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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + APRIL & MAY + 1661 + + +April 1st, 1661. This day my waiting at the Privy Seal comes in again.Up early +among my workmen. So to the once, and went home to dinner with +Sir W. Batten, and after that to the Goat tavern by Charing Cross to meet +Dr. Castle, where he and I drank a pint of wine and talked about Privy +Seal business. Then to the Privy Seal Office and there found Mr. Moore, +but no business yet. Then to Whitefryars, and there saw part of "Rule a +wife and have a wife," which I never saw before, but do not like it. So +to my father, and there finding a discontent between my father and mother +about the maid (which my father likes and my mother dislikes), I staid +till 10 at night, persuading my mother to understand herself, and that in +some high words, which I was sorry for, but she is grown, poor woman, +very froward. So leaving them in the same discontent I went away home, +it being a brave moonshine, and to bed. + + + +2d. Among my workmen early and then along with my wife and Pall to my +Father's by coach there to have them lie a while till my house be done. +I found my mother alone weeping upon my last night's quarrel and so left +her, and took my wife to Charing Cross and there left her to see her +mother who is not well. So I into St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke +of York playing at Pelemele, + + [The game was originally played in the road now styled Pall Mall, + near St. James's Square, but at the Restoration when sports came in + fashion again the street was so much built over, that it became + necessary to find another ground. The Mall in St. James's Park was + then laid out for the purpose.] + + the first time that ever I saw the sport. Then to my Lord's, where I +dined with my Lady, and after we had dined in comes my Lord and Ned +Pickering hungry, and there was not a bit of meat left in the house, the +servants having eat up all, at which my Lord was very angry, and at last +got something dressed. Then to the Privy Seal, and signed some things, +and so to White-fryars and saw "The Little Thiefe," which is a very merry +and pretty play, and the little boy do very well. Then to my Father's, +where I found my mother and my wife in a very good mood, and so left them +and went home. Then to the Dolphin to Sir W. Batten, and Pen, and other +company; among others Mr. Delabar; where strange how these men, who at +other times are all wise men, do now, in their drink, betwitt and +reproach one another with their former conditions, and their actions as +in public concernments, till I was ashamed to see it. But parted all +friends at 12 at night after drinking a great deal of wine. So home and +alone to bed. + + + +3rd. Up among my workmen, my head akeing all day from last night's +debauch. To the office all the morning, and at noon dined with Sir W. +Batten and Pen, who would needs have me drink two drafts of sack to-day +to cure me of last night's disease, which I thought strange but I think +find it true. + + [The proverb, "A hair of the dog that bit you," which probably had + originally a literal meaning, has long been used to inculcate the + advice of the two Sir Williams.] + +Then home with my workmen all the afternoon, at night into the garden to +play on my flageolette, it being moonshine, where I staid a good while, +and so home and to bed. This day I hear that the Dutch have sent the +King a great present of money, which we think will stop the match with +Portugal; and judge this to be the reason that our so great haste in +sending the two ships to the East Indys is also stayed. + + + +4th. To my workmen, then to my Lord's, and there dined with Mr. Shepley. +After dinner I went in to my Lord and there we had a great deal of +musique, and then came my cozen Tom Pepys and there did accept of the +security which we gave him for his L1000 that we borrow of him, and so +the money to be paid next week. Then to the Privy Seal, and so with Mr. +Moore to my father's, where some friends did sup there and we with them +and late went home, leaving my wife still there. So to bed. + + + +5th: Up among my workmen and so to the office, and then to Sir W. Pen's +with the other Sir William and Sir John Lawson to dinner, and after that, +with them to Mr. Lucy's, a merchant, where much good company, and there +drank a great deal of wine, and in discourse fell to talk of the weight +of people, which did occasion some wagers, and where, among others, I won +half a piece to be spent. Then home, and at night to Sir W. Batten's, and +there very merry with a good barrell of oysters, and this is the present +life I lead. Home and to bed. + + + +6th. Up among my workmen, then to Whitehall, and there at Privy Seal and +elsewhere did business, and among other things met with Mr. Townsend, who +told of his mistake the other day, to put both his legs through one of +his knees of his breeches, and went so all day. Then with Mr. Creed and +Moore to the Leg in the Palace to dinner which I gave them, and after +dinner I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, +and I went in after her and kissed her. Then by water, Creed and I, to +Salisbury Court and there saw "Love's Quarrell" acted the first time, but +I do not like the design or words. So calling at my father's, where they +and my wife well, and so home and to bed. + + + +7th (Lord's day). All the morning at home making up my accounts (God +forgive me!) to give up to my Lord this afternoon. Then about 11 o'clock +out of doors towards Westminster and put in at Paul's, where I saw our +minister, Mr. Mills, preaching before my Lord Mayor. So to White Hall, +and there I met with Dr. Fuller of Twickenham, newly come from Ireland; +and took him to my Lord's, where he and I dined; and he did give my Lord +and me a good account of the condition of Ireland, and how it come to +pass, through the joyning of the Fanatiques and the Presbyterians, that +the latter and the former are in their declaration put together under the +names of Fanatiques. After dinner, my Lord and I and Mr. Shepley did +look over our accounts and settle matters of money between us; and my +Lord did tell me much of his mind about getting money and other things of +his family, &c. Then to my father's, where I found Mr. Hunt and his wife +at supper with my father and mother and my wife, where after supper I +left them and so home, and then I went to Sir W. Batten's and resolved of +a journey tomorrow to Chatham, and so home and to bed. + + + +8th. Up early, my Lady Batten knocking at her door that comes into one +of my chambers. I did give directions to my people and workmen, and so +about 8 o'clock we took barge at the Tower, Sir William Batten and his +lady, Mrs. Turner, Mr. Fowler and I. A very pleasant passage and so to +Gravesend, where we dined, and from thence a coach took them and me, and +Mr. Fowler with some others came from Rochester to meet us, on horseback. +At Rochester, where alight at Mr. Alcock's and there drank and had good +sport, with his bringing out so many sorts of cheese. Then to the +Hillhouse at Chatham, where I never was before, and I found a pretty +pleasant house and am pleased with the arms that hang up there. Here we +supped very merry, and late to bed; Sir William telling me that old +Edgeborrow, his predecessor, did die and walk in my chamber, did make me +some what afeard, but not so much as for mirth's sake I did seem. So to +bed in the treasurer's chamber. + + + +9th. And lay and slept well till 3 in the morning, and then waking, and +by the light of the moon I saw my pillow (which overnight I flung from +me) stand upright, but not bethinking myself what it might be, I was a +little afeard, but sleep overcame all and so lay till high morning, at +which time I had a candle brought me and a good fire made, and in general +it was a great pleasure all the time I staid here to see how I am +respected and honoured by all people; and I find that I begin to know now +how to receive so much reverence, which at the beginning I could not tell +how to do. Sir William and I by coach to the dock and there viewed all +the storehouses and the old goods that are this day to be sold, which was +great pleasure to me, and so back again by coach home, where we had a +good dinner, and among other strangers that come, there was Mr. Hempson +and his wife, a pretty woman, and speaks Latin; Mr. Allen and two +daughters of his, both very tall and the youngest very handsome, so much +as I could not forbear to love her exceedingly, having, among other +things, the best hand that ever I saw. After dinner, we went to fit +books and things (Tom Hater being this morning come to us) for the sale, +by an inch of candle, and very good sport we and the ladies that stood by +had, to see the people bid. Among other things sold there was all the +State's arms, which Sir W. Batten bought; intending to set up some of the +images in his garden, and the rest to burn on the Coronacion night. The +sale being done, the ladies and I and Captain Pett and Mr. Castle took +barge and down we went to see the Sovereign, which we did, taking great +pleasure therein, singing all the way, and, among other pleasures, I put +my Lady, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Hempson, and the two Mrs. Allens into the +lanthorn and I went in and kissed them, demanding it as a fee due to a +principall officer, with all which we were exceeding merry, and drunk +some bottles of wine and neat's tongue, &c. Then back again home and so +supped, and after much mirth to bed. + + + +10th. In the morning to see the Dockhouses. First, Mr. Pett's, the +builder, and there was very kindly received, and among other things he +did offer my Lady Batten a parrot, the best I ever saw, that knew Mingo +so soon as it saw him, having been bred formerly in the house with them; +but for talking and singing I never heard the like. My Lady did accept +of it: Then to see Commissioner Pett's house, he and his family being +absent, and here I wondered how my Lady Batten walked up and down with +envious looks to see how neat and rich everything is (and indeed both the +house and garden is most handsome), saying that she would get it, for it +belonged formerly to the Surveyor of the Navy. Then on board the Prince, +now in the dock, and indeed it has one and no more rich cabins for carved +work, but no gold in her. After that back home, and there eat a little +dinner. Then to Rochester, and there saw the Cathedrall, which is now +fitting for use, and the organ then a-tuning. Then away thence, +observing the great doors of the church, which, they say, was covered +with the skins of the Danes, + + [Traditions similar to that at Rochester, here alluded to, are to be + found in other places in England. Sir Harry Englefield, in a + communication made to the Society of Antiquaries, July 2nd, 1789, + called attention to the curious popular tale preserved in the + village of Hadstock, Essex, that the door of the church had been + covered with the skin of a Danish pirate, who had plundered the + church. At Worcester, likewise, it was asserted that the north + doors of the cathedral had been covered with the skin of a person + who had sacrilegiously robbed the high altar. The date of these + doors appears to be the latter part of the fourteenth century, the + north porch having been built about 1385. Dart, in his "History of + the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster," 1723 (vol. i., book + ii., p. 64), relates a like tradition then preserved in reference to + a door, one of three which closed off a chamber from the south + transept--namely, a certain building once known as the Chapel of + Henry VIII., and used as a "Revestry." This chamber, he states, "is + inclosed with three doors, the inner cancellated, the middle, which + is very thick, lined with skins like parchment, and driven full of + nails. These skins, they by tradition tell us, were some skins of + the Danes, tann'd and given here as a memorial of our delivery from + them." Portions of this supposed human skin were examined under the + microscope by the late Mr. John Quekett of the Hunterian Museum, who + ascertained, beyond question, that in each of the cases the skin was + human. From a communication by the late Mr. Albert Way, F.S.A., to + the late Lord Braybrooke.] + +and also had much mirth at a tomb, on which was "Come sweet Jesu," and I +read "Come sweet Mall," &c., at which Captain Pett and I had good +laughter. So to the Salutacion tavern, where Mr. Alcock and many of the +town came and entertained us with wine and oysters and other things, and +hither come Sir John Minnes to us, who is come to-day to see "the +Henery," in which he intends to ride as Vice-Admiral in the narrow seas +all this summer. Here much mirth, but I was a little troubled to stay +too long, because of going to Hempson's, which afterwards we did, and +found it in all things a most pretty house, and rarely furnished, only it +had a most ill access on all sides to it, which is a greatest fault that +I think can be in a house. Here we had, for my sake, two fiddles, the +one a base viall, on which he that played, played well some lyra lessons, +but both together made the worst musique that ever I heard. We had a +fine collacion, but I took little pleasure in that, for the illness of +the musique and for the intentness of my mind upon Mrs. Rebecca Allen. +After we had done eating, the ladies went to dance, and among the men we +had, I was forced to dance too; and did make an ugly shift. Mrs. R. +Allen danced very well, and seems the best humoured woman that ever I +saw. About 9 o'clock Sir William and my Lady went home, and we continued +dancing an hour or two, and so broke up very pleasant and merry, and so +walked home, I leading Mrs. Rebecca, who seemed, I know not why, in that +and other things, to be desirous of my favours and would in all things +show me respects. Going home, she would needs have me sing, and I did +pretty well and was highly esteemed by them. So to Captain Allen's +(where we were last night, and heard him play on the harpsicon, and I +find him to be a perfect good musician), and there, having no mind to +leave Mrs. Rebecca, what with talk and singing (her father and I), Mrs. +Turner and I staid there till 2 o'clock in the morning and was most +exceeding merry, and I had the opportunity of kissing Mrs. Rebecca very +often. Among other things Captain Pett was saying that he thought that +he had got his wife with child since I came thither. Which I took hold +of and was merrily asking him what he would take to have it said for my +honour that it was of my getting? He merrily answered that he would if I +would promise to be godfather to it if it did come within the time just, +and I said that I would. So that I must remember to compute it when the +time comes. + + + +11th. At 2 o'clock, with very great mirth, we went to our lodging and to +bed, and lay till 7, and then called up by Sir W. Batten, so I arose and +we did some business, and then came Captn. Allen, and he and I withdrew +and sang a song or two, and among others took pleasure in "Goe and bee +hanged, that's good-bye." The young ladies come too, and so I did again +please myself with Mrs. Rebecca, and about 9 o'clock, after we had +breakfasted, we sett forth for London, and indeed I was a little troubled +to part with Mrs. Rebecca, for which God forgive me. Thus we went away +through Rochester, calling and taking leave of Mr. Alcock at the door, +Capt. Cuttance going with us. We baited at Dartford, and thence to +London, but of all the journeys that ever I made this was the merriest, +and I was in a strange mood for mirth. + +Among other things, I got my Lady to let her maid, Mrs. Anne, to ride all +the way on horseback, and she rides exceeding well; and so I called her +my clerk, that she went to wait upon me. I met two little schoolboys +going with pitchers of ale to their schoolmaster to break up against +Easter, and I did drink of some of one of them and give him two pence. +By and by we come to two little girls keeping cows, and I saw one of them +very pretty, so I had a mind to make her ask my blessing, and telling her +that I was her godfather, she asked me innocently whether I was not Ned +Wooding, and I said that I was, so she kneeled down and very simply +called, "Pray, godfather, pray to God to bless me," which made us very +merry, and I gave her twopence. In several places, I asked women whether +they would sell me their children, but they denied me all, but said they +would give me one to keep for them, if I would. Mrs. Anne and I rode +under the man that hangs upon Shooter's Hill, + + [Shooter's Hill, Kent, between the eighth and ninth milestones on + the Dover road. It was long a notorious haunt of highwaymen. The + custom was to leave the bodies of criminals hanging until the bones + fell to the ground.] + +and a filthy sight it was to see how his flesh is shrunk to his bones. +So home and I found all well, and a deal of work done since I went. I +sent to see how my wife do, who is well, and my brother John come from +Cambridge. To Sir W. Batten's and there supped, and very merry with the +young ladles. So to bed very sleepy for last night's work, concluding +that it is the pleasantest journey in all respects that ever I had in my +life. + + + +12th. Up among my workmen, and about 7 o'clock comes my wife to see me +and my brother John with her, who I am glad to see, but I sent them away +because of going to the office, and there dined with Sir W. Batten, all +fish dinner, it being Good Friday. Then home and looking over my +workmen, and then into the City and saw in what forwardness all things +are for the Coronacion, which will be very magnificent. Then back again +home and to my chamber, to set down in my diary all my late journey, +which I do with great pleasure; and while I am now writing comes one with +a tickett to invite me to Captain Robert Blake's buriall, for whose death +I am very sorry, and do much wonder at it, he being a little while since +a very likely man to live as any I knew. Since my going out of town, +there is one Alexander Rosse taken and sent to the Counter by Sir Thomas +Allen, for counterfeiting my hand to a ticket, and we this day at the +office have given order to Mr. Smith to prosecute him. To bed. + + + +13th. To Whitehall by water from Towre-wharf, where we could not pass +the ordinary way, because they were mending of the great stone steps +against the Coronacion. With Sir W. Pen, then to my Lord's, and thence +with Capt. Cuttance and Capt. Clark to drink our morning draught +together, and before we could get back again my Lord was gone out. So to +Whitehall again and, met with my Lord above with the Duke; and after a +little talk with him, I went to the Banquethouse, and there saw the King +heal, the first time that ever I saw him do it; which he did with great +gravity, and it seemed to me to be an ugly office and a simple one. That +done to my Lord's and dined there, and so by water with parson Turner +towards London, and upon my telling of him of Mr. Moore to be a fit man +to do his business with Bishop Wren, about which he was going, he went +back out of my boat into another to Whitehall, and so I forwards home and +there by and by took coach with Sir W. Pen and Captain Terne and went to +the buriall of Captain Robert Blake, at Wapping, and there had each of us +a ring, but it being dirty, we would not go to church with them, but with +our coach we returned home, and there staid a little, and then he and I +alone to the Dolphin (Sir W. Batten being this day gone with his wife to +Walthamstow to keep Easter), and there had a supper by ourselves, we both +being very hungry, and staying there late drinking I became very sleepy, +and so we went home and I to bed. + + + +14th (Easter. Lord's day). In the morning towards my father's, and by +the way heard Mr. Jacomb, at Ludgate, upon these words, "Christ loved you +and therefore let us love one another," and made a lazy sermon, like a +Presbyterian. Then to my father's and dined there, and Dr. Fairbrother +(lately come to town) with us. After dinner I went to the Temple and +there heard Dr. Griffith, a good sermon for the day; so with Mr. Moore +(whom I met there) to my Lord's, and there he shewed me a copy of my Lord +Chancellor's patent for Earl, and I read the preamble, which is very +short, modest, and good. Here my Lord saw us and spoke to me about +getting Mr. Moore to come and govern his house while he goes to sea, +which I promised him to do and did afterwards speak to Mr. Moore, and he +is willing. Then hearing that Mr. Barnwell was come, with some of my +Lord's little children, yesterday to town, to see the Coronacion, I went +and found them at the Goat, at Charing Cross, and there I went and drank +with them a good while, whom I found in very good health and very merry +Then to my father's, and after supper seemed willing to go home, and my +wife seeming to be so too I went away in a discontent, but she, poor +wretch, followed me as far in the rain and dark as Fleet Bridge to fetch +me back again, and so I did, and lay with her to-night, which I have not +done these eight or ten days before. + + + +15th. From my father's, it being a very foul morning for the King and +Lords to go to Windsor, I went to the office and there met Mr. Coventry +and Sir Robt. Slingsby, but did no business, but only appoint to go to +Deptford together tomorrow. Mr. Coventry being gone, and I having at +home laid up L200 which I had brought this morning home from Alderman +Backwell's, I went home by coach with Sir R. Slingsby and dined with him, +and had a very good dinner. His lady' seems a good woman and very +desirous they were to hear this noon by the post how the election has +gone at Newcastle, wherein he is concerned, but the letters are not come +yet. To my uncle Wight's, and after a little stay with them he and I to +Mr. Rawlinson's, and there staid all the afternoon, it being very foul, +and had a little talk with him what good I might make of these ships that +go to Portugal by venturing some money by them, and he will give me an +answer to it shortly. So home and sent for the Barber, and after that to +bed. + + + +16th. So soon as word was brought me that Mr. Coventry was come with the +barge to the Towre, I went to him, and found him reading of the Psalms in +short hand (which he is now busy about), and had good sport about the +long marks that are made there for sentences in divinity, which he is +never like to make use of. Here he and I sat till the Comptroller came +and then we put off for Deptford, where we went on board the King's +pleasure boat that Commissioner Pett is making, and indeed it will be a +most pretty thing. From thence to Commr. Pett's lodging, and there had a +good breakfast, and in came the two Sir Wms. from Walthamstow, and so we +sat down and did a great deal of public business about the fitting of the +fleet that is now going out. That done we went to the Globe and there +had a good dinner, and by and by took barge again and so home. By the way +they would have me sing, which I did to Mr. Coventry, who went up to Sir +William Batten's, and there we staid and talked a good while, and then +broke up and I home, and then to my father's and there lay with my wife. + + + +17th. By land and saw the arches, which are now almost done and are very +fine, and I saw the picture of the ships and other things this morning, +set up before the East Indy House, which are well done. So to the +office, and that being done I went to dinner with Sir W. Batten, and then +home to my workmen, and saw them go on with great content to me. Then +comes Mr. Allen of Chatham, and I took him to the Mitre and there did +drink with him, and did get of him the song that pleased me so well there +the other day, "Of Shitten come Shites the beginning of love." His +daughters are to come to town to-morrow, but I know not whether I shall +see them or no. That done I went to the Dolphin by appointment and there +I met Sir Wms. both and Mr. Castle, and did eat a barrel of oysters and +two lobsters, which I did give them, and were very merry. Here we had +great talk of Mr. Warren's being knighted by the King, and Sir W. B. +seemed to be very much incensed against him. So home. + + + +18th. Up with my workmen and then about 9 o'clock took horse with both +the Sir Williams for Walthamstow, and there we found my Lady and her +daughters all; and a pleasant day it was, and all things else, but that +my Lady was in a bad mood, which we were troubled at, and had she been +noble she would not have been so with her servants, when we came thither, +and this Sir W. Pen took notice of, as well as I. After dinner we all +went to the Church stile, and there eat and drank, and I was as merry as +I could counterfeit myself to be. Then, it raining hard, we left Sir W. +Batten, and we two returned and called at Mr. ---- and drank some brave +wine there, and then homewards again and in our way met with two country +fellows upon one horse, which I did, without much ado, give the way to, +but Sir W. Pen would not, but struck them and they him, and so passed +away, but they giving him some high words, he went back again and struck +them off their horse, in a simple fury, and without much honour, in my +mind, and so came away. Home, and I sat with him a good while talking, +and then home and to bed. + + + +19th. Among my workmen and then to the office, and after that dined with +Sir W. Batten, and then home, where Sir W. Warren came, and I took him +and Mr. Shepley and Moore with me to the Mitre, and there I cleared with +Warren for the deals I bought lately for my Lord of him, and he went +away, and we staid afterwards a good while and talked, and so parted, it +being so foul that I could not go to Whitehall to see the Knights of the +Bath made to-day, which do trouble me mightily. So home, and having +staid awhile till Will came in (with whom I was vexed for staying +abroad), he comes and then I went by water to my father's, and then after +supper to bed with my wife. + + + +20th. Here comes my boy to tell me that the Duke of York had sent for +all the principal officers, &c., to come to him to-day. So I went by +water to Mr. Coventry's, and there staid and talked a good while with him +till all the rest come. We went up and saw the Duke dress himself, and +in his night habitt he is a very plain man. Then he sent us to his +closett, where we saw among other things two very fine chests, covered +with gold and Indian varnish, given him by the East Indy Company of +Holland. The Duke comes; and after he had told us that the fleet was +designed for Algier (which was kept from us till now), we did advise +about many things as to the fitting of the fleet, and so went away. And +from thence to the Privy Seal, where little to do, and after that took +Mr. Creed and Moore and gave them their morning draught, and after that +to my Lord's, where Sir W. Pen came to me, and dined with my Lord. After +dinner he and others that dined there went away, and then my Lord looked +upon his pages' and footmen's liverys, which are come home to-day, and +will be handsome, though not gaudy. Then with my Lady and my Lady Wright +to White Hall; and in the Banqueting-house saw the King create my Lord +Chancellor and several others, Earls, and Mr. Crew and several others, +Barons: the first being led up by Heralds and five old Earls to the King, +and there the patent is read, and the King puts on his vest, and sword, +and coronet, and gives him the patent. And then he kisseth the King's +hand, and rises and stands covered before the king. And the same for the +Barons, only he is led up but by three of the old Barons, and are girt +with swords before they go to the King. That being done (which was very +pleasant to see their habits), I carried my Lady back, and I found my +Lord angry, for that his page had let my Lord's new beaver be changed for +an old hat; then I went away, and with Mr. Creed to the Exchange and +bought some things, as gloves and bandstrings, &c. So back to the +Cockpitt, and there, by the favour of one Mr. Bowman, he and I got in, +and there saw the King and Duke of York and his Duchess (which is a plain +woman, and like her mother, my Lady Chancellor). And so saw "The +Humersome Lieutenant" acted before the King, but not very well done. + +But my pleasure was great to see the manner of it, and so many great +beauties, but above all Mrs. Palmer, with whom the King do discover a +great deal of familiarity. So Mr. Creed and I (the play being done) went +to Mrs. Harper's, and there sat and drank, it being about twelve at +night. The ways being now so dirty, and stopped up with the rayles which +are this day set up in the streets, I would not go home, but went with +him to his lodging at Mr. Ware's, and there lay all night. + + + +21st (Lord's day). In the morning we were troubled to hear it rain as it +did, because of the great show tomorrow. After I was ready I walked to +my father's and there found the late maid to be gone and another come by +my mother's choice, which my father do not like, and so great difference +there will be between my father and mother about it. Here dined Doctor +Thos. Pepys and Dr. Fayrebrother; and all our talk about to-morrow's +show, and our trouble that it is like to be a wet day. After dinner +comes in my coz. Snow and his wife, and I think stay there till the show +be over. Then I went home, and all the way is so thronged with people to +see the triumphal arches, that I could hardly pass for them. So home, +people being at church, and I got home unseen, and so up to my chamber +and saw done these last five or six days' diarys. My mind a little +troubled about my workmen, which, being foreigners,--[Foreigners were +workmen dwelling outside the city.]--are like to be troubled by a couple +of lazy rogues that worked with me the other day, that are citizens, and +so my work will be hindered, but I must prevent it if I can. + + + +22d. KING'S GOING FROM YE TOWER TO WHITE HALL. + + [The king in the early morning of the 22nd went from Whitehall to + the Tower by water, so that he might proceed from thence through the + City to Westminster Abbey, there to be crowned.] + +Up early and made myself as fine as I could, and put on my velvet coat, +the first day that I put it on, though made half a year ago. And being +ready, Sir W. Batten, my Lady, and his two daughters and his son and +wife, and Sir W. Pen and his son and I, went to Mr. Young's, the +flag-maker, in Corne-hill; + + [The members of the Navy Office appear to have chosen Mr. Young's + house on account of its nearness to the second triumphal arch, + situated near the Royal Exchange, which was dedicated to the Navy.] + +and there we had a good room to ourselves, with wine and good cake, and +saw the show very well. In which it is impossible to relate the glory of +this day, expressed in the clothes of them that rid, and their horses and +horses clothes, among others, my Lord Sandwich's. Embroidery and +diamonds were ordinary among them. The Knights of the Bath was a brave +sight of itself; and their Esquires, among which Mr. Armiger was an +Esquire to one of the Knights. Remarquable were the two men that +represent the two Dukes of Normandy and Aquitane. The Bishops come next +after Barons, which is the higher place; which makes me think that the +next Parliament they will be called to the House of Lords. My Lord Monk +rode bare after the King, and led in his hand a spare horse, as being +Master of the Horse. The King, in a most rich embroidered suit and +cloak, looked most noble. Wadlow, + + [Simon Wadlow was the original of "old Sir Simon the king," the + favourite air of Squire Western in "Tom Jones." + + "Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers, + Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers." + + Ben Jonson, Verses over the door into the Apollo.] + +the vintner, at the Devil; in Fleetstreet, did lead a fine company of +soldiers, all young comely men, in white doublets. There followed the +Vice-Chamberlain, Sir G. Carteret, a company of men all like Turks; but I +know not yet what they are for. The streets all gravelled, and the +houses hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out +of the windows, one of which over against us I took much notice of, and +spoke of her, which made good sport among us. So glorious was the show +with gold and silver, that we were not able to look at it, our eyes at +last being so much overcome with it. Both the King and the Duke of York +took notice of us, as he saw us at the window. The show being ended, Mr. +Young did give us a dinner, at which we were very merry, and pleased +above imagination at what we have seen. Sir W. Batten going home, he and +I called and drunk some mum + + [Mum. Ale brewed with wheat at Brunswick. + + "Sedulous and stout + With bowls of fattening mum." + + J. Phillips, Cyder, Vol. ii. p. 231.] + +and laid our wager about my Lady Faulconbridge's name, + + [Mary, third daughter of Oliver Cromwell, and second wife of Thomas + Bellasis, second Viscount Fauconberg, created Earl of Fauconberg, + April 9th, 1689.] + +which he says not to be Mary, and so I won above 20s. So home, where +Will and the boy staid and saw the show upon Towre Hill, and Jane at +T. Pepys's, The. Turner, and my wife at Charles Glassecocke's, in Fleet +Street. In the evening by water to White Hall to my Lord's, and there I +spoke with my Lord. He talked with me about his suit, which was made in +France, and cost him L200, and very rich it is with embroidery. I lay +with Mr. Shepley, and + + + + CORONACION DAY. + +23d. About 4 I rose and got to the Abbey, where I followed Sir J. +Denham, the Surveyor, with some company that he was leading in. And with +much ado, by the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up into a great +scaffold across the North end of the Abbey, where with a great deal of +patience I sat from past 4 till 11 before the King came in. And a great +pleasure it was to see the Abbey raised in the middle, all covered with +red, and a throne (that is a chair) and footstool on the top of it; and +all the officers of all kinds, so much as the very fidlers, in red vests. +At last comes in the Dean and Prebends of Westminster, with the Bishops +(many of them in cloth of gold copes), and after them the Nobility, all +in their Parliament robes, which was a most magnificent sight. Then the +Duke, and the King with a scepter (carried by my Lord Sandwich) and sword +and mond + + [Mond or orb of gold, with a cross set with precious stones, carried + by the Duke of Buckingham.] + +before him, and the crown too. The King in his robes, bare-headed, which +was very fine. And after all had placed themselves, there was a sermon +and the service; and then in the Quire at the high altar, the King passed +through all the ceremonies of the Coronacon, which to my great grief I +and most in the Abbey could not see. The crown being put upon his head, +a great shout begun, and he came forth to the throne, and there passed +more ceremonies: as taking the oath, and having things read to him by the +Bishop; and his lords (who put on their caps as soon as the King put on +his crown) + + [As yet barons had no coronet. A grant of that outward mark of + dignity was made to them by Charles soon after his coronation. + Queen Elizabeth had assigned coronets to viscounts.--B.] + +and bishops come, and kneeled before him. And three times the King at +Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that +if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King +of England, that now he should come and speak. And a Generall Pardon +also was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down by +my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any. But so great +a noise that I could make but little of the musique; and indeed, it was +lost to every body. But I had so great a lust to . . . . [What is it +that needed to be censored from this public description? D.W.] that I +went out a little while before the King had done all his ceremonies, and +went round the Abbey to Westminster Hall, all the way within rayles, and +10,000 people, with the ground covered with blue cloth; and scaffolds all +the way. Into the Hall I got, where it was very fine with hangings and +scaffolds one upon another full of brave ladies; and my wife in one +little one, on the right hand. Here I staid walking up and down, and at +last upon one of the side stalls I stood and saw the King come in with +all the persons (but the soldiers) that were yesterday in the cavalcade; +and a most pleasant sight it was to see them in their several robes. And +the King came in with his crown on, and his sceptre in his hand, under a +canopy borne up by six silver staves, carried by Barons of the Cinque +Ports, + + [Pepys was himself one of the Barons of the Cinque Ports at the + Coronation of James II.] + +and little bells at every end. And after a long time, he got up to the +farther end, and all set themselves down at their several tables; and +that was also a brave sight: and the King's first course carried up by +the Knights of the Bath. And many fine ceremonies there was of the +Heralds leading up people before him, and bowing; and my Lord of +Albemarle's going to the kitchin and eat a bit of the first dish that was +to go to the King's table. But, above all, was these three Lords, +Northumberland, and Suffolk, and the Duke of Ormond, coming before the +courses on horseback, and staying so all dinner-time, and at last to +bring up [Dymock] the King's Champion, all in armour on horseback, with +his spear and targett carried before him. And a Herald proclaims "That +if any dare deny Charles Stewart to be lawful King of England, here was a +Champion that would fight with him;" + + [The terms of the Champion's challenge were as follows: "If any + person of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our + Soveraigne Lord King Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, + France and Ireland, defender of the faith, Sonne and next heire to + our Soveraigne Lord Charles the First, the last King deceased, to be + right heire to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme of England, or + that bee ought not to enjoy the same; here is his champion, who + sayth that he lyeth and is a false Traytor, being ready in person to + combate with him, and in this quarrell will venture his life against + him, on what day soever hee shall be appointed."] + +and with these words, the Champion flings down his gauntlet, and all this +he do three times in his going up towards the King's table. At last when +he is come, the King drinks to him, and then sends him the cup which is +of gold, and he drinks it off, and then rides back again with the cup in +his hand. I went from table to table to see the Bishops and all others +at their dinner, and was infinitely pleased with it. And at the Lords' +table, I met with William Howe, and he spoke to my Lord for me, and he +did give me four rabbits and a pullet, and so I got it and Mr. Creed and +I got Mr. Michell to give us some bread, and so we at a stall eat it, as +every body else did what they could get. I took a great deal of pleasure +to go up and down, and look upon the ladies, and to hear the musique of +all sorts, but above all, the 24 violins: About six at night they had +dined, and I went up to my wife, and there met with a pretty lady (Mrs. +Frankleyn, a Doctor's wife, a friend of Mr. Bowyer's), and kissed them +both, and by and by took them down to Mr. Bowyer's. And strange it is to +think, that these two days have held up fair till now that all is done, +and the King gone out of the Hall; and then it fell a-raining and +thundering and lightening as I have not seen it do for some years: which +people did take great notice of; God's blessing of the work of these two +days, which is a foolery to take too much notice of such things. I +observed little disorder in all this, but only the King's footmen had got +hold of the canopy, and would keep it from the Barons of the Cinque +Ports, + + [Bishop Kennett gives a somewhat fuller account of this unseemly + broil: "No sooner had the aforesaid Barons brought up the King to + the foot of the stairs in Westminster Hall, ascending to his throne, + and turned on the left hand (towards their own table) out of the + way, but the King's footmen most insolently and violently seized + upon the canopy, which the Barons endeavouring to keep and defend, + were by their number and strength dragged clown to the lower end of + the Hall, nevertheless still keeping their hold; and had not Mr. + Owen York Herald, being accidentally near the Hall door, and seeing + the contest, caused the same to be shut, the footmen had certainly + carried it away by force. But in the interim also (speedy notice + hereof having been given the King) one of the Querries were sent + from him, with command to imprison the footmen, and dismiss them out + of his service, which put an end to the present disturbance. These + footmen were also commanded to make their submission to the Court of + Claims, which was accordingly done by them the 30th April following, + and the canopy then delivered back to the said Barons." Whilst this + disturbance happened, the upper end of the first table, which had + been appointed for the Barons of the Cinque Ports, was taken up by + the Bishops, judges, &c., probably nothing loth to take precedence + of them; and the poor Barons, naturally unwilling to lose their + dinner, were necessitated to eat it at the bottom of the second + table, below the Masters of Chancery and others of the long + robe.-B.] + +which they endeavoured to force from them again, but could not do it till +my Lord Duke of Albemarle caused it to be put into Sir R. Pye's' hand +till tomorrow to be decided. At Mr. Bowyer's; a great deal of company, +some I knew, others I did not. Here we staid upon the leads and below +till it was late, expecting to see the fire-works, but they were not +performed to-night: only the City had a light like a glory round about it +with bonfires. At last I went to Kingstreet, and there sent Crockford to +my father's and my house, to tell them I could not come home tonight, +because of the dirt, and a coach could not be had. And so after drinking +a pot of ale alone at Mrs. Harper's I returned to Mr. Bowyer's, and after +a little stay more I took my wife and Mrs. Frankleyn (who I proffered the +civility of lying with my wife at Mrs. Hunt's to-night) to Axe-yard, in +which at the further end there were three great bonfires, and a great +many great gallants, men and women; and they laid hold of us, and would +have us drink the King's health upon our knees, kneeling upon a faggot, +which we all did, they drinking to us one after another. Which we +thought a strange frolique; but these gallants continued thus a great +while, and I wondered to see how the ladies did tipple. At last I sent +my wife and her bedfellow to bed, and Mr. Hunt and I went in with Mr. +Thornbury (who did give the company all their wine, he being yeoman of +the wine-cellar to the King) to his house; and there, with his wife and +two of his sisters, and some gallant sparks that were there, we drank the +King's health, and nothing else, till one of the gentlemen fell down +stark drunk, and there lay spewing; and I went to my Lord's pretty well. +But no sooner a-bed with Mr. Shepley but my head began to hum, and I to +vomit, and if ever I was foxed it was now, which I cannot say yet, +because I fell asleep and slept till morning. Only when I waked I found +myself wet with my spewing. Thus did the day end with joy every where; +and blessed be God, I have not heard of any mischance to any body through +it all, but only to Serjt. Glynne, whose horse fell upon him yesterday, +and is like to kill him, which people do please themselves to see how +just God is to punish the rogue at such a time as this; he being now one +of the King's Serjeants, and rode in the cavalcade with Maynard, to whom +people wish the same fortune. There was also this night in King-street, +[a woman] had her eye put out by a boy's flinging a firebrand into the +coach. Now, after all this, I can say that, besides the pleasure of the +sight of these glorious things, I may now shut my eyes against any other +objects, nor for the future trouble myself to see things of state and +show, as being sure never to see the like again in this world. + + + +24th. Waked in the morning with my head in a sad taking through the last +night's drink, which I am very sorry for; so rose and went out with Mr. +Creed to drink our morning draft, which he did give me in chocolate + + [Chocolate was introduced into England about the year 1652. In the + "Publick Advertiser" of Tuesday, June 16-22, 1657, we find the + following; "In Bishopsgate Street in Queen's Head Alley, at a + Frenchman's house, is an excellent West India drink called + chocolate, to be sold, where you may have it ready at any time, and + also unmade at reasonable rates."--M. B.] + +to settle my stomach. And after that I to my wife, who lay with Mrs. +Frankelyn at the next door to Mrs. Hunt's, and they were ready, and so I +took them up in a coach, and carried the ladies to Paul's, and there set +her down, and so my wife and I home, and I to the office. That being +done my wife and I went to dinner to Sir W. Batten, and all our talk +about the happy conclusion of these last solemnities. After dinner home, +and advised with my wife about ordering things in my house, and then she +went away to my father's to lie, and I staid with my workmen, who do +please me very well with their work. At night, set myself to write down +these three days' diary, and while I am about it, I hear the noise of the +chambers,--[A chamber is a small piece of ordnance.]--and other things of +the fire-works, which are now playing upon the Thames before the King; +and I wish myself with them, being sorry not to see them. So to bed. + + + +25th. All the morning with my workmen with great pleasure to see them +near coming to an end. At noon Mr. Moore and I went to an Ordinary at +the King's Head in Towre Street, and there had a dirty dinner. +Afterwards home and having done some business with him, in comes Mr. +Sheply and Pierce the surgeon, and they and I to the Mitre and there +staid a while and drank, and so home and after a little rending to bed. + + + +26th. At the office all the morning, and at noon dined by myself at home +on a piece of meat from the cook's, and so at home all the afternoon with +my workmen, and at night to bed, having some thoughts to order my +business so as to go to Portsmouth the next week with Sir Robert +Slingsby. + + + +27th. In the morning to my Lord's, and there dined with my Lady, and +after dinner with Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see +"The Chances," and after that to the Cock alehouse, where we had a harp +and viallin played to us, and so home by coach to Sir W. Batten's, who +seems so inquisitive when my, house will be made an end of that I am +troubled to go thither. So home with some trouble in my mind about it. + + + +28th (Lord's day). In the morning to my father's, where I dined, and in +the afternoon to their church, where come Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Edward +Pepys, and several other ladies, and so I went out of the pew into +another. And after sermon home with them, and there staid a while and +talked with them and was sent for to my father's, where my cozen Angier +and his wife, of Cambridge, to whom I went, and was glad to see them, and +sent for wine for them, and they supped with my father. After supper my +father told me of an odd passage the other night in bed between my mother +and him, and she would not let him come to bed to her out of jealousy of +him and an ugly wench that lived there lately, the most ill-favoured slut +that ever I saw in my life, which I was ashamed to hear that my mother +should be become such a fool, and my father bid me to take notice of it +to my mother, and to make peace between him and her. All which do +trouble me very much. So to bed to my wife. + + + +29th. Up and with my father towards my house, and by the way met with +Lieut. Lambert, and with him to the Dolphin in Tower Street and drank our +morning draught, he being much troubled about his being offered a fourth +rate ship to be Lieutenant of her now he has been two years Lieutenant in +a first rate. So to the office, where it is determined that I should go +to-morrow to Portsmouth. So I went out of the office to Whitehall +presently, and there spoke with Sir W. Pen and Sir George Carteret and +had their advice as to my going, and so back again home, where I directed +Mr. Hater what to do in order to our going to-morrow, and so back again +by coach to Whitehall and there eat something in the buttery at my Lord's +with John Goods and Ned Osgood. And so home again, and gave order to my +workmen what to do in my absence. At night to Sir W. Batten's, and by +his and Sir W. Pen's persuasion I sent for my wife from my father's, who +came to us to Mrs. Turner's, where we were all at a collacion to-night +till twelve o'clock, there being a gentlewoman there that did play well +and sang well to the Harpsicon, and very merry we were. So home and to +bed, where my wife had not lain a great while. + + + +30th. This morning, after order given to my workmen, my wife and I and +Mr. Creed took coach, and in Fishstreet took up Mr. Hater and his wife, +who through her mask seemed at first to be an old woman, but afterwards I +found her to be a very pretty modest black woman. We got a small bait at +Leatherhead, and so to Godlyman, where we lay all night, and were very +merry, having this day no other extraordinary rencontre, but my hat +falling off my head at Newington into the water, by which it was spoiled, +and I ashamed of it. I am sorry that I am not at London, to be at +Hide-parke to-morrow, among the great gallants and ladies, which will be +very fine. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MAY + 1661 + + +May 1st. Up early, and bated at Petersfield, in the room which the King +lay in lately at his being there. Here very merry, and played us and our +wives at bowls. Then we set forth again, and so to Portsmouth, seeming +to me to be a very pleasant and strong place; and we lay at the Red Lyon, +where Haselrigge and Scott and Walton did hold their councill, when they +were here, against Lambert and the Committee of Safety. Several officers +of the Yard came to see us to-night, and merry we were, but troubled to +have no better lodgings. + + + +2nd. Up, and Mr. Creed and I to walk round the town upon the walls. +Then to our inn, and there all the officers of the Yard to see me with +great respect, and I walked with them to the Dock and saw all the stores, +and much pleased with the sight of the place. Back and brought them all +to dinner with me, and treated them handsomely; and so after dinner by +water to the Yard, and there we made the sale of the old provisions. +Then we and our wives all to see the Montagu, which is a fine ship, and +so to the town again by water, and then to see the room where the Duke of +Buckingham was killed by Felton.--[1628]. So to our lodging, and to +supper and to bed. To-night came Mr. Stevens to town to help us to pay +off the Fox. + + + +3rd. Early to walk with Mr. Creed up and down the town, and it was in +his and some others' thoughts to have got me made free of the town, but +the Mayor, it seems, unwilling, and so they could not do it. Then to the +payhouse, and there paid off the ship, and so to a short dinner, and then +took coach, leaving Mrs. Hater there to stay with her husband's friends, +and we to Petersfield, having nothing more of trouble in all my journey, +but the exceeding unmannerly and most epicure-like palate of Mr. Creed. +Here my wife and I lay in the room the Queen lately lay at her going into +France. + + + +4th. Up in the morning and took coach, and so to Gilford, where we lay +at the Red Lyon, the best Inn, and lay in the room the King lately lay +in, where we had time to see the Hospital, built by Archbishop Abbott, +and the free school, and were civilly treated by the Mayster. So to +supper, and to bed, being very merry about our discourse with the Drawers +concerning the minister of the Town, with a red face and a girdle. So to +bed, where we lay and sleep well. + + + +5th (Lord's day). Mr. Creed and I went to the red-faced Parson's church, +and heard a good sermon of him, better than I looked for. Then home, and +had a good dinner, and after dinner fell in some talk in Divinity with +Mr. Stevens that kept us till it was past Church time. Anon we walked +into the garden, and there played the fool a great while, trying who of +Mr. Creed or I could go best over the edge of an old fountain well, and I +won a quart of sack of him. Then to supper in the banquet house, and +there my wife and I did talk high, she against and I for Mrs. Pierce +(that she was a beauty), till we were both angry. Then to walk in the +fields, and so to our quarters, and to bed. + + + +6th. Up by four o'clock and took coach. Mr. Creed rode, and left us +that we know not whither he went. We went on, thinking to be at home +before the officers rose, but finding we could not we staid by the way +and eat some cakes, and so home, where I was much troubled to see no more +work done in my absence than there was, but it could not be helped. I +sent my wife to my father's, and I went and sat till late with my Lady +Batten, both the Sir Williams being gone this day to pay off some ships +at Deptford. So home and to bed without seeing of them. I hear to-night +that the Duke of York's son is this day dead, which I believe will please +every body; and I hear that the Duke and his Lady themselves are not much +troubled at it. + + + +7th. In the morning to Mr. Coventry, Sir G. Carteret, and my Lord's to +give them an account of my return. My Lady, I find, is, since my going, +gone to the Wardrobe. Then with Mr. Creed into London, to several places +about his and my business, being much stopped in our way by the City +traynebands, who go in much solemnity and pomp this day to muster before +the King and the Duke, and shops in the City are shut up every where all +this day. He carried me to an ordinary by the Old Exchange, where we +come a little too late, but we had very good cheer for our 18d. a-piece, +and an excellent droll too, my host, and his wife so fine a woman; and +sung and played so well that I staid a great while and drunk a great deal +of wine. Then home and staid among my workmen all day, and took order +for things for the finishing of their work, and so at night to Sir W. +Batten's, and there supped and so home and to bed, having sent my Lord a +letter to-night to excuse myself for not going with him to-morrow to the +Hope, whither he is to go to see in what condition the fleet is in. + + + +8th. This morning came my brother John to take his leave of me, he being +to return to Cambridge to-morrow, and after I had chid him for going with +my Will the other day to Deptford with the principal officers, I did give +him some good counsell and 20s. in money, and so he went away. All this +day I staid at home with my workmen without eating anything, and took +much pleasure to see my work go forward. At night comes my wife not well +from my father's, having had a fore-tooth drawn out to-day, which do +trouble me, and the more because I am now in the greatest of all my dirt. +My Will also returned to-night pretty well, he being gone yesterday not +very well to his father's. To-day I received a letter from my uncle, to +beg an old fiddle of me for my Cozen Perkin, the miller, whose mill the +wind hath lately broke down, and now he hath nothing to live by but +fiddling, and he must needs have it against Whitsuntide to play to the +country girls; but it vexed me to see how my uncle writes to me, as if he +were not able to buy him one. But I intend tomorrow to send him one. At +night I set down my journal of my late journey to this time, and so to +bed. My wife not being well and I very angry with her for her coming +hither in that condition. + + + +9th. With my workmen all the morning, my wife being ill and in great +pain with her old pain, which troubled me much because that my house is +in this condition of dirt. In the afternoon I went to Whitehall and +there spoke with my Lord at his lodgings, and there being with him my +Lord Chamberlain, I spoke for my old waterman Payne, to get into White's +place, who was waterman to my Lord Chamberlain, and is now to go master +of the barge to my Lord to sea, and my Lord Chamberlain did promise that +Payne should be entertained in White's place with him. From thence to +Sir G. Carteret, and there did get his promise for the payment of the +remainder of the bill of Mr. Creed's, wherein of late I have been so much +concerned, which did so much rejoice me that I meeting with Mr. Childe +took him to the Swan Tavern in King Street, and there did give him a +tankard of white wine and sugar,--[The popular taste was formerly for +sweet wines, and sugar was frequently mixed with the wine.]--and so I +went by water home and set myself to get my Lord's accounts made up, +which was till nine at night before I could finish, and then I walked to +the Wardrobe, being the first time I was there since my Lady came +thither, who I found all alone, and so she shewed me all the lodgings as +they are now fitted, and they seem pretty pleasant. By and by comes in +my Lord, and so, after looking over my accounts, I returned home, being a +dirty and dark walk. So to bed. + + + +10th. At the office all the morning, and the afternoon among my workmen +with great pleasure, because being near an end of their work. This +afternoon came Mr. Blackburn and Creed to see me, and I took them to the +Dolphin, and there drank a great deal of Rhenish wine with them and so +home, having some talk with Mr. Blackburn about his kinsman my Will, and +he did give me good satisfaction in that it is his desire that his +kinsman should do me all service, and that he would give him the best +counsel he could to make him good. Which I begin of late to fear that he +will not because of the bad company that I find that he do begin to take. +This afternoon Mr. Hater received for me the L225 due upon Mr. Creed's +bill in which I am concerned so much, which do make me very glad. At +night to Sir W. Batten and sat a while. So to bed. + + + +11th. This morning I went by water with Payne (Mr. Moore being with me) +to my Lord Chamberlain at Whitehall, and there spoke with my Lord, and he +did accept of Payne for his waterman, as I had lately endeavoured to get +him to be. After that Mr. Cooling did give Payne an order to be +entertained, and so I left him and Mr. Moore, and I went to Graye's Inne, +and there to a barber's, where I was trimmed, and had my haire cut, in +which I am lately become a little curious, finding that the length of it +do become me very much. So, calling at my father's, I went home, and +there staid and saw my workmen follow their work, which this night is +brought to a very good condition. This afternoon Mr. Shepley, Moore, and +Creed came to me all about their several accounts with me, and we did +something with them all, and so they went away. This evening Mr. Hater +brought my last quarter's salary, of which I was very glad, because I +have lost my first bill for it, and so this morning was forced to get +another signed by three of my fellow officers for it. All this evening +till late setting my accounts and papers in order, and so to bed. + + + +12th. My wife had a very troublesome night this night and in great pain, +but about the morning her swelling broke, and she was in great ease +presently as she useth to be. So I put in a vent (which Dr. Williams +sent me yesterday) into the hole to keep it open till all the matter be +come out, and so I question not that she will soon be well again. I +staid at home all this morning, being the Lord's day, making up my +private accounts and setting papers in order. At noon went with my Lady +Montagu at the Wardrobe, but I found it so late that I came back again, +and so dined with my wife in her chamber. After dinner I went awhile to +my chamber to set my papers right. Then I walked forth towards +Westminster and at the Savoy heard Dr. Fuller preach upon David's words, +"I will wait with patience all the days of my appointed time until my +change comes;" but methought it was a poor dry sermon. And I am afeard +my former high esteem of his preaching was more out of opinion than +judgment. From thence homewards, but met with Mr. Creed, with whom I went +and walked in Grayes-Inn-walks, and from thence to Islington, and there +eat and drank at the house my father and we were wont of old to go to; +and after that walked homeward, and parted in Smithfield: and so I home, +much wondering to see how things are altered with Mr. Creed, who, twelve +months ago, might have been got to hang himself almost as soon as go to a +drinking-house on a Sunday. + + + +13th. All the morning at home among my workmen. At noon Mr. Creed and I +went to the ordinary behind the Exchange, where we lately were, but I do +not like it so well as I did. So home with him and to the office, where +we sat late, and he did deliver his accounts to us. The office being +done I went home and took pleasure to see my work draw to an end. + + + +14th. Up early and by water to Whitehall to my Lord, and there had much +talk with him about getting some money for him. He told me of his +intention to get the Muster Master's place for Mr. Pierce, the purser, +who he has a mind to carry to sea with him, and spoke very slightingly of +Mr. Creed, as that he had no opinion at all of him, but only he was +forced to make use of him because of his present accounts. Thence to +drink with Mr. Shepley and Mr. Pinkny, and so home and among my workmen +all day. In the evening Mr. Shepley came to me for some money, and so he +and I to the Mitre, and there we had good wine and a gammon of bacon. My +uncle Wight, Mr. Talbot, and others were with us, and we were pretty +merry. So at night home and to bed. Finding my head grow weak +now-a-days if I come to drink wine, and therefore hope that I shall leave +it off of myself, which I pray God I could do. + + + +15th. With my workmen all day till the afternoon, and then to the +office, where Mr. Creed's accounts were passed. Home and found all my +joyner's work now done, but only a small job or two, which please me very +well. This afternoon there came two men with an order from a Committee +of Lords to demand some books of me out of the office, in order to the +examining of Mr. Hutchinson's accounts, but I give them a surly answer, +and they went away to complain, which put me into some trouble with +myself, but I resolve to go to-morrow myself to these Lords and answer +them. To bed, being in great fear because of the shavings which lay all +up and down the house and cellar, for fear of fire. + + + +16th. Up early to see whether the work of my house be quite done, and I +found it to my mind. Staid at home all the morning, and about 2 o'clock +went in my velvet coat by water to the Savoy, and there, having staid a +good while, I was called into the Lords, and there, quite contrary to my +expectations, they did treat me very civilly, telling me that what they +had done was out of zeal to the King's service, and that they would joyne +with the governors of the chest with all their hearts, since they knew +that there was any, which they did not before. I give them very +respectful answer and so went away to the Theatre, and there saw the +latter end of "The Mayd's Tragedy," which I never saw before, and +methinks it is too sad and melancholy. Thence homewards, and meeting Mr. +Creed I took him by water to the Wardrobe with me, and there we found my +Lord newly gone away with the Duke of Ormond and some others, whom he had +had to the collation; and so we, with the rest of the servants in the +hall, sat down and eat of the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all +my life. From thence I went home (Mr. Moore with me to the waterside, +telling me how kindly he is used by my Lord and my Lady since his coming +hither as a servant), and to bed. + + + +17th. All the morning at home. At noon Lieutenant Lambert came to me, +and he and I to the Exchange, and thence to an ordinary over against it, +where to our dinner we had a fellow play well upon the bagpipes and +whistle like a bird exceeding well, and I had a fancy to learn to whistle +as he do, and did promise to come some other day and give him an angell +to teach me. To the office, and sat there all the afternoon till 9 at +night. So home to my musique, and my wife and I sat singing in my +chamber a good while together, and then to bed. + + + +18th. Towards Westminster, from the Towre, by water, and was fain to +stand upon one of the piers about the bridge, + + [The dangers of shooting the bridge were so great that a popular + proverb has it--London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and + fools to go under.] + +before the men could drag their boat through the lock, and which they +could not do till another was called to help them. Being through bridge +I found the Thames full of boats and gallys, and upon inquiry found that +there was a wager to be run this morning. So spying of Payne in a gully, +I went into him, and there staid, thinking to have gone to Chelsy with +them. But upon, the start, the wager boats fell foul one of another, +till at last one of them gives over, pretending foul play, and so the +other row away alone, and all our sport lost. So, I went ashore, at +Westminster; and to the Hall I went, where it was very pleasant to see +the Hall in the condition it is now with the judges on the benches at the +further end of it, which I had not seen all this term till now. Thence +with Mr. Spicer, Creed and some others to drink. And so away homewards +by water with Mr. Creed, whom I left in London going about business and I +home, where I staid all the afternoon in the garden reading "Faber +Fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed. + + + +19th. (Lord's day) I walked in the morning towards Westminster, and +seeing many people at York House, I went down and found them at mass, it +being the Spanish ambassodors; and so I go into one of the gallerys, and +there heard two masses done, I think, not in so much state as I have seen +them heretofore. After that into the garden, and walked a turn or two, +but found it not so fine a place as I always took it for by the outside. +Thence to my Lord's and there spake with him about business, and then he +went to Whitehall to dinner, and Capt. Ferrers and Mr. Howe and myself to +Mr. Wilkinson's at the Crown, and though he had no meat of his own, yet +we happened to find our cook Mr. Robinson there, who had a dinner for +himself and some friends, and so he did give us a very fine dinner. Then +to my Lord's, where we went and sat talking and laughing in the +drawing-room a great while. All our talk about their going to sea this +voyage, which Capt. Ferrers is in some doubt whether he shall go or no, +but swears that he would go, if he were sure never to come back again; +and I, giving him some hopes, he grew so mad with joy that he fell +a-dancing and leaping like a madman. Now it fell out so that the balcone +windows were open, and he went to the rayle and made an offer to leap +over, and asked what if he should leap over there. I told him I would +give him L40 if he did not go to sea. With that thought I shut the +doors, and W. Howe hindered him all we could; yet he opened them again, +and, with a vault, leaps down into the garden:--the greatest and most +desperate frolic that ever I saw in my life. I run to see what was +become of him, and we found him crawled upon his knees, but could not +rise; so we went down into the garden and dragged him to the bench, where +he looked like a dead man, but could not stir; and, though he had broke +nothing, yet his pain in his back was such as he could not endure. With +this, my Lord (who was in the little new room) come to us in amaze, and +bid us carry him up, which, by our strength, we did, and so laid him in +East's bed, by the door; where he lay in great pain. We sent for a +doctor and chyrurgeon, but none to be found, till by-and-by by chance +comes in Dr. Clerke, who is afeard of him. So we sent to get a lodging +for him, and I went up to my Lord, where Captain Cooke, Mr. Gibbons, and +others of the King's musicians were come to present my Lord with some +songs and symphonys, which were performed very finely. Which being done +I took leave and supped at my father's, where was my cozen Beck come +lately out of the country. I am troubled to see my father so much decay +of a suddain, as he do both in his seeing and hearing, and as much to +hear of him how my brother Tom do grow disrespectful to him and my +mother. I took leave and went home, where to prayers (which I have not +had in my house a good while), and so to bed. + + + +20th. At home all the morning; paid L50 to one Mr. Grant for Mr. Barlow, +for the last half year, and was visited by Mr. Anderson, my former +chamber fellow at Cambridge, with whom I parted at the Hague, but I did +not go forthwith him, only gave him a morning draft at home. At noon Mr. +Creed came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and so to an ordinary to +dinner, and after dinner to the Mitre, and there sat drinking while it +rained very much. Then to the office, where I found Sir Williams both, +choosing of masters for the new fleet of ships that is ordered to be set +forth, and Pen seeming to be in an ugly humour, not willing to gratify +one that I mentioned to be put in, did vex me. We sat late, and so home. +Mr. Moore came to me when I was going to bed, and sat with me a good +while talking about my Lord's business and our own and so good night. + + + +21st. Up early, and, with Sir R. Slingsby (and Major Waters the deaf +gentleman, his friend, for company's sake) to the Victualling-office (the +first time that I ever knew where it was), and there staid while he read +a commission for enquiry into some of the King's lands and houses +thereabouts, that are given his brother. And then we took boat to +Woolwich, where we staid and gave order for the fitting out of some more +ships presently. And then to Deptford, where we staid and did the same; +and so took barge again, and were overtaken by the King in his barge, he +having been down the river with his yacht this day for pleasure to try +it; and, as I hear, Commissioner Pett's do prove better than the Dutch +one, and that that his brother built. While we were upon the water, one +of the greatest showers of rain fell that ever I saw. The Comptroller and +I landed with our barge at the Temple, and from thence I went to my +father's, and there did give order about some clothes to be made, and did +buy a new hat, cost between 20 and 30 shillings, at Mr. Holden's. So +home. + + + +22nd. To Westminster, and there missed of my Lord, and so about noon I +and W. Howe by water to the Wardrobe, where my Lord and all the officers +of the Wardrobe dined, and several other friends of my Lord, at a venison +pasty. Before dinner, my Lady Wright and my Lady Jem. sang songs to the +harpsicon. Very pleasant and merry at dinner. And then I went away by +water to the office, and there staid till it was late. At night before I +went to bed the barber came to trim me and wash me, and so to bed, in +order to my being clean to-morrow. + + + +23rd. This day I went to my Lord, and about many other things at +Whitehall, and there made even my accounts with Mr. Shepley at my Lord's, +and then with him and Mr. Moore and John Bowles to the Rhenish wine +house, and there came Jonas Moore, the mathematician, to us, and there he +did by discourse make us fully believe that England and France were once +the same continent, by very good arguments, and spoke very many things, +not so much to prove the Scripture false as that the time therein is not +well computed nor understood. From thence home by water, and there +shifted myself into my black silk suit (the first day I have put it on +this year), and so to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of +honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good +discourse with Mr. Ashmole, wherein he did assure me that frogs and many +insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's +singularity in not rising up nor drinking the King's nor other healths at +the table was very much observed. + + [Dr. William Bates, one of the most eminent of the Puritan divines, + and who took part in the Savoy Conference. His collected writings + were published in 1700, and fill a large folio volume. The + Dissenters called him silver-tongued Bates. Calamy affirmed that if + Bates would have conformed to the Established Church he might have + been raised to any bishopric in the kingdom. He died in 1699, aged + seventy-four.] + +From thence we all took coach, and to our office, and there sat till it +was late; and so I home and to bed by day-light. This day was kept a +holy-day through the town; and it pleased me to see the little boys walk +up and down in procession with their broom-staffs in their hands, as I +had myself long ago gone. + + [Pepys here refers to the perambulation of parishes on Holy + Thursday, still observed. This ceremony was sometimes enlivened by + whipping the boys, for the better impressing on their minds the + remembrance of the day, and the boundaries of the parish, instead of + beating houses or stones. But this would not have harmonized well + with the excellent Hooker's practice on this day, when he "always + dropped some loving and facetious observations, to be remembered + against the next year, especially by the boys and young people." + Amongst Dorsetshire customs, it seems that, in perambulating a manor + or parish, a boy is tossed into a stream, if that be the boundary; + if a hedge, a sapling from it is applied for the purpose of + flagellation.--B.] + + + +24th. At home all the morning making up my private accounts, and this is +the first time that I do find myself to be clearly worth L500 in money, +besides all my goods in my house, &c. In the afternoon at the office +late, and then I went to the Wardrobe, where I found my Lord at supper, +and therefore I walked a good while till he had done, and I went in to +him, and there he looked over my accounts. And they were committed to +Mr. Moore to see me paid what remained due to me. Then down to the +kitchen to eat a bit of bread and butter, which I did, and there I took +one of the maids by the chin, thinking her to be Susan, but it proved to +be her sister, who is very like her. From thence home. + + + +25th. All the morning at home about business. At noon to the Temple, +where I staid and looked over a book or two at Playford's, and then to +the Theatre, where I saw a piece of "The Silent Woman," which pleased me. +So homewards, and in my way bought "The Bondman" in Paul's Churchyard, +and so home, where I found all clean, and the hearth and range, as it is +now enlarged, set up, which pleases me very much. + + + +26th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed. To church and heard a good sermon +at our own church, where I have not been a great many weeks. Dined with +my wife alone at home pleasing myself in that my house do begin to look +as if at last it would be in good order. This day the Parliament +received the communion of Dr. Gunning at St. Margaret's, Westminster. In +the afternoon both the Sir Williams came to church, where we had a dull +stranger. After church home, and so to the Mitre, where I found Dr. +Burnett, the first time that ever I met him to drink with him, and my +uncle Wight and there we sat and drank a great deal, and so I to Sir W. +Batten's, where I have on purpose made myself a great stranger, only to +get a high opinion a little more of myself in them. Here I heard how +Mrs. Browne, Sir W. Batten's sister, is brought to bed, and I to be one +of the godfathers, which I could not nor did deny. Which, however, did +trouble me very much to be at charge to no purpose, so that I could not +sleep hardly all night, but in the morning I bethought myself, and I +think it is very well I should do it. Sir W. Batten told me how Mr. Prin +(among the two or three that did refuse to-day to receive the sacrament +upon their knees) was offered by a mistake the drink afterwards, which he +did receive, being denied the drink by Dr. Gunning, unless he would take +it on his knees; and after that by another the bread was brought him, and +he did take it sitting, which is thought very preposterous. Home and to +bed. + + + +27th. To the Wardrobe, and from thence with my Lords Sandwich and +Hinchinbroke to the Lords' House by boat at Westminster, and there I left +them. Then to the lobby, and after waiting for Sir G. Downing's coming +out, to speak with him about the giving me up of my bond for my honesty +when I was his clerk, but to no purpose, I went to Clerke's at the Legg, +and there I found both Mr. Pierces, Mr. Rolt, formerly too great a man to +meet upon such even terms, and there we dined very merry, there coming to +us Captain Ferrers, this being the first day of his going abroad since +his leap a week ago, which I was greatly glad to see. By water to the +office, and there sat late, Sir George Carteret coming in, who among +other things did inquire into the naming of the maisters for this fleet, +and was very angry that they were named as they are, and above all to see +the maister of the Adventure (for whom there is some kind of difference +between Sir W. Pen and me) turned out, who has been in her list. The +office done, I went with the Comptroller to the Coffee house, and there +we discoursed of this, and I seem to be fond of him, and indeed I find I +must carry fair with all as far as I see it safe, but I have got of him +leave to have a little room from his lodgings to my house, of which I am +very glad, besides I do open him a way to get lodgings himself in the +office, of which I should be very glad. Home and to bed. + + + +28th. This morning to the Wardrobe, and thence to a little alehouse hard +by, to drink with John Bowies, who is now going to Hinchinbroke this day. +Thence with Mr. Shepley to the Exchange about business, and there, by Mr. +Rawlinson's favour, got into a balcone over against the Exchange; and +there saw the hangman burn, by vote of Parliament, two old acts, the one +for constituting us a Commonwealth, and the others I have forgot. Which +still do make me think of the greatness of this late turn, and what +people will do tomorrow against what they all, through profit or fear, +did promise and practise this day. Then to the Mitre with Mr. Shepley, +and there dined with D. Rawlinson and some friends of his very well. So +home, and then to Cheapside about buying a piece of plate to give away +to-morrow to Mrs. Browne's child. So to the Star in Cheapside, where I +left Mr. Moore telling L5 out for me, who I found in a great strait for +my coming back again, and so he went his way at my coming. Then home, +where Mr. Cook I met and he paid me 30s., an old debt of his to me. So +to Sir W. Pen's, and there sat alone with him till ten at night in talk +with great content, he telling me things and persons that I did not +understand in the late times, and so I home to bed. My cozen John +Holcroft (whom I have not seen many years) this morning came to see me. + + + +29th (King's birth-day). Rose early and having made myself fine, and put +six spoons and a porringer of silver in my pocket to give away to-day, +Sir W. Pen and I took coach, and (the weather and ways being foul) went +to Walthamstowe; and being come there heard Mr. Radcliffe, my former +school fellow at Paul's (who is yet a mere boy), preach upon "Nay, let +him take all, since my Lord the King is returned," &c. He reads all, and +his sermon very simple, but I looked for new matter. Back to dinner to +Sir William Batten's; and then, after a walk in the fine gardens, we went +to Mrs. Browne's, where Sir W. Pen and I were godfathers, and Mrs. Jordan +and Shipman godmothers to her boy. And there, before and after the +christening; we were with the woman above in her chamber; but whether we +carried ourselves well or ill, I know not; but I was directed by young +Mrs. Batten. One passage of a lady that eat wafers with her dog did a +little displease me. I did give the midwife 10s. and the nurse 5s. and +the maid of the house 2s. But for as much I expected to give the name to +the child, but did not (it being called John), I forbore then to give my +plate till another time after a little more advice. All being done, we +went to Mrs. Shipman's, who is a great butter-woman, and I did see there +the most of milk and cream, and the cleanest that ever I saw in my life. +After we had filled our bellies with cream, we took our leaves and away. +In our way, we had great sport to try who should drive fastest, Sir W. +Batten's coach, or Sir W. Pen's chariott, they having four, and we two +horses, and we beat them. But it cost me the spoiling of my clothes and +velvet coat with dirt. Being come home I to bed, and give my breeches to +be dried by the fire against to-morrow. + + + +30th. To the Wardrobe and there, with my Lord, went into his new barge +to try her, and found her a good boat, and like my Lord's contrivance of +the door to come out round and not square as they used to do. Back to +the Wardrobe with my Lord, and then with Mr. Moore to the Temple, and +thence to. Greatorex, who took me to Arundell-House, and there showed me +some fine flowers in his garden, and all the fine statues in the gallery, +which I formerly had seen, and is a brave sight, and thence to a blind +dark cellar, where we had two bottles of good ale, and so after giving +him direction for my silver side-table, I took boat at Arundell stairs, +and put in at Milford . . . . [What could he have done at Milford to +require censorship? D.W.] So home and found Sir Williams both and my +Lady going to Deptford to christen Captain Rooth's child, and would have +had me with them, but I could not go. To the office, where Sir R. +Slingsby was, and he and I into his and my lodgings to take a view of +them, out of a desire he has to have mine of me to join to his, and give +me Mr. Turner's. To the office again, where Sir G. Carteret came and sat +a while, he being angry for Sir Williams making of the maisters of this +fleet upon their own heads without a full table. Then the Comptroller +and I to the Coffee House, and there sat a great while talking of many +things. So home and to bed. This day, I hear, the Parliament have +ordered a bill to be brought in for the restoring the Bishops to the +House of Lords; which they had not done so soon but to spite Mr. Prin, +who is every day so bitter against them in his discourse in the House. + + + +31st. I went to my father's thinking to have met with my cozen John +Holcroft, but he came not, but to my great grief I found my father and +mother in a great deal of discontent one with another, and indeed my +mother is grown now so pettish that I know not how my father is able to +bear with it. I did talk to her so as did not indeed become me, but I +could not help it, she being so unsufferably foolish and simple, so that +my father, poor man, is become a very unhappy man. There I dined, and so +home and to the office all the afternoon till 9 at night, and then home +and to supper and to bed. Great talk now how the Parliament intend to +make a collection of free gifts to the King through the Kingdom; but I +think it will not come to much. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A little while since a very likely man to live as any I knew +Being sure never to see the like again in this world +Believe that England and France were once the same continent +Chocolate was introduced into England about the year 1652 +Did trouble me very much to be at charge to no purpose +Difference there will be between my father and mother about it +Eat of the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all my life +Foolery to take too much notice of such things +Frogs and many insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed +I could not forbear to love her exceedingly +I had the opportunity of kissing Mrs. Rebecca very often +I was as merry as I could counterfeit myself to be +I went in and kissed them, demanding it as a fee due +Jealousy of him and an ugly wench that lived there lately +Lay with her to-night, which I have not done these eight(days) +Made a lazy sermon, like a Presbyterian +She would not let him come to bed to her out of jealousy +So home and to bed, where my wife had not lain a great while +The barber came to trim me and wash me +Troubled to see my father so much decay of a suddain +What people will do tomorrow +What they all, through profit or fear, did promise +Who seems so inquisitive when my, house will be made an end of + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v11 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp12g10.zip b/old/sp12g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c566c97 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp12g10.zip |