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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 . . . .[One cannot help +curiosity of where a bruise could be that had to be censored out. D.W.] +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 this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v13 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |