. After they were gone my Lord and I to write letters +to London, which we sent by Mr. Cook, who was very desirous to go because +of seeing my wife before she went out of town. As we were sitting down to +dinner, in comes Noble with a letter from the House of Lords to my Lord, +to desire him to provide ships to transport the Commissioners to the King, +which are expected here this week. He brought us certain news that the +King was proclaimed yesterday with great pomp, and brought down one of the +Proclamations, with great joy to us all; for which God be praised. After +dinner to ninepins and lost 5s. This morning came Mr. Saunderson, + + [Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author + of the "History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I., and Charles I." + His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids.] + +that writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over to the King. He +calls me cozen and seems a very knowing man. After supper to bed betimes, +leaving my Lord talking in the Coach with the Captain. + +10th. This morning came on board Mr. Pinkney and his son, going to the +King with a petition finely writ by Mr. Whore, for to be the King's +embroiderer; for whom and Mr. Saunderson I got a ship. This morning come +my Lord Winchelsea and a great deal of company, and dined here. In the +afternoon, while my Lord and we were at musique in the great cabin below, +comes in a messenger to tell us that Mr. Edward Montagu, + + [Sir Edward Montagu's eldest son, afterwards second Earl of + Sandwich, called by Pepys "The child."] + +my Lord's son, was come to Deal, who afterwards came on board with Mr. +Pickering with him. The child was sick in the evening. At night, while +my Lord was at supper, in comes my Lord Lauderdale and Sir John +Greenville, who supped here, and so went away. After they were gone, my +Lord called me into his cabin, and told me how he was commanded to set +sail presently for the King, + + ["Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty + for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty's returning + home to England to his kingly government: and that all proceedings + in law be in His Majesty's name."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +and was very glad thereof, and so put me to writing of letters and other +work that night till it was very late, he going to bed. I got him +afterwards to sign things in bed. After I had done some more work I to +bed also. + +11th. Up very early in the morning, and so about a great deal of business +in order to our going hence to-day. Burr going on shore last night made +me very angry. So that I sent for Mr. Pitts to come tome from the +Vice-Admiral's, intending not to have employed Burr any more. But Burr by +and by coming and desiring humbly that I would forgive him and Pitts not +coming I did set him to work. This morning we began to pull down all the +State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to Dover for painters and +others to come to set up the King's. The rest of the morning writing of +letters to London which I afterwards sent by Dunne. I had this morning my +first opportunity of discoursing with Dr. Clarke, + + [Timothy Clarke, M. D., one of the original Fellows of the Royal + Society. He was appointed one of the physicians in ordinary to + Charles II. on the death of Dr. Quartermaine in 1667.] + +whom I found to be a very pretty man and very knowing. He is now going in +this ship to the King. There dined here my Lord Crafford and my Lord +Cavendish, and other Scotchmen whom I afterwards ordered to be received on +board the Plymouth, and to go along with us. After dinner we set sail +from the Downs, I leaving my boy to go to Deal for my linen. In the +afternoon overtook us three or four gentlemen; two of the Berties, and one +Mr. Dormerhoy, a Scotch gentleman, whom I afterwards found to be a very +fine man, who, telling my Lord that they heard the Commissioners were come +out of London to-day, my Lord dropt anchor over against Dover Castle +(which give us about thirty guns in passing), and upon a high debate with +the Vice and Rear Admiral whether it were safe to go and not stay for the +Commissioners, he did resolve to send Sir R. Stayner to Dover, to enquire +of my Lord Winchelsea, whether or no they are come out of London, and then +to resolve to-morrow morning of going or not; which was done. It blew +very hard all this night that I was afeard of my boy. About 11 at night +came the boats from Deal, with great store of provisions, by the same +token John Goods told me that above 20 of the fowls are smothered, but my +boy was put on board the Northwich. To bed. + +12th. This morning I inquired for my boy, whether he was come well or no, +and it was told me that he was well in bed. My Lord called me to his +chamber, he being in bed, and gave me many orders to make for direction +for the ships that are left in the Downs, giving them the greatest charge +in the world to bring no passengers with them, when they come after us to +Scheveling Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. Thomas Crew, and Sir H. +Wright. Sir R. Stayner hath been here early in the morning and told my +Lord, that my Lord Winchelsea understands by letters, that the +Commissioners are only to come to Dover to attend the coming over of the +King. So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which we did, and +sailed all day. In our way in the morning, coming in the midway between +Dover and Calais, we could see both places very easily, and very pleasant +it was to me that the further we went the more we lost sight of both +lands. In the afternoon at cards with Mr. North and the +Doctor.--[Clarke]--There by us, in the Lark frigate, Sir R. Freeman and +some others, going from the King to England, come to see my Lord and so +onward on their voyage. In the afternoon upon the quarterdeck the Doctor +told Mr. North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitless +Precaution," an exceeding pretty story and worthy my getting without book +when I can get the book.[??] This evening came Mr. Sheply on board, whom +we had left at Deal and Dover getting of provision and borrowing of money. +In the evening late, after discoursing with the Doctor, &c., to bed. + +13th (Lord's day). Trimmed in the morning, after that to the cook's room +with Mr. Sheply, the first time that I was there this voyage. Then to the +quarter-deck, upon which the tailors and painters were at work, cutting +out some pieces of yellow cloth into the fashion of a crown and C. R. and +put it upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of the State's +arms, which after dinner was finished and set up after it had been shewn +to my Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber, and liked it so +well as to bid me give the tailors 20s. among them for doing of it. This +morn Sir J. Boys and Capt. Isham met us in the Nonsuch, the first of whom, +after a word or two with my Lord, went forward, the other staid. I heard +by them how Mr. Downing had never made any address to the King, and for +that was hated exceedingly by the Court, and that he was in a Dutch ship +which sailed by us, then going to England with disgrace. Also how Mr. +Morland was knighted by the King this week, and that the King did give the +reason of it openly, that it was for his giving him intelligence all the +time he was clerk to Secretary Thurloe. In the afternoon a council of +war, only to acquaint them that the Harp must be taken out of all their +flags, + + [In May, 1658, the old Union Jack (being the crosses of St. George + and St. Andrew combined) was revived, with the Irish harp over the + centre of the flag. This harp was taken off at the Restoration. + (See "The National Flags of the Commonwealth," by H. W. Henfrey," + Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc.," vol. xxxi, p. 54.) The sign of the + "Commonwealth Arms" was an uncommon one, but a token of one exists-- + "Francis Wood at ye Commonwealth arms in Mary Maudlens" [St. Mary + Magdalen, Old Fish Street].] + +it being very offensive to the King. Mr. Cook, who came after us in the +Yarmouth, bringing me a letter from my wife and a Latin letter from my +brother John, with both of which I was exceedingly pleased. No sermon all +day, we being under sail, only at night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbott prayed +for all that were related to us in a spiritual and fleshly way. We came +within sight of Middle's shore. Late at night we writ letters to the King +of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward Picketing carried them. Capt. +Isham went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect; so the old man +very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldly bid him "God be +with you," which was very strange, but that I hear that he keeps a great +deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, at the King's Courts, what +command he had with my Lord, &c. After letters were gone then to bed. + +14th. In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw myself out of the +scuttle close by the shore, which afterwards I was told to be the Dutch +shore; the Hague was clearly to be seen by us. My Lord went up in his +nightgown into the cuddy, + + ["A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but + sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden."--Smyth's + Sailor's Word-Book.] + +to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him, to +give order for our removal to-day. Some nasty Dutchmen came on board to +proffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, &c., to get money by +us. Before noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to kiss my +Lord's hands. And by and by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss the +Queen of Bohemia's' hands, from my Lord, with twelve attendants from on +board to wait on them, among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, is +with child to see any strange thing. After noon they came back again +after having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's hand, and were sent again by my +Lord to do the same to the Prince of Orange. + + [Son of the Prince of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I. + --afterwards William III. He was then in his tenth year, having + been born in 1650.] + +So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, which my Lord did give, +and I taking my boy and judge Advocate with me, went in company with them. +The weather bad; we were sadly washed when we came near the shore, it +being very hard to land there. The shore is, as all the country between +that and the Hague, all sand. The rest of the company got a coach by +themselves; Mr. Creed and I went in the fore part of a coach wherein were +two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with black patches, who very +merrily sang all the way and that very well, and were very free to kiss +the two blades that were with them. I took out my flageolette and piped, +but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but when I came to the Hague, I +sent my boy back again for it and he found it, for which I did give him +6d., but some horses had gone over it and broke the scabbard. The Hague +is a most neat place in all respects. The houses so neat in all places +and things as is possible. Here we walked up and down a great while, the +town being now very full of Englishmen, for that the Londoners were come +on shore today. But going to see the Prince,--[Prince of Orange, +afterwards William III.]--he was gone forth with his governor, and so we +walked up and down the town and court to see the place; and by the help of +a stranger, an Englishman, we saw a great many places, and were made to +understand many things, as the intention of may-poles, which we saw there +standing at every great man's door, of different greatness according to +the quality of the person. About 10 at night the Prince comes home, and +we found an easy admission. His attendance very inconsiderable as for a +prince; but yet handsome, and his tutor a fine man, and himself a very +pretty boy. It was bright moonshine to-night. This done we went to a +place we had taken to sup in, where a sallet and two or three bones of +mutton were provided for a matter of ten of us which was very strange. +After supper the Judge and I to another house, leaving them there, and he +and I lay in one press bed, there being two more in the same room, but all +very neat and handsome, my boy sleeping upon a bench by me. + +15th. We lay till past three o'clock, then up and down the town, to see +it by daylight, where we saw the soldiers of the Prince's guard, all very +fine, and the burghers of the town with their arms and muskets as bright +as silver. And meeting this morning a schoolmaster that spoke good +English and French, he went along with us and shewed us the whole town, +and indeed I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of the town. Every body +of fashion speaks French or Latin, or both. The women many of them very +pretty and in good habits, fashionable and black spots. He went with me +to buy a couple of baskets, one of them for Mrs. Pierce, the other for my +wife. After he was gone, we having first drank with him at our lodging, +the judge and I to the Grande Salle where we were shewed the place where +the States General sit in council. The hall is a great place, where the +flags that they take from their enemies are all hung up; and things to be +sold, as in Westminster Hall, and not much unlike it, but that not so big, +but much neater. After that to a bookseller's and bought for the love of +the binding three books: the French Psalms in four parts, Bacon's Organon, +and Farnab. Rhetor. + + ["Index Rhetoricus" of Thomas Farnaby was a book which went through + several editions. The first was published at London by R. Allot in + 1633.] + +After that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, where we +went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind being very +high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to be pulled on +shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, and feathers, +were swimming in the sea. Among others I saw the ministers that come +along with the Commissioners (Mr. Case among the rest) sadly dipped. + + [Thomas Case, born 1598, was a famous preacher and a zealous + advocate for the Solemn League and Covenant, a member of the + assembly of divines, and rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. He + was one of the deputation to Charles II. at Breda, and appointed a + royal chaplain. He was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, but + remained in London after his ejection. Died May 30th, 1682.] + +So they came in where we were, and I being in haste left my Copenhagen +knife, and so lost it. Having staid here a great while a gentleman that +was going to kiss my Lord's hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hired a +Dutch boat for four rixdollars to carry us on board. We were fain to wait +a great while before we could get off from the shore, the sea being very +rough. The Dutchman would fain have made all pay that came into our boat +besides us two and our company, there being many of our ship's company got +in who were on shore, but some of them had no money, having spent all on +shore. Coming on board we found all the Commissioners of the House of +Lords at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went away for shore. Mr. +Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not find that my Lord +or any body did give him any respect, he being looked upon by him and all +men as a knave. Among others he betrayed Sir Rich. Willis + + [This is somewhat different to the usual account of Morland's + connection with Sir Richard Willis. In the beginning of 1659 + Cromwell, Thurloe, and Willis formed a plot to inveigle Charles II. + into England and into the hands of his enemies. The plot was + discussed in Thurloe's office, and Morland, who pretended to be + asleep, heard it and discovered it. Willis sent for Morland, and + received him in a cellar. He said that one of them must have + discovered the plot. He laid his hand upon the Bible and swore that + he had not been the discoverer, calling upon Morland to do the same. + Morland, with presence of mind, said he was ready to do so if Willis + would give him a reason why he should suspect him. By this ready + answer he is said to have escaped the ordeal (see Birch's "Life of + Thurloe").] + +that married Dr. F. Jones's daughter, that he had paid him L1000 at one +time by the Protector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for intelligence +that he sent concerning the King. In the afternoon my Lord called me on +purpose to show me his fine cloathes which are now come hither, and indeed +are very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword he and I do +not like. In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in the coach two +hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: as religion, wherein +he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I, saying, that indeed the +Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques: he likes +uniformity and form of prayer; about State-business, among other things he +told me that his conversion to the King's cause (for so I was saying that +I wondered from what time the King could look upon him to become his +friend), commenced from his being in the Sound, when he found what usage +he was likely to have from a Commonwealth. My Lord, the Captain, and I +supped in my Lord's chamber, where I did perceive that he did begin to +show me much more respect than ever he did yet. After supper, my Lord +sent for me, intending to have me play at cards with him, but I not +knowing cribbage, we fell into discourse of many things, till it was so +rough sea and the ship rolled so much that I was not able to stand, and so +he bid me go to bed. + +16th. Soon as I was up I went down to be trimmed below in the great +cabin, but then come in some with visits, among the rest one from Admiral +Opdam, + + [The admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset's ballad, "To all you ladies + now at land." + + "Should foggy Opdam chance to know + Our sad and dismal story; + The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe, + And quit their fort at Goree + For what resistance can they find + From men who've left their hearts behind?"--B.] + +who spoke Latin well, but not French nor English, to whom my Lord made me +to give his answer and to entertain; he brought my Lord a tierce of wine +and a barrel of butter, as a present from the Admiral. After that to +finish my trimming, and while I was doing of it in comes Mr. North very +sea-sick from shore, and to bed he goes. After that to dinner, where +Commissioner Pett was come to take care to get all things ready for the +King on board. My Lord in his best suit, this the first day, in +expectation to wait upon the King. But Mr. Edw. Pickering coming from the +King brought word that the King would not put my Lord to the trouble of +coming to him; but that he would come to the shore to look upon the fleet +to-day, which we expected, and had our guns ready to fire, and our scarlet +waistcloathes out and silk pendants, but he did not come. My Lord and we +at ninepins this afternoon upon the Quarterdeck, which was very pretty +sport. This evening came Mr. John Pickering on board, like an ass, with +his feathers and new suit that he had made at the Hague. My Lord very +angry for his staying on shore, bidding me a little before to send to him, +telling me that he was afraid that for his father's sake he might have +some mischief done him, unless he used the General's name. To supper, and +after supper to cards. I stood by and looked on till 11 at night and so +to bed. This afternoon Mr. Edwd. Pickering told me in what a sad, poor +condition for clothes and money the King was, and all his attendants, when +he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes not being worth forty +shillings the best of them. + + [Andrew Marvell alludes to the poor condition, for clothes and + money, in which the King was at this time, in "A Historical Poem":-- + + "At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, + The people call him back to help the State; + And what is more, they send him money, too, + And clothe him all from head to foot anew."] + +And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some +money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to +look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out. My +Lord told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High Admiral of England. + +17th. Up early to write down my last two days' observations. Dr. Clerke +came to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that are +come on board already to see the ship, that there was a Portuguese taken +yesterday at the Hague, that had a design to kill the King. But this I +heard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being observed to walk with +his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard. Before dinner Mr. Edw. +Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and my boy,--[Edward Montagu, afterwards +Lord Hinchinbroke.]--to Scheveling, where we took coach, and so to the +Hague, where walking, intending to find one that might show us the King +incognito, I met with Captain Whittington (that had formerly brought a +letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promise me to do +it, but first we went and dined at a French house, but paid 16s. for our +part of the club. At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry mad parson of the +King's. And they two after dinner got the child and me (the others not +being able to crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the child very +affectionately. Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York's, and the +Princess Royal's hands. The King seems to be a very sober man; and a very +splendid Court he hath in the number of persons of quality that are about +him, English very rich in habit. From the King to the Lord Chancellor, + + [On January 29th, 1658, Charles II. entrusted the Great Seal to Sir + Edward Hyde, with the title of Lord Chancellor, and in that + character Sir Edward accompanied the King to England.] + +who did lie bed-rid of the gout: he spoke very merrily to the child and +me. After that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met with Dr. Fullers +whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I and the rest went +to see the Queen,--[Henrietta Maria.]--who used us very respectfully; her +hand we all kissed. She seems a very debonaire, but plain lady. After +that to the Dr.'s, where we drank a while or so. In a coach of a friend's +of Dr. Cade we went to see a house of the Princess Dowager's in a park +about half-a-mile or a mile from the Hague, where there is one, the most +beautiful room for pictures in the whole world. She had here one picture +upon the top, with these words, dedicating it to the memory of her +husband:--"Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis vidua." + + [Mary, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Charles I., and widow of + William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. She was not supposed to be + inconsolable, and scandal followed her at the court of Charles II., + where she died of small-pox, December 24th, 1660.] + +Here I met with Mr. Woodcock of Cambridge, Mr. Hardy and another, and Mr. +Woodcock beginning we had two or three fine songs, he and I, and W. Howe +to the Echo, which was very pleasant, and the more because in a heaven of +pleasure and in a strange country, that I never was taken up more with a +sense of pleasure in my life. After that we parted and back to the Hague +and took a tour or two about the Forehault,--[The Voorhout is the +principal street of the Hague, and it is lined with handsome +trees.]--where the ladies in the evening do as our ladies do in Hide Park. +But for my life I could not find one handsome, but their coaches very rich +and themselves so too. From thence, taking leave of the Doctor, we took +wagon to Scheveling, where we had a fray with the Boatswain of the +Richmond, who would not freely carry us on board, but at last he was +willing to it, but then it was so late we durst not go. So we returned +between 10 and 11 at night in the dark with a wagon with one horse to the +Hague, where being come we went to bed as well as we could be +accommodated, and so to sleep. + +18th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, our Lord High +Admiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon for +Scheveling, leaving the child in Mr. Pierces hands, with directions to +keep him within doors all day till he heard from me. But the wind being +very high that no boats could get off from shore, we returned to the Hague +(having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's, and Commissioner Pett, +sent on purpose to give notice to my Lord of his coming), where I hear +that the child is gone to Delfe to see the town. So we all and Mr. Ibbott, +the Minister, took a schuit--[The trekschuit (drag-boat) along the canal +is still described as an agreeable conveyance from Leyden to Delft.]--and +very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers, +where most speak French; went after them, but met them by the way. But +however we went forward making no stop. Where when we were come we got a +smith's boy of the town to go along with us, but could speak nothing but +Dutch, and he showed us the church where Van Trump lies entombed with a +very fine monument. His epitaph concluded thus:--"Tandem Bello Anglico +tantum non victor, certe invictus, vivere et vincere desiit." There is a +sea-fight cut in marble, with the smoke, the best expressed that ever I +saw in my life. From thence to the great church, that stands in a fine +great market-place, over against the Stadt-house, and there I saw a +stately tomb of the old Prince of Orange, of marble and brass; wherein +among other rarities there are the angels with their trumpets expressed as +it were crying. Here were very fine organs in both the churches. It is a +most sweet town, with bridges, and a river in every street. Observing +that in every house of entertainment there hangs in every room a +poor-man's box, and desiring to know the reason thereof, it was told me +that it is their custom to confirm all bargains by putting something into +the poor people's box, and that binds as fast as any thing. We also saw +the Guesthouse, where it was very pleasant to see what neat preparation +there is for the poor. We saw one poor man a-dying there. After we had +seen all, we light by chance of an English house to drink in, where we +were very merry, discoursing of the town and the thing that hangs up in +the Stadthouse like a bushel, which I was told is a sort of punishment for +some sort of offenders to carry through the streets of the town over his +head, which is a great weight. Back by water, where a pretty sober Dutch +lass sat reading all the way, and I could not fasten any discourse upon +her. At our landing we met with Commissioner Pett going down to the +water-side with Major Harly, who is going upon a dispatch into England. +They having a coach I left the Parson and my boy and went along with +Commissioner Pett, Mr. Ackworth and Mr. Dawes his friends, to the Princess +Dowager's house again. Thither also my Lord Fairfax and some other English +Lords did come to see it, and my pleasure was increased by seeing of it +again. Besides we went into the garden, wherein are gallant nuts better +than ever I saw, and a fine Echo under the house in a vault made on +purpose with pillars, where I played on my flageolette to great advantage. +Back to the Hague, where not finding Mr. Edward, I was much troubled, but +went with the Parson to supper to Commissioner Pett, where we sat late. +And among other mirth Mr. Ackworth vyed wives, each endeavouring to set +his own wife out to the best advantage, he having as they said an +extraordinary handsome wife. But Mr. Dawes could not be got to say +anything of his. After that to our lodging where W. Howe and I exceeding +troubled not to know what is become of our young gentleman. So to bed. + +19th. Up early, hearing nothing of the child, and went to Scheveling, +where I found no getting on board, though the Duke of York sent every day +to see whether he could do it or no. Here I met with Mr. Pinkney and his +sons, and with them went back to the Hague, in our way lighting and going +to see a woman that makes pretty rock-work in shells, &c., which could I +have carried safe I would have bought some of. At the Hague we went to +buy some pictures, where I saw a sort of painting done upon woollen cloth, +drawn as if there was a curtain over it, which was very pleasant, but +dear. Another pretty piece of painting I saw, on which there was a great +wager laid by young Pinkney and me whether it was a principal or a copy. +But not knowing how to decide, it was broken off, and I got the old man to +lay out as much as my piece of gold come to, and so saved my money, which +had been 24s. lost, I fear. While we were here buying of pictures, we saw +Mr. Edward and his company land. Who told me that they had been at Leyden +all night, at which I was very angry with Mr. Pierce, and shall not be +friends I believe a good while. To our lodging to dinner. After that out +to buy some linen to wear against to-morrow, and so to the barber's. +After that by waggon to Lausdune, where the 365 children were born. We +saw the hill where they say the house stood and sunk wherein the children +were born. The basins wherein the male and female children were baptized +do stand over a large table that hangs upon a wall, with the whole story +of the thing in Dutch and Latin, beginning, "Margarita Herman Comitissa," +&c. The thing was done about 200 years ago. + +The town is a little small village which answers much to one of our small +villages, such a one as Chesterton in all respects, and one could have +thought it in England but for the language of the people. We went into a +little drinking house where there were a great many Dutch boors eating of +fish in a boorish manner, but very merry in their way. But the houses +here as neat as in the great places. From thence to the Hague again +playing at crambo--[Crambo is described as "a play at short verses in +which a word is given, and the parties contend who can find most rhymes to +it."]--in the waggon, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. Pinkney, and I. +When we were come thither W. Howe, and Mr. Ibbott, and Mr. Pinckney went +away for Scheveling, while I and the child to walk up and down the town, +where I met my old chamber-fellow, Mr. Ch. Anderson, and a friend of his +(both Physicians), Mr. Wright, who took me to a Dutch house, where there +was an exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport, but it being +Saturday we could not have much of her company, but however I staid with +them (having left the child with my uncle Pickering, whom I met in the +street) till 12 at night. By that time Charles was almost drunk, and then +broke up, he resolving to go thither again, after he had seen me at my +lodging, and lie with the girl, which he told me he had done in the +morning. Going to my lodging we met with the bellman, who struck upon a +clapper, which I took in my hand, and it is just like the clapper that our +boys frighten the birds away from the corn with in summer time in England. +To bed. + +20th. Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the child by waggon to +Scheveling, where it not being yet fit to go off, I went to lie down in a +chamber in the house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch woman +in bed alone, but though I had a month's-mind + + [Month's-mind. An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding + to "a woman's longing." See Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona," + act i. sc. 2: + + "I see you have a month's mind to them."--M. B.] + +I had not the boldness to go to her. So there I slept an hour or two. At +last she rose, and then I rose and walked up and down the chamber, and saw +her dress herself after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as much as I +could, and took occasion, from her ring which she wore on her first +finger, to kiss her hand, but had not the face to offer anything more. So +at last I left her there and went to my company. About 8 o'clock I went +into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty handsome, and in the +chancel a very great upper part of the mouth of a whale, which indeed was +of a prodigious bigness, bigger than one of our long boats that belong to +one of our ships. Commissioner Pett at last came to our lodging, and +caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some in another we all +bid adieu to the shore. But through badness of weather we were in great +danger, and a great while before we could get to the ship, so that of all +the company not one but myself that was not sick. I keeping myself in the +open air, though I was soundly wet for it. This hath not been known four +days together such weather at this time of year, a great while. Indeed +our fleet was thought to be in great danger, but we found all well, and +Mr. Thos. Crew came on board. I having spoke a word or two with my Lord, +being not very well settled, partly through last night's drinking and want +of sleep, I lay down in my gown upon my bed and slept till the 4 o'clock +gun the next morning waked me, which I took for 8 at night, and rising +. . . mistook the sun rising for the sun setting on Sunday night. + +21st. So into my naked bed + + [This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once + universal. It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in + bed without any nightlinen. + + "Who sees his true love in her naked bed, + Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white." + + Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. + + Nares ("Glossary") notes the expression so late as in the very odd + novel by T. Amory, called "John Bunde," where a young lady declares, + after an alarm, "that she would never go into naked bed on board + ship again." Octavo edition, vol. i. p. 90.] + +and slept till 9 o'clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by the +captain's boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which Captain +Tatnell had sent me from Murlace.--[Apparently Mallows stands for St. Malo +and Murlace for Morlaise.]--The weather foul all this day also. After +dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my papers in +order, having been so long absent. At night Mr. Pierce, Purser (the other +Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fell out about Mr. +Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and supped with me, and then +I went to bed. By letters that came hither in my absence, I understand +that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be secured, in order to a +trial, that did sit as judges in the late King's death, and all the +officers too attending the Court. Sir John Lenthall moving in the House, +that all that had borne arms against the King should be exempted from +pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, and after a severe reproof +he was degraded his knighthood. At Court I find that all things grow +high. The old clergy talk as being sure of their lands again, and laugh +at the Presbytery; and it is believed that the sales of the King's and +Bishops' lands will never be confirmed by Parliament, there being nothing +now in any man's, power to hinder them and the King from doing what they +have a mind, but every body willing to submit to any thing. We expect +every day to have the King and Duke on board as soon as it is fair. My +Lord do nothing now, but offers all things to the pleasure of the Duke as +Lord High Admiral. So that I am at a loss what to do. + +22nd. Up very early, and now beginning to be settled in my wits again, I +went about setting down my last four days' observations this morning. +After that, was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me yet, my +Spaniard being on shore. News brought that the two Dukes are coming on +board, which, by and by, they did, in a Dutch boats the Duke of York in +yellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester + + [Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Charles L, born + July 6th, 16--, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a + meeting with his father on the night before the King's execution. + Burnet says: "He was active, and loved business; was apt to have + particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was + generally very acceptable. The King loved him much better than the + Duke of York." He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th, + 1660, and was buried in Henry VII's Chapel.] + +in grey and red. My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Captain, +myself, and others, standing at the entering port. So soon as they were +entered we shot the guns off round the fleet. After that they went to +view the ship all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it. They +seem to be both very fine gentlemen. After that done, upon the +quarter-deck table, under the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. +Coventry, + + [William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached + afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the + Lord Keeper. He was born in 1628, and entered at Queen's College, + Oxford, in 1642; after the Restoration he became private secretary + to the Duke of York, his commission as Secretary to the Lord High + Admiral not being conferred until 1664; elected M.P. for Great + Yarmouth in 1661. In 1662 he was appointed an extra Commissioner of + the Navy, an office he held until 1667; in 1665, knighted and sworn + a Privy Councillor, and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the + Treasury; but, having been forbid the court on account of his + challenging the Duke of Buckingham, he retired into the country, nor + could he subsequently be prevailed upon to accept of any official + employment. Burnet calls Sir William Coventry the best speaker in + the House of Commons, and "a man of the finest and best temper that + belonged to the court," and Pepys never omits an opportunity of + paying a tribute to his public and private worth. He died, 1686, of + gout in the stomach.] + +and I, spent an hour at allotting to every ship their service, in their +return to England; which having done, they went to dinner, where the table +was very full: the two Dukes at the upper end, my Lord Opdam next on one +side, and my Lord on the other. Two guns given to every man while he was +drinking the King's health, and so likewise to the Duke's health. I took +down Monsieur d'Esquier to the great cabin below, and dined with him in +state alone with only one or two friends of his. All dinner the harper +belonging to Captain Sparling played to the Dukes. After dinner, the +Dukes and my Lord to see the Vice and Rear-Admirals; and I in a boat after +them. After that done, they made to the shore in the Dutch boat that +brought them, and I got into the boat with them; but the shore was so full +of people to expect their coming, as that it was as black (which otherwise +is white sand), as every one could stand by another. When we came near +the shore, my Lord left them and came into his own boat, and General Pen +and I with him; my Lord being very well pleased with this day's work. By +the time we came on board again, news is sent us that the King is on +shore; so my Lord fired all his guns round twice, and all the fleet after +him, which in the end fell into disorder, which seemed very handsome. The +gun over against my cabin I fired myself to the King, which was the first +time that he had been saluted by his own ships since this change; but +holding my head too much over the gun, I had almost spoiled my right eye. +Nothing in the world but going of guns almost all this day. In the +evening we began to remove cabins; I to the carpenter's cabin, and Dr. +Clerke with me, who came on board this afternoon, having been twice ducked +in the sea to-day coming from shore, and Mr. North and John Pickering the +like. Many of the King's servants came on board to-night; and so many +Dutch of all sorts came to see the ship till it was quite dark, that we +could not pass by one another, which was a great trouble to us all. This +afternoon Mr. Downing (who was knighted yesterday by the King') was here +on board, and had a ship for his passage into England, with his lady and +servants. + + ["About midnight arrived there Mr. Downing, who did the affairs of + England to the Lords the Estates, in quality of Resident under + Oliver Cromwell, and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which + having changed the form of the government, after having cast forth + the last Protector, had continued him in his imploiment, under the + quality of Extraordinary Envoy. He began to have respect for the + King's person, when he knew that all England declared for a free + parliament, and departed from Holland without order, as soon as he + understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re- + establishment of monarchal government, with a design to crave + letters of recommendation to General Monk. This lord considered + him, as well because of the birth of his wife, which is illustrious, + as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when + that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions. He had + his letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish + Embassador, as we have said. He presented them forthwith to the + King, who arose from table a while after, read the letters, receiv'd + the submissions of Downing, and granted him the pardon and grace + which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing. Some daies + after the King knighted him, and would it should be believed, that + the strong aversions which this minister of the Protector had made + appear against him on all occasions, and with all sorts of persons + indifferently, even a few daies before the publick and general + declaration of all England, proceeded not from any evil intention, + but only from a deep dissimulation, wherewith he was constrained to + cover his true sentiments, for fear to prejudice the affairs of his + Majesty."--Sir William Lowers Relation . . . of the Voiage and + Residence which . . . Charles the II. hath made in Holland, + Hague, 1660, folio, pp. 72-73.] + +By the same token he called me to him when I was going to write the order, +to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing. My Lord lay in the +roundhouse to-night. This evening I was late writing a French letter +myself by my Lord's order to Monsieur Kragh, Embassador de Denmarke a la +Haye, which my Lord signed in bed. After that I to bed, and the Doctor, +and sleep well. + +23rd. The Doctor and I waked very merry, only my eye was very red and ill +in the morning from yesterday's hurt. In the morning came infinity of +people on board from the King to go along with him. My Lord, Mr. Crew, +and others, go on shore to meet the King as he comes off from shore, where +Sir R. Stayner bringing His Majesty into the boat, I hear that His Majesty +did with a great deal of affection kiss my Lord upon his first meeting. +The King, with the two Dukes and Queen of Bohemia, Princess Royal, and +Prince of Orange, came on board, where I in their coming in kissed the +King's, Queen's, and Princess's hands, having done the other before. +Infinite shooting off of the guns, and that in a disorder on purpose, +which was better than if it had been otherwise. All day nothing but Lords +and persons of honour on board, that we were exceeding full. Dined in a +great deal of state, the Royall company by themselves in the coach, which +was a blessed sight to see. I dined with Dr. Clerke, Dr. Quarterman, and +Mr. Darcy in my cabin. This morning Mr. Lucy came on board, to whom and +his company of the King's Guard in another ship my Lord did give three +dozen of bottles of wine. He made friends between Mr. Pierce and me. +After dinner the King and Duke altered the name of some of the ships, viz. +the Nazeby into Charles; the Richard, James; the Speakers Mary; the Dunbar +(which was not in company with us), the Henry; Winsly, Happy Return; +Wakefield, Richmond; Lambert; the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell; +Bradford, the Success. That done, the Queen, Princess Royal, and Prince of +Orange, took leave of the King, and the Duke of York went on board the +London, and the Duke of Gloucester, the Swiftsure. Which done, we weighed +anchor, and with a fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for +England. All the afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down +(quite contrary to what I thought him to have been), very active and +stirring. Upon the quarterdeck he fell into discourse of his escape from +Worcester, + + [For the King's own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see + "Boscobel" (Bohn's "Standard Library").] + +where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of his +difficulties that he had passed through, as his travelling four days and +three nights on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing but +a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair of country +shoes that made him so sore all over his feet, that he could scarce stir. +Yet he was forced to run away from a miller and other company, that took +them for rogues. His sitting at table at one place, where the master of +the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did know him, but kept it +private; when at the same table there was one that had been of his own +regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made him drink the King's +health, and said that the King was at least four fingers higher than he. +At another place he was by some servants of the house made to drink, that +they might know him not to be a Roundhead, which they swore he was. In +another place at his inn, the master of the house, + + [This was at Brighton. The inn was the "George," and the innkeeper + was named Smith. Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys + in October, 1680. He then said, "And here also I ran into another + very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of + the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside, + leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being + gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a- + talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was + nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon + the back of the chair, and said to me, 'God bless you wheresoever + you go! I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife + a lady.' So I laughed, and went away into the next room."] + +as the King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by the +fire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, saying, that he +would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he was going. +Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France, where he was +fain to plot with the master thereof to keep his design from the four men +and a boy (which was all his ship's company), and so got to Fecamp in +France. + + [On Saturday, October 11th, 1651, Colonel Gunter made an agreement + at Chichester with Nicholas Tettersell, through Francis Mansell (a + French merchant), to have Tettersell's vessel ready at an hour's + warning. Charles II., in his narrative dictated to Pepys in 1680, + said, "We went to a place, four miles off Shoreham, called + Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet with the master of the ship, + as thinking it more convenient to meet there than just at Shoreham, + where the ship was. So when we came to the inn at Brighthelmstone + we met with one, the merchant Francis Mansell] who had hired the + vessel, in company with her master [Tettersell], the merchant only + knowing me, as having hired her only to carry over a person of + quality that was escaped from the battle of Worcester without naming + anybody." + + The boat was supposed to be bound for Poole, but Charles says in his + narrative: "As we were sailing the master came to me, and desired me + that I would persuade his men to use their best endeavours with him + to get him to set us on shore in France, the better to cover him + from any suspicion thereof, upon which I went to the men, which were + four and a boy." + + After the Restoration Mansell was granted a pension of L200 a year, + and Tettersell one of L100 a year. (See "Captain Nicholas + Tettersell and the Escape of Charles II.," by F. E. Sawyer, F.S.A., + "Sussex Archaeological Collections," vol. xxxii. pp. 81-104).) + +At Rouen he looked so poorly, that the people went into the rooms before +he went away to see whether he had not stole something or other. In the +evening I went up to my Lord to write letters for England, which we sent +away with word of our coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King supped +alone in the coach; after that I got a dish, and we four supped in my +cabin, as at noon. About bed-time my Lord Bartlett + + [A mistake for Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who had been deputed, with + Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords to + present an address of congratulation to the King.--B.] + +(who I had offered my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed, who +with much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the great cabin +below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could dispose of him, and quit +myself of him. So to my cabin again, where the company still was, and +were talking more of the King's difficulties; as how he was fain to eat a +piece of bread and cheese out of a poor boy's pocket; how, at a Catholique +house, he was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while in the house +for his privacy. After that our company broke up, and the Doctor and I to +bed. We have all the Lords Commissioners on board us, and many others. +Under sail all night, and most glorious weather. + +24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the Tinning stockings +on and wide canons--["Cannions, boot hose tops; an old-fashioned ornament +for the legs." That is to say, a particular addition to breeches.]--that +I bought the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press of noble company, +and great mirth all the day. There dined with me in my cabin (that is, +the carpenter's) Dr. Earle + + [John Earle, born about 1601; appointed in 1643 one of the + Westminster Assembly of Divines, but his principles did not allow + him to act. He accompanied Charles II. when he was obliged to fly + from England. Dean of Westminster at the Restoration, Bishop of + Worcester, November 30th, 1662, and translated to Salisbury, + September 28th, 1663. He was tender to the Nonconformists, and + Baxter wrote of him, "O that they were all such!" Author of + "Microcosmography." Died November 17th, 1665, and was buried in the + chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow. Charles + II. had the highest esteem for him.] + +and Mr. Hollis, + + [Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at + Houghton, Notts, in 1597. He was one of the five members charged + with high treason by Charles I. in 1641. He was a Presbyterian, and + one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II. + at the Hague. Sir William Lower, in his "Relation," 1660, writes: + "All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor + expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was + orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London + were joined." He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on + the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.] + +the King's Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough, + + [Charles Scarburgh, M.D., an eminent physician who suffered for the + royal cause during the Civil Wars. He was born in London, and + educated at St. Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge. He was + ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to Oxford. He + entered himself at Merton College, then presided over by Harvey, + with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. He was knighted by + Charles II. in 1669, and attended the King in his last illness. He + was also physician to James II. and to William III., and died + February 26th, 1693-4.] + +Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Fox + + [Stephen Fox, born 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in + Salisbury Cathedral. He was the first person to announce the death + of Cromwell to Charles II., and at the Restoration he was made Clerk + of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces. He was + knighted in 1665. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle + of Lancashire. (See June 25th, 1660.) Fox died in 1716. His sons + Stephen and Henry were created respectively Earl of Ilchester and + Lord Holland.] + +(both very fine gentlemen), the King's servants, where we had brave +discourse. Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all the +afternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a merry droll, but a gentleman +of great esteem with the King), who told us many merry stories: one, how +he wrote a letter three or four days ago to the Princess Royal, about a +Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that was at the Hague incognita, +that made love to the King, &c., which was Mr. Cary (a courtier's) wife +that had been a nun, who are all married to Jesus. At supper the three +Drs. of Physic again at my cabin; where I put Dr. Scarborough in mind of +what I heard him say about the use of the eyes, which he owned, that +children do, in every day's experience, look several ways with both their +eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise. And that we do now see but with +one eye, our eyes looking in parallel lines. After this discourse I was +called to write a pass for my Lord Mandeville to take up horses to London, +which I wrote in the King's name,--[This right of purveyance was abolished +in Charles's reign.]--and carried it to him to sign, which was the first +and only one that ever he signed in the ship Charles. To bed, coming in +sight of land a little before night. + +25th. By the morning we were come close to the land, and every body made +ready to get on shore. The King and the two Dukes did eat their breakfast +before they went, and there being set some ship's diet before them, only +to show them the manner of the ship's diet, they eat of nothing else but +pease and pork, and boiled beef. I had Mr. Darcy in my cabin and Dr. +Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the King had given L50 to Mr. Sheply +for my Lord's servants, and L500 among the officers and common men of the +ship. I spoke with the Duke of York about business, who called me Pepys +by name, and upon my desire did promise me his future favour. Great +expectation of the King's making some Knights, but there was none. About +noon (though the brigantine that Beale made was there ready to carry him) +yet he would go in my Lord's barge with the two Dukes. Our Captain +steered, and my Lord went along bare with him. I went, and Mr. Mansell, +and one of the King's footmen, with a dog that the King loved, + + [Charles II.'s love of dogs is well known, but it is not so well + known that his dogs were continually being stolen from him. In the + "Mercurius Publicus," June 28-July 5, 1660, is the following + advertisement, apparently drawn up by the King himself: "We must + call upon you again for a Black Dog between a greyhound and a + spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, and his + tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless + was stoln, for the dog was not born nor bred in England, and would + never forsake His master. Whoesoever findes him may acquaint any at + Whitehal for the Dog was better known at Court, than those who stole + him. Will they never leave robbing his Majesty! Must he not keep a + Dog? This dog's place (though better than some imagine) is the only + place which nobody offers to beg." (Quoted in "Notes and Queries," + 7th S., vii. 26, where are printed two other advertisements of + Charles's lost dogs.)] + +(which [dirted] the boat, which made us laugh, and me think that a King +and all that belong to him are but just as others are), in a boat by +ourselves, and so got on shore when the King did, who was received by +General Monk with all imaginable love and respect at his entrance upon the +land of Dover. Infinite the crowd of people and the horsemen, citizens, +and noblemen of all sorts. The Mayor of the town came and gave him his +white staff, the badge of his place, which the King did give him again. +The Mayor also presented him from the town a very rich Bible, which he +took and said it was the thing that he loved above all things in the +world. A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which he did, and +talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so into a stately coach +there set for him, and so away through the town towards Canterbury, +without making any stay at Dover. The shouting and joy expressed by all +is past imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not stir out of his barge, I +got into a boat, and so into his barge, whither Mr. John Crew stepped, and +spoke a word or two to my Lord, and so returned, we back to the ship, and +going did see a man almost drowned that fell out of his boat into the sea, +but with much ado was got out. My Lord almost transported with joy that +he had done all this without any the least blur or obstruction in the +world, that could give an offence to any, and with the great honour he +thought it would be to him. Being overtook by the brigantine, my Lord and +we went out of our barge into it, and so went on board with Sir W. Batten, + + [Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and, + although unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made + Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity + against the King. The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the + Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay, + knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning + that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a + hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her + majesty's chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for + safety into the open fields. This act, brutal as it was, found + favour with the Parliament. But Batten became afterwards + discontented; and, when a portion of the fleet revolted, he carried + the "Constant Warwick," one of the best ships in the Parliament + navy, over into Holland, with several seamen of note. For this act + of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral by Prince + Charles. We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when he + became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M.P. for + Rochester. See an account of his second wife, in note to November + 24th, 1660, and of his illness and death, October 5th, 1667. He had + a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first wife.--B.] + +and the Vice and Rear-Admirals. At night my Lord supped and Mr. Thomas +Crew with Captain Stoakes, I supped with the Captain, who told me what the +King had given us. My Lord returned late, and at his coming did give me +order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. to be made +at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own hand +did mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do, and is +now done as is to be seen. + +26th. Thanks to God I got to bed in my own poor cabin, and slept well +till 9 o'clock this morning. Mr. North and Dr. Clerke and all the great +company being gone, I found myself very uncouth all this day for want +thereof. My Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral to-day (who is as officious, +poor man! as any spaniel can be; but I believe all to no purpose, for I +believe he will not hold his place), so I dined commander at the coach +table to-day, and all the officers of the ship with me, and Mr. White of +Dover. After a game or two at nine-pins, to work all the afternoon, +making above twenty orders. In the evening my Lord having been a-shore, +the first time that he hath been a-shore since he came out of the Hope +(having resolved not to go till he had brought his Majesty into England), +returned on board with a great deal of pleasure. I supped with the +Captain in his cabin with young Captain Cuttance, and afterwards a +messenger from the King came with a letter, and to go into France, and by +that means we supped again with him at 12 o'clock at night. This night +the Captain told me that my Lord had appointed me L30 out of the 1000 +ducats which the King had given to the ship, at which my heart was very +much joyed. To bed. + +27th (Lord's day). Called up by John Goods to see the Garter and Heralds +coat, which lay in the coach, brought by Sir Edward Walker, + + [Edward Walker was knighted February 2nd, 1644-5, and on the 24th of + the same month was sworn in as Garter King at Arms. He adhered to + the cause of the king, and published "Iter Carolinum", being a + succinct account of the necessitated marches, retreats, and + sufferings of his Majesty King Charles I., from Jan. 10, 1641, to + the time of his death in 1648, collected by a daily attendant upon + his sacred Majesty during all that time: He joined Charles II. in + exile, and received the reward of his loyalty at the Restoration. + He died at Whitehall, February 19th, 1676-7, and was buried at + Stratford-on-Avon, his daughter having married Sir John Clepton of + that place.] + +King at Arms, this morning, for my Lord. My Lord hath summoned all the +Commanders on board him, to see the ceremony, which was thus: Sir Edward +putting on his coat, and having laid the George and Garter, and the King's +letter to my Lord, upon a crimson cushion (in the coach, all the +Commanders standing by), makes three congees to him, holding the cushion +in his arms. Then laying it down with the things upon it upon a chair, he +takes the letter, and delivers it to my Lord, which my Lord breaks open +and gives him to read. It was directed to our trusty and well beloved Sir +Edward Montagu, Knight, one of our Generals at sea, and our Companion +elect of our Noble Order of the Garter. The contents of the letter is to +show that the Kings of England have for many years made use of this +honour, as a special mark of favour, to persons of good extraction and +virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes of other countries have +borne this honour), and that whereas my Lord is of a noble family, and +hath now done the King such service by sea, at this time, as he hath done; +he do send him this George and Garter to wear as Knight of the Order, with +a dispensation for the other ceremonies of the habit of the Order, and +other things, till hereafter, when it can be done. So the herald putting +the ribbon about his neck, and the Garter about his left leg, he salutes +him with joy as Knight of the Garter, and that was all. After that was +done, and the Captain and I had breakfasted with Sir Edward while my Lord +was writing of a letter, he took his leave of my Lord, and so to shore +again to the King at Canterbury, where he yesterday gave the like honour +to General Monk, + + ["His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes + put on the Garter. The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for + the restoration of that lawful family."--Rugge's Diurnal.] + +who are the only two for many years that have had the Garter given them, +before they had other honours of Earldom, or the like, excepting only the +Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George Villiers when he was made +Knight of the Garter. A while after Mr. Thos. Crew and Mr. J. Pickering +(who had staid long enough to make all the world see him to be a fool), +took ship for London. So there now remain no strangers with my Lord but +Mr. Hetley, who had been with us a day before the King went from us. My +Lord and the ship's company down to sermon. I staid above to write and +look over my new song book, which came last night to me from London in +lieu of that that my Lord had of me. The officers being all on board, +there was not room for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, where, among +other things, Mr. Drum brought me a lobster and a bottle of oil, instead +of a bottle of vinegar, whereby I spoiled my dinner. Many orders in the +ordering of ships this afternoon. Late to a sermon. After that up to the +Lieutenant's cabin, where Mr. Sheply, I, and the Minister supped, and +after that I went down to W. Howe's cabin, and there, with a great deal of +pleasure, singing till it was late. After that to bed. + +28th. Called up at two in the morning for letters for my Lord from the +Duke of York, but I went to bed again till 5. Trimmed early this morning. +This morning the Captain did call over all the men in the ship (not the +boys), and give every one of them a ducat of the King's money that he gave +the ship, and the officers according to their quality. I received in the +Captain's cabin, for my share, sixty ducats. The rest of the morning busy +writing letters. So was my Lord that he would not come to dinner. After +dinner to write again in order to sending to London, but my Lord did not +finish his, so we did not send to London to-day. A great part of the +afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley. I lost about 4s. +Supped with my Lord, and after that to bed. At night I had a strange +dream of--myself, which I really did, and having kicked my clothes off, I +got cold; and found myself all much wet in the morning, and had a great +deal of pain . . . which made me very melancholy. + +29th. The King's birthday. Busy all the morning writing letters to +London, among the rest one to Mr. Chetwind to give me an account of the +fees due to the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my Lord desires +to know. After dinner got all ready and sent away Mr. Cook to London with +a letter and token to my wife. After that abroad to shore with my Lord +(which he offered me of himself, saying that I had a great deal of work to +do this month, which was very true). On shore we took horses, my Lord and +Mr. Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four servants, and had a great +deal of pleasure in riding. Among other things my Lord showed me a house +that cost a great deal of money, and is built in so barren and +inconvenient a place that my Lord calls it the fool's house. At last we +came upon a very high cliff by the sea-side, and rode under it, we having +laid great wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was not so high as Paul's; +my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was. But we riding under it, my Lord made +a pretty good measure of it with two sticks, and found it to be not above +thirty-five yards high, and Paul's is reckoned to be about ninety. From +thence toward the barge again, and in our way found the people at Deal +going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, it being the King's birthday, +and had some guns which they did fire at my Lord's coming by. For which I +did give twenty shillings among them to drink. While we were on the top +of the cliffe, we saw and heard our guns in the fleet go off for the same +joy. And it being a pretty fair day we could see above twenty miles into +France. Being returned on board, my Lord called for Mr. Sheply's book of +Paul's, by which we were confirmed in our wager. After that to supper and +then to musique, and so to bed. The pain that I have got last night by +cold is not yet gone, but troubles me at the time of . . . . This day, +it is thought, the King do enter the city of London. + + ["Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a + petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship + to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of + his passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that + they will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats, + and other ornaments of triumph and rejoicing."-Rugge's Diurnal, May, + 1660.--B.] + +30th. About eight o'clock in the morning the lieutenant came to me to +know whether I would eat a dish of mackerel, newly catched, for my +breakfast, which the Captain and we did in the coach. All yesterday and +to-day I had a great deal of pain . . . and in my back, which made me +afeard. But it proved nothing but cold, which I took yesterday night. All +this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had made +myself now worth about L80, at which my heart was glad, and blessed God. +Many Dover men come and dine with my Lord. My Lord at ninepins in the +afternoon. In the afternoon Mr. Sheply told me how my Lord had put me +down for 70 guilders among the money which was given to my Lord's +servants, which my heart did much rejoice at. My Lord supped alone in his +chamber. Sir R. Stayner supped with us, and among other things told us +how some of his men did grumble that no more of the Duke's money come to +their share and so would not receive any; whereupon he called up those +that had taken it, and gives them three shares apiece more, which was very +good, and made good sport among the seamen. To bed. + +31st. This day my Lord took physic, and came not out of his chamber. + +All the morning making orders. After dinner a great while below in the +great cabin trying with W. Howe some of Mr. Laws' songs,' particularly +that of "What is a kiss," with which we had a great deal of pleasure. +After that to making of orders again. Captain Sparling of the Assistance +brought me a pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I was much +pleased with. The Captain and I to supper, and after that a most pleasant +walk till to at night with him upon the deck, it being a fine evening. My +pain was gone again that I had yesterday, blessed be God. This day the +month ends, I in very good health, and all the world in a merry mood +because of the King's coming. This day I began to teach Mr. Edward; who I +find to have a very good foundation laid for his Latin by Mr. Fuller. I +expect every minute to hear how my poor wife do. I find myself in all +things well as to body and mind, but troubled for the absence of my wife. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport + And in all this not so much as one + Bought for the love of the binding three books + Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets + Fashionable and black spots + He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more + He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I + He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it + He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while + If it should come in print my name maybe at it + In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore + John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers + Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead + My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber + Presbyterians against the House of Lords + Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JUNE & JULY + 1660 + +June 1st. This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the Duke of +York did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my share, whereof +he told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord left him out. + + [Foreign coins were in frequent use at this time. A Proclamation, + January 29th, 1660-61, declared certain foreign gold and silver + coins to be current at certain rates. The rate of the ducatoon was + at 5s. 9d.] + +I did give Mr. Sheply the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I bought +myself about five years ago. My Lord took physic to-day, and so come not +out all day. The Captain on shore all day. After dinner Captain Jefferys +and W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and I to ninepins, where I lost about two +shillings and so fooled away all the afternoon. At night Mr. Cooke comes +from London with letters, leaving all things there very gallant and +joyful. And brought us word that the Parliament had ordered the 29th of +May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of thanksgiving for +our redemption from tyranny, and the King's return to his Government, he +entering London that day. My wife was in London when he came thither, and +had been there a week with Mr. Bowyer and his wife. My poor wife has not +been well a week before, but thanks be to God is well again. She would +fain see me and be at her house again, but we must be content. She writes +word how the Joyces grow very rich and very proud, but it is no matter, +and that there was a talk that I should be knighted by the King, which +they (the Joyces) laugh at; but I think myself happier in my wife and +estate than they are in theirs. To bed. The Captain come on board, when I +was going to bed, quite fuddled; and himself the next morning told me so +too, that the Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and he had been drinking all +day. + +2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in his cabin, I took +occasion to give him thanks for his love to me in the share that he had +given me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. He told the he hoped to +do me a more lasting kindness, if all things stand as they are now between +him and the King, but, says he, "We must have a little patience and we +will rise together; in the mean time I will do you all the good jobs I +can." Which was great content for me to hear from my Lord. All the +morning with the Captain, computing how much the thirty ships that come +with the King from Scheveling their pay comes to for a month (because the +King promised to give them all a month's pay), and it comes to L6,538, and +the Charles particularly L777. I wish we had the money. All the +afternoon with two or three captains in the Captain's cabin, drinking of +white wine and sugar, and eating pickled oysters, where Captain Sparling +told us the best story that ever I heard, about a gentleman that persuaded +a country fool to let him gut his oysters or else they would stink. At +night writing letters to London and Weymouth, for my Lord being now to sit +in the House of Peers he endeavours to get Mr. Edward Montagu for Weymouth +and Mr. George for Dover. Mr. Cooke late with me in my cabin while I +wrote to my wife, and drank a bottle of wine and so took leave of me on +his journey and I to bed. + +3d. Waked in the morning by one who when I asked who it was, he told me +one from Bridewell, which proved Captain Holland. I rose presently to +him. He is come to get an order for the setting out of his ship, and to +renew his commission. He tells me how every man goes to the Lord Mayor to +set down their names, as such as do accept of his Majesty's pardon, and +showed me a certificate under the Lord Mayor's hand that he had done so. + +At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my cabin, to cast my accounts +up, and find myself to be worth near L100, for which I bless Almighty God, +it being more than I hoped for so soon, being I believe not clearly worth +L25 when I came to sea besides my house and goods. Then to set my papers +in order, they being increased much upon my hands through want of time to +put them in order. The ship's company all this while at sermon. After +sermon my Lord did give me instruction to write to London about business, +which done, after supper to bed. + +4th. Waked in the morning at four o'clock to give some money to Mr. +Hetly, who was to go to London with the letters that I wrote yesterday +night. After he was gone I went and lay down in my gown upon my bed again +an hour or two. At last waked by a messenger come for a Post Warrant for +Mr. Hetly and Mr. Creed, who stood to give so little for their horses that +the men would not let them have any without a warrant, which I sent them. +All the morning getting Captain Holland's commission done, which I did, +and he at noon went away. I took my leave of him upon the quarter-deck +with a bottle of sack, my Lord being just set down to dinner. Then he +being gone I went to dinner and after dinner to my cabin to write. This +afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed, and so I think +myself to be worth near L100 now. In the evening I made an order for +Captain Sparling of the Assistance to go to Middleburgh, to fetch over +some of the King's goods. I took the opportunity to send all my Dutch +money, 70 ducatoons and 29 gold ducats to be changed, if he can, for +English money, which is the first venture that ever I made, and so I have +been since a little afeard of it. After supper some music and so to bed. +This morning the King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and +debauchery, was read to our ships' companies in the fleet, and indeed it +gives great satisfaction to all. + + [The King's "Proclamation against vicious, debauched, and prophane + Persons" is dated May 30th. It is printed in "Somers's Tracts," ed. + 1812, vol. vii. p. 423.] + +5th. A-bed late. In the morning my Lord went on shore with the +Vice-Admiral a-fishing, and at dinner returned. In the afternoon I played +at ninepins with my Lord, and when he went in again I got him to sign my +accounts for L115, and so upon my private balance I find myself confirmed +in my estimation that I am worth L100. In the evening in my cabin a great +while getting the song without book, "Help, help Divinity, &c." After +supper my Lord called for the lieutenant's cittern, and with two +candlesticks with money in them for symballs, we made barber's music, + + [In the "Notices of Popular Histories," printed for the Percy + Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a + barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person + waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn + arrives. Decker also mentions a "barber's cittern," for every + serving-man to play upon. This is no doubt "the barber's music" + with which Lord Sandwich entertained himself.--B.] + +with which my Lord was well pleased. So to bed. + +6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me among other things, +that my Lord's place of Clerk of the Signet was fallen to him, which he +did most lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he could not get +a better employment for me at the end of the year. Because he thought +that the Duke of York would command all, but he hoped that the Duke would +not remove me but to my advantage. + +I had a great deal of talk about my uncle Robert, + + [Robert Pepys of Brampton, eldest son of Thomas Pepys the red, and + brother of Samuel's father.] + +and he told me that he could not tell how his mind stood as to his estate, +but he would do all that lay in his power for me. After dinner came Mr. +Gooke from London, who told me that my wife he left well at Huntsmore, +though her health not altogether so constant as it used to be, which my +heart is troubled for. Mr. Moore's letters tell me that he thinks my Lord +will be suddenly sent for up to London, and so I got myself in readiness +to go. + +My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy + + [Edmund Calamy, D.D., the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born + February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II., 1660. He refused + the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him. Died October + 29th, 1666.] + +had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards to be +false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three more Lords, are made +Commissioners for the Treasury; + + [The names of the Commissioners were--Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards + Earl of Clarendon, General Monk, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, John, + Lord Robartes, Thomas, Lord Colepeper, Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir + Edward Nicholas and Sir William Morrice as principal Secretaries of + State. The patents are dated June 19th, 1660.] + +that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Master of +the Wardrobe; + + [The duty of the Master of the Wardrobe was to provide "proper + furniture for coronations, marriages, and funerals" of the sovereign + and royal family, "cloaths of state, beds, hangings, and other + necessaries for the houses of foreign ambassadors, cloaths of state + for Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Prince of Wales, and ambassadors + abroad," as also to provide robes for Ministers of State, Knights of + the Garter, &c. The last Master of the Wardrobe was Ralph, Duke of + Montague, who died 1709.] + +that the two Dukes--[Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester.]--do haunt the +Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene,--["Epicene, or the +Silent Woman," a comedy, by Ben Jonson.]--the other day; that Sir. Ant. +Cooper, Mr. Hollis, and Mr. Annesly,& late President of the Council of +State, are made Privy Councillors to the King. At night very busy sending +Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father for a coat to be made me +against I come to London, which I think will not be long. At night Mr. +Edward Montagu came on board and staid long up with my Lord. I to bed and +about one in the morning, + +7th. W. Howe called me up to give him a letter to carry to my Lord that +came to me to-day, which I did and so to, sleep again. About three in the +morning the people began to wash the deck, and the water came pouring into +my mouth, which waked me, and I was fain to rise and get on my gown, and +sleep leaning on my table. This morning Mr. Montagu went away again. +After dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. Moore, with the sight of whom my +heart was very glad. They brought an order for my Lord's coming up to +London, which my Lord resolved to do tomorrow. All the afternoon getting +my things in order to set forth to-morrow. At night walked up and down +with Mr. Moore, who did give me an account of all things at London. Among +others, how the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst, but they will +not be able to do any thing. Most of the Commanders on board and supped +with my Lord. Late at night came Mr. Edw. Pickering from London, but I +could not see him this night. I went with Mr. Moore to the Master's +cabin, and saw him there in order to going to bed. After that to my own +cabin to put things in order and so to bed. + +8th. Out early, took horses at Deale. I troubled much with the King's +gittar, and Fairbrother, the rogue that I intrusted with the carrying of +it on foot, whom I thought I had lost. Col. Dixwell's horse taken by a +soldier and delivered to my Lord, and by him to me to carry to London. +Came to Canterbury, dined there. I saw the minster and the remains of +Becket's tomb. To Sittiligborne and Rochester. At Chatham and Rochester +the ships and bridge. Mr. Hetly's mistake about dinner. Come to +Gravesend. A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen a +great while. Supped with my Lord, drank late below with Penrose, the +Captain. To bed late, having first laid out all my things against +to-morrow to put myself in a walking garb. Weary and hot to bed to Mr. +Moore. + +9th. Up betimes, 25s. the reckoning for very bare. Paid the house and by +boats to London, six boats. Mr. Moore, W. Howe, and I, and then the child +in the room of W. Howe. Landed at the Temple. To Mr. Crew's. To my +father's and put myself into a handsome posture to wait upon my Lord, +dined there. To White Hall with my Lord and Mr. Edwd. Montagu. Found the +King in the Park. There walked. Gallantly great. + +10th. (Lord's day.) At my father's found my wife and to walk with her in +Lincoln's Inn walks. + +11th. Betimes to my Lord. Extremely much people and business. So with +him to Whitehall to the Duke. Back with him by coach and left him in +Covent Garden. I back to Will's and the Hall to see my father. Then to +the Leg in King Street with Mr. Moore, and sent for. L'Impertinent to +dinner with me. After that with Mr. Moore about Privy Seal business. To +Mr. Watkins, so to Mr. Crew's. Then towards my father's met my Lord and +with him to Dorset House to the Chancellor. So to Mr. Crew's and saw my +Lord at supper, and then home, and went to see Mrs. Turner, and so to bed. + +12th. Visited by the two Pierces, Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerk and Mr. +Creed, and did give them a ham of bacon. So to my Lord and with him to +the Duke of Gloucester. The two Dukes dined with the Speaker, and I saw +there a fine entertainment and dined with the pages. To Mr. Crew's, +whither came Mr. Greatorex, and with him to the Faithornes, and so to the +Devils tavern. To my Lord's and staid till 12 at night about business. So +to my father's, my father and mother in bed, who had been with my uncle +Fenner, &c., and my wife all day and expected me. But I found Mr. Cook +there, and so to bed. + +13th. To my Lord's and thence to the Treasurer's of the Navy,' with Mr. +Creed and Pierce the Purser to Rawlinson's, whither my uncle Wight came, +and I spent 12s. upon them. So to Mr. Crew's, where I blotted a new +carpet--[It was customary to use carpets as table cloths.]--that was +hired, but got it out again with fair water. By water with my Lord in a +boat to Westminster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place. After +business done there to the Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne, Creed, +and Wivell. So to my Lord's lodging and to my father's, and to bed. + +14th. Up to my Lord and from him to the Treasurer of the Navy for L500. +After that to a tavern with Washington the Purser, very gallant, and ate +and drank. To Mr. Crew's and laid my money. To my Lady Pickering with +the plate that she did give my Lord the other day. Then to Will's and met +William Symons and Doling and Luellin, and with them to the Bull-head, and +then to a new alehouse in Brewer's Yard, where Winter that had the fray +with Stoakes, and from them to my father's. + +15th. All the morning at the Commissioners of the Navy about getting out +my bill for L650 for the last quarter, which I got done with a great deal +of ease, which is not common. After that with Mr. Turner to the Dolphin +and drunk, and so by water to W. Symons, where D. Scobell with his wife, a +pretty and rich woman. Mrs. Symons, a very fine woman, very merry after +dinner with marrying of Luellin and D. Scobell's kinswoman that was there. +Then to my Lord who told me how the King has given him the place of the +great Wardrobe. My Lord resolves to have Sarah again. I to my father's, +and then to see my uncle and aunt Fenner. So home and to bed. + +16th. Rose betimes and abroad in one shirt, which brought me a great cold +and pain. Murford took me to Harvey's by my father's to drink and told me +of a business that I hope to get L5 by. To my Lord, and so to White Hall +with him about the Clerk of the Privy Seal's place, which he is to have. + +Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote same letters. Here Coll. Thompson +told me, as a great secret; that the Nazeby was on fire when the King was +there, but that is not known; when God knows it is quite false. Got a +piece of gold from Major Holmes for the horse of Dixwell's I brought to +town. Dined at Mr. Crew's, and after dinner with my Lord to Whitehall. +Court attendance infinite tedious. Back with my Lord to my Lady Wright's +and staid till it had done raining, which it had not done a great while. +After that at night home to my father's and to bed. + +17th (Lord's day). Lay long abed. To Mr. Mossum's; a good sermon. This +day the organs did begin to play at White Hall before the King.--[All +organs were removed from churches by an ordinance dated 1644.]--Dined at +my father's. After dinner to Mr. Mossum's again, and so in the garden, +and heard Chippell's father preach, that was Page to the Protector, and +just by the window that I stood at sat Mrs. Butler, the great beauty. +After sermon to my Lord. Mr. Edward and I into Gray's Inn walks, and saw +many beauties. So to my father's, where Mr. Cook, W. Bowyer, and my coz +Roger Wharton supped and to bed. + +18th. To my Lord's, where much business and some hopes of getting some +money thereby. With him to the Parliament House, where he did intend to +have gone to have made his appearance to-day, but he met Mr. Crew upon the +stairs, and would not go in. He went to Mrs. Brown's, and staid till word +was brought him what was done in the House. This day they made an end of +the twenty men to be excepted from pardon to their estates. By barge to +Stepny with my Lord, where at Trinity House we had great entertainment. +With, my Lord there went Sir W. Pen, Sir H. Wright, Hetly, Pierce; Creed, +Hill, I and other servants. Back again to the Admiralty, and so to my +Lord's lodgings, where he told me that he did look after the place of the +Clerk of the Acts--[The letters patent appointing Pepys to the office of +Clerk of the Acts is dated July 13th, 1660.]--for me. So to Mr. Crew's +and my father's and to bed. My wife went this day to Huntsmore for her +things, and I was very lonely all night. This evening my wife's brother, +Balty, came to me to let me know his bad condition and to get a place for +him, but I perceive he stands upon a place for a gentleman, that may not +stain his family when, God help him, he wants bread. + +19th. Called on betimes by Murford, who showed me five pieces to get a +business done for him and I am resolved to do it., Much business at my +Lord's. This morning my Lord went into the House of Commons, and there +had the thanks of the House, in the name of the Parliament and Commons of +England, for his late service to his King and Country. A motion was made +for a reward for him, but it was quashed by Mr. Annesly, who, above most +men, is engaged to my Lord's and Mr. Crew's families. Meeting with +Captain Stoakes at Whitehall, I dined with him and Mr. Gullop, a parson +(with whom afterwards I was much offended at his importunity and +impertinence, such another as Elborough), + + [Thomas Elborough was one of Pepys's schoolfellows, and afterwards + curate of St. Lawrence Poultney.] + +and Mr. Butler, who complimented much after the same manner as the parson +did. After that towards my Lord's at Mr. Crew's, but was met with by a +servant of my Lady Pickering, who took me to her and she told me the story +of her husband's case and desired my assistance with my Lord, and did give +me, wrapped up in paper, L5 in silver. After that to my Lord's, and with +him to Whitehall and my Lady Pickering. My Lord went at night with the +King to Baynard's Castle' to supper, and I home to my father's to bed. My +wife and the girl and dog came home to-day. When I came home I found a +quantity of chocolate left for me, I know not from whom. We hear of W. +Howe being sick to-day, but he was well at night. + +20th. Up by 4 in the morning to write letters to sea and a commission for +him that Murford solicited for. Called on by Captain Sparling, who did +give me my Dutch money again, and so much as he had changed into English +money, by which my mind was eased of a great deal of trouble. Some other +sea captains. I did give them a good morning draught, and so to my Lord +(who lay long in bed this day, because he came home late from supper with +the King). With my Lord to the Parliament House, and, after that, with +him to General Monk's, where he dined at the Cock-pit. I home and dined +with my wife, now making all things ready there again. Thence to my Lady +Pickering, who did give me the best intelligence about the Wardrobe. +Afterwards to the Cockpit to my Lord with Mr. Townsend, one formerly and +now again to be employed as Deputy of the Wardrobe. Thence to the +Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. Cooke to sea; whose business was a +letter from my Lord about Mr. G. Montagu to be chosen as a Parliament-man +in my Lord's room at Dover;' and another to the Vice-Admiral to give my +Lord a constant account of all things in the fleet, merely that he may +thereby keep up his power there; another letter to Captn. Cuttance to send +the barge that brought the King on shore, to Hinchingbroke by Lynne. To +my own house, meeting G. Vines, and drank with him at Charing Cross, now +the King's Head Tavern. With my wife to my father's, where met with +Swan,--[William Swan is called a fanatic and a very rogue in other parts +of the Diary.]--an old hypocrite, and with him, his friend and my father, +and my cozen Scott to the Bear Tavern. To my father's and to bed. + +21st. To my Lord, much business. With him to the Council Chamber, where +he was sworn; and the charge of his being admitted Privy Counsellor is +L26. To the Dog Tavern at Westminster, where Murford with Captain Curle +and two friends of theirs went to drink. Captain Curle, late of the +Maria, gave me five pieces in gold and a silver can for my wife for the +Commission I did give him this day for his ship, dated April 20, 1660 +last. Thence to the Parliament door and came to Mr. Crew's to dinner with +my Lord, and with my Lord to see the great Wardrobe, where Mr. Townsend +brought us to the governor of some poor children in tawny clothes; who had +been maintained there these eleven years, which put my Lord to a stand how +to dispose of them, that he may have the house for his use. The children +did sing finely, and my Lord did bid me give them five pieces in gold at +his going away. Thence back to White Hall, where, the King being gone +abroad, my Lord and I walked a great while discoursing of the simplicity +of the Protector, in his losing all that his father had left him. My Lord +told me, that the last words that he parted with the Protector with (when +he went to the Sound), were, that he should rejoice more to see him in his +grave at his return home, than that he should give way to such things as +were then in hatching, and afterwards did ruin him: and the Protector +said, that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones, and the +Secretary, would have him to do, he would do it, be it what it would. +Thence to my wife, meeting Mr. Blagrave, who went home with me, and did +give me a lesson upon the flageolet, and handselled my silver can with my +wife and me. To my father's, where Sir Thomas Honeywood and his family +were come of a sudden, and so we forced to lie all together in a little +chamber, three stories high. + +22d. To my Lord, where much business. With him to White Hall, where the +Duke of York not being up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery. +Mr. Hill (who for these two or three days hath constantly attended my +Lord) told me of an offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity, which I told my +Lord of in the balcone in this gallery, and he said he would think of it. +I to my Lord's and gave order for horses to be got to draw my Lord's great +coach to Mr. Crew's. Mr. Morrice the upholsterer came himself to-day to +take notice what furniture we lack for our lodgings at Whitehall. My dear +friend Mr. Fuller of Twickenham and I dined alone at the Sun Tavern, where +he told me how he had the grant of being Dean of St. Patrick's, in +Ireland; and I told him my condition, and both rejoiced one for another. +Thence to my Lord's, and had the great coach to Brigham's, who went with +me to the Half Moon, and gave me a can of good julep, and told me how my +Lady Monk deals with him and others for their places, asking him L500, +though he was formerly the King's coach-maker, and sworn to it. My Lord +abroad, and I to my house and set things in a little order there. So with +Mr. Moore to my father's, I staying with Mrs. Turner who stood at her door +as I passed. Among other things she told me for certain how my old Lady +Middlesex----herself the other day in the presence of the King, and people +took notice of it. Thence called at my father's, and so to Mr. Crew's, +where Mr. Hetley had sent a letter for me, and two pair of silk stockings, +one for W. Howe, and the other for me. To Sir H. Wright's to my Lord, +where he, was, and took direction about business, and so by link home +about 11 o'clock. To bed, the first time since my coming from sea, in my +own house, for which God be praised. + +23d. By water with Mr. Hill towards my Lord's lodging and so to my Lord. +With him to Whitehall, where I left him and went to Mr. Holmes to deliver +him the horse of Dixwell's that had staid there fourteen days at the Bell. +So to my Lord's lodgings, where Tom Guy came to me, and there staid to see +the King touch people for the King's evil. But he did not come at all, it +rayned so; and the poor people were forced to stand all the morning in the +rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in the Banquetting-house. + + [This ceremony is usually traced to Edward the Confessor, but there + is no direct evidence of the early Norman kings having touched for + the evil. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the House of + Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not + descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form + of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called + the King's evil. Burn asserts, "History of Parish Registers," 1862, + p. 179, that "between 1660 and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for + the evil." Everyone coming to the court for that purpose, brought a + certificate signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had + not at any time been touched by His Majesty. The practice was + supposed to have expired with the Stuarts, but the point being + disputed, reference was made to the library of the Duke of Sussex, + and four several Oxford editions of the Book of Common Prayer were + found, all printed after the accession of the house of Hanover, and + all containing, as an integral part of the service, "The Office for + the Healing." The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the + sore of the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten + shillings. It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon + was drawn, and the angel was hanged about the patient's neck till + the cure was perfected. The stamp has the impression of St. Michael + the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other. + "My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King's evil with three + others on Tuesday."--MS. Letter of William Greenhill to Lady Bacon, + dated December 31st, 1629, preserved at Audley End. Charles II. + "touched" before he came to the throne. "It is certain that the + King hath very often touched the sick, as well at Breda, where he + touched 260 from Saturday the 17 of April to Sunday the 23 of May, + as at Bruges and Bruxels, during the residence he made there; and + the English assure . . . it was not without success, since it was + the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those + diseased even from the most remote provinces of Germany."--Sir + William Lower's Relation of the Voiage and Residence which Charles + the II. hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, p. 78. Sir William Lower + gives a long account of the touching for the evil by Charles before + the Restoration.] + +With my Lord, to my Lord Frezendorfe's, where he dined to-day. Where he +told me that he had obtained a promise of the Clerk of the Acts place for +me, at which I was glad. Met with Mr. Chetwind, and dined with him at +Hargrave's, the Cornchandler, in St. Martin's Lane, where a good dinner, +where he showed me some good pictures, and an instrument he called an +Angelique. + + [An angelique is described as a species of guitar in Murray's "New + English Dictionary," and this passage from the Diary is given as a + quotation. The word appears as angelot in Phillips's "English + Dictionary" (1678), and is used in Browning's "Sordello," as a + "plaything of page or girl."] + +With him to London, changing all my Dutch money at Backwell's + + [Alderman Edward Backwell, an eminent banker and goldsmith, who is + frequently mentioned in the Diary. His shop was in Lombard Street. + He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles II. in + 1672. The crown then owed him L295,994 16s. 6d., in lieu of which + the King gave him an annuity of L17,759 13s. 8d. Backwell retired + into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in + 1679. See Hilton Price's "Handbook of London Bankers," 1876.] + +for English, and then to Cardinal's Cap, where he and the City +Remembrancer who paid for all. Back to Westminster, where my Lord was, +and discoursed with him awhile about his family affairs. So he went away, +I home and wrote letters into the country, and to bed. + +24th. Sunday. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and bought a pair of +gloves there. So to Mr. G. Montagu, and told him what I had received from +Dover, about his business likely to be chosen there. So home and thence +with my wife towards my father's. She went thither, I to Mr. Crew's, +where I dined and my Lord at my Lord Montagu of Boughton in Little Queen +Street. In the afternoon to Mr. Mossum's with Mr. Moore, and we sat in +Mr. Butler's pew. Then to Whitehall looking for my Lord but in vain, and +back again to Mr. Crew's where I found him and did give him letters. +Among others some simple ones from our Lieutenant, Lieut. Lambert to him +and myself, which made Mr. Crew and us all laugh. I went to my father's +to tell him that I would not come to supper, and so after my business done +at Mr. Crew's I went home and my wife within a little while after me, my +mind all this while full of thoughts for my place of Clerk of the Acts. + +25th. With my Lord at White Hall, all the morning. I spoke with Mr. +Coventry about my business, who promised me all the assistance I could +expect. Dined with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound, being +amused at our great changes here, and Mr. Southerne, now Clerk to Mr. +Coventry, at the Leg in King-street. Thence to the Admiralty, where I met +with Mr. Turner + + [Thomas Turner (or Tourner) was General Clerk at the Navy Office, + and on June 30th he offered Pepys L150 to be made joint Clerk of the + Acts with him. In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the + King came in, preserved in the British Museum, there occur, Richard + Hutchinson; Treasury of the Navy, salary L1500; Thomas Tourner, + General Clerk, for himself and clerk, L100.] + +of the Navy-office, who did look after the place of Clerk of the Acts. He +was very civil to me, and I to him, and shall be so. There came a letter +from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening, but he refused to come +to her, but meeting in White Hall, with Sir Thomas Clarges, her brother, +my Lord returned answer, that he could not desist in my business; and that +he believed that General Monk would take it ill if my Lord should name the +officers in his army; and therefore he desired to have the naming of one +officer in the fleet. With my Lord by coach to Mr. Crew's, and very merry +by the way, discoursing of the late changes and his good fortune. Thence +home, and then with my wife to Dorset House, to deliver a list of the +names of the justices of the peace for Huntingdonshire. By coach, taking +Mr. Fox part of the way with me, that was with us with the King on board +the Nazeby, who I found to have married Mrs. Whittle, that lived at Mr. +Geer's so long. A very civil gentleman. At Dorset House I met with Mr. +Kipps, my old friend, with whom the world is well changed, he being now +sealbearer to the Lord Chancellor, at which my wife and I are well +pleased, he being a very good natured man. Home and late writing letters. +Then to my Lord's lodging, this being the first night of his coming to +Whitehall to lie since his coming from sea. + +26th. My Lord dined at his lodgings all alone to-day. I went to +Secretary Nicholas + + [Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I. and II. + He was dismissed from his office through the intrigues of Lady + Castlemaine in 1663. He died 1669, aged seventy-seven.] + +to carry him my Lord's resolutions about his title, which he had chosen, +and that is Portsmouth. + + [Montagu changed his mind, and ultimately took his title from the + town of Sandwich, leaving that of Portsmouth for the use of a King's + mistress.] + +I met with Mr. Throgmorton, a merchant, who went with me to the old Three +Tuns, at Charing Cross, who did give me five pieces of gold for to do him +a small piece of service about a convoy to Bilbo, which I did. In the +afternoon, one Mr. Watts came to me, a merchant, to offer me L500 if I +would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place. I pray God direct me in +what I do herein. Went to my house, where I found my father, and carried +him and my wife to Whitefriars, and myself to Puddlewharf, to the +Wardrobe, to Mr. Townsend, who went with me to Backwell, the goldsmith's, +and there we chose L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary +Nicholas. Back and staid at my father's, and so home to bed. + +27th. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke to Mr. Coventry to +despatch my business of the Acts, in which place every body gives me joy, +as if I were in it, which God send. + + [The letters patent, dated July 13th, 12 Charles II., recite and + revoke letters patent of February 16th, 14 Charles I., whereby the + office of Clerk of the Ships had been given to Dennis Fleming and + Thomas Barlow, or the survivor. D. F. was then dead, but T. B. + living, and Samuel Pepys was appointed in his room, at a salary of + L33 6s. 8d. per annum, with 3s. 4d. for each day employed in + travelling, and L6 per annum for boathire, and all fees due. This + salary was only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had + been attached to the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary + had been previously fixed at L350 a year.] + +Dined with my Lord and all the officers of his regiment, who invited my +Lord and his friends, as many as he would bring, to dinner, at the Swan, +at Dowgate, a poor house and ill dressed, but very good fish and plenty. +Here Mr. Symons, the Surgeon, told me how he was likely to lose his estate +that he had bought, at which I was not a little pleased. To Westminster, +and with Mr. Howe by coach to the Speaker's, where my Lord supped with the +King, but I could not get in. So back again, and after a song or two in +my chamber in the dark, which do (now that the bed is out) sound very +well, I went home and to bed. + +28th. My brother Tom came to me with patterns to choose for a suit. I +paid him all to this day, and did give him L10 upon account. To Mr. +Coventry, who told me that he would do me all right in my business. To +Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came. He is so +stingy a fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of his +office, and did give him liberty to take any body in. Hawly and he are +parted too, he is going to serve Sir Thos. Ingram. I went also this +morning to see Mrs. Pierce, the chirurgeon['s wife]. I found her in bed +in her house in Margaret churchyard. Her husband returned to sea. I did +invite her to go to dinner with me and my wife to-day. After all this to +my Lord, who lay a-bed till eleven o'clock, it being almost five before he +went to bed, they supped so late last night with the King. This morning I +saw poor Bishop Wren + + [Matthew Wren, born 1585, successively Bishop of Hereford, Norwich, + and Ely. At the commencement of the Rebellion he was sent to the + Tower, and remained a prisoner there eighteen years. Died April + 24th, 1667.] + +going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day + + ["A Proclamation for setting apart a day of Solemn and Publick + Thanksgiving throughout the whole Kingdom," dated June 5th, 1660.] + +for the King's return. After my Lord was awake, I went up to him to the +Nursery, where he do lie, and, having talked with him a little, I took +leave and carried my wife and Mrs. Pierce to Clothworkers'-Hall, to +dinner, where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, met us. We were invited by Mr. +Chaplin, the Victualler, where Nich. Osborne was. Our entertainment very +good, a brave hall, good company, and very good music. Where among other +things I was pleased that I could find out a man by his voice, whom I had +never seen before, to be one that sang behind the curtaine formerly at Sir +W. Davenant's opera. Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the victualler dined +with us. After dinner to Mr. Rawlinson's, + + [Daniel Rawlinson kept the Mitre in Fenchurch Street, and there is a + farthing token of his extant, "At the Mitetr in Fenchurch Streete, + D. M. R." The initials stand for Daniel and Margaret Rawlinson (see + "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 595) In + "Reliquiae Hearnianae" (ed. Bliss, 1869, vol. ii. p. 39) is the + following extract from Thomas Rawlinson's Note Book R.: "Of Daniel + Rawlinson, my grandfather, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch + Street, and of whose being sequestred in the Rump time I have heard + much, the Whiggs tell this, that upon the king's murder he hung his + signe in mourning. He certainly judged right. The honour of the + Mitre was much eclipsed through the loss of so good a parent of the + church of England. These rogues say, this endeared him so much to + the churchmen that he soon throve amain and got a good estate." + Mrs. Rawlinson died of the plague (see August 9th, 1666), and the + house was burnt in the Great Fire. Mr. Rawlinson rebuilt the Mitre, + and he had the panels of the great room painted with allegorical + figures by Isaac Fuller. Daniel was father of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, + of whom Thomas Hearne writes (October 1st, 1705): "Sir Thomas + Rawlinson is chosen Lord Mayor of London for ye ensueing + notwithstanding the great opposition of ye Whigg party" (Hearne's + "Collections," ed. Doble, 1885, vol. i. p. 51). The well-known + antiquaries, Thomas and Richard Rawlinson, sons of Sir Thomas, were + therefore grandsons of Daniel.] + +to see him and his wife, and would have gone to my Aunt Wight, but that +her only child, a daughter, died last night. Home and to my Lord, who +supped within, and Mr. E. Montagu, Mr. Thos. Crew, and others with him sat +up late. I home and to bed. + +29th. This day or two my maid Jane--[Jane Wayneman.]--has been lame, that +we cannot tell what to do for want of her. Up and to White Hall, where I +got my warrant from the Duke to be Clerk of the Acts. Also I got my +Lord's warrant from the Secretary for his honour of Earle of Portsmouth, +and Viscount Montagu of Hinchingbroke. So to my Lord, to give him an +account of what I had done. Then to Sir Geffery Palmer, to give them to +him to have bills drawn upon them, who told me that my Lord must have some +good Latinist to make the preamble to his Patent, which must express his +late service in the best terms that he can, and he told me in what high +flaunting terms Sir J. Greenville had caused his to be done, which he do +not like; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe had done General Monk's very well. +Back to Westminster, and meeting Mr. Townsend in the Palace, he and I and +another or two went and dined at the Leg there. Then to White Hall, where +I was told by Mr. Hutchinson at the Admiralty, that Mr. Barlow, my +predecessor, Clerk of the Acts, is yet alive, and coming up to town to +look after his place, which made my heart sad a little. At night told my +Lord thereof, and he bade me get possession of my Patent; and he would do +all that could be done to keep him out. This night my Lord and I looked +over the list of the Captains,. and marked some that my Lord had a mind to +have put out. Home and to bed. Our wench very lame, abed these two days. + +30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe to draw up the preamble to my Lord's +Patent. So to my Lord, and with him to White Hall, where I saw a great +many fine antique heads of marble, that my Lord Northumberland had given +the King. Here meeting with Mr. De Cretz, he looked over many of the +pieces, in the gallery with me and told me [by] whose hands they were, +with great pleasure. Dined at home and Mr. Hawly with me upon six of my +pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill here. This day came Will, + + [William Wayneman was constantly getting into trouble, and Pepys had + to cane him. He was dismissed on July 7th, 1663.] + +my boy, to me; the wench continuing lame, so that my wife could not be +longer without somebody to help her. In the afternoon with Sir Edward +Walker, at his lodgings by St. Giles Church, for my Lord's pedigree, and +carried it to Sir R. Fanshawe. To Mr. Crew's, and there took money and +paid Mrs. Anne, Mrs. Jemima's maid, off quite, and so she went away and +another came to her. To White Hall with Mr. Moore, where I met with a +letter from Mr. Turner, offering me L150 to be joined with me in my +patent, and to advise me how to improve the advantage of my place, and to +keep off Barlow. To my Lord's till late at night, and so home. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY + 1660 + +July 1st. This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, + + [Camlet was a mixed stuff of wool and silk. It was very expensive, + and later Pepys gave L24 for a suit. (See June 1st, 1664.)] + +with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray +God to make me able to pay for it. I went to the cook's and got a good +joint of meat, and my wife and I dined at home alone. In the afternoon to +the Abbey, where a good sermon by a stranger, but no Common Prayer yet. +After sermon called in at Mrs. Crisp's, where I saw Mynheer Roder, that is +to marry Sam Hartlib's sister, a great fortune for her to light on, she +being worth nothing in the world. Here I also saw Mrs. Greenlife, who is +come again to live in Axe Yard with her new husband Mr. Adams. Then to my +Lord's, where I staid a while. So to see for Mr. Creed to speak about +getting a copy of Barlow's patent. To my Lord's, where late at night +comes Mr. Morland, whom I left prating with my Lord, and so home. + +2nd. Infinite of business that my heart and head and all were full. Met +with purser Washington, with whom and a lady, a friend of his, I dined at +the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more manners than to +invite me and to let me pay my club. All the afternoon with my Lord, +going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, and there the +principal Officers of the Navy, + + [A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31st, 1660. From a + MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys's own handwriting. + His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral. + Sir George Carteret, Treasurer. + Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller. + Sir William Batten, Surveyor. + Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts. + + John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton,)| + Sir William Penn, | Commissioners. + Peter Pett, Esq.--B,] | + +among the rest myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow, +to draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into action before +our patents were passed. At which my heart was glad. At night supped +with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone by +ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my maid +pretty well again. + +3d. All the morning the Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, we met at +Sir G. Carteret's + + [Sir George Carteret, born 1599, had originally been bred to the sea + service, and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I., and + Governor of Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his + gallant defence of that island against the Parliament forces. At + the Restoration he was made Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer + of the Navy, and a Privy Councillor, and in 1661 he was elected M.P. + for Portsmouth. In 1666 he exchanged the Treasurership of the Navy + with the Earl of Anglesea for the Vice-Treasurership of Ireland. He + became a Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1673. He continued in + favour with Charles II. till his death, January 14th, 1679, in his + eightieth year. He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir + Philip Carteret, Knight of St. Ouen, and had issue three sons and + five daughters.] + +chamber, and agreed upon orders for the Council to supersede the old ones, +and empower us to act. Dined with Mr. Stephens, the Treasurer's man of +the Navy, and Mr. Turner, to whom I offered L50 out of my own purse for +one year, and the benefit of a Clerk's allowance beside, which he thanked +me for; but I find he hath some design yet in his head, which I could not +think of. In the afternoon my heart was quite pulled down, by being told +that Mr. Barlow was to enquire to-day for Mr. Coventry; but at night I met +with my Lord, who told me that I need not fear, for he would get me the +place against the world. And when I came to W. Howe, he told me that Dr. +Petty had been with my Lord, and did tell him that Barlow was a sickly +man, and did not intend to execute the place himself, which put me in +great comfort again. Till 2 in the morning writing letters and things for +my Lord to send to sea. So home to my wife to bed. + +4th. Up very early in the morning and landing my wife at White Friars +stairs, I went to the Bridge and so to the Treasurer's of the Navy, with +whom I spake about the business of my office, who put me into very good +hopes of my business. At his house comes Commissioner Pett, and he and I +went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, + + [The Navy Office was erected on the site of Lumley House, formerly + belonging to the Fratres Sancta Crucis (or Crutched Friars), and all + business connected with naval concerns was transacted there till its + removal to Somerset House.--The ground was afterwards occupied by + the East India Company's warehouses. The civil business of the + Admiralty was removed from Somerset House to Spring Gardens in + 1869.] + +where I find the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind that they +will shuffle me out of them, which troubles me. From thence to the Excise +Office in Broad Street, where I received L500 for my Lord, by appointment +of the Treasurer, and went afterwards down with Mr. Luddyard and drank my +morning draft with him and other officers. Thence to Mr. Backewell's, the +goldsmith, where I took my Lord's L100 in plate for Mr. Secretary +Nicholas, and my own piece of plate, being a state dish and cup in chased +work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above L19. Carried these and the money by +coach to my Lord's at White Hall, and from thence carried Nicholas's plate +to his house and left it there, intending to speak with him anon. So to +Westminster Hall, where meeting with M. L'Impertinent and W. Bowyer, I +took them to the Sun Tavern, and gave them a lobster and some wine, and +sat talking like a fool till 4 o'clock. So to my Lord's, and walking all +the afternoon in White Hall Court, in expectation of what shall be done in +the Council as to our business. It was strange to see how all the people +flocked together bare, to see the King looking out of the Council window. +At night my Lord told me how my orders that I drew last night about giving +us power to act, are granted by the Council. At which he and I were very +glad. Home and to bed, my boy lying in my house this night the first +time. + +5th. This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with +silver buttons. It rained this morning, which makes us fear that the +glory of this great day will be lost; the King and Parliament being to be +entertained by the City to-day with great pomp. + + ["July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the + House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. + Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His + Majesty; the Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets + between Temple Bar and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that + day spent in the City of London."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +Mr. Hater' was with me to-day, and I agreed with him to be my clerk. + + [Thomas Hayter. He remained with Pepys for some time; and by his + assistance was made Petty Purveyor of Petty Missions. He succeeded + Pepys as Clerk of the Acts in 1673, and in 1679 he was Secretary of + the Admiralty, and Comptroller of the Navy from 1680 to 1682.] + +Being at White Hall, I saw the King, the Dukes, and all their attendants +go forth in the rain to the City, and it bedraggled many a fine suit of +clothes. I was forced to walk all the morning in White Hall, not knowing +how to get out because of the rain. Met with Mr. Cooling, my Lord +Chamberlain's secretary, who took me to dinner among the gentlemen +waiters, and after dinner into the wine-cellar. He told me how he had a +project for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money by bringing +all business into our hands. Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. +Blackburne and I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour or two +in the Park, he giving of me light in many things in my way in this office +that I go about. And in the evening I got my present of plate carried to +Mr. Coventry's. At my Lord's at night comes Dr. Petty to me, to tell me +that Barlow had come to town, and other things, which put me into a +despair, and I went to bed very sad. + +6th. In the morning with my Lord at Whitehall, got the order of the +Council for us to act. From thence to Westminster Hall, and there met +with the Doctor that shewed us so much kindness at the Hague, and took him +to the Sun tavern, and drank with him. So to my Lord's and dined with W. +Howe and Sarah, thinking it might be the last time that I might dine with +them together. In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr. Coventry and Sir +G. Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy Office, whereby my mind +was a little cheered, but my hopes not great. From thence Sir G. Carteret +and I to the Treasurer's Office, where he set some things in order. And +so home, calling upon Sir Geoffry Palmer, who did give me advice about my +patent, which put me to some doubt to know what to do, Barlow being alive. +Afterwards called at Mr. Pim's, about getting me a coat of velvet, and he +took me to the Half Moon, and the house so full that we staid above half +an hour before we could get anything. So to my Lord's, where in the dark +W. Howe and I did sing extemporys, and I find by use that we are able to +sing a bass and a treble pretty well. So home, and to bed. + +7th. To my Lord, one with me to buy a Clerk's place, and I did demand +L100. To the Council Chamber, where I took an order for the advance of +the salaries of the officers of the Navy, and I find mine to be raised to +L350 per annum. Thence to the Change, where I bought two fine prints of +Ragotti from Rubens, and afterwards dined with my Uncle and Aunt Wight, +where her sister Cox and her husband were. After that to Mr. Rawlinson's +with my uncle, and thence to the Navy Office, where I began to take an +inventory of the papers, and goods, and books of the office. To my +Lord's, late writing letters. So home to bed. + +8th (Lord's day). To White Hall chapel, where I got in with ease by going +before the Lord Chancellor with Mr. Kipps. Here I heard very good music, +the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and +singing-men in surplices in my life. + + [During the Commonwealth organs were destroyed all over the country, + and the following is the title of the Ordinances under which this + destruction took place: "Two Ordinances of the Lords and Commons + assembled in Parliament, for the speedy demolishing of all organs, + images, and all matters of superstitious monuments in all Cathedrals + and Collegiate or Parish Churches and Chapels throughout the Kingdom + of England and the dominion of Wales; the better to accomplish the + blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and + things illegal in the worship of God. Dated May 9th, 1644." When + at the period of the Restoration music again obtained its proper + place in the services of the Church, there was much work for the + organ builders. According to Dr. Rimbault ("Hopkins on the Organ," + 1855, p. 74), it was more than fifty years after the Restoration + when our parish churches began commonly to be supplied with organs. + Drake says, in his "Eboracum" (published in 1733), that at that date + only one parish church in the city of York possessed an organ. + Bernard Schmidt, better known as "Father Smith," came to England + from Germany at the time of the Restoration, and he it was who built + the organ at the Chapel Royal. He was in high favour with Charles + II., who allowed, him apartments in Whitehall Palace.] + +The Bishop of Chichester preached before the King, and made a great +flattering sermon, which I did not like that Clergy should meddle with +matters of state. Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook's shop. +Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon. There +till Mr. Fairebrother came to call us out to my father's to supper. He +told me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by +proxy, which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin Roger +Pepys was the other day persuading me from it. While we were at supper +came Win. Howe to supper to us, and after supper went home to bed. + +9th. All the morning at Sir G. Palmer's advising about getting my bill +drawn. From thence to the Navy office, where in the afternoon we met and +sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first time. From +thence Captain Holland and Mr. Browne of Harwich took me to a tavern and +did give me a collation. From thence to the Temple to further my bills +being done, and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed. + +10th. This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever I +wore in my life. This morning came Nan Pepys' husband Mr. Hall to see me +being lately come to town. I had never seen him before. I took him to +the Swan tavern with Mr. Eglin and there drank our morning draft. Home, +and called my wife, and took her to Dr. Clodius's to a great wedding of +Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at Goring House with very +great state, cost, and noble company. But, among all the beauties there, +my wife was thought the greatest. After dinner I left the company, and +carried my wife to Mrs. Turner's. I went to the Attorney-General's, and +had my bill which cost me seven pieces. I called my wife, and set her +home. And finding my Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to the +Secretary's, which he did, and desired the dispatch of his and my bills to +be signed by the King. His bill is to be Earl of Sandwich, Viscount +Hinchingbroke, and Baron of St. Neot's. + + [The motive for Sir Edward Montagu's so suddenly altering his + intended title is not explained; probably, the change was adopted as + a compliment to the town of Sandwich, off which the Fleet was lying + before it sailed to bring Charles from Scheveling. Montagu had also + received marked attentions from Sir John Boys and other principal + men at Sandwich; and it may be recollected, as an additional reason, + that one or both of the seats for that borough have usually been + placed at the disposal of the Admiralty. The title of Portsmouth + was given, in 1673, for her life, to the celebrated Louise de + Querouaille, and becoming extinct with her, was, in 1743, conferred + upon John Wallop, Viscount Lymington, the ancestor of the present + Earl of Portsmouth.--B.] + +Home, with my mind pretty quiet: not returning, as I said I would, to see +the bride put to bed. + +11th. With Sir W. Pen by water to the Navy office, where we met, and +dispatched business. And that being done, we went all to dinner to the +Dolphin, upon Major Brown's invitation. After that to the office again, +where I was vexed, and so was Commissioner Pett, to see a busy fellow come +to look out the best lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and the combining +between him and Sir W. Pen; and, indeed, was troubled much at it. Home to +White Hall, and took out my bill signed by the King, and carried it to Mr. +Watkins of the Privy Seal to be despatched there, and going home to take a +cap, I borrowed a pair of sheets of Mr. Howe, and by coach went to the +Navy office, and lay (Mr. Hater, my clerk, with me) at Commissioner +Willoughby's' house, where I was received by him very civilly and slept +well. + +12th. Up early and by coach to White Hall with Commissioner Pett, where, +after we had talked with my Lord, I went to the Privy Seal and got my bill +perfected there, and at the Signet: and then to the House of Lords, and +met with Mr. Kipps, who directed me to Mr. Beale to get my patent +engrossed; but he not having time to get it done in Chancery-hand, I was +forced to run all up and down Chancery-lane, and the Six Clerks' Office + + [The Six Clerks' Office was in Chancery Lane, near the Holborn end. + The business of the office was to enrol commissions, pardons, + patents, warrants, &c., that had passed the Great Seal; also other + business in Chancery. In the early history of the Court of + Chancery, the Six Clerks and their under-clerks appear to have acted + as the attorneys of the suitors. As business increased, these + under-clerks became a distinct body, and were recognized by the + court under the denomination of 'sworn clerks,' or 'clerks in + court.' The advance of commerce, with its consequent accession of + wealth, so multiplied the subjects requiring the judgment of a Court + of Equity, that the limits of a public office were found wholly + inadequate to supply a sufficient number of officers to conduct the + business of the suitors. Hence originated the 'Solicitors' of the + "Court of Chancery." See Smith's "Chancery Practice," p. 62, 3rd + edit. The "Six Clerks" were abolished by act of Parliament, + 5 Vict. c. 5.] + +but could find none that could write the hand, that were at leisure. And +so in a despair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first time there, +my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, Mr. Coventry, and all the rest of the +principal Officers and Commissioners, [except] only the Controller, who is +not yet chosen. At night to Mr. Kipps's lodgings, but not finding him, I +went to Mr. Spong's and there I found him and got him to come to me to my +Lord's lodgings at 11 o'clock of night, when I got him to take my bill to +write it himself (which was a great providence that he could do it) +against to-morrow morning. I late writing letters to sea by the post, and +so home to bed. In great trouble because I heard at Mr. Beale's to-day +that Barlow had been there and said that he would make a stop in the +business. + +13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black camlett coat with +silver buttons. To Mr. Spong, whom I found in his night-down writing of +my patent, and he had done as far as he could "for that &c." by 8 o'clock. +It being done, we carried it to Worcester House to the Chancellor, where +Mr. Kipps (a strange providence that he should now be in a condition to do +me a kindness, which I never thought him capable of doing for me), got me +the Chancellor's recepi to my bill; and so carried it to Mr. Beale for a +dockett; but he was very angry, and unwilling to do it, because he said it +was ill writ (because I had got it writ by another hand, and not by him); +but by much importunity I got Mr. Spong to go to his office and make an +end of my patent; and in the mean time Mr. Beale to be preparing my +dockett, which being done, I did give him two pieces, after which it was +strange how civil and tractable he was to me. From thence I went to the +Navy office, where we despatched much business, and resolved of the houses +for the Officers and Commissioners, which I was glad of, and I got leave +to have a door made me into the leads. From thence, much troubled in mind +about my patent, I went to Mr. Beale again, who had now finished my patent +and made it ready for the Seal, about an hour after I went to meet him at +the Chancellor's. So I went away towards Westminster, and in my way met +with Mr. Spong, and went with him to Mr. Lilly and ate some bread and +cheese, and drank with him, who still would be giving me council of +getting my patent out, for fear of another change, and my Lord Montagu's +fall. After that to Worcester House, where by Mr. Kipps's means, and my +pressing in General Montagu's name to the Chancellor, I did, beyond all +expectation, get my seal passed; and while it was doing in one room, I was +forced to keep Sir G. Carteret (who by chance met me there, ignorant of my +business) in talk, while it was a doing. Went home and brought my wife +with me into London, and some money, with which I paid Mr. Beale L9 in +all, and took my patent of him and went to my wife again, whom I had left +in a coach at the door of Hinde Court, and presented her with my patent at +which she was overjoyed; so to the Navy office, and showed her my house, +and were both mightily pleased at all things there, and so to my business. +So home with her, leaving her at her mother's door. I to my Lord's, where +I dispatched an order for a ship to fetch Sir R. Honywood home, for which +I got two pieces of my Lady Honywood by young Mr. Powell. Late writing +letters; and great doings of music at the next house, which was Whally's; +the King and Dukes there with Madame Palmer, + + [Barbara Villiers, only child of William, second Viscount Grandison, + born November, 1640, married April 14th, 1659, to Roger Palmer, + created Earl of Castlemaine, 1661. She became the King's mistress + soon after the Restoration, and was in 1670 made Baroness Nonsuch, + Countess of Southampton, and Duchess of Cleveland. She had six + children by the King, one of them being created Duke of Grafton, and + the eldest son succeeding her as Duke of Cleveland. She + subsequently married Beau Fielding, whom she prosecuted for bigamy. + She died October 9th, 1709, aged sixty-nine. Her life was written + by G. Steinman Steinman, and privately printed 1871, with addenda + 1874, and second addenda 1878.] + +a pretty woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold. +Here at the old door that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W. +Howe, did stand listening a great while to the music. After that home to +bed. This day I should have been at Guildhall to have borne witness for +my brother Hawly against Black Collar, but I could not, at which I was +troubled. To bed with the greatest quiet of mind that I have had a great +while, having ate nothing but a bit of bread and cheese at Lilly's to-day, +and a bit of bread and butter after I was a-bed. + +14th. Up early and advised with my wife for the putting of all our things +in a readiness to be sent to our new house. To my Lord's, where he was in +bed very late. So with Major Tollhurst and others to Harper's, and I sent +for my barrel of pickled oysters and there ate them; while we were doing +so, comes in Mr. Pagan Fisher; the poet, and promises me what he had long +ago done, a book in praise of the King of France, with my armes, and a +dedication to me very handsome. After him comes Mr. Sheply come from sea +yesterday, whom I was glad to see that he may ease me of the trouble of my +Lord's business. So to my Lord's, where I staid doing his business and +taking his commands. After that to Westminster Hall, where I paid all my +debts in order to my going away from hence. Here I met with Mr. Eglin, +who would needs take me to the Leg in King Street and gave me a dish of +meat to dinner; and so I sent for Mons. L'Impertinent, where we sat long +and were merry. After that parted, and I took Mr. Butler [Mons. +L'Impertinent] with me into London by coach and shewed him my house at the +Navy Office, and did give order for the laying in coals. So into Fenchurch +Street, and did give him a glass of wine at Rawlinson's, and was trimmed +in the street. So to my Lord's late writing letters, and so home, where +I found my wife had packed up all her goods in the house fit for a +removal. So to bed. + +15th. Lay long in bed to recover my rest. Going forth met with Mr. +Sheply, and went and drank my morning draft with him at Wilkinson's, and +my brother Spicer.--[Jack Spicer, brother clerk of the Privy Seal.]--After +that to Westminster Abbey, and in Henry the Seventh's Chappell heard part +of a sermon, the first that ever I heard there. To my Lord's and dined +all alone at the table with him. After dinner he and I alone fell to +discourse, and I find him plainly to be a sceptic in all things of +religion, and to make no great matter of anything therein, but to be a +perfect Stoic. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's Chappell, where I +heard service and a sermon there, and after that meeting W. Bowyer there, +he and I to the Park, and walked a good while till night. So to Harper's +and drank together, and Captain Stokes came to us and so I fell into +discourse of buying paper at the first hand in my office, and the Captain +promised me to buy it for me in France. After that to my Lord's lodgings, +where I wrote some business and so home. My wife at home all the day, she +having no clothes out, all being packed up yesterday. For this month I +have wholly neglected anything of news, and so have beyond belief been +ignorant how things go, but now by my patent my mind is in some quiet, +which God keep. I was not at my father's to-day, I being afraid to go for +fear he should still solicit me to speak to my Lord for a place in the +Wardrobe, which I dare not do, because of my own business yet. My wife +and I mightily pleased with our new house that we hope to have. My patent +has cost me a great deal of money, about L40, which is the only thing at +present which do trouble me much. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's +chapel, where I heard a sermon and spent (God forgive me) most of my time +in looking upon Mrs. Butler. After that with W. Bowyer to walk in the +Park. Afterwards to my Lord's lodgings, and so home to bed, having not +been at my father's to-day. + +16th, This morning it proved very rainy weather so that I could not remove +my goods to my house. I to my office and did business there, and so home, +it being then sunrise, but by the time that I got to my house it began to +rain again, so that I could not carry my goods by cart as I would have +done. After that to my Lord's and so home and to bed. + +17th. This morning (as indeed all the mornings nowadays) much business at +my Lord's. There came to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, an old +consumptive man, and fair conditioned, with whom I did discourse a great +while, and after much talk I did grant him what he asked, viz., L50 per +annum, if my salary be not increased, and (100 per annum, in case it be to +L350), at which he was very well pleased to be paid as I received my money +and not otherwise. Going to my Lord's I found my Lord had got a great +cold and kept his bed, and so I brought him to my Lord's bedside, and he +and I did agree together to this purpose what I should allow him. That +done and the day proving fair I went home and got all my goods packed up +and sent away, and my wife and I and Mrs. Hunt went by coach, overtaking +the carts a-drinking in the Strand. Being come to my house and set in the +goods, and at night sent my wife and Mrs. Hunt to buy something for +supper; they bought a Quarter of Lamb, and so we ate it, but it was not +half roasted. Will, Mr. Blackburne's nephew, is so obedient, that I am +greatly glad of him. At night he and I and Mrs. Hunt home by water to +Westminster. I to my Lord, and after having done some business with him +in his chamber in the Nursery, which has been now his chamber since he +came from sea, I went on foot with a linkboy to my home, where I found my +wife in bed and Jane washing the house, and Will the boy sleeping, and a +great deal of sport I had before I could wake him. I to bed the first +night that I ever lay here with my wife. + +18th. This morning the carpenter made an end of my door out of my chamber +upon the leads. + +This morning we met at the office: I dined at my house in Seething Lane, +and after that, going about 4 o'clock to Westminster, I met with Mr. +Carter and Mr. Cooke coming to see me in a coach, and so I returned home. +I did also meet with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, with a porter with him, with +a barrel of Lemons, which my man Burr sends me from sea. I took all these +people home to my house and did give them some drink, and after them comes +Mr. Sheply, and after a little stay we all went by water to Westminster as +far as the New Exchange. Thence to my Lord about business, and being in +talk in comes one with half a buck from Hinchinbroke, and it smelling a +little strong my Lord did give it me (though it was as good as any could +be). I did carry it to my mother, where I had not been a great while, and +indeed had no great mind to go, because my father did lay upon me +continually to do him a kindness at the Wardrobe, which I could not do +because of my own business being so fresh with my Lord. But my father was +not at home, and so I did leave the venison with her to dispose of as she +pleased. After that home, where W. Hewer now was, and did lie this night +with us, the first night. My mind very quiet, only a little trouble I have +for the great debts which I have still upon me to the Secretary, Mr. +Kipps, and Mr. Spong for my patent. + +19th. I did lie late a-bed. I and my wife by water, landed her at +Whitefriars with her boy with an iron of our new range which is already +broke and my wife will have changed, and many other things she has to buy +with the help of my father to-day. I to my Lord and found him in bed. +This day I received my commission to swear people the oath of allegiance +and supremacy delivered me by my Lord. After talk with my Lord I went to +Westminster Hall, where I took Mr. Michell and his wife, and Mrs. Murford +we sent for afterwards, to the Dog Tavern, where I did give them a dish of +anchovies and olives and paid for all, and did talk of our old discourse +when we did use to talk of the King, in the time of the Rump, privately; +after that to the Admiralty Office, in White Hall, where I staid and writ +my last observations for these four days last past. Great talk of the +difference between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Clergy, but I believe it +will come to nothing. So home and to bed. + +20th. We sat at the office this morning, Sir W. Batten and Mr. Pett being +upon a survey to Chatham. This morning I sent my wife to my father's and +he is to give me L5 worth of pewter. After we rose at the office, I went +to my father's, where my Uncle Fenner and all his crew and Captain Holland +and his wife and my wife were at dinner at a venison pasty of the venison +that I did give my mother the other day. I did this time show so much +coldness to W. Joyce that I believe all the table took notice of it. +After that to Westminster about my Lord's business and so home, my Lord +having not been well these two or three days, and I hear that Mr. Barnwell +at Hinchinbroke is fallen sick again. Home and to bed. + +21st. This morning Mr. Barlow had appointed for me to bring him what form +I would have the agreement between him and me to pass, which I did to his +lodgings at the Golden Eagle in the new street--[Still retains the name +New Street.]--between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane, where he liked it very +well, and I from him went to get Mr. Spong to engross it in duplicates. +To my Lord and spoke to him about the business of the Privy Seal for me to +be sworn, though I got nothing by it, but to do Mr. Moore a kindness, +which he did give me a good answer to. Went to the Six Clerks' office to +Mr. Spong for the writings, and dined with him at a club at the next door, +where we had three voices to sing catches. So to my house to write +letters and so to Whitehall about business of my Lord's concerning his +creation,--[As Earl of Sandwich.]--and so home and to bed. + +22nd. Lord's day. All this last night it had rained hard. My brother +Tom came this morning the first time to see me, and I paid him all that I +owe my father to this day. Afterwards I went out and looked into several +churches, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my wife was got before me, +and we, my father and mother, and all the Joyces, and my aunt Bell, whom I +had not seen many a year before. After dinner to White Hall (my wife to +church with K. Joyce), where I find my Lord at home, and walked in the +garden with him, he showing me all the respect that can be. I left him +and went to walk in the Park, where great endeavouring to get into the +inward Park,--[This is still railed off from St. James's Park, and called +the Enclosure.]--but could not get in; one man was basted by the keeper, +for carrying some people over on his back through the water. Afterwards +to my Lord's, where I staid and drank with Mr. Sheply, having first sent +to get a pair of oars. It was the first time that ever I went by water on +the Lord's day. Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers +out of the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever I read prayers in +this house. So to bed. + +23rd. This morning Mr. Barlow comes to me, and he and I went forth to a +scrivener in Fenchurch Street, whom we found sick of the gout in bed, and +signed and sealed our agreement before him. He urged to have these words +(in consideration whereof) to be interlined, which I granted, though +against my will. Met this morning at the office, and afterwards Mr. +Barlow by appointment came and dined with me, and both of us very pleasant +and pleased. After dinner to my Lord, who took me to Secretary Nicholas, +and there before him and Secretary Morris, my Lord and I upon our knees +together took our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; and the Oath of the +Privy Seal, of which I was much glad, though I am not likely to get +anything by it at present; but I do desire it, for fear of a turn-out of +our office. That done and my Lord gone from me, I went with Mr. Cooling +and his brother, and Sam Hartlibb, little Jennings and some others to the +King's Head Tavern at Charing Cross, where after drinking I took boat and +so home, where we supped merrily among ourselves (our little boy proving a +droll) and so after prayers to bed. This day my Lord had heard that Mr. +Barnwell was dead, but it is not so yet, though he be very ill. I was +troubled all this day with Mr. Cooke, being willing to do him good, but my +mind is so taken up with my own business that I cannot. + +24th. To White Hall, where I did acquaint Mr. Watkins with my being sworn +into the Privy Seal, at which he was much troubled, but put it up and did +offer me a kinsman of his to be my clerk, which I did give him some hope +of, though I never intend it. In the afternoon I spent much time in +walking in White Hall Court with Mr. Bickerstaffe, who was very glad of my +Lord's being sworn, because of his business with his brother Baron, which +is referred to my Lord Chancellor, and to be ended to-morrow. Baron had +got a grant beyond sea, to come in before the reversionary of the Privy +Seal. This afternoon Mr. Mathews came to me, to get a certificate of my +Lord's and my being sworn, which I put in some forwardness, and so home +and to bed. + +25th. In the morning at the office, and after that down to Whitehall, +where I met with Mr. Creed, and with him and a Welsh schoolmaster, a good +scholar but a very pedagogue, to the ordinary at the Leg in King Street.' +I got my certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn. This morning my +Lord took leave of the House of Commons, and had the thanks of the House +for his great services to his country. In the afternoon (but this is a +mistake, for it was yesterday in the afternoon) Monsieur L'Impertinent and +I met and I took him to the Sun and drank with him, and in the evening +going away we met his mother and sisters and father coming from the +Gatehouse; where they lodge, where I did the first time salute them all, +and very pretty Madame Frances--[Frances Butler, the beauty.]--is indeed. +After that very late home and called in Tower Street, and there at a +barber's was trimmed the first time. Home and to bed. + +26th. Early to White Hall, thinking to have a meeting of my Lord and the +principal officers, but my Lord could not, it being the day that he was to +go and be admitted in the House of Lords, his patent being done, which he +presented upon his knees to the Speaker; and so it was read in the House, +and he took his place. I at the Privy Seal Office with Mr. Hooker, who +brought me acquainted with Mr. Crofts of the Signet, and I invited them to +a dish of meat at the Leg in King Street, and so we dined there and I paid +for all and had very good light given me as to my employment there. +Afterwards to Mr. Pierces, where I should have dined but I could not, but +found Mr. Sheply and W. Howe there. After we had drunk hard we parted, +and I went away and met Dr. Castle, who is one of the Clerks of the Privy +Seal, and told him how things were with my Lord and me, which he received +very gladly. I was this day told how Baron against all expectation and +law has got the place of Bickerstaffe, and so I question whether he will +not lay claim to wait the next month, but my Lord tells me that he will +stand for it. In the evening I met with T. Doling, who carried me to St. +James's Fair, + + [August, 1661: "This year the Fair, called St. James's Fair, was + kept the full appointed time, being a fortnight; but during that + time many lewd and infamous persons were by his Majesty's express + command to the Lord Chamberlain, and his Lordship's direction to + Robert Nelson, Esq., committed to the House of Correction."--Rugge's + Diurnal. St; James's fair was held first in the open space near St. + James's Palace, and afterwards in St. James's Market. It was + prohibited by the Parliament in 1651, but revived at the + Restoration. It was, however, finally suppressed before the close + of the reign of Charles II.] + +and there meeting with W. Symons and his wife, and Luellin, and D. +Scobell's wife and cousin, we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell + + [This is one of the earliest references to Pall Mall as an inhabited + street, and also one of the earliest uses of the word clubbing.] + +(our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till 10 at night, at +which time I sent to my Lord's for my clerk Will to come to me, and so by +link home to bed. Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sent for all +his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a little disappointment, +but it is better than pay too dear for them. + +27th: The last night Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen came to their houses at +the office. Met this morning and did business till noon. Dined at home +and from thence to my Lord's where Will, my clerk, and I were all the +afternoon making up my accounts, which we had done by night, and I find +myself worth about L100 after all my expenses. At night I sent to W. +Bowyer to bring me L100, being that he had in his hands of my Lord's. in +keeping, out of which I paid Mr. Sheply all that remained due to my Lord +upon my balance, and took the rest home with me late at night. We got a +coach, but the horses were tired and could not carry us farther than St. +Dunstan's. So we 'light and took a link and so home weary to bed. + +28th. Early in the morning rose, and a boy brought me a letter from Poet +Fisher, who tells me that he is upon a panegyrique of the King, and +desired to borrow a piece of me; and I sent him half a piece. To +Westminster, and there dined with Mr. Sheply and W. Howe, afterwards +meeting with Mr. Henson, who had formerly had the brave clock that went +with bullets (which is now taken away from him by the King, it being his +goods). + + [Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an + inclined plane, which turns every minute. The King's clocks + probably dropped bullets. Gainsborough the painter had a brother + who was a dissenting minister at Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a + strong genius for mechanics. He invented a clock of a very peculiar + construction, which, after his death, was deposited in the British + Museum. It told the hour by a little bell, and was kept in motion + by a leaden bullet, which dropped from a spiral reservoir at the top + of the clock, into a little ivory bucket. This was so contrived as + to discharge it at the bottom, and by means of a counter-weight was + carried up to the top of the clock, where it received another + bullet, which was discharged as the former. This seems to have been + an attempt at the perpetual motion.--Gentleman's Magazine, 1785, + p. 931.--B.] + +I went with him to the Swan Tavern and sent for Mr. Butler, who was now +all full of his high discourse in praise of Ireland, whither he and his +whole family are going by Coll. Dillon's persuasion, but so many lies I +never heard in praise of anything as he told of Ireland. So home late at +night and to bed. + +29th. Lord's day. I and my boy Will to Whitehall, and I with my Lord to +White Hall Chappell, where I heard a cold sermon of the Bishop of +Salisbury's, and the ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them. +My Lord went to dinner at Kensington with my Lord Camden. So I dined and +took Mr. Birfett, my Lord's chaplain, and his friend along with me, with +Mr. Sheply at my Lord's. In the afternoon with Dick Vines and his brother +Payton, we walked to Lisson Green and Marybone and back again, and finding +my Lord at home I got him to look over my accounts, which he did approve +of and signed them, and so we are even to this day. Of this I was glad, +and do think myself worth clear money about L120. Home late, calling in at +my father's without stay. To bed. + +30th. Sat at our office to-day, and my father came this day the first +time to see us at my new office. And Mrs. Crisp by chance came in and sat +with us, looked over our house and advised about the furnishing of it. +This afternoon I got my L50, due to me for my first quarter's salary as +Secretary to my Lord, paid to Tho. Hater for me, which he received and +brought home to me, of which I am full glad. To Westminster and among +other things met with Mr. Moore, and took him and his friend, a bookseller +of Paul's Churchyard, to the Rhenish Winehouse, and drinking there the +sword-bearer of London (Mr. Man) came to ask for us, with whom we sat +late, discoursing about the worth of my office of Clerk of the Acts, which +he hath a mind to buy, and I asked four years' purchase. We are to speak +more of it to-morrow. Home on foot, and seeing him at home at Butler's +merry, he lent me a torch, which Will carried, and so home. + +31st. To White Hall, where my Lord and the principal officers met, and +had a great discourse about raising of money for the Navy, which is in +very sad condition, and money must be raised for it. Mr. Blackburne, Dr. +Clerke, and I to the Quaker's and dined there. I back to the Admiralty, +and there was doing things in order to the calculating of the debts of the +Navy and other business, all the afternoon. At night I went to the Privy +Seal, where I found Mr. Crofts and Mathews making up all their things to +leave the office tomorrow, to those that come to wait the next month. I +took them to the Sun Tavern and there made them drink, and discoursed +concerning the office, and what I was to expect tomorrow about Baron, who +pretends to the next month. Late home by coach so far as Ludgate with Mr. +Mathews, and thence home on foot with W. Hewer with me, and so to bed. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen + Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest + An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity + Court attendance infinite tedious + Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state + Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill + Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service + God help him, he wants bread. + Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay + How the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst + I pray God to make me able to pay for it. + I went to the cook's and got a good joint of meat + King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery + L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas + Most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler + My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life + Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place + Sceptic in all things of religion + She had six children by the King + Strange how civil and tractable he was to me + The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them + This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed + To see the bride put to bed + We cannot tell what to do for want of her (the maid) + Where I find the worst very good + Which I did give him some hope of, though I never intend it + Woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + AUGUST & SEPTEMBER + 1660 + +August 1st. Up very early, and by water to Whitehall to my Lord's, and +there up to my Lord's lodging (Win. Howe being now ill of the gout at Mr. +Pierce's), and there talked with him about the affairs of the Navy, and +how I was now to wait today at the Privy Seal. Commissioner Pett went +with me, whom I desired to make my excuse at the office for my absence +this day. Hence to the Privy Seal Office, where I got (by Mr. Mathews' +means) possession of the books and table, but with some expectation of +Baron's bringing of a warrant from the King to have this month. Nothing +done this morning, Baron having spoke to Mr. Woodson and Groome (clerks to +Mr. Trumbull of the Signet) to keep all work in their hands till the +afternoon, at which time he expected to have his warrant from the King for +this month.--[The clerks of the Privy Seal took the duty of attendance for +a month by turns.]--I took at noon Mr. Harper to the Leg in King Street, +and did give him his dinner, who did still advise me much to act wholly +myself at the Privy Seal, but I told him that I could not, because I had +other business to take up my time. In the afternoon at, the office again, +where we had many things to sign; and I went to the Council Chamber, and +there got my Lord to sign the first bill, and the rest all myself; but +received no money today. After I had signed all, I went with Dick Scobell +and Luellin to drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand, and after +staying there a while (had sent W. Hewer home before), I took boat and +homewards went, and in Fish Street bought a Lobster, and as I had bought +it I met with Winter and Mr. Delabarr, and there with a piece of sturgeon +of theirs we went to the Sun Tavern in the street and ate them. Late home +and to bed. + +2d. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen (our +servants in another boat) to the Admiralty; and from thence I went to my +Lord's to fetch him thither, where we stayed in the morning about ordering +of money for the victuailers, and advising how to get a sum of money to +carry on the business of the Navy. From thence dined with Mr. Blackburne +at his house with his friends (his wife being in the country and just upon +her return to London), where we were very well treated and merry. From +thence W. Hewer and I to the office of Privy Seal, where I stayed all the +afternoon, and received about L40 for yesterday and to-day, at which my +heart rejoiced for God's blessing to me, to give me this advantage by +chance, there being of this L40 about L10 due to me for this day's work. +So great is the present profit of this office, above what it was in the +King's time; there being the last month about 300 bills; whereas in the +late King's time it was much to have 40. With my money home by coach, it, +being the first time that I could get home before our gates were shut +since I came to the Navy office. When I came home I found my wife not +very well of her old pain . . . . which she had when we were married +first. I went and cast up the expense that I laid out upon my former +house (because there are so many that are desirous of it, and I am, in my +mind, loth to let it go out of my hands, for fear of a turn). I find my +layings-out to come to about L20, which with my fine will come to about +L22 to him that shall hire my house of me.--[Pepys wished to let his house +in Axe Yard now that he had apartments at the Navy Office.]--To bed. + +3rd. Up betimes this morning, and after the barber had done with me, then +to the office, where I and Sir William Pen only did meet and despatch +business. At noon my wife and I by coach to Dr. Clerke's to dinner: I was +very much taken with his lady, a comely, proper woman, though not +handsome; but a woman of the best language I ever heard. Here dined Mrs. +Pierce and her husband. After dinner I took leave to go to Westminster, +where I was at the Privy Seal Office all day, signing things and taking +money, so that I could not do as I had intended, that is to return to them +and go to the Red Bull Playhouse, + + [This well-known theatre was situated in St. John's Street on the + site of Red Bull Yard. Pepys went there on March 23rd, 1661, when + he expressed a very poor opinion of the place. T. Carew, in some + commendatory lines on Sir William. Davenant's play, "The just + Italian," 1630, abuses both audiences and actors:-- + + "There are the men in crowded heaps that throng + To that adulterate stage, where not a tongue + Of th' untun'd kennel can a line repeat + Of serious sense." + + There is a token of this house (see "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. + Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 725).] + +but I took coach and went to see whether it was done so or no, and I found +it done. So I returned to Dr. Clerke's, where I found them and my wife, +and by and by took leave and went away home. + +4th. To White Hall, where I found my Lord gone with the King by water to +dine at the Tower with Sir J. Robinson,' Lieutenant. I found my Lady +Jemimah--[Lady Jemima Montage, daughter of Lord Sandwich, previously +described as Mrs. Jem.]--at my Lord's, with whom I staid and dined, all +alone; after dinner to the Privy Seal Office, where I did business. So to +a Committee of Parliament (Sir Hen[eage] Finch, Chairman), to give them an +answer to an order of theirs, "that we could not give them any account of +the Accounts of the Navy in the years 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, as they desire." +After that I went and bespoke some linen of Betty Lane in the Hall, and +after that to the Trumpet, where I sat and talked with her, &c. At night, +it being very rainy, and it thundering and lightning exceedingly, I took +coach at the Trumpet door, taking Monsieur L'Impertinent along with me as +far as the Savoy, where he said he went to lie with Cary Dillon, + + [Colonel Cary Dillon, a friend of the Butlers, who courted the fair + Frances; but the engagement was subsequently broken off, see + December 31 st, 1661.] + +and is still upon the mind of going (he and his whole family) to Ireland. +Having set him down I made haste home, and in the courtyard, it being very +dark, I heard a man inquire for my house, and having asked his business, +he told me that my man William (who went this morning--out of town to meet +his aunt Blackburne) was come home not very well to his mother, and so +could not come home to-night. At which I was very sorry. I found my wife +still in pain. To bed, having not time to write letters, and indeed +having so many to write to all places that I have no heart to go about +them. Mrs. Shaw did die yesterday and her husband so sick that he is not +like to live. + +5th. Lord's day. My wife being much in pain, I went this morning to Dr. +Williams (who had cured her once before of this business), in Holborn, and +he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my boy, and a plaister +which I took with me to Westminster (having called and seen my mother in +the morning as I went to the doctor), where I dined with Mr. Sheply (my +Lord dining at Kensington). After dinner to St. Margaret's, where the +first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that Church. I sat with Mr. Hill +in his pew; Mr. Hill that married in Axe Yard and that was aboard us in +the Hope. Church done I went and Mr. Sheply to see W. Howe at Mr. +Pierces, where I staid singing of songs and psalms an hour or two, and +were very pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him. Thence to my Lord's, where I +staid and talked and drank with Mr. Sheply. After that to Westminster +stairs, where I saw a fray between Mynheer Clinke, a Dutchman, that was at +Hartlibb's wedding, and a waterman, which made good sport. After that I +got a Gravesend boat, that was come up to fetch some bread on this side +the bridge, and got them to carry me to the bridge, and so home, where I +found my wife. After prayers I to bed to her, she having had a very bad +night of it. This morning before I was up Will came home pretty well +again, he having been only weary with riding, which he is not used to. + +6th. This morning at the office, and, that being done, home to dinner all +alone, my wife being ill in pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, and not a +little impatient. After dinner to Whitehall at the Privy Seal all the +afternoon, and at night with Mr. Man to Mr. Rawlinson's in Fenchurch +Street, where we staid till eleven o'clock at night. So home and to bed, +my wife being all this day in great pain. This night Mr. Man offered me +L1000 for my office of Clerk of the Acts, which made my mouth water; but +yet I dare not take it till I speak with my Lord to have his consent. + +7th. This morning to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and took Mr. Moore and +myself and dined at my Lord's with Mr. Sheply. While I was at dinner in +come Sam. Hartlibb and his brother-in-law, now knighted by the King, to +request my promise of a ship for them to Holland, which I had promised to +get for them. After dinner to the Privy Seal all the afternoon. At +night, meeting Sam. Hartlibb, he took me by coach to Kensington, to my +Lord of Holland's; I staid in the coach while he went in about his +business. He staying long I left the coach and walked back again before +on foot (a very pleasant walk) to Kensington, where I drank and staid very +long waiting for him. At last he came, and after drinking at the inn we +went towards Westminster. Here I endeavoured to have looked out Jane that +formerly lived at Dr. Williams' at Cambridge, whom I had long thought to +live at present here, but I found myself in an error, meeting one in the +place where I expected to have found her, but she proved not she though +very like her. We went to the Bullhead, where he and I sat and drank till +11 at night, and so home on foot. Found my wife pretty well again, and so +to bed. + +8th. We met at the office, and after that to dinner at home, and from +thence with my wife by water to Catan Sterpin, with whom and her mistress +Pye we sat discoursing of Kate's marriage to Mons. Petit, her mistress and +I giving the best advice we could for her to suspend her marriage till +Mons. Petit had got some place that may be able to maintain her, and not +for him to live upon the portion that she shall bring him. From thence to +Mr. Butler's to see his daughters, the first time that ever we made a +visit to them. We found them very pretty, and Coll. Dillon there, a very +merry and witty companion, but methinks they live in a gaudy but very poor +condition. From thence, my wife and I intending to see Mrs. Blackburne, +who had been a day or two again to see my wife, but my wife was not in +condition to be seen, but she not being at home my wife went to her +mother's and I to the Privy Seal. At night from the Privy Seal, Mr. +Woodson and Mr. Jennings and I to the Sun Tavern till it was late, and +from thence to my Lord's, where my wife was come from Mrs. Blackburne's to +me, and after I had done some business with my Lord, she and I went to +Mrs. Hunt's, who would needs have us to lie at her house to-night, she +being with my wife so late at my Lord's with us, and would not let us go +home to-night. We lay there all night very pleasantly and at ease . . . + +9th. Left my wife at Mrs. Hunt's and I to my Lord's, and from thence with +judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Sheply to the Rhenish +Wine-house, and Captain Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to +carry my Lord Winchelsea, Embassador to Constantinople. We were very +merry, and judge Advocate did give Captain Hayward his Oath of Allegiance +and Supremacy. Thence to my office of Privy Seal, and, having signed some +things there, with Mr. Moore and Dean Fuller to the Leg in King Street, +and, sending for my wife, we dined there very merry, and after dinner, +parted. After dinner with my wife to Mrs. Blackburne to visit her. She +being within I left my wife there, and I to the Privy Seal, where I +despatch some business, and from thence to Mrs. Blackburne again, who did +treat my wife and me with a great deal of civility, and did give us a fine +collation of collar of beef, &c. Thence I, having my head full of drink +from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in the morning, and more in the +afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne's, came home and so to bed, not well, and +very ill all night. + +10th. I had a great deal of pain all night, and a great loosing upon me +so that I could not sleep. In the morning I rose with much pain and to +the office. I went and dined at home, and after dinner with great pain in +my back I went by water to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and that done with +Mr. Moore and Creed to Hide Park by coach, and saw a fine foot-race three +times round the Park between an Irishman and Crow, that was once my Lord +Claypoole's footman. (By the way I cannot forget that my Lord Claypoole +did the other day make enquiry of Mrs. Hunt, concerning my House in +Axe-yard, and did set her on work to get it of me for him, which methinks +is a very great change.) Crow beat the other by above two miles. +Returned from Hide Park, I went to my Lord's, and took Will (who waited +for me there) by coach and went home, taking my lute home with me. It had +been all this while since I came from sea at my Lord's for him to play on. +To bed in some pain still. For this month or two it is not imaginable how +busy my head has been, so that I have neglected to write letters to my +uncle Robert in answer to many of his, and to other friends, nor indeed +have I done anything as to my own family, and especially this month my +waiting at the Privy Seal makes me much more unable to think of anything, +because of my constant attendance there after I have done at the Navy +Office. But blessed be God for my good chance of the Privy Seal, where I +get every day I believe about L3. This place I got by chance, and my Lord +did give it me by chance, neither he nor I thinking it to be of the worth +that he and I find it to be. Never since I was a man in the world was I +ever so great a stranger to public affairs as now I am, having not read a +new book or anything like it, or enquiring after any news, or what the +Parliament do, or in any wise how things go. Many people look after my +house in Axe-yard to hire it, so that I am troubled with them, and I have +a mind to get the money to buy goods for my house at the Navy Office, and +yet I am loth to put it off because that Mr. Man bids me L1000 for my +office, which is so great a sum that I am loth to settle myself at my new +house, lest I should take Mr. Man's offer in case I found my Lord willing +to it. + +11th. I rose to-day without any pain, which makes me think that my pain +yesterday was nothing but from my drinking too much the day before. To my +Lord this morning, who did give me order to get some things ready against +the afternoon for the Admiralty where he would meet. To the Privy Seal, +and from thence going to my own house in Axeyard, I went in to Mrs. +Crisp's, where I met with Mr. Hartlibb; for whom I wrote a letter for my +Lord to sign for a ship for his brother and sister, who went away hence +this day to Gravesend, and from thence to Holland. I found by discourse +with Mrs. Crisp that he is very jealous of her, for that she is yet very +kind to her old servant Meade. Hence to my Lord's to dinner with Mr. +Sheply, so to the Privy Seal; and at night home, and then sent for the +barber, and was trimmed in the kitchen, the first time that ever I was so. +I was vexed this night that W. Hewer was out of doors till ten at night +but was pretty well satisfied again when my wife told me that he wept +because I was angry, though indeed he did give me a good reason for his +being out; but I thought it a good occasion to let him know that I do +expect his being at home. So to bed. + +12th. Lord's day. To my Lord, and with him to White Hall Chappell, where +Mr. Calamy preached, and made a good sermon upon these words "To whom much +is given, of him much is required." He was very officious with his three +reverences to the King, as others do. After sermon a brave anthem of +Captain Cooke's, + + [Henry Cooke, chorister of the Chapel Royal, adhered to the royal + cause at the breaking out of the Civil Wars, and for his bravery + obtained a captain's commission. At the Restoration he received the + appointment of Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal; he was an + excellent musician, and three of his pupils turned out very + distinguished musicians, viz, Pelham Humphrey, John Blow, and + Michael Wise. He was one of the original performers in the "Siege, + of Rhodes." He died July 13th, 1672,: and was buried in the + cloisters of Westminster Abbey. In another place, Pepys says, "a + vain coxcomb he is, though he sings so well."] + +which he himself sung, and the King was well pleased with it. My Lord +dined at my Lord Chamberlain's, and I at his house with Mr. Sheply. After +dinner I did give Mr. Donne; who is going to sea, the key of my cabin and +direction for the putting up of my things. + +After, that I went to walk, and meeting Mrs. Lane of Westminster Hall, I +took her to my Lord's, and did give her a bottle of wine in the garden, +where Mr. Fairbrother, of Cambridge, did come and found us, and drank with +us. After that I took her to my house, where I was exceeding free in +dallying with her, and she not unfree to take it. At night home and +called at my father's, where I found Mr. Fairbrother, but I did not stay +but went homewards and called in at Mr. Rawlinson's, whither my uncle +Wight was coming and did come, but was exceeding angry (he being a little +fuddled, and I think it was that I should see him in that case) as I never +saw him in my life, which I was somewhat troubled at. Home and to bed. + +13th. A sitting day at our office. After dinner to Whitehall; to the +Privy Seal, whither my father came to me, and staid talking with me a +great while, telling me that he had propounded Mr. John Pickering for Sir +Thomas Honywood's daughter, which I think he do not deserve for his own +merit: I know not what he may do for his estate. My father and Creed and +I to the old Rhenish Winehouse, and talked and drank till night. Then my +father home, and I to my Lord's; where he told me that he would suddenly +go into the country, and so did commend the business of his sea commission +to me in his absence. After that home by coach, and took my L100 that I +had formerly left at Mr. Rawlinson's, home with me, which is the first +that ever I was master of at once. To prayers, and to bed. + +14th. To the Privy Seal, and thence to my Lord's, where Mr. Pim, the +tailor, and I agreed upon making me a velvet coat. From thence to the +Privy Seal again, where Sir Samuel Morland came in with a Baronet's grant +to pass, which the King had given him to make money of. Here he staid +with me a great while; and told me the whole manner of his serving the +King in the time of the Protector; and how Thurloe's bad usage made him to +do it; how he discovered Sir R. Willis, and how he hath sunk his fortune +for the King; and that now the King hath given him a pension of L500 per +annum out of the Post Office for life, and the benefit of two Baronets; +all which do make me begin to think that he is not so much a fool as I +took him to be. Home by water to the Tower, where my father, Mr. +Fairbrother, and Cooke dined with me. After dinner in comes young Captain +Cuttance of the Speedwell, who is sent up for the gratuity given the +seamen that brought the King over. He brought me a firkin of butter for +my wife, which is very welcome. My father, after dinner, takes leave, +after I had given him 40s. for the last half year for my brother John at +Cambridge. I did also make even with Mr. Fairbrother for my degree of +Master of Arts, which cost me about L9 16s. To White Hall, and my wife +with me by water, where at the Privy Seal and elsewhere all the afternoon. +At night home with her by water, where I made good sport with having the +girl and the boy to comb my head, before I went to bed, in the kitchen. + +15th. To the office, and after dinner by water to White Hall, where I +found the King gone this morning by 5 of the clock to see a Dutch +pleasure-boat below bridge, + + [A yacht which was greatly admired, and was imitated and improved by + Commissioner Pett, who built a yacht for the King in 1661, which was + called the "Jenny." Queen Elizabeth had a yacht, and one was built + by Phineas Pett in 1604.] + +where he dines, and my Lord with him. The King do tire all his people +that are about him with early rising since he came. To the office, all +the afternoon I staid there, and in the evening went to Westminster Hall, +where I staid at Mrs. Michell's, and with her and her husband sent for +some drink, and drank with them. By the same token she and Mrs. Murford +and another old woman of the Hall were going a gossiping tonight. From +thence to my Lord's, where I found him within, and he did give me +direction about his business in his absence, he intending to go into the +country to-morrow morning. Here I lay all night in the old chamber which +I had now given up to W. Howe, with whom I did intend to lie, but he and I +fell to play with one another, so that I made him to go lie with Mr. +Sheply. So I lay alone all night. + +16th. This morning my Lord (all things being ready) carried me by coach +to Mr. Crew's, (in the way talking how good he did hope my place would be +to me, and in general speaking that it was not the salary of any place +that did make a man rich, but the opportunity of getting money while he is +in the place) where he took leave, and went into the coach, and so for +Hinchinbroke. My Lady Jemimah and Mr. Thomas Crew in the coach with him. +Hence to Whitehall about noon, where I met with Mr. Madge, who took me +along with him and Captain Cooke (the famous singer) and other masters of +music to dinner at an ordinary about Charing Cross where we dined, all +paying their club. Hence to the Privy Seal, where there has been but +little work these two days. In the evening home. + +17th. To the office, and that done home to dinner where Mr. Unthanke, my +wife's tailor, dined with us, we having nothing but a dish of sheep's +trotters. After dinner by water to Whitehall, where a great deal of +business at the Privy Seal. At night I and Creed and the judge-Advocate +went to Mr. Pim, the tailor's, who took us to the Half Moon, and there did +give us great store of wine and anchovies, and would pay for them all. +This night I saw Mr. Creed show many the strangest emotions to shift off +his drink I ever saw in my life. By coach home and to bed. + +18th. This morning I took my wife towards Westminster by water, and +landed her at Whitefriars, with L5 to buy her a petticoat, and I to the +Privy Seal. By and by comes my wife to tell me that my father has +persuaded her to buy a most fine cloth of 26s. a yard, and a rich lace, +that the petticoat will come to L5, at which I was somewhat troubled, but +she doing it very innocently, I could not be angry. I did give her more +money, and sent her away, and I and Creed and Captain Hayward (who is now +unkindly put out of the Plymouth to make way for Captain Allen to go to +Constantinople, and put into his ship the Dover, which I know will trouble +my Lord) went and dined at the Leg in King Street, where Captain Ferrers, +my Lord's Cornet, comes to us, who after dinner took me and Creed to the +Cockpitt play, + + [The Cockpit Theatre, situated in Drury Lane, was occupied as a + playhouse in the reign of James I. It was occupied by Davenant and + his company in 1658, and they remained in it until. November 15th, + 1660, when they removed to Salisbury Court.] + +the first that I have had time to see since my coming from sea, "The +Loyall Subject," where one Kinaston, a boy, acted the Duke's sister, but +made the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life, only her voice not +very good. After the play done, we three went to drink, and by Captain +Ferrers' means, Kinaston and another that acted Archas, the General, came +and drank with us. Hence home by coach, and after being trimmed, leaving +my wife to look after her little bitch, which was just now a-whelping, I +to bed. + +19th (Lord's day). In the morning my wife tells me that the bitch has +whelped four young ones and is very well after it, my wife having had a +great fear that she would die thereof, the dog that got them being very +big. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself, went to church to the +churchwardens, to demand a pew, which at present could not be given us, +but we are resolved to have one built. So we staid and heard Mr. Mills;' +a very, good minister. Home to dinner, where my wife had on her new +petticoat that she bought yesterday, which indeed is a very fine cloth and +a fine lace; but that being of a light colour, and the lace all silver, it +makes no great show. Mr. Creed and my brother Tom dined with me. After +dinner my wife went and fetched the little puppies to us, which are very +pretty ones. After they were gone, I went up to put my papers in order, +and finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up, I was angry with +her, which I was troubled for. After that my wife and I went and walked +in the garden, and so home to bed. + +20th (Office day). As Sir W. Pen and I were walking in the garden, a +messenger came to me from the Duke of York to fetch me to the Lord +Chancellor. So (Mrs. Turner with her daughter The. being come to my house +to speak with me about a friend of hers to send to sea) I went with her in +her coach as far as Worcester House, but my Lord Chancellor being gone to +the House of Lords, I went thither, and (there being a law case before +them this day) got in, and there staid all the morning, seeing their +manner of sitting on woolpacks, &c., which I never did before. + + [It is said that these woolpacks were placed in the House of Lords + for the judges to sit on, so that the fact that wool was a main + source of our national wealth might be kept in the popular mind. + The Lord Chancellor's seat is now called the Woolsack.] + +After the House was up, I spoke to my Lord, and had order from him to come +to him at night. This morning Mr. Creed did give me the Papers that +concern my Lord's sea commission, which he left in my hands and went to +sea this day to look after the gratuity money. + +This afternoon at the Privy Seal, where reckoning with Mr. Moore, he had +got L100 for me together, which I was glad of, guessing that the profits +of this month would come to L100. + +In the evening I went all alone to drink at Mr. Harper's, where I found +Mrs. Crisp's daughter, with whom and her friends I staid and drank, and so +with W. Hewer by coach to Worcester House, where I light, sending him home +with the L100 that I received to-day. Here I staid, and saw my Lord +Chancellor come into his Great Hall, where wonderful how much company +there was to expect him at a Seal. Before he would begin any business, he +took my papers of the state of the debts of the Fleet, and there viewed +them before all the people, and did give me his advice privately how to +order things, to get as much money as we can of the Parliament. That being +done, I went home, where I found all my things come home from sea (sent by +desire by Mr. Dun), of which I was glad, though many of my things are +quite spoilt with mould by reason of lying so long a shipboard, and my +cabin being not tight. I spent much time to dispose of them tonight, and +so to bed. + +21st. This morning I went to White Hall with Sir W. Pen by water, who in +our passage told me how he was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went to +Mr. Coventry's chamber, and consulted of drawing my papers of debts of the +Navy against the afternoon for the Committee. So to the Admiralty, where +W. Hewer and I did them, and after that he went to his Aunt's Blackburn +(who has a kinswoman dead at her house to-day, and was to be buried +to-night, by which means he staid very late out). I to Westminster Hall, +where I met Mr. Crew and dined with him, where there dined one Mr. +Hickeman, an Oxford man, who spoke very much against the height of the now +old clergy, for putting out many of the religious fellows of Colleges, and +inveighing against them for their being drunk, which, if true, I am sorry +to hear. After that towards Westminster, where I called on Mr. Pim, and +there found my velvet coat (the first that ever I had) done, and a velvet +mantle, which I took to the Privy Seal Office, and there locked them up, +and went to the Queen's Court, and there, after much waiting, spoke with +Colonel Birch, who read my papers, and desired some addition, which done I +returned to the Privy Seal, where little to do, and with Mr. Moore towards +London, and in our way meeting Monsieur Eschar (Mr. Montagu's man), about +the Savoy, he took us to the Brazennose Tavern, and there drank and so +parted, and I home by coach, and there, it being post-night, I wrote to my +Lord to give him notice that all things are well; that General Monk is +made Lieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not +like of, to be Deputy to any man but the King himself. After that to bed. + +22nd. Office, which done, Sir W. Pen took me into the garden, and there +told me how Mr. Turner do intend to petition the Duke for an allowance +extra as one of the Clerks of the Navy, which he desired me to join with +him in the furthering of, which I promised to do so that it did not +reflect upon me or to my damage to have any other added, as if I was not +able to perform my place; which he did wholly disown to be any of his +intention, but far from it. I took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, with +whom I did advise, who did give me the same counsel. After dinner he and +I to the office about doing something more as to the debts of the Navy +than I had done yesterday, and so to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and +having done there, with my father (who came to see me) to Westminster Hall +and the Parliament House to look for Col. Birch, but found him not. In the +House, after the Committee was up, I met with Mr. G. Montagu, and joyed +him in his entrance (this being his 3d day) for Dover. Here he made me +sit all alone in the House, none but he and I, half an hour, discoursing +how things stand, and in short he told me how there was like to be many +factions at Court between Marquis Ormond, General Monk, and the Lord +Roberts, about the business of Ireland; as there is already between the +two Houses about the Act of Indemnity; and in the House of Commons, +between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian men. Hence to my father's +(walking with Mr. Herring, the minister of St. Bride's), and took them to +the Sun Tavern, where I found George, my old drawer, come again. From +thence by water, landed them at Blackfriars, and so home and to bed. + +23rd. By water to Doctors' Commons to Dr. Walker, to give him my Lord's +papers to view over concerning his being empowered to be Vice-Admiral +under the Duke of York. There meeting with Mr. Pinkney, he and I to a +morning draft, and thence by water to White Hall, to the Parliament House, +where I spoke with Colonel Birch, and so to the Admiralty chamber, where +we and Mr. Coventry had a meeting about several businesses. Amongst +others, it was moved that Phineas Pett (kinsman to the Commissioner) of +Chatham, should be suspended his employment till he had answered some +articles put in against him, as that he should formerly say that the King +was a bastard and his mother a whore. Hence to Westminster Hall, where I +met with my father Bowyer, and Mr. Spicer, and them I took to the Leg in +King Street, and did give them a dish or two of meat, and so away to the +Privy Seal, where, the King being out of town, we have had nothing to do +these two days. To Westminster Hall, where I met with W. Symons, T. +Doling, and Mr. Booth, and with them to the Dogg, where we eat a musk +melon + + ["Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner + brought one from Spain, when they became in general estimation. The + ordinary price was five or six shillings."--Quarterly Review, vol, + xix.] + +(the first that I have eat this year), and were very merry with W. Symons, +calling him Mr. Dean, because of the Dean's lands that his uncle had left +him, which are like to be lost all. Hence home by water, and very late at +night writing letters to my Lord to Hinchinbroke, and also to the +Vice-Admiral in the Downs, and so to bed. + +24th. Office, and thence with Sir William Batten and Sir William Pen to +the parish church to find out a place where to build a seat or a gallery +to sit in, and did find one which is to be done speedily. Hence with them +to dinner at a tavern in Thames Street, where they were invited to a +roasted haunch of venison and other very good victuals and company. Hence +to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, but nothing to do. At night by land to my +father's, where I found my mother not very well. I did give her a pint of +sack. My father came in, and Dr. T. Pepys, who talked with me in French +about looking out for a place for him. But I found him a weak man, and +speaks the worst French that ever I heard of one that had been so long +beyond sea. Hence into Pant's Churchyard and bought Barkley's Argenis in +Latin, and so home and to bed. I found at home that Captain Burr had sent +me 4 dozen bottles of wine today. The King came back to Whitehall +to-night. + +25th. This morning Mr. Turner and I by coach from our office to Whitehall +(in our way I calling on Dr. Walker for the papers I did give him the +other day, which he had perused and found that the Duke's counsel had +abated something of the former draught which Dr. Walker drew for my Lord) +to Sir G. Carteret, where we there made up an estimate of the debts of +the Navy for the Council. At noon I took Mr. Turner and Mr. Moore to the +Leg in King Street, and did give them a dinner, and afterward to the Sun +Tavern, and did give Mr. Turner a glass of wine, there coming to us Mr. +Fowler the apothecary (the judge's son) with a book of lute lessons which +his father had left there for me, such as he formerly did use to play when +a young man, and had the use of his hand. To the Privy Seal, and found +some business now again to do there. To Westminster Hall for a new +half-shirt of Mrs. Lane, and so home by water. Wrote letters by the post +to my Lord and to sea. This night W. Hewer brought me home from Mr. Pim's +my velvet coat and cap, the first that ever I had. So to bed. + +26th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish church, where we are +placed in the highest pew of all, where a stranger preached a dry and +tedious long sermon. Dined at home. To church again in the afternoon +with my wife; in the garden and on the leads at night, and so to supper +and to bed. + +27th. This morning comes one with a vessel of Northdown ale from Mr. +Pierce, the purser, to me, and after him another with a brave Turkey +carpet and a jar of olives from Captain Cuttance, and a pair of fine +turtle-doves from John Burr to my wife. These things came up to-day in +our smack, and my boy Ely came along with them, and came after office was +done to see me. I did give him half a crown because I saw that he was +ready to cry to see that he could not be entertained by me here. In the +afternoon to the Privy Seal, where good store of work now toward the end +of the month. From thence with Mr. Mount, Luellin, and others to the Bull +head till late, and so home, where about to o'clock Major Hart came to me, +whom I did receive with wine and anchovies, which made me so dry that I +was ill with them all night, and was fain to have the girle rise and fetch +me some drink. + +28th. At home looking over my papers and books and house as to the +fitting of it to my mind till two in the afternoon. Some time I spent +this morning beginning to teach my wife some scale in music, and found her +apt beyond imagination. To the Privy Seal, where great store of work +to-day. Colonel Scroope--[Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons who +sat in judgment upon Charles I.]--is this day excepted out of the Act of +Indemnity, which has been now long in coming out, but it is expected +to-morrow. I carried home L80 from the Privy Seal, by coach, and at night +spent a little more time with my wife about her music with great content. +This day I heard my poor mother had then two days been very ill, and I +fear she will not last long. To bed, a little troubled that I fear my boy +Will + + [Pepys refers to two Wills. This was Will Wayneman; the other was + William Hewer.] + +is a thief and has stole some money of mine, particularly a letter that +Mr. Jenkins did leave the last week with me with half a crown in it to +send to his son. + +29th (Office day). Before I went to the office my wife and I examined my +boy Will about his stealing of things, but he denied all with the greatest +subtlety and confidence in the world. To the office, and after office +then to the Church, where we took another view of the place where we had +resolved to build a gallery, and have set men about doing it. Home to +dinner, and there I found my wife had discovered my boy Will's theft and a +great deal more than we imagined, at which I was vexed and intend to put +him away. To my office at the Privy Seal in the afternoon, and from +thence at night to the Bull Head, with Mount, Luellin, and others, and +hence to my father's, and he being at my uncle Fenner's, I went thither to +him, and there sent for my boy's father and talked with him about his son, +and had his promise that if I will send home his boy, he will take him +notwithstanding his indenture. Home at night, and find that my wife had +found out more of the boy's stealing 6s. out of W. Hewer's closet, and hid +it in the house of office, at which my heart was troubled. To bed, and +caused the boy's clothes to be brought up to my chamber. But after we +were all a-bed, the wench (which lies in our chamber) called us to listen +of a sudden, which put my wife into such a fright that she shook every +joint of her, and a long time that I could not get her out of it. The +noise was the boy, we did believe, got in a desperate mood out of his bed +to do himself or William [Hewer] some mischief. But the wench went down +and got a candle lighted, and finding the boy in bed, and locking the +doors fast, with a candle burning all night, we slept well, but with a +great deal of fear. + +30th. We found all well in the morning below stairs, bu the boy in a sad +plight of seeming sorrow; but he is the most cunning rogue that ever I met +with of his age. To White Hall, where I met with the Act of +Indemnity--[12 Car. II. cap. II, an act of free and general pardon, +indemnity, and oblivion.]--(so long talked of and hoped for), with the Act +of Rate for Pole-money, an for judicial proceedings. At Westminster Hall +I met with Mr. Paget the lawyer, and dined with him at Heaven. This +afternoon my wife went to Mr. Pierce's wife's child's christening, and was +urged to be godmother, but I advised her before-hand not to do it, so she +did not, but as proxy for my Lady Jemimah. This the first day that ever I +saw my wife wear black patches since we were married! + + [The fashion of placing black patches on the face was introduced + towards the close of the reign of Charles I., and the practice is + ridiculed in the "Spectator."] + +My Lord came to town to-day, but coming not home till very late I staid +till 10 at night, and so home on foot. Mr. Sheply and Mr. Childe this +night at the tavern. + +31st. Early to wait upon my Lord at White Hall, and with him to the +Duke's chamber. So to my office in Seething Lane. Dined at home, and +after dinner to my Lord again, who told me that he is ordered to go +suddenly to sea, and did give me some orders to be drawing up against his +going. This afternoon I agreed to let my house quite out of my hands to +Mr. Dalton (one of the wine sellers to the King, with whom I had drunk in +the old wine cellar two or three times) for L41. At night made even at +Privy Seal for this month against tomorrow to give up possession, but we +know not to whom, though we most favour Mr. Bickerstaffe, with whom and +Mr. Matthews we drank late after office was done at the Sun, discoursing +what to do about it tomorrow against Baron, and so home and to bed. +Blessed be God all things continue well with and for me. I pray God fit +me for a change of my fortune. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER + 1660 + +September 1st. This morning I took care to get a vessel to carry my +Lord's things to the Downs on Monday next, and so to White Hall to my +Lord, where he and I did look over the Commission drawn for him by the +Duke's Council, which I do not find my Lord displeased with, though short +of what Dr. Walker did formerly draw for him. Thence to the Privy Seal to +see how things went there, and I find that Mr. Baron had by a severe +warrant from the King got possession of the office from his brother +Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, it being +against all open justice. Mr. Moore and I and several others being +invited to-day by Mr. Goodman, a friend of his, we dined at the Bullhead +upon the best venison pasty that ever I eat of in my life, and with one +dish more, it was the best dinner I ever was at. Here rose in discourse +at table a dispute between Mr. Moore and Dr. Clerke, the former affirming +that it was essential to a tragedy to have the argument of it true, which +the Doctor denied, and left it to me to be judge, and the cause to be +determined next Tuesday morning at the same place, upon the eating of the +remains of the pasty, and the loser to spend 10s. All this afternoon +sending express to the fleet, to order things against my Lord's coming and +taking direction of my Lord about some rich furniture to take along with +him for the Princess!--[Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, who +died in December of this year.]--And talking of this, I hear by Mr. +Townsend, that there is the greatest preparation against the Prince de +Ligne's a coming over from the King of Spain, that ever was in England for +their Embassador. Late home, and what with business and my boy's roguery +my mind being unquiet, I went to bed. + +2nd (Sunday). To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming to +chapel. I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my Privy +Seal fees and gratuity money, &c., to this day between my Lord and me. +After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon "The +Lord is my shield." After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord's (he +dining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply. So, to St. Margarett's, and +heard a good sermon upon the text "Teach us the old way," or something +like it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion, +which have brought us into all our late divisions. From church to Mrs. +Crisp's (having sent Win. Hewer home to tell my wife that I could not come +home to-night because of my Lord's going out early to-morrow morning), +where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, it being a +farewell cup to Laud Crisp. I drank till the daughter began to be very +loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should be. To my +Lord's, and to bed with Mr. Sheply. + +3rd. Up and to Mr.-----, the goldsmith near the new Exchange, where I +bought my wedding ring, and there, with much ado, got him to put a gold +ring to the jewell, which the King of Sweden did give my Lord: out of +which my Lord had now taken the King's picture, and intends to make a +George of it. This morning at my Lord's I had an opportunity to speak +with Sir George Downing, who has promised me to give me up my bond, and to +pay me for my last quarter while I was at sea, that so I may pay Mr. Moore +and Hawly. About noon my Lord, having taken leave of the King in the +Shield Gallery (where I saw with what kindness the King did hug my Lord at +his parting), I went over with him and saw him in his coach at Lambeth, +and there took leave of him, he going to the Downs, which put me in mind +of his first voyage that ever he made, which he did begin like this from +Lambeth. In the afternoon with Mr. Moore to my house to cast up our Privy +Seal accounts, where I found that my Lord's comes to 400 and odd pounds, +and mine to L132, out of which I do give him as good as L25 for his pains, +with which I doubt he is not satisfied, but my heart is full glad. Thence +with him to Mr. Crew's, and did fetch as much money as did make even our +accounts between him and me. Home, and there found Mr. Cooke come back +from my Lord for me to get him some things bought for him to be brought +after them, a toilet cap and comb case of silk, to make use of in Holland, +for he goes to the Hague, which I can do to-morrow morning. This day my +father and my uncle Fenner, and both his sons, have been at my house to +see it, and my wife did treat them nobly with wine and anchovies. By +reason of my Lord's going to-day I could not get the office to meet +to-day. + +4th. I did many things this morning at home before I went out, as looking +over the joiners, who are flooring my diningroom, and doing business with +Sir Williams + + ["Both Sir Williams" is a favourite expression with Pepys, meaning + Sir William Batten and Sir William Penn.] + +both at the office, and so to Whitehall, and so to the Bullhead, where we +had the remains of our pasty, where I did give my verdict against Mr. +Moore upon last Saturday's wager, where Dr. Fuller coming in do confirm me +in my verdict. From thence to my Lord's and despatched Mr. Cooke away +with the things to my Lord. From thence to Axe Yard to my house, where +standing at the door Mrs. Diana comes by, whom I took into my house +upstairs, and there did dally with her a great while, and found that in +Latin "Nulla puella negat." So home by water, and there sat up late +setting my papers in order, and my money also, and teaching my wife her +music lesson, in which I take great pleasure. So to bed. + +5th. To the office. From thence by coach upon the desire of the +principal officers to a Master of Chancery to give Mr. Stowell his oath, +whereby he do answer that he did hear Phineas Pett say very high words +against the King a great while ago. Coming back our coach broke, and so +Stowell and I to Mr. Rawlinson's, and after a glass of wine parted, and I +to the office, home to dinner, where (having put away my boy in the +morning) his father brought him again, but I did so clear up my boy's +roguery to his father, that he could not speak against my putting him +away, and so I did give him 10s. for the boy's clothes that I made him, +and so parted and tore his indenture. All the afternoon with the +principal officers at Sir W. Batten's about Pett's business (where I first +saw Col. Slingsby, who has now his appointment for Comptroller), but did +bring it to no issue. This day I saw our Dedimus to be sworn in the peace +by, which will be shortly. In the evening my wife being a little +impatient I went along with her to buy her a necklace of pearl, which will +cost L4 10s., which I am willing to comply with her in for her +encouragement, and because I have lately got money, having now above L200 +in cash beforehand in the world. Home, and having in our way bought a +rabbit and two little lobsters, my wife and I did sup late, and so to bed. +Great news now-a-day of the Duke d'Anjou's + + [Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis + XIV. (born 1640, died 1701), married the Princess Henrietta, + youngest daughter of Charles I., who was born June 16th, 1664, at + Exeter. She was known as "La belle Henriette." In May, 1670, she + came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV. to her brother + Charles II., but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of + her husband. Her death occurred on her return to France, and + was attributed to poison. It was the occasion of one of the finest + of Bossuet's "Oraisons Funebres."] + +desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta. Hugh Peters is said to be taken, + + [Hugh Peters, born at Fowey, Cornwall, and educated at Trinity + College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. 1622. He was tried as + one of the regicides, and executed. A broadside, entitled "The + Welsh Hubub, or the Unkennelling and earthing of Hugh Peters that + crafty Fox," was printed October 3rd, 1660.] + +and the Duke of Gloucester is ill, and it is said it will prove the +small-pox. + +6th. To Whitehall by water with Sir W. Batten, and in our passage told me +how Commissioner Pett did pay himself for the entertainment that he did +give the King at Chatham at his coming in, and 20s. a day all the time he +was in Holland, which I wonder at, and so I see there is a great deal of +envy between the two. At Whitehall I met with Commissioner Pett, who told +me how Mr. Coventry and Fairbank his solicitor are falling out, one +complaining of the other for taking too great fees, which is too true. I +find that Commissioner Pett is under great discontent, and is loth to give +too much money for his place, and so do greatly desire me to go along with +him in what we shall agree to give Mr. Coventry, which I have promised +him, but am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that is going down the +wind. We all met this morning and afterwards at the Admiralty, where our +business is to ask provision of victuals ready for the ships in the Downs, +which we did, Mr. Gauden promising to go himself thither and see it done. +Dined Will and I at my Lord's upon a joint of meat that I sent Mrs. Sarah +for. Afterwards to my office and sent all my books to my Lord's, in order +to send them to my house that I now dwell in. Home and to bed. + +7th. Not office day, and in the afternoon at home all the day, it being +the first that I have been at home all day since I came hither. Putting +my papers, books and other things in order, and writing of letters. This +day my Lord set sail from the Downs for Holland. + +8th. All day also at home. At night sent for by Sir W. Pen, with whom I +sat late drinking a glass of wine and discoursing, and I find him to be a +very sociable man, and an able man, and very cunning. + +9th (Sunday). In the morning with Sir W. Pen to church, and a very good +sermon of Mr. Mills. Home to dinner, and Sir W. Pen with me to such as I +had, and it was very handsome, it being the first time that he ever saw my +wife or house since we came hither. Afternoon to church with my wife, and +after that home, and there walked with Major Hart, who came to see me, in +the garden, who tells me that we are all like to be speedily disbanded; + + [The Trained Bands were abolished in 1663, but those of the City of + London were specially excepted. The officers of the Trained Bands + were supplied by the Hon. Artillery Company.] + +and then I lose the benefit of a muster. After supper to bed. + +10th (Office day). News of the Duke's intention to go tomorrow to the +fleet for a day or two to meet his sister. Col. Slingsby and I to +Whitehall, thinking to proffer our service to the Duke to wait upon him, +but meeting with Sir G. Carteret he sent us in all haste back again to +hire two Catches for the present use of the Duke. So we returned and +landed at the Bear at the Bridge foot, where we saw Southwark Fair (I +having not at all seen Bartholomew Fair), and so to the Tower wharf, where +we did hire two catches. So to the office and found Sir W. Batten at +dinner with some friends upon a good chine of beef, on which I ate +heartily, I being very hungry. Home, where Mr. Snow (whom afterwards we +called one another cozen) came to me to see me, and with him and one +Shelston, a simple fellow that looks after an employment (that was with me +just upon my going to sea last), to a tavern, where till late with them. +So home, having drunk too much, and so to bed. + +11th. At Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen we drank our morning draft, +and from thence for an hour in the office and dispatch a little business. +Dined at Sir W. Batten's, and by this time I see that we are like to have +a very good correspondence and neighbourhood, but chargeable. All the +afternoon at home looking over my carpenters. At night I called Thos. +Hater out of the office to my house to sit and talk with me. After he was +gone I caused the girl to wash the wainscot of our parlour, which she did +very well, which caused my wife and I good sport. Up to my chamber to +read a little, and wrote my Diary for three or four days past. The Duke +of York did go to-day by break of day to the Downs. The Duke of +Gloucester ill. The House of Parliament was to adjourn to-day. I know +not yet whether it be done or no. To bed. + +12th (Office day). This noon I expected to have had my cousin Snow and my +father come to dine with me, but it being very rainy they did not come. +My brother Tom came to my house with a letter from my brother John, +wherein he desires some books: Barthol. Anatom., Rosin. Rom. Antiq., and +Gassend. Astronom., the last of which I did give him, and an angel--[A +gold coin varying in value at different times from 6s. 8d. to +10s.]--against my father buying of the others. At home all the afternoon +looking after my workmen, whose laziness do much trouble me. This day the +Parliament adjourned. + +13th. Old East comes to me in the morning with letters, and I did give +him a bottle of Northdown ale, which made the poor man almost drunk. In +the afternoon my wife went to the burial of a child of my cozen Scott's, +and it is observable that within this month my Aunt Wight was brought to +bed of two girls, my cozen Stradwick of a girl and a boy, and my cozen +Scott of a boy, and all died. In the afternoon to Westminster, where Mr. +Dalton was ready with his money to pay me for my house, but our writings +not being drawn it could not be done to-day. I met with Mr. Hawly, who +was removing his things from Mr. Bowyer's, where he has lodged a great +while, and I took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and drank, and Mr. Hawly +did give me a little black rattoon,--[Probably an Indian rattan +cane.]--painted and gilt. Home by water. This day the Duke of Gloucester +died of the small-pox, by the great negligence of the doctors. + +14th (Office day). I got L42 15s. appointed me by bill for my employment +of Secretary to the 4th of this month, it being the last money I shall +receive upon that score. My wife went this afternoon to see my mother, +who I hear is very ill, at which my heart is very sad. In the afternoon +Luellin comes to my house, and takes me out to the Mitre in Wood Street, +where Mr. Samford, W. Symons and his wife, and Mr. Scobell, Mr. Mount and +Chetwind, where they were very merry, Luellin being drunk, and I being to +defend the ladies from his kissing them, I kissed them myself very often +with a great deal of mirth. Parted very late, they by coach to +Westminster, and I on foot. + +15th. Met very early at our office this morning to pick out the +twenty-five ships which are to be first paid off: After that to +Westminster and dined with Mr. Dalton at his office, where we had one +great court dish, but our papers not being done we could [not] make an end +of our business till Monday next. Mr. Dalton and I over the water to our +landlord Vanly, with whom we agree as to Dalton becoming a tenant. Back +to Westminster, where I met with Dr. Castles, who chidd me for some errors +in our Privy-Seal business; among the rest, for letting the fees of the +six judges pass unpaid, which I know not what to say to, till I speak to +Mr. Moore. I was much troubled, for fear of being forced to pay the money +myself. Called at my father's going home, and bespoke mourning for myself, +for the death of the Duke of Gloucester. I found my mother pretty well. +So home and to bed. + +16th (Sunday). To Dr. Hardy's church, and sat with Mr. Rawlinson and +heard a good sermon upon the occasion of the Duke's death. His text was, +"And is there any evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" Home to +dinner, having some sport with Win. [Hewer], who never had been at Common +Prayer before. After dinner I alone to Westminster, where I spent my time +walking up and down in Westminster Abbey till sermon time with Ben. Palmer +and Fetters the watchmaker, who told me that my Lord of Oxford is also +dead of the small-pox; in whom his family dies, after 600 years having +that honour in their family and name. From thence to the Park, where I +saw how far they had proceeded in the Pell-mell, and in making a river +through the Park, which I had never seen before since it was begun. + + [This is the Mall in St. James's Park, which was made by Charles + II., the former Mall (Pall Mall) having been built upon during the + Commonwealth. Charles II. also formed the canal by throwing the + several small ponds into one.] + +Thence to White Hall garden, where I saw the King in purple mourning for +his brother. + + ["The Queen-mother of France," says Ward, in his Diary, p. 177, + "died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, for whom King + Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, which is Prince's mourning."] + +So home, and in my way met with Dinah, who spoke to me and told me she had +a desire to speak too about some business when I came to Westminster +again. Which she spoke in such a manner that I was afraid she might tell +me something that I would not hear of our last meeting at my house at +Westminster. Home late, being very dark. A gentleman in the Poultry had +a great and dirty fall over a waterpipe that lay along the channel. + +17th. Office very early about casting up the debts of those twenty-five +ships which are to be paid off, which we are to present to the Committee +of Parliament. I did give my wife L15 this morning to go to buy mourning +things for her and me, which she did. Dined at home and Mr. Moore with +me, and afterwards to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and drank in the Cellar, +where Mr. Vanly according to appointment was. Thence forth to see the +Prince de Ligne, Spanish Embassador, come in to his audience, which was +done in very great state. That being done, Dalton, Vanly, Scrivener and +some friends of theirs and I to the Axe, and signed and sealed our +writings, and hence to the Wine cellar again, where I received L41 for my +interest in my house, out of which I paid my Landlord to Michaelmas next, +and so all is even between him and me, and I freed of my poor little +house. Home by link with my money under my arm. So to bed after I had +looked over the things my wife had bought to-day, with which being not +very well pleased, they costing too much, I went to bed in a discontent. +Nothing yet from sea, where my Lord and the Princess are. + +18th. At home all the morning looking over my workmen in my house. After +dinner Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself by coach to Westminster Hall, where +we met Mr. Wayte the lawyer to the Treasurer, and so we went up to the +Committee of Parliament, which are to consider of the debts of the Army +and Navy, and did give in our account of the twenty-five ships. Col. Birch +was very impertinent and troublesome. But at last we did agree to fit the +accounts of our ships more perfectly for their view within a few days, +that they might see what a trouble it is to do what they desire. From +thence Sir Williams both going by water home, I took Mr. Wayte to the +Rhenish winehouse, and drank with him and so parted. Thence to Mr. Crew's +and spoke with Mr. Moore about the business of paying off Baron our share +of the dividend. So on foot home, by the way buying a hat band and other +things for my mourning to-morrow. So home and to bed. This day I heard +that the Duke of York, upon the news of the death of his brother +yesterday, came hither by post last night. + +19th (Office day). I put on my mourning and went to the office. At noon +thinking to have found my wife in hers, I found that the tailor had failed +her, at which I was vexed because of an invitation that we have to a +dinner this day, but after having waited till past one o'clock I went, and +left her to put on some other clothes and come after me to the Mitre +tavern in Wood-street (a house of the greatest note in London), where I +met W. Symons, and D. Scobell, and their wives, Mr. Samford, Luellin, +Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. White, + + [According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell's + waiting-woman, in Oliver's lifetime, and they lived together fifty + years. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John + Russell of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years + dying 1721-22 The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to + Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have + been soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver + compelled him to marry. (Noble's "Life of Cromwell," vol. ii. + pp. 151, 152.) White was born in 1629 and died 1707.] + +formerly chaplin to the Lady Protectresse--[Elizabeth, wife of Oliver +Cromwell.]--(and still so, and one they say that is likely to get my Lady +Francess for his wife). Here we were very merry and had a very good +dinner, my wife coming after me hither to us. + +Among other pleasures some of us fell to handycapp, + + ["A game at cards not unlike Loo, but with this difference, the + winner of one trick has to put in a double stake, the winner of two + tricks a triple stake, and so on. Thus, if six persons are playing, + and the general stake is 1s., suppose A gains the three tricks, he + gains 6s., and has to 'hand i' the cap,' or pool, 4s. for the next + deal. Suppose A gains two tricks and B one, then A gains 4s. and B + 2s., and A has to stake 3s. and B 2s. for the next deal."--Hindley's + Tavern Anecdotes.--M. B.] + +a sport that I never knew before, which was very good. We staid till it +was very late; it rained sadly, but we made shift to get coaches. So home +and to bed. + +20th. At home, and at the office, and in the garden walking with both Sir +Williams all the morning. After dinner to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton, and +with him to my house and took away all my papers that were left in my +closet, and so I have now nothing more in the house or to do with it. We +called to speak with my Landlord Beale, but he was not within but spoke +with the old woman, who takes it very ill that I did not let her have it, +but I did give her an answer. From thence to Sir G. Downing and staid +late there (he having sent for me to come to him), which was to tell me +how my Lord Sandwich had disappointed him of a ship to bring over his +child and goods, and made great complaint thereof; but I got him to write +a letter to Lawson, which it may be may do the business for him, I writing +another also about it. While he was writing, and his Lady and I had a +great deal of discourse in praise of Holland. By water to the Bridge, and +so to Major Hart's lodgings in Cannon-street, who used me very kindly with +wine and good discourse, particularly upon the ill method which Colonel +Birch and the Committee use in defending of the army and the navy; +promising the Parliament to save them a great deal of money, when we judge +that it will cost the King more than if they had nothing to do with it, by +reason of their delays and scrupulous enquirys into the account of both. +So home and to bed. + +21st (Office day). There all the morning and afternoon till 4 o'clock. +Hence to Whitehall, thinking to have put up my, books at my Lord's, but am +disappointed from want of a chest which I had at Mr. Bowyer's. Back by +water about 8 o'clock, and upon the water saw the corpse of the Duke of +Gloucester brought down Somerset House stairs, to go by water to +Westminster, to be buried to-night. I landed at the old Swan and went to +the Hoop Tavern, and (by a former agreement) sent for Mr. Chaplin, who +with Nicholas Osborne and one Daniel came to us and we drank off two or +three quarts of wine, which was very good; the drawing of our wine causing +a great quarrel in the house between the two drawers which should draw us +the best, which caused a great deal of noise and falling out till the +master parted them, and came up to us and did give us a large account of +the liberty that he gives his servants, all alike, to draw what wine they +will to please his customers; and we did eat above 200 walnuts. About to +o'clock we broke up and so home, and in my way I called in with them at +Mr. Chaplin's, where Nicholas Osborne did give me a barrel of samphire, + + [Samphire was formerly a favourite pickle; hence the "dangerous + trade" of the samphire gatherer ("King Lear," act iv. sc. 6) who + supplied the demand. It was sold in the streets, and one of the old + London cries was "I ha' Rock Samphier, Rock Samphier!"] + +and showed me the keys of Mardyke Fort, + + [A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that + town was sold to Louis XIV.] + +which he that was commander of the fort sent him as a token when the fort +was demolished, which I was mightily pleased to see, and will get them of +him if I can. Home, where I found my boy (my maid's brother) come out of +the country to-day, but was gone to bed and so I could not see him +to-night. To bed. + +22nd. This morning I called up my boy, and found him a pretty, +well-looked boy, and one that I think will please me. I went this morning +by land to Westminster along with Luellin, who came to my house this +morning to get me to go with him to Capt. Allen to speak with him for his +brother to go with him to Constantinople, but could not find him. We +walked on to Fleet street, where at Mr. Standing's in Salsbury Court we +drank our morning draft and had a pickled herring. Among other discourse +here he told me how the pretty woman that I always loved at the beginning +of Cheapside that sells child's coats was served by the Lady Bennett (a +famous strumpet), who by counterfeiting to fall into a swoon upon the +sight of her in her shop, became acquainted with her, and at last got her +ends of her to lie with a gentleman that had hired her to procure this +poor soul for him. To Westminster to my Lord's, and there in the house of +office vomited up all my breakfast, my stomach being ill all this day by +reason of the last night's debauch. Here I sent to Mr. Bowyer's for my +chest and put up my books and sent them home. I staid here all day in my +Lord's chamber and upon the leads gazing upon Diana, who looked out of a +window upon me. At last I went out to Mr. Harper's, and she standing over +the way at the gate, I went over to her and appointed to meet to-morrow in +the afternoon at my Lord's. Here I bought a hanging jack. From thence by +coach home by the way at the New Exchange + + [In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I., in 1608, out + of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi. + The New Exchange stood where Coutts's banking-house now is. "It was + built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars + beneath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly + with milliners, sempstresses, and the like." It was also called + "Britain's Burse." "He has a lodging in the Strand . . . to + watch when ladies are gone to the china houses, or to the Exchange, + that he may meet them by chance and give them presents, some two or + three hundred pounds worth of toys, to be laughed at"--Ben Jonson, + The Silent Woman, act i. sc. 1.] + +I bought a pair of short black stockings, to wear over a pair of silk ones +for mourning; and here I met with The. Turner and Joyce, buying of things +to go into mourning too for the Duke, (which is now the mode of all the +ladies in town) where I wrote some letters by the post to Hinchinbroke to +let them know that this day Mr. Edw. Pickering is come from my Lord, and +says that he left him well in Holland, and that he will be here within +three or four days. To-day not well of my last night's drinking yet. I +had the boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and +I heard him read, which he did pretty well. + +23rd (Lord's day). My wife got up to put on her mourning to-day and to go +to Church this morning. I up and set down my journall for these 5 days +past. This morning came one from my father's with a black cloth coat, +made of my short cloak, to walk up and down in. To church my wife and I, +with Sir W. Batten, where we heard of Mr. Mills a very good sermon upon +these words, "So run that ye may obtain." After dinner all alone to +Westminster. At Whitehall I met with Mr. Pierce and his wife (she newly +come forth after childbirth) both in mourning for the Duke of Gloucester. +She went with Mr. Child to Whitehall chapel and Mr. Pierce with me to the +Abbey, where I expected to hear Mr. Baxter or Mr. Rowe preach their +farewell sermon, and in Mr. Symons's pew I sat and heard Mr. Rowe. Before +sermon I laughed at the reader, who in his prayer desires of God that He +would imprint his word on the thumbs of our right hands and on the right +great toes of our right feet. In the midst of the sermon some plaster +fell from the top of the Abbey, that made me and all the rest in our pew +afeard, and I wished myself out. After sermon with Mr. Pierce to +Whitehall, and from thence to my Lord, but Diana did not come according to +our agreement. So calling at my father's (where my wife had been this +afternoon but was gone home) I went home. This afternoon, the King having +news of the Princess being come to Margate, he and the Duke of York went +down thither in barges to her. + +24th (Office day). From thence to dinner by coach with my wife to my +Cozen Scott's, and the company not being come, I went over the way to the +Barber's. So thither again to dinner, where was my uncle Fenner and my +aunt, my father and mother, and others. Among the rest my Cozen Rich. +Pepys, + + [Richard Pepys, eldest son of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of + Ireland. He went to Boston, Mass., in 1634, and returned to England + about 1646.] + +their elder brother, whom I had not seen these fourteen years, ever since +he came from New England. It was strange for us to go a gossiping to her, +she having newly buried her child that she was brought to bed of. I rose +from table and went to the Temple church, where I had appointed Sir W. +Batten to meet him; and there at Sir Heneage Finch Sollicitor General's +chambers, before him and Sir W. Wilde, + + [William Wilde, elected Recorder on November 3rd, 1659, and + appointed one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles + II. to return to England immediately. He was knighted after the + King's return, called to the degree of Serjeant, and created a + baronet, all in the same year. In 1668 he ceased to be Recorder, + and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1673 he + was removed to the King's Bench. He was turned out of his office in + 1679 on account of his action in connection with the Popish Plot, + and died November 23rd of the same year.] + +Recorder of London (whom we sent for from his chamber) we were sworn +justices of peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton; with which +honour I did find myself mightily pleased, though I am wholly ignorant in +the duty of a justice of peace. From thence with Sir William to Whitehall +by water (old Mr. Smith with us) intending to speak with Secretary +Nicholas about the augmentation of our salaries, but being forth we went +to the Three Tuns tavern, where we drank awhile, and then came in Col. +Slingsby and another gentleman and sat with us. From thence to my Lord's +to enquire whether they have had any thing from my Lord or no. Knocking +at the door, there passed me Mons. L'Impertinent [Mr. Butler] for whom I +took a coach and went with him to a dancing meeting in Broad Street, at +the house that was formerly the glass-house, Luke Channel, Master of the +School, where I saw good dancing, but it growing late, and the room very +full of people and so very hot, I went home. + +25th. To the office, where Sir W. Batten, Colonel Slingsby, and I sat +awhile, and Sir R. Ford + + [Sir Richard Ford was one of the commissioners sent to Breda to + desire Charles II. to return to England immediately.] + +coming to us about some business, we talked together of the interest of +this kingdom to have a peace with Spain and a war with France and Holland; +where Sir R. Ford talked like a man of great reason and experience. And +afterwards I did send for a cup of tee' + + [That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called + by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the + Sultaness Head Coffee-House, in Sweetings Rents, by the "Royal + Exchange, London." "Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called + tee, sold in almost every street in 1659."--Rugge's Diurnal. It is + stated in "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, + p. 593 "that the word tea occurs on no other tokens than those + issued from 'the Great Turk' (Morat ye Great) coffeehouse in + Exchange Alley. The Dutch East India Company introduced tea into + Europe in 1610, and it is said to have been first imported into + England from Holland about 1650. The English "East India Company" + purchased and presented 2 lbs. of tea to Charles II. in 1660, and 23 + lbs. in 1666. The first order for its importation by the company + was in 1668, and the first consignment of it, amounting to 143 lbs., + was received from Bantam in 1669 (see Sir George Birdwood's "Report + on the Old Records at the India Office," 1890, p. 26). By act 12 + Car. II., capp. 23, 24, a duty of 8d. per gallon was imposed upon + the infusion of tea, as well as on chocolate and sherbet.] + +(a China drink) of which I never had drank before, and went away. Then +came Col. Birch and Sir R. Browne by a former appointment, and with them +from Tower wharf in the barge belonging to our office we went to Deptford +to pay off the ship Success, which (Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen coming +afterwards to us) we did, Col. Birch being a mighty busy man and one that +is the most indefatigable and forward to make himself work of any man that +ever I knew in my life. At the Globe we had a very good dinner, and after +that to the pay again, which being finished we returned by water again, +and I from our office with Col. Slingsby by coach to Westminster (I +setting him down at his lodgings by the way) to inquire for my Lord's +coming thither (the King and the Princess + + ["The Princess Royall came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water, + attended by a noble retinue of about one hundred persons, gentry, + and servants, and tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took + that opportunity to advance their fortunes, by coming in with so + excellent a Princess as without question she is."-Rugge's Diurnal. + A broadside, entitled "Ourania, the High and Mighty Lady the + Princess Royal of Aurange, congratulated on her most happy arrival, + September the 25th, 1660," was printed on the 29th.] + +coming up the river this afternoon as we were at our pay), and I found him +gone to Mr. Crew's, where I found him well, only had got some corns upon +his foot which was not well yet. My Lord told me how the ship that +brought the Princess and him (The Tredagh) did knock six times upon the +Kentish Knock, + + [A shoal in the North Sea, off the Thames mouth, outside the Long + Sand, fifteen miles N.N.E. of the North Foreland. It measures seven + miles north-eastward, and about two miles in breadth. It is partly + dry at low water. A revolving light was set up in 1840.] + +which put them in great fear for the ship; but got off well. He told me +also how the King had knighted Vice-Admiral Lawson and Sir Richard +Stayner. From him late and by coach home, where the plasterers being at +work in all the rooms in my house, my wife was fain to make a bed upon the +ground for her and me, and so there we lay all night. + +26th. Office day. That done to the church, to consult about our gallery. +So home to dinner, where I found Mrs. Hunt, who brought me a letter for me +to get my Lord to sign for her husband, which I shall do for her. At home +with the workmen all the afternoon, our house being in a most sad pickle. +In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speed's Geography +for a while. So home thinking to have found Will at home, but he not +being come home but gone somewhere else I was very angry, and when he came +did give him a very great check for it, and so I went to bed. + +27th. To my Lord at Mr. Crew's, and there took order about some business +of his, and from thence home to my workmen all the afternoon. In the +evening to my Lord's, and there did read over with him and Dr. Walker my +lord's new commission for sea, and advised thereupon how to have it drawn. +So home and to bed. + +28th (Office day). This morning Sir W. Batten and Col. Slingsby went with +Col. Birch and Sir Wm. Doyly to Chatham to pay off a ship there. So only +Sir W. Pen and I left here in town. All the afternoon among my workmen +till 10 or 11 at night, and did give them drink and very merry with them, +it being my luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions. +To bed. + +29th. All day at home to make an end of our dirty work of the plasterers, +and indeed my kitchen is now so handsome that I did not repent of all the +trouble that I have been put to, to have it done. This day or yesterday, +I hear, Prince Rupert + + [This is the first mention in the Diary of this famous prince, third + son of Frederick, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth, + daughter of James I., born December 17th, 1619. He died at his + house in Spring Gardens, November 29th, 1682.] + +is come to Court; but welcome to nobody. + +30th (Lord's day). To our Parish church both forenoon and afternoon all +alone. At night went to bed without prayers, my house being every where +foul above stairs. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed + Diana did not come according to our agreement + Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand + Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up + Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore + Hand i' the cap + Hired her to procure this poor soul for him + I fear is not so good as she should be + I was angry with her, which I was troubled for + I was exceeding free in dallying with her, and she not unfree + Ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch + King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising + Kissed them myself very often with a great deal of mirth + My luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions + Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink + Upon the leads gazing upon Diana + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER + 1660 + +October 1st. Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give me some +work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office. Dined at home, +and my father by chance with me. After dinner he and I advised about +hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, the painters +beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to the Miter, +where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), while I drank +a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of the +Charles, who came to see me. Here we staid and drank three or four pints +of wine and so parted. I home to look after my workmen, and at night to +bed. The Commissioners are very busy disbanding of the army, which they +say do cause great robbing. My layings out upon my house an furniture are +so great that I fear I shall not be able to go through them without +breaking one of my bags of L100, I having but L200 yet in the world. + +2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning visited +before I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his lying out of +doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come any more into +his house, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide him for doing +so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would speak to my father. +At Whitehall I met with Captain Clerk, and took him to the Leg in King +Street, and did give him a dish or two of meat, and his purser that was +with him, for his old kindness to me on board. After dinner I to +Whitehall, where I met with Mrs. Hunt, and was forced to wait upon Mr. +Scawen at a committee to speak for her husband, which I did. After that +met with Luellin, Mr. Fage, and took them both to the Dog, and did give +them a glass of wine. After that at Will's I met with Mr. Spicer, and +with him to the Abbey to see them at vespers. There I found but a thin +congregation already. So I see that religion, be it what it will, is but +a humour, + + [The four humours of the body described by the old physicians were + supposed to exert their influence upon the mind, and in course of + time the mind as well as the body was credited with its own + particular humours. The modern restricted use of the word humour + did not become general until the eighteenth century.] + +and so the esteem of it passeth as other things do. From thence with him +to see Robin Shaw, who has been a long time ill, and I have not seen him +since I came from sea. He is much changed, but in hopes to be well again. +From thence by coach to my father's, and discoursed with him about Tom, +and did give my advice to take him home again, which I think he will do in +prudence rather than put him upon learning the way of being worse. So +home, and from home to Major Hart, who is just going out of town +to-morrow, and made much of me, and did give me the oaths of supremacy and +allegiance, that I may be capable of my arrears. So home again, where my +wife tells me what she has bought to-day, namely, a bed and furniture for +her chamber, with which very well pleased I went to bed. + +3d. With Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to White Hall, where a meeting of +the Dukes of York and Albemarle, my Lord Sandwich and all the principal +officers, about the Winter Guard, but we determined of nothing. To my +Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to White Hall; and I saw it carried, +into the King's closet, where I saw most incomparable pictures. Among the +rest a book open upon a desk, which I durst have sworn was a reall book, +and back again to my Lord, and dined all alone with him, who do treat me +with a great deal of respect; and after dinner did discourse an hour with +me, and advise about some way to get himself some money to make up for all +his great expenses, saying that he believed that he might have any thing +that he would ask of the King. This day Mr. Sheply and all my Lord's +goods came from sea, some of them laid of the Wardrobe and some brought to +my Lord's house. From thence to our office, where we met and did +business, and so home and spent the evening looking upon the painters that +are at work in my house. This day I heard the Duke speak of a great +design that he and my Lord of Pembroke have, and a great many others, of +sending a venture to some parts of Africa to dig for gold ore there. They +intend to admit as many as will venture their money, and so make +themselves a company. L250 is the lowest share for every man. But I do +not find that my Lord do much like it. At night Dr. Fairbrother (for so +he is lately made of the Civil Law) brought home my wife by coach, it +being rainy weather, she having been abroad today to buy more furniture +for her house. + +4th. This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office all alone, +and being visited by Lieut. Lambert of the Charles (to whom I was formerly +much beholden), I took him along with me to a little alehouse hard by our +office, whither my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner had sent for me to show +me two gentlemen that had a great desire to be known to me, one his name +is Pepys, of our family, but one that I never heard of before, and the +other a younger son of Sir Tho. Bendishes, and so we all called cozens. +After sitting awhile and drinking, my two new cozens, myself, and Lieut. +Lambert went by water to Whitehall, and from thence I and Lieut. Lambert +to Westminster Abbey, where we saw Dr. Frewen translated to the +Archbishoprick of York. Here I saw the Bishops of Winchester, Bangor, +Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Salisbury, all in their habits, in King +Henry Seventh's chappell. But, Lord! at their going out, how people did +most of them look upon them as strange creatures, and few with any kind of +love or respect. From thence at 2 to my Lord's, where we took Mr. Sheply +and Wm. Howe to the Raindeer, and had some oysters, which were very good, +the first I have eat this year. So back to my Lord's to dinner, and after +dinner Lieut. Lambert and I did look upon my Lord's model, and he told me +many things in a ship that I desired to understand. From thence by water +I (leaving Lieut. Lambert at Blackfriars) went home, and there by promise +met with Robert Shaw and Jack Spicer, who came to see me, and by the way I +met upon Tower Hill with Mr. Pierce the surgeon and his wife, and took +them home and did give them good wine, ale, and anchovies, and staid them +till night, and so adieu. Then to look upon my painters that are now at +work in my house. At night to bed. + +5th. Office day; dined at home, and all the afternoon at home to see my +painters make an end of their work, which they did to-day to my content, +and I am in great joy to see my house likely once again to be clean. At +night to bed. + +6th. Col. Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch ready for the +Prince de Ligne to carry his things away to-day, who is now going home +again. About noon comes my cozen H. Alcock, for whom I brought a letter +for my Lord to sign to my Lord Broghill for some preferment in Ireland, +whither he is now a-going. After him comes Mr. Creed, who brought me some +books from Holland with him, well bound and good books, which I thought he +did intend to give me, but I found that I must pay him. He dined with me +at my house, and from thence to Whitehall together, where I was to give my +Lord an account of the stations and victualls of the fleet in order to the +choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, to bring over the Queen, +but my Lord not coming in before 9 at night I staid no longer for him, but +went back again home and so to bed. + +7th (Lord's day). To White Hall on foot, calling at my father's to change +my long black cloak for a short one (long cloaks being now quite out); but +he being gone to church, I could not get one, and therefore I proceeded on +and came to my Lord before he went to chapel and so went with him, where I +heard Dr. Spurstow preach before the King a poor dry sermon; but a very +good anthem of Captn. Cooke's afterwards. Going out of chapel I met with +Jack Cole, my old friend (whom I had not seen a great while before), and +have promised to renew acquaintance in London together. To my Lord's and +dined with him; he all dinner time talking French to me, and telling me +the story how the Duke of York hath got my Lord Chancellor's daughter with +child, + + [Anne Hyde, born March 12th, 1637, daughter of Edward, first Earl of + Clarendon. She was attached to the court of the Princess of Orange, + daughter of Charles I., 1654, and contracted to James, Duke of York, + at Breda, November 24th, 1659. The marriage was avowed in London + September 3rd, 1660. She joined the Church of Rome in 1669, and + died March 31st, 1671.] + +and that she, do lay it to him, and that for certain he did promise her +marriage, and had signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth had got +the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King would have him to marry +her, but that he will not. + + [The Duke of York married Anne Hyde, and he avowed the marriage + September 3rd, so that Pepys was rather behindhand in his + information.] + +So that the thing is very bad for the Duke, and them all; but my Lord do +make light of it, as a thing that he believes is not a new thing for the +Duke to do abroad. Discoursing concerning what if the Duke should marry +her, my Lord told me that among his father's many old sayings that he had +wrote in a book of his, this is one--that he that do get a wench with +child and marry her afterwards is as if a man should----in his hat and +then clap it on his head. I perceive my Lord is grown a man very +indifferent in all matters of religion, and so makes nothing of these +things. After dinner to the Abbey, where I heard them read the +church-service, but very ridiculously, that indeed I do not in myself like +it at all. A poor cold sermon of Dr. Lamb's, one of the prebends, in his +habit, came afterwards, and so all ended, and by my troth a pitiful sorry +devotion that these men pay. So walked home by land, and before supper I +read part of the Marian persecution in Mr. Fuller. So to supper, prayers, +and to bed. + +8th. Office day, and my wife being gone out to buy some household stuff, +I dined all alone, and after dinner to Westminster, in my way meeting Mr. +Moore coming to me, who went back again with me calling at several places +about business, at my father's about gilded leather for my dining room, at +Mr. Crew's about money, at my Lord's about the same, but meeting not Mr. +Sheply there I went home by water, and Mr. Moore with me, who staid and +supped with me till almost 9 at night. We love one another's discourse so +that we cannot part when we do meet. He tells me that the profit of the +Privy Seal is much fallen, for which I am very sorry. He gone and I to +bed. + +9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to Deptford, to pay +off two ships. Sir W. Pen and I staid to do business, and afterwards +together to White Hall, where I went to my Lord, and found him in bed not +well, and saw in his chamber his picture,--[Lord Sandwich's portrait by +Lely, see post, 22nd of this same month.]--very well done; and am with +child + + [A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall + and by Spenser. The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the + "New English Dictionary," is Bailey in 1725.] + +till I get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone to sea. To +Whitehall again, where at Mr. Coventry's chamber I met with Sir W. Pen +again, and so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence walked over +the fields to Deptford (the first pleasant walk I have had a great while), +and in our way had a great deal of merry discourse, and find him to be a +merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings very bawdy songs. So we +came and found our gentlemen and Mr. Prin at the pay. About noon we dined +together, and were very merry at table telling of tales. After dinner to +the pay of another ship till 10 at night, and so home in our barge, a +clear moonshine night, and it was 12 o'clock before we got home, where I +found my wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-day by the +upholster, but not being well done I was fretted, and so in a discontent +to bed. I found Mr. Prin a good, honest, plain man, but in his discourse +not very free or pleasant. Among all the tales that passed among us +to-day, he told us of one Damford, that, being a black man, did scald his +beard with mince-pie, and it came up again all white in that place, and +continued to his dying day. Sir W. Pen told us a good jest about some +gentlemen blinding of the drawer, and who he catched was to pay the +reckoning, and so they got away, and the master of the house coming up to +see what his man did, his man got hold of him, thinking it to be one of +the gentlemen, and told him that he was to pay the reckoning. + +10th. Office day all the morning. In the afternoon with the upholster +seeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my chamber +and my wife's. At night comes Mr. Moore, and staid late with me to tell +me how Sir Hards. Waller--[Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of Charles I. +judges. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.]--(who only +pleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison, + + [General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme, + appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from Windsor to + Whitehall, in order to his trial. He signed the warrant for the + execution of the King. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the + 13th.] + +&c. were this day arraigned at the bar at the Sessions House, there being +upon the bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, &c.; +such a bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in England! They all +seem to be dismayed, and will all be condemned without question. In Sir +Orlando Bridgman's charge, he did wholly rip up the unjustness of the war +against the King from the beginning, and so it much reflects upon all the +Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned them, yet they must hereby +confess that the King do look upon them as traitors. To-morrow they are +to plead what they have to say. At night to bed. + +11th. In the morning to my Lord's, where I met with Mr. Creed, and with +him and Mr. Blackburne to the Rhenish wine house, where we sat drinking of +healths a great while, a thing which Mr. Blackburne formerly would not +upon any terms have done. After we had done there Mr. Creed and I to the +Leg in King Street, to dinner, where he and I and my Will had a good udder +to dinner, and from thence to walk in St. James's Park, where we observed +the several engines at work to draw up water, with which sight I was very +much pleased. Above all the rest, I liked best that which Mr. Greatorex +brought, which is one round thing going within all with a pair of stairs +round; round which being laid at an angle of 45 deg., do carry up the +water with a great deal of ease. Here, in the Park, we met with Mr. +Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpitt to see "The Moore of +Venice," which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; 'by the same token, a +very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see Desdemona smothered. +From thence with Mr. Creed to Hercules Pillars, where we drank and so +parted, and I went home. + +12th. Office day all the morning, and from thence with Sir W. Batten and +the rest of the officers to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin, where +dined withal Col. Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major Norwood, very +noble company. After dinner I went home, where I found Mr. Cooke, who +told me that my Lady Sandwich is come to town to-day, whereupon I went to +Westminster to see her, and found her at super, so she made me sit down +all alone with her, and after supper staid and talked with her, she +showing me most extraordinary love and kindness, and do give me good +assurance of my uncle's resolution to make me his heir. From thence home +and to bed. + +13th. To my Lord's in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, but +my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general +Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was done there, he looking as +cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut +down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great +shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he was sure to come shortly +at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged him; and +that his wife do expect his coming again. Thus it was my chance to see +the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the first blood shed in +revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross. From thence to my +Lord's, and took Captain Cuttance and Mr. Sheply to the Sun Tavern, and +did give them some oysters. After that I went by water home, where I was +angry with my wife for her things lying about, and in my passion kicked +the little fine basket, which I bought her in Holland, and broke it, which +troubled me after I had done it. Within all the afternoon setting up +shelves in my study. At night to bed. + +14th (Lord's day). Early to my Lord's, in my way meeting with Dr. +Fairbrother, who walked with me to my father's back again, and there we +drank my morning draft, my father having gone to church and my mother +asleep in bed. Here he caused me to put my hand among a great many +honorable hands to a paper or certificate in his behalf. To White Hall +chappell, where one Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after it an +anthem, ill sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first did see the +Princess Royal since she came into England. Here I also observed, how the +Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly through +the hangings that parts the King's closet and the closet where the ladies +sit. To my Lord's, where I found my wife, and she and I did dine with my +Lady (my Lord dining with my Lord Chamberlain), who did treat my wife with +a good deal of respect. In the evening we went home through the rain by +water in a sculler, having borrowed some coats of Mr. Sheply. So home, +wet and dirty, and to bed. + +15th. Office all the morning. My wife and I by water; I landed her at +Whitefriars, she went to my father's to dinner, it being my father's +wedding day, there being a very great dinner, and only the Fenners and +Joyces there. This morning Mr. Carew + + [John Carew signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I. He + held the religion of the Fifth Monarchists, and was tried October + 12th, 1660. He refused to avail himself of many opportunities of + escape, and suffered death with much composure.] + +was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a great +favour, are not to be hanged up. I was forced to go to my Lord's to get +him to meet the officers of the Navy this afternoon, and so could not go +along with her, but I missed my Lord, who was this day upon the bench at +the Sessions house. So I dined there, and went to White Hall, where I met +with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who with the Comptroller, Treasurer, and Mr. +Coventry (at his chamber) made up a list of such ships as are fit to be +kept out for the winter guard, and the rest to be paid off by the +Parliament when they can get money, which I doubt will not be a great +while. That done, I took coach, and called my wife at my father's, and so +homewards, calling at Thos. Pepys the turner's for some things that we +wanted. And so home, where I fell to read "The Fruitless Precaution" (a +book formerly recommended by Dr. Clerke at sea to me), which I read in bed +till I had made an end of it, and do find it the best writ tale that ever +I read in my life. After that done to sleep, which I did not very well +do, because that my wife having a stopping in her nose she snored much, +which I never did hear her do before. + +16th. This morning my brother Tom came to me, with whom I made even for +my last clothes to this day, and having eaten a dish of anchovies with him +in the morning, my wife and I did intend to go forth to see a play at the +Cockpit this afternoon, but Mr. Moore coming to me, my wife staid at home, +and he and I went out together, with whom I called at the upholsters and +several other places that I had business with, and so home with him to the +Cockpit, where, understanding that "Wit without money" was acted, I would +not stay, but went home by water, by the way reading of the other two +stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like +so well as it. Being come home, Will. told me that my Lord had a mind to +speak with me to-night; so I returned by water, and, coming there, it was +only to enquire how the ships were provided with victuals that are to go +with him to fetch over the Queen, which I gave him a good account of. He +seemed to be in a melancholy humour, which, I was told by W. Howe, was for +that he had lately lost a great deal of money at cards, which he fears he +do too much addict himself to now-a-days. So home by water and to bed. + +17th. Office day. At noon came Mr. Creed to me, whom I took along with +me to the Feathers in Fish Street, where I was invited by Captain Cuttance +to dinner, a dinner made by Mr. Dawes and his brother. We had two or +three dishes of meat well done; their great design was to get me concerned +in a business of theirs about a vessel of theirs that is in the service, +hired by the King, in which I promise to do them all the service I can. +From thence home again with Mr. Crew, where I finding Mrs. The. Turner and +her aunt Duke I would not be seen but walked in the garden till they were +gone, where Mr. Spong came to me and Mr. Creed, Mr. Spong and I went to +our music to sing, and he being gone, my wife and I went to put up my +books in order in closet, and I to give her her books. After that to bed. + +18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtell +should die, I went to Newgate, but found they were reprieved till +to-morrow. So to my aunt Fenner's, where with her and my uncle I drank my +morning draft. So to my father's, and did give orders for a pair of black +baize linings to be made me for my breeches against to-morrow morning, +which was done. So to my Lord's, where I spoke with my Lord, and he would +have had me dine with him, but I went thence to Mr. Blackburne, where I +met my wife and my Will's father and mother (the first time that ever I +saw them), where we had a very fine dinner. Mr. Creed was also there. +This day by her high discourse I found Mrs. Blackburne to be a very high +dame and a costly one. Home with my wife by coach. This afternoon comes +Mr. Chaplin and N. Osborn to my house, of whom I made very much, and kept +them with me till late, and so to bed. At my coming home. I did find that +The. Turner hath sent for a pair of doves that my wife had promised her; +and because she did not send them in the best cage, she sent them back +again with a scornful letter, with which I was angry, but yet pretty well +pleased that she was crossed. + +19th. Office in the morning. This morning my dining-room was finished +with green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome. This +morning Hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. This +night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrow for my +Lord. I found him to be above L80 in my debt, which is a good sight, and +I bless God for it. + +20th. This morning one came to me to advise with me where to make me a +window into my cellar in lieu of one which Sir W. Batten had stopped up, +and going down into my cellar to look I stepped into a great heap of----by +which I found that Mr. Turner's house of office is full and comes into my +cellar, which do trouble me, but I shall have it helped. To my Lord's by +land, calling at several places about business, where I dined with my Lord +and Lady; when he was very merry, and did talk very high how he would have +a French cook, and a master of his horse, and his lady and child to wear +black patches; which methought was strange, but he is become a perfect +courtier; and, among other things, my Lady saying that she could get a +good merchant for her daughter Jem., he answered, that he would rather see +her with a pedlar's pack at her back, so she married a gentleman, than she +should marry a citizen. This afternoon, going through London, and calling +at Crowe's the upholster's, in Saint Bartholomew's, I saw the limbs of +some of our new traitors set upon Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to +see; and a bloody week this and the last have been, there being ten +hanged, drawn, and quartered. Home, and after writing a letter to my +uncle by the post, I went to bed. + +21st (Lord's day). To the Parish church in the morning, where a good +sermon by Mr. Mills. After dinner to my Lord's, and from thence to the +Abbey, where I met Spicer and D. Vines and others of the old crew. So +leaving my boy at the Abbey against I came back, we went to Prior's by the +Hall back door, but there being no drink to be had we went away, and so to +the Crown in the Palace Yard, I and George Vines by the way calling at +their house, where he carried me up to the top of his turret, where there +is Cooke's head set up for a traytor, and Harrison's set up on the other +side of Westminster Hall. Here I could see them plainly, as also a very +fair prospect about London. From the Crown to the Abbey to look for my +boy, but he was gone thence, and so he being a novice I was at a loss what +was become of him. I called at my Lord's (where I found Mr. Adams, Mr. +Sheply's friend) and at my father's, but found him not. So home, where I +found him, but he had found the way home well enough, of which I was glad. +So after supper, and reading of some chapters, I went to bed. This day or +two my wife has been troubled with her boils in the old place, which do +much trouble her. Today at noon (God forgive me) I strung my lute, which +I had not touched a great while before. + +22nd. Office day; after that to dinner at home upon some ribs of roast +beef from the Cook's (which of late we have been forced to do because of +our house being always under the painters' and other people's hands, that +we could not dress it ourselves). After dinner to my Lord's, where I +found all preparing for my Lord's going to sea to fetch the Queen +tomorrow. At night my Lord came home, with whom I staid long, and talked +of many things. Among others I got leave to have his picture, that was +done by Lilly, + + [Peter Lely, afterwards knighted. He lived in the Piazza, Covent + Garden. This portrait was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys + Cockerell's sale in 1848, and is now at Audley End.] + +copied, and talking of religion, I found him to be a perfect Sceptic, and +said that all things would not be well while there was so much preaching, +and that it would be better if nothing but Homilies were to be read in +Churches. This afternoon (he told me) there hath been a meeting before +the King and my Lord Chancellor, of some Episcopalian and Presbyterian +Divines; but what had passed he could not tell me. After I had done talk +with him, I went to bed with Mr. Sheply in his chamber, but could hardly +get any sleep all night, the bed being ill made and he a bad bedfellow. + +23rd. We rose early in the morning to get things ready for My Lord, and +Mr. Sheply going to put up his pistols (which were charged with bullets) +into the holsters, one of them flew off, and it pleased God that, the +mouth of the gun being downwards, it did us no hurt, but I think I never +was in more danger in my life, which put me into a great fright. About +eight o'clock my Lord went; and going through the garden my Lord met with +Mr. William Montagu, who told him of an estate of land lately come into +the King's hands, that he had a mind my Lord should beg. To which end my +Lord writ a letter presently to my Lord Chancellor to do it for him, which +(after leave taken of my Lord at White Hall bridge) I did carry to Warwick +House to him; and had a fair promise of him, that he would do it this day +for my Lord. In my way thither I met the Lord Chancellor and all the +judges riding on horseback and going to Westminster Hall, it being the +first day of the term, which was the first time I ever saw any such +solemnity. Having done there I returned to Whitehall, where meeting with +my brother Ashwell and his cozen Sam. Ashwell and Mr. Mallard, I took them +to the Leg in King Street and gave them a dish of meat for dinner and paid +for it. From thence going to Whitehall I met with Catan Stirpin in +mourning, who told me that her mistress was lately dead of the small pox, +and that herself was now married to Monsieur Petit, as also what her +mistress had left her, which was very well. She also took me to her +lodging at an Ironmonger's in King Street, which was but very poor, and I +found by a letter that she shewed me of her husband's to the King, that he +is a right Frenchman, and full of their own projects, he having a design +to reform the universities, and to institute schools for the learning of +all languages, to speak them naturally and not by rule, which I know will +come to nothing. From thence to my Lord's, where I went forth by coach to +Mrs. Parker's with my Lady, and so to her house again. From thence I took +my Lord's picture, and carried it to Mr. de Cretz to be copied. So to +White Hall, where I met Mr. Spong, and went home with him and played, and +sang, and eat with him and his mother. After supper we looked over many +books, and instruments of his, especially his wooden jack in his chimney, +which goes with the smoke, which indeed is very pretty. I found him to be +as ingenious and good-natured a man as ever I met with in my life, and +cannot admire him enough, he being so plain and illiterate a man as he is. +From thence by coach home and to bed, which was welcome to me after a +night's absence. + +24th. I lay and slept long to-day. Office day. I took occasion to be +angry with my wife before I rose about her putting up of half a crown of +mine in a paper box, which she had forgot where she had lain it. But we +were friends again as we are always. Then I rose to Jack Cole, who came +to see me. Then to the office, so home to dinner, where I found Captain +Murford, who did put L3 into my hands for a friendship I had done him, but +I would not take it, but bade him keep it till he has enough to buy my +wife a necklace. This afternoon people at work in my house to make a +light in my yard into my cellar. To White Hall, in my way met with Mr. +Moore, who went back with me. He tells me, among other things, that the +Duke of York is now sorry for his lying with my Lord Chancellor's +daughter, who is now brought to bed of a boy. From Whitehall to Mr. De +Cretz, who I found about my Lord's picture. From thence to Mr. Lilly's, +where, not finding Mr. Spong, I went to Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, +and so to an alehouse, where I bought of him a drawing-pen; and he did +show me the manner of the lamp-glasses, which carry the light a great way, +good to read in bed by, and I intend to have one of them. So to Mr. +Lilly's with Mr. Spong, where well received, there being a club to-night +among his friends. Among the rest Esquire Ashmole, who I found was a very +ingenious gentleman. With him we two sang afterward in Mr. Lilly's study. +That done, we all pared; and I home by coach, taking Mr. Booker' with me, +who did tell me a great many fooleries, which may be done by nativities, +and blaming Mr. Lilly for writing to please his friends and to keep in +with the times (as he did formerly to his own dishonour), and not +according to the rules of art, by which he could not well err, as he had +done. I set him down at Lime-street end, and so home, where I found a box +of Carpenter's tools sent by my cozen, Thomas Pepys, which I had bespoke +of him for to employ myself with sometimes. To bed. + +25th. All day at home doing something in order to the fitting of my +house. In the evening to Westminster about business. So home and to bed. +This night the vault at the end of the cellar was emptied. + +26th. Office. My father and Dr. Thomas Pepys dined at my house, the last +of whom I did almost fox with Margate ale. My father is mightily pleased +with my ordering of my house. I did give him money to pay several bills. +After that I to Westminster to White Hall, where I saw the Duke de +Soissons go from his audience with a very great deal of state: his own +coach all red velvet covered with gold lace, and drawn by six barbes, and +attended by twenty pages very rich in clothes. To Westminster Hall, and +bought, among, other books, one of the Life of our Queen, which I read at +home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ, that we did nothing but laugh +at it: among other things it is dedicated to that paragon of virtue and +beauty, the Duchess of Albemarle. Great talk as if the Duke of York do +now own the marriage between him and the Chancellor's daughter. + +27th. In London and Westminster all this day paying of money and buying +of things for my house. In my going I went by chance by my new Lord +Mayor's house (Sir Richard Browne), by Goldsmith's Hall, which is now +fitting, and indeed is a very pretty house. In coming back I called at +Paul's Churchyard and bought Alsted's Encyclopaedia,' which cost me 38s. +Home and to bed, my wife being much troubled with her old pain. + +28th (Lord's day). There came some pills and plaister this morning from +Dr. Williams for my wife. I to Westminster Abbey, where with much +difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being a great +day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done after sermon; +but I could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappell. So I went to my +Lord's, where I dined with my Lady, and my young Lord, and Mr. Sidney, who +was sent for from Twickenham to see my Lord Mayor's show to-morrow. Mr. +Child did also dine with us. After dinner to White Hall chappell; my Lady +and my Lady Jemimah and I up to the King's closet (who is now gone to meet +the Queen). So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did know my Lady, he did +take us into the King's closet, and there we did stay all service-time, +which I did think a great honour. We went home to my Lord's lodgings +afterwards, and there I parted with my Lady and went home, where I did +find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed. + +29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor's day, + + [When the calendar was reformed in England by the act 24 Geo. II. + c. 23, different provisions were made as regards those anniversaries + which affect directly the rights of property and those which do not. + Thus the old quarter days are still noted in our almanacs, and a + curious survival of this is brought home to payers of income tax. + The fiscal year still begins on old Lady-day, which now falls on + April 6th. All ecclesiastical fasts and feasts and other + commemorations which did not affect the rights of property were left + on their nominal days, such as the execution of Charles I. on + January 30th and the restoration of Charles II. on May 29th. The + change of Lord Mayor's day from the 29th of October to the 9th of + November was not made by the act for reforming the calendar (c. + 23), but by another act of the same session (c. 48), entitled "An + Act for the Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term," by which it was + enacted, "that from and after the said feast of St. Michael, which + shall be in the year 1752, the said solemnity of presenting and + swearing the mayors of the city of London, after every annual + election into the said office, in the manner and form heretofore + used on the 29th day of October, shall be kept and observed on the + ninth day of November in every year, unless the same shall fall on + a Sunday, and in that case on the day following."] + +(Sir Richd. Browne), and neglecting my office I went to the Wardrobe, +where I met my Lady Sandwich and all the children; and after drinking of +some strange and incomparable good clarett of Mr. Rumball's he and Mr. +Townsend did take us, and set the young Lords at one Mr. Nevill's, a +draper in Paul's churchyard; and my Lady and my Lady Pickering and I to +one Mr. Isaacson's, a linendraper at the Key in Cheapside; where there was +a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had a very +good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, for +such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. After the +ladies were placed I took Mr. Townsend and Isaacson to the next door, a +tavern, and did spend 5s. upon them. The show being done, we got as far +as Paul's with much ado, where I left my Lady in the coach, and went on +foot with my Lady Pickering to her lodging, which was a poor one in +Blackfryars, where she never invited me to go in at all, which methought +was very strange for her to do. So home, where I was told how my Lady +Davis is now come to our next lodgings, and has locked up the leads door +from me, which puts me into so great a disquiet that I went to bed, and +could not sleep till morning at it. + +30th. Within all the morning and dined at home, my mind being so troubled +that I could not mind nor do anything till I spoke with the Comptroller to +whom the lodgings belong. In the afternoon, to ease my mind, I went to +the Cockpit all alone, and there saw a very fine play called "The Tamer +Tamed;" very well acted. That being done, I went to Mr. Crew's, where I +had left my boy, and so with him and Mr. Moore (who would go a little way +with me home, as he will always do) to the Hercules Pillars to drink, +where we did read over the King's declaration in matters of religion, +which is come out to-day, which is very well penned, I think to the +satisfaction of most people. So home, where I am told Mr. Davis's people +have broken open the bolt of my chamber door that goes upon the leads, +which I went up to see and did find it so, which did still trouble me more +and more. And so I sent for Griffith, and got him to search their house +to see what the meaning of it might be, but can learn nothing to-night. +But I am a little pleased that I have found this out. I hear nothing yet +of my Lord, whether he be gone for the Queen from the Downs or no; but I +believe he is, and that he is now upon coming back again. + +31st Office day. Much troubled all this morning in my mind about the +business of my walk on the leads. I spoke of it to the Comptroller and +the rest of the principal officers, who are all unwilling to meddle in +anything that may anger my Lady Davis. And so I am fain to give over for +the time that she do continue therein. Dined at home, and after dinner to +Westminster Hall, where I met with Billing the quaker at Mrs. Michell's +shop, who is still of the former opinion he was of against the clergymen +of all sorts, and a cunning fellow I find him to be. Home, and there I +had news that Sir W. Pen is resolved to ride to Sir W. Batten's country +house to-morrow, and would have me go with him, so I sat up late, getting +together my things to ride in, and was fain to cut an old pair of boots to +make leathers for those I was to wear. This month I conclude with my mind +very heavy for the loss of the leads, as also for the greatness of my late +expenses, insomuch that I do not think that I have above L150 clear money +in the world, but I have, I believe, got a great deal of good household +stuff: I hear to-day that the Queen is landed at Dover, and will be here +on Friday next, November 2nd. My wife has been so ill of late of her old +pain that I have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to +me. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER + 1660 + +November 1st. This morning Sir W. Pen and I were mounted early, and had +very merry discourse all the way, he being very good company. We came to +Sir W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we were made very +welcome. Among other things he showed us my Lady's closet, where was +great store of rarities; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry's +chair, where he that sits down is catched with two irons, that come round +about him, which makes good sport. Here dined with us two or three more +country gentle men; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my old school-fellow, +with whom I had much talk. He did remember that I was a great Roundhead +when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he would have remembered the +words that I said the day the King was beheaded (that, were I to preach +upon him, my text should be "The memory of the wicked shall rot"); but I +found afterwards that he did go away from school before that time. + + [Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this + year Phieas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was + dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken + disrespectfully of the King. See ante, August 23rd.] + +He did make us good sport in imitating Mr. Case, Ash, and Nye, the +ministers, which he did very well, but a deadly drinker he is, and grown +exceeding fat. From his house to an ale-house near the church, where we +sat and drank and were merry, and so we mounted for London again, Sir W. +Batten with us. We called at Bow and drank there, and took leave of Mr. +Johnson of Blackwall, who dined with us and rode with us thus far. So +home by moonlight, it being about 9 o'clock before we got home. + +2nd. Office. Then dined at home, and by chance Mr. Holliard + + [Thomas Holliard or Hollier was appointed in 1638 surgeon for scald + heads at St. Thomas's Hospital, and on January 25th, 1643-4, he was + chosen surgeon in place of Edward Molins. In 1670 his son of the + same names was allowed to take his place during his illness. Ward, + in his Diary, p. 235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas's + Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr. Holyard's having cut thirty for + the stone in one year, who all lived.] + +called at dinner time and dined with me, with whom I had great discourse +concerning the cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether any +effect at all. In the afternoon I went forth and saw some silver bosses +put upon my new Bible, which cost me 6s. 6d. the making, and 7s. 6d. the +silver, which, with 9s. 6d. the book, comes in all to L1 3s. 6d. From +thence with Mr. Cooke that made them, and Mr. Stephens the silversmith to +the tavern, and did give them a pint of wine. So to White Hall, where +when I came I saw the boats going very thick to Lambeth, and all the +stairs to be full of people. I was told the Queen was a-coming; + + ["Nov. 2. The Queen-mother and the Princess Henrietta came into + London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago. Her + coming was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and the + Duke of York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all + safely arrived at Whitehall.--"Rugge's Diurnal."] + +so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again, but I +could not get to see the Queen; so come back, and to my Lord's, where he +was come; and I supt with him, he being very merry, telling merry stories +of the country mayors, how they entertained the King all the way as he +come along; and how the country gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be +kissed by the King, not taking his hand to kiss as they should do. I took +leave of my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at White Hall and carried Mr. +Childe as far as the Strand, and myself got as far as Ludgate by all the +bonfires, but with a great deal of trouble; and there the coachman desired +that I would release him, for he durst not go further for the fires. So +he would have had a shilling or 6d. for bringing of me so far; but I had +but 3d. about me and did give him it. In Paul's church-yard I called at +Kirton's, and there they had got a mass book for me, which I bought and +cost me twelve shillings; and, when I came home, sat up late and read in +it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear that she was long ago so well +acquainted with. So to bed. I observed this night very few bonfires in +the City, not above three in all London, for the Queen's coming; whereby I +guess that (as I believed before) her coming do please but very few. + +3d. Saturday. At home all the morning. In the afternoon to White Hall, +where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queene's hand. To +Westminster Hall, where I met with Tom Doling, and we two took Mrs. Lane +to the alehouse, where I made her angry with commending of Tom Newton and +her new sweetheart to be both too good for her, so that we parted with +much anger, which made Tom and me good sport. So home to write letters by +the post, and so to bed. + +4th (Lord's day). In the morn to our own church, where Mr. Mills did +begin to nibble at the Common Prayer, by saying "Glory be to the Father, +&c." after he had read the two psalms; but the people had been so little +used to it, that they could not tell what to answer. This declaration of +the King's do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction, and a pretence to +read the Common Prayer, which they would not do before because of their +former preaching against it. After dinner to Westminster, where I went to +my Lord's, and having spoke with him, I went to the Abbey, where the first +time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral! Thence to my Lord's, +where I found Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and with him and Mr. Sheply, in our +way calling at the Bell to see the seven Flanders mares that my Lord has +bought lately, where we drank several bottles of Hull ale. Much company I +found to come to her, and cannot wonder at it, for she is very pretty and +wanton. Hence to my father's, where I found my mother in greater and +greater pain of the stone. I staid long and drank with them, and so home +and to bed. My wife seemed very pretty to-day, it being the first time I +had given her leave to wear a black patch. + +5th (Office day). Being disappointed of money, we failed of going to +Deptford to pay off the Henrietta to-day. Dined at home, and at home all +day, and at the office at night, to make up an account of what the debts +of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that should have been paid off, is +increased since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being to sit again +to-morrow. This 5th of November is observed exceeding well in the City; +and at night great bonfires and fireworks. At night Mr. Moore came and +sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law +notions, in which I took great pleasure. To bed. + +6th. In the morning with Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to Westminster, +where at my Lord's I met with Mr. Creed. With him to see my Lord's +picture (now almost done), and thence to Westminster Hall, where we found +the Parliament met to-day, and thence meeting with Mr. Chetwind, I took +them to the Sun, and did give them a barrel of oysters, and had good +discourse; among other things Mr. Chetwind told me how he did fear that +this late business of the Duke of York's would prove fatal to my Lord +Chancellor. From thence Mr. Creed and I to Wilkinson's, and dined +together, and in great haste thence to our office, where we met all, for +the sale of two ships by an inch of candle + + [The old-fashioned custom of sale by auction by inch of candle was + continued in sales by the Admiralty to a somewhat late date. See + September 3rd, 1662.] + +(the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed how +they do invite one another, and at last how they all do cry,--[To cry was +to bid.]--and we have much to do to tell who did cry last. The ships were +the Indian, sold for L1,300, and the Half-moon, sold for L830. Home, and +fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the +King's death, and found good satisfaction in reading thereof. At night to +bed, and my wife and I did fall out about the dog's being put down into +the cellar, which I had a mind to have done because of his fouling the +house, and I would have my will, and so we went to bed and lay all night +in a quarrel. This night I was troubled all night with a dream that my +wife was dead, which made me that I slept ill all night. + +7th (Office day). This day my father came to dine at my house, but being +sent for in the morning I could not stay, but went by water to my Lord, +where I dined with him, and he in a very merry humour (present Mr. Borfett +and Childe) at dinner: he, in discourse of the great opinion of the +virtue--gratitude (which he did account the greatest thing in the world to +him, and had, therefore, in his mind been often troubled in the late times +how to answer his gratitude to the King, who raised his father), did say +it was that did bring him to his obedience to the King; and did also bless +himself with his good fortune, in comparison to what it was when I was +with him in the Sound, when he durst not own his correspondence with the +King; which is a thing that I never did hear of to this day before; and I +do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most secret men in +the world, which I was not so convinced of before. After dinner he bid +all go out of the room, and did tell me how the King had promised him +L4000 per annum for ever, and had already given him a bill under his hand +(which he showed me) for L4000 that Mr. Fox is to pay him. My Lord did +advise with me how to get this received, and to put out L3000 into safe +hands at use, and the other he will make use of for his present occasion. +This he did advise with me about with much secresy. After all this he +called for the fiddles and books, and we two and W. Howe, and Mr. Childe, +did sing and play some psalmes of Will. Lawes's, and some songs; and so I +went away. So I went to see my Lord's picture, which is almost done, and +do please me very well. Hence to Whitehall to find out Mr. Fox, which I +did, and did use me very civilly, but I did not see his lady, whom I had +so long known when she was a maid, Mrs. Whittle. From thence meeting my +father Bowyer, I took him to Mr. Harper's, and there drank with him. +Among other things in discourse he told me how my wife's brother had a +horse at grass with him, which I was troubled to hear, it being his +boldness upon my score. Home by coach, and read late in the last night's +book of Trials, and told my wife about her brother's horse at Mr. +Bowyer's, who is also much troubled for it, and do intend to go to-morrow +to inquire the truth. Notwithstanding this was the first day of the +King's proclamation against hackney coaches coming into the streets to +stand to be hired, yet I got one to carry me home. + + ["A Proclamation to restrain the abuses of Hackney Coaches in the + Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof." This is + printed in "Notes and Queries," First Series, vol. viii. p. 122. + "In April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned for + some relief, as the parliament had reduced the number of coaches to + 400; there were before, in and about London, more than 2,000." + --Rugge's Diurnal.] + +8th. This morning Sir Wm. and the Treasurer and I went by barge with Sir +Wm. Doyley and Mr. Prin to Deptford, to pay off the Henrietta, and had a +good dinner. I went to Mr. Davys's and saw his house (where I was once +before a great while ago) and I found him a very pretty man. In the +afternoon Commissioner Pett and I went on board the yacht, which indeed is +one of the finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in so small +a vessel. Mr. Pett is to make one to outdo this for the honour of his +country, which I fear he will scarce better. From thence with him as far +as Ratcliffe, where I left him going by water to London, and I (unwilling +to leave the rest of the officers) went back again to Deptford, and being +very much troubled with a sudden looseness, I went into a little alehouse +at the end of Ratcliffe, and did give a groat for a pot of ale, and there +I did . . . So went forward in my walk with some men that were going +that way a great pace, and in our way we met with many merry seamen that +had got their money paid them to-day. We sat very late doing the work +and waiting for the tide, it being moonshine we got to London before two +in the morning. So home, where I found my wife up, she shewed me her head +which was very well dressed to-day, she having been to see her father and +mother. So to bed. + +9th. Lay long in bed this morning though an office day, because of our +going to bed late last night. Before I went to my office Mr. Creed came +to me about business, and also Mr. Carter, my old Cambridge friend, came +to give me a visit, and I did give them a morning draught in my study. So +to the office, and from thence to dinner with Mr. Wivell at the Hoop +Tavern, where we had Mr. Shepley, Talbot, Adams, Mr. Chaplin and Osborne, +and our dinner given us by Mr. Ady and another, Mr. Wine, the King's +fishmonger. Good sport with Mr. Talbot, who eats no sort of fish, and +there was nothing else till we sent for a neat's tongue. From thence to +Whitehall where I found my Lord, who had an organ set up to-day in his +dining-room, but it seems an ugly one in the form of Bridewell. Thence I +went to Sir Harry Wright's, where my Lord was busy at cards, and so I +staid below with Mrs. Carter and Evans (who did give me a lesson upon the +lute), till he came down, and having talked with him at the door about his +late business of money, I went to my father's and staid late talking with +my father about my sister Pall's coming to live with me if she would come +and be as a servant (which my wife did seem to be pretty willing to do +to-day), and he seems to take it very well, and intends to consider of it. +Home and to bed. + +10th. Up early. Sir Wm. Batten and I to make up an account of the wages +of the officers and mariners at sea, ready to present to the Committee of +Parliament this afternoon. Afterwards came the Treasurer and Comptroller, +and sat all the morning with us till the business was done. So we broke +up, leaving the thing to be wrote over fair and carried to Trinity House +for Sir Wm. Batten's hand. When staying very long I found (as appointed) +the Treasurer and Comptroller at Whitehall, and so we went with a foul +copy to the Parliament house, where we met with Sir Thos. Clarges and Mr. +Spry, and after we had given them good satisfaction we parted. The +Comptroller and I to the coffee-house, where he shewed me the state of his +case; how the King did owe him about L6000. But I do not see great +likelihood for them to be paid, since they begin already in Parliament to +dispute the paying of the just sea-debts, which were already promised to +be paid, and will be the undoing of thousands if they be not paid. So to +Whitehall to look but could not find Mr. Fox, and then to Mr. Moore at Mr. +Crew's, but missed of him also. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there bought +Montelion, which this year do not prove so good as the last was; so after +reading it I burnt it. After reading of that and the comedy of the Rump, +which is also very silly, I went to bed. This night going home, Will and I +bought a goose. + +11th (Lord's day). This morning I went to Sir W. Batten's about going to +Deptford to-morrow, and so eating some hog's pudding of my Lady's making, +of the hog that I saw a fattening the other day at her house, he and I +went to Church into our new gallery, the first time it was used, and it +not being yet quite finished, there came after us Sir W. Pen, Mr. Davis, +and his eldest son. There being no woman this day, we sat in the foremost +pew, and behind us our servants, and I hope it will not always be so, it +not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us. This day also +did Mr. Mills begin to read all the Common Prayer, which I was glad of. +Home to dinner, and then walked to Whitehall, it being very cold and foul +and rainy weather. I found my Lord at home, and after giving him an +account of some business, I returned and went to my father's where I found +my wife, and there we supped, and Dr. Thomas Pepys, who my wife told me +after I was come home, that he had told my brother Thomas that he loved my +wife so well that if she had a child he would never marry, but leave all +that he had to my child, and after supper we walked home, my little boy +carrying a link, and Will leading my wife. So home and to prayers and to +bed. I should have said that before I got to my Lord's this day I went to +Mr. Fox's at Whitehall, when I first saw his lady, formerly Mrs. Elizabeth +Whittle, whom I had formerly a great opinion of, and did make an anagram +or two upon her name when I was a boy. She proves a very fine lady, and +mother to fine children. To-day I agreed with Mr. Fox about my taking of +the; L4000 of him that the King had given my Lord. + +12th. Lay long in bed to-day. Sir Wm. Batten went this morning to +Deptford to pay off the Wolf. Mr. Comptroller and I sat a while at the +office to do business, and thence I went with him to his house in Lime +Street, a fine house, and where I never was before, and from thence by +coach (setting down his sister at the new Exchange) to Westminster Hall, +where first I met with Jack Spicer and agreed with him to help me to tell +money this afternoon. Hence to De Cretz, where I saw my Lord's picture +finished, which do please me very well. So back to the Hall, where by +appointment I met the Comptroller, and with him and three or four +Parliament men I dined at Heaven, and after dinner called at Will's on +Jack Spicer, and took him to Mr. Fox's, who saved me the labour of telling +me the money by giving me; L3000 by consent (the other L1000 I am to have +on Thursday next), which I carried by coach to the Exchequer, and put it +up in a chest in Spicer's office. From thence walked to my father's, +where I found my wife, who had been with my father to-day, buying of a +tablecloth and a dozen of napkins of diaper the first that +ever I bought in my life. My father and I took occasion to go forth, and +went and drank at Mr. Standing's, and there discoursed seriously about my +sister's coming to live with me, which I have much mind for her good to +have, and yet I am much afeard of her ill-nature. Coming home again, he +and I, and my wife, my mother and Pall, went all together into the little +room, and there I told her plainly what my mind was, to have her come not +as a sister in any respect, but as a servant, which she promised me that +she would, and with many thanks did weep for joy, which did give me and my +wife some content and satisfaction. So by coach home and to bed. The +last night I should have mentioned how my wife and I were troubled all +night with the sound of drums in our ears, which in the morning we found +to be Mr. Davys's jack, + + [The date of the origin of smoke jacks does not appear to be known, + but the first patent taken out for an improved smoke-jack by Peter + Clare is dated December 24th, 1770. The smoke jack consists of a + wind-wheel fixed in the chimney, which communicates motion by means + of an endless band to a pulley, whence the motion is transmitted to + the spit by gearing. In the valuable introduction to the volume of + "Abridgments of Specifications relating to Cooking, 1634-1866" + (Patent Office), mention is made of an Italian work by Bartolomeo + Scappi, published first at Rome in 1572, and afterwards reprinted at + Venice in 1622, which gives a complete account of the kitchens of + the time and the utensils used in them. In the plates several + roasting-jacks are represented, one worked by smoke or hot air and + one by a spring.] + +but not knowing the cause of its going all night, I understand to-day that +they have had a great feast to-day. + +13th. Early going to my Lord's I met with Mr. Moore, who was going to my +house, and indeed I found him to be a most careful, painful,--[Painful, +i.e. painstaking or laborious. Latimer speaks of the "painful +magistrates."]--and able man in business, and took him by water to the +Wardrobe, and shewed him all the house; and indeed there is a great deal +of room in it, but very ugly till my Lord hath bestowed great cost upon +it. So to the Exchequer, and there took Spicer and his fellow clerks to +the Dog tavern, and did give them a peck of oysters, and so home to +dinner, where I found my wife making of pies and tarts to try, her oven +with, which she has never yet done, but not knowing the nature of it, did +heat it too hot, and so a little overbake her things, but knows how to do +better another time. At home all the afternoon. At night made up my +accounts of my sea expenses in order to my clearing off my imprest bill of +L30 which I had in my hands at the beginning of my voyage; which I intend +to shew to my Lord to-morrow. To bed. + +14th (Office day). But this day was the first that we do begin to sit in +the afternoon, and not in the forenoon, and therefore I went into +Cheapside to Mr. Beauchamp's, the goldsmith, to look out a piece of plate +to give Mr. Fox from my Lord, for his favour about the L4,000, and did +choose a gilt tankard. So to Paul's Churchyard and bought "Cornelianum. +dolium:" + + ["Cornelianum dolium" is a Latin comedy, by T. R., published at + London in 1638. Douce attributed it to Thomas Randolph (d. 1635). + The book has a frontispiece representing the sweating tub which, + from the name of the patient, was styled Cornelius's tub. There is + a description of the play in the "European Magazine," vol. xxxvii. + (1805), p. 343] + +So home to dinner, and after that to the office till late at night, and so +Sir W. Pen, the Comptroller, and I to the Dolphin, where we found Sir W. +Batten, who is seldom a night from hence, and there we did drink a great +quantity of sack and did tell many merry stories, and in good humours we +were all. So home and to bed. + +15th. To Westminster, and it being very cold upon the water I went all +alone to the Sun and drank a draft of mulled white wine, and so to Mr. de +Cretz, whither I sent for J. Spicer (to appoint him to expect me this +afternoon at the office, with the other L1000 from Whitehall), and here we +staid and did see him give some finishing touches to my Lord's picture, so +at last it is complete to my mind, and I leave mine with him to copy out +another for himself, and took the original by a porter with me to my +Lord's, where I found my Lord within, and staid hearing him and Mr. Child +playing upon my Lord's new organ, the first time I ever heard it. My Lord +did this day show me the King's picture, which was done in Flanders, that +the King did promise my Lord before he ever saw him, and that we did +expect to have had at sea before the King came to us; but it came but +to-day, and indeed it is the most pleasant and the most like him that ever +I saw picture in my life. As dinner was coming on table, my wife came to +my Lord's, and I got her carried in to my Lady, who took physic to-day, +and was just now hiring of a French maid that was with her, and they could +not understand one another till my wife came to interpret. Here I did +leave my wife to dine with my Lord, the first time he ever did take notice +of her as my wife, and did seem to have a just esteem for her. And did +myself walk homewards (hearing that Sir W. Pen was gone before in a coach) +to overtake him and with much ado at last did in Fleet Street, and there I +went in to him, and there was Sir Arnold Brames, and we all three to Sir +W. Batten's to dinner, he having a couple of Servants married to-day; and +so there was a great number of merchants, and others of good quality on +purpose after dinner to make an offering, which, when dinner was done, we +did, and I did give ten shillings and no more, though I believe most of +the rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too. From thence to +Whitehall again by water to Mr. Fox and by two porters carried away the +other L1000. He was not within himself, but I had it of his kinsman, and +did give him L4. and other servants something; but whereas I did intend to +have given Mr. Fox himself a piece of plate of L50 I was demanded L100, +for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound, at which I was surprised, but, +however, I did leave it there till I speak with my Lord. So I carried it +to the Exchequer, where at Will's I found Mr. Spicer, and so lodged it at +his office with the rest. From thence after a pot of ale at Will's I took +boat in the dark and went for all that to the old Swan, and so to Sir Wm. +Batten's, and leaving some of the gallants at cards I went home, where I +found my wife much satisfied with my Lord's discourse and respect to her, +and so after prayers to bed. + +16th. Up early to my father's, where by appointment Mr. Moore came to me, +and he and I to the Temple, and thence to Westminster Hall to speak with +Mr. Wm. Montagu about his looking upon the title of those lands which I do +take as security for L3000 of my Lord's money. That being done Mr. Moore +and I parted, and in the Hall I met with Mr. Fontleroy (my old +acquaintance, whom I had not seen a long time), and he and I to the Swan, +and in discourse he seems to be wise and say little, though I know things +are changed against his mind. Thence home by water, where my father, Mr. +Snow, and Mr. Moore did dine with me. After dinner Mr. Snow and I went up +together to discourse about the putting out of L80 to a man who lacks the +money and would give me L15 per annum for 8 years for it, which I did not +think profit enough, and so he seemed to be disappointed by my refusal of +it, but I would not now part with my money easily. He seems to do it as a +great favour to me to offer to come in upon a way of getting of money, +which they call Bottomry, + + ["The contract of bottomry is a negotiable instrument, which may be + put in suit by the person to whom it is transferred; it is in use in + all countries of maritime commerce and interests. A contract in the + nature of a mortgage of a ship, when the owner of it borrows money + to enable him to carry on the voyage, and pledges the keel or bottom + of the ship as a security for the repayment. If the ship be lost + the lender loses his whole money; but if it returns in safety, then + he shall receive back his principal, and also the premium stipulated + to be paid, however it may exceed the usual or legal rate of + interest."--Smyth's Sailor's WordBook.] + +which I do not yet understand, but do believe there may be something in it +of great profit. After we were parted I went to the office, and there we +sat all the afternoon, and at night we went to a barrel of oysters at Sir +W. Batten's, and so home, and I to the setting of my papers in order, +which did keep me up late. So to bed. + +17th. In the morning to Whitehall, where I inquired at the Privy Seal +Office for a form for a nobleman to make one his Chaplain. But I +understanding that there is not any, I did draw up one, and so to my +Lord's, and there I did give him it to sign for Mr. Turner to be his first +Chaplain. I did likewise get my Lord to sign my last sea accounts, so +that I am even to this day when I have received the balance of Mr. Creed. +I dined with my Lady and my Lady Pickering, where her son John dined with +us, who do continue a fool as he ever was since I knew him. His mother +would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Betty but he will not +hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who tells me that the +Regiment is now disbanded, and that there is some money coming to me for +it. I took him to my Lord to Mr. Crew's, and from thence with Mr. Shepley +and Mr. Moore to the Devil Tavern, and there we drank. So home and wrote +letters by the post. Then to my lyra viall, + + [The lyre viol is a viol with extra open bass strings, holding the + same relation to the viol as the theorbo does to the lute. A volume + entitled "Musick's Recreation on the Lyra Viol," was printed by John + Playford in 1650.] + +and to bed. + +18th (Lord's day). In the morning to our own church, Where Mr. Powel (a +crook legged man that went formerly with me to Paul's School), preached a +good sermon. In the afternoon to our own church and my wife with me (the +first time that she and my Lady Batten came to sit in our new pew), and +after sermon my Lady took us home and there we supped with her and Sir W. +Batten, and Pen, and were much made of. The first time that ever my wife +was there. So home and to bed. + +19th (Office day). After we had done a little at the office this morning, +I went with the Treasurer in his coach to White Hall, and in our way, in +discourse, do find him a very good-natured man; and, talking of those men +who now stand condemned for murdering the King, he says that he believes +that, if the law would give leave, the King is a man of so great +compassion that he would wholly acquit them. Going to my Lord's I met +with Mr. Shepley, and so he and I to the Sun, and I did give him a morning +draft of Muscadine. + + [Muscadine or muscadel, a rich sort of wine. 'Vinum muscatum quod + moschi odorem referat.' + + "Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops + All in the sexton's face." + + Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii. SC. 2.--M. B.] + +And so to see my Lord's picture at De Cretz, and he says it is very like +him, and I say so too. After that to Westminster Hall, and there hearing +that Sir W. Batten was at the Leg in the Palace, I went thither, and there +dined with him and some of the Trinity House men who had obtained +something to-day at the House of Lords concerning the Ballast Office. +After dinner I went by water to London to the Globe in Cornhill, and there +did choose two pictures to hang up in my house, which my wife did not like +when I came home, and so I sent the picture of Paris back again. To the +office, where we sat all the afternoon till night. So home, and there +came Mr. Beauchamp to me with the gilt tankard, and I did pay him for it +L20. So to my musique and sat up late at it, and so to bed, leaving my +wife to sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash. + +20th. About two o'clock my wife wakes me, and comes to bed, and so both +to sleep and the wench to wash. I rose and with Will to my Lord's by +land, it being a very hard frost, the first we have had this year. There +I staid with my Lord and Mr. Shepley, looking over my Lord's accounts and +to set matters straight between him and Shepley, and he did commit the +viewing of these accounts to me, which was a great joy to me to see that +my Lord do look upon me as one to put trust in. Hence to the organ, where +Mr. Child and one Mr Mackworth (who plays finely upon the violin) were +playing, and so we played till dinner and then dined, where my Lord in a +very good humour and kind to me. After dinner to the Temple, where I met +Mr. Moore and discoursed with him about the business of putting out my +Lord's L3000, and that done, Mr. Shepley and I to the new Play-house near +Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon's tennis-court), where the +play of "Beggar's Bush" was newly begun; and so we went in and saw it, it +was well acted: and here I saw the first time one Moone, + + [Michael Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had borne a + major's commission in the King's army. The period of his death is + uncertain, but he is known to have been dead in 1691. Downes + relates that an eminent poet [Lee] seeing him act Mithridates + "vented suddenly this saying: 'Oh, Mohun, Mohun, thou little man of + mettle, if I should write a 100, I'd write a part for thy mouth.'" + --Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17.] + +who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over with the +King, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in +England. From thence, after a pot of ale with Mr. Shepley at a house hard +by, I went by link home, calling a little by the way at my father's and my +uncle Fenner's, where all pretty well, and so home, where I found the +house in a washing pickle, and my wife in a very joyful condition when I +told her that she is to see the Queen next Thursday, which puts me in mind +to say that this morning I found my Lord in bed late, he having been with +the King, Queen, and Princess, at the Cockpit + + [The Cockpit at Whitehall. The plays at the Cockpit in Drury Lane + were acted in the afternoon.] + +all night, where. General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, +where the King did put a great affront upon Singleton's' musique, he +bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, +do much outdo all ours. But while my Lord was rising, I went to Mr. +Fox's, and there did leave the gilt tankard for Mrs. Fox, and then to the +counting-house to him, who hath invited me and my wife to dine with him on +Thursday next, and so to see the Queen and Princesses. + +21st. Lay long in bed. This morning my cozen Thomas Pepys, the turner, +sent me a cupp of lignum vitae + + [A hard, compact, black-green wood, obtained from 'Guaiacum + offcinale', from which pestles, ship-blocks, rollers, castors, &c., + are turned.] + +for a token. This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and +there we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate. And +after that we went to Mr. Cade's' to choose some pictures for our house. +After that my wife went home, and I to Pope's Head, and bought me an +aggate hafted knife, which cost me 5s. So home to dinner, and so to the +office all the afternoon, and at night to my viallin (the first time that +I have played on it since I came to this house) in my dining room, and +afterwards to my lute there, and I took much pleasure to have the +neighbours come forth into the yard to hear me. So down to supper, and +sent for the barber, who staid so long with me that he was locked into the +house, and we were fain to call up Griffith, to let him out. So up to +bed, leaving my wife to wash herself, and to do other things against +to-morrow to go to court. + +22d. This morning came the carpenters to make me a door at the other side +of my house, going into the entry, which I was much pleased with. At noon +my wife and I walked to the Old Exchange, and there she bought her a white +whisk + + [A gorget or neckerchief worn by women at this time. "A woman's + neck whisk is used both plain and laced, and is called of most a + gorget or falling whisk, because it falleth about the shoulders." + --Randle Hohnt (quoted by Planche).] + +and put it on, and I a pair of gloves, and so we took coach for Whitehall +to Mr. Fox's, where we found Mrs. Fox within, and an alderman of London +paying L1000 or L1500 in gold upon the table for the King, which was the +most gold that ever I saw together in my life. Mr. Fox came in presently +and did receive us with a great deal of respect; and then did take my wife +and I to the Queen's presence-chamber; where he got my wife placed behind +the Queen's chair, and I got into the crowd, and by and by the Queen and +the two Princesses came to dinner. The Queen a very little plain old +woman, and nothing more in her presence in any respect nor garb than any +ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I had often seen before. The +Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her +dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make +her seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing near her with two +or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer +than she. Dinner being done, we went to Mr. Fox's again, where many +gentlemen dined with us, and most princely dinner, all provided for me and +my friends, but I bringing none but myself and wife, he did call the +company to help to eat up so much good victuals. At the end of dinner, my +Lord Sandwich's health was drunk in the gilt tankard that I did give to +Mrs. Fox the other day. After dinner I had notice given me by Will my man +that my Lord did inquire for me, so I went to find him, and met him and +the Duke of York in a coach going towards Charing Cross. I endeavoured to +follow them but could not, so I returned to Mr. Fox, and after much +kindness and good discourse we parted from thence. I took coach for my +wife and me homewards, and I light at the Maypole in the Strand, and sent +my wife home. I to the new playhouse and saw part of the "Traitor," a +very good Tragedy; Mr. Moon did act the Traitor very well. So to my +Lord's, and sat there with my Lady a great while talking. Among other +things, she took occasion to inquire (by Madame Dury's late discourse with +her) how I did treat my wife's father and mother. At which I did give her +a good account, and she seemed to be very well opinioned of my wife. From +thence to White Hall at about 9 at night, and there, with Laud the page +that went with me, we could not get out of Henry the Eighth's gallery into +the further part of the boarded gallery, where my Lord was walking with my +Lord Ormond; and we had a key of Sir S. Morland's, but all would not do; +till at last, by knocking, Mr. Harrison the door-keeper did open us the +door, and, after some talk with my Lord about getting a catch to carry my +Lord St. Albans a goods to France, I parted and went home on foot, it +being very late and dirty, and so weary to bed. + +23rd. This morning standing looking upon the workmen doing of my new door +to my house, there comes Captain Straughan the Scot (to whom the King has +given half of the money that the two ships lately sold do bring), and he +would needs take me to the Dolphin, and give me a glass of ale and a peck +of oysters, he and I. He did talk much what he is able to advise the King +for good husbandry in his ships, as by ballasting them with lead ore and +many other tricks, but I do believe that he is a knowing man in +sea-business. Home and dined, and in the afternoon to the office, where +till late, and that being done Mr. Creed did come to speak with me, and I +took him to the Dolphin, where there was Mr. Pierce the purser and his +wife and some friends of theirs. So I did spend a crown upon them behind +the bar, they being akin to the people of the house, and this being the +house where Mr. Pierce was apprentice. After they were gone Mr. Creed and +I spent an hour in looking over the account which he do intend to pass in +our office for his lending moneys, which I did advise about and approve or +disapprove of as I saw cause. After an hour being, serious at this we +parted about 11 o'clock at night. So I home and to bed, leaving my wife +and the maid at their linen to get up. + +24th. To my Lord's, where after I had done talking with him Mr. Townsend, +Rumball, Blackburn, Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenish winehouse, and +there I did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine, + + [Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is celebrated for its intensely + bitter, tonic, and stimulating qualities, which have caused it to be + used in various medicinal preparations, and also in the making of + liqueurs, as wormwood wine and creme d'absinthe.] + +and so we broke up. So we parted, and I and Mr. Creed to Westminster Hall +and looked over a book or two, and so to my Lord's, where I dined with my +lady, there being Mr. Child and Mrs. Borfett, who are never absent at +dinner there, under pretence of a wooing. From thence I to Mr. de Cretz +and did take away my Lord's picture, which is now finished for me, and I +paid L3 10s. for it and the frame, and am well pleased with it and the +price. So carried it home by water, Will being with me. At home, and had +a fire made in my closet, and put my papers and books and things in order, +and that being done I fell to entering these two good songs of Mr. Lawes, +"Helpe, helpe, O helpe," and "O God of Heaven and Hell" in my song book, +to which I have got Mr. Child to set the base to the Theorbo, and that +done to bed. + +25th (Lord's day). In the forenoon I alone to our church, and after +dinner I went and ranged about to many churches, among the rest to the +Temple, where I heard Dr. Wilkins' a little (late Maister of Trinity in +Cambridge). That being done to my father's to see my mother who is +troubled much with the stone, and that being done I went home, where I had +a letter brought me from my Lord to get a ship ready to carry the Queen's +things over to France, she being to go within five or six days. So to +supper and to bed. + +26th (Office day). To it all the morning, and dined at home where my +father come and dined with me, who seems to take much pleasure to have a +son that is neat in his house. I being now making my new door into the +entry, which he do please himself much with. After dinner to the office +again, and there till night. And that being done the Comptroller and I to +the Mitre to a glass of wine, when we fell into a discourse of poetry, and +he did repeat some verses of his own making which were very good. Home, +there hear that my Lady Batten had given my wife a visit (the first that +ever she made her), which pleased me exceedingly. So after supper to bed. + +27th. To Whitehall, where I found my Lord gone abroad to the Wardrobe, +whither he do now go every other morning, and do seem to resolve to +understand and look after the business himself. From thence to +Westminster Hall, and in King Street there being a great stop of coaches, +there was a falling out between a drayman and my Lord Chesterfield's +coachman, and one of his footmen killed. At the Hall I met with Mr. +Creed, and he and I to Hell to drink our morning draught, and so to my +Lord's again, where I found my wife, and she and I dined with him and my +Lady, and great company of my Lord's friends, and my Lord did show us +great respect. Soon as dinner was done my wife took her leave, and went +with Mr. Blackburne and his wife to London to a christening of a Brother's +child of his on Tower Hill, and I to a play, "The Scorn-full Lady," and +that being done, I went homewards, and met Mr. Moore, who had been at my +house, and took him to my father's, and we three to Standing's to drink. +Here Mr. Moore told me how the House had this day voted the King to have +all the Excise for ever. This day I do also hear that the Queen's going +to France is stopt, which do like, me well, because then the King will be +in town the next month, which is my month again at the Privy Seal. From +thence home, where when I come I do remember that I did leave my boy +Waineman at Whitehall with order to stay there for me in the court, at +which I was much troubled, but about 11 o'clock at night the boy came home +well, and so we all to bed. + +28th. This morning went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where Major Hart did +pay me; L23 14s. 9d., due to me upon my pay in my Lord's troop at the time +of our disbanding, which is a great blessing to have without taking any +law in the world for. But now I must put an end to any hopes of getting +any more, so that I bless God for this. From thence with Mr. Shepley and +Pinkney to the Sun, and did give them a glass of wine and a peck of +oysters for joy of my getting this money. So home, where I found that Mr. +Creed had sent me the L11 5s. that is due to me upon the remains of +account for my sea business, which is also so much clear money to me, and +my bill of impresse + + [For "bill of impress" In Italian 'imprestare' means "to lend." In + the ancient accounts of persons officially employed by the crown, + money advanced, paid on, account, was described as "de prestito," or + "in prestitis."--M. B.] + +for L30 is also cleared, so that I am wholly clear as to the sea in all +respects. To the office, and was there till late at night, and among the +officers do hear that they may have our salaries allowed by the Treasurer, +which do make me very glad, and praise God for it. Home to supper, and +Mr. Hater supped with me, whom I did give order to take up my money of the +Treasurer to-morrow if it can be had. So to bed. + +29th. In the morning seeing a great deal of foul water come into my +parlour from under the partition between me and Mr. Davis, I did step +thither to him and tell him of it, and he did seem very ready to have it +stopt, and did also tell me how thieves did attempt to rob his house last +night, which do make us all afraid. This noon I being troubled that the +workmen that I have to do my door were called to Mr. Davis's away, I sent +for them, when Mr. Davis sent to inquire a reason of, and I did give him a +good one, that they were come on purpose to do some work with me that they +had already begun, with which he was well pleased, and I glad, being +unwilling to anger them. In the afternoon Sir W. Batten and I met and did +sell the ship Church for L440; and we asked L391, and that being done, I +went home, and Dr. Petty came to me about Mr. Barlow's money, and I being +a little troubled to be so importuned before I had received it, and that +they would have it stopt in Mr. Fenn's hands, I did force the Doctor to go +fetch the letter of attorney that he had to receive it only to make him +same labour, which he did bring, and Mr. Hales came along with him from +the Treasury with my money for the first quarter (Michaelmas last) that +ever I received for this employment. So I paid the Dr. L25 and had L62 +10s. for myself, and L7 10s. to myself also for Will's salary, which I do +intend yet to keep for myself. With this my heart is much rejoiced, and +do bless Almighty God that he is pleased to send so sudden and unexpected +payment of my salary so soon after my great disbursements. So that now I +am worth L200 again. In a great ease of mind and spirit I fell about the +auditing of Mr. Shepley's last accounts with my Lord by my Lord's desire, +and about that I sat till 12 o'clock at night, till I began to doze, and +so to bed, with my heart praising God for his mercy to us. + +30th (Office day). To the office, where Sir G. Carteret did give us an +account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the Parliament to try +his project of discharging the seamen all at present by ticket, and so +promise interest to all men that will lend money upon them at eight per +cent., for so long as they are unpaid; whereby he do think to take away +the growing debt, which do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of present +money to discharge the seamen. But this we are, troubled at as some +diminution to us. I having two barrels of oysters at home, I caused one +of them and some wine to be brought to the inner room in the office, and +there the Principal Officers did go and eat them. So we sat till noon, +and then to dinner, and to it again in the afternoon till night. At home +I sent for Mr. Hater, and broke the other barrel with him, and did +afterwards sit down discoursing of sea terms to learn of him. And he +being gone I went up and sat till twelve at night again to make an end of +my Lord's accounts, as I did the last night. Which at last I made a good +end of, and so to bed. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + DECEMBER + 1660 + +December 1st. This morning, observing some things to be laid up not as +they should be by the girl, I took a broom and basted her till she cried +extremely, which made me vexed, but before I went out I left her appeased. +So to Whitehall, where I found Mr. Moore attending for me at the Privy +Seal, but nothing to do to-day. I went to my Lord St. Albans lodgings, +and found him in bed, talking to a priest (he looked like one) that leaned +along over the side of the bed, and there I desired to know his mind about +making the catch stay longer, which I got ready for him the other day. He +seems to be a fine civil gentleman. To my Lord's, and did give up my +audit of his accounts, which I had been then two days about, and was well +received by my Lord. I dined with my Lord and Lady, and we had a venison +pasty. Mr. Shepley and I went into London, and calling upon Mr. Pinkney, +the goldsmith, he took us to the tavern, and gave us a pint of wine, and +there fell into our company old Mr. Flower and another gentleman; who tell +us how a Scotch knight was killed basely the other day at the Fleece in +Covent Garden, where there had been a great many formerly killed. So to +Paul's Churchyard, and there I took the little man at Mr. Kirton's and Mr. +Shepley to Ringstead's at the Star, and after a pint of wine I went home, +my brains somewhat troubled with so much wine, and after a letter or two +by the post I went to bed. + +2d (Lord's day). My head not very well, and my body out of order by last +night's drinking, which is my great folly. To church, and Mr. Mills made +a good sermon; so home to dinner. My wife and I all alone to a leg of +mutton, the sawce of which being made sweet, I was angry at it, and eat +none, but only dined upon the marrow bone that we had beside. To church +in the afternoon, and after sermon took Tom Fuller's Church History and +read over Henry the 8th's life in it, and so to supper and to bed. + +3rd. This morning I took a resolution to rise early in the morning, and +so I rose by candle, which I have not done all this winter, and spent my +morning in fiddling till time to go to the office, where Sir G. Carteret +did begin again discourse on Mr. Holland's proposition, which the King do +take very ill, and so Sir George in lieu of that do propose that the +seamen should have half in ready money and tickets for the other half, to +be paid in three months after, which we judge to be very practicable. +After office home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by chance, and I +had a very good capon to dinner. So to the office till night, and so +home, and then come Mr. Davis, of Deptford (the first time that ever he +was at my house), and after him Mons. L'Impertinent, who is to go to +Ireland to-morrow, and so came to take his leave of me. They both found +me under the barber's hand; but I had a bottle of good sack in the house, +and so made them very welcome. Mr. Davis sat with me a good while after +the other was gone, talking of his hard usage and of the endeavour to put +him out of his place in the time of the late Commissioners, and he do +speak very highly of their corruption. After he was gone I fell a reading +'Cornelianum dolium' till 11 o'clock at night with great pleasure, and +after that to bed. + +4th. To Whitehall to Sir G. Carteret's chamber, where all the officers +met, and so we went up to the Duke of York, and he took us into his +closet, and we did open to him our project of stopping the growing charge +of the fleet by paying them in hand one moyety, and the other four months +hence. This he do like, and we returned by his order to Sir G. Carteret's +chamber, and there we did draw up this design in order to be presented to +the Parliament. From thence I to my Lord's, and dined with him and told +him what we had done to-day. Sir Tho. Crew dined with my Lord to-day, and +we were very merry with Mrs. Borfett, who dined there still as she has +always done lately. After dinner Sir Tho. and my Lady to the Playhouse to +see "The Silent Woman." I home by water, and with Mr. Hater in my chamber +all alone he and I did put this morning's design into order, which being +done I did carry it to Sir W. Batten, where I found some gentlemen with +him (Sir W. Pen among the rest pretty merry with drink) playing at cards, +and there I staid looking upon them till one o'clock in the morning, and +so Sir W. Pen and I went away, and I to bed. This day the Parliament +voted that the bodies of Oliver, Ireton, Bradshaw, &c., should be taken up +out of their graves in the Abbey, and drawn to the gallows, and there +hanged and buried under it: which (methinks) do trouble me that a man of +so great courage as he was, should have that dishonour, though otherwise +he might deserve it enough. + +5th. This morning the Proposal which I wrote the last night I showed to +the officers this morning, and was well liked of, and I wrote it fair for +Sir. G. Carteret to show to the King, and so it is to go to the +Parliament. I dined at home, and after dinner I went to the new Theatre +and there I saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor" acted, the humours of the +country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but +very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe t as bad as any. From thence to Mr. +Will. Montagu's chamber to have sealed some writings tonight between Sir +R. Parkhurst and myself about my Lord's L2000, but he not coming, I went +to my father's and there found my mother still ill of the stone, and had +just newly voided one, which she had let drop into the chimney, and looked +and found it to shew it me. From thence home and to bed. + +6th. This morning some of the Commissioners of Parliament and Sir W. +Batten went to Sir G. Carteret's office here in town, and paid off the +Chesnut. I carried my wife to White Friars and landed her there, +and myself to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, where abundance of pardons to +seal, but I was much troubled for it because that there are no fees now +coming for them to me. Thence Mr. Moore and I alone to the Leg in King +Street, and dined together on a neat's tongue and udder. From thence by +coach to Mr. Crew's to my Lord, who told me of his going out of town +to-morrow to settle the militia in Huntingdonshire, and did desire me to +lay up a box of some rich jewels and things that there are in it, which I +promised to do. After much free discourse with my Lord, who tells me his +mind as to his enlarging his family, &c., and desiring me to look him out +a Master of the Horse and other servants, we parted. From thence I walked +to Greatorex (he was not within), but there I met with Mr. Jonas Moore, + + [Jonas Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617, + and was appointed by Charles I. tutor to the Duke of York. Soon + after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor-General of + the Ordnance. He was famous as a mathematician, and was one of the + founders of the Royal Society. He died August 27th, 1679, and at + his funeral sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower.] + +and took him to the Five Bells,' and drank a glass of wine and left him. +To the Temple, when Sir R. Parkhurst (as was intended the last night) did +seal the writings, and is to have the L2000 told to-morrow. From, thence +by water to Parliament Stairs, and there at an alehouse to Doling (who is +suddenly to go into Ireland to venture his fortune); Simonds (who is at a +great loss for L200 present money, which I was loth to let him have, +though I could now do it, and do love him and think him honest and +sufficient, yet lothness to part with money did dissuade me from it); +Luellin (who was very drowsy from a dose that he had got the last night), +Mr. Mount and several others, among the rest one Mr. Pierce, an army man, +who did make us the best sport for songs and stories in a Scotch tone +(which he do very well) that ever I heard in my life. I never knew so +good a companion in all my observation. From thence to the bridge by +water, it being a most pleasant moonshine night, with a waterman who did +tell such a company of bawdy stories, how once he carried a lady from +Putney in such a night as this, and she bade him lie down by her, which he +did, and did give her content, and a great deal more roguery. Home and +found my girl knocking at the door (it being 11 o'clock at night), her +mistress having sent her out for some trivial business, which did vex me +when I came in, and so I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet. +Before I went forth this morning, one came to me to give me notice that +the justices of Middlesex do meet to-morrow at Hicks Hall, and that I as +one am desired to be there, but I fear I cannot be there though I much +desire it. + +7th. This morning the judge Advocate Fowler came to see me, and he and I +sat talking till it was time to go to the office. To the office and there +staid till past 12 o'clock, and so I left the Comptroller and Surveyor and +went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found my Lord gone this morning to +Huntingdon, as he told me yesterday he would. I staid and dined with my +Lady, there being Laud the page's mother' there, and dined also with us, +and seemed to have been a very pretty woman and of good discourse. Before +dinner I examined Laud in his Latin and found him a very pretty boy and +gone a great way in Latin. After dinner I took a box of some things of +value that my Lord had left for me to carry to the Exchequer, which I did, +and left them with my Brother Spicer, who also had this morning paid L1000 +for me by appointment to Sir R. Parkhurst. So to the Privy Seal, where I +signed a deadly number of pardons, which do trouble me to get nothing by. +Home by water, and there was much pleased to see that my little room is +likely to come to be finished soon. I fell a-reading Fuller's History of +Abbys, and my wife in Great Cyrus till twelve at night, and so to bed. + +8th. To Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and thence to Mr. Pierces the +Surgeon to tell them that I would call by and by to go to dinner. But I +going into Westminster Hall met with Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen (who +were in a great fear that we had committed a great error of L100,000 in +our late account gone into the Parliament in making it too little), and so +I was fain to send order to Mr. Pierces to come to my house; and also to +leave the key of the chest with Mr. Spicer; wherein my Lord's money is, +and went along with Sir W. Pen by water to the office, and there with Mr. +Huchinson we did find that we were in no mistake. And so I went to dinner +with my wife and Mr. and Mrs. Pierce the Surgeon to Mr. Pierce, the Purser +(the first time that ever I was at his house) who does live very +plentifully and finely. We had a lovely chine of beef and other good +things very complete and drank a great deal of wine, and her daughter +played after dinner upon the virginals, + + [All instruments of the harpsichord and spinet kind were styled + virginals.] + +and at night by lanthorn home again, and Mr. Pierce and his wife being +gone home I went to bed, having drunk so much wine that my head was +troubled and was not very well all night, and the wind I observed was rose +exceedingly before I went to bed. + +9th (Lord's day). Being called up early by Sir W. Batten I rose and went +to his house and he told me the ill news that he had this morning from +Woolwich, that the Assurance (formerly Captain Holland's ship, and now +Captain Stoakes's, designed for Guiny and manned and victualled), was by a +gust of wind sunk down to the bottom. Twenty men drowned. Sir Williams +both went by barge thither to see how things are, and I am sent to the +Duke of York to tell him, and by boat with some other company going to +Whitehall from the Old Swan. I went to the Duke. And first calling upon +Mr. Coventry at his chamber, I went to the Duke's bed-side, who had sat up +late last night, and lay long this morning, who was much surprised, +therewith. This being done I went to chappell, and sat in Mr. Blagrave's +pew, and there did sing my part along with another before the King, and +with much ease. From thence going to my Lady I met with a letter from my +Lord (which Andrew had been at my house to bring me and missed me), +commanding me to go to Mr. Denham, to get a man to go to him to-morrow to +Hinchinbroke, to contrive with him about some alterations in his house, +which I did and got Mr. Kennard. Dined with my Lady and staid all the +afternoon with her, and had infinite of talk of all kind of things, +especially of beauty of men and women, with which she seems to be much +pleased to talk of. From thence at night to Mr. Kennard and took him to +Mr. Denham, the Surveyor's. Where, while we could not speak with him, his +chief man (Mr. Cooper) did give us a cup of good sack. From thence with +Mr. Kennard to my Lady who is much pleased with him, and after a glass of +sack there; we parted, having taken order for a horse or two for him and +his servant to be gone to-morrow. So to my father's, where I sat while +they were at supper, and I found my mother below, stairs and pretty well. +Thence home, where I hear that the Comptroller had some business with me, +and (with Giffin's lanthorn) I went to him and there staid in discourse an +hour 'till late, and among other things he showed me a design of his, by +the King's making an Order of Knights of the Seal to give an encouragement +for persons of honour to undertake the service of the sea, and he had done +it with great pains and very ingeniously. So home and to prayers and to +bed. + +10th. Up exceedingly early to go to the Comptroller, but he not being up +and it being a very fine, bright, moonshine morning I went and walked all +alone twenty turns in Cornhill, from Gracious Street corner to the Stockes +and back again, from 6 o'clock till past 7, so long that I was weary, and +going to the Comptroller's thinking to find him ready, I found him gone, +at which I was troubled, and being weary went home, and from thence with +my wife by water to Westminster, and put her to my father Bowyer's (they +being newly come out of the country), but I could not stay there, but left +her there. I to the Hall and there met with Col. Slingsby. So hearing +that the Duke of York is gone down this morning, to see the ship sunk +yesterday at Woolwich, he and I returned by his coach to the office, and +after that to dinner. After dinner he came to me again and sat with me at +my house, ands among other discourse he told me that it is expected that +the Duke will marry the Lord Chancellor's daughter at last which is likely +to be the ruin of Mr. Davis and my Lord Barkley, who have carried +themselves so high against the Chancellor; Sir Chas. Barkley swearing that +he and others had lain with her often, which all believe to be a lie. He +and I in the evening to the Coffee House in Cornhill, the first time that +ever I was there, and I found much pleasure in it, through the diversity +of company and discourse. Home and found my wife at my Lady Batten's, and +have made a bargain to go see the ship sunk at Woolwich, where both the +Sir Williams are still since yesterday, and I do resolve to go along with +them. From thence home and up to bed, having first been into my study, +and to ease my mind did go to cast up how my cash stands, and I do find as +near as I can that I am worth in money clear L240, for which God be +praised. This afternoon there was a couple of men with me with a book in +each of their hands, demanding money for pollmoney, + + [Pepys seems to have been let off very easily, for, by Act of + Parliament 18 Car. II. cap. I (1666), servants were to pay one + shilling in the pound of their wages, and others from one shilling + to three shillings in the pound.] + +and I overlooked the book and saw myself set down Samuel Pepys, gent. 10s. +for himself and for his servants 2s., which I did presently pay without +any dispute, but I fear I have not escaped so, and therefore I have long +ago laid by L10 for them, but I think I am not bound to discover myself. + +11th. My wife and I up very early this day, and though the weather was +very bad and the wind high, yet my Lady Batten and her maid and we two did +go by our barge to Woolwich (my Lady being very fearfull) where we found +both Sir Williams and much other company, expecting the weather to be +better, that they might go about weighing up the Assurance, which lies +there (poor ship, that I have been twice merry in, in Captn. Holland's +time,) under water, only the upper deck may be seen and the masts. Captain +Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search for some clothes and money +of his, which he says he hath lost out of his cabin. I did the first +office of a justice of Peace to examine a seaman thereupon, but could find +no reason to commit him. This last tide the Kingsale was also run aboard +and lost her mainmast, by another ship, which makes us think it ominous to +the Guiny voyage, to have two of her ships spoilt before they go out. +After dinner, my Lady being very fearfull she staid and kept my wife +there, and I and another gentleman, a friend of Sir W. Pen's, went back in +the barge, very merry by the way, as far as Whitehall in her. To the +Privy Seal, where I signed many pardons and some few things else. From +thence Mr. Moore and I into London to a tavern near my house, and there we +drank and discoursed of ways how to put out a little money to the best +advantage, and at present he has persuaded me to put out L250 for L50 per +annum for eight years, and I think I shall do it. Thence home, where I +found the wench washing, and I up to my study, and there did make up an +even L100, and sealed it to lie by. After that to bed. + +12th. Troubled with the absence of my wife. This morning I went (after +the Comptroller and I had sat an hour at the office) to Whitehall to dine +with my Lady, and after dinner to the Privy Seal and sealed abundance of +pardons and little else. From thence to the Exchequer and did give my +mother Bowyer a visit and her daughters, the first time that I have seen +them since I went last to sea. From thence up with J. Spicer to his +office and took L100, and by coach with it as far as my father's, where I +called to see them, and my father did offer me six pieces of gold, in lieu +of six pounds that he borrowed of me the other day, but it went against me +to take it of him and therefore did not, though I was afterwards a little +troubled that I did not. Thence home, and took out this L100 and sealed +it up with the other last night, it being the first L200 that ever I saw +together of my own in my life. For which God be praised. So to my Lady +Batten, and sat an hour or two, and talked with her daughter and people in +the absence of her father and mother and my wife to pass away the time. +After that home and to bed, reading myself asleep, while the wench sat +mending my breeches by my bedside. + +13th. All the day long looking upon my workmen who this day began to +paint my parlour. Only at noon my Lady Batten and my wife came home, and +so I stepped to my Lady's, where were Sir John Lawson and Captain Holmes, +and there we dined and had very good red wine of my Lady's own making in +England. + +14th. Also all this day looking upon my workmen. Only met with the +Comptroller at the office a little both forenoon and afternoon, and at +night step a little with him to the Coffee House where we light upon very +good company and had very good discourse concerning insects and their +having a generative faculty as well as other creatures. This night in +discourse the Comptroller told me among other persons that were heretofore +the principal officers of the Navy, there was one Sir Peter Buck, a Clerk +of the Acts, of which to myself I was not a little proud. + +15th. All day at home looking upon my workmen, only at noon Mr. Moore +came and brought me some things to sign for the Privy Seal and dined with +me. We had three eels that my wife and I bought this morning of a man, +that cried them about, for our dinner, and that was all I did to-day. + +16th. In the morning to church, and then dined at home. In the afternoon +I to White Hall, where I was surprised with the news of a plot against the +King's person and my Lord Monk's; and that since last night there are +about forty taken up on suspicion; and, amongst others, it was my lot to +meet with Simon Beale, the Trumpeter, who took me and Tom Doling into the +Guard in Scotland Yard, and showed us Major-General Overton, where I heard +him deny that he is guilty of any such things; but that whereas it is said +that he is found to have brought many arms to town, he says it is only to +sell them, as he will prove by oath. From thence with Tom Doling and +Boston and D. Vines (whom we met by the way) to Price's, and there we +drank, and in discourse I learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be +a maid or no, by a string going round her head to meet at the end of her +nose, which if she be not will come a great way beyond. Thence to my +Lady's and staid with her an hour or two talking of the Duke of York and +his lady, the Chancellor's daughter, between whom, she tells me, that all +is agreed and he will marry her. But I know not how true yet. It rained +hard, and my Lady would have had me have the coach, but I would not, but +to my father's, where I met my wife, and there supped, and after supper by +link home and to bed. + +17th. All day looking after my workmen, only in the afternoon to the +office where both Sir Williams were come from Woolwich, and tell us that, +contrary to their expectations, the Assurance is got up, without much +damage to her body, only to the goods that she hath within her, which +argues her to be a strong, good ship. This day my parlour is gilded, +which do please me well. + +18th. All day at home, without stirring at all, looking after my workmen. + +19th. At noon I went and dined with my Lady at Whitehall, and so back +again to the office, and after that home to my workmen. This night Mr. +Gauden sent me a great chine of beef and half a dozen of tongues. + +20th. All day at home with my workmen, that I may get all done before +Christmas. This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox. + +21st. By water to Whitehall (leaving my wife at Whitefriars going to my +father's to buy her a muff and mantle), there I signed many things at the +Privy Seal, and carried L200 from thence to the Exchequer, and laid it up +with Mr. Hales, and afterwards took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and +drank with them. They told me that this is St. Thomas's [day], and that +by an old custom, this day the Exchequer men had formerly, and do intend +this night to have a supper; which if I could I promised to come to, but +did not. To my Lady's, and dined with her: she told me how dangerously +ill the Princess Royal is and that this morning she was said to be dead. +But she hears that she hath married herself to young Jermyn, which is +worse than the Duke of York's marrying the Chancellor's daughter, which is +now publicly owned. After dinner to the office all the afternoon. At +seven at night I walked through the dirt to Whitehall to see whether my +Lord be come to town, and I found him come and at supper, and I supped +with him. He tells me that my aunt at Brampton has voided a great stone +(the first time that ever I heard she was troubled therewith) and cannot +possibly live long, that my uncle is pretty well, but full of pain still. +After supper home and to bed. + +22nd. All the morning with my painters, who will make an end of all this +day I hope. At noon I went to the Sun tavern; on Fish Street hill, to a +dinner of Captn. Teddimans, where was my Lord Inchiquin (who seems to be a +very fine person), Sir W. Pen, Captn. Cuttance, and one Mr. Lawrence (a +fine gentleman now going to Algiers), and other good company, where we had +a very fine dinner, good musique, and a great deal of wine. We staid here +very late, at last Sir W. Pen and I home together, he so overcome with +wine that he could hardly go; I was forced to lead him through the streets +and he was in a very merry and kind mood. I home (found my house clear of +the workmen and their work ended), my head troubled with wine, and I very +merry went to bed, my head akeing all night. + +23rd (Lord's day). In the morning to Church, where our pew all covered +with rosemary and baize. A stranger made a dull sermon. Home and found +my wife and maid with much ado had made shift to spit a great turkey sent +me this week from Charles Carter, my old colleague, now minister in +Huntingdonshire, but not at all roasted, and so I was fain to stay till +two o'clock, and after that to church with my wife, and a good sermon +there was, and so home. All the evening at my book, and so to supper and +to bed. + +24th. In the morning to the office and Commissioner Pett (who seldom +comes there) told me that he had lately presented a piece of plate (being +a couple of flaggons) to Mr. Coventry, but he did not receive them, which +also put me upon doing the same too; and so after dinner I went and chose +a payre of candlesticks to be made ready for me at Alderman Backwell's. To +the office again in the afternoon till night, and so home, and with the +painters till 10 at night, making an end of my house and the arch before +my door, and so this night I was rid of them and all other work, and my +house was made ready against to-morrow being Christmas day. This day the +Princess Royal died at Whitehall. + +25th (Christmas day). In the morning very much pleased to see my house +once more clear of workmen and to be clean, and indeed it is so, far +better than it was that I do not repent of my trouble that I have been at. +In the morning to church, where Mr. Mills made a very good sermon. After +that home to dinner, where my wife and I and my brother Tom (who this +morning came to see my wife's new mantle put on, which do please me very +well), to a good shoulder of mutton and a chicken. After dinner to church +again, my wife and I, where we had a dull sermon of a stranger, which made +me sleep, and so home, and I, before and after supper, to my lute and +Fuller's History, at which I staid all alone in my chamber till 12 at +night, and so to bed. + +26th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's for the candlesticks for Mr. +Coventry, but they being not done I went away, and so by coach to Mr. +Crew's, and there took some money of Mr. Moore's for my Lord, and so to my +Lord's, where I found Sir Thomas Bond (whom I never saw before) with a +message from the Queen about vessells for the carrying over of her goods, +and so with him to Mr. Coventry, and thence to the office (being soundly +washed going through the bridge) to Sir Wm. Batten and Pen (the last of +whom took physic to-day), and so I went up to his chamber, and there +having made an end of the business I returned to White Hall by water, and +dined with my Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell me how much fault was +laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of the Doctors, for the death of the +Princess! My Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, in order to +his going to sea with the Queen. Thence to my father Bowyer's where I met +my wife, and with her home by water. + +27th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's again, where I found the +candlesticks done, and went along with him in his coach to my Lord's and +left the candlesticks with Mr. Shepley. I staid in the garden talking +much with my Lord, who do show me much of his love and do communicate his +mind in most things to me, which is my great content. Home and with my +wife to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, where much and good company. My wife +not very well went home, I staid late there seeing them play at cards, and +so home to bed. This afternoon there came in a strange lord to Sir +William Batten's by a mistake and enters discourse with him, so that we +could not be rid of him till Sir Arn. Breames and Mr. Bens and Sir W. Pen +fell a-drinking to him till he was drunk, and so sent him away. About the +middle of the night I was very ill--I think with eating and drinking too +much--and so I was forced to call the maid, who pleased my wife and I in +her running up and down so innocently in her smock, and vomited in the +bason, and so to sleep, and in the morning was pretty well, only got cold, +and so had pain . . . . as I used to have. + +28th. Office day. There all the morning. Dined at home alone with my +wife, and so staid within all the afternoon and evening; at my lute, with +great pleasure, and so to bed with great content. + +29th. Within all the morning. Several people to speak with me; Mr. +Shepley for L100; Mr. Kennard and Warren, the merchant, about deals for my +Lord. Captain Robert Blake lately come from the Straights about some +Florence Wine for my Lord, and with him I went to Sir W. Pen, who offering +me a barrel of oysters I took them both home to my house (having by chance +a good piece of roast beef at the fire for dinner), and there they dined +with me, and sat talking all the afternoon-good company. Thence to +Alderman Backwell's and took a brave state-plate and cupp in lieu of the +candlesticks that I had the other day and carried them by coach to my +Lord's and left them there. And so back to my father's and saw my mother, +and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my father came to me, and there we +talked and drank, and so away; I home with my father, he telling me what +bad wives both my cozen Joyces make to their husbands, which I much +wondered at. After talking of my sister's coming to me next week, I went +home and to bed. + +30th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and being up, I went with Will to my +Lord's, calling in at many churches in my way. There I found Mr. Shepley, +in his Venetian cap, taking physique in his chamber, and with him I sat +till dinner. My Lord dined abroad and my Lady in her chamber, so Mr. +Hetly, Child and I dined together, and after dinner Mr. Child and I spent +some time at the lute, and so promising to prick me some lessons to my +theorbo he went away to see Henry Laws, who lies very sick. I to the Abby +and walked there, seeing the great confusion of people that come there to +hear the organs. So home, calling in at my father's, but staid not, my +father and mother being both forth. At home I fell a-reading of Fuller's +Church History till it was late, and so to bed. + +31st. At the office all the morning and after that home, and not staying +to dine I went out, and in Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of "Henry +the Fourth," and so went to the new Theatre (only calling at Mr. Crew's +and eat a bit with the people there at dinner) and saw it acted; but my +expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe +it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little. That +being done I went to my Lord's, where I found him private at cards with my +Lord Lauderdale and some persons of honour. So Mr. Shepley and I over to +Harper's, and there drank a pot or two, and so parted. My boy taking a +cat home with him from my Lord's, which Sarah had given him for my wife, +we being much troubled with mice. At Whitehall inquiring for a coach, +there was a Frenchman with one eye that was going my way, so he and I +hired the coach between us and he set me down in Fenchurch Street. Strange +how the fellow, without asking, did tell me all what he was, and how he +had ran away from his father and come into England to serve the King, and +now going back again. Home and to bed. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside + Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often + But I think I am not bound to discover myself + But we were friends again as we are always + Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether + Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton + First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch + First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral + Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King + Have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant + Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me + He did very well, but a deadly drinker he is + I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely + I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy + I was demanded L100, for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound + In discourse he seems to be wise and say little + It not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us + Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no + Long cloaks being now quite out + Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash + Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney + So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet + So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel + The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too + There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered + Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall + To see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS FOR 1960 N.S. PEPY'S DIARY + + A very fine dinner + A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen + Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest + An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport + An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity + And in all this not so much as one + Asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside + Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often + Bought for the love of the binding three books + Boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed + But we were friends again as we are always + But I think I am not bound to discover myself + Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians + Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.) + Court attendance infinite tedious + Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether + Diana did not come according to our agreement + Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state + Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else + Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill + Do press for new oaths to be put upon men + Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand + Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets + Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton + Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment + Fashionable and black spots + Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up + First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch + First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral + Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service + Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March + Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore + Gave him his morning draft + Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King + God help him, he wants bread. + Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay + Hand i' the cap + Hanging jack to roast birds on + Have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant + Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me + He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more + He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I + He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it + He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while + He did very well, but a deadly drinker he is + He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours + He knew nothing about the navy + Hired her to procure this poor soul for him + How the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst + I fear is not so good as she should be + I never designed to be a witness against any man + I was demanded L100, for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound + I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely + I pray God to make me able to pay for it. + I was angry with her, which I was troubled for + I went to the cook's and got a good joint of meat + I was exceeding free in dallying with her, and she not unfree + I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy + If it should come in print my name maybe at it + Ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch + In discourse he seems to be wise and say little + In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore + In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least + Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass + It not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us + John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers + King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising + King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery + Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]" + Kissed them myself very often with a great deal of mirth + L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas + Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 + Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no + Long cloaks being now quite out + Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead + Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder + Most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler + Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin + Much troubled with thoughts how to get money + My luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions + My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life + My wife and I had some high words + My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth + My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets + My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber + Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon + Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place + Petition against hackney coaches + Playing the fool with the lass of the house + Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves + Presbyterians against the House of Lords + Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques + Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash + Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it + Sceptic in all things of religion + She had six children by the King + Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink + Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash + Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney + So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel + So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet + Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house + Strange thing how I am already courted by the people + Strange how civil and tractable he was to me + The present Irish pronunciation of English + The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too + The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them + There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered + This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed + This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes + Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall + To see the bride put to bed + To the Swan and drank our morning 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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + +LONDON + +GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN + +CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. + +1893 + + + + + PREFACE + +Although the Diary of Samuel Pepys has been in the hands of the public +for nearly seventy years, it has not hitherto appeared in its entirety. +In the original edition of 1825 scarcely half of the manuscript was +printed. Lord Braybrooke added some passages as the various editions +were published, but in the preface to his last edition he wrote: "there +appeared indeed no necessity to amplify or in any way to alter the text +of the Diary beyond the correction of a few verbal errors and corrupt +passages hitherto overlooked." + +The public knew nothing as to what was left unprinted, and there was +therefore a general feeling of gratification when it was announced some +eighteen years ago that a new edition was to be published by the Rev. +Mynors Bright, with the addition of new matter equal to a third of the +whole. It was understood that at last the Diary was to appear in its +entirety, but there was a passage in Mr. Bright's preface which suggested +a doubt respecting the necessary completeness. He wrote: "It would have +been tedious to the reader if I had copied from the Diary the account of +his daily work at the office." + +As a matter of fact, Mr. Bright left roughly speaking about one-fifth of +the whole Diary still unprinted, although he transcribed the whole, and +bequeathed his transcript to Magdalene College. + +It has now been decided that the whole of the Diary shall be made public, +with the exception of a few passages which cannot possibly be printed. +It may be thought by some that these omissions are due to an unnecessary +squeamishness, but it is not really so, and readers are therefore asked +to have faith in the judgment of the editor. Where any passages have +been omitted marks of omission are added, so that in all cases readers +will know where anything has been left out. + +Lord Braybrooke made the remark in his "Life of Pepys," that "the cipher +employed by him greatly resembles that known by the name of 'Rich's +system.'" When Mr. Bright came to decipher the MS., he discovered that +the shorthand system used by Pepys was an earlier one than Rich's, viz., +that of Thomas Shelton, who made his system public in 1620. + +In his various editions Lord Braybrooke gave a large number of valuable +notes, in the collection and arrangement of which he was assisted by the +late Mr. John Holmes of the British Museum, and the late Mr. James +Yeowell, sometime sub-editor of "Notes and Queries." Where these notes +are left unaltered in the present edition the letter "B." has been +affixed to them, but in many instances the notes have been altered and +added to from later information, and in these cases no mark is affixed. +A large number of additional notes are now supplied, but still much has +had to be left unexplained. Many persons are mentioned in the Diary who +were little known in the outer world, and in some instances it has been +impossible to identify them. In other cases, however, it has been +possible to throw light upon these persons by reference to different +portions of the Diary itself. I would here ask the kind assistance of +any reader who is able to illustrate passages that have been left +unnoted. I have received much assistance from the various books in which +the Diary is quoted. Every writer on the period covered by the Diary has +been pleased to illustrate his subject by quotations from Pepys, and from +these books it has often been possible to find information which helps to +explain difficult passages in the Diary. + +Much illustrative matter of value was obtained by Lord Braybrooke from +the "Diurnall" of Thomas Rugge, which is preserved in the British Museum +(Add. MSS. 10,116, 10,117). The following is the description of this +interesting work as given by Lord Braybrooke + + "MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS; + + or, A Collection of the most materiall occurrances and transactions + in Public Affairs since Anno Dni, 1659, untill + 28 March, 1672, + serving as an annuall diurnall for future satisfaction and + information, + BY THOMAS RUGGE. + + Est natura hominum novitatis avida.--Plinius. + + + "This MS. belonged, in 1693, to Thomas Grey, second Earl of + Stamford. It has his autograph at the commencement, and on the + sides are his arms (four quarterings) in gold. In 1819, it was sold + by auction in London, as part of the collection of Thomas Lloyd, + Esq. (No. 1465), and was then bought by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller. + Whilst Mr. Lloyd was the possessor, the MS. was lent to Dr. Lingard, + whose note of thanks to Mr. Lloyd is preserved in the volume. From + Thorpe it appears to have passed to Mr. Heber, at the sale of whose + MSS. in Feb. 1836, by Mr. Evans, of Pall Mall, it was purchased by + the British Museum for L8 8s. + + "Thomas Rugge was descended from an ancient Norfolk family, and two + of his ancestors are described as Aldermen of Norwich. His death + has been ascertained to have occurred about 1672; and in the Diary + for the preceding year he complains that on account of his declining + health, his entries will be but few. Nothing has been traced of his + personal circumstances beyond the fact of his having lived for + fourteen years in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality." + +Another work I have found of the greatest value is the late Mr. J. E. +Doyle's "Official Baronage of England" (1886), which contains a mass of +valuable information not easily to be obtained elsewhere. By reference +to its pages I have been enabled to correct several erroneous dates in +previous notes caused by a very natural confusion of years in the case of +the months of January, February, and March, before it was finally fixed +that the year should commence in January instead of March. More +confusion has probably been introduced into history from this than from +any other cause of a like nature. The reference to two years, as in the +case of, say, Jan. 5, 1661-62, may appear clumsy, but it is the only safe +plan of notation. If one year only is mentioned, the reader is never +sure whether or not the correction has been made. It is a matter for +sincere regret that the popular support was withheld from Mr. Doyle's +important undertaking, so that the author's intention of publishing +further volumes, containing the Baronies not dealt with in those already +published, was frustrated. + +My labours have been much lightened by the kind help which I have +received from those interested in the subject. Lovers of Pepys are +numerous, and I have found those I have applied to ever willing to give +me such information as they possess. It is a singular pleasure, +therefore, to have an opportunity of expressing publicly my thanks to +these gentlemen, and among them I would especially mention Messrs. +Fennell, Danby P. Fry, J. Eliot Hodgkin, Henry Jackson, J. K. Laughton, +Julian Marshall, John Biddulph Martin, J. E. Matthew, Philip Norman, +Richard B. Prosser, and Hugh Callendar, Fellow of Trinity College, who +verified some of the passages in the manuscript. To the Master and +Fellows of Magdalene College, also, I am especially indebted for allowing +me to consult the treasures of the Pepysian Library, and more +particularly my thanks are due to Mr. Arthur G. Peskett, the Librarian. + + H. B. W. +BRAMPTON, OPPIDANS ROAD, + LONDON, N.W. + February, 1893. + + + + + + + +PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY. + +I. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in +the reigns of Charles II. and James II., comprising his Diary from 1659 +to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B., of St. John's College, +Cambridge, from the original Shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a +Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord +Braybrooke. In two volumes. London, Henry Colburn . . . 1825. 4vo. + +2. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S. . . . Second edition. In +five volumes. London, Henry Colburn . . . . 1828. 8vo. + +3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the +Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II.; with a Life and +Notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke; the third edition, considerably +enlarged. London, Henry Colburn . . . . 1848-49. 5 vols. sm. 8vo. + +4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. . . . The fourth +edition, revised and corrected. In four volumes. London, published for +Henry Colburn by his successors, Hurst and Blackett . . . 1854. 8vo. + +The copyright of Lord Braybrooke's edition was purchased by the late Mr. +Henry G. Bohn, who added the book to his Historical Library. + +5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from his MS. +Cypber in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard, Lord +Braybrooke. Deciphered, with additional notes, by the Rev. Mynors +Bright, M.A. . . . London, Bickers and Son, 1875-79. 6 vols. 8vo. + +Nos. 1, 2 and 3 being out of copyright have been reprinted by various +publishers. + +No. 5 is out of print. + + + + + PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + +The family of Pepys is one of considerable antiquity in the east of +England, and the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys + + [Mr. W. C. Pepys has paid great attention to the history of his + family, and in 1887 he published an interesting work entitled + "Genealogy of the Pepys Family, 1273-1887," London, George Bell and + Sons, which contains the fullest pedigrees of the family yet + issued.] + +says that the first mention of the name that he has been able to find is +in the Hundred Rolls (Edw. I, 1273), where Richard Pepis and John Pepes +are registered as holding lands in the county of Cambridge. In the next +century the name of William Pepis is found in deeds relating to lands in +the parish of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, dated 1329 and 1340 respectively +(Cole MSS., British Museum, vol. i., p. 56; vol. xlii., p. 44). +According to the Court Roll of the manor of Pelhams, in the parish of +Cottenham, Thomas Pepys was "bayliffe of the Abbot of Crowland in 1434," +but in spite of these references, as well as others to persons of the +same name at Braintree, Essex, Depedale, Norfolk, &c., the first ancestor +of the existing branches of the family from whom Mr. Walter Pepys is able +to trace an undoubted descent, is "William Pepis the elder, of Cottenham, +co. Cambridge," whose will is dated 20th March, 1519. + +In 1852 a curious manuscript volume, bound in vellum, and entitled "Liber +Talboti Pepys de instrumentis ad Feoda pertinentibus exemplificatis," was +discovered in an old chest in the parish church of Bolney, Sussex, by the +vicar, the Rev. John Dale, who delivered it to Henry Pepys, Bishop of +Worcester, and the book is still in the possession of the family. This +volume contains various genealogical entries, and among them are +references to the Thomas Pepys of 1434 mentioned above, and to the later +William Pepys. The reference to the latter runs thus:-- + + "A Noate written out of an ould Booke of my uncle William Pepys." + + "William Pepys, who died at Cottenham, 10 H. 8, was brought up by + the Abbat of Crowland, in Huntingdonshire, and he was borne in + Dunbar, in Scotland, a gentleman, whom the said Abbat did make his + Bayliffe of all his lands in Cambridgeshire, and placed him in + Cottenham, which William aforesaid had three sonnes, Thomas, John, + and William, to whom Margaret was mother naturallie, all of whom + left issue." + +In illustration of this entry we may refer to the Diary of June 12th, +1667, where it is written that Roger Pepys told Samuel that "we did +certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland." The +references to various members of the family settled in Cottenham and +elsewhere, at an early date already alluded to, seem to show that there +is little foundation for this very positive statement. + +With regard to the standing of the family, Mr. Walter Pepys writes:-- + + "The first of the name in 1273 were evidently but small copyholders. + Within 150 years (1420) three or four of the name had entered the + priesthood, and others had become connected with the monastery of + Croyland as bailiffs, &c. In 250 years (1520) there were certainly + two families: one at Cottenham, co. Cambridge, and another at + Braintree, co. Essex, in comfortable circumstances as yeomen + farmers. Within fifty years more (1563), one of the family, Thomas, + of Southcreeke, co. Norfolk, had entered the ranks of the gentry + sufficiently to have his coat-of-arms recognized by the Herald + Cooke, who conducted the Visitation of Norfolk in that year. From + that date the majority of the family have been in good + circumstances, with perhaps more than the average of its members + taking up public positions." + +There is a very general notion that Samuel Pepys was of plebeian birth +because his father followed the trade of a tailor, and his own remark, +"But I believe indeed our family were never considerable,"--[February +10th, 1661-62.] has been brought forward in corroboration of this view, +but nothing can possibly be more erroneous, and there can be no doubt +that the Diarist was really proud of his descent. This may be seen from +the inscription on one of his book-plates, where he is stated to be:-- + + "Samuel Pepys of Brampton in Huntingdonshire, Esq., Secretary of the + Admiralty to his Matr. King Charles the Second: Descended from ye + antient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire." + +Many members of the family have greatly distinguished themselves since +the Diarist's day, and of them Mr. Foss wrote ("Judges of England," vol. +vi., p. 467):-- + + "In the family of Pepys is illustrated every gradation of legal rank + from Reader of an Inn of Court to Lord High Chancellor of England." + +The William Pepys of Cottenham who commences the pedigree had three sons +and three daughters; from the eldest son (Thomas) descended the first +Norfolk branch, from the second son (John Pepys of Southcreeke) descended +the second Norfolk branch, and from the third son (William) descended the +Impington branch. The latter William had four sons and two daughters; +two of these sons were named Thomas, and as they were both living at the +same time one was distinguished as "the black" and the other as "the +red." Thomas the red had four sons and four daughters. John, born 1601, +was the third son, and he became the father of Samuel the Diarist. +Little is known of John Pepys, but we learn when the Diary opens that he +was settled in London as a tailor. He does not appear to have been a +successful man, and his son on August 26th, 1661, found that there was +only L45 owing to him, and that he owed about the same sum. He was a +citizen of London in 1650, when his son Samuel was admitted to Magdalene +College, but at an earlier period he appears to have had business +relations with Holland. + +In August, 1661, John Pepys retired to a small property at Brampton +(worth about L80 per annum), which had been left to him by his eldest +brother, Robert Pepys, where he died in 1680. + +The following is a copy of John Pepys's will: + + "MY FATHER'S WILL. + [Indorsement by S. Pepys.] + + "Memorandum. That I, John Pepys of Ellington, in the county of + Huntingdon, Gent.", doe declare my mind in the disposall of my + worldly goods as followeth: + + "First, I desire that my lands and goods left mee by my brother, + Robert Pepys, deceased, bee delivered up to my eldest son, Samuell + Pepys, of London, Esqr., according as is expressed in the last Will + of my brother Robert aforesaid. + + "Secondly, As for what goods I have brought from London, or procured + since, and what moneys I shall leave behind me or due to me, I + desire may be disposed of as followeth: + + "Imprimis, I give to the stock of the poore of the parish of + Brampton, in which church I desire to be enterred, five pounds. + + "Item. I give to the Poore of Ellington forty shillings. + + "Item. I desire that my two grandsons, Samuell and John Jackson, + have ten pounds a piece. + + "Item. I desire that my daughter, Paulina Jackson, may have my + largest silver tankerd. + + "Item. I desire that my son John Pepys may have my gold seale-ring. + + "Lastly. I desire that the remainder of what I shall leave be + equally distributed between my sons Samuel and John Pepys and my + daughter Paulina Jackson. + + "All which I leave to the care of my eldest son Samuel Pepys, to see + performed, if he shall think fit. + + "In witness hereunto I set my hand." + + +His wife Margaret, whose maiden name has not been discovered, died on the +25th March, 1667, also at Brampton. The family of these two consisted of +six sons and five daughters: John (born 1632, died 1640), Samuel (born +1633, died 1703), Thomas (born 1634, died 1664), Jacob (born 1637, died +young), Robert (born 1638, died young), and John (born 1641, died 1677); +Mary (born 1627), Paulina (born 1628), Esther (born 1630), Sarah (born +1635; these four girls all died young), and Paulina (born 1640, died +1680), who married John Jackson of Brampton, and had two sons, Samuel and +John. The latter was made his heir by Samuel Pepys. + +Samuel Pepys was born on the 23rd February, 1632-3, but the place of +birth is not known with certainty. Samuel Knight, D.D., author of the +"Life of Colet," who was a connection of the family (having married +Hannah Pepys, daughter of Talbot Pepys of Impington), says positively +that it was at Brampton. His statement cannot be corroborated by the +registers of Brampton church, as these records do not commence until the +year 1654. + +Samuel's early youth appears to have been spent pretty equally between +town and country. When he and his brother Tom were children they lived +with a nurse (Goody Lawrence) at Kingsland, and in after life Samuel +refers to his habit of shooting with bow and arrow in the fields around +that place. He then went to school at Huntingdon, from which he was +transferred to St. Paul's School in London. He remained at the latter +place until 1650, early in which year his name was entered as a sizar on +the boards of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted on the 21st June, +but subsequently he transferred his allegiance to Magdalene College, +where he was admitted a sizar on the 1st October of this same year. +He did not enter into residence until March 5th, 1650-51, but in the +following month he was elected to one of Mr. Spendluffe's scholarships, +and two years later (October 14th, 1653) he was preferred to one on Dr. +John Smith's foundation. + +Little or nothing is known of Pepys's career at college, but soon after +obtaining the Smith scholarship he got into trouble, and, with a +companion, was admonished for being drunk. + + [October 21st, 1653. "Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were + solemnly admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for having been + scandalously over-served with drink ye night before. This was done + in the presence of all the Fellows then resident, in Mr. Hill's + chamber.--JOHN WOOD, Registrar." (From the Registrar's-book of + Magdalene College.)] + +His time, however, was not wasted, and there is evidence that he carried +into his busy life a fair stock of classical learning and a true love of +letters. Throughout his life he looked back with pleasure to the time he +spent at the University, and his college was remembered in his will when +he bequeathed his valuable library. In this same year, 1653, he +graduated B.A. On the 1st of December, 1655, when he was still without +any settled means of support, he married Elizabeth St. Michel, a +beautiful and portionless girl of fifteen. Her father, Alexander +Marchant, Sieur de St. Michel, was of a good family in Anjou, and son of +the High Sheriff of Bauge (in Anjou). Having turned Huguenot at the age +of twenty-one, when in the German service, his father disinherited him, +and he also lost the reversion of some L20,000 sterling which his uncle, +a rich French canon, intended to bequeath to him before he left the Roman +Catholic church. He came over to England in the retinue of Henrietta +Maria on her marriage with Charles I, but the queen dismissed him on +finding that he was a Protestant and did not attend mass. Being a +handsome man, with courtly manners, he found favour in the sight of the +widow of an Irish squire (daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill), who married +him against the wishes of her family. After the marriage, Alexander St. +Michel and his wife having raised some fifteen hundred pounds, started, +for France in the hope of recovering some part of the family property. +They were unfortunate in all their movements, and on their journey to +France were taken prisoners by the Dunkirkers, who stripped them of all +their property. They now settled at Bideford in Devonshire, and here or +near by were born Elizabeth and the rest of the family. At a later +period St. Michel served against the Spaniards at the taking of Dunkirk +and Arras, and settled at Paris. He was an unfortunate man throughout +life, and his son Balthasar says of him: "My father at last grew full of +whimsies and propositions of perpetual motion, &c., to kings, princes and +others, which soaked his pocket, and brought all our family so low by his +not minding anything else, spending all he had got and getting no other +employment to bring in more." While he was away from Paris, some +"deluding papists" and "pretended devouts" persuaded Madame St. Michel to +place her daughter in the nunnery of the Ursulines. When the father +heard of this, he hurried back, and managed to get Elizabeth out of the +nunnery after she had been there twelve days. Thinking that France was a +dangerous place to live in, he removed his family to England, where soon +afterwards his daughter was married, although, as Lord Braybrooke +remarks, we are not told how she became acquainted with Pepys. +St. Michel was greatly pleased that his daughter had become the wife +of a true Protestant, and she herself said to him, kissing his eyes: +"Dear father, though in my tender years I was by my low fortune in this +world deluded to popery, by the fond dictates thereof I have now (joined +with my riper years, which give me some understanding) a man to my +husband too wise and one too religious to the Protestant religion to +suffer my thoughts to bend that way any more." + + [These particulars are obtained from an interesting letter from + Balthasar St. Michel to Pepys, dated "Deal, Feb. 8, 1673-4," and + printed in "Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys," + 1841, vol. i., pp. 146-53.] + +Alexander St. Michel kept up his character for fecklessness through life, +and took out patents for curing smoking chimneys, purifying water, and +moulding bricks. In 1667 he petitioned the king, asserting that he had +discovered King Solomon's gold and silver mines, and the Diary of the +same date contains a curious commentary upon these visions of wealth:-- + + "March 29, 1667. 4s. a week which his (Balty St. Michel's) father + receives of the French church is all the subsistence his father and + mother have, and about; L20 a year maintains them." + +As already noted, Pepys was married on December 1st, 1655. This date is +given on the authority of the Registers of St. Margaret's Church, +Westminster, + + [The late Mr. T. C. Noble kindly communicated to me a copy of the + original marriage certificate, which is as follows: "Samuell Peps + of this parish Gent. & Elizabeth De Snt. Michell of Martins in the + ffields, Spinster. Published October 19tn, 22nd, 29th [1655]and + were married by Richard Sherwin Esqr one of the justices of the + Peace of the Cittie and Lyberties of Westm. December 1st. (Signed) + Ri. Sherwin."] + +but strangely enough Pepys himself supposed his wedding day to have been +October 10th. Lord Braybrooke remarks on this, + + "It is notorious that the registers in those times were very ill + kept, of which we have here a striking instance . . . . Surely a + man who kept a diary could not have made such a blunder." + +What is even more strange than Pepys's conviction that he was married on +October 10th is Mrs. Pepys's agreement with him: On October 10th, 1666, +we read, + + "So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night, but how + many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten." + +Here Mrs. Pepys was wrong, as it was eleven years; so she may have been +wrong in the day also. In spite of the high authority of Mr. and Mrs. +Pepys on a question so interesting to them both, we must accept the +register as conclusive on this point until further evidence of its +incorrectness is forthcoming. + +Sir Edward Montage (afterwards Earl of Sandwich), who was Pepys's first +cousin one remove (Pepys's grandfather and Montage's mother being brother +and sister), was a true friend to his poor kinsman, and he at once held +out a helping hand to the imprudent couple, allowing them to live in his +house. John Pepys does not appear to have been in sufficiently good +circumstances to pay for the education of his son, and it seems probable +that Samuel went to the university under his influential cousin's +patronage. At all events he owed his success in life primarily to +Montage, to whom he appears to have acted as a sort of agent. + +On March 26th, 1658, he underwent a successful operation for the stone, +and we find him celebrating each anniversary of this important event of +his life with thanksgiving. He went through life with little trouble on +this score, but when he died at the age of seventy a nest of seven stones +was found in his left kidney. + + ["June 10th, 1669. I went this evening to London, to carry Mr. + Pepys to my brother Richard, now exceedingly afflicted with the + stone, who had been successfully cut, and carried the stone, as big + as a tennis ball, to show him and encourage his resolution to go + thro' the operation."--Evelyn's Diary.] + +In June, 1659, Pepys accompanied Sir Edward Montage in the "Naseby," when +the Admiral of the Baltic Fleet and Algernon Sidney went to the Sound as +joint commissioners. It was then that Montage corresponded with Charles +II., but he had to be very secret in his movements on account of the +suspicions of Sidney. Pepys knew nothing of what was going on, as he +confesses in the Diary: + + "I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most + secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before." + +On Pepys's return to England he obtained an appointment in the office of +Mr., afterwards Sir George Downing, who was one of the Four Tellers of +the Receipt of the Exchequer. He was clerk to Downing when he commenced +his diary on January 1st, 1660, and then lived in Axe Yard, close by King +Street, Westminster, a place on the site of which was built Fludyer +Street. This, too, was swept away for the Government offices in 1864-65. +His salary was L50 a year. Downing invited Pepys to accompany him to +Holland, but he does not appear to have been very pressing, and a few +days later in this same January he got him appointed one of the Clerks of +the Council, but the recipient of the favour does not appear to have been +very grateful. A great change was now about to take place in Pepys's +fortunes, for in the following March he was made secretary to Sir Edward +Montage in his expedition to bring about the Restoration of Charles II., +and on the 23rd he went on board the "Swiftsure" with Montage. On the +30th they transferred themselves to the "Naseby." Owing to this +appointment of Pepys we have in the Diary a very full account of the +daily movements of the fleet until, events having followed their natural +course, Montage had the honour of bringing Charles II. to Dover, where +the King was received with great rejoicing. Several of the ships in the +fleet had names which were obnoxious to Royalists, and on the 23rd May +the King came on board the "Naseby" and altered there--the "Naseby" to +the "Charles," the "Richard" to the "Royal James," the "Speaker" to the +"Mary," the "Winsby" to the "Happy Return," the "Wakefield" to the +"Richmond," the "Lambert" to the "Henrietta," the "Cheriton" to the +"Speedwell," and the "Bradford" to the "Success." This portion of the +Diary is of particular interest, and the various excursions in Holland +which the Diarist made are described in a very amusing manner. + +When Montagu and Pepys had both returned to London, the former told the +latter that he had obtained the promise of the office of Clerk of the +Acts for him. Many difficulties occurred before Pepys actually secured +the place, so that at times he was inclined to accept the offers which +were made to him to give it up. General Monk was anxious to get the +office for Mr. Turner, who was Chief Clerk in the Navy Office, but in the +end Montagu's influence secured it for Pepys. Then Thomas Barlow, who +had been appointed Clerk of the Acts in 1638, turned up, and appeared +likely to become disagreeable. Pepys bought him off with an annuity of +too, which he did not have to pay for any length of time, as Barlow died +in February, 1664-65. It is not in human nature to be greatly grieved at +the death of one to whom you have to pay an annuity, and Pepys expresses +his feelings in a very naive manner:-- + + "For which God knows my heart I could be as sorry as is possible for + one to be for a stranger by whose death he gets L1OO per annum, he + being a worthy honest man; but when I come to consider the + providence of God by this means unexpectedly to give me L1OO a year + more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and do it from the + bottom of my heart." + +This office was one of considerable importance, for not only was the +holder the secretary or registrar of the Navy Board, but he was also one +of the principal officers of the navy, and, as member of the board, of +equal rank with the other commissioners. This office Pepys held during +the whole period of the Diary, and we find him constantly fighting for +his position, as some of the other members wished to reduce his rank +merely to that of secretary. In his contention Pepys appears to have +been in the right, and a valuable MS. volume in the Pepysian library +contains an extract from the Old Instructions of about 1649, in which +this very point is argued out. The volume appears to have been made up +by William Penn the Quaker, from a collection of manuscripts on the +affairs of the navy found in his father's, "Sir William Penn's closet." +It was presented to Charles II., with a dedication ending thus:-- + + "I hope enough to justifie soe much freedome with a Prince that is + so easie to excuse things well intended as this is + "BY + "Great Prince, + "Thy faithfull subject, + "WM. PENN" + + " London, the 22 of the Mo. called June, 1680." + + +It does not appear how the volume came into Pepys's possession. It may +have been given him by the king, or he may have taken it as a perquisite +of his office. The book has an index, which was evidently added by +Pepys; in this are these entries, which show his appreciation of the +contents of the MS.:-- + + "Clerk of the Acts, + his duty, + his necessity and usefulness." + +The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows the +importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is not +fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his +employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression one +would expect to find in an official document: + + + "CLERKE OF THE ACTS. + + "The clarke of the Navye's duty depends principally upon rateing (by + the Board's approbation) of all bills and recording of them, and all + orders, contracts & warrants, making up and casting of accompts, + framing and writing answers to letters, orders, and commands from + the Councell, Lord High Admirall, or Commissioners of the Admiralty, + and he ought to be a very able accomptant, well versed in Navall + affairs and all inferior officers dutyes. + + "It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to + be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be + joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted + from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some + to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if + he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which + peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine + no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and + possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is + a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment. But why he should + not make as able a Commissioner as a Shipp wright lett wise men + judge." + + +In Pepys's patent the salary is stated to be L33 6s. 8d., but this was +only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had been attached to +the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary had been previously +fixed at L350 a-year. + +Neither of the two qualifications upon which particular stress is laid in +the above Instructions was possessed by Pepys. He knew nothing about the +navy, and so little of accounts that apparently he learned the +multiplication table for the first time in July, 1661. We see from the +particulars given in the Diary how hard he worked to obtain the knowledge +required in his office, and in consequence of his assiduity he soon +became a model official. When Pepys became Clerk of the Acts he took up +his residence at the Navy Office, a large building situated between +Crutched Friars and Seething Lane, with an entrance in each of those +places. On July 4th, 1660, he went with Commissioner Pett to view the +houses, and was very pleased with them, but he feared that the more +influential officers would jockey him out of his rights. His fears were +not well grounded, and on July 18th he records the fact that he dined in +his own apartments, which were situated in the Seething Lane front. + +On July 24th, 1660, Pepys was sworn in as Lord Sandwich's deputy for a +Clerkship of the Privy Seal. This office, which he did not think much of +at first, brought him "in for a time L3 a day." In June, 1660, he was +made Master of Arts by proxy, and soon afterwards he was sworn in as a +justice of the Peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Hampshire, the +counties in which the chief dockyards were situated. + +Pepys's life is written large in the Diary, and it is not necessary here +to do more than catalogue the chief incidents of it in chronological +order. In February, 1661-62, he was chosen a Younger Brother of the +Trinity House, and in April, 1662, when on an official visit to +Portsmouth Dockyard, he was made a burgess of the town. In August of the +same year he was appointed one of the commissioners for the affairs of +Tangier. Soon afterwards Thomas Povy, the treasurer, got his accounts +into a muddle, and showed himself incompetent for the place, so that +Pepys replaced him as treasurer to the commission. + +In March, 1663-64, the Corporation of the Royal Fishery was appointed, +with the Duke of York as governor, and thirty-two assistants, mostly +"very great persons." Through Lord Sandwich's influence Pepys was made +one of these. + +The time was now arriving when Pepys's general ability and devotion to +business brought him prominently into notice. During the Dutch war the +unreadiness of the ships, more particularly in respect to victualling, +was the cause of great trouble. The Clerk of the Acts did his utmost to +set things right, and he was appointed Surveyor-General of the +Victualling Office. The kind way in which Mr. Coventry proposed him as +"the fittest man in England" for the office, and the Duke of York's +expressed approval, greatly pleased him. + +During the fearful period when the Plague was raging, Pepys stuck to his +business, and the chief management of naval affairs devolved upon him, +for the meetings at the Navy Office were but thinly attended. In a +letter to Coventry he wrote:-- + + "The sickness in general thickens round us, and particularly upon + our neighbourhood. You, sir, took your turn of the sword; I must + not, therefore, grudge to take mine of the pestilence." + +At this time his wife was living at Woolwich, and he himself with his +clerks at Greenwich; one maid only remained in the house in London. + +Pepys rendered special service at the time of the Fire of London. He +communicated the king's wishes to the Lord Mayor, and he saved the Navy +Office by having up workmen from Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards to pull +down the houses around, and so prevent the spread of the flames. + +When peace was at length concluded with the Dutch, and people had time to +think over the disgrace which the country had suffered by the presence of +De Ruyter's fleet in the Medway, it was natural that a public inquiry +into the management of the war should be undertaken. A Parliamentary +Committee vas appointed in October, 1667, to inquire into the matter. +Pepys made a statement which satisfied the committee, but for months +afterwards he was continually being summoned to answer some charge, so +that he confesses himself as mad to "become the hackney of this office in +perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least." + +At last a storm broke out in the House of Commons against the principal +officers of the navy, and some members demanded that they should be put +out of their places. In the end they were ordered to be heard in their +own defence at the bar of the House. The whole labour of the defence +fell upon Pepys, but having made out his case with great skill, he was +rewarded by a most unexpected success. On the 5th March, 1667-68, he +made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours, with the +effect that he so far removed the prejudice against the officers of the +Navy Board, that no further proceedings were taken in parliament on the +subject. He was highly praised for his speech, and he was naturally much +elated at his brilliant success. + +About the year 1664 we first hear of a defect in Pepys's eyesight. He +consulted the celebrated Cocker, and began to wear green spectacles, but +gradually this defect became more pronounced, and on the 31st of May, +1669, he wrote the last words in his Diary: + + "And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my + own eyes in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any + longer, having done now as long as to undo my eyes almost every time + that I take a pen in my hand." + +He feared blindness and was forced to desist, to his lasting regret and +our great loss. + +At this time he obtained leave of absence from the duties of his office, +and he set out on a tour through France and Holland accompanied by his +wife. In his travels he was true to the occupation of his life, and made +collections respecting the French and Dutch navies. Some months after +his return he spoke of his journey as having been "full of health and +content," but no sooner had he and his wife returned to London than the +latter became seriously ill with a fever. The disease took a fatal turn, +and on the loth of November, 1669, Elizabeth Pepys died at the early age +of twenty-nine years, to the great grief of her husband. She died at +their house in Crutched Friars, and was buried at St. Olave's Church, +Hart Street, where Pepys erected a monument to her memory. + +Pepys's successful speech at the bar of the House of Commons made him +anxious to become a member, and the Duke of York and Sir William Coventry +heartily supported him in his resolution. An opening occurred in due +course, at Aldborough, in Suffolk, owing to the death of Sir Robert +Brooke in 1669, but, in consequence of the death of his wife, Pepys was +unable to take part in the election. His cause was warmly espoused by +the Duke of York and by Lord Henry Howard (afterwards Earl of Norwich and +sixth Duke of Norfolk), but the efforts of his supporters failed, and the +contest ended in favour of John Bruce, who represented the popular party. +In November, 1673, Pepys was more successful, and was elected for Castle +Rising on the elevation of the member, Sir Robert Paston, to the peerage +as Viscount Yarmouth. His unsuccessful opponent, Mr. Offley, petitioned +against the return, and the election was determined to be void by the +Committee of Privileges. The Parliament, however, being prorogued the +following month without the House's coming to any vote on the subject, +Pepys was permitted to retain his seat. A most irrelevant matter was +introduced into the inquiry, and Pepys was charged with having a crucifix +in his house, from which it was inferred that he was "a papist or +popishly inclined." The charge was grounded upon reported assertions of +Sir John Banks and the Earl of Shaftesbury, which they did not stand to +when examined on the subject, and the charge was not proved to be good. + + ["The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election + for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the + first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. + Pepys. Information being given to the House that they had received + an account from a person of quality, that he saw an Altar with a + Crucifix upon it, in the house of Mr. Pepys; Mr. Pepys, standing up + in his place, did heartily and flatly deny that he ever had any + Altar or Crucifix, or the image or picture of any Saint whatsoever + in his house, from the top to the bottom of it; and the Members + being called upon to name the person that gave them the information, + they were unwilling to declare it without the order of the House; + which, being made, they named the Earl of Shaftesbury; and the House + being also informed that Sir J. Banks did likewise see the Altar, he + was ordered to attend the Bar of the House, to declare what he knew + of this matter. 'Ordered that Sir William Coventry, Sir Thomas + Meeres, and Mr. Garraway do attend Lord Shaftesbury on the like + occasion, and receive what information his Lordship, can give on + this matter.'"--Journals of the House of Commons, vol. ix., p. + 306.--" 13th February, Sir W. Coventry reports that they attended + the Earl of Shaftesbury, and received from him the account which + they had put in writing. The Earl of Shaftesbury denieth that he + ever saw an Altar in Mr. Pepys's house or lodgings; as to the + Crucifix, he saith he hath, some imperfect memory of seeing somewhat + which he conceived to be a Crucifix. When his Lordship was asked + the time, he said it was before the burning of the Office of the + Navy. Being asked concerning the manner, he said he could not + remember whether it were painted or carved, or in what manner the + thing was; and that his memory was so very imperfect in it, that if + he were upon his oath he could give no testimony."--. Ibid., vol. + ix., p. 309.--" 16th February--Sir John Banks was called in--The + Speaker desired him to answer what acquaintance he had with; Mr. + Pepys, and whether he used to have recourse to him to his house and + had ever seen there any Altar or Crucifix, or whether he knew of his + being a Papist, or Popishly inclined. Sir J. Banks said that he had + known and had been acquainted with Mr. Pepys several years, and had + often visited him and conversed with him at the Navy Office, and at + his house there upon several occasions, and that he never saw in his + house there any Altar or Crucifix, and that he does not believe him + to be a Papist, or that way inclined in the least, nor had any + reason or ground to think or believe it."--Ibid., vol, ix., p. 310.] + +It will be seen from the extracts from the Journals of the House of +Commons given in the note that Pepys denied ever having had an altar or +crucifix in his house. In the Diary there is a distinct statement of his +possession of a crucifix, but it is not clear from the following extracts +whether it was not merely a varnished engraving of the Crucifixion which +he possessed: + + July 20, 1666. "So I away to Lovett's, there to see how my picture + goes on to be varnished, a fine crucifix which will be very fine." + August 2. "At home find Lovett, who showed me my crucifix, which + will be very fine when done." Nov. 3. "This morning comes Mr. + Lovett and brings me my print of the Passion, varnished by him, and + the frame which is indeed very fine, though not so fine as I + expected; but pleases me exceedingly." + +Whether he had or had not a crucifix in his house was a matter for +himself alone, and the interference of the House of Commons was a gross +violation of the liberty of the subject. + +In connection with Lord Shaftesbury's part in this matter, the late Mr. +W. D. Christie found the following letter to Sir Thomas Meres among the +papers at St. Giles's House, Dorsetshire:-- + + "Exeter House, February 10th, 1674. + + "Sir,--That there might be no mistake, I thought best to put my + answer in writing to those questions that yourself, Sir William + Coventry, and Mr. Garroway were pleased to propose to me this + morning from the House of Commons, which is that I never designed to + be a witness against any man for what I either heard or saw, and + therefore did not take so exact notice of things inquired of as to + be able to remember them so clearly as is requisite to do in a + testimony upon honour or oath, or to so great and honourable a body + as the House of Commons, it being some years distance since I was at + Mr. Pepys his lodging. Only that particular of an altar is so + signal that I must needs have remembered it had I seen any such + thing, which I am sure I do not. This I desire you to communicate + with Sir William Coventry and Mr. Garroway to be delivered as my + answer to the House of Commons, it being the same I gave you this + morning. + + "I am, Sir, + "Your most humble servant, + "SHAFTESBURY." + + +After reading this letter Sir William Coventry very justly remarked, +"There are a great many more Catholics than think themselves so, if +having a crucifix will make one." Mr. Christie resented the remarks on +Lord Shaftesbury's part in this persecution of Pepys made by Lord +Braybrooke, who said, "Painful indeed is it to reflect to what length the +bad passions which party violence inflames could in those days carry a +man of Shaftesbury's rank, station, and abilities." Mr. Christie +observes, "It is clear from the letter to Meres that Shaftesbury showed +no malice and much scrupulousness when a formal charge, involving +important results, was founded on his loose private conversations." +This would be a fair vindication if the above attack upon Pepys stood +alone, but we shall see later on that Shaftesbury was the moving spirit +in a still more unjustifiable attack. + +Lord Sandwich died heroically in the naval action in Southwold Bay, and +on June 24th,1672, his remains were buried with some pomp in Westminster +Abbey. There were eleven earls among the mourners, and Pepys, as the +first among "the six Bannerolles," walked in the procession. + +About this time Pepys was called from his old post of Clerk of the Acts +to the higher office of Secretary of the Admiralty. His first +appointment was a piece of favouritism, but it was due to his merits +alone that he obtained the secretaryship. In the summer of 1673, the +Duke of York having resigned all his appointments on the passing of the +Test Act, the King put the Admiralty into commission, and Pepys was +appointed Secretary for the Affairs of the Navy. + + [The office generally known as Secretary of the Admiralty dates back + many years, but the officer who filled it was sometimes Secretary to + the Lord High Admiral, and sometimes to the Commission for that + office. "His Majesties Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of + Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, + Esq., first Secretary therein," is dated June 10th, 1684.] + +He was thus brought into more intimate connection with Charles II., who +took the deepest interest in shipbuilding and all naval affairs. The +Duke of Buckingham said of the King:-- + + "The great, almost the only pleasure of his mind to which he seemed + addicted was shipping and sea affairs, which seemed to be so much + his talent for knowledge as well as inclination, that a war of that + kind was rather an entertainment than any disturbance to his + thoughts." + +When Pepys ceased to be Clerk of the Acts he was able to obtain the +appointment for his clerk, Thomas Hayter, and his brother, John Pepys, +who held it jointly. The latter does not appear to have done much credit +to Samuel. He was appointed Clerk to the Trinity House in 1670 on his +brother's recommendation, and when he died in 1677 he was in debt L300 to +his employers, and this sum Samuel had to pay. In 1676 Pepys was Master +of the Trinity House, and in the following year Master of the +Clothworkers' Company, when he presented a richly-chased silver cup, +which is still used at the banquets of the company. On Tuesday, 10th +September, 1677, the Feast of the Hon. Artillery Company was held at +Merchant Taylors' Hall, when the Duke of York, the Duke of Somerset, the +Lord Chancellor, and other distinguished persons were present. On this +occasion Viscount Newport, Sir Joseph Williamson, and Samuel Pepys +officiated as stewards. + +About this time it is evident that the secretary carried himself with +some haughtiness as a ruler of the navy, and that this was resented by +some. An amusing instance will be found in the Parliamentary Debates. +On May 11th, 1678, the King's verbal message to quicken the supply was +brought in by Mr. Secretary Williamson, when Pepys spoke to this effect: + + "When I promised that the ships should be ready by the 30th of May, + it was upon the supposition of the money for 90 ships proposed by + the King and voted by you, their sizes and rates, and I doubt not by + that time to have 90 ships, and if they fall short it will be only + from the failing of the Streights ships coming home and those but + two . . . . . + + "Sir Robert Howard then rose and said, 'Pepys here speaks rather + like an Admiral than a Secretary, "I" and "we." I wish he knows + half as much of the Navy as he pretends.'" + +Pepys was chosen by the electors of Harwich as their member in the short +Parliament that sat from March to July, 1679, his colleague being Sir +Anthony Deane, but both members were sent to the Tower in May on a +baseless charge, and they were superseded in the next Parliament that met +on the 17th October, 1679. + +The high-handed treatment which Pepys underwent at this time exhibits a +marked instance of the disgraceful persecution connected with the so- +called Popish plot. He was totally unconnected with the Roman Catholic +party, but his association with the Duke of York was sufficient to mark +him as a prey for the men who initiated this "Terror" of the seventeenth +century. Sir. Edmund Berry Godfrey came to his death in October, 1678, +and in December Samuel Atkins, Pepys's clerk, was brought to trial as an +accessory to his murder. Shaftesbury and the others not having succeeded +in getting at Pepys through his clerk, soon afterwards attacked him more +directly, using the infamous evidence of Colonel Scott. Much light has +lately been thrown upon the underhand dealings of this miscreant by Mr. +G. D. Scull, who printed privately in 1883 a valuable work entitled, +"Dorothea Scott, otherwise Gotherson, and Hogben of Egerton House, Kent, +1611-1680." + +John Scott (calling himself Colonel Scott) ingratiated himself into +acquaintance with Major Gotherson, and sold to the latter large tracts of +land in Long Island, to which he had no right whatever. Dorothea +Gotherson, after her husband's death, took steps to ascertain the exact +state of her property, and obtained the assistance of Colonel Francis +Lovelace, Governor of New York. Scott's fraud was discovered, and a +petition for redress was presented to the King. The result of this was +that the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott, +and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions and +information as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island, +Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preserved +among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian. Scott had his revenge, +and accused Pepys of betraying the Navy by sending secret particulars to +the French Government, and of a design to dethrone the king and extirpate +the Protestant religion. Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane were committed to +the Tower under the Speaker's warrant on May 22nd, 1679, and Pepys's +place at the Admiralty was filled by the appointment of Thomas Hayter. +When the two prisoners were brought to the bar of the King's Bench on the +2nd of June, the Attorney-General refused bail, but subsequently they +were allowed to find security for L30,000. + +Pepys was put to great expense in collecting evidence against Scott and +obtaining witnesses to clear himself of the charges brought against him. +He employed his brother-in-law, Balthasar St. Michel, to collect evidence +in France, as he himself explains in a letter to the Commissioners of the +Navy:-- + + "His Majesty of his gracious regard to me, and the justification of + my innocence, was then pleased at my humble request to dispence with + my said brother goeing (with ye shippe about that time designed for + Tangier) and to give leave to his goeing into France (the scene of + ye villannys then in practice against me), he being the only person + whom (from his relation to me, together with his knowledge in the + place and language, his knowne dilligence and particular affection + towards mee) I could at that tyme and in soe greate a cause pitch + on, for committing the care of this affaire of detecting the + practice of my enemies there." + +In the end Scott refused to acknowledge to the truth of his original +deposition, and the prisoners were relieved from their bail on February +12th, 1679-80. John James, a butler previously in Pepys's service, +confessed on his deathbed in 1680 that he had trumped up the whole story +relating to his former master's change of religion at the instigation of +Mr. William Harbord, M.P. for Thetford. + +Pepys wrote on July 1st, 1680, to Mrs. Skinner: + + "I would not omit giving you the knowledge of my having at last + obtained what with as much reason I might have expected a year ago, + my full discharge from the bondage I have, from one villain's + practice, so long lain under." + +William Harbord, of Cadbury, co. Somerset, second son of Sir Charles +Harbord, whom he succeeded in 1682 as Surveyor. General of the Land +Revenues of the Crown, was Pepys's most persistent enemy. Several papers +referring to Harbord's conduct were found at Scott's lodging after his +flight, and are now preserved among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian. +One of these was the following memorandum, which shows pretty plainly +Pepys's opinion of Harbord:-- + + "That about the time of Mr. Pepys's surrender of his employment of + Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. Russell and myself being in + discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell delivered himself in these or + other words to this purport: That he thought it might be of + advantage to both, if a good understanding were had between his + brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose it to Mr. Pepys, + and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and went immediately + from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this discourse, he gave me + readily this answer in these very words: That he knew of no service + Mr. Harbord could doe him, or if he could, he should be the last man + in England he would receive any from." + + [William Harbord sat as M.P. for Thetford in several parliaments. + In 1689 he was chosen on the Privy Council, and in 1690 became Vice- + Treasurer for Ireland. He was appointed Ambassador to Turkey in + 1692, and died at Belgrade in July of that year.] + +Besides Scott's dishonesty in his dealings with Major Gotherson, it came +out that he had cheated the States of Holland out of L7,000, in +consequence of which he was hanged in effigy at the Hague in 1672. In +1682 he fled from England to escape from the law, as he had been guilty +of wilful murder by killing George Butler, a hackney coachman, and he +reached Norway in safety, where he remained till 1696. In that year some +of his influential friends obtained a pardon for him from William III., +and he returned to England. + +In October, 1680, Pepys attended on Charles II. at Newmarket, and there +he took down from the King's own mouth the narrative of his Majesty's +escape from Worcester, which was first published in 1766 by Sir David +Dalrymple (Lord Hailes) from the MS., which now remains in the Pepysian +library both in shorthand and in longhand? It is creditable to Charles +II. and the Duke of York that both brothers highly appreciated the +abilities of Pepys, and availed themselves of his knowledge of naval +affairs. + +In the following year there was some chance that Pepys might retire from +public affairs, and take upon himself the headship of one of the chief +Cambridge colleges. On the death of Sir Thomas Page, the Provost of +King's College, in August, 1681, Mr. S. Maryon, a Fellow of Clare Hall, +recommended Pepys to apply to the King for the appointment, being assured +that the royal mandate if obtained would secure his election. He liked +the idea, but replied that he believed Colonel Legge (afterwards Lord +Dartmouth) wanted to get the office for an old tutor. Nothing further +seems to have been done by Pepys, except that he promised if he were +chosen to give the whole profit of the first year, and at least half of +that of each succeeding year, to "be dedicated to the general and public +use of the college." In the end Dr. John Coplestone was appointed to the +post. + +On May 22nd, 1681, the Rev. Dr. Milles, rector of St. Olave's, who is so +often mentioned in the Diary, gave Pepys a certificate as to his +attention to the services of the Church. It is not quite clear what was +the occasion of the certificate, but probably the Diarist wished to have +it ready in case of another attack upon him in respect to his tendency +towards the Church of Rome. + +Early in 1682 Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, and +narrowly escaped shipwreck by the way. Before letters could arrive in +London to tell of his safety, the news came of the wreck of the +"Gloucester" (the Duke's ship), and of the loss of many lives. His +friends' anxiety was relieved by the arrival of a letter which Pepys +wrote from Edinburgh to Hewer on May 8th, in which he detailed the +particulars of the adventure. The Duke invited him to go on board the +"Gloucester" frigate, but he preferred his own yacht (the "Catherine "), +in which he had more room, and in consequence of his resolution he saved +himself from the risk of drowning. On May 5th the frigate struck upon +the sand called "The Lemon and Oar," about sixteen leagues from the mouth +of the Humber. This was caused by the carelessness of the pilot, to whom +Pepys imputed "an obstinate over-weening in opposition to the contrary +opinions of Sir I. Berry, his master, mates, Col. Legg, the Duke himself, +and several others, concurring unanimously in not being yet clear of the +sands." The Duke and his party escaped, but numbers were drowned in the +sinking ship, and it is said that had the wreck occurred two hours +earlier, and the accompanying yachts been at the distance they had +previously been, not a soul would have escaped. + +Pepys stayed in Edinburgh for a short time, and the Duke of York allowed +him to be present at two councils. He then visited; with Colonel George +Legge, some of the principal places in the neighbourhood, such as +Stirling, Linlithgow, Hamilton, and Glasgow. The latter place he +describes as "a very extraordinary town indeed for beauty and trade, much +superior to any in Scotland." + +Pepys had now been out of office for some time, but he was soon to have +employment again. Tangier, which was acquired at the marriage of the +King to Katharine of Braganza, had long been an incumbrance, and it was +resolved at last to destroy the place. Colonel Legge (now Lord +Dartmouth) was in August, 1683, constituted Captain-General of his +Majesty's forces in Africa, and Governor of Tangier, and sent with a +fleet of about twenty sail to demolish and blow up the works, destroy the +harbour, and bring home the garrison. Pepys received the King's commands +to accompany Lord Dartmouth on his expedition, but the latter's +instructions were secret, and Pepys therefore did not know what had been +decided upon. He saw quite enough, however, to form a strong opinion of +the uselessness of the place to England. Lord Dartmouth carried out his +instructions thoroughly, and on March 29th, 1684, he and his party +(including Pepys) arrived in the English Channel. + +The King himself now resumed the office of Lord High Admiral, and +appointed Pepys Secretary of the Admiralty, with a salary of L500 per +annum. In the Pepysian Library is the original patent, dated June 10th, +1684: "His Majesty's Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of +Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, Esq., +first Secretary therein." In this office the Diarist remained until the +period of the Revolution, when his official career was concluded. + +A very special honour was conferred upon Pepys in this year, when he was +elected President of the Royal Society in succession to Sir Cyril Wyche, +and he held the office for two years. Pepys had been admitted a fellow +of the society on February 15th, 1664-65, and from Birch's "History" we +find that in the following month he made a statement to the society:-- + +"Mr. Pepys gave an account of what information he had received from the +Master of the Jersey ship which had been in company with Major Holmes in +the Guinea voyage concerning the pendulum watches (March 15th, 1664-5)." + +The records of the society show that he frequently made himself useful by +obtaining such information as might be required in his department. After +he retired from the presidency, he continued to entertain some of the +most distinguished members of the society on Saturday evenings at his +house in York Buildings. Evelyn expressed the strongest regret when it +was necessary to discontinue these meetings on account of the infirmities +of the host. + +In 1685 Charles II. died, and was succeeded by James, Duke of York. From +his intimate association with James it might have been supposed that a +long period of official life was still before Pepys, but the new king's +bigotry and incapacity soon made this a practical impossibility. At the +coronation of James II. Pepys marched in the procession immediately +behind the king's canopy, as one of the sixteen barons of the Cinque +Ports. + +In the year 1685 a new charter was granted to the Trinity Company, and +Pepys was named in it the first master, this being the second time that +he had held the office of master. + +Evelyn specially refers to the event in his Diary, and mentions the +distinguished persons present at the dinner on July 20th. + +It is evident that at this time Pepys was looked upon as a specially +influential man, and when a parliament was summoned to meet on May 19th, +1685, he was elected both for Harwich and for Sandwich. He chose to +serve for Harwich, and Sir Philip Parker was elected to fill his place at +Sandwich. + +This parliament was dissolved by proclamation July 2nd, 1687, and on +August 24th the king declared in council that another parliament should +be summoned for November 27th, 1688, but great changes took place before +that date, and when the Convention Parliament was called together in +January and February, 1689-90, Pepys found no place in it. The right- +hand man of the exiled monarch was not likely to find favour in the eyes +of those who were now in possession. When the election for Harwich came +on, the electors refused to return him, and the streets echoed to the cry +of "No Tower men, no men out of the Tower!" They did not wish to be +represented in parliament by a disgraced official. + +We have little or no information to guide us as to Pepys's proceedings at +the period of the Revolution. We know that James II. just before his +flight was sitting to Kneller for a portrait intended for the Secretary +to the Admiralty, and that Pepys acted in that office for the last time +on 20th February, 1688-89, but between those dates we know nothing of the +anxieties and troubles that he must have suffered. On the 9th March an +order was issued from the Commissioners of the Admiralty for him to +deliver up his books, &c., to Phineas Bowies, who superseded him as +secretary. + +Pepys had many firm friends upon whom he could rely, but he had also +enemies who lost no opportunity of worrying him. On June 10th, 1690, +Evelyn has this entry in his Diary, which throws some light upon the +events of the time:-- + + "Mr. Pepys read to me his Remonstrance, skewing with what malice and + injustice he was suspected with Sir Anth. Deane about the timber of + which the thirty ships were built by a late Act of Parliament, with + the exceeding danger which the fleete would shortly be in, by reason + of the tyranny and incompetency of those who now managed the + Admiralty and affairs of the Navy, of which he gave an accurate + state, and shew'd his greate ability." + +On the 25th of this same month Pepys was committed to the Gatehouse at +Westminster on a charge of having sent information to the French Court of +the state of the English navy. There was no evidence of any kind against +him, and at the end of July he was allowed to return to his own house on +account of ill-health. Nothing further was done in respect to the +charge, but he was not free till some time after, and he was long kept in +anxiety, for even in 1692 he still apprehended some fresh persecution. + +Sir Peter Palavicini, Mr. James Houblon, Mr. Blackburne, and Mr. Martin +bailed him, and he sent them the following circular letter:-- + + "October 15, 1690. + + "Being this day become once again a free man in every respect, I + mean but that of my obligation to you and the rest of my friends, to + whom I stand indebted for my being so, I think it but a reasonable + part of my duty to pay you and them my thanks for it in a body; but + know not how otherwise to compass it than by begging you, which I + hereby do, to take your share with them and me here, to-morrow, of a + piece of mutton, which is all I dare promise you, besides that of + being ever, + + "Your most bounden and faithful humble servant, + "S. P." + +He employed the enforced idleness caused by being thrust out of his +employment in the collection of the materials for the valuable work which +he published in 1690, under the title of "Memoirs of the Navy." Little +more was left for him to do in life, but as the government became more +firmly established, and the absolute absurdity of the idea of his +disloyalty was proved, Pepys held up his head again as a man to be +respected and consulted, and for the remainder of his life he was looked +upon as the Nestor of the Navy. + +There is little more to be told of Pepys's life. He continued to keep up +an extended correspondence with his many friends, and as Treasurer of +Christ's Hospital he took very great interest in the welfare of that +institution. He succeeded in preserving from impending ruin the +mathematical foundation which had been originally designed by him, +and through his anxious solicitations endowed and cherished by Charles +II. and James II. One of the last public acts of his life was the +presentation of the portrait of the eminent Dr. John Wallis, Savilian +Professor of Geometry, to the University of Oxford. + +In 1701 he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, and +the University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeous +language the expression of thanks for his munificence.' + + +On the 26th May, 1703, Samuel Pepys, after long continued suffering, +breathed his last in the presence of the learned Dr. George Hickes, the +nonjuring Dean of Worcester, and the following letter from John Jackson +to his uncle's lifelong friend Evelyn contains particulars as to the +cause of death: + + Mr. Jackson to Mr. Evelyn. + + "Clapham, May 28th, 1703. + "Friday night. + + "Honoured Sir, + + "'Tis no small addition to my grief, to be obliged to interrupt the + quiet of your happy recess with the afflicting tidings of my Uncle + Pepys's death: knowing how sensibly you will partake with me herein. + But I should not be faithful to his desires, if I did not beg your + doing the honour to his memory of accepting mourning from him, as a + small instance of his most affectionate respect and honour for you. + I have thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the way at + that only time when you were pleased lately to touch here, and + express so great a desire of taking your leave of my Uncle; which + could not but have been admitted by him as a most welcome exception + to his general orders against being interrupted; and I could most + heartily wish that the circumstances of your health and distance did + not forbid me to ask the favour of your assisting in the holding up + of the pawll at his interment, which is intended to be on Thursday + next; for if the manes are affected with what passes below, I am + sure this would have been very grateful to his. + + "I must not omit acquainting you, sir, that upon opening his body, + (which the uncommonness of his case required of us, for our own + satisfaction as well as public good) there was found in his left + kidney a nest of no less than seven stones, of the most irregular, + figures your imagination can frame, and weighing together four + ounces and a half, but all fast linked together, and adhering to his + back; whereby they solve his having felt no greater pains upon + motion, nor other of the ordinary symptoms of the stone. Some other + lesser defects there also were in his body, proceeding from the same + cause. But his stamina, in general, were marvellously strong, and + not only supported him, under the most exquisite pains, weeks beyond + all expectations; but, in the conclusion, contended for nearly forty + hours (unassisted by any nourishment) with the very agonies of + death, some few minutes excepted, before his expiring, which were + very calm. + + "There remains only for me, under this affliction, to beg the + consolation and honour of succeeding to your patronage, for my + Uncle's sake; and leave to number myself, with the same sincerity he + ever did, among your greatest honourers, which I shall esteem as one + of the most valuable parts of my inheritances from him; being also, + with the faithfullest wishes of health and a happy long life to you, + + "Honoured Sir, + "Your most obedient and + "Most humble Servant, + "J. JACKSON. + + "Mr. Hewer, as my Uncle's Executor, and equally your faithful + Servant, joins with me in every part hereof. + + "The time of my Uncle's departure was about three-quarters past + three on Wednesday morning last." + + +Evelyn alludes in his Diary to Pepys's death and the present to him of a +suit of mourning. He speaks in very high terms of his friend:-- + + "1703, May 26th. This day died Mr. Sam Pepys, a very worthy, + industrious, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in + knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed thro' all the most + considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the + Admiralty, all which he performed with great integrity. When K. + James II. went out of England, he laid down his office, and would + serve no more, but withdrawing himselfe from all public affaires, he + liv'd at Clapham with his partner Mr. Hewer, formerly his clerk, in + a very noble and sweete place, where he enjoy'd the fruits of his + labours in greate prosperity. He was universally belov'd, + hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilfd in music, a + very greate cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation + . . . . Mr. Pepys had been for neere 40 yeeres so much my + particular friend that Mr. Jackson sent me compleat mourning, + desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his magnificent + obsequies, but my indisposition hinder'd me from doing him this last + office." + +The body was brought from Clapham and buried in St. Olave's Church, Hart +Street, on the 5th June, at nine o'clock at night, in a vault just +beneath the monument to the memory of Mrs. Pepys. Dr. Hickes performed +the last sad offices for his friend. + +Pepys's faithful friend, Hewer, was his executor, and his nephew, John +Jackson, his heir. Mourning was presented to forty persons, and a large +number of rings to relations, godchildren, servants, and friends, also to +representatives of the Royal Society, of the Universities of Cambridge +and Oxford, of the Admiralty, and of the Navy Office. The bulk of the +property was bequeathed to Jackson, but the money which was left was much +less than might have been expected,, for at the time of Pepys's death +there was a balance of L28,007 2s. 1d. due to him from the Crown, and +none of this was ever paid. The books and other collections were left to +Magdalene College, Cambridge, but Jackson was to have possession of them +during his lifetime. These were the most important portion of Pepys's +effects, for with them was the manuscript of the immortal Diary. The +following are the directions for the disposition of the library, taken +from Harl. MS., No. 7301: + + "For the further settlement and preservation of my said library, + after the death of my nephew. John Jackson, I do hereby declare, + That could I be sure of a constant succession of heirs from my said + nephew, qualified like himself for the use of such a library, I + should not entertain a thought of its ever being alienated from + them. But this uncertainty considered, with the infinite pains, and + time, and cost employed in my collecting, methodising and reducing + the same to the state it now is, I cannot but be greatly solicitous + that all possible provision should be made for its unalterable + preservation and perpetual security against the ordinary fate of + such collections falling into the hands of an incompetent heir, and + thereby being sold, dissipated, or embezzled. And since it has + pleased God to visit me in a manner that leaves little appearance of + being myself restored to a condition of concerting the necessary + measures for attaining these ends, I must and do with great + confidence rely upon the sincerity and direction of my executor and + said nephew for putting in execution the powers given them, by my + forementioned will relating hereto, requiring that the same be + brought to a determination in twelve months after my decease, and + that special regard be had therein to the following particulars + which I declare to be my present thoughts and prevailing + inclinations in this matter, viz.: + + "1. That after the death of my said nephew, my said library be + placed and for ever settled in one of our universities, and rather + in that of Cambridge than Oxford. + + "2. And rather in a private college there, than in the public + library. + + "3. And in the colleges of Trinity or Magdalen preferably to all + others. + + "4. And of these too, 'caeteris paribus', rather in the latter, for + the sake of my own and my nephew's education therein. + + "5. That in which soever of the two it is, a fair roome be provided + therein. + + "6. And if in Trinity, that the said roome be contiguous to, and + have communication with, the new library there. + + "7. And if in Magdalen, that it be in the new building there, and + any part thereof at my nephew's election. + + "8. That my said library be continued in its present form and no + other books mixed therein, save what my nephew may add to theirs of + his own collecting, in distinct presses. + + "9. That the said room and books so placed and adjusted be called + by the name of 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana.' + + "10. That this 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana' be under the sole power and + custody of the master of the college for the time being, who shall + neither himself convey, nor suffer to be conveyed by others, any of + the said books from thence to any other place, except to his own + lodge in the said college, nor there have more than ten of them at a + time; and that of those also a strict entry be made and account + kept, at the time of their having been taken out and returned, in a + book to be provided, and remain in the said library for that purpose + only. + + "11. That before my said library be put into the possession of + either of the said colleges, that college for which it shall be + designed, first enter into covenants for performance of the + foregoing articles. + + "12. And that for a yet further security herein, the said two + colleges of Trinity and Magdalen have a reciprocal check upon one + another; and that college which shall be in present possession of + the said library, be subject to an annual visitation from the other, + and to the forfeiture thereof to the life, possession, and use of + the other, upon conviction of any breach of their said covenants. + + "S. PEPYS." + + +The library and the original book-cases were not transferred to Magdalene +College until 1724, and there they have been preserved in safety ever +since. + +A large number of Pepys's manuscripts appear to have remained unnoticed +in York Buildings for some years. They never came into Jackson's hands, +and were thus lost to Magdalene College. Dr. Rawlinson afterwards +obtained them, and they were included in the bequest of his books to the +Bodleian Library. + +Pepys was partial to having his portrait taken, and he sat to Savill, +Hales, Lely, and Kneller. Hales's portrait, painted in 1666, is now in +the National Portrait Gallery, and an etching from the original forms the +frontispiece to this volume. The portrait by Lely is in the Pepysian +Library. Of the three portraits by Kneller, one is in the hall of +Magdalene College, another at the Royal Society, and the third was lent +to the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, by the late +Mr. Andrew Pepys Cockerell. Several of the portraits have been engraved, +but the most interesting of these are those used by Pepys himself as +book-plates. These were both engraved by Robert White, and taken from +paintings by Kneller. + +The church of St. Olave, Hart Street, is intimately associated with Pepys +both in his life and in his death, and for many years the question had +been constantly asked by visitors, "Where is Pepys's monument?" +On Wednesday, July 5th, 1882, a meeting was held in the vestry of the +church, when an influential committee was appointed, upon which all the +great institutions with which Pepys was connected were represented by +their masters, presidents, or other officers, with the object of taking +steps to obtain an adequate memorial of the Diarist. Mr. (now Sir) +Alfred Blomfield, architect of the church, presented an appropriate +design for a monument, and sufficient subscriptions having been obtained +for the purpose, he superintended its erection. On Tuesday afternoon, +March 18th, 1884, the monument, which was affixed to the wall of the +church where the gallery containing Pepys's pew formerly stood, was +unveiled in the presence of a large concourse of visitors. The Earl of +Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, consented to unveil the +monument, but he was at the last moment prevented by public business from +attending. The late Mr. Russell Lowell, then the American Minister, took +Lord Northbrook's place, and made a very charming and appreciative speech +on the occasion, from which the following passages are extracted:-- + + "It was proper," his Excellency said, "that he should read a note he + had received from Lord Northbrook. This was dated that day from the + Admiralty, and was as follows: + + "'My dear Mr. Lowell, + + "'I am very much annoyed that I am prevented from assisting at the + ceremony to-day. It would be very good if you would say that + nothing but very urgent business would have kept me away. I was + anxious to give my testimony to the merits of Pepys as an Admiralty + official, leaving his literary merits to you. He was concerned with + the administration of the Navy from the Restoration to the + Revolution, and from 1673 as secretary. I believe his merits to be + fairly stated in a contemporary account, which I send. + + "'Yours very truly, + "'NORTHBROOK. + + + "The contemporary account, which Lord Northbrook was good enough to + send him, said: + + "'Pepys was, without exception, the greatest and most useful + Minister that ever filled the same situations in England, the acts + and registers of the Admiralty proving this beyond contradiction. + The principal rules and establishments in present use in these + offices are well known to have been of his introducing, and most of + the officers serving therein since the Restoration, of his bringing- + up. He was a most studious promoter and strenuous asserter of order + and discipline. Sobriety, diligence, capacity, loyalty, and + subjection to command were essentials required in all whom he + advanced. Where any of these were found wanting, no interest or + authority was capable of moving him in favour of the highest + pretender. Discharging his duty to his Prince and country with a + religious application and perfect integrity, he feared no one, + courted no one, and neglected his own fortune.' + + "That was a character drawn, it was true, by a friendly hand, but to + those who were familiar with the life of Pepys, the praise hardly + seemed exaggerated. As regarded his official life, it was + unnecessary to dilate upon his peculiar merits, for they all knew + how faithful he was in his duties, and they all knew, too, how many + faithful officials there were working on in obscurity, who were not + only never honoured with a monument but who never expected one. The + few words, Mr. Lowell went on to remark, which he was expected to + say upon that occasion, therefore, referred rather to what he + believed was the true motive which had brought that assembly + together, and that was by no means the character of Pepys either as + Clerk of the Acts or as Secretary to the Admiralty. This was not + the place in which one could go into a very close examination of the + character of Pepys as a private man. He would begin by admitting + that Pepys was a type, perhaps, of what was now called a + 'Philistine'. We had no word in England which was equivalent to the + French adjective Bourgeois; but, at all events, Samuel Pepys was the + most perfect type that ever existed of the class of people whom this + word described. He had all its merits as well as many of its + defects. With all those defects, however perhaps in consequence of + them--Pepys had written one of the most delightful books that it was + man's privilege to read in the English language or in any other. + Whether Pepys intended this Diary to be afterwards read by the + general public or not--and this was a doubtful question when it was + considered that he had left, possibly by inadvertence, a key to his + cypher behind him--it was certain that he had left with us a most + delightful picture, or rather he had left the power in our hands of + drawing for ourselves some, of the most delightful pictures, of the + time in which he lived. There was hardly any book which was + analogous to it . .. . . If one were asked what were the reasons + for liking Pepys, it would be found that they were as numerous as + the days upon which he made an entry in his Diary, and surely that + was sufficient argument in his favour. There was no book, Mr. + Lowell said, that he knew of, or that occurred to his memory, with + which Pepys's Diary could fairly be compared, except the journal of + L'Estoile, who had the same anxious curiosity and the same + commonness, not to say vulgarity of interest, and the book was + certainly unique in one respect, and that was the absolute sincerity + of the author with himself. Montaigne is conscious that we are + looking over his shoulder, and Rousseau secretive in comparison with + him. The very fact of that sincerity of the author with himself + argued a certain greatness of character. Dr. Hickes, who attended + Pepys at his deathbed, spoke of him as 'this great man,' and said he + knew no one who died so greatly. And yet there was something almost + of the ridiculous in the statement when the 'greatness' was compared + with the garrulous frankness which Pepys showed towards himself. + There was no parallel to the character of Pepys, he believed, in + respect of 'naivete', unless it were found in that of Falstaff, and + Pepys showed himself, too, like Falstaff, on terms of unbuttoned + familiarity with himself. Falstaff had just the same 'naivete', but + in Falstaff it was the 'naivete' of conscious humour. In Pepys it + was quite different, for Pepys's 'naivete' was the inoffensive + vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass. Falstaff had + a sense, too, of inadvertent humour, but it was questionable whether + Pepys could have had any sense of humour at all, and yet permitted + himself to be so delightful. There was probably, however, more + involuntary humour in Pepys's Diary than there was in any other book + extant. When he told his readers of the landing of Charles II. at + Dover, for instance, it would be remembered how Pepys chronicled the + fact that the Mayor of Dover presented the Prince with a Bible, for + which he returned his thanks and said it was the 'most precious Book + to him in the world.' Then, again, it would be remembered how, when + he received a letter addressed 'Samuel Pepys, Esq.,' he confesses in + the Diary that this pleased him mightily. When, too, he kicked his + cookmaid, he admits that he was not sorry for it, but was sorry that + the footboy of a worthy knight with whom he was acquainted saw him + do it. And the last instance he would mention of poor Pepys's + 'naivete' was when he said in the Diary that he could not help + having a certain pleasant and satisfied feeling when Barlow died. + Barlow, it must be remembered, received during his life the yearly + sum from Pepys of L100. The value of Pepys's book was simply + priceless, and while there was nothing in it approaching that single + page in St. Simon where he described that thunder of courtierly red + heels passing from one wing of the Palace to another as the Prince + was lying on his death-bed, and favour was to flow from another + source, still Pepys's Diary was unequalled in its peculiar quality + of amusement. The lightest part of the Diary was of value, + historically, for it enabled one to see London of 200 years ago, + and, what was more, to see it with the eager eyes of Pepys. It was + not Pepys the official who had brought that large gathering together + that day in honour of his memory: it was Pepys the Diarist." + + +In concluding this account of the chief particulars of Pepys's life it +may be well to add a few words upon the pronunciation of his name. +Various attempts appear to have been made to represent this phonetically. +Lord Braybrooke, in quoting the entry of death from St. Olave's +Registers, where the spelling is "Peyps," wrote, "This is decisive as to +the proper pronunciation of the name." This spelling may show that the +name was pronounced as a monosyllable, but it is scarcely conclusive as +to anything else, and Lord Braybrooke does not say what he supposes the +sound of the vowels to have been. At present there are three +pronunciations in use--Peps, which is the most usual; Peeps, which is the +received one at Magdalene College, and Peppis, which I learn from Mr. +Walter C. Pepys is the one used by other branches of the family. Mr. +Pepys has paid particular attention to this point, and in his valuable +"Genealogy of the Pepys Family" (1887) he has collected seventeen +varieties of spelling of the name, which are as follows, the dates of the +documents in which the form appears being attached: + +1. Pepis (1273); 2. Pepy (1439); 3. Pypys (1511); 4. Pipes (1511); +5. Peppis (1518); 6. Peppes (1519); 7. Pepes (1520); 8. Peppys (1552); +9. Peaps (1636); 10. Pippis (1639); 11. Peapys (1653); 12. Peps (1655); +13. Pypes (1656); 14. Peypes (1656); 15. Peeps (1679); +16. Peepes (1683); 17. Peyps (1703). Mr. Walter Pepys adds:-- + + "The accepted spelling of the name 'Pepys' was adopted generally + about the end of the seventeenth century, though it occurs many + years before that time. There have been numerous ways of + pronouncing the name, as 'Peps,' 'Peeps,' and ' Peppis.' The + Diarist undoubtedly pronounced it 'Peeps,' and the lineal + descendants of his sister Paulina, the family of 'Pepys Cockerell' + pronounce it so to this day. The other branches of the family all + pronounce it as 'Peppis,' and I am led to be satisfied that the + latter pronunciation is correct by the two facts that in the + earliest known writing it is spelt 'Pepis,' and that the French form + of the name is 'Pepy.'" + +The most probable explanation is that the name in the seventeenth century +was either pronounced 'Pips' or 'Papes'; for both the forms 'ea' and 'ey' +would represent the latter pronunciation. The general change in the +pronunciation of the spelling 'ea' from 'ai' to 'ee' took place in a +large number of words at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the +eighteenth-century, and three words at least (yea, break, and great) keep +this old pronunciation still. The present Irish pronunciation of English +is really the same as the English pronunciation of the seventeenth +century, when the most extensive settlement of Englishmen in Ireland took +place, and the Irish always pronounce ea like ai (as, He gave him a nate +bating--neat beating). Again, the 'ey' of Peyps would rhyme with they +and obey. English literature is full of illustrations of the old +pronunciation of ea, as in "Hudibras;" + + "Doubtless the pleasure is as great + In being cheated as to cheat," + +which was then a perfect rhyme. In the "Rape of the Lock" tea (tay) +rhymes with obey, and in Cowper's verses on Alexander Selkirk sea rhymes +with survey.' It is not likely that the pronunciation of the name was +fixed, but there is every reason to suppose that the spellings of Peyps +and Peaps were intended to represent the sound Pepes rather than Peeps. + +In spite of all the research which has brought to light so many incidents +of interest in the life of Samuel Pepys, we cannot but feel how dry these +facts are when placed by the side of the living details of the Diary. +It is in its pages that the true man is displayed, and it has therefore +not been thought necessary here to do more than set down in chronological +order such facts as are known of the life outside the Diary. A fuller +"appreciation" of the man must be left for some future occasion. + + H. B. W. + + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.) +Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment +Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March +He knew nothing about the navy +He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours +I never designed to be a witness against any man +In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least +Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass +Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 +Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder +Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon +The present Irish pronunciation of English + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v1 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS + 1960 N.S. COMPLETE + + + JANUARY + 1659-60 + + + [The year did not legally begin in England before the 25th March + until the act for altering the style fixed the 1st of January as the + first day of the year, and previous to 1752 the year extended from + March 25th to the following March 24th. Thus since 1752 we have + been in the habit of putting the two dates for the months of January + and February and March 1 to 24--in all years previous to 1752. + Practically, however, many persons considered the year to commence + with January 1st, as it will be seen Pepys did. The 1st of January + was considered as New Year's day long before Pepys's time. The + fiscal year has not been altered; and the national accounts are + still reckoned from old Lady Day, which falls on the 6th of April.] + +Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, +without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold. + + [Pepys was successfully cut for the stone on March 26th, 1658. See + March 26th below. Although not suffering from this cause again + until the end of his life, there are frequent references in the + Diary to pain whenever he caught cold. In a letter from Pepys to + his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the + breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the + cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the + greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil + so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and + with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that + the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone, + without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more + than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again." At the post-mortem + examination a nest of seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces, + was found in the left kidney, which was entirely ulcerated.] + +I lived in Axe Yard, + + [Pepys's house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster; + it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he + should have settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street + stands on the site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great + messuage or brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called "The + Axe," and referred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII--B.] + +having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. +My wife . . . . gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last +day of the year . . . .[the hope was belied.] + +[This is the first of too many censored passages marked by ". . . ." +wherin Mr. Wheatly determines (in this unabridged edition) that some of +the words of Pepy's are too raw for our eyes. D.W.] + +The condition of the State was thus; viz. the Rump, after being disturbed +by my Lord Lambert, + + [John Lambert, major-general in the Parliamentary army. The title + Lord was not his by right, but it was frequently given to the + republican officers. He was born in 1619, at Calton Hall, in the + parish of Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. + In 1642 he was appointed captain of horse under Fairfax, and acted + as major-general to Cromwell in 1650 during the war in Scotland. + After this Parliament conferred on him a grant of lands in Scotland + worth L1000 per annum. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to + Cromwell, for which the Protector deprived him of his commission. + After Cromwell's death he tried to set up a military government. + The Commons cashiered Lambert, Desborough, and other officers, + October 12th, 1659, but Lambert retaliated by thrusting out the + Commons, and set out to meet Monk. His men fell away from him, and + he was sent to the Tower, March 3rd, 1660, but escaped. In 1662 he + was tried on a charge of high treason and condemned, but his life + was spared. It is generally stated that he passed the remainder of + his life in the island of Guernsey, but this is proved to be + incorrect by a MS. in the Plymouth Athenaeum, entitled "Plimmouth + Memoirs collected by James Yonge, 1684" This will be seen from the + following extracts quoted by Mr. R. J. King, in "Notes and Queries," + "1667 Lambert the arch-rebel brought to this island [St. Nicholas, + at the entrance of Plymouth harbour]." "1683 Easter day Lambert + that olde rebell dyed this winter on Plimmouth Island where he had + been prisoner 15 years and more."] + +was lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced to +yield. Lawson + + [Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as + a common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished + himself during the Protectorate. Though a republican, he readily + closed with the design of restoring the King. He was vice-admiral + under the Earl of Sandwich, and commanded the "London" in the + squadron which conveyed Charles II. to England. He was mortally + wounded in the action with the Dutch off Harwich, June, 1665. He + must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of + Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II, + July 6th, 1665.] + +lies still in the river, and Monk--[George Monk, born 1608, created Duke +of Albemarle, 1660, married Ann Clarges, March, 1654, died January 3rd, +1676.]--is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord Lambert is not yet +come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will without being +forced to it. The new Common Council of the City do speak very high; and +had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint him with their desires +for a free and full Parliament, which is at present the desires, and the +hopes, and expectation of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded members + + ["The City sent and invited him [Monk] to dine the next day at + Guildhall, and there he declared for the members whom the army had + forced away in year forty-seven and forty-eight, who were known by + the names of secluded members."--Burnet's Hist. of his Own Time, + book i.] + +having been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance, but it +was denied them; and it is believed that [neither] they nor the people +will be satisfied till the House be filled. My own private condition +very handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goods +of my house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain. Mr. +Downing master of my office. + + [George Downing was one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the + Exchequer, and in his office Pepys was a clerk. He was the son of + Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple, afterwards of Salem, + Massachusetts, and of Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop. He is + supposed to have been born in August, 1623. He and his parents went + to New England in 1638, and he was the second graduate of Harvard + College. He returned to England about 1645, and acted as Colonel + Okey's chaplain before he entered into political life. Anthony a + Wood (who incorrectly describes him as the son of Dr. Calybute + Downing, vicar of Hackney) calls Downing a sider with all times and + changes: skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionally. + He was sent by Cromwell to Holland in 1657, as resident there. At + the Restoration, he espoused the King's cause, and was knighted and + elected M.P. for Morpeth, in 1661. Afterwards, becoming + Secretary to the Treasury and Commissioner of the Customs, he was in + 1663 created a Baronet of East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, and was + again sent Ambassador to Holland. His grandson of the same name, + who died in 1749, was the founder of Downing College, Cambridge. + The title became extinct in 1764, upon the decease of Sir John + Gerrard Downing, the last heir-male of the family. Sir George + Downing's character will be found in Lord Clarendon's "Life," vol. + iii. p. 4. Pepys's opinion seems to be somewhat of a mixed kind. + He died in July, 1684.] + + + +Jan. 1st (Lord's day). This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I +rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other, +clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning's + + [Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, + and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely. He had continued to + read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament + was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him. Evelyn + relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with + soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife + being among them. There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in + Evelyn's Diary. When he obtained the mastership of St. John's + College upon the ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that + Nonconformist divine a handsome annuity during his life. He was a + great controversialist, and a man of great reading. Burnet says he + "was a very honest sincere man, but of no sound judgment, and of no + prudence in affairs" ("Hist. of his Own. Time"). He died July 6th, + 1684, aged seventy-one.] + +chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these +words:--"That in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman," +&c.; showing, that, by "made under the law," is meant his circumcision, +which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the garret, where my wife +dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her +hand. I staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; then +went with my wife to my father's, and in going observed the great posts +which the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supt at my, +father's, where in came Mrs. The. Turner--[Theophila Turner, daughter of +Sergeant John and Jane Turner, who married Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. She +died 1686.]--and Madam Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife +and I went home with them, and so to our own home. + + + +2nd. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of +bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to +Mr. Sheply,--[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]-- who +was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other places as a gift +from my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him order to give me the +dozen of bottles. Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. +Calthropp about the L60 due to my Lord, + + [Sir Edward Montagu, born 1625, son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by + Paulina, daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, married Jemima, + daughter of John Crew of Stene. He died in action against the Dutch + in Southwold Bay, May 28th, 1672. The title of "My Lord" here + applied to Montagu before he was created Earl of Sandwich is of the + same character as that given to General Lambert.] + +but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I went to Mr. Crew's + + [John Crew, born 1598, eldest son of Sir Thomas Crew, Sergeant-at- + Law and Speaker of the House of Commons. He sat for Brackley in the + Long Parliament. Created Baron Crew of Stene, in the county of + Northampton, at the coronation of Charles II. He married Jemima, + daughter and co-heir of Edward Walgrave (or Waldegrave) of Lawford, + Essex. His house was in Lincoln's Inn Fields. He died December + 12th, 1679.] + +and borrowed L10 of Mr. Andrewes for my own use, and so went to my +office, where there was nothing to do. Then I walked a great while in +Westminster Hall, where I heard that Lambert was coming up to London; +that my Lord Fairfax + + [Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces. + After the Restoration, he retired to his country seat, where he + lived in private till his death, 1671. In a volume (autograph) of + Lord Fairfax's Poems, preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42, + the following lines occur upon the 30th of January, on which day the + King was beheaded. It is believed that they have never been + printed. + + "O let that day from time be bloted quitt, + And beleef of 't in next age be waved, + In depest silence that act concealed might, + That so the creadet of our nation might be saved; + But if the powre devine hath ordered this, + His will's the law, and our must aquiess." + + These wretched verses have obviously no merit; but they are curious + as showing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles + I's judges; continued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror + for that unfortunate monarch's fate. It has recently been pointed + out to me, that the lines were not originally composed by Fairfax, + being only a poor translation of the spirited lines of Statius + (Sylvarum lib. v. cap. ii. l. 88) + + "Excidat illa dies aevo, ne postera credant + Secula, nos certe taceamus; et obruta multa + Nocte tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis." + + These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the + massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in + his memorable speech in the House of Commons, January, 1793, after + the murder of Louis XVI.--B.] + +was in the head of the Irish brigade, but it was not certain what he +would declare for. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for the +Council of State, which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers; +and were to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk that many +places have declared for a free Parliament; and it is believed that they +will be forced to fill up the House with the old members. From the Hall +I called at home, and so went to Mr. Crew's (my wife she was to go to her +father's), thinking to have dined, but I came too late, so Mr. Moore and +I and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of ale together in the +new market, and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner. After +that Mr. Moore and I went as far as Fleet-street together and parted, he +going into the City, I to find Mr. Calthrop, but failed again of finding +him, so returned to Mr. Crew's again, and from thence went along with +Mrs. Jemimah + + [Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir + Edward Montagu. At this time she and her sister, Mrs. Ann, seem to + have been living alone with their maids in London, and Pepys's duty + was to look after them.] + +home, and there she taught me how to play at cribbage. Then I went home, +and finding my wife gone to see Mrs. Hunt, I went to Will's, + + [Pepys constantly visited "Will's" about this time; but this could + not be the famous coffee-house in Covent Garden, because he mentions + visiting there for the first time, February 3rd, 1663-64. It was + most probably the house of William Joyce, who kept a place of + entertainment at Westminster (see Jan. 29th).] + +and there sat with Mr. Ashwell talking and singing till nine o'clock, and +so home, there, having not eaten anything but bread and cheese, my wife +cut me a slice of brawn which. I received from my Lady;--[Jemima, wife +of Sir Edward Montagu, daughter of John Crew of Stene, afterwards Lord +Crew.]--which proves as good as ever I had any. So to bed, and my wife +had a very bad night of it through wind and cold. + + + +3rd. I went out in the morning, it being a great frost, and walked to +Mrs. Turner's + + [Jane, daughter of John Pepys of South Creake, Norfolk, married to + John Turner, Sergeant-at-law, Recorder of York; their only child, + Theophila, frequently mentioned as The. or Theoph., became the wife + of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart., of Stowford, Devon, and died 1686, + s.p.] + +to stop her from coming to see me to-day, because of Mrs. Jem's corning, +thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthrop, and walked in his +chamber an hour, but could not see him, so went to Westminster, where I +found soldiers in my office to receive money, and paid it them. At noon +went home, where Mrs. Jem, her maid, Mr. Sheply, Hawly, and Moore dined +with me on a piece of beef and cabbage, and a collar of brawn. We then +fell to cards till dark, and then I went home with Mrs. Jem, and meeting +Mr. Hawly got him to bear me company to Chancery Lane, where I spoke with +Mr. Calthrop, he told me that Sir James Calthrop was lately dead, but +that he would write to his Lady, that the money may be speedily paid. +Thence back to White Hall, where I understood that the Parliament had +passed the act for indemnity to the soldiers and officers that would come +in, in so many days, and that my Lord Lambert should have benefit of the +said act. They had also voted that all vacancies in the House, by the +death of any of the old members, shall be filled up; but those that are +living shall not be called in. Thence I went home, and there found Mr. +Hunt and his wife, and Mr. Hawly, who sat with me till ten at night at +cards, and so broke up and to bed. + + + +4th. Early came Mr. Vanly--[Mr Vanley appears to have been Pepys's +landlord; he is mentioned again in the Diary on September 20th, 1660.]-- +to me for his half-year's rent, which I had not in the house, but took +his man to the office and there paid him. Then I went down into the Hall +and to Will's, where Hawly brought a piece of his Cheshire cheese, and we +were merry with it. Then into the Hall again, where I met with the Clerk +and Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and took them to the Swan' and +gave them their morning's draft, + + [It was not usual at this time to sit down to breakfast, but instead + a morning draught was taken at a tavern.] + +they being just come to town. Mr. Jenkins shewed me two bills of +exchange for money to receive upon my Lord's and my pay. It snowed hard +all this morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much swelled with +cold. Strange the difference of men's talk! Some say that Lambert must +of necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and that the +Fifth-monarchy-men [will] stick to him, if he declares for a free +Parliament. Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote of +pardon and indemnity from the Parliament. From the Hall I came home, +where I found letters from Hinchinbroke + + [Hinchinbroke was Sir Edward Montagu's seat, from which he + afterwards took his second title. Hinchinbroke House, so often + mentioned in the Diary, stood about half a mile to the westward of + the town of Huntingdon. It was erected late in the reign of + Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the site of a Benedictine + nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its appurtenances, to + his father, Richard Williams, who had assumed the name of Cromwell, + and whose grandson, Sir Oliver, was the uncle and godfather of the + Protector. The knight, who was renowned for, his hospitality, had + the honour of entertaining King James at Hinchinbroke, but, getting + into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his estates, which + were conveyed, July 28th, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu of Barnwell, + father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant they are + still vested. On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, during the + minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchinbroke was almost entirely + destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly saved, + and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the + interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore, + Esq., R.A.--B.] + +and news of Mr. Sheply's going thither the next week. I dined at home, +and from thence went to Will's to Shaw, who promised me to go along with +me to Atkinson's about some money, but I found him at cards with Spicer +and D. Vines, and could not get him along with me. I was vext at this, +and went and walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spent +this day in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters from +the North, that brought certain news that my Lord Lambent his forces were +all forsaking him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, and that +he did now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my Lord Fairfax +did also rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and that what he had +done was only to secure the country against my Lord Lambert his raising +of money, and free quarter. I went to Will's again, where I found them +still at cards, and Spicer had won 14s. of Shaw and Vines. Then I spent +a little time with G. Vines and Maylard at Vines's at our viols. + + [It was usual to have a "chest of viols," which consisted of six, + viz., two trebles, two tenors, and two basses (see note in North's + "Memoirs of Musick," ed. Rimbault, p. 70). The bass viol was also + called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.] + +So home, and from thence to Mr. Hunt's, and sat with them and Mr. Hawly +at cards till ten at night, and was much made of by them. Home and so to +bed, but much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled. + + + +5th. I went to my office, where the money was again expected from the +Excise office, but none brought, but was promised to be sent this +afternoon. I dined with Mr. Sheply, at my Lord's lodgings, upon his +turkey-pie. And so to my office again; where the Excise money was +brought, and some of it told to soldiers till it was dark. Then I went +home, and after writing a letter to my Lord and told him the news that +the Parliament hath this night voted that the members that were +discharged from sitting in the years 1648 and 49, were duly discharged; +and that there should be writs issued presently for the calling of others +in their places, and that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up to town, +and that the Prince's lodgings were to be provided for Monk at Whitehall. +Then my wife and I, it being a great frost, went to Mrs. Jem's, in +expectation to eat a sack-posset, but Mr. Edward--[Edward Montage, son of +Sir Edward, and afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]--not coming it was put +off; and so I left my wife playing at cards with her, and went myself +with my lanthorn to Mr. Fage, to consult concerning my nose, who told me +it was nothing but cold, and after that we did discourse concerning +public business; and he told me it is true the City had not time enough +to do much, but they are resolved to shake off the soldiers; and that +unless there be a free Parliament chosen, he did believe there are half +the Common Council will not levy any money by order of this Parliament. +From thence I went to my father's, where I found Mrs. Ramsey and her +grandchild, a pretty girl, and staid a while and talked with them and my +mother, and then took my leave, only heard of an invitation to go to +dinner to-morrow to my cosen Thomas Pepys.--[Thomas Pepys, probably the +son of Thomas Pepys of London (born, 1595), brother of Samuel's father, +John Pepys.]--I went back to Mrs. Jem, and took my wife and Mrs. Sheply, +and went home. + + + +6th. This morning Mr. Sheply and I did eat our breakfast at Mrs. +Harper's, (my brother John' being with me,) + + [John Pepys was born in 1641, and his brother Samuel took great + interest in his welfare, but he did not do any great credit to his + elder.] + +upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. From thence I went to my office, +where we paid money to the soldiers till one o'clock, at which time we +made an end, and I went home and took my wife and went to my cosen, +Thomas Pepys, and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very +good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome. +After dinner I took my leave, leaving my wife with my cozen Stradwick,-- +[Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, +and wife of Thomas Stradwick.]--and went to Westminster to Mr. Vines, +where George and I fiddled a good while, Dick and his wife (who was +lately brought to bed) and her sister being there, but Mr. Hudson not +coming according to his promise, I went away, and calling at my house on +the wench, I took her and the lanthorn with me to my cosen Stradwick, +where, after a good supper, there being there my father, mother, +brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott and his wife, Mr. Drawwater and his +wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and +in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. Stradwick was King. After that +my wife and I bid adieu and came home, it being still a great frost. + + + +7th. At my office as I was receiving money of the probate of wills, in +came Mrs. Turner, Theoph., Madame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I had +done I took them home to my house and Mr. Hawly came after, and I got a +dish of steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game or +two at cards. In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing +came to fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and was +forced to stay till night in expectation of the French Embassador, who at +last came, and I had a great deal of good discourse with one of his +gentlemen concerning the reason of the difference between the zeal of the +French and the Spaniard. After he was gone I went home, and found my +friends still at cards, and after that I went along with them to Dr. +Whores (sending my wife to Mrs. Jem's to a sack-posset), where I heard +some symphony and songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, +and Mallard. Afterwards I put my friends into a coach, and went to Mrs. +Jem's, where I wrote a letter to my Lord by the post, and had my part of +the posset which was saved for me, and so we went home, and put in at my +Lord's lodgings, where we staid late, eating of part of his turkey-pie, +and reading of Quarles' Emblems. So home and to bed. + + + +8th (Sunday). In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where a good +sermon, wherein he showed the life of Christ, and told us good authority +for us to believe that Christ did follow his father's trade, and was a +carpenter till thirty years of age. From thence to my father's to +dinner, where I found my wife, who was forced to dine there, we not +having one coal of fire in the house, and it being very hard frosty +weather. In the afternoon my father, he going to a man's to demand some +money due to my Aunt Bells my wife and I went to Mr. Mossum's, where a +strange doctor made a very good sermon. From thence sending my wife to +my father's, I went to Mrs. Turner's, and staid a little while, and then +to my father's, where I found Mr. Sheply, and after supper went home +together. Here I heard of the death of Mr. Palmer, and that he was to be +buried at Westminster tomorrow. + + + +9th. For these two or three days I have been much troubled with thoughts +how to get money to pay them that I have borrowed money of, by reason of +my money being in my uncle's hands. I rose early this morning, and +looked over and corrected my brother John's speech, which he is to make +the next apposition,--[Declamations at St. Paul's School, in which there +were opponents and respondents.]--and after that I went towards my +office, and in my way met with W. Simons, Muddiman, and Jack Price, and +went with them to Harper's and in many sorts of talk I staid till two of +the clock in the afternoon. I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch +rogue; and owns that though he writes new books for the Parliament, yet +he did declare that he did it only to get money; and did talk very basely +of many of them. Among other things, W. Simons told me how his uncle +Scobel was on Saturday last called to the bar, for entering in the +journal of the House, for the year 1653, these words: "This day his +Excellence the Lord General Cromwell dissolved this House;" which words +the Parliament voted a forgery, and demanded of him how they came to be +entered. He answered that they were his own handwriting, and that he did +it by virtue of his office, and the practice of his predecessor; and that +the intent of the practice was to--let posterity know how such and such a +Parliament was dissolved, whether by the command of the King, or by their +own neglect, as the last House of Lords was; and that to this end, he had +said and writ that it was dissolved by his Excellence the Lord G[eneral]; +and that for the word dissolved, he never at the time did hear of any +other term; and desired pardon if he would not dare to make a word +himself when it was six years after, before they came themselves to call +it an interruption; but they were so little satisfied with this answer, +that they did chuse a committee to report to the House, whether this +crime of Mr. Scobell's did come within the act of indemnity or no. +Thence I went with Muddiman to the Coffee-House, and gave 18d. to be +entered of the Club. Thence into the Hall, where I heard for certain +that Monk was coming to London, and that Bradshaw's 2 lodgings were +preparing for him. Thence to Mrs. Jem's, and found her in bed, and she +was afraid that it would prove the small-pox. Thence back to Westminster +Hall, where I heard how Sir H. Vane--[Sir Harry Vane the younger, an +inflexible republican. He was executed in 1662, on a charge of +conspiring the death of Charles I.]--was this day voted out of the +House, and to sit no more there; and that he would retire himself to his +house at Raby, as also all the rest of the nine officers that had their +commissions formerly taken away from them, were commanded to their +farthest houses from London during the pleasure of the Parliament. Here +I met with the Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and his clerk Mr. +Jenings, and took them home, and gave them a bottle of wine, and the +remainder of my collar of brawn; and so good night. After that came in +Mr. Hawly, who told me that I was mist this day at my office, and that +to-morrow I must pay all the money that I have, at which I was put to a +great loss how I should get money to make up my cash, and so went to bed +in great trouble. + + + +10th. Went out early, and in my way met with Greatorex,--[Ralph +Greatorex, the well-known mathematical instrument maker of his day. He +is frequently mentioned by Pepys.]--and at an alehouse he showed me the +first sphere of wire that ever he made, and indeed it was very pleasant; +thence to Mr. Crew's, and borrowed L10, and so to my office, and was able +to pay my money. Thence into the Hall, and meeting the Quarter Master, +Jenings, and Captain Rider, we four went to a cook's to dinner. Thence +Jenings and I into London (it being through heat of the sun a great thaw +and dirty) to show our bills of return, and coming back drank a pint of +wine at the Star in Cheapside. So to Westminster, overtaking Captain +Okeshott in his silk cloak, whose sword got hold of many people in +walking. Thence to the Coffee-house, where were a great confluence of +gentlemen; viz. Mr. Harrington, Poultny, chairman, Gold, Dr, Petty; &c., +where admirable discourse till at night. Thence with Doling to Mother +Lams, who told me how this day Scott + + [Thomas Scott, M.P., was made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth + on the 17th of this same January. He signed the death warrant of + Charles I., for which he was executed at Charing Cross, October + 16th, 1660. He gloried in his offence, and desired to have written + on his tombstone, "Thomas Scott who adjudged to death the late + king."] + +was made Intelligencer, and that the rest of the members that were +objected against last night, their business was to be heard this day +se'nnight. Thence I went home and wrote a letter, and went to Harper's, +and staid there till Tom carried it to the postboy at Whitehall. So home +to bed. + + + +11th. Being at Will's with Captain Barker, who hath paid me L300 this +morning at my office, in comes my father, and with him I walked, and +leave him at W. Joyce's, and went myself to Mr. Crew's, but came too late +to dine, and therefore after a game at shittle-cocks--[The game of +battledore and shuttlecock was formerly much played even in tennis +courts, and was a very violent game.]--with Mr. Walgrave and Mr. Edward, +I returned to my father, and taking him from W. Joyce's, who was not +abroad himself, we inquired of a porter, and by his direction went to an +alehouse, where after a cup or two we parted. I went towards London, and +in my way went in to see Crowly, who was now grown a very great loon and +very tame. Thence to Mr. Steven's with a pair of silver snuffers, and +bought a pair of shears to cut silver, and so homeward again. From home +I went to see Mrs. Jem, who was in bed, and now granted to have the +small-pox. Back again, and went to the Coffee-house, but tarried not, +and so home. + + + +12th. I drink my morning at Harper's with Mr. Sheply and a seaman, and +so to my office, where Captain Holland came to see me, and appointed a +meeting in the afternoon. Then wrote letters to Hinchinbroke and sealed +them at Will's, and after that went home, and thence to the Half Moon, +where I found the Captain and Mr. Billingsly and Newman, a barber, where +we were very merry, and had the young man that plays so well on the Welsh +harp. Billingsly paid for all. Thence home, and finding my letters this +day not gone by the carrier I new sealed them, but my brother Tom coming +we fell into discourse about my intention to feast the Joyces. I sent +for a bit of meat for him from the cook's, and forgot to send my letters +this night. So I went to bed, and in discourse broke to my wife what my +thoughts were concerning my design of getting money by, &c. + + + +13th. Coming in the morning to my office, I met with Mr. Fage and took +him to the Swan? He told me how high Haselrigge, and Morly, the last +night began at my Lord Mayor's to exclaim against the City of London, +saying that they had forfeited their charter. And how the Chamberlain of +the City did take them down, letting them know how much they were +formerly beholding to the City, &c. He also told me that Monk's letter +that came to them by the sword-bearer was a cunning piece, and that which +they did not much trust to; but they were resolved to make no more +applications to the Parliament, nor to pay any money, unless the secluded +members be brought in, or a free Parliament chosen. Thence to my office, +where nothing to do. So to Will's with Mr. Pinkney, who invited me to +their feast at his Hall the next Monday. Thence I went home and took my +wife and dined at Mr. Wades, and after that we went and visited Catan. +From thence home again, and my wife was very unwilling to let me go +forth, but with some discontent would go out if I did, and I going forth +towards Whitehall, I saw she followed me, and so I staid and took her +round through Whitehall, and so carried her home angry. Thence I went to +Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the +small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards +with her. And so to Mr. Vines, where he and I and Mr. Hudson played +half-a-dozen things, there being there Dick's wife and her sister. After +that I went home and found my wife gone abroad to Mr. Hunt's, and came in +a little after me.--So to bed. + + + +14th. Nothing to do at our office. Thence into the Hall, and just as I +was going to dinner from Westminster Hall with Mr. Moore (with whom I had +been in the lobby to hear news, and had spoke with Sir Anthony Ashley +Cooper about my Lord's lodgings) to his house, I met with Captain +Holland, who told me that he hath brought his wife to my house, so I +posted home and got a dish of meat for them. They staid with me all the +afternoon, and went hence in the evening. Then I went with my wife, and +left her at market, and went myself to the Coffee-house, and heard +exceeding good argument against Mr. Harrington's assertion, that +overbalance of propriety [i.e., property] was the foundation of +government. Home, and wrote to Hinchinbroke, and sent that and my other +letter that missed of going on Thursday last. So to bed. + + + +15th. Having been exceedingly disturbed in the night with the barking of +a dog of one of our neighbours that I could not sleep for an hour or two, +I slept late, and then in the morning took physic, and so staid within +all day. At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as +I could his Greek speech to say the Apposition, though I believe he +himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that we went to read +in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome. +After that my wife and I in pleasant discourse till night, then I went to +supper, and after that to make an end of this week's notes in this book, +and so to bed. It being a cold day and a great snow my physic did not +work so well as it should have done. + + + +16th. In the morning I went up to Mr. Crew's, and at his bedside he gave +me direction to go to-morrow with Mr. Edward to Twickenham, and likewise +did talk to me concerning things of state; and expressed his mind how +just it was that the secluded members should come to sit again. I went +from thence, and in my way went into an alehouse and drank my morning +draft with Matthew Andrews and two or three more of his friends, +coachmen. And of one of them I did hire a coach to carry us to-morrow to +Twickenham. From thence to my office, where nothing to do; but Mr. +Downing he came and found me all alone; and did mention to me his going +back into Holland, and did ask me whether I would go or no, but gave me +little encouragement, but bid me consider of it; and asked me whether I +did not think that Mr. Hawly could perform the work of my office alone or +no. I confess I was at a great loss, all the day after, to bethink +myself how to carry this business. At noon, Harry Ethall came to me and +went along with Mr. Maylard by coach as far as Salsbury Court, and there +we set him down, and we went to the Clerks, where we came a little too +late, but in a closet we had a very good dinner by Mr. Pinkny's courtesy, +and after dinner we had pretty good singing, and one, Hazard, sung alone +after the old fashion, which was very much cried up, but I did not like +it. Thence we went to the Green Dragon, on Lambeth Hill, both the Mr. +Pinkney's, Smith, Harrison, Morrice, that sang the bass, Sheply and I, +and there we sang of all sorts of things, and I ventured with good +success upon things at first sight, and after that I played on my +flageolet, and staid there till nine o'clock, very merry and drawn on +with one song after another till it came to be so late. After that +Sheply, Harrison and myself, we went towards Westminster on foot, and at +the Golden Lion, near Charing Cross, we went in and drank a pint of wine, +and so parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and maid a-washing. +I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under my window +as I was writing of this very line, and cried, "Past one of the clock, +and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went to bed, and left my wife +and the maid a-washing still. + + + +17th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's, and having given Mr. Edward money to +give the servants, I took him into the coach that waited for us and +carried him to my house, where the coach waited for me while I and the +child went to Westminster Hall, and bought him some pictures. In the +Hall I met Mr. Woodfine, and took him to Will's and drank with him. +Thence the child and I to the coach, where my wife was ready, and so we +went towards Twickenham. In our way, at Kensington we understood how +that my Lord Chesterfield had killed another gentleman about half an hour +before, and was fled. + + [Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, ob. 1713, act. suae + 80. We learn, from the memoir prefixed to his "Printed + Correspondence," that he fought three duels, disarming and wounding + his first and second antagonists, and killing the third. The name + of the unfortunate gentleman who fell on this occasion was Woolly. + Lord Chesterfield, absconding, went to Breda, where he obtained the + royal pardon from Charles II. He acted a busy part in the eventful + times in which he lived, and was remarkable for his steady adherence + to the Stuarts. Lord Chesterfield's letter to Charles II., and the + King's answer granting the royal pardon, occur in the Correspondence + published by General Sir John Murray, in 1829. + + "Jan. 17th, 1659. The Earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly's son of + Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a mare of eighteen pounds price; + the quarrel would not be reconciled, insomuch that a challenge + passed between them. They fought a duel on the backside of Mr. + Colby's house at Kensington, where the Earl and he had several + passes. The Earl wounded him in two places, and would fain have + then ended, but the stubbornness and pride of heart of Mr. Woolly + would not give over, and the next pass [he] was killed on the spot. + The Earl fled to Chelsea, and there took water and escaped. The + jury found it chance-medley."--Rugge's "Diurnal," Addit MSS., + British Museum.--B.] + +We went forward and came about one of the clock to Mr. Fuller's, but he +was out of town, so we had a dinner there, and I gave the child 40s. to +give to the two ushers. After that we parted and went homewards, it +being market day at Brainford [Brentford]. I set my wife down and went +with the coach to Mr. Crew's, thinking to have spoke with Mr. Moore and +Mrs. Jem, he having told me the reason of his melancholy was some +unkindness from her after so great expressions of love, and how he had +spoke to her friends and had their consent, and that he would desire me +to take an occasion of speaking with her, but by no means not to heighten +her discontent or distaste whatever it be, but to make it up if I can. +But he being out of doors, I went away and went to see Mrs. Jem, who was +now very well again, and after a game or two at cards, I left her. So I +went to the Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse; it was in answer +to Mr. Harrington's answer, who said that the state of the Roman +government was not a settled government, and so it was no wonder that the +balance of propriety [i.e., property] was in one hand, and the command in +another, it being therefore always in a posture of war; but it was +carried by ballot, that it was a steady government, though it is true by +the voices it had been carried before that it was an unsteady government; +so to-morrow it is to be proved by the opponents that the balance lay in +one hand, and the government in another. Thence I went to Westminster, +and met Shaw and Washington, who told me how this day Sydenham + + [Colonel William Sydenham had been an active officer during the + Civil Wars, on the Parliament side; M.P. for Dorsetshire, Governor + of Melcombe, and one of the Committee of Safety. He was the elder + brother of the celebrated physician of that name.--B.] + +was voted out of the House for sitting any more this Parliament, and that +Salloway was voted out likewise and sent to the Tower, during the +pleasure of the House. Home and wrote by the Post, and carried to +Whitehall, and coming back turned in at Harper-'s, where Jack Price was, +and I drank with him and he told me, among other, things, how much the +Protector + + [Richard Cromwell, third son of Oliver Cromwell, born October 4th, + 1626, admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn, May 27th, 1647, fell into + debt and devoted himself to hunting and field sports. His + succession to his father as Protector was universally accepted at + first, but the army soon began to murmur because he was not a + general. Between the dissensions of various parties he fell, and + the country was left in a state of anarchy: He went abroad early in + the summer of 1660, and lived abroad for some years, returning to + England in 1680. After his fall he bore the name of John Clarke. + Died at Cheshunt, July 12th, 1712.] + +is altered, though he would seem to bear out his trouble very well, yet +he is scarce able to talk sense with a man; and how he will say that +"Who should a man trust, if he may not trust to a brother and an uncle;" +and "how much those men have to answer before God Almighty, for their +playing the knave with him as they did." He told me also, that there +was; L100,000 offered, and would have been taken for his restitution, had +not the Parliament come in as they did again; and that he do believe that +the Protector will live to give a testimony of his valour and revenge yet +before he dies, and that the Protector will say so himself sometimes. +Thence I went home, it being late and my wife in bed. + + + +18th. To my office and from thence to Will's, and there Mr. Sheply +brought me letters from the carrier and so I went home. After that to +Wilkinson's, where we had a dinner for Mr. Talbot, Adams, Pinkny and his +son, but his son did not come. Here we were very merry, and while I was +here Mr. Fuller came thither and staid a little, while. + +After that we all went to my Lord's, whither came afterwards Mr. +Harrison, and by chance seeing Mr. Butler--[Mr. Butler is usually styled +by Pepys Mons. l'Impertinent.]--coming by I called him in and so we sat +drinking a bottle of wine till night. At which time Mistress Ann-- +[Probably Mrs. (afterwards Lady) Anne Montagu, daughter of Sir Edward +Montagu, and sister to Mrs. Jem.]--came with the key of my Lord's study +for some things, and so we all broke up and after I had gone to my house +and interpreted my Lord's letter by his character--[The making of ciphers +was a popular amusement about this time. Pepys made several for Montagu, +Downing, and others.]--I came to her again and went with her to her +lodging and from thence to Mr. Crew's, where I advised with him what to +do about my Lord's lodgings and what answer to give to Sir Ant. Cooper +and so I came home and to bed. All the world is at a loss to think what +Monk will do: the City saying that he will be for them, and the +Parliament saying he will be for them. + + + +19th. This morning I was sent for to Mr. Downing, and at his bed side he +told me, that he had a kindness for me, and that he thought that he had +done me one; and that was, that he had got me to be one of the Clerks of +the Council; at which I was a little stumbled, and could not tell what to +do, whether to thank him or no; but by and by I did; but not very +heartily, for I feared that his doing of it was but only to ease himself +of the salary which he gives me. After that Mr. Sheply staying below all +this time for me we went thence and met Mr. Pierce, + + [Pepys had two friends named Pierce, one the surgeon and the other + the purser; he usually (but not always) distinguishes them. The one + here alluded to was probably the surgeon, and husband of pretty Mrs. + Pierce. After the Restoration James Pearse or Pierce became Surgeon + to the Duke of York, and he was also Surgeon-General of the Fleet.] + +so at the Harp and Ball drank our morning draft and so to Whitehall where +I met with Sir Ant. Cooper and did give him some answer from my Lord and +he did give us leave to keep the lodgings still. And so we did determine +thereupon that Mr. Sheply might now go into the country and would do so +to-morrow. Back I went by Mr. Downing's order and staid there till +twelve o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but +he came not, so I staid all alone reading the answer of the Dutch +Ambassador to our State, in answer to the reasons of my Lord's coming +home, which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein to contradict +my Lord's arguments for his coming home. Thence to my office and so with +Mr. Sheply and Moore, to dine upon a turkey with Mrs. Jem, and after that +Mr. Moore and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr. Downing this day +feasted Sir Arth. Haselrigge, and a great many more of the Parliament, +and did stay to put him in mind of me. Here he gave me a note to go and +invite some other members to dinner tomorrow. So I went to White Hall, +and did stay at Marsh's, with Simons, Luellin, and all the rest of the +Clerks of the Council, who I hear are all turned out, only the two +Leighs, and they do all tell me that my name was mentioned the last +night, but that nothing was done in it. Hence I went and did leave some +of my notes at the lodgings of the members and so home. To bed. + + + +20th. In the morning I went to Mr. Downing's bedside and gave him an +account what I had done as to his guests, land I went thence to my Lord +Widdrington who I met in the street, going to seal the patents for the +judges to-day, and so could not come to dinner. I called upon Mr. +Calthrop about the money due to my Lord. Here I met with Mr. Woodfine +and drank with him at the Sun in Chancery Lane and so to Westminster +Hall, where at the lobby I spoke with the rest of my guests and so to my +office. At noon went by water with Mr. Maylard and Hales to the Swan in +Fish Street at our Goal Feast, where we were very merry at our Jole of +Ling, and from thence after a great and good dinner Mr. Falconberge would +go drink a cup of ale at a place where I had like to have shot at a +scholar that lay over the house of office. Thence calling on Mr. +Stephens and Wootton (with whom I drank) about business of my Lord's I +went to the Coffee Club where there was nothing done but choosing of a +Committee for orders. Thence to Westminster Hall where Mrs. Lane and the +rest of the maids had their white scarfs, all having been at the burial +of a young bookseller in the Hall. + + [These stationers and booksellers, whose shops disfigured + Westminster Hall down to a late period, were a privileged class. + In the statutes for appointing licensers and regulating the press, + there is a clause exempting them from the pains and penalties of + these obnoxious laws.] + + +Thence to Mr. Sheply's and took him to my house and drank with him in +order to his going to-morrow. So parted and I sat up late making up my +accounts before he go. This day three citizens of London went to meet +Monk from the Common Council! + + "Jan. 20th. Then there went out of the City, by desire of the Lord + Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Alderman Fowke and Alderman Vincett, + alias Vincent, and Mr. Broomfield, to compliment General Monk, who + lay at Harborough Town, in Leicestershire." + + "Jan. 21st. Because the Speaker was sick, and Lord General Monk so + near London, and everybody thought that the City would suffer for + their affronts to the soldiery, and because they had sent the sword- + bearer to, the General without the Parliament's consent, and the + three Aldermen were gone to give him the welcome to town, these four + lines were in almost everybody's mouth: + + "Monk under a hood, not well understood, + The City pull in their horns; + The Speaker is out, and sick of the gout, + And the Parliament sit upon thorns." + --Rugge's 'Diurnal.'--B." + + + +21st. Up early in finishing my accounts and writing to my Lord and from +thence to my Lord's and took leave of Mr. Sheply and possession of all +the keys and the house. Thence to my office for some money to pay Mr. +Sheply and sent it him by the old man. I then went to Mr. Downing who +chid me because I did not give him notice of some of his guests failed +him but I told him that I sent our porter to tell him and he was not +within, but he told me that he was within till past twelve o'clock. So +the porter or he lied. Thence to my office where nothing to do. Then +with Mr. Hawly, he and I went to Mr. Crew's and dined there. Thence into +London, to Mr. Vernon's and I received my L25 due by bill for my +troopers' pay. Then back again to Steadman's. At the Mitre, in Fleet- +street, in our way calling on Mr. Fage, who told me how the City have +some hopes of Monk. Thence to the Mitre, where I drank a pint of wine, +the house being in fitting for Banister to come hither from Paget's. +Thence to Mrs. Jem and gave her L5. So home and left my money and to +Whitehall where Luellin and I drank and talked together an hour at +Marsh's and so up to the clerks' room, where poor Mr. Cook, a black man, +that is like to be put out of his clerk's place, came and railed at me +for endeavouring to put him out and get myself in, when I was already in +a good condition. But I satisfied him and after I had wrote a letter +there to my Lord, wherein I gave him an account how this day Lenthall +took his chair again, and [the House] resolved a declaration to be +brought in on Monday next to satisfy the world what they intend to do. +So home and to bed. + + + +22nd. I went in the morning to Mr. Messum's, where I met with +W. Thurburn and sat with him in his pew. A very eloquent sermon about +the duty of all to give good example in our lives and conversation, which +I fear he himself was most guilty of not doing. After sermon, at the +door by appointment my wife met me, and so to my father's to dinner, +where we had not been to my shame in a fortnight before. After dinner my +father shewed me a letter from Mr. Widdrington, of Christ's College, in +Cambridge, wherein he do express very great kindness for my brother, and +my father intends that my brother shall go to him. To church in the +afternoon to Mr. Herring, where a lazy poor sermon. And so home with +Mrs. Turner and sitting with her a while we went to my father's where we +supt very merry, and so home. This day I began to put on buckles to my +shoes, which I have bought yesterday of Mr. Wotton. + + + +23rd. In the morning called out to carry L20 to Mr. Downing, which I did +and came back, and finding Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, I took him to the Axe +and gave him his morning draft. Thence to my office and there did +nothing but make up my balance. Came home and found my wife dressing of +the girl's head, by which she was made to look very pretty. I went out +and paid Wilkinson what I did owe him, and brought a piece of beef home +for dinner. Thence I went out and paid Waters, the vintner, and went to +see Mrs. Jem, where I found my Lady Wright, but Scott was so drunk that +he could not be seen. Here I staid and made up Mrs. Ann's bills, and +played a game or two at cards, and thence to Westminster Hall, it being +very dark. I paid Mrs. Michell, my bookseller, and back to Whitehall, +and in the garden, going through to the Stone Gallery--[The Stone Gallery +was a long passage between the Privy Garden and the river. It led from +the Bowling Green to the Court of the Palace]--I fell into a ditch, it +being very dark. At the Clerk's chamber I met with Simons and Luellin, +and went with them to Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cock Pit, where we had +some rare pot venison, and ale to abundance till almost twelve at night, +and after a song round we went home. This day the Parliament sat late, +and resolved of the declaration to be printed for the people's +satisfaction, promising them a great many good things. + + + +24th. In the morning to my office, where, after I had drank my morning +draft at Will's with Ethell and Mr. Stevens, I went and told part of the +excise money till twelve o'clock, and then called on my wife and took her +to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a pair of +new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late. There when we +came we found Mrs. Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, who called one +another husband and wife, and after dinner a great deal of mad stir. +There was pulling off Mrs. bride's and Mr. bridegroom's ribbons; + + [The scramble for ribbons, here mentioned by Pepys in connection + with weddings (see also January 26th, 1660-61, and February 8th, + 1662-3), doubtless formed part of the ceremony of undressing the + bridegroom, which, as the age became more refined, fell into disuse. + All the old plays are silent on the custom; the earliest notice of + which occurs in the old ballad of the wedding of Arthur O'Bradley, + printed in the Appendix to "Robin Hood," 1795, where we read-- + + "Then got they his points and his garters, + And cut them in pieces like martyrs; + And then they all did play + For the honour of Arthur O'Bradley." + + Sir Winston Churchill also observes ("Divi Britannici," p. 340) that + James I. was no more troubled at his querulous countrymen robbing + him than a bridegroom at the losing of his points and garters. Lady + Fanshawe, in her "Memoirs," says, that at the nuptials of Charles + II. and the Infanta, "the Bishop of London declared them married in + the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and then they + caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces; and + as far as they would go, every one had some." The practice still + survives in the form of wedding favours. + + A similar custom is still of every day's occurrence at Dieppe. Upon + the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom + perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests + at the wedding festival, two and two; each individual wearing two + bits of narrow ribbon, about two inches in length, of different + colours, which are pinned crossways upon the breast. These morsels + of ribbons originally formed the garters of the bride and + bridegroom, which had been divided amidst boisterous mirth among the + assembled company, the moment the happy pair had been formally + installed in the bridal bed.--Ex. inf. Mr. William .Hughes, + Belvedere, Jersey.--B.] + +with a great deal of fooling among them that I and my wife did not like. +Mr. Lucy and several other gentlemen coming in after dinner, swearing and +singing as if they were mad, only he singing very handsomely. There came +in afterwards Mr. Southerne, clerk to Mr. Blackburne, and with him +Lambert, lieutenant of my Lord's ship, and brought with them the +declaration that came out to-day from the Parliament, wherein they +declare for law and gospel, and for tythes; but I do not find people apt +to believe them. After this taking leave I went to my father's, and my +wife staying there, he and I went to speak with Mr. Crumlum (in the +meantime, while it was five o'clock, he being in the school, we went to +my cozen Tom Pepys' shop, the turner in Paul's Churchyard, and drank with +him a pot of ale); he gave my father directions what to do about getting +my brother an exhibition, and spoke very well of my brother. Thence back +with my father home, where he and I spoke privately in the little room to +my sister Pall about stealing of things as my wife's scissars and my +maid's book, at which my father was much troubled. Hence home with my +wife and so to Whitehall, where I met with Mr. Hunt and Luellin, and +drank with them at Marsh's, and afterwards went up and wrote to my Lord +by the post. This day the Parliament gave order that the late Committee +of Safety should come before them this day se'nnight, and all their +papers, and their model of Government that they had made, to be brought +in with them. So home and talked with my wife about our dinner on +Thursday. + + + +25th. Called up early to Mr. Downing; he gave me a Character, such a one +as my Lord's, to make perfect, and likewise gave me his order for L500 to +carry to Mr. Frost, which I did and so to my office, where I did do +something about the character till twelve o'clock. Then home find found +my wife and the maid at my Lord's getting things ready against to-morrow. +I went by water to my Uncle White's' to dinner, where I met my father, +where we alone had a fine jole of Ling to dinner. After dinner I took +leave, and coming home heard that in Cheapside there had been but a +little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson + + [John Hewson, who, from a low origin, became a colonel in the + Parliament army, and sat in judgment on the King: he escaped hanging + by flight, and died in 1662, at Amsterdam. A curious notice of + Hewson occurs in Rugge's "Diurnal," December 5th, 1659, which states + that "he was a cobbler by trade, but a very stout man, and a very + good commander; but in regard of his former employment, they [the + city apprentices] threw at him old shoes, and slippers, and + turniptops, and brick-bats, stones, and tiles." . . . "At this + time [January, 1659-60] there came forth, almost every day, jeering + books: one was called 'Colonel Hewson's Confession; or, a Parley + with Pluto,' about his going into London, and taking down the gates + of Temple-Bar." He had but one eye, which did not escape the notice + of his enemies.--B.] + +hung upon it in the middle of the street. I called at Paul's Churchyard, +where I bought Buxtorf's Hebrew Grammar; and read a declaration of the +gentlemen of Northampton which came out this afternoon. Thence to my +father's, where I staid with my mother a while and then to Mr. Crew's +about a picture to be sent into the country, of Mr. Thomas Crew, to my +Lord. So [to] my Lady Wright to speak with her, but she was abroad, so +Mr. Evans, her butler, had me into his buttery, and gave me sack and a +lesson on his lute, which he played very well. Thence I went to my +Lord's and got most things ready against tomorrow, as fires and laying +the cloth, and my wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets +till eleven o'clock. This evening Mr. Downing sent for me, and gave me +order to go to Mr. Jessop for his papers concerning his dispatch to +Holland which were not ready, only his order for a ship to transport him +he gave me. To my Lord's again and so home with my wife, tired with this +day's work. + + + +26th. To my office for L20 to carry to Mr. Downing, which I did and back +again. Then came Mr. Frost to pay Mr. Downing his L500, and I went to +him for the warrant and brought it Mr. Frost. Called for some papers at +Whitehall for Mr. Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council for +L1800 per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, Orders to the +Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods pass free. Home from my +office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine +dinner--viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a +dish of fowl, three pullets, and two dozen of larks all in a dish; a +great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and +cheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. +Pierce, and all their wives, and my brother Tom. We were as merry as I +could frame myself to be in the company, W. Joyce talking after the old +rate and drinking hard, vexed his father and mother and wife. And I did +perceive that Mrs. Pierce her coming so gallant, that it put the two +young women quite out of courage. When it became dark they all went away +but Mr. Pierce, and W. Joyce, and their wives and Tom, and drank a bottle +of wine afterwards, so that Will did heartily vex his father and mother +by staying. At which I and my wife were much pleased. Then they all +went and I fell to writing of two characters for Mr. Downing, and carried +them to him at nine o'clock at night, and he did not like them but +corrected them, so that to-morrow I am to do them anew. To my Lord's +lodging again and sat by the great log, it being now a very good fire, +with my wife, and ate a bit and so home. The news this day is a letter +that speaks absolutely Monk's concurrence with this Parliament, and +nothing else, which yet I hardly believe. After dinner to-day my father +showed me a letter from my Uncle Robert, in answer to my last, +concerning my money which I would have out of my Coz. Beck's' hand, +wherein Beck desires it four months longer, which I know not how to +spare. + + + +27th. Going to my office I met with Tom Newton, my old comrade, and took +him to the Crown in the Palace, and gave him his morning draft. And as +he always did, did talk very high what he would do with the Parliament, +that he would have what place he would, and that he might be one of the +Clerks to the Council if he would. Here I staid talking with him till +the offices were all shut, and then I looked in the Hall, and was told by +my bookseller, Mrs. Michell, that Mr. G. Montagu had inquired there for +me. So I went to his house, and was forced by him to dine with him, and +had a plenteous brave dinner and the greatest civility that ever I had +from any man. Thence home and so to Mrs. Jem, and played with her at +cards, and coming home again my wife told me that Mr. Hawly had been +there to speak with me, and seemed angry that I had not been at the +office that day, and she told me she was afraid that Mr. Downing may have +a mind to pick some hole in my coat. So I made haste to him, but found +no such thing from him, but he sent me to Mr. Sherwin's about getting Mr. +Squib to come to him tomorrow, and I carried him an answer. So home and +fell a writing the characters for Mr. Downing, and about nine at night +Mr. Hawly came, and after he was gone I sat up till almost twelve +writing, and--wrote two of them. In the morning up early and wrote +another, my wife lying in bed and reading to me. + + + +28th. I went to Mr. Downing and carried him three characters, and then +to my office and wrote another, while Mr. Frost staid telling money. And +after I had done it Mr. Hawly came into the office and I left him and +carried it to Mr. Downing, who then told me that he was resolved to be +gone for Holland this morning. So I to my office again, and dispatch my +business there, and came with Mr. Hawly to Mr. Downing's lodging, and +took Mr. Squib from White Hall in a coach thither with me, and there we +waited in his chamber a great while, till he came in; and in the mean +time, sent all his things to the barge that lay at Charing-Cross Stairs. +Then came he in, and took a very civil leave of me, beyond my +expectation, for I was afraid that he would have told me something of +removing me from my office; but he did not, but that he would do me any +service that lay in his power. So I went down and sent a porter to my +house for my best fur cap, but he coming too late with it I did not +present it to him. Thence I went to Westminster Hall, and bound up my +cap at Mrs. Michell's, who was much taken with my cap, and endeavoured to +overtake the coach at the Exchange and to give it him there, but I met +with one that told me that he was gone, and so I returned and went to +Heaven, + + [A place of entertainment within or adjoining Westminster Hall. It + is called in "Hudibras," "False Heaven, at the end of the Hall." + There were two other alehouses near Westminster Hall, called Hell + and Purgatory. + + "Nor break his fast + In Heaven and Hell." + + Ben Jonson's Alchemist, act v. SC. 2.] + +where Luellin and I dined on a breast of mutton all alone, discoursing of +the changes that we have seen and the happiness of them that have estates +of their own, and so parted, and I went by appointment to my office and +paid young Mr. Walton L500; it being very dark he took L300 by content. +He gave me half a piece and carried me in his coach to St. Clement's, +from whence I went to Mr. Crew's and made even with Mr. Andrews, and took +in all my notes. and gave him one for all. Then to my Lady Wright and +gave her my Lord's letter which he bade me give her privately. So home +and then to Will's for a little news, then came home again and wrote to +my Lord, and so to Whitehall and gave them to the post-boy. Back again +home and to bed. + + + +29th. In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where he made an excellent +sermon upon the 2d of the Galatians, about the difference that fell +between St. Paul and St. Peter (the feast day of St. Paul being a day or +two ago), whereby he did prove, that, contrary to the doctrine of the +Roman Church, St. Paul did never own any dependance, or that he was +inferior to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only one a particular +charge of preaching to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles. Here I +met with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner to Mr. Crew's, where +Mr. Spurrier being in town did dine with us. From thence I went home and +spent the afternoon in casting up my accounts, and do find myself to be +worth L40 and more, which I did not think, but am afraid that I have +forgot something. To my father's to supper, where I heard by my brother +Tom how W. Joyce would the other day have Mr. Pierce and his wife to the +tavern after they were gone from my house, and that he had so little +manners as to make Tom pay his share notwithstanding that he went upon +his account, and by my father I understand that my uncle Fenner and my +aunt were much pleased with our entertaining them. After supper home +without going to see Mrs. Turner. + + +30th. This morning, before I was up, I fell a-singing of my song, +"Great, good, and just," &c. + + [This is the beginning of the Marquis of Montrose's verses on the + execution of Charles I., which Pepys had set to music: + + "Great, good, and just, could I but rate + My grief and thy too rigid fate, + I'd weep the world to such a strain + That it should deluge once again. + But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies + More from Briareus' hands, than Argus eyes, + I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, + And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds."] + +and put myself thereby in mind that this was the fatal day, now ten years +since, his Majesty died. Scull the waterman came and brought me a note +from the Hope from Mr. Hawly with direction, about his money, he tarrying +there till his master be gone. To my office, where I received money of +the excise of Mr. Ruddyer, and after we had done went to Will's and staid +there till 3 o'clock and then I taking my L12 10s. 0d. due to me for my +last quarter's salary, I went with them by water to London to the house +where Signr. Torriano used to be and staid there a while with Mr. +Ashwell, Spicer and Ruddier. Then I went and paid L12 17s. 6d. due from +me to Captn. Dick Matthews according to his direction the last week in a +letter. After that I came back by water playing on my flageolette and +not finding my wife come home again from her father's I went and sat +awhile and played at cards with Mrs. Jam, whose maid had newly got an +ague and was ill thereupon. So homewards again, having great need to do +my business, and so pretending to meet Mr. Shott the wood monger of +Whitehall I went and eased myself at the Harp and Ball, and thence home +where I sat writing till bed-time and so to bed. There seems now to be a +general cease of talk, it being taken for granted that Monk do resolve to +stand to the Parliament, and nothing else. Spent a little time this +night in knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber. + + + +31st. In the morning I fell to my lute till 9 o'clock. Then to my +Lord's lodgings and set out a barrel of soap to be carried to Mrs. Ann. +Here I met with Nick Bartlet, one that had been a servant of my Lord's at +sea and at Harper's gave him his morning draft. So to my office where I +paid; L1200 to Mr. Frost and at noon went to Will's to give one of the +Excise office a pot of ale that came to-day to tell over a bag of his +that wanted; L7 in it, which he found over in another bag. Then home and +dined with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard from +his master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in his +lawsuit with Squib about his house and office. After dinner to +Westminster Hall, where all we clerks had orders to wait upon the +Committee, at the Star Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones, + + [Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles + Corbet, for treasonable practices in Ireland.] + +and were to give an account what money we had paid him; but the Committee +did not sit to-day. Hence to Will's, where I sat an hour or two with Mr. +Godfrey Austin, a scrivener in King Street. Here I met and afterwards +bought the answer to General Monk's letter, which is a very good one, and +I keep it by me. Thence to Mrs. Jem, where I found her maid in bed in a +fit of the ague, and Mrs. Jem among the people below at work and by and +by she came up hot and merry, as if they had given her wine, at which I +was troubled, but said nothing; after a game at cards, I went home and +wrote by the post and coming back called in at Harper's and drank with +Mr. Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse, who tells me, that whereas my +Lord Fleetwood should have answered to the Parliament to-day, he wrote a +letter and desired a little more time, he being a great way out of town. +And how that he is quite ashamed of himself, and confesses how he had +deserved this, for his baseness to his brother. And that he is like to +pay part of the money, paid out of the Exchequer during the Committee of +Safety, out of his own purse again, which I am glad of. Home and to bed, +leaving my wife reading in Polixandre. + + ["Polexandre," by Louis Le Roy de Gomberville, was first published + in 1632. "The History of Polexander" was "done into English by W. + Browne," and published in folio, London, 1647. It was the earliest + of the French heroic romances, and it appears to have been the model + for the works of Calprenede and Mdlle. de Scuderi; see Dunlop's + "History of Fiction" for the plot of the romance.] + +I could find nothing in Mr. Downing's letter, which Hawly brought me, +concerning my office; but I could discern that Hawly had a mind that I +would get to be Clerk of the Council, I suppose that he might have the +greater salary; but I think it not safe yet to change this for a public +employment. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A very fine dinner +Gave him his morning draft +Much troubled with thoughts how to get money +My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets +My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth +Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash +This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v2 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. 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 + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH & APRIL + 1659-60 + + +March 1st. In the morning went to my Lord's lodgings, thinking to have +spoke with Mr. Sheply, having not been to visit him since my coming to +town. But he being not within I went up, and out of the box where my +Lord's pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own +use and left the rest. Then to my office, where little to do, abut Mr. +Sheply comes to me, so at dinner time he and I went to Mr. Crew's, +whither Mr. Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. +Yelverton, a my old school-fellow at Paul's School, to bring the thanks +of the county to General Monk for the return of the Parliament. But old +Mr. Crew and my Lord not coming home to dinner, we tarried late before we +went to dinner, it being the day that John, Mr. John Crew's coachman, was +to be buried in the afternoon, he being a day or two before killed with a +blow of one of his horses that struck his skull into his brain. From +thence Mr. Sheply and I went into London to Mr. Laxton's; my Lord's +apothecary, and so by water to Westminster, where at the Sun [tavern] he +and I spent two or three hours in a pint or two of wine, discoursing of +matters in the country, among other things telling me that my uncle did +to him make a very kind mention of me, and what he would do for me. +Thence I went home, and went to bed betimes. This day the Parliament did +vote that they would not sit longer than the 15th day of this month. + + + +2d. This morning I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, where I spoke to +him. Here were a great many come to see him, as Secretary Thurlow who is +now by this Parliament chosen again Secretary of State. There were also +General Monk's trumpeters to give my Lord a sound of their trumpets this +morning. Thence I went to my office, and wrote a letter to Mr. Downing +about the business of his house. Then going home, I met with Mr. Eglin, +Chetwind, and Thomas, who took me to the Leg [another tavern] in King's +street, where we had two brave dishes of meat, one of fish, a carp and +some other fishes, as well done as ever I ate any. After that to the +Swan tavern, where we drank a quart or two of wine, and so parted. So I +to Mrs. Jem and took Mr. Moore with me (who I met in the street), and +there I met W. Howe and Sheply. After that to Westminster Hall, where I +saw Sir G. Booth at liberty. This day I hear the City militia is put +into good posture, and it is thought that Monk will not be able to do any +great matter against them now, if he have a mind. I understand that my +Lord Lambert did yesterday send a letter to the Council, and that +to-night he is to come and appear to the Council in person. Sir Arthur +Haselrigge do not yet appear in the House. Great is the talk of a single +person, and that it would now be Charles, George, or Richard again.-- +[Charles II., or George Monk, or Richard Cromwell.]--For the last of +which, my Lord St. John is said to speak high. Great also is the dispute +now in the House, in whose name the writs shall run for the next +Parliament; and it is said that Mr. Prin, in open House, said, "In King +Charles's." From Westminster Hall home. Spent the evening in my study, +and so after some talk with my wife, then to bed. + + + +3d. To Westminster Hall, where I found that my Lord was last night voted +one of the Generals at Sea, and Monk the other. I met my Lord in the +Hall, who bid me come to him at noon. I met with Mr. Pierce the purser, +Lieut. Lambert, Mr. Creed, and Will. Howe, and went with them to the Swan +tavern. Up to my office, but did nothing. At noon home to dinner to a +sheep's head. My brother Tom came and dined with me, and told me that my +mother was not very well, and that my Aunt Fenner was very ill too. +After dinner I to Warwick House, in Holborn, to my Lord, where he dined +with my Lord of Manchester, Sir Dudley North, my Lord Fiennes, and my +Lord Barkly. I staid in the great hall, talking with some gentlemen +there, till they all come out. Then I, by coach with my Lord, to Mr. +Crew's, in our way talking of publick things, and how I should look after +getting of his Commissioner's despatch. He told me he feared there was +new design hatching, as if Monk had a mind to get into the saddle. Here +I left him, and went by appointment to Hering, the merchant, but missed +of my money, at which I was much troubled, but could not help myself. +Returning, met Mr. Gifford, who took me and gave me half a pint of wine, +and told me, as I hear this day from many, that things are in a very +doubtful posture, some of the Parliament being willing to keep the power +in their hands. After I had left him, I met with Tom Harper, who took me +into a place in Drury Lane, where we drank a great deal of strong water, +more than ever I did in my life at onetime before. He talked huge high +that my Lord Protector would come in place again, which indeed is much +discoursed of again, though I do not see it possible. Hence home and +wrote to my father at Brampton by the post. So to bed. This day I was +told that my Lord General Fleetwood told my lord that he feared the King +of Sweden is dead of a fever at Gottenburg. + + + +4th. Lord's day. Before I went to church I sang Orpheus' Hymn to my +viall. After that to Mr. Gunning's, an excellent sermon upon charity. +Then to my mother to dinner, where my wife and the maid were come. After +dinner we three to Mr. Messum's where we met Mons. L'Impertinent, who got +us a seat and told me a ridiculous story how that last week he had caused +a simple citizen to spend; L80 in entertainments of him and some friends +of his upon pretence of some service that he would do him in his suit +after a widow. Then to my mother again, and after supper she and I +talked very high about religion, I in defence of the religion I was born +in. Then home. + + + +5th. Early in the morning Mr. Hill comes to string my theorbo, + + [The theorbo was a bass lute. Having gut strings it was played with + the fingers. There is a humorous comparison of the long waists of + ladies, which came into fashion about 1621, with the theorbo, by + Bishop Corbet: + + "She was barr'd up in whale-bones, that did leese + None of the whale's length, for they reached her knees; + Off with her head, and then she hath a middle + As her waste stands, just like the new found fiddle, + The favourite Theorbo, truth to tell ye, + Whose neck and throat are deeper than the belly." + + Corbet, 'Iter Boreale'.] + +which we were about till past ten o'clock, with a great deal of pleasure. +Then to Westminster, where I met with Mr. Sheply and Mr. Pinkney at +Will's, who took me by water to Billingsgate, at the Salutation Tavern, +whither by-and-by, Mr. Talbot and Adams came, and bring a great [deal of] +good meat, a ham of bacon, &c. Here we staid and drank till Mr. Adams +began to be overcome. Then we parted, and so to Westminster by water, +only seeing Mr. Pinkney at his own house, where he shewed me how he had +alway kept the Lion and Unicorn, in the back of his chimney, bright, in +expectation of the King's coming again. At home I found Mr. Hunt, who +told me how. the Parliament had voted that the Covenant be printed and +hung in churches again. Great hopes of the King's coming again. To bed. + + + +6th. (Shrove Tuesday.) I called Mr. Sheply and we both went up to my +Lord's lodgings at Mr. Crew's, where he bade us to go home again, and get +a fire against an hour after. Which we did at White Hall, whither he +came, and after talking with him and me about his going to sea, he called +me by myself to go along with him into the garden, where he asked me how +things were with me, and what he had endeavoured to do with my uncle to +get him to do something for me but he would say nothing too. He likewise +bade me look out now at this turn some good place, and he would use all +his own, and all the interest of his friends that he had in England, to +do me good. And asked me whether I could, without too much +inconvenience, go to sea as his secretary, and bid me think of it. He +also began to talk of things of State, and told me that he should want +one in that capacity at sea, that he might trust in, and therefore he +would have me to go. He told me also, that he did believe the King would +come in, and did discourse with me about it, and about the affection of +the people and City, at which I was full glad. After he was gone, I +waiting upon him through the garden till he came to the Hall, where I +left him and went up to my office, where Mr. Hawly brought one to me, a +seaman, that had promised Rio to him if he get him a purser's place, +which I think to endeavour to do. Here comes my uncle Tom, whom I took +to Will's and drank with, poor man, he comes to inquire about the knights +of Windsor, of which he desires to get to be one. + + [The body of Poor Knights of Windsor was founded by Edward III. The + intention of the king with regard to the poor knights was to provide + relief and comfortable subsistence for such valiant soldiers as + happened in their old age to fall into poverty and decay. On + September 20th, 1659, a Report having been read respecting the Poor + Knights of Windsor, the House "ordered that it be referred to a + Committee, to look into the revenue for maintenance of the Poor + Knights of Windsor," &c. (See Tighe and Davis's "Annals of + Windsor.")] + +While we were drinking, in comes Mr. Day, a carpenter in Westminster, to +tell me that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that I must go with him to their +yearly Club upon this day, which I confess I had quite forgot. So I went +to the Bell, where were Mr. Eglin, Veezy, Vincent a butcher, one more, +and Mr. Tanner, with whom I played upon a viall, and he a viallin, after +dinner, and were very merry, with a special good dinner, a leg of veal +and bacon, two capons and sausages and fritters, with abundance of wine. +After that I went home, where I found Kate Sterpin who hath not been here +a great while before. She gone I went to see Mrs. Jem, at whose chamber +door I found a couple of ladies, but she not being there, we hunted her +out, and found that she and another had hid themselves behind a door. +Well, they all went down into the dining-room, where it was full of tag, +rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, of which I was ashamed, +and after I had staid a dance or two I went away. Going home, called at +my Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with a pewterer, that +he had bought pewter to-day of. With them I drank, and so home and wrote +by the post, by my Lord's command, for J. Goods to come up presently. +For my Lord intends to go forthwith into the Swiftsure till the Nazeby be +ready. This day I hear that the Lords do intend to sit, and great store +of them are now in town, and I see in the Hall to-day. Overton at Hull +do stand out, but can, it is thought, do nothing; and Lawson, it is said, +is gone with some ships thither, but all that is nothing. My Lord told +me, that there was great endeavours to bring in the Protector again; but +he told me, too, that he did believe it would not last long if he were +brought in; no, nor the King neither (though he seems to think that he +will come in), unless he carry himself very soberly and well. Every body +now drinks the King's health without any fear, whereas before it was very +private that a man dare do it. Monk this day is feasted at Mercers' +Hall, and is invited one after another to all the twelve Halls in London! +Many think that he is honest yet, and some or more think him to be a fool +that would raise himself, but think that he will undo himself by +endeavouring it. My mind, I must needs remember, has been very much +eased and joyed at my Lord's great expressions of kindness this day, and +in discourse thereupon my wife and I lay awake an hour or two in our bed. + + + +7th. (Ash Wednesday.) In the morning I went to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, in +my way Washington overtook me and told me upon my question whether he +knew of any place now void that I might have, by power over friends, that +this day Mr. G. Montagu was to be made 'Custos Rotulorum' for +Westminster, and that by friends I might get to be named by him Clerk of +the Peace, with which I was, as I am at all new things, very much joyed, +so when I came to Mr. Crew's, I spoke to my Lord about it, who told me he +believed Mr. Montagu had already promised it, and that it was given him +only that he might gratify one person with the place I look for. Here, +among many that were here, I met with Mr. Lynes, the surgeon, who +promised me some seeds of the sensitive plant. + + [Evelyn, about the same date (August 9th, 1661), "tried several + experiments on the sensitive plant and humilis, which contracted + with the least touch of the sun through a burning glass, though it + rises and opens only when it shines on it"] + +I spoke too with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who gave me great encouragement +to go to sea with my Lord. Thence going homewards, my Lord overtook me +in his coach, and called me in, and so I went with him to St. James's, +and G. Montagu being gone to White Hall, we walked over the Park thither, +all the way he discoursing of the times, and of the change of things +since the last year, and wondering how he could bear with so great +disappointment as he did. He did give me the best advice that he could +what was best for me, whether to stay or go with him, and offered all the +ways that could be, how he might do me good, with the greatest liberty +and love that could be. I left him at Whitehall, and myself went to +Westminster to my office, whither nothing to do, but I did discourse with +Mr. Falconbridge about Le Squire's place, and had his consent to get it +if I could. I afterwards in the Hall met with W. Simons, who put me in +the best way how to get it done. Thence by appointment to the Angel in +King Street, where Chetwind, Mr. Thomas and Doling were at oysters, and +beginning Lent this day with a fish dinner. After dinner Mr. Thomas and +I by water to London, where I went to Herring's and received the L50 of +my Lord's upon Frank's bill from Worcester. I gave in the bill and set +my hand to his bill. Thence I went to the Pope's Head Alley and called +on Adam Chard, and bought a catcall there, it cost me two groats. Thence +went and gave him a cup of ale. After that to the Sun behind the +Exchange, where meeting my uncle Wight by the way, took him with me +thither, and after drinking a health or two round at the Cock (Mr. Thomas +being gone thither), we parted, he and I homewards, parted at Fleet +Street, where I found my father newly come home from Brampton very well. +He left my uncle with his leg very dangerous, and do believe he cannot +continue in that condition long. He tells me that my uncle did acquaint +him very largely what he did intend to do with his estate, to make me his +heir and give my brother Tom something, and that my father and mother +should have likewise something, to raise portions for John and Pall. I +pray God he may be as good as his word. Here I staid and supped and so +home, there being Joyce Norton there and Ch. Glascock. Going home I +called at Wotton's and took home a piece of cheese. At home Mr. Sheply +sat with me a little while, and so we all to bed. This news and my +Lord's great kindness makes me very cheerful within. I pray God make me +thankful. This day, according to order, Sir Arthur [Haselrigge] appeared +at the House; what was done I know not, but there was all the Rumpers +almost come to the House to-day. My Lord did seem to wonder much why +Lambert was so willing to be put into the Tower, and thinks he has some +design in it; but I think that he is so poor that he cannot use his +liberty for debts, if he were at liberty; and so it is as good and better +for him to be there, than any where else. + + + +8th. To Whitehall to bespeak some firing for my father at Short's, and +likewise to speak to Mr. Blackburne about Batters being gunner in the +"Wexford." Then to Westminster Hall, where there was a general damp over +men's minds and faces upon some of the Officers of the Army being about +making a remonstrance against Charles Stuart or any single person; but at +noon it was told, that the General had put a stop to it, so all was well +again. Here I met with Jasper, who was to look for me to bring me to my +Lord at the lobby; whither sending a note to my Lord, he comes out to me +and gives me direction to look after getting some money for him from the +Admiralty, seeing that things are so unsafe, that he would not lay out a +farthing for the State, till he had received some money of theirs. Home +about two o'clock, and took my wife by land to Paternoster Row, to buy +some Paragon for a petticoat and so home again. In my way meeting Mr. +Moore, who went home with me while I ate a bit and so back to Whitehall +again, both of us. He waited at the Council for Mr. Crew. I to the +Admiralty, where I got the order for the money, and have taken care for +the getting of it assigned upon Mr. Hutchinson, Treasurer for the Navy, +against tomorrow. Hence going home I met with Mr. King that belonged to +the Treasurers at War and took him to Harper's, who told me that he and +the rest of his fellows are cast out of office by the new Treasurers. +This afternoon, some of the Officers of the Army, and some of the +Parliament, had a conference at White Hall to make all right again, but I +know not what is done. This noon I met at the Dog tavern Captain Philip +Holland, with whom I advised how to make some advantage of my Lord's +going to sea, which he told me might be by having of five or six servants +entered on board, and I to give them what wages I pleased, and so their +pay to be mine; he was also very urgent to have me take the Secretary's +place, that my Lord did proffer me. At the same time in comes Mr. Wade +and Mr. Sterry, secretary to the plenipotentiary in Denmark, who brought +the news of the death of the King of Sweden at Gottenburgh the 3rd of the +last month, and he told me what a great change he found when he came +here, the secluded members being restored. He also spoke very freely of +Mr. Wades profit, which he made while he was in Zeeland, how he did +believe that he cheated Mr. Powell, and that he made above L500 on the +voyage, which Mr. Wade did very angrily deny, though I believe he was +guilty enough. + + + +9th. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to Westminster with him in the +coach, with Mr. Dudley with him, and he in the Painted Chamber + + [The Painted Chamber, or St. Edward's Chamber, in the old Palace at + Westminster. The first name was given to it from the curious + paintings on the walls, and the second from the tradition that + Edward the Confessor died in it.] + +walked a good while; and I telling him that I was willing and ready to go +with him to sea, he agreed that I should, and advised me what to write to +Mr. Downing about it, which I did at my office, that by my Lord's desire +I offered that my place might for a while be supplied by Mr. Moore, and +that I and my security should be bound by the same bond for him. I went +and dined at Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hawly comes to me, and I told him the +business and shewed him the letter promising him L20 a year, which he +liked very well of. I did the same to Mr. Moore, which he also took for +a courtesy. In the afternoon by coach, taking Mr. Butler with me to the +Navy Office, about the L500 for my Lord, which I am promised to have to- +morrow morning. Then by coach back again, and at White Hall at the +Council Chamber spoke with my Lord and got him to sign the acquittance +for the L500, and he also told me that he had spoke to Mr. Blackburne to +put off Mr. Creed and that I should come to him for direction in the +employment. After this Mr. Butler and I to Harper's, where we sat and +drank for two hours till ten at night; the old woman she was drunk and +began to talk foolishly in commendation of her son James. Home and to +bed. All night troubled in my thoughts how to order my business upon +this great change with me that I could not sleep, and being overheated +with drink I made a promise the next morning to drink no strong drink +this week, for I find that it makes me sweat and puts me quite out of +order. This day it was resolved that the writs do go out in the name of +the Keepers of the Liberty, and I hear that it is resolved privately that +a treaty be offered with the King. And that Monk did check his soldiers +highly for what they did yesterday. + + + +10th. In the morning went to my father's, whom I took in his cutting +house,--[His father was a tailor, and this was his cutting-out room.]-- +and there I told him my resolution to go to sea with my Lord, and +consulted with him how to dispose of my wife, and we resolved of letting +her be at Mr. Bowyer's. Thence to the Treasurer of the Navy, where I +received L500 for my Lord, and having left L200 of it with Mr. Rawlinson +at his house for Sheply, I went with the rest to the Sun tavern on Fish +Street Hill, where Mr. Hill, Stevens and Mr. Hater of the Navy Office had +invited me, where we had good discourse and a fine breakfast of Mr. +Hater. Then by coach home, where I took occasion to tell my wife of my +going to sea, who was much troubled at it, and was with some dispute at +last willing to continue at Mr. Bowyer's in my absence. After this to +see Mrs. Jem and paid her maid L7, and then to Mr. Blackburne, who told. +me what Mr. Creed did say upon the news of my coming into his place, and +that he did propose to my Lord that there should be two Secretaries, +which made me go to Sir H. Wright's where my Lord dined and spoke with +him about it, but he seemed not to agree to the motion. Hither W. Howe +comes to me and so to Westminster. In the way he told me, what I was to +provide and so forth against my going. He went with me to my office, +whither also Mr. Madge comes half foxed and played the fool upon the +violin that made me weary. Then to Whitehall and so home and set many of +my things in order against my going. My wife was late making of caps for +me, and the wench making an end of a pair of stockings that she was +knitting of. So to bed. + + + +11th. (Sunday.) All the day busy without my band on, putting up my books +and things, in order to my going to sea. At night my wife and I went to +my father's to supper, where J. Norton and Chas. Glascocke supt with us, +and after supper home, where the wench had provided all things against +tomorrow to wash, and so to bed, where I much troubled with my cold and +coughing. + + + +12th. This day the wench rose at two in the morning to wash, and my wife +and I lay talking a great while. I by reason of my cold could not tell +how to sleep. My wife and I to the Exchange, where we bought a great +many things, where I left her and went into London, and at Bedells the +bookseller's at the Temple gate I paid L12 1OS. 6d. for Mr. Fuller by +his direction. So came back and at Wilkinson's found Mr. Sheply and some +sea people, as the cook of the Nazeby and others, at dinner. Then to the +White Horse in King Street, where I got Mr. Buddle's horse to ride to +Huntsmore to Mr. Bowyer's, where I found him and all well, and willing to +have my wife come and board with them while I was at sea, which was the +business I went about. Here I lay and took a thing for my cold, namely a +spoonful of honey and a nutmeg scraped into it, by Mr. Bowyer's +direction, and so took it into my mouth, which I found did do me much +good. + + + +13th. It rained hard and I got up early, and got to London by 8 o'clock +at my Lord's lodgings, who told me that I was to be secretary, and Creed +to be deputy treasurer to the Fleet, at which I was troubled, but I could +not help it. After that to my father's to look after things, and so at +my shoemaker's and others. At night to Whitehall, where I met with +Simons and Luellin at drink with them at Roberts at Whitehall. Then to +the Admiralty, where I talked with Mr. Creed till the Brothers, and they +were very seemingly willing and glad that I have the place since my Lord +would dispose of it otherwise than to them. Home and to bed. This day +the Parliament voted all that had been done by the former Rump against +the House of Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out without +any qualification. Things seem very doubtful what will be the end of +all; for the Parliament seems to be strong for the King, while the +soldiers do all talk against. + + + +14th. To my Lord, where infinity of applications to him and to me. To +my great trouble, my Lord gives me all the papers that was given to him, +to put in order and give him an account of them. Here I got half-a-piece +of a person of Mr. Wright's recommending to my Lord to be Preacher of the +Speaker frigate. I went hence to St. James's and Mr. Pierce the surgeon +with me, to speak with Mr. Clerke, Monk's secretary, about getting some +soldiers removed out of Huntingdon to Oundle, which my Lord told me he +did to do a courtesy to the town, that he might have the greater interest +in them, in the choice of the next Parliament; not that he intends to be +chosen himself, but that he might have Mr. G. Montagu and my Lord +Mandeville chose there in spite of the Bernards. This done (where I saw +General Monk and methought he seemed a dull heavy man), he and I to +Whitehall, where with Luellin we dined at Marsh's. Coming home telling +my wife what we had to dinner, she had a mind to some cabbage, and I sent +for some and she had it. Went to the Admiralty, where a strange thing +how I am already courted by the people. This morning among others that +came to me I hired a boy of Jenkins of Westminster and Burr to be my +clerk. This night I went to Mr. Creed's chamber where he gave me the +former book of the proceedings in the fleet and the Seal. Then to +Harper's where old Beard was and I took him by coach to my Lord's, but he +was not at home, but afterwards I found him out at Sir H. Wright's. +Thence by coach, it raining hard, to Mrs. Jem, where I staid a while, and +so home, and late in the night put up my things in a sea-chest that Mr. +Sheply lent me, and so to bed. + + + +15th. Early packing up my things to be sent by cart with the rest of my +Lord's. So to Will's, where I took leave of some of my friends. Here I +met Tom Alcock, one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I had +not seen him these sixteen years. So in the Hall paid and made even with +Mrs. Michell; afterwards met with old Beale, and at the Axe paid him this +quarter to Ladyday next. In the afternoon Dick Mathews comes to dine, +and I went and drank with him at Harper's. So into London by water, and +in Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d. and went to +the Sun Tavern and ate it, where I did promise to give her all that I +have in the world but my books, in case I should die at sea. From thence +homewards; in the way my wife bought linen for three smocks and other +things. I went to my Lord's and spoke with him. So home with Mrs. Jem +by coach and then home to my own house. From thence to the Fox in King- +street to supper on a brave turkey of Mr. Hawly's, with some friends of +his there, Will Bowyer, &c. After supper I went to Westminster Hall, and +the Parliament sat till ten at night, thinking and being expected to +dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not. Great talk to-night that +the discontented officers did think this night to make a stir, but +prevented. To the Fox again. Home with my wife, and to bed +extraordinary sleepy. + + + +16th. No sooner out of bed but troubled with abundance of clients, +seamen. My landlord Vanly's man came to me by my direction yesterday, +for I was there at his house as I was going to London by water, and I +paid him rent for my house for this quarter ending at Lady day, and took +an acquittance that he wrote me from his master. Then to Mr. Sheply, to +the Rhenish Tavern House, where Mr. Pim, the tailor, was, and gave us a +morning draft and a neat's tongue. Home and with my wife to London, we +dined at my father's, where Joyce Norton and Mr. Armiger dined also. +After dinner my wife took leave of them in order to her going to-morrow +to Huntsmore. In my way home I went to the Chapel in Chancery Lane to +bespeak papers of all sorts and other things belonging to writing against +my voyage. So home, where I spent an hour or two about my business in my +study. Thence to the Admiralty, and staid a while, so home again, where +Will Bowyer came to tell us that he would bear my wife company in the +coach to-morrow. Then to Westminster Hall, where I heard how the +Parliament had this day dissolved themselves, and did pass very +cheerfully through the Hall, and the Speaker without his mace. The whole +Hall was joyful thereat, as well as themselves, and now they begin to +talk loud of the King. To-night I am told, that yesterday, about five +o'clock in the afternoon, one came with a ladder to the Great Exchange, +and wiped with a brush the inscription that was upon King Charles, and +that there was a great bonfire made in the Exchange, and people called +out "God bless. King Charles the Second!" + + ["Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the + statue of Charles I, in the Royal Exchange ('Exit tyrannus, Regum + ultimus, anno libertatis Angliae, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx.) + was washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, + and with a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down + his pot and brush and said it should never do him any more service, + in regard that it had the honour to put out rebels' hand-writing. + He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, + and by whose order it was done was not then known. The merchants + were glad and joyful, many people were gathered together, and + against the Exchange made a bonfire. "Rugge's Diurnal. In the + Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts at the British Museum is a + pamphlet which is dated in MS. March 21st, 1659-60, where this act + is said to be by order of Monk: "The Loyal Subjects Teares for the + Sufferings and Absence of their Sovereign Charles II., King of + England, Scotland, and Ireland; with an Observation upon the + expunging of 'Exit Tyrannus, Regum ultimus', by order of General + Monk, and some Advice to the Independents, Anabaptists, Phanatiques, + &c. London, 1660."] + +From the Hall I went home to bed, very sad in mind to part with my wife, +but God's will be done. + + + +17th. This morning bade adieu in bed to the company of my wife. We rose +and I gave my wife some money to serve her for a time, and what papers of +consequence I had. Then I left her to get her ready and went to my +Lord's with my boy Eliezer to my Lord's lodging at Mr. Crew's. Here I +had much business with my Lord, and papers, great store, given me by my +Lord to dispose of as of the rest. After that, with Mr. Moore home to my +house and took my wife by coach to the Chequer in Holborn, where, after +we had drank, &c., she took coach and so farewell. I staid behind with +Tom Alcock and Mr. Anderson, my old chamber fellow at Cambridge his +brother, and drank with them there, who were come to me thither about one +that would have a place at sea. Thence with Mr. Hawly to dinner at Mr. +Crew's. After dinner to my own house, where all things were put up into +the dining-room and locked up, and my wife took the keys along with her. + +This day, in the presence of Mr. Moore (who made it) and Mr. Hawly, I did +before I went out with my wife, seal my will to her, whereby I did give +her all that I have in the world, but my books which I give to my brother +John, excepting only French books, which my wife is to have. In the +evening at the Admiralty, I met my Lord there and got a commission for +Williamson to be captain of the Harp frigate, and afterwards went by +coach taking Mr. Crips with me to my Lord and got him to sign it at table +as he was at supper. And so to Westminster back again with him with me, +who had a great desire to go to sea and my Lord told me that he would do +him any favour. So I went home with him to his mother's house by me in +Axe Yard, where I found Dr. Clodius's wife and sat there talking and +hearing of old Mrs. Crisp playing of her old lessons upon the harpsichon +till it was time to go to bed. After that to bed, and Laud, her son lay +with me in the best chamber in her house, which indeed was finely +furnished. + + + +18th. I rose early and went to the barber's (Jervas) in Palace Yard and +I was trimmed by him, and afterwards drank with him a cup or two of ale, +and did begin to hire his man to go with me to sea. Then to my Lord's +lodging where I found Captain Williamson and gave him his commission to +be Captain of the Harp, and he gave me a piece of gold and 20s. in +silver. So to my own house, where I staid a while and then to dinner +with Mr. Shepley at my Lord's lodgings. After that to Mr. Mossum's, +where he made a very gallant sermon upon "Pray for the life of the King +and the King's son." (Ezra vi. 10.) From thence to Mr. Crew's, but my +Lord not being within I did not stay, but went away and met with Mr. +Woodfine, who took me to an alehouse in Drury Lane, and we sat and drank +together, and ate toasted cakes which were very good, and we had a great +deal of mirth with the mistress of the house about them. From thence +homewards, and called at Mr. Blagrave's, where I took up my note that he +had of mine for 40s., which he two years ago did give me as a pawn while +he had my lute. So that all things are even between him and I. So to +Mrs. Crisp, where she and her daughter and son and I sat talking till ten +o'clock at night, I giving them the best advice that I could concerning +their son, how he should go to sea, and so to bed. + + + +19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business to do, which makes my +head full; and indeed, for these two or three days, I have not been +without a great many cares and thoughts concerning them. After that to +the Admiralty, where a good while with Mr. Blackburne, who told me that +it was much to be feared that the King would come in, for all good men +and good things were now discouraged. Thence to Wilkinson's, where Mr. +Sheply and I dined; and while we were at dinner, my Lord Monk's lifeguard +come by with the Serjeant at Arms before them, with two Proclamations, +that all Cavaliers do depart the town; but the other that all officers +that were lately disbanded should do the same. The last of which Mr. R. +Creed, I remember, said, that he looked upon it as if they had said, that +all God's people should depart the town. Thence with some sea officers +to the Swan, where we drank wine till one comes to me to pay me some +money from Worcester, viz., L25. His name is Wilday. I sat in another +room and took my money and drank with him till the rest of my company +were gone and so we parted. Going home the water was high, and so I got +Crockford to carry me over it. So home, and left my money there. All +the discourse now-a-day is, that the King will come again; and for all I +see, it is the wishes of all; and all do believe that it will be so. My +mind is still much troubled for my poor wife, but I hope that this +undertaking will be worth my pains. To Whitehall and staid about +business at the Admiralty late, then to Tony Robins's, where Capt. +Stokes, Mr. Luddington and others were, and I did solicit the Captain for +Laud Crisp, who gave me a promise that he would entertain him. After +that to Mrs. Crisp's where Dr. Clodius and his wife were. He very merry +with drink. We played at cards late and so to bed. This day my Lord +dined at my Lord Mayor's [Allen], and Jasper was made drunk, which my +Lord was very angry at. + + + +20th. This morning I rose early and went to my house to put things in a +little order against my going, which I conceive will be to-morrow (the +weather still very rainy). After that to my Lord, where I found very +great deal of business, he giving me all letters and papers that come to +him about business, for me to give him account of when we come on +shipboard. Hence with Capt. Isham by coach to Whitehall to the +Admiralty. He and I and Chetwind, Doling and Luellin dined together at +Marsh's at Whitehall. So to the Bull Head whither W. Simons comes to us +and I gave them my foy + + [Foy. A feast given by one who is about to leave a place. In Kent, + according to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or + coming home. See Diary, November 25th, 1661.] + +against my going to sea; and so we took leave one of another, they +promising me to write to me to sea. Hither comes Pim's boy, by my +direction, with two monteeres--[Monteeres, montero (Spanish), a kind of +huntsman's cap.]--for me to take my choice of, and I chose the saddest +colour and left the other for Mr. Sheply. Hence by coach to London, and +took a short melancholy leave of my father and mother, without having +them to drink, or say anything of business one to another. And indeed I +had a fear upon me I should scarce ever see my mother again, she having a +great cold then upon her. Then to Westminster, where by reason of rain +and an easterly wind, the water was so high that there was boats rowed in +King Street and all our yard was drowned, that one could not go to my +house, so as no man has seen the like almost, most houses full of water. + + ["In this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, so + that great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King + Street being quite drowned. The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and + twelve persons with her. Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon + the mainland; and in Kent was very much damage done; so that report + said, there was L20,000 worth of harm done."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +Then back by coach to my Lord's; where I met Mr. Sheply, who staid with +me waiting for my Lord's coming in till very late. Then he and I, and +William Howe went with our swords to bring my Lord home from Sir H. +Wright's. He resolved to go to-morrow if the wind ceased. Sheply and I +home by coach. I to Mrs. Crisp's, who had sat over a good supper long +looking for me. So we sat talking and laughing till it was very late, +and so Laud and I to bed. + + + +21st. To my Lord's, but the wind very high against us, and the weather +bad we could not go to-day; here I did very much business, and then to my +Lord Widdrington's from my Lord, with his desire that he might have the +disposal of the writs of the Cinque Ports. My Lord was very civil to me, +and called for wine, and writ a long letter in answer. Thence I went to +a tavern over against Mr. Pierce's with judge Advocate Fowler and Mr. +Burr, and sat and drank with them two or three pints of wine. After that +to Mr. Crew's again and gave my Lord an account of what I had done, and +so about my business to take leave of my father and mother, which by a +mistake I have put down yesterday. Thence to Westminster to Crisp's, +where we were very merry; the old woman sent for a supper for me, and +gave me a handkercher with strawberry buttons on it, and so to bed. + + + +22nd. Up very early and set things in order at my house, and so took +leave of Mrs. Crispe and her daughter (who was in bed) and of Mrs. Hunt. +Then to my Lord's lodging at the gate and did so there, where Mr. Hawly +came to me and I gave him the key of my house to keep, and he went with +me to Mr. Crew's, and there I took my last leave of him. But the weather +continuing very bad my Lord would not go to-day. My Lord spent this +morning private in sealing of his last will and testament with Mr. W. +Mountagu. After that I went forth about my own business to buy a pair of +riding grey serge stockings and sword and belt and hose, and after that +took Wotton and Brigden to the Pope's Head Tavern in Chancery Lane, where +Gilb. Holland and Shelston were, and we dined and drank a great deal of +wine, and they paid all. Strange how these people do now promise me +anything; one a rapier, the other a vessel of wine or a gun, and one +offered me his silver hatband to do him a courtesy. I pray God to keep +me from being proud or too much lifted up hereby. After that to +Westminster, and took leave of Kate Sterpin who was very sorry to part +with me, and after that of Mr. George Mountagu, and received my warrant +of Mr. Blackburne, to be Secretary to the two Generals of the Fleet. +Then to take my leave of the Clerks of the Council, and thence Doling and +Luellin would have me go with them to Mount's chamber, where we sat and +talked and then I went away. So to my Lord (in my way meeting Chetwind +and Swan and bade them farewell) where I lay all night with Mr. Andrews. +This day Mr. Sheply went away on board and I sent my boy with him. This +day also Mrs. Jemimah went to Marrowbone, so I could not see her. Mr. +Moore being out of town to-night I could not take leave of him nor speak +to him about business which troubled me much. I left my small case +therefore with Mr. Andrews for him. + + + +23rd. Up early, carried my Lord's will in a black box to Mr. William +Montagu for him to keep for him. Then to the barber's and put on my +cravat there. So to my Lord again, who was almost ready to be gone and +had staid for me. Hither came Gilb. Holland, and brought me a stick +rapier and Shelston a sugar-loaf, and had brought his wife who he said +was a very pretty woman to the Ship tavern hard by for me to see but I +could not go. Young Reeve also brought me a little perspective glass +which I bought for my Lord, it cost me 8s. So after that my Lord in Sir +H. Wright's coach with Captain Isham, Mr. Thomas, John Crew, W. Howe, and +I in a Hackney to the Tower, where the barges staid for us; my Lord and +the Captain in one, and W. Howe and I, &c., in the other, to the Long +Reach, where the Swiftsure lay at anchor; (in our way we saw the great +breach which the late high water had made, to the loss of many L1000 to +the people about Limehouse.) Soon as my Lord on board, the guns went off +bravely from the ships. And a little while after comes the Vice-Admiral +Lawson, and seemed very respectful to my Lord, and so did the rest of the +Commanders of the frigates that were thereabouts. I to the cabin +allotted for me, which was the best that any had that belonged to my +Lord. I got out some things out of my chest for writing and to work +presently, Mr, Burr and I both. I supped at the deck table with Mr. +Sheply. We were late writing of orders for the getting of ships ready, +&c.; and also making of others to all the seaports between Hastings and +Yarmouth, to stop all dangerous persons that are going or coming between +Flanders and there. After that to bed in my cabin, which was but short; +however I made shift with it and slept very well, and the weather being +good I was not sick at all yet, I know not what I shall be. + + + +24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to the Council, &c. This +day Mr. Creed came on: board and dined very boldly with my Lord, but he +could not get a bed there. At night Capt. Isham who had been at +Gravesend all last night and to-day came and brought Mr. Lucy (one +acquainted with Mrs. Pierce, with whom I had been at her house), I drank +with him in the Captain's cabin, but my business could not stay with him. +I despatch many letters to-day abroad and it was late before we could get +to bed. Mr. Sheply and Howe supped with me in my cabin. The boy Eliezer +flung down a can of beer upon my papers which made me give him a box of +the ear, it having all spoiled my papers and cost me a great deal of +work. So to bed. + + + +25th. (Lord's day). About two o'clock in the morning, letters came from +London by our coxon, so they waked me, but I would not rise but bid him +stay till morning, which he did, and then I rose and carried them in to +my Lord, who read them a-bed. Among the rest, there was the writ and +mandate for him to dispose to the Cinque Ports for choice of +Parliament-men. There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with +his own hand superscribes it to S.P. Esq., of which God knows I was not a +little proud. After that I wrote a letter to the Clerk of Dover Castle, +to come to my Lord about issuing of those writs. About ten o'clock Mr. +Ibbott, at the end of the long table, begun to pray and preach and indeed +made a very good sermon, upon the duty of all Christians to be stedfast +in faith. After that Captain Cuttance and I had oysters, my Lord being +in his cabin not intending to stir out to-day. After that up into the +great cabin above to dinner with the Captain, where was Captain Isham and +all the officers of the ship. I took place of all but the Captains; +after dinner I wrote a great many letters to my friends at London. After +that, sermon again, at which I slept, God forgive me! After that, it +being a fair day, I walked with the Captain upon the deck talking. At +night I supped with him and after that had orders from my Lord about some +business to be done against to-morrow, which I sat up late and did and +then to bed. + + + +26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God that I was cut of +the stone at Mrs. Turner's in Salisbury Court. And did resolve while I +live to keep it a festival, as I did the last year at my house, and for +ever to have Mrs. Turner and her company with me. But now it pleases God +that I am where I am and so prevented to do it openly; only within my +soul I can and do rejoice, and bless God, being at this time blessed be +his holy name, in as good health as ever I was in my life. This morning +I rose early, and went about making of an establishment of the whole +Fleet, and a list of all the ships, with the number of men and guns: +About an hour after that, we had a meeting of the principal commanders +and seamen, to proportion out the number of these things. After that to +dinner, there being very many commanders on board. All the afternoon +very many orders were made, till I was very weary. At night Mr. Sheply +and W. Howe came and brought some bottles of wine and some things to eat +in my cabin, where we were very merry, remembering the day of being cut +for the stone. Captain Cuttance came afterwards and sat drinking a +bottle of wine till eleven, a kindness he do not usually do the greatest +officer in the ship. After that to bed. + + + +27th. Early in the morning at making a fair new establishment of the +Fleet to send to the Council. This morning, the wind came about, and we +fell into the Hope,--[A reach of the Thames near Tilbury.]-- and in our +passing by the Vice-Admiral, he and the rest of the frigates, with him, +did give us abundance of guns and we them, so much that the report of +them broke all the windows in my cabin and broke off the iron bar that +was upon it to keep anybody from creeping in at the Scuttle.--["A small +hole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for +ventilation. That in the deck is a small hatch-way."--Smyth's Sailor's +Word-Book.]--This noon I sat the first time with my Lord at table since +my coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in writing of letters +and orders. In the afternoon, Sir Harry Wright came onboard us, about +his business of being chosen Parliament-man. My Lord brought him to see +my cabin, when I was hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord too, +with the Captain, and after that to work again till it be very late. So +to bed. + + + +28th. This morning and the whole day busy, and that the more because Mr. +Burr was about his own business all the day at Gravesend. At night there +was a gentleman very well bred, his name was Banes, going for Flushing, +who spoke French and Latin very well, brought by direction from Captain +Clerke hither, as a prisoner, because he called out of the vessel that +he went in, "Where is your King, we have done our business, Vive le Roi." +He confessed himself a Cavalier in his heart, and that he and his whole +family had fought for the King; but that he was then drunk, having been +all night taking his leave at Gravesend the night before, and so could +not remember what it was that he said; but in his words and carriage +showed much of a gentleman. My Lord had a great kindness for him, but +did not think it safe to release him, but commanded him to be used +civilly, so he was taken to the Master's Cabin and had supper there. +In the meantime I wrote a letter to the Council about him, and an order +for the vessel to be sent for back that he was taken out of. But a while +after, he sent a letter down to my Lord, which my Lord did like very +well, and did advise with me what was best to be done. So I put in +something to my Lord and then to the Captain that the gentleman was to be +released and the letter stopped, which was done. So I went up and sat +and talked with him in Latin and French, and drank a bottle or two with +him; and about eleven at night he took boat again, and so God bless him. +Thence I to my cabin and to bed. This day we had news of the election at +Huntingdon for Bernard and Pedly, at which my Lord was much troubled for +his friends' missing of it. + + + +29th. We lie still a little below Gravesend. At night Mr. Sheply +returned from London, and told us of several elections for the next +Parliament. That the King's effigies was new making to be set up in the +Exchange again. This evening was a great whispering of some of the Vice- +Admiral's captains that they were dissatisfied, and did intend to fight +themselves, to oppose the General. But it was soon hushed, and the Vice- +Admiral did wholly deny any such thing, and protested to stand by the +General. At night Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, and I supped in my cabin. So up +to the Master's cabin, where we sat talking, and then to bed. + + + +30th. I was saluted in the morning with two letters, from some that I +had done a favour to, which brought me in each a piece of gold. This +day, while my Lord and we were at dinner, the Nazeby came in sight +towards us, and at last came to anchor close by us. After dinner my Lord +and many others went on board her, where every thing was out of order, +and a new chimney made for my Lord in his bedchamber, which he was much +pleased with. My Lord, in his discourse, discovered a great deal of love +to this ship. + + + +31st. This morning Captain Jowles of the "Wexford" came on board, for +whom I got commission from my Lord to be commander of the ship. Upon the +doing thereof he was to make the 20s. piece that he sent me yesterday, up +L5; wherefore he sent me a bill that he did owe me L4., which I sent my +boy to Gravesend with him, and he did give the boy L4 for me, and the boy +gave him the bill under his hand. This morning, Mr. Hill that lives in +Axe-yard was here on board with the Vice-Admiral. I did give him a +bottle of wine, and was exceedingly satisfied of the power that I have to +make my friends welcome. Many orders to make all the afternoon. At +night Mr. Sheply, Howe, Ibbott, and I supped in my cabin together. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + APRIL + 1660 + + +April 1st (Lord's day). Mr. Ibbott preached very well. After dinner my +Lord did give me a private list of all the ships that were to be set out +this summer, wherein I do discern that he bath made it his care to put by +as much of the Anabaptists as he can. By reason of my Lord and my being +busy to send away the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it was four +o'clock before we could begin sermon again. This day Captain Guy come on +board from Dunkirk, who tells me that the King will come in, and that the +soldiers at Dunkirk do drink the King's health in the streets. At night +the Captain, Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Sheply, and I did sup together in the +Captain's cabin. I made a commission for Captain Wilgness, of the Bear, +to-night, which got me 30s. So after writing a while I went to bed. + + + +2d. Up very early, and to get all my things and my boy's packed up. +Great concourse of commanders here this morning to take leave of my Lord +upon his going into the Nazeby, so that the table was full, so there +dined below many commanders, and Mr. Creed, who was much troubled to hear +that he could not go along with my Lord, for he had already got all his +things thither, thinking to stay there, but W. Howe was very high against +it, and he indeed did put him out, though everybody was glad of it. +After dinner I went in one of the boats with my boy before my Lord, and +made shift before night to get my cabin in pretty good order. It is but +little, but very convenient, having one window to the sea and another to +the deck, and a good bed. This morning comes Mr. Ed. Pickering, like a +coxcomb as he always was. He tells me that the King will come in, but +that Monk did resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder +it. + + + +3d. Late to bed. About three in the morning there was great knocking at +my cabin, which with much difficulty (so they say) waked me, and I rose, +but it was only for a packet, so went to my bed again, and in the morning +gave it my Lord. This morning Capt. Isham comes on board to see my Lord +and drunk his wine before he went into the Downs, there likewise come +many merchants to get convoy to the Baltique, which a course was taken +for. They dined with my Lord, and one of them by name Alderman Wood +talked much to my Lord of the hopes that we have now to be settled, +(under the King he meant); but my Lord took no notice of it. After +dinner which was late my Lord went on shore, and after him I and Capt. +Sparling went in his boat, but the water being almost at low water we +could not stay for fear of not getting into our boat again. So back +again. This day come the Lieutenant of the Swiftsure, who was sent by my +Lord to Hastings, one of the Cinque Ports, to have got Mr. Edward Montagu +to have been one of their burgesses, but could not, for they were all +promised before. After he had done his message, I took him and Mr. +Pierce, the surgeon (who this day came on board, and not before), to my +cabin, where we drank a bottle of wine. At night, busy a-writing, and so +to bed. My heart exceeding heavy for not hearing of my dear wife, and +indeed I do not remember that ever my heart was so apprehensive of her +absence as at this very time. + + + +4th. This morning I dispatch many letters of my own private business to +London. There come Colonel Thomson with the wooden leg, and General Pen, + + [This is the first mention in the Diary of Admiral (afterwards Sir + William) Penn, with whom Pepys was subsequently so particularly + intimate. At this time admirals were sometimes styled generals. + William Penn was born at Bristol in 1621, of the ancient family of + the Penns of Penn Lodge, Wilts. He was Captain at the age of + twenty-one; Rear-Admiral of Ireland at twenty-three; Vice-Admiral of + England and General in the first Dutch war, at thirty-two. He was + subsequently M.P. for Weymouth, Governor of Kingsale, and Vice- + Admiral of Munster. He was a highly successful commander, and in + 1654 he obtained possession of Jamaica. He was appointed a + Commissioner of the Navy in 1660, in which year he was knighted. + After the Dutch fight in 1665, where he distinguished himself as + second in command under the Duke of York, he took leave of the sea, + but continued to act as a Commissioner for the Navy till 1669, when + he retired to Wanstead, on account of his bodily infirmities, and + dying there, September 16th, 1670, aged forty-nine, was buried in + the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, where a monument to + his memory was erected.] + +and dined with my Lord and Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it was +certain now that the King must of necessity come in, and that one of the +Council told him there is something doing in order to a treaty already +among them. And it was strange to hear how Mr. Blackburne did already +begin to commend him for a sober man, and how quiet he would be under his +government, &c. I dined all alone to prevent company, which was +exceeding great to-day, in my cabin. After these two were gone Sir W. +Wheeler and Sir John Petters came on board and staid about two or three +hours, and so went away. The Commissioners came to-day, only to consult +about a further reducement of the Fleet, and to pay them as fast as they +can. I did give Davis, their servant, L5 10s. to give to Mr. Moore from +me, in part of the L7 that I borrowed of him, and he is to discount the +rest out of the 36s. that he do owe me. At night, my Lord resolved to +send the Captain of our ship to Waymouth and promote his being chosen +there, which he did put himself into a readiness to do the next morning. + + + +5th. Infinity of business all the morning of orders to make, that I was +very much perplexed that Mr. Burr had failed me of coming back last +night, and we ready to set sail, which we did about noon, and came in the +evening to Lee roads and anchored. At night Mr. Sheply overtook us who +had been at Gray's Market this morning. I spent all the afternoon upon +the deck, it being very pleasant weather. This afternoon Sir Rich. +Stayner and Mr. Creed, after we were come to anchor, did come on board, +and Creed brought me L30, which my Lord had ordered him to pay me upon +account, and Captain Clerke brought me a noted caudle. At night very +sleepy to bed. + + + +6th. This morning came my brother-in-law Balty to see me, and to desire +to be here with me as Reformado,--["a broken or disbanded officer."] +which did much trouble me. But after dinner (my Lord using him very +civilly, at table) I spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter to +Captain Stokes for him that he should be there. All the day with him +walking and talking, we under sail as far as the Spitts. In the +afternoon, W. Howe and I to our viallins, the first time since we came on +board. This afternoon I made even with my Lord to this day, and did give +him all the money remaining in my hands. In the evening, it being fine +moonshine, I staid late walking upon the quarter-deck with Mr. Cuttance, +learning of some sea terms; and so down to supper and to bed, having an +hour before put Balty into Burr's cabin, he being out of the ship. + + + +7th. This day, about nine o'clock in the morning, the wind grew high, +and we being among the sands lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy and +squeamish. Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some oysters, +the best my Lord said that ever he ate in his life, though I have ate as +good at Bardsey. After dinner, and all the afternoon I walked upon the +deck to keep myself from being sick, and at last about five o'clock, went +to bed and got a caudle made me, and sleep upon it very well. This day +Mr. Sheply went to Sheppy. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Very calm again, and I pretty well, but my head aked +all day. About noon set sail; in our way I see many vessels and masts, +which are now the greatest guides for ships. We had a brave wind all the +afternoon, and overtook two good merchantmen that overtook us yesterday, +going to the East Indies. The lieutenant and I lay out of his window +with his glass, looking at the women that were on board them, being +pretty handsome. This evening Major Willoughby, who had been here three +or four days on board with Mr. Pickering, went on board a catch [ketch] +for Dunkirk. We continued sailing when I went to bed, being somewhat ill +again, and Will Howe, the surgeon, parson, and Balty supped in the +Lieutenant's cabin and afterwards sat disputing, the parson for and I +against extemporary prayers, very hot. + + + +9th. We having sailed all night, were come in sight of the Nore and +South Forelands in the morning, and so sailed all day. In the afternoon +we had a very fresh gale, which I brooked better than I thought I should +be able to do. This afternoon I first saw France and Calais, with which +I was much pleased, though it was at a distance. About five o'clock we +came to the Goodwin, so to the Castles about Deal; where our Fleet lay, +among whom we anchored. Great was the shout of guns from the castles and +ships, and our answers, that I never heard yet so great rattling of guns. +Nor could we see one another on board for the smoke that was among us, +nor one ship from another. Soon as we came to anchor, the captains came +from on board their ships all to us on board. This afternoon I wrote +letters for my Lord to the Council, &c., which Mr. Dickering was to +carry, who took his leave this night of my Lord, and Balty after I had +wrote two or three letters by him to my wife and Mr. Bowyer, and had +drank a bottle of wine with him in my cabin which J. Goods and W. Howe +brought on purpose, he took leave of me too to go away to-morrow morning +with Mr. Dickering. I lent Balty 15s. which he was to pay to my wife. +It was one in the morning before we parted. This evening Mr. Sheply came +on board, having escaped a very great danger upon a sand coming from +Chatham. + + + +10th. This morning many or most of the commanders in the Fleet came on +board and dined here, so that some of them and I dined together in the +Round-house, where we were very merry. Hither came the Vice-Admiral to +us, and sat and talked and seemed a very good-natured man. At night as I +was all alone in my cabin, in a melancholy fit playing on my viallin, my +Lord and Sir R. Stayner came into the coach + + ["A sort of chamber or apartment in a large ship of war, just before + the great cabin. The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of + the quarter deck, and the roof of it by the poop: it is generally + the habitation of the flag-captain."--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book.] + +and supped there, and called me out to supper with them. After that up +to the Lieutenant's cabin, where he and I and Sir Richard sat till 11 +o'clock talking, and so to bed. This day my Lord Goring returned from +France, and landed at Dover. + + + +11th. A Gentleman came this morning from my Lord of Manchester to my +Lord for a pass for Mr. Boyle,' which was made him. I ate a good +breakfast by my Lord's orders with him in the great cabin below. The +wind all this day was very high, so that a gentleman that was at dinner +with my Lord that came along with Sir John Bloys (who seemed a fine man) +was forced to rise from table. This afternoon came a great packet of +letters from London directed to me, among the rest two from my wife, the +first that I have since coming away from London. All the news from +London is that things go on further towards a King. That the Skinners' +Company the other day at their entertaining of General Monk had took down +the Parliament Arms in their Hall, and set up the King's. In the evening +my Lord and I had a great deal of discourse about the several Captains of +the Fleet and his interest among them, and had his mind clear to bring in +the King. He confessed to me that he was not sure of his own Captain +[Cuttance] to be true to him, and that he did not like Captain Stokes. +At night W. Howe and I at our viallins in my cabin, where Mr. Ibbott and +the lieutenant were late. I staid the lieutenant late, shewing him my +manner of keeping a journal. After that to bed. It comes now into my +mind to observe that I am sensible that I have been a little too free to +make mirth with the minister of our ship, he being a very sober and an +upright man. + + + +12th. This day, the weather being very bad, we had no strangers on +board. In the afternoon came the Vice-Admiral on board, with whom my +Lord consulted, and I sent a packet to London at night with several +letters to my friends, as to my wife about my getting of money for her +when she should need it, to Mr. Bowyer that he tell me when the Messieurs +of the offices be paid, to Mr. Moore about the business of my office, and +making even with him as to matter of money. At night after I had +despatched my letters, to bed. + + + +13th. This day very foul all day for rain and wind. In the afternoon +set my own things in my cabin and chests in better order than hitherto, +and set my papers in order. At night sent another packet to London by +the post, and after that was done I went up to the lieutenant's cabin and +there we broached a vessel of ale that we had sent for among us from Deal +to-day. There was the minister and doctor with us. After that till one +o'clock in the morning writing letters to Mr. Downing about my business +of continuing my office to myself, only Mr. Moore to execute it for me. +I had also a very serious and effectual letter from my Lord to him to +that purpose. After that done then to bed, and it being very rainy, and +the rain coming upon my bed, I went and lay with John Goods in the great +cabin below, the wind being so high that we were faro to lower some of +the masts. I to bed, and what with the goodness of the bed and the +rocking of the ship I slept till almost ten o'clock, and then-- + + + +14th. Rose and drank a good morning draught there with Mr. Sheply, which +occasioned my thinking upon the happy life that I live now, had I nothing +to care for but myself. The sea was this morning very high, and looking +out of the window I saw our boat come with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, in it +in great danger, who endeavouring to come on board us, had like to have +been drowned had it not been for a rope. This day I was informed that my +Lord Lambert is got out of the Towers and that there is L100 proffered to +whoever shall bring him forth to the Council of State. + + [The manner of the escape of John Lambert, out of the Tower, on the + 11th inst., as related by Rugge:--"That about eight of the clock at + night he escaped by a rope tied fast to his window, by which he slid + down, and in each hand he had a handkerchief; and six men were ready + to receive him, who had a barge to hasten him away. She who made + the bed, being privy to his escape, that night, to blind the warder + when he came to lock the chamber-door, went to bed, and possessed + Colonel Lambert's place, and put on his night-cap. So, when the + said warder came to lock the door, according to his usual manner, he + found the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be Colonel John + Lambert, he said, 'Good night, my Lord.' To which a seeming voice + replied, and prevented all further jealousies. The next morning, on + coming to unlock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, 'In + the name of God, Joan, what makes you here? Where is my Lord + Lambert?' She said, 'He is gone; but I cannot tell whither.' + Whereupon he caused her to rise, and carried her before the officer + in the Tower, and [she] was committed to custody. Some said that a + lady knit for him a garter of silk, by which he was conveyed down, + and that she received L100 for her pains."--B] + +My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedom +brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is +capable of being elected for them. This day I heard that the Army had in +general declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do. At night +supped with my Lord. + +15th (Lord's day). Up early and was trimmed by the barber in the great +cabin below. After that to put my clothes on and then to sermon, and +then to dinner, where my Lord told us that the University of Cambridge +had a mind to choose him for their burgess, which he pleased himself +with, to think that they do look upon him as a thriving man, and said so +openly at table. At dinner-time Mr. Cook came back from London with a +packet which caused my Lord to be full of thoughts all day, and at night +he bid me privately to get two commissions ready, one for Capt. Robert +Blake to be captain of the Worcester, in the room of Capt. Dekings, an +anabaptist, and one that had witnessed a great deal of discontent with +the present proceedings. The other for Capt. Coppin to come out of that +into the Newbury in the room of Blake, whereby I perceive that General +Monk do resolve to make a thorough change, to make way for the King. +From London I hear that since Lambert got out of the Tower, the +Fanatiques had held up their heads high, but I hope all that will come to +nothing. Late a writing of letters to London to get ready for Mr. Cook. +Then to bed. + + + +16th. And about 4 o'clock in the morning Mr. Cook waked me where I lay +in the great cabin below, and I did give him his packet and directions +for London. So to sleep again. All the morning giving out orders and +tickets to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all supernumeraries +that they had above the number that the Council had set in their last +establishment. After dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so till +night, then to bed. + + + +17th. All the morning getting ready commissions for the Vice-Admiral and +the Rear-Admiral, wherein my Lord was very careful to express the utmost +of his own power, commanding them to obey what orders they should receive +from the Parliament, &c., or both or either of the Generals. + + [Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High + Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of + the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward + himself, or from the Rump Parliament.--Kennett's Register, p. 163.] + +The Vice-Admiral dined with us, and in the afternoon my Lord called me to +give him the commission for him, which I did, and he gave it him himself. +A very pleasant afternoon, and I upon the deck all the day, it was so +clear that my Lord's glass shewed us Calais very plain, and the cliffs +were as plain to be seen as Kent, and my Lord at first made me believe +that it was Kent. At night, after supper, my Lord called for the Rear- +Admiral's commission, which I brought him, and I sitting in my study +heard my Lord discourse with him concerning D. King's and Newberry's +being put out of commission. And by the way I did observe that my Lord +did speak more openly his mind to me afterwards at night than I can find +that he did to the Rear-Admiral, though his great confidant. For I was +with him an hour together, when he told me clearly his thoughts that the +King would carry it, and that he did think himself very happy that he was +now at sea, as well for his own sake, as that he thought he might do his +country some service in keeping things quiet. To bed, and shifting +myself from top to toe, there being J. Goods and W. Howe sat late by my +bedside talking. So to sleep, every day bringing me a fresh sense of the +pleasure of my present life. + + + +18th. This morning very early came Mr. Edward Montagu on board, but what +was the business of his coming again or before without any servant and +making no stay at all I cannot guess. This day Sir R. Stayner, Mr. +Sheply, and as many of my Lord's people as could be spared went to Dover +to get things ready against to-morrow for the election there. I all the +afternoon dictating in my cabin (my own head being troubled with +multiplicity of business) to Burr, who wrote for me above a dozen +letters, by which I have made my mind more light and clear than I have +had it yet since I came on board. At night sent a packet to London, and +Mr. Cook returned hence bringing me this news, that the Sectaries do talk +high what they will do, but I believe all to no purpose, but the +Cavaliers are something unwise to talk so high on the other side as they +do. That the Lords do meet every day at my Lord of Manchester's, and +resolve to sit the first day of the Parliament. That it is evident now +that the General and the Council do resolve to make way for the King's +coming. And it is now clear that either the Fanatiques must now be +undone, or the gentry and citizens throughout England, and clergy must +fall, in spite of their militia and army, which is not at all possible I +think. At night I supped with W. Howe and Mr. Luellin (being the first +time that I had been so long with him) in the great cabin below. After +that to bed, and W. Howe sat by my bedside, and he and I sang a psalm or +two and so I to sleep. + + + +19th. A great deal of business all this day, and Burr being gone to +shore without my leave did vex me much. At dinner news was brought us +that my Lord was chosen at Dover. This afternoon came one Mr. Mansell on +board as a Reformado, to whom my Lord did shew exceeding great respect, +but upon what account I do not yet know. This day it has rained much, so +that when I came to go to bed I found it wet through, so I was fain to +wrap myself up in a dry sheet, and so lay all night. + + + +20th. All the morning I was busy to get my window altered, and to have +my table set as I would have it, which after it was done I was infinitely +pleased with it, and also to see what a command I have to have every one +ready to come and go at my command. This evening came Mr. Boyle on +board, for whom I writ an order for a ship to transport him to Flushing. +He supped with my Lord, my Lord using him as a person of honour. This +evening too came Mr. John Pickering on board us. This evening my head +ached exceedingly, which I impute to my sitting backwards in my cabin, +otherwise than I am used to do. To-night Mr. Sheply told me that he +heard for certain at Dover that Mr. Edw. Montagu did go beyond sea when +he was here first the other day, and I am apt to believe that he went to +speak with the King. This day one told me how that at the election at +Cambridge for knights of the shire, Wendby and Thornton by declaring to +stand for the Parliament and a King and the settlement of the Church, did +carry it against all expectation against Sir Dudley North and Sir Thomas +Willis! I supped to-night with Mr. Sheply below at the half-deck table, +and after that I saw Mr. Pickering whom my Lord brought down to his +cabin, and so to bed. + + + +21st. This day dined Sir John Boys + + [Of Bonnington and Sandwich, Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to + Charles I. He defended Donnington Castle, Berkshire, for the King + against Jeremiah Horton, 1644, and received an augmentation to his + arms in consequence.] + +and some other gentlemen formerly great Cavaliers, and among the rest one +Mr. Norwood, for whom my Lord give a convoy to carry him to the Brill,-- +[Brielle, or Den Briel, a seaport town in the province of South Holland.] +--but he is certainly going to the King. For my Lord commanded me that I +should not enter his name in my book. My Lord do show them and that sort +of people great civility. All their discourse and others are of the +King's coming, and we begin to speak of it very freely. And heard how in +many churches in London, and upon many signs there, and upon merchants' +ships in the river, they had set up the King's arms. In the afternoon +the Captain would by all means have me up to his cabin, and there treated +me huge nobly, giving me a barrel of pickled oysters, and opened another +for me, and a bottle of wine, which was a very great favour. At night +late singing with W. Howe, and under the barber's hands in the coach. +This night there came one with a letter from Mr. Edw. Montagu to my Lord, +with command to deliver it to his own hands. I do believe that he do +carry some close business on for the King. + + [Pepys's guess at E. Montagu's business is confirmed by Clarendon's + account of his employment of him to negotiate with Lord Sandwich on + behalf of the King. ("History of the Rebellion," book xvi.)--Notes + and Queries, vol. x. p. 3--M. B.] + +This day I had a large letter from Mr. Moore, giving me an account of the +present dispute at London that is like to be at the beginning of the +Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve to sit with the +Commons, as not thinking themselves dissolved yet. Which, whether it be +granted or no, or whether they will sit or no, it will bring a great many +inconveniences. His letter I keep, it being a very well writ one. + + + +22d (Easter Sunday). Several Londoners, strangers, friends of the +Captains, dined here, who, among other things told us, how the King's +Arms are every day set up in houses and churches, particularly in +Allhallows Church in Thames-street, John Simpson's church, which being +privately done was, a great eye-sore to his people when they came to +church and saw it. Also they told us for certain, that the King's statue +is making by the Mercers' Company (who are bound to do it) to set up in +the Exchange. After sermon in the afternoon I fell to writing letters +against to-morrow to send to London. After supper to bed. + + + +23rd. All the morning very busy getting my packet ready for London, only +for an hour or two had the Captain and Mr. Sheply in my cabin at the +barrel of pickled oysters that the Captain did give me on Saturday last. +After dinner I sent Mr. Dunn to London with the packet. This afternoon I +had 40s. given me by Captain Cowes of the Paradox.' In the evening the +first time that we had any sport among the seamen, and indeed there was +extraordinary good sport after my Lord had done playing at ninepins. +After that W. Howe and I went to play two trebles in the great cabin +below, which my Lord hearing, after supper he called for our instruments, +and played a set of Lock's, two trebles, and a base, and that being done, +he fell to singing of a song made upon the Rump, with which he played +himself well, to the tune of "The Blacksmith." After all that done, then +to bed. + + ["The Blacksmith" was the same tune as "Green Sleeves." The + earliest known copy of "The Praise of the Blacksmith" is in "An + Antidote against Melancholy," 1661. See "Roxburghe Ballads," ed. + W. Chappell, 1872, vol. ii. p. 126. (Ballad Society:)] + + + +24th. This morning I had Mr. Luellin and Mr. Sheply to the remainder of +my oysters that were left yesterday. After that very busy all the +morning. While I was at dinner with my Lord, the Coxon of the Vice- +Admiral came for me to the Vice-Admiral to dinner. So I told my Lord and +he gave me leave to go. I rose therefore from table and went, where +there was very many commanders, and very pleasant we were on board the +London, which hath a state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but not so +rich. After that, with the Captain on board our own ship, where we were +saluted with the news of Lambert's being taken, which news was brought to +London on Sunday last. He was taken in Northamptonshire by Colonel +Ingoldsby, at the head of a party, by which means their whole design is +broke, and things now very open and safe. And every man begins to be +merry and full of hopes. In the afternoon my Lord gave a great large +character to write out, so I spent all the day about it, and after supper +my Lord and we had some more very good musique and singing of "Turne +Amaryllis," as it is printed in the song book, with which my Lord was +very much pleased. After that to bed. + + + +25th. All the morning about my Lord's character. Dined to-day with +Captain Clerke on board the Speaker (a very brave ship) where was the +Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and many other commanders. After dinner +home, not a little contented to see how I am treated, and with what +respect made a fellow to the best commanders in the Fleet. All the +afternoon finishing of the character, which I did and gave it my Lord, +it being very handsomely done and a very good one in itself, but that not +truly Alphabetical. Supped with Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, &c. in Mr. Pierce, +the Purser's cabin, where very merry, and so to bed. Captain Isham came +hither to-day. + + + +26th. This day came Mr. Donne back from London, who brought letters with +him that signify the meeting of the Parliament yesterday. And in the +afternoon by other letters I hear, that about twelve of the Lords met and +had chosen my Lord of Manchester' Speaker of the House of Lords (the +young Lords that never sat yet, do forbear to sit for the present); and +Sir Harbottle Grimstone, Speaker for the House of Commons. The House of +Lords sent to have a conference with the House of Commons, which, after a +little debate, was granted. Dr. Reynolds' preached before the Commons +before they sat. My Lord told me how Sir H. Yelverton (formerly my +school-fellow) was chosen in the first place for Northamptonshire and Mr. +Crew in the second. And told me how he did believe that the Cavaliers +have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians. All the afternoon I +was writing of letters, among the rest one to W. Simons, Peter Luellin +and Tom Doling, which because it is somewhat merry I keep a copy of. +After that done Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I down with J. Goods into my +Lord's storeroom of wine and other drink, where it was very pleasant to +observe the massy timbers that the ship is made of. We in the room were +wholly under water and yet a deck below that. After that to supper, +where Tom Guy supped with us, and we had very good laughing, and after +that some musique, where Mr. Pickering beginning to play a bass part upon +the viall did it so like a fool that I was ashamed of him. After that to +bed. + + + +27th. This morning Burr was absent again from on board, which I was +troubled at, and spoke to Mr. Pierce, Purser, to speak to him of it, and +it is my mind. This morning Pim [the tailor] spent in my cabin, putting +a great many ribbons to a suit. After dinner in the afternoon came on +board Sir Thomas Hatton and Sir R. Maleverer going for Flushing; but all +the world know that they go where the rest of the many gentlemen go that +every day flock to the King at Breda. + + [The King arrived at Breda on the 14th April. Sir W. Lower writes + ("Voiage and Residence of Charles II. in Holland," p. 5): "Many + considerations obliged him to depart the territories under the + obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs."] + +They supped here, and my Lord treated them as he do the rest that go +thither, with a great deal of civility. While we were at supper a packet +came, wherein much news from several friends. The chief is that, that I +had from Mr. Moore, viz. that he fears the Cavaliers in the House will be +so high, that the others will be forced to leave the House and fall in +with General Monk, and so offer things to the King so high on the +Presbyterian account that he may refuse, and so they will endeavour some +more mischief; but when I told my Lord it, he shook his head and told me, +that the Presbyterians are deceived, for the General is certainly for the +King's interest, and so they will not be able to prevail that way with +him. After supper the two knights went on board the Grantham, that is to +convey them to Flushing. I am informed that the Exchequer is now so low, +that there is not L20 there, to give the messenger that brought the news +of Lambert's being taken; which story is very strange that he should lose +his reputation of being a man of courage now at one blow, for that he was +not able to fight one stroke, but desired of Colonel Ingoldsby several +times for God's sake to let him escape. Late reading my letters, my mind +being much troubled to think that, after all our hopes, we should have +any cause to fear any more disappointments therein. To bed. This day I +made even with Mr. Creed, by sending him my bill and he me my money by +Burr whom I sent for it. + + + +28th. This morning sending a packet by Mr. Dunne to London. In the +afternoon I played at ninepins with Mr. Pickering, I and Mr. Pett against +him and Ted Osgood, and won a crown apiece of him. He had not money +enough to pay me. After supper my Lord exceeding merry, and he and I and +W. Howe to sing, and so to bed. + + + +29th (Sunday). This day I put on first my fine cloth suit made of a +cloak that had like to have been [dirted] a year ago, the very day that I +put it on. After sermon in the morning Mr. Cook came from London with a +packet, bringing news how all the young lords that were not in arms +against the Parliament do now sit. That a letter is come from the King +to the House, which is locked up by the Council 'till next Tuesday that +it may be read in the open House when they meet again, they having +adjourned till then to keep a fast tomorrow. And so the contents is not +yet known. L13,000 of the L20,000 given to General Monk is paid out of +the Exchequer, he giving L12 among the teller clerks of Exchequer. My +Lord called me into the great cabin below, where I opened my letters and +he told me that the Presbyterians are quite mastered by the Cavaliers, +and that he fears Mr. Crew did go a little too far the other day in +keeping out the young lords from sitting. That he do expect that the +King should be brought over suddenly, without staying to make any terms +at all, saying that the Presbyterians did intend to have brought him in +with such conditions as if he had been in chains. But he shook his +shoulders when he told me how Monk had betrayed him, for it was he that +did put them upon standing to put out the lords and other members that +came not within the qualifications, which he [Montagu] did not like, but +however he [Monk] had done his business, though it be with some kind of +baseness. After dinner I walked a great while upon the deck with the +chyrurgeon and purser, and other officers of the ship, and they all pray +for the King's coming, which I pray God send. + + + +30th. All the morning getting instructions ready for the Squadron of +ships that are going to-day to the Streights, among others Captain +Teddiman, Curtis, and Captain Robert Blake to be commander of the whole +Squadron. After dinner to ninepins, W. Howe and I against Mr. Creed and +the Captain. We lost 5s. apiece to them. After that W. Howe, Mr. Sheply +and I got my Lord's leave to go to see Captain Sparling. So we took boat +and first went on shore, it being very pleasant in the fields; but a very +pitiful town Deal is. We went to Fuller's (the famous place for ale), +but they have none but what was in the vat. After that to Poole's, a +tavern in the town, where we drank, and so to boat again, and went to the +Assistance, where we were treated very civilly by the Captain, and he did +give us such music upon the harp by a fellow that he keeps on board that +I never expect to hear the like again, yet he is a drunken simple fellow +to look on as any I ever saw. After that on board the Nazeby, where we +found my Lord at supper, so I sat down and very pleasant my Lord was with +Mr. Creed and Sheply, who he puzzled about finding out the meaning of the +three notes which my Lord had cut over the chrystal of his watch. After +supper some musique. Then Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I up to the +Lieutenant's cabin, where we drank, and I and W. Howe were very merry, +and among other frolics he pulls out the spigot of the little vessel of +ale that was there in the cabin and drew some into his mounteere, and +after he had drank, I endeavouring to dash it in his face, he got my +velvet studying cap and drew some into mine too, that we made ourselves a +great deal of mirth, but spoiled my clothes with the ale that we dashed +up and down. After that to bed very late with drink enough in my head. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians +Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it +Strange thing how I am already courted by the people + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v4 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MAY + 1660 + + +May 1st. This morning I was told how the people of Deal have set up two +or three Maypoles, and have hung up their flags upon the top of them, and +do resolve to be very merry to-day. It being a very pleasant day, I +wished myself in Hide Park. This day I do count myself to have had full +two years of perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heaven be +blessed. This day Captain Parker came on board, and without his +expectation I had a commission for him for the Nonsuch frigate + + [The "Nonsuch" was a fourth-rate of thirty-two guns, built at + Deptford in 1646 by Peter Pett, jun. The captain was John Parker.] + +(he being now in the Cheriton), for which he gave me a French pistole. +Captain H. Cuttance has commission for the Cheriton. After dinner to +nine-pins, and won something. The rest of the afternoon in my cabin +writing and piping. While we were at supper we heard a great noise upon +the Quarter Deck, so we all rose instantly, and found it was to save the +coxon of the Cheriton, who, dropping overboard, could not be saved, but +was drowned. To-day I put on my suit that was altered from the great +skirts to little ones. To-day I hear they were very merry at Deal, +setting up the King's flag upon one of their maypoles, and drinking his +health upon their knees in the streets, and firing the guns, which the +soldiers of the Castle threatened; but durst not oppose. + + + +2nd. In the morning at a breakfast of radishes at the Purser's cabin. +After that to writing till dinner. At which time comes Dunne from +London, with letters that tell us the welcome news of the Parliament's +votes yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest May-day that +bath been many a year to England. The King's letter was read in the +House, wherein he submits himself and all things to them, as to an Act of +Oblivion to all, + + ["His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the + safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for + having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it, + and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and + the calling in of their lawful Prince. It is printed and published + as well as the letter, but that shall not hinder me to say, that + there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most + excellent natural qualities, and of all the venues, as well Royal as + Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, than was found + in those two wonderful productions."--Sir William Lowers 'Relation . + . . of the voiage and Residence Which . . . Charles the II. + Hath made in Holland,' Hague, 1660, folio, p. 3.] + +unless they shall please to except any, as to the confirming of the sales +of the King's and Church lands, if they see good. The House upon reading +the letter, ordered L50,000 to be forthwith provided to send to His +Majesty for his present supply; and a committee chosen to return an +answer of thanks to His Majesty for his gracious letter; and that the +letter be kept among the records of the Parliament; and in all this not +so much as one No. So that Luke Robinson himself stood up and made a +recantation for what he had done, and promises to be a loyal subject to +his Prince for the time to come. The City of London have put a +Declaration, wherein they do disclaim their owing any other government +but that of a King, Lords, and Commons. Thanks was given by the House to +Sir John Greenville, + + [Created Earl of Bath, 1661; son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at + the battle of Lansdowne; he was, when a boy, left for dead on the + field at the second battle of Newbury, and said to have been the + only person entrusted by Charles II. and Monk in bringing about the + Restoration.] + +one of the bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and they +continued bare all the time it was reading. Upon notice made from the +Lords to the Commons, of their desire that the Commons would join with +them in their vote for King, Lords, and Commons; the Commons did concur +and voted that all books whatever that are out against the Government of +King, Lords, and Commons, should be brought into the House and burned. +Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever, +and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their knees +in the streets, which methinks is a little too much. But every body +seems to be very joyfull in the business, insomuch that our sea- +commanders now begin to say so too, which a week ago they would not do. + + ["The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses, + without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a + hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated + and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any + Parliament rumps and kidneys?' And it was a very ordinary thing to + see little children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps." + --Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +And our seamen, as many as had money or credit for drink, did do nothing +else this evening. This day came Mr. North (Sir Dudley North's son) on +board, to spend a little time here, which my Lord was a little troubled +at, but he seems to be a fine gentleman, and at night did play his part +exceeding well at first sight. After musique I went up to the Captain's +Cabin with him and Lieutenant Ferrers, who came hither to-day from London +to bring this news to my Lord, and after a bottle of wine we all to bed. + + + +3d. This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter +to the two Generals to be communicated to the fleet. + + ["King Charles II. his Declaration to all his loving Subjects of the + Kingdome of England, dated from his Court at Breda in Holland 4/14 + of April, 1660, and read in Parliament with his Majesties Letter of + the same date to his Excellence the Ld. Gen. Monck to be + communicated to the Ld. President of the Council of State and + to the Officers of the Army under his Command. London, Printed by + W. Godbid for John Playford in the Temple, 1660." 40, pp. 8.] + +The contents of the letter are his offer of grace to all that will come +in within forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament shall +hereafter except. That the sales of lands during these troubles, and all +other things, shall be left to the Parliament, by which he will stand. +The letter dated at Breda, April, 4 1660, in the 12th year of his reign. +Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, one of +the messengers of the Council from General Monk, my Lord summoned a +council of war, and in the mean time did dictate to me how he would have +the vote ordered which he would have pass this council. Which done, the +Commanders all came on board, and the council sat in the coach (the first +council of war that had been in my time), where I read the letter and +declaration; and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to draw up +a vote, which being offered, they passed. Not one man seemed to say no +to it, though I am confident many in their hearts were against it. After +this was done, I went up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and the +Commanders, and there read both the papers and the vote; which done, and +demanding their opinion, the seamen did all of them cry out, "God bless +King Charles!" with the greatest joy imaginable. That being done, Sir +R. Stayner, who had invited us yesterday, took all the Commanders and +myself on board him to dinner, which not being ready, I went with Captain +Hayward to the Plimouth and Essex, and did what I had to do there and +returned, where very merry at dinner. After dinner, to the rest of the +ships (staid at the Assistance to hear the harper a good while) quite +through the fleet. Which was a very brave sight to visit all the ships, +and to be received with the respect and honour that I was on board them +all; and much more to see the great joy that I brought to all men; not +one through the whole fleet showing the least dislike of the business. +In the evening as I was going on board the Vice-Admiral, the General +began to fire his guns, which he did all that he had in the ship, and so +did all the rest of the Commanders, which was very gallant, and to hear +the bullets go hissing over our heads as we were in the boat. This done +and finished my Proclamation, I returned to the Nazeby, where my Lord was +much pleased to hear how all the fleet took it in a transport of joy, +showed me a private letter of the King's to him, and another from the +Duke of York in such familiar style as to their common friend, with all +kindness imaginable. And I found by the letters, and so my Lord told me +too, that there had been many letters passed between them for a great +while, and I perceive unknown to Monk. And among the rest that had +carried these letters Sir John Boys is one, and that Mr. Norwood, which +had a ship to carry him over the other day, when my Lord would not have +me put down his name in the book. The King speaks of his being courted +to come to the Hague, but do desire my Lord's advice whither to come to +take ship. And the Duke offers to learn the seaman's trade of him, in +such familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had writ them. This was very +strange to me, that my Lord should carry all things so wisely and +prudently as he do, and I was over joyful to see him in so good +condition, and he did not a little please himself to tell me how he had +provided for himself so great a hold on the King. + +After this to supper, and then to writing of letters till twelve at +night, and so up again at three in the morning. My Lord seemed to put +great confidence in me, and would take my advice in many things. I +perceive his being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk, and +to let him have all the honour of doing the business, though he will many +times express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool. So +that I do believe there is some agreement more than ordinary between the +King and my Lord to let Monk carry on the business, for it is he that +must do the business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not +flattered and observed. This, my Lord will hint himself sometimes. My +Lord, I perceive by the King's letter, had writ to him about his father, +Crew,--[When only seventeen years old, Montagu had married Jemima, +daughter of John Crew, created afterwards Baron Crew of Stene.]--and the +King did speak well of him; but my Lord tells me, that he is afeard that +he hath too much concerned himself with the Presbyterians against the +House of Lords, which will do him a great discourtesy. + + + +4th. I wrote this morning many letters, and to all the copies of the +vote of the council of war I put my name, that if it should come in print +my name maybe at it. I sent a copy of the vote to Doling, inclosed in +this letter: + + "SIR, + + "He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride, with pendants + loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud 'Vive le Roys,' + echoed from one ship's company to another, he, and he only, can + apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was received with, or the + blessing he thought himself possessed of that bore it, and is + + "Your humble servant." + + +About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and sent them by the +messenger that came yesterday. This morning came Captain Isham on board +with a gentleman going to the King, by whom very cunningly, my Lord tells +me, he intends to send an account of this day's and yesterday's actions +here, notwithstanding he had writ to the Parliament to have leave of them +to send the King the answer of the fleet. Since my writing of the last +paragraph, my Lord called me to him to read his letter to the King, to +see whether I could find any slips in it or no. And as much of the +letter' as I can remember, is thus: + + "May it please your Most Excellent Majesty," and so begins. + + "That he yesterday received from General Monk his Majesty's letter + and direction; and that General Monk had desired him to write to the + Parliament to have leave to send the vote of the seamen before he + did send it to him, which he had done by writing to both Speakers; + but for his private satisfaction he had sent it thus privately (and + so the copy of the proceedings yesterday was sent him), and that + this come by a gentleman that came this day on board, intending to + wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord's countryman, and one + whose friends have suffered much on his Majesty's behalf. That my + Lords Pembroke and Salisbury are put out of the House of Lords. + That my Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him the + civility and respect due to him; and that he do much rejoice to see + that the King do resolve to receive none of their assistance (or + some such words), from them, he having strength enough in the love + and loyalty of his own subjects to support him. That his Majesty + had chosen the best place, Scheveling,--[Schevingen, the port of the + Hague]--for his embarking, and that there is nothing in the world of + which he is more ambitious, than to have the honour of attending his + Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy. That he had commanded the + vessel to attend at Helversluce--[Hellevoetsluis, in South Holland] + --till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do not think + it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that he may be there to + receive his commands and bring them to his Lordship. He ends his + letter, that he is confounded with the thoughts of the high + expressions of love to him in the King's letter, and concludes, + + "Your most loyall, dutifull, faithfull and obedient subject and + servant, E. M." + + +The rest of the afternoon at ninepins. In the evening came a packet from +London, among the rest a letter from my wife, which tells me that she has +not been well, which did exceedingly trouble me, but my Lord sending Mr. +Cook at night, I wrote to her and sent a piece of gold enclosed to her, +and wrote also to Mrs. Bowyer, and enclosed a half piece to her for a +token. After supper at the table in the coach, my Lord talking +concerning the uncertainty of the places of the Exchequer to them that +had them now; he did at last think of an office which do belong to him in +case the King do restore every man to his places that ever had been +patent, which is to be one of the clerks of the signet, which will be a +fine employment for one of his sons. After all this discourse we broke +up and to bed. + +In the afternoon came a minister on board, one Mr. Sharpe, who is going +to the King; who tells me that Commissioners are chosen both of Lords and +Commons to go to the King; and that Dr. Clarges + + [Thomas Clarges, physician to the army, created a baronet, 1674, + died 1695. He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married + General Monk. "The Parliament also permitted General Monk to send + Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some officers of + the army, to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the + army, which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof, after + the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the + General."--Sir William Lowers Relation . . . of the Voiage and + Residence which . . . Charles the II. Hath made in Holland, + Hague, 1660, folio.] + +is going to him from the Army, and that he will be here to-morrow. My +letters at night tell me, that the House did deliver their letter to Sir +John Greenville, in answer to the King's sending, and that they give him +L500 for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that besides the L50,000 +ordered to be borrowed of the City for the present use of the King, the +twelve companies of the City do give every one of them to his Majesty, as +a present, L1000. + + + +5th. All the morning very busy writing letters to London, and a packet +to Mr. Downing, to acquaint him with what had been done lately in the +fleet. And this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him, did of +himself think of doing it, to do me a kindness, for he writ a letter +himself to him, thanking him for his kindness to me. All the afternoon +at ninepins, at night after supper good musique, my Lord, Mr. North, I +and W. Howe. After that to bed. This evening came Dr. Clarges to Deal, +going to the King; where the towns-people strewed the streets with herbes +against his coming, for joy of his going. Never was there so general a +content as there is now. I cannot but remember that our parson did, in +his prayer to-night, pray for the long life and happiness of our King and +dread Soveraign, that may last as long as the sun and moon endureth. + + + +6th (Lord's day). This morning while we were at sermon comes in Dr. +Clarges and a dozen gentlemen to see my Lord, who, after sermon, dined +with him; I remember that last night upon discourse concerning Clarges my +Lord told me that he was a man of small entendimiento.--[Entendimiento, +Spanish: the understanding.]--This afternoon there was a gentleman with +me, an officer of Dunkirk going over, who came to me for an order and +told me he was lately with my uncle and Aunt Fenner and that Kate's fits +of the convulsions did hold her still. It fell very well to-day, a +stranger preached here for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for +King Charles, by the Grace of God, &c., which gave great contentment to +the gentlemen that were on board here, and they said they would talk of +it, when they come to Breda, as not having it done yet in London so +publickly. After they were gone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to +the King and give it to me to carry privately to Sir William Compton' on +board the Assistance, which I did, and after a health to his Majesty on +board there, I left them under sail for Breda. Back again and found them +at sermon. I went up to my cabin and looked over my accounts, and find +that, all my debts paid and my preparations to sea paid for, I have L640 +clear in my purse. After supper to bed. + + + +7th. This morning Captain Cuttance sent me 12 bottles of Margate ale. +Three of them I drank presently with some friends in the Coach. My Lord +went this morning about the flag-ships in a boat, to see what alterations +there must be, as to the arms and flags. He did give me order also to +write for silk flags and scarlett waistcloathes. + + [Waist-cloths are the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which + are stowed in the waist-nettings.] + +For a rich barge; for a noise of trumpets, + + [A set or company of musicians, an expression constantly used by old + writers without any disparaging meaning. It is sometimes applied to + voices as well as to instruments.] + +and a set of fidlers. Very great deal of company come today, among +others Mr. Bellasses, Sir Thomas Lenthropp, Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel +Philip Honiwood, and Captain Titus, the last of whom my Lord showed all +our cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice what room there will be +for the King's entertainment. Here were also all the Jurates of the town +of Dover come to give my Lord a visit, and after dinner all went away. +I could not but observe that the Vice-Admiral after dinner came into the +great cabin below, where the Jurates and I and the commanders for want of +room dined, and there told us we must drink a health to the King, and +himself called for a bottle of wine, and begun his and the Duke of +York's. In the afternoon I lost 5s. at ninepins. After supper musique, +and to bed. Having also among us at the Coach table wrote a letter to +the French ambassador, in French, about the release of a ship we had +taken. After I was in bed Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came and sat in my +cabin, where I gave them three bottles of Margate ale, and sat laughing +and very merry, till almost one o'clock in the morning, and so good +night. + + + +8th. All the morning busy. After dinner come several persons of honour, +as my Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great giving +of them salutes. My Lord and we at nine-pins: I lost 9s. While we were +at play Mr. Cook brings me word of my wife. He went to Huntsmore to see +her, and brought her and my father Bowyer to London, where he left her at +my father's, very well, and speaks very well of her love to me. My +letters to-day tell me how it was intended that the King should be +proclaimed to-day in London, with a great deal of pomp. I had also news +who they are that are chosen of the Lords and Commons to attend the King. +And also the whole story of what we did the other day in the fleet, +at reading of the King's declaration, and my name at the bottom of it. +After supper some musique and to bed. I resolving to rise betimes to- +morrow to write letters to London. + + + +9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as from the two +Generals of the fleet, in answer to his letter to them, wherein my Lord +do give most humble thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; and +promises all duty and obedience to him. This letter was carried this +morning to Sir Peter Killigrew, + + [Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as + "Peter the Post," from the alacrity with which he despatched "like + wild fire" all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him + in the King's cause. His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as + second baronet in 1665, was M.P. for Camelford in 1660.] + +who came hither this morning early to bring an order from the Lords' +House to my Lord, giving him power to write an answer to the King. This +morning my Lord St. John and other persons of honour were here to see my +Lord, and so away to Flushing. After they were gone my Lord and I to +write letters to London, which we sent by Mr. Cook, who was very desirous +to go because of seeing my wife before she went out of town. As we were +sitting down to dinner, in comes Noble with a letter from the House of +Lords to my Lord, to desire him to provide ships to transport the +Commissioners to the King, which are expected here this week. He brought +us certain news that the King was proclaimed yesterday with great pomp, +and brought down one of the Proclamations, with great joy to us all; for +which God be praised. After dinner to ninepins and lost 5s. This +morning came Mr. Saunderson, + + [Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author + of the "History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I., and Charles I." + His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids.] + +that writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over to the King. +He calls me cozen and seems a very knowing man. After supper to bed +betimes, leaving my Lord talking in the Coach with the Captain. + + + +10th. This morning came on board Mr. Pinkney and his son, going to the +King with a petition finely writ by Mr. Whore, for to be the King's +embroiderer; for whom and Mr. Saunderson I got a ship. This morning come +my Lord Winchelsea and a great deal of company, and dined here. In the +afternoon, while my Lord and we were at musique in the great cabin below, +comes in a messenger to tell us that Mr. Edward Montagu, + + [Sir Edward Montagu's eldest son, afterwards second Earl of + Sandwich, called by Pepys "The child."] + +my Lord's son, was come to Deal, who afterwards came on board with Mr. +Pickering with him. The child was sick in the evening. At night, while +my Lord was at supper, in comes my Lord Lauderdale and Sir John +Greenville, who supped here, and so went away. After they were gone, my +Lord called me into his cabin, and told me how he was commanded to set +sail presently for the King, + + ["Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty + for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty's returning + home to England to his kingly government: and that all proceedings + in law be in His Majesty's name."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +and was very glad thereof, and so put me to writing of letters and other +work that night till it was very late, he going to bed. I got him +afterwards to sign things in bed. After I had done some more work I to +bed also. + + + +11th. Up very early in the morning, and so about a great deal of +business in order to our going hence to-day. Burr going on shore last +night made me very angry. So that I sent for Mr. Pitts to come tome from +the Vice-Admiral's, intending not to have employed Burr any more. But +Burr by and by coming and desiring humbly that I would forgive him and +Pitts not coming I did set him to work. This morning we began to pull +down all the State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to Dover for +painters and others to come to set up the King's. The rest of the +morning writing of letters to London which I afterwards sent by Dunne. +I had this morning my first opportunity of discoursing with Dr. Clarke, + + [Timothy Clarke, M. D., one of the original Fellows of the Royal + Society. He was appointed one of the physicians in ordinary to + Charles II. on the death of Dr. Quartermaine in 1667.] + +whom I found to be a very pretty man and very knowing. He is now going +in this ship to the King. There dined here my Lord Crafford and my Lord +Cavendish, and other Scotchmen whom I afterwards ordered to be received +on board the Plymouth, and to go along with us. After dinner we set sail +from the Downs, I leaving my boy to go to Deal for my linen. In the +afternoon overtook us three or four gentlemen; two of the Berties, and +one Mr. Dormerhoy, a Scotch gentleman, whom I afterwards found to be a +very fine man, who, telling my Lord that they heard the Commissioners +were come out of London to-day, my Lord dropt anchor over against Dover +Castle (which give us about thirty guns in passing), and upon a high +debate with the Vice and Rear Admiral whether it were safe to go and not +stay for the Commissioners, he did resolve to send Sir R. Stayner to +Dover, to enquire of my Lord Winchelsea, whether or no they are come out +of London, and then to resolve to-morrow morning of going or not; which +was done. It blew very hard all this night that I was afeard of my boy. +About 11 at night came the boats from Deal, with great store of +provisions, by the same token John Goods told me that above 20 of the +fowls are smothered, but my boy was put on board the Northwich. To bed. + + + +12th. This morning I inquired for my boy, whether he was come well or +no, and it was told me that he was well in bed. My Lord called me to his +chamber, he being in bed, and gave me many orders to make for direction +for the ships that are left in the Downs, giving them the greatest charge +in the world to bring no passengers with them, when they come after us to +Scheveling Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. Thomas Crew, and Sir H. +Wright. Sir R. Stayner hath been here early in the morning and told my +Lord, that my Lord Winchelsea understands by letters, that the +Commissioners are only to come to Dover to attend the coming over of the +King. So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which we did, and +sailed all day. In our way in the morning, coming in the midway between +Dover and Calais, we could see both places very easily, and very pleasant +it was to me that the further we went the more we lost sight of both +lands. In the afternoon at cards with Mr. North and the Doctor.-- +[Clarke]--There by us, in the Lark frigate, Sir R. Freeman and some +others, going from the King to England, come to see my Lord and so onward +on their voyage. In the afternoon upon the quarterdeck the Doctor told +Mr. North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitless Precaution," an +exceeding pretty story and worthy my getting without book when I can get +the book.[??] This evening came Mr. Sheply on board, whom we had left at +Deal and Dover getting of provision and borrowing of money. In the +evening late, after discoursing with the Doctor, &c., to bed. + + + +13th (Lord's day). Trimmed in the morning, after that to the cook's room +with Mr. Sheply, the first time that I was there this voyage. Then to +the quarter-deck, upon which the tailors and painters were at work, +cutting out some pieces of yellow cloth into the fashion of a crown and +C. R. and put it upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of +the State's arms, which after dinner was finished and set up after it had +been shewn to my Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber, and +liked it so well as to bid me give the tailors 20s. among them for doing +of it. This morn Sir J. Boys and Capt. Isham met us in the Nonsuch, the +first of whom, after a word or two with my Lord, went forward, the other +staid. I heard by them how Mr. Downing had never made any address to the +King, and for that was hated exceedingly by the Court, and that he was in +a Dutch ship which sailed by us, then going to England with disgrace. +Also how Mr. Morland was knighted by the King this week, and that the +King did give the reason of it openly, that it was for his giving him +intelligence all the time he was clerk to Secretary Thurloe. In the +afternoon a council of war, only to acquaint them that the Harp must be +taken out of all their flags, + + [In May, 1658, the old Union Jack (being the crosses of St. George + and St. Andrew combined) was revived, with the Irish harp over the + centre of the flag. This harp was taken off at the Restoration. + (See "The National Flags of the Commonwealth," by H. W. Henfrey," + Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc.," vol. xxxi, p. 54.) The sign of the + "Commonwealth Arms" was an uncommon one, but a token of one exists-- + "Francis Wood at ye Commonwealth arms in Mary Maudlens" [St. Mary + Magdalen, Old Fish Street].] + +it being very offensive to the King. Mr. Cook, who came after us in the +Yarmouth, bringing me a letter from my wife and a Latin letter from my +brother John, with both of which I was exceedingly pleased. No sermon +all day, we being under sail, only at night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbott +prayed for all that were related to us in a spiritual and fleshly way. +We came within sight of Middle's shore. Late at night we writ letters to +the King of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward Picketing carried +them. Capt. Isham went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect; so +the old man very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldly +bid him "God be with you," which was very strange, but that I hear that +he keeps a great deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, at the +King's Courts, what command he had with my Lord, &c. After letters were +gone then to bed. + + + +14th. In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw myself out of the +scuttle close by the shore, which afterwards I was told to be the Dutch +shore; the Hague was clearly to be seen by us. My Lord went up in his +nightgown into the cuddy, + + ["A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but + sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden."--Smyth's + Sailor's Word-Book.] + +to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him, to +give order for our removal to-day. Some nasty Dutchmen came on board to +proffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, &c., to get money +by us. Before noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to kiss +my Lord's hands. And by and by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss the +Queen of Bohemia's' hands, from my Lord, with twelve attendants from on +board to wait on them, among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, is +with child to see any strange thing. After noon they came back again +after having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's hand, and were sent again by +my Lord to do the same to the Prince of Orange. + + [Son of the Prince of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I. + --afterwards William III. He was then in his tenth year, having + been born in 1650.] + +So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, which my Lord did give, +and I taking my boy and judge Advocate with me, went in company with +them. The weather bad; we were sadly washed when we came near the shore, +it being very hard to land there. The shore is, as all the country +between that and the Hague, all sand. The rest of the company got a +coach by themselves; Mr. Creed and I went in the fore part of a coach +wherein were two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with black +patches, who very merrily sang all the way and that very well, and were +very free to kiss the two blades that were with them. I took out my +flageolette and piped, but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but when +I came to the Hague, I sent my boy back again for it and he found it, for +which I did give him 6d., but some horses had gone over it and broke the +scabbard. The Hague is a most neat place in all respects. The houses so +neat in all places and things as is possible. Here we walked up and down +a great while, the town being now very full of Englishmen, for that the +Londoners were come on shore today. But going to see the Prince,-- +[Prince of Orange, afterwards William III.]--he was gone forth with his +governor, and so we walked up and down the town and court to see the +place; and by the help of a stranger, an Englishman, we saw a great many +places, and were made to understand many things, as the intention of may- +poles, which we saw there standing at every great man's door, of +different greatness according to the quality of the person. About 10 at +night the Prince comes home, and we found an easy admission. His +attendance very inconsiderable as for a prince; but yet handsome, and his +tutor a fine man, and himself a very pretty boy. It was bright moonshine +to-night. This done we went to a place we had taken to sup in, where a +sallet and two or three bones of mutton were provided for a matter of ten +of us which was very strange. After supper the Judge and I to another +house, leaving them there, and he and I lay in one press bed, there being +two more in the same room, but all very neat and handsome, my boy +sleeping upon a bench by me. + + + +15th. We lay till past three o'clock, then up and down the town, to see +it by daylight, where we saw the soldiers of the Prince's guard, all very +fine, and the burghers of the town with their arms and muskets as bright +as silver. And meeting this morning a schoolmaster that spoke good +English and French, he went along with us and shewed us the whole town, +and indeed I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of the town. Every +body of fashion speaks French or Latin, or both. The women many of them +very pretty and in good habits, fashionable and black spots. He went +with me to buy a couple of baskets, one of them for Mrs. Pierce, the +other for my wife. After he was gone, we having first drank with him at +our lodging, the judge and I to the Grande Salle where we were shewed the +place where the States General sit in council. The hall is a great +place, where the flags that they take from their enemies are all hung up; +and things to be sold, as in Westminster Hall, and not much unlike it, +but that not so big, but much neater. After that to a bookseller's and +bought for the love of the binding three books: the French Psalms in four +parts, Bacon's Organon, and Farnab. Rhetor. + + ["Index Rhetoricus" of Thomas Farnaby was a book which went through + several editions. The first was published at London by R. Allot in + 1633.] + +After that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, where we +went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind being very +high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to be pulled +on shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, and +feathers, were swimming in the sea. Among others I saw the ministers +that come along with the Commissioners (Mr. Case among the rest) sadly +dipped. + + [Thomas Case, born 1598, was a famous preacher and a zealous + advocate for the Solemn League and Covenant, a member of the + assembly of divines, and rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. He + was one of the deputation to Charles II. at Breda, and appointed a + royal chaplain. He was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, but + remained in London after his ejection. Died May 30th, 1682.] + +So they came in where we were, and I being in haste left my Copenhagen +knife, and so lost it. Having staid here a great while a gentleman that +was going to kiss my Lord's hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hired +a Dutch boat for four rixdollars to carry us on board. We were fain to +wait a great while before we could get off from the shore, the sea being +very rough. The Dutchman would fain have made all pay that came into our +boat besides us two and our company, there being many of our ship's +company got in who were on shore, but some of them had no money, having +spent all on shore. Coming on board we found all the Commissioners of +the House of Lords at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went away for +shore. Mr. Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not find +that my Lord or any body did give him any respect, he being looked upon +by him and all men as a knave. Among others he betrayed Sir Rich. +Willis + + [This is somewhat different to the usual account of Morland's + connection with Sir Richard Willis. In the beginning of 1659 + Cromwell, Thurloe, and Willis formed a plot to inveigle Charles II. + into England and into the hands of his enemies. The plot was + discussed in Thurloe's office, and Morland, who pretended to be + asleep, heard it and discovered it. Willis sent for Morland, and + received him in a cellar. He said that one of them must have + discovered the plot. He laid his hand upon the Bible and swore that + he had not been the discoverer, calling upon Morland to do the same. + Morland, with presence of mind, said he was ready to do so if Willis + would give him a reason why he should suspect him. By this ready + answer he is said to have escaped the ordeal (see Birch's "Life of + Thurloe").] + +that married Dr. F. Jones's daughter, that he had paid him L1000 at one +time by the Protector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for intelligence +that he sent concerning the King. In the afternoon my Lord called me on +purpose to show me his fine cloathes which are now come hither, and +indeed are very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword he +and I do not like. In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in the +coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: as +religion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I, +saying, that indeed the Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly +fanatiques: he likes uniformity and form of prayer; about State-business, +among other things he told me that his conversion to the King's cause +(for so I was saying that I wondered from what time the King could look +upon him to become his friend), commenced from his being in the Sound, +when he found what usage he was likely to have from a Commonwealth. My +Lord, the Captain, and I supped in my Lord's chamber, where I did +perceive that he did begin to show me much more respect than ever he did +yet. After supper, my Lord sent for me, intending to have me play at +cards with him, but I not knowing cribbage, we fell into discourse of +many things, till it was so rough sea and the ship rolled so much that I +was not able to stand, and so he bid me go to bed. + + + +16th. Soon as I was up I went down to be trimmed below in the great +cabin, but then come in some with visits, among the rest one from Admiral +Opdam, + + [The admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset's ballad, "To all you ladies + now at land." + + "Should foggy Opdam chance to know + Our sad and dismal story; + The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe, + And quit their fort at Goree + For what resistance can they find + From men who've left their hearts behind?"--B.] + +who spoke Latin well, but not French nor English, to whom my Lord made me +to give his answer and to entertain; he brought my Lord a tierce of wine +and a barrel of butter, as a present from the Admiral. After that to +finish my trimming, and while I was doing of it in comes Mr. North very +sea-sick from shore, and to bed he goes. After that to dinner, where +Commissioner Pett was come to take care to get all things ready for the +King on board. My Lord in his best suit, this the first day, in +expectation to wait upon the King. But Mr. Edw. Pickering coming from +the King brought word that the King would not put my Lord to the trouble +of coming to him; but that he would come to the shore to look upon the +fleet to-day, which we expected, and had our guns ready to fire, and our +scarlet waistcloathes out and silk pendants, but he did not come. My +Lord and we at ninepins this afternoon upon the Quarterdeck, which was +very pretty sport. This evening came Mr. John Pickering on board, like +an ass, with his feathers and new suit that he had made at the Hague. +My Lord very angry for his staying on shore, bidding me a little before +to send to him, telling me that he was afraid that for his father's sake +he might have some mischief done him, unless he used the General's name. +To supper, and after supper to cards. I stood by and looked on till 11 +at night and so to bed. This afternoon Mr. Edwd. Pickering told me in +what a sad, poor condition for clothes and money the King was, and all +his attendants, when he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes not +being worth forty shillings the best of them. + + [Andrew Marvell alludes to the poor condition, for clothes and + money, in which the King was at this time, in "A Historical Poem":-- + + "At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, + The people call him back to help the State; + And what is more, they send him money, too, + And clothe him all from head to foot anew."] + +And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some +money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to +look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out. My +Lord told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High Admiral of England. + + + +17th. Up early to write down my last two days' observations. Dr. Clerke +came to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that are +come on board already to see the ship, that there was a Portuguese taken +yesterday at the Hague, that had a design to kill the King. But this I +heard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being observed to walk +with his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard. Before dinner Mr. +Edw. Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and my boy,--[Edward Montagu, +afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]--to Scheveling, where we took coach, and +so to the Hague, where walking, intending to find one that might show us +the King incognito, I met with Captain Whittington (that had formerly +brought a letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promise +me to do it, but first we went and dined at a French house, but paid 16s. +for our part of the club. At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry mad parson +of the King's. And they two after dinner got the child and me (the +others not being able to crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the child +very affectionately. Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York's, and the +Princess Royal's hands. The King seems to be a very sober man; and a +very splendid Court he hath in the number of persons of quality that are +about him, English very rich in habit. From the King to the Lord +Chancellor, + + [On January 29th, 1658, Charles II. entrusted the Great Seal to Sir + Edward Hyde, with the title of Lord Chancellor, and in that + character Sir Edward accompanied the King to England.] + +who did lie bed-rid of the gout: he spoke very merrily to the child and +me. After that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met with Dr. +Fullers whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I and the +rest went to see the Queen,--[Henrietta Maria.]-- who used us very +respectfully; her hand we all kissed. She seems a very debonaire, but +plain lady. After that to the Dr.'s, where we drank a while or so. In a +coach of a friend's of Dr. Cade we went to see a house of the Princess +Dowager's in a park about half-a-mile or a mile from the Hague, where +there is one, the most beautiful room for pictures in the whole world. +She had here one picture upon the top, with these words, dedicating it to +the memory of her husband:--"Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis vidua." + + [Mary, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Charles I., and widow of + William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. She was not supposed to be + inconsolable, and scandal followed her at the court of Charles II., + where she died of small-pox, December 24th, 1660.] + +Here I met with Mr. Woodcock of Cambridge, Mr. Hardy and another, and Mr. +Woodcock beginning we had two or three fine songs, he and I, and W. Howe +to the Echo, which was very pleasant, and the more because in a heaven of +pleasure and in a strange country, that I never was taken up more with a +sense of pleasure in my life. After that we parted and back to the Hague +and took a tour or two about the Forehault,--[The Voorhout is the +principal street of the Hague, and it is lined with handsome trees.]-- +where the ladies in the evening do as our ladies do in Hide Park. But +for my life I could not find one handsome, but their coaches very rich +and themselves so too. From thence, taking leave of the Doctor, we took +wagon to Scheveling, where we had a fray with the Boatswain of the +Richmond, who would not freely carry us on board, but at last he was +willing to it, but then it was so late we durst not go. So we returned +between 10 and 11 at night in the dark with a wagon with one horse to the +Hague, where being come we went to bed as well as we could be +accommodated, and so to sleep. + + + +18th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, our Lord High +Admiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon for +Scheveling, leaving the child in Mr. Pierces hands, with directions to +keep him within doors all day till he heard from me. But the wind being +very high that no boats could get off from shore, we returned to the +Hague (having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's, and +Commissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice to my Lord of his +coming), where I hear that the child is gone to Delfe to see the town. +So we all and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit--[The trekschuit +(drag-boat) along the canal is still described as an agreeable conveyance +from Leyden to Delft.]--and very much pleased with the manner and +conversation of the passengers, where most speak French; went after them, +but met them by the way. But however we went forward making no stop. +Where when we were come we got a smith's boy of the town to go along with +us, but could speak nothing but Dutch, and he showed us the church where +Van Trump lies entombed with a very fine monument. His epitaph concluded +thus:--"Tandem Bello Anglico tantum non victor, certe invictus, vivere et +vincere desiit." There is a sea-fight cut in marble, with the smoke, the +best expressed that ever I saw in my life. From thence to the great +church, that stands in a fine great market-place, over against the Stadt- +house, and there I saw a stately tomb of the old Prince of Orange, of +marble and brass; wherein among other rarities there are the angels with +their trumpets expressed as it were crying. Here were very fine organs +in both the churches. It is a most sweet town, with bridges, and a river +in every street. Observing that in every house of entertainment there +hangs in every room a poor-man's box, and desiring to know the reason +thereof, it was told me that it is their custom to confirm all bargains +by putting something into the poor people's box, and that binds as fast +as any thing. We also saw the Guesthouse, where it was very pleasant to +see what neat preparation there is for the poor. We saw one poor man a- +dying there. After we had seen all, we light by chance of an English +house to drink in, where we were very merry, discoursing of the town and +the thing that hangs up in the Stadthouse like a bushel, which +I was told is a sort of punishment for some sort of offenders to carry +through the streets of the town over his head, which is a great weight. +Back by water, where a pretty sober Dutch lass sat reading all the way, +and I could not fasten any discourse upon her. At our landing we met +with Commissioner Pett going down to the water-side with Major Harly, +who is going upon a dispatch into England. They having a coach I left +the Parson and my boy and went along with Commissioner Pett, Mr. Ackworth +and Mr. Dawes his friends, to the Princess Dowager's house again. +Thither also my Lord Fairfax and some other English Lords did come to see +it, and my pleasure was increased by seeing of it again. Besides we went +into the garden, wherein are gallant nuts better than ever I saw, and a +fine Echo under the house in a vault made on purpose with pillars, where +I played on my flageolette to great advantage. Back to the Hague, where +not finding Mr. Edward, I was much troubled, but went with the Parson to +supper to Commissioner Pett, where we sat late. And among other mirth +Mr. Ackworth vyed wives, each endeavouring to set his own wife out to the +best advantage, he having as they said an extraordinary handsome wife. +But Mr. Dawes could not be got to say anything of his. After that to our +lodging where W. Howe and I exceeding troubled not to know what is become +of our young gentleman. So to bed. + + + +19th. Up early, hearing nothing of the child, and went to Scheveling, +where I found no getting on board, though the Duke of York sent every day +to see whether he could do it or no. Here I met with Mr. Pinkney and his +sons, and with them went back to the Hague, in our way lighting and going +to see a woman that makes pretty rock-work in shells, &c., which could I +have carried safe I would have bought some of. At the Hague we went to +buy some pictures, where I saw a sort of painting done upon woollen +cloth, drawn as if there was a curtain over it, which was very pleasant, +but dear. Another pretty piece of painting I saw, on which there was a +great wager laid by young Pinkney and me whether it was a principal or a +copy. But not knowing how to decide, it was broken off, and I got the +old man to lay out as much as my piece of gold come to, and so saved my +money, which had been 24s. lost, I fear. While we were here buying of +pictures, we saw Mr. Edward and his company land. Who told me that they +had been at Leyden all night, at which I was very angry with Mr. Pierce, +and shall not be friends I believe a good while. To our lodging to +dinner. After that out to buy some linen to wear against to-morrow, and +so to the barber's. After that by waggon to Lausdune, where the 365 +children were born. We saw the hill where they say the house stood and +sunk wherein the children were born. The basins wherein the male and +female children were baptized do stand over a large table that hangs upon +a wall, with the whole story of the thing in Dutch and Latin, beginning, +"Margarita Herman Comitissa," &c. The thing was done about 200 years +ago. + +The town is a little small village which answers much to one of our small +villages, such a one as Chesterton in all respects, and one could have +thought it in England but for the language of the people. We went into a +little drinking house where there were a great many Dutch boors eating of +fish in a boorish manner, but very merry in their way. But the houses +here as neat as in the great places. From thence to the Hague again +playing at crambo--[Crambo is described as "a play at short verses in +which a word is given, and the parties contend who can find most rhymes +to it."]--in the waggon, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. Pinkney, +and I. When we were come thither W. Howe, and Mr. Ibbott, and Mr. +Pinckney went away for Scheveling, while I and the child to walk up and +down the town, where I met my old chamber-fellow, Mr. Ch. Anderson, and a +friend of his (both Physicians), Mr. Wright, who took me to a Dutch +house, where there was an exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport, +but it being Saturday we could not have much of her company, but however +I staid with them (having left the child with my uncle Pickering, whom I +met in the street) till 12 at night. By that time Charles was almost +drunk, and then broke up, he resolving to go thither again, after he had +seen me at my lodging, and lie with the girl, which he told me he had +done in the morning. Going to my lodging we met with the bellman, who +struck upon a clapper, which I took in my hand, and it is just like the +clapper that our boys frighten the birds away from the corn with in +summer time in England. To bed. + + + +20th. Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the child by waggon to +Scheveling, where it not being yet fit to go off, I went to lie down in a +chamber in the house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch woman +in bed alone, but though I had a month's-mind + + [Month's-mind. An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding + to "a woman's longing." See Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona," + act i. sc. 2: + + "I see you have a month's mind to them."--M. B.] + +I had not the boldness to go to her. So there I slept an hour or two. +At last she rose, and then I rose and walked up and down the chamber, and +saw her dress herself after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as much as +I could, and took occasion, from her ring which she wore on her first +finger, to kiss her hand, but had not the face to offer anything more. +So at last I left her there and went to my company. About 8 o'clock I +went into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty handsome, and in the +chancel a very great upper part of the mouth of a whale, which indeed was +of a prodigious bigness, bigger than one of our long boats that belong to +one of our ships. Commissioner Pett at last came to our lodging, and +caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some in another we +all bid adieu to the shore. But through badness of weather we were in +great danger, and a great while before we could get to the ship, so that +of all the company not one but myself that was not sick. I keeping +myself in the open air, though I was soundly wet for it. This hath not +been known four days together such weather at this time of year, a great +while. Indeed our fleet was thought to be in great danger, but we found +all well, and Mr. Thos. Crew came on board. I having spoke a word or two +with my Lord, being not very well settled, partly through last night's +drinking and want of sleep, I lay down in my gown upon my bed and slept +till the 4 o'clock gun the next morning waked me, which I took for 8 at +night, and rising . . . mistook the sun rising for the sun setting on +Sunday night. + + + +21st. So into my naked bed + + [This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once + universal. It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in + bed without any nightlinen. + + "Who sees his true love in her naked bed, + Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white." + + Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. + + Nares ("Glossary") notes the expression so late as in the very odd + novel by T. Amory, called "John Bunde," where a young lady declares, + after an alarm, "that she would never go into naked bed on board + ship again." Octavo edition, vol. i. p. 90.] + +and slept till 9 o'clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by the +captain's boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which Captain +Tatnell had sent me from Murlace.--[Apparently Mallows stands for St. +Malo and Murlace for Morlaise.]--The weather foul all this day also. +After dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my +papers in order, having been so long absent. At night Mr. Pierce, Purser +(the other Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fell +out about Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and supped +with me, and then I went to bed. By letters that came hither in my +absence, I understand that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be +secured, in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late King's +death, and all the officers too attending the Court. Sir John Lenthall +moving in the House, that all that had borne arms against the King should +be exempted from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, and after +a severe reproof he was degraded his knighthood. At Court I find that +all things grow high. The old clergy talk as being sure of their lands +again, and laugh at the Presbytery; and it is believed that the sales of +the King's and Bishops' lands will never be confirmed by Parliament, +there being nothing now in any man's, power to hinder them and the King +from doing what they have a mind, but every body willing to submit to any +thing. We expect every day to have the King and Duke on board as soon as +it is fair. My Lord do nothing now, but offers all things to the +pleasure of the Duke as Lord High Admiral. So that I am at a loss what +to do. + + + +22nd. Up very early, and now beginning to be settled in my wits again, +I went about setting down my last four days' observations this morning. +After that, was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me yet, my +Spaniard being on shore. News brought that the two Dukes are coming on +board, which, by and by, they did, in a Dutch boats the Duke of York in +yellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester + + [Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Charles L, born + July 6th, 16--, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a + meeting with his father on the night before the King's execution. + Burnet says: "He was active, and loved business; was apt to have + particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was + generally very acceptable. The King loved him much better than the + Duke of York." He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th, + 1660, and was buried in Henry VII's Chapel.] + +in grey and red. My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Captain, +myself, and others, standing at the entering port. So soon as they were +entered we shot the guns off round the fleet. After that they went to +view the ship all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it. They +seem to be both very fine gentlemen. After that done, upon the quarter- +deck table, under the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. Coventry, + + [William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached + afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the + Lord Keeper. He was born in 1628, and entered at Queen's College, + Oxford, in 1642; after the Restoration he became private secretary + to the Duke of York, his commission as Secretary to the Lord High + Admiral not being conferred until 1664; elected M.P. for Great + Yarmouth in 1661. In 1662 he was appointed an extra Commissioner of + the Navy, an office he held until 1667; in 1665, knighted and sworn + a Privy Councillor, and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the + Treasury; but, having been forbid the court on account of his + challenging the Duke of Buckingham, he retired into the country, nor + could he subsequently be prevailed upon to accept of any official + employment. Burnet calls Sir William Coventry the best speaker in + the House of Commons, and "a man of the finest and best temper that + belonged to the court," and Pepys never omits an opportunity of + paying a tribute to his public and private worth. He died, 1686, of + gout in the stomach.] + +and I, spent an hour at allotting to every ship their service, in their +return to England; which having done, they went to dinner, where the +table was very full: the two Dukes at the upper end, my Lord Opdam next +on one side, and my Lord on the other. Two guns given to every man while +he was drinking the King's health, and so likewise to the Duke's health. +I took down Monsieur d'Esquier to the great cabin below, and dined with +him in state alone with only one or two friends of his. All dinner the +harper belonging to Captain Sparling played to the Dukes. After dinner, +the Dukes and my Lord to see the Vice and Rear-Admirals; and I in a boat +after them. After that done, they made to the shore in the Dutch boat +that brought them, and I got into the boat with them; but the shore was +so full of people to expect their coming, as that it was as black (which +otherwise is white sand), as every one could stand by another. When we +came near the shore, my Lord left them and came into his own boat, and +General Pen and I with him; my Lord being very well pleased with this +day's work. By the time we came on board again, news is sent us that the +King is on shore; so my Lord fired all his guns round twice, and all the +fleet after him, which in the end fell into disorder, which seemed very +handsome. The gun over against my cabin I fired myself to the King, +which was the first time that he had been saluted by his own ships since +this change; but holding my head too much over the gun, I had almost +spoiled my right eye. Nothing in the world but going of guns almost all +this day. In the evening we began to remove cabins; I to the carpenter's +cabin, and Dr. Clerke with me, who came on board this afternoon, having +been twice ducked in the sea to-day coming from shore, and Mr. North and +John Pickering the like. Many of the King's servants came on board to- +night; and so many Dutch of all sorts came to see the ship till it was +quite dark, that we could not pass by one another, which was a great +trouble to us all. This afternoon Mr. Downing (who was knighted +yesterday by the King') was here on board, and had a ship for his passage +into England, with his lady and servants. + + ["About midnight arrived there Mr. Downing, who did the affairs of + England to the Lords the Estates, in quality of Resident under + Oliver Cromwell, and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which + having changed the form of the government, after having cast forth + the last Protector, had continued him in his imploiment, under the + quality of Extraordinary Envoy. He began to have respect for the + King's person, when he knew that all England declared for a free + parliament, and departed from Holland without order, as soon as he + understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re- + establishment of monarchal government, with a design to crave + letters of recommendation to General Monk. This lord considered + him, as well because of the birth of his wife, which is illustrious, + as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when + that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions. He had + his letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish + Embassador, as we have said. He presented them forthwith to the + King, who arose from table a while after, read the letters, receiv'd + the submissions of Downing, and granted him the pardon and grace + which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing. Some daies + after the King knighted him, and would it should be believed, that + the strong aversions which this minister of the Protector had made + appear against him on all occasions, and with all sorts of persons + indifferently, even a few daies before the publick and general + declaration of all England, proceeded not from any evil intention, + but only from a deep dissimulation, wherewith he was constrained to + cover his true sentiments, for fear to prejudice the affairs of his + Majesty."--Sir William Lowers Relation . . . of the Voiage and + Residence which . . . Charles the II. hath made in Holland, + Hague, 1660, folio, pp. 72-73.] + + +By the same token he called me to him when I was going to write the +order, to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing. My Lord lay in +the roundhouse to-night. This evening I was late writing a French letter +myself by my Lord's order to Monsieur Kragh, Embassador de Denmarke a la +Haye, which my Lord signed in bed. After that I to bed, and the Doctor, +and sleep well. + + + +23rd. The Doctor and I waked very merry, only my eye was very red and +ill in the morning from yesterday's hurt. In the morning came infinity +of people on board from the King to go along with him. My Lord, Mr. +Crew, and others, go on shore to meet the King as he comes off from +shore, where Sir R. Stayner bringing His Majesty into the boat, I hear +that His Majesty did with a great deal of affection kiss my Lord upon his +first meeting. The King, with the two Dukes and Queen of Bohemia, +Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, came on board, where I in their +coming in kissed the King's, Queen's, and Princess's hands, having done +the other before. Infinite shooting off of the guns, and that in a +disorder on purpose, which was better than if it had been otherwise. All +day nothing but Lords and persons of honour on board, that we were +exceeding full. Dined in a great deal of state, the Royall company by +themselves in the coach, which was a blessed sight to see. I dined with +Dr. Clerke, Dr. Quarterman, and Mr. Darcy in my cabin. This morning Mr. +Lucy came on board, to whom and his company of the King's Guard in +another ship my Lord did give three dozen of bottles of wine. He made +friends between Mr. Pierce and me. After dinner the King and Duke +altered the name of some of the ships, viz. the Nazeby into Charles; +the Richard, James; the Speakers Mary; the Dunbar (which was not in +company with us), the Henry; Winsly, Happy Return; Wakefield, Richmond; +Lambert; the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell; Bradford, the Success. +That done, the Queen, Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, took leave of +the King, and the Duke of York went on board the London, and the Duke of +Gloucester, the Swiftsure. Which done, we weighed anchor, and with a +fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England. All the +afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down (quite contrary to +what I thought him to have been), very active and stirring. Upon the +quarterdeck he fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester, + + [For the King's own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see + "Boscobel" (Bohn's "Standard Library").] + +where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of his +difficulties that he had passed through, as his travelling four days and +three nights on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing +but a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair of country +shoes that made him so sore all over his feet, that he could scarce stir. +Yet he was forced to run away from a miller and other company, that took +them for rogues. His sitting at table at one place, where the master of +the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did know him, but kept +it private; when at the same table there was one that had been of his own +regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made him drink the King's +health, and said that the King was at least four fingers higher than he. +At another place he was by some servants of the house made to drink, that +they might know him not to be a Roundhead, which they swore he was. In +another place at his inn, the master of the house, + + [This was at Brighton. The inn was the "George," and the innkeeper + was named Smith. Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys + in October, 1680. He then said, "And here also I ran into another + very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of + the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside, + leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being + gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a- + talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was + nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon + the back of the chair, and said to me, 'God bless you wheresoever + you go! I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife + a lady.' So I laughed, and went away into the next room."] + +as the King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by the +fire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, saying, that he +would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he was going. +Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France, where he was +fain to plot with the master thereof to keep his design from the four men +and a boy (which was all his ship's company), and so got to Fecamp in +France. + + [On Saturday, October 11th, 1651, Colonel Gunter made an agreement + at Chichester with Nicholas Tettersell, through Francis Mansell (a + French merchant), to have Tettersell's vessel ready at an hour's + warning. Charles II., in his narrative dictated to Pepys in 1680, + said, "We went to a place, four miles off Shoreham, called + Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet with the master of the ship, + as thinking it more convenient to meet there than just at Shoreham, + where the ship was. So when we came to the inn at Brighthelmstone + we met with one, the merchant Francis Mansell] who had hired the + vessel, in company with her master [Tettersell], the merchant only + knowing me, as having hired her only to carry over a person of + quality that was escaped from the battle of Worcester without naming + anybody." + + The boat was supposed to be bound for Poole, but Charles says in his + narrative: "As we were sailing the master came to me, and desired me + that I would persuade his men to use their best endeavours with him + to get him to set us on shore in France, the better to cover him + from any suspicion thereof, upon which I went to the men, which were + four and a boy." + + After the Restoration Mansell was granted a pension of L200 a year, + and Tettersell one of L100 a year. (See "Captain Nicholas + Tettersell and the Escape of Charles II.," by F. E. Sawyer, F.S.A., + "Sussex Archaeological Collections," vol. xxxii. pp. 81-104).) + +At Rouen he looked so poorly, that the people went into the rooms before +he went away to see whether he had not stole something or other. In the +evening I went up to my Lord to write letters for England, which we sent +away with word of our coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King supped +alone in the coach; after that I got a dish, and we four supped in my +cabin, as at noon. About bed-time my Lord Bartlett + + [A mistake for Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who had been deputed, with + Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords to + present an address of congratulation to the King.--B.] + +(who I had offered my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed, +who with much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the great +cabin below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could dispose of him, +and quit myself of him. So to my cabin again, where the company still +was, and were talking more of the King's difficulties; as how he was fain +to eat a piece of bread and cheese out of a poor boy's pocket; how, at a +Catholique house, he was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while in +the house for his privacy. After that our company broke up, and the +Doctor and I to bed. We have all the Lords Commissioners on board us, +and many others. Under sail all night, and most glorious weather. + + + +24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the Tinning stockings +on and wide canons--["Cannions, boot hose tops; an old-fashioned +ornament for the legs." That is to say, a particular addition to +breeches.]--that I bought the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press +of noble company, and great mirth all the day. There dined with me in my +cabin (that is, the carpenter's) Dr. Earle + + [John Earle, born about 1601; appointed in 1643 one of the + Westminster Assembly of Divines, but his principles did not allow + him to act. He accompanied Charles II. when he was obliged to fly + from England. Dean of Westminster at the Restoration, Bishop of + Worcester, November 30th, 1662, and translated to Salisbury, + September 28th, 1663. He was tender to the Nonconformists, and + Baxter wrote of him, "O that they were all such!" Author of + "Microcosmography." Died November 17th, 1665, and was buried in the + chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow. Charles + II. had the highest esteem for him.] + +and Mr. Hollis, + + [Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at + Houghton, Notts, in 1597. He was one of the five members charged + with high treason by Charles I. in 1641. He was a Presbyterian, and + one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II. + at the Hague. Sir William Lower, in his "Relation," 1660, writes: + "All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor + expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was + orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London + were joined." He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on + the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.] + +the King's Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough, + + [Charles Scarburgh, M.D., an eminent physician who suffered for the + royal cause during the Civil Wars. He was born in London, and + educated at St. Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge. He was + ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to Oxford. He + entered himself at Merton College, then presided over by Harvey, + with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. He was knighted by + Charles II. in 1669, and attended the King in his last illness. He + was also physician to James II. and to William III., and died + February 26th, 1693-4.] + +Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Fox + + [Stephen Fox, born 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in + Salisbury Cathedral. He was the first person to announce the death + of Cromwell to Charles II., and at the Restoration he was made Clerk + of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces. He was + knighted in 1665. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle + of Lancashire. (See June 25th, 1660.) Fox died in 1716. His sons + Stephen and Henry were created respectively Earl of Ilchester and + Lord Holland.] + +(both very fine gentlemen), the King's servants, where we had brave +discourse. Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all the +afternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a merry droll, but a gentleman +of great esteem with the King), who told us many merry stories: one, how +he wrote a letter three or four days ago to the Princess Royal, about a +Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that was at the Hague incognita, +that made love to the King, &c., which was Mr. Cary (a courtier's) wife +that had been a nun, who are all married to Jesus. At supper the three +Drs. of Physic again at my cabin; where I put Dr. Scarborough in mind of +what I heard him say about the use of the eyes, which he owned, that +children do, in every day's experience, look several ways with both their +eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise. And that we do now see but +with one eye, our eyes looking in parallel lines. After this discourse I +was called to write a pass for my Lord Mandeville to take up horses to +London, which I wrote in the King's name,--[This right of purveyance was +abolished in Charles's reign.]--and carried it to him to sign, which was +the first and only one that ever he signed in the ship Charles. +To bed, coming in sight of land a little before night. + + + +25th. By the morning we were come close to the land, and every body made +ready to get on shore. The King and the two Dukes did eat their +breakfast before they went, and there being set some ship's diet before +them, only to show them the manner of the ship's diet, they eat of +nothing else but pease and pork, and boiled beef. I had Mr. Darcy in my +cabin and Dr. Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the King had given L50 +to Mr. Sheply for my Lord's servants, and L500 among the officers and +common men of the ship. I spoke with the Duke of York about business, +who called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did promise me his future +favour. Great expectation of the King's making some Knights, but there +was none. About noon (though the brigantine that Beale made was there +ready to carry him) yet he would go in my Lord's barge with the two +Dukes. Our Captain steered, and my Lord went along bare with him. I +went, and Mr. Mansell, and one of the King's footmen, with a dog that the +King loved, + + [Charles II.'s love of dogs is well known, but it is not so well + known that his dogs were continually being stolen from him. In the + "Mercurius Publicus," June 28-July 5, 1660, is the following + advertisement, apparently drawn up by the King himself: "We must + call upon you again for a Black Dog between a greyhound and a + spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, and his + tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless + was stoln, for the dog was not born nor bred in England, and would + never forsake His master. Whoesoever findes him may acquaint any at + Whitehal for the Dog was better known at Court, than those who stole + him. Will they never leave robbing his Majesty! Must he not keep a + Dog? This dog's place (though better than some imagine) is the only + place which nobody offers to beg." (Quoted in "Notes and Queries," + 7th S., vii. 26, where are printed two other advertisements of + Charles's lost dogs.)] + +(which [dirted] the boat, which made us laugh, and me think that a King +and all that belong to him are but just as others are), in a boat by +ourselves, and so got on shore when the King did, who was received by +General Monk with all imaginable love and respect at his entrance upon +the land of Dover. Infinite the crowd of people and the horsemen, +citizens, and noblemen of all sorts. The Mayor of the town came and gave +him his white staff, the badge of his place, which the King did give him +again. The Mayor also presented him from the town a very rich Bible, +which he took and said it was the thing that he loved above all things in +the world. A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which he did, +and talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so into a stately +coach there set for him, and so away through the town towards Canterbury, +without making any stay at Dover. The shouting and joy expressed by all +is past imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not stir out of his barge, +I got into a boat, and so into his barge, whither Mr. John Crew stepped, +and spoke a word or two to my Lord, and so returned, we back to the ship, +and going did see a man almost drowned that fell out of his boat into the +sea, but with much ado was got out. My Lord almost transported with joy +that he had done all this without any the least blur or obstruction in +the world, that could give an offence to any, and with the great honour +he thought it would be to him. Being overtook by the brigantine, my Lord +and we went out of our barge into it, and so went on board with Sir W. +Batten, + + [Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and, + although unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made + Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity + against the King. The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the + Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay, + knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning + that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a + hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her + majesty's chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for + safety into the open fields. This act, brutal as it was, found + favour with the Parliament. But Batten became afterwards + discontented; and, when a portion of the fleet revolted, he carried + the "Constant Warwick," one of the best ships in the Parliament + navy, over into Holland, with several seamen of note. For this act + of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral by Prince + Charles. We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when he + became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M.P. for + Rochester. See an account of his second wife, in note to November + 24th, 1660, and of his illness and death, October 5th, 1667. He had + a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first wife.--B.] + + +and the Vice and Rear-Admirals. At night my Lord supped and Mr. Thomas +Crew with Captain Stoakes, I supped with the Captain, who told me what +the King had given us. My Lord returned late, and at his coming did give +me order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. to be +made at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own +hand did mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do, +and is now done as is to be seen. + + + +26th. Thanks to God I got to bed in my own poor cabin, and slept well +till 9 o'clock this morning. Mr. North and Dr. Clerke and all the great +company being gone, I found myself very uncouth all this day for want +thereof. My Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral to-day (who is as +officious, poor man! as any spaniel can be; but I believe all to no +purpose, for I believe he will not hold his place), so I dined commander +at the coach table to-day, and all the officers of the ship with me, and +Mr. White of Dover. After a game or two at nine-pins, to work all the +afternoon, making above twenty orders. In the evening my Lord having +been a-shore, the first time that he hath been a-shore since he came out +of the Hope (having resolved not to go till he had brought his Majesty +into England), returned on board with a great deal of pleasure. I supped +with the Captain in his cabin with young Captain Cuttance, and afterwards +a messenger from the King came with a letter, and to go into France, and +by that means we supped again with him at 12 o'clock at night. This +night the Captain told me that my Lord had appointed me L30 out of the +1000 ducats which the King had given to the ship, at which my heart was +very much joyed. To bed. + + +27th (Lord's day). Called up by John Goods to see the Garter and Heralds +coat, which lay in the coach, brought by Sir Edward Walker, + + [Edward Walker was knighted February 2nd, 1644-5, and on the 24th of + the same month was sworn in as Garter King at Arms. He adhered to + the cause of the king, and published "Iter Carolinum", being a + succinct account of the necessitated marches, retreats, and + sufferings of his Majesty King Charles I., from Jan. 10, 1641, to + the time of his death in 1648, collected by a daily attendant upon + his sacred Majesty during all that time: He joined Charles II. in + exile, and received the reward of his loyalty at the Restoration. + He died at Whitehall, February 19th, 1676-7, and was buried at + Stratford-on-Avon, his daughter having married Sir John Clepton of + that place.] + +King at Arms, this morning, for my Lord. My Lord hath summoned all the +Commanders on board him, to see the ceremony, which was thus: Sir Edward +putting on his coat, and having laid the George and Garter, and the +King's letter to my Lord, upon a crimson cushion (in the coach, all the +Commanders standing by), makes three congees to him, holding the cushion +in his arms. Then laying it down with the things upon it upon a chair, +he takes the letter, and delivers it to my Lord, which my Lord breaks +open and gives him to read. It was directed to our trusty and well +beloved Sir Edward Montagu, Knight, one of our Generals at sea, and our +Companion elect of our Noble Order of the Garter. The contents of the +letter is to show that the Kings of England have for many years made use +of this honour, as a special mark of favour, to persons of good +extraction and virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes of other +countries have borne this honour), and that whereas my Lord is of a noble +family, and hath now done the King such service by sea, at this time, as +he hath done; he do send him this George and Garter to wear as Knight of +the Order, with a dispensation for the other ceremonies of the habit of +the Order, and other things, till hereafter, when it can be done. So the +herald putting the ribbon about his neck, and the Garter about his left +leg, he salutes him with joy as Knight of the Garter, and that was all. +After that was done, and the Captain and I had breakfasted with Sir +Edward while my Lord was writing of a letter, he took his leave of my +Lord, and so to shore again to the King at Canterbury, where he yesterday +gave the like honour to General Monk, + + ["His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes + put on the Garter. The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for + the restoration of that lawful family."--Rugge's Diurnal.] + +who are the only two for many years that have had the Garter given them, +before they had other honours of Earldom, or the like, excepting only the +Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George Villiers when he was made +Knight of the Garter. A while after Mr. Thos. Crew and Mr. J. Pickering +(who had staid long enough to make all the world see him to be a fool), +took ship for London. So there now remain no strangers with my Lord +but Mr. Hetley, who had been with us a day before the King went from us. +My Lord and the ship's company down to sermon. I staid above to write +and look over my new song book, which came last night to me from London +in lieu of that that my Lord had of me. The officers being all on board, +there was not room for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, where, among +other things, Mr. Drum brought me a lobster and a bottle of oil, instead +of a bottle of vinegar, whereby I spoiled my dinner. Many orders in the +ordering of ships this afternoon. Late to a sermon. After that up to +the Lieutenant's cabin, where Mr. Sheply, I, and the Minister supped, and +after that I went down to W. Howe's cabin, and there, with a great deal +of pleasure, singing till it was late. After that to bed. + + + +28th. Called up at two in the morning for letters for my Lord from the +Duke of York, but I went to bed again till 5. Trimmed early this +morning. This morning the Captain did call over all the men in the ship +(not the boys), and give every one of them a ducat of the King's money +that he gave the ship, and the officers according to their quality. I +received in the Captain's cabin, for my share, sixty ducats. The rest of +the morning busy writing letters. So was my Lord that he would not come +to dinner. After dinner to write again in order to sending to London, +but my Lord did not finish his, so we did not send to London to-day. A +great part of the afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley. I +lost about 4s. Supped with my Lord, and after that to bed. At night I +had a strange dream of--myself, which I really did, and having kicked my +clothes off, I got cold; and found myself all much wet in the morning, +and had a great deal of pain . . . which made me very melancholy. + + + +29th. The King's birthday. Busy all the morning writing letters to +London, among the rest one to Mr. Chetwind to give me an account of the +fees due to the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my Lord desires +to know. After dinner got all ready and sent away Mr. Cook to London +with a letter and token to my wife. After that abroad to shore with my +Lord (which he offered me of himself, saying that I had a great deal of +work to do this month, which was very true). On shore we took horses, my +Lord and Mr. Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four servants, and had +a great deal of pleasure in riding. Among other things my Lord showed me +a house that cost a great deal of money, and is built in so barren and +inconvenient a place that my Lord calls it the fool's house. At last we +came upon a very high cliff by the sea-side, and rode under it, we having +laid great wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was not so high as Paul's; +my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was. But we riding under it, my Lord made +a pretty good measure of it with two sticks, and found it to be not above +thirty-five yards high, and Paul's is reckoned to be about ninety. From +thence toward the barge again, and in our way found the people at Deal +going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, it being the King's birthday, +and had some guns which they did fire at my Lord's coming by. For which +I did give twenty shillings among them to drink. While we were on the +top of the cliffe, we saw and heard our guns in the fleet go off for the +same joy. And it being a pretty fair day we could see above twenty miles +into France. Being returned on board, my Lord called for Mr. Sheply's +book of Paul's, by which we were confirmed in our wager. After that to +supper and then to musique, and so to bed. The pain that I have got last +night by cold is not yet gone, but troubles me at the time of . . . . +This day, it is thought, the King do enter the city of London. + + ["Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a + petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship + to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of + his passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that + they will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats, + and other ornaments of triumph and rejoicing."-Rugge's Diurnal, May, + 1660.--B.] + + + +30th. About eight o'clock in the morning the lieutenant came to me to +know whether I would eat a dish of mackerel, newly catched, for my +breakfast, which the Captain and we did in the coach. All yesterday and +to-day I had a great deal of pain . . . and in my back, which made me +afeard. But it proved nothing but cold, which I took yesterday night. +All this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had +made myself now worth about L80, at which my heart was glad, and blessed +God. Many Dover men come and dine with my Lord. My Lord at ninepins in +the afternoon. In the afternoon Mr. Sheply told me how my Lord had put +me down for 70 guilders among the money which was given to my Lord's +servants, which my heart did much rejoice at. My Lord supped alone in +his chamber. Sir R. Stayner supped with us, and among other things told +us how some of his men did grumble that no more of the Duke's money come +to their share and so would not receive any; whereupon he called up those +that had taken it, and gives them three shares apiece more, which was +very good, and made good sport among the seamen. To bed. + + + +31st. This day my Lord took physic, and came not out of his chamber. + + [It is interesting that on several occasions Wheatly records the use + of 'physic' (cathartics) and notes that the effect of this + medication required confinement to the bedroom--but as to his Pepy's + renal colic, he places his censoring periods in place of the words: + painful urination. D.W.] + +All the morning making orders. After dinner a great while below in the +great cabin trying with W. Howe some of Mr. Laws' songs,' particularly +that of "What is a kiss," with which we had a great deal of pleasure. +After that to making of orders again. Captain Sparling of the Assistance +brought me a pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I was much +pleased with. The Captain and I to supper, and after that a most +pleasant walk till to at night with him upon the deck, it being a fine +evening. My pain was gone again that I had yesterday, blessed be God. +This day the month ends, I in very good health, and all the world in a +merry mood because of the King's coming. This day I began to teach Mr. +Edward; who I find to have a very good foundation laid for his Latin by +Mr. Fuller. I expect every minute to hear how my poor wife do. I find +myself in all things well as to body and mind, but troubled for the +absence of my wife. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport +And in all this not so much as one +Bought for the love of the binding three books +Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets +Fashionable and black spots +He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more +He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I +He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it +He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while +If it should come in print my name maybe at it +In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore +John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers +Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead +My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber +Presbyterians against the House of Lords +Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v5 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JUNE & JULY + 1660 + + +June 1st. This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the Duke of +York did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my share, +whereof he told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord left him out. + + [Foreign coins were in frequent use at this time. A Proclamation, + January 29th, 1660-61, declared certain foreign gold and silver + coins to be current at certain rates. The rate of the ducatoon was + at 5s. 9d.] + +I did give Mr. Sheply the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I bought +myself about five years ago. My Lord took physic to-day, and so come not +out all day. The Captain on shore all day. After dinner Captain +Jefferys and W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and I to ninepins, where I lost +about two shillings and so fooled away all the afternoon. At night Mr. +Cooke comes from London with letters, leaving all things there very +gallant and joyful. And brought us word that the Parliament had ordered +the 29th of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of +thanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny, and the King's return to +his Government, he entering London that day. My wife was in London when +he came thither, and had been there a week with Mr. Bowyer and his wife. +My poor wife has not been well a week before, but thanks be to God is +well again. She would fain see me and be at her house again, but we must +be content. She writes word how the Joyces grow very rich and very +proud, but it is no matter, and that there was a talk that I should be +knighted by the King, which they (the Joyces) laugh at; but I think +myself happier in my wife and estate than they are in theirs. To bed. +The Captain come on board, when I was going to bed, quite fuddled; and +himself the next morning told me so too, that the Vice-Admiral, Rear- +Admiral, and he had been drinking all day. + + + +2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in his cabin, I +took occasion to give him thanks for his love to me in the share that he +had given me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. He told the he +hoped to do me a more lasting kindness, if all things stand as they are +now between him and the King, but, says he, "We must have a little +patience and we will rise together; in the mean time I will do you all +the good jobs I can." Which was great content for me to hear from my +Lord. All the morning with the Captain, computing how much the thirty +ships that come with the King from Scheveling their pay comes to for a +month (because the King promised to give them all a month's pay), and it +comes to L6,538, and the Charles particularly L777. I wish we had the +money. All the afternoon with two or three captains in the Captain's +cabin, drinking of white wine and sugar, and eating pickled oysters, +where Captain Sparling told us the best story that ever I heard, about a +gentleman that persuaded a country fool to let him gut his oysters or +else they would stink. At night writing letters to London and Weymouth, +for my Lord being now to sit in the House of Peers he endeavours to get +Mr. Edward Montagu for Weymouth and Mr. George for Dover. Mr. Cooke late +with me in my cabin while I wrote to my wife, and drank a bottle of wine +and so took leave of me on his journey and I to bed. + + + +3d. Waked in the morning by one who when I asked who it was, he told me +one from Bridewell, which proved Captain Holland. I rose presently to +him. He is come to get an order for the setting out of his ship, and to +renew his commission. He tells me how every man goes to the Lord Mayor +to set down their names, as such as do accept of his Majesty's pardon, +and showed me a certificate under the Lord Mayor's hand that he had done +so. + +At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my cabin, to cast my accounts +up, and find myself to be worth near L100, for which I bless Almighty +God, it being more than I hoped for so soon, being I believe not clearly +worth L25 when I came to sea besides my house and goods. Then to set my +papers in order, they being increased much upon my hands through want of +time to put them in order. The ship's company all this while at sermon. +After sermon my Lord did give me instruction to write to London about +business, which done, after supper to bed. + + + +4th. Waked in the morning at four o'clock to give some money to Mr. +Hetly, who was to go to London with the letters that I wrote yesterday +night. After he was gone I went and lay down in my gown upon my bed +again an hour or two. At last waked by a messenger come for a Post +Warrant for Mr. Hetly and Mr. Creed, who stood to give so little for +their horses that the men would not let them have any without a warrant, +which I sent them. All the morning getting Captain Holland's commission +done, which I did, and he at noon went away. I took my leave of him upon +the quarter-deck with a bottle of sack, my Lord being just set down to +dinner. Then he being gone I went to dinner and after dinner to my cabin +to write. This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed, +and so I think myself to be worth near L100 now. In the evening I made +an order for Captain Sparling of the Assistance to go to Middleburgh, to +fetch over some of the King's goods. I took the opportunity to send all +my Dutch money, 70 ducatoons and 29 gold ducats to be changed, if he can, +for English money, which is the first venture that ever I made, and so I +have been since a little afeard of it. After supper some music and so to +bed. This morning the King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, +and debauchery, was read to our ships' companies in the fleet, and indeed +it gives great satisfaction to all. + + [The King's "Proclamation against vicious, debauched, and prophane + Persons" is dated May 30th. It is printed in "Somers's Tracts," ed. + 1812, vol. vii. p. 423.] + + + +5th. A-bed late. In the morning my Lord went on shore with the Vice- +Admiral a-fishing, and at dinner returned. In the afternoon I played at +ninepins with my Lord, and when he went in again I got him to sign my +accounts for L115, and so upon my private balance I find myself confirmed +in my estimation that I am worth L100. In the evening in my cabin a +great while getting the song without book, "Help, help Divinity, &c." +After supper my Lord called for the lieutenant's cittern, and with two +candlesticks with money in them for symballs, we made barber's music, + + [In the "Notices of Popular Histories," printed for the Percy + Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a + barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person + waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn + arrives. Decker also mentions a "barber's cittern," for every + serving-man to play upon. This is no doubt "the barber's music" + with which Lord Sandwich entertained himself.--B.] + +with which my Lord was well pleased. So to bed. + + + +6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me among other things, +that my Lord's place of Clerk of the Signet was fallen to him, which he +did most lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he could not get +a better employment for me at the end of the year. Because he thought +that the Duke of York would command all, but he hoped that the Duke would +not remove me but to my advantage. + +I had a great deal of talk about my uncle Robert, + + [Robert Pepys of Brampton, eldest son of Thomas Pepys the red, and + brother of Samuel's father.] + +and he told me that he could not tell how his mind stood as to his +estate, but he would do all that lay in his power for me. After dinner +came Mr. Gooke from London, who told me that my wife he left well at +Huntsmore, though her health not altogether so constant as it used to be, +which my heart is troubled for. Mr. Moore's letters tell me that he +thinks my Lord will be suddenly sent for up to London, and so I got +myself in readiness to go. + +My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy + + [Edmund Calamy, D.D., the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born + February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II., 1660. He refused + the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him. Died October + 29th, 1666.] + +had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards to be +false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three more Lords, are made +Commissioners for the Treasury; + + [The names of the Commissioners were--Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards + Earl of Clarendon, General Monk, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, John, + Lord Robartes, Thomas, Lord Colepeper, Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir + Edward Nicholas and Sir William Morrice as principal Secretaries of + State. The patents are dated June 19th, 1660.] + +that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Master +of the Wardrobe; + + [The duty of the Master of the Wardrobe was to provide "proper + furniture for coronations, marriages, and funerals" of the sovereign + and royal family, "cloaths of state, beds, hangings, and other + necessaries for the houses of foreign ambassadors, cloaths of state + for Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Prince of Wales, and ambassadors + abroad," as also to provide robes for Ministers of State, Knights of + the Garter, &c. The last Master of the Wardrobe was Ralph, Duke of + Montague, who died 1709.] + +that the two Dukes--[Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester.]--do haunt the +Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene,--["Epicene, or +the Silent Woman," a comedy, by Ben Jonson.]--the other day; that Sir. +Ant. Cooper, Mr. Hollis, and Mr. Annesly,& late President of the Council +of State, are made Privy Councillors to the King. At night very busy +sending Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father for a coat to be +made me against I come to London, which I think will not be long. At +night Mr. Edward Montagu came on board and staid long up with my Lord. +I to bed and about one in the morning, + + + +7th. W. Howe called me up to give him a letter to carry to my Lord that +came to me to-day, which I did and so to, sleep again. About three in +the morning the people began to wash the deck, and the water came pouring +into my mouth, which waked me, and I was fain to rise and get on my gown, +and sleep leaning on my table. This morning Mr. Montagu went away again. +After dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. Moore, with the sight of whom +my heart was very glad. They brought an order for my Lord's coming up to +London, which my Lord resolved to do tomorrow. All the afternoon getting +my things in order to set forth to-morrow. At night walked up and down +with Mr. Moore, who did give me an account of all things at London. +Among others, how the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst, but +they will not be able to do any thing. Most of the Commanders on board +and supped with my Lord. Late at night came Mr. Edw. Pickering from +London, but I could not see him this night. I went with Mr. Moore to the +Master's cabin, and saw him there in order to going to bed. After that +to my own cabin to put things in order and so to bed. + + + +8th. Out early, took horses at Deale. I troubled much with the King's +gittar, and Fairbrother, the rogue that I intrusted with the carrying of +it on foot, whom I thought I had lost. Col. Dixwell's horse taken by a +soldier and delivered to my Lord, and by him to me to carry to London. +Came to Canterbury, dined there. I saw the minster and the remains of +Becket's tomb. To Sittiligborne and Rochester. At Chatham and Rochester +the ships and bridge. Mr. Hetly's mistake about dinner. Come to +Gravesend. A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen +a great while. Supped with my Lord, drank late below with Penrose, +the Captain. To bed late, having first laid out all my things against +to-morrow to put myself in a walking garb. Weary and hot to bed to +Mr. Moore. + + + +9th. Up betimes, 25s. the reckoning for very bare. Paid the house and +by boats to London, six boats. Mr. Moore, W. Howe, and I, and then the +child in the room of W. Howe. Landed at the Temple. To Mr. Crew's. To +my father's and put myself into a handsome posture to wait upon my Lord, +dined there. To White Hall with my Lord and Mr. Edwd. Montagu. Found +the King in the Park. There walked. Gallantly great. + + + +10th. (Lord's day.) At my father's found my wife and to walk with her +in Lincoln's Inn walks. + + + +11th. Betimes to my Lord. Extremely much people and business. So with +him to Whitehall to the Duke. Back with him by coach and left him in +Covent Garden. I back to Will's and the Hall to see my father. Then to +the Leg in King Street with Mr. Moore, and sent for. L'Impertinent to +dinner with me. After that with Mr. Moore about Privy Seal business. To +Mr. Watkins, so to Mr. Crew's. Then towards my father's met my Lord and +with him to Dorset House to the Chancellor. So to Mr. Crew's and saw my +Lord at supper, and then home, and went to see Mrs. Turner, and so to +bed. + + + +12th. Visited by the two Pierces, Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerk and Mr. +Creed, and did give them a ham of bacon. So to my Lord and with him to +the Duke of Gloucester. The two Dukes dined with the Speaker, and I saw +there a fine entertainment and dined with the pages. To Mr. Crew's, +whither came Mr. Greatorex, and with him to the Faithornes, and so to the +Devils tavern. To my Lord's and staid till 12 at night about business. +So to my father's, my father and mother in bed, who had been with my +uncle Fenner, &c., and my wife all day and expected me. But I found Mr. +Cook there, and so to bed. + + + +13th. To my Lord's and thence to the Treasurer's of the Navy,' with Mr. +Creed and Pierce the Purser to Rawlinson's, whither my uncle Wight came, +and I spent 12s. upon them. So to Mr. Crew's, where I blotted a new +carpet--[It was customary to use carpets as table cloths.]--that was +hired, but got it out again with fair water. By water with my Lord in a +boat to Westminster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place. After +business done there to the Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne, Creed, +and Wivell. So to my Lord's lodging and to my father's, and to bed. + + + +14th. Up to my Lord and from him to the Treasurer of the Navy for L500. +After that to a tavern with Washington the Purser, very gallant, and ate +and drank. To Mr. Crew's and laid my money. To my Lady Pickering with +the plate that she did give my Lord the other day. Then to Will's and +met William Symons and Doling and Luellin, and with them to the Bull- +head, and then to a new alehouse in Brewer's Yard, where Winter that had +the fray with Stoakes, and from them to my father's. + + + +15th. All the morning at the Commissioners of the Navy about getting out +my bill for L650 for the last quarter, which I got done with a great deal +of ease, which is not common. After that with Mr. Turner to the Dolphin +and drunk, and so by water to W. Symons, where D. Scobell with his wife, +a pretty and rich woman. Mrs. Symons, a very fine woman, very merry +after dinner with marrying of Luellin and D. Scobell's kinswoman that was +there. Then to my Lord who told me how the King has given him the place +of the great Wardrobe. My Lord resolves to have Sarah again. I to my +father's, and then to see my uncle and aunt Fenner. So home and to bed. + + + +16th. Rose betimes and abroad in one shirt, which brought me a great +cold and pain. Murford took me to Harvey's by my father's to drink and +told me of a business that I hope to get L5 by. To my Lord, and so to +White Hall with him about the Clerk of the Privy Seal's place, which he +is to have. + +Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote same letters. Here Coll. Thompson +told me, as a great secret; that the Nazeby was on fire when the King was +there, but that is not known; when God knows it is quite false. Got a +piece of gold from Major Holmes for the horse of Dixwell's I brought to +town. Dined at Mr. Crew's, and after dinner with my Lord to Whitehall. +Court attendance infinite tedious. Back with my Lord to my Lady Wright's +and staid till it had done raining, which it had not done a great while. +After that at night home to my father's and to bed. + + + +17th (Lord's day). Lay long abed. To Mr. Mossum's; a good sermon. This +day the organs did begin to play at White Hall before the King.--[All +organs were removed from churches by an ordinance dated 1644.]--Dined at +my father's. After dinner to Mr. Mossum's again, and so in the garden, +and heard Chippell's father preach, that was Page to the Protector, and +just by the window that I stood at sat Mrs. Butler, the great beauty. +After sermon to my Lord. Mr. Edward and I into Gray's Inn walks, and saw +many beauties. So to my father's, where Mr. Cook, W. Bowyer, and my coz +Roger Wharton supped and to bed. + + + +18th. To my Lord's, where much business and some hopes of getting some +money thereby. With him to the Parliament House, where he did intend to +have gone to have made his appearance to-day, but he met Mr. Crew upon +the stairs, and would not go in. He went to Mrs. Brown's, and staid till +word was brought him what was done in the House. This day they made an +end of the twenty men to be excepted from pardon to their estates. By +barge to Stepny with my Lord, where at Trinity House we had great +entertainment. With, my Lord there went Sir W. Pen, Sir H. Wright, +Hetly, Pierce; Creed, Hill, I and other servants. Back again to the +Admiralty, and so to my Lord's lodgings, where he told me that he did +look after the place of the Clerk of the Acts--[The letters patent +appointing Pepys to the office of Clerk of the Acts is dated July 13th, +1660.]--for me. So to Mr. Crew's and my father's and to bed. My wife +went this day to Huntsmore for her things, and I was very lonely all +night. This evening my wife's brother, Balty, came to me to let me know +his bad condition and to get a place for him, but I perceive he stands +upon a place for a gentleman, that may not stain his family when, God +help him, he wants bread. + + + +19th. Called on betimes by Murford, who showed me five pieces to get a +business done for him and I am resolved to do it., Much business at my +Lord's. This morning my Lord went into the House of Commons, and there +had the thanks of the House, in the name of the Parliament and Commons of +England, for his late service to his King and Country. A motion was made +for a reward for him, but it was quashed by Mr. Annesly, who, above most +men, is engaged to my Lord's and Mr. Crew's families. Meeting with +Captain Stoakes at Whitehall, I dined with him and Mr. Gullop, a parson +(with whom afterwards I was much offended at his importunity and +impertinence, such another as Elborough), + + [Thomas Elborough was one of Pepys's schoolfellows, and afterwards + curate of St. Lawrence Poultney.] + +and Mr. Butler, who complimented much after the same manner as the parson +did. After that towards my Lord's at Mr. Crew's, but was met with by a +servant of my Lady Pickering, who took me to her and she told me the +story of her husband's case and desired my assistance with my Lord, and +did give me, wrapped up in paper, L5 in silver. After that to my Lord's, +and with him to Whitehall and my Lady Pickering. My Lord went at night +with the King to Baynard's Castle' to supper, and I home to my father's +to bed. My wife and the girl and dog came home to-day. When I came home +I found a quantity of chocolate left for me, I know not from whom. We +hear of W. Howe being sick to-day, but he was well at night. + + + +20th. Up by 4 in the morning to write letters to sea and a commission +for him that Murford solicited for. Called on by Captain Sparling, who +did give me my Dutch money again, and so much as he had changed into +English money, by which my mind was eased of a great deal of trouble. +Some other sea captains. I did give them a good morning draught, and so +to my Lord (who lay long in bed this day, because he came home late from +supper with the King). With my Lord to the Parliament House, and, after +that, with him to General Monk's, where he dined at the Cock-pit. I home +and dined with my wife, now making all things ready there again. Thence +to my Lady Pickering, who did give me the best intelligence about the +Wardrobe. Afterwards to the Cockpit to my Lord with Mr. Townsend, one +formerly and now again to be employed as Deputy of the Wardrobe. Thence +to the Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. Cooke to sea; whose business +was a letter from my Lord about Mr. G. Montagu to be chosen as a +Parliament-man in my Lord's room at Dover;' and another to the Vice- +Admiral to give my Lord a constant account of all things in the fleet, +merely that he may thereby keep up his power there; another letter to +Captn. Cuttance to send the barge that brought the King on shore, to +Hinchingbroke by Lynne. To my own house, meeting G. Vines, and drank +with him at Charing Cross, now the King's Head Tavern. With my wife to +my father's, where met with Swan,--[William Swan is called a fanatic and +a very rogue in other parts of the Diary.]--an old hypocrite, and with +him, his friend and my father, and my cozen Scott to the Bear Tavern. To +my father's and to bed. + + +21st. To my Lord, much business. With him to the Council Chamber, where +he was sworn; and the charge of his being admitted Privy Counsellor is +L26. To the Dog Tavern at Westminster, where Murford with Captain Curle +and two friends of theirs went to drink. Captain Curle, late of the +Maria, gave me five pieces in gold and a silver can for my wife for the +Commission I did give him this day for his ship, dated April 20, 1660 +last. Thence to the Parliament door and came to Mr. Crew's to dinner +with my Lord, and with my Lord to see the great Wardrobe, where Mr. +Townsend brought us to the governor of some poor children in tawny +clothes; who had been maintained there these eleven years, which put my +Lord to a stand how to dispose of them, that he may have the house for +his use. The children did sing finely, and my Lord did bid me give them +five pieces in gold at his going away. Thence back to White Hall, where, +the King being gone abroad, my Lord and I walked a great while +discoursing of the simplicity of the Protector, in his losing all that +his father had left him. My Lord told me, that the last words that he +parted with the Protector with (when he went to the Sound), were, that he +should rejoice more to see him in his grave at his return home, than that +he should give way to such things as were then in hatching, and +afterwards did ruin him: and the Protector said, that whatever +G. Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones, and the Secretary, would have him +to do, he would do it, be it what it would. Thence to my wife, meeting +Mr. Blagrave, who went home with me, and did give me a lesson upon the +flageolet, and handselled my silver can with my wife and me. To my +father's, where Sir Thomas Honeywood and his family were come of a +sudden, and so we forced to lie all together in a little chamber, three +stories high. + + + +22d. To my Lord, where much business. With him to White Hall, where the +Duke of York not being up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery. +Mr. Hill (who for these two or three days hath constantly attended my +Lord) told me of an offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity, which I told +my Lord of in the balcone in this gallery, and he said he would think of +it. I to my Lord's and gave order for horses to be got to draw my Lord's +great coach to Mr. Crew's. Mr. Morrice the upholsterer came himself +to-day to take notice what furniture we lack for our lodgings at +Whitehall. My dear friend Mr. Fuller of Twickenham and I dined alone at +the Sun Tavern, where he told me how he had the grant of being Dean of +St. Patrick's, in Ireland; and I told him my condition, and both rejoiced +one for another. Thence to my Lord's, and had the great coach to +Brigham's, who went with me to the Half Moon, and gave me a can of good +julep, and told me how my Lady Monk deals with him and others for their +places, asking him L500, though he was formerly the King's coach-maker, +and sworn to it. My Lord abroad, and I to my house and set things in a +little order there. So with Mr. Moore to my father's, I staying with +Mrs. Turner who stood at her door as I passed. Among other things she +told me for certain how my old Lady Middlesex ---- herself the other day +in the presence of the King, and people took notice of it. Thence called +at my father's, and so to Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hetley had sent a letter +for me, and two pair of silk stockings, one for W. Howe, and the other +for me. To Sir H. Wright's to my Lord, where he, was, and took direction +about business, and so by link home about 11 o'clock. To bed, the first +time since my coming from sea, in my own house, for which God be praised. + + + +23d. By water with Mr. Hill towards my Lord's lodging and so to my Lord. +With him to Whitehall, where I left him and went to Mr. Holmes to deliver +him the horse of Dixwell's that had staid there fourteen days at the +Bell. So to my Lord's lodgings, where Tom Guy came to me, and there +staid to see the King touch people for the King's evil. But he did not +come at all, it rayned so; and the poor people were forced to stand all +the morning in the rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in the +Banquetting-house. + + [This ceremony is usually traced to Edward the Confessor, but there + is no direct evidence of the early Norman kings having touched for + the evil. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the House of + Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not + descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form + of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called + the King's evil. Burn asserts, "History of Parish Registers," 1862, + p. 179, that "between 1660 and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for + the evil." Everyone coming to the court for that purpose, brought a + certificate signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had + not at any time been touched by His Majesty. The practice was + supposed to have expired with the Stuarts, but the point being + disputed, reference was made to the library of the Duke of Sussex, + and four several Oxford editions of the Book of Common Prayer were + found, all printed after the accession of the house of Hanover, and + all containing, as an integral part of the service, "The Office for + the Healing." The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the + sore of the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten + shillings. It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon + was drawn, and the angel was hanged about the patient's neck till + the cure was perfected. The stamp has the impression of St. Michael + the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other. + "My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King's evil with three + others on Tuesday."--MS. Letter of William Greenhill to Lady Bacon, + dated December 31st, 1629, preserved at Audley End. Charles II. + "touched" before he came to the throne. "It is certain that the + King hath very often touched the sick, as well at Breda, where he + touched 260 from Saturday the 17 of April to Sunday the 23 of May, + as at Bruges and Bruxels, during the residence he made there; and + the English assure . . . it was not without success, since it was + the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those + diseased even from the most remote provinces of Germany."--Sir + William Lower's Relation of the Voiage and Residence which Charles + the II. hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, p. 78. Sir William Lower + gives a long account of the touching for the evil by Charles before + the Restoration.] + +With my Lord, to my Lord Frezendorfe's, where he dined to-day. Where he +told me that he had obtained a promise of the Clerk of the Acts place for +me, at which I was glad. Met with Mr. Chetwind, and dined with him at +Hargrave's, the Cornchandler, in St. Martin's Lane, where a good dinner, +where he showed me some good pictures, and an instrument he called an +Angelique. + + [An angelique is described as a species of guitar in Murray's "New + English Dictionary," and this passage from the Diary is given as a + quotation. The word appears as angelot in Phillips's "English + Dictionary" (1678), and is used in Browning's "Sordello," as a + "plaything of page or girl."] + +With him to London, changing all my Dutch money at Backwell's + + [Alderman Edward Backwell, an eminent banker and goldsmith, who is + frequently mentioned in the Diary. His shop was in Lombard Street. + He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles II. in + 1672. The crown then owed him L295,994 16s. 6d., in lieu of which + the King gave him an annuity of L17,759 13s. 8d. Backwell retired + into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in + 1679. See Hilton Price's "Handbook of London Bankers," 1876.] + +for English, and then to Cardinal's Cap, where he and the City +Remembrancer who paid for all. Back to Westminster, where my Lord was, +and discoursed with him awhile about his family affairs. So he went +away, I home and wrote letters into the country, and to bed. + + + +24th. Sunday. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and bought a pair of +gloves there. So to Mr. G. Montagu, and told him what I had received +from Dover, about his business likely to be chosen there. So home and +thence with my wife towards my father's. She went thither, I to Mr. +Crew's, where I dined and my Lord at my Lord Montagu of Boughton in +Little Queen Street. In the afternoon to Mr. Mossum's with Mr. Moore, +and we sat in Mr. Butler's pew. Then to Whitehall looking for my Lord +but in vain, and back again to Mr. Crew's where I found him and did give +him letters. Among others some simple ones from our Lieutenant, Lieut. +Lambert to him and myself, which made Mr. Crew and us all laugh. I went +to my father's to tell him that I would not come to supper, and so after +my business done at Mr. Crew's I went home and my wife within a little +while after me, my mind all this while full of thoughts for my place of +Clerk of the Acts. + + + +25th. With my Lord at White Hall, all the morning. I spoke with Mr. +Coventry about my business, who promised me all the assistance I could +expect. Dined with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound, being +amused at our great changes here, and Mr. Southerne, now Clerk to Mr. +Coventry, at the Leg in King-street. Thence to the Admiralty, where I +met with Mr. Turner + + [Thomas Turner (or Tourner) was General Clerk at the Navy Office, + and on June 30th he offered Pepys L150 to be made joint Clerk of the + Acts with him. In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the + King came in, preserved in the British Museum, there occur, Richard + Hutchinson; Treasury of the Navy, salary L1500; Thomas Tourner, + General Clerk, for himself and clerk, L100.] + +of the Navy-office, who did look after the place of Clerk of the Acts. +He was very civil to me, and I to him, and shall be so. There came a +letter from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening, but he refused +to come to her, but meeting in White Hall, with Sir Thomas Clarges, her +brother, my Lord returned answer, that he could not desist in my +business; and that he believed that General Monk would take it ill if my +Lord should name the officers in his army; and therefore he desired to +have the naming of one officer in the fleet. With my Lord by coach to +Mr. Crew's, and very merry by the way, discoursing of the late changes +and his good fortune. Thence home, and then with my wife to Dorset +House, to deliver a list of the names of the justices of the peace for +Huntingdonshire. By coach, taking Mr. Fox part of the way with me, that +was with us with the King on board the Nazeby, who I found to have +married Mrs. Whittle, that lived at Mr. Geer's so long. A very civil +gentleman. At Dorset House I met with Mr. Kipps, my old friend, with +whom the world is well changed, he being now sealbearer to the Lord +Chancellor, at which my wife and I are well pleased, he being a very good +natured man. Home and late writing letters. Then to my Lord's lodging, +this being the first night of his coming to Whitehall to lie since his +coming from sea. + + + +26th. My Lord dined at his lodgings all alone to-day. I went to +Secretary Nicholas + + [Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I. and II. + He was dismissed from his office through the intrigues of Lady + Castlemaine in 1663. He died 1669, aged seventy-seven.] + +to carry him my Lord's resolutions about his title, which he had chosen, +and that is Portsmouth. + + [Montagu changed his mind, and ultimately took his title from the + town of Sandwich, leaving that of Portsmouth for the use of a King's + mistress.] + +I met with Mr. Throgmorton, a merchant, who went with me to the old Three +Tuns, at Charing Cross, who did give me five pieces of gold for to do him +a small piece of service about a convoy to Bilbo, which I did. In the +afternoon, one Mr. Watts came to me, a merchant, to offer me L500 if I +would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place. I pray God direct me in +what I do herein. Went to my house, where I found my father, and carried +him and my wife to Whitefriars, and myself to Puddlewharf, to the +Wardrobe, to Mr. Townsend, who went with me to Backwell, the goldsmith's, +and there we chose L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary +Nicholas. Back and staid at my father's, and so home to bed. + + + +27th. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke to Mr. Coventry to +despatch my business of the Acts, in which place every body gives me joy, +as if I were in it, which God send. + + [The letters patent, dated July 13th, 12 Charles II., recite and + revoke letters patent of February 16th, 14 Charles I., whereby the + office of Clerk of the Ships had been given to Dennis Fleming and + Thomas Barlow, or the survivor. D. F. was then dead, but T. B. + living, and Samuel Pepys was appointed in his room, at a salary of + L33 6s. 8d. per annum, with 3s. 4d. for each day employed in + travelling, and L6 per annum for boathire, and all fees due. This + salary was only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had + been attached to the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary + had been previously fixed at L350 a year.] + +Dined with my Lord and all the officers of his regiment, who invited my +Lord and his friends, as many as he would bring, to dinner, at the Swan, +at Dowgate, a poor house and ill dressed, but very good fish and plenty. +Here Mr. Symons, the Surgeon, told me how he was likely to lose his +estate that he had bought, at which I was not a little pleased. To +Westminster, and with Mr. Howe by coach to the Speaker's, where my Lord +supped with the King, but I could not get in. So back again, and after a +song or two in my chamber in the dark, which do (now that the bed is out) +sound very well, I went home and to bed. + + + +28th. My brother Tom came to me with patterns to choose for a suit. I +paid him all to this day, and did give him L10 upon account. To Mr. +Coventry, who told me that he would do me all right in my business. To +Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came. He is so +stingy a fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of his +office, and did give him liberty to take any body in. Hawly and he are +parted too, he is going to serve Sir Thos. Ingram. I went also this +morning to see Mrs. Pierce, the chirurgeon['s wife]. I found her in bed +in her house in Margaret churchyard. Her husband returned to sea. I did +invite her to go to dinner with me and my wife to-day. After all this to +my Lord, who lay a-bed till eleven o'clock, it being almost five before +he went to bed, they supped so late last night with the King. This +morning I saw poor Bishop Wren + + [Matthew Wren, born 1585, successively Bishop of Hereford, Norwich, + and Ely. At the commencement of the Rebellion he was sent to the + Tower, and remained a prisoner there eighteen years. Died April + 24th, 1667.] + +going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day + + ["A Proclamation for setting apart a day of Solemn and Publick + Thanksgiving throughout the whole Kingdom," dated June 5th, 1660.] + +for the King's return. After my Lord was awake, I went up to him to the +Nursery, where he do lie, and, having talked with him a little, I took +leave and carried my wife and Mrs. Pierce to Clothworkers'-Hall, to +dinner, where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, met us. We were invited by Mr. +Chaplin, the Victualler, where Nich. Osborne was. Our entertainment very +good, a brave hall, good company, and very good music. Where among other +things I was pleased that I could find out a man by his voice, whom I had +never seen before, to be one that sang behind the curtaine formerly at +Sir W. Davenant's opera. Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the victualler +dined with us. After dinner to Mr. Rawlinson's, + + [Daniel Rawlinson kept the Mitre in Fenchurch Street, and there is a + farthing token of his extant, "At the Mitetr in Fenchurch Streete, + D. M. R." The initials stand for Daniel and Margaret Rawlinson (see + "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 595) In + "Reliquiae Hearnianae" (ed. Bliss, 1869, vol. ii. p. 39) is the + following extract from Thomas Rawlinson's Note Book R.: "Of Daniel + Rawlinson, my grandfather, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch + Street, and of whose being sequestred in the Rump time I have heard + much, the Whiggs tell this, that upon the king's murder he hung his + signe in mourning. He certainly judged right. The honour of the + Mitre was much eclipsed through the loss of so good a parent of the + church of England. These rogues say, this endeared him so much to + the churchmen that he soon throve amain and got a good estate." + Mrs. Rawlinson died of the plague (see August 9th, 1666), and the + house was burnt in the Great Fire. Mr. Rawlinson rebuilt the Mitre, + and he had the panels of the great room painted with allegorical + figures by Isaac Fuller. Daniel was father of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, + of whom Thomas Hearne writes (October 1st, 1705): "Sir Thomas + Rawlinson is chosen Lord Mayor of London for ye ensueing + notwithstanding the great opposition of ye Whigg party" (Hearne's + "Collections," ed. Doble, 1885, vol. i. p. 51). The well-known + antiquaries, Thomas and Richard Rawlinson, sons of Sir Thomas, were + therefore grandsons of Daniel.] + +to see him and his wife, and would have gone to my Aunt Wight, but that +her only child, a daughter, died last night. Home and to my Lord, who +supped within, and Mr. E. Montagu, Mr. Thos. Crew, and others with him +sat up late. I home and to bed. + + + +29th. This day or two my maid Jane--[Jane Wayneman.]--has been lame, +that we cannot tell what to do for want of her. Up and to White Hall, +where I got my warrant from the Duke to be Clerk of the Acts. Also I got +my Lord's warrant from the Secretary for his honour of Earle of +Portsmouth, and Viscount Montagu of Hinchingbroke. So to my Lord, to +give him an account of what I had done. Then to Sir Geffery Palmer, to +give them to him to have bills drawn upon them, who told me that my Lord +must have some good Latinist to make the preamble to his Patent, which +must express his late service in the best terms that he can, and he told +me in what high flaunting terms Sir J. Greenville had caused his to be +done, which he do not like; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe had done +General Monk's very well. Back to Westminster, and meeting Mr. Townsend +in the Palace, he and I and another or two went and dined at the Leg +there. Then to White Hall, where I was told by Mr. Hutchinson at the +Admiralty, that Mr. Barlow, my predecessor, Clerk of the Acts, is yet +alive, and coming up to town to look after his place, which made my heart +sad a little. At night told my Lord thereof, and he bade me get +possession of my Patent; and he would do all that could be done to keep +him out. This night my Lord and I looked over the list of the Captains,. +and marked some that my Lord had a mind to have put out. Home and to +bed. Our wench very lame, abed these two days. + + + +30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe to draw up the preamble to my Lord's +Patent. So to my Lord, and with him to White Hall, where I saw a great +many fine antique heads of marble, that my Lord Northumberland had given +the King. Here meeting with Mr. De Cretz, he looked over many of the +pieces, in the gallery with me and told me [by] whose hands they were, +with great pleasure. Dined at home and Mr. Hawly with me upon six of my +pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill here. This day came Will, + + [William Wayneman was constantly getting into trouble, and Pepys had + to cane him. He was dismissed on July 7th, 1663.] + +my boy, to me; the wench continuing lame, so that my wife could not be +longer without somebody to help her. In the afternoon with Sir Edward +Walker, at his lodgings by St. Giles Church, for my Lord's pedigree, and +carried it to Sir R. Fanshawe. To Mr. Crew's, and there took money and +paid Mrs. Anne, Mrs. Jemima's maid, off quite, and so she went away and +another came to her. To White Hall with Mr. Moore, where I met with a +letter from Mr. Turner, offering me L150 to be joined with me in my +patent, and to advise me how to improve the advantage of my place, and to +keep off Barlow. To my Lord's till late at night, and so home. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY + 1660 + + +July 1st. This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, + + [Camlet was a mixed stuff of wool and silk. It was very expensive, + and later Pepys gave L24 for a suit. (See June 1st, 1664.)] + +with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray +God to make me able to pay for it. I went to the cook's and got a good +joint of meat, and my wife and I dined at home alone. In the afternoon +to the Abbey, where a good sermon by a stranger, but no Common Prayer +yet. After sermon called in at Mrs. Crisp's, where I saw Mynheer Roder, +that is to marry Sam Hartlib's sister, a great fortune for her to light +on, she being worth nothing in the world. Here I also saw Mrs. +Greenlife, who is come again to live in Axe Yard with her new husband +Mr. Adams. Then to my Lord's, where I staid a while. So to see for +Mr. Creed to speak about getting a copy of Barlow's patent. To my +Lord's, where late at night comes Mr. Morland, whom I left prating with +my Lord, and so home. + + + +2nd. Infinite of business that my heart and head and all were full. +Met with purser Washington, with whom and a lady, a friend of his, +I dined at the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more +manners than to invite me and to let me pay my club. All the afternoon +with my Lord, going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, +and there the principal Officers of the Navy, + + [A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31st, 1660. From a + MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys's own handwriting. + His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral. + Sir George Carteret, Treasurer. + Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller. + Sir William Batten, Surveyor. + Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts. + + John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton,)| + Sir William Penn, | Commissioners. + Peter Pett, Esq.--B,] | + +among the rest myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow, +to draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into action +before our patents were passed. At which my heart was glad. At night +supped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone by +ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my maid +pretty well again. + + + +3d. All the morning the Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, we met +at Sir G. Carteret's + + [Sir George Carteret, born 1599, had originally been bred to the sea + service, and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I., and + Governor of Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his + gallant defence of that island against the Parliament forces. At + the Restoration he was made Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer + of the Navy, and a Privy Councillor, and in 1661 he was elected M.P. + for Portsmouth. In 1666 he exchanged the Treasurership of the Navy + with the Earl of Anglesea for the Vice-Treasurership of Ireland. He + became a Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1673. He continued in + favour with Charles II. till his death, January 14th, 1679, in his + eightieth year. He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir + Philip Carteret, Knight of St. Ouen, and had issue three sons and + five daughters.] + +chamber, and agreed upon orders for the Council to supersede the old +ones, and empower us to act. Dined with Mr. Stephens, the Treasurer's +man of the Navy, and Mr. Turner, to whom I offered L50 out of my own +purse for one year, and the benefit of a Clerk's allowance beside, which +he thanked me for; but I find he hath some design yet in his head, which +I could not think of. In the afternoon my heart was quite pulled down, +by being told that Mr. Barlow was to enquire to-day for Mr. Coventry; but +at night I met with my Lord, who told me that I need not fear, for he +would get me the place against the world. And when I came to W. Howe, he +told me that Dr. Petty had been with my Lord, and did tell him that +Barlow was a sickly man, and did not intend to execute the place himself, +which put me in great comfort again. Till 2 in the morning writing +letters and things for my Lord to send to sea. So home to my wife to +bed. + + + +4th. Up very early in the morning and landing my wife at White Friars +stairs, I went to the Bridge and so to the Treasurer's of the Navy, with +whom I spake about the business of my office, who put me into very good +hopes of my business. At his house comes Commissioner Pett, and he and I +went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, + + [The Navy Office was erected on the site of Lumley House, formerly + belonging to the Fratres Sancta Crucis (or Crutched Friars), and all + business connected with naval concerns was transacted there till its + removal to Somerset House.--The ground was afterwards occupied by + the East India Company's warehouses. The civil business of the + Admiralty was removed from Somerset House to Spring Gardens in + 1869.] + +where I find the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind that +they will shuffle me out of them, which troubles me. From thence to the +Excise Office in Broad Street, where I received L500 for my Lord, by +appointment of the Treasurer, and went afterwards down with Mr. Luddyard +and drank my morning draft with him and other officers. Thence to Mr. +Backewell's, the goldsmith, where I took my Lord's L100 in plate for Mr. +Secretary Nicholas, and my own piece of plate, being a state dish and cup +in chased work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above L19. Carried these and +the money by coach to my Lord's at White Hall, and from thence carried +Nicholas's plate to his house and left it there, intending to speak with +him anon. So to Westminster Hall, where meeting with M. L'Impertinent +and W. Bowyer, I took them to the Sun Tavern, and gave them a lobster and +some wine, and sat talking like a fool till 4 o'clock. So to my Lord's, +and walking all the afternoon in White Hall Court, in expectation of what +shall be done in the Council as to our business. It was strange to see +how all the people flocked together bare, to see the King looking out of +the Council window. At night my Lord told me how my orders that I drew +last night about giving us power to act, are granted by the Council. At +which he and I were very glad. Home and to bed, my boy lying in my house +this night the first time. + + + +5th. This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with +silver buttons. It rained this morning, which makes us fear that the +glory of this great day will be lost; the King and Parliament being to be +entertained by the City to-day with great pomp. + + ["July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the + House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. + Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His + Majesty; the Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets + between Temple Bar and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that + day spent in the City of London."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +Mr. Hater' was with me to-day, and I agreed with him to be my clerk. + + [Thomas Hayter. He remained with Pepys for some time; and by his + assistance was made Petty Purveyor of Petty Missions. He succeeded + Pepys as Clerk of the Acts in 1673, and in 1679 he was Secretary of + the Admiralty, and Comptroller of the Navy from 1680 to 1682.] + +Being at White Hall, I saw the King, the Dukes, and all their attendants +go forth in the rain to the City, and it bedraggled many a fine suit of +clothes. I was forced to walk all the morning in White Hall, not knowing +how to get out because of the rain. Met with Mr. Cooling, my Lord +Chamberlain's secretary, who took me to dinner among the gentlemen +waiters, and after dinner into the wine-cellar. He told me how he had a +project for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money by +bringing all business into our hands. Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. +Blackburne and I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour or two +in the Park, he giving of me light in many things in my way in this +office that I go about. And in the evening I got my present of plate +carried to Mr. Coventry's. At my Lord's at night comes Dr. Petty to me, +to tell me that Barlow had come to town, and other things, which put me +into a despair, and I went to bed very sad. + + + +6th. In the morning with my Lord at Whitehall, got the order of the +Council for us to act. From thence to Westminster Hall, and there met +with the Doctor that shewed us so much kindness at the Hague, and took +him to the Sun tavern, and drank with him. So to my Lord's and dined +with W. Howe and Sarah, thinking it might be the last time that I might +dine with them together. In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr. +Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy +Office, whereby my mind was a little cheered, but my hopes not great. +From thence Sir G. Carteret and I to the Treasurer's Office, where he set +some things in order. And so home, calling upon Sir Geoffry Palmer, who +did give me advice about my patent, which put me to some doubt to know +what to do, Barlow being alive. Afterwards called at Mr. Pim's, about +getting me a coat of velvet, and he took me to the Half Moon, and the +house so full that we staid above half an hour before we could get +anything. So to my Lord's, where in the dark W. Howe and I did sing +extemporys, and I find by use that we are able to sing a bass and a +treble pretty well. So home, and to bed. + + + +7th. To my Lord, one with me to buy a Clerk's place, and I did demand +L100. To the Council Chamber, where I took an order for the advance of +the salaries of the officers of the Navy, and I find mine to be raised to +L350 per annum. Thence to the Change, where I bought two fine prints of +Ragotti from Rubens, and afterwards dined with my Uncle and Aunt Wight, +where her sister Cox and her husband were. After that to Mr. Rawlinson's +with my uncle, and thence to the Navy Office, where I began to take an +inventory of the papers, and goods, and books of the office. To my +Lord's, late writing letters. So home to bed. + + + +8th (Lord's day). To White Hall chapel, where I got in with ease by +going before the Lord Chancellor with Mr. Kipps. Here I heard very good +music, the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and +singing-men in surplices in my life. + + [During the Commonwealth organs were destroyed all over the country, + and the following is the title of the Ordinances under which this + destruction took place: "Two Ordinances of the Lords and Commons + assembled in Parliament, for the speedy demolishing of all organs, + images, and all matters of superstitious monuments in all Cathedrals + and Collegiate or Parish Churches and Chapels throughout the Kingdom + of England and the dominion of Wales; the better to accomplish the + blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and + things illegal in the worship of God. Dated May 9th, 1644." When + at the period of the Restoration music again obtained its proper + place in the services of the Church, there was much work for the + organ builders. According to Dr. Rimbault ("Hopkins on the Organ," + 1855, p. 74), it was more than fifty years after the Restoration + when our parish churches began commonly to be supplied with organs. + Drake says, in his "Eboracum" (published in 1733), that at that date + only one parish church in the city of York possessed an organ. + Bernard Schmidt, better known as "Father Smith," came to England + from Germany at the time of the Restoration, and he it was who built + the organ at the Chapel Royal. He was in high favour with Charles + II., who allowed, him apartments in Whitehall Palace.] + +The Bishop of Chichester preached before the King, and made a great +flattering sermon, which I did not like that Clergy should meddle with +matters of state. Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook's shop. +Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon. There +till Mr. Fairebrother came to call us out to my father's to supper. He +told me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by +proxy, which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin Roger +Pepys was the other day persuading me from it. While we were at supper +came Win. Howe to supper to us, and after supper went home to bed. + + + +9th. All the morning at Sir G. Palmer's advising about getting my bill +drawn. From thence to the Navy office, where in the afternoon we met and +sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first time. From +thence Captain Holland and Mr. Browne of Harwich took me to a tavern and +did give me a collation. From thence to the Temple to further my bills +being done, and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed. + + + +10th. This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever I +wore in my life. This morning came Nan Pepys' husband Mr. Hall to see me +being lately come to town. I had never seen him before. I took him to +the Swan tavern with Mr. Eglin and there drank our morning draft. Home, +and called my wife, and took her to Dr. Clodius's to a great wedding of +Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at Goring House with very +great state, cost, and noble company. But, among all the beauties there, +my wife was thought the greatest. After dinner I left the company, and +carried my wife to Mrs. Turner's. I went to the Attorney-General's, and +had my bill which cost me seven pieces. I called my wife, and set her +home. And finding my Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to the +Secretary's, which he did, and desired the dispatch of his and my bills +to be signed by the King. His bill is to be Earl of Sandwich, Viscount +Hinchingbroke, and Baron of St. Neot's. + + [The motive for Sir Edward Montagu's so suddenly altering his + intended title is not explained; probably, the change was adopted as + a compliment to the town of Sandwich, off which the Fleet was lying + before it sailed to bring Charles from Scheveling. Montagu had also + received marked attentions from Sir John Boys and other principal + men at Sandwich; and it may be recollected, as an additional reason, + that one or both of the seats for that borough have usually been + placed at the disposal of the Admiralty. The title of Portsmouth + was given, in 1673, for her life, to the celebrated Louise de + Querouaille, and becoming extinct with her, was, in 1743, conferred + upon John Wallop, Viscount Lymington, the ancestor of the present + Earl of Portsmouth.--B.] + +Home, with my mind pretty quiet: not returning, as I said I would, to see +the bride put to bed. + + + +11th. With Sir W. Pen by water to the Navy office, where we met, and +dispatched business. And that being done, we went all to dinner to the +Dolphin, upon Major Brown's invitation. After that to the office again, +where I was vexed, and so was Commissioner Pett, to see a busy fellow +come to look out the best lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and the combining +between him and Sir W. Pen; and, indeed, was troubled much at it. Home +to White Hall, and took out my bill signed by the King, and carried it to +Mr. Watkins of the Privy Seal to be despatched there, and going home to +take a cap, I borrowed a pair of sheets of Mr. Howe, and by coach went to +the Navy office, and lay (Mr. Hater, my clerk, with me) at Commissioner +Willoughby's' house, where I was received by him very civilly and slept +well. + + + +12th. Up early and by coach to White Hall with Commissioner Pett, where, +after we had talked with my Lord, I went to the Privy Seal and got my +bill perfected there, and at the Signet: and then to the House of Lords, +and met with Mr. Kipps, who directed me to Mr. Beale to get my patent +engrossed; but he not having time to get it done in Chancery-hand, I was +forced to run all up and down Chancery-lane, and the Six Clerks' Office + + [The Six Clerks' Office was in Chancery Lane, near the Holborn end. + The business of the office was to enrol commissions, pardons, + patents, warrants, &c., that had passed the Great Seal; also other + business in Chancery. In the early history of the Court of + Chancery, the Six Clerks and their under-clerks appear to have acted + as the attorneys of the suitors. As business increased, these + under-clerks became a distinct body, and were recognized by the + court under the denomination of 'sworn clerks,' or 'clerks in + court.' The advance of commerce, with its consequent accession of + wealth, so multiplied the subjects requiring the judgment of a Court + of Equity, that the limits of a public office were found wholly + inadequate to supply a sufficient number of officers to conduct the + business of the suitors. Hence originated the 'Solicitors' of the + Court of Chancery." See Smith's "Chancery Practice," p. 62, 3rd + edit. The "Six Clerks" were abolished by act of Parliament, + 5 Vict. c. 5.] + +but could find none that could write the hand, that were at leisure. And +so in a despair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first time there, +my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, Mr. Coventry, and all the rest of the +principal Officers and Commissioners, [except] only the Controller, who +is not yet chosen. At night to Mr. Kipps's lodgings, but not finding +him, I went to Mr. Spong's and there I found him and got him to come to +me to my Lord's lodgings at 11 o'clock of night, when I got him to take +my bill to write it himself (which was a great providence that he could +do it) against to-morrow morning. I late writing letters to sea by the +post, and so home to bed. In great trouble because I heard at Mr. +Beale's to-day that Barlow had been there and said that he would make a +stop in the business. + + + +13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black camlett coat with +silver buttons. To Mr. Spong, whom I found in his night-down writing of +my patent, and he had done as far as he could "for that &c." by +8 o'clock. It being done, we carried it to Worcester House to the +Chancellor, where Mr. Kipps (a strange providence that he should now be +in a condition to do me a kindness, which I never thought him capable of +doing for me), got me the Chancellor's recepi to my bill; and so carried +it to Mr. Beale for a dockett; but he was very angry, and unwilling to do +it, because he said it was ill writ (because I had got it writ by another +hand, and not by him); but by much importunity I got Mr. Spong to go to +his office and make an end of my patent; and in the mean time Mr. Beale +to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him two pieces, +after which it was strange how civil and tractable he was to me. From +thence I went to the Navy office, where we despatched much business, and +resolved of the houses for the Officers and Commissioners, which I was +glad of, and I got leave to have a door made me into the leads. From +thence, much troubled in mind about my patent, I went to Mr. Beale again, +who had now finished my patent and made it ready for the Seal, about an +hour after I went to meet him at the Chancellor's. So I went away +towards Westminster, and in my way met with Mr. Spong, and went with him +to Mr. Lilly and ate some bread and cheese, and drank with him, who still +would be giving me council of getting my patent out, for fear of another +change, and my Lord Montagu's fall. After that to Worcester House, where +by Mr. Kipps's means, and my pressing in General Montagu's name to the +Chancellor, I did, beyond all expectation, get my seal passed; and while +it was doing in one room, I was forced to keep Sir G. Carteret (who by +chance met me there, ignorant of my business) in talk, while it was a +doing. Went home and brought my wife with me into London, and some +money, with which I paid Mr. Beale L9 in all, and took my patent of him +and went to my wife again, whom I had left in a coach at the door of +Hinde Court, and presented her with my patent at which she was overjoyed; +so to the Navy office, and showed her my house, and were both mightily +pleased at all things there, and so to my business. So home with her, +leaving her at her mother's door. I to my Lord's, where I dispatched an +order for a ship to fetch Sir R. Honywood home, for which I got two +pieces of my Lady Honywood by young Mr. Powell. Late writing letters; +and great doings of music at the next house, which was Whally's; the King +and Dukes there with Madame Palmer, + + [Barbara Villiers, only child of William, second Viscount Grandison, + born November, 1640, married April 14th, 1659, to Roger Palmer, + created Earl of Castlemaine, 1661. She became the King's mistress + soon after the Restoration, and was in 1670 made Baroness Nonsuch, + Countess of Southampton, and Duchess of Cleveland. She had six + children by the King, one of them being created Duke of Grafton, and + the eldest son succeeding her as Duke of Cleveland. She + subsequently married Beau Fielding, whom she prosecuted for bigamy. + She died October 9th, 1709, aged sixty-nine. Her life was written + by G. Steinman Steinman, and privately printed 1871, with addenda + 1874, and second addenda 1878.] + +a pretty woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold. +Here at the old door that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W. +Howe, did stand listening a great while to the music. After that home to +bed. This day I should have been at Guildhall to have borne witness for +my brother Hawly against Black Collar, but I could not, at which I was +troubled. To bed with the greatest quiet of mind that I have had a great +while, having ate nothing but a bit of bread and cheese at Lilly's +to-day, and a bit of bread and butter after I was a-bed. + + + +14th. Up early and advised with my wife for the putting of all our +things in a readiness to be sent to our new house. To my Lord's, where +he was in bed very late. So with Major Tollhurst and others to Harper's, +and I sent for my barrel of pickled oysters and there ate them; while we +were doing so, comes in Mr. Pagan Fisher; the poet, and promises me what +he had long ago done, a book in praise of the King of France, with my +armes, and a dedication to me very handsome. After him comes Mr. Sheply +come from sea yesterday, whom I was glad to see that he may ease me of +the trouble of my Lord's business. So to my Lord's, where I staid doing +his business and taking his commands. After that to Westminster Hall, +where I paid all my debts in order to my going away from hence. Here I +met with Mr. Eglin, who would needs take me to the Leg in King Street and +gave me a dish of meat to dinner; and so I sent for Mons. L'Impertinent, +where we sat long and were merry. After that parted, and I took Mr. +Butler [Mons. L'Impertinent] with me into London by coach and shewed him +my house at the Navy Office, and did give order for the laying in coals. +So into Fenchurch Street, and did give him a glass of wine at +Rawlinson's, and was trimmed [?? D.W.] in the street. So to my Lord's +late writing letters, and so home, where I found my wife had packed up +all her goods in the house fit for a removal. So to bed. + + + +15th. Lay long in bed to recover my rest. Going forth met with Mr. +Sheply, and went and drank my morning draft with him at Wilkinson's, +and my brother Spicer.--[Jack Spicer, brother clerk of the Privy Seal.]-- +After that to Westminster Abbey, and in Henry the Seventh's Chappell +heard part of a sermon, the first that ever I heard there. To my Lord's +and dined all alone at the table with him. After dinner he and I alone +fell to discourse, and I find him plainly to be a sceptic in all things +of religion, and to make no great matter of anything therein, but to be a +perfect Stoic. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's Chappell, where I +heard service and a sermon there, and after that meeting W. Bowyer there, +he and I to the Park, and walked a good while till night. So to Harper's +and drank together, and Captain Stokes came to us and so I fell into +discourse of buying paper at the first hand in my office, and the Captain +promised me to buy it for me in France. After that to my Lord's +lodgings, where I wrote some business and so home. My wife at home all +the day, she having no clothes out, all being packed up yesterday. For +this month I have wholly neglected anything of news, and so have beyond +belief been ignorant how things go, but now by my patent my mind is in +some quiet, which God keep. I was not at my father's to-day, I being +afraid to go for fear he should still solicit me to speak to my Lord for +a place in the Wardrobe, which I dare not do, because of my own business +yet. My wife and I mightily pleased with our new house that we hope to +have. My patent has cost me a great deal of money, about L40, which is +the only thing at present which do trouble me much. In the afternoon to +Henry the Seventh's chapel, where I heard a sermon and spent (God forgive +me) most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler. After that with W. +Bowyer to walk in the Park. Afterwards to my Lord's lodgings, and so +home to bed, having not been at my father's to-day. + + + +16th, This morning it proved very rainy weather so that I could not +remove my goods to my house. I to my office and did business there, and +so home, it being then sunrise, but by the time that I got to my house it +began to rain again, so that I could not carry my goods by cart as I +would have done. After that to my Lord's and so home and to bed. + + + +17th. This morning (as indeed all the mornings nowadays) much business +at my Lord's. There came to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, an +old consumptive man, and fair conditioned, with whom I did discourse a +great while, and after much talk I did grant him what he asked, viz., L50 +per annum, if my salary be not increased, and (100 per annum, in case it +be to L350), at which he was very well pleased to be paid as I received my +money and not otherwise. Going to my Lord's I found my Lord had got a +great cold and kept his bed, and so I brought him to my Lord's bedside, +and he and I did agree together to this purpose what I should allow him. +That done and the day proving fair I went home and got all my goods +packed up and sent away, and my wife and I and Mrs. Hunt went by coach, +overtaking the carts a-drinking in the Strand. Being come to my house +and set in the goods, and at night sent my wife and Mrs. Hunt to buy +something for supper; they bought a Quarter of Lamb, and so we ate it, +but it was not half roasted. Will, Mr. Blackburne's nephew, is so +obedient, that I am greatly glad of him. At night he and I and Mrs. Hunt +home by water to Westminster. I to my Lord, and after having done some +business with him in his chamber in the Nursery, which has been now his +chamber since he came from sea, I went on foot with a linkboy to my home, +where I found my wife in bed and Jane washing the house, and Will the boy +sleeping, and a great deal of sport I had before I could wake him. I to +bed the first night that I ever lay here with my wife. + + + +18th. This morning the carpenter made an end of my door out of my +chamber upon the leads. + + [Jacques Casanova's narration of his escape from prison in Venice + refers to "under the leads" in the attic of the Palace of Doges. + (The roof being plates of lead.) Perhaps Pepys "door" was an access + to the roof? A few thousand pages may clear this. D.W.] + +This morning we met at the office: I dined at my house in Seething Lane, +and after that, going about 4 o'clock to Westminster, I met with Mr. +Carter and Mr. Cooke coming to see me in a coach, and so I returned home. +I did also meet with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, with a porter with him, +with a barrel of Lemons, which my man Burr sends me from sea. I took all +these people home to my house and did give them some drink, and after +them comes Mr. Sheply, and after a little stay we all went by water to +Westminster as far as the New Exchange. Thence to my Lord about +business, and being in talk in comes one with half a buck from +Hinchinbroke, and it smelling a little strong my Lord did give it me +(though it was as good as any could be). I did carry it to my mother, +where I had not been a great while, and indeed had no great mind to go, +because my father did lay upon me continually to do him a kindness at the +Wardrobe, which I could not do because of my own business being so fresh +with my Lord. But my father was not at home, and so I did leave the +venison with her to dispose of as she pleased. After that home, +where W. Hewer now was, and did lie this night with us, the first night. +My mind very quiet, only a little trouble I have for the great debts +which I have still upon me to the Secretary, Mr. Kipps, and Mr. Spong for +my patent. + + + +19th. I did lie late a-bed. I and my wife by water, landed her at +Whitefriars with her boy with an iron of our new range which is already +broke and my wife will have changed, and many other things she has to buy +with the help of my father to-day. I to my Lord and found him in bed. +This day I received my commission to swear people the oath of allegiance +and supremacy delivered me by my Lord. After talk with my Lord I went to +Westminster Hall, where I took Mr. Michell and his wife, and Mrs. Murford +we sent for afterwards, to the Dog Tavern, where I did give them a dish +of anchovies and olives and paid for all, and did talk of our old +discourse when we did use to talk of the King, in the time of the Rump, +privately; after that to the Admiralty Office, in White Hall, where I +staid and writ my last observations for these four days last past. Great +talk of the difference between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Clergy, but +I believe it will come to nothing. So home and to bed. + + + +20th. We sat at the office this morning, Sir W. Batten and Mr. Pett +being upon a survey to Chatham. This morning I sent my wife to my +father's and he is to give me L5 worth of pewter. After we rose at the +office, I went to my father's, where my Uncle Fenner and all his crew and +Captain Holland and his wife and my wife were at dinner at a venison +pasty of the venison that I did give my mother the other day. I did this +time show so much coldness to W. Joyce that I believe all the table took +notice of it. After that to Westminster about my Lord's business and so +home, my Lord having not been well these two or three days, and I hear +that Mr. Barnwell at Hinchinbroke is fallen sick again. Home and to bed. + + + +21st. This morning Mr. Barlow had appointed for me to bring him what +form I would have the agreement between him and me to pass, which I did +to his lodgings at the Golden Eagle in the new street--[Still retains the +name New Street.]--between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane, where he liked it +very well, and I from him went to get Mr. Spong to engross it in +duplicates. To my Lord and spoke to him about the business of the Privy +Seal for me to be sworn, though I got nothing by it, but to do Mr. Moore +a kindness, which he did give me a good answer to. Went to the Six +Clerks' office to Mr. Spong for the writings, and dined with him at a +club at the next door, where we had three voices to sing catches. So to +my house to write letters and so to Whitehall about business of my Lord's +concerning his creation,--[As Earl of Sandwich.]--and so home and to bed. + + + +22nd. Lord's day. All this last night it had rained hard. My brother +Tom came this morning the first time to see me, and I paid him all that I +owe my father to this day. Afterwards I went out and looked into several +churches, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my wife was got before me, +and we, my father and mother, and all the Joyces, and my aunt Bell, whom +I had not seen many a year before. After dinner to White Hall (my wife +to church with K. Joyce), where I find my Lord at home, and walked in the +garden with him, he showing me all the respect that can be. I left him +and went to walk in the Park, where great endeavouring to get into the +inward Park,--[This is still railed off from St. James's Park, and called +the Enclosure.]--but could not get in; one man was basted by the keeper, +for carrying some people over on his back through the water. Afterwards +to my Lord's, where I staid and drank with Mr. Sheply, having first sent +to get a pair of oars. It was the first time that ever I went by water +on the Lord's day. Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read +prayers out of the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever I read +prayers in this house. So to bed. + + + +23rd. This morning Mr. Barlow comes to me, and he and I went forth to a +scrivener in Fenchurch Street, whom we found sick of the gout in bed, and +signed and sealed our agreement before him. He urged to have these words +(in consideration whereof) to be interlined, which I granted, though +against my will. Met this morning at the office, and afterwards Mr. +Barlow by appointment came and dined with me, and both of us very +pleasant and pleased. After dinner to my Lord, who took me to Secretary +Nicholas, and there before him and Secretary Morris, my Lord and I upon +our knees together took our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; and the +Oath of the Privy Seal, of which I was much glad, though I am not likely +to get anything by it at present; but I do desire it, for fear of a turn- +out of our office. That done and my Lord gone from me, I went with Mr. +Cooling and his brother, and Sam Hartlibb, little Jennings and some +others to the King's Head Tavern at Charing Cross, where after drinking I +took boat and so home, where we supped merrily among ourselves (our +little boy proving a droll) and so after prayers to bed. This day my +Lord had heard that Mr. Barnwell was dead, but it is not so yet, though +he be very ill. I was troubled all this day with Mr. Cooke, being +willing to do him good, but my mind is so taken up with my own business +that I cannot. + + + +24th. To White Hall, where I did acquaint Mr. Watkins with my being +sworn into the Privy Seal, at which he was much troubled, but put it up +and did offer me a kinsman of his to be my clerk, which I did give him +some hope of, though I never intend it. In the afternoon I spent much +time in walking in White Hall Court with Mr. Bickerstaffe, who was very +glad of my Lord's being sworn, because of his business with his brother +Baron, which is referred to my Lord Chancellor, and to be ended +to-morrow. Baron had got a grant beyond sea, to come in before the +reversionary of the Privy Seal. This afternoon Mr. Mathews came to me, +to get a certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn, which I put in some +forwardness, and so home and to bed. + + + +25th. In the morning at the office, and after that down to Whitehall, +where I met with Mr. Creed, and with him and a Welsh schoolmaster, a good +scholar but a very pedagogue, to the ordinary at the Leg in King Street.' +I got my certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn. This morning my +Lord took leave of the House of Commons, and had the thanks of the House +for his great services to his country. In the afternoon (but this is a +mistake, for it was yesterday in the afternoon) Monsieur L'Impertinent +and I met and I took him to the Sun and drank with him, and in the +evening going away we met his mother and sisters and father coming from +the Gatehouse; where they lodge, where I did the first time salute them +all, and very pretty Madame Frances--[Frances Butler, the beauty.]-- is +indeed. After that very late home and called in Tower Street, and there +at a barber's was trimmed the first time. Home and to bed. + + + +26th. Early to White Hall, thinking to have a meeting of my Lord and the +principal officers, but my Lord could not, it being the day that he was +to go and be admitted in the House of Lords, his patent being done, which +he presented upon his knees to the Speaker; and so it was read in the +House, and he took his place. I at the Privy Seal Office with Mr. +Hooker, who brought me acquainted with Mr. Crofts of the Signet, and I +invited them to a dish of meat at the Leg in King Street, and so we dined +there and I paid for all and had very good light given me as to my +employment there. Afterwards to Mr. Pierces, where I should have dined +but I could not, but found Mr. Sheply and W. Howe there. After we had +drunk hard we parted, and I went away and met Dr. Castle, who is one of +the Clerks of the Privy Seal, and told him how things were with my Lord +and me, which he received very gladly. I was this day told how Baron +against all expectation and law has got the place of Bickerstaffe, and so +I question whether he will not lay claim to wait the next month, but my +Lord tells me that he will stand for it. In the evening I met with +T. Doling, who carried me to St. James's Fair, + + [August, 1661: "This year the Fair, called St. James's Fair, was + kept the full appointed time, being a fortnight; but during that + time many lewd and infamous persons were by his Majesty's express + command to the Lord Chamberlain, and his Lordship's direction to + Robert Nelson, Esq., committed to the House of Correction."--Rugge's + Diurnal. St; James's fair was held first in the open space near St. + James's Palace, and afterwards in St. James's Market. It was + prohibited by the Parliament in 1651, but revived at the + Restoration. It was, however, finally suppressed before the close + of the reign of Charles II.] + +and there meeting with W. Symons and his wife, and Luellin, and D. +Scobell's wife and cousin, we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell + + [This is one of the earliest references to Pall Mall as an inhabited + street, and also one of the earliest uses of the word clubbing.] + +(our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till 10 at night, at +which time I sent to my Lord's for my clerk Will to come to me, and so by +link home to bed. Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sent for all +his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a little disappointment, +but it is better than pay too dear for them. + + + +27th: The last night Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen came to their houses at +the office. Met this morning and did business till noon. Dined at home +and from thence to my Lord's where Will, my clerk, and I were all the +afternoon making up my accounts, which we had done by night, and I find +myself worth about L100 after all my expenses. At night I sent to +W. Bowyer to bring me L100, being that he had in his hands of my Lord's. +in keeping, out of which I paid Mr. Sheply all that remained due to my +Lord upon my balance, and took the rest home with me late at night. We +got a coach, but the horses were tired and could not carry us farther +than St. Dunstan's. So we 'light and took a link and so home weary to +bed. + + + +28th. Early in the morning rose, and a boy brought me a letter from Poet +Fisher, who tells me that he is upon a panegyrique of the King, and +desired to borrow a piece of me; and I sent him half a piece. To +Westminster, and there dined with Mr. Sheply and W. Howe, afterwards +meeting with Mr. Henson, who had formerly had the brave clock that went +with bullets (which is now taken away from him by the King, it being his +goods). + + [Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an + inclined plane, which turns every minute. The King's clocks + probably dropped bullets. Gainsborough the painter had a brother + who was a dissenting minister at Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a + strong genius for mechanics. He invented a clock of a very peculiar + construction, which, after his death, was deposited in the British + Museum. It told the hour by a little bell, and was kept in motion + by a leaden bullet, which dropped from a spiral reservoir at the top + of the clock, into a little ivory bucket. This was so contrived as + to discharge it at the bottom, and by means of a counter-weight was + carried up to the top of the clock, where it received another + bullet, which was discharged as the former. This seems to have been + an attempt at the perpetual motion.--Gentleman's Magazine, 1785, + p. 931.--B.] + +I went with him to the Swan Tavern and sent for Mr. Butler, who was now +all full of his high discourse in praise of Ireland, whither he and his +whole family are going by Coll. Dillon's persuasion, but so many lies I +never heard in praise of anything as he told of Ireland. So home late at +night and to bed. + + + +29th. Lord's day. I and my boy Will to Whitehall, and I with my Lord to +White Hall Chappell, where I heard a cold sermon of the Bishop of +Salisbury's, and the ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo +them. My Lord went to dinner at Kensington with my Lord Camden. So I +dined and took Mr. Birfett, my Lord's chaplain, and his friend along with +me, with Mr. Sheply at my Lord's. In the afternoon with Dick Vines and +his brother Payton, we walked to Lisson Green and Marybone and back +again, and finding my Lord at home I got him to look over my accounts, +which he did approve of and signed them, and so we are even to this day. +Of this I was glad, and do think myself worth clear money about L120. +Home late, calling in at my father's without stay. To bed. + + + +30th. Sat at our office to-day, and my father came this day the first +time to see us at my new office. And Mrs. Crisp by chance came in and +sat with us, looked over our house and advised about the furnishing of +it. This afternoon I got my L50, due to me for my first quarter's salary +as Secretary to my Lord, paid to Tho. Hater for me, which he received and +brought home to me, of which I am full glad. To Westminster and among +other things met with Mr. Moore, and took him and his friend, +a bookseller of Paul's Churchyard, to the Rhenish Winehouse, and drinking +there the sword-bearer of London (Mr. Man) came to ask for us, with whom +we sat late, discoursing about the worth of my office of Clerk of the +Acts, which he hath a mind to buy, and I asked four years' purchase. We +are to speak more of it to-morrow. Home on foot, and seeing him at home +at Butler's merry, he lent me a torch, which Will carried, and so home. + + + +31st. To White Hall, where my Lord and the principal officers met, and +had a great discourse about raising of money for the Navy, which is in +very sad condition, and money must be raised for it. Mr. Blackburne, Dr. +Clerke, and I to the Quaker's and dined there. I back to the Admiralty, +and there was doing things in order to the calculating of the debts of +the Navy and other business, all the afternoon. At night I went to the +Privy Seal, where I found Mr. Crofts and Mathews making up all their +things to leave the office tomorrow, to those that come to wait the next +month. I took them to the Sun Tavern and there made them drink, and +discoursed concerning the office, and what I was to expect tomorrow about +Baron, who pretends to the next month. Late home by coach so far as +Ludgate with Mr. Mathews, and thence home on foot with W. Hewer with me, +and so to bed. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen +Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest +An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity +Court attendance infinite tedious +Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state +Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill +Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service +God help him, he wants bread. +Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay +How the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst +I pray God to make me able to pay for it. +I went to the cook's and got a good joint of meat +King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery +L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas +Most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler +My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life +Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place +Sceptic in all things of religion +She had six children by the King +Strange how civil and tractable he was to me +The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them +This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed +To see the bride put to bed +We cannot tell what to do for want of her (the maid) +Where I find the worst very good +Which I did give him some hope of, though I never intend it +Woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v6 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + AUGUST & SEPTEMBER + 1660 + + +August 1st. Up very early, and by water to Whitehall to my Lord's, and +there up to my Lord's lodging (Win. Howe being now ill of the gout at Mr. +Pierce's), and there talked with him about the affairs of the Navy, and +how I was now to wait today at the Privy Seal. Commissioner Pett went +with me, whom I desired to make my excuse at the office for my absence +this day. Hence to the Privy Seal Office, where I got (by Mr. Mathews' +means) possession of the books and table, but with some expectation of +Baron's bringing of a warrant from the King to have this month. Nothing +done this morning, Baron having spoke to Mr. Woodson and Groome (clerks +to Mr. Trumbull of the Signet) to keep all work in their hands till the +afternoon, at which time he expected to have his warrant from the King +for this month.--[The clerks of the Privy Seal took the duty of +attendance for a month by turns.]--I took at noon Mr. Harper to the Leg +in King Street, and did give him his dinner, who did still advise me much +to act wholly myself at the Privy Seal, but I told him that I could not, +because I had other business to take up my time. In the afternoon at, +the office again, where we had many things to sign; and I went to the +Council Chamber, and there got my Lord to sign the first bill, and the +rest all myself; but received no money today. After I had signed all, I +went with Dick Scobell and Luellin to drink at a bottle beer house in the +Strand, and after staying there a while (had sent W. Hewer home before), +I took boat and homewards went, and in Fish Street bought a Lobster, and +as I had bought it I met with Winter and Mr. Delabarr, and there with a +piece of sturgeon of theirs we went to the Sun Tavern in the street and +ate them. Late home and to bed. + + + +2d. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen (our +servants in another boat) to the Admiralty; and from thence I went to my +Lord's to fetch him thither, where we stayed in the morning about +ordering of money for the victuailers, and advising how to get a sum +of money to carry on the business of the Navy. From thence dined with +Mr. Blackburne at his house with his friends (his wife being in the +country and just upon her return to London), where we were very well +treated and merry. From thence W. Hewer and I to the office of Privy +Seal, where I stayed all the afternoon, and received about L40 for +yesterday and to-day, at which my heart rejoiced for God's blessing to +me, to give me this advantage by chance, there being of this L40 about +L10 due to me for this day's work. So great is the present profit of +this office, above what it was in the King's time; there being the last +month about 300 bills; whereas in the late King's time it was much to +have 40. With my money home by coach, it, being the first time that I +could get home before our gates were shut since I came to the Navy +office. When I came home I found my wife not very well of her old pain . +. . . which she had when we were married first. I went and cast up +the expense that I laid out upon my former house (because there are so +many that are desirous of it, and I am, in my mind, loth to let it go out +of my hands, for fear of a turn). I find my layings-out to come to about +L20, which with my fine will come to about L22 to him that shall hire my +house of me.--[Pepys wished to let his house in Axe Yard now that he had +apartments at the Navy Office.]--To bed. + + + +3rd. Up betimes this morning, and after the barber had done with me, +then to the office, where I and Sir William Pen only did meet and +despatch business. At noon my wife and I by coach to Dr. Clerke's to +dinner: I was very much taken with his lady, a comely, proper woman, +though not handsome; but a woman of the best language I ever heard. Here +dined Mrs. Pierce and her husband. After dinner I took leave to go to +Westminster, where I was at the Privy Seal Office all day, signing things +and taking money, so that I could not do as I had intended, that is to +return to them and go to the Red Bull Playhouse, + + [This well-known theatre was situated in St. John's Street on the + site of Red Bull Yard. Pepys went there on March 23rd, 1661, when + he expressed a very poor opinion of the place. T. Carew, in some + commendatory lines on Sir William. Davenant's play, "The just + Italian," 1630, abuses both audiences and actors:-- + + "There are the men in crowded heaps that throng + To that adulterate stage, where not a tongue + Of th' untun'd kennel can a line repeat + Of serious sense." + + There is a token of this house (see "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. + Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 725).] + +but I took coach and went to see whether it was done so or no, and I +found it done. So I returned to Dr. Clerke's, where I found them and my +wife, and by and by took leave and went away home. + + + +4th. To White Hall, where I found my Lord gone with the King by water to +dine at the Tower with Sir J. Robinson,' Lieutenant. I found my Lady +Jemimah--[Lady Jemima Montage, daughter of Lord Sandwich, previously +described as Mrs. Jem.]--at my Lord's, with whom I staid and dined, all +alone; after dinner to the Privy Seal Office, where I did business. So +to a Committee of Parliament (Sir Hen[eage] Finch, Chairman), to give +them an answer to an order of theirs, "that we could not give them any +account of the Accounts of the Navy in the years 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, as +they desire." After that I went and bespoke some linen of Betty Lane in +the Hall, and after that to the Trumpet, where I sat and talked with her, +&c. At night, it being very rainy, and it thundering and lightning +exceedingly, I took coach at the Trumpet door, taking Monsieur +L'Impertinent along with me as far as the Savoy, where he said he went to +lie with Cary Dillon, + + [Colonel Cary Dillon, a friend of the Butlers, who courted the fair + Frances; but the engagement was subsequently broken off, see + December 31 st, 1661.] + +and is still upon the mind of going (he and his whole family) to Ireland. +Having set him down I made haste home, and in the courtyard, it being +very dark, I heard a man inquire for my house, and having asked his +business, he told me that my man William (who went this morning--out of +town to meet his aunt Blackburne) was come home not very well to his +mother, and so could not come home to-night. At which I was very sorry. +I found my wife still in pain. To bed, having not time to write letters, +and indeed having so many to write to all places that I have no heart to +go about them. Mrs. Shaw did die yesterday and her husband so sick that +he is not like to live. + + + +5th. Lord's day. My wife being much in pain, I went this morning to Dr. +Williams (who had cured her once before of this business), in Holborn, +and he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my boy, and a +plaister which I took with me to Westminster (having called and seen my +mother in the morning as I went to the doctor), where I dined with Mr. +Sheply (my Lord dining at Kensington). After dinner to St. Margaret's, +where the first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that Church. I sat +with Mr. Hill in his pew; Mr. Hill that married in Axe Yard and that was +aboard us in the Hope. Church done I went and Mr. Sheply to see W. Howe +at Mr. Pierces, where I staid singing of songs and psalms an hour or two, +and were very pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him. Thence to my Lord's, +where I staid and talked and drank with Mr. Sheply. After that to +Westminster stairs, where I saw a fray between Mynheer Clinke, a +Dutchman, that was at Hartlibb's wedding, and a waterman, which made good +sport. After that I got a Gravesend boat, that was come up to fetch some +bread on this side the bridge, and got them to carry me to the bridge, +and so home, where I found my wife. After prayers I to bed to her, she +having had a very bad night of it. This morning before I was up Will +came home pretty well again, he having been only weary with riding, which +he is not used to. + + + +6th. This morning at the office, and, that being done, home to dinner +all alone, my wife being ill in pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, and +not a little impatient. After dinner to Whitehall at the Privy Seal all +the afternoon, and at night with Mr. Man to Mr. Rawlinson's in Fenchurch +Street, where we staid till eleven o'clock at night. So home and to bed, +my wife being all this day in great pain. This night Mr. Man offered me +L1000 for my office of Clerk of the Acts, which made my mouth water; but +yet I dare not take it till I speak with my Lord to have his consent. + + + +7th. This morning to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and took Mr. Moore and +myself and dined at my Lord's with Mr. Sheply. While I was at dinner in +come Sam. Hartlibb and his brother-in-law, now knighted by the King, to +request my promise of a ship for them to Holland, which I had promised to +get for them. After dinner to the Privy Seal all the afternoon. At +night, meeting Sam. Hartlibb, he took me by coach to Kensington, to my +Lord of Holland's; I staid in the coach while he went in about his +business. He staying long I left the coach and walked back again before +on foot (a very pleasant walk) to Kensington, where I drank and staid +very long waiting for him. At last he came, and after drinking at the +inn we went towards Westminster. Here I endeavoured to have looked out +Jane that formerly lived at Dr. Williams' at Cambridge, whom I had long +thought to live at present here, but I found myself in an error, meeting +one in the place where I expected to have found her, but she proved not +she though very like her. We went to the Bullhead, where he and I sat +and drank till 11 at night, and so home on foot. Found my wife pretty +well again, and so to bed. + + + +8th. We met at the office, and after that to dinner at home, and from +thence with my wife by water to Catan Sterpin, with whom and her mistress +Pye we sat discoursing of Kate's marriage to Mons. Petit, her mistress +and I giving the best advice we could for her to suspend her marriage +till Mons. Petit had got some place that may be able to maintain her, +and not for him to live upon the portion that she shall bring him. +From thence to Mr. Butler's to see his daughters, the first time that +ever we made a visit to them. We found them very pretty, and Coll. +Dillon there, a very merry and witty companion, but methinks they live in +a gaudy but very poor condition. From thence, my wife and I intending to +see Mrs. Blackburne, who had been a day or two again to see my wife, but +my wife was not in condition to be seen, but she not being at home my +wife went to her mother's and I to the Privy Seal. At night from the +Privy Seal, Mr. Woodson and Mr. Jennings and I to the Sun Tavern till it +was late, and from thence to my Lord's, where my wife was come from Mrs. +Blackburne's to me, and after I had done some business with my Lord, she +and I went to Mrs. Hunt's, who would needs have us to lie at her house +to-night, she being with my wife so late at my Lord's with us, and would +not let us go home to-night. We lay there all night very pleasantly and +at ease . . . . [One is curious as to Pepy's remarks, here and in many +other places, that the Wheatly censors out with his puritanical +periods . . . D.W.] + + + +9th. Left my wife at Mrs. Hunt's and I to my Lord's, and from thence +with judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Sheply to the Rhenish +Wine-house, and Captain Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to +carry my Lord Winchelsea, Embassador to Constantinople. We were very +merry, and judge Advocate did give Captain Hayward his Oath of Allegiance +and Supremacy. Thence to my office of Privy Seal, and, having signed +some things there, with Mr. Moore and Dean Fuller to the Leg in King +Street, and, sending for my wife, we dined there very merry, and after +dinner, parted. After dinner with my wife to Mrs. Blackburne to visit +her. She being within I left my wife there, and I to the Privy Seal, +where I despatch some business, and from thence to Mrs. Blackburne again, +who did treat my wife and me with a great deal of civility, and did give +us a fine collation of collar of beef, &c. Thence I, having my head full +of drink from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in the morning, and more +in the afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne's, came home and so to bed, not well, +and very ill all night. + + + +10th. I had a great deal of pain all night, and a great loosing upon me +so that I could not sleep. In the morning I rose with much pain and to +the office. I went and dined at home, and after dinner with great pain +in my back I went by water to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and that done +with Mr. Moore and Creed to Hide Park by coach, and saw a fine foot-race +three times round the Park between an Irishman and Crow, that was once my +Lord Claypoole's footman. (By the way I cannot forget that my Lord +Claypoole did the other day make enquiry of Mrs. Hunt, concerning my +House in Axe-yard, and did set her on work to get it of me for him, which +methinks is a very great change.) Crow beat the other by above two +miles. Returned from Hide Park, I went to my Lord's, and took Will (who +waited for me there) by coach and went home, taking my lute home with me. +It had been all this while since I came from sea at my Lord's for him to +play on. To bed in some pain still. For this month or two it is not +imaginable how busy my head has been, so that I have neglected to write +letters to my uncle Robert in answer to many of his, and to other +friends, nor indeed have I done anything as to my own family, and +especially this month my waiting at the Privy Seal makes me much more +unable to think of anything, because of my constant attendance there +after I have done at the Navy Office. But blessed be God for my good +chance of the Privy Seal, where I get every day I believe about L3. This +place I got by chance, and my Lord did give it me by chance, neither he +nor I thinking it to be of the worth that he and I find it to be. Never +since I was a man in the world was I ever so great a stranger to public +affairs as now I am, having not read a new book or anything like it, or +enquiring after any news, or what the Parliament do, or in any wise how +things go. Many people look after my house in Axe-yard to hire it, so +that I am troubled with them, and I have a mind to get the money to buy +goods for my house at the Navy Office, and yet I am loth to put it off +because that Mr. Man bids me L1000 for my office, which is so great a sum +that I am loth to settle myself at my new house, lest I should take Mr. +Man's offer in case I found my Lord willing to it. + + + +11th. I rose to-day without any pain, which makes me think that my pain +yesterday was nothing but from my drinking too much the day before. To +my Lord this morning, who did give me order to get some things ready +against the afternoon for the Admiralty where he would meet. To the +Privy Seal, and from thence going to my own house in Axeyard, I went in +to Mrs. Crisp's, where I met with Mr. Hartlibb; for whom I wrote a letter +for my Lord to sign for a ship for his brother and sister, who went away +hence this day to Gravesend, and from thence to Holland. I found by +discourse with Mrs. Crisp that he is very jealous of her, for that she is +yet very kind to her old servant Meade. Hence to my Lord's to dinner +with Mr. Sheply, so to the Privy Seal; and at night home, and then sent +for the barber, and was trimmed in the kitchen, the first time that ever +I was so. I was vexed this night that W. Hewer was out of doors till ten +at night but was pretty well satisfied again when my wife told me that he +wept because I was angry, though indeed he did give me a good reason for +his being out; but I thought it a good occasion to let him know that I do +expect his being at home. So to bed. + + + +12th. Lord's day. To my Lord, and with him to White Hall Chappell, +where Mr. Calamy preached, and made a good sermon upon these words "To +whom much is given, of him much is required." He was very officious with +his three reverences to the King, as others do. After sermon a brave +anthem of Captain Cooke's, + + [Henry Cooke, chorister of the Chapel Royal, adhered to the royal + cause at the breaking out of the Civil Wars, and for his bravery + obtained a captain's commission. At the Restoration he received the + appointment of Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal; he was an + excellent musician, and three of his pupils turned out very + distinguished musicians, viz, Pelham Humphrey, John Blow, and + Michael Wise. He was one of the original performers in the "Siege, + of Rhodes." He died July 13th, 1672,: and was buried in the + cloisters of Westminster Abbey. In another place, Pepys says, "a + vain coxcomb he is, though he sings so well."] + +which he himself sung, and the King was well pleased with it. My Lord +dined at my Lord Chamberlain's, and I at his house with Mr. Sheply. +After dinner I did give Mr. Donne; who is going to sea, the key of my +cabin and direction for the putting up of my things. + +After, that I went to walk, and meeting Mrs. Lane of Westminster Hall, +I took her to my Lord's, and did give her a bottle of wine in the garden, +where Mr. Fairbrother, of Cambridge, did come and found us, and drank +with us. After that I took her to my house, where I was exceeding free +in dallying with her, and she not unfree to take it. At night home and +called at my father's, where I found Mr. Fairbrother, but I did not stay +but went homewards and called in at Mr. Rawlinson's, whither my uncle +Wight was coming and did come, but was exceeding angry (he being a little +fuddled, and I think it was that I should see him in that case) as I +never saw him in my life, which I was somewhat troubled at. Home and to +bed. + + + +13th. A sitting day at our office. After dinner to Whitehall; to the +Privy Seal, whither my father came to me, and staid talking with me a +great while, telling me that he had propounded Mr. John Pickering for Sir +Thomas Honywood's daughter, which I think he do not deserve for his own +merit: I know not what he may do for his estate. My father and Creed and +I to the old Rhenish Winehouse, and talked and drank till night. Then my +father home, and I to my Lord's; where he told me that he would suddenly +go into the country, and so did commend the business of his sea +commission to me in his absence. After that home by coach, and took my +L100 that I had formerly left at Mr. Rawlinson's, home with me, which is +the first that ever I was master of at once. To prayers, and to bed. + + + +14th. To the Privy Seal, and thence to my Lord's, where Mr. Pim, the +tailor, and I agreed upon making me a velvet coat. From thence to the +Privy Seal again, where Sir Samuel Morland came in with a Baronet's grant +to pass, which the King had given him to make money of. Here he staid +with me a great while; and told me the whole manner of his serving the +King in the time of the Protector; and how Thurloe's bad usage made him +to do it; how he discovered Sir R. Willis, and how he hath sunk his +fortune for the King; and that now the King hath given him a pension of +L500 per annum out of the Post Office for life, and the benefit of two +Baronets; all which do make me begin to think that he is not so much a +fool as I took him to be. Home by water to the Tower, where my father, +Mr. Fairbrother, and Cooke dined with me. After dinner in comes young +Captain Cuttance of the Speedwell, who is sent up for the gratuity given +the seamen that brought the King over. He brought me a firkin of butter +for my wife, which is very welcome. My father, after dinner, takes +leave, after I had given him 40s. for the last half year for my brother +John at Cambridge. I did also make even with Mr. Fairbrother for my +degree of Master of Arts, which cost me about L9 16s. To White Hall, and +my wife with me by water, where at the Privy Seal and elsewhere all the +afternoon. At night home with her by water, where I made good sport with +having the girl and the boy to comb my head, before I went to bed, in the +kitchen. + + + +15th. To the office, and after dinner by water to White Hall, where I +found the King gone this morning by 5 of the clock to see a Dutch +pleasure-boat below bridge, + + [A yacht which was greatly admired, and was imitated and improved by + Commissioner Pett, who built a yacht for the King in 1661, which was + called the "Jenny." Queen Elizabeth had a yacht, and one was built + by Phineas Pett in 1604.] + +where he dines, and my Lord with him. The King do tire all his people +that are about him with early rising since he came. To the office, all +the afternoon I staid there, and in the evening went to Westminster Hall, +where I staid at Mrs. Michell's, and with her and her husband sent for +some drink, and drank with them. By the same token she and Mrs. Murford +and another old woman of the Hall were going a gossiping tonight. From +thence to my Lord's, where I found him within, and he did give me +direction about his business in his absence, he intending to go into the +country to-morrow morning. Here I lay all night in the old chamber which +I had now given up to W. Howe, with whom I did intend to lie, but he and +I fell to play with one another, so that I made him to go lie with Mr. +Sheply. So I lay alone all night. + + + +16th. This morning my Lord (all things being ready) carried me by coach +to Mr. Crew's, (in the way talking how good he did hope my place would be +to me, and in general speaking that it was not the salary of any place +that did make a man rich, but the opportunity of getting money while he +is in the place) where he took leave, and went into the coach, and so for +Hinchinbroke. My Lady Jemimah and Mr. Thomas Crew in the coach with him. +Hence to Whitehall about noon, where I met with Mr. Madge, who took me +along with him and Captain Cooke (the famous singer) and other masters of +music to dinner at an ordinary about Charing Cross where we dined, all +paying their club. Hence to the Privy Seal, where there has been but +little work these two days. In the evening home. + + + +17th. To the office, and that done home to dinner where Mr. Unthanke, my +wife's tailor, dined with us, we having nothing but a dish of sheep's +trotters. After dinner by water to Whitehall, where a great deal of +business at the Privy Seal. At night I and Creed and the judge-Advocate +went to Mr. Pim, the tailor's, who took us to the Half Moon, and there +did give us great store of wine and anchovies, and would pay for them +all. This night I saw Mr. Creed show many the strangest emotions to +shift off his drink I ever saw in my life. By coach home and to bed. + + + +18th. This morning I took my wife towards Westminster by water, and +landed her at Whitefriars, with L5 to buy her a petticoat, and I to the +Privy Seal. By and by comes my wife to tell me that my father has +persuaded her to buy a most fine cloth of 26s. a yard, and a rich lace, +that the petticoat will come to L5, at which I was somewhat troubled, but +she doing it very innocently, I could not be angry. I did give her more +money, and sent her away, and I and Creed and Captain Hayward (who is now +unkindly put out of the Plymouth to make way for Captain Allen to go to +Constantinople, and put into his ship the Dover, which I know will +trouble my Lord) went and dined at the Leg in King Street, where Captain +Ferrers, my Lord's Cornet, comes to us, who after dinner took me and +Creed to the Cockpitt play, + + [The Cockpit Theatre, situated in Drury Lane, was occupied as a + playhouse in the reign of James I. It was occupied by Davenant and + his company in 1658, and they remained in it until. November 15th, + 1660, when they removed to Salisbury Court.] + +the first that I have had time to see since my coming from sea, "The +Loyall Subject," where one Kinaston, a boy, acted the Duke's sister, but +made the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life, only her voice not +very good. After the play done, we three went to drink, and by Captain +Ferrers' means, Kinaston and another that acted Archas, the General, came +and drank with us. Hence home by coach, and after being trimmed, leaving +my wife to look after her little bitch, which was just now a-whelping, I +to bed. + + + +19th (Lord's day). In the morning my wife tells me that the bitch has +whelped four young ones and is very well after it, my wife having had a +great fear that she would die thereof, the dog that got them being very +big. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself, went to church to the +churchwardens, to demand a pew, which at present could not be given us, +but we are resolved to have one built. So we staid and heard Mr. Mills;' +a very, good minister. Home to dinner, where my wife had on her new +petticoat that she bought yesterday, which indeed is a very fine cloth +and a fine lace; but that being of a light colour, and the lace all +silver, it makes no great show. Mr. Creed and my brother Tom dined with +me. After dinner my wife went and fetched the little puppies to us, +which are very pretty ones. After they were gone, I went up to put my +papers in order, and finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up, +I was angry with her, which I was troubled for. After that my wife and I +went and walked in the garden, and so home to bed. + + + +20th (Office day). As Sir W. Pen and I were walking in the garden, a +messenger came to me from the Duke of York to fetch me to the Lord +Chancellor. So (Mrs. Turner with her daughter The. being come to my +house to speak with me about a friend of hers to send to sea) I went with +her in her coach as far as Worcester House, but my Lord Chancellor being +gone to the House of Lords, I went thither, and (there being a law case +before them this day) got in, and there staid all the morning, seeing +their manner of sitting on woolpacks, &c., which I never did before. + + [It is said that these woolpacks were placed in the House of Lords + for the judges to sit on, so that the fact that wool was a main + source of our national wealth might be kept in the popular mind. + The Lord Chancellor's seat is now called the Woolsack.] + +After the House was up, I spoke to my Lord, and had order from him to +come to him at night. This morning Mr. Creed did give me the Papers that +concern my Lord's sea commission, which he left in my hands and went to +sea this day to look after the gratuity money. + +This afternoon at the Privy Seal, where reckoning with Mr. Moore, he had +got L100 for me together, which I was glad of, guessing that the profits +of this month would come to L100. + +In the evening I went all alone to drink at Mr. Harper's, where I found +Mrs. Crisp's daughter, with whom and her friends I staid and drank, and +so with W. Hewer by coach to Worcester House, where I light, sending him +home with the L100 that I received to-day. Here I staid, and saw my Lord +Chancellor come into his Great Hall, where wonderful how much company +there was to expect him at a Seal. Before he would begin any business, +he took my papers of the state of the debts of the Fleet, and there +viewed them before all the people, and did give me his advice privately +how to order things, to get as much money as we can of the Parliament. +That being done, I went home, where I found all my things come home from +sea (sent by desire by Mr. Dun), of which I was glad, though many of my +things are quite spoilt with mould by reason of lying so long a +shipboard, and my cabin being not tight. I spent much time to dispose of +them tonight, and so to bed. + + + +21st. This morning I went to White Hall with Sir W. Pen by water, who in +our passage told me how he was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went to +Mr. Coventry's chamber, and consulted of drawing my papers of debts of +the Navy against the afternoon for the Committee. So to the Admiralty, +where W. Hewer and I did them, and after that he went to his Aunt's +Blackburn (who has a kinswoman dead at her house to-day, and was to be +buried to-night, by which means he staid very late out). I to +Westminster Hall, where I met Mr. Crew and dined with him, where there +dined one Mr. Hickeman, an Oxford man, who spoke very much against the +height of the now old clergy, for putting out many of the religious +fellows of Colleges, and inveighing against them for their being drunk, +which, if true, I am sorry to hear. After that towards Westminster, +where I called on Mr. Pim, and there found my velvet coat (the first that +ever I had) done, and a velvet mantle, which I took to the Privy Seal +Office, and there locked them up, and went to the Queen's Court, and +there, after much waiting, spoke with Colonel Birch, who read my papers, +and desired some addition, which done I returned to the Privy Seal, where +little to do, and with Mr. Moore towards London, and in our way meeting +Monsieur Eschar (Mr. Montagu's man), about the Savoy, he took us to the +Brazennose Tavern, and there drank and so parted, and I home by coach, +and there, it being post-night, I wrote to my Lord to give him notice +that all things are well; that General Monk is made Lieutenant of +Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not like of, to be Deputy +to any man but the King himself. After that to bed. + + + +22nd. Office, which done, Sir W. Pen took me into the garden, and there +told me how Mr. Turner do intend to petition the Duke for an allowance +extra as one of the Clerks of the Navy, which he desired me to join with +him in the furthering of, which I promised to do so that it did not +reflect upon me or to my damage to have any other added, as if I was not +able to perform my place; which he did wholly disown to be any of his +intention, but far from it. I took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, +with whom I did advise, who did give me the same counsel. After dinner +he and I to the office about doing something more as to the debts of the +Navy than I had done yesterday, and so to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, +and having done there, with my father (who came to see me) to Westminster +Hall and the Parliament House to look for Col. Birch, but found him not. +In the House, after the Committee was up, I met with Mr. G. Montagu, and +joyed him in his entrance (this being his 3d day) for Dover. Here he +made me sit all alone in the House, none but he and I, half an hour, +discoursing how things stand, and in short he told me how there was like +to be many factions at Court between Marquis Ormond, General Monk, and +the Lord Roberts, about the business of Ireland; as there is already +between the two Houses about the Act of Indemnity; and in the House of +Commons, between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian men. Hence to my +father's (walking with Mr. Herring, the minister of St. Bride's), and +took them to the Sun Tavern, where I found George, my old drawer, come +again. From thence by water, landed them at Blackfriars, and so home and +to bed. + + + +23rd. By water to Doctors' Commons to Dr. Walker, to give him my Lord's +papers to view over concerning his being empowered to be Vice-Admiral +under the Duke of York. There meeting with Mr. Pinkney, he and I to a +morning draft, and thence by water to White Hall, to the Parliament +House, where I spoke with Colonel Birch, and so to the Admiralty chamber, +where we and Mr. Coventry had a meeting about several businesses. +Amongst others, it was moved that Phineas Pett (kinsman to the +Commissioner) of Chatham, should be suspended his employment till he had +answered some articles put in against him, as that he should formerly say +that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore. Hence to Westminster +Hall, where I met with my father Bowyer, and Mr. Spicer, and them I took +to the Leg in King Street, and did give them a dish or two of meat, and +so away to the Privy Seal, where, the King being out of town, we have had +nothing to do these two days. To Westminster Hall, where I met with +W. Symons, T. Doling, and Mr. Booth, and with them to the Dogg, where we +eat a musk melon + + ["Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner + brought one from Spain, when they became in general estimation. The + ordinary price was five or six shillings."--Quarterly Review, vol, + xix.] + +(the first that I have eat this year), and were very merry with +W. Symons, calling him Mr. Dean, because of the Dean's lands that his +uncle had left him, which are like to be lost all. Hence home by water, +and very late at night writing letters to my Lord to Hinchinbroke, and +also to the Vice-Admiral in the Downs, and so to bed. + + + +24th. Office, and thence with Sir William Batten and Sir William Pen to +the parish church to find out a place where to build a seat or a gallery +to sit in, and did find one which is to be done speedily. Hence with +them to dinner at a tavern in Thames Street, where they were invited to a +roasted haunch of venison and other very good victuals and company. +Hence to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, but nothing to do. At night by +land to my father's, where I found my mother not very well. I did give +her a pint of sack. My father came in, and Dr. T. Pepys, who talked with +me in French about looking out for a place for him. But I found him a +weak man, and speaks the worst French that ever I heard of one that had +been so long beyond sea. Hence into Pant's Churchyard and bought +Barkley's Argenis in Latin, and so home and to bed. I found at home that +Captain Burr had sent me 4 dozen bottles of wine today. The King came +back to Whitehall to-night. + + + +25th. This morning Mr. Turner and I by coach from our office to +Whitehall (in our way I calling on Dr. Walker for the papers I did give +him the other day, which he had perused and found that the Duke's counsel +had abated something of the former draught which Dr. Walker drew for my +Lord) to Sir G. Carteret, where we there made up an estimate of the +debts of the Navy for the Council. At noon I took Mr. Turner and Mr. +Moore to the Leg in King Street, and did give them a dinner, and +afterward to the Sun Tavern, and did give Mr. Turner a glass of wine, +there coming to us Mr. Fowler the apothecary (the judge's son) with a +book of lute lessons which his father had left there for me, such as he +formerly did use to play when a young man, and had the use of his hand. +To the Privy Seal, and found some business now again to do there. To +Westminster Hall for a new half-shirt of Mrs. Lane, and so home by water. +Wrote letters by the post to my Lord and to sea. This night W. Hewer +brought me home from Mr. Pim's my velvet coat and cap, the first that +ever I had. So to bed. + + + +26th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish church, where we are +placed in the highest pew of all, where a stranger preached a dry and +tedious long sermon. Dined at home. To church again in the afternoon +with my wife; in the garden and on the leads at night, and so to supper +and to bed. + + + +27th. This morning comes one with a vessel of Northdown ale from Mr. +Pierce, the purser, to me, and after him another with a brave Turkey +carpet and a jar of olives from Captain Cuttance, and a pair of fine +turtle-doves from John Burr to my wife. These things came up to-day in +our smack, and my boy Ely came along with them, and came after office was +done to see me. I did give him half a crown because I saw that he was +ready to cry to see that he could not be entertained by me here. In the +afternoon to the Privy Seal, where good store of work now toward the end +of the month. From thence with Mr. Mount, Luellin, and others to the +Bull head till late, and so home, where about to o'clock Major Hart came +to me, whom I did receive with wine and anchovies, which made me so dry +that I was ill with them all night, and was fain to have the girle rise +and fetch me some drink. + + + +28th. At home looking over my papers and books and house as to the +fitting of it to my mind till two in the afternoon. Some time I spent +this morning beginning to teach my wife some scale in music, and found +her apt beyond imagination. To the Privy Seal, where great store of work +to-day. Colonel Scroope--[Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons who +sat in judgment upon Charles I.]--is this day excepted out of the Act of +Indemnity, which has been now long in coming out, but it is expected to- +morrow. I carried home L80 from the Privy Seal, by coach, and at night +spent a little more time with my wife about her music with great content. +This day I heard my poor mother had then two days been very ill, and I +fear she will not last long. To bed, a little troubled that I fear my +boy Will + + [Pepys refers to two Wills. This was Will Wayneman; the other was + William Hewer.] + +is a thief and has stole some money of mine, particularly a letter that +Mr. Jenkins did leave the last week with me with half a crown in it to +send to his son. + + + +29th (Office day). Before I went to the office my wife and I examined my +boy Will about his stealing of things, but he denied all with the +greatest subtlety and confidence in the world. To the office, and after +office then to the Church, where we took another view of the place where +we had resolved to build a gallery, and have set men about doing it. +Home to dinner, and there I found my wife had discovered my boy Will's +theft and a great deal more than we imagined, at which I was vexed and +intend to put him away. To my office at the Privy Seal in the afternoon, +and from thence at night to the Bull Head, with Mount, Luellin, and +others, and hence to my father's, and he being at my uncle Fenner's, I +went thither to him, and there sent for my boy's father and talked with +him about his son, and had his promise that if I will send home his boy, +he will take him notwithstanding his indenture. Home at night, and find +that my wife had found out more of the boy's stealing 6s. out of +W. Hewer's closet, and hid it in the house of office, at which my heart +was troubled. To bed, and caused the boy's clothes to be brought up to +my chamber. But after we were all a-bed, the wench (which lies in our +chamber) called us to listen of a sudden, which put my wife into such a +fright that she shook every joint of her, and a long time that I could +not get her out of it. The noise was the boy, we did believe, got in a +desperate mood out of his bed to do himself or William [Hewer] some +mischief. But the wench went down and got a candle lighted, and finding +the boy in bed, and locking the doors fast, with a candle burning all +night, we slept well, but with a great deal of fear. + + + +30th. We found all well in the morning below stairs, bu the boy in a sad +plight of seeming sorrow; but he is the most cunning rogue that ever I +met with of his age. To White Hall, where I met with the Act of +Indemnity--[12 Car. II. cap. II, an act of free and general pardon, +indemnity, and oblivion.]--(so long talked of and hoped for), with the +Act of Rate for Pole-money, an for judicial proceedings. At Westminster +Hall I met with Mr. Paget the lawyer, and dined with him at Heaven. +This afternoon my wife went to Mr. Pierce's wife's child's christening, +and was urged to be godmother, but I advised her before-hand not to do +it, so she did not, but as proxy for my Lady Jemimah. This the first day +that ever I saw my wife wear black patches since we were married! + + [The fashion of placing black patches on the face was introduced + towards the close of the reign of Charles I., and the practice is + ridiculed in the "Spectator."] + +My Lord came to town to-day, but coming not home till very late I staid +till 10 at night, and so home on foot. Mr. Sheply and Mr. Childe this +night at the tavern. + + + +31st. Early to wait upon my Lord at White Hall, and with him to the +Duke's chamber. So to my office in Seething Lane. Dined at home, and +after dinner to my Lord again, who told me that he is ordered to go +suddenly to sea, and did give me some orders to be drawing up against his +going. This afternoon I agreed to let my house quite out of my hands to +Mr. Dalton (one of the wine sellers to the King, with whom I had drunk in +the old wine cellar two or three times) for L41. At night made even at +Privy Seal for this month against tomorrow to give up possession, but we +know not to whom, though we most favour Mr. Bickerstaffe, with whom and +Mr. Matthews we drank late after office was done at the Sun, discoursing +what to do about it tomorrow against Baron, and so home and to bed. +Blessed be God all things continue well with and for me. I pray God fit +me for a change of my fortune. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER + 1660 + + +September 1st. This morning I took care to get a vessel to carry my +Lord's things to the Downs on Monday next, and so to White Hall to my +Lord, where he and I did look over the Commission drawn for him by the +Duke's Council, which I do not find my Lord displeased with, though short +of what Dr. Walker did formerly draw for him. Thence to the Privy Seal +to see how things went there, and I find that Mr. Baron had by a severe +warrant from the King got possession of the office from his brother +Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, it being +against all open justice. Mr. Moore and I and several others being +invited to-day by Mr. Goodman, a friend of his, we dined at the Bullhead +upon the best venison pasty that ever I eat of in my life, and with one +dish more, it was the best dinner I ever was at. Here rose in discourse +at table a dispute between Mr. Moore and Dr. Clerke, the former affirming +that it was essential to a tragedy to have the argument of it true, which +the Doctor denied, and left it to me to be judge, and the cause to be +determined next Tuesday morning at the same place, upon the eating of the +remains of the pasty, and the loser to spend 10s. All this afternoon +sending express to the fleet, to order things against my Lord's coming +and taking direction of my Lord about some rich furniture to take along +with him for the Princess!--[Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, +who died in December of this year.]--And talking of this, I hear by Mr. +Townsend, that there is the greatest preparation against the Prince de +Ligne's a coming over from the King of Spain, that ever was in England +for their Embassador. Late home, and what with business and my boy's +roguery my mind being unquiet, I went to bed. + + + +2nd (Sunday). To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming to +chapel. I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my Privy +Seal fees and gratuity money, &c., to this day between my Lord and me. +After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon "The +Lord is my shield." After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord's (he +dining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply. So, to St. Margarett's, and +heard a good sermon upon the text "Teach us the old way," or something +like it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion, +which have brought us into all our late divisions. From church to Mrs. +Crisp's (having sent Win. Hewer home to tell my wife that I could not +come home to-night because of my Lord's going out early to-morrow +morning), where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, it +being a farewell cup to Laud Crisp. I drank till the daughter began to +be very loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should +be. To my Lord's, and to bed with Mr. Sheply. + + + +3rd. Up and to Mr. -----, the goldsmith near the new Exchange, where I +bought my wedding ring, and there, with much ado, got him to put a gold +ring to the jewell, which the King of Sweden did give my Lord: out of +which my Lord had now taken the King's picture, and intends to make a +George of it. This morning at my Lord's I had an opportunity to speak +with Sir George Downing, who has promised me to give me up my bond, and +to pay me for my last quarter while I was at sea, that so I may pay Mr. +Moore and Hawly. About noon my Lord, having taken leave of the King in +the Shield Gallery (where I saw with what kindness the King did hug my +Lord at his parting), I went over with him and saw him in his coach at +Lambeth, and there took leave of him, he going to the Downs, which put me +in mind of his first voyage that ever he made, which he did begin like +this from Lambeth. In the afternoon with Mr. Moore to my house to cast +up our Privy Seal accounts, where I found that my Lord's comes to 400 and +odd pounds, and mine to L132, out of which I do give him as good as L25 +for his pains, with which I doubt he is not satisfied, but my heart is +full glad. Thence with him to Mr. Crew's, and did fetch as much money as +did make even our accounts between him and me. Home, and there found Mr. +Cooke come back from my Lord for me to get him some things bought for him +to be brought after them, a toilet cap and comb case of silk, to make use +of in Holland, for he goes to the Hague, which I can do to-morrow +morning. This day my father and my uncle Fenner, and both his sons, have +been at my house to see it, and my wife did treat them nobly with wine +and anchovies. By reason of my Lord's going to-day I could not get the +office to meet to-day. + + + +4th. I did many things this morning at home before I went out, as +looking over the joiners, who are flooring my diningroom, and doing +business with Sir Williams + + ["Both Sir Williams" is a favourite expression with Pepys, meaning + Sir William Batten and Sir William Penn.] + +both at the office, and so to Whitehall, and so to the Bullhead, where we +had the remains of our pasty, where I did give my verdict against Mr. +Moore upon last Saturday's wager, where Dr. Fuller coming in do confirm +me in my verdict. From thence to my Lord's and despatched Mr. Cooke away +with the things to my Lord. From thence to Axe Yard to my house, where +standing at the door Mrs. Diana comes by, whom I took into my house +upstairs, and there did dally with her a great while, and found that in +Latin "Nulla puella negat." So home by water, and there sat up late +setting my papers in order, and my money also, and teaching my wife her +music lesson, in which I take great pleasure. So to bed. + + + +5th. To the office. From thence by coach upon the desire of the +principal officers to a Master of Chancery to give Mr. Stowell his oath, +whereby he do answer that he did hear Phineas Pett say very high words +against the King a great while ago. Coming back our coach broke, and so +Stowell and I to Mr. Rawlinson's, and after a glass of wine parted, and I +to the office, home to dinner, where (having put away my boy in the +morning) his father brought him again, but I did so clear up my boy's +roguery to his father, that he could not speak against my putting him +away, and so I did give him 10s. for the boy's clothes that I made him, +and so parted and tore his indenture. All the afternoon with the +principal officers at Sir W. Batten's about Pett's business (where I +first saw Col. Slingsby, who has now his appointment for Comptroller), +but did bring it to no issue. This day I saw our Dedimus to be sworn in +the peace by, which will be shortly. In the evening my wife being a +little impatient I went along with her to buy her a necklace of pearl, +which will cost L4 10s., which I am willing to comply with her in for her +encouragement, and because I have lately got money, having now above L200 +in cash beforehand in the world. Home, and having in our way bought a +rabbit and two little lobsters, my wife and I did sup late, and so to +bed. Great news now-a-day of the Duke d'Anjou's + + [Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis + XIV. (born 1640, died 1701), married the Princess Henrietta, + youngest daughter of Charles I., who was born June 16th, 1664, at + Exeter. She was known as "La belle Henriette." In May, 1670, she + came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV. to her brother + Charles II., but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of + her husband. Her death occurred on her return to France, (See the + Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon for the details of this murder thought + not to have been managed by her husband but by her husbands clique of + friends. D.W.) and was attributed to poison. It was the occasion + of one of the finest of Bossuet's "Oraisons Funebres."] + +desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta. Hugh Peters is said to be +taken, + + [Hugh Peters, born at Fowey, Cornwall, and educated at Trinity + College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. 1622. He was tried as + one of the regicides, and executed. A broadside, entitled "The + Welsh Hubub, or the Unkennelling and earthing of Hugh Peters that + crafty Fox," was printed October 3rd, 1660.] + +and the Duke of Gloucester is ill, and it is said it will prove the +small-pox. + + + +6th. To Whitehall by water with Sir W. Batten, and in our passage told +me how Commissioner Pett did pay himself for the entertainment that he +did give the King at Chatham at his coming in, and 20s. a day all the +time he was in Holland, which I wonder at, and so I see there is a great +deal of envy between the two. At Whitehall I met with Commissioner Pett, +who told me how Mr. Coventry and Fairbank his solicitor are falling out, +one complaining of the other for taking too great fees, which is too +true. I find that Commissioner Pett is under great discontent, and is +loth to give too much money for his place, and so do greatly desire me to +go along with him in what we shall agree to give Mr. Coventry, which I +have promised him, but am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that is +going down the wind. We all met this morning and afterwards at the +Admiralty, where our business is to ask provision of victuals ready for +the ships in the Downs, which we did, Mr. Gauden promising to go himself +thither and see it done. Dined Will and I at my Lord's upon a joint of +meat that I sent Mrs. Sarah for. Afterwards to my office and sent all my +books to my Lord's, in order to send them to my house that I now dwell +in. Home and to bed. + + + +7th. Not office day, and in the afternoon at home all the day, it being +the first that I have been at home all day since I came hither. Putting +my papers, books and other things in order, and writing of letters. This +day my Lord set sail from the Downs for Holland. + + + +8th. All day also at home. At night sent for by Sir W. Pen, with whom +I sat late drinking a glass of wine and discoursing, and I find him to be +a very sociable man, and an able man, and very cunning. + + + +9th (Sunday). In the morning with Sir W. Pen to church, and a very good +sermon of Mr. Mills. Home to dinner, and Sir W. Pen with me to such as I +had, and it was very handsome, it being the first time that he ever saw +my wife or house since we came hither. Afternoon to church with my wife, +and after that home, and there walked with Major Hart, who came to see +me, in the garden, who tells me that we are all like to be speedily +disbanded; + + [The Trained Bands were abolished in 1663, but those of the City of + London were specially excepted. The officers of the Trained Bands + were supplied by the Hon. Artillery Company.] + +and then I lose the benefit of a muster. After supper to bed. + + + +10th (Office day). News of the Duke's intention to go tomorrow to the +fleet for a day or two to meet his sister. Col. Slingsby and I to +Whitehall, thinking to proffer our service to the Duke to wait upon him, +but meeting with Sir G. Carteret he sent us in all haste back again to +hire two Catches for the present use of the Duke. So we returned and +landed at the Bear at the Bridge foot, where we saw Southwark Fair +(I having not at all seen Bartholomew Fair), and so to the Tower wharf, +where we did hire two catches. So to the office and found Sir W. Batten +at dinner with some friends upon a good chine of beef, on which I ate +heartily, I being very hungry. Home, where Mr. Snow (whom afterwards we +called one another cozen) came to me to see me, and with him and one +Shelston, a simple fellow that looks after an employment (that was with +me just upon my going to sea last), to a tavern, where till late with +them. So home, having drunk too much, and so to bed. + + + +11th. At Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen we drank our morning draft, +and from thence for an hour in the office and dispatch a little business. +Dined at Sir W. Batten's, and by this time I see that we are like to have +a very good correspondence and neighbourhood, but chargeable. All the +afternoon at home looking over my carpenters. At night I called Thos. +Hater out of the office to my house to sit and talk with me. After he +was gone I caused the girl to wash the wainscot of our parlour, which she +did very well, which caused my wife and I good sport. Up to my chamber +to read a little, and wrote my Diary for three or four days past. The +Duke of York did go to-day by break of day to the Downs. The Duke of +Gloucester ill. The House of Parliament was to adjourn to-day. I know +not yet whether it be done or no. To bed. + + + +12th (Office day). This noon I expected to have had my cousin Snow and +my father come to dine with me, but it being very rainy they did not +come. My brother Tom came to my house with a letter from my brother +John, wherein he desires some books: Barthol. Anatom., Rosin. Rom. +Antiq., and Gassend. Astronom., the last of which I did give him, and an +angel--[A gold coin varying in value at different times from 6s. 8d. to +10s.]--against my father buying of the others. At home all the afternoon +looking after my workmen, whose laziness do much trouble me. This day +the Parliament adjourned. + + + +13th. Old East comes to me in the morning with letters, and I did give +him a bottle of Northdown ale, which made the poor man almost drunk. In +the afternoon my wife went to the burial of a child of my cozen Scott's, +and it is observable that within this month my Aunt Wight was brought to +bed of two girls, my cozen Stradwick of a girl and a boy, and my cozen +Scott of a boy, and all died. In the afternoon to Westminster, where Mr. +Dalton was ready with his money to pay me for my house, but our writings +not being drawn it could not be done to-day. I met with Mr. Hawly, who +was removing his things from Mr. Bowyer's, where he has lodged a great +while, and I took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and drank, and Mr. Hawly +did give me a little black rattoon,--[Probably an Indian rattan cane.]-- +painted and gilt. Home by water. This day the Duke of Gloucester died +of the small-pox, by the great negligence of the doctors. + + + +14th (Office day). I got L42 15s. appointed me by bill for my employment +of Secretary to the 4th of this month, it being the last money I shall +receive upon that score. My wife went this afternoon to see my mother, +who I hear is very ill, at which my heart is very sad. In the afternoon +Luellin comes to my house, and takes me out to the Mitre in Wood Street, +where Mr. Samford, W. Symons and his wife, and Mr. Scobell, Mr. Mount +and Chetwind, where they were very merry, Luellin being drunk, and I +being to defend the ladies from his kissing them, I kissed them myself +very often with a great deal of mirth. Parted very late, they by coach +to Westminster, and I on foot. + + + +15th. Met very early at our office this morning to pick out the twenty- +five ships which are to be first paid off: After that to Westminster and +dined with Mr. Dalton at his office, where we had one great court dish, +but our papers not being done we could [not] make an end of our business +till Monday next. Mr. Dalton and I over the water to our landlord Vanly, +with whom we agree as to Dalton becoming a tenant. Back to Westminster, +where I met with Dr. Castles, who chidd me for some errors in our Privy- +Seal business; among the rest, for letting the fees of the six judges +pass unpaid, which I know not what to say to, till I speak to Mr. Moore. +I was much troubled, for fear of being forced to pay the money myself. +Called at my father's going home, and bespoke mourning for myself, for +the death of the Duke of Gloucester. I found my mother pretty well. So +home and to bed. + + + +16th (Sunday). To Dr. Hardy's church, and sat with Mr. Rawlinson and +heard a good sermon upon the occasion of the Duke's death. His text was, +"And is there any evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" Home +to dinner, having some sport with Win. [Hewer], who never had been at +Common Prayer before. After dinner I alone to Westminster, where I spent +my time walking up and down in Westminster Abbey till sermon time with +Ben. Palmer and Fetters the watchmaker, who told me that my Lord of +Oxford is also dead of the small-pox; in whom his family dies, after 600 +years having that honour in their family and name. From thence to the +Park, where I saw how far they had proceeded in the Pell-mell, and in +making a river through the Park, which I had never seen before since it +was begun. + + [This is the Mall in St. James's Park, which was made by Charles + II., the former Mall (Pall Mall) having been built upon during the + Commonwealth. Charles II. also formed the canal by throwing the + several small ponds into one.] + +Thence to White Hall garden, where I saw the King in purple mourning for +his brother. + + ["The Queen-mother of France," says Ward, in his Diary, p. 177, + "died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, for whom King + Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, which is Prince's mourning."] + +So home, and in my way met with Dinah, who spoke to me and told me she +had a desire to speak too about some business when I came to Westminster +again. Which she spoke in such a manner that I was afraid she might tell +me something that I would not hear of our last meeting at my house at +Westminster. Home late, being very dark. A gentleman in the Poultry had +a great and dirty fall over a waterpipe that lay along the channel. + + + +17th. Office very early about casting up the debts of those twenty-five +ships which are to be paid off, which we are to present to the Committee +of Parliament. I did give my wife L15 this morning to go to buy mourning +things for her and me, which she did. Dined at home and Mr. Moore with +me, and afterwards to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and drank in the Cellar, +where Mr. Vanly according to appointment was. Thence forth to see the +Prince de Ligne, Spanish Embassador, come in to his audience, which was +done in very great state. That being done, Dalton, Vanly, Scrivener and +some friends of theirs and I to the Axe, and signed and sealed our +writings, and hence to the Wine cellar again, where I received L41 for my +interest in my house, out of which I paid my Landlord to Michaelmas next, +and so all is even between him and me, and I freed of my poor little +house. Home by link with my money under my arm. So to bed after I had +looked over the things my wife had bought to-day, with which being not +very well pleased, they costing too much, I went to bed in a discontent. +Nothing yet from sea, where my Lord and the Princess are. + + + +18th. At home all the morning looking over my workmen in my house. +After dinner Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself by coach to Westminster Hall, +where we met Mr. Wayte the lawyer to the Treasurer, and so we went up to +the Committee of Parliament, which are to consider of the debts of the +Army and Navy, and did give in our account of the twenty-five ships. +Col. Birch was very impertinent and troublesome. But at last we did +agree to fit the accounts of our ships more perfectly for their view +within a few days, that they might see what a trouble it is to do what +they desire. From thence Sir Williams both going by water home, I took +Mr. Wayte to the Rhenish winehouse, and drank with him and so parted. +Thence to Mr. Crew's and spoke with Mr. Moore about the business of +paying off Baron our share of the dividend. So on foot home, by the way +buying a hat band and other things for my mourning to-morrow. So home +and to bed. This day I heard that the Duke of York, upon the news of the +death of his brother yesterday, came hither by post last night. + + + +19th (Office day). I put on my mourning and went to the office. At noon +thinking to have found my wife in hers, I found that the tailor had +failed her, at which I was vexed because of an invitation that we have to +a dinner this day, but after having waited till past one o'clock I went, +and left her to put on some other clothes and come after me to the Mitre +tavern in Wood-street (a house of the greatest note in London), where I +met W. Symons, and D. Scobell, and their wives, Mr. Samford, Luellin, +Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. White, + + [According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell's + waiting-woman, in Oliver's lifetime, and they lived together fifty + years. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John + Russell of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years + dying 1721-22 The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to + Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have + been soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver + compelled him to marry. (Noble's "Life of Cromwell," vol. ii. + pp. 151, 152.) White was born in 1629 and died 1707.] + +formerly chaplin to the Lady Protectresse--[Elizabeth, wife of Oliver +Cromwell.]--(and still so, and one they say that is likely to get my Lady +Francess for his wife). Here we were very merry and had a very good +dinner, my wife coming after me hither to us. + +Among other pleasures some of us fell to handycapp, + + ["A game at cards not unlike Loo, but with this difference, the + winner of one trick has to put in a double stake, the winner of two + tricks a triple stake, and so on. Thus, if six persons are playing, + and the general stake is 1s., suppose A gains the three tricks, he + gains 6s., and has to 'hand i' the cap,' or pool, 4s. for the next + deal. Suppose A gains two tricks and B one, then A gains 4s. and B + 2s., and A has to stake 3s. and B 2s. for the next deal."--Hindley's + Tavern Anecdotes.--M. B.] + +a sport that I never knew before, which was very good. We staid till it +was very late; it rained sadly, but we made shift to get coaches. So +home and to bed. + + + +20th. At home, and at the office, and in the garden walking with both +Sir Williams all the morning. After dinner to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton, +and with him to my house and took away all my papers that were left in +my closet, and so I have now nothing more in the house or to do with it. +We called to speak with my Landlord Beale, but he was not within but +spoke with the old woman, who takes it very ill that I did not let her +have it, but I did give her an answer. From thence to Sir G. Downing and +staid late there (he having sent for me to come to him), which was to +tell me how my Lord Sandwich had disappointed him of a ship to bring over +his child and goods, and made great complaint thereof; but I got him to +write a letter to Lawson, which it may be may do the business for him, +I writing another also about it. While he was writing, and his Lady and +I had a great deal of discourse in praise of Holland. By water to the +Bridge, and so to Major Hart's lodgings in Cannon-street, who used me +very kindly with wine and good discourse, particularly upon the ill +method which Colonel Birch and the Committee use in defending of the army +and the navy; promising the Parliament to save them a great deal of +money, when we judge that it will cost the King more than if they had +nothing to do with it, by reason of their delays and scrupulous enquirys +into the account of both. So home and to bed. + + + +21st (Office day). There all the morning and afternoon till 4 o'clock. +Hence to Whitehall, thinking to have put up my, books at my Lord's, but +am disappointed from want of a chest which I had at Mr. Bowyer's. Back +by water about 8 o'clock, and upon the water saw the corpse of the Duke +of Gloucester brought down Somerset House stairs, to go by water to +Westminster, to be buried to-night. I landed at the old Swan and went to +the Hoop Tavern, and (by a former agreement) sent for Mr. Chaplin, who +with Nicholas Osborne and one Daniel came to us and we drank off two or +three quarts of wine, which was very good; the drawing of our wine +causing a great quarrel in the house between the two drawers which should +draw us the best, which caused a great deal of noise and falling out till +the master parted them, and came up to us and did give us a large account +of the liberty that he gives his servants, all alike, to draw what wine +they will to please his customers; and we did eat above 200 walnuts. +About to o'clock we broke up and so home, and in my way I called in with +them at Mr. Chaplin's, where Nicholas Osborne did give me a barrel of +samphire, + + [Samphire was formerly a favourite pickle; hence the "dangerous + trade" of the samphire gatherer ("King Lear," act iv. sc. 6) who + supplied the demand. It was sold in the streets, and one of the old + London cries was "I ha' Rock Samphier, Rock Samphier!"] + +and showed me the keys of Mardyke Fort, + + [A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that + town was sold to Louis XIV.] + +which he that was commander of the fort sent him as a token when the fort +was demolished, which I was mightily pleased to see, and will get them of +him if I can. Home, where I found my boy (my maid's brother) come out of +the country to-day, but was gone to bed and so I could not see him +to-night. To bed. + + + +22nd. This morning I called up my boy, and found him a pretty, well- +looked boy, and one that I think will please me. I went this morning by +land to Westminster along with Luellin, who came to my house this morning +to get me to go with him to Capt. Allen to speak with him for his brother +to go with him to Constantinople, but could not find him. We walked on +to Fleet street, where at Mr. Standing's in Salsbury Court we drank our +morning draft and had a pickled herring. Among other discourse here he +told me how the pretty woman that I always loved at the beginning of +Cheapside that sells child's coats was served by the Lady Bennett +(a famous strumpet), who by counterfeiting to fall into a swoon upon the +sight of her in her shop, became acquainted with her, and at last got her +ends of her to lie with a gentleman that had hired her to procure this +poor soul for him. To Westminster to my Lord's, and there in the house +of office vomited up all my breakfast, my stomach being ill all this day +by reason of the last night's debauch. Here I sent to Mr. Bowyer's for +my chest and put up my books and sent them home. I staid here all day in +my Lord's chamber and upon the leads gazing upon Diana, who looked out of +a window upon me. At last I went out to Mr. Harper's, and she standing +over the way at the gate, I went over to her and appointed to meet +to-morrow in the afternoon at my Lord's. Here I bought a hanging jack. +From thence by coach home (by the way at the New Exchange + + [In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I., in 1608, out + of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi. + The New Exchange stood where Coutts's banking-house now is. "It was + built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars + beneath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly + with milliners, sempstresses, and the like." It was also called " + Britain's Burse." " He has a lodging in the Strand . . . to + watch when ladies are gone to the china houses, or to the Exchange, + that he may meet them by chance and give them presents, some two or + three hundred pounds worth of toys, to be laughed at"--Ben Jonson, + The Silent Woman, act i. sc. 1.] + +I bought a pair of short black stockings, to wear over a pair of silk +ones for mourning; and here I met with The. Turner and Joyce, buying of +things to go into mourning too for the Duke, which is now the mode of all +the ladies in town), where I wrote some letters by the post to +Hinchinbroke to let them know that this day Mr. Edw. Pickering is come +from my Lord, and says that he left him well in Holland, and that he will +be here within three or four days. To-day not well of my last night's +drinking yet. I had the boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to +put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he did pretty well. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). My wife got up to put on her mourning to-day and to +go to Church this morning. I up and set down my journall for these 5 +days past. This morning came one from my father's with a black cloth +coat, made of my short cloak, to walk up and down in. To church my wife +and I, with Sir W. Batten, where we heard of Mr. Mills a very good sermon +upon these words, "So run that ye may obtain." After dinner all alone to +Westminster. At Whitehall I met with Mr. Pierce and his wife (she newly +come forth after childbirth) both in mourning for the Duke of Gloucester. +She went with Mr. Child to Whitehall chapel and Mr. Pierce with me to the +Abbey, where I expected to hear Mr. Baxter or Mr. Rowe preach their +farewell sermon, and in Mr. Symons's pew I sat and heard Mr. Rowe. +Before sermon I laughed at the reader, who in his prayer desires of God +that He would imprint his word on the thumbs of our right hands and on +the right great toes of our right feet. In the midst of the sermon some +plaster fell from the top of the Abbey, that made me and all the rest in +our pew afeard, and I wished myself out. After sermon with Mr. Pierce to +Whitehall, and from thence to my Lord, but Diana did not come according +to our agreement. So calling at my father's (where my wife had been this +afternoon but was gone home) I went home. This afternoon, the King +having news of the Princess being come to Margate, he and the Duke of +York went down thither in barges to her. + + + +24th (Office day). From thence to dinner by coach with my wife to my +Cozen Scott's, and the company not being come, I went over the way to the +Barber's. So thither again to dinner, where was my uncle Fenner and my +aunt, my father and mother, and others. Among the rest my Cozen Rich. +Pepys, + + [Richard Pepys, eldest son of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of + Ireland. He went to Boston, Mass., in 1634, and returned to England + about 1646.] + +their elder brother, whom I had not seen these fourteen years, ever since +he came from New England. It was strange for us to go a gossiping to +her, she having newly buried her child that she was brought to bed of. +I rose from table and went to the Temple church, where I had appointed +Sir W. Batten to meet him; and there at Sir Heneage Finch Sollicitor +General's chambers, before him and Sir W. Wilde, + + [William Wilde, elected Recorder on November 3rd, 1659, and + appointed one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles + II. to return to England immediately. He was knighted after the + King's return, called to the degree of Serjeant, and created a + baronet, all in the same year. In 1668 he ceased to be Recorder, + and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1673 he + was removed to the King's Bench. He was turned out of his office in + 1679 on account of his action in connection with the Popish Plot, + and died November 23rd of the same year.] + +Recorder of London (whom we sent for from his chamber) we were sworn +justices of peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton; with which +honour I did find myself mightily pleased, though I am wholly ignorant in +the duty of a justice of peace. From thence with Sir William to +Whitehall by water (old Mr. Smith with us) intending to speak with +Secretary Nicholas about the augmentation of our salaries, but being +forth we went to the Three Tuns tavern, where we drank awhile, and then +came in Col. Slingsby and another gentleman and sat with us. From thence +to my Lord's to enquire whether they have had any thing from my Lord or +no. Knocking at the door, there passed me Mons. L'Impertinent [Mr. +Butler] for whom I took a coach and went with him to a dancing meeting in +Broad Street, at the house that was formerly the glass-house, Luke +Channel, Master of the School, where I saw good dancing, but it growing +late, and the room very full of people and so very hot, I went home. + + + +25th. To the office, where Sir W. Batten, Colonel Slingsby, and I sat +awhile, and Sir R. Ford + + [Sir Richard Ford was one of the commissioners sent to Breda to + desire Charles II. to return to England immediately.] + +coming to us about some business, we talked together of the interest of +this kingdom to have a peace with Spain and a war with France and +Holland; where Sir R. Ford talked like a man of great reason and +experience. And afterwards I did send for a cup of tee' + + [That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called + by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the + Sultaness Head Coffee-House, in Sweetings Rents, by the Royal + Exchange, London." "Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called + tee, sold in almost every street in 1659."--Rugge's Diurnal. It is + stated in "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, + p. 593 "that the word tea occurs on no other tokens than those + issued from 'the Great Turk' (Morat ye Great) coffeehouse in + Exchange Alley. The Dutch East India Company introduced tea into + Europe in 16io, and it is said to have been first imported into + England from Holland about 1650. The English "East India Company" + purchased and presented 2 lbs. of tea to Charles II. in 1660, and 23 + lbs. in 1666. The first order for its importation by the company + was in 1668, and the first consignment of it, amounting to 143 lbs., + was received from Bantam in 1669 (see Sir George Birdwood's "Report + on the Old Records at the India Office," 1890, p. 26). By act 12 + Car. II., capp. 23, 24, a duty of 8d. per gallon was imposed upon + the infusion of tea, as well as on chocolate and sherbet.] + +(a China drink) of which I never had drank before, and went away. Then +came Col. Birch and Sir R. Browne by a former appointment, and with them +from Tower wharf in the barge belonging to our office we went to Deptford +to pay off the ship Success, which (Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen coming +afterwards to us) we did, Col. Birch being a mighty busy man and one that +is the most indefatigable and forward to make himself work of any man +that ever I knew in my life. At the Globe we had a very good dinner, and +after that to the pay again, which being finished we returned by water +again, and I from our office with Col. Slingsby by coach to Westminster +(I setting him down at his lodgings by the way) to inquire for my Lord's +coming thither (the King and the Princess + + ["The Princess Royall came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water, + attended by a noble retinue of about one hundred persons, gentry, + and servants, and tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took + that opportunity to advance their fortunes, by coming in with so + excellent a Princess as without question she is."-Rugge's Diurnal. + A broadside, entitled "Ourania, the High and Mighty Lady the + Princess Royal of Aurange, congratulated on her most happy arrival, + September the 25th, 1660," was printed on the 29th.] + +coming up the river this afternoon as we were at our pay), and I found +him gone to Mr. Crew's, where I found him well, only had got some corns +upon his foot which was not well yet. My Lord told me how the ship that +brought the Princess and him (The Tredagh) did knock six times upon the +Kentish Knock, + + [A shoal in the North Sea, off the Thames mouth, outside the Long + Sand, fifteen miles N.N.E. of the North Foreland. It measures seven + miles north-eastward, and about two miles in breadth. It is partly + dry at low water. A revolving light was set up in 1840.] + +which put them in great fear for the ship; but got off well. He told me +also how the King had knighted Vice-Admiral Lawson and Sir Richard +Stayner. From him late and by coach home, where the plasterers being at +work in all the rooms in my house, my wife was fain to make a bed upon +the ground for her and me, and so there we lay all night. + + + +26th. Office day. That done to the church, to consult about our +gallery. So home to dinner, where I found Mrs. Hunt, who brought me a +letter for me to get my Lord to sign for her husband, which I shall do +for her. At home with the workmen all the afternoon, our house being in +a most sad pickle. In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading +of Speed's Geography for a while. So home thinking to have found Will at +home, but he not being come home but gone somewhere else I was very +angry, and when he came did give him a very great check for it, and so I +went to bed. + + + +27th. To my Lord at Mr. Crew's, and there took order about some business +of his, and from thence home to my workmen all the afternoon. In the +evening to my Lord's, and there did read over with him and Dr. Walker my +lord's new commission for sea, and advised thereupon how to have it +drawn. So home and to bed. + + + +28th (Office day). This morning Sir W. Batten and Col. Slingsby went +with Col. Birch and Sir Wm. Doyly to Chatham to pay off a ship there. So +only Sir W. Pen and I left here in town. All the afternoon among my +workmen till 10 or 11 at night, and did give them drink and very merry +with them, it being my luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on +all occasions. To bed. + + + +29th. All day at home to make an end of our dirty work of the +plasterers, and indeed my kitchen is now so handsome that I did not +repent of all the trouble that I have been put to, to have it done. This +day or yesterday, I hear, Prince Rupert + + [This is the first mention in the Diary of this famous prince, third + son of Frederick, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth, + daughter of James I., born December 17th, 1619. He died at his + house in Spring Gardens, November 29th, 1682.] + +is come to Court; but welcome to nobody. + + + +30th (Lord's day). To our Parish church both forenoon and afternoon all +alone. At night went to bed without prayers, my house being every where +foul above stairs. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed +Diana did not come according to our agreement +Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand +Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up +Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore +Hand i' the cap +Hired her to procure this poor soul for him +I fear is not so good as she should be +I was angry with her, which I was troubled for +I was exceeding free in dallying with her, and she not unfree +Ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch +King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising +Kissed them myself very often with a great deal of mirth +My luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions +Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink +Upon the leads gazing upon Diana + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v7 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER + 1660 + + +October 1st. Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give me +some work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office. Dined at +home, and my father by chance with me. After dinner he and I advised +about hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, the +painters beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to the +Miter, where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), while +I drank a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of +the Charles, who came to see me. Here we staid and drank three or four +pints of wine and so parted. I home to look after my workmen, and at +night to bed. The Commissioners are very busy disbanding of the army, +which they say do cause great robbing. My layings out upon my house an +furniture are so great that I fear I shall not be able to go through them +without breaking one of my bags of L100, I having but L200 yet in the +world. + + + +2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning visited +before I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his lying out +of doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come any more +into his house, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide him for +doing so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would speak to my +father. At Whitehall I met with Captain Clerk, and took him to the Leg +in King Street, and did give him a dish or two of meat, and his purser +that was with him, for his old kindness to me on board. After dinner I +to Whitehall, where I met with Mrs. Hunt, and was forced to wait upon Mr. +Scawen at a committee to speak for her husband, which I did. After that +met with Luellin, Mr. Fage, and took them both to the Dog, and did give +them a glass of wine. After that at Will's I met with Mr. Spicer, and +with him to the Abbey to see them at vespers. There I found but a thin +congregation already. So I see that religion, be it what it will, is but +a humour, + + [The four humours of the body described by the old physicians were + supposed to exert their influence upon the mind, and in course of + time the mind as well as the body was credited with its own + particular humours. The modern restricted use of the word humour + did not become general until the eighteenth century.] + +and so the esteem of it passeth as other things do. From thence with him +to see Robin Shaw, who has been a long time ill, and I have not seen him +since I came from sea. He is much changed, but in hopes to be well +again. From thence by coach to my father's, and discoursed with him +about Tom, and did give my advice to take him home again, which I think +he will do in prudence rather than put him upon learning the way of being +worse. So home, and from home to Major Hart, who is just going out of +town to-morrow, and made much of me, and did give me the oaths of +supremacy and allegiance, that I may be capable of my arrears. So home +again, where my wife tells me what she has bought to-day, namely, a bed +and furniture for her chamber, with which very well pleased I went to +bed. + + + +3d. With Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to White Hall, where a meeting +of the Dukes of York and Albemarle, my Lord Sandwich and all the +principal officers, about the Winter Guard, but we determined of nothing. +To my Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to White Hall; and I saw it +carried, into the King's closet, where I saw most incomparable pictures. +Among the rest a book open upon a desk, which I durst have sworn was a +reall book, and back again to my Lord, and dined all alone with him, who +do treat me with a great deal of respect; and after dinner did discourse +an hour with me, and advise about some way to get himself some money to +make up for all his great expenses, saying that he believed that he might +have any thing that he would ask of the King. This day Mr. Sheply and +all my Lord's goods came from sea, some of them laid of the Wardrobe and +some brought to my Lord's house. From thence to our office, where we met +and did business, and so home and spent the evening looking upon the +painters that are at work in my house. This day I heard the Duke speak +of a great design that he and my Lord of Pembroke have, and a great many +others, of sending a venture to some parts of Africa to dig for gold ore +there. They intend to admit as many as will venture their money, and so +make themselves a company. L250 is the lowest share for every man. But +I do not find that my Lord do much like it. At night Dr. Fairbrother +(for so he is lately made of the Civil Law) brought home my wife by +coach, it being rainy weather, she having been abroad today to buy more +furniture for her house. + + + +4th. This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office all +alone, and being visited by Lieut. Lambert of the Charles (to whom I was +formerly much beholden), I took him along with me to a little alehouse +hard by our office, whither my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner had sent for +me to show me two gentlemen that had a great desire to be known to me, +one his name is Pepys, of our family, but one that I never heard of +before, and the other a younger son of Sir Tho. Bendishes, and so we all +called cozens. After sitting awhile and drinking, my two new cozens, +myself, and Lieut. Lambert went by water to Whitehall, and from thence I +and Lieut. Lambert to Westminster Abbey, where we saw Dr. Frewen +translated to the Archbishoprick of York. Here I saw the Bishops of +Winchester, Bangor, Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Salisbury, all in +their habits, in King Henry Seventh's chappell. But, Lord! at their +going out, how people did most of them look upon them as strange +creatures, and few with any kind of love or respect. From thence at 2 to +my Lord's, where we took Mr. Sheply and Wm. Howe to the Raindeer, and had +some oysters, which were very good, the first I have eat this year. So +back to my Lord's to dinner, and after dinner Lieut. Lambert and I did +look upon my Lord's model, and he told me many things in a ship that I +desired to understand. From thence by water I (leaving Lieut. Lambert at +Blackfriars) went home, and there by promise met with Robert Shaw and +Jack Spicer, who came to see me, and by the way I met upon Tower Hill +with Mr. Pierce the surgeon and his wife, and took them home and did give +them good wine, ale, and anchovies, and staid them till night, and so +adieu. Then to look upon my painters that are now at work in my house. +At night to bed. + + + +5th. Office day; dined at home, and all the afternoon at home to see my +painters make an end of their work, which they did to-day to my content, +and I am in great joy to see my house likely once again to be clean. At +night to bed. + + + +6th. Col. Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch ready for the +Prince de Ligne to carry his things away to-day, who is now going home +again. About noon comes my cozen H. Alcock, for whom I brought a letter +for my Lord to sign to my Lord Broghill for some preferment in Ireland, +whither he is now a-going. After him comes Mr. Creed, who brought me +some books from Holland with him, well bound and good books, which I +thought he did intend to give me, but I found that I must pay him. He +dined with me at my house, and from thence to Whitehall together, where I +was to give my Lord an account of the stations and victualls of the fleet +in order to the choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, to bring +over the Queen, but my Lord not coming in before 9 at night I staid no +longer for him, but went back again home and so to bed. + + + +7th (Lord's day). To White Hall on foot, calling at my father's to +change my long black cloak for a short one (long cloaks being now quite +out); but he being gone to church, I could not get one, and therefore I +proceeded on and came to my Lord before he went to chapel and so went +with him, where I heard Dr. Spurstow preach before the King a poor dry +sermon; but a very good anthem of Captn. Cooke's afterwards. Going out +of chapel I met with Jack Cole, my old friend (whom I had not seen a +great while before), and have promised to renew acquaintance in London +together. To my Lord's and dined with him; he all dinner time talking +French to me, and telling me the story how the Duke of York hath got my +Lord Chancellor's daughter with child, + + [Anne Hyde, born March 12th, 1637, daughter of Edward, first Earl of + Clarendon. She was attached to the court of the Princess of Orange, + daughter of Charles I., 1654, and contracted to James, Duke of York, + at Breda, November 24th, 1659. The marriage was avowed in London + September 3rd, 1660. She joined the Church of Rome in 1669, and + died March 31st, 1671.] + +and that she, do lay it to him, and that for certain he did promise her +marriage, and had signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth had +got the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King would have him to +marry her, but that he will not. + + [The Duke of York married Anne Hyde, and he avowed the marriage + September 3rd, so that Pepys was rather behindhand in his + information.] + +So that the thing is very bad for the Duke, and them all; but my Lord do +make light of it, as a thing that he believes is not a new thing for the +Duke to do abroad. Discoursing concerning what if the Duke should marry +her, my Lord told me that among his father's many old sayings that he had +wrote in a book of his, this is one--that he that do get a wench with +child and marry her afterwards is as if a man should ---- in his hat and +then clap it on his head. I perceive my Lord is grown a man very +indifferent in all matters of religion, and so makes nothing of these +things. After dinner to the Abbey, where I heard them read the church- +service, but very ridiculously, that indeed I do not in myself like it at +all. A poor cold sermon of Dr. Lamb's, one of the prebends, in his +habit, came afterwards, and so all ended, and by my troth a pitiful sorry +devotion that these men pay. So walked home by land, and before supper I +read part of the Marian persecution in Mr. Fuller. So to supper, +prayers, and to bed. + + + +8th. Office day, and my wife being gone out to buy some household stuff, +I dined all alone, and after dinner to Westminster, in my way meeting Mr. +Moore coming to me, who went back again with me calling at several places +about business, at my father's about gilded leather for my dining room, +at Mr. Crew's about money, at my Lord's about the same, but meeting not +Mr. Sheply there I went home by water, and Mr. Moore with me, who staid +and supped with me till almost 9 at night. We love one another's +discourse so that we cannot part when we do meet. He tells me that the +profit of the Privy Seal is much fallen, for which I am very sorry. He +gone and I to bed. + + + +9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to Deptford, to pay +off two ships. Sir W. Pen and I staid to do business, and afterwards +together to White Hall, where I went to my Lord, and found him in bed not +well, and saw in his chamber his picture,--[Lord Sandwich's portrait by +Lely, see post, 22nd of this same month.]--very well done; and am with +child + + [A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall + and by Spenser. The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the + "New English Dictionary," is Bailey in 1725.] + +till I get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone to sea. To +Whitehall again, where at Mr. Coventry's chamber I met with Sir W. Pen +again, and so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence walked over +the fields to Deptford (the first pleasant walk I have had a great +while), and in our way had a great deal of merry discourse, and find him +to be a merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings very bawdy songs. +So we came and found our gentlemen and Mr. Prin at the pay. About noon +we dined together, and were very merry at table telling of tales. After +dinner to the pay of another ship till 10 at night, and so home in our +barge, a clear moonshine night, and it was 12 o'clock before we got home, +where I found my wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-day by the +upholster, but not being well done I was fretted, and so in a discontent +to bed. I found Mr. Prin a good, honest, plain man, but in his discourse +not very free or pleasant. Among all the tales that passed among us +to-day, he told us of one Damford, that, being a black man, did scald his +beard with mince-pie, and it came up again all white in that place, and +continued to his dying day. Sir W. Pen told us a good jest about some +gentlemen blinding of the drawer, and who he catched was to pay the +reckoning, and so they got away, and the master of the house coming up to +see what his man did, his man got hold of him, thinking it to be one of +the gentlemen, and told him that he was to pay the reckoning. + + + +10th. Office day all the morning. In the afternoon with the upholster +seeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my chamber +and my wife's. At night comes Mr. Moore, and staid late with me to tell +me how Sir Hards. Waller--[Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of Charles I. +judges. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.]--(who only +pleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison, + + [General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme, + appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from Windsor to + Whitehall, in order to his trial. He signed the warrant for the + execution of the King. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the + 13th.] + +&c. were this day arraigned at the bar at the Sessions House, there being +upon the bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, &c.; +such a bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in England! They all +seem to be dismayed, and will all be condemned without question. In Sir +Orlando Bridgman's charge, he did wholly rip up the unjustness of the war +against the King from the beginning, and so it much reflects upon all the +Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned them, yet they must hereby +confess that the King do look upon them as traitors. To-morrow they are +to plead what they have to say. At night to bed. + + + +11th. In the morning to my Lord's, where I met with Mr. Creed, and with +him and Mr. Blackburne to the Rhenish wine house, where we sat drinking +of healths a great while, a thing which Mr. Blackburne formerly would not +upon any terms have done. After we had done there Mr. Creed and I to the +Leg in King Street, to dinner, where he and I and my Will had a good +udder to dinner, and from thence to walk in St. James's Park, where we +observed the several engines at work to draw up water, with which sight I +was very much pleased. Above all the rest, I liked best that which Mr. +Greatorex brought, which is one round thing going within all with a pair +of stairs round; round which being laid at an angle of 45 deg., do carry +up the water with a great deal of ease. Here, in the Park, we met with +Mr. Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpitt to see "The +Moore of Venice," which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; 'by the +same token, a very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see +Desdemona smothered. From thence with Mr. Creed to Hercules Pillars, +where we drank and so parted, and I went home. + + + +12th. Office day all the morning, and from thence with Sir W. Batten and +the rest of the officers to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin, where +dined withal Col. Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major Norwood, very +noble company. After dinner I went home, where I found Mr. Cooke, who +told me that my Lady Sandwich is come to town to-day, whereupon I went to +Westminster to see her, and found her at super, so she made me sit down +all alone with her, and after supper staid and talked with her, she +showing me most extraordinary love and kindness, and do give me good +assurance of my uncle's resolution to make me his heir. From thence home +and to bed. + + + +13th. To my Lord's in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, +but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major- +general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was done there, he +looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was +presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which +there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he was sure +to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had +judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again. Thus it was my +chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the first blood +shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross. From thence +to my Lord's, and took Captain Cuttance and Mr. Sheply to the Sun Tavern, +and did give them some oysters. After that I went by water home, where I +was angry with my wife for her things lying about, and in my passion +kicked the little fine basket, which I bought her in Holland, and broke +it, which troubled me after I had done it. Within all the afternoon +setting up shelves in my study. At night to bed. + + + +14th (Lord's day). Early to my Lord's, in my way meeting with Dr. +Fairbrother, who walked with me to my father's back again, and there we +drank my morning draft, my father having gone to church and my mother +asleep in bed. Here he caused me to put my hand among a great many +honorable hands to a paper or certificate in his behalf. To White Hall +chappell, where one Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after it +an anthem, ill sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first did see the +Princess Royal since she came into England. Here I also observed, how +the Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly +through the hangings that parts the King's closet and the closet where +the ladies sit. To my Lord's, where I found my wife, and she and I did +dine with my Lady (my Lord dining with my Lord Chamberlain), who did +treat my wife with a good deal of respect. In the evening we went home +through the rain by water in a sculler, having borrowed some coats of Mr. +Sheply. So home, wet and dirty, and to bed. + + + +15th. Office all the morning. My wife and I by water; I landed her at +Whitefriars, she went to my father's to dinner, it being my father's +wedding day, there being a very great dinner, and only the Fenners and +Joyces there. This morning Mr. Carew + + [John Carew signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I. He + held the religion of the Fifth Monarchists, and was tried October + 12th, 1660. He refused to avail himself of many opportunities of + escape, and suffered death with much composure.] + +was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a great +favour, are not to be hanged up. I was forced to go to my Lord's to get +him to meet the officers of the Navy this afternoon, and so could not go +along with her, but I missed my Lord, who was this day upon the bench at +the Sessions house. So I dined there, and went to White Hall, where I +met with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who with the Comptroller, Treasurer, and +Mr. Coventry (at his chamber) made up a list of such ships as are fit to +be kept out for the winter guard, and the rest to be paid off by the +Parliament when they can get money, which I doubt will not be a great +while. That done, I took coach, and called my wife at my father's, and +so homewards, calling at Thos. Pepys the turner's for some things that we +wanted. And so home, where I fell to read "The Fruitless Precaution" (a +book formerly recommended by Dr. Clerke at sea to me), which I read in +bed till I had made an end of it, and do find it the best writ tale that +ever I read in my life. After that done to sleep, which I did not very +well do, because that my wife having a stopping in her nose she snored +much, which I never did hear her do before. + + + +16th. This morning my brother Tom came to me, with whom I made even for +my last clothes to this day, and having eaten a dish of anchovies with +him in the morning, my wife and I did intend to go forth to see a play at +the Cockpit this afternoon, but Mr. Moore coming to me, my wife staid at +home, and he and I went out together, with whom I called at the +upholsters and several other places that I had business with, and so home +with him to the Cockpit, where, understanding that "Wit without money" +was acted, I would not stay, but went home by water, by the way reading +of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night, +which I do not like so well as it. Being come home, Will. told me that +my Lord had a mind to speak with me to-night; so I returned by water, +and, coming there, it was only to enquire how the ships were provided +with victuals that are to go with him to fetch over the Queen, which I +gave him a good account of. He seemed to be in a melancholy humour, +which, I was told by W. Howe, was for that he had lately lost a great +deal of money at cards, which he fears he do too much addict himself to +now-a-days. So home by water and to bed. + + + +17th. Office day. At noon came Mr. Creed to me, whom I took along with +me to the Feathers in Fish Street, where I was invited by Captain +Cuttance to dinner, a dinner made by Mr. Dawes and his brother. We had +two or three dishes of meat well done; their great design was to get me +concerned in a business of theirs about a vessel of theirs that is in the +service, hired by the King, in which I promise to do them all the service +I can. From thence home again with Mr. Crew, where I finding Mrs. The. +Turner and her aunt Duke I would not be seen but walked in the garden +till they were gone, where Mr. Spong came to me and Mr. Creed, Mr. Spong +and I went to our music to sing, and he being gone, my wife and I went to +put up my books in order in closet, and I to give her her books. After +that to bed. + + + +18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtell +should die, I went to Newgate, but found they were reprieved till to- +morrow. So to my aunt Fenner's, where with her and my uncle I drank my +morning draft. So to my father's, and did give orders for a pair of +black baize linings to be made me for my breeches against to-morrow +morning, which was done. So to my Lord's, where I spoke with my Lord, +and he would have had me dine with him, but I went thence to Mr. +Blackburne, where I met my wife and my Will's father and mother +(the first time that ever I saw them), where we had a very fine dinner. +Mr. Creed was also there. This day by her high discourse I found Mrs. +Blackburne to be a very high dame and a costly one. Home with my wife by +coach. This afternoon comes Mr. Chaplin and N. Osborn to my house, of +whom I made very much, and kept them with me till late, and so to bed. +At my coming home. I did find that The. Turner hath sent for a pair of +doves that my wife had promised her; and because she did not send them in +the best cage, she sent them back again with a scornful letter, with +which I was angry, but yet pretty well pleased that she was crossed. + + +19th. Office in the morning. This morning my dining-room was finished +with green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome. This +morning Hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. +This night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrow +for my Lord. I found him to be above L80 in my debt, which is a good +sight, and I bless God for it. + + + +20th. This morning one came to me to advise with me where to make me a +window into my cellar in lieu of one which Sir W. Batten had stopped up, +and going down into my cellar to look I stepped into a great heap of ---- +by which I found that Mr. Turner's house of office is full and comes into +my cellar, which do trouble me, but I shall have it helped. To my Lord's +by land, calling at several places about business, where I dined with my +Lord and Lady; when he was very merry, and did talk very high how he +would have a French cook, and a master of his horse, and his lady and +child to wear black patches; which methought was strange, but he is +become a perfect courtier; and, among other things, my Lady saying that +she could get a good merchant for her daughter Jem., he answered, that he +would rather see her with a pedlar's pack at her back, so she married a +gentleman, than she should marry a citizen. This afternoon, going +through London, and calling at Crowe's the upholster's, in Saint +Bartholomew's, I saw the limbs of some of our new traitors set upon +Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to see; and a bloody week this and the +last have been, there being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered. Home, and +after writing a letter to my uncle by the post, I went to bed. + + + +21st (Lord's day). To the Parish church in the morning, where a good +sermon by Mr. Mills. After dinner to my Lord's, and from thence to the +Abbey, where I met Spicer and D. Vines and others of the old crew. So +leaving my boy at the Abbey against I came back, we went to Prior's by +the Hall back door, but there being no drink to be had we went away, and +so to the Crown in the Palace Yard, I and George Vines by the way calling +at their house, where he carried me up to the top of his turret, where +there is Cooke's head set up for a traytor, and Harrison's set up on the +other side of Westminster Hall. Here I could see them plainly, as also a +very fair prospect about London. From the Crown to the Abbey to look for +my boy, but he was gone thence, and so he being a novice I was at a loss +what was become of him. I called at my Lord's (where I found Mr. Adams, +Mr. Sheply's friend) and at my father's, but found him not. So home, +where I found him, but he had found the way home well enough, of which I +was glad. So after supper, and reading of some chapters, I went to bed. +This day or two my wife has been troubled with her boils in the old +place, which do much trouble her. Today at noon (God forgive me) I +strung my lute, which I had not touched a great while before. + + + +22nd. Office day; after that to dinner at home upon some ribs of roast +beef from the Cook's (which of late we have been forced to do because of +our house being always under the painters' and other people's hands, that +we could not dress it ourselves). After dinner to my Lord's, where I +found all preparing for my Lord's going to sea to fetch the Queen +tomorrow. At night my Lord came home, with whom I staid long, and talked +of many things. Among others I got leave to have his picture, that was +done by Lilly, + + [Peter Lely, afterwards knighted. He lived in the Piazza, Covent + Garden. This portrait was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys + Cockerell's sale in 1848, and is now at Audley End.] + +copied, and talking of religion, I found him to be a perfect Sceptic, and +said that all things would not be well while there was so much preaching, +and that it would be better if nothing but Homilies were to be read in +Churches. This afternoon (he told me) there hath been a meeting before +the King and my Lord Chancellor, of some Episcopalian and Presbyterian +Divines; but what had passed he could not tell me. After I had done talk +with him, I went to bed with Mr. Sheply in his chamber, but could hardly +get any sleep all night, the bed being ill made and he a bad bedfellow. + + + +23rd. We rose early in the morning to get things ready for My Lord, and +Mr. Sheply going to put up his pistols (which were charged with bullets) +into the holsters, one of them flew off, and it pleased God that, the +mouth of the gun being downwards, it did us no hurt, but I think I never +was in more danger in my life, which put me into a great fright. About +eight o'clock my Lord went; and going through the garden my Lord met with +Mr. William Montagu, who told him of an estate of land lately come into +the King's hands, that he had a mind my Lord should beg. To which end my +Lord writ a letter presently to my Lord Chancellor to do it for him, +which (after leave taken of my Lord at White Hall bridge) I did carry to +Warwick House to him; and had a fair promise of him, that he would do it +this day for my Lord. In my way thither I met the Lord Chancellor and +all the judges riding on horseback and going to Westminster Hall, it +being the first day of the term, which was the first time I ever saw any +such solemnity. Having done there I returned to Whitehall, where meeting +with my brother Ashwell and his cozen Sam. Ashwell and Mr. Mallard, I +took them to the Leg in King Street and gave them a dish of meat for +dinner and paid for it. From thence going to Whitehall I met with Catan +Stirpin in mourning, who told me that her mistress was lately dead of the +small pox, and that herself was now married to Monsieur Petit, as also +what her mistress had left her, which was very well. She also took me to +her lodging at an Ironmonger's in King Street, which was but very poor, +and I found by a letter that she shewed me of her husband's to the King, +that he is a right Frenchman, and full of their own projects, he having a +design to reform the universities, and to institute schools for the +learning of all languages, to speak them naturally and not by rule, which +I know will come to nothing. From thence to my Lord's, where I went +forth by coach to Mrs. Parker's with my Lady, and so to her house again. +From thence I took my Lord's picture, and carried it to Mr. de Cretz to +be copied. So to White Hall, where I met Mr. Spong, and went home with +him and played, and sang, and eat with him and his mother. After supper +we looked over many books, and instruments of his, especially his wooden +jack in his chimney, which goes with the smoke, which indeed is very +pretty. I found him to be as ingenious and good-natured a man as ever I +met with in my life, and cannot admire him enough, he being so plain and +illiterate a man as he is. From thence by coach home and to bed, which +was welcome to me after a night's absence. + + + +24th. I lay and slept long to-day. Office day. I took occasion to be +angry with my wife before I rose about her putting up of half a crown of +mine in a paper box, which she had forgot where she had lain it. But we +were friends again as we are always. Then I rose to Jack Cole, who came +to see me. Then to the office, so home to dinner, where I found Captain +Murford, who did put L3 into my hands for a friendship I had done him, +but I would not take it, but bade him keep it till he has enough to buy +my wife a necklace. This afternoon people at work in my house to make a +light in my yard into my cellar. To White Hall, in my way met with Mr. +Moore, who went back with me. He tells me, among other things, that the +Duke of York is now sorry for his lying with my Lord Chancellor's +daughter, who is now brought to bed of a boy. From Whitehall to Mr. De +Cretz, who I found about my Lord's picture. From thence to Mr. Lilly's, +where, not finding Mr. Spong, I went to Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, +and so to an alehouse, where I bought of him a drawing-pen; and he did +show me the manner of the lamp-glasses, which carry the light a great +way, good to read in bed by, and I intend to have one of them. So to Mr. +Lilly's with Mr. Spong, where well received, there being a club to-night +among his friends. Among the rest Esquire Ashmole, who I found was a +very ingenious gentleman. With him we two sang afterward in Mr. Lilly's +study. That done, we all pared; and I home by coach, taking Mr. Booker' +with me, who did tell me a great many fooleries, which may be done by +nativities, and blaming Mr. Lilly for writing to please his friends and +to keep in with the times (as he did formerly to his own dishonour), and +not according to the rules of art, by which he could not well err, as he +had done. I set him down at Lime-street end, and so home, where I found +a box of Carpenter's tools sent by my cozen, Thomas Pepys, which I had +bespoke of him for to employ myself with sometimes. To bed. + + + +25th. All day at home doing something in order to the fitting of my +house. In the evening to Westminster about business. So home and to +bed. This night the vault at the end of the cellar was emptied. + + + +26th. Office. My father and Dr. Thomas Pepys dined at my house, the +last of whom I did almost fox with Margate ale. My father is mightily +pleased with my ordering of my house. I did give him money to pay +several bills. After that I to Westminster to White Hall, where I saw +the Duke de Soissons go from his audience with a very great deal of +state: his own coach all red velvet covered with gold lace, and drawn by +six barbes, and attended by twenty pages very rich in clothes. To +Westminster Hall, and bought, among, other books, one of the Life of our +Queen, which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ, that +we did nothing but laugh at it: among other things it is dedicated to +that paragon of virtue and beauty, the Duchess of Albemarle. Great talk +as if the Duke of York do now own the marriage between him and the +Chancellor's daughter. + + + +27th. In London and Westminster all this day paying of money and buying +of things for my house. In my going I went by chance by my new Lord +Mayor's house (Sir Richard Browne), by Goldsmith's Hall, which is now +fitting, and indeed is a very pretty house. In coming back I called at +Paul's Churchyard and bought Alsted's Encyclopaedia,' which cost me 38s. +Home and to bed, my wife being much troubled with her old pain. + + + +28th (Lord's day). There came some pills and plaister this morning from +Dr. Williams for my wife. I to Westminster Abbey, where with much +difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being a +great day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done after +sermon; but I could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappell. So I went +to my Lord's, where I dined with my Lady, and my young Lord, and Mr. +Sidney, who was sent for from Twickenham to see my Lord Mayor's show +to-morrow. Mr. Child did also dine with us. After dinner to White Hall +chappell; my Lady and my Lady Jemimah and I up to the King's closet (who +is now gone to meet the Queen). So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did +know my Lady, he did take us into the King's closet, and there we did +stay all service-time, which I did think a great honour. We went home to +my Lord's lodgings afterwards, and there I parted with my Lady and went +home, where I did find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed. + + + +29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor's day, + + [When the calendar was reformed in England by the act 24 Geo. II. + c. 23, different provisions were made as regards those anniversaries + which affect directly the rights of property and those which do not. + Thus the old quarter days are still noted in our almanacs, and a + curious survival of this is brought home to payers of income tax. + The fiscal year still begins on old Lady-day, which now falls on + April 6th. All ecclesiastical fasts and feasts and other + commemorations which did not affect the rights of property were left + on their nominal days, such as the execution of Charles I. on + January 30th and the restoration of Charles II. on May 29th. The + change of Lord Mayor's day from the 29th of October to the 9th of + November was not made by the act for reforming the calendar (c. + 23), but by another act of the same session (c. 48), entitled "An + Act for the Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term," by which it was + enacted, "that from and after the said feast of St. Michael, which + shall be in the year 1752, the said solemnity of presenting and + swearing the mayors of the city of London, after every annual + election into the said office, in the manner and form heretofore + used on the 29th day of October, shall be kept and observed on the + ninth day of November in every year, unless the same shall fall on + a Sunday, and in that case on the day following."] + +(Sir Richd. Browne), and neglecting my office I went to the Wardrobe, +where I met my Lady Sandwich and all the children; and after drinking of +some strange and incomparable good clarett of Mr. Rumball's he and Mr. +Townsend did take us, and set the young Lords at one Mr. Nevill's, a +draper in Paul's churchyard; and my Lady and my Lady Pickering and I to +one Mr. Isaacson's, a linendraper at the Key in Cheapside; where there +was a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had a +very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, +for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. After +the ladies were placed I took Mr. Townsend and Isaacson to the next door, +a tavern, and did spend 5s. upon them. The show being done, we got as +far as Paul's with much ado, where I left my Lady in the coach, and went +on foot with my Lady Pickering to her lodging, which was a poor one in +Blackfryars, where she never invited me to go in at all, which methought +was very strange for her to do. So home, where I was told how my Lady +Davis is now come to our next lodgings, and has locked up the leads door +from me, which puts me into so great a disquiet that I went to bed, and +could not sleep till morning at it. + + + +30th. Within all the morning and dined at home, my mind being so +troubled that I could not mind nor do anything till I spoke with the +Comptroller to whom the lodgings belong. In the afternoon, to ease my +mind, I went to the Cockpit all alone, and there saw a very fine play +called "The Tamer Tamed;" very well acted. That being done, I went to +Mr. Crew's, where I had left my boy, and so with him and Mr. Moore (who +would go a little way with me home, as he will always do) to the Hercules +Pillars to drink, where we did read over the King's declaration in +matters of religion, which is come out to-day, which is very well penned, +I think to the satisfaction of most people. So home, where I am told Mr. +Davis's people have broken open the bolt of my chamber door that goes +upon the leads, which I went up to see and did find it so, which did +still trouble me more and more. And so I sent for Griffith, and got him +to search their house to see what the meaning of it might be, but can +learn nothing to-night. But I am a little pleased that I have found this +out. I hear nothing yet of my Lord, whether he be gone for the Queen +from the Downs or no; but I believe he is, and that he is now upon coming +back again. + + + +31st Office day. Much troubled all this morning in my mind about the +business of my walk on the leads. I spoke of it to the Comptroller and +the rest of the principal officers, who are all unwilling to meddle in +anything that may anger my Lady Davis. And so I am fain to give over for +the time that she do continue therein. Dined at home, and after dinner +to Westminster Hall, where I met with Billing the quaker at Mrs. +Michell's shop, who is still of the former opinion he was of against the +clergymen of all sorts, and a cunning fellow I find him to be. Home, and +there I had news that Sir W. Pen is resolved to ride to Sir W. Batten's +country house to-morrow, and would have me go with him, so I sat up late, +getting together my things to ride in, and was fain to cut an old pair of +boots to make leathers for those I was to wear. This month I conclude +with my mind very heavy for the loss of the leads, as also for the +greatness of my late expenses, insomuch that I do not think that I have +above L150 clear money in the world, but I have, I believe, got a great +deal of good household stuff: I hear to-day that the Queen is landed at +Dover, and will be here on Friday next, November 2nd. My wife has been +so ill of late of her old pain that I have not known her this fortnight +almost, which is a pain to me. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER + 1660 + + +November 1st. This morning Sir W. Pen and I were mounted early, and had +very merry discourse all the way, he being very good company. We came to +Sir W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we were made very +welcome. Among other things he showed us my Lady's closet, where was +great store of rarities; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry's +chair, where he that sits down is catched with two irons, that come round +about him, which makes good sport. Here dined with us two or three more +country gentle men; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my old school-fellow, +with whom I had much talk. He did remember that I was a great Roundhead +when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he would have remembered the +words that I said the day the King was beheaded (that, were I to preach +upon him, my text should be "The memory of the wicked shall rot"); but I +found afterwards that he did go away from school before that time. + + [Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this + year Phieas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was + dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken + disrespectfully of the King. See ante, August 23rd.] + +He did make us good sport in imitating Mr. Case, Ash, and Nye, the +ministers, which he did very well, but a deadly drinker he is, and grown +exceeding fat. From his house to an ale-house near the church, where we +sat and drank and were merry, and so we mounted for London again, Sir W. +Batten with us. We called at Bow and drank there, and took leave of Mr. +Johnson of Blackwall, who dined with us and rode with us thus far. So +home by moonlight, it being about 9 o'clock before we got home. + + + +2nd. Office. Then dined at home, and by chance Mr. Holliard + + [Thomas Holliard or Hollier was appointed in 1638 surgeon for scald + heads at St. Thomas's Hospital, and on January 25th, 1643-4, he was + chosen surgeon in place of Edward Molins. In 1670 his son of the + same names was allowed to take his place during his illness. Ward, + in his Diary, p. 235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas's + Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr. Holyard's having cut thirty for + the stone in one year, who all lived.] + +called at dinner time and dined with me, with whom I had great discourse +concerning the cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether any +effect at all. In the afternoon I went forth and saw some silver bosses +put upon my new Bible, which cost me 6s. 6d. the making, and 7s. 6d. +the silver, which, with 9s. 6d. the book, comes in all to L1 3s. 6d. +From thence with Mr. Cooke that made them, and Mr. Stephens the +silversmith to the tavern, and did give them a pint of wine. So to White +Hall, where when I came I saw the boats going very thick to Lambeth, and +all the stairs to be full of people. I was told the Queen was a-coming; + + ["Nov. 2. The Queen-mother and the Princess Henrietta came into + London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago. Her + coming was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and the + Duke of York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all + safely arrived at Whitehall.--"Rugge's Diurnal.] + +so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again, but I +could not get to see the Queen; so come back, and to my Lord's, where he +was come; and I supt with him, he being very merry, telling merry stories +of the country mayors, how they entertained the King all the way as he +come along; and how the country gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be +kissed by the King, not taking his hand to kiss as they should do. I +took leave of my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at White Hall and +carried Mr. Childe as far as the Strand, and myself got as far as Ludgate +by all the bonfires, but with a great deal of trouble; and there the +coachman desired that I would release him, for he durst not go further +for the fires. So he would have had a shilling or 6d. for bringing of me +so far; but I had but 3d. about me and did give him it. In Paul's +church-yard I called at Kirton's, and there they had got a mass book for +me, which I bought and cost me twelve shillings; and, when I came home, +sat up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear that +she was long ago so well acquainted with. So to bed. I observed this +night very few bonfires in the City, not above three in all London, for +the Queen's coming; whereby I guess that (as I believed before) her +coming do please but very few. + + + +3d. Saturday. At home all the morning. In the afternoon to White Hall, +where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queene's hand. To +Westminster Hall, where I met with Tom Doling, and we two took Mrs. Lane +to the alehouse, where I made her angry with commending of Tom Newton and +her new sweetheart to be both too good for her, so that we parted with +much anger, which made Tom and me good sport. So home to write letters +by the post, and so to bed. + + + +4th (Lord's day). In the morn to our own church, where Mr. Mills did +begin to nibble at the Common Prayer, by saying "Glory be to the Father, +&c." after he had read the two psalms; but the people had been so little +used to it, that they could not tell what to answer. This declaration of +the King's do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction, and a pretence to +read the Common Prayer, which they would not do before because of their +former preaching against it. After dinner to Westminster, where I went +to my Lord's, and having spoke with him, I went to the Abbey, where the +first time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral! Thence to my +Lord's, where I found Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and with him and Mr. +Sheply, in our way calling at the Bell to see the seven Flanders mares +that my Lord has bought lately, where we drank several bottles of Hull +ale. Much company I found to come to her, and cannot wonder at it, for +she is very pretty and wanton. Hence to my father's, where I found my +mother in greater and greater pain of the stone. I staid long and drank +with them, and so home and to bed. My wife seemed very pretty to-day, it +being the first time I had given her leave to wear a black patch. + + + +5th (Office day). Being disappointed of money, we failed of going to +Deptford to pay off the Henrietta to-day. Dined at home, and at home all +day, and at the office at night, to make up an account of what the debts +of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that should have been paid off, is +increased since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being to sit +again to-morrow. This 5th of November is observed exceeding well in the +City; and at night great bonfires and fireworks. At night Mr. Moore came +and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many +law notions, in which I took great pleasure. To bed. + + + +6th. In the morning with Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to Westminster, +where at my Lord's I met with Mr. Creed. With him to see my Lord's +picture (now almost done), and thence to Westminster Hall, where we found +the Parliament met to-day, and thence meeting with Mr. Chetwind, I took +them to the Sun, and did give them a barrel of oysters, and had good +discourse; among other things Mr. Chetwind told me how he did fear that +this late business of the Duke of York's would prove fatal to my Lord +Chancellor. From thence Mr. Creed and I to Wilkinson's, and dined +together, and in great haste thence to our office, where we met all, for +the sale of two ships by an inch of candle + + [The old-fashioned custom of sale by auction by inch of candle was + continued in sales by the Admiralty to a somewhat late date. See + September 3rd, 1662.] + +(the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed how +they do invite one another, and at last how they all do cry,--[To cry was +to bid.]--and we have much to do to tell who did cry last. The ships +were the Indian, sold for L1,300, and the Half-moon, sold for L830. +Home, and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged +for the King's death, and found good satisfaction in reading thereof. +At night to bed, and my wife and I did fall out about the dog's being put +down into the cellar, which I had a mind to have done because of his +fouling the house, and I would have my will, and so we went to bed and +lay all night in a quarrel. This night I was troubled all night with a +dream that my wife was dead, which made me that I slept ill all night. + + + +7th (Office day). This day my father came to dine at my house, but being +sent for in the morning I could not stay, but went by water to my Lord, +where I dined with him, and he in a very merry humour (present Mr. +Borfett and Childe) at dinner: he, in discourse of the great opinion of +the virtue--gratitude (which he did account the greatest thing in the +world to him, and had, therefore, in his mind been often troubled in the +late times how to answer his gratitude to the King, who raised his +father), did say it was that did bring him to his obedience to the King; +and did also bless himself with his good fortune, in comparison to what +it was when I was with him in the Sound, when he durst not own his +correspondence with the King; which is a thing that I never did hear of +to this day before; and I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one +of the most secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of +before. After dinner he bid all go out of the room, and did tell me how +the King had promised him L4000 per annum for ever, and had already given +him a bill under his hand (which he showed me) for L4000 that Mr. Fox is +to pay him. My Lord did advise with me how to get this received, and to +put out L3000 into safe hands at use, and the other he will make use of +for his present occasion. This he did advise with me about with much +secresy. After all this he called for the fiddles and books, and we two +and W. Howe, and Mr. Childe, did sing and play some psalmes of Will. +Lawes's, and some songs; and so I went away. So I went to see my Lord's +picture, which is almost done, and do please me very well. Hence to +Whitehall to find out Mr. Fox, which I did, and did use me very civilly, +but I did not see his lady, whom I had so long known when she was a maid, +Mrs. Whittle. From thence meeting my father Bowyer, I took him to Mr. +Harper's, and there drank with him. Among other things in discourse he +told me how my wife's brother had a horse at grass with him, which I was +troubled to hear, it being his boldness upon my score. Home by coach, +and read late in the last night's book of Trials, and told my wife about +her brother's horse at Mr. Bowyer's, who is also much troubled for it, +and do intend to go to-morrow to inquire the truth. Notwithstanding this +was the first day of the King's proclamation against hackney coaches +coming into the streets to stand to be hired, yet I got one to carry me +home. + + ["A Proclamation to restrain the abuses of Hackney Coaches in the + Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof." This is + printed in "Notes and Queries," First Series, vol. viii. p. 122. + "In April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned for + some relief, as the parliament had reduced the number of coaches to + 400; there were before, in and about London, more than 2,000." + --Rugge's Diurnal.] + + + +8th. This morning Sir Wm. and the Treasurer and I went by barge with Sir +Wm. Doyley and Mr. Prin to Deptford, to pay off the Henrietta, and had a +good dinner. I went to Mr. Davys's and saw his house (where I was once +before a great while ago) and I found him a very pretty man. In the +afternoon Commissioner Pett and I went on board the yacht, which indeed +is one of the finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in so +small a vessel. Mr. Pett is to make one to outdo this for the honour of +his country, which I fear he will scarce better. From thence with him as +far as Ratcliffe, where I left him going by water to London, and I +(unwilling to leave the rest of the officers) went back again to +Deptford, and being very much troubled with a sudden looseness, I went +into a little alehouse at the end of Ratcliffe, and did give a groat for +a pot of ale, and there I did . . . [another of the Rev. Wheatley's +censored phrases. D.W.] So went forward in my walk with some men that +were going that way a great pace, and in our way we met with many merry +seamen that had got their money paid them to-day. We sat very late doing +the work and waiting for the tide, it being moonshine we got to London +before two in the morning. So home, where I found my wife up, she shewed +me her head which was very well dressed to-day, she having been to see +her father and mother. So to bed. + + + +9th. Lay long in bed this morning though an office day, because of our +going to bed late last night. Before I went to my office Mr. Creed came +to me about business, and also Mr. Carter, my old Cambridge friend, came +to give me a visit, and I did give them a morning draught in my study. +So to the office, and from thence to dinner with Mr. Wivell at the Hoop +Tavern, where we had Mr. Shepley, Talbot, Adams, Mr. Chaplin and Osborne, +and our dinner given us by Mr. Ady and another, Mr. Wine, the King's +fishmonger. Good sport with Mr. Talbot, who eats no sort of fish, and +there was nothing else till we sent for a neat's tongue. From thence to +Whitehall where I found my Lord, who had an organ set up to-day in his +dining-room, but it seems an ugly one in the form of Bridewell. Thence I +went to Sir Harry Wright's, where my Lord was busy at cards, and so I +staid below with Mrs. Carter and Evans (who did give me a lesson upon the +lute), till he came down, and having talked with him at the door about +his late business of money, I went to my father's and staid late talking +with my father about my sister Pall's coming to live with me if she would +come and be as a servant (which my wife did seem to be pretty willing to +do to-day), and he seems to take it very well, and intends to consider of +it. Home and to bed. + + + +10th. Up early. Sir Wm. Batten and I to make up an account of the wages +of the officers and mariners at sea, ready to present to the Committee of +Parliament this afternoon. Afterwards came the Treasurer and +Comptroller, and sat all the morning with us till the business was done. +So we broke up, leaving the thing to be wrote over fair and carried to +Trinity House for Sir Wm. Batten's hand. When staying very long I found +(as appointed) the Treasurer and Comptroller at Whitehall, and so we went +with a foul copy to the Parliament house, where we met with Sir Thos. +Clarges and Mr. Spry, and after we had given them good satisfaction we +parted. The Comptroller and I to the coffee-house, where he shewed me +the state of his case; how the King did owe him about L6000. But I do +not see great likelihood for them to be paid, since they begin already in +Parliament to dispute the paying of the just sea-debts, which were +already promised to be paid, and will be the undoing of thousands if they +be not paid. So to Whitehall to look but could not find Mr. Fox, and +then to Mr. Moore at Mr. Crew's, but missed of him also. So to Paul's +Churchyard, and there bought Montelion, which this year do not prove so +good as the last was; so after reading it I burnt it. After reading of +that and the comedy of the Rump, which is also very silly, I went to bed. +This night going home, Will and I bought a goose. + + + +11th (Lord's day). This morning I went to Sir W. Batten's about going to +Deptford to-morrow, and so eating some hog's pudding of my Lady's making, +of the hog that I saw a fattening the other day at her house, he and I +went to Church into our new gallery, the first time it was used, and it +not being yet quite finished, there came after us Sir W. Pen, Mr. Davis, +and his eldest son. There being no woman this day, we sat in the +foremost pew, and behind us our servants, and I hope it will not always +be so, it not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us. +This day also did Mr. Mills begin to read all the Common Prayer, which I +was glad of. Home to dinner, and then walked to Whitehall, it being very +cold and foul and rainy weather. I found my Lord at home, and after +giving him an account of some business, I returned and went to my +father's where I found my wife, and there we supped, and Dr. Thomas +Pepys, who my wife told me after I was come home, that he had told my +brother Thomas that he loved my wife so well that if she had a child he +would never marry, but leave all that he had to my child, and after +supper we walked home, my little boy carrying a link, and Will leading my +wife. So home and to prayers and to bed. I should have said that before +I got to my Lord's this day I went to Mr. Fox's at Whitehall, when I +first saw his lady, formerly Mrs. Elizabeth Whittle, whom I had formerly +a great opinion of, and did make an anagram or two upon her name when I +was a boy. She proves a very fine lady, and mother to fine children. +To-day I agreed with Mr. Fox about my taking of the; L4000 of him that +the King had given my Lord. + + + +12th. Lay long in bed to-day. Sir Wm. Batten went this morning to +Deptford to pay off the Wolf. Mr. Comptroller and I sat a while at the +office to do business, and thence I went with him to his house in Lime +Street, a fine house, and where I never was before, and from thence by +coach (setting down his sister at the new Exchange) to Westminster Hall, +where first I met with Jack Spicer and agreed with him to help me to tell +money this afternoon. Hence to De Cretz, where I saw my Lord's picture +finished, which do please me very well. So back to the Hall, where by +appointment I met the Comptroller, and with him and three or four +Parliament men I dined at Heaven, and after dinner called at Will's on +Jack Spicer, and took him to Mr. Fox's, who saved me the labour of +telling me the money by giving me; L3000 by consent (the other L1000 I am +to have on Thursday next), which I carried by coach to the Exchequer, and +put it up in a chest in Spicer's office. From thence walked to my +father's, where I found my wife, who had been with my father to-day, +buying of a tablecloth and a dozen of napkins of diaper [?? D.W.], the +first that ever I bought in my life. My father and I took occasion to go +forth, and went and drank at Mr. Standing's, and there discoursed +seriously about my sister's coming to live with me, which I have much +mind for her good to have, and yet I am much afeard of her ill-nature. +Coming home again, he and I, and my wife, my mother and Pall, went all +together into the little room, and there I told her plainly what my mind +was, to have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant, +which she promised me that she would, and with many thanks did weep for +joy, which did give me and my wife some content and satisfaction. So by +coach home and to bed. The last night I should have mentioned how my +wife and I were troubled all night with the sound of drums in our ears, +which in the morning we found to be Mr. Davys's jack, + + [The date of the origin of smoke jacks does not appear to be known, + but the first patent taken out for an improved smoke-jack by Peter + Clare is dated December 24th, 1770. The smoke jack consists of a + wind-wheel fixed in the chimney, which communicates motion by means + of an endless band to a pulley, whence the motion is transmitted to + the spit by gearing. In the valuable introduction to the volume of + "Abridgments of Specifications relating to Cooking, 1634-1866" + (Patent Office), mention is made of an Italian work by Bartolomeo + Scappi, published first at Rome in 1572, and afterwards reprinted at + Venice in 1622, which gives a complete account of the kitchens of + the time and the utensils used in them. In the plates several + roasting-jacks are represented, one worked by smoke or hot air and + one by a spring.] + +but not knowing the cause of its going all night, I understand to-day +that they have had a great feast to-day. + + + +13th. Early going to my Lord's I met with Mr. Moore, who was going to my +house, and indeed I found him to be a most careful, painful,--[Painful, +i.e. painstaking or laborious. Latimer speaks of the "painful +magistrates."]--and able man in business, and took him by water to the +Wardrobe, and shewed him all the house; and indeed there is a great deal +of room in it, but very ugly till my Lord hath bestowed great cost upon +it. So to the Exchequer, and there took Spicer and his fellow clerks to +the Dog tavern, and did give them a peck of oysters, and so home to +dinner, where I found my wife making of pies and tarts to try, her oven +with, which she has never yet done, but not knowing the nature of it, did +heat it too hot, and so a little overbake her things, but knows how to do +better another time. At home all the afternoon. At night made up my +accounts of my sea expenses in order to my clearing off my imprest bill +of L30 which I had in my hands at the beginning of my voyage; which I +intend to shew to my Lord to-morrow. To bed. + + + +14th (Office day). But this day was the first that we do begin to sit in +the afternoon, and not in the forenoon, and therefore I went into +Cheapside to Mr. Beauchamp's, the goldsmith, to look out a piece of plate +to give Mr. Fox from my Lord, for his favour about the L4,000, and did +choose a gilt tankard. So to Paul's Churchyard and bought "Cornelianum. +dolium:" + + ["Cornelianum dolium" is a Latin comedy, by T. R., published at + London in 1638. Douce attributed it to Thomas Randolph (d. 1635). + The book has a frontispiece representing the sweating tub which, + from the name of the patient, was styled Cornelius's tub. There is + a description of the play in the "European Magazine," vol. xxxvii. + (1805), p. 343] + +So home to dinner, and after that to the office till late at night, and +so Sir W. Pen, the Comptroller, and I to the Dolphin, where we found Sir +W. Batten, who is seldom a night from hence, and there we did drink a +great quantity of sack and did tell many merry stories, and in good +humours we were all. So home and to bed. + + + +15th. To Westminster, and it being very cold upon the water I went all +alone to the Sun and drank a draft of mulled white wine, and so to Mr. +de Cretz, whither I sent for J. Spicer (to appoint him to expect me this +afternoon at the office, with the other L1000 from Whitehall), and here +we staid and did see him give some finishing touches to my Lord's +picture, so at last it is complete to my mind, and I leave mine with him +to copy out another for himself, and took the original by a porter with +me to my Lord's, where I found my Lord within, and staid hearing him and +Mr. Child playing upon my Lord's new organ, the first time I ever heard +it. My Lord did this day show me the King's picture, which was done in +Flanders, that the King did promise my Lord before he ever saw him, and +that we did expect to have had at sea before the King came to us; but it +came but to-day, and indeed it is the most pleasant and the most like him +that ever I saw picture in my life. As dinner was coming on table, my +wife came to my Lord's, and I got her carried in to my Lady, who took +physic to-day, and was just now hiring of a French maid that was with +her, and they could not understand one another till my wife came to +interpret. Here I did leave my wife to dine with my Lord, the first time +he ever did take notice of her as my wife, and did seem to have a just +esteem for her. And did myself walk homewards (hearing that Sir W. Pen +was gone before in a coach) to overtake him and with much ado at last did +in Fleet Street, and there I went in to him, and there was Sir Arnold +Brames, and we all three to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, he having a couple +of Servants married to-day; and so there was a great number of merchants, +and others of good quality on purpose after dinner to make an offering, +which, when dinner was done, we did, and I did give ten shillings and no +more, though I believe most of the rest did give more, and did believe +that I did so too. From thence to Whitehall again by water to Mr. Fox +and by two porters carried away the other L1000. He was not within +himself, but I had it of his kinsman, and did give him L4. and other +servants something; but whereas I did intend to have given Mr. Fox +himself a piece of plate of L50 I was demanded L100, for the fee of the +office at 6d. a pound, at which I was surprised, but, however, I did +leave it there till I speak with my Lord. So I carried it to the +Exchequer, where at Will's I found Mr. Spicer, and so lodged it at his +office with the rest. From thence after a pot of ale at Will's I took +boat in the dark and went for all that to the old Swan, and so to Sir Wm. +Batten's, and leaving some of the gallants at cards I went home, where I +found my wife much satisfied with my Lord's discourse and respect to her, +and so after prayers to bed. + + + +16th. Up early to my father's, where by appointment Mr. Moore came to +me, and he and I to the Temple, and thence to Westminster Hall to speak +with Mr. Wm. Montagu about his looking upon the title of those lands +which I do take as security for L3000 of my Lord's money. That being +done Mr. Moore and I parted, and in the Hall I met with Mr. Fontleroy (my +old acquaintance, whom I had not seen a long time), and he and I to the +Swan, and in discourse he seems to be wise and say little, though I know +things are changed against his mind. Thence home by water, where my +father, Mr. Snow, and Mr. Moore did dine with me. After dinner Mr. Snow +and I went up together to discourse about the putting out of L80 to a man +who lacks the money and would give me L15 per annum for 8 years for it, +which I did not think profit enough, and so he seemed to be disappointed +by my refusal of it, but I would not now part with my money easily. He +seems to do it as a great favour to me to offer to come in upon a way of +getting of money, which they call Bottomry, + + ["The contract of bottomry is a negotiable instrument, which may be + put in suit by the person to whom it is transferred; it is in use in + all countries of maritime commerce and interests. A contract in the + nature of a mortgage of a ship, when the owner of it borrows money + to enable him to carry on the voyage, and pledges the keel or bottom + of the ship as a security for the repayment. If the ship be lost + the lender loses his whole money; but if it returns in safety, then + he shall receive back his principal, and also the premium stipulated + to be paid, however it may exceed the usual or legal rate of + interest."--Smyth's Sailor's WordBook.] + +which I do not yet understand, but do believe there may be something in +it of great profit. After we were parted I went to the office, and there +we sat all the afternoon, and at night we went to a barrel of oysters at +Sir W. Batten's, and so home, and I to the setting of my papers in +order, which did keep me up late. So to bed. + + + +17th. In the morning to Whitehall, where I inquired at the Privy Seal +Office for a form for a nobleman to make one his Chaplain. But I +understanding that there is not any, I did draw up one, and so to my +Lord's, and there I did give him it to sign for Mr. Turner to be his +first Chaplain. I did likewise get my Lord to sign my last sea accounts, +so that I am even to this day when I have received the balance of Mr. +Creed. I dined with my Lady and my Lady Pickering, where her son John +dined with us, who do continue a fool as he ever was since I knew him. +His mother would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Betty but +he will not hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who tells me +that the Regiment is now disbanded, and that there is some money coming +to me for it. I took him to my Lord to Mr. Crew's, and from thence with +Mr. Shepley and Mr. Moore to the Devil Tavern, and there we drank. So +home and wrote letters by the post. Then to my lyra viall, + + [The lyre viol is a viol with extra open bass strings, holding the + same relation to the viol as the theorbo does to the lute. A volume + entitled "Musick's Recreation on the Lyra Viol," was printed by John + Playford in 1650.] + +and to bed. + + + +18th (Lord's day). In the morning to our own church, Where Mr. Powel (a +crook legged man that went formerly with me to Paul's School), preached a +good sermon. In the afternoon to our own church and my wife with me (the +first time that she and my Lady Batten came to sit in our new pew), and +after sermon my Lady took us home and there we supped with her and Sir W. +Batten, and Pen, and were much made of. The first time that ever my wife +was there. So home and to bed. + + + +19th (Office day). After we had done a little at the office this +morning, I went with the Treasurer in his coach to White Hall, and in our +way, in discourse, do find him a very good-natured man; and, talking of +those men who now stand condemned for murdering the King, he says that he +believes that, if the law would give leave, the King is a man of so great +compassion that he would wholly acquit them. Going to my Lord's I met +with Mr. Shepley, and so he and I to the Sun, and I did give him a +morning draft of Muscadine. + + [Muscadine or muscadel, a rich sort of wine. 'Vinum muscatum quod + moschi odorem referat.' + + "Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops + All in the sexton's face." + + Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii. SC. 2.--M. B.] + +And so to see my Lord's picture at De Cretz, and he says it is very like +him, and I say so too. After that to Westminster Hall, and there hearing +that Sir W. Batten was at the Leg in the Palace, I went thither, and +there dined with him and some of the Trinity House men who had obtained +something to-day at the House of Lords concerning the Ballast Office. +After dinner I went by water to London to the Globe in Cornhill, and +there did choose two pictures to hang up in my house, which my wife did +not like when I came home, and so I sent the picture of Paris back again. +To the office, where we sat all the afternoon till night. So home, and +there came Mr. Beauchamp to me with the gilt tankard, and I did pay him +for it L20. So to my musique and sat up late at it, and so to bed, +leaving my wife to sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up +to wash. + + + +20th. About two o'clock my wife wakes me, and comes to bed, and so both +to sleep and the wench to wash. I rose and with Will to my Lord's by +land, it being a very hard frost, the first we have had this year. There +I staid with my Lord and Mr. Shepley, looking over my Lord's accounts and +to set matters straight between him and Shepley, and he did commit the +viewing of these accounts to me, which was a great joy to me to see that +my Lord do look upon me as one to put trust in. Hence to the organ, +where Mr. Child and one Mr Mackworth (who plays finely upon the violin) +were playing, and so we played till dinner and then dined, where my Lord +in a very good humour and kind to me. After dinner to the Temple, where +I met Mr. Moore and discoursed with him about the business of putting out +my Lord's L3000, and that done, Mr. Shepley and I to the new Play-house +near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon's tennis-court), +where the play of "Beggar's Bush" was newly begun; and so we went in and +saw it, it was well acted: and here I saw the first time one Moone, + + [Michael Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had borne a + major's commission in the King's army. The period of his death is + uncertain, but he is known to have been dead in 1691. Downes + relates that an eminent poet [Lee] seeing him act Mithridates + "vented suddenly this saying: 'Oh, Mohun, Mohun, thou little man of + mettle, if I should write a 100, I'd write a part for thy mouth.'" + --Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17.] + +who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over with the +King, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in +England. From thence, after a pot of ale with Mr. Shepley at a house +hard by, I went by link home, calling a little by the way at my father's +and my uncle Fenner's, where all pretty well, and so home, where I found +the house in a washing pickle, and my wife in a very joyful condition +when I told her that she is to see the Queen next Thursday, which puts me +in mind to say that this morning I found my Lord in bed late, he having +been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the Cockpit + + [The Cockpit at Whitehall. The plays at the Cockpit in Drury Lane + were acted in the afternoon.] + +all night, where. General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, +where the King did put a great affront upon Singleton's' musique, he +bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, +do much outdo all ours. But while my Lord was rising, I went to Mr. +Fox's, and there did leave the gilt tankard for Mrs. Fox, and then to the +counting-house to him, who hath invited me and my wife to dine with him +on Thursday next, and so to see the Queen and Princesses. + + + +21st. Lay long in bed. This morning my cozen Thomas Pepys, the turner, +sent me a cupp of lignum vitae + + [A hard, compact, black-green wood, obtained from 'Guaiacum + offcinale', from which pestles, ship-blocks, rollers, castors, &c., + are turned.] + +for a token. This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and +there we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate. And +after that we went to Mr. Cade's' to choose some pictures for our house. +After that my wife went home, and I to Pope's Head, and bought me an +aggate hafted knife, which cost me 5s. So home to dinner, and so to the +office all the afternoon, and at night to my viallin (the first time that +I have played on it since I came to this house) in my dining room, and +afterwards to my lute there, and I took much pleasure to have the +neighbours come forth into the yard to hear me. So down to supper, and +sent for the barber, who staid so long with me that he was locked into +the house, and we were fain to call up Griffith, to let him out. So up +to bed, leaving my wife to wash herself, and to do other things against +to-morrow to go to court. + + + +22d. This morning came the carpenters to make me a door at the other +side of my house, going into the entry, which I was much pleased with. +At noon my wife and I walked to the Old Exchange, and there she bought +her a white whisk + + [A gorget or neckerchief worn by women at this time. "A woman's + neck whisk is used both plain and laced, and is called of most a + gorget or falling whisk, because it falleth about the shoulders." + --Randle Hohnt (quoted by Planche).] + +and put it on, and I a pair of gloves, and so we took coach for Whitehall +to Mr. Fox's, where we found Mrs. Fox within, and an alderman of London +paying L1000 or L1500 in gold upon the table for the King, which was the +most gold that ever I saw together in my life. Mr. Fox came in presently +and did receive us with a great deal of respect; and then did take my +wife and I to the Queen's presence-chamber; where he got my wife placed +behind the Queen's chair, and I got into the crowd, and by and by the +Queen and the two Princesses came to dinner. The Queen a very little +plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any respect nor garb +than any ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I had often seen before. +The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and +her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did +make her seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing near her with +two or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much +handsomer than she. Dinner being done, we went to Mr. Fox's again, where +many gentlemen dined with us, and most princely dinner, all provided for +me and my friends, but I bringing none but myself and wife, he did call +the company to help to eat up so much good victuals. At the end of +dinner, my Lord Sandwich's health was drunk in the gilt tankard that I +did give to Mrs. Fox the other day. After dinner I had notice given me +by Will my man that my Lord did inquire for me, so I went to find him, +and met him and the Duke of York in a coach going towards Charing Cross. +I endeavoured to follow them but could not, so I returned to Mr. Fox, and +after much kindness and good discourse we parted from thence. I took +coach for my wife and me homewards, and I light at the Maypole in the +Strand, and sent my wife home. I to the new playhouse and saw part of +the "Traitor," a very good Tragedy; Mr. Moon did act the Traitor very +well. So to my Lord's, and sat there with my Lady a great while talking. +Among other things, she took occasion to inquire (by Madame Dury's late +discourse with her) how I did treat my wife's father and mother. At +which I did give her a good account, and she seemed to be very well +opinioned of my wife. From thence to White Hall at about 9 at night, and +there, with Laud the page that went with me, we could not get out of +Henry the Eighth's gallery into the further part of the boarded gallery, +where my Lord was walking with my Lord Ormond; and we had a key of Sir S. +Morland's, but all would not do; till at last, by knocking, Mr. Harrison +the door-keeper did open us the door, and, after some talk with my Lord +about getting a catch to carry my Lord St. Albans a goods to France, I +parted and went home on foot, it being very late and dirty, and so weary +to bed. + + + +23rd. This morning standing looking upon the workmen doing of my new +door to my house, there comes Captain Straughan the Scot (to whom the +King has given half of the money that the two ships lately sold do +bring), and he would needs take me to the Dolphin, and give me a glass of +ale and a peck of oysters, he and I. He did talk much what he is able to +advise the King for good husbandry in his ships, as by ballasting them +with lead ore and many other tricks, but I do believe that he is a +knowing man in sea-business. Home and dined, and in the afternoon to the +office, where till late, and that being done Mr. Creed did come to speak +with me, and I took him to the Dolphin, where there was Mr. Pierce the +purser and his wife and some friends of theirs. So I did spend a crown +upon them behind the bar, they being akin to the people of the house, and +this being the house where Mr. Pierce was apprentice. After they were +gone Mr. Creed and I spent an hour in looking over the account which he +do intend to pass in our office for his lending moneys, which I did +advise about and approve or disapprove of as I saw cause. After an hour +being, serious at this we parted about 11 o'clock at night. So I home +and to bed, leaving my wife and the maid at their linen to get up. + + + +24th. To my Lord's, where after I had done talking with him Mr. +Townsend, Rumball, Blackburn, Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenish +winehouse, and there I did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine, + + [Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is celebrated for its intensely + bitter, tonic, and stimulating qualities, which have caused it to be + used in various medicinal preparations, and also in the making of + liqueurs, as wormwood wine and creme d'absinthe.] + +and so we broke up. So we parted, and I and Mr. Creed to Westminster +Hall and looked over a book or two, and so to my Lord's, where I dined +with my lady, there being Mr. Child and Mrs. Borfett, who are never +absent at dinner there, under pretence of a wooing. From thence I to Mr. +de Cretz and did take away my Lord's picture, which is now finished for +me, and I paid L3 10s. for it and the frame, and am well pleased with it +and the price. So carried it home by water, Will being with me. At +home, and had a fire made in my closet, and put my papers and books and +things in order, and that being done I fell to entering these two good +songs of Mr. Lawes, "Helpe, helpe, O helpe," and "O God of Heaven and +Hell" in my song book, to which I have got Mr. Child to set the base to +the Theorbo, and that done to bed. + + + +25th (Lord's day). In the forenoon I alone to our church, and after +dinner I went and ranged about to many churches, among the rest to the +Temple, where I heard Dr. Wilkins' a little (late Maister of Trinity in +Cambridge). That being done to my father's to see my mother who is +troubled much with the stone, and that being done I went home, where I +had a letter brought me from my Lord to get a ship ready to carry the +Queen's things over to France, she being to go within five or six days. +So to supper and to bed. + + + +26th (Office day). To it all the morning, and dined at home where my +father come and dined with me, who seems to take much pleasure to have a +son that is neat in his house. I being now making my new door into the +entry, which he do please himself much with. After dinner to the office +again, and there till night. And that being done the Comptroller and I +to the Mitre to a glass of wine, when we fell into a discourse of poetry, +and he did repeat some verses of his own making which were very good. +Home, there hear that my Lady Batten had given my wife a visit (the first +that ever she made her), which pleased me exceedingly. So after supper +to bed. + + + +27th. To Whitehall, where I found my Lord gone abroad to the Wardrobe, +whither he do now go every other morning, and do seem to resolve to +understand and look after the business himself. From thence to +Westminster Hall, and in King Street there being a great stop of coaches, +there was a falling out between a drayman and my Lord Chesterfield's +coachman, and one of his footmen killed. At the Hall I met with Mr. +Creed, and he and I to Hell to drink our morning draught, and so to my +Lord's again, where I found my wife, and she and I dined with him and my +Lady, and great company of my Lord's friends, and my Lord did show us +great respect. Soon as dinner was done my wife took her leave, and went +with Mr. Blackburne and his wife to London to a christening of a +Brother's child of his on Tower Hill, and I to a play, "The Scorn-full +Lady," and that being done, I went homewards, and met Mr. Moore, who had +been at my house, and took him to my father's, and we three to Standing's +to drink. Here Mr. Moore told me how the House had this day voted the +King to have all the Excise for ever. This day I do also hear that the +Queen's going to France is stopt, which do like, me well, because then +the King will be in town the next month, which is my month again at the +Privy Seal. From thence home, where when I come I do remember that I did +leave my boy Waineman at Whitehall with order to stay there for me in the +court, at which I was much troubled, but about 11 o'clock at night the +boy came home well, and so we all to bed. + + + +28th. This morning went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where Major Hart did +pay me; L23 14s. 9d., due to me upon my pay in my Lord's troop at the +time of our disbanding, which is a great blessing to have without taking +any law in the world for. But now I must put an end to any hopes of +getting any more, so that I bless God for this. From thence with Mr. +Shepley and Pinkney to the Sun, and did give them a glass of wine and a +peck of oysters for joy of my getting this money. So home, where I found +that Mr. Creed had sent me the L11 5s. that is due to me upon the remains +of account for my sea business, which is also so much clear money to me, +and my bill of impresse + + [For "bill of impress" In Italian 'imprestare' means "to lend." In + the ancient accounts of persons officially employed by the crown, + money advanced, paid on, account, was described as "de prestito," or + "in prestitis."--M. B.] + +for L30 is also cleared, so that I am wholly clear as to the sea in all +respects. To the office, and was there till late at night, and among the +officers do hear that they may have our salaries allowed by the +Treasurer, which do make me very glad, and praise God for it. Home to +supper, and Mr. Hater supped with me, whom I did give order to take up my +money of the Treasurer to-morrow if it can be had. So to bed. + + + +29th. In the morning seeing a great deal of foul water come into my +parlour from under the partition between me and Mr. Davis, I did step +thither to him and tell him of it, and he did seem very ready to have it +stopt, and did also tell me how thieves did attempt to rob his house last +night, which do make us all afraid. This noon I being troubled that the +workmen that I have to do my door were called to Mr. Davis's away, I sent +for them, when Mr. Davis sent to inquire a reason of, and I did give him +a good one, that they were come on purpose to do some work with me that +they had already begun, with which he was well pleased, and I glad, being +unwilling to anger them. In the afternoon Sir W. Batten and I met and +did sell the ship Church for L440; and we asked L391, and that being +done, I went home, and Dr. Petty came to me about Mr. Barlow's money, and +I being a little troubled to be so importuned before I had received it, +and that they would have it stopt in Mr. Fenn's hands, I did force the +Doctor to go fetch the letter of attorney that he had to receive it only +to make him same labour, which he did bring, and Mr. Hales came along +with him from the Treasury with my money for the first quarter +(Michaelmas last) that ever I received for this employment. So I paid +the Dr. L25 and had L62 10s. for myself, and L7 10s. to myself also for +Will's salary, which I do intend yet to keep for myself. With this my +heart is much rejoiced, and do bless Almighty God that he is pleased to +send so sudden and unexpected payment of my salary so soon after my great +disbursements. So that now I am worth L200 again. In a great ease of +mind and spirit I fell about the auditing of Mr. Shepley's last accounts +with my Lord by my Lord's desire, and about that I sat till 12 o'clock at +night, till I began to doze, and so to bed, with my heart praising God +for his mercy to us. + + + +30th (Office day). To the office, where Sir G. Carteret did give us an +account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the Parliament to try +his project of discharging the seamen all at present by ticket, and so +promise interest to all men that will lend money upon them at eight per +cent., for so long as they are unpaid; whereby he do think to take away +the growing debt, which do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of present +money to discharge the seamen. But this we are, troubled at as some +diminution to us. I having two barrels of oysters at home, I caused one +of them and some wine to be brought to the inner room in the office, and +there the Principal Officers did go and eat them. So we sat till noon, +and then to dinner, and to it again in the afternoon till night. At home +I sent for Mr. Hater, and broke the other barrel with him, and did +afterwards sit down discoursing of sea terms to learn of him. And he +being gone I went up and sat till twelve at night again to make an end of +my Lord's accounts, as I did the last night. Which at last I made a good +end of, and so to bed. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + DECEMBER + 1660 + + +December 1st. This morning, observing some things to be laid up not as +they should be by the girl, I took a broom and basted her till she cried +extremely, which made me vexed, but before I went out I left her +appeased. So to Whitehall, where I found Mr. Moore attending for me at +the Privy Seal, but nothing to do to-day. I went to my Lord St. Albans +lodgings, and found him in bed, talking to a priest (he looked like one) +that leaned along over the side of the bed, and there I desired to know +his mind about making the catch stay longer, which I got ready for him +the other day. He seems to be a fine civil gentleman. To my Lord's, and +did give up my audit of his accounts, which I had been then two days +about, and was well received by my Lord. I dined with my Lord and Lady, +and we had a venison pasty. Mr. Shepley and I went into London, and +calling upon Mr. Pinkney, the goldsmith, he took us to the tavern, and +gave us a pint of wine, and there fell into our company old Mr. Flower +and another gentleman; who tell us how a Scotch knight was killed basely +the other day at the Fleece in Covent Garden, where there had been a +great many formerly killed. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there I took +the little man at Mr. Kirton's and Mr. Shepley to Ringstead's at the +Star, and after a pint of wine I went home, my brains somewhat troubled +with so much wine, and after a letter or two by the post I went to bed. + + +2d (Lord's day). My head not very well, and my body out of order by last +night's drinking, which is my great folly. To church, and Mr. Mills made +a good sermon; so home to dinner. My wife and I all alone to a leg of +mutton, the sawce of which being made sweet, I was angry at it, and eat +none, but only dined upon the marrow bone that we had beside. To church +in the afternoon, and after sermon took Tom Fuller's Church History and +read over Henry the 8th's life in it, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +3rd. This morning I took a resolution to rise early in the morning, and +so I rose by candle, which I have not done all this winter, and spent my +morning in fiddling till time to go to the office, where Sir G. Carteret +did begin again discourse on Mr. Holland's [The 'tickets' which were +individual notes at interest. D.W.] proposition, which the King do take +very ill, and so Sir George in lieu of that do propose that the seamen +should have half in ready money and tickets for the other half, to be +paid in three months after, which we judge to be very practicable. After +office home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by chance, and I had a +very good capon to dinner. So to the office till night, and so home, and +then come Mr. Davis, of Deptford (the first time that ever he was at my +house), and after him Mons. L'Impertinent, who is to go to Ireland to- +morrow, and so came to take his leave of me. They both found me under +the barber's hand; but I had a bottle of good sack in the house, and so +made them very welcome. Mr. Davis sat with me a good while after the +other was gone, talking of his hard usage and of the endeavour to put him +out of his place in the time of the late Commissioners, and he do speak +very highly of their corruption. After he was gone I fell a reading +'Cornelianum dolium' till 11 o'clock at night with great pleasure, and +after that to bed. + + + +4th. To Whitehall to Sir G. Carteret's chamber, where all the officers +met, and so we went up to the Duke of York, and he took us into his +closet, and we did open to him our project of stopping the growing charge +of the fleet by paying them in hand one moyety, and the other four months +hence. This he do like, and we returned by his order to Sir G. +Carteret's chamber, and there we did draw up this design in order to be +presented to the Parliament. From thence I to my Lord's, and dined with +him and told him what we had done to-day. Sir Tho. Crew dined with my +Lord to-day, and we were very merry with Mrs. Borfett, who dined there +still as she has always done lately. After dinner Sir Tho. and my Lady +to the Playhouse to see "The Silent Woman." I home by water, and with +Mr. Hater in my chamber all alone he and I did put this morning's design +into order, which being done I did carry it to Sir W. Batten, where I +found some gentlemen with him (Sir W. Pen among the rest pretty merry +with drink) playing at cards, and there I staid looking upon them till +one o'clock in the morning, and so Sir W. Pen and I went away, and I to +bed. This day the Parliament voted that the bodies of Oliver, Ireton, +Bradshaw, &c., should be taken up out of their graves in the Abbey, and +drawn to the gallows, and there hanged and buried under it: which +(methinks) do trouble me that a man of so great courage as he was, should +have that dishonour, though otherwise he might deserve it enough. + + + +5th. This morning the Proposal which I wrote the last night I showed to +the officers this morning, and was well liked of, and I wrote it fair for +Sir. G. Carteret to show to the King, and so it is to go to the +Parliament. I dined at home, and after dinner I went to the new Theatre +and there I saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor" acted, the humours of the +country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but +very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe t as bad as any. From thence to Mr. +Will. Montagu's chamber to have sealed some writings tonight between Sir +R. Parkhurst and myself about my Lord's L2000, but he not coming, I went +to my father's and there found my mother still ill of the stone, and had +just newly voided one, which she had let drop into the chimney, and +looked and found it to shew it me. From thence home and to bed. + + + +6th. This morning some of the Commissioners of Parliament and Sir W. +Batten went to Sir G. Carteret's office here in town, and paid off the +Chesnut.[?? D.W.] I carried my wife to White Friars and landed her +there, and myself to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, where abundance of +pardons to seal, but I was much troubled for it because that there are no +fees now coming for them to me. Thence Mr. Moore and I alone to the Leg +in King Street, and dined together on a neat's tongue and udder. From +thence by coach to Mr. Crew's to my Lord, who told me of his going out of +town to-morrow to settle the militia in Huntingdonshire, and did desire +me to lay up a box of some rich jewels and things that there are in it, +which I promised to do. After much free discourse with my Lord, who +tells me his mind as to his enlarging his family, &c., and desiring me to +look him out a Master of the Horse and other servants, we parted. From +thence I walked to Greatorex (he was not within), but there I met with +Mr. Jonas Moore, + + [Jonas Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617, + and was appointed by Charles I. tutor to the Duke of York. Soon + after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor-General of + the Ordnance. He was famous as a mathematician, and was one of the + founders of the Royal Society. He died August 27th, 1679, and at + his funeral sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower.] + +and took him to the Five Bells,' and drank a glass of wine and left him. +To the Temple, when Sir R. Parkhurst (as was intended the last night) did +seal the writings, and is to have the L2000 told to-morrow. From, thence +by water to Parliament Stairs, and there at an alehouse to Doling (who is +suddenly to go into Ireland to venture his fortune); Simonds (who is at a +great loss for L200 present money, which I was loth to let him have, +though I could now do it, and do love him and think him honest and +sufficient, yet lothness to part with money did dissuade me from it); +Luellin (who was very drowsy from a dose that he had got the last night), +Mr. Mount and several others, among the rest one Mr. Pierce, an army man, +who did make us the best sport for songs and stories in a Scotch tone +(which he do very well) that ever I heard in my life. I never knew so +good a companion in all my observation. From thence to the bridge by +water, it being a most pleasant moonshine night, with a waterman who did +tell such a company of bawdy stories, how once he carried a lady from +Putney in such a night as this, and she bade him lie down by her, which +he did, and did give her content, and a great deal more roguery. Home +and found my girl knocking at the door (it being 11 o'clock at night), +her mistress having sent her out for some trivial business, which did vex +me when I came in, and so I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet. +Before I went forth this morning, one came to me to give me notice that +the justices of Middlesex do meet to-morrow at Hicks Hall, and that I as +one am desired to be there, but I fear I cannot be there though I much +desire it. + + + +7th. This morning the judge Advocate Fowler came to see me, and he and I +sat talking till it was time to go to the office. To the office and +there staid till past 12 o'clock, and so I left the Comptroller and +Surveyor and went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found my Lord gone +this morning to Huntingdon, as he told me yesterday he would. I staid +and dined with my Lady, there being Laud the page's mother' there, and +dined also with us, and seemed to have been a very pretty woman and of +good discourse. Before dinner I examined Laud in his Latin and found him +a very pretty boy and gone a great way in Latin. After dinner I took a +box of some things of value that my Lord had left for me to carry to the +Exchequer, which I did, and left them with my Brother Spicer, who also +had this morning paid L1000 for me by appointment to Sir R. Parkhurst. +So to the Privy Seal, where I signed a deadly number of pardons, which do +trouble me to get nothing by. Home by water, and there was much pleased +to see that my little room is likely to come to be finished soon. I fell +a-reading Fuller's History of Abbys, and my wife in Great Cyrus till +twelve at night, and so to bed. + + + +8th. To Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and thence to Mr. Pierces the +Surgeon to tell them that I would call by and by to go to dinner. But I +going into Westminster Hall met with Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen (who +were in a great fear that we had committed a great error of L100,000 in +our late account gone into the Parliament in making it too little), and +so I was fain to send order to Mr. Pierces to come to my house; and also +to leave the key of the chest with Mr. Spicer; wherein my Lord's money +is, and went along with Sir W. Pen by water to the office, and there with +Mr. Huchinson we did find that we were in no mistake. And so I went to +dinner with my wife and Mr. and Mrs. Pierce the Surgeon to Mr. Pierce, +the Purser (the first time that ever I was at his house) who does live +very plentifully and finely. We had a lovely chine of beef and other +good things very complete and drank a great deal of wine, and her +daughter played after dinner upon the virginals, + + [All instruments of the harpsichord and spinet kind were styled + virginals.] + +and at night by lanthorn home again, and Mr. Pierce and his wife being +gone home I went to bed, having drunk so much wine that my head was +troubled and was not very well all night, and the wind I observed was +rose exceedingly before I went to bed. + + + +9th (Lord's day). Being called up early by Sir W. Batten I rose and went +to his house and he told me the ill news that he had this morning from +Woolwich, that the Assurance (formerly Captain Holland's ship, and now +Captain Stoakes's, designed for Guiny and manned and victualled), was by +a gust of wind sunk down to the bottom. Twenty men drowned. Sir +Williams both went by barge thither to see how things are, and I am sent +to the Duke of York to tell him, and by boat with some other company +going to Whitehall from the Old Swan. I went to the Duke. And first +calling upon Mr. Coventry at his chamber, I went to the Duke's bed-side, +who had sat up late last night, and lay long this morning, who was much +surprised, therewith. This being done I went to chappell, and sat in Mr. +Blagrave's pew, and there did sing my part along with another before the +King, and with much ease. From thence going to my Lady I met with a +letter from my Lord (which Andrew had been at my house to bring me and +missed me), commanding me to go to Mr. Denham, to get a man to go to him +to-morrow to Hinchinbroke, to contrive with him about some alterations in +his house, which I did and got Mr. Kennard. Dined with my Lady and staid +all the afternoon with her, and had infinite of talk of all kind of +things, especially of beauty of men and women, with which she seems to be +much pleased to talk of. From thence at night to Mr. Kennard and took +him to Mr. Denham, the Surveyor's. Where, while we could not speak with +him, his chief man (Mr. Cooper) did give us a cup of good sack. From +thence with Mr. Kennard to my Lady who is much pleased with him, and +after a glass of sack there; we parted, having taken order for a horse or +two for him and his servant to be gone to-morrow. So to my father's, +where I sat while they were at supper, and I found my mother below, +stairs and pretty well. Thence home, where I hear that the Comptroller +had some business with me, and (with Giffin's lanthorn) I went to him and +there staid in discourse an hour 'till late, and among other things he +showed me a design of his, by the King's making an Order of Knights of +the Seal to give an encouragement for persons of honour to undertake the +service of the sea, and he had done it with great pains and very +ingeniously. So home and to prayers and to bed. + + + +10th. Up exceedingly early to go to the Comptroller, but he not being up +and it being a very fine, bright, moonshine morning I went and walked all +alone twenty turns in Cornhill, from Gracious Street corner to the +Stockes and back again, from 6 o'clock till past 7, so long that I was +weary, and going to the Comptroller's thinking to find him ready, I found +him gone, at which I was troubled, and being weary went home, and from +thence with my wife by water to Westminster, and put her to my father +Bowyer's (they being newly come out of the country), but I could not stay +there, but left her there. I to the Hall and there met with Col. +Slingsby. So hearing that the Duke of York is gone down this morning, to +see the ship sunk yesterday at Woolwich, he and I returned by his coach +to the office, and after that to dinner. After dinner he came to me +again and sat with me at my house, ands among other discourse he told me +that it is expected that the Duke will marry the Lord Chancellor's +daughter at last which is likely to be the ruin of Mr. Davis and my Lord +Barkley, who have carried themselves so high against the Chancellor; Sir +Chas. Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often, which +all believe to be a lie. He and I in the evening to the Coffee House in +Cornhill, the first time that ever I was there, and I found much pleasure +in it, through the diversity of company and discourse. Home and found my +wife at my Lady Batten's, and have made a bargain to go see the ship sunk +at Woolwich, where both the Sir Williams are still since yesterday, and I +do resolve to go along with them. From thence home and up to bed, having +first been into my study, and to ease my mind did go to cast up how my +cash stands, and I do find as near as I can that I am worth in money +clear L240, for which God be praised. This afternoon there was a couple +of men with me with a book in each of their hands, demanding money for +pollmoney, + + [Pepys seems to have been let off very easily, for, by Act of + Parliament 18 Car. II. cap. I (1666), servants were to pay one + shilling in the pound of their wages, and others from one shilling + to three shillings in the pound.] + +and I overlooked the book and saw myself set down Samuel Pepys, gent. +10s. for himself and for his servants 2s., which I did presently pay +without any dispute, but I fear I have not escaped so, and therefore I +have long ago laid by L10 for them, but I think I am not bound to +discover myself. + + + +11th. My wife and I up very early this day, and though the weather was +very bad and the wind high, yet my Lady Batten and her maid and we two +did go by our barge to Woolwich (my Lady being very fearfull) where we +found both Sir Williams and much other company, expecting the weather to +be better, that they might go about weighing up the Assurance, which lies +there (poor ship, that I have been twice merry in, in Captn. Holland's +time,) under water, only the upper deck may be seen and the masts. +Captain Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search for some clothes +and money of his, which he says he hath lost out of his cabin. I did the +first office of a justice of Peace to examine a seaman thereupon, but +could find no reason to commit him. This last tide the Kingsale was also +run aboard and lost her mainmast, by another ship, which makes us think +it ominous to the Guiny voyage, to have two of her ships spoilt before +they go out. After dinner, my Lady being very fearfull she staid and +kept my wife there, and I and another gentleman, a friend of Sir W. +Pen's, went back in the barge, very merry by the way, as far as Whitehall +in her. To the Privy Seal, where I signed many pardons and some few +things else. From thence Mr. Moore and I into London to a tavern near my +house, and there we drank and discoursed of ways how to put out a little +money to the best advantage, and at present he has persuaded me to put +out L250 for L50 per annum for eight years, and I think I shall do it. +Thence home, where I found the wench washing, and I up to my study, and +there did make up an even L100, and sealed it to lie by. After that to +bed. + + + +12th. Troubled with the absence of my wife. This morning I went (after +the Comptroller and I had sat an hour at the office) to Whitehall to dine +with my Lady, and after dinner to the Privy Seal and sealed abundance of +pardons and little else. From thence to the Exchequer and did give my +mother Bowyer a visit and her daughters, the first time that I have seen +them since I went last to sea. From thence up with J. Spicer to his +office and took L100, and by coach with it as far as my father's, where I +called to see them, and my father did offer me six pieces of gold, in +lieu of six pounds that he borrowed of me the other day, but it went +against me to take it of him and therefore did not, though I was +afterwards a little troubled that I did not. Thence home, and took out +this L100 and sealed it up with the other last night, it being the first +L200 that ever I saw together of my own in my life. For which God be +praised. So to my Lady Batten, and sat an hour or two, and talked with +her daughter and people in the absence of her father and mother and my +wife to pass away the time. After that home and to bed, reading myself +asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside. + + + +13th. All the day long looking upon my workmen who this day began to +paint my parlour. Only at noon my Lady Batten and my wife came home, and +so I stepped to my Lady's, where were Sir John Lawson and Captain Holmes, +and there we dined and had very good red wine of my Lady's own making in +England. + + + +14th. Also all this day looking upon my workmen. Only met with the +Comptroller at the office a little both forenoon and afternoon, and at +night step a little with him to the Coffee House where we light upon very +good company and had very good discourse concerning insects and their +having a generative faculty as well as other creatures. This night in +discourse the Comptroller told me among other persons that were +heretofore the principal officers of the Navy, there was one Sir Peter +Buck, a Clerk of the Acts, of which to myself I was not a little proud. + + + +15th. All day at home looking upon my workmen, only at noon Mr. Moore +came and brought me some things to sign for the Privy Seal and dined with +me. We had three eels that my wife and I bought this morning of a man, +that cried them about, for our dinner, and that was all I did to-day. + + + +16th. In the morning to church, and then dined at home. In the +afternoon I to White Hall, where I was surprised with the news of a plot +against the King's person and my Lord Monk's; and that since last night +there are about forty taken up on suspicion; and, amongst others, it was +my lot to meet with Simon Beale, the Trumpeter, who took me and Tom +Doling into the Guard in Scotland Yard, and showed us Major-General +Overton, where I heard him deny that he is guilty of any such things; but +that whereas it is said that he is found to have brought many arms to +town, he says it is only to sell them, as he will prove by oath. From +thence with Tom Doling and Boston and D. Vines (whom we met by the way) +to Price's, and there we drank, and in discourse I learnt a pretty trick +to try whether a woman be a maid or no, by a string going round her head +to meet at the end of her nose, which if she be not will come a great way +beyond. Thence to my Lady's and staid with her an hour or two talking of +the Duke of York and his lady, the Chancellor's daughter, between whom, +she tells me, that all is agreed and he will marry her. But I know not +how true yet. It rained hard, and my Lady would have had me have the +coach, but I would not, but to my father's, where I met my wife, and +there supped, and after supper by link home and to bed. + + + +17th. All day looking after my workmen, only in the afternoon to the +office where both Sir Williams were come from Woolwich, and tell us that, +contrary to their expectations, the Assurance is got up, without much +damage to her body, only to the goods that she hath within her, which +argues her to be a strong, good ship. This day my parlour is gilded, +which do please me well. + + + +18th. All day at home, without stirring at all, looking after my +workmen. + + + +19th. At noon I went and dined with my Lady at Whitehall, and so back +again to the office, and after that home to my workmen. This night Mr. +Gauden sent me a great chine of beef and half a dozen of tongues. + + + +20th. All day at home with my workmen, that I may get all done before +Christmas. This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox. + + + +21st. By water to Whitehall (leaving my wife at Whitefriars going to my +father's to buy her a muff and mantle), there I signed many things at the +Privy Seal, and carried L200 from thence to the Exchequer, and laid it up +with Mr. Hales, and afterwards took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and +drank with them. They told me that this is St. Thomas's [day], and that +by an old custom, this day the Exchequer men had formerly, and do intend +this night to have a supper; which if I could I promised to come to, but +did not. To my Lady's, and dined with her: she told me how dangerously +ill the Princess Royal is and that this morning she was said to be dead. +But she hears that she hath married herself to young Jermyn, which is +worse than the Duke of York's marrying the Chancellor's daughter, which +is now publicly owned. After dinner to the office all the afternoon. At +seven at night I walked through the dirt to Whitehall to see whether my +Lord be come to town, and I found him come and at supper, and I supped +with him. He tells me that my aunt at Brampton has voided a great stone +(the first time that ever I heard she was troubled therewith) and cannot +possibly live long, that my uncle is pretty well, but full of pain still. +After supper home and to bed. + + + +22nd. All the morning with my painters, who will make an end of all this +day I hope. At noon I went to the Sun tavern; on Fish Street hill, to a +dinner of Captn. Teddimans, where was my Lord Inchiquin (who seems to be +a very fine person), Sir W. Pen, Captn. Cuttance, and one Mr. Lawrence (a +fine gentleman now going to Algiers), and other good company, where we +had a very fine dinner, good musique, and a great deal of wine. We staid +here very late, at last Sir W. Pen and I home together, he so overcome +with wine that he could hardly go; I was forced to lead him through the +streets and he was in a very merry and kind mood. I home (found my house +clear of the workmen and their work ended), my head troubled with wine, +and I very merry went to bed, my head akeing all night. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). In the morning to Church, where our pew all covered +with rosemary and baize. A stranger made a dull sermon. Home and found +my wife and maid with much ado had made shift to spit a great turkey sent +me this week from Charles Carter, my old colleague, now minister in +Huntingdonshire, but not at all roasted, and so I was fain to stay till +two o'clock, and after that to church with my wife, and a good sermon +there was, and so home. All the evening at my book, and so to supper and +to bed. + + + +24th. In the morning to the office and Commissioner Pett (who seldom +comes there) told me that he had lately presented a piece of plate (being +a couple of flaggons) to Mr. Coventry, but he did not receive them, which +also put me upon doing the same too; and so after dinner I went and chose +a payre of candlesticks to be made ready for me at Alderman Backwell's. +To the office again in the afternoon till night, and so home, and with +the painters till 10 at night, making an end of my house and the arch +before my door, and so this night I was rid of them and all other work, +and my house was made ready against to-morrow being Christmas day. This +day the Princess Royal died at Whitehall. + + + +25th (Christmas day). In the morning very much pleased to see my house +once more clear of workmen and to be clean, and indeed it is so, far +better than it was that I do not repent of my trouble that I have been +at. In the morning to church, where Mr. Mills made a very good sermon. +After that home to dinner, where my wife and I and my brother Tom (who +this morning came to see my wife's new mantle put on, which do please me +very well), to a good shoulder of mutton and a chicken. After dinner to +church again, my wife and I, where we had a dull sermon of a stranger, +which made me sleep, and so home, and I, before and after supper, to my +lute and Fuller's History, at which I staid all alone in my chamber till +12 at night, and so to bed. + + + +26th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's for the candlesticks for Mr. +Coventry, but they being not done I went away, and so by coach to Mr. +Crew's, and there took some money of Mr. Moore's for my Lord, and so to +my Lord's, where I found Sir Thomas Bond (whom I never saw before) with a +message from the Queen about vessells for the carrying over of her goods, +and so with him to Mr. Coventry, and thence to the office (being soundly +washed going through the bridge) to Sir Wm. Batten and Pen (the last of +whom took physic to-day), and so I went up to his chamber, and there +having made an end of the business I returned to White Hall by water, and +dined with my Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell me how much fault was +laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of the Doctors, for the death of the +Princess! My Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, in order to +his going to sea with the Queen. Thence to my father Bowyer's where I +met my wife, and with her home by water. + + + +27th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's again, where I found the +candlesticks done, and went along with him in his coach to my Lord's and +left the candlesticks with Mr. Shepley. I staid in the garden talking +much with my Lord, who do show me much of his love and do communicate his +mind in most things to me, which is my great content. Home and with my +wife to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, where much and good company. My wife +not very well went home, I staid late there seeing them play at cards, +and so home to bed. This afternoon there came in a strange lord to Sir +William Batten's by a mistake and enters discourse with him, so that we +could not be rid of him till Sir Arn. Breames and Mr. Bens and Sir W. +Pen fell a-drinking to him till he was drunk, and so sent him away. +About the middle of the night I was very ill--I think with eating and +drinking too much--and so I was forced to call the maid, who pleased my +wife and I in her running up and down so innocently in her smock, and +vomited in the bason, and so to sleep, and in the morning was pretty +well, only got cold, and so had pain . . . . as I used to have. + + + +28th. Office day. There all the morning. Dined at home alone with my +wife, and so staid within all the afternoon and evening; at my lute, with +great pleasure, and so to bed with great content. + + + +29th. Within all the morning. Several people to speak with me; Mr. +Shepley for L100; Mr. Kennard and Warren, the merchant, about deals for +my Lord. Captain Robert Blake lately come from the Straights about some +Florence Wine for my Lord, and with him I went to Sir W. Pen, who +offering me a barrel of oysters I took them both home to my house (having +by chance a good piece of roast beef at the fire for dinner), and there +they dined with me, and sat talking all the afternoon-good company. +Thence to Alderman Backwell's and took a brave state-plate and cupp in +lieu of the candlesticks that I had the other day and carried them by +coach to my Lord's and left them there. And so back to my father's and +saw my mother, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my father came to me, +and there we talked and drank, and so away; I home with my father, he +telling me what bad wives both my cozen Joyces make to their husbands, +which I much wondered at. After talking of my sister's coming to me next +week, I went home and to bed. + + + +30th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and being up, I went with Will to my +Lord's, calling in at many churches in my way. There I found Mr. +Shepley, in his Venetian cap, taking physique in his chamber, and with +him I sat till dinner. My Lord dined abroad and my Lady in her chamber, +so Mr. Hetly, Child and I dined together, and after dinner Mr. Child and +I spent some time at the lute, and so promising to prick me some lessons +to my theorbo he went away to see Henry Laws, who lies very sick. I to +the Abby and walked there, seeing the great confusion of people that come +there to hear the organs. So home, calling in at my father's, but staid +not, my father and mother being both forth. At home I fell a-reading of +Fuller's Church History till it was late, and so to bed. + + + +31st. At the office all the morning and after that home, and not staying +to dine I went out, and in Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of "Henry +the Fourth," and so went to the new Theatre (only calling at Mr. Crew's +and eat a bit with the people there at dinner) and saw it acted; but my +expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe +it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little. That +being done I went to my Lord's, where I found him private at cards with +my Lord Lauderdale and some persons of honour. So Mr. Shepley and I over +to Harper's, and there drank a pot or two, and so parted. My boy taking +a cat home with him from my Lord's, which Sarah had given him for my +wife, we being much troubled with mice. At Whitehall inquiring for a +coach, there was a Frenchman with one eye that was going my way, so he +and I hired the coach between us and he set me down in Fenchurch Street. +Strange how the fellow, without asking, did tell me all what he was, and +how he had ran away from his father and come into England to serve the +King, and now going back again. Home and to bed. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside +Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often +But I think I am not bound to discover myself +But we were friends again as we are always +Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether +Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton +First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch +First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral +Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King +Have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant +Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me +He did very well, but a deadly drinker he is +I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely +I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy +I was demanded L100, for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound +In discourse he seems to be wise and say little +It not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us +Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no +Long cloaks being now quite out +Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash +Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney +So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet +So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel +The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too +There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered +Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall +To see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v8 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS, DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1960 N.S., COMPLETE: + +A very fine dinner +A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen +Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest +An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport +An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity +And in all this not so much as one +Asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside +Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often +Bought for the love of the binding three books +Boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed +But we were friends again as we are always +But I think I am not bound to discover myself +Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians +Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.) +Court attendance infinite tedious +Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether +Diana did not come according to our agreement +Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state +Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else +Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill +Do press for new oaths to be put upon men +Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand +Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets +Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton +Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment +Fashionable and black spots +Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up +First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch +First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral +Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service +Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March +Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore +Gave him his morning draft +Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King +God help him, he wants bread. +Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay +Hand i' the cap +Hanging jack to roast birds on +Have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant +Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me +He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more +He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I +He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it +He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while +He did very well, but a deadly drinker he is +He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours +He knew nothing about the navy +Hired her to procure this poor soul for him +How the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst +I fear is not so good as she should be +I never designed to be a witness against any man +I was demanded L100, for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound +I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely +I pray God to make me able to pay for it. +I was angry with her, which I was troubled for +I went to the cook's and got a good joint of meat +I was exceeding free in dallying with her, and she not unfree +I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy +If it should come in print my name maybe at it +Ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch +In discourse he seems to be wise and say little +In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore +In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least +Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass +It not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us +John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers +King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising +King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery +Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]" +Kissed them myself very often with a great deal of mirth +L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas +Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 +Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no +Long cloaks being now quite out +Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead +Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder +Most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler +Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin +Much troubled with thoughts how to get money +My luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions +My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life +My wife and I had some high words +My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth +My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets +My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber +Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon +Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place +Petition against hackney coaches +Playing the fool with the lass of the house +Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves +Presbyterians against the House of Lords +Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques +Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash +Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it +Sceptic in all things of religion +She had six children by the King +Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink +Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash +Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney +So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel +So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet +Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house +Strange thing how I am already courted by the people +Strange how civil and tractable he was to me +The present Irish pronunciation of English +The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too +The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them +There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered +This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed +This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes +Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall +To see the bride put to bed +To the Swan and drank our morning draft +To see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered +Upon the leads gazing upon Diana +We cannot tell what to do for want of her (the maid) +Wedding for which the posy ring was required +Went to bed with my head not well by my too much drinking to-day +Where I find the worst very good +Which I did give him some hope of, though I never intend it +Woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v9 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp10g10.zip b/old/sp10g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1aa6913 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp10g10.zip |