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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, January/February/March 1660/61 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 29, 2004 [EBook #4126] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +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. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS + 1661 N.S. COMPLETE + + JANUARY, FEBRUARY & MARCH + 1660-61 + +1660-61. At the end of the last and the beginning of this year, I do live +in one of the houses belonging to the Navy Office, as one of the principal +officers, and have done now about half a year. After much trouble with +workmen I am now almost settled; my family being, myself, my wife, Jane, +Will. Hewer, and Wayneman,--[Will Wayneman appears by this to have been +forgiven for his theft (see ante). He was dismissed on July 8th, +1663.]--my girle's brother. Myself in constant good health, and in a most +handsome and thriving condition. Blessed be Almighty God for it. I am now +taking of my sister to come and live with me. As to things of State.--The +King settled, and loved of all. The Duke of York matched to my Lord +Chancellor's daughter, which do not please many. The Queen upon her +return to France with the Princess Henrietta. The Princess of Orange +lately dead, and we into new mourning for her. We have been lately +frighted with a great plot, and many taken up on it, and the fright not +quite over. The Parliament, which had done all this great good to the +King, beginning to grow factious, the King did dissolve it December 29th +last, and another likely to be chosen speedily. I take myself now to be +worth L300 clear in money, and all my goods and all manner of debts paid, +which are none at all. + +1660-61. January 1st. Called up this morning by Mr. Moore, who brought +me my last things for me to sign for the last month, and to my great +comfort tells me that my fees will come to L80 clear to myself, and about +L25 for him, which he hath got out of the pardons, though there be no fee +due to me at all out of them. Then comes in my brother Thomas, and after +him my father, Dr. Thomas Pepys, my uncle Fenner and his two sons +(Anthony's' only child dying this morning, yet he was so civil to come, +and was pretty merry) to breakfast; and I had for them a barrel of +oysters, a dish of neat's tongues, and a dish of anchovies, wine of all +sorts, and Northdown ale. We were very merry till about eleven o'clock, +and then they went away. At noon I carried my wife by coach to my cozen, +Thomas Pepys, where we, with my father, Dr. Thomas, cozen Stradwick, +Scott, and their wives, dined. Here I saw first his second wife, which is +a very respectfull woman, but his dinner a sorry, poor dinner for a man of +his estate, there being nothing but ordinary meat in it. To-day the King +dined at a lord's, two doors from us. After dinner I took my wife to +Whitehall, I sent her to Mrs. Pierces (where we should have dined today), +and I to the Privy Seal, where Mr. Moore took out all his money, and he +and I went to Mr. Pierces; in our way seeing the Duke of York bring his +Lady this day to wait upon the Queen, the first time that ever she did +since that great business; and the Queen is said to receive her now with +much respect and love; and there he cast up the fees, and I told the +money, by the same token one L100 bag, after I had told it, fell all about +the room, and I fear I have lost some of it. That done I left my friends +and went to my Lord's, but he being not come in I lodged the money with +Mr. Shepley, and bade good night to Mr. Moore, and so returned to Mr. +Pierces, and there supped with them, and Mr. Pierce, the purser, and his +wife and mine, where we had a calf's head carboned, + + [Meat cut crosswise and broiled was said to be carboned. Falstaff + says in "King Henry IV.," Part L, act v., sc. 3, "Well, if Percy be + alive, I'll pierce him. If he do come in my way, so; if he do not, + if I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of me."] + +but it was raw, we could not eat it, and a good hen. But she is such a +slut that I do not love her victualls. After supper I sent them home by +coach, and I went to my Lord's and there played till 12 at night at cards +at Best with J. Goods and N. Osgood, and then to bed with Mr. Shepley. + +2d. Up early, and being called up to my Lord he did give me many commands +in his business. As about taking care to write to my uncle that Mr. +Barnewell's papers should be locked up, in case he should die, he being +now suspected to be very ill. Also about consulting with Mr. W. Montagu +for the settling of the L4000 a-year that the King had promised my Lord. +As also about getting of Mr. George Montagu to be chosen at Huntingdon +this next Parliament, &c. That done he to White Hall stairs with much +company, and I with him; where we took water for Lambeth, and there coach +for Portsmouth. The Queen's things were all in White Hall Court ready to +be sent away, and her Majesty ready to be gone an hour after to Hampton +Court to-night, and so to be at Ports mouth on Saturday next. I by water +to my office, and there all the morning, and so home to dinner, where I +found Pall (my sister) was come; but I do not let her sit down at table +with me, which I do at first that she may not expect it hereafter from me. +After dinner I to Westminster by water, and there found my brother Spicer +at the Leg with all the rest of the Exchequer men (most of whom I now do +not know) at dinner. Here I staid and drank with them, and then to Mr. +George Montagu about the business of election, and he did give me a piece +in gold; so to my Lord's and got the chest of plate brought to the +Exchequer, and my brother Spicer put it into his treasury. So to Will's +with them to a pot of ale, and so parted. I took a turn in the Hall, and +bought the King and Chancellor's speeches at the dissolving the Parliament +last Saturday. So to my Lord's, and took my money I brought 'thither last +night and the silver candlesticks, and by coach left the latter at +Alderman Backwell's, I having no use for them, and the former home. There +stood a man at our door, when I carried it in, and saw me, which made me a +little afeard. Up to my chamber and wrote letters to Huntingdon and did +other business. This day I lent Sir W. Batten and Captn. Rider my chine +of beef for to serve at dinner tomorrow at Trinity House, the Duke of +Albemarle being to be there and all the rest of the Brethren, it being a +great day for the reading over of their new Charter, which the King hath +newly given them. + +3d. Early in the morning to the Exchequer, where I told over what money I +had of my Lord's and my own there, which I found to be L970. Thence to +Will's, where Spicer and I eat our dinner of a roasted leg of pork which +Will did give us, and after that to the Theatre, where was acted "Beggars' +Bush," it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw +women come upon the stage. + + [Downes does not give the cast of this play. After the Restoration + the acting of female characters by women became common. The first + English professional actress was Mrs. Coleman, who acted Ianthe in + Davenant's "Siege of Rhodes," at Rutland House in 1656.] + +From thence to my father's, where I found my mother gone by Bird, the +carrier, to Brampton, upon my uncle's great desire, my aunt being now in +despair of life. So home. + +4th. Office all the morning, my wife and Pall being gone to my father's +to dress dinner for Mr. Honiwood, my mother being gone out of town. Dined +at home, and Mr. Moore with me, with whom I had been early this morning at +White Hall, at the Jewell Office, + + [Several of the Jewel Office rolls are in the British Museum. They + recite all the sums of money given to the King, and the particulars + of all the plate distributed in his name, as well as gloves and + sweetmeats. The Museum possesses these rolls for the 4th, 9th, + 18th, 30th, and 31st Eliz.; for the 13th Charles I.; and the 23rd, + 24th, 26th, and 27th of Charles II.--B.] + +to choose a piece of gilt plate for my Lord, in return of his offering to +the King (which it seems is usual at this time of year, and an Earl gives +twenty pieces in gold in a purse to the King). I chose a gilt tankard, +weighing 31 ounces and a half, and he is allowed 30; so I paid 12s. for +the ounce and half over what he is to have; but strange it was for me to +see what a company of small fees I was called upon by a great many to pay +there, which, I perceive, is the manner that courtiers do get their +estates. After dinner Mr. Moore and I to the Theatre, where was "The +Scornful Lady," acted very well, it being the first play that ever he saw. +Thence with him to drink a cup of ale at Hercules Pillars, and so parted. +I called to see my father, who told me by the way how Will and Mary Joyce +do live a strange life together, nothing but fighting, &c., so that +sometimes her father has a mind to have them divorced. Thence home. + +5th. Home all the morning. Several people came to me about business, +among others the great Tom Fuller, who came to desire a kindness for a +friend of his, who hath a mind to go to Jamaica with these two ships that +are going, which I promised to do. So to Whitehall to my Lady, whom I +found at dinner and dined with her, and staid with her talking all the +afternoon, and thence walked to Westminster Hall. So to Will's, and drank +with Spicer, and thence by coach home, staying a little in Paul's +Churchyard, to bespeak Ogilby's AEsop's Fables and Tully's Officys to be +bound for me. So home and to bed. + +6th (Lord's day). My wife and I to church this morning, and so home to +dinner to a boiled leg of mutton all alone. To church again, where, +before sermon, a long Psalm was set that lasted an hour, while the sexton +gathered his year's contribucion through the whole church. After sermon +home, and there I went to my chamber and wrote a letter to send to Mr. +Coventry, with a piece of plate along with it, which I do preserve among +my other letters. So to supper, and thence after prayers to bed. + +7th. This morning, news was brought to me to my bedside, that there had +been a great stir in the City this night by the Fanatiques, who had been +up and killed six or seven men, but all are fled. + + ["A great rising in the city of the Fifth-monarchy men, which did + very much disturb the peace and liberty of the people, so that all + the train-bands arose in arms, both in London and Westminster, as + likewise all the king's guards; and most of the noblemen mounted, + and put all their servants on coach horses, for the defence of his + Majesty, and the peace of his kingdom."--Rugge's Diurnal. The + notorious Thomas Venner, the Fifth-monarchy man, a cooper and + preacher to a conventicle in Swan Alley, Coleman Street, with a + small following (about fifty in number) took arms on the 6th January + for the avowed purpose of establishing the Millennium. He was a + violent enthusiast, and persuaded his followers that they were + invulnerable. After exciting much alarm in the City, and + skirmishing with the Trained Bands, they marched to Caen Wood. They + were driven out by a party of guards, but again entered the City, + where they were overpowered by the Trained Bands. The men were + brought to trial and condemned; four, however, were acquitted and + two reprieved. The execution of some of these men is mentioned by + Pepys under date January 19th and 21st. "A Relation of the + Arraignment and Trial of those who made the late Rebellious + Insurrections in London, 1661," is reprinted in "Somers Tracts," + vol. vii. (1812), p. 469.] + +My Lord Mayor and the whole City had been in arms, above 40,000. To the +office, and after that to dinner, where my brother Tom came and dined with +me, and after dinner (leaving 12d. with the servants to buy a cake with at +night, this day being kept as Twelfth day) Tom and I and my wife to the +Theatre, and there saw "The Silent Woman." The first time that ever I did +see it, and it is an excellent play. Among other things here, Kinaston, +the boy; had the good turn to appear in three shapes: first, as a poor +woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, as a +gallant, and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole house, +and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the handsomest man in +the house. From thence by link to my cozen Stradwick's, where my father +and we and Dr. Pepys, Scott, and his wife, and one Mr. Ward and his; and +after a good supper, we had an excellent cake, where the mark for the +Queen was cut, and so there was two queens, my wife and Mrs. Ward; and the +King being lost, they chose the Doctor to be King, so we made him send for +some wine, and then home, and in our way home we were in many places +strictly examined, more than in the worst of times, there being great +fears of these Fanatiques rising again: for the present I do not hear that +any of them are taken. Home, it being a clear moonshine and after 12 +o'clock at night. Being come home we found that my people had been very +merry, and my wife tells me afterwards that she had heard that they had +got young Davis and some other neighbours with them to be merry, but no +harm. + +8th. My wife and I lay very long in bed to-day talking and pleasing one +another in discourse. Being up, Mr. Warren came, and he and I agreed for +the deals that my Lord is to, have. Then Will and I to Westminster, where +I dined with my Lady. After dinner I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and Mr. +Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed them "The Widdow," an indifferent good +play, but wronged by the women being to seek in their parts. That being +done, my Lord's coach waited for us, and so back to my Lady's, where she +made me drink of some Florence wine, and did give me two bottles for my +wife. From thence walked to my cozen Stradwick's, and there chose a small +banquet and some other things against our entertainment on Thursday next. +Thence to Tom Pepys and bought a dozen of trenchers, and so home. Some +talk to-day of a head of Fanatiques that do appear about Barnett, but I do +not believe it. However, my Lord Mayor, Sir Richd. Browne, hath carried +himself very honourably, and hath caused one of their meeting-houses in +London to be pulled down. + +9th. Waked in the morning about six o'clock, by people running up and +down in Mr. Davis's house, talking that the Fanatiques were up in arms in +the City. And so I rose and went forth; where in the street I found every +body in arms at the doors. So I returned (though with no good courage at +all, but that I might not seem to be afeared), and got my sword and +pistol, which, however, I had no powder to charge; and went to the door, +where I found Sir R. Ford, and with him I walked up and down as far as the +Exchange, and there I left him. In our way, the streets full of +Train-band, and great stories, what mischief these rogues have done; and I +think near a dozen have been killed this morning on both sides. Seeing the +city in this condition, the shops shut, and all things in trouble, I went +home and sat, it being office day, till noon. So home, and dined at home, +my father with me, and after dinner he would needs have me go to my uncle +Wight's (where I have been so long absent that I am ashamed to go). I +found him at home and his wife, and I can see they have taken my absence +ill, but all things are past and we good friends, and here I sat with my +aunt till it was late, my uncle going forth about business. My aunt being +very fearful to be alone. So home to my lute till late, and then to bed, +there being strict guards all night in the City, though most of the +enemies, they say, are killed or taken. This morning my wife and Pall +went forth early, and I staid within. + +10th. There comes Mr. Hawley to me and brings me my money for the quarter +of a year's salary of my place under Downing that I was at sea. So I did +give him half, whereof he did in his nobleness give the odd 5s, to my +Jane. So we both went forth (calling first to see how Sir W. Pen do, whom +I found very ill), and at the Hoop by the bridge we drank two pints of +wormwood and sack. Talking of his wooing afresh of Mrs. Lane, and of his +going to serve the Bishop of London. Thence by water to Whitehall, and +found my wife at Mrs. Hunt's. Leaving her to dine there, I went and dined +with my Lady, and staid to talk a while with her. After dinner Will. +comes to tell me that he had presented my piece of plate to Mr. Coventry, +who takes it very kindly, and sends me a very kind letter, and the plate +back again; of which my heart is very glad. So to Mrs. Hunt, where I +found a Frenchman, a lodger of hers, at dinner, and just as I came in was +kissing my wife, which I did not like, though there could not be any hurt +in it. Thence by coach to my Uncle Wight's with my wife, but they being +out of doors we went home, where, after I had put some papers in order and +entered some letters in my book which I have a mind to keep, I went with +my wife to see Sir W. Pen, who we found ill still, but he do make very +much of it. Here we sat a great while, at last comes in Mr. Davis and his +lady (who takes it very ill that my wife never did go to see her), and so +we fell to talk. Among other things Mr. Davis told us the particular +examinations of these Fanatiques that are taken: and in short it is this, +of all these Fanatiques that have done all this, viz., routed all the +Trainbands that they met with, put the King's life-guards to the run, +killed about twenty men, broke through the City gates twice; and all this +in the day-time, when all the City was in arms; are not in all about 31. +Whereas we did believe them (because they were seen up and down in every +place almost in the City, and had been about Highgate two or three days, +and in several other places) to be at least 500. A thing that never was +heard of, that so few men should dare and do so much mischief. Their word +was, "The King Jesus, and the heads upon the gates." Few of them would +receive any quarter, but such as were taken by force and kept alive; +expecting Jesus to come here and reign in the world presently, and will +not believe yet but their work will be carried on though they do die. The +King this day came to town. + +11th. Office day. This day comes news, by letters from Portsmouth, that +the Princess Henrietta is fallen sick of the meazles on board the London, +after the Queen and she was under sail. And so was forced to come back +again into Portsmouth harbour; and in their way, by negligence of the +pilot, run upon the Horse sand. The Queen and she continue aboard, and do +not intend to come on shore till she sees what will become of the young +Princess. This news do make people think something indeed, that three of +the Royal Family should fall sick of the same disease, one after another. +This morning likewise, we had order to see guards set in all the King's +yards; and so we do appoint who and who should go to them. Sir Wm. Batten +to Chatham, Colonel Slingsby and I to Deptford and Woolwich. Portsmouth +being a garrison, needs none. Dined at home, discontented that my wife do +not go neater now she has two maids. After dinner comes in Kate Sterpin +(whom we had not seen a great while) and her husband to see us, with whom +I staid a while, and then to the office, and left them with my wife. At +night walked to Paul's Churchyard, and bespoke some books against next +week, and from thence to the Coffeehouse, where I met Captain Morrice, the +upholster, who would fain have lent me a horse to-night to have rid with +him upon the Cityguards, with the Lord Mayor, there being some new +expectations of these rogues; but I refused by reason of my going out of +town tomorrow. So home to bed. + +12th. With Colonel Slingsby and a friend of his, Major Waters (a deaf and +most amorous melancholy gentleman, who is under a despayr in love, as the +Colonel told me, which makes him bad company, though a most good-natured +man), by water to Redriffe, and so on foot to Deptford (our servants by +water), where we fell to choosing four captains to command the guards, and +choosing the places where to keep them, and other things in order +thereunto. We dined at the Globe, having our messenger with us to take +care for us. Never till now did I see the great authority of my place, +all the captains of the fleet coming cap in hand to us. Having staid very +late there talking with the Colonel, I went home with Mr. Davis, +storekeeper (whose wife is ill and so I could not see her), and was there +most prince-like lodged, with so much respect and honour that I was at a +loss how to behave myself. + +13th. In the morning we all went to church, and sat in the pew belonging +to us, where a cold sermon of a young man that never had preached before. +Here Commissioner came with his wife and daughters, the eldest being his +wife's daughter is a very comely black woman.--[The old expression for a +brunette.]--So to the Globe to dinner, and then with Commissioner Pett to +his lodgings there (which he hath for the present while he is building the +King's yacht, which will be a pretty thing, and much beyond the +Dutchman's), and from thence with him and his wife and daughter-in-law by +coach to Greenwich Church, where a good sermon, a fine church, and a great +company of handsome women. After sermon to Deptford again; where, at the +Commissioner's and the Globe, we staid long. And so I to Mr. Davis's to +bed again. But no sooner in bed, but we had an alarm, and so we rose: and +the Comptroller comes into the Yard to us; and seamen of all the ships +present repair to us, and there we armed with every one a handspike, with +which they were as fierce as could be. At last we hear that it was only +five or six men that did ride through the guard in the town, without +stopping to the guard that was there; and, some say, shot at them. But +all being quiet there, we caused the seamen to go on board again: And so +we all to bed (after I had sat awhile with Mr. Davis in his study, which +is filled with good books and some very good song books) I likewise to +bed. + +14th. The arms being come this morning from the Tower, we caused them to +be distributed. I spent much time walking with Lieutenant Lambert, +walking up and down the yards, who did give me much light into things +there, and so went along with me and dined with us. After dinner Mrs. +Pett, her husband being gone this morning with Sir W. Batten to Chatham, +lent us her coach, and carried us to Woolwich, where we did also dispose +of the arms there and settle the guards. So to Mr. Pett's, the +shipwright, and there supped, where he did treat us very handsomely (and +strange it is to see what neat houses all the officers of the King's yards +have), his wife a proper woman, and has been handsome, and yet has a very +pretty hand. Thence I with Mr. Ackworth to his house, where he has a very +pretty house, and a very proper lovely woman to his wife, who both sat +with me in my chamber, and they being gone, I went to bed, which was also +most neat and fine. + +15th. Up and down the yard all the morning and seeing the seamen +exercise, which they do already very handsomely. Then to dinner at Mr. +Ackworth's, where there also dined with us one Captain Bethell, a friend +of the Comptroller's. A good dinner and very handsome. After that and +taking our leaves of the officers of the yard, we walked to the waterside +and in our way walked into the rope-yard, where I do look into the +tar-houses and other places, and took great notice of all the several +works belonging to the making of a cable. So after a cup of burnt +wine--[Burnt wine was somewhat similar to mulled wine, and a favourite +drink]--at the tavern there, we took barge and went to Blackwall and +viewed the dock and the new Wet dock, which is newly made there, and a +brave new merchantman which is to be launched shortly, and they say to be +called the Royal Oak. Hence we walked to Dick-Shore, and thence to the +Towre and so home. Where I found my wife and Pall abroad, so I went to see +Sir W. Pen, and there found Mr. Coventry come to see him, and now had an +opportunity to thank him, and he did express much kindness to me. I sat a +great while with Sir Wm. after he was gone, and had much talk with him. I +perceive none of our officers care much for one another, but I do keep in +with them all as much as I can. Sir W. Pen is still very ill as when I +went. Home, where my wife not yet come home, so I went up to put my papers +in order, and then was much troubled my wife was not come, it being 10 +o'clock just now striking as I write this last line. This day I hear the +Princess is recovered again. The King hath been this afternoon at +Deptford, to see the yacht that Commissioner Pett is building, which will +be very pretty; as also that that his brother at Woolwich is in making. By +and by comes in my boy and tells me that his mistress do lie this night at +Mrs. Hunt's, who is very ill, with which being something satisfied, I went +to bed. + +16th. This morning I went early to the Comptroller's and so with him by +coach to Whitehall, to wait upon Mr. Coventry to give him an account of +what we have done, which having done, I went away to wait upon my Lady; +but coming to her lodgings I find that she is gone this morning to Chatham +by coach, thinking to meet me there, which did trouble me exceedingly, and +I did not know what to do, being loth to follow her, and yet could not +imagine what she would do when she found me not there. In this trouble, I +went to take a walk in Westminster Hall and by chance met with Mr. Child, +who went forth with my Lady to-day, but his horse being bad, he come back +again, which then did trouble me more, so that I did resolve to go to her; +and so by boat home and put on my boots, and so over to Southwarke to the +posthouse, and there took horse and guide to Dartford and thence to +Rochester (I having good horses and good way, come thither about +half-an-hour after daylight, which was before 6 o'clock and I set forth +after two), where I found my Lady and her daughter Jem., and Mrs. Browne' +and five servants, all at a great loss, not finding me here, but at my +coming she was overjoyed. The sport was how she had intended to have kept +herself unknown, and how the Captain (whom she had sent for) of the +Charles had forsoothed + + [To forsooth is to address in a polite and ceremonious manner. + "Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any + case."--Ben Jonson's Poetaster, act iv., sc. 1.] + +her, though he knew her well and she him. In fine we supped merry and so +to bed, there coming several of the Charles's men to see me before, I got +to bed. The page lay with me. + +17th. Up, and breakfast with my Lady. Then come Captains Cuttance and +Blake to carry her in the barge on board; and so we went through Ham +Creeke to the Soverayne (a goodly sight all the way to see the brave ships +that lie here) first, which is a most noble ship. I never saw her before. +My Lady Sandwich, my Lady Jemimah, Mrs. Browne, Mrs. Grace, and Mary and +the page, my lady's servants and myself, all went into the lanthorn +together. From thence to the Charles, where my lady took great pleasure +to see all the rooms, and to hear me tell her how things are when my Lord +is there. After we had seen all, then the officers of the ship had +prepared a handsome breakfast for her, and while she was pledging my +Lord's health they give her five guns. That done, we went off, and then +they give us thirteen guns more. I confess it was a great pleasure to +myself to see the ship that I begun my good fortune in. From thence on +board the Newcastle, to show my Lady the difference between a great and a +small ship. Among these ships I did give away L7. So back again and went +on shore at Chatham, where I had ordered the coach to wait for us. Here I +heard that Sir William Batten and his lady (who I knew were here, and did +endeavour to avoyd) were now gone this morning to London. So we took +coach, and I went into the coach, and went through the town, without +making stop at our inn, but left J. Goods to pay the reckoning. So I rode +with my lady in the coach, and the page on the horse that I should have +rid on--he desiring it. It begun to be dark before we could come to +Dartford, and to rain hard, and the horses to fayle, which was our great +care to prevent, for fear of my Lord's displeasure, so here we sat up for +to-night, as also Captains Cuttance and Blake, who came along with us. We +sat and talked till supper, and at supper my Lady and I entered into a +great dispute concerning what were best for a man to do with his +estate--whether to make his elder son heir, which my Lady is for, and I +against, but rather to make all equall. This discourse took us much time, +till it was time to go to bed; but we being merry, we bade my Lady +goodnight, and intended to have gone to the Post-house to drink, and hear +a pretty girl play of the cittern (and indeed we should have lain there, +but by a mistake we did not), but it was late, and we could not hear her, +and the guard came to examine what we were; so we returned to our Inn and +to bed, the page and I in one bed, and the two captains in another, all in +one chamber, where we had very good mirth with our most abominable +lodging. + +18th. The Captains went with me to the post-house about 9 o'clock, and +after a morning draft I took horse and guide for London; and through some +rain, and a great wind in my face, I got to London at eleven o'clock. At +home found all well, but the monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I +did strike her till she was almost dead, that they might make her fast +again, which did still trouble me more. In the afternoon we met at the +office and sat till night, and then I to see my father who I found well, +and took him to Standing's' to drink a cup of ale. He told me my aunt at +Brampton is yet alive and my mother well there. In comes Will Joyce to us +drunk, and in a talking vapouring humour of his state, and I know not +what, which did vex me cruelly. After him Mr. Hollier had learned at my +father's that I was here (where I had appointed to meet him) and so he did +give me some things to take for prevention. Will Joyce not letting us +talk as I would I left my father and him and took Mr. Hollier to the +Greyhound, where he did advise me above all things, both as to the stone +and the decay of my memory (of which I now complain to him), to avoid +drinking often, which I am resolved, if I can, to leave off. Hence home, +and took home with me from the bookseller's Ogilby's AEsop, which he had +bound for me, and indeed I am very much pleased with the book. Home and +to bed. + +19th. To the Comptroller's, and with him by coach to White Hall; in our +way meeting Venner and Pritchard upon a sledge, who with two more Fifth +Monarchy men were hanged to-day, and the two first drawn and quartered. +Where we walked up and down, and at last found Sir G. Carteret, whom I had +not seen a great while, and did discourse with him about our assisting the +Commissioners in paying off the Fleet, which we think to decline. Here +the Treasurer did tell me that he did suspect Thos. Hater to be an +informer of them in this work, which we do take to be a diminution of us, +which do trouble me, and I do intend to find out the truth. Hence to my +Lady, who told me how Mr. Hetley is dead of the small-pox going to +Portsmouth with my Lord. My Lady went forth to dinner to her father's, +and so I went to the Leg in King Street and had a rabbit for myself and my +Will, and after dinner I sent him home and myself went to the Theatre, +where I saw "The Lost Lady," which do not please me much. Here I was +troubled to be seen by four of our office clerks, which sat in the +half-crown box and I in the 1s. 6d. From thence by link, and bought two +mouse traps of Thomas Pepys, the Turner, and so went and drank a cup of +ale with him, and so home and wrote by post to Portsmouth to my Lord and +so to bed. + +20th (Lord's day). To Church in the morning. Dined at home. My wife and +I to Church in the afternoon, and that being done we went to see my uncle +and aunt Wight. There I left my wife and came back, and sat with Sir W. +Pen, who is not yet well again. Thence back again to my wife and supped +there, and were very merry and so home, and after prayers to write down my +journall for the last five days, and so to bed. + +21st. This morning Sir W. Batten, the Comptroller and I to Westminster, +to the Commissioners for paying off the Army and Navy, where the Duke of +Albemarle was; and we sat with our hats on, and did discourse about paying +off the ships and do find that they do intend to undertake it without our +help; and we are glad of it, for it is a work that will much displease the +poor seamen, and so we are glad to have no hand in it. From thence to the +Exchequer, and took L200 and carried it home, and so to the office till +night, and then to see Sir W. Pen, whither came my Lady Batten and her +daughter, and then I sent for my wife, and so we sat talking till it was +late. So home to supper and then to bed, having eat no dinner to-day. It +is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all; but +the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and down, and the rose-bushes are +full of leaves, such a time of the year as was never known in this world +before here. This day many more of the Fifth Monarchy men were hanged. + +22nd. To the Comptroller's house, where I read over his proposals to the +Lord Admiral for the regulating of the officers of the Navy, in which he +hath taken much pains, only he do seem to have too good opinion of them +himself. From thence in his coach to Mercer's Chappell, and so up to the +great hall, where we met with the King's Councell for Trade, upon some +proposals of theirs for settling convoys for the whole English trade, and +that by having 33 ships (four fourth-rates, nineteen fifths, ten sixths) +settled by the King for that purpose, which indeed was argued very finely +by many persons of honour and merchants that were there. It pleased me +much now to come in this condition to this place, where I was once a +petitioner for my exhibition in Paul's School; and also where Sir G. +Downing (my late master) was chairman, and so but equally concerned with +me. From thence home, and after a little dinner my wife and I by coach +into London, and bought some glasses, and then to Whitehall to see Mrs. +Fox, but she not within, my wife to my mother Bowyer, and I met with Dr. +Thomas Fuller, and took him to the Dog, where he tells me of his last and +great book that is coming out: that is, his History of all the Families in +England;' and could tell me more of my own, than I knew myself. And also +to what perfection he hath now brought the art of memory; that he did +lately to four eminently great scholars dictate together in Latin, upon +different subjects of their proposing, faster than they were able to +write, till they were tired; and by the way in discourse tells me that the +best way of beginning a sentence, if a man should be out and forget his +last sentence (which he never was), that then his last refuge is to begin +with an Utcunque. From thence I to Mr. Bowyer's, and there sat a while, +and so to Mr. Fox's, and sat with them a very little while, and then by +coach home, and so to see Sir Win. Pen, where we found Mrs. Martha Batten +and two handsome ladies more, and so we staid supper and were very merry, +and so home to bed. + +23rd. To the office all the morning. My wife and people at home busy to +get things ready for tomorrow's dinner. At noon, without dinner, went +into the City, and there meeting with Greatorex, we went and drank a pot +of ale. He told me that he was upon a design to go to Teneriffe to try +experiments there. With him to Gresham Colledge + + [Gresham College occupied the house of Sir Thomas Gresham, in + Bishopsgate Street, from 1596, when Lady Gresham, Sir Thomas's + widow, died. The meeting which Pepys attended was an early one of + the Royal Society, which was incorporated by royal charter in 1663.] + +(where I never was before), and saw the manner of the house, and found +great company of persons of honour there; thence to my bookseller's, and +for books, and to Stevens, the silversmith, to make clean some plate +against to-morrow, and so home, by the way paying many little debts for +wine and pictures, &c., which is my great pleasure. Home and found all +things in a hurry of business, Slater, our messenger, being here as my +cook till very late. I in my chamber all the evening looking over my +Osborn's works and new Emanuel Thesaurus Patriarchae. So late to bed, +having ate nothing to-day but a piece of bread and cheese at the ale-house +with Greatorex, and some bread and butter at home. + +24th. At home all day. There dined with me Sir William Batten and his +lady and daughter, Sir W. Pen, Mr. Fox (his lady being ill could not +come), and Captain Cuttance; the first dinner I have made since I came +hither. This cost me above L5, and merry we were--only my chimney smokes. +In the afternoon Mr. Hater bringing me my last quarter's salary, which I +received of him, and so I have now Mr. Barlow's money in my hands. The +company all go away, and by and by Sir Wms. both and my Lady Batten and +his daughter come again and supped with me and talked till late, and so to +bed, being glad that the trouble is over. + +25th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home and Mr. Hater with +me, and so I did make even with him for the last quarter. After dinner he +and I to look upon the instructions of my Lord Northumberland's, but we +were interrupted by Mr. Salisbury's coming in, who came to see me and to +show me my Lord's picture in little, of his doing. And truly it is +strange to what a perfection he is come in a year's time. From thence to +Paul's Churchyard about books, and so back again home. This night comes +two cages, which I bought this evening for my canary birds, which Captain +Rooth this day sent me. So to bed. + +26th. Within all the morning. About noon comes one that had formerly +known me and I him, but I know not his name, to borrow L5 of me, but I had +the wit to deny him. There dined with me this day both the Pierces' and +their wives, and Captain Cuttance, and Lieutenant Lambert, with whom we +made ourselves very merry by taking away his ribbans and garters, having +made him to confess that he is lately married. The company being gone I +went to my lute till night, and so to bed. + +27th (Lord's day). Before I rose, letters come to me from Portsmouth, +telling me that the Princess is now well, and my Lord Sandwich set sail +with the Queen and her yesterday from thence for France. To church, +leaving my wife sick . . . . at home, a poor dull sermon of a stranger. +Home, and at dinner was very angry at my people's eating a fine pudding +(made me by Slater, the cook, last Thursday) without my wife's leave. To +church again, a good sermon of Mr. Mills, and after sermon Sir W. Pen and +I an hour in the garden talking, and he did answer me to many things, I +asked Mr. Coventry's opinion of me, and Sir W. Batten's of my Lord +Sandwich, which do both please me. Then to Sir W. Batten's, where very +merry, and here I met the Comptroller and his lady and daughter (the first +time I ever saw them) and Mrs. Turner, who and her husband supped with us +here (I having fetched my wife thither), and after supper we fell to +oysters, and then Mr. Turner went and fetched some strong waters, and so +being very merry we parted, and home to bed. This day the parson read a +proclamation at church, for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of +January, a fast for the murther of the late King. + +28th. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and after dinner to +Fleet Street, with my sword to Mr. Brigden (lately made Captain of the +Auxiliaries) to be refreshed, and with him to an ale-house, where I met +Mr. Davenport; and after some talk of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw's +bodies being taken out of their graves to-day, + + ["The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, John Bradshaw, and + Thomas Pride, were dug up out of their graves to be hanged at + Tyburn, and buried under the gallows. Cromwell's vault having been + opened, the people crowded very much to see him."--Rugge's Diurnal.] + +I went to Mr. Crew's and thence to the Theatre, where I saw again "The +Lost Lady," which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting +behind in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not +seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not +troubled at it at all. Thence to Mr. Crew's, and there met Mr. Moore, who +came lately to me, and went with me to my father's, and with him to +Standing's, whither came to us Dr. Fairbrother, who I took and my father +to the Bear and gave a pint of sack and a pint of claret. + +He do still continue his expressions of respect and love to me, and tells +me my brother John will make a good scholar. Thence to see the Doctor at +his lodging at Mr. Holden's, where I bought a hat, cost me 35s. So home +by moonshine, and by the way was overtaken by the Comptroller's coach, and +so home to his house with him. So home and to bed. This noon I had my +press set up in my chamber for papers to be put in. + +29th. Mr. Moore making up accounts with me all this morning till Lieut. +Lambert came, and so with them over the water to Southwark, and so over +the fields to Lambeth, and there drank, it being a most glorious and warm +day, even to amazement, for this time of the year. Thence to my Lord's, +where we found my Lady gone with some company to see Hampton Court, so we +three went to Blackfryers (the first time I ever was there since plays +begun), and there after great patience and little expectation, from so +poor beginning, I saw three acts of "The Mayd in ye Mill" acted to my +great content. But it being late, I left the play and them, and by water +through bridge home, and so to Mr. Turner's house, where the Comptroller, +Sir William Batten, and Mr. Davis and their ladies; and here we had a most +neat little but costly and genteel supper, and after that a great deal of +impertinent mirth by Mr. Davis, and some catches, and so broke up, and +going away, Mr. Davis's eldest son took up my old Lady Slingsby in his +arms, and carried her to the coach, and is said to be able to carry three +of the biggest men that were in the company, which I wonder at. So home +and to bed. + +30th (Fast day). The first time that this day hath been yet observed: and +Mr. Mills made a most excellent sermon, upon "Lord forgive us our former +iniquities;" speaking excellently of the justice of God in punishing men +for the sins of their ancestors. Home, and John Goods comes, and after +dinner I did pay him L30 for my Lady, and after that Sir W. Pen and I into +Moorfields and had a brave talk, it being a most pleasant day, and besides +much discourse did please ourselves to see young Davis and Whitton, two of +our clerks, going by us in the field, who we observe to take much pleasure +together, and I did most often see them at play together. Back to the Old +James in Bishopsgate Street, where Sir W. Batten and Sir Wm. Rider met him +about business of the Trinity House. So I went home, and there understand +that my mother is come home well from Brampton, and had a letter from my +brother John, a very ingenious one, and he therein begs to have leave to +come to town at the Coronacion. Then to my Lady Batten's; where my wife +and she are lately come back again from being abroad, and seeing of +Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw hanged and buried at Tyburn. Then I home. + + ["Jan. 30th was kept as a very solemn day of fasting and prayer. + This morning the carcases of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw (which + the day before had been brought from the Red Lion Inn, Holborn), + were drawn upon a sledge to Tyburn, and then taken out of their + coffins, and in their shrouds hanged by the neck, until the going + down of the sun. They were then cut down, their heads taken off, + and their bodies buried in a grave made under the gallows. The + coffin in which was the body of Cromwell was a very rich thing, very + full of gilded hinges and nails."--Rugge's Diurnal.] + +31st. This morning with Mr. Coventry at Whitehall about getting a ship to +carry my Lord's deals to Lynne, and we have chosen the Gift. Thence at +noon to my Lord's, where my Lady not well, so I eat a mouthfull of dinner +there, and thence to the Theatre, and there sat in the pit among the +company of fine ladys, &c.; and the house was exceeding full, to see +Argalus and Parthenia, the first time that it hath been acted: and indeed +it is good, though wronged by my over great expectations, as all things +else are. Thence to my father's to see my mother, who is pretty well +after her journey from Brampton. She tells me my aunt is pretty well, yet +cannot live long. My uncle pretty well too, and she believes would marry +again were my aunt dead, which God forbid. So home. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + FEBRUARY + 1660-61 + +February 1st (Friday). A full office all this morning, and busy about +answering the Commissioners of Parliament to their letter, wherein they +desire to borrow two clerks of ours, which we will not grant them. After +dinner into London and bought some books, and a belt, and had my sword new +furbished. To the alehouse with Mr. Brigden and W. Symons. At night +home. So after a little music to bed, leaving my people up getting things +ready against to-morrow's dinner. + +2nd. Early to Mr. Moore, and with him to Sir Peter Ball, who proffers my +uncle Robert much civility in letting him continue in the grounds which he +had hired of Hetley who is now dead. Thence home, where all things in a +hurry for dinner, a strange cook being come in the room of Slater, who +could not come. There dined here my uncle Wight and my aunt, my father +and mother, and my brother Tom, Dr. Fairbrother and Mr. Mills, the parson, +and his wife, who is a neighbour's daughter of my uncle Robert's, and +knows my Aunt Wight and all her and my friends there; and so we had +excellent company to-day. After dinner I was sent for to Sir G. +Carteret's, where he was, and I found the Comptroller, who are upon +writing a letter to the Commissioners of Parliament in some things a +rougher stile than our last, because they seem to speak high to us. So +the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon +drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the +Cheques to make up their accounts. Then home; where I found the parson +and his wife gone. And by and by the rest of the company, very well +pleased, and I too; it being the last dinner I intend to make a great +while, it having now cost me almost L15 in three dinners within this +fortnight. In the evening comes Sir W. Pen, pretty merry, to sit with me +and talk, which we did for an hour or two, and so good night, and I to +bed. + +3d (Lord's day). This day I first begun to go forth in my coat and sword, +as the manner now among gentlemen is. To Whitehall. In my way heard Mr. +Thomas Fuller preach at the Savoy upon our forgiving of other men's +trespasses, shewing among other things that we are to go to law never to +revenge, but only to repayre, which I think a good distinction. So to +White Hall; where I staid to hear the trumpets and kettle-drums, and then +the other drums, which are much cried up, though I think it dull, vulgar +musique. So to Mr. Fox's, unbid; where I had a good dinner and special +company. Among other discourse, I observed one story, how my Lord of +Northwich, at a public audience before the King of France, made the Duke +of Anjou cry, by making ugly faces as he was stepping to the King, but +undiscovered. + + [This story relates to circumstances which had occurred many years + previously. George, Lord Goring, was sent by Charles I. as + Ambassador Extraordinary to France in 1644, to witness the oath of + Louis XIV. to the observance of the treaties concluded with England + by his father, Louis XIII., and his grandfather, Henry IV. Louis + XIV. took this oath at Ruel, on July 3rd, 1644, when he was not yet + six years of age, and when his brother Philippe, then called Duke of + Anjou, was not four years old. Shortly after his return home, Lord + Goring was created, in September, 1644, Earl of Norwich, the title + by which he is here mentioned. Philippe, Duke of Anjou, who was + frightened by the English nobleman's ugly faces, took the title of + Duke of Orleans after the death of his uncle, Jean Baptiste Gaston, + in 1660. He married his cousin, Henrietta of England.--B.] + +And how Sir Phillip Warwick's' lady did wonder to have Mr. Darcy' send for +several dozen bottles of Rhenish wine to her house, not knowing that the +wine was his. Thence to my Lord's; where I am told how Sir Thomas Crew's +Pedro, with two of his countrymen more, did last night kill one soldier of +four that quarrelled with them in the street, about 10 o'clock. The other +two are taken; but he is now hid at my Lord's till night, that he do +intend to make his escape away. So up to my Lady, and sat and talked with +her long, and so to Westminster Stairs, and there took boat to the bridge, +and so home, where I met with letters to call us all up to-morrow morning +to Whitehall about office business. + +4th. Early up to Court with Sir W. Pen, where, at Mr. Coventry's chamber, +we met with all our fellow officers, and there after a hot debate about +the business of paying off the Fleet, and how far we should join with the +Commissioners of Parliament, which is now the great business of this month +more to determine, and about which there is a great deal of difference +between us, and then how far we should be assistants to them therein. +That being done, he and I back again home, where I met with my father and +mother going to my cozen Snow's to Blackwall, and had promised to bring me +and my wife along with them, which we could not do because we are to go to +the Dolphin to-day to a dinner of Capt. Tayler's. So at last I let my +wife go with them, and I to the tavern, where Sir William Pen and the +Comptroller and several others were, men and women; and we had a very +great and merry dinner; and after dinner the Comptroller begun some +sports, among others the naming of people round and afterwards demanding +questions of them that they are forced to answer their names to, which do +make very good sport. And here I took pleasure to take the forfeits of +the ladies who would not do their duty by kissing of them; among others a +pretty lady, who I found afterwards to be wife to Sir W. Batten's son. +Home, and then with my wife to see Sir W. Batten, who could not be with us +this day being ill, but we found him at cards, and here we sat late, +talking with my Lady and others and Dr. Whistler, + + [Daniel Whistler, M.D., Fellow of Merton College, whose inaugural + dissertation on Rickets in 1645 contains the earliest printed + account of that disease. He was Gresham Professor of Geometry, + 1648-57, and held several offices at the College of Physicians, + being elected President in 1683. He was one of the original Fellows + of the Royal Society. Dr. Munk, in his "Roll of the Royal College + of Physicians," speaks very unfavourably of Whistler, and says that + he defrauded the college. He died May 11th, 1684.] + +who I found good company and a very ingenious man. So home and to bed. + +5th. Washing-day. My wife and I by water to Westminster. She to her +mother's and I to Westminster Hall, where I found a full term, and here I +went to Will's, and there found Shaw and Ashwell and another Bragrave (who +knew my mother wash-maid to my Lady Veere), who by cursing and swearing +made me weary of his company and so I went away. Into the Hall and there +saw my Lord Treasurer (who was sworn to-day at the Exchequer, with a great +company of Lords and persons of honour to attend him) go up to the +Treasury Offices, and take possession thereof; and also saw the heads of +Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton, set up upon the further end of the Hall. +Then at Mrs. Michell's in the Hall met my wife and Shaw, and she and I and +Captain Murford to the Dog, and there I gave them some wine, and after +some mirth and talk (Mr. Langley coming in afterwards) I went by coach to +the play-house at the Theatre, our coach in King Street breaking, and so +took another. Here we saw Argalus and Parthenia, which I lately saw, but +though pleasant for the dancing and singing, I do not find good for any +wit or design therein. That done home by coach and to supper, being very +hungry for want of dinner, and so to bed. + +6th. Called up by my Cozen Snow, who sat by me while I was trimmed, and +then I drank with him, he desiring a courtesy for a friend, which I have +done for him. Then to the office, and there sat long, then to dinner, +Captain Murford with me. I had a dish of fish and a good hare, which was +sent me the other day by Goodenough the plasterer. So to the office +again, where Sir W. Pen and I sat all alone, answering of petitions and +nothing else, and so to Sir W. Batten's, where comes Mr. Jessop (one whom +I could not formerly have looked upon, and now he comes cap in hand to us +from the Commissioners of the Navy, though indeed he is a man of a great +estate and of good report), about some business from them to us, which we +answered by letter. Here I sat long with Sir W., who is not well, and +then home and to my chamber, and some little, music, and so to bed. + +7th. With Sir W. Batten and Pen to Whitehall to Mr. Coventry's chamber, +to debate upon the business we were upon the other day morning, and thence +to Westminster Hall. And after a walk to my Lord's; where, while I and my +Lady were in her chamber in talk, in comes my Lord from sea, to our great +wonder. He had dined at Havre de Grace on Monday last, and came to the +Downs the next day, and lay at Canterbury that night; and so to Dartford, +and thence this morning to White Hall. All my friends his servants well. +Among others, Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers tell me the stories of my Lord +Duke of Buckingham's and my Lord's falling out at Havre de Grace, at +cards; they two and my Lord St. Alban's playing. The Duke did, to my +Lord's dishonour, often say that he did in his conscience know the +contrary to what he then said, about the difference at cards; and so did +take up the money that he should have lost to my Lord. Which my Lord +resenting, said nothing then, but that he doubted not but there were ways +enough to get his money of him. So they parted that night; and my Lord +sent for Sir R. Stayner and sent him the next morning to the Duke, to know +whether he did remember what he said last night, and whether he would own +it with his sword and a second; which he said he would, and so both sides +agreed. But my Lord St. Alban's, and the Queen and Ambassador Montagu, +did waylay them at their lodgings till the difference was made up, to my +Lord's honour; who hath got great reputation thereby. I dined with my +Lord, and then with Mr. Shepley and Creed (who talked very high of France +for a fine country) to the tavern, and then I home. To the office, where +the two Sir Williams had staid for me, and then we drew up a letter to the +Commissioners of Parliament again, and so to Sir W. Batten, where I staid +late in talk, and so home, and after writing the letter fair then I went +to bed. + +8th. At the office all the morning. At noon to the Exchange to meet Mr. +Warren the timber merchant, but could not meet with him. Here I met with +many sea commanders, and among others Captain Cuttle, and Curtis, and +Mootham, and I, went to the Fleece Tavern to drink; and there we spent +till four o'clock, telling stories of Algiers, and the manner of the life +of slaves there! And truly Captn. Mootham and Mr. Dawes (who have been +both slaves there) did make me fully acquainted with their condition +there: as, how they eat nothing but bread and water. At their redemption +they pay so much for the water they drink at the public fountaynes, during +their being slaves. How they are beat upon the soles of their feet and +bellies at the liberty of their padron. How they are all, at night, +called into their master's Bagnard; and there they lie. How the poorest +men do use their slaves best. How some rogues do live well, if they do +invent to bring their masters in so much a week by their industry or +theft; and then they are put to no other work at all. And theft there is +counted no great crime at all. Thence to Mr. Rawlinson's, having met my +old friend Dick Scobell, and there I drank a great deal with him, and so +home and to bed betimes, my head aching. + +9th. To my Lord's with Mr. Creed (who was come to me this morning to get +a bill of imprest signed), and my Lord being gone out he and I to the +Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne. To whom I did make known my fears +of Will's losing of his time, which he will take care to give him good +advice about. Afterwards to my Lord's and Mr. Shepley and I did make even +his accounts and mine. And then with Mr. Creed and two friends of his (my +late landlord Jones' son one of them), to an ordinary to dinner, and then +Creed and I to Whitefriars' to the Play-house, and saw "The Mad Lover," +the first time I ever saw it acted, which I like pretty well, and home. + +10th (Lord's day). Took physique all day, and, God forgive me, did spend +it in reading of some little French romances. At night my wife and I did +please ourselves talking of our going into France, which I hope to effect +this summer. At noon one came to ask for Mrs. Hunt that was here +yesterday, and it seems is not come home yet, which makes us afraid of +her. At night to bed. + +11th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home, and then to the +Exchequer, and took Mr. Warren with me to Mr. Kennard, the master joiner, +at Whitehall, who was at a tavern, and there he and I to him, and agreed +about getting some of my Lord's deals on board to-morrow. Then with young +Mr. Reeve home to his house, who did there show me many pretty pleasures +in perspectives, + + ['Telescope' and 'microscope' are both as old as Milton, but for long + while 'perspective' (glass being sometimes understood and sometimes + expressed) did the work of these. It is sometimes written + 'prospective.' Our present use of 'perspective' does not, I suppose, + date farther back than Dryden.--Trench's Select Glossary.--M. B.] + +that I have not seen before, and I did buy a little glass of him cost me +5s. And so to Mr. Crew's, and with Mr. Moore to see how my father and +mother did, and so with him to Mr. Adam Chard's' (the first time I ever +was at his house since he was married) to drink, then we parted, and I +home to my study, and set some papers and money in order, and so to bed. + +12th. To my Lord's, and there with him all the morning, and then (he +going out to dinner) I and Mr. Pickering, Creed, and Captain Ferrers to +the Leg in the Palace to dinner, where strange Pickering's impertinences. +Thence the two others and I after a great dispute whither to go, we went +by water to Salsbury Court play-house, where not liking to sit, we went +out again, and by coach to the Theatre, and there saw "The Scornfull +Lady," now done by a woman, which makes the play appear much better than +ever it did to me. Then Creed and I (the other being lost in the crowd) +to drink a cup of ale at Temple Bar, and there we parted, and I (seeing my +father and mother by the way) went home. + +13th. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and poor Mr. Wood +with me, who after dinner would have borrowed money of me, but I would +lend none. Then to Whitehall by coach with Sir W. Pen, where we did very +little business, and so back to Mr. Rawlinson's, where I took him and gave +him a cup of wine, he having formerly known Mr. Rawlinson, and here I met +my uncle Wight, and he drank with us, and with him to Sir W. Batten's, +whither I sent for my wife, and we chose Valentines' against to-morrow. + + [The observation of St. Valentine's day is very ancient in this + country. Shakespeare makes Ophelia sing + + "To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, + All in the morning betime, + And I a maid at your window + To be your Valentine." + + Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.--M. B.] + +My wife chose me, which did much please me; my Lady Batten Sir W. Pen, &c. +Here we sat late, and so home to bed, having got my Lady Batten to give me +a spoonful of honey for my cold. + +14th (Valentine's day). Up early and to Sir W. Batten's, but would not go +in till I asked whether they that opened the door was a man or a woman, +and Mingo, who was there, answered a woman, which, with his tone, made me +laugh; so up I went and took Mrs. Martha for my Valentine (which I do only +for complacency), and Sir W. Batten he go in the same manner to my wife, +and so we were very merry. About 10 o'clock we, with a great deal of +company, went down by our barge to Deptford, and there only went to see +how forward Mr. Pett's yacht is; and so all into the barge again, and so +to Woolwich, on board the Rose-bush, Captain Brown's' ship, that is +brother-in-law to Sir W. Batten, where we had a very fine dinner, dressed +on shore, and great mirth and all things successfull; the first time I +ever carried my wife a-ship-board, as also my boy Wayneman, who hath all +this day been called young Pepys, as Sir W. Pen's boy young Pen. So home +by barge again; good weather, but pretty cold. I to my study, and began +to make up my accounts for my Lord, which I intend to end tomorrow. To +bed. The talk of the town now is, who the King is like to have for his +Queen: and whether Lent shall be kept with the strictness of the King's +proclamation; + + ["A Proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of + Flesh in Lent or on fish-dayes appointed by the law to be observed," + was dated 29th January, 1660-61]. + +which it is thought cannot be, because of the poor, who cannot buy fish. +And also the great preparation for the King's crowning is now much thought +upon and talked of. + +15th. At the office all the morning, and in the afternoon at making up my +accounts for my Lord to-morrow; and that being done I found myself to be +clear (as I think) L350 in the world, besides my goods in my house and all +things paid for. + +16th. To my Lord in the morning, who looked over my accounts and agreed +to them. I did also get him to sign a bill (which do make my heart merry) +for L60 to me, in consideration of my work extraordinary at sea this last +voyage, which I hope to get paid. I dined with my Lord and then to the +Theatre, where I saw "The Virgin Martyr," a good but too sober a play for +the company. Then home. + +17th (Lord's day). A most tedious, unreasonable, and impertinent sermon, +by an Irish Doctor. His text was "Scatter them, O Lord, that delight in +war." Sir Wm. Batten and I very much angry with the parson. And so I to +Westminster as soon as I came home to my Lord's, where I dined with Mr. +Shepley and Howe. After dinner (without speaking to my Lord), Mr. Shepley +and I into the city, and so I home and took my wife to my uncle Wight's, +and there did sup with them, and so home again and to bed. + +18th. At the office all the morning, dined at home with a very good +dinner, only my wife and I, which is not yet very usual. In the afternoon +my wife and I and Mrs. Martha Batten, my Valentine, to the Exchange, and +there upon a payre of embroydered and six payre of plain white gloves I +laid out 40s. upon her. Then we went to a mercer's at the end of Lombard +Street, and there she bought a suit of Lutestring--[More properly called +"lustring"; a fine glossy silk.]--for herself, and so home. And at night +I got the whole company and Sir Wm. Pen home to my house, and there I did +give them Rhenish wine and sugar, and continued together till it was late, +and so to bed. It is much talked that the King is already married to the +niece of the Prince de Ligne, + + [The Prince de Ligne had no niece, and probably Pepys has made some + mistake in the name. Charles at one time made an offer of marriage + to Mazarin's niece, Hortense Mancini.] + +and that he hath two sons already by her: which I am sorry to hear; but +yet am gladder that it should be so, than that the Duke of York and his +family should come to the crown, he being a professed friend to the +Catholiques. + +19th. By coach to Whitehall with Colonel Slingsby (carrying Mrs. Turner +with us) and there he and I up into the house, where we met with Sir G. +Carteret: who afterwards, with the Duke of York, my Lord Sandwich, and +others, went into a private room to consult: and we were a little troubled +that we were not called in with the rest. But I do believe it was upon +something very private. We staid walking in the gallery; where we met +with Mr. Slingsby, that was formerly a, great friend of Mons. Blondeau, +who showed me the stamps of the King's new coyne; which is strange to see, +how good they are in the stamp and bad in the money, for lack of skill to +make them. But he says Blondeau will shortly come over, and then we shall +have it better, and the best in the world. + + [Peter Blondeau, medallist, was invited to London from Paris in + 1649, and appointed by the Council of State to coin their money; but + the moneyers succeeded in driving him out of the country. Soon + after the Restoration he returned, and was appointed engineer to the + mint.] + +The Comptroller and I to the Commissioners of Parliament, and after some +talk away again and to drink a cup of ale. He tells me, he is sure that +the King is not yet married, as it is said; nor that it is known who he +will have. To my Lord's and found him dined, and so I lost my dinner, but +I staid and played with him and Mr. Child, &c., some things of four parts, +and so it raining hard and bitter cold (the first winter day we have yet +had this winter), I took coach home and spent the evening in reading of a +Latin play, the "Naufragium Joculare." And so to bed. + +20th. All the morning at the office, dined at home and my brother Tom +with me, who brought me a pair of fine slippers which he gave me. By and +by comes little Luellin and friend to see me, and then my coz Stradwick, +who was never here before. With them I drank a bottle of wine or two, and +to the office again, and there staid about business late, and then all of +us to Sir W. Pen's, where we had, and my Lady Batten, Mrs. Martha, and my +wife, and other company, a good supper, and sat playing at cards and +talking till 12 at night, and so all to our lodgings. + +21st. To Westminster by coach with Sir W. Pen, and in our way saw the +city begin to build scaffolds against the Coronacion. To my Lord, and +there found him out of doors. So to the Hall and called for some caps +that I have a making there, and here met with Mr. Hawley, and with him to +Will's and drank, and then by coach with Mr. Langley our old friend into +the city. I set him down by the way, and I home and there staid all day +within, having found Mr. Moore, who staid with me till late at night +talking and reading some good books. Then he went away, and I to bed. + +22nd. All the morning at the office. At noon with my wife and Pall to my +father's to dinner, where Dr. Thos. Pepys and my coz Snow and Joyce +Norton. After dinner came The. Turner, and so I home with her to her +mother, good woman, whom I had not seen through my great neglect this half +year, but she would not be angry with me. Here I staid all the afternoon +talking of the King's being married, which is now the town talk, but I +believe false. In the evening Mrs. The. and Joyce took us all into the +coach home, calling in Bishopsgate Street, thinking to have seen a new +Harpsicon--[The harpsichord is an instrument larger than a spinet, with +two or three strings to a note.]--that she had a making there, but it was +not done, and so we did not see it. Then to my home, where I made very +much of her, and then she went home. Then my wife to Sir W. Batten's, and +there sat a while; he having yesterday sent my wife half-a-dozen pairs of +gloves, and a pair of silk stockings and garters, for her Valentine's +gift. Then home and to bed. + +23rd. This my birthday, 28 years. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and I +did some business, and then I by water to Whitehall, having met Mr. +Hartlibb by the way at Alderman Backwell's. So he did give me a glass of +Rhenish wine at the Steeleyard, and so to Whitehall by water. He +continues of the same bold impertinent humour that he was always of and +will ever be. He told me how my Lord Chancellor had lately got the Duke +of York and Duchess, and her woman, my Lord Ossory's and a Doctor, to make +oath before most of the judges of the kingdom, concerning all the +circumstances of their marriage. And in fine, it is confessed that they +were not fully married till about a month or two before she was brought to +bed; but that they were contracted long before, and time enough for the +child to be legitimate. + + [The Duke of York's marriage took place September 3rd, 1660. Anne + Hyde was contracted to the Duke at Breda, November 24th, 1659.] + +But I do not hear that it was put to the judges to determine whether it +was so or no. To my Lord and there spoke to him about his opinion of the +Light, the sea-mark that Captain Murford is about, and do offer me an +eighth part to concern myself with it, and my Lord do give me some +encouragement in it, and I shall go on. I dined herewith Mr. Shepley and +Howe. After dinner to Whitehall Chappell with Mr. Child, and there did +hear Captain Cooke and his boy make a trial of an Anthem against tomorrow, +which was brave musique. Then by water to Whitefriars to the Play-house, +and there saw "The Changeling," the first time it hath been acted these +twenty years, and it takes exceedingly. Besides, I see the gallants do +begin to be tyred with the vanity and pride of the theatre actors who are +indeed grown very proud and rich. Then by link home, and there to my book +awhile and to bed. I met to-day with Mr. Townsend, who tells me that the +old man is yet alive in whose place in the Wardrobe he hopes to get my +father, which I do resolve to put for. I also met with the Comptroller, +who told me how it was easy for us all, the principal officers, and proper +for us, to labour to get into the next Parliament; and would have me to +ask the Duke's letter, but I shall not endeavour it because it will spend +much money, though I am sure I could well obtain it. This is now 28 years +that I am born. And blessed be God, in a state of full content, and great +hopes to be a happy man in all respects, both to myself and friends. + +24th (Sunday). Mr. Mills made as excellent a sermon in the morning +against drunkenness as ever I heard in my life. I dined at home; another +good one of his in the afternoon. My Valentine had her fine gloves on at +church to-day that I did give her. After sermon my wife and I unto Sir +Wm. Batten and sat awhile. Then home, I to read, then to supper and to +bed. + +25th. Sir Wm. Pen and I to my Lord Sandwich's by coach in the morning to +see him, but he takes physic to-day and so we could not see him. So he +went away, and I with Luellin to Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cockpit, where +he did lie of old, and there we drank, and from thence to W. Symons where +we found him abroad, but she, like a good lady, within, and there we did +eat some nettle porrige, which was made on purpose to-day for some of +their coming, and was very good. With her we sat a good while, merry in +discourse, and so away, Luellin and I to my Lord's, and there dined. He +told me one of the prettiest stories, how Mr. Blurton, his friend that was +with him at my house three or four days ago, did go with him the same day +from my house to the Fleet tavern by Guildhall, and there (by some +pretence) got the mistress of the house into their company, and by and by +Luellin calling him Doctor she thought that he really was so, and did +privately discover her disease to him, which was only some ordinary +infirmity belonging to women, and he proffering her physic, she desired +him to come some day and bring it, which he did. After dinner by water to +the office, and there Sir W. Pen and I met and did business all the +afternoon, and then I got him to my house and eat a lobster together, and +so to bed. + +26th (Shrove Tuesday). I left my wife in bed, being indisposed . . . I +to Mrs. Turner's, who I found busy with The. and Joyce making of things +ready for fritters, so to Mr. Crew's and there delivered Cotgrave's +Dictionary' to my Lady Jemimah, and then with Mr. Moore to my coz Tom +Pepys, but he being out of town I spoke with his lady, though not of the +business I went about, which was to borrow L1000 for my Lord. Back to +Mrs. Turner's, where several friends, all strangers to me but Mr. Armiger, +dined. Very merry and the best fritters that ever I eat in my life. +After that looked out at window; saw the flinging at cocks. + + [The cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday is of + considerable antiquity. It is shown in the first print of Hogarth's + "Four Stages of Cruelty."] + +Then Mrs. The. and I, and a gentleman that dined there and his daughter, a +perfect handsome young and very tall lady that lately came out of the +country, and Mr. Thatcher the Virginall Maister to Bishopsgate Street, and +there saw the new Harpsicon made for Mrs. The. We offered L12, they +demanded L14. The Master not being at home, we could make no bargain, so +parted for to-night. So all by coach to my house, where I found my +Valentine with my wife, and here they drank, and then went away. Then I +sat and talked with my Valentine and my wife a good while, and then saw +her home, and went to Sir W. Batten to the Dolphin, where Mr. Newborne, +&c., were, and there after a quart or two of wine, we home, and I to bed +. . . . + +27th. At the office all the morning, that done I walked in the garden +with little Captain Murford, where he and I had some discourse concerning +the Light-House again, and I think I shall appear in the business, he +promising me that if I can bring it about, it will be worth L100 per +annum. Then came into the garden to me young Mr. Powell and Mr. Hooke +that I once knew at Cambridge, and I took them in and gave them a bottle +of wine, and so parted. Then I called for a dish of fish, which we had +for dinner, this being the first day of Lent; and I do intend to try +whether I can keep it or no. My father dined with me and did show me a +letter from my brother John, wherein he tells us that he is chosen +Schollar of the house,' which do please me much, because I do perceive now +it must chiefly come from his merit and not the power of his Tutor, Dr. +Widdrington, who is now quite out of interest there and hath put over his +pupils to Mr. Pepper, a young Fellow of the College. With my father to +Mr. Rawlinson's, where we met my uncle Wight, and after a pint or two +away. I walked with my father (who gave me an account of the great +falling out between my uncle Fenner and his son Will) as far as Paul's +Churchyard, and so left him, and I home. This day the Commissioners of +Parliament begin to pay off the Fleet, beginning with the Hampshire, and +do it at Guildhall, for fear of going out of town into the power of the +seamen, who are highly incensed against them. + +28th. Early to wait on my Lord, and after a little talk with him I took +boat at Whitehall for Redriffe, but in my way overtook Captain Cuttance +and Teddiman in a boat and so ashore with them at Queenhithe, and so to a +tavern with them to a barrel of oysters, and so away. Capt. Cuttance and +I walked from Redriffe to Deptford, where I found both Sir Williams and +Sir G. Carteret at Mr. Uthwayt's, and there we dined, and notwithstanding +my resolution, yet for want of other victualls, I did eat flesh this Lent, +but am resolved to eat as little as I can. After dinner we went to +Captain Bodilaw's, and there made sale of many old stores by the candle, +and good sport it was to see how from a small matter bid at first they +would come to double and treble the price of things. After that Sir W. +Pen and I and my Lady Batten and her daughter by land to Redriffe, staying +a little at halfway house, and when we came to take boat, found Sir +George, &c., to have staid with the barge a great while for us, which +troubled us. Home and to bed. This month ends with two great secrets +under dispute but yet known to very few: first, Who the King will marry; +and What the meaning of this fleet is which we are now sheathing to set +out for the southward. Most think against Algier against the Turk, or to +the East Indys against the Dutch who, we hear, are setting out a great +fleet thither. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH + 1660-61 + +March 1st. All the morning at the office. Dined at home only upon fish, +and Mr. Shepley and Tom Hater with me. After dinner Mr. Shepley and I in +private talking about my Lord's intentions to go speedily into the +country, but to what end we know not. We fear he is to go to sea with +this fleet now preparing. But we wish that he could get his L4000 per +annum settled before he do go. Then he and I walked into London, he to +the Wardrobe and I to Whitefryars, and saw "The Bondman" acted; an +excellent play and well done. But above all that ever I saw, Betterton do +the Bond man the best. Then to my father's and found my mother ill. After +staying a while with them, I went home and sat up late, spending my +thoughts how to get money to bear me out in my great expense at the +Coronacion, against which all provide, and scaffolds setting up in every +street. I had many designs in my head to get some, but know not which +will take. To bed. + +2d. Early with Mr. Moore about Sir Paul Neale's' business with my uncle +and other things all the morning. Dined with him at Mr. Crew's, and after +dinner I went to the Theatre, where I found so few people (which is +strange, and the reason I did not know) that I went out again, and so to +Salsbury Court, where the house as full as could be; and it seems it was a +new play, "The Queen's Maske," wherein there are some good humours: among +others, a good jeer to the old story of the Siege of Troy, making it to be +a common country tale. But above all it was strange to see so little a +boy as that was to act Cupid, which is one of the greatest parts in it. +Then home and to bed. + +3rd (Lord's day): Mr. Woodcocke preached at our church a very good sermon +upon the imaginacions of the thoughts of man's heart being only evil. So +home, where being told that my Lord had sent for me I went, and got there +to dine with my Lord, who is to go into the country tomorrow. I did give +up the mortgage made to me by Sir R. Parkhurst for L2,000. In the Abby +all the afternoon. Then at Mr. Pierces the surgeon, where Shepley and I +supped. So to my Lord's, who comes in late and tells us how news is come +to-day of Mazarin's being dead, which is very great news and of great +consequence.--[This report of the death of Cardinal Mazarin appears to +have been premature, for he did not die until the 9th of March, 1661.]--I +lay tonight with Mr. Shepley here, because of my Lord's going to-morrow. + +4th. My Lord went this morning on his journey to Hinchingbroke, Mr. +Parker with him; the chief business being to look over and determine how, +and in what manner, his great work of building shall be done. Before his +going he did give me some jewells to keep for him, viz., that that the +King of Sweden did give him, with the King's own picture in it, most +excellently done; and a brave George, all of diamonds, and this with the +greatest expressions of love and confidence that I could imagine or hope +for, which is a very great joy to me. To the office all the forenoon. +Then to dinner and so to Whitehall to Mr. Coventry about several +businesses, and then with Mr. Moore, who went with me to drink a cup of +ale, and after some good discourse then home and sat late talking with Sir +W. Batten. So home and to bed. + +5th. With Mr. Pierce, purser, to Westminster Hall, and there met with +Captain Cuttance, Lieut. Lambert, and Pierce, surgeon, thinking to have +met with the Commissioners of Parliament, but they not sitting, we went to +the Swan, where I did give them a barrel of oysters; and so I to my Lady's +and there dined, and had very much talk and pleasant discourse with my +Lady, my esteem growing every day higher and higher in her and my Lord. +So to my father Bowyer's where my wife was, and to the Commissioners of +Parliament, and there did take some course about having my Lord's salary +paid tomorrow when; the Charles is paid off, but I was troubled to see how +high they carry themselves, when in good truth nobody cares for them. So +home by coach and my wife. I then to the office, where Sir Williams both +and I set about making an estimate of all the officers' salaries in +ordinary in the Navy till 10 o'clock at night. So home, and I with my +head full of thoughts how to get a little present money, I eat a bit of +bread and cheese, and so to bed. + +6th. At the office all the morning. At dinner Sir W. Batten came and +took me and my wife to his house to dinner, my Lady being in the country, +where we had a good Lenten dinner. Then to Whitehall with Captn. Cuttle, +and there I did some business with Mr. Coventry, and after that home, +thinking to have had Sir W. Batten, &c., to have eat a wigg--[Wigg, a kind +of north country bun or tea-cake, still so called, to my knowledge, in +Staffordshire.--M. B.]--at my house at night. But my Lady being come home +out of the country ill by reason of much rain that has fallen lately, and +the waters being very high, we could not, and so I home and to bed. + +7th. This morning Sir Williams both went to Woolwich to sell some old +provisions there. I to Whitehall, and up and down about many businesses. +Dined at my Lord's, then to Mr. Crew to Mr. Moore, and he and I to London +to Guildhall to see the seamen paid off, but could not without trouble, +and so I took him to the Fleece tavern, where the pretty woman that +Luellin lately told me the story of dwells, but I could not see her. Then +towards home and met Spicer, D. Vines, Ruddiard, and a company more of my +old acquaintance, and went into a place to drink some ale, and there we +staid playing the fool till late, and so I home. At home met with ill +news that my hopes of getting some money for the Charles were spoiled +through Mr. Waith's perverseness, which did so vex me that I could not +sleep at night. But I wrote a letter to him to send to-morrow morning for +him to take my money for me, and so with good words I thought to coy with +him. To bed. + +8th. All the morning at the office. At noon Sir W. Batten, Col. Slingsby +and I by coach to the Tower, to Sir John Robinson's, to dinner; where +great good cheer. High company; among others the Duchess of Albemarle, +who is ever a plain homely dowdy. After dinner, to drink all the +afternoon. Towards night the Duchess and ladies went away. Then we set +to it again till it was very late. And at last came in Sir William Wale, +almost fuddled; and because I was set between him and another, only to +keep them from talking and spoiling the company (as we did to others), he +fell out with the Lieutenant of the Tower; but with much ado we made him +under stand his error, and then all quiet. And so he carried Sir William +Batten and I home again in his coach, and so I almost overcome with drink +went to bed. I was much contented to ride in such state into the Tower, +and be received among such high company, while Mr. Mount, my Lady +Duchess's gentleman usher, stood waiting at table, whom I ever thought a +man so much above me in all respects; also to hear the discourse of so +many high Cavaliers of things past. It was a great content and joy to me. + +9th. To Whitehall and there with Mr. Creed took a most pleasant walk for +two hours in the park, which is now a very fair place. Here we had a long +and candid discourse one to another of one another's condition, and he +giving me an occasion I told him of my intention to get L60 paid me by him +for a gratuity for my labour extraordinary at sea. Which he did not seem +unwilling to, and therefore I am very glad it is out. To my Lord's, where +we found him lately come from Hinchingbroke, where he left my uncle very +well, but my aunt not likely to live. I staid and dined with him. He took +me aside, and asked me what the world spoke of the King's marriage. Which +I answering as one that knew nothing, he enquired no further of me. But I +do perceive by it that there is something in it that is ready to come out +that the world knows not of yet. After dinner into London to Mrs. +Turner's and my father's, made visits and then home, where I sat late +making of my journal for four days past, and so to bed. + +10th (Lord's day). Heard Mr. Mills in the morning, a good sermon. Dined +at home on a poor Lenten dinner of coleworts and bacon. In the afternoon +again to church, and there heard one Castle, whom I knew of my year at +Cambridge. He made a dull sermon. After sermon came my uncle and aunt +Wight to see us, and we sat together a great while. Then to reading and +at night to bed. + +11th. At the office all the morning, dined at home and my father and Dr. +Thos. Pepys with him upon a poor dinner, my wife being abroad. After +dinner I went to the theatre, and there saw "Love's Mistress" done by +them, which I do not like in some things as well as their acting in +Salsbury Court. At night home and found my wife come home, and among +other things she hath got her teeth new done by La Roche, and are indeed +now pretty handsome, and I was much pleased with it. So to bed. + +12th. At the office about business all the morning, so to the Exchange, +and there met with Nick Osborne lately married, and with him to the +Fleece, where we drank a glass of wine. So home, where I found Mrs. Hunt +in great trouble about her husband's losing of his place in the Excise. +From thence to Guildhall, and there set my hand to the book before Colonel +King for my sea pay, and blessed be God! they have cast me at midshipman's +pay, which do make my heart very glad. So, home, and there had Sir W. +Batten and my Lady and all their company and Capt. Browne and his wife to +a collation at my house till it was late, and then to bed. + +13th. Early up in the morning to read "The Seaman's Grammar and +Dictionary" I lately have got, which do please me exceeding well. At the +office all the morning, dined at home, and Mrs. Turner, The. Joyce, and +Mr. Armiger, and my father and mother with me, where they stand till I was +weary of their company and so away. Then up to my chamber, and there set +papers and things in order, and so to bed. + +14th. With Sir W. Batten and Pen to Mr. Coventry's, and there had a +dispute about my claim to the place of Purveyor of Petty-provisions, and +at last to my content did conclude to have my hand to all the bills for +these provisions and Mr. Turner to purvey them, because I would not have +him to lose the place. Then to my Lord's, and so with Mr. Creed to an +alehouse, where he told me a long story of his amours at Portsmouth to one +of Mrs. Boat's daughters, which was very pleasant. Dined with my Lord and +Lady, and so with Mr. Creed to the Theatre, and there saw "King and no +King," well acted. Thence with him to the Cock alehouse at Temple Bar, +where he did ask my advice about his amours, and I did give him it, which +was to enquire into the condition of his competitor, who is a son of Mr. +Gauden's, and that I promised to do for him, and he to make [what] use he +can of it to his advantage. Home and to bed. + +15th. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I at +a great fish dinner at the Dolphin, given us by two tax merchants, and +very merry we were till night, and so home. This day my wife and Pall +went to see my Lady Kingston, her brother's lady. + +16th. Early at Sir Wm. Pen's, and there before Mr. Turner did reconcile +the business of the purveyance between us two. Then to Whitehall to my +Lord's, and dined with him, and so to Whitefriars and saw "The Spanish +Curate," in which I had no great content. So home, and was very much +troubled that Will. staid out late, and went to bed early, intending not +to let him come in, but by and by he comes and I did let him in, and he +did tell me that he was at Guildhall helping to pay off the seamen, and +cast the books late. Which since I found to be true. So to sleep, being +in bed when he came. + +17th (Lord's day). At church in the morning, a stranger preached a good +honest and painfull sermon. My wife and I dined upon a chine of beef at +Sir W. Batten's, so to church again. Then home, and put some papers in +order. Then to supper at Sir W. Batten's again, where my wife by chance +fell down and hurt her knees exceedingly. So home and to bed. + +18th. This morning early Sir W. Batten went to Rochester, where he +expects to be chosen Parliament man. At the office all the morning, dined +at home and with my wife to Westminster, where I had business with the +Commissioner for paying the seamen about my Lord's pay, and my wife at +Mrs. Hunt's. I called her home, and made inquiry at Greatorex's and in +other places to hear of Mr. Barlow (thinking to hear that he is dead), but +I cannot find it so, but the contrary. Home and called at my Lady +Batten's, and supped there, and so home. This day an ambassador from +Florence was brought into the town in state. Good hopes given me to-day +that Mrs. Davis is going away from us, her husband going shortly to +Ireland. Yesterday it was said was to be the day that the Princess +Henrietta was to marry the Duke d'Anjou' in France. This day I found in +the newes-booke that Roger Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the town, the +first place that we hear of to have made their choice yet. To bed with my +head and mind full of business, which do a little put me out of order, and +I do find myself to become more and more thoughtful about getting of money +than ever heretofore. + +19th. We met at the office this morning about some particular business, +and then I to Whitehall, and there dined with my Lord, and after dinner +Mr. Creed and I to White-Fryars, where we saw "The Bondman" acted most +excellently, and though I have seen it often, yet I am every time more and +more pleased with Betterton's action. From thence with him and young Mr. +Jones to Penell's in Fleet Street, and there we drank and talked a good +while, and so I home and to bed. + +20th. At the office all the morning, dined at home and Mr. Creed and Mr. +Shepley with me, and after dinner we did a good deal of business in my +study about my Lord's accounts to be made up and presented to our office. +That done to White Hall to Mr. Coventry, where I did some business with +him, and so with Sir W. Pen (who I found with Mr. Coventry teaching of him +upon the map to understand Jamaica). + + [Sir William Penn was well fitted to give this information, as it + was he who took the island from the Spaniards in 1655.] + +By water in the dark home, and so to my Lady Batten's where my wife was, +and there we sat and eat and drank till very late, and so home to bed. The +great talk of the town is the strange election that the City of London +made yesterday for Parliament-men; viz. Fowke, Love, Jones, and . . . +men that are so far from being episcopall that they are thought to be +Anabaptists; and chosen with a great deal of zeal, in spite of the other +party that thought themselves very strong, calling out in the Hall, "No +Bishops! no Lord Bishops!" It do make people to fear it may come to +worse, by being an example to the country to do the same. And indeed the +Bishops are so high, that very few do love them. + +21st. Up very early, and to work and study in my chamber, and then to +Whitehall to my Lord, and there did stay with him a good while discoursing +upon his accounts. Here I staid with Mr. Creed all the morning, and at +noon dined with my Lord, who was very merry, and after dinner we sang and +fiddled a great while. Then I by water (Mr. Shepley, Pinkney, and others +going part of the way) home, and then hard at work setting my papers in +order, and writing letters till night, and so to bed. This day I saw the +Florence Ambassador go to his audience, the weather very foul, and yet he +and his company very gallant. After I was a-bed Sir W. Pen sent to desire +me to go with him to-morrow morning to meet Sir W. Batten coming from +Rochester. + +22nd. This morning I rose early, and my Lady Batten knocked at her door +that comes into one of my chambers, and called me to know whether I and my +wife were ready to go. So my wife got her ready, and about eight o'clock +I got a horseback, and my Lady and her two daughters, and Sir W. Pen into +coach, and so over London Bridge, and thence to Dartford. The day very +pleasant, though the way bad. Here we met with Sir W. Batten, and some +company along with him, who had assisted him in his election at Rochester; +and so we dined and were very merry. At 5 o'clock we set out again in a +coach home, and were very merry all the way. At Deptford we met with Mr. +Newborne, and some other friends and their wives in a coach to meet us, +and so they went home with us, and at Sir W. Batten's we supped, and +thence to bed, my head akeing mightily through the wine that I drank +to-day. + +23d. All the morning at home putting papers in order, dined at home, and +then out to the Red Bull (where I had not been since plays come up again), +but coming too soon I went out again and walked all up and down the +Charterhouse yard and Aldersgate street. At last came back again and went +in, where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a servant, up +to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there +is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes +are very poor, and the actors but common fellows. At last into the Pitt, +where I think there was not above ten more than myself, and not one +hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called "All's lost by +Lust," poorly done; and with so much disorder, among others, that in the +musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his +master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house in +an uprore. Thence homewards, and at the Mitre met my uncle Wight, and +with him Lieut.-Col. Baron, who told us how Crofton, the great +Presbyterian minister that had lately preached so highly against Bishops, +is clapped up this day into the Tower. Which do please some, and +displease others exceedingly. Home and to bed. + +24th (Lord's day). My wife and I to church, and then home with Sir W. +Batten and my Lady to dinner, where very merry, and then to church again, +where Mr. Mills made a good sermon. Home again, and after a walk in the +garden Sir W. Batten's two daughters came and sat with us a while, and I +then up to my chamber to read. + +25th (Lady day). This morning came workmen to begin the making of me a +new pair of stairs up out of my parler, which, with other work that I have +to do, I doubt will keep me this two months and so long I shall be all in +dirt; but the work do please me very well. To the office, and there all +the morning, dined at home, and after dinner comes Mr. Salisbury to see +me, and shewed me a face or two of his paynting, and indeed I perceive +that he will be a great master. I took him to Whitehall with me by water, +but he would not by any means be moved to go through bridge, and so we +were fain to go round by the Old Swan. To my Lord's and there I shewed +him the King's picture, which he intends to copy out in little. After +that I and Captain Ferrers to Salisbury Court by water, and saw part of +the "Queene's Maske." Then I to Mrs. Turner, and there staid talking +late. The. Turner being in a great chafe, about being disappointed of a +room to stand in at the Coronacion. Then to my father's, and there staid +talking with my mother and him late about my dinner to-morrow. So +homewards and took up a boy that had a lanthorn, that was picking up of +rags, and got him to light me home, and had great discourse with him how +he could get sometimes three or four bushells of rags in a day, and got +3d. a bushell for them, and many other discourses, what and how many ways +there are for poor children to get their livings honestly. So home and I +to bed at 12 o'clock at night, being pleased well with the work that my +workmen have begun to-day. + +26th. Up early to do business in my study. This is my great day that +three years ago I was cut of the stone, and, blessed be God, I do yet find +myself very free from pain again. All this morning I staid at home +looking after my workmen to my great content about my stairs, and at noon +by coach to my father's, where Mrs. Turner, The. Joyce, Mr. Morrice, Mr. +Armiger, Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and his wife, my father and mother, and +myself and my wife. Very merry at dinner; among other things, because +Mrs. Turner and her company eat no flesh at all this Lent, and I had a +great deal of good flesh which made their mouths water. After dinner Mrs. +Pierce and her husband and I and my wife to Salisbury Court, where coming +late he and she light of Col. Boone that made room for them, and I and my +wife sat in the pit, and there met with Mr. Lewes and Tom Whitton, and saw +"The Bondman" done to admiration. So home by coach, and after a view of +what the workmen had done to-day I went to bed. + +27th. Up early to see my workmen at work. My brother Tom comes to me, +and among other things I looked over my old clothes and did give him a +suit of black stuff clothes and a hat and some shoes. At the office all +the morning, where Sir G. Carteret comes, and there I did get him to +promise me some money upon a bill of exchange, whereby I shall secure +myself of L60 which otherwise I should not know how to get. At noon I +found my stairs quite broke down, that I could not get up but by a ladder; +and my wife not being well she kept her chamber all this day. To the +Dolphin to a dinner of Mr. Harris's, where Sir Williams both and my Lady +Batten, and her two daughters, and other company, where a great deal of +mirth, and there staid till 11 o'clock at night; and in our mirth I sang +and sometimes fiddled (there being a noise of fiddlers there), and at last +we fell to dancing, the first time that ever I did in my life, which I did +wonder to see myself to do. At last we made Mingo, Sir W. Batten's black, +and Jack, Sir W. Pen's, dance, and it was strange how the first did dance +with a great deal of seeming skill. Home, where I found my wife all day +in her chamber. So to bed. + +28th. Up early among my workmen, then Mr. Creed coming to see me I went +along with him to Sir Robert Slingsby (he being newly maister of that +title by being made a Baronett) to discourse about Mr. Creed's accounts to +be made up, and from thence by coach to my cozen Thomas Pepys, to borrow +L1000 for my Lord, which I am to expect an answer to tomorrow. So to my +Lord's, and there staid and dined, and after dinner did get my Lord to +view Mr. Shepley's accounts as I had examined them, and also to sign me a +bond for my L500. Then with Mr. Shepley to the Theatre and saw "Rollo" +ill acted. That done to drink a cup of ale and so by coach to London, and +having set him down in Cheapside I went home, where I found a great deal +of work done to-day, and also L70 paid me by the Treasurer upon the bill +of exchange that I have had hopes of so long, so that, my heart in great +content; I went to bed. + +29th. Up among my workmen with great pleasure. Then to the office, where +I found Sir W. Pen sent down yesterday to Chatham to get two great ships +in readiness presently to go to the East Indies upon some design against +the Dutch, we think, at Goa but it is a great secret yet. Dined at home, +came Mr. Shepley and Moore, and did business with both of them. After that +to Sir W. Batten's, where great store of company at dinner. Among others +my schoolfellow, Mr. Christmas, where very merry, and hither came letters +from above for the fitting of two other ships for the East Indies in all +haste, and so we got orders presently for the Hampshire and Nonsuch. Then +home and there put some papers in order, and not knowing what to do, the +house being so dirty, I went to bed. + +30th. At the office we and Sir W. Rider to advise what sort of provisions +to get ready for these ships going to the Indies. Then the Comptroller +and I by water to Mr. Coventry, and there discoursed upon the same thing. +So to my coz. Tho. Pepys, and got him to promise me L1,000 to lend my Lord +upon his and my uncle Robert's and my security. So to my Lord's, and +there got him to sign a bond to him, which I also signed too, and he did +sign counter security to us both. Then into London up and down and drank +a pint of wine with Mr. Creed, and so home and sent a letter and the bonds +to my uncle to sign for my Lord. This day I spoke with Dr. Castle about +making up the dividend for the last quarter, and agreed to meet about it +on Monday. + +31st (Sunday). At church, where a stranger preached like a fool. From +thence home and dined with my wife, she staying at home, being unwilling +to dress herself, the house being all dirty. To church again, and after +sermon I walked to my father's, and to Mrs. Turner's, where I could not +woo The. to give me a lesson upon the harpsicon and was angry at it. So +home and finding Will abroad at Sir W. Batten's talking with the people +there (Sir W. and my Lady being in the country), I took occasion to be +angry with him, and so to prayers and to bed. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + A lady spit backward upon me by a mistake + A most tedious, unreasonable, and impertinent sermon + Comely black woman.--[The old expression for a brunette.] + Cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday + Day I first begun to go forth in my coat and sword + Discontented that my wife do not go neater now she has two maids + Fell to dancing, the first time that ever I did in my life + Have been so long absent that I am ashamed to go + I took occasion to be angry with him + Justice of God in punishing men for the sins of their ancestors + Lady Batten to give me a spoonful of honey for my cold + My great expense at the Coronacion + She hath got her teeth new done by La Roche + That I might not seem to be afeared + The monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I did strike her + Was kissing my wife, which I did not like + We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repayre + Who we found ill still, but he do make very much of it + Wronged by my over great expectations + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, +January/February/March 1660/61, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4126.txt or 4126.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/2/4126/ + +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 the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JANUARY, FEBRUARY & MARCH + 1660-61 + + +1660-61. At the end of the last and the beginning of this year, I do +live in one of the houses belonging to the Navy Office, as one of the +principal officers, and have done now about half a year. After much +trouble with workmen I am now almost settled; my family being, myself, my +wife, Jane, Will. Hewer, and Wayneman,--[Will Wayneman appears by this to +have been forgiven for his theft (see ante). He was dismissed on July +8th, 1663.]--my girle's brother. Myself in constant good health, and in +a most handsome and thriving condition. Blessed be Almighty God for it. +I am now taking of my sister to come and live with me. As to things of +State.--The King settled, and loved of all. The Duke of York matched +to my Lord Chancellor's daughter, which do not please many. The Queen +upon her return to France with the Princess Henrietta. The Princess of +Orange lately dead, and we into new mourning for her. We have been +lately frighted with a great plot, and many taken up on it, and the +fright not quite over. The Parliament, which had done all this great +good to the King, beginning to grow factious, the King did dissolve it +December 29th last, and another likely to be chosen speedily. I take +myself now to be worth L300 clear in money, and all my goods and all +manner of debts paid, which are none at all. + + +1660-61. January 1st. Called up this morning by Mr. Moore, who brought +me my last things for me to sign for the last month, and to my great +comfort tells me that my fees will come to L80 clear to myself, and about +L25 for him, which he hath got out of the pardons, though there be no fee +due to me at all out of them. Then comes in my brother Thomas, and after +him my father, Dr. Thomas Pepys, my uncle Fenner and his two sons +(Anthony's' only child dying this morning, yet he was so civil to come, +and was pretty merry) to breakfast; and I had for them a barrel of +oysters, a dish of neat's tongues, and a dish of anchovies, wine of all +sorts, and Northdown ale. We were very merry till about eleven o'clock, +and then they went away. At noon I carried my wife by coach to my cozen, +Thomas Pepys, where we, with my father, Dr. Thomas, cozen Stradwick, +Scott, and their wives, dined. Here I saw first his second wife, which +is a very respectfull woman, but his dinner a sorry, poor dinner for a +man of his estate, there being nothing but ordinary meat in it. To-day +the King dined at a lord's, two doors from us. After dinner I took my +wife to Whitehall, I sent her to Mrs. Pierces (where we should have dined +today), and I to the Privy Seal, where Mr. Moore took out all his money, +and he and I went to Mr. Pierces; in our way seeing the Duke of York +bring his Lady this day to wait upon the Queen, the first time that ever +she did since that great business; and the Queen is said to receive her +now with much respect and love; and there he cast up the fees, and I told +the money, by the same token one L100 bag, after I had told it, fell all +about the room, and I fear I have lost some of it. That done I left my +friends and went to my Lord's, but he being not come in I lodged the +money with Mr. Shepley, and bade good night to Mr. Moore, and so returned +to Mr. Pierces, and there supped with them, and Mr. Pierce, the purser, +and his wife and mine, where we had a calf's head carboned, + + [Meat cut crosswise and broiled was said to be carboned. Falstaff + says in "King Henry IV.," Part L, act v., sc. 3, "Well, if Percy be + alive, I'll pierce him. If he do come in my way, so; if he do not, + if I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of me."] + +but it was raw, we could not eat it, and a good hen. But she is such a +slut that I do not love her victualls. After supper I sent them home by +coach, and I went to my Lord's and there played till 12 at night at cards +at Best with J. Goods and N. Osgood, and then to bed with Mr. Shepley. + + +2d. Up early, and being called up to my Lord he did give me many +commands in his business. As about taking care to write to my uncle that +Mr. Barnewell's papers should be locked up, in case he should die, he +being now suspected to be very ill. Also about consulting with Mr. W. +Montagu for the settling of the L4000 a-year that the King had promised +my Lord. As also about getting of Mr. George Montagu to be chosen at +Huntingdon this next Parliament, &c. That done he to White Hall stairs +with much company, and I with him; where we took water for Lambeth, and +there coach for Portsmouth. The Queen's things were all in White Hall +Court ready to be sent away, and her Majesty ready to be gone an hour +after to Hampton Court to-night, and so to be at Ports mouth on Saturday +next. I by water to my office, and there all the morning, and so home to +dinner, where I found Pall (my sister) was come; but I do not let her sit +down at table with me, which I do at first that she may not expect it +hereafter from me. After dinner I to Westminster by water, and there +found my brother Spicer at the Leg with all the rest of the Exchequer men +(most of whom I now do not know) at dinner. Here I staid and drank with +them, and then to Mr. George Montagu about the business of election, and +he did give me a piece in gold; so to my Lord's and got the chest of +plate brought to the Exchequer, and my brother Spicer put it into his +treasury. So to Will's with them to a pot of ale, and so parted. I took +a turn in the Hall, and bought the King and Chancellor's speeches at the +dissolving the Parliament last Saturday. So to my Lord's, and took my +money I brought 'thither last night and the silver candlesticks, and by +coach left the latter at Alderman Backwell's, I having no use for them, +and the former home. There stood a man at our door, when I carried it +in, and saw me, which made me a little afeard. Up to my chamber and +wrote letters to Huntingdon and did other business. This day I lent Sir +W. Batten and Captn. Rider my chine of beef for to serve at dinner +tomorrow at Trinity House, the Duke of Albemarle being to be there and +all the rest of the Brethren, it being a great day for the reading over +of their new Charter, which the King hath newly given them. + + +3d. Early in the morning to the Exchequer, where I told over what money +I had of my Lord's and my own there, which I found to be L970. Thence to +Will's, where Spicer and I eat our dinner of a roasted leg of pork which +Will did give us, and after that to the Theatre, where was acted +"Beggars' Bush," it being very well done; and here the first time that +ever I saw women come upon the stage. + + [Downes does not give the cast of this play. After the Restoration + the acting of female characters by women became common. The first + English professional actress was Mrs. Coleman, who acted Ianthe in + Davenant's "Siege of Rhodes," at Rutland House in 1656.] + +From thence to my father's, where I found my mother gone by Bird, the +carrier, to Brampton, upon my uncle's great desire, my aunt being now in +despair of life. So home. + + +4th. Office all the morning, my wife and Pall being gone to my father's +to dress dinner for Mr. Honiwood, my mother being gone out of town. +Dined at home, and Mr. Moore with me, with whom I had been early this +morning at White Hall, at the Jewell Office, + + [Several of the Jewel Office rolls are in the British Museum. They + recite all the sums of money given to the King, and the particulars + of all the plate distributed in his name, as well as gloves and + sweetmeats. The Museum possesses these rolls for the 4th, 9th, + 18th, 30th, and 31st Eliz.; for the 13th Charles I.; and the 23rd, + 24th, 26th, and 27th of Charles II.--B.] + +to choose a piece of gilt plate for my Lord, in return of his offering to +the King (which it seems is usual at this time of year, and an Earl gives +twenty pieces in gold in a purse to the King). I chose a gilt tankard, +weighing 31 ounces and a half, and he is allowed 30; so I paid 12s. for +the ounce and half over what he is to have; but strange it was for me to +see what a company of small fees I was called upon by a great many to pay +there, which, I perceive, is the manner that courtiers do get their +estates. After dinner Mr. Moore and I to the Theatre, where was "The +Scornful Lady," acted very well, it being the first play that ever he +saw. Thence with him to drink a cup of ale at Hercules Pillars, and so +parted. I called to see my father, who told me by the way how Will and +Mary Joyce do live a strange life together, nothing but fighting, &c., so +that sometimes her father has a mind to have them divorced. Thence home. + + +5th. Home all the morning. Several people came to me about business, +among others the great Tom Fuller, who came to desire a kindness for a +friend of his, who hath a mind to go to Jamaica with these two ships that +are going, which I promised to do. So to Whitehall to my Lady, whom I +found at dinner and dined with her, and staid with her talking all the +afternoon, and thence walked to Westminster Hall. So to Will's, and +drank with Spicer, and thence by coach home, staying a little in Paul's +Churchyard, to bespeak Ogilby's AEsop's Fables and Tully's Officys to be +bound for me. So home and to bed. + + +6th (Lord's day). My wife and I to church this morning, and so home to +dinner to a boiled leg of mutton all alone. To church again, where, +before sermon, a long Psalm was set that lasted an hour, while the sexton +gathered his year's contribucion through the whole church. After sermon +home, and there I went to my chamber and wrote a letter to send to Mr. +Coventry, with a piece of plate along with it, which I do preserve among +my other letters. So to supper, and thence after prayers to bed. + + +7th. This morning, news was brought to me to my bedside, that there had +been a great stir in the City this night by the Fanatiques, who had been +up and killed six or seven men, but all are fled. + + ["A great rising in the city of the Fifth-monarchy men, which did + very much disturb the peace and liberty of the people, so that all + the train-bands arose in arms, both in London and Westminster, as + likewise all the king's guards; and most of the noblemen mounted, + and put all their servants on coach horses, for the defence of his + Majesty, and the peace of his kingdom."--Rugge's Diurnal. The + notorious Thomas Venner, the Fifth-monarchy man, a cooper and + preacher to a conventicle in Swan Alley, Coleman Street, with a + small following (about fifty in number) took arms on the 6th January + for the avowed purpose of establishing the Millennium. He was a + violent enthusiast, and persuaded his followers that they were + invulnerable. After exciting much alarm in the City, and + skirmishing with the Trained Bands, they marched to Caen Wood. They + were driven out by a party of guards, but again entered the City, + where they were overpowered by the Trained Bands. The men were + brought to trial and condemned; four, however, were acquitted and + two reprieved. The execution of some of these men is mentioned by + Pepys under date January 19th and 21st. "A Relation of the + Arraignment and Trial of those who made the late Rebellious + Insurrections in London, 1661," is reprinted in "Somers Tracts," + vol. vii. (1812), p. 469.] + +My Lord Mayor and the whole City had been in arms, above 40,000. To the +office, and after that to dinner, where my brother Tom came and dined +with me, and after dinner (leaving 12d. with the servants to buy a cake +with at night, this day being kept as Twelfth day) Tom and I and my wife +to the Theatre, and there saw "The Silent Woman." The first time that +ever I did see it, and it is an excellent play. Among other things here, +Kinaston, the boy; had the good turn to appear in three shapes: first, as +a poor woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, +as a gallant, and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole +house, and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the handsomest +man in the house. From thence by link to my cozen Stradwick's, where my +father and we and Dr. Pepys, Scott, and his wife, and one Mr. Ward and +his; and after a good supper, we had an excellent cake, where the mark +for the Queen was cut, and so there was two queens, my wife and Mrs. +Ward; and the King being lost, they chose the Doctor to be King, so we +made him send for some wine, and then home, and in our way home we were +in many places strictly examined, more than in the worst of times, there +being great fears of these Fanatiques rising again: for the present I do +not hear that any of them are taken. Home, it being a clear moonshine +and after 12 o'clock at night. Being come home we found that my people +had been very merry, and my wife tells me afterwards that she had heard +that they had got young Davis and some other neighbours with them to be +merry, but no harm. + + +8th. My wife and I lay very long in bed to-day talking and pleasing one +another in discourse. Being up, Mr. Warren came, and he and I agreed for +the deals that my Lord is to, have. Then Will and I to Westminster, +where I dined with my Lady. After dinner I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and +Mr. Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed them "The Widdow," an indifferent +good play, but wronged by the women being to seek in their parts. That +being done, my Lord's coach waited for us, and so back to my Lady's, +where she made me drink of some Florence wine, and did give me two +bottles for my wife. From thence walked to my cozen Stradwick's, and +there chose a small banquet and some other things against our +entertainment on Thursday next. Thence to Tom Pepys and bought a dozen +of trenchers, and so home. Some talk to-day of a head of Fanatiques that +do appear about Barnett, but I do not believe it. However, my Lord +Mayor, Sir Richd. Browne, hath carried himself very honourably, and hath +caused one of their meeting-houses in London to be pulled down. + + +9th. Waked in the morning about six o'clock, by people running up and +down in Mr. Davis's house, talking that the Fanatiques were up in arms in +the City. And so I rose and went forth; where in the street I found +every body in arms at the doors. So I returned (though with no good +courage at all, but that I might not seem to be afeared), and got my +sword and pistol, which, however, I had no powder to charge; and went to +the door, where I found Sir R. Ford, and with him I walked up and down as +far as the Exchange, and there I left him. In our way, the streets full +of Train-band, and great stories, what mischief these rogues have done; +and I think near a dozen have been killed this morning on both sides. +Seeing the city in this condition, the shops shut, and all things in +trouble, I went home and sat, it being office day, till noon. So home, +and dined at home, my father with me, and after dinner he would needs +have me go to my uncle Wight's (where I have been so long absent that I +am ashamed to go). I found him at home and his wife, and I can see they +have taken my absence ill, but all things are past and we good friends, +and here I sat with my aunt till it was late, my uncle going forth about +business. My aunt being very fearful to be alone. So home to my lute +till late, and then to bed, there being strict guards all night in the +City, though most of the enemies, they say, are killed or taken. This +morning my wife and Pall went forth early, and I staid within. + + +10th. There comes Mr. Hawley to me and brings me my money for the +quarter of a year's salary of my place under Downing that I was at sea. +So I did give him half, whereof he did in his nobleness give the odd 5s, +to my Jane. So we both went forth (calling first to see how Sir W. Pen +do, whom I found very ill), and at the Hoop by the bridge we drank two +pints of wormwood and sack. Talking of his wooing afresh of Mrs. Lane, +and of his going to serve the Bishop of London. Thence by water to +Whitehall, and found my wife at Mrs. Hunt's. Leaving her to dine there, +I went and dined with my Lady, and staid to talk a while with her. After +dinner Will. comes to tell me that he had presented my piece of plate to +Mr. Coventry, who takes it very kindly, and sends me a very kind letter, +and the plate back again; of which my heart is very glad. So to Mrs. +Hunt, where I found a Frenchman, a lodger of hers, at dinner, and just as +I came in was kissing my wife, which I did not like, though there could +not be any hurt in it. Thence by coach to my Uncle Wight's with my wife, +but they being out of doors we went home, where, after I had put some +papers in order and entered some letters in my book which I have a mind +to keep, I went with my wife to see Sir W. Pen, who we found ill still, +but he do make very much of it. Here we sat a great while, at last comes +in Mr. Davis and his lady (who takes it very ill that my wife never did +go to see her), and so we fell to talk. Among other things Mr. Davis +told us the particular examinations of these Fanatiques that are taken: +and in short it is this, of all these Fanatiques that have done all this, +viz., routed all the Trainbands that they met with, put the King's life- +guards to the run, killed about twenty men, broke through the City gates +twice; and all this in the day-time, when all the City was in arms; are +not in all about 31. Whereas we did believe them (because they were seen +up and down in every place almost in the City, and had been about +Highgate two or three days, and in several other places) to be at least +500. A thing that never was heard of, that so few men should dare and do +so much mischief. Their word was, "The King Jesus, and the heads upon +the gates." Few of them would receive any quarter, but such as were +taken by force and kept alive; expecting Jesus to come here and reign in +the world presently, and will not believe yet but their work will be +carried on though they do die. The King this day came to town. + + +11th. Office day. This day comes news, by letters from Portsmouth, that +the Princess Henrietta is fallen sick of the meazles on board the London, +after the Queen and she was under sail. And so was forced to come back +again into Portsmouth harbour; and in their way, by negligence of the +pilot, run upon the Horse sand. The Queen and she continue aboard, and +do not intend to come on shore till she sees what will become of the +young Princess. This news do make people think something indeed, that +three of the Royal Family should fall sick of the same disease, one after +another. This morning likewise, we had order to see guards set in all +the King's yards; and so we do appoint who and who should go to them. +Sir Wm. Batten to Chatham, Colonel Slingsby and I to Deptford and +Woolwich. Portsmouth being a garrison, needs none. Dined at home, +discontented that my wife do not go neater now she has two maids. After +dinner comes in Kate Sterpin (whom we had not seen a great while) and her +husband to see us, with whom I staid a while, and then to the office, and +left them with my wife. At night walked to Paul's Churchyard, and +bespoke some books against next week, and from thence to the Coffeehouse, +where I met Captain Morrice, the upholster, who would fain have lent me a +horse to-night to have rid with him upon the Cityguards, with the Lord +Mayor, there being some new expectations of these rogues; but I refused +by reason of my going out of town tomorrow. So home to bed. + + +12th. With Colonel Slingsby and a friend of his, Major Waters (a deaf +and most amorous melancholy gentleman, who is under a despayr in love, as +the Colonel told me, which makes him bad company, though a most good- +natured man), by water to Redriffe, and so on foot to Deptford (our +servants by water), where we fell to choosing four captains to command +the guards, and choosing the places where to keep them, and other things +in order thereunto. We dined at the Globe, having our messenger with us +to take care for us. Never till now did I see the great authority of my +place, all the captains of the fleet coming cap in hand to us. Having +staid very late there talking with the Colonel, I went home with Mr. +Davis, storekeeper (whose wife is ill and so I could not see her), and +was there most prince-like lodged, with so much respect and honour that I +was at a loss how to behave myself. + + +13th. In the morning we all went to church, and sat in the pew belonging +to us, where a cold sermon of a young man that never had preached before. +Here Commissioner came with his wife and daughters, the eldest being his +wife's daughter is a very comely black woman.--[The old expression for a +brunette.]--So to the Globe to dinner, and then with Commissioner Pett +to his lodgings there (which he hath for the present while he is building +the King's yacht, which will be a pretty thing, and much beyond the +Dutchman's), and from thence with him and his wife and daughter-in-law by +coach to Greenwich Church, where a good sermon, a fine church, and a +great company of handsome women. After sermon to Deptford again; where, +at the Commissioner's and the Globe, we staid long. And so I to Mr. +Davis's to bed again. But no sooner in bed, but we had an alarm, and so +we rose: and the Comptroller comes into the Yard to us; and seamen of all +the ships present repair to us, and there we armed with every one a +handspike, with which they were as fierce as could be. At last we hear +that it was only five or six men that did ride through the guard in the +town, without stopping to the guard that was there; and, some say, shot +at them. But all being quiet there, we caused the seamen to go on board +again: And so we all to bed (after I had sat awhile with Mr. Davis in his +study, which is filled with good books and some very good song books) I +likewise to bed. + + +14th. The arms being come this morning from the Tower, we caused them to +be distributed. I spent much time walking with Lieutenant Lambert, +walking up and down the yards, who did give me much light into things +there, and so went along with me and dined with us. After dinner Mrs. +Pett, her husband being gone this morning with Sir W. Batten to Chatham, +lent us her coach, and carried us to Woolwich, where we did also dispose +of the arms there and settle the guards. So to Mr. Pett's, the +shipwright, and there supped, where he did treat us very handsomely (and +strange it is to see what neat houses all the officers of the King's +yards have), his wife a proper woman, and has been handsome, and yet has +a very pretty hand. Thence I with Mr. Ackworth to his house, where he +has a very pretty house, and a very proper lovely woman to his wife, who +both sat with me in my chamber, and they being gone, I went to bed, which +was also most neat and fine. + + +15th. Up and down the yard all the morning and seeing the seamen +exercise, which they do already very handsomely. Then to dinner at Mr. +Ackworth's, where there also dined with us one Captain Bethell, a friend +of the Comptroller's. A good dinner and very handsome. After that and +taking our leaves of the officers of the yard, we walked to the waterside +and in our way walked into the rope-yard, where I do look into the tar- +houses and other places, and took great notice of all the several works +belonging to the making of a cable. So after a cup of burnt wine--[Burnt +wine was somewhat similar to mulled wine, and a favourite drink]--at the +tavern there, we took barge and went to Blackwall and viewed the dock and +the new Wet dock, which is newly made there, and a brave new merchantman +which is to be launched shortly, and they say to be called the Royal Oak. +Hence we walked to Dick-Shore, and thence to the Towre and so home. +Where I found my wife and Pall abroad, so I went to see Sir W. Pen, and +there found Mr. Coventry come to see him, and now had an opportunity to +thank him, and he did express much kindness to me. I sat a great while +with Sir Wm. after he was gone, and had much talk with him. I perceive +none of our officers care much for one another, but I do keep in with +them all as much as I can. Sir W. Pen is still very ill as when I went. +Home, where my wife not yet come home, so I went up to put my papers in +order, and then was much troubled my wife was not come, it being 10 +o'clock just now striking as I write this last line. This day I hear the +Princess is recovered again. The King hath been this afternoon at +Deptford, to see the yacht that Commissioner Pett is building, which will +be very pretty; as also that that his brother at Woolwich is in making. +By and by comes in my boy and tells me that his mistress do lie this +night at Mrs. Hunt's, who is very ill, with which being something +satisfied, I went to bed. + + +16th. This morning I went early to the Comptroller's and so with him by +coach to Whitehall, to wait upon Mr. Coventry to give him an account of +what we have done, which having done, I went away to wait upon my Lady; +but coming to her lodgings I find that she is gone this morning to +Chatham by coach, thinking to meet me there, which did trouble me +exceedingly, and I did not know what to do, being loth to follow her, and +yet could not imagine what she would do when she found me not there. In +this trouble, I went to take a walk in Westminster Hall and by chance met +with Mr. Child, who went forth with my Lady to-day, but his horse being +bad, he come back again, which then did trouble me more, so that I did +resolve to go to her; and so by boat home and put on my boots, and so +over to Southwarke to the posthouse, and there took horse and guide to +Dartford and thence to Rochester (I having good horses and good way, come +thither about half-an-hour after daylight, which was before 6 o'clock and +I set forth after two), where I found my Lady and her daughter Jem., and +Mrs. Browne' and five servants, all at a great loss, not finding me here, +but at my coming she was overjoyed. The sport was how she had intended +to have kept herself unknown, and how the Captain (whom she had sent for) +of the Charles had forsoothed + + [To forsooth is to address in a polite and ceremonious manner. + "Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any + case."--Ben Jonson's Poetaster, act iv., sc. 1.] + +her, though he knew her well and she him. In fine we supped merry and so +to bed, there coming several of the Charles's men to see me before, I got +to bed. The page lay with me. + + +17th. Up, and breakfast with my Lady. Then come Captains Cuttance and +Blake to carry her in the barge on board; and so we went through Ham +Creeke to the Soverayne (a goodly sight all the way to see the brave +ships that lie here) first, which is a most noble ship. I never saw her +before. My Lady Sandwich, my Lady Jemimah, Mrs. Browne, Mrs. Grace, and +Mary and the page, my lady's servants and myself, all went into the +lanthorn together. From thence to the Charles, where my lady took great +pleasure to see all the rooms, and to hear me tell her how things are +when my Lord is there. After we had seen all, then the officers of the +ship had prepared a handsome breakfast for her, and while she was +pledging my Lord's health they give her five guns. That done, we went +off, and then they give us thirteen guns more. I confess it was a great +pleasure to myself to see the ship that I begun my good fortune in. From +thence on board the Newcastle, to show my Lady the difference between a +great and a small ship. Among these ships I did give away L7. So back +again and went on shore at Chatham, where I had ordered the coach to wait +for us. Here I heard that Sir William Batten and his lady (who I knew +were here, and did endeavour to avoyd) were now gone this morning to +London. So we took coach, and I went into the coach, and went through +the town, without making stop at our inn, but left J. Goods to pay the +reckoning. So I rode with my lady in the coach, and the page on the +horse that I should have rid on--he desiring it. It begun to be dark +before we could come to Dartford, and to rain hard, and the horses to +fayle, which was our great care to prevent, for fear of my Lord's +displeasure, so here we sat up for to-night, as also Captains Cuttance +and Blake, who came along with us. We sat and talked till supper, and at +supper my Lady and I entered into a great dispute concerning what were +best for a man to do with his estate--whether to make his elder son heir, +which my Lady is for, and I against, but rather to make all equall. This +discourse took us much time, till it was time to go to bed; but we being +merry, we bade my Lady goodnight, and intended to have gone to the Post- +house to drink, and hear a pretty girl play of the cittern (and indeed we +should have lain there, but by a mistake we did not), but it was late, +and we could not hear her, and the guard came to examine what we were; so +we returned to our Inn and to bed, the page and I in one bed, and the two +captains in another, all in one chamber, where we had very good mirth +with our most abominable lodging. + + +18th. The Captains went with me to the post-house about 9 o'clock, and +after a morning draft I took horse and guide for London; and through some +rain, and a great wind in my face, I got to London at eleven o'clock. At +home found all well, but the monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I +did strike her till she was almost dead, that they might make her fast +again, which did still trouble me more. In the afternoon we met at the +office and sat till night, and then I to see my father who I found well, +and took him to Standing's' to drink a cup of ale. He told me my aunt at +Brampton is yet alive and my mother well there. In comes Will Joyce to +us drunk, and in a talking vapouring humour of his state, and I know not +what, which did vex me cruelly. After him Mr. Hollier had learned at my +father's that I was here (where I had appointed to meet him) and so he +did give me some things to take for prevention. Will Joyce not letting +us talk as I would I left my father and him and took Mr. Hollier to the +Greyhound, where he did advise me above all things, both as to the stone +and the decay of my memory (of which I now complain to him), to avoid +drinking often, which I am resolved, if I can, to leave off. Hence home, +and took home with me from the bookseller's Ogilby's AEsop, which he had +bound for me, and indeed I am very much pleased with the book. Home and +to bed. + + +19th. To the Comptroller's, and with him by coach to White Hall; in our +way meeting Venner and Pritchard upon a sledge, who with two more Fifth +Monarchy men were hanged to-day, and the two first drawn and quartered. +Where we walked up and down, and at last found Sir G. Carteret, whom I +had not seen a great while, and did discourse with him about our +assisting the Commissioners in paying off the Fleet, which we think to +decline. Here the Treasurer did tell me that he did suspect Thos. Hater +to be an informer of them in this work, which we do take to be a +diminution of us, which do trouble me, and I do intend to find out the +truth. Hence to my Lady, who told me how Mr. Hetley is dead of the +small-pox going to Portsmouth with my Lord. My Lady went forth to dinner +to her father's, and so I went to the Leg in King Street and had a rabbit +for myself and my Will, and after dinner I sent him home and myself went +to the Theatre, where I saw "The Lost Lady," which do not please me much. +Here I was troubled to be seen by four of our office clerks, which sat in +the half-crown box and I in the 1s. 6d. From thence by link, and bought +two mouse traps of Thomas Pepys, the Turner, and so went and drank a cup +of ale with him, and so home and wrote by post to Portsmouth to my Lord +and so to bed. + +20th (Lord's day). To Church in the morning. Dined at home. My wife +and I to Church in the afternoon, and that being done we went to see my +uncle and aunt Wight. There I left my wife and came back, and sat with +Sir W. Pen, who is not yet well again. Thence back again to my wife and +supped there, and were very merry and so home, and after prayers to write +down my journall for the last five days, and so to bed. + + +21st. This morning Sir W. Batten, the Comptroller and I to Westminster, +to the Commissioners for paying off the Army and Navy, where the Duke of +Albemarle was; and we sat with our hats on, and did discourse about +paying off the ships and do find that they do intend to undertake it +without our help; and we are glad of it, for it is a work that will much +displease the poor seamen, and so we are glad to have no hand in it. +From thence to the Exchequer, and took L200 and carried it home, and so +to the office till night, and then to see Sir W. Pen, whither came my +Lady Batten and her daughter, and then I sent for my wife, and so we sat +talking till it was late. So home to supper and then to bed, having eat +no dinner to-day. It is strange what weather we have had all this +winter; no cold at all; but the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and +down, and the rose-bushes are full of leaves, such a time of the year as +was never known in this world before here. This day many more of the +Fifth Monarchy men were hanged. + + +22nd. To the Comptroller's house, where I read over his proposals to the +Lord Admiral for the regulating of the officers of the Navy, in which he +hath taken much pains, only he do seem to have too good opinion of them +himself. From thence in his coach to Mercer's Chappell, and so up to the +great hall, where we met with the King's Councell for Trade, upon some +proposals of theirs for settling convoys for the whole English trade, and +that by having 33 ships (four fourth-rates, nineteen fifths, ten sixths) +settled by the King for that purpose, which indeed was argued very finely +by many persons of honour and merchants that were there. It pleased me +much now to come in this condition to this place, where I was once a +petitioner for my exhibition in Paul's School; and also where Sir +G. Downing (my late master) was chairman, and so but equally concerned +with me. From thence home, and after a little dinner my wife and I by +coach into London, and bought some glasses, and then to Whitehall to see +Mrs. Fox, but she not within, my wife to my mother Bowyer, and I met with +Dr. Thomas Fuller, and took him to the Dog, where he tells me of his last +and great book that is coming out: that is, his History of all the +Families in England;' and could tell me more of my own, than I knew +myself. And also to what perfection he hath now brought the art of +memory; that he did lately to four eminently great scholars dictate +together in Latin, upon different subjects of their proposing, faster +than they were able to write, till they were tired; and by the way in +discourse tells me that the best way of beginning a sentence, if a man +should be out and forget his last sentence (which he never was), that +then his last refuge is to begin with an Utcunque. From thence I to Mr. +Bowyer's, and there sat a while, and so to Mr. Fox's, and sat with them a +very little while, and then by coach home, and so to see Sir Win. Pen, +where we found Mrs. Martha Batten and two handsome ladies more, and so we +staid supper and were very merry, and so home to bed. + + +23rd. To the office all the morning. My wife and people at home busy to +get things ready for tomorrow's dinner. At noon, without dinner, went +into the City, and there meeting with Greatorex, we went and drank a pot +of ale. He told me that he was upon a design to go to Teneriffe to try +experiments there. With him to Gresham Colledge + + [Gresham College occupied the house of Sir Thomas Gresham, in + Bishopsgate Street, from 1596, when Lady Gresham, Sir Thomas's + widow, died. The meeting which Pepys attended was an early one of + the Royal Society, which was incorporated by royal charter in 1663.] + +(where I never was before), and saw the manner of the house, and found +great company of persons of honour there; thence to my bookseller's, and +for books, and to Stevens, the silversmith, to make clean some plate +against to-morrow, and so home, by the way paying many little debts for +wine and pictures, &c., which is my great pleasure. Home and found all +things in a hurry of business, Slater, our messenger, being here as my +cook till very late. I in my chamber all the evening looking over my +Osborn's works and new Emanuel Thesaurus Patriarchae. So late to bed, +having ate nothing to-day but a piece of bread and cheese at the ale- +house with Greatorex, and some bread and butter at home. + + +24th. At home all day. There dined with me Sir William Batten and his +lady and daughter, Sir W. Pen, Mr. Fox (his lady being ill could not +come), and Captain Cuttance; the first dinner I have made since I came +hither. This cost me above L5, and merry we were--only my chimney +smokes. In the afternoon Mr. Hater bringing me my last quarter's salary, +which I received of him, and so I have now Mr. Barlow's money in my +hands. The company all go away, and by and by Sir Wms. both and my Lady +Batten and his daughter come again and supped with me and talked till +late, and so to bed, being glad that the trouble is over. + + +25th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home and Mr. Hater with +me, and so I did make even with him for the last quarter. After dinner +he and I to look upon the instructions of my Lord Northumberland's, but +we were interrupted by Mr. Salisbury's coming in, who came to see me and +to show me my Lord's picture in little, of his doing. And truly it is +strange to what a perfection he is come in a year's time. From thence to +Paul's Churchyard about books, and so back again home. This night comes +two cages, which I bought this evening for my canary birds, which Captain +Rooth this day sent me. So to bed. + + + +26th. Within all the morning. About noon comes one that had formerly +known me and I him, but I know not his name, to borrow L5 of me, but I +had the wit to deny him. There dined with me this day both the Pierces' +and their wives, and Captain Cuttance, and Lieutenant Lambert, with whom +we made ourselves very merry by taking away his ribbans and garters, +having made him to confess that he is lately married. The company being +gone I went to my lute till night, and so to bed. + + +27th (Lord's day). Before I rose, letters come to me from Portsmouth, +telling me that the Princess is now well, and my Lord Sandwich set sail +with the Queen and her yesterday from thence for France. To church, +leaving my wife sick . . . . at home, a poor dull sermon of a stranger. +Home, and at dinner was very angry at my people's eating a fine pudding +(made me by Slater, the cook, last Thursday) without my wife's leave. +To church again, a good sermon of Mr. Mills, and after sermon Sir W. Pen +and I an hour in the garden talking, and he did answer me to many things, +I asked Mr. Coventry's opinion of me, and Sir W. Batten's of my Lord +Sandwich, which do both please me. Then to Sir W. Batten's, where very +merry, and here I met the Comptroller and his lady and daughter (the +first time I ever saw them) and Mrs. Turner, who and her husband supped +with us here (I having fetched my wife thither), and after supper we fell +to oysters, and then Mr. Turner went and fetched some strong waters, and +so being very merry we parted, and home to bed. This day the parson read +a proclamation at church, for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of +January, a fast for the murther of the late King. + + +28th. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and after dinner to +Fleet Street, with my sword to Mr. Brigden (lately made Captain of the +Auxiliaries) to be refreshed, and with him to an ale-house, where I met +Mr. Davenport; and after some talk of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw's +bodies being taken out of their graves to-day, + + + ["The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, John Bradshaw, and + Thomas Pride, were dug up out of their graves to be hanged at + Tyburn, and buried under the gallows. Cromwell's vault having been + opened, the people crowded very much to see him."--Rugge's Diurnal.] + +I went to Mr. Crew's and thence to the Theatre, where I saw again "The +Lost Lady," which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting +behind in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not +seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not +troubled at it at all. Thence to Mr. Crew's, and there met Mr. Moore, +who came lately to me, and went with me to my father's, and with him to +Standing's, whither came to us Dr. Fairbrother, who I took and my father +to the Bear and gave a pint of sack and a pint of claret. + +He do still continue his expressions of respect and love to me, and tells +me my brother John will make a good scholar. Thence to see the Doctor at +his lodging at Mr. Holden's, where I bought a hat, cost me 35s. So home +by moonshine, and by the way was overtaken by the Comptroller's coach, +and so home to his house with him. So home and to bed. This noon I had +my press set up in my chamber for papers to be put in. + + +29th. Mr. Moore making up accounts with me all this morning till Lieut. +Lambert came, and so with them over the water to Southwark, and so over +the fields to Lambeth, and there drank, it being a most glorious and warm +day, even to amazement, for this time of the year. Thence to my Lord's, +where we found my Lady gone with some company to see Hampton Court, so we +three went to Blackfryers (the first time I ever was there since plays +begun), and there after great patience and little expectation, from so +poor beginning, I saw three acts of "The Mayd in ye Mill" acted to my +great content. But it being late, I left the play and them, and by water +through bridge home, and so to Mr. Turner's house, where the Comptroller, +Sir William Batten, and Mr. Davis and their ladies; and here we had a +most neat little but costly and genteel supper, and after that a great +deal of impertinent mirth by Mr. Davis, and some catches, and so broke +up, and going away, Mr. Davis's eldest son took up my old Lady Slingsby +in his arms, and carried her to the coach, and is said to be able to +carry three of the biggest men that were in the company, which I wonder +at. So home and to bed. + +30th (Fast day). The first time that this day hath been yet observed: +and Mr. Mills made a most excellent sermon, upon "Lord forgive us our +former iniquities;" speaking excellently of the justice of God in +punishing men for the sins of their ancestors. Home, and John Goods +comes, and after dinner I did pay him L30 for my Lady, and after that Sir +W. Pen and I into Moorfields and had a brave talk, it being a most +pleasant day, and besides much discourse did please ourselves to see +young Davis and Whitton, two of our clerks, going by us in the field, who +we observe to take much pleasure together, and I did most often see them +at play together. Back to the Old James in Bishopsgate Street, where Sir +W. Batten and Sir Wm. Rider met him about business of the Trinity House. +So I went home, and there understand that my mother is come home well +from Brampton, and had a letter from my brother John, a very ingenious +one, and he therein begs to have leave to come to town at the Coronacion. +Then to my Lady Batten's; where my wife and she are lately come back +again from being abroad, and seeing of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw +hanged and buried at Tyburn. Then I home. + + ["Jan. 30th was kept as a very solemn day of fasting and prayer. + This morning the carcases of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw (which + the day before had been brought from the Red Lion Inn, Holborn), + were drawn upon a sledge to Tyburn, and then taken out of their + coffins, and in their shrouds hanged by the neck, until the going + down of the sun. They were then cut down, their heads taken off, + and their bodies buried in a grave made under the gallows. The + coffin in which was the body of Cromwell was a very rich thing, very + full of gilded hinges and nails."--Rugge's Diurnal.] + + +31st. This morning with Mr. Coventry at Whitehall about getting a ship +to carry my Lord's deals to Lynne, and we have chosen the Gift. Thence +at noon to my Lord's, where my Lady not well, so I eat a mouthfull of +dinner there, and thence to the Theatre, and there sat in the pit among +the company of fine ladys, &c.; and the house was exceeding full, to see +Argalus and Parthenia, the first time that it hath been acted: and indeed +it is good, though wronged by my over great expectations, as all things +else are. Thence to my father's to see my mother, who is pretty well +after her journey from Brampton. She tells me my aunt is pretty well, +yet cannot live long. My uncle pretty well too, and she believes would +marry again were my aunt dead, which God forbid. So home. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + FEBRUARY + 1660-61 + + +February 1st (Friday). A full office all this morning, and busy about +answering the Commissioners of Parliament to their letter, wherein they +desire to borrow two clerks of ours, which we will not grant them. After +dinner into London and bought some books, and a belt, and had my sword +new furbished. To the alehouse with Mr. Brigden and W. Symons. At night +home. So after a little music to bed, leaving my people up getting +things ready against to-morrow's dinner. + + +2nd. Early to Mr. Moore, and with him to Sir Peter Ball, who proffers my +uncle Robert much civility in letting him continue in the grounds which +he had hired of Hetley who is now dead. Thence home, where all things in +a hurry for dinner, a strange cook being come in the room of Slater, who +could not come. There dined here my uncle Wight and my aunt, my father +and mother, and my brother Tom, Dr. Fairbrother and Mr. Mills, the +parson, and his wife, who is a neighbour's daughter of my uncle Robert's, +and knows my Aunt Wight and all her and my friends there; and so we had +excellent company to-day. After dinner I was sent for to Sir +G. Carteret's, where he was, and I found the Comptroller, who are upon +writing a letter to the Commissioners of Parliament in some things a +rougher stile than our last, because they seem to speak high to us. So +the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree +upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of +the Cheques to make up their accounts. Then home; where I found the +parson and his wife gone. And by and by the rest of the company, very +well pleased, and I too; it being the last dinner I intend to make a +great while, it having now cost me almost L15 in three dinners within +this fortnight. In the evening comes Sir W. Pen, pretty merry, to sit +with me and talk, which we did for an hour or two, and so good night, and +I to bed. + + +3d (Lord's day). This day I first begun to go forth in my coat and +sword, as the manner now among gentlemen is. To Whitehall. In my way +heard Mr. Thomas Fuller preach at the Savoy upon our forgiving of other +men's trespasses, shewing among other things that we are to go to law +never to revenge, but only to repayre, which I think a good distinction. +So to White Hall; where I staid to hear the trumpets and kettle-drums, +and then the other drums, which are much cried up, though I think it +dull, vulgar musique. So to Mr. Fox's, unbid; where I had a good dinner +and special company. Among other discourse, I observed one story, how my +Lord of Northwich, at a public audience before the King of France, made +the Duke of Anjou cry, by making ugly faces as he was stepping to the +King, but undiscovered. + + [This story relates to circumstances which had occurred many years + previously. George, Lord Goring, was sent by Charles I. as + Ambassador Extraordinary to France in 1644, to witness the oath of + Louis XIV. to the observance of the treaties concluded with England + by his father, Louis XIII., and his grandfather, Henry IV. Louis + XIV. took this oath at Ruel, on July 3rd, 1644, when he was not yet + six years of age, and when his brother Philippe, then called Duke of + Anjou, was not four years old. Shortly after his return home, Lord + Goring was created, in September, 1644, Earl of Norwich, the title + by which he is here mentioned. Philippe, Duke of Anjou, who was + frightened by the English nobleman's ugly faces, took the title of + Duke of Orleans after the death of his uncle, Jean Baptiste Gaston, + in 1660. He married his cousin, Henrietta of England.--B.] + +And how Sir Phillip Warwick's' lady did wonder to have Mr. Darcy' send +for several dozen bottles of Rhenish wine to her house, not knowing that +the wine was his. Thence to my Lord's; where I am told how Sir Thomas +Crew's Pedro, with two of his countrymen more, did last night kill one +soldier of four that quarrelled with them in the street, about 10 +o'clock. The other two are taken; but he is now hid at my Lord's till +night, that he do intend to make his escape away. So up to my Lady, and +sat and talked with her long, and so to Westminster Stairs, and there +took boat to the bridge, and so home, where I met with letters to call us +all up to-morrow morning to Whitehall about office business. + + +4th. Early up to Court with Sir W. Pen, where, at Mr. Coventry's +chamber, we met with all our fellow officers, and there after a hot +debate about the business of paying off the Fleet, and how far we should +join with the Commissioners of Parliament, which is now the great +business of this month more to determine, and about which there is a +great deal of difference between us, and then how far we should be +assistants to them therein. That being done, he and I back again home, +where I met with my father and mother going to my cozen Snow's to +Blackwall, and had promised to bring me and my wife along with them, +which we could not do because we are to go to the Dolphin to-day to a +dinner of Capt. Tayler's. So at last I let my wife go with them, and I +to the tavern, where Sir William Pen and the Comptroller and several +others were, men and women; and we had a very great and merry dinner; and +after dinner the Comptroller begun some sports, among others the naming +of people round and afterwards demanding questions of them that they are +forced to answer their names to, which do make very good sport. And here +I took pleasure to take the forfeits of the ladies who would not do their +duty by kissing of them; among others a pretty lady, who I found +afterwards to be wife to Sir W. Batten's son. Home, and then with my +wife to see Sir W. Batten, who could not be with us this day being ill, +but we found him at cards, and here we sat late, talking with my Lady and +others and Dr. Whistler, + + [Daniel Whistler, M.D., Fellow of Merton College, whose inaugural + dissertation on Rickets in 1645 contains the earliest printed + account of that disease. He was Gresham Professor of Geometry, + 1648-57, and held several offices at the College of Physicians, + being elected President in 1683. He was one of the original Fellows + of the Royal Society. Dr. Munk, in his "Roll of the Royal College + of Physicians," speaks very unfavourably of Whistler, and says that + he defrauded the college. He died May 11th, 1684.] + +who I found good company and a very ingenious man. So home and to bed. + + +5th. Washing-day. My wife and I by water to Westminster. She to her +mother's and I to Westminster Hall, where I found a full term, and here I +went to Will's, and there found Shaw and Ashwell and another Bragrave +(who knew my mother wash-maid to my Lady Veere), who by cursing and +swearing made me weary of his company and so I went away. Into the Hall +and there saw my Lord Treasurer (who was sworn to-day at the Exchequer, +with a great company of Lords and persons of honour to attend him) go up +to the Treasury Offices, and take possession thereof; and also saw the +heads of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton, set up upon the further end of +the Hall. Then at Mrs. Michell's in the Hall met my wife and Shaw, and +she and I and Captain Murford to the Dog, and there I gave them some +wine, and after some mirth and talk (Mr. Langley coming in afterwards) I +went by coach to the play-house at the Theatre, our coach in King Street +breaking, and so took another. Here we saw Argalus and Parthenia, which +I lately saw, but though pleasant for the dancing and singing, I do not +find good for any wit or design therein. That done home by coach and to +supper, being very hungry for want of dinner, and so to bed. + + +6th. Called up by my Cozen Snow, who sat by me while I was trimmed, and +then I drank with him, he desiring a courtesy for a friend, which I have +done for him. Then to the office, and there sat long, then to dinner, +Captain Murford with me. I had a dish of fish and a good hare, which was +sent me the other day by Goodenough the plasterer. So to the office +again, where Sir W. Pen and I sat all alone, answering of petitions and +nothing else, and so to Sir W. Batten's, where comes Mr. Jessop (one whom +I could not formerly have looked upon, and now he comes cap in hand to us +from the Commissioners of the Navy, though indeed he is a man of a great +estate and of good report), about some business from them to us, which we +answered by letter. Here I sat long with Sir W., who is not well, and +then home and to my chamber, and some little, music, and so to bed. + + +7th. With Sir W. Batten and Pen to Whitehall to Mr. Coventry's chamber, +to debate upon the business we were upon the other day morning, and +thence to Westminster Hall. And after a walk to my Lord's; where, while +I and my Lady were in her chamber in talk, in comes my Lord from sea, to +our great wonder. He had dined at Havre de Grace on Monday last, and +came to the Downs the next day, and lay at Canterbury that night; and so +to Dartford, and thence this morning to White Hall. All my friends his +servants well. Among others, Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers tell me the +stories of my Lord Duke of Buckingham's and my Lord's falling out at +Havre de Grace, at cards; they two and my Lord St. Alban's playing. The +Duke did, to my Lord's dishonour, often say that he did in his conscience +know the contrary to what he then said, about the difference at cards; +and so did take up the money that he should have lost to my Lord. Which +my Lord resenting, said nothing then, but that he doubted not but there +were ways enough to get his money of him. So they parted that night; +and my Lord sent for Sir R. Stayner and sent him the next morning to the +Duke, to know whether he did remember what he said last night, and +whether he would own it with his sword and a second; which he said he +would, and so both sides agreed. But my Lord St. Alban's, and the Queen +and Ambassador Montagu, did waylay them at their lodgings till the +difference was made up, to my Lord's honour; who hath got great +reputation thereby. I dined with my Lord, and then with Mr. Shepley and +Creed (who talked very high of France for a fine country) to the tavern, +and then I home. To the office, where the two Sir Williams had staid for +me, and then we drew up a letter to the Commissioners of Parliament +again, and so to Sir W. Batten, where I staid late in talk, and so home, +and after writing the letter fair then I went to bed. + + +8th. At the office all the morning. At noon to the Exchange to meet Mr. +Warren the timber merchant, but could not meet with him. Here I met with +many sea commanders, and among others Captain Cuttle, and Curtis, and +Mootham, and I, went to the Fleece Tavern to drink; and there we spent +till four o'clock, telling stories of Algiers, and the manner of the life +of slaves there! And truly Captn. Mootham and Mr. Dawes (who have been +both slaves there) did make me fully acquainted with their condition +there: as, how they eat nothing but bread and water. At their redemption +they pay so much for the water they drink at the public fountaynes, +during their being slaves. How they are beat upon the soles of their +feet and bellies at the liberty of their padron. How they are all, at +night, called into their master's Bagnard; and there they lie. How the +poorest men do use their slaves best. How some rogues do live well, if +they do invent to bring their masters in so much a week by their industry +or theft; and then they are put to no other work at all. And theft there +is counted no great crime at all. Thence to Mr. Rawlinson's, having met +my old friend Dick Scobell, and there I drank a great deal with him, and +so home and to bed betimes, my head aching. + + +9th. To my Lord's with Mr. Creed (who was come to me this morning to get +a bill of imprest signed), and my Lord being gone out he and I to the +Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne. To whom I did make known my +fears of Will's losing of his time, which he will take care to give him +good advice about. Afterwards to my Lord's and Mr. Shepley and I did +make even his accounts and mine. And then with Mr. Creed and two friends +of his (my late landlord Jones' son one of them), to an ordinary to +dinner, and then Creed and I to Whitefriars' to the Play-house, and saw +"The Mad Lover," the first time I ever saw it acted, which I like pretty +well, and home. + + +10th (Lord's day). Took physique all day, and, God forgive me, did spend +it in reading of some little French romances. At night my wife and I did +please ourselves talking of our going into France, which I hope to effect +this summer. At noon one came to ask for Mrs. Hunt that was here +yesterday, and it seems is not come home yet, which makes us afraid of +her. At night to bed. + + +11th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home, and then to the +Exchequer, and took Mr. Warren with me to Mr. Kennard, the master joiner, +at Whitehall, who was at a tavern, and there he and I to him, and agreed +about getting some of my Lord's deals on board to-morrow. Then with +young Mr. Reeve home to his house, who did there show me many pretty +pleasures in perspectives, + + ['Telescope' and 'microscope' are both as old as Milton, but for long + while 'perspective' (glass being sometimes understood and sometimes + expressed) did the work of these. It is sometimes written + 'prospective.' Our present use of 'perspective' does not, I suppose, + date farther back than Dryden.--Trench's Select Glossary.--M. B.] + + +that I have not seen before, and I did buy a little glass of him cost me +5s. And so to Mr. Crew's, and with Mr. Moore to see how my father and +mother did, and so with him to Mr. Adam Chard's' (the first time I ever +was at his house since he was married) to drink, then we parted, and I +home to my study, and set some papers and money in order, and so to bed. + + +12th. To my Lord's, and there with him all the morning, and then (he +going out to dinner) I and Mr. Pickering, Creed, and Captain Ferrers to +the Leg in the Palace to dinner, where strange Pickering's impertinences. +Thence the two others and I after a great dispute whither to go, we went +by water to Salsbury Court play-house, where not liking to sit, we went +out again, and by coach to the Theatre, and there saw "The Scornfull +Lady," now done by a woman, which makes the play appear much better than +ever it did to me. Then Creed and I (the other being lost in the crowd) +to drink a cup of ale at Temple Bar, and there we parted, and I (seeing +my father and mother by the way) went home. + + +13th. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and poor Mr. Wood +with me, who after dinner would have borrowed money of me, but I would +lend none. Then to Whitehall by coach with Sir W. Pen, where we did very +little business, and so back to Mr. Rawlinson's, where I took him and +gave him a cup of wine, he having formerly known Mr. Rawlinson, and here +I met my uncle Wight, and he drank with us, and with him to Sir W. +Batten's, whither I sent for my wife, and we chose Valentines' against +to-morrow. + + [The observation of St. Valentine's day is very ancient in this + country. Shakespeare makes Ophelia sing + + "To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, + All in the morning betime, + And I a maid at your window + To be your Valentine." + + Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.--M. B.] + +My wife chose me, which did much please me; my Lady Batten Sir W. Pen, +&c. Here we sat late, and so home to bed, having got my Lady Batten to +give me a spoonful of honey for my cold. + + +14th (Valentine's day). Up early and to Sir W. Batten's, but would not +go in till I asked whether they that opened the door was a man or a +woman, and Mingo, who was there, answered a woman, which, with his tone, +made me laugh; so up I went and took Mrs. Martha for my Valentine (which +I do only for complacency), and Sir W. Batten he go in the same manner to +my wife, and so we were very merry. About 10 o'clock we, with a great +deal of company, went down by our barge to Deptford, and there only went +to see how forward Mr. Pett's yacht is; and so all into the barge again, +and so to Woolwich, on board the Rose-bush, Captain Brown's' ship, that +is brother-in-law to Sir W. Batten, where we had a very fine dinner, +dressed on shore, and great mirth and all things successfull; the first +time I ever carried my wife a-ship-board, as also my boy Wayneman, who +hath all this day been called young Pepys, as Sir W. Pen's boy young Pen. +So home by barge again; good weather, but pretty cold. I to my study, +and began to make up my accounts for my Lord, which I intend to end +tomorrow. To bed. The talk of the town now is, who the King is like to +have for his Queen: and whether Lent shall be kept with the strictness of +the King's proclamation; + + ["A Proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of + Flesh in Lent or on fish-dayes appointed by the law to be observed," + was dated 29th January, 1660-61]. + +which it is thought cannot be, because of the poor, who cannot buy fish. +And also the great preparation for the King's crowning is now much +thought upon and talked of. + + +15th. At the office all the morning, and in the afternoon at making up +my accounts for my Lord to-morrow; and that being done I found myself to +be clear (as I think) L350 in the world, besides my goods in my house and +all things paid for. + + +16th. To my Lord in the morning, who looked over my accounts and agreed +to them. I did also get him to sign a bill (which do make my heart +merry) for L60 to me, in consideration of my work extraordinary at sea +this last voyage, which I hope to get paid. I dined with my Lord and +then to the Theatre, where I saw "The Virgin Martyr," a good but too +sober a play for the company. Then home. + + +17th (Lord's day). A most tedious, unreasonable, and impertinent sermon, +by an Irish Doctor. His text was "Scatter them, O Lord, that delight in +war." Sir Wm. Batten and I very much angry with the parson. And so I to +Westminster as soon as I came home to my Lord's, where I dined with Mr. +Shepley and Howe. After dinner (without speaking to my Lord), Mr. +Shepley and I into the city, and so I home and took my wife to my uncle +Wight's, and there did sup with them, and so home again and to bed. + + +18th. At the office all the morning, dined at home with a very good +dinner, only my wife and I, which is not yet very usual. In the +afternoon my wife and I and Mrs. Martha Batten, my Valentine, to the +Exchange, and there upon a payre of embroydered and six payre of plain +white gloves I laid out 40s. upon her. Then we went to a mercer's at the +end of Lombard Street, and there she bought a suit of Lutestring--[More +properly called "lustring"; a fine glossy silk.]--for herself, and so +home. And at night I got the whole company and Sir Wm. Pen home to my +house, and there I did give them Rhenish wine and sugar, and continued +together till it was late, and so to bed. It is much talked that the +King is already married to the niece of the Prince de Ligne, + + [The Prince de Ligne had no niece, and probably Pepys has made some + mistake in the name. Charles at one time made an offer of marriage + to Mazarin's niece, Hortense Mancini.] + +and that he hath two sons already by her: which I am sorry to hear; but +yet am gladder that it should be so, than that the Duke of York and his +family should come to the crown, he being a professed friend to the +Catholiques. + + +19th. By coach to Whitehall with Colonel Slingsby (carrying Mrs. Turner +with us) and there he and I up into the house, where we met with Sir G. +Carteret: who afterwards, with the Duke of York, my Lord Sandwich, and +others, went into a private room to consult: and we were a little +troubled that we were not called in with the rest. But I do believe it +was upon something very private. We staid walking in the gallery; where +we met with Mr. Slingsby, that was formerly a, great friend of Mons. +Blondeau, who showed me the stamps of the King's new coyne; which is +strange to see, how good they are in the stamp and bad in the money, for +lack of skill to make them. But he says Blondeau will shortly come over, +and then we shall have it better, and the best in the world. + + [Peter Blondeau, medallist, was invited to London from Paris in + 1649, and appointed by the Council of State to coin their money; but + the moneyers succeeded in driving him out of the country. Soon + after the Restoration he returned, and was appointed engineer to the + mint.] + +The Comptroller and I to the Commissioners of Parliament, and after some +talk away again and to drink a cup of ale. He tells me, he is sure that +the King is not yet married, as it is said; nor that it is known who he +will have. To my Lord's and found him dined, and so I lost my dinner, +but I staid and played with him and Mr. Child, &c., some things of four +parts, and so it raining hard and bitter cold (the first winter day we +have yet had this winter), I took coach home and spent the evening in +reading of a Latin play, the "Naufragium Joculare." And so to bed. + + +20th. All the morning at the office, dined at home and my brother Tom +with me, who brought me a pair of fine slippers which he gave me. By and +by comes little Luellin and friend to see me, and then my coz Stradwick, +who was never here before. With them I drank a bottle of wine or two, +and to the office again, and there staid about business late, and then +all of us to Sir W. Pen's, where we had, and my Lady Batten, Mrs. +Martha, and my wife, and other company, a good supper, and sat playing at +cards and talking till 12 at night, and so all to our lodgings. + + +21st. To Westminster by coach with Sir W. Pen, and in our way saw the +city begin to build scaffolds against the Coronacion. To my Lord, and +there found him out of doors. So to the Hall and called for some caps +that I have a making there, and here met with Mr. Hawley, and with him to +Will's and drank, and then by coach with Mr. Langley our old friend into +the city. I set him down by the way, and I home and there staid all day +within, having found Mr. Moore, who staid with me till late at night +talking and reading some good books. Then he went away, and I to bed. + + +22nd. All the morning at the office. At noon with my wife and Pall to +my father's to dinner, where Dr. Thos. Pepys and my coz Snow and Joyce +Norton. After dinner came The. Turner, and so I home with her to her +mother, good woman, whom I had not seen through my great neglect this +half year, but she would not be angry with me. Here I staid all the +afternoon talking of the King's being married, which is now the town +talk, but I believe false. In the evening Mrs. The. and Joyce took us +all into the coach home, calling in Bishopsgate Street, thinking to have +seen a new Harpsicon--[The harpsichord is an instrument larger than a +spinet, with two or three strings to a note.]--that she had a making +there, but it was not done, and so we did not see it. Then to my home, +where I made very much of her, and then she went home. Then my wife to +Sir W. Batten's, and there sat a while; he having yesterday sent my wife +half-a-dozen pairs of gloves, and a pair of silk stockings and garters, +for her Valentine's gift. Then home and to bed. + + +23rd. This my birthday, 28 years. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and +I did some business, and then I by water to Whitehall, having met Mr. +Hartlibb by the way at Alderman Backwell's. So he did give me a glass of +Rhenish wine at the Steeleyard, and so to Whitehall by water. He +continues of the same bold impertinent humour that he was always of and +will ever be. He told me how my Lord Chancellor had lately got the Duke +of York and Duchess, and her woman, my Lord Ossory's and a Doctor, to +make oath before most of the judges of the kingdom, concerning all the +circumstances of their marriage. And in fine, it is confessed that they +were not fully married till about a month or two before she was brought +to bed; but that they were contracted long before, and time enough for +the child to be legitimate. + + [The Duke of York's marriage took place September 3rd, 1660. Anne + Hyde was contracted to the Duke at Breda, November 24th, 1659.] + +But I do not hear that it was put to the judges to determine whether it +was so or no. To my Lord and there spoke to him about his opinion of the +Light, the sea-mark that Captain Murford is about, and do offer me an +eighth part to concern myself with it, and my Lord do give me some +encouragement in it, and I shall go on. I dined herewith Mr. Shepley and +Howe. After dinner to Whitehall Chappell with Mr. Child, and there did +hear Captain Cooke and his boy make a trial of an Anthem against +tomorrow, which was brave musique. Then by water to Whitefriars to the +Play-house, and there saw "The Changeling," the first time it hath been +acted these twenty years, and it takes exceedingly. Besides, I see the +gallants do begin to be tyred with the vanity and pride of the theatre +actors who are indeed grown very proud and rich. Then by link home, and +there to my book awhile and to bed. I met to-day with Mr. Townsend, who +tells me that the old man is yet alive in whose place in the Wardrobe he +hopes to get my father, which I do resolve to put for. I also met with +the Comptroller, who told me how it was easy for us all, the principal +officers, and proper for us, to labour to get into the next Parliament; +and would have me to ask the Duke's letter, but I shall not endeavour it +because it will spend much money, though I am sure I could well obtain +it. This is now 28 years that I am born. And blessed be God, in a state +of full content, and great hopes to be a happy man in all respects, both +to myself and friends. + + +24th (Sunday). Mr. Mills made as excellent a sermon in the morning +against drunkenness as ever I heard in my life. I dined at home; another +good one of his in the afternoon. My Valentine had her fine gloves on at +church to-day that I did give her. After sermon my wife and I unto Sir +Wm. Batten and sat awhile. Then home, I to read, then to supper and to +bed. + + +25th. Sir Wm. Pen and I to my Lord Sandwich's by coach in the morning to +see him, but he takes physic to-day and so we could not see him. So he +went away, and I with Luellin to Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cockpit, +where he did lie of old, and there we drank, and from thence to +W. Symons where we found him abroad, but she, like a good lady, within, +and there we did eat some nettle porrige, which was made on purpose +to-day for some of their coming, and was very good. With her we sat a +good while, merry in discourse, and so away, Luellin and I to my Lord's, +and there dined. He told me one of the prettiest stories, how Mr. +Blurton, his friend that was with him at my house three or four days ago, +did go with him the same day from my house to the Fleet tavern by +Guildhall, and there (by some pretence) got the mistress of the house +into their company, and by and by Luellin calling him Doctor she thought +that he really was so, and did privately discover her disease to him, +which was only some ordinary infirmity belonging to women, and he +proffering her physic, she desired him to come some day and bring it, +which he did. After dinner by water to the office, and there Sir W. Pen +and I met and did business all the afternoon, and then I got him to my +house and eat a lobster together, and so to bed. + + +26th (Shrove Tuesday). I left my wife in bed, being indisposed . . . +I to Mrs. Turner's, who I found busy with The. and Joyce making of things +ready for fritters, so to Mr. Crew's and there delivered Cotgrave's +Dictionary' to my Lady Jemimah, and then with Mr. Moore to my coz Tom +Pepys, but he being out of town I spoke with his lady, though not of the +business I went about, which was to borrow L1000 for my Lord. Back to +Mrs. Turner's, where several friends, all strangers to me but Mr. +Armiger, dined. Very merry and the best fritters that ever I eat in my +life. After that looked out at window; saw the flinging at cocks. + + [The cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday is of + considerable antiquity. It is shown in the first print of Hogarth's + "Four Stages of Cruelty."] + +Then Mrs. The. and I, and a gentleman that dined there and his daughter, +a perfect handsome young and very tall lady that lately came out of the +country, and Mr. Thatcher the Virginall Maister to Bishopsgate Street, +and there saw the new Harpsicon made for Mrs. The. We offered L12, they +demanded L14. The Master not being at home, we could make no bargain, +so parted for to-night. So all by coach to my house, where I found my +Valentine with my wife, and here they drank, and then went away. Then I +sat and talked with my Valentine and my wife a good while, and then saw +her home, and went to Sir W. Batten to the Dolphin, where Mr. Newborne, +&c., were, and there after a quart or two of wine, we home, and I to bed +. . . .[and yet again some remark is censored out by Rev. Wheatly +D.W.] + + +27th. At the office all the morning, that done I walked in the garden +with little Captain Murford, where he and I had some discourse concerning +the Light-House again, and I think I shall appear in the business, he +promising me that if I can bring it about, it will be worth L100 per +annum. Then came into the garden to me young Mr. Powell and Mr. Hooke +that I once knew at Cambridge, and I took them in and gave them a bottle +of wine, and so parted. Then I called for a dish of fish, which we had +for dinner, this being the first day of Lent; and I do intend to try +whether I can keep it or no. My father dined with me and did show me a +letter from my brother John, wherein he tells us that he is chosen +Schollar of the house,' which do please me much, because I do perceive +now it must chiefly come from his merit and not the power of his Tutor, +Dr. Widdrington, who is now quite out of interest there and hath put over +his pupils to Mr. Pepper, a young Fellow of the College. With my father +to Mr. Rawlinson's, where we met my uncle Wight, and after a pint or two +away. I walked with my father (who gave me an account of the great +falling out between my uncle Fenner and his son Will) as far as Paul's +Churchyard, and so left him, and I home. This day the Commissioners of +Parliament begin to pay off the Fleet, beginning with the Hampshire, and +do it at Guildhall, for fear of going out of town into the power of the +seamen, who are highly incensed against them. + + +28th. Early to wait on my Lord, and after a little talk with him I took +boat at Whitehall for Redriffe, but in my way overtook Captain Cuttance +and Teddiman in a boat and so ashore with them at Queenhithe, and so to a +tavern with them to a barrel of oysters, and so away. Capt. Cuttance and +I walked from Redriffe to Deptford, where I found both Sir Williams and +Sir G. Carteret at Mr. Uthwayt's, and there we dined, and notwithstanding +my resolution, yet for want of other victualls, I did eat flesh this +Lent, but am resolved to eat as little as I can. After dinner we went to +Captain Bodilaw's, and there made sale of many old stores by the candle, +and good sport it was to see how from a small matter bid at first they +would come to double and treble the price of things. After that Sir W. +Pen and I and my Lady Batten and her daughter by land to Redriffe, +staying a little at halfway house, and when we came to take boat, found +Sir George, &c., to have staid with the barge a great while for us, which +troubled us. Home and to bed. This month ends with two great secrets +under dispute but yet known to very few: first, Who the King will marry; +and What the meaning of this fleet is which we are now sheathing to set +out for the southward. Most think against Algier against the Turk, or to +the East Indys against the Dutch who, we hear, are setting out a great +fleet thither. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH + 1660-61 + + +March 1st. All the morning at the office. Dined at home only upon fish, +and Mr. Shepley and Tom Hater with me. After dinner Mr. Shepley and I in +private talking about my Lord's intentions to go speedily into the +country, but to what end we know not. We fear he is to go to sea with +this fleet now preparing. But we wish that he could get his L4000 per +annum settled before he do go. Then he and I walked into London, he to +the Wardrobe and I to Whitefryars, and saw "The Bondman" acted; an +excellent play and well done. But above all that ever I saw, Betterton +do the Bond man the best. Then to my father's and found my mother ill. +After staying a while with them, I went home and sat up late, spending my +thoughts how to get money to bear me out in my great expense at the +Coronacion, against which all provide, and scaffolds setting up in every +street. I had many designs in my head to get some, but know not which +will take. To bed. + + +2d. Early with Mr. Moore about Sir Paul Neale's' business with my uncle +and other things all the morning. Dined with him at Mr. Crew's, and +after dinner I went to the Theatre, where I found so few people (which is +strange, and the reason I did not know) that I went out again, and so to +Salsbury Court, where the house as full as could be; and it seems it was +a new play, "The Queen's Maske," wherein there are some good humours: +among others, a good jeer to the old story of the Siege of Troy, making +it to be a common country tale. But above all it was strange to see so +little a boy as that was to act Cupid, which is one of the greatest parts +in it. Then home and to bed. + + +3rd (Lord's day): Mr. Woodcocke preached at our church a very good sermon +upon the imaginacions of the thoughts of man's heart being only evil. So +home, where being told that my Lord had sent for me I went, and got there +to dine with my Lord, who is to go into the country tomorrow. I did give +up the mortgage made to me by Sir R. Parkhurst for L2,000. In the Abby +all the afternoon. Then at Mr. Pierces the surgeon, where Shepley and I +supped. So to my Lord's, who comes in late and tells us how news is come +to-day of Mazarin's being dead, which is very great news and of great +consequence.--[This report of the death of Cardinal Mazarin appears to +have been premature, for he did not die until the 9th of March, 1661.]-- +I lay tonight with Mr. Shepley here, because of my Lord's going to- +morrow. + + +4th. My Lord went this morning on his journey to Hinchingbroke, Mr. +Parker with him; the chief business being to look over and determine how, +and in what manner, his great work of building shall be done. Before his +going he did give me some jewells to keep for him, viz., that that the +King of Sweden did give him, with the King's own picture in it, most +excellently done; and a brave George, all of diamonds, and this with the +greatest expressions of love and confidence that I could imagine or hope +for, which is a very great joy to me. To the office all the forenoon. +Then to dinner and so to Whitehall to Mr. Coventry about several +businesses, and then with Mr. Moore, who went with me to drink a cup of +ale, and after some good discourse then home and sat late talking with +Sir W. Batten. So home and to bed. + + +5th. With Mr. Pierce, purser, to Westminster Hall, and there met with +Captain Cuttance, Lieut. Lambert, and Pierce, surgeon, thinking to have +met with the Commissioners of Parliament, but they not sitting, we went +to the Swan, where I did give them a barrel of oysters; and so I to my +Lady's and there dined, and had very much talk and pleasant discourse +with my Lady, my esteem growing every day higher and higher in her and my +Lord. So to my father Bowyer's where my wife was, and to the +Commissioners of Parliament, and there did take some course about having +my Lord's salary paid tomorrow when; the Charles is paid off, but I was +troubled to see how high they carry themselves, when in good truth nobody +cares for them. So home by coach and my wife. I then to the office, +where Sir Williams both and I set about making an estimate of all the +officers' salaries in ordinary in the Navy till 10 o'clock at night. So +home, and I with my head full of thoughts how to get a little present +money, I eat a bit of bread and cheese, and so to bed. + + +6th. At the office all the morning. At dinner Sir W. Batten came and +took me and my wife to his house to dinner, my Lady being in the country, +where we had a good Lenten dinner. Then to Whitehall with Captn. Cuttle, +and there I did some business with Mr. Coventry, and after that home, +thinking to have had Sir W. Batten, &c., to have eat a wigg--[Wigg, a +kind of north country bun or tea-cake, still so called, to my knowledge, +in Staffordshire.--M. B.]-- at my house at night. But my Lady being come +home out of the country ill by reason of much rain that has fallen +lately, and the waters being very high, we could not, and so I home and +to bed. + + +7th. This morning Sir Williams both went to Woolwich to sell some old +provisions there. I to Whitehall, and up and down about many businesses. +Dined at my Lord's, then to Mr. Crew to Mr. Moore, and he and I to London +to Guildhall to see the seamen paid off, but could not without trouble, +and so I took him to the Fleece tavern, where the pretty woman that +Luellin lately told me the story of dwells, but I could not see her. +Then towards home and met Spicer, D. Vines, Ruddiard, and a company more +of my old acquaintance, and went into a place to drink some ale, and +there we staid playing the fool till late, and so I home. At home met +with ill news that my hopes of getting some money for the Charles were +spoiled through Mr. Waith's perverseness, which did so vex me that I +could not sleep at night. But I wrote a letter to him to send to-morrow +morning for him to take my money for me, and so with good words I thought +to coy with him. To bed. + + +8th. All the morning at the office. At noon Sir W. Batten, Col. +Slingsby and I by coach to the Tower, to Sir John Robinson's, to dinner; +where great good cheer. High company; among others the Duchess of +Albemarle, who is ever a plain homely dowdy. After dinner, to drink all +the afternoon. Towards night the Duchess and ladies went away. Then we +set to it again till it was very late. And at last came in Sir William +Wale, almost fuddled; and because I was set between him and another, only +to keep them from talking and spoiling the company (as we did to others), +he fell out with the Lieutenant of the Tower; but with much ado we made +him under stand his error, and then all quiet. And so he carried Sir +William Batten and I home again in his coach, and so I almost overcome +with drink went to bed. I was much contented to ride in such state into +the Tower, and be received among such high company, while Mr. Mount, my +Lady Duchess's gentleman usher, stood waiting at table, whom I ever +thought a man so much above me in all respects; also to hear the +discourse of so many high Cavaliers of things past. It was a great +content and joy to me. + + +9th. To Whitehall and there with Mr. Creed took a most pleasant walk for +two hours in the park, which is now a very fair place. Here we had a +long and candid discourse one to another of one another's condition, and +he giving me an occasion I told him of my intention to get L60 paid me by +him for a gratuity for my labour extraordinary at sea. Which he did not +seem unwilling to, and therefore I am very glad it is out. To my Lord's, +where we found him lately come from Hinchingbroke, where he left my uncle +very well, but my aunt not likely to live. I staid and dined with him. +He took me aside, and asked me what the world spoke of the King's +marriage. Which I answering as one that knew nothing, he enquired no +further of me. But I do perceive by it that there is something in it +that is ready to come out that the world knows not of yet. After dinner +into London to Mrs. Turner's and my father's, made visits and then home, +where I sat late making of my journal for four days past, and so to bed. + + +10th (Lord's day). Heard Mr. Mills in the morning, a good sermon. Dined +at home on a poor Lenten dinner of coleworts and bacon. In the afternoon +again to church, and there heard one Castle, whom I knew of my year at +Cambridge. He made a dull sermon. After sermon came my uncle and aunt +Wight to see us, and we sat together a great while. Then to reading and +at night to bed. + + +11th. At the office all the morning, dined at home and my father and Dr. +Thos. Pepys with him upon a poor dinner, my wife being abroad. After +dinner I went to the theatre, and there saw "Love's Mistress" done by +them, which I do not like in some things as well as their acting in +Salsbury Court. At night home and found my wife come home, and among +other things she hath got her teeth new done by La Roche, and are indeed +now pretty handsome, and I was much pleased with it. So to bed. + + +12th. At the office about business all the morning, so to the Exchange, +and there met with Nick Osborne lately married, and with him to the +Fleece, where we drank a glass of wine. So home, where I found Mrs. Hunt +in great trouble about her husband's losing of his place in the Excise. +From thence to Guildhall, and there set my hand to the book before +Colonel King for my sea pay, and blessed be God! they have cast me at +midshipman's pay, which do make my heart very glad. So, home, and there +had Sir W. Batten and my Lady and all their company and Capt. Browne and +his wife to a collation at my house till it was late, and then to bed. + + +13th. Early up in the morning to read "The Seaman's Grammar and +Dictionary" I lately have got, which do please me exceeding well. At the +office all the morning, dined at home, and Mrs. Turner, The. Joyce, and +Mr. Armiger, and my father and mother with me, where they stand till I +was weary of their company and so away. Then up to my chamber, and there +set papers and things in order, and so to bed. + + +14th. With Sir W. Batten and Pen to Mr. Coventry's, and there had a +dispute about my claim to the place of Purveyor of Petty-provisions, and +at last to my content did conclude to have my hand to all the bills for +these provisions and Mr. Turner to purvey them, because I would not have +him to lose the place. Then to my Lord's, and so with Mr. Creed to an +alehouse, where he told me a long story of his amours at Portsmouth to +one of Mrs. Boat's daughters, which was very pleasant. Dined with my +Lord and Lady, and so with Mr. Creed to the Theatre, and there saw "King +and no King," well acted. Thence with him to the Cock alehouse at Temple +Bar, where he did ask my advice about his amours, and I did give him it, +which was to enquire into the condition of his competitor, who is a son +of Mr. Gauden's, and that I promised to do for him, and he to make [what] +use he can of it to his advantage. Home and to bed. + + +15th. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I at +a great fish dinner at the Dolphin, given us by two tax merchants, and +very merry we were till night, and so home. This day my wife and Pall +went to see my Lady Kingston, her brother's lady. + + +16th. Early at Sir Wm. Pen's, and there before Mr. Turner did reconcile +the business of the purveyance between us two. Then to Whitehall to my +Lord's, and dined with him, and so to Whitefriars and saw "The Spanish +Curate," in which I had no great content. So home, and was very much +troubled that Will. staid out late, and went to bed early, intending not +to let him come in, but by and by he comes and I did let him in, and he +did tell me that he was at Guildhall helping to pay off the seamen, and +cast the books late. Which since I found to be true. So to sleep, being +in bed when he came. + + +17th (Lord's day). At church in the morning, a stranger preached a good +honest and painfull sermon. My wife and I dined upon a chine of beef at +Sir W. Batten's, so to church again. Then home, and put some papers in +order. Then to supper at Sir W. Batten's again, where my wife by chance +fell down and hurt her knees exceedingly. So home and to bed. + + +18th. This morning early Sir W. Batten went to Rochester, where he +expects to be chosen Parliament man. At the office all the morning, +dined at home and with my wife to Westminster, where I had business with +the Commissioner for paying the seamen about my Lord's pay, and my wife +at Mrs. Hunt's. I called her home, and made inquiry at Greatorex's and +in other places to hear of Mr. Barlow (thinking to hear that he is dead), +but I cannot find it so, but the contrary. Home and called at my Lady +Batten's, and supped there, and so home. This day an ambassador from +Florence was brought into the town in state. Good hopes given me to-day +that Mrs. Davis is going away from us, her husband going shortly to +Ireland. Yesterday it was said was to be the day that the Princess +Henrietta was to marry the Duke d'Anjou' in France. This day I found in +the newes-booke that Roger Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the town, the +first place that we hear of to have made their choice yet. To bed with +my head and mind full of business, which do a little put me out of order, +and I do find myself to become more and more thoughtful about getting of +money than ever heretofore. + + +19th. We met at the office this morning about some particular business, +and then I to Whitehall, and there dined with my Lord, and after dinner +Mr. Creed and I to White-Fryars, where we saw "The Bondman" acted most +excellently, and though I have seen it often, yet I am every time more +and more pleased with Betterton's action. From thence with him and young +Mr. Jones to Penell's in Fleet Street, and there we drank and talked a +good while, and so I home and to bed. + + +20th. At the office all the morning, dined at home and Mr. Creed and Mr. +Shepley with me, and after dinner we did a good deal of business in my +study about my Lord's accounts to be made up and presented to our office. +That done to White Hall to Mr. Coventry, where I did some business with +him, and so with Sir W. Pen (who I found with Mr. Coventry teaching of +him upon the map to understand Jamaica). + + [Sir William Penn was well fitted to give this information, as it + was he who took the island from the Spaniards in 1655.] + +By water in the dark home, and so to my Lady Batten's where my wife was, +and there we sat and eat and drank till very late, and so home to bed. +The great talk of the town is the strange election that the City of +London made yesterday for Parliament-men; viz. Fowke, Love, Jones, +and . . . , men that are so far from being episcopall that they are +thought to be Anabaptists; and chosen with a great deal of zeal, in spite +of the other party that thought themselves very strong, calling out in +the Hall, "No Bishops! no Lord Bishops!" It do make people to fear it +may come to worse, by being an example to the country to do the same. +And indeed the Bishops are so high, that very few do love them. + + +21st. Up very early, and to work and study in my chamber, and then to +Whitehall to my Lord, and there did stay with him a good while +discoursing upon his accounts. Here I staid with Mr. Creed all the +morning, and at noon dined with my Lord, who was very merry, and after +dinner we sang and fiddled a great while. Then I by water (Mr. Shepley, +Pinkney, and others going part of the way) home, and then hard at work +setting my papers in order, and writing letters till night, and so to +bed. This day I saw the Florence Ambassador go to his audience, the +weather very foul, and yet he and his company very gallant. After I was +a-bed Sir W. Pen sent to desire me to go with him to-morrow morning to +meet Sir W. Batten coming from Rochester. + + +22nd. This morning I rose early, and my Lady Batten knocked at her door +that comes into one of my chambers, and called me to know whether I and +my wife were ready to go. So my wife got her ready, and about eight +o'clock I got a horseback, and my Lady and her two daughters, and Sir W. +Pen into coach, and so over London Bridge, and thence to Dartford. The +day very pleasant, though the way bad. Here we met with Sir W. Batten, +and some company along with him, who had assisted him in his election at +Rochester; and so we dined and were very merry. At 5 o'clock we set out +again in a coach home, and were very merry all the way. At Deptford we +met with Mr. Newborne, and some other friends and their wives in a coach +to meet us, and so they went home with us, and at Sir W. Batten's we +supped, and thence to bed, my head akeing mightily through the wine that +I drank to-day. + + +23d. All the morning at home putting papers in order, dined at home, and +then out to the Red Bull (where I had not been since plays come up +again), but coming too soon I went out again and walked all up and down +the Charterhouse yard and Aldersgate street. At last came back again and +went in, where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a +servant, up to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder +that there is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where +the clothes are very poor, and the actors but common fellows. At last +into the Pitt, where I think there was not above ten more than myself, +and not one hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called +"All's lost by Lust," poorly done; and with so much disorder, among +others, that in the musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not +singing it right, his master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it +put the whole house in an uprore. Thence homewards, and at the Mitre met +my uncle Wight, and with him Lieut.-Col. Baron, who told us how Crofton, +the great Presbyterian minister that had lately preached so highly +against Bishops, is clapped up this day into the Tower. Which do please +some, and displease others exceedingly. Home and to bed. + + +24th (Lord's day). My wife and I to church, and then home with Sir W. +Batten and my Lady to dinner, where very merry, and then to church again, +where Mr. Mills made a good sermon. Home again, and after a walk in the +garden Sir W. Batten's two daughters came and sat with us a while, and I +then up to my chamber to read. + + +25th (Lady day). This morning came workmen to begin the making of me a +new pair of stairs up out of my parler, which, with other work that I +have to do, I doubt will keep me this two months and so long I shall be +all in dirt; but the work do please me very well. To the office, and +there all the morning, dined at home, and after dinner comes Mr. +Salisbury to see me, and shewed me a face or two of his paynting, and +indeed I perceive that he will be a great master. I took him to +Whitehall with me by water, but he would not by any means be moved to go +through bridge, and so we were fain to go round by the Old Swan. To my +Lord's and there I shewed him the King's picture, which he intends to +copy out in little. After that I and Captain Ferrers to Salisbury Court +by water, and saw part of the "Queene's Maske." Then I to Mrs. Turner, +and there staid talking late. The. Turner being in a great chafe, about +being disappointed of a room to stand in at the Coronacion. Then to my +father's, and there staid talking with my mother and him late about my +dinner to-morrow. So homewards and took up a boy that had a lanthorn, +that was picking up of rags, and got him to light me home, and had great +discourse with him how he could get sometimes three or four bushells of +rags in a day, and got 3d. a bushell for them, and many other discourses, +what and how many ways there are for poor children to get their livings +honestly. So home and I to bed at 12 o'clock at night, being pleased +well with the work that my workmen have begun to-day. + + +26th. Up early to do business in my study. This is my great day that +three years ago I was cut of the stone, and, blessed be God, I do yet +find myself very free from pain again. All this morning I staid at home +looking after my workmen to my great content about my stairs, and at noon +by coach to my father's, where Mrs. Turner, The. Joyce, Mr. Morrice, Mr. +Armiger, Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and his wife, my father and mother, and +myself and my wife. Very merry at dinner; among other things, because +Mrs. Turner and her company eat no flesh at all this Lent, and I had a +great deal of good flesh which made their mouths water. After dinner +Mrs. Pierce and her husband and I and my wife to Salisbury Court, where +coming late he and she light of Col. Boone that made room for them, and I +and my wife sat in the pit, and there met with Mr. Lewes and Tom Whitton, +and saw "The Bondman" done to admiration. So home by coach, and after a +view of what the workmen had done to-day I went to bed. + + +27th. Up early to see my workmen at work. My brother Tom comes to me, +and among other things I looked over my old clothes and did give him a +suit of black stuff clothes and a hat and some shoes. At the office all +the morning, where Sir G. Carteret comes, and there I did get him to +promise me some money upon a bill of exchange, whereby I shall secure +myself of L60 which otherwise I should not know how to get. At noon I +found my stairs quite broke down, that I could not get up but by a +ladder; and my wife not being well she kept her chamber all this day. +To the Dolphin to a dinner of Mr. Harris's, where Sir Williams both and +my Lady Batten, and her two daughters, and other company, where a great +deal of mirth, and there staid till 11 o'clock at night; and in our mirth +I sang and sometimes fiddled (there being a noise of fiddlers there), and +at last we fell to dancing, the first time that ever I did in my life, +which I did wonder to see myself to do. At last we made Mingo, Sir W. +Batten's black, and Jack, Sir W. Pen's, dance, and it was strange how the +first did dance with a great deal of seeming skill. Home, where I found +my wife all day in her chamber. So to bed. + + +28th. Up early among my workmen, then Mr. Creed coming to see me I went +along with him to Sir Robert Slingsby (he being newly maister of that +title by being made a Baronett) to discourse about Mr. Creed's accounts +to be made up, and from thence by coach to my cozen Thomas Pepys, to +borrow L1000 for my Lord, which I am to expect an answer to tomorrow. +So to my Lord's, and there staid and dined, and after dinner did get my +Lord to view Mr. Shepley's accounts as I had examined them, and also to +sign me a bond for my L500. Then with Mr. Shepley to the Theatre and saw +"Rollo" ill acted. That done to drink a cup of ale and so by coach to +London, and having set him down in Cheapside I went home, where I found a +great deal of work done to-day, and also L70 paid me by the Treasurer +upon the bill of exchange that I have had hopes of so long, so that, my +heart in great content; I went to bed. + + +29th. Up among my workmen with great pleasure. Then to the office, +where I found Sir W. Pen sent down yesterday to Chatham to get two great +ships in readiness presently to go to the East Indies upon some design +against the Dutch, we think, at Goa but it is a great secret yet. Dined +at home, came Mr. Shepley and Moore, and did business with both of them. +After that to Sir W. Batten's, where great store of company at dinner. +Among others my schoolfellow, Mr. Christmas, where very merry, and hither +came letters from above for the fitting of two other ships for the East +Indies in all haste, and so we got orders presently for the Hampshire and +Nonsuch. Then home and there put some papers in order, and not knowing +what to do, the house being so dirty, I went to bed. + + +30th. At the office we and Sir W. Rider to advise what sort of +provisions to get ready for these ships going to the Indies. Then the +Comptroller and I by water to Mr. Coventry, and there discoursed upon the +same thing. So to my coz. Tho. Pepys, and got him to promise me L1,000 +to lend my Lord upon his and my uncle Robert's and my security. So to my +Lord's, and there got him to sign a bond to him, which I also signed too, +and he did sign counter security to us both. Then into London up and +down and drank a pint of wine with Mr. Creed, and so home and sent a +letter and the bonds to my uncle to sign for my Lord. This day I spoke +with Dr. Castle about making up the dividend for the last quarter, and +agreed to meet about it on Monday. + + +31st (Sunday). At church, where a stranger preached like a fool. From +thence home and dined with my wife, she staying at home, being unwilling +to dress herself, the house being all dirty. To church again, and after +sermon I walked to my father's, and to Mrs. Turner's, where I could not +woo The. to give me a lesson upon the harpsicon and was angry at it. So +home and finding Will abroad at Sir W. Batten's talking with the people +there (Sir W. and my Lady being in the country), I took occasion to be +angry with him, and so to prayers and to bed. + + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A lady spit backward upon me by a mistake +A most tedious, unreasonable, and impertinent sermon +Comely black woman.--[The old expression for a brunette.] +Cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday +Day I first begun to go forth in my coat and sword +Discontented that my wife do not go neater now she has two maids +Fell to dancing, the first time that ever I did in my life +Have been so long absent that I am ashamed to go +I took occasion to be angry with him +Justice of God in punishing men for the sins of their ancestors +Lady Batten to give me a spoonful of honey for my cold +My great expense at the Coronacion +She hath got her teeth new done by La Roche +That I might not seem to be afeared +The monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I did strike her +Was kissing my wife, which I did not like +We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repayre +Who we found ill still, but he do make very much of it +Wronged by my over great expectations + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v10 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp11g10.zip b/old/sp11g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8068e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp11g10.zip |