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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JUNE, JULY & AUGUST + 1661 + + +June 1st. Having taken our leaves of Sir W. Batten and my Lady, who are +gone this morning to keep their Whitsuntide, Sir W. Pen and I and Mr. +Gauden by water to Woolwich, and there went from ship to ship to give +order for and take notice of their forwardness to go forth, and then to +Deptford and did the like, having dined at Woolwich with Captain Poole at +the tavern there. From Deptford we walked to Redriffe, calling at the +half-way house, and there come into a room where there was infinite of +new cakes placed that are made against Whitsuntide, and there we were +very merry. By water home, and there did businesses of the office. +Among others got my Lord's imprest of L1000 and Mr. Creed's of L10,000 +against this voyage their bills signed. Having wrote letters into the +country and read some things I went to bed. + + + +2nd (Whitsunday). The barber having done with me, I went to church, and +there heard a good sermon of Mr. Mills, fit for the day. Then home to +dinner, and then to church again, and going home I found Greatorex (whom +I expected today at dinner) come to see me, and so he and I in my chamber +drinking of wine and eating of anchovies an hour or two, discoursing of +many things in mathematics, and among others he showed me how it comes to +pass the strength that levers have, and he showed me that what is got as +to matter of strength is lost by them as to matter of time. It rained +very hard, as it hath done of late so much that we begin to doubt a +famine, and so he was forced to stay longer than I desired. At night +after prayers to bed. + + + +3rd. To the Wardrobe, where discoursing with my Lord, he did instruct me +as to the business of the Wardrobe, in case, in his absence, Mr. Townsend +should die, and told me that he do intend to joyne me and Mr. Moore with +him as to the business, now he is going to sea, and spoke to me many +other things, as to one that he do put the greatest confidence in, of +which I am proud. Here I had a good occasion to tell him (what I have +had long in my mind) that, since it has pleased God to bless me with +something, I am desirous to lay out something for my father, and so have +pitched upon Mr. Young's place in the Wardrobe, which I desired he would +give order in his absence, if the place should fall that I might have the +refusal. Which my Lord did freely promise me, at which I was very glad, +he saying that he would do that at the least. So I saw my Lord into the +barge going to Whitehall, and I and Mr. Creed home to my house, whither +my father and my cozen Scott came to dine with me, and so we dined +together very well, and before we had done in comes my father Bowyer and +my mother and four daughters, and a young gentleman and his sister, their +friends, and there staid all the afternoon, which cost me great store of +wine, and were very merry. By and by I am called to the office, and +there staid a little. So home again, and took Mr. Creed and left them, +and so he and I to the Towre, to speak for some ammunition for ships for +my Lord; and so he and I, with much pleasure, walked quite round the +Towre, which I never did before. So home, and after a walk with my wife +upon the leads, I and she went to bed. This morning I and Dr. Peirce +went over to the Beare at the Bridge foot, thinking to have met my Lord +Hinchinbroke and his brother setting forth for France; but they being not +come we went over to the Wardrobe, and there found that my Lord Abbot +Montagu being not at Paris, my Lord hath a mind to have them stay a +little longer before they go. + + + +4th. The Comptroller came this morning to get me to go see a house or +two near our office, which he would take for himself or Mr. Turner, and +then he would have me have Mr. Turner's lodgings and himself mine and Mr. +Davis's. But the houses did not like us, and so that design at present +is stopped. Then he and I by water to the bridge, and then walked over +the Bank-side till we came to the Temple, and so I went over and to my +father's, where I met with my cozen J. Holcroft, and took him and my +father and my brother Tom to the Bear tavern and gave them wine, my cozen +being to go into the country again to-morrow. From thence to my Lord +Crew's to dinner with him, and had very good discourse about having of +young noblemen and gentlemen to think of going to sea, as being as +honourable service as the land war. And among other things he told us +how, in Queen Elizabeth's time, one young nobleman would wait with a +trencher at the back of another till he came to age himself. And +witnessed in my young Lord of Kent, that then was, who waited upon my +Lord Bedford at table, when a letter came to my Lord Bedford that the +Earldom of Kent was fallen to his servant, the young Lord; and so he rose +from table, and made him sit down in his place, and took a lower for +himself, for so he was by place to sit. From thence to the Theatre and +saw "Harry the 4th," a good play. That done I went over the water and +walked over the fields to Southwark, and so home and to my lute. At +night to bed. + + + +5th. This morning did give my wife L4 to lay out upon lace and other +things for herself. I to Wardrobe and so to Whitehall and Westminster, +where I dined with my Lord and Ned Dickering alone at his lodgings. +After dinner to the office, where we sat and did business, and Sir W. Pen +and I went home with Sir R. Slingsby to bowls in his ally, and there had +good sport, and afterwards went in and drank and talked. So home Sir +William and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and +played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his +shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and +drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo + + + ["Botarga. The roe of the mullet pressed flat and dried; that of + commerce, however, is from the tunny, a large fish of passage which + is common in the Mediterranean. The best kind comes from Tunis." + --Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book. Botargo was chiefly used to promote + drinking by causing thirst, and Rabelais makes Gargantua eat it.] + +and bread and butter till 12 at night, it being moonshine; and so to bed, +very near fuddled. + + + +6th. My head hath aked all night, and all this morning, with my last +night's debauch. Called up this morning by Lieutenant Lambert, who is +now made Captain of the Norwich, and he and I went down by water to +Greenwich, in our way observing and discoursing upon the things of a +ship, he telling me all I asked him, which was of good use to me. There +we went and eat and drank and heard musique at the Globe, and saw the +simple motion that is there of a woman with a rod in her hand keeping +time to the musique while it plays, which is simple, methinks. Back +again by water, calling at Captain Lambert's house, which is very +handsome and neat, and a fine prospect at top. So to the office, where +we sat a little, and then the Captain and I again to Bridewell to Mr. +Holland's, where his wife also, a plain dowdy, and his mother was. Here +I paid Mrs. Holland the money due from me to her husband. Here came two +young gentlewomen to see Mr. Holland, and one of them could play pretty +well upon the viallin, but, good God! how these ignorant people did cry +her up for it! We were very merry. I staid and supped there, and so +home and to bed. The weather very hot, this night I left off my +wastecoat. + + + +7th. To my Lord's at Whitehall, but not finding him I went to the +Wardrobe and there dined with my Lady, and was very kindly treated by +her. After dinner to the office, and there till late at night. So home, +and to Sir William Batten's, who is come this day from Chatham with my +Lady, who is and has been much troubled with the toothache. Here I staid +till late, and so home and to bed. + + + +8th. To Whitehall to my Lord, who did tell me that he would have me go +to Mr. Townsend, whom he had ordered to discover to me the whole mystery +of the Wardrobe, and none else but me, and that he will make me deputy +with him for fear that he should die in my Lord's absence, of which I was +glad. Then to the Cook's with Mr. Shepley and Mr. Creed, and dined +together, and then I went to the Theatre and there saw Bartholomew Faire, +the first time it was acted now a-days. It is a most admirable play and +well acted, but too much prophane and abusive. From thence, meeting Mr. +Creed at the door, he and I went to the tobacco shop under Temple Bar +gate, and there went up to the top of the house and there sat drinking +Lambeth ale a good while. Then away home, and in my way called upon Mr. +Rawlinson (my uncle Wight being out of town), for his advice to answer a +letter of my uncle Robert, wherein he do offer me a purchase to lay some +money upon, that joynes upon some of his own lands, and plainly telling +me that the reason of his advice is the convenience that it will give me +as to his estate, of which I am exceeding glad, and am advised to give up +wholly the disposal of my money to him, let him do what he will with it, +which I shall do. So home and to bed. + + + +9th (Lord's day). This day my wife put on her black silk gown, which is +now laced all over with black gimp lace, as the fashion is, in which she +is very pretty. She and I walked to my Lady's at the Wardrobe, and there +dined and was exceeding much made of. After dinner I left my wife there, +and I walked to Whitehall, and then went to Mr. Pierce's and sat with his +wife a good while (who continues very pretty) till he came, and then he +and I, and Mr. Symons (dancing master), that goes to sea with my Lord, to +the Swan tavern, and there drank, and so again to White Hall, and there +met with Dean Fuller, and walked a great while with him; among other +things discoursed of the liberty the Bishop (by name the of Galloway) +takes to admit into orders any body that will; among others, Roundtree, +a simple mechanique that was a person [parson ?] formerly in the fleet. +He told me he would complain of it. By and by we went and got a sculler, +and landing him at Worcester House, I and W. Howe, who came to us at +Whitehall, went to the Wardrobe, where I met with Mr. Townsend, who is +very willing he says to communicate anything for my Lord's advantage to +me as to his business. I went up to Jane Shore's towre, and there +W. Howe and I sang, and so took my wife and walked home, and so to bed. +After I came home a messenger came from my Lord to bid me come to him +tomorrow morning. + + + +10th. Early to my Lord's, who privately told me how the King had made +him Embassador in the bringing over the Queen. + + [Katherine of Braganza, daughter of John IV. of Portugal, born 1638, + married to Charles II., May 21st, 1662. After the death of the king + she lived for some time at Somerset House, and then returned to + Portugal, of which country she became Regent in 1704 on the + retirement of her brother Don Pedro. She died December 31st, 1705.] + +That he is to go to Algier, &c., to settle the business, and to put the +fleet in order there; and so to come back to Lisbone with three ships, +and there to meet the fleet that is to follow him. He sent for me, to +tell me that he do intrust me with the seeing of all things done in his +absence as to this great preparation, as I shall receive orders from my +Lord Chancellor and Mr. Edward Montagu. At all which my heart is above +measure glad; for my Lord's honour, and some profit to myself, I hope. +By and by, out with Mr. Shepley Walden, Parliament-man for Huntingdon, +Rolt, Mackworth, and Alderman Backwell, to a house hard by, to drink +Lambeth ale. So I back to the Wardrobe, and there found my Lord going to +Trinity House, this being the solemn day of choosing Master, and my Lord +is chosen, so he dines there to-day. I staid and dined with my Lady; but +after we were set, comes in some persons of condition, and so the +children and I rose and dined by ourselves, all the children and I, and +were very merry and they mighty fond of me. Then to the office, and +there sat awhile. So home and at night to bed, where we lay in Sir R. +Slingsby's lodgings in the dining room there in one green bed, my house +being now in its last work of painting and whiting. + + + +11th. At the office this morning, Sir G. Carteret with us; and we agreed +upon a letter to the Duke of York, to tell him the sad condition of this +office for want of money; how men are not able to serve us more without +some money; and that now the credit of the office is brought so low, that +none will sell us any thing without our personal security given for the +same. All the afternoon abroad about several businesses, and at night +home and to bed. + + + +12th. Wednesday, a day kept between a fast and a feast, the Bishops not +being ready enough to keep the fast for foul weather before fair weather +came; and so they were forced to keep it between both. + + [A Form of Prayer was published to be used in London on the 12th, + and in the country on the 19th of June, being the special days + appointed for a general fast to be kept in the respective places for + averting those sicknesses and diseases, that dearth and scarcity, + which justly may be feared from the late immoderate rain and waters: + for a thanksgiving also for the blessed change of weather; and the + begging the continuance of it to us for our comfort: And likewise + for beseeching a Blessing upon the High Court of Parliament now + assembled: Set forth by his Majesty's authority. A sermon was + preached before the Commons by Thomas Greenfield, preacher of + Lincoln's Inn. The Lords taxed themselves for the poor--an earl, + 30s., a baron, 20s. Those absent from prayers were to pay a + forfeit.--B.] + +I to Whitehall, and there with Captain Rolt and Ferrers we went to +Lambeth to drink our morning draft, where at the Three Mariners, a place +noted for their ale, we went and staid awhile very merry, and so away. +And wanting a boat, we found Captain Bun going down the river, and so we +went into his boat having a lady with him, and he landed them at +Westminster and me at the Bridge. At home all day with my workmen, and +doing several things, among others writing the letter resolved of +yesterday to the Duke. Then to White Hall, where I met my Lord, who told +me he must have L300 laid out in cloth, to give in Barbary, as presents +among the Turks. At which occasion of getting something I was very glad. +Home to supper, and then to Sir R. Slingsby, who with his brother and I +went to my Lord's at the Wardrobe, and there staid a great while, but he +being now taking his leave of his friends staid out late, and so they +went away. Anon came my Lord in, and I staid with him a good while, and +then to bed with Mr. Moore in his chamber. + + + +13th. I went up and down to Alderman Backwell's, but his servants not +being up, I went home and put on my gray cloth suit and faced white coat, +made of one of my wife's pettycoates, the first time I have had it on, +and so in a riding garb back again and spoke with Mr. Shaw at the +Alderman's, who offers me L300 if my Lord pleases to buy this cloth with, +which pleased me well. So to the Wardrobe and got my Lord to order Mr. +Creed to imprest so much upon me to be paid by Alderman Backwell. So +with my Lord to Whitehall by water, and he having taken leave of the +King, comes to us at his lodgings and from thence goes to the garden +stairs and there takes barge, and at the stairs was met by Sir R. +Slingsby, who there took his leave of my Lord, and I heard my Lord thank +him for his kindness to me, which Sir Robert answered much to my +advantage. I went down with my Lord in the barge to Deptford, and there +went on board the Dutch yacht and staid there a good while, W. Howe not +being come with my Lord's things, which made my Lord very angry. By and +by he comes and so we set sayle, and anon went to dinner, my Lord and we +very merry; and after dinner I went down below and there sang, and took +leave of W. Howe, Captain Rolt, and the rest of my friends, then went up +and took leave of my Lord, who give me his hand and parted with great +respect. So went and Captain Ferrers with me into our wherry, and my +Lord did give five guns, all they had charged, which was the greatest +respect my Lord could do me, and of which I was not a little proud. So +with a sad and merry heart I left them sailing pleasantly from Erith, +hoping to be in the Downs tomorrow early. We toward London in our boat. +Pulled off our stockings and bathed our legs a great while in the river, +which I had not done some years before. By and by we come to Greenwich, +and thinking to have gone on the King's yacht, the King was in her, so we +passed by, and at Woolwich went on shore, in the company of Captain Poole +of Jamaica and young Mr. Kennersley, and many others, and so to the +tavern where we drank a great deal both wine and beer. So we parted +hence and went home with Mr. Falconer, who did give us cherrys and good +wine. So to boat, and young Poole took us on board the Charity and gave +us wine there, with which I had full enough, and so to our wherry again, +and there fell asleep till I came almost to the Tower, and there the +Captain and I parted, and I home and with wine enough in my head, went to +bed. + + + +14th. To Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found Mr. Edward Montagu and +his family come to lie during my Lord's absence. I sent to my house by +my Lord's order his shipp--[Qy. glass omitted after shipp.]--and +triangle virginall. So to my father's, and did give him order about the +buying of this cloth to send to my Lord. But I could not stay with him +myself, for having got a great cold by my playing the fool in the water +yesterday I was in great pain, and so went home by coach to bed, and went +not to the office at all, and by keeping myself warm, I broke wind and so +came to some ease. Rose and eat some supper, and so to bed again. + + + +15th. My father came and drank his morning draft with me, and sat with +me till I was ready, and so he and I about the business of the cloth. By +and by I left him and went and dined with my Lady, who, now my Lord is +gone, is come to her poor housekeeping again. Then to my father's, who +tells me what he has done, and we resolved upon two pieces of scarlet, +two of purple, and two of black, and L50 in linen. I home, taking L300 +with me home from Alderman Backwell's. After writing to my Lord to let +him know what I had done I was going to bed, but there coming the purser +of the King's yacht for victualls presently, for the Duke of York is to +go down to-morrow, I got him to promise stowage for these things there, +and so I went to bed, bidding Will go and fetch the things from the +carrier's hither, which about 12 o'clock were brought to my house and +laid there all night. + + + +16th (Lord's day). But no purser coming in the morning for them, and I +hear that the Duke went last night, and so I am at a great loss what to +do; and so this day (though the Lord's day) staid at home, sending Will +up and down to know what to do. Sometimes thinking to continue my +resolution of sending by the carrier to be at Deal on Wednesday next, +sometimes to send them by sea by a vessel on purpose, but am not yet come +to a resolution, but am at a very great loss and trouble in mind what in +the world to do herein. The afternoon (while Will was abroad) I spent in +reading "The Spanish Gypsey," a play not very good, though commended +much. At night resolved to hire a Margate Hoy, who would go away +to-morrow morning, which I did, and sent the things all by him, and put +them on board about 12 this night, hoping to have them as the wind now +serves in the Downs to-morrow night. To-bed with some quiet of mind, +having sent the things away. + + + +17th. Visited this morning by my old friend Mr. Ch. Carter, who staid +and went to Westminster with me, and there we parted, and I to the +Wardrobe and dined with my Lady. So home to my painters, who are now +about painting my stairs. So to the office, and at night we all went to +Sir W. Pen's, and there sat and drank till 11 at night, and so home and +to bed. + + + +18th. All this morning at home vexing about the delay of my painters, +and about four in the afternoon my wife and I by water to Captain +Lambert's, where we took great pleasure in their turret-garden, and +seeing the fine needle-works of his wife, the best I ever saw in my life, +and afterwards had a very handsome treat and good musique that she made +upon the harpsicon, and with a great deal of pleasure staid till 8 at +night, and so home again, there being a little pretty witty child that is +kept in their house that would not let us go without her, and so fell a- +crying by the water-side. So home, where I met Jack Cole, who staid with +me a good while, and is still of the old good humour that we were of at +school together, and I am very glad to see him. He gone, I went to bed. + + + +19th. All the morning almost at home, seeing my stairs finished by the +painters, which pleases me well. So with Mr. Moore to Westminster Hall, +it being term, and then by water to the Wardrobe, where very merry, and +so home to the office all the afternoon, and at night to the Exchange to +my uncle Wight about my intention of purchasing at Brampton. So back +again home and at night to bed. Thanks be to God I am very well again of +my late pain, and to-morrow hope to be out of my pain of dirt and trouble +in my house, of which I am now become very weary. One thing I must +observe here while I think of it, that I am now become the most negligent +man in the world as to matters of news, insomuch that, now-a-days, I +neither can tell any, nor ask any of others. + + + +20th. At home the greatest part of the day to see my workmen make an +end, which this night they did to my great content. + + + +21st. This morning going to my father's I met him, and so he and I went +and drank our morning draft at the Samson in Paul's Churchyard, and eat +some gammon of bacon, &c., and then parted, having bought some green Say +--[A woollen cloth. "Saye clothe serge."--Palsgrave.]-- for curtains in +my parler. Home, and so to the Exchequer, where I met with my uncle +Wight, and home with him to dinner, where among others (my aunt being out +of town), Mr. Norbury and I did discourse of his wife's house and land at +Brampton, which I find too much for me to buy. Home, and in the +afternoon to the office, and much pleased at night to see my house begin +to be clean after all the dirt. + + + +22nd. Abroad all the morning about several businesses. At noon went and +dined with my Lord Crew, where very much made of by him and his lady. +Then to the Theatre, "The Alchymist,"--[Comedy by Ben Jonson, first +printed in 1612.]--which is a most incomparable play. And that being +done I met with little Luellin and Blirton, who took me to a friend's of +theirs in Lincoln's Inn fields, one Mr. Hodges, where we drank great +store of Rhenish wine and were very merry. So I went home, where I found +my house now very clean, which was great content to me. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). In the morning to church, and my wife not being well, +I went with Sir W. Batten home to dinner, my Lady being out of town, +where there was Sir W. Pen, Captain Allen and his daughter Rebecca, and +Mr. Hempson and his wife. After dinner to church all of us and had a +very good sermon of a stranger, and so I and the young company to walk +first to Graye's Inn Walks, where great store of gallants, but above all +the ladies that I there saw, or ever did see, Mrs. Frances Butler +(Monsieur L'Impertinent's sister) is the greatest beauty. Then we went +to Islington, where at the great house I entertained them as well as I +could, and so home with them, and so to my own home and to bed. Pall, +who went this day to a child's christening of Kate Joyce's, staid out all +night at my father's, she not being well. + + + +24th (Midsummer-day). We kept this a holiday, and so went not to the +office at all. All the morning at home. At noon my father came to see +my house now it is done, which is now very neat. He and I and Dr. +Williams (who is come to see my wife, whose soare belly is now grown +dangerous as she thinks) to the ordinary over against the Exchange, where +we dined and had great wrangling with the master of the house when the +reckoning was brought to us, he setting down exceeding high every thing. +I home again and to Sir W. Batten's, and there sat a good while. So +home. + + + +25th. Up this morning to put my papers in order that are come from my +Lord's, so that now I have nothing there remaining that is mine, which I +have had till now. This morning came Mr. Goodgroome + + [Theodore Goodgroome, Pepys's singing-master. He was probably + related to John Goodgroome, a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, who is + also referred to in the Diary.] + +to me (recommended by Mr. Mage), with whom I agreed presently to give him +20s. entrance, which I then did, and 20s. a month more to teach me to +sing, and so we began, and I hope I have come to something in it. His +first song is "La cruda la bella." He gone my brother Tom comes, with +whom I made even with my father and the two drapers for the cloths I sent +to sea lately. At home all day, in the afternoon came Captain Allen and +his daughter Rebecca and Mr. Hempson, and by and by both Sir Williams, +who sat with me till it was late, and I had a very gallant collation for +them. At night to bed. + + + +26th. To Westminster about several businesses, then to dine with my Lady +at the Wardrobe, taking Dean Fuller along with me; then home, where I +heard my father had been to find me about special business; so I took +coach and went to him, and found by a letter to him from my aunt that my +uncle Robert is taken with a dizziness in his head, so that they desire +my father to come down to look after his business, by which we guess that +he is very ill, and so my father do think to go to-morrow. And so God's +will be done. [As his heir Pepys appears consolable over his Uncles +illness. D.W.] Back by water to the office, there till night, and so +home to my musique and then to bed. + + + +27th. To my father's, and with him to Mr. Starling's to drink our +morning draft, and there I told him how I would have him speak to my +uncle Robert, when he comes thither, concerning my buying of land, that I +could pay ready money L600 and the rest by L150 per annum, to make up as +much as will buy L50 per annum, which I do, though I not worth above L500 +ready money, that he may think me to be a greater saver than I am. Here +I took my leave of my father, who is going this morning to my uncle upon +my aunt's letter this week that he is not well and so needs my father's +help. At noon home, and then with my Lady Batten, Mrs. Rebecca Allen, +Mrs. Thompson, &c., two coaches of us, we went and saw "Bartholomew +Fayre" acted very well, and so home again and staid at Sir W. Batten's +late, and so home to bed. This day Mr. Holden sent me a bever, which +cost me L4 5s. + + [Whilst a hat (see January 28th, 1660-61, ante) cost only 35s. See + also Lord Sandwich's vexation at his beaver being stolen, and a hat + only left in lieu of it, April 30th, 1661, ante; and April 19th and + 26th, 1662, Post.--B.] + + + +28th. At home all the morning practising to sing, which is now my great +trade, and at noon to my Lady and dined with her. So back and to the +office, and there sat till 7 at night, and then Sir W. Pen and I in his +coach went to Moorefields, and there walked, and stood and saw the +wrestling, which I never saw so much of before, between the north and +west countrymen. So home, and this night had our bed set up in our room +that we called the Nursery, where we lay, and I am very much pleased with +the room. + + + +29th. By a letter from the Duke complaining of the delay of the ships +that are to be got ready, Sir Williams both and I went to Deptford and +there examined into the delays, and were satisfyed. So back again home +and staid till the afternoon, and then I walked to the Bell at the +Maypole in the Strand, and thither came to me by appointment Mr. +Chetwind, Gregory, and Hartlibb, so many of our old club, and Mr. Kipps, +where we staid and drank and talked with much pleasure till it was late, +and so I walked home and to bed. Mr. Chetwind by chewing of tobacco is +become very fat and sallow, whereas he was consumptive, and in our +discourse he fell commending of "Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity," as the +best book, and the only one that made him a Christian, which puts me upon +the buying of it, which I will do shortly. + + + +30th (Lord's day). To church, where we observe the trade of briefs is +come now up to so constant a course every Sunday, that we resolve to give +no more to them. + + [It appears, from an old MS. account-book of the collections in the + church of St. Olave, Hart Street, beginning in 1642, still extant, + that the money gathered on the 30th June, 1661, "for several + inhabitants of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West towards their + losse by fire," amounted to "xxs. viiid." Pepys might complain of + the trade in briefs, as similar contributions had been levied + fourteen weeks successively, previous to the one in question at St. + Olave's church. Briefs were abolished in 1828.--B.] + +A good sermon, and then home to dinner, my wife and I all alone. After +dinner Sir Williams both and I by water to Whitehall, where having walked +up and down, at last we met with the Duke of York, according to an order +sent us yesterday from him, to give him an account where the fault lay in +the not sending out of the ships, which we find to be only the wind hath +been against them, and so they could not get out of the river. Hence I +to Graye's Inn Walk, all alone, and with great pleasure seeing the fine +ladies walk there. Myself humming to myself (which now-a-days is my +constant practice since I begun to learn to sing) the trillo, and found +by use that it do come upon me. Home very weary and to bed, finding my +wife not sick, but yet out of order, that I fear she will come to be +sick. This day the Portuguese Embassador came to White Hall to take +leave of the King; he being now going to end all with the Queen, and to +send her over. The weather now very fair and pleasant, but very hot. +My father gone to Brampton to see my uncle Robert, not knowing whether +to find him dead or alive. Myself lately under a great expense of money +upon myself in clothes and other things, but I hope to make it up this +summer by my having to do in getting things ready to send with the next +fleet to the Queen. + + [Graft was the only source of income of government officials in the + early days of Elizabeth. She established salaries for each office, + which made a nice small addition to the graft which continued + unabated. D.W.] + +Myself in good health, but mighty apt to take cold, so that this hot +weather I am fain to wear a cloth before my belly. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY + 1661 + + +July 1st. This morning I went up and down into the city, to buy several +things, as I have lately done, for my house. Among other things, a fair +chest of drawers for my own chamber, and an Indian gown for myself. The +first cost me 33s., the other 34s. Home and dined there, and Theodore +Goodgroome, my singing master, with me, and then to our singing. After +that to the office, and then home. + + + +2nd. To Westminster Hall and there walked up and down, it being Term +time. Spoke with several, among others my cozen Roger Pepys, who was +going up to the Parliament House, and inquired whether I had heard from +my father since he went to Brampton, which I had done yesterday, who +writes that my uncle is by fits stupid, and like a man that is drunk, and +sometimes speechless. Home, and after my singing master had done, took +coach and went to Sir William Davenant's Opera; this being the fourth day +that it hath begun, and the first that I have seen it. To-day was acted +the second part of "The Siege of Rhodes." We staid a very great while +for the King and the Queen of Bohemia. And by the breaking of a board +over our heads, we had a great deal of dust fell into the ladies' necks +and the men's hair, which made good sport. The King being come, the +scene opened; which indeed is very fine and magnificent, and well acted, +all but the Eunuch, who was so much out that he was hissed off the stage. +Home and wrote letters to my Lord at sea, and so to bed. + + + +3rd. To Westminster to Mr. Edward Montagu about business of my Lord's, +and so to the Wardrobe, and there dined with my Lady, who is in some +mourning for her brother, Mr. Saml. Crew, who died yesterday of the +spotted fever. So home through Duck Lane' to inquire for some Spanish +books, but found none that pleased me. So to the office, and that being +done to Sir W. Batten's with the Comptroller, where we sat late talking +and disputing with Mr. Mills the parson of our parish. This day my Lady +Batten and my wife were at the burial of a daughter of Sir John Lawson's, +and had rings for themselves and their husbands.--[?? D.W.] Home and to +bed. + + + +4th. At home all the morning; in the afternoon I went to the Theatre, +and there I saw "Claracilla" (the first time I ever saw it), well acted. +But strange to see this house, that used to be so thronged, now empty +since the Opera begun; and so will continue for a while, I believe. +Called at my father's, and there I heard that my uncle Robert--[Robert +Pepys, of Brampton, who died on the following day.]--continues to have +his fits of stupefaction every day for 10 or 12 hours together. From +thence to the Exchange at night, and then went with my uncle Wight to the +Mitre and were merry, but he takes it very ill that my father would go +out of town to Brampton on this occasion and would not tell him of it, +which I endeavoured to remove but could not. Here Mr. Batersby the +apothecary was, who told me that if my uncle had the emerods-- +[Haemorrhoids or piles.]--(which I think he had) and that now they are +stopped, he will lay his life that bleeding behind by leeches will cure +him, but I am resolved not to meddle in it. Home and to bed. + + + +5th. At home, and in the afternoon to the office, and that being done +all went to Sir W. Batten's and there had a venison pasty, and were very +merry. At night home and to bed. + + + +6th. Waked this morning with news, brought me by a messenger on purpose, +that my uncle Robert is dead, and died yesterday; so I rose sorry in some +respect, glad in my expectations in another respect. So I made myself +ready, went and told my uncle Wight, my Lady, and some others thereof, +and bought me a pair of boots in St. Martin's, and got myself ready, and +then to the Post House and set out about eleven and twelve o'clock, +taking the messenger with me that came to me, and so we rode and got well +by nine o'clock to Brampton, where I found my father well. My uncle's +corps in a coffin standing upon joynt-stools in the chimney in the hall; +but it begun to smell, and so I caused it to be set forth in the yard all +night, and watched by two men. My aunt I found in bed in a most nasty +ugly pickle, made me sick to see it. My father and I lay together +tonight, I greedy to see the will, but did not ask to see it till to- +morrow. + + + +7th (Lord's day). In the morning my father and I walked in the garden +and read the will; where, though he gives me nothing at present till my +father's death, or at least very little, yet I am glad to see that he +hath done so well for us, all, and well to the rest of his kindred. +After that done, we went about getting things, as ribbands and gloves, +ready for the burial. Which in the afternoon was done; where, it being +Sunday, all people far and near come in; and in the greatest disorder +that ever I saw, we made shift to serve them what we had of wine and +other things; and then to carry him to the church, where Mr. Taylor +buried him, and Mr. Turners preached a funerall sermon, where he spoke +not particularly of him anything, but that he was one so well known for +his honesty, that it spoke for itself above all that he could say for it. +And so made a very good sermon. Home with some of the company who supped +there, and things being quiet, at night to bed. + + + +8th, 9th, Loth, 11th, 12th, 13th. I fell to work, and my father to look +over my uncle's papers and clothes, and continued all this week upon that +business, much troubled with my aunt's base, ugly humours. We had news +of Tom Trice's putting in a caveat against us, in behalf of his mother, +to whom my uncle hath not given anything, and for good reason therein +expressed, which troubled us also. But above all, our trouble is to find +that his estate appears nothing as we expected, and all the world +believes; nor his papers so well sorted as I would have had them, but all +in confusion, that break my brains to understand them. We missed also +the surrenders of his copyhold land, without which the land would not +come to us, but to the heir at law, so that what with this, and the +badness of the drink and the ill opinion I have of the meat, and the +biting of the gnats by night and my disappointment in getting home this +week, and the trouble of sorting all the papers, I am almost out of my +wits with trouble, only I appear the more contented, because I would not +have my father troubled. The latter end of the week Mr. Philips comes +home from London, and so we advised with him and have the best counsel he +could give us, but for all that we were not quiet in our minds. + + + +14th (Lord's day). At home, and Robert Barnwell with us, and dined, and +in the evening my father and I walked round Portholme and viewed all the +fields, which was very pleasant. Thence to Hinchingbroke, which is now +all in dirt, because of my Lord's building, which will make it very +magnificent. Back to Brampton, and to supper and to bed. + + + +15th. Up by three o'clock this morning, and rode to Cambridge, and was +there by seven o'clock, where, after I was trimmed, I went to Christ +College, and found my brother John at eight o'clock in bed, which vexed +me. Then to King's College chappell, where I found the scholars in their +surplices at the service with the organs, which is a strange sight to +what it used in my time to be here. Then with Dr. Fairbrother (whom I +met there) to the Rose tavern, and called for some wine, and there met +fortunately with Mr. Turner of our office, and sent for his wife, and +were very merry (they being come to settle their son here), and sent also +for Mr. Sanchy, of Magdalen, with whom and other gentlemen, friends of +his, we were very merry, and I treated them as well as I could, and so at +noon took horse again, having taken leave of my cozen Angier, and rode to +Impington, where I found my old uncle + + [Talbot Pepys, sixth son of John Pepys of Impington, was born 1583, + and therefore at this time he was seventy-eight years of age. He + was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and called to the bar at + the Middle Temple in 1605. He was M.P. for Cambridge in 1625, and + Recorder of Cambridge from 1624 to 1660, in which year he was + succeeded by his son Roger. He died of the plague, March, 1666, + aged eighty-three.] + +sitting all alone, like a man out of the world: he can hardly see; but +all things else he do pretty livelyly. Then with Dr. John Pepys and him, +I read over the will, and had their advice therein, who, as to the +sufficiency thereof confirmed me, and advised me as to the other parts +thereof. Having done there, I rode to Gravely with much ado to inquire +for a surrender of my uncle's in some of the copyholders' hands there, +but I can hear of none, which puts me into very great trouble of mind, +and so with a sad heart rode home to Brampton, but made myself as +cheerful as I could to my father, and so to bed. + + + +16th, 17th, 18th, 19th. These four days we spent in putting things in +order, letting of the crop upon the ground, agreeing with Stankes to have +a care of our business in our absence, and we think ourselves in nothing +happy but in lighting upon him to be our bayly; in riding to Offord and +Sturtlow, and up and down all our lands, and in the evening walking, my +father and I about the fields talking, and had advice from Mr. Moore from +London, by my desire, that the three witnesses of the will being all +legatees, will not do the will any wrong. To-night Serjeant Bernard, I +hear, is come home into the country. To supper and to bed. My aunt +continuing in her base, hypocritical tricks, which both Jane Perkin (of +whom we make great use), and the maid do tell us every day of. + + + +20th. Up to Huntingdon this morning to Sir Robert Bernard, with whom I +met Jaspar Trice. So Sir Robert caused us to sit down together and began +discourse very fairly between us, so I drew out the Will and show it him, +and [he] spoke between us as well as I could desire, but could come to no +issue till Tom Trice comes. Then Sir Robert and I fell to talk about the +money due to us upon surrender from Piggott, L164., which he tells me +will go with debts to the heir at law, which breaks my heart on the other +side. Here I staid and dined with Sir Robert Bernard and his lady, my +Lady Digby, a very good woman. After dinner I went into the town and +spent the afternoon, sometimes with Mr. Phillips, sometimes with Dr. +Symcottes, Mr. Vinter, Robert Ethell, and many more friends, and at last +Mr. Davenport, Phillips, Jaspar Trice, myself and others at Mother ----- +over against the Crown we sat and drank ale and were very merry till 9 at +night, and so broke up. I walked home, and there found Tom Trice come, +and he and my father gone to Goody Gorum's, where I found them and Jaspar +Trice got before me, and Mr. Greene, and there had some calm discourse, +but came to no issue, and so parted. So home and to bed, being now +pretty well again of my left hand, which lately was stung and very much +swelled. + + + +21st (Lord's day). At home all the morning, putting my papers in order +against my going to-morrow and doing many things else to that end. +Had a good dinner, and Stankes and his wife with us. To my business +again in the afternoon, and in the evening came the two Trices, +Mr. Greene, and Mr. Philips, and so we began to argue. At last it came +to some agreement that for our giving of my aunt L10 she is to quit the +house, and for other matters they are to be left to the law, which do +please us all, and so we broke up, pretty well satisfyed. Then came Mr. +Barnwell and J. Bowles and supped with us, and after supper away, and so +I having taken leave of them and put things in the best order I could +against to-morrow I went to bed. Old William Luffe having been here this +afternoon and paid up his bond of L20, and I did give him into his hand +my uncle's surrender of Sturtlow to me before Mr. Philips, R. Barnwell, +and Mr. Pigott, which he did acknowledge to them my uncle did in his +lifetime deliver to him. + + + +22nd. Up by three, and going by four on my way to London; but the day +proves very cold, so that having put on no stockings but thread ones +under my boots, I was fain at Bigglesworth to buy a pair of coarse +woollen ones, and put them on. So by degrees till I come to Hatfield +before twelve o'clock, where I had a very good dinner with my hostess, +at my Lord of Salisbury's Inn, and after dinner though weary I walked all +alone to the Vineyard, which is now a very beautiful place again; and +coming back I met with Mr. Looker, my Lord's gardener (a friend of Mr. +Eglin's), who showed me the house, the chappell with brave pictures, and, +above all, the gardens, such as I never saw in all my life; nor so good +flowers, nor so great gooseberrys, as big as nutmegs. Back to the inn, +and drank with him, and so to horse again, and with much ado got to +London, and set him up at Smithfield; so called at my uncle Fenner's, my +mother's, my Lady's, and so home, in all which I found all things as well +as I could expect. So weary and to bed. + + + +23rd. Put on my mourning. Made visits to Sir W. Pen and Batten. Then +to Westminster, and at the Hall staid talking with Mrs. Michell a good +while, and in the afternoon, finding myself unfit for business, I went to +the Theatre, and saw "Brenoralt," I never saw before. It seemed a good +play, but ill acted; only I sat before Mrs. Palmer, the King's mistress, +and filled my eyes with her, which much pleased me. Then to my father's, +where by my desire I met my uncle Thomas, and discoursed of my uncle's +will to him, and did satisfy [him] as well as I could. So to my uncle +Wight's, but found him out of doors, but my aunt I saw and staid a while, +and so home and to bed. Troubled to hear how proud and idle Pall is +grown, that I am resolved not to keep her. + + + +24th. This morning my wife in bed tells me of our being robbed of our +silver tankard, which vexed me all day for the negligence of my people to +leave the door open. My wife and I by water to Whitehall, where I left +her to her business and I to my cozen Thomas Pepys, and discoursed with +him at large about our business of my uncle's will. He can give us no +light at all into his estate, but upon the whole tells me that he do +believe that he has left but little money, though something more than we +have found, which is about L500. Here came Sir G. Lane by chance, seeing +a bill upon the door to hire the house, with whom my coz and I walked all +up and down, and indeed it is a very pretty place, and he do intend to +leave the agreement for the House, which is L400 fine, and L46 rent a +year to me between them. Then to the Wardrobe, but come too late, and so +dined with the servants. And then to my Lady, who do shew my wife and me +the greatest favour in the world, in which I take great content. Home by +water and to the office all the afternoon, which is a great pleasure to +me again, to talk with persons of quality and to be in command, and I +give it out among them that the estate left me is L200 a year in land, +besides moneys, because I would put an esteem upon myself. At night home +and to bed after I had set down my journals ever since my going from +London this journey to this house. This afternoon I hear that my man +Will hath lost his clock with my tankard, at which I am very glad. + + + +25th. This morning came my box of papers from Brampton of all my uncle's +papers, which will now set me at work enough. At noon I went to the +Exchange, where I met my uncle Wight, and found him so discontented about +my father (whether that he takes it ill that he has not been acquainted +with things, or whether he takes it ill that he has nothing left him, I +cannot tell), for which I am much troubled, and so staid not long to talk +with him. Thence to my mother's, where I found my wife and my aunt Bell +and Mrs. Ramsey, and great store of tattle there was between the old +women and my mother, who thinks that there is, God knows what fallen to +her, which makes me mad, but it was not a proper time to speak to her of +it, and so I went away with Mr. Moore, and he and I to the Theatre, and +saw "The Jovial Crew," the first time I saw it, and indeed it is as merry +and the most innocent play that ever I saw, and well performed. From +thence home, and wrote to my father and so to bed. Full of thoughts to +think of the trouble that we shall go through before we come to see what +will remain to us of all our expectations. + + + +26th. At home all the morning, and walking met with Mr. Hill of +Cambridge at Pope's Head Alley with some women with him whom he took and +me into the tavern there, and did give us wine, and would fain seem to be +very knowing in the affairs of state, and tells me that yesterday put a +change to the whole state of England as to the Church; for the King now +would be forced to favour Presbytery, or the City would leave him: but I +heed not what he says, though upon enquiry I do find that things in the +Parliament are in a great disorder. Home at noon and there found Mr. +Moore, and with him to an ordinary alone and dined, and there he and I +read my uncle's will, and I had his opinion on it, and still find more +and more trouble like to attend it. Back to the office all the +afternoon, and that done home for all night. Having the beginning of +this week made a vow to myself to drink no wine this week (finding it to +unfit me to look after business), and this day breaking of it against my +will, I am much troubled for it, but I hope God will forgive me. + + + +27th. To Westminster, where at Mr. Montagu's chamber I heard a Frenchman +play, a friend of Monsieur Eschar's, upon the guitar, most extreme well, +though at the best methinks it is but a bawble. From thence to +Westminster Hall, where it was expected that the Parliament was to have +been adjourned for two or three months, but something hinders it for a +day or two. In the lobby I spoke with Mr. George Montagu, and advised +about a ship to carry my Lord Hinchingbroke and the rest of the young +gentlemen to France, and they have resolved of going in a hired vessell +from Rye, and not in a man of war. He told me in discourse that my Lord +Chancellor is much envied, and that many great men, such as the Duke of +Buckingham and my Lord of Bristoll, do endeavour to undermine him, and +that he believes it will not be done; for that the King (though he loves +him not in the way of a companion, as he do these young gallants that can +answer him in his pleasures), yet cannot be without him, for his policy +and service. From thence to the Wardrobe, where my wife met me, it being +my Lord of Sandwich's birthday, and so we had many friends here, Mr. +Townsend and his wife, and Captain Ferrers lady and Captain Isham, and +were very merry, and had a good venison pasty. Mr. Pargiter, the +merchant, was with us also. After dinner Mr. Townsend was called upon by +Captain Cooke: so we three went to a tavern hard by, and there he did +give us a song or two; and without doubt he hath the best manner of +singing in the world. Back to my wife, and with my Lady Jem. and Pall by +water through bridge, and showed them the ships with great pleasure, and +then took them to my house to show it them (my Lady their mother having +been lately all alone to see it and my wife, in my absence in the +country), and we treated them well, and were very merry. Then back again +through bridge, and set them safe at home, and so my wife and I by coach +home again, and after writing a letter to my father at Brampton, who, +poor man, is there all alone, and I have not heard from him since my +coming from him, which troubles me. To bed. + + + +28th (Lord's day). This morning as my wife and I were going to church, +comes Mrs. Ramsay to see us, so we sent her to church, and we went too, +and came back to dinner, and she dined with us and was wellcome. To +church again in the afternoon, and then come home with us Sir W. Pen, and +drank with us, and then went away, and my wife after him to see his +daughter that is lately come out of Ireland. I staid at home at my book; +she came back again and tells me that whereas I expected she should have +been a great beauty, she is a very plain girl. This evening my wife +gives me all my linen, which I have put up, and intend to keep it now in +my own custody. To supper and to bed. + + + +29th. This morning we began again to sit in the mornings at the office, +but before we sat down. Sir R. Slingsby and I went to Sir R. Ford's to +see his house, and we find it will be very convenient for us to have it +added to the office if he can be got to part with it. Then we sat down +and did business in the office. So home to dinner, and my brother Tom +dined with me, and after dinner he and I alone in my chamber had a great +deal of talk, and I find that unless my father can forbear to make profit +of his house in London and leave it to Tom, he has no mind to set up the +trade any where else, and so I know not what to do with him. After this +I went with him to my mother, and there told her how things do fall out +short of our expectations, which I did (though it be true) to make her +leave off her spending, which I find she is nowadays very free in, +building upon what is left to us by my uncle to bear her out in it, which +troubles me much. While I was here word is brought that my aunt Fenner +is exceeding ill, and that my mother is sent for presently to come to +her: also that my cozen Charles Glassecocke, though very ill himself, +is this day gone to the country to his brother, John Glassecocke, who is +a-dying there. Home. + + + +30th. After my singing-master had done with me this morning, I went to +White Hall and Westminster Hall, where I found the King expected to come +and adjourn the Parliament. I found the two Houses at a great +difference, about the Lords challenging their privileges not to have +their houses searched, which makes them deny to pass the House of +Commons' Bill for searching for pamphlets and seditious books. Thence by +water to the Wardrobe (meeting the King upon the water going in his barge +to adjourn the House) where I dined with my Lady, and there met Dr. +Thomas Pepys, who I found to be a silly talking fellow, but very good- +natured. So home to the office, where we met about the business of +Tangier this afternoon. That done, at home I found Mr. Moore, and he and +I walked into the City and there parted. To Fleet Street to find when +the Assizes begin at Cambridge and Huntingdon, in order to my going to +meet with Roger Pepys for counsel. So in Fleet Street I met with Mr. +Salisbury, who is now grown in less than two years' time so great a +limner--[Portrait painter, also book illuminator. D.W.]--that he is +become excellent, and gets a great deal of money at it. I took him to +Hercules Pillars to drink, and there came Mr. Whore (whom I formerly have +known), a friend of his to him, who is a very ingenious fellow, and there +I sat with them a good while, and so home and wrote letters late to my +Lord and to my father, and then to bed. + + + +31st. Singing-master came to me this morning; then to the office all the +morning. In the afternoon I went to the Theatre, and there I saw "The +Tamer Tamed" well done. And then home, and prepared to go to +Walthamstow to-morrow. This night I was forced to borrow L40 of Sir W. +Batten. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + AUGUST + 1661 + + +August 1st. This morning Sir Williams both, and my wife and I and Mrs. +Margarett Pen (this first time that I have seen her since she came from +Ireland) went by coach to Walthamstow, a-gossiping to Mrs. Browne, where +I did give her six silver spoons--[But not the porringer of silver. See +May 29th, 1661.--M. B]--for her boy. Here we had a venison pasty, +brought hot from London, and were very merry. Only I hear how nurse's +husband has spoken strangely of my Lady Batten how she was such a man's +whore, who indeed is known to leave her her estate, which we would fain +have reconciled to-day, but could not and indeed I do believe that the +story is true. Back again at night home. + + + +2d. At the office all the morning. At noon Dr. Thos. Pepys dined with +me, and after dinner my brother Tom came to me and then I made myself +ready to get a-horseback for Cambridge. So I set out and rode to Ware, +this night, in the way having much discourse with a fellmonger,--[A +dealer in hides.]--a Quaker, who told me what a wicked man he had been +all his life-time till within this two years. Here I lay, and + + + +3rd. Got up early the next morning and got to Barkway, where I staid and +drank, and there met with a letter-carrier of Cambridge, with whom I rode +all the way to Cambridge, my horse being tired, and myself very wet with +rain. I went to the Castle Hill, where the judges were at the Assizes; +and I staid till Roger Pepys rose and went with him, and dined with his +brother, the Doctor, and Claxton at Trinity Hall. Then parted, and I +went to the Rose, and there with Mr. Pechell, Sanchy, and others, sat and +drank till night and were very merry, only they tell me how high the old +doctors are in the University over those they found there, though a great +deal better scholars than themselves; for which I am very sorry, and, +above all, Dr. Gunning. At night I took horse, and rode with Roger Pepys +and his two brothers to Impington, and there with great respect was led +up by them to the best chamber in the house, and there slept. + + + +4th (Lord's day). Got up, and by and by walked into the orchard with my +cozen Roger, and there plucked some fruit, and then discoursed at large +about the business I came for, that is, about my uncle's will, in which +he did give me good satisfaction, but tells me I shall meet with a great +deal of trouble in it. However, in all things he told me what I am to +expect and what to do. To church, and had a good plain sermon, and my +uncle Talbot went with us and at our coming in the country-people all +rose with so much reverence; and when the parson begins, he begins "Right +worshipfull and dearly beloved" to us. Home to dinner, which was very +good, and then to church again, and so home and to walk up and down and +so to supper, and after supper to talk about publique matters, wherein +Roger Pepys--(who I find a very sober man, and one whom I do now honour +more than ever before for this discourse sake only) told me how basely +things have been carried in Parliament by the young men, that did labour +to oppose all things that were moved by serious men. That they are the +most prophane swearing fellows that ever he heard in his life, which +makes him think that they will spoil all, and bring things into a warr +again if they can. So to bed. + + + +5th. Early to Huntingdon, but was fain to stay a great while at Stanton +because of the rain, and there borrowed a coat of a man for 6d., and so +he rode all the way, poor man, without any. Staid at Huntingdon for a +little, but the judges are not come hither: so I went to Brampton, and +there found my father very well, and my aunt gone from the house, which I +am glad of, though it costs us a great deal of money, viz. L10. Here I +dined, and after dinner took horse and rode to Yelling, to my cozen +Nightingale's, who hath a pretty house here, and did learn of her all she +could tell me concerning my business, and has given me some light by her +discourse how I may get a surrender made for Graveley lands. Hence to +Graveley, and there at an alehouse met with Chancler and Jackson (one of +my tenants for Cotton closes) and another with whom I had a great deal of +discourse, much to my satisfaction. Hence back again to Brampton and +after supper to bed, being now very quiet in the house, which is a +content to us. + + + +6th. Up early and went to Mr. Phillips, but lost my labour, he lying at +Huntingdon last night, so I went back again and took horse and rode +thither, where I staid with Thos. Trice and Mr. Philips drinking till +noon, and then Tom Trice and I to Brampton, where he to Goody Gorum's and +I home to my father, who could discern that I had been drinking, which he +did never see or hear of before, so I eat a bit of dinner and went with +him to Gorum's, and there talked with Tom Trice, and then went and took +horse for London, and with much ado, the ways being very bad, got to +Baldwick, and there lay and had a good supper by myself. The landlady +being a pretty woman, but I durst not take notice of her, her husband +being there. Before supper I went to see the church, which is a very +handsome church, but I find that both here, and every where else that I +come, the Quakers do still continue, and rather grow than lessen. To +bed. + + + +7th. Called up at three o'clock, and was a-horseback by four; and as I +was eating my breakfast I saw a man riding by that rode a little way upon +the road with me last night; and he being going with venison in his pan- +yards to London, I called him in and did give him his breakfast with me, +and so we went together all the way. At Hatfield we bayted and walked +into the great house through all the courts; and I would fain have stolen +a pretty dog that followed me, but I could not, which troubled me. To +horse again, and by degrees with much ado got to London, where I found +all well at home and at my father's and my Lady's, but no news yet from +my Lord where he is. At my Lady's (whither I went with Dean Fuller, who +came to my house to see me just as I was come home) I met with Mr. Moore, +who told me at what a loss he was for me, for to-morrow is a Seal day at +the Privy Seal, and it being my month, I am to wait upon my Lord Roberts, +Lord Privy Seal, at the Seal. Home and to bed. + + + +8th. Early in the mornink to Whitehall, but my Lord Privy Seal came not +all the morning. At noon Mr. Moore and I to the Wardrobe to dinner, +where my Lady and all merry and well. Back again to the Privy Seal; but +my Lord comes not all the afternoon, which made me mad and gives all the +world reason to talk of his delaying of business, as well as of his +severity and ill using of the Clerks of the Privy Seal. In the evening I +took Mons. Eschar and Mr. Moore and Dr. Pierce's brother (the souldier) +to the tavern next the Savoy, and there staid and drank with them. Here +I met with Mr. Mage, and discoursing of musique Mons. Eschar spoke so +much against the English and in praise of the French that made him mad, +and so he went away. After a stay with them a little longer we parted +and I home. + + + +9th. To the office, where word is brought me by a son-in-law of Mr. +Pierces; the purser, that his father is a dying and that he desires that +I would come to him before he dies. So I rose from the table and went, +where I found him not so ill as I thought that he had been ill. So I did +promise to be a friend to his wife and family if he should die, which was +all he desired of me, but I do believe he will recover. Back again to +the office, where I found Sir G. Carteret had a day or two ago invited +some of the officers to dinner to-day at Deptford. So at noon, when I +heard that he was a-coming, I went out, because I would see whether he +would send to me or no to go with them; but he did not, which do a little +trouble me till I see how it comes to pass. Although in other things I +am glad of it because of my going again to-day to the Privy Seal. I +dined at home, and having dined news is brought by Mr. Hater that his +wife is now falling into labour, so he is come for my wife, who presently +went with him. I to White Hall, where, after four o'clock, comes my Lord +Privy Seal, and so we went up to his chamber over the gate at White Hall, +where he asked me what deputacon I had from My Lord. I told him none; +but that I am sworn my Lord's deputy by both of the Secretarys, which did +satisfy him. So he caused Mr. Moore to read over all the bills as is the +manner, and all ended very well. So that I see the Lyon is not so fierce +as he is painted. That being done Mons. Eschar (who all this afternoon +had been waiting at the Privy Seal for the Warrant for L5,000 for my Lord +of Sandwich's preparation for Portugal) and I took some wine with us and +went to visit la belle Pierce, who we find very big with child, and a +pretty lady, one Mrs. Clifford, with her, where we staid and were +extraordinary merry. From thence I took coach to my father's, where I +found him come home this day from Brampton (as I expected) very well, and +after some discourse about business and it being very late I took coach +again home, where I hear by my wife that Mrs. Hater is not yet delivered, +but continues in her pains. So to bed. + + + +10th. This morning came the maid that my wife hath lately hired for a +chamber maid. She is very ugly, so that I cannot care for her, but +otherwise she seems very good. But however she do come about three weeks +hence, when my wife comes back from Brampton, if she go with my father. +By and by came my father to my house, and so he and I went and found out +my uncle Wight at the Coffee House, and there did agree with him to meet +the next week with my uncle Thomas and read over the Captain's will +before them both for their satisfaction. Having done with him I went to +my Lady's and dined with her, and after dinner took the two young +gentlemen and the two ladies and carried them and Captain Ferrers to the +Theatre, and shewed them "The merry Devill of Edmunton," which is a very +merry play, the first time I ever saw it, which pleased me well. And +that being done I took them all home by coach to my house and there gave +them fruit to eat and wine. So by water home with them, and so home +myself. + + + +11th (Lord's day). To our own church in the forenoon, and in the +afternoon to Clerkenwell Church, only to see the two + + [A comedy acted at the Globe, and first printed in 1608. In the + original entry in the Stationers' books it is said to be by T. B., + which may stand for Tony or Anthony Brewer. The play has been + attributed without authority both to Shakespeare and to Drayton.] + +fayre Botelers;--[Mrs. Frances Butler and her sister.]--and I happened to +be placed in the pew where they afterwards came to sit, but the pew by +their coming being too full, I went out into the next, and there sat, and +had my full view of them both, but I am out of conceit now with them, +Colonel Dillon being come back from Ireland again, and do still court +them, and comes to church with them, which makes me think they are not +honest. Hence to Graye's-Inn walks, and there staid a good while; where +I met with Ned Pickering, who told me what a great match of hunting of a +stagg the King had yesterday; and how the King tired all their horses, +and come home with not above two or three able to keep pace with him. So +to my father's, and there supped, and so home. + + + +12th. At the office this morning. At home in the afternoon, and had +notice that my Lord Hinchingbroke is fallen ill, which I fear is with the +fruit that I did give them on Saturday last at my house: so in the +evening I went thither and there found him very ill, and in great fear of +the smallpox. I supped with my Lady, and did consult about him, but we +find it best to let him lie where he do; and so I went home with my heart +full of trouble for my Lord Hinchinabroke's sickness, and more for my +Lord Sandwich's himself, whom we are now confirmed is sick ashore at +Alicante, who, if he should miscarry, God knows in what condition would +his family be. I dined to-day with my Lord Crew, who is now at Sir H. +Wright's, while his new house is making fit for him, and he is much +troubled also at these things. + + + +13th. To the Privy Seal in the morning, then to the Wardrobe to dinner, +where I met my wife, and found my young Lord very ill. So my Lady +intends to send her other three sons, Sidney, Oliver, and John, to my +house, for fear of the small-pox. After dinner I went to my father's, +where I found him within, and went up to him, and there found him +settling his papers against his removal, and I took some old papers of +difference between me and my wife and took them away. After that Pall +being there I spoke to my father about my intention not to keep her +longer for such and such reasons, which troubled him and me also, and had +like to have come to some high words between my mother and me, who is +become a very simple woman. By and by comes in Mrs. Cordery to take her +leave of my father, thinking he was to go presently into the country, and +will have us to come and see her before he do go. Then my father and I +went forth to Mr. Rawlinson's, where afterwards comes my uncle Thomas and +his two sons, and then my uncle Wight by appointment of us all, and there +we read the will and told them how things are, and what our thoughts are +of kindness to my uncle Thomas if he do carry himself peaceable, but +otherwise if he persist to keep his caveat up against us. So he promised +to withdraw it, and seemed to be very well contented with things as they +are. After a while drinking, we paid all and parted, and so I home, and +there found my Lady's three sons come, of which I am glad that I am in +condition to do her and my Lord any service in this kind, but my mind is +yet very much troubled about my Lord of Sandwich's health, which I am +afeard of. + + + +14th. This morning Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen and I, waited upon the +Duke of York in his chamber, to give him an account of the condition of +the Navy for lack of money, and how our own very bills are offered upon +the Exchange, to be sold at 20 in the 100 loss. He is much troubled at +it, and will speak to the King and Council of it this morning. So I went +to my Lady's and dined with her, and found my Lord Hinchingbroke somewhat +better. After dinner Captain Ferrers and I to the Theatre, and there saw +"The Alchymist;" and there I saw Sir W. Pen, who took us when the play +was done and carried the Captain to Paul's and set him down, and me home +with him, and he and I to the Dolphin, but not finding Sir W. Batten +there, we went and carried a bottle of wine to his house, and there sat a +while and talked, and so home to bed. At home I found a letter from Mr. +Creed of the 15th of July last, that tells me that my Lord is rid of his +pain (which was wind got into the muscles of his right side) and his +feaver, and is now in hopes to go aboard in a day or two, which do give +me mighty great comfort. + + + +15th. To the Privy Seal and Whitehall, up and down, and at noon Sir W. +Pen carried me to Paul's, and so I walked to the Wardrobe and dined with +my Lady, and there told her, of my Lord's sickness (of which though it +hath been the town-talk this fortnight, she had heard nothing) and +recovery, of which she was glad, though hardly persuaded of the latter. +I found my Lord Hinchingbroke better and better, and the worst past. +Thence to the Opera, which begins again to-day with "The Witts," never +acted yet with scenes; and the King and Duke and Duchess were there (who +dined to-day with Sir H. Finch, reader at the Temple, in great state); +and indeed it is a most excellent play, and admirable scenes. So home +and was overtaken by Sir W. Pen in his coach, who has been this afternoon +with my Lady Batten, &c., at the Theatre. So I followed him to the +Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten was, and there we sat awhile, and so home +after we had made shift to fuddle Mr. Falconer of Woolwich. So home. + + + +16th. At the office all the morning, though little to be done; because +all our clerks are gone to the buriall of Tom Whitton, one of the +Controller's clerks, a very ingenious, and a likely young man to live, as +any in the Office. But it is such a sickly time both in City and country +every where (of a sort of fever), that never was heard of almost, unless +it was in a plague-time. + +Among others, the famous Tom Fuller is dead of it; and Dr. Nichols, Dean +of Paul's; and my Lord General Monk is very dangerously ill. Dined at +home with the children and were merry, and my father with me; who after +dinner he and I went forth about business. Among other things we found +one Dr. John Williams at an alehouse, where we staid till past nine at +night, in Shoe Lane, talking about our country business, and I found him +so well acquainted with the matters of Gravely that I expect he will be +of great use to me. So by link--[a torch of tow or pitch--there were no +street lamps of any kind yet. D.W.]--home. I understand my Aunt Fenner +is upon the point of death. + + + +17th. At the Privy Seal, where we had a seal this morning. Then met +with Ned Pickering, and walked with him into St. James's Park (where I +had not been a great while), and there found great and very noble +alterations. And, in our discourse, he was very forward to complain and +to speak loud of the lewdness and beggary of the Court, which I am sorry +to hear, and which I am afeard will bring all to ruin again. So he and I +to the Wardrobe to dinner, and after dinner Captain Ferrers and I to the +Opera, and saw "The Witts" again, which I like exceedingly. The Queen of +Bohemia was here, brought by my Lord Craven. So the Captain and I and +another to the Devil tavern and drank, and so by coach home. Troubled in +mind that I cannot bring myself to mind my business, but to be so much in +love of plays. We have been at a great loss a great while for a vessel +that I sent about a month ago with, things of my Lord's to Lynn, and +cannot till now hear of them, but now we are told that they are put into +Soale Bay, but to what purpose I know not. + + + +18th (Lord's day). To our own church in the morning and so home to +dinner, where my father and Dr. Tom Pepys came to me to dine, and were +very merry. After dinner I took my wife and Mr. Sidney to my Lady to see +my Lord Hinchingbroke, who is now pretty well again, and sits up and +walks about his chamber. So I went to White Hall, and there hear that my +Lord General Monk continues very ill: so I went to la belle Pierce and +sat with her; and then to walk in St. James's Park, and saw great variety +of fowl which I never saw before and so home. At night fell to read in +"Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity," which Mr. Moore did give me last +Wednesday very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains +and love for his sake. So to supper and to bed. + + + +19th. At the office all the morning; at noon the children are sent for +by their mother my Lady Sandwich to dinner, and my wife goes along with +them by coach, and she to my father's and dines there, and from thence +with them to see Mrs. Cordery, who do invite them before my father goes +into the country, and thither I should have gone too but that I am sent +for to the Privy Seal, and there I found a thing of my Lord Chancellor's + + [This "thing" was probably one of those large grants which Clarendon + quietly, or, as he himself says, "without noise or scandal," + procured from the king. Besides lands and manors, Clarendon states + at one time that the king gave him a "little billet into his hand, + that contained a warrant of his own hand-writing to Sir Stephen Fox + to pay to the Chancellor the sum of L20,000,--[approximately 10 + million dollars in the year 2000]--of which nobody could have + notice." In 1662 he received L5,000 out of the money voted to the + king by the Parliament of Ireland, as he mentions in his vindication + of himself against the impeachment of the Commons; and we shall see + that Pepys, in February, 1664, names another sum of L20,000 given to + the Chancellor to clear the mortgage upon Clarendon Park; and this + last sum, it was believed, was paid from the money received from + France by the sale of Dunkirk.--B.] + +to be sealed this afternoon, and so I am forced to go to Worcester House, +where severall Lords are met in Council this afternoon. And while I am +waiting there, in comes the King in a plain common riding-suit and velvet +cap, in which he seemed a very ordinary man to one that had not known +him. Here I staid till at last, hearing that my Lord Privy Seal had not +the seal here, Mr. Moore and I hired a coach and went to Chelsy, and +there at an alehouse sat and drank and past the time till my Lord Privy +Seal came to his house, and so we to him and examined and sealed the +thing, and so homewards, but when we came to look for our coach we found +it gone, so we were fain to walk home afoot and saved our money. We met +with a companion that walked with us, and coming among some trees near +the Neate houses, he began to whistle, which did give us some suspicion, +but it proved that he that answered him was Mr. Marsh (the Lutenist) and +his wife, and so we all walked to Westminster together, in our way +drinking a while at my cost, and had a song of him, but his voice is +quite lost. So walked home, and there I found that my Lady do keep the +children at home, and lets them not come any more hither at present, +which a little troubles me to lose their company. This day my aunt +Fenner dyed. + + + +20th. At the office in the morning and all the afternoon at home to put +my papers in order. This day we come to some agreement with Sir R. Ford +for his house to be added to the office to enlarge our quarters. + + + +21st. This morning by appointment I went to my father, and after a +morning draft he and I went to Dr. Williams, but he not within we went to +Mrs. Terry, a daughter of Mr. Whately's, who lately offered a proposal of +her sister for a wife for my brother Tom, and with her we discoursed +about and agreed to go to her mother this afternoon to speak with her, +and in the meantime went to Will. Joyce's and to an alehouse, and drank a +good while together, he being very angry that his father Fenner will give +him and his brother no more for mourning than their father did give him +and my aunt at their mother's death, and a very troublesome fellow I +still find him to be, that his company ever wearys me. From thence about +two o'clock to Mrs. Whately's, but she being going to dinner we went to +Whitehall and there staid till past three, and here I understand by Mr. +Moore that my Lady Sandwich is brought to bed yesterday of a young Lady, +and is very well. So to Mrs. Whately's again, and there were well +received, and she desirous to have the thing go forward, only is afeard +that her daughter is too young and portion not big enough, but offers +L200 down with her. The girl is very well favoured,, and a very child, +but modest, and one I think will do very well for my brother: so parted +till she hears from Hatfield from her husband, who is there; but I find +them very desirous of it, and so am I. Hence home to my father's, and I +to the Wardrobe, where I supped with the ladies, and hear their mother is +well and the young child, and so home. + + + +22nd. To the Privy Seal, and sealed; so home at noon, and there took my +wife by coach to my uncle Fenner's, where there was both at his house and +the Sessions, great deal of company, but poor entertainment, which I +wonder at; and the house so hot, that my uncle Wight, my father and I +were fain to go out, and stay at an alehouse awhile to cool ourselves. +Then back again and to church, my father's family being all in mourning, +doing him the greatest honour, the world believing that he did give us +it: so to church, and staid out the sermon, and then with my aunt Wight, +my wife, and Pall and I to her house by coach, and there staid and supped +upon a Westphalia ham, and so home and to bed. + + + +23rd. This morning I went to my father's, and there found him and my +mother in a discontent, which troubles me much, and indeed she is become +very simple and unquiet. Hence he and I to Dr. Williams, and found him +within, and there we sat and talked a good while, and from him to Tom +Trice's to an alehouse near, and there sat and talked, and finding him +fair we examined my uncle's will before him and Dr. Williams, and had +them sign the copy and so did give T. Trice the original to prove, so he +took my father and me to one of the judges of the Court, and there we +were sworn, and so back again to the alehouse and drank and parted. Dr. +Williams and I to a cook's where we eat a bit of mutton, and away, I to +W. Joyce's, where by appointment my wife was, and I took her to the +Opera, and shewed her "The Witts," which I had seen already twice, and +was most highly pleased with it. So with my wife to the Wardrobe to see +my Lady, and then home. + + + +24th. At the office all the morning and did business; by and by we are +called to Sir W. Batten's to see the strange creature that Captain Holmes +hath brought with him from Guiny; it is a great baboon, but so much like +a man in most things, that though they say there is a species of them, +yet I cannot believe but that it is a monster got of a man and she- +baboon. I do believe that it already understands much English, and I am +of the mind it might be taught to speak or make signs. Hence the +Comptroller and I to Sir Rd. Ford's and viewed the house again, and are +come to a complete end with him to give him L200 per an. for it. Home +and there met Capt. Isham inquiring for me to take his leave of me, he +being upon his voyage to Portugal, and for my letters to my Lord which +are not ready. But I took him to the Mitre and gave him a glass of sack, +and so adieu, and then straight to the Opera, and there saw "Hamlet, +Prince of Denmark," done with scenes very well, but above all, Betterton + + [Sir William Davenant introduced the use of scenery. The character + of Hamlet was one of Betterton's masterpieces. Downes tells us that + he was taught by Davenant how the part was acted by Taylor of the + Blackfriars, who was instructed by Shakespeare himself.] + +did the prince's part beyond imagination. Hence homeward, and met with +Mr. Spong and took him to the Sampson in Paul's churchyard, and there +staid till late, and it rained hard, so we were fain to get home wet, and +so to bed. + + + +25th (Lord's day). At church in the morning, and dined at home alone +with my wife very comfortably, and so again to church with her, and had a +very good and pungent sermon of Mr. Mills, discoursing the necessity of +restitution. Home, and I found my Lady Batten and her daughter to look +something askew upon my wife, because my wife do not buckle to them, and +is not solicitous for their acquaintance, which I am not troubled at at +all. By and by comes in my father (he intends to go into the country +to-morrow), and he and I among other discourse at last called Pall up to +us, and there in great anger told her before my father that I would keep +her no longer, and my father he said he would have nothing to do with +her. At last, after we had brought down her high spirit, I got my father +to yield that she should go into the country with my mother and him, and +stay there awhile to see how she will demean herself. That being done, +my father and I to my uncle Wight's, and there supped, and he took his +leave of them, and so I walked with [him] as far as Paul's and there +parted, and I home, my mind at some rest upon this making an end with +Pall, who do trouble me exceedingly. + + + +26th. This morning before I went out I made even with my maid Jane, who +has this day been my maid three years, and is this day to go into the +country to her mother. The poor girl cried, and I could hardly forbear +weeping to think of her going, for though she be grown lazy and spoilt by +Pall's coming, yet I shall never have one to please us better in all +things, and so harmless, while I live. So I paid her her wages and gave +her 2s. 6d. over, and bade her adieu, with my mind full of trouble at her +going. Hence to my father, where he and I and Thomas together setting +things even, and casting up my father's accounts, and upon the whole I +find that all he hath in money of his own due to him in the world is but +L45, and he owes about the same sum: so that I cannot but think in what a +condition he had left my mother if he should have died before my uncle +Robert. Hence to Tom Trice for the probate of the will and had it done +to my mind, which did give my father and me good content. From thence to +my Lady at the Wardrobe and thence to the Theatre, and saw the +"Antipodes," wherein there is much mirth, but no great matter else. +Hence with Mr. Bostock whom I met there (a clerk formerly of Mr. Phelps) +to the Devil tavern, and there drank and so away. I to my uncle +Fenner's, where my father was with him at an alehouse, and so we three +went by ourselves and sat talking a great while about a broker's daughter +that he do propose for a wife for Tom, with a great portion, but I fear +it will not take, but he will do what he can. So we broke up, and going +through the street we met with a mother and son, friends of my father's +man, Ned's, who are angry at my father's putting him away, which troubled +me and my father, but all will be well as to that. We have news this +morning of my uncle Thomas and his son Thomas being gone into the country +without giving notice thereof to anybody, which puts us to a stand, but I +fear them not. At night at home I found a letter from my Lord Sandwich, +who is now very well again of his feaver, but not yet gone from Alicante, +where he lay sick, and was twice let blood. This letter dated the 22nd +July last, which puts me out of doubt of his being ill. In my coming +home I called in at the Crane tavern at the Stocks by appointment, and +there met and took leave of Mr. Fanshaw, who goes to-morrow and Captain +Isham toward their voyage to Portugal. Here we drank a great deal of +wine, I too much and Mr. Fanshaw till he could hardly go. So we took +leave one of another. + + + +27th. This morning to the Wardrobe, and there took leave of my Lord +Hinchingbroke and his brother, and saw them go out by coach toward Rye in +their way to France, whom God bless. Then I was called up to my Lady's +bedside, where we talked an hour about Mr. Edward Montagu's disposing of +the L5000 for my Lord's departure for Portugal, and our fears that he +will not do it to my Lord's honour, and less to his profit, which I am to +enquire a little after. Hence to the office, and there sat till noon, +and then my wife and I by coach to my cozen, Thos. Pepys, the Executor, +to dinner, where some ladies and my father and mother, where very merry, +but methinks he makes but poor dinners for such guests, though there was +a poor venison pasty. Hence my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw +"The Joviall Crew," where the King, Duke and Duchess, and Madame Palmer, +were; and my wife, to her great content, had a full sight of them all the +while. The play full of mirth. Hence to my father's, and there staid to +talk a while and so by foot home by moonshine. In my way and at home, my +wife making a sad story to me of her brother Balty's a condition, and +would have me to do something for him, which I shall endeavour to do, but +am afeard to meddle therein for fear I shall not be able to wipe my hands +of him again, when I once concern myself for him. I went to bed, my wife +all the while telling me his case with tears, which troubled me. + + + +28th. At home all the morning setting papers in order. At noon to the +Exchange, and there met with Dr. Williams by appointment, and with him +went up and down to look for an attorney, a friend of his, to advise with +about our bond of my aunt Pepys of L200, and he tells me absolutely that +we shall not be forced to pay interest for the money yet. I do doubt it +very much. I spent the whole afternoon drinking with him and so home. +This day I counterfeited a letter to Sir W. Pen, as from the thief that +stole his tankard lately, only to abuse and laugh at him. + + + +29th. At the office all the morning, and at noon my father, mother, and +my aunt Bell (the first time that ever she was at my house) come to dine +with me, and were very merry. After dinner the two women went to visit +my aunt Wight, &c., and my father about other business, and I abroad to +my bookseller, and there staid till four o'clock, at which time by +appointment I went to meet my father at my uncle Fenner's. So thither I +went and with him to an alehouse, and there came Mr. Evans, the taylor, +whose daughter we have had a mind to get for a wife for Tom, and then my +father, and there we sat a good while and talked about the business; in +fine he told us that he hath not to except against us or our motion, but +that the estate that God hath blessed him with is too great to give where +there is nothing in present possession but a trade and house; and so we +friendly ended. There parted, my father and I together, and walked a +little way, and then at Holborn he and I took leave of one another, he +being to go to Brampton (to settle things against my mother comes) +tomorrow morning. So I home. + + + +30th. At noon my wife and I met at the Wardrobe, and there dined with +the children, and after dinner up to my Lady's bedside, and talked and +laughed a good while. Then my wife end I to Drury Lane to the French +comedy, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and every thing +else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in +my mind to be there. Here my wife met with a son of my Lord Somersett, +whom she knew in France, a pretty man; I showed him no great countenance, +to avoyd further acquaintance. That done, there being nothing pleasant +but the foolery of the farce, we went home. + + + +31st. At home and the office all the morning, and at noon comes Luellin +to me, and he and I to the tavern and after that to Bartholomew fair, and +there upon his motion to a pitiful alehouse, where we had a dirty slut or +two come up that were whores, but my very heart went against them, so +that I took no pleasure but a great deal of trouble in being there and +getting from thence for fear of being seen. From hence he and I walked +towards Ludgate and parted. I back again to the fair all alone, and +there met with my Ladies Jemimah and Paulina, with Mr. Pickering and +Madamoiselle, at seeing the monkeys dance, which was much to see, when +they could be brought to do so, but it troubled me to sit among such +nasty company. After that with them into Christ's Hospitall, and there +Mr. Pickering bought them some fairings, and I did give every one of them +a bauble, which was the little globes of glass with things hanging in +them, which pleased the ladies very well. After that home with them in +their coach, and there was called up to my Lady, and she would have me +stay to talk with her, which I did I think a full hour. And the poor +lady did with so much innocency tell me how Mrs. Crispe had told her that +she did intend, by means of a lady that lies at her house, to get the +King to be godfather to the young lady that she is in childbed now of; +but to see in what a manner my Lady told it me, protesting that she sweat +in the very telling of it, was the greatest pleasure to me in the world +to see the simplicity and harmlessness of a lady. Then down to supper +with the ladies, and so home, Mr. Moore (as he and I cannot easily part) +leading me as far as Fenchurch Street to the Mitre, where we drank a +glass of wine and so parted, and I home and to bed. + + + +Thus ends the month. My maid Jane newly gone, and Pall left now to do +all the work till another maid comes, which shall not be till she goes +away into the country with my mother. Myself and wife in good health. +My Lord Sandwich in the Straits and newly recovered of a great sickness +at Alicante. My father gone to settle at Brampton, and myself under much +business and trouble for to settle things in the estate to our content. +But what is worst, I find myself lately too much given to seeing of +plays, and expense, and pleasure, which makes me forget my business, +which I must labour to amend. No money comes in, so that I have been +forced to borrow a great deal for my own expenses, and to furnish my +father, to leave things in order. I have some trouble about my brother +Tom, who is now left to keep my father's trade, in which I have great +fears that he will miscarry for want of brains and care. At Court things +are in very ill condition, there being so much emulacion, poverty, and +the vices of drinking, swearing, and loose amours, that I know not what +will be the end of it, but confusion. And the Clergy so high, that all +people that I meet with do protest against their practice. In short, +I see no content or satisfaction any where, in any one sort of people. +The Benevolence + + [A voluntary contribution made by the subjects to their sovereign. + Upon this occasion the clergy alone gave L33,743: See May 31st, + 1661.--B] + +proves so little, and an occasion of so much discontent every where; that +it had better it had never been set up. I think to subscribe L20. We +are at our Office quiet, only for lack of money all things go to rack. +Our very bills offered to be sold upon the Exchange at 10 per cent. +loss. We are upon getting Sir R. Ford's house added to our Office. But +I see so many difficulties will follow in pleasing of one another in the +dividing of it, and in becoming bound personally to pay the rent of L200 +per annum, that I do believe it will yet scarce come to pass. The season +very sickly every where of strange and fatal fevers. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A great baboon, but so much like a man in most things +A play not very good, though commended much +Begun to smell, and so I caused it to be set forth (corpse) +Bleeding behind by leeches will cure him +By chewing of tobacco is become very fat and sallow +Cannot bring myself to mind my business +Durst not take notice of her, her husband being there +Faced white coat, made of one of my wife's pettycoates +Family being all in mourning, doing him the greatest honour +Fear I shall not be able to wipe my hands of him again +Finding my wife not sick, but yet out of order +Found him not so ill as I thought that he had been ill +Found my brother John at eight o'clock in bed, which vexed me +Good God! how these ignorant people did cry her up for it! +Greedy to see the will, but did not ask to see it till to-morrow +His company ever wearys me +I broke wind and so came to some ease +I would fain have stolen a pretty dog that followed me +Instructed by Shakespeare himself +King, Duke and Duchess, and Madame Palmer +Lady Batten how she was such a man's whore +Lately too much given to seeing of plays, and expense +Lewdness and beggary of the Court +Look askew upon my wife, because my wife do not buckle to them +None will sell us any thing without our personal security given +Quakers do still continue, and rather grow than lessen +Sat before Mrs. Palmer, the King's mistress, and filled my eyes +So the children and I rose and dined by ourselves +Sorry in some respect, glad in my expectations in another respect +The Alchymist,--Comedy by Ben Jonson +The Lords taxed themselves for the poor--an earl, s. +This week made a vow to myself to drink no wine this week +Those absent from prayers were to pay a forfeit +To be so much in love of plays +Woman with a rod in her hand keeping time to the musique + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v12 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |