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diff --git a/4129.txt b/4129.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00c6b92 --- /dev/null +++ b/4129.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1477 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October +1661, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October 1661 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 29, 2004 [EBook #4129] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER + 1661 + +September 1st (Lord's day). Last night being very rainy [the rain] broke +into my house, the gutter being stopped, and spoiled all my ceilings +almost. At church in the morning, and dined at home with my wife. After +dinner to Sir W. Batten's, where I found Sir W. Pen and Captain Holmes. +Here we were very merry with Sir W. Pen about the loss of his tankard, +though all be but a cheat, and he do not yet understand it; but the +tankard was stole by Sir W. Batten, and the letter, as from the thief, +wrote by me, which makes: very good sport. Here I staid all the +afternoon, and then Captain Holmes and I by coach to White Hall; in our +way, I found him by discourse, to be a great friend of my Lord's, and he +told me there was many did seek to remove him; but they were old seamen, +such as Sir J. Minnes (but he would name no more, though I do believe Sir +W. Batten is one of them that do envy him), but he says he knows that the +King do so love him, and the Duke of York too, that there is no fear of +him. He seems to be very well acquainted with the King's mind, and with +all the several factions at Court, and spoke all with so much frankness, +that I do take him to be my Lord's good friend, and one able to do him +great service, being a cunning fellow, and one (by his own confession to +me) that can put on two several faces, and look his enemies in the face +with as much love as his friends. But, good God! what an age is this, and +what a world is this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and +dissimulation. At Whitehall we parted, and I to Mrs. Pierce's, meeting +her and Madam Clifford in the street, and there staid talking and laughing +with them a good while, and so back to my mother's, and there supped, and +so home and to bed. + +2nd. In the morning to my cozen Thos. Pepys, executor, and there talked +with him about my uncle Thomas, his being in the country, but he could not +advise me to anything therein, not knowing what the other has done in the +country, and so we parted. And so to Whitehall, and there my Lord Privy +Seal, who has been out of town this week, not being yet come, we can have +no seal, and therefore meeting with Mr. Battersby the apothecary in +Fenchurch Street to the King's Apothecary's chamber in Whitehall, and +there drank a bottle or two of wine, and so he and I by water towards +London. I landed at Blackfriars and so to the Wardrobe and dined, and +then back to Whitehall with Captain Ferrers, and there walked, and thence +to Westminster Hall, where we met with Mr. Pickering, and so all of us to +the Rhenish wine house (Prior's), where the master of the house is laying +out some money in making a cellar with an arch in his yard, which is very +convenient for him. Here we staid a good while, and so Mr. Pickering and +I to Westminster Hall again, and there walked an hour or two talking, and +though he be a fool, yet he keeps much company, and will tell all he sees +or hears, and so a man may understand what the common talk of the town is, +and I find by him that there are endeavours to get my Lord out of play at +sea, which I believe Mr. Coventry and the Duke do think will make them +more absolute; but I hope, for all this, they will not be able to do it. +He tells me plainly of the vices of the Court, and how the pox is so +common there, and so I hear on all hands that it is as common as eating +and swearing. From him by water to the bridge, and thence to the Mitre, +where I met my uncle and aunt Wight come to see Mrs. Rawlinson (in her +husband's absence out of town), and so I staid with them and Mr. Lucas and +other company, very merry, and so home, Where my wife has been busy all +the day making of pies, and had been abroad and bought things for herself, +and tells that she met at the Change with my young ladies of the Wardrobe +and there helped them to buy things, and also with Mr. Somerset, who did +give her a bracelet of rings, which did a little trouble me, though I know +there is no hurt yet in it, but only for fear of further acquaintance. So +to bed. This night I sent another letter to Sir W. Pen to offer him the +return of his tankard upon his leaving of 30s. at a place where it should +be brought. The issue of which I am to expect. + +3rd. This day some of us Commissioners went down to Deptford to pay off +some ships, but I could not go, but staid at home all the morning setting +papers to rights, and this morning Mr. Howell, our turner, sent me two +things to file papers on very handsome. Dined at home, and then with my +wife to the Wardrobe, where my Lady's child was christened (my Lord Crew +and his Lady, and my Lady Montagu, my Lord's mother-in-law, were the +witnesses), and named Katherine + + [Lady Katherine Montagu, youngest daughter of Lord Sandwich, + married, first, Nicholas Bacon, eldest son and heir of Sir Nicholas + Bacon, K.B., of Shrubland Hall, co. Suffolk; and, secondly, the + Rev. Balthazar Gardeman. She died January 15th, 1757, at ninety-six + years, four months.--B.] + +(the Queen elect's name); but to my and all our trouble, the Parson of the +parish christened her, and did not sign the child with the sign of the +cross. After that was done, we had a very fine banquet, the best I ever +was at, and so (there being very little company) we by and by broke up, +and my wife and I to my mother, who I took a liberty to advise about her +getting things ready to go this week into the country to my father, and +she (being become now-a-days very simple) took it very ill, and we had a +great deal of noise and wrangling about it. So home by coach. + +4th. In the morning to the Privy Seal to do some things of the last +month, my Lord Privy Seal having been some time out of town. Then my wife +came to me to Whitehall, and we went and walked a good while in St. +James's Park to see the brave alterations, and so to Wilkinson's, the +Cook's, to dinner, where we sent for Mrs. Sarah and there dined and had +oysters, the first I have eat this year, and were pretty good. After +dinner by agreement to visit Mrs. Symonds, but she is abroad, which I +wonder at, and so missing her my wife again to my mother's (calling at +Mrs. Pierce's, who we found brought to bed of a girl last night) and there +staid and drank, and she resolves to be going to-morrow without fail. +Many friends come in to take their leave of her, but a great deal of stir +I had again tonight about getting her to go to see my Lady Sandwich before +she goes, which she says she will do tomorrow. So I home. + +5th. To the Privy Seal this morning about business, in my way taking +leave of my mother, who goes to Brampton to-day. But doing my business at +the Privy Seal pretty soon, I took boat and went to my uncle Fenner's, and +there I found my mother and my wife and Pall (of whom I had this morning +at my own house taken leave, and given her 20s. and good counsel how to +carry herself to my father and mother), and so I took them, it being late, +to Beard's, where they were staid for, and so I put them into the waggon, +and saw them going presently, Pall crying exceedingly. Then in with my +wife, my aunt Bell and Charles Pepys, whom we met there, and drank, and so +to my uncle Fenner's to dinner (in the way meeting a French footman with +feathers, who was in quest of my wife, and spoke with her privately, but I +could not tell what it was, only my wife promised to go to some place +to-morrow morning, which do trouble my mind how to know whither it was), +where both his sons and daughters were, and there we were merry and dined. +After dinner news was brought that my aunt Kite, the butcher's widow in +London, is sick ready to die and sends for my uncle and me to come to take +charge of things, and to be entrusted with the care of her daughter. But +I through want of time to undertake such a business, I was taken up by +Antony Joyce, which came at last to very high words, which made me very +angry, and I did not think that he would ever have been such a fool to +meddle with other people's business, but I saw he spoke worse to his +father than to me and therefore I bore it the better, but all the company +was offended with him, so we parted angry he and I, and so my wife and I +to the fair, and I showed her the Italians dancing the ropes, and the +women that do strange tumbling tricks and so by foot home vexed in my mind +about Antony Joyce. + +6th. This morning my uncle Fenner by appointment came and drank his +morning draft with me, and from thence he and I go to see my aunt Kite (my +wife holding her resolution to go this morning as she resolved yesterday, +and though there could not be much hurt in it, yet my own jealousy put a +hundred things into my mind, which did much trouble me all day), whom we +found in bed and not like to live as we think, and she told us her mind +was that if she should die she should give all she had to her daughter, +only L5 apiece to her second husband's children, in case they live to come +out of their apprenticeships, and that if her daughter should die before +marrying, then L10 to be divided between Sarah Kite's children and the +rest as her own daughter shall dispose of it, and this I set down that I +may be able to swear in case there should be occasion. From thence to an +alehouse while it rained, which kept us there I think above two hours, and +at last we were fain to go through the rainy street home, calling on his +sister Utbeck and drank there. Then I home to dinner all alone, and +thence my mind being for my wife's going abroad much troubled and unfit +for business, I went to the Theatre, and saw "Elder Brother" ill acted; +that done, meeting here with Sir G. Askew, Sir Theophilus Jones, and +another Knight, with Sir W. Pen, we to the Ship tavern, and there staid +and were merry till late at night, and so got a coach, and Sir Wm. and I +home, where my wife had been long come home, but I seemed very angry, as +indeed I am, and did not all night show her any countenance, neither +before nor in bed, and so slept and rose discontented. + +7th. At the office all the morning. At noon Mr. Moore dined with me, and +then in comes Wm. Joyce to answer a letter of mine I wrote this morning to +him about a maid of his that my wife had hired, and she sent us word that +she was hired to stay longer with her master, which mistake he came to +clear himself of; and I took it very kindly. So I having appointed the +young ladies at the Wardrobe to go with them to a play to-day, I left him +and my brother Tom who came along with him to dine, and my wife and I took +them to the Theatre, where we seated ourselves close by the King, and Duke +of York, and Madame Palmer, which was great content; and, indeed, I can +never enough admire her beauty. And here was "Bartholomew Fayre," with +the puppet-show, acted to-day, which had not been these forty years (it +being so satyricall against Puritanism, they durst not till now, which is +strange they should already dare to do it, and the King do countenance +it), but I do never a whit like it the better for the puppets, but rather +the worse. Thence home with the ladies, it being by reason of our staying +a great while for the King's coming, and the length of the play, near nine +o'clock before it was done, and so in their coach home, and still in +discontent with my wife, to bed, and rose so this morning also. + +8th (Lord's day). To church, it being a very wet night last night and +to-day, dined at home, and so to church again with my wife in the +afternoon, and coming home again found our new maid Doll asleep, that she +could not hear to let us in, so that we were fain to send the boy in at a +window to open the door to us. So up to my chamber all alone, and +troubled in mind to think how much of late I have addicted myself to +expense and pleasure, that now I can hardly reclaim myself to look after +my great business of settling Gravely business, until now almost too late. +I pray God give me grace to begin now to look after my business, but it +always was, and I fear will ever be, my foible that after I am once got +behind-hand with business, I am hard to set to it again to recover it. In +the evening I begun to look over my accounts and upon the whole I do find +myself, by what I can yet see, worth near L600, for which God be blessed, +which put me into great comfort. So to supper and to bed. + +9th. To the Privy Seal in the morning, but my Lord did not come, so I +went with Captain Morrice at his desire into the King's Privy Kitchen to +Mr. Sayres, the Master Cook, and there we had a good slice of beef or two +to our breakfast, and from thence he took us into the wine cellar where, +by my troth, we were very merry, and I drank too much wine, and all along +had great and particular kindness from Mr. Sayres, but I drank so much +wine that I was not fit for business, and therefore at noon I went and +walked in Westminster Hall a while, and thence to Salisbury Court play +house, where was acted the first time "'Tis pity Shee's a Whore," a +simple play and ill acted, only it was my fortune to sit by a most pretty +and most ingenious lady, which pleased me much. Thence home, and found +Sir Williams both and much more company gone to the Dolphin to drink the +30s. that we got the other day of Sir W. Pen about his tankard. Here was +Sir R. Slingsby, Holmes, Captn. Allen, Mr. Turner, his wife and daughter, +my Lady Batten, and Mrs. Martha, &c., and an excellent company of +fiddlers; so we exceeding merry till late; and then we begun to tell Sir +W. Pen the business, but he had been drinking to-day, and so is almost +gone, that we could not make him understand it, which caused us more +sport. But so much the better, for I believe when he do come to +understand it he will be angry, he has so talked of the business himself +and the letter up and down that he will be ashamed to be found abused in +it. So home and to bed. + +10th. At the office all the morn, dined at home; then my wife into Wood +Street to buy a chest, and thence to buy other things at my uncle Fenner's +(though by reason of rain we had ill walking), thence to my brother Tom's, +and there discoursed with him about business, and so to the Wardrobe to +see my Lady, and after supper with the young ladies, bought a link and +carried it myself till I met one that would light me home for the link. +So he light me home with his own, and then I did give him mine. This +night I found Mary, my cozen W. Joyce's maid, come to me to be my cook +maid, and so my house is full again. So to bed. + +11th. Early to my cozen Thomas Trice to discourse about our affairs, and +he did make demand of the L200 and the interest thereof. But for the L200 +I did agree to pay him, but for the other I did desire to be advised. So +from him to Dr. Williams, who did carry me into his garden, where he hath +abundance of grapes; and did show me how a dog that he hath do kill all +the cats that come thither to kill his pigeons, and do afterwards bury +them; and do it with so much care that they shall be quite covered; that +if but the tip of the tail hangs out he will take up the cat again, and +dig the hole deeper. Which is very strange; and he tells me that he do +believe that he hath killed above 100 cats. After he was ready we went up +and down to inquire about my affairs and then parted, and to the Wardrobe, +and there took Mr. Moore to Tom Trice, who promised to let Mr. Moore have +copies of the bond and my aunt's deed of gift, and so I took him home to +my house to dinner, where I found my wife's brother, Balty, as fine as +hands could make him, and his servant, a Frenchman, to wait on him, and +come to have my wife to visit a young lady which he is a servant to, and +have hope to trepan and get for his wife. I did give way for my wife to +go with him, and so after dinner they went, and Mr. Moore and I out again, +he about his business and I to Dr. Williams: to talk with him again, and +he and I walking through Lincoln's Fields observed at the Opera a new +play, "Twelfth Night" + + [Pepys seldom liked any play of Shakespeare's, and he sadly + blundered when he supposed "Twelfth Night" was a new play.] + +was acted there, and the King there; so I, against my own mind and +resolution, could not forbear to go in, which did make the play seem a +burthen to me, and I took no pleasure at all in it; and so after it was +done went home with my mind troubled for my going thither, after my +swearing to my wife that I would never go to a play without her. So that +what with this and things going so cross to me as to matters of my uncle's +estate, makes me very much troubled in my mind, and so to bed. My wife was +with her brother to see his mistress today, and says she is young, rich, +and handsome, but not likely for him to get. + +12th. Though it was an office day, yet I was forced to go to the Privy +Seal, at which I was all the morning, and from thence to my Lady's to +dinner at the Wardrobe; and in my way upon the Thames, I saw the King's +new pleasure-boat that is come now for the King to take pleasure in above +bridge; and also two Gundaloes + + ["Two long boats that were made in Venice, called gondolas, were by + the Duke of Venice (Dominico Contareni) presented to His Majesty; , + and the attending watermen, being four, were in very rich clothes, + crimson satin; very big were their breeches and doublets; they wore + also very large shirts of the same satin, very richly laced." + --Rugge's Diurnal.--B.] + +that are lately brought, which are very rich and fine. After dinner I +went into my Lady's chamber where I found her up now out of her childbed, +which I was glad to see, and after an hour's talk with her I took leave +and to Tom Trice again, and sat talking and drinking with him about our +business a great while. I do find I am likely to be forced to pay +interest for the L200. By and by in comes my uncle Thomas, and as he was +always a close cunning fellow, so he carries himself to me, and says +nothing of what his endeavours are, though to my trouble I know that he is +about recovering of Gravely, but neither I nor he began any discourse of +the business. From thence to Dr. Williams (at the little blind alehouse +in Shoe Lane, at the Gridiron, a place I am ashamed to be seen to go +into), and there with some bland counsel of his we discuss our matters, +but I find men of so different minds that by my troth I know not what to +trust to. It being late I took leave, and by link home and called at Sir +W. Batten's, and there hear that Sir W. Pen do take our jest of the +tankard very ill, which Pam sorry for. + +13th. This morning I was sent for by my uncle Fenner to come and advise +about the buriall of my aunt, the butcher, who died yesterday; and from +thence to the Anchor, by Doctor's Commons, and there Dr. Williams and I +did write a letter for my purpose to Mr. Sedgewick, of Cambridge, about +Gravely business, and after that I left him and an attorney with him and +went to the Wardrobe, where I found my wife, and thence she and I to the +water to spend the afternoon in pleasure; and so we went to old George's, +and there eat as much as we would of a hot shoulder of mutton, and so to +boat again and home. So to bed, my mind very full of business and +trouble. + +14th. At the office all the morning, at noon to the Change, and then home +again. To dinner, where my uncle Fenner by appointment came and dined +with me, thinking to go together to my aunt Kite's that is dead; but +before we had dined comes Sir R. Slingsby and his lady, and a great deal +of company, to take my wife and I out by barge to shew them the King's and +Duke's yachts. So I was forced to leave my uncle and brother Tom at +dinner and go forth with them, and we had great pleasure, seeing all four +yachts, viz., these two and the two Dutch ones. And so home again, and +after writing letters by post, to bed. + +15th (Lord's day). To my aunt Kite's in the morning to help my uncle +Fenner to put things in order against anon for the buriall, and at noon +home again; and after dinner to church, my wife and I, and after sermon +with my wife to the buriall of my aunt Kite, where besides us and my uncle +Fenner's family, there was none of any quality, but poor rascally people. +So we went to church with the corps, and there had service read at the +grave, and back again with Pegg Kite who will be, I doubt, a troublesome +carrion to us executors; but if she will not be ruled, I shall fling up my +executorship. After that home, and Will Joyce along with me where we sat +and talked and drank and ate an hour or two, and so he went away and I up +to my chamber and then to prayers and to bed. + +16th. This morning I was busy at home to take in my part of our freight +of Coles, which Sir G. Carteret, Sir R. Slingsby, and myself sent for, +which is 10 Chaldron, 8 of which I took in, and with the other to repay +Sir W. Pen what I borrowed of him a little while ago. So that from this +day I should see how long 10 chaldron of coals will serve my house, if it +please the Lord to let me live to see them burned. In the afternoon by +appointment to meet Dr. Williams and his attorney, and they and I to Tom +Trice, and there got him in discourse to confess the words that he had +said that his mother did desire him not to see my uncle about her L200 +bond while she was alive. Here we were at high words with T. Trice and +then parted, and we to Standing's, in Fleet Street, where we sat and drank +and talked a great while about my going down to Gravely Court, + + [The manorial court of Graveley, in Huntingdonshire, to which + Impington owed suit or service, and under which the Pepys's copyhold + estates were held. See July 8th, 1661, ante.--B.] + +which will be this week, whereof the Doctor had notice in a letter from +his sister this week. In the middle of our discourse word was brought me +from my brother's that there is a fellow come from my father out of the +country, on purpose to speak to me, so I went to him and he made a story +how he had lost his letter, but he was sure it was for me to go into the +country, which I believed, and thought it might be to give me notice of +Gravely Court, but I afterwards found that it was a rogue that did use to +play such tricks to get money of people, but he got none of me. At night +I went home, and there found letters-from my father informing me of the +Court, and that I must come down and meet him at Impington, which I +presently resolved to do, + +17th. And the next morning got up, telling my wife of my journey, and she +with a few words got me to hire her a horse to go along with me. So I +went to my Lady's and elsewhere to take leave, and of Mr. Townsend did +borrow a very fine side-saddle for my wife; and so after all things were +ready, she and I took coach to the end of the town towards Kingsland, and +there got upon my horse and she upon her pretty mare that I hired for her, +and she rides very well. By the mare at one time falling she got a fall, +but no harm; so we got to Ware, and there supped, and to bed very merry +and pleasant. + +18th. The next morning up early and begun our march; the way about +Puckridge--[Puckeridge, a village in Hertfordshire six and a half miles +N.N.E, of Ware.]--very bad, and my wife, in the very last dirty place of +all, got a fall, but no hurt, though some dirt. At last she begun, poor +wretch, to be tired, and I to be angry at it, but I was to blame; for she +is a very good companion as long as she is well. In the afternoon we got +to Cambridge, where I left my wife at my cozen Angier's while I went to +Christ's College, and there found my brother in his chamber, and talked +with him; and so to the barber's, and then to my wife again, and remounted +for Impington, where my uncle received me and my wife very kindly. And by +and by in comes my father, and we supped and talked and were merry, but +being weary and sleepy my wife and I to bed without talking with my father +anything about our business. + +19th. Up early, and my father and I alone into the garden, and there +talked about our business, and what to do therein. So after I had talked +and advised with my coz Claxton, and then with my uncle by his bedside, we +all horsed away to Cambridge, where my father and I, having left my wife +at the Beare with my brother, went to Mr. Sedgewicke, the steward of +Gravely, and there talked with him, but could get little hopes from +anything that he would tell us; but at last I did give him a fee, and then +he was free to tell me what I asked, which was something, though not much +comfort. From thence to our horses, and with my wife went and rode +through Sturbridge + + [Sturbridge fair is of great antiquity. The first trace of it is + found in a charter granted about 1211 by King John to the Lepers of + the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen at Sturbridge by Cambridge, a fair + to be held in the close of the hospital on the vigil and feast of + the Holy Cross (see Cornelius Walford's "Fairs Past and Present," + 1883, p. 54).] + +but the fair was almost done. So we did not 'light there at all, but went +back to Cambridge, and there at the Beare we had some herrings, we and my +brother, and after dinner set out for Brampton, where we come in very good +time, and found all things well, and being somewhat weary, after some talk +about tomorrow's business with my father, we went to bed. + +20th. Will Stankes and I set out in the morning betimes for Gravely, +where to an ale-house and drank, and then, going towards the Court House, +met my uncle Thomas and his son Thomas, with Bradly, the rogue that had +betrayed us, and one Young, a cunning fellow, who guides them. There +passed no unkind words at all between us, but I seemed fair and went to +drink with them. I said little till by and by that we come to the Court, +which was a simple meeting of a company of country rogues, with the +Steward, and two Fellows of Jesus College, that are lords of the town +where the jury were sworn; and I producing no surrender, though I told +them I was sure there is and must be one somewhere, they found my uncle +Thomas heir at law, as he is, and so, though I did tell him and his son +that they would find themselves abused by these fellows, and did advise +them to forbear being admitted this Court (which they could have done, but +that these rogues did persuade them to do it now), my uncle was admitted, +and his son also, in reversion after his father, which he did well in to +secure his money. The father paid a year and a half for his fine, and the +son half a year, in all L48, besides about L3 fees; so that I do believe +the charges of his journeys, and what he gives those two rogues, and other +expenses herein, cannot be less than L70, which will be a sad thing for +them if a surrender be found. After all was done, I openly wished them +joy in it, and so rode to Offord with them and there parted fairly without +any words. I took occasion to bid them money for their half acre of land, +which I had a mind to do that in the surrender I might secure Piggott's, +which otherwise I should be forced to lose. So with Stankes home and +supped, and after telling my father how things went, I went to bed with my +mind in good temper, because I see the matter and manner of the Court and +the bottom of my business, wherein I was before and should always have +been ignorant. + +21st. All the morning pleasing myself with my father, going up and down +the house and garden with my father and my wife, contriving some +alterations. After dinner (there coming this morning my aunt Hanes and +her son from London, that is to live with my father) I rode to Huntingdon, +where I met Mr. Philips, and there put my Bugden + + [Bugden, or Buckden, a village and parish in the St. Neots district + of Huntingdonshire, four miles S.W. of Huntingdon.] + +matter in order against the Court, and so to Hinchingbroke, where Mr. +Barnwell shewed me the condition of the house, which is yet very backward, +and I fear will be very dark in the cloyster when it is done. So home and +to supper and to bed, very pleasant and quiet. + +22nd (Lord's day). Before church time walking with my father in the +garden contriving. So to church, where we had common prayer, and a dull +sermon by one Mr. Case, who yet I heard sing very well. So to dinner, and +busy with my father about his accounts all the afternoon, and people came +to speak with us about business. Mr. Barnwell at night came and supped +with us. So after setting matters even with my father and I, to bed. + +23rd. Up, and sad to hear my father and mother wrangle as they used to do +in London, of which I took notice to both, and told them that I should +give over care for anything unless they would spend what they have with +more love and quiet. So (John Bowles coming to see us before we go) we +took horse and got early to Baldwick; where there was a fair, and we put +in and eat a mouthfull of pork, which they made us pay 14d. for, which +vexed us much. And so away to Stevenage, and staid till a showre was +over, and so rode easily to Welling, where we supped well, and had two +beds in the room and so lay single, and still remember it that of all the +nights that ever I slept in my life I never did pass a night with more +epicurism of sleep; there being now and then a noise of people stirring +that waked me, and then it was a very rainy night, and then I was a little +weary, that what between waking and then sleeping again, one after +another, I never had so much content in all my life, and so my wife says +it was with her. + +24th. We rose, and set forth, but found a most sad alteration in the road +by reason of last night's rains, they being now all dirty and washy, +though not deep. So we rode easily through, and only drinking at +Holloway, at the sign of a woman with cakes in one hand and a pot of ale +in the other, which did give good occasion of mirth, resembling her to the +maid that served us, we got home very timely and well, and finding there +all well, and letters from sea, that speak of my Lord's being well, and +his action, though not considerable of any side, at Argier.--[Algiers]--I +went straight to my Lady, and there sat and talked with her, and so home +again, and after supper we to bed somewhat weary, hearing of nothing ill +since my absence but my brother Tom, who is pretty well though again. + +25th. By coach with Sir W. Pen to Covent Garden. By the way, upon my +desire, he told me that I need not fear any reflection upon my Lord for +their ill success at Argier, for more could not be done than was done. I +went to my cozen, Thos. Pepys, there, and talked with him a good while +about our country business, who is troubled at my uncle Thomas his folly, +and so we parted; and then meeting Sir R. Slingsby in St. Martin's Lane, +he and I in his coach through the Mewes, which is the way that now all +coaches are forced to go, because of a stop at Charing Cross, by reason of +a drain there to clear the streets. To Whitehall, and there to Mr. +Coventry, and talked with him, and thence to my Lord Crew's and dined with +him, where I was used with all imaginable kindness both from him and her. +And I see that he is afraid that my Lord's reputacon will a little suffer +in common talk by this late success; but there is no help for it now. The +Queen of England (as she is now owned and called) I hear doth keep open +Court, and distinct at Lisbon. Hence, much against my nature and will, +yet such is the power of the Devil over me I could not refuse it, to the +Theatre, and saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor," ill done. And that ended, +with Sir W. Pen and Sir G. More to the tavern, and so home with him by +coach, and after supper to prayers and to bed. In full quiet of mind as +to thought, though full of business, blessed be God. + +26th. At the office all the morning, so dined at home, and then abroad +with my wife by coach to the Theatre to shew her "King and no King," it +being very well done. And so by coach, though hard to get it, being +rainy, home. So to my chamber to write letters and the journal for these +six last days past. + +27th. By coach to Whitehall with my wife (where she went to see Mrs. +Pierce, who was this day churched, her month of childbed being out). I +went to Mrs. Montagu and other businesses, and at noon met my wife at the +Wardrobe; and there dined, where we found Captain Country (my little +Captain that I loved, who carried me to the Sound), come with some grapes +and millons + + [The antiquity of the cultivation of the melon is very remote. Both + the melon (cucaimis melo) and the water-melon (cucumis citrullus) + were introduced into England at the end of the sixteenth century. + See vol. i., p. 228.] + +from my Lord at Lisbon, the first that ever I saw any, and my wife and I +eat some, and took some home; but the grapes are rare things. Here we +staid; and in the afternoon comes Mr. Edwd. Montagu (by appointment this +morning) to talk with my Lady and me about the provisions fit to be +bought, and sent to my Lord along with him. And told us, that we need not +trouble ourselves how to buy them, for the King would pay for all, and +that he would take care to get them: which put my Lady and me into a great +deal of ease of mind. Here we staid and supped too, and, after my wife +had put up some of the grapes in a basket for to be sent to the King, we +took coach and home, where we found a hampire of millons sent to me also. + +28th. At the office in the morning, dined at home, and then Sir W. Pen +and his daughter and I and my wife to the Theatre, and there saw "Father's +own Son," a very good play, and the first time I ever saw it, and so at +night to my house, and there sat and talked and drank and merrily broke +up, and to bed. + +29th (Lord's day). To church in the morning, and so to dinner, and Sir W. +Pen and daughter, and Mrs. Poole, his kinswoman, Captain Poole's wife, +came by appointment to dinner with us, and a good dinner we had for them, +and were very merry, and so to church again, and then to Sir W. Pen's and +there supped, where his brother, a traveller, and one that speaks Spanish +very well, and a merry man, supped with us, and what at dinner and supper +I drink I know not how, of my own accord, so much wine, that I was even +almost foxed, and my head aked all night; so home and to bed, without +prayers, which I never did yet, since I came to the house, of a Sunday +night: I being now so out of order that I durst not read prayers, for fear +of being perceived by my servants in what case I was. So to bed. + +30th. This morning up by moon-shine, at 5 o'clock, to White Hall, to meet +Mr. Moore at the Privy Seal, but he not being come as appointed, I went +into King Street to the Red Lyon' to drink my morning draft, and there I +heard of a fray between the two Embassadors of Spain and France; and that, +this day, being the day of the entrance of an Embassador from Sweden, they +intended to fight for the precedence! Our King, I heard, ordered that no +Englishman should meddle in the business, + + [The Comte de Brienne insinuates, in his "Memoirs," that Charles + purposely abstained from interfering, in the belief that it was for + his interest to let France and Spain quarrel, in order to further + his own designs in the match with Portugal. Louis certainly held + that opinion; and he afterwards instructed D'Estrades to solicit + from the English court the punishment of those Londoners who had + insulted his ambassador, and to demand the dismissal of De + Batteville. Either no Londoner had interfered, or Louis's demand + had not in England the same force as in Spain; for no one was + punished. The latter part of his request it was clearly not for + Charles to entertain, much less enforce.--B.] + +but let them do what they would. And to that end all the soldiers in the +town were in arms all the day long, and some of the train-bands in the +City; and a great bustle through the City all the day. Then I to the +Privy Seal, and there Mr. Moore and a gentleman being come with him, we +took coach (which was the business I come for) to Chelsy, to my Lord Privy +Seal, and there got him to seal the business. Here I saw by day-light two +very fine pictures in the gallery, that a little while ago I saw by night; +and did also go all over the house, and found it to be the prettiest +contrived house that ever I saw in my life. So to coach back again; and +at White Hall light, and saw the soldiers and people running up and down +the streets. So I went to the Spanish Embassador's and the French, and +there saw great preparations on both sides; but the French made the most +noise and vaunted most, the other made no stir almost at all; so that I +was afraid the other would have had too great a conquest over them. Then +to the Wardrobe, and dined there, end then abroad and in Cheapside hear +that the Spanish hath got the best of it, and killed three of the French +coach-horses and several men, and is gone through the City next to our +King's coach; at which, it is strange to see how all the City did rejoice. +And indeed we do naturally all love the Spanish, and hate the French. But +I, as I am in all things curious, presently got to the water-side, and +there took oars to Westminster Palace, thinking to have seen them come in +thither with all the coaches, but they being come and returned, I ran +after them with my boy after me through all the dirt and the streets full +of people; till at last, at the Mewes, I saw the Spanish coach go, with +fifty drawn swords at least to guard it, and our soldiers shouting for +joy. And so I followed the coach, and then met it at York House, where +the embassador lies; and there it went in with great state. So then I went +to the French house, where I observe still, that there is no men in the +world of a more insolent spirit where they do well, nor before they begin +a matter, and more abject if they do miscarry, than these people are; for +they all look like dead men, and not a word among them, but shake their +heads. The truth is, the Spaniards were not only observed to fight most +desperately, but also they did outwitt them; first in lining their own +harness with chains of iron that they could not be cut, then in setting +their coach in the most advantageous place, and to appoint men to guard +every one of their horses, and others for to guard the coach, and others +the coachmen. And, above all, in setting upon the French horses and +killing them, for by that means the French were not able to stir. There +were several men slain of the French, and one or two of the Spaniards, and +one Englishman by a bullet. Which is very observable, the French were at +least four to one in number, and had near 100 case of pistols among them, +and the Spaniards had not one gun among them; which is for their honour +for ever, and the others' disgrace. So, having been very much daubed with +dirt, I got a coach, and home where I vexed my wife in telling of her this +story, and pleading for the Spaniards against the French. So ends this +month; myself and family in good condition of health, but my head full of +my Lord's and my own and the office business; where we are now very busy +about the business of sending forces to Tangier, + + [This place so often mentioned, was first given up to the English + fleet under Lord Sandwich, by the Portuguese, January 30th, 1662; + and Lord Peterborough left governor, with a garrison. The greatest + pains were afterwards taken to preserve the fortress, and a fine + mole was constructed at a vast expense, to improve the harbour. At + length, after immense sums of money had been wasted there, the House + of Commons expressed a dislike to the management of the garrison, + which they suspected to be a nursery for a popish army, and seemed + disinclined to maintain it any longer. The king consequently, in + 1683, sent Lord Dartmouth to bring home the troops, and destroy the + works; which he performed so effectually, that it would puzzle all + our engineers to restore the harbour. It were idle to speculate on + the benefits which might have accrued to England, by its + preservation and retention; Tangier fell into the hands of the + Moors, its importance having ceased, with the demolition of the + mole. Many curious views of Tangier were taken by Hollar, during + its occupation by the English; and his drawings are preserved in the + British Museum. Some have been engraved by himself; but the + impressions are of considerable rarity.--B.] + +and the fleet to my Lord of Sandwich, who is now at Lisbon to bring over +the Queen, who do now keep a Court as Queen of England. The business of +Argier hath of late troubled me, because my Lord hath not done what he +went for, though he did as much as any man in the world could have done. +The want of money puts all things, and above all things the Nary, out of +order; and yet I do not see that the King takes care to bring in any +money, but thinks of new designs to lay out money. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER + 1661 + +October 1st. This morning my wife and I lay long in bed, and among other +things fell into talk of musique, and desired that I would let her learn +to sing, which I did consider, and promised her she should. So before I +rose, word was brought me that my singing master, Mr. Goodgroome, was come +to teach me and so she rose and this morning began to learn also. To the +office, where busy all day. So to dinner and then to the office again +till night, and then to my study at home to set matters and papers in +order, which, though I can hardly bring myself to do, yet do please me +much when it is done. So eat a bit of bread and cheese, and to bed. + +2nd. All this morning at Pegg Kite's with my uncle Fenner, and two +friends of his, appraising her goods that her mother has left; but the +slut is like to prove so troublesome that I am out of heart with troubling +myself in her business. After we had done we all went to a cook's shop in +Bishopsgate Street and dined, and then I took them to the tavern and did +give them a quart of sack, and so parted. I home and then took my wife +out, and in a coach of a gentlewoman's that had been to visit my Lady +Batten and was going home again our way, we went to the Theatre, but +coming late, and sitting in an ill place, I never had so little pleasure +in a play in my life, yet it was the first time that ever I saw it, +"Victoria Corombona." Methinks a very poor play. Then at night troubled +to get my wife home, it being very dark, and so we were forced to have a +coach. So to supper and to bed. + +3rd. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and in the afternoon +Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I went to Tower Hill to meet with a man, +and so back all three to my house, and there I signed a bond to Mr. +Battersby, a friend of Mr. Moore's, who lends me L50, the first money that +ever I borrowed upon bond for my own occasion, and so I took them to the +Mitre and a Portugal millon with me; there sat and discoursed in matters +of religion till night with great pleasure, and so parted, and I home, +calling at Sir W. Batten's, where his son and his wife were, who had +yesterday been at the play where we were, and it was good sport to hear +how she talked of it with admiration like a fool. So home, and my head +was not well with the wine that I drank to-day. + +4th. By coach to White Hall with Sir W. Pen. So to Mr. Montagu, where +his man, Mons. Eschar, makes a great com plaint against the English, that +they did help the Spaniards against the French the other day; and that +their Embassador do demand justice of our King, and that he do resolve to +be gone for France the next week; which I, and all that I met with, are +very glad of. Thence to Paternoster Row, where my Will did receive the +L50 I borrowed yesterday. I to the Wardrobe to dinner, and there staid +most of the afternoon very merry with the ladies. Then Captain Ferrers +and I to the Theatre, and there came too late, so we staid and saw a bit +of "Victoria," which pleased me worse than it did the other day. So we +staid not to see it out, but went out and drank a bottle or two of China +ale, and so home, where I found my wife vexed at her people for grumbling +to eat Suffolk cheese, which I also am vexed at. So to bed. + +5th. At the office all the morning, then dined at home, and so staid at +home all the afternoon putting up my Lord's model of the Royal James, +which I borrowed of him long ago to hang up in my room. And at night Sir +W. Pen and I alone to the Dolphin, and there eat some bloat-herrings + + [To bloat is to dry by smoke, a method chiefly used to cure herrings + or bloaters. "I have more smoke in my mouth than would blote a + hundred herrings."--Beaumont and Fletcher, Island Princess. "Why, + you stink like so many bloat-herrings newly taken out of the + chimney."--Ben Jonson, "Masque of Augurs."] + +and drank good sack. Then came in Sir W. Warren and another and staid a +while with us, and then Sir Arnold Brames, with whom we staid late and +till we had drank too much wine. So home and I to bed pleased at my +afternoon's work in hanging up the shipp. So to bed. + +6th (Lord's day). To church in the morning; Mr. Mills preached, who, I +expect, should take in snuffe [anger] that my wife not come to his child's +christening the other day. The winter coming on, many of parish ladies +are come home and appear at church again; among others, the three sisters +the Thornbury's, a very fine, and the most zealous people that ever I saw +in my life, even to admiration, if it were true zeal. There was also my +pretty black girl, Mrs. Dekins, and Mrs. Margaret Pen, this day come to +church in a new flowered satin suit that my wife helped to buy her the +other day. So me to dinner, and to church in the afternoon to St. +Gregory's, by Paul's, where I saw Mr. Moose in the gallery and went up to +him and heard a good sermon of Dr. Buck's, one I never heard before, a +very able man. So home, and in the evening I went to my Valentine, her +father and mother being out of town, to fetch her to supper to my house, +and then came Sir W. Pen and would have her to his, so with much sport I +got them all to mine, and we were merry, and so broke up and to bed. + +7th. Up in the morning and to my uncle Fenner's, thinking to have met Peg +Kite about her business but she comes not, so I went to Dr. Williams, +where I found him sick in bed and was sorry for it. So about business all +day, troubled in my mind till I can hear from Brampton, how things go on +at Sturtlow, at the Court, which I was cleared in at night by a letter, +which tells me that my cozen Tom was there to be admitted, in his father's +name, as heir-at-law, but that he was opposed, and I was admitted by +proxy, which put me out of great trouble of mind. + +8th. At the office all the morning. After office done, went and eat some +Colchester oysters with Sir W. Batten at his house, and there, with some +company; dined and staid there talking all the afternoon; and late after +dinner took Mrs. Martha out by coach, and carried her to the Theatre in a +frolique, to my great expense, and there shewed her part of the "Beggar's +Bush," without much pleasure, but only for a frolique, and so home again. + +9th. This morning went out about my affairs, among others to put my +Theorbo out to be mended, and then at noon home again, thinking to go with +Sir Williams both to dinner by invitation to Sir W. Rider's, but at home I +found Mrs. Pierce, la belle, and Madam Clifford, with whom I was forced to +stay, and made them the most welcome I could; and I was (God knows) very +well pleased with their beautiful company, and after dinner took them to +the Theatre, and shewed them "The Chances;" and so saw them both at home +and back to the Fleece tavern, in Covent Garden, where Luellin and +Blurton, and my old friend Frank Bagge, was to meet me, and there staid +till late very merry. Frank Bagge tells me a story of Mrs. Pepys that +lived with my Lady Harvy, Mr. Montagu's sister, a good woman; that she +had been very ill, and often asked for me; that she is in good condition, +and that nobody could get her to make her will; but that she did still +enquire for me, and that now she is well she desires to have a chamber at +my house. Now I do not know whether this is a trick of Bagge's, or a good +will of hers to do something for me; but I will not trust her, but told +him I should be glad to see her, and that I would be sure to do all that I +could to provide a place for her. So by coach home late. + +10th. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and after dinner Sir +W. Pen and my wife and I to the Theatre (she first going into Covent +Garden to speak a word with a woman to enquire of her mother, and I in the +meantime with Sir W. Pen's coach staying at W. Joyce's), where the King +came to-day, and there was "The Traytor" most admirably acted; and a most +excellent play it is. So home, and intended to be merry, it being my +sixth wedding night; but by a late bruise . . . . I am in so much pain +that I eat my supper and in pain to bed, yet my wife and I pretty merry. + +11th: All day in bed with a cataplasm . . . . and at night rose a +little, and to bed again in more ease than last night. This noon there +came my brother and Dr. Tom and Snow to dinner, and by themselves were +merry. + +12th. In bed the greatest part of this day also, and my swelling in some +measure gone. I received a letter this day from my father, that Sir R. +Bernard do a little fear that my uncle has not observed exactly the custom +of Brampton in his will about his lands there, which puts me to a great +trouble in mind, and at, night wrote to him and to my father about it, +being much troubled at it. + +13th (Lord's day). Did not stir out all day, but rose and dined below, +and this day left off half skirts and put on a wastecoate, and my false +taby wastecoate with gold lace; and in the evening there came Sir W. +Batten to see me, and sat and supped very kindly with me, and so to +prayers and to bed. + +14th. This morning I ventured by water abroad to Westminster, but lost my +labour, for Mr. Montagu was not in town. So to the Wardrobe, and there +dined with my Lady, which is the first time I have seen her dine abroad +since her being brought to bed of my Lady Katherine. In the afternoon +Captain Ferrers and I walked abroad to several places, among others to Mr. +Pim's, my Lord's Taylour's, and there he went out with us to the Fountain +tavern and did give us store of wine, and it being the Duke of York's +birthday, we drank the more to his health. But, Lord! what a sad story he +makes of his being abused by a Dr. of Physique who is in one part of the +tenement wherein he dwells. It would make one laugh, though I see he is +under a great trouble in it. Thence home by link and found a good answer +from my father that Sir R. Bernard do clear all things as to us and our +title to Brampton, which puts my heart in great ease and quiet. + +15th. At the office all the morning, and in the afternoon to Paul's +Churchyard to a blind place, where Mrs. Goldsborough was to meet me (who +dare not be known where she lives) to treat about the difference which +remains between my uncle and her. But, Lord! to hear how she talks and +how she rails against my uncle would make one mad. But I seemed not to be +troubled at it, but would indeed gladly have an agreement with her. So I +appoint Mr. Moore and she another against Friday next to look into our +papers and to see what can be done to conclude the matter. So home in +much pain by walking too much yesterday . . . . which much troubles +me. + +16th. In bed till 12 o'clock. This morning came several maids to my wife +to be hired, and at last she pitched upon one Nell, whose mother, an old +woman, came along with her, but would not be hired under half a year, +which I am pleased at their drollness. This day dined by appointment with +me, Dr. Thos. Pepys and my Coz: Snow, and my brother Tom, upon a fin of +ling and some sounds, neither of which did I ever know before, but most +excellent meat they are both, that in all my life I never eat the like +fish. So after dinner came in W. Joyce and eat and drank and were merry. +So up to my chamber, and put all my papers, at rights, and in the evening +our maid Mary. (who was with us upon trial for a month) did take leave of +us, going as we suppose to be married, for the maid liked us and we her, +but all she said was that she had a mind to live in a tradesman's house +where there was but one maid. So to supper and to bed. + +17th. At the office all the morning, at noon my wife being gone to my coz +Snow's with Dr. Thomas Pepys and my brother Tom to a venison pasty (which +proved a pasty of salted pork); by appointment I went with Captain David +Lambert to the Exchequer, and from thence by appointment he and I were to +meet at a cook's shop to dine. But before I went to him Captain. Cock, a +merchant I had not long known, took me to the Sun tavern and gave me a +glass of sack, and being a man of great observation and repute, did tell +me that he was confident that the Parliament, when it comes the next month +to sit again, would bring trouble with it, and enquire how the King had +disposed of offices and money, before they will raise more; which, I fear, +will bring all things to ruin again. Thence to the Cook's and there dined +with Captain Lambert and his father-in-law, and had much talk of +Portugall; from whence he is lately come, and he tells me it is a very +poor dirty place; I mean the City and Court of Lisbon; that the King is a +very rude and simple fellow; and, for reviling of somebody a little while +ago, and calling of him cuckold, was run into . . . . with a sword and +had been killed, had he not told them that he was their king. That there +are there no glass windows, nor will they have any; which makes sport +among our merchants there to talk of an English factor that, being newly +come thither, writ into England that glass would be a good commodity to +send thither, &c. That the King has his meat sent up by a dozen of lazy +guards and in pipkins, sometimes, to his own table; and sometimes nothing +but fruits, and, now and then, half a hen. And now that the Infanta is +become our Queen, she is come to have a whole hen or goose to her table, +which is not ordinary. So home and to look over my papers that concern +the difference between Mrs. Goldsborough and us; which cost me much pains, +but contented me much after it was done. So at home all the evening and +to supper and to bed. + +18th. To White Hall, to Mr. Montagu's, where I met with Mr. Pierce, the +purser, to advise about the things to be sent to my Lord for the Queen's +provision, and was cleared in it, and now there is all haste made, for the +fleet's going. At noon to my Lord's to dinner, and in the afternoon, +leaving my wife there, Mr. Moore and I to Mrs. Goldsborough, who sent for +a friend to meet with us, and so we were talking about the difference +between us till 10 at night. I find it very troublesome, and have brought +it into some hopes of an agreement, I offering to forgive her L10 that is +yet due according to my uncle's accounts to us. So we left her friend to +advise about it, and I hope to hear of her, for I would not by any means +go to law with a woman of so devilish a tongue as she has. So to my +Lady's, where I left my wife to lie with Mademoiselle all night, and I by +link home and to bed. This night lying alone, and the weather cold, and +having this last 7 or 8 days been troubled with a tumor . . . which is +now abated by a poultice of a good handful of bran with half a pint of +vinegar and a pint of water boiled till it be thick, and then a spoonful +of honey put to it and so spread in a cloth and laid to it, I first put on +my waistcoat to lie in all night this year, and do not intend to put it +off again till spring. I met with complaints at home that my wife left no +victuals for them all this day. + +19th. At the office all the morning, and at noon Mr. Coventry, who sat +with us all the morning, and Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen, and myself,. by +coach to Captain Marshe's, at Limehouse, to a house that hath been their +ancestors for this 250 years, close by the lime-house which gives the name +to the place. Here they have a design to get the King to hire a dock for +the herring busses, which is now the great design on foot, to lie up in. +We had a very good and handsome dinner, and excellent wine. I not being +neat in clothes, which I find a great fault in me, could not be so merry +as otherwise, and at all times I am and can be, when I am in good habitt, +which makes me remember my father Osborne's' rule for a gentleman to spare +in all things rather than in that. So by coach home, and so to write +letters by post, and so to bed. + +20th (Lord's day). At home in bed all the morning to ease my late tumour, +but up to dinner and much offended in mind at a proud trick my man Will +hath got, to keep his hat on in the house, but I will not speak of it to +him to-day; but I fear I shall be troubled with his pride and laziness, +though in other things he is good enough. To church in the afternoon, +where a sleepy Presbyter preached, and then to Sir W. Batten who is to go +to Portsmouth to-morrow to wait upon the Duke of York, who goes to take +possession and to set in order the garrison there. Supped at home and to +bed. + +21st. Early with Mr. Moore by coach to Chelsy, to my Lord Privy Seal's, +but have missed of coming time enough; and having taken up Mr. Pargiter, +the goldsmith (who is the man of the world that I do most know and believe +to be a cheating rogue), we drank our morning draft there together of cake +and ale, and did make good sport of his losing so much by the King's +coming in, he having bought much of Crown lands, of which, God forgive me! +I am very glad. At Whitehall, at the Privy Seal, did with Sir W. Pen take +advice about passing of things of his there that concern his matters of +Ireland. Thence to the Wardrobe and dined, and so against my judgment and +conscience (which God forgive, for my very heart knows that I offend God +in breaking my vows herein) to the Opera, which is now newly begun to act +again, after some alteracion of their scene, which do make it very much +worse; but the play, "Love and Honour," being the first time of their +acting it, is a very good plot, and well done. So on foot home, and after +a little business done in my study and supper, to bed. + +22nd. At the office all the morning, where we had a deputation from the +Duke in his absence, he being gone to Portsmouth, for us to have the whole +disposal and ordering of the Fleet. In the afternoon about business up +and down, and at night to visit Sir R. Slingsby, who is fallen sick of +this new disease, an ague and fever. So home after visiting my aunt Wight +and Mrs. Norbury (who continues still a very pleasant lady), and to +supper, and so to bed. + +23rd. To Whitehall, and there, to drink our morning, Sir W. Pen and I to +a friend's lodging of his (Col. Pr. Swell), and at noon he and I dined +together alone at the Legg in King Street, and so by coach to Chelsy to my +Lord Privy Seal's about business of Sir William's, in which we had a fair +admittance to talk with my Lord, and had his answer, and so back to the +Opera, and there I saw again "Love and Honour," and a very good play it +is. And thence home, calling by the way to see Sir Robert Slingsby, who +continues ill, and so home. This day all our office is invited against +Tuesday next, my Lord Mayor's day, to dinner with him at Guildhall. This +evening Mr. Holliard came and sat with us, and gave us both directions to +observe. + +24th. At the office all morning, at noon Luellin dined with me, and then +abroad to Fleet Street, leaving my wife at Tom's while I went out and did +a little business. So home again, and went to see Sir Robert [Slingsby], +who continues ill, and this day has not spoke at all, which makes them all +afeard of him. So home. + +25th. To Whitehall, and so to dinner at the Wardrobe, where my wife met +me, and there we met with a venison pasty, and my Lady very merry and very +handsome, methought. After dinner my wife and I to the Opera, and there +saw again "Love and Honour," a play so good that it has been acted but +three times and I have seen them all, and all in this week; which is too +much, and more than I will do again a good while. Coming out of the house +we met Mrs. Pierce and her comrade Mrs. Clifford, and I seeming willing to +stay with them to talk my wife grew angry, and whether she be jealous or +no I know, not, but she loves not that I should speak of Mrs. Pierce. +Home on foot very discontented, in my way I calling at the Instrument +maker, Hunt's, and there saw my lute, which is now almost done, it being +to have a new neck to it and to be made to double strings. So home and to +bed. This day I did give my man Will a sound lesson about his forbearing +to give us the respect due to a master and mistress. + +26th. This morning Sir W. Pen and I should have gone out of town with my +Lady Batten, to have met Sir William coming back from Portsmouth; at +Kingston, but could not, by reason that my Lord of Peterborough (who is to +go Governor of Tangier) came this morning, with Sir G. Carteret, to advise +with us about completing of the affairs and preparacions for that place. +So at the office all the morning, and in the afternoon Sir W. Pen, my wife +and I to the Theatre, and there saw "The Country Captain," the first time +it hath been acted this twenty-five years, a play of my Lord Newcastle's, +but so silly a play as in all my life I never saw, and the first that ever +I was weary of in my life. So home again, and in the evening news was +brought that Sir R. Slingsby, our Comptroller (who hath this day been sick +a week), is dead; which put me into so great a trouble of mind, that all +the night I could not sleep, he being a man that loved me, and had many +qualitys that made me to love him above all the officers and commissioners +in the Navy. Coming home we called at Dan Rawlinson's; and there drank +good sack, and so home. + +27th (Lord's day). At church in the morning; where in the pew both Sir +Williams and I had much talk about the death of Sir Robert, which troubles +me much; and them in appearance, though I do not believe it; because I +know that he was a cheque to their engrossing the whole trade of the Navy +office. Home to dinner, and in the afternoon to church again, my wife +with me, whose mourning is now grown so old that I am ashamed to go to +church with her. And after church to see my uncle and aunt Wight, and +there staid and talked and supped with them, and were merry as we could be +in their company. Among other things going up into their chamber to see +their two pictures, which I am forced to commend against my judgment, and +also she showed us her cabinet, where she had very pretty medals and good +jewels. So home and to prayers and to bed. + +28th. At the office all the morning, and dined at home, and so to Paul's +Churchyard to Hunt's, and there found my Theorbo done, which pleases me +very well, and costs me 26s. to the altering. But now he tells me it is +as good a lute as any is in England, and is worth well L10. Hither I sent +for Captain Ferrers to me, who comes with a friend of his, and they and I +to the Theatre, and there saw "Argalus and Parthenia," where a woman acted +Parthenia, and came afterwards on the stage in men's clothes, and had the +best legs that ever I saw, and I was very well pleased with it. Thence to +the Ringo alehouse, and thither sent for a belt-maker, and bought of him a +handsome belt for second mourning, which cost me 24s., and is very neat. + +29th. This day I put on my half cloth black stockings and my new coat of +the fashion, which pleases me well, and with my beaver I was (after office +was done) ready to go to my Lord Mayor's feast, as we are all invited; but +the Sir Williams were both loth to go, because of the crowd, and so none +of us went, and I staid and dined with them, and so home, and in evening, +by consent, we met at the Dolphin, where other company came to us, and +should have been merry, but their wine was so naught, and all other things +out of order, that we were not so, but staid long at night, and so home +and to bed. My mind not pleased with the spending of this day, because I +had proposed a great deal of pleasure to myself this day at Guildhall. +This Lord Mayor, it seems, brings up again the Custom of Lord Mayors going +the day of their installment to Paul's, and walking round about the Cross, +and offering something at the altar. + +30th. All the morning at the office. At noon played on my Theorbo, and +much pleased therewith; it is now altered with a new neck. In the +afternoon Captain Lambert called me out by appointment, and we walked +together to Deptford, and there in his ship, the Norwich, I got him to +shew me every hole and corner of the ship, much to my information, and the +purpose of my going. So home again, and at Sir W. Batten's heard how he +had been already at Sir R. Slingsby's, as we were all invited, and I +intended this night to go, and there he finds all things out of order, and +no such thing done to-night, but pretending that the corps stinks, they +will bury it to-night privately, and so will unbespeak all their guests, +and there shall be no funerall, which I am sorry for, that there should be +nothing done for the honour of Sir Robert, but I fear he hath left his +family in great distraction. Here I staid till late at cards with my Lady +and Mrs. Martha, and so home. I sent for a bottle or two of wine thither. +At my coming home I am sorry to find my wife displeased with her maid +Doll, whose fault is that she cannot keep her peace, but will always be +talking in an angry manner, though it be without any reason and to no +purpose, which I am sorry for and do see the inconvenience that do attend +the increase of a man's fortune by being forced to keep more servants, +which brings trouble. Sir Henry Vane, Lambert, and others, are lately +sent suddenly away from the Tower, prisoners to Scilly; but I do not think +there is any plot as is said, but only a pretence; as there was once +pretended often against the Cavaliers. + +31st. This morning comes Prior of Brampton to me about the house he has +to buy of me, but I was forced to be at the office all the morning, and so +could not talk with him. And so, after the office was done, and dined at +home, I went to my brother Tom's, and there met him. He demanded some +abatement, he having agreed with my father for Barton's house, at a price +which I told him I could not meddle with, but that as for anything to +secure his title to them I was ready, and so we parted. Thence to Sir +Robert Bernard, and as his client did ask his advice about my uncle +Thomas's case and ours as to Gravely, and in short he tells me that there +is little hopes of recovering it or saving his annuity, which do trouble +me much, but God's will be done. Hence, with my mind full of trouble, to +my uncle Fenner's, when at the alehouse I found him drinking and very +jolly and youthsome, and as one that I believe will in a little time get a +wife. So home. + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + And so by coach, though hard to get it, being rainy, home + But she loves not that I should speak of Mrs. Pierce + God! what an age is this, and what a world is this + In men's clothes, and had the best legs that ever I saw + Inconvenience that do attend the increase of a man's fortune + Man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation + My head was not well with the wine that I drank to-day + She is a very good companion as long as she is well + So much wine, that I was even almost foxed + Still in discontent with my wife, to bed, and rose so this morn + This day churched, her month of childbed being out + Vices of the Court, and how the pox is so common there + We do naturally all love the Spanish, and hate the French + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, +September/October 1661, by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4129.txt or 4129.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/2/4129/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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