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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1663
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+                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.
+                               MAY & JUNE
+                                  1663
+
+
+May 1st.  Up betimes and my father with me, and he and I all the morning
+and Will Stankes private, in my wife's closet above, settling our matters
+concerning our Brampton estate, &c., and I find that there will be, after
+all debts paid within L100, L50 per annum clear coming towards my
+father's maintenance, besides L25 per annum annuities to my Uncle Thomas
+and Aunt Perkins.  Of which, though I was in my mind glad, yet thought it
+not fit to let my father know it thoroughly, but after he had gone out to
+visit my uncle Thomas and brought him to dinner with him, and after
+dinner I got my father, brother Tom, and myself together, I did make the
+business worse to them, and did promise L20 out of my own purse to make
+it L50 a year to my father, propounding that Stortlow may be sold to pay
+L200 for his satisfaction therein and the rest to go towards payment of
+debts and legacies.  The truth is I am fearful lest my father should die
+before debts are paid, and then the land goes to Tom and the burden of
+paying all debts will fall upon the rest of the land.  Not that I would
+do my brother any real hurt.  I advised my father to good husbandry and
+to living within the compass of L50 a year, and all in such kind words,
+as not only made, them but myself to weep, and I hope it will have a good
+effect.  That being done, and all things agreed on, we went down, and
+after a glass of wine we all took horse, and I, upon a horse hired of Mr.
+Game, saw him out of London, at the end of Bishopsgate Street, and so I
+turned and rode, with some trouble, through the fields, and then Holborn,
+&c., towards Hide Park, whither all the world, I think, are going, and in
+my going, almost thither, met W. Howe coming galloping upon a little crop
+black nag; it seems one that was taken in some ground of my Lord's, by
+some mischance being left by his master, a thief; this horse being found
+with black cloth ears on, and a false mayne, having none of his own; and
+I back again with him to the Chequer, at Charing Cross, and there put up
+my own dull jade, and by his advice saddled a delicate stone-horse of
+Captain Ferrers's, and with that rid in state to the Park, where none
+better mounted than I almost, but being in a throng of horses, seeing the
+King's riders showing tricks with their managed horses, which were very
+strange, my stone-horse was very troublesome, and begun to, fight with
+other horses, to the dangering him and myself, and with much ado I got
+out, and kept myself out of harm's way..  Here I saw nothing good,
+neither the King, nor my Lady Castlemaine, nor any great ladies or
+beauties being there, there being more pleasure a great deal at an
+ordinary day; or else those few good faces that there were choked up with
+the many bad ones, there being people of all sorts in coaches there, to
+some thousands, I think.  Going thither in the highway, just by the Park
+gate, I met a boy in a sculler boat, carried by a dozen people at least,
+rowing as hard as he could drive, it seems upon some wager.  By and by,
+about seven or eight o'clock, homeward; and changing my horse again, I
+rode home, coaches going in great crowds to the further end of the town
+almost.  In my way, in Leadenhall Street, there was morris-dancing which
+I have not seen a great while.  So set my horse up at Game's, paying 5s.
+for him.  And so home to see Sir J. Minnes, who is well again, and after
+staying talking with him awhile, I took leave and went to hear Mrs.
+Turner's daughter, at whose house Sir J. Minnes lies, play on the
+harpsicon; but, Lord! it was enough to make any man sick to hear her;
+yet I was forced to commend her highly.  So home to supper and to bed,
+Ashwell playing upon the tryangle very well before I went to bed.  This
+day Captain Grove sent me a side of pork, which was the oddest present,
+sure, that was ever made any man; and the next, I remember I told my
+wife, I believe would be a pound of candles, or a shoulder of mutton; but
+the fellow do it in kindness, and is one I am beholden to.  So to bed
+very weary, and a little galled for lack of riding, praying to God for a
+good journey to my father, of whom I am afeard, he being so lately ill of
+his pain.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Being weary last night, I slept till almost seven o'clock, a thing
+I have not done many a day.  So up and to my office (being come to some
+angry words with my wife about neglecting the keeping of the house clean,
+I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me) and there
+all the morning.  So to the Exchange and then home to dinner, and very
+merry and well pleased with my wife, and so to the office again, where we
+met extraordinary upon drawing up the debts of the Navy to my Lord
+Treasurer.  So rose and up to Sir W. Pen to drink a glass of bad syder in
+his new far low dining room, which is very noble, and so home, where
+Captain Ferrers and his lady are come to see my wife, he being to go the
+beginning of next week to France to sea and I think to fetch over my
+young Lord Hinchinbroke.  They being gone I to my office to write letters
+by the post, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+3rd (Lord's day).  Up before 5 o'clock and alone at setting my Brampton
+papers to rights according to my father's and my computation and
+resolution the other day to my good content, I finding that there will be
+clear saved to us L50 per annum, only a debt of it may be L100.  So made
+myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Pen showed me the young lady
+which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath
+stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth L1000 per annum
+present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome
+lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow.  However, he got this good luck
+to get her, which methinks I could envy him with all my heart.  Home to
+dinner with my wife, who not being very well did not dress herself but
+staid at home all day, and so I to church in the afternoon and so home
+again, and up to teach Ashwell the grounds of time and other things on
+the tryangle, and made her take out a Psalm very well, she having a good
+ear and hand.  And so a while to my office, and then home to supper and
+prayers, to bed, my wife and I having a little falling out because I
+would not leave my discourse below with her and Ashwell to go up and talk
+with her alone upon something she has to say.  She reproached me but I
+had rather talk with any body than her, by which I find I think she is
+jealous of my freedom with Ashwell, which I must avoid giving occasion
+of.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up betimes and to setting my Brampton papers in order and looking
+over my wardrobe against summer, and laying things in order to send to my
+brother to alter.  By and by took boat intending to have gone down to
+Woolwich, but seeing I could not get back time enough to dinner, I
+returned and home.  Whither by and by the dancing-master' came, whom
+standing by, seeing him instructing my wife, when he had done with her,
+he would needs have me try the steps of a coranto, and what with his
+desire and my wife's importunity, I did begin, and then was obliged to
+give him entry-money 10s., and am become his scholler.  The truth is, I
+think it a thing very useful for a gentleman, and sometimes I may have
+occasion of using it, and though it cost me what I am heartily sorry it
+should, besides that I must by my oath give half as much more to the
+poor, yet I am resolved to get it up some other way, and then it will not
+be above a month or two in a year.  So though it be against my stomach
+yet I will try it a little while; if I see it comes to any great
+inconvenience or charge I will fling it off.  After I had begun with the
+steps of half a coranto, which I think I shall learn well enough, he went
+away, and we to dinner, and by and by out by coach, and set my wife down
+at my Lord Crew's, going to see my Lady Jem. Montagu, who is lately come
+to town, and I to St. James's; where Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen and I staid
+a good while for the Duke's coming in, but not coming, we walked to White
+Hall; and meeting the King, we followed him into the Park, where Mr.
+Coventry and he talked of building a new yacht, which the King is
+resolved to have built out of his privy purse, he having some contrivance
+of his own.  The talk being done, we fell off to White Hall, leaving the
+King in the Park, and going back, met the Duke going towards St. James's
+to meet us.  So he turned back again, and to his closett at White Hall;
+and there, my Lord Sandwich present, we did our weekly errand, and so
+broke up; and I down into the garden with my Lord Sandwich (after we had
+sat an hour at the Tangier Committee); and after talking largely of his
+own businesses, we begun to talk how matters are at Court: and though he
+did not flatly tell me any such thing, yet I do suspect that all is not
+kind between the King and the Duke, and that the King's fondness to the
+little Duke do occasion it; and it may be that there is some fear of his
+being made heir to the Crown.  But this my Lord did not tell me, but is
+my guess only; and that my Lord Chancellor is without doubt falling past
+hopes.  He being gone to Chelsey by coach I to his lodgings, where my
+wife staid for me, and she from thence to see Mrs. Pierce and called me
+at Whitehall stairs (where I went before by land to know whether there
+was any play at Court to-night) and there being none she and I to Mr.
+Creed to the Exchange, where she bought something, and from thence by
+water to White Fryars, and wife to see Mrs. Turner, and then came to me
+at my brother's, where I did give him order about my summer clothes, and
+so home by coach, and after supper to bed to my wife, with whom I have
+not lain since I used to lie with my father till to-night.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up betimes and to my office, and there busy all the morning, among
+other things walked a good while up and down with Sir J. Minnes, he
+telling many old stories of the Navy, and of the state of the Navy at the
+beginning of the late troubles, and I am troubled at my heart to think,
+and shall hereafter cease to wonder, at the bad success of the King's
+cause, when such a knave as he (if it be true what he says) had the whole
+management of the fleet, and the design of putting out of my Lord
+Warwick, and carrying the fleet to the King, wherein he failed most
+fatally to the King's ruin.  Dined at home, and after dinner up to try my
+dance, and so to the office again, where we sat all the afternoon.  In
+the evening Deane of Woolwich went home with me and showed me the use of
+a little sliding ruler, less than that I bought the other day, which is
+the same with that, but more portable; however I did not seem to
+understand or even to have seen anything of it before, but I find him an
+ingenious fellow, and a good servant in his place to the King.  Thence to
+my office busy writing letters, and then came Sir W. Warren, staying for
+a letter in his business by the post, and while that was writing he and I
+talked about merchandise, trade, and getting of money.  I made it my
+business to enquire what way there is for a man bred like me to come to
+understand anything of trade.  He did most discretely answer me in all
+things, shewing me the danger for me to meddle either in ships or
+merchandise of any sort or common stocks, but what I have to keep at
+interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit, and once in a little
+while something offers that with ready money you may make use of money to
+good profit.  Wherein I concur much with him, and parted late with great
+pleasure and content in his discourse, and so home to supper and to bed.
+It has been this afternoon very hot and this evening also, and about 11
+at night going to bed it fell a-thundering and lightening, the greatest
+flashes enlightening the whole body of the yard, that ever I saw in my
+life.
+
+
+
+6th.  Up betimes and to my office a good while at my new rulers, then to
+business, and towards noon to the Exchange with Creed, where we met with
+Sir J. Minnes coming in his coach from Westminster, who tells us, in
+great heat, that, by God, the Parliament will make mad work; that they
+will render all men incapable of any military or civil employment that
+have borne arms in the late troubles against the King, excepting some
+persons; which, if it be so, as I hope it is not, will give great cause
+of discontent, and I doubt will have but bad effects.  I left them at the
+Exchange and walked to Paul's Churchyard to look upon a book or two, and
+so back, and thence to the Trinity House, and there dined, where, among
+other discourse worth hearing among the old seamen, they tell us that
+they have catched often in Greenland in fishing whales with the iron
+grapnells that had formerly been struck into their bodies covered over
+with fat; that they have had eleven hogsheads of oyle out of the tongue
+of a whale.  Thence after dinner home to my office, and there busy till
+the evening.  Then home and to supper, and while at supper comes Mr.
+Pembleton, and after supper we up to our dancing room and there danced
+three or four country dances, and after that a practice of my coranto I
+began with him the other day, and I begin to think that I shall be able
+to do something at it in time.  Late and merry at it, and so weary to
+bed.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up betimes and to my office awhile, and then by water with my wife,
+leaving her at the new Exchange, and I to see Dr. Williams, and spoke
+with him about my business with Tom Trice, and so to my brother's, who I
+find very careful now-a-days, more than ordinary in his business and like
+to do well.  From thence to Westminster, and there up and down from the
+Hall to the Lobby, the Parliament sitting.  Sir Thomas Crew this day
+tells me that the Queen, hearing that there was L40,000 per annum brought
+into her account among the other expences of the Crown to the Committee
+of Parliament, she took order to let them know that she hath yet for the
+payment of her whole family received but L4,000, which is a notable act
+of spirit, and I believe is true.  So by coach to my Lord Crew's, and
+there dined with him.  He tells me of the order the House of Commons have
+made for the drawing an Act for the rendering none capable of preferment
+or employment in the State, but who have been loyall and constant to the
+King and Church; which will be fatal to a great many, and makes me doubt
+lest I myself, with all my innocence during the late times, should be
+brought in, being employed in the Exchequer; but, I hope, God will
+provide for me.  This day the new Theatre Royal begins to act with scenes
+the Humourous Lieutenant, but I have not time to see it, nor could stay
+to see my Lady Jemimah lately come to town, and who was here in the
+house, but dined above with her grandmother.  But taking my wife at my
+brother's home by coach, and the officers being at Deptford at a Pay we
+had no office, but I took my wife by water and so spent the evening, and
+so home with great pleasure to supper, and then to bed.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up very early and to my office, there preparing letters to my
+father of great import in the settling of our affairs, and putting him
+upon a way [of] good husbandry, I promising to make out of my own purse
+him up to L50 per annum, till either by my uncle Thomas's death or the
+fall of the Wardrobe place he be otherwise provided.  That done I by
+water to the Strand, and there viewed the Queen-Mother's works at
+Somersett House, and thence to the new playhouse, but could not get in to
+see it.  So to visit my Lady Jemimah, who is grown much since I saw her;
+but lacks mightily to be brought into the fashion of the court to set her
+off: Thence to the Temple, and there sat till one o'clock reading at
+Playford's in Dr. Usher's 'Body of Divinity' his discourse of the
+Scripture, which is as much, I believe, as is anywhere said by any man,
+but yet there is room to cavill, if a man would use no faith to the
+tradition of the Church in which he is born, which I think to be as good
+an argument as most is brought for many things, and it may be for that
+among others.  Thence to my brother's, and there took up my wife and
+Ashwell to the Theatre Royall, being the second day of its being opened.
+The house is made with extraordinary good contrivance, and yet hath some
+faults, as the narrowness of the passages in and out of the Pitt, and the
+distance from the stage to the boxes, which I am confident cannot hear;
+but for all other things it is well, only, above all, the musique being
+below, and most of it sounding under the very stage, there is no hearing
+of the bases at all, nor very well of the trebles, which sure must be
+mended.  The play was "The Humerous Lieutenant," a play that hath little
+good in it, nor much in the very part which, by the King's command, Lacy
+now acts instead of Clun.  In the dance, the tall devil's actions was
+very pretty.  The play being done, we home by water, having been a little
+shamed that my wife and woman were in such a pickle, all the ladies being
+finer and better dressed in the pitt than they used, I think, to be.  To
+my office to set down this day's passage, and, though my oath against
+going to plays do not oblige me against this house, because it was not
+then in being, yet believing that at the time my meaning was against all
+publique houses, I am resolved to deny myself the liberty of two plays at
+Court, which are in arreare to me for the months of March and April,
+which will more than countervail this excess, so that this month of May
+is the first that I must claim a liberty of going to a Court play
+according to my oath.  So home to supper, and at supper comes Pembleton,
+and afterwards we all up to dancing till late, and so broke up and to
+bed, and they say that I am like to make a dancer.
+
+9th.  Up betimes and to my office, whither sooner than ordinary comes Mr.
+Hater desiring to speak a word to me alone, which I was from the disorder
+of his countenance amused at, and so the poor man began telling me that
+by Providence being the last Lord's day at a meeting of some Friends upon
+doing of their duties, they were surprised, and he carried to the
+Counter, but afterwards released; however, hearing that Sir W. Batten do
+hear of [it,] he thought it good to give me an account of it, lest it
+might tend to any prejudice to me.  I was extraordinary surprised with
+it, and troubled for him, knowing that now it is out it is impossible for
+me to conceal it, or keep him in employment under me without danger to
+myself.  I cast about all I could, and did give him the best advice I
+could, desiring to know if I should promise that he would not for the
+time to come commit the same, he told me he desired that I would rather
+forbear to promise that, for he durst not do it, whatever God in His
+providence shall do with him, and that for my part he did bless God and
+thank me for all the love and kindness I have shewed him hitherto.  I
+could not without tears in my eyes discourse with him further, but at
+last did pitch upon telling the truth of the whole to Mr. Coventry as
+soon as I could, and to that end did use means to prevent Sir W. Batten
+(who came to town last night) from going to that end to-day, lest he
+might doe it to Sir G. Carteret or Mr. Coventry before me; which I did
+prevail and kept him at the office all the morning.  At noon dined at
+home with a heavy heart for the poor man, and after dinner went out to my
+brother's, and thence to Westminster, where at Mr. Jervas's, my old
+barber, I did try two or three borders and perriwiggs, meaning to wear
+one; and yet I have no stomach [for it,] but that the pains of keeping my
+hair clean is so great.  He trimmed me, and at last I parted, but my mind
+was almost altered from my first purpose, from the trouble that I foresee
+will be in wearing them also.  Thence by water home and to the office,
+where busy late, and so home to supper and bed, with my mind much
+troubled about T. Hater.
+
+
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Up betimes, and put on a black cloth suit, with white
+lynings under all, as the fashion is to wear, to appear under the
+breeches.  So being ready walked to St. James's, where I sat talking with
+Mr. Coventry, while he made himself ready, about several businesses of
+the Navy, and afterwards, the Duke being gone out, he and I walked to
+White Hall together over the Park, I telling him what had happened to Tom
+Hater, at which he seems very sorry, but tells me that if it is not made
+very publique, it will not be necessary to put him away at present, but
+give him good caution for the time to come.  However, he will speak to
+the Duke about it and know his pleasure.  Parted with him there, and I
+walked back to St. James's, and was there at mass, and was forced in the
+crowd to kneel down; and mass being done, to the King's Head ordinary,
+whither I sent for Mr. Creed and there we dined, where many Parliament-
+men; and most of their talk was about the news from Scotland, that the
+Bishop of Galloway was besieged in his house by some woman, and had like
+to have been outraged, but I know not how he was secured; which is bad
+news, and looks just as it did in the beginning of the late troubles.
+From thence they talked of rebellion; and I perceive they make it their
+great maxime to be sure to master the City of London, whatever comes of
+it or from it.  After that to some other discourse, and, among other
+things, talking of the way of ordinaries, that it is very convenient,
+because a man knows what he hath to pay: one did wish that, among many
+bad, we could learn two good things of France, which were that we would
+not think it below the gentleman, or person of honour at a tavern, to
+bargain for his meat before he eats it; and next, to take no servant
+without certificate from some friend or gentleman of his good behaviour
+and abilities.  Hence with Creed into St. James's Park, and there walked
+all the afternoon, and thence on foot home, and after a little while at
+my office walked in the garden with my wife, and so home to supper, and
+after prayers to bed.  My brother Tom supped with me, and should have
+brought my aunt Ellen with him; she was not free to go abroad.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up betimes, and by water to Woolwich on board the Royall James, to
+see in what dispatch she is to be carried about to Chatham.  So to the
+yard a little, and thence on foot to Greenwich, where going I was set
+upon by a great dogg, who got hold of my garters, and might have done me
+hurt; but, Lord, to see in what a maze I was, that, having a sword about
+me, I never thought of it, or had the heart to make use of it, but might,
+for want of that courage, have been worried.  Took water there and home,
+and both coming and going did con my lesson on my Ruler to measure
+timber, which I think I can well undertake now to do.  At home there
+being Pembleton I danced, and I think shall come on to do something in a
+little time, and after dinner by coach with Sir W. Pen (setting down his
+daughter at Clerkenwell), to St. James's, where we attended the Duke of
+York: and, among other things, Sir G. Carteret and I had a great dispute
+about the different value of the pieces of eight rated by Mr. Creed at
+4s. and 5d., and by Pitts at 4s. and 9d., which was the greatest husbandry
+to the King?  he persisting that the greatest sum was; which is as
+ridiculous a piece of ignorance as could be imagined.  However, it is to
+be argued at the Board, and reported to the Duke next week; which I shall
+do with advantage, I hope.  Thence to the Tangier Committee, where we
+should have concluded in sending Captain Cuttance and the rest to Tangier
+to deliberate upon the design of the Mole before they begin to work upon
+it, but there being not a committee (my Lord intending to be there but
+was taken up at my Lady Castlemayne's) I parted and went homeward, after
+a little discourse with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that my Lady
+Castlemaine hath now got lodgings near the King's chamber at Court; and
+that the other day Dr. Clerke and he did dissect two bodies, a man and a
+woman; before the King, with which the King was highly pleased.  By water
+and called upon Tom Trice by appointment with Dr. Williams, but the Dr.
+did not come, it seems by T. Trice's desire, not thinking he should be at
+leisure.  However, in general we talked of our business, and I do not
+find that he will come to any lower terms than L150, which I think I
+shall not give him but by law, and so we parted, and I called upon Mr.
+Crumlum, and did give him the 10s. remaining, not laid out of the L5 I
+promised him for the school, with which he will buy strings, and golden
+letters upon the books I did give them.  I sat with him and his wife a
+great while talking, and she is [a] pretty woman, never yet with child,
+and methinks looks as if her mouth watered now and then upon some of her
+boys.  Then upon Tom Pepys, the Turner, desiring his father and his
+letter to Piggott signifying his consent to the selling of his land for
+the paying of us his money, and so home, and finding Pembleton there we
+did dance till it was late, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up between four and five, and after dressing myself then to my
+office to prepare business against the afternoon, where all the morning,
+and dined at noon at home, where a little angry with my wife for minding
+nothing now but the dancing-master, having him come twice a day, which is
+a folly.  Again, to my office.  We sat till late, our chief business
+being the reconciling the business of the pieces of eight mentioned
+yesterday before the Duke of York, wherein I have got the day, and they
+are all brought over to what I said, of which I am proud.  Late writing
+letters, and so home to supper and to bed.  Here I found Creed staying
+for me, and so after supper I staid him all night and lay with me, our
+great discourse being the folly of our two doting knights, of which I am
+ashamed.
+
+
+
+13th.  Lay till 6 o'clock and then up, and after a little talk and mirth,
+he went away, and I to my office, where busy all the morning, and at noon
+home to dinner, and after dinner Pembleton came and I practised.  But,
+Lord!  to see how my wife will not be thought to need telling by me or
+Ashwell, and yet will plead that she has learnt but a month, which causes
+many short fallings out between us.  So to my office, whither one-eyed
+Cooper came to see me, and I made him to show me the use of platts, and
+to understand the lines, and how to find how lands bear, &c., to my great
+content.  Then came Mr. Barrow, storekeeper of Chatham, who tells me many
+things, how basely Sir W. Batten has carried himself to him, and in all
+things else like a passionate dotard, to the King's great wrong.  God
+mend all, for I am sure we are but in an ill condition in the Navy,
+however the King is served in other places.  Home to supper, to cards,
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up betimes and put up some things to send to Brampton.  Then
+abroad to the Temple, and up and down about business, and met Mr. Moore;
+and with him to an alehouse in Holborn; where in discourse he told me
+that he fears the King will be tempted to endeavour the setting the Crown
+upon the little Duke, which may cause troubles; which God forbid, unless
+it be his due!  He told me my Lord do begin to settle to business again,
+which I am glad of, for he must not sit out, now he has done his own
+business by getting his estate settled, and that the King did send for
+him the other day to my Lady Castlemaine's, to play at cards, where he
+lost L50; for which I am sorry, though he says my Lord was pleased at it,
+and said he would be glad at any time to lose L50 for the King to send
+for him to play, which I do not so well like.  Thence home, and after
+dinner to the office, where we sat till night, and then made up my papers
+and letters by the post, and so home to dance with Pembleton.  This day
+we received a baskett from my sister Pall, made by her of paper, which
+hath a great deal of labour in it for country innocent work.  After
+supper to bed, and going to bed received a letter from Mr. Coventry
+desiring my coming to him to-morrow morning, which troubled me to think
+what the business should be, fearing it must be some bad news in Tom
+Hater's business.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up betimes and walked to St. James's, where Mr. Coventry being in
+bed I walked in the Park, discoursing with the keeper of the Pell Mell,
+who was sweeping of it; who told me of what the earth is mixed that do
+floor the Mall, and that over all there is cockle-shells powdered, and
+spread to keep it fast; which, however, in dry weather, turns to dust and
+deads the ball.  Thence to Mr. Coventry; and sitting by his bedside, he
+did tell me that he sent for me to discourse upon my Lord Sandwich's
+allowances for his several pays, and what his thoughts are concerning his
+demands; which he could not take the freedom to do face to face, it being
+not so proper as by me: and did give me a most friendly and ingenuous
+account of all; telling me how unsafe, at this juncture, while every
+man's, and his actions particularly, are descanted upon, it is either for
+him to put the Duke upon doing, or my Lord himself to desire anything
+extraordinary, 'specially the King having been so bountifull already;
+which the world takes notice of even to some repinings.  All which he did
+desire me to discourse with my Lord of; which I have undertook to do.
+We talked also of our office in general, with which he told me that he
+was now-a-days nothing so satisfied as he was wont to be.  I confess I
+told him things are ordered in that way that we must of necessity break
+in a little time a pieces.  After done with him about these things, he
+told me that for Mr. Hater the Duke's word was in short that he found he
+had a good servant, an Anabaptist, and unless he did carry himself more
+to the scandal of the office, he would bear with his opinion till he
+heard further, which do please me very much.  Thence walked to
+Westminster, and there up and down in the Hall and the Parliament House
+all the morning; at noon by coach to my Lord Crew's, hearing that Lord
+Sandwich did dine there; where I told him what had passed between Mr.
+Coventry and myself; with which he was contented, though I could perceive
+not very well pleased.  And I do believe that my Lord do find some other
+things go against his mind in the House; for in the motion made the other
+day in the House by my Lord Bruce, that none be capable of employment but
+such as have been loyal and constant to the King and Church, the General
+[Monk] and my Lord were mentioned to be excepted; and my Lord Bruce did
+come since to my Lord, to clear himself that he meant nothing to his
+prejudice, nor could it have any such effect if he did mean it.  After
+discourse with my Lord; to dinner with him; there dining there my Lord
+Montagu of Boughton, Mr. William Montagu his brother, the Queen's
+Sollicitor, &c., and a fine dinner.  Their talk about a ridiculous
+falling-out two days ago at my Lord of Oxford's house, at an
+entertainment of his, there being there my Lord of Albemarle, Lynsey,
+two of the Porters,  my Lord Bellasses, and others, where there were high
+words and some blows, and pulling off of perriwiggs; till my Lord Monk
+took away some of their swords, and sent for some soldiers to guard the
+house till the fray was ended.  To such a degree of madness the nobility
+of this age is come!  After dinner I went up to Sir Thomas Crew, who lies
+there not very well in his head, being troubled with vapours and fits of
+dizziness: and there I sat talking with.  him all the afternoon from one
+discourse to another, the most was upon the unhappy posture of things at
+this time; that the King do mind nothing but pleasures, and hates the
+very sight or thoughts of business; that my Lady Castlemaine rules him,
+who, he says, hath all the tricks of Aretin
+
+     [An allusion to Aretin's infamous letters and sonnets accompanying
+     the as infamous "Postures" engraved by Marc Antonio from the designs
+     of Julio Romano (Steinman's "Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of
+     Cleveland," privately printed, 1871).]
+
+that are to be practised to give pleasure.  In which he is too able .  .
+.  , but what is the unhappiness in that, as the Italian proverb says,
+"lazzo dritto non vuolt consiglio."  If any of the sober counsellors give
+him good advice, and move him in anything that is to his good and honour,
+the other part, which are his counsellers of pleasure, take him when he
+is with my Lady Castlemaine, and in a humour of delight, and then
+persuade him that he ought not to hear nor listen to the advice of those
+old dotards or counsellors that were heretofore his enemies: when, God
+knows!  it is they that now-a-days do most study his honour.  It seems
+the present favourites now are my Lord Bristol, Duke of Buckingham, Sir
+H. Bennet, my Lord Ashley, and Sir Charles Barkeley; who, among them,
+have cast my Lord Chancellor upon his back, past ever getting up again;
+there being now little for him to do, and he waits at Court attending to
+speak to the King as others do: which I pray God may prove of good
+effects, for it is feared it will be the same with my Lord Treasurer
+shortly.  But strange to hear how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol's
+means (he being brought over to the Catholique party against the
+Bishopps, whom he hates to the death, and publicly rails against them;
+not that he is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishopps; and
+yet, for aught I hear, the Bishopp of London keeps as great with the King
+as ever) is got into favour, so much that, being a man of great business
+and yet of pleasure, and drolling too, he, it is thought, will be made
+Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal of the good old man.  My Lord
+Albemarle, I hear, do bear through and bustle among them, and will not be
+removed from the King's good opinion and favour, though none of the
+Cabinett; but yet he is envied enough.  It is made very doubtful whether
+the King do not intend the making of the Duke of Monmouth legitimate;
+
+     [Thomas Ross, Monmouth's tutor, put the idea into his head that
+     Charles II. had married his mother.  The report was sedulously
+     spread abroad, and obtained some kind of credence, until, in June,
+     1678, the king set the matter at rest by publishing a declaration,
+     which was entered in the Council book and registered in Chancery.
+     The words of the declaration are: "That to avoid any dispute which
+     might happen in time to come concerning the succession of the Crown,
+     he (Charles) did declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that he
+     never gave, nor made any contract of marriage, nor was married to
+     Mrs. Barlow, alias Waters, the Duke of Monmouth's mother, nor to any
+     other woman whatsoever, but to his present wife, Queen Catherine,
+     then living."]
+
+but surely the Commons of England will never do it, nor the Duke of York
+suffer it, whose lady, I am told, is very troublesome to him by her
+jealousy.  But it is wonderful that Sir Charles Barkeley should be so
+great still, not [only] with the King, but Duke also; who did so stiffly
+swear that he had lain with her.
+
+     [The conspiracy of Sir Charles Berkeley, Lord Arran, Jermyn, Talbot,
+     and Killigrew to traduce Anne Hyde was peculiarly disgraceful, and
+     the conduct of all the actors in the affair of the marriage, from
+     Lord Clarendon downwards, was far from creditable (see Lister's
+     "Life of Clarendon," ii. 68-79)]
+
+And another one Armour that he rode before her on horseback in Holland I
+think .  .  .  .  No care is observed to be taken of the main chance,
+either for maintaining of trade or opposing of factions, which, God
+knows, are ready to break out, if any of them (which God forbid!) should
+dare to begin; the King and every man about him minding so much their
+pleasures or profits.  My Lord Hinchingbroke, I am told, hath had a
+mischance to kill his boy by his birding-piece going off as he was a-
+fowling.  The gun was charged with small shot, and hit the boy in the
+face and about the temples, and he lived four days.  In Scotland, it
+seems, for all the newes-books tell us every week that they are all so
+quiett, and everything in the Church settled, the old woman had like to
+have killed, the other day, the Bishop of Galloway, and not half the
+Churches of the whole kingdom conform.  Strange were the effects of the
+late thunder and lightning about a week since at Northampton, coming with
+great rain, which caused extraordinary floods in a few hours, bearing
+away bridges, drowning horses, men, and cattle.  Two men passing over a
+bridge on horseback, the arches before and behind them were borne away,
+and that left which they were upon: but, however, one of the horses fell
+over, and was drowned.  Stacks of faggots carried as high as a steeple,
+and other dreadful things; which Sir Thomas Crew showed me letters to him
+about from Mr. Freemantle and others, that it is very true.  The
+Portugalls have choused--['cheated'  D.W.]--us,
+
+     [The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language
+     at the beginning of the seventeenth century.  In 1609, a Chiaus sent
+     by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused
+     (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of L4,000, before
+     the arrival of his employer, and had decamped.  The affair was quite
+     recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is
+     alluded to .]
+
+it seems, in the Island of Bombay, in the East Indys; for after a great
+charge of our fleets being sent thither with full commission from the
+King of Portugall to receive it, the Governour by some pretence or other
+will not deliver it to Sir Abraham Shipman, sent from the King, nor to my
+Lord of Marlborough; which the King takes highly ill, and I fear our
+Queen will fare the worse for it.  The Dutch decay there exceedingly, it
+being believed that their people will revolt from them there, and they
+forced to give over their trade.  This is talked of among us, but how
+true I understand not.  Sir Thomas showed me his picture and Sir Anthony
+Vandike's, in crayon in little, done exceedingly well.  Having thus
+freely talked with him, and of many more things, I took leave, and by
+coach to St. James's, and there told Mr. Coventry what I had done with my
+Lord with great satisfaction, and so well pleased home, where I found it
+almost night, and my wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing
+but talking.  Now so deadly full of jealousy I am that my heart and head
+did so cast about and fret that I could not do any business possibly, but
+went out to my office, and anon late home again and ready to chide at
+every thing, and then suddenly to bed and could hardly sleep, yet durst
+not say any thing, but was forced to say that I had bad news from the
+Duke concerning Tom Hater as an excuse to my wife, who by my folly has
+too much opportunity given her with the man, who is a pretty neat black
+man,--[Brown or black hair, not skin.  D.W.]-- but married.  But it is a
+deadly folly and plague that I bring upon myself to be so jealous and by
+giving myself such an occasion more than my wife desired of giving her
+another month's dancing.  Which however shall be ended as soon as I can
+possibly.  But I am ashamed to think what a course I did take by lying to
+see whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do,--[How
+could Mr. Wheatley have missed censoring this?  D.W.]--and other things
+to raise my suspicion of her, but I found no true cause of doing it.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up with my mind disturbed and with my last night's doubts upon me,
+for which I deserve to be beaten if not really served as I am fearful of
+being, especially since God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my
+own mind but that upon a small temptation I could be false to her, and
+therefore ought not to expect more justice from her, but God pardon both
+my sin and my folly herein.  To my office and there sitting all the
+morning, and at noon dined at home.  After dinner comes Pembleton, and I
+being out of humour would not see him, pretending business, but, Lord!
+with what jealousy did I walk up and down my chamber listening to hear
+whether they danced or no, which they did, notwithstanding I afterwards
+knew and did then believe that Ashwell was with them.  So to my office
+awhile, and, my jealousy still reigning, I went in and, not out of any
+pleasure but from that only reason, did go up to them to practise, and
+did make an end of "La Duchesse," which I think I should, with a little
+pains, do very well.  So broke up and saw him gone.  Then Captain Cocke
+coming to me to speak about my seeming discourtesy to him in the business
+of his hemp, I went to the office with him, and there discoursed it
+largely and I think to his satisfaction.  Then to my business, writing
+letters and other things till late at night, and so home to supper and
+bed.  My mind in some better ease resolving to prevent matters for the
+time to come as much as I can, it being to no purpose to trouble myself
+for what is past, being occasioned too by my own folly.
+
+
+
+17th (Lord's day).  Up and in my chamber all the morning, preparing my
+great letters to my father, stating to him the perfect condition of our
+estate.  My wife and Ashwell to church, and after dinner they to church
+again, and I all the afternoon making an end of my morning's work, which
+I did about the evening, and then to talk with my wife till after supper,
+and so to bed having another small falling out and myself vexed with my
+old fit of jealousy about her dancing-master.  But I am a fool for doing
+it.  So to bed by daylight, I having a very great cold, so as I doubt
+whether I shall be able to speak to-morrow at our attending the Duke,
+being now so hoarse.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up and after taking leave of Sir W. Batten, who is gone this day
+towards Portsmouth (to little purpose, God knows) upon his survey, I home
+and spent the morning at dancing; at noon Creed dined with us and Mr.
+Deane Woolwich, and so after dinner came Mr. Howe, who however had enough
+for his dinner, and so, having done, by coach to Westminster, she to Mrs.
+Clerke and I to St. James's, where the Duke being gone down by water
+to-day with the King I went thence to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, where
+Mr. Howe and I walked a while, and going towards Whitehall through the
+garden Dr. Clerk and Creed called me across the bowling green, and so I
+went thither and after a stay went up to Mrs. Clerke who was dressing
+herself to go abroad with my wife.  But, Lord!  in what a poor condition
+her best chamber is, and things about her, for all the outside and show
+that she makes, but I found her just such a one as Mrs. Pierce, contrary
+to my expectation, so much that I am sick and sorry to see it.  Thence
+for an hour Creed and I walked to White Hall, and into the Park, seeing
+the Queen and Maids of Honour passing through the house going to the
+Park.  But above all, Mrs. Stuart is a fine woman, and they say now a
+common mistress to the King,
+
+     [The king said to 'la belle' Stuart, who resisted all his
+     importunities, that he hoped he should live to see her "ugly and
+     willing" (Lord Dartmouth's note to Burnet's "Own Time," vol. i.,
+     p. 436, ed.  1823).]
+
+as my Lady Castlemaine is; which is a great pity.  Thence taking a coach
+to Mrs. Clerke's, took her, and my wife, and Ashwell, and a Frenchman,
+a kinsman of hers, to the Park, where we saw many fine faces, and one
+exceeding handsome, in a white dress over her head, with many others very
+beautiful.  Staying there till past eight at night, I carried Mrs. Clerke
+and her Frenchman, who sings well, home, and thence home ourselves,
+talking much of what we had observed to-day of the poor household stuff
+of Mrs. Clerke and mere show and flutter that she makes in the world;
+and pleasing myself in my own house and manner of living more than ever
+I did by seeing how much better and more substantially I live than others
+do.  So to supper and bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up pretty betimes, but yet I observe how my dancing and lying a
+morning or two longer than ordinary for my cold do make me hard to rise
+as I used to do, or look after my business as I am wont.  To my chamber
+to make an end of my papers to my father to be sent by the post to-night,
+and taking copies of them, which was a great work, but I did it this
+morning, and so to my office, and thence with Sir John Minnes to the
+Tower; and by Mr. Slingsby, and Mr. Howard, Controller of the Mint, we
+were shown the method of making this new money, from the beginning to the
+end, which is so pretty that I did take a note of every part of it and
+set them down by themselves for my remembrance hereafter.  That being
+done it was dinner time, and so the Controller would have us dine with
+him and his company, the King giving them a dinner every day.  And very
+merry and good discourse about the business we have been upon, and after
+dinner went to the Assay Office and there saw the manner of assaying of
+gold and silver, and how silver melted down with gold do part, just being
+put into aqua-fortis, the silver turning into water, and the gold lying
+whole in the very form it was put in, mixed of gold and silver, which is
+a miracle; and to see no silver at all but turned into water, which they
+can bring again into itself out of the water.--[Not water--a solution of
+Silver Oxide.  D.W.]--And here I was made thoroughly to understand the
+business of the fineness and coarseness of metals, and have put down my
+lessons with my other observations therein.  At table among other
+discourse they told us of two cheats, the best I ever heard.  One, of a
+labourer discovered to convey away the bits of silver cut out pence by
+swallowing them down into his belly, and so they could not find him out,
+though, of course, they searched all the labourers; but, having reason to
+doubt him, they did, by threats and promises, get him to confess, and did
+find L7 of it in his house at one time.  The other of one that got a way
+of coyning money as good and passable and large as the true money is, and
+yet saved fifty per cent. to himself, which was by getting moulds made to
+stamp groats like old groats, which is done so well, and I did beg two of
+them which I keep for rarities, that there is not better in the world,
+and is as good, nay, better than those that commonly go, which was the
+only thing that they could find out to doubt them by, besides the number
+that the party do go to put off, and then coming to the Comptroller of
+the Mint, he could not, I say, find out any other thing to raise any
+doubt upon, but only their being so truly round or near it, though I
+should never have doubted the thing neither.  He was neither hanged nor
+burned,--[No! They probably copied his technique.  D.W.]-- the cheat was
+thought so ingenious, and being the first time they could ever trap him
+in it, and so little hurt to any man in it, the money being as good as
+commonly goes.  Thence to the office till the evening, we sat, and then
+by water (taking Pembleton with us), over the water to the Halfway House,
+where we played at nine-pins, and there my damned jealousy took fire, he
+and my wife being of a side and I seeing of him take her by the hand in
+play, though I now believe he did [it] only in passing and sport.  Thence
+home and being 10 o'clock was forced to land beyond the Custom House, and
+so walked home and to my office, and having dispatched my great letters
+by the post to my father, of which I keep copies to show by me and for my
+future understanding, I went home to supper and bed, being late.  The
+most observables in the making of money which I observed to-day, is the
+steps of their doing it.
+
+1. Before they do anything they assay the bullion, which is done, if it
+be gold, by taking an equal weight of that and of silver, of each a small
+weight, which they reckon to be six ounces or half a pound troy; this
+they wrap up in within lead.  If it be silver, they put such a quantity
+of that alone and wrap it up in lead, and then putting them into little
+earthen cupps made of stuff like tobacco pipes, and put them into a
+burning hot furnace, where, after a while, the whole body is melted, and
+at last the lead in both is sunk into the body of the cupp, which carries
+away all the copper or dross with it, and left the pure gold and silver
+embodyed together, of that which hath both been put into the cupp
+together, and the silver alone in these where it was put alone in the
+leaden case.  And to part the silver and the gold in the first
+experiment, they put the mixed body into a glass of aqua-fortis, which
+separates them by spitting out the silver into such small parts that you
+cannot tell what it becomes, but turns into the very water and leaves the
+gold at the bottom clear of itself, with the silver wholly spit out, and
+yet the gold in the form that it was doubled together in when it was a
+mixed body of gold and silver, which is a great mystery; and after all
+this is done to get the silver together out of the water is as strange.
+But the nature of the assay is thus: the piece of gold that goes into the
+furnace twelve ounces, if it comes out again eleven ounces, and the piece
+of silver which goes in twelve and comes out again eleven and two
+pennyweight, are just of the alloy of the standard of England.  If it
+comes out, either of them, either the gold above eleven, as very fine
+will sometimes within very little of what it went in, or the silver above
+eleven and two pennyweight, as that also will sometimes come out eleven
+and ten penny weight or more, they are so much above the goodness of the
+standard, and so they know what proportion of worse gold and silver to
+put to such a quantity of the bullion to bring it to the exact standard.
+And on the contrary, [if] it comes out lighter, then such a weight is
+beneath the standard, and so requires such a proportion of fine metal to
+be put to the bullion to bring it to the standard, and this is the
+difference of good and bad, better and worse than the standard, and also
+the difference of standards, that of Seville being the best and that of
+Mexico worst, and I think they said none but Seville is better than ours.
+
+2.  They melt it into long plates, which, if the mould do take ayre, then
+the plate is not of an equal heaviness in every part of it, as it often
+falls out.
+
+3.  They draw these plates between rollers to bring them to an even
+thickness all along and every plate of the same thickness, and it is very
+strange how the drawing it twice easily between the rollers will make it
+as hot as fire, yet cannot touch it.--[Many principles of Physics had
+not yet then been deliniated.  D.W.]
+
+4.  They bring it to another pair of rollers, which they call adjusting
+it, which bring it to a greater exactness in its thickness than the first
+could be.
+
+5.  They cut them into round pieces, which they do with the greatest
+ease, speed, and exactness in the world.
+
+6.  They weigh these, and where they find any to be too heavy they file
+them, which they call sizeing them; or light, they lay them by, which is
+very seldom, but they are of a most exact weight, but however, in the
+melting, all parts by some accident not being close alike, now and then a
+difference will be, and, this filing being done, there shall not be any
+imaginable difference almost between the weight of forty of these against
+another forty chosen by chance out of all their heaps.
+
+7.  These round pieces having been cut out of the plates, which in
+passing the rollers are bent, they are sometimes a little crooked or
+swelling out or sinking in, and therefore they have a way of clapping 100
+or 2 together into an engine, which with a screw presses them so hard
+that they come out as flat as is possible.
+
+8.  They blanch them.
+
+9.  They mark the letters on the edges, which is kept as the great secret
+by Blondeau, who was not in the way, and so I did not speak with him to-
+day.
+
+     [Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, C.B., F.R.S., chemist to the Royal
+     Mint, refers to Pepys's Diary and to Blondeau's machine in his
+     Cantor Lectures on "Alloys used for Coinage," printed in the
+     "journal of the Society of Arts" (vol. xxxii.).  He writes, "The
+     hammer was still retained for coining in the Mint in the Tower of
+     London, but the question of the adoption of the screw-press by the
+     Moneyers appears to have been revived in 1649, when the Council of
+     State had it represented to them that the coins of the Government
+     might be more perfectly and beautifully done, and made equal to any
+     coins in Europe.  It was proposed to send to France for Peter
+     Blondeau, who had invented and improved a machine and method for
+     making all coins 'with the most beautiful polish and equality on the
+     edge, or with any proper inscription or graining.'  He came on the
+     3rd of September, and although a Committee of the Mint reported in
+     favour of his method of coining, the Company of Moneyers, who appear
+     to have boasted of the success of their predecessors in opposing the
+     introduction of the mill and screw-press in Queen Elizabeth's reign,
+     prevented the introduction of the machinery, and consequently he did
+     not produce pattern pieces until 1653 .  .  .  .  It is certain that
+     Blondeau did not invent, but only improved the method of coining by
+     the screw-press, and I believe his improvements related chiefly to a
+     method for `rounding the pieces before they are sized, and in making
+     the edges of the moneys with letters and graining,' which he
+     undertook to reveal to the king.  Special stress is laid on the
+     engines wherewith the rims were marked, `which might be kept secret
+     among few men.'  I cannot find that there is any record in the Paris
+     mint of Blondeau's employment there, and the only reference to his
+     invention in the Mint records of this country refers to the
+     'collars,' or perforated discs of metal surrounding the 'blank'
+     while it was struck into a coin.  There is, however, in the British
+     Museum a MS. believed to be in Blondeau's hand, in which he claims
+     his process, 'as a new invention, to make a handsome coyne, than can
+     be found in all the world besides, viz., that shall not only be
+     stamped on both flat sides, but shall even be marked with letters on
+     the thickness of the brim.'  The letters were raised.  The press
+     Blondeau used was, I believe, the ordinary screw-press, and I
+     suppose that the presses drawn in Akerman's well-known plate of the
+     coining-room of the Mint in the Tower, published in 1803 ['Microcosm
+     of London,' vol.  ii., p. 202], if not actually the same machines,
+     were similar to those erected in 1661-62 by Sir William Parkhurst
+     and Sir Anthony St. Leger, wardens of the Mint, at a cost of L1400,
+     Professor Roberts-Austen shows that Benvenuto Cellini used a similar
+     press to that attributed to Blondeau, and he gives an illustration
+     of this in his lecture (p. 810).  In a letter to the editor the
+     professor writes: "Pepys's account of the operations of coining, and
+     especially of assaying gold and silver, is very interesting and
+     singularly accurate considering that he could not have had technical
+     knowledge of the subject."]
+
+10.  They mill them, that is, put on the marks on both sides at once with
+great exactness and speed, and then the money is perfect.  The mill is
+after this manner: one of the dyes, which has one side of the piece cut,
+is fastened to a thing fixed below, and the other dye (and they tell me a
+payre of dyes will last the marking of L10,000 before it be worn out,
+they and all other their tools being made of hardened steel, and the
+Dutchman who makes them is an admirable artist, and has so much by the
+pound for every pound that is coyned to find a constant supply of dyes)
+to an engine above, which is moveable by a screw, which is pulled by men;
+and then a piece being clapped by one sitting below between the two dyes,
+when they meet the impression is set, and then the man with his finger
+strikes off the piece and claps another in, and then the other men they
+pull again and that is marked, and then another and another with great
+speed.  They say that this way is more charge to the King than the old
+way, but it is neater, freer from clipping or counterfeiting, the putting
+of the words upon the edges being not to be done (though counterfeited)
+without an engine of the charge and noise that no counterfeit will be at
+or venture upon, and it employs as many men as the old and speedier.
+They now coyne between L16 and L24,000 in a week.  At dinner they did
+discourse very finely to us of the probability that there is a vast deal
+of money hid in the land, from this:--that in King Charles's time there
+was near ten millions of money coyned, besides what was then in being of
+King James's and Queene Elizabeth's, of which there is a good deal at
+this day in being.  Next, that there was but L750,000 coyned of the Harp
+and Crosse money,
+
+     [The Commonwealth coins (stamped with the cross and harp, and the
+     inscription, "The Commonwealth of England") were called in by
+     proclamation, September, 1660, and when brought to the Mint an equal
+     amount of lawful money was allowed for them, weight for weight,
+     deducting only for the coinage (Ruding's "Annals of the Coinage," 18
+     19, vol. iii., p. 293).  The harp was taken out of the naval flags
+     in May, 1660.]
+
+and of this there was L500,000 brought in upon its being called in.  And
+from very good arguments they find that there cannot be less of it in
+Ireland and Scotland than L100,000; so that there is but L150,000
+missing; and of that, suppose that there should be not above 650,000
+still remaining, either melted down, hid, or lost, or hoarded up in
+England, there will then be but L100,000 left to be thought to have been
+transported.  Now, if L750,000 in twelve years' time lost but a L100,000
+in danger of being transported, then within thirty-five years' time will
+have lost but L3,888,880 and odd pounds; and as there is L650,000
+remaining after twelve years' time in England, so after thirty-five
+years' time, which was within this two years, there ought in proportion
+to have been resting L6,111,120 or thereabouts, beside King James's and
+Queen Elizabeth's money.  Now that most of this must be hid is evident,
+as they reckon, because of the dearth of money immediately upon the
+calling-in of the State's money, which was L500,000 that came in; and yet
+there was not any money to be had in this City, which they say to their
+own observation and knowledge was so.  And therefore, though I can say
+nothing in it myself, I do not dispute it.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up and to my office, and anon home and to see my wife dancing with
+Pembleton about noon, and I to the Trinity House to dinner and after
+dinner home, and there met Pembleton, who I perceive has dined with my
+wife, which she takes no notice of, but whether that proceeds out of
+design, or fear to displease me I know not, but it put me into a great
+disorder again, that I could mind nothing but vexing, but however I
+continued my resolution of going down by water to Woolwich, took my wife
+and Ashwell; and going out met Mr. Howe come to see me, whose horse we
+caused to be set up, and took him with us.  The tide against us, so I
+went ashore at Greenwich before, and did my business at the yard about
+putting things in order as to their proceeding to build the new yacht
+ordered to be built by Christopher Pett,
+
+     [In the minutes of the Royal Society is the following entry: "June
+     11, 1662.  Dr. Pett's brother shewed a draught of the pleasure boat
+     which he intended to make for the king" (Birch's "History of the
+     Royal Society," vol. i., p. 85).  Peter Pett had already built a
+     yacht for the king at Deptford.]
+
+and so to Woolwich town, where at an alehouse I found them ready to
+attend my coming, and so took boat again, it being cold, and I sweating,
+with my walk, which was very pleasant along the green come and pease, and
+most of the way sang, he and I, and eat some cold meat we had, and with
+great pleasure home, and so he took horse again, and Pembleton coming, we
+danced a country dance or two and so broke up and to bed, my mind
+restless and like to be so while she learns to dance.  God forgive my
+folly.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up, but cannot get up so early as I was wont, nor my mind to
+business as it should be and used to be before this dancing.  However, to
+my office, where most of the morning talking of Captain Cox of Chatham
+about his and the whole yard's difference against Mr. Barrow the
+storekeeper, wherein I told him my mind clearly, that he would be upheld
+against the design of any to ruin him, he being we all believed, but Sir
+W. Batten his mortal enemy, as good a servant as any the King has in the
+yard.  After much good advice and other talk I home and danced with
+Pembleton, and then the barber trimmed me, and so to dinner, my wife and
+I having high words about her dancing to that degree that I did enter and
+make a vow to myself not to oppose her or say anything to dispraise or
+correct her therein as long as her month lasts, in pain of 2s. 6d.  for
+every time, which, if God pleases, I will observe, for this roguish
+business has brought us more disquiett than anything [that] has happened
+a great while.  After dinner to my office, where late, and then home; and
+Pembleton being there again, we fell to dance a country dance or two, and
+so to supper and bed.  But being at supper my wife did say something that
+caused me to oppose her in, she used the word devil, which vexed me, and
+among other things I said I would not have her to use that word, upon
+which she took me up most scornfully, which, before Ashwell and the rest
+of the world, I know not now-a-days how to check, as I would heretofore,
+for less than that would have made me strike her.  So that I fear without
+great discretion I shall go near to lose too my command over her, and
+nothing do it more than giving her this occasion of dancing and other
+pleasures, whereby her mind is taken up from her business and finds other
+sweets besides pleasing of me, and so makes her that she begins not at
+all to take pleasure in me or study to please me as heretofore.  But if
+this month of her dancing were but out (as my first was this night, and I
+paid off Pembleton for myself) I shall hope with a little pains to bring
+her to her old wont.  This day Susan that lived with me lately being out
+of service, and I doubt a simple wench, my wife do take her for a little
+time to try her at least till she goes into the country, which I am yet
+doubtful whether it will be best for me to send her or no, for fear of
+her running off in her liberty before I have brought her to her right
+temper again.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up pretty betimes, and shall, I hope, come to myself and business
+again, after a small playing the truant, for I find that my interest and
+profit do grow daily, for which God be praised and keep me to my duty.
+To my office, and anon one tells me that Rundall, the house-carpenter of
+Deptford, hath sent me a fine blackbird, which I went to see.  He tells
+me he was offered 20s.  for him as he came along, he do so whistle.  So
+to my office, and busy all the morning, among other things, learning to
+understand the course of the tides, and I think I do now do it.  At noon
+Mr. Creed comes to me, and he and I to the Exchange, where I had much
+discourse with several merchants, and so home with him to dinner, and
+then by water to Greenwich, and calling at the little alehouse at the end
+of the town to wrap a rag about my little left toe, being new sore with
+walking, we walked pleasantly to Woolwich, in our way hearing the
+nightingales sing.  So to Woolwich yard, and after doing many things
+there, among others preparing myself for a dispute against Sir W. Pen in
+the business of Bowyer's, wherein he is guilty of some corruption to the
+King's wrong, we walked back again without drinking, which I never do
+because I would not make my coming troublesome to any, nor would become
+obliged too much to any.  In our going back we were overtook by Mr.
+Steventon, a purser, and uncle to my clerk Will, who told me how he was
+abused in the passing of his accounts by Sir J. Minnes to the degree that
+I am ashamed to hear it, and resolve to retrieve the matter if I can
+though the poor man has given it over.  And however am pleased enough to
+see that others do see his folly and dotage as well as myself, though I
+believe in my mind the man in general means well.
+
+Took boat at Greenwich and to Deptford, where I did the same thing, and
+found Davis, the storekeeper, a knave, and shuffling in the business of
+Bewpers, being of the party with Young and Whistler to abuse the King,
+but I hope I shall be even with them.  So walked to Redriffe, drinking at
+the Half-way house, and so walked and by water to White Hall, all our way
+by water coming and going reading a little book said to be writ by a
+person of Quality concerning English gentry to be preferred before
+titular honours, but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet
+in as good words that ever I saw in all my life, but from beginning to
+end you met not with one entire and regular sentence.  At White Hall Sir
+G. Carteret was out of the way, and so returned back presently, and home
+by water and to bed.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird, which
+whistles as well as ever I heard any; only it is the beginning of many
+tunes very well, but there leaves them, and goes no further.  So up and
+to my office, where we sat, and among other things I had a fray with Sir
+J. Minnes in defence of my Will in a business where the old coxcomb would
+have put a foot upon him, which was only in Jack Davis and in him a
+downright piece of knavery in procuring a double ticket and getting the
+wrong one paid as well as the second was to the true party.  But it
+appeared clear enough to the board that Will was true in it.  Home to
+dinner, and after dinner by water to the Temple, and there took my Lyra
+Viall book bound up with blank paper for new lessons.  Thence to
+Greatorex's, and there seeing Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen go by coach I
+went in to them and to White Hall; where, in the Matted Gallery, Mr.
+Coventry was, who told us how the Parliament have required of Sir G.
+Carteret and him an account what money shall be necessary to be settled
+upon the Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend to report
+L200,000 per annum.  And how to allott this we met this afternoon, and
+took their papers for our perusal, and so we parted.  Only there was
+walking in the gallery some of the Barbary company, and there we saw a
+draught of the arms of the company, which the King is of, and so is
+called the Royall Company, which is, in a field argent an elephant
+proper, with a canton on which England and France is quartered, supported
+by two Moors.  The crest an anchor winged, I think it is, and the motto
+too tedious: "Regio floret, patrocinio commercium, commercioque Regnum."
+Thence back by water to Greatorex's, and there he showed me his varnish
+which he had invented, which appears every whit as good, upon a stick
+which he hath done, as the Indian, though it did not do very well upon my
+paper ruled with musique lines, for it sunk and did not shine.  Thence
+home by water, and after a dance with Pembleton to my office and wrote by
+the post to Sir W. Batten at Portsmouth to send for him up against next
+Wednesday, being our triall day against Field at Guildhall, in which God
+give us good end.  So home: to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+24th (Lord's day).  Having taken one of Mr. Holliard's pills last night
+it brought a stool or two this morning, and so forebore going to church
+this morning, but staid at home looking over my papers about Tom Trice's
+business, and so at noon dined, and my wife telling me that there was a
+pretty lady come to church with Peg Pen to-day, I against my intention
+had a mind to go to church to see her, and did so, and she is pretty
+handsome.  But over against our gallery I espied Pembleton, and saw him
+leer upon my wife all the sermon, I taking no notice of him, and my wife
+upon him, and I observed she made a curtsey to him at coming out without
+taking notice to me at all of it, which with the consideration of her
+being desirous these two last Lord's days to go to church both forenoon
+and afternoon do really make me suspect something more than ordinary,
+though I am loth to think the worst, but yet it put and do still keep me
+at a great loss in my mind, and makes me curse the time that I consented
+to her dancing, and more my continuing it a second month, which was more
+than she desired, even after I had seen too much of her carriage with
+him.  But I must have patience and get her into the country, or at least
+to make an end of her learning to dance as soon as I can.  After sermon
+to Sir W. Pen's, with Sir J. Minnes to do a little business to answer Mr.
+Coventry to-night.  And so home and with my wife and Ashwell into the
+garden walking a great while, discoursing what this pretty wench should
+be by her garb and deportment; with respect to Mrs. Pen she may be her
+woman, but only that she sat in the pew with her, which I believe he
+would not let her do.  So home, and read to my wife a fable or two in
+Ogleby's AEsop, and so to supper, and then to prayers and to bed.  My
+wife this evening discoursing of making clothes for the country, which I
+seem against, pleading lack of money, but I am glad of it in some
+respects because of getting her out of the way from this fellow, and my
+own liberty to look after my business more than of late I have done.  So
+to prayers and to bed.  This morning it seems Susan, who I think is
+distracted, or however is since she went from me taught to drink, and so
+gets out of doors 2 or 3 times a day without leave to the alehouse, did
+go before 5 o'clock to-day, making Griffin rise in his shirt to let her
+out to the alehouse, she said to warm herself, but her mistress, falling
+out with her about it, turned her out of doors this morning, and so she
+is gone like an idle slut.  I took a pill also this night.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up, and my pill working a little I staid within most of the
+morning, and by and by the barber came and Sarah Kite my cozen, poor
+woman, came to see me and borrow 40s. of me, telling me she will pay it
+at Michaelmas again to me.  I was glad it was no more, being indifferent
+whether she pays it me or no, but it will be a good excuse to lend her
+nor give her any more.  So I did freely at first word do it, and give her
+a crown more freely to buy her child something, she being a good-natured
+and painful wretch, and one that I would do good for as far as I can that
+I might not be burdened.  My wife was not ready, and she coming early did
+not see her, and I was glad of it.  She gone, I up and then hear that my
+wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot .  .  .  .
+upon the floor and stool and God knows what, and were mighty merry making
+of it clean.  I took no great notice, but merrily.  Ashwell did by and by
+come to me with an errand from her mistress to desire money to buy a
+country suit for her against she goes as we talked last night, and so I
+did give her L4, and believe it will cost me the best part of 4 more to
+fit her out, but with peace and honour I am willing to spare anything so
+as to be able to keep all ends together, and my power over her
+undisturbed.  So to my office and by and by home, where my wife and her
+master were dancing, and so I staid in my chamber till they had done, and
+sat down myself to try a little upon the Lyra viall, my hand being almost
+out, but easily brought to again.  So by and by to dinner, and then
+carried my wife and Ashwell to St. James's, and there they sat in the
+coach while I went in, and finding nobody there likely to meet with the
+Duke, but only Sir J. Minnes with my Lord Barkely (who speaks very
+kindly, and invites me with great compliments to come now and then and
+eat with him, which I am glad to hear, though I value not the thing, but
+it implies that my esteem do increase rather than fall), and so I staid
+not, but into the coach again, and taking up my wife's taylor, it raining
+hard, they set me down, and who should our coachman be but Carleton the
+Vintner, that should have had Mrs. Sarah, at Westminster, my Lord
+Chancellor's, and then to Paternoster Row.  I staid there to speak with
+my Lord Sandwich, and in my staying, meeting Mr. Lewis Phillips of
+Brampton, he and afterwards others tell me that news came last night to
+Court, that the King of France is sick of the spotted fever, and that
+they are struck in again; and this afternoon my Lord Mandeville is gone
+from the King to make him a visit; which will be great news, and of great
+import through Europe.  By and by, out comes my Lord Sandwich, and he and
+I talked a great while about his business, of his accounts for his pay,
+and among other things he told me that this day a vote hath passed that
+the King's grants of land to my Lord Monk and him should be made good;
+which pleases him very well.  He also tells me that things don't go right
+in the House with Mr. Coventry; I suppose he means in the business of
+selling of places; but I am sorry for it.  Thence by coach home, where I
+found Pembleton, and so I up to dance with them till the evening, when
+there came Mr. Alsopp, the King's brewer, and Lanyon of Plymouth to see
+me.  Mr. Alsopp tells me of a horse of his that lately, after four days'
+pain, voided at his fundament four stones, bigger than that I was cut of,
+very heavy, and in the middle of each of them either a piece of iron or
+wood.  The King has two of them in his closett, and a third the College
+of Physicians to keep for rarity, and by the King's command he causes the
+turd of the horse to be every day searched to find more.  At night to see
+Sir W. Batten come home this day from Portsmouth.  I met with some that
+say that the King of France is poisoned, but how true that is is not
+known.  So home to supper and to bed pleasant.
+
+
+
+26th.  Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife.--[We
+have had several examples such as this, in the past few days diary, of
+Mr. Wheatley tiring of his self-imposed work of censorship.  D.W.]--So up
+and to my office a while and then home, where I found Pembleton, and by
+many circumstances I am led to conclude that there is something more than
+ordinary between my wife and him, which do so trouble me that I know not
+at this very minute that I now write this almost what either I write or
+am doing, nor how to carry myself to my wife in it, being unwilling to
+speak of it to her for making of any breach and other inconveniences, nor
+let it pass for fear of her continuing to offend me and the matter grow
+worse thereby.  So that I am grieved at the very heart, but I am very
+unwise in being so.  There dined with me Mr. Creed and Captain Grove, and
+before dinner I had much discourse in my chamber with Mr. Deane, the
+builder of Woolwich, about building of ships.  But nothing could get the
+business out of my head, I fearing that this afternoon by my wife's
+sending every [one] abroad and knowing that I must be at the office she
+has appointed him to come.  This is my devilish jealousy, which I pray
+God may be false, but it makes a very hell in my mind, which the God of
+heaven remove, or I shall be very unhappy.  So to the office, where we
+sat awhile.  By and by my mind being in great trouble I went home to see
+how things were, and there I found as I doubted Mr. Pembleton with my
+wife, and nobody else in the house, which made me almost mad, and going
+up to my chamber after a turn or two I went out again and called somebody
+on pretence of business and left him in my little room at the door (it
+was the Dutchman, commander of the King's pleasure boats, who having been
+beat by one of his men sadly, was come to the office to-day to complain)
+telling him I would come again to him to speak with him about his
+business.  So in great trouble and doubt to the office, and Mr. Coventry
+nor Sir G. Carteret being there I made a quick end of our business and
+desired leave to be gone, pretending to go to the Temple, but it was
+home, and so up to my chamber, and as I think if they had any intention
+of hurt I did prevent doing anything at that time, but I continued in my
+chamber vexed and angry till he went away, pretending aloud, that I might
+hear, that he could not stay, and Mrs. Ashwell not being within they
+could not dance.  And, Lord!  to see how my jealousy wrought so far that
+I went softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no,
+which I found not, but that did not content me, but I staid all the
+evening walking, and though anon my wife came up to me and would have
+spoke of business to me, yet I construed it to be but impudence, and
+though my heart full yet I did say nothing, being in a great doubt what
+to do.  So at night, suffered them to go all to bed, and late put myself
+to bed in great discontent, and so to sleep.
+
+
+
+27th.  So I waked by 3 o'clock, my mind being troubled, and so took
+occasion by making water to wake my wife, and after having lain till past
+4 o'clock seemed going to rise, though I did it only to see what she
+would do, and so going out of the bed she took hold of me and would know
+what ailed me, and after many kind and some cross words I began to tax
+her discretion in yesterday's business, but she quickly told me my own,
+knowing well enough that it was my old disease of jealousy, which I
+denied, but to no purpose.  After an hour's discourse, sometimes high and
+sometimes kind, I found very good reason to think that her freedom with
+him is very great and more than was convenient, but with no evil intent,
+and so after awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends, but she
+crying in a great discontent.  So I up and by water to the Temple, and
+thence with Commissioner Pett to St. James's, where an hour with Mr.
+Coventry talking of Mr. Pett's proceedings lately in the forest of
+Sherwood, and thence with Pett to my Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the
+Exchequer; where we met the auditors about settling the business of the
+accounts of persons to whom money is due before the King's time in the
+Navy, and the clearing of their imprests for what little of their debts
+they have received.  I find my Lord, as he is reported, a very ready,
+quick, and diligent person.  Thence I to Westminster Hall, where Term and
+Parliament make the Hall full of people; no further news yet of the King
+of France, whether he be dead or not.  Here I met with my cozen Roger
+Pepys, and walked a good while with him, and among other discourse as a
+secret he hath committed to nobody but myself, and he tells me that his
+sister Claxton now resolving to give over the keeping of his house at
+Impington, he thinks it fit to marry again, and would have me, by the
+help of my uncle Wight or others, to look him out a widow between thirty
+and forty years old, without children, and with a fortune, which he will
+answer in any degree with a joynture fit for her fortune.  A woman sober,
+and no high-flyer, as he calls it.  I demanded his estate.  He tells me,
+which he says also he hath not done to any, that his estate is not full
+L800 per annum, but it is L780 per annum, of which L200 is by the death
+of his last wife, which he will allot for a joynture for a wife, but the
+rest, which lies in Cambridgeshire, he is resolved to leave entire for
+his eldest son.  I undertook to do what I can in it, and so I shall.  He
+tells me that the King hath sent to them to hasten to make an end by
+midsummer, because of his going into the country; so they have set upon
+four bills to dispatch: the first of which is, he says, too devilish a
+severe act against conventicles; so beyond all moderation, that he is
+afeard it will ruin all: telling me that it is matter of the greatest
+grief to him in the world, that he should be put upon this trust of being
+a Parliament-man, because he says nothing is done, that he can see, out
+of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design.  Thence by water to
+Chelsey, all the way reading a little book I bought of "Improvement of
+Trade," a pretty book and many things useful in it.  So walked to Little
+Chelsey, where I found my Lord Sandwich with Mr. Becke, the master of the
+house, and Mr. Creed at dinner, and I sat down with them, and very merry.
+After dinner (Mr. Gibbons being come in also before dinner done) to
+musique, they played a good Fancy, to which my Lord is fallen again, and
+says he cannot endure a merry tune, which is a strange turn of his
+humour, after he has for two or three years flung off the practice of
+Fancies and played only fidlers' tunes.  Then into the Great Garden up to
+the Banqueting House; and there by his glass we drew in the species very
+pretty.  Afterwards to ninepins, where I won a shilling, Creed and I
+playing against my Lord and Cooke.  This day there was great thronging to
+Banstead Downs, upon a great horse-race and foot-race.  I am sorry I
+could not go thither.  So home back as I came, to London Bridge, and so
+home, where I find my wife in a musty humour, and tells me before Ashwell
+that Pembleton had been there, and she would not have him come in unless
+I was there, which I was ashamed of; but however, I had rather it should
+be so than the other way.  So to my office, to put things in order there,
+and by and by comes Pembleton, and word is brought me from my wife
+thereof that I might come home.  So I sent word that I would have her go
+dance, and I would come presently.  So being at a great loss whether I
+should appear to Pembleton or no, and what would most proclaim my
+jealousy to him, I at last resolved to go home, and took Tom Hater with
+me, and staid a good while in my chamber, and there took occasion to tell
+him how I hear that Parliament is putting an act out against all sorts of
+conventicles,
+
+     [16 Car. II., cap. 4, "An Act to prevent and suppresse seditious
+     Conventicles."  It was enacted that anyone of the age of sixteen or
+     upwards present at an unlawful assembly or conventicle was to incur
+     fine or imprisonment.  A conventicle was defined as an assembly of
+     more than five persons besides the members of a family met together
+     for holding worship not according to the rites of the Church of
+     England.  The act was amended 22 Car. II., cap. i (1670), and
+     practically repealed by the Toleration Act of 1689, but the act 22
+     Car. II., cap. i, was specially repealed 52 Geo. III., cap. 155, s.
+     1.]
+
+and did give him good counsel, not only in his own behalf, but my own,
+that if he did hear or know anything that could be said to my prejudice,
+that he would tell me, for in this wicked age (specially Sir W. Batten
+being so open to my reproaches, and Sir J. Minnes, for the neglect of
+their duty, and so will think themselves obliged to scandalize me all
+they can to right themselves if there shall be any inquiry into the
+matters of the Navy, as I doubt there will) a man ought to be prepared to
+answer for himself in all things that can be inquired concerning him.
+After much discourse of this nature to him I sent him away, and then went
+up, and there we danced country dances, and single, my wife and I; and my
+wife paid him off for this month also, and so he is cleared.  After
+dancing we took him down to supper, and were very merry, and I made
+myself so, and kind to him as much as I could, to prevent his discourse,
+though I perceive to my trouble that he knows all, and may do me the
+disgrace to publish it as much as he can.  Which I take very ill, and if
+too much provoked shall witness it to her.  After supper and he gone we
+to bed.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up this morning, and my wife, I know not for what cause, being
+against going to Chelsey to-day, it being a holy day (Ascension Day) and
+I at leisure, it being the first holy day almost that we have observed
+ever since we came to the office, we did give Ashwell leave to go by
+herself, and I out to several places about business.  Among others to Dr.
+Williams, to reckon with him for physique that my wife has had for a year
+or two, coming to almost L4.  Then to the Exchange, where I hear that the
+King had letters yesterday from France that the King there is in a [way]
+of living again, which I am glad to hear.  At the coffee-house in
+Exchange Alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders," by Sir
+Balth. Gerbier.  It is dedicated almost to all the men of any great
+condition in England, so that the Epistles are more than the book itself,
+and both it and them not worth a turd, that I am ashamed that I bought
+it.  Home and there found Creed, who dined with us, and after dinner by
+water to the Royall Theatre; but that was so full they told us we could
+have no room.  And so to the Duke's House; and there saw "Hamlett" done,
+giving us fresh reason never to think enough of Betterton.  Who should we
+see come upon the stage but Gosnell, my wife's maid? but neither spoke,
+danced, nor sung; which I was sorry for.  But she becomes the stage very
+well.  Thence by water home, after we had walked to and fro, backwards
+and forwards, six or seven times in the Temple walks, disputing whether
+to go by land or water.  By land home, and thence by water to Halfway
+House, and there eat some supper we carried with us, and so walked home
+again, it being late we were forced to land at the dock, my wife and
+they, but I in a humour not willing to daub my shoes went round by the
+Custom House.  So home, and by and by to bed, Creed lying with me in the
+red chamber all night.
+
+
+
+29th.  This day is kept strictly as a holy-day, being the King's
+Coronation.  We lay long in bed, and it rained very hard, rain and hail,
+almost all the morning.  By and by Creed and I abroad, and called at
+several churches; and it is a wonder to see, and by that to guess the ill
+temper of the City at this time, either to religion in general, or to the
+King, that in some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole
+church, and those poor people.  So to a coffee-house, and there in
+discourse hear the King of France is likely to be well again.  So home to
+dinner, and out by water to the Royall Theatre, but they not acting
+to-day, then to the Duke's house, and there saw "The Slighted Mayde,"
+wherein Gosnell acted Pyramena, a great part, and did it very well, and I
+believe will do it better and better, and prove a good actor.  The play
+is not very excellent, but is well acted, and in general the actors, in
+all particulars, are better than at the other house.  Thence to the Cocke
+alehouse, and there having drunk, sent them with Creed to see the German
+Princess,
+
+     [Mary Moders, alias Stedman, a notorious impostor, who pretended to
+     be a German princess.  Her arrival as the German princess "at the
+     Exchange Tavern, right against the Stocks betwixt the Poultry and
+     Cornhill, at 5 in the morning .  .  .  ., with her marriage to
+     Carleton the taverner's wife's brother," are incidents fully
+     narrated in Francis Kirkman's "Counterfeit Lady Unveiled," 1673
+     ("Boyne's Tokens," ed.  Williamson, vol. i., p. 703).  Her
+     adventures formed the plot of a tragi-comedy by T. P., entitled "A
+     Witty Combat, or the Female Victor," 1663, which was acted with
+     great applause by persons of quality in Whitsun week.  Mary Carleton
+     was tried at the Old Bailey for bigamy and acquitted, after which
+     she appeared on the stage in her own character as the heroine of a
+     play entitled "The German Princess."  Pepys went to the Duke's House
+     to see her on April 15th, 1664.  The rest of her life was one
+     continued course of robbery and fraud, and in 1678 she was executed
+     at Tyburn for stealing a piece of plate in Chancery Lane.]
+
+at the Gatehouse, at Westminster, and I to my brother's, and thence to my
+uncle Fenner's to have seen my aunt James (who has been long in town and
+goes away to-morrow and I not seen her), but did find none of them
+within, which I was glad of, and so back to my brother's to speak with
+him, and so home, and in my way did take two turns forwards and backwards
+through the Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets] that stood
+off the doors there, and God forgive me I could scarce stay myself from
+going into their houses with them, so apt is my nature to evil after
+once, as I have these two days, set upon pleasure again.  So home and to
+my office to put down these two days' journalls, then home again and to
+supper, and then Creed and I to bed with good discourse, only my mind
+troubled about my spending my time so badly for these seven or eight
+days; but I must impute it to the disquiet that my mind has been in of
+late about my wife, and for my going these two days to plays, for which
+I have paid the due forfeit by money and abating the times of going to
+plays at Court, which I am now to remember that I have cleared all my
+times that I am to go to Court plays to the end of this month, and so
+June is the first time that I am to begin to reckon.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up betimes, and Creed and I by water to Fleet Street, and my
+brother not being ready, he and I walked to the New Exchange, and there
+drank our morning draught of whay, the first I have done this year; but I
+perceive the lawyers come all in as they go to the Hall, and I believe it
+is very good.  So to my brother's, and there I found my aunt James, a
+poor, religious, well-meaning, good soul, talking of nothing but God
+Almighty, and that with so much innocence that mightily pleased me.
+Here was a fellow that said grace so long like a prayer; I believe the
+fellow is a cunning fellow, and yet I by my brother's desire did give him
+a crown, he being in great want, and, it seems, a parson among the
+fanatiques, and a cozen of my poor aunt's, whose prayers she told me did
+do me good among the many good souls that did by my father's desires pray
+for me when I was cut of the stone, and which God did hear, which I also
+in complaisance did own; but, God forgive me, my mind was otherwise.
+I had a couple of lobsters and some wine for her, and so, she going out
+of town to-day, and being not willing to come home with me to dinner,
+I parted and home, where we sat at the office all the morning, and after
+dinner all the afternoon till night, there at my office getting up the
+time that I have of late lost by not following my business, but I hope
+now to settle my mind again very well to my business.  So home, and after
+supper did wash my feet, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+31st (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and do plainly
+see that her distaste (which is beginning now in her again) against
+Ashwell arises from her jealousy of me and her, and my neglect of
+herself, which indeed is true, and I to blame; but for the time to come
+I will take care to remedy all.  So up and to church, where I think I did
+see Pembleton, whatever the reason is I did not perceive him to look up
+towards my wife, nor she much towards him; however, I could hardly keep
+myself from being troubled that he was there, which is a madness not to
+be excused now that his coming to my house is past, and I hope all
+likelyhood of her having occasion to converse with him again.  Home to
+dinner, and after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five
+Houres' Adventures," which though I have seen it twice; yet I never did
+admire or understand it enough, it being a play of the greatest plot that
+ever I expect to see, and of great vigour quite through the whole play,
+from beginning to the end.  To church again after dinner (my wife finding
+herself ill .  .  .  .  did not go), and there the Scot preaching I slept
+most of the sermon.  This day Sir W. Batten's son's child is christened
+in the country, whither Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W, Batten, and Sir W. Pen
+are all gone.  I wonder, and take it highly ill that I am not invited by
+the father, though I know his father and mother, with whom I am never
+likely to have much kindness, but rather I study the contrary, are the
+cause of it, and in that respect I am glad of it.  Being come from
+church, I to make up my month's accounts, and find myself clear worth
+L726, for which God be praised, but yet I might have been better by L20
+almost had I forborne some layings out in dancing and other things upon
+my wife, and going to plays and other things merely to ease my mind as to
+the business of the dancing-master, which I bless God is now over and I
+falling to my quiet of mind and business again, which I have for a
+fortnight neglected too much.  This month the greatest news is, the
+height and heat that the Parliament is in, in enquiring into the revenue,
+which displeases the Court, and their backwardness to give the King any
+money.  Their enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great
+many among the chief, my Lord Chancellor (against whom particularly it is
+carried), and Mr. Coventry; for which I am sorry.  The King of France was
+given out to be poisoned and dead; but it proves to be the measles: and
+he is well, or likely to be soon well again.  I find myself growing in
+the esteem and credit that I have in the office, and I hope falling to my
+business again will confirm me in it, and the saving of money which God
+grant!  So to supper, prayers, and bed.  My whole family lying longer
+this morning than was fit, and besides Will having neglected to brush my
+clothes, as he ought to do, till I was ready to go to church, and not
+then till I bade him, I was very angry, and seeing him make little matter
+of it, but seeming to make it a matter indifferent whether he did it or
+no, I did give him a box on the ear, and had it been another day should
+have done more.  This is the second time I ever struck him.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                 JUNE
+                                 1663
+
+
+June 1st.  Begun again to rise betimes by 4 o'clock, and made an end of
+"The Adventures of Five Houres," and it is a most excellent play.  So to
+my office, where a while and then about several businesses, in my way to
+my brother's, where I dined (being invited) with Mr. Peter and Dean
+Honiwood,  where Tom did give us a very pretty dinner, and we very
+pleasant, but not very merry, the Dean being but a weak man, though very
+good.  I was forced to rise, being in haste to St. James's to attend the
+Duke, and left them to end their dinner; but the Duke having been
+a-hunting to-day, and so lately come home and gone to bed, we could not
+see him, and Mr. Coventry being out of the house too, we walked away to
+White Hall and there took coach, and I with Sir J. Minnes to the Strand
+May-pole; and there 'light out of his coach, and walked to the New
+Theatre, which, since the King's players are gone to the Royal one,
+is this day begun to be employed by the fencers to play prizes at.
+And here I came and saw the first prize I ever saw in my life: and it was
+between one Mathews, who did beat at all weapons, and one Westwicke, who
+was soundly cut several times both in the head and legs, that he was all
+over blood: and other deadly blows they did give and take in very good
+earnest, till Westwicke was in a most sad pickle.  They fought at eight
+weapons, three bouts at each weapon.  It was very well worth seeing,
+because I did till this day think that it has only been a cheat; but this
+being upon a private quarrel, they did it in good earnest; and I felt one
+of their swords, and found it to be very little, if at all blunter on the
+edge, than the common swords are.  Strange to see what a deal of money is
+flung to them both upon the stage between every bout.  But a woful rude
+rabble there was, and such noises, made my head ake all this evening.
+So, well pleased for once with this sight, I walked home, doing several
+businesses by the way.  In my way calling to see Commissioner Pett, who
+lies sick at his daughter, a pretty woman, in Gracious Street, but is
+likely to be abroad again in a day or two.  At home I found my wife in
+bed all this day .  .  .  .  I went to see Sir Wm. Pen, who has a little
+pain of his gout again, but will do well.  So home to supper and to bed.
+This day I hear at Court of the great plot which was lately discovered in
+Ireland, made among the Presbyters and others, designing to cry up the
+Covenant, and to secure Dublin Castle and other places; and they have
+debauched a good part of the army there, promising them ready money.
+
+     [This  was known as "Blood's Plot," and was named after Colonel
+     Thomas Blood, afterwards notorious for his desperate attack upon the
+     Duke of Ormond in St. James's Street (1670) and for his robbery of
+     the crown jewels in the Tower (1671).  He died August 24th, 1680.]
+
+Some of the Parliament there, they say, are guilty, and some withdrawn
+upon it; several persons taken, and among others a son of Scott's, that
+was executed here for the King's murder.  What reason the King hath, I
+know not; but it seems he is doubtfull of Scotland: and this afternoon,
+when I was there, the Council was called extraordinary; and they were
+opening the letters this last post's coming and going between Scotland
+and us and other places.  Blessed be God, my head and hands are clear,
+and therefore my sleep safe.  The King of France is well again.
+
+
+
+2d.  Up and by water to White Hall and so to St. James's, to Mr.
+Coventry; where I had an hour's private talk with him.  Most of it was
+discourse concerning his own condition, at present being under the
+censure of the House, being concerned with others in the Bill for selling
+of offices.  He tells me, that though he thinks himself to suffer much in
+his fame hereby, yet he values nothing more of evil to hang over him for
+that it is against no statute, as is pretended, nor more than what his
+predecessors time out of mind have taken;
+
+     [This reminds one of the prosecution of Sir. Francis Bacon of an
+     earlier century.  Queen Elizabeth established then, for the first
+     time, salaries for government officers, that they need not provide a
+     living for themselves by selling offices and services.  D.W.]
+
+and that so soon as he found himself to be in an errour, he did desire to
+have his fees set, which was done; and since that he hath not taken a
+token more.  He undertakes to prove, that he did never take a token of
+any captain to get him employed in his life beforehand, or demanded any
+thing: and for the other accusation, that the Cavaliers are not employed,
+he looked over the list of them now in the service, and of the twenty-
+seven that are employed, thirteen have been heretofore always under the
+King; two neutralls, and the other twelve men of great courage, and such
+as had either the King's particular commands, or great recommendation to
+put them in, and none by himself.  Besides that, he says it is not the
+King's nor Duke's opinion that the whole party of the late officers
+should be rendered desperate.  And lastly, he confesses that the more of
+the Cavaliers are put in, the less of discipline hath followed in the
+fleet; and that, whenever there comes occasion, it must be the old ones
+that must do any good, there being only, he says, but Captain Allen good
+for anything of them all.  He tells me, that he cannot guess whom all
+this should come from; but he suspects Sir G. Carteret, as I also do, at
+least that he is pleased with it.  But he tells me that he will bring Sir
+G. Carteret to be the first adviser and instructor of him what to make
+his place of benefit to him; telling him that Smith did make his place
+worth L5000 and he believed L7000 to him the first year; besides
+something else greater than all this, which he forbore to tell me.  It
+seems one Sir Thomas Tomkins of the House, that makes many mad motions,
+did bring it into the House, saying that a letter was left at his
+lodgings, subscribed by one Benson (which is a feigned name, for there is
+no such man in the Navy), telling him how many places in the Navy have
+been sold.  And by another letter, left in the same manner since, nobody
+appearing, he writes him that there is one Hughes and another Butler
+(both rogues, that have for their roguery been turned out of their
+places), that will swear that Mr. Coventry did sell their places and
+other things.  I offered him my service, and will with all my heart serve
+him; but he tells me he do not think it convenient to meddle, or to any
+purpose, but is sensible of my love therein.  So I bade him good morrow,
+he being out of order to speak anything of our office business, and so
+away to Westminster Hall, where I hear more of the plot from Ireland;
+which it seems hath been hatching, and known to the Lord Lieutenant a
+great while, and kept close till within three days that it should have
+taken effect.  The term ended yesterday, and it seems the Courts rose
+sooner, for want of causes, than it is remembered to have done in the
+memory of man.  Thence up and down about business in several places, as
+to speak with Mr. Phillips, but missed him, and so to Mr. Beacham, the
+goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow in Sir W. Batten's case
+against Field.  I have been telling him our case, and I believe he will
+do us good service there.  So home, and seeing my wife had dined I went,
+being invited, and dined with Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, and others,
+at Sir W. Batten's, Captain Allen giving them a Foy' dinner, he being to
+go down to lie Admiral in the Downs this summer.  I cannot but think it a
+little strange that having been so civil to him as I have been he should
+not invite me to dinner, but I believe it was but a sudden motion, and so
+I heard not of it.  After dinner to the office, where all the afternoon
+till late, and so to see Sir W. Pen, and so home to supper and to bed.
+To-night I took occasion with the vintner's man, who came by my direction
+to taste again my tierce of claret, to go down to the cellar with him to
+consult about the drawing of it; and there, to my great vexation, I find
+that the cellar door hath long been kept unlocked, and above half the
+wine drunk.  I was deadly mad at it, and examined my people round, but
+nobody would confess it; but I did examine the boy, and afterwards Will,
+and told him of his sitting up after we were in bed with the maids, but
+as to that business he denies it, which I can [not] remedy, but I shall
+endeavour to know how it went.  My wife did also this evening tell me a
+story of Ashwell stealing some new ribbon from her, a yard or two, which
+I am sorry to hear, and I fear my wife do take a displeasure against her,
+that they will hardly stay together, which I should be sorry for, because
+I know not where to pick such another out anywhere.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up betimes, and studying of my double horizontal diall against Dean
+Honiwood comes to me, who dotes mightily upon it, and I think I must give
+it him.  So after talking with Sir W. Batten, who is this morning gone to
+Guildhall to his trial with Field, I to my office, and there read all the
+morning in my statute-book, consulting among others the statute against
+selling of offices, wherein Mr. Coventry is so much concerned; and though
+he tells me that the statute do not reach him, yet I much fear that it
+will.  At noon, hearing that the trial is done, and Sir W. Batten come to
+the Sun behind the Exchange I went thither, where he tells me that he had
+much ado to carry it on his side, but that at last he did, but the jury,
+by the judge's favour, did give us but; L10 damages and the charges of
+the suit, which troubles me; but it is well it went not against us, which
+would have been much worse.  So to the Exchange, and thence home to
+dinner, taking Deane of Woolwich along with me, and he dined alone with
+my wife being undressed, and he and I spent all the afternoon finely,
+learning of him the method of drawing the lines of a ship, to my great
+satisfaction, and which is well worth my spending some time in, as I
+shall do when my wife is gone into the country.  In the evening to the
+office and did some business, then home, and, God forgive me, did from my
+wife's unwillingness to tell me whither she had sent the boy, presently
+suspect that he was gone to Pembleton's, and from that occasion grew so
+discontented that I could hardly speak or sleep all night.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up betimes, and my wife and Ashwell and I whiled away the morning
+up and down while they got themselves ready, and I did so watch to see my
+wife put on drawers, which poor soul she did, and yet I could not get off
+my suspicions, she having a mind to go into Fenchurch Street before she
+went out for good and all with me, which I must needs construe to be to
+meet Pembleton, when she afterwards told me it was to buy a fan that she
+had not a mind that I should know of, and I believe it is so.  Specially
+I did by a wile get out of my boy that he did not yesterday go to
+Pembleton's or thereabouts, but only was sent all that time for some
+starch, and I did see him bringing home some, and yet all this cannot
+make my mind quiet.  At last by coach I carried her to Westminster Hall,
+and they two to Mrs. Bowyer to go from thence to my wife's father's and
+Ashwell to hers, and by and by seeing my wife's father in the Hall, and
+being loth that my wife should put me to another trouble and charge by
+missing him to-day, I did employ a porter to go from a person unknown to
+tell him his daughter was come to his lodgings, and I at a distance did
+observe him, but, Lord! what a company of questions he did ask him, what
+kind of man I was, and God knows what.  So he went home, and after I had
+staid in the Hall a good while, where I heard that this day the
+Archbishop of Canterbury, Juxon, a man well spoken of by all for a good
+man, is dead; and the Bishop of London is to have his seat.  Home by
+water, where by and by comes Dean Honiwood, and I showed him my double
+horizontal diall, and promise to give him one, and that shall be it.  So,
+without eating or drinking, he went away to Mr. Turner's, where Sir J.
+Minnes do treat my Lord Chancellor and a great deal of guests to-day with
+a great dinner, which I thank God I do not pay for; and besides, I doubt
+it is too late for any man to expect any great service from my Lord
+Chancellor, for which I am sorry, and pray God a worse do not come in his
+room.  So I to dinner alone, and so to my chamber, and then to the office
+alone, my head aching and my mind in trouble for my wife, being jealous
+of her spending the day, though God knows I have no great reason.  Yet my
+mind is troubled.  By and by comes Will Howe to see us, and walked with
+me an hour in the garden, talking of my Lord's falling to business again,
+which I am glad of, and his coming to lie at his lodgings at White Hall
+again.  The match between Sir J. Cutts and my Lady Jemimah, he says, is
+likely to go on; for which I am glad.  In the Hall to-day Dr. Pierce
+tells me that the Queen begins to be brisk, and play like other ladies,
+and is quite another woman from what she was, of which I am glad.  It may
+be, it may make the King like her the better, and forsake his two
+mistresses, my Lady Castlemaine and Stewart.  He gone we sat at the
+office till night, and then home, where my wife is come, and has been
+with her father all the afternoon, and so home, and she and I to walk in
+the garden, giving ear to her discourse of her father's affairs, and I
+found all well, so after putting things in order at my office, home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up and to read a little, and by and by the carver coming, I
+directed him how to make me a neat head for my viall that is making.
+About 10 o'clock my wife and I, not without some discontent, abroad by
+coach, and I set her at her father's; but their condition is such that
+she will not let me see where they live, but goes by herself when I am
+out of sight.  Thence to my brother's, taking care for a passage for my
+wife the next week in a coach to my father's, and thence to Paul's
+Churchyard, where I found several books ready bound for me; among others,
+the new Concordance of the Bible, which pleases me much, and is a book I
+hope to make good use of.  Thence, taking the little History of England
+with me, I went by water to Deptford, where Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
+Batten attending the Pay; I dined with them, and there Dr. Britton,
+parson of the town, a fine man and good company, dined with us, and good
+discourse.  After dinner I left them and walked to Redriffe, and thence
+to White Hall, and at my Lord's lodgings found my wife, and thence
+carried her to see my Lady Jemimah, but she was not within.  So to Mr.
+Turner's, and there saw Mr. Edward Pepys's lady, who my wife concurs with
+me to be very pretty, as most women we ever saw.  So home, and after a
+walk in the garden a little troubled to see my wife take no more pleasure
+with Ashwell, but neglect her and leave her at home.  Home to supper and
+to bed.
+
+
+
+6th.  Lay in bed till 7 o'clock, yet rose with an opinion that it was not
+5, and so continued though I heard the clock strike, till noon, and would
+not believe that it was so late as it truly was.  I was hardly ever so
+mistaken in my life before.  Up and to Sir G. Carteret at his house, and
+spoke to him about business, but he being in a bad humour I had no mind
+to stay with him, but walked, drinking my morning draft of whay, by the
+way, to York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie; and there I saw
+his people go up and down louseing themselves: they are all in a great
+hurry, being to be gone the beginning of next week.  But that that
+pleased me best, was the remains of the noble soul of the late Duke of
+Buckingham appearing in his house, in every place, in the doorcases and
+the windows.  By and by comes Sir John Hebden, the Russia Resident, to
+me, and he and I in his coach to White Hall, to Secretary Morrice's, to
+see the orders about the Russia hemp that is to be fetched from Archangel
+for our King, and that being done, to coach again, and he brought me into
+the City and so I home; and after dinner abroad by water, and met by
+appointment Mr. Deane in the Temple Church, and he and I over to Mr.
+Blackbury's yard, and thence to other places, and after that to a
+drinking house, in all which places I did so practise and improve my
+measuring of timber, that I can now do it with great ease and perfection,
+which do please me mightily.  This fellow Deane is a conceited fellow,
+and one that means the King a great deal of service, more of disservice
+to other people that go away with the profits which he cannot make; but,
+however, I learn much of him, and he is, I perceive, of great use to the
+King in his place, and so I shall give him all the encouragement I can.
+Home by water, and having wrote a letter for my wife to my Lady Sandwich
+to copy out to send this night's post, I to the office, and wrote there
+myself several things, and so home to supper and bed.  My mind being
+troubled to think into what a temper of neglect I have myself flung my
+wife into by my letting her learn to dance, that it will require time to
+cure her of, and I fear her going into the country will but make her
+worse; but only I do hope in the meantime to spend my time well in my
+office, with more leisure than while she is here.  Hebden, to-day in the
+coach, did tell me how he is vexed to see things at Court ordered as they
+are by nobody that attends to business, but every man himself or his
+pleasures.  He cries up my Lord Ashley to be almost the only man that he
+sees to look after business; and with that ease and mastery, that he
+wonders at him.  He cries out against the King's dealing so much with
+goldsmiths, and suffering himself to have his purse kept and commanded by
+them.  He tells me also with what exact care and order the States of
+Holland's stores are kept in their Yards, and every thing managed there
+by their builders with such husbandry as is not imaginable; which I will
+endeavour to understand further, if I can by any means learn.
+
+
+
+7th (Lord's day).  Whit Sunday.  Lay long talking with my wife, sometimes
+angry and ended pleased and hope to bring our matters to a better posture
+in a little time, which God send.  So up and to church, where Mr. Mills
+preached, but, I know not how, I slept most of the sermon.  Thence home,
+and dined with my wife and Ashwell and after dinner discoursed very
+pleasantly, and so I to church again in the afternoon, and, the Scot
+preaching, again slept all the afternoon, and so home, and by and by to
+Sir W. Batten's, to talk about business, where my Lady Batten inveighed
+mightily against the German Princess, and I as high in the defence of her
+wit and spirit, and glad that she is cleared at the sessions.  Thence to
+Sir W. Pen, who I found ill again of the gout, he tells me that now Mr.
+Castle and Mrs. Martha Batten do own themselves to be married, and have
+been this fortnight.  Much good may it do him, for I do not envy him his
+wife.  So home, and there my wife and I had an angry word or two upon
+discourse of our boy, compared with Sir W. Pen's boy that he has now,
+whom I say is much prettier than ours and she the contrary.  It troubles
+me to see that every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a
+difference between us.  So to my office and there did a little business,
+and then home to supper and to bed.  Mrs. Turner, who is often at Court,
+do tell me to-day that for certain the Queen hath much changed her
+humour, and is become very pleasant and sociable as any; and they say is
+with child, or believed to be so.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up and to my office a while, and thence by coach with Sir J. Minnes
+to St. James's to the Duke, where Mr. Coventry and us two did discourse
+with the Duke a little about our office business, which saved our coming
+in the afternoon, and so to rights home again and to dinner.  After
+dinner my wife and I had a little jangling, in which she did give me the
+lie, which vexed me, so that finding my talking did but make her worse,
+and that her spirit is lately come to be other than it used to be, and
+now depends upon her having Ashwell by her, before whom she thinks I
+shall not say nor do anything of force to her, which vexes me and makes
+me wish that I had better considered all that I have of late done
+concerning my bringing my wife to this condition of heat, I went up vexed
+to my chamber and there fell examining my new concordance, that I have
+bought, with Newman's, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine
+altogether as copious as that and something larger, though the order in
+some respects not so good, that a man may think a place is missing, when
+it is only put in another place.  Up by and by my wife comes and good
+friends again, and to walk in the garden and so anon to supper and to
+bed.  My cozen John Angier the son, of Cambridge coming to me late to see
+me, and I find his business is that he would be sent to sea, but I
+dissuaded him from it, for I will not have to do with it without his
+friends' consent.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up and after ordering some things towards my wife's going into the
+country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules
+very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about
+mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore
+which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to
+measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which
+I have a mind to learn.  So he with me home to dinner and after dinner
+walk in the garden, and then we met at the office, where Coventry, Sir J.
+Minnes, and I, and so in the evening, business done, I went home and
+spent my time till night with my wife.  Presently after my coming home
+comes Pembleton, whether by appointment or no I know not, or whether by a
+former promise that he would come once before my wife's going into the
+country, but I took no notice of, let them go up and Ashwell with them to
+dance, which they did, and I staid below in my chamber, but, Lord! how I
+listened and laid my ear to the door, and how I was troubled when I heard
+them stand still and not dance.  Anon they made an end and had done, and
+so I suffered him to go away, and spoke not to him, though troubled in my
+mind, but showed no discontent to my wife, believing that this is the
+last time I shall be troubled with him.  So my wife and I to walk in the
+garden, home and to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up and all the morning helping my wife to put up her things
+towards her going into the country and drawing the wine out of my vessel
+to send.  This morning came my cozen Thomas Pepys to desire me to furnish
+him with some money, which I could not do till his father has wrote to
+Piggott his consent to the sale of his lands, so by and by we parted and
+I to the Exchange a while and so home and to dinner, and thence to the
+Royal Theatre by water, and landing, met with Captain Ferrers his friend,
+the little man that used to be with him, and he with us, and sat by us
+while we saw "Love in a Maze."  The play is pretty good, but the life of
+the play is Lacy's part, the clown, which is most admirable; but for the
+rest, which are counted such old and excellent actors, in my life I never
+heard both men and women so ill pronounce their parts, even to my making
+myself sick therewith.  Thence, Creed happening to be with us, we four to
+the Half-Moon Tavern, I buying some sugar and carrying it with me, which
+we drank with wine and thence to the whay-house, and drank a great deal
+of whay, and so by water home, and thence to see Sir W. Pen, who is not
+in much pain, but his legs swell and so immoveable that he cannot stir
+them, but as they are lifted by other people and I doubt will have
+another fit of his late pain.  Played a little at cards with him and his
+daughter, who is grown every day a finer and finer lady, and so home to
+supper and to bed.  When my wife and I came first home we took Ashwell
+and all the rest below in the cellar with the vintner drawing out my
+wine, which I blamed Ashwell much for and told her my mind that I would
+not endure it, nor was it fit for her to make herself equal with the
+ordinary servants of the house.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up and spent most of the morning upon my measuring Ruler and with
+great pleasure I have found out some things myself of great dispatch,
+more than my book teaches me, which pleases me mightily.  Sent my wife's
+things and the wine to-day by the carrier to my father's, but staid my
+boy from a letter of my father's, wherein he desires that he may not come
+to trouble his family as he did the last year.  Dined at home and then to
+the office, where we sat all the afternoon, and at night home and spent
+the evening with my wife, and she and I did jangle mightily about her
+cushions that she wrought with worsteds the last year, which are too
+little for any use, but were good friends by and by again.  But one thing
+I must confess I do observe, which I did not before, which is, that I
+cannot blame my wife to be now in a worse humour than she used to be, for
+I am taken up in my talk with Ashwell, who is a very witty girl, that I
+am not so fond of her as I used and ought to be, which now I do perceive
+I will remedy, but I would to the Lord I had never taken any, though I
+cannot have a better than her.  To supper and to bed.  The consideration
+that this is the longest day in the year is very unpleasant to me.--[It
+is necessary to note that this was according to the old style.]--This
+afternoon my wife had a visit from my Lady Jeminah and Mr. Ferrers.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up and my office, there conning my measuring Ruler, which I shall
+grow a master of in a very little time.  At noon to the Exchange and so
+home to dinner, and abroad with my wife by water to the Royall Theatre;
+and there saw "The Committee," a merry but indifferent play, only Lacey's
+part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination.  Here I saw my Lord
+Falconbridge, and his Lady, my Lady Mary Cromwell, who looks as well as I
+have known her, and well clad; but when the House began to fill she put
+on her vizard,
+
+     [Masks were commonly used by ladies in the reign of Elizabeth, and
+     when their use was revived at the Restoration for respectable women
+     attending the theatre, they became general.  They soon, however,
+     became the mark of loose women, and their use was discontinued by
+     women of repute.  On June 1st, 1704, a song was sung at the theatre
+     in Lincoln's Inn Fields called "The Misses' Lamentation for want of
+     their Vizard Masques at the Theatre."  Mr. R. W. Lowe gives several
+     references to the use of vizard masks at the theatre in his
+     interesting biography, "Thomas Betterton."]
+
+and so kept it on all the play; which of late is become a great fashion
+among the ladies, which hides their whole face.  So to the Exchange, to
+buy things with my wife; among others, a vizard for herself.  And so by
+water home and to my office to do a little business, and so to see Sir W.
+Pen, but being going to bed and not well I could not see him.  So home
+and to supper and bed, being mightily troubled all night and next morning
+with the palate of my mouth being down from some cold I took to-day
+sitting sweating in the playhouse, and the wind blowing through the
+windows upon my head.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up and betimes to Thames Street among the tarr men, to look the
+price of tarr and so by water to Whitehall thinking to speak with Sir G.
+Carteret, but he lying in the city all night, and meeting with Mr. Cutler
+the merchant, I with him in his coach into the city to Sir G. Carteret,
+but missing him there, he and I walked to find him at Sir Tho. Allen's in
+Bread Street, where not finding him he and I walked towards our office,
+he discoursing well of the business of the Navy, and particularly of the
+victualling, in which he was once I perceive concerned, and he and I
+parted and I to the office and there had a difference with Sir W. Batten
+about Mr. Bowyer's tarr, which I am resolved to cross, though he sent me
+last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon, which, it may be, I shall
+send back, for I will not have the King abused so abominably in the price
+of what we buy, by Sir W. Batten's corruption and underhand dealing.  So
+from the office, Mr. Wayth with me, to the Parliament House, and there I
+spoke and told Sir G. Carteret all, with which he is well pleased, and do
+recall his willingness yesterday, it seems, to Sir W. Batten, that we
+should buy a great quantity of tarr, being abused by him.  Thence with
+Mr. Wayth after drinking a cupp of ale at the Swan, talking of the
+corruption of the Navy, by water.  I landed him at Whitefriars, and I to
+the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife's brother, and
+thence after dinner by water to the Royall Theatre, where I resolved to
+bid farewell, as shall appear by my oaths tomorrow against all plays
+either at publique houses or Court till Christmas be over.  Here we saw
+"The Faithfull Sheepheardesse," a most simple thing, and yet much
+thronged after, and often shown, but it is only for the scenes' sake,
+which is very fine indeed and worth seeing; but I am quite out of opinion
+with any of their actings, but Lacy's, compared with the other house.
+Thence to see Mrs. Hunt, which we did and were much made of; and in our
+way saw my Lady Castlemaine, who, I fear, is not so handsome as I have
+taken her for, and now she begins to decay something.  This is my wife's
+opinion also, for which I am sorry.  Thence by coach, with a mad
+coachman, that drove like mad, and down byeways, through Bucklersbury
+home, everybody through the street cursing him, being ready to run over
+them.  So home, and after writing letters by the post, home to supper and
+bed.  Yesterday, upon conference with the King in the Banqueting House,
+the Parliament did agree with much ado, it being carried but by forty-two
+voices, that they would supply him with a sum of money; but what and how
+is not yet known, but expected to be done with great disputes the next
+week.  But if done at all, it is well.
+
+
+
+14th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed.  So up and to church.  Then to
+dinner, and Tom dined with me, who I think grows a very thriving man, as
+he himself tells me.  He tells me that his man John has got a wife, and
+for that he intends to part with him, which I am sorry for, and then that
+Mr. Armiger comes to be a constant lodger at his house, and he says has
+money in his purse and will be a good paymaster, but I do much doubt it.
+He being gone, I up and sending my people to church, my wife and I did
+even our reckonings, and had a great deal of serious talk, wherein I took
+occasion to give her hints of the necessity of our saving all we can.
+I do see great cause every day to curse the time that ever I did give way
+to the taking of a woman for her, though I could never have had a better,
+and also the letting of her learn to dance, by both which her mind is so
+devilishly taken off her business and minding her occasions, and besides
+has got such an opinion in her of my being jealous, that it is never to
+be removed, I fear, nor hardly my trouble that attends it; but I must
+have patience.  I did give her 40s.  to carry into the country tomorrow
+with her, whereof 15s. is to go for the coach-hire for her and Ashwell,
+there being 20s. paid here already in earnest.  In the evening our
+discourse turned to great content and love, and I hope that after a
+little forgetting our late differences, and being a while absent one from
+another, we shall come to agree as well as ever.  So to Sir W. Pen's to
+visit him, and finding him alone, sent for my wife, who is in her riding-
+suit, to see him, which she hath not done these many months I think.  By
+and by in comes Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, and so we sat talking.
+Among other things, Sir J. Minnes brought many fine expressions of
+Chaucer, which he doats on mightily, and without doubt he is a very fine
+poet.
+
+     [Pepys continued through life an admirer of Chaucer, and we have the
+     authority of Dryden himself for saying that we owe his character of
+     the Good Parson to Pepys's recommendation.]
+
+Sir W. Pen continues lame of the gout, that he cannot rise from his
+chair.  So after staying an hour with him, we went home and to supper,
+and so to prayers and bed.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up betimes, and anon my wife rose and did give me her keys, and
+put other things in order and herself against going this morning into the
+country.  I was forced to go to Thames Street and strike up a bargain for
+some tarr, to prevent being abused therein by Hill, who was with me this
+morning, and is mightily surprised that I should tell him what I can have
+the same tarr with his for.  Thence home, but finding my wife gone, I
+took coach and after her to her inn, where I am troubled to see her
+forced to sit in the back of the coach, though pleased to see her company
+none but women and one parson; she I find is troubled at all, and I
+seemed to make a promise to get a horse and ride after them; and so,
+kissing her often, and Ashwell once, I bid them adieu.  So home by coach,
+and thence by water to Deptford to the Trinity House, where I came a
+little late; but I found them reading their charter, which they did like
+fools, only reading here and there a bit, whereas they ought to do it
+all, every word, and then proceeded to the election of a maister, which
+was Sir W. Batten, without any control, who made a heavy, short speech to
+them, moving them to give thanks to the late Maister for his pains, which
+he said was very great, and giving them thanks for their choice of him,
+wherein he would serve them to the best of his power.  Then to the choice
+of their assistants and wardens, and so rose.  I might have received 2s.
+6d. as a younger Brother, but I directed one of the servants of the House
+to receive it and keep it.  Thence to church, where Dr. Britton preached
+a sermon full of words against the Nonconformists, but no great matter in
+it, nor proper for the day at all.  His text was, "With one mind and one
+mouth give glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."  That
+done, by water, I in the barge with the Maister, to the Trinity House at
+London; where, among others, I found my Lords Sandwich and Craven, and my
+cousin Roger Pepys, and Sir Wm. Wheeler.  Anon we sat down to dinner,
+which was very great, as they always have.  Great variety of talk.  Mr.
+Prin, among many, had a pretty tale of one that brought in a bill in
+parliament for the empowering him to dispose his land to such children as
+he should have that should bear the name of his wife.  It was in Queen
+Elizabeth's time.  One replied that there are many species of creatures
+where the male gives the denomination to both sexes, as swan and
+woodcock, but not above one where the female do, and that is a goose.
+Both at and after dinner we had great discourses of the nature and power
+of spirits, and whether they can animate dead bodies; in all which, as of
+the general appearance of spirits, my Lord Sandwich is very scepticall.
+He says the greatest warrants that ever he had to believe any, is the
+present appearing of the Devil
+
+     [In 1664, there being a generall report all over the kingdom of Mr.
+     Monpesson his house being haunted, which hee himself affirming to
+     the King and Queene to be true, the King sent the Lord Falmouth, and
+     the Queene sent mee, to examine the truth of; but wee could neither
+     see nor heare anything that was extraordinary; and about a year
+     after, his Majesty told me that hee had discovered the cheat, and
+     that Mr. Monpesson, upon his Majesty sending for him, confessed it
+     to him.  And yet Mr. Monpesson, in a printed letter, had afterwards
+     the confidence to deny that hee had ever made any such confession"
+     ("Letters of the Second Earl of Chesterfield," p. 24, 1829, 8vo.).
+     Joseph Glanville published a relation of the famous disturbance at
+     the house of Mr. Monpesson, at Tedworth, Wilts, occasioned by the
+     beating of an invisible drum every night for a year.  This story,
+     which was believed at the time, furnished the plot for Addison's
+     play of "The Drummer, or the Haunted House."  In the "Mercurius
+     Publicus," April 16-23, 1663, there is a curious examination on this
+     subject, by which it appears that one William Drury, of Uscut,
+     Wilts, was the invisible drummer.--B.]
+
+in Wiltshire, much of late talked of, who beats a drum up and down.
+There are books of it, and, they say, very true; but my Lord observes,
+that though he do answer to any tune that you will play to him upon
+another drum, yet one tune he tried to play and could not; which makes
+him suspect the whole; and I think it is a good argument.  Sometimes they
+talked of handsome women, and Sir J. Minnes saying that there was no
+beauty like what he sees in the country-markets, and specially at Bury,
+in which I will agree with him that there is a prettiest women I ever
+saw.  My Lord replied thus: "Sir John, what do you think of your
+neighbour's wife?"  looking upon me.  "Do you not think that he hath a
+great beauty to his wife?  Upon my word he hath."  Which I was not a
+little proud of.  Thence by barge with my Lord to Blackfriars, where we
+landed and I thence walked home, where vexed to find my boy (whom I boxed
+at his coming for it) and Will abroad, though he was but upon Tower Hill
+a very little while.  My head akeing with the healths I was forced to
+drink to-day I sent for the barber, and he having done, I up to my wife's
+closett, and there played on my viallin a good while, and without supper
+anon to bed, sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart,
+though of late she has given me some troubled thoughts.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up, but not so early as I intend now, and to my office, where
+doing business all the morning.  At noon by desire I dined with Sir W.
+Batten, who tells me that the House have voted the supply, intended for
+the King, shall be by subsidy.  After dinner with Sir J. Minnes to see
+some pictures at Brewer's, said to be of good hands, but I do not like
+them.  So I to the office and thence to Stacy's, his Tar merchant,.
+whose servant with whom I agreed yesterday for some tar do by combination
+with Bowyer and Hill fall from our agreement, which vexes us all at the
+office, even Sir W. Batten, who was so earnest for it.  So to the office,
+where we sat all the afternoon till night, and then to Sir W. Pen, who
+continues ill, and so to bed about 10 o'clock.
+
+
+
+17th.  Up before 4 o'clock, which is the hour I intend now to rise at,
+and to my office a while, and with great pleasure I fell to my business
+again.  Anon went with money to my tar merchant to pay for the tar, which
+he refuses to sell me; but now the master is come home, and so he speaks
+very civilly, and I believe we shall have it with peace.  I brought back
+my money to my office, and thence to White Hall, and in the garden spoke
+to my Lord Sandwich, who is in his gold-buttoned suit, as the mode is,
+and looks nobly.  Captain Ferrers, I see, is come home from France.  I
+only spoke one word to him, my Lord being there.  He tells me the young
+gentlemen are well there; so my Lord went to my Lord Albemarle's to
+dinner, and I by water home and dined alone, and at the office (after
+half an hour's viallin practice after dinner) till late at night, and so
+home and to bed.  This day I sent my cozen Edward Pepys his Lady, at my
+cozen Turner's, a piece of venison given me yesterday, and Madam Turner
+I sent for a dozen bottles of her's, to fill with wine for her.  This day
+I met with Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that the King has made peace
+between Mr. Edward Montagu and his father Lord Montagu, and that all is
+well again; at which; for the family's sake, I am very glad, but do not
+think it will hold long.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up by four o'clock and to my office, where all the morning writing
+out in my Navy collections the ordinary estimate of the Navy, and did it
+neatly.  Then dined at home alone, my mind pleased with business, but sad
+for the absence of my wife.  After dinner half an hour at my viallin, and
+then all the afternoon sitting at the office late, and so home and to
+bed.  This morning Mr. Cutler came and sat in my closet half an hour with
+me, his discourse very excellent, being a wise man, and I do perceive by
+him as well as many others that my diligence is taken notice of in the
+world, for which I bless God and hope to continue doing so.  Before I
+went into my house this night I called at Sir W. Batten's, where finding
+some great ladies at table at supper with him and his lady, I retreated
+and went home, though they called to me again and again, and afterwards
+sent for me.  So I went, and who should it be but Sir Fr. Clerke and his
+lady and another proper lady at supper there, and great cheer, where I
+staid till 11 o'clock at night, and so home and to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Lay till 6 o'clock, and then up and to my office, where all the
+morning, and at noon to the Exchange, and coming home met Mr. Creed, and
+took him back, and he dined with me, and by and by came Mr. Moore, whom I
+supplied with L30, and then abroad with them by water to Lambeth,
+expecting to have seen the Archbishop lie in state; but it seems he is
+not laid out yet.  And so over to White Hall, and at the Privy Seal
+Office examined the books, and found the grant of increase of salary to
+the principall officers in the year 1639, L300 among the Controller,
+Surveyor, and Clerk of the Shippes.  Thence to Wilkinson's after a good
+walk in the Park, where we met on horseback Captain Ferrers; who tells us
+that the King of France is well again, and that he saw him train his
+Guards, all brave men, at Paris; and that when he goes to his mistress,
+Madame la Valiere, a pretty little woman, now with child by him, he goes
+with his guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets and kettle-drums
+with him, who stay before the house while he is with her; and yet he says
+that, for all this, the Queen do not know of it, for that nobody dares to
+tell her; but that I dare not believe.  Thence I to Wilkinson's, where we
+had bespoke a dish of pease, where we eat them very merrily, and there
+being with us the little gentleman, a friend of Captain Ferrers, that was
+with my wife and I at a play a little while ago, we went thence to the
+Rhenish wine-house, where we called for a red Rhenish wine called
+Bleahard, a pretty wine, and not mixed, as they say.  Here Mr. Moore
+showed us the French manner, when a health is drunk, to bow to him that
+drunk to you, and then apply yourself to him, whose lady's health is
+drunk, and then to the person that you drink to, which I never knew
+before; but it seems it is now the fashion.  Thence by water home and to
+bed, having played out of my chamber window on my pipe before I went to
+bed, and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive
+in a little while he will be pretty ready, if he spends but a little
+pains in it.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up and to my office, where all the morning, and dined at home, Mr.
+Deane, of Woolwich, with me, and he and I all the afternoon down by
+water, and in a timber yard, measuring of timber, which I now understand
+thoroughly, and shall be able in a little time to do the King great
+service.  Home in the evening, and after Will's reading a little in the
+Latin Testament, to bed.
+
+
+
+21st (Lord's day).  Up betimes, and fell to reading my Latin grammar,
+which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my
+calling Will to the reading of a chapter in Latin, and I am resolved to
+go through it.  After being trimmed, I by water to White Hall, and so
+over the Park, it raining hard, to Mr. Coventry's chamber, where I spent
+two hours with him about business of the Navy, and how by his absence
+things are like to go with us, and with good content from my being with
+him he carried me by coach and set me down at Whitehall, and thence to
+right home by water.  He shewed me a list, which he hath prepared for the
+Parliament's view, if the business of his selling of offices should be
+brought to further hearing, wherein he reckons up, as I remember, 236
+offices of ships which have been disposed of without his taking one
+farthing.  This, of his own accord, he opened his cabinet on purpose to
+shew me, meaning, I suppose, that I should discourse abroad of it, and
+vindicate him therein, which I shall with all my power do.  At home,
+being wet, shifted my band and things, and then to dinner, and after
+dinner went up and tried a little upon my tryangle, which I understand
+fully, and with a little use I believe could bring myself to do
+something.  So to church, and slept all the sermon, the Scot, to whose
+voice I am not to be reconciled, preaching.  Thence with Sir J. Minnes
+(who poor man had forgot that he carried me the other day to the
+painter's to see some pictures which he has since bought and are brought
+home) to his Jodgings to see some base things he calls them of great
+masters of painting.  So I said nothing that he had shown me them
+already, but commended them, and I think they are indeed good enough.
+Thence to see Sir W. Pen, who continues ill of the gout still.  Here we
+staid a good while, and then I to my office, and read my vows seriously
+and with content, and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Up betimes and to my office, reading over all our letters of the
+office that we have wrote since I came into the Navy, whereby to bring
+the whole series of matters into my memory, and to enter in my manuscript
+some of them that are needful and of great influence.  By and by with Sir
+W. Batten by coach to Westminster, where all along I find the shops
+evening with the sides of the houses, even in the broadest streets; which
+will make the City very much better than it was.  I walked in the Hall
+from one man to another.  Hear that the House is still divided about the
+manner of levying the subsidys which they intend to give the King, both
+as to the manner, the time, and the number.  It seems the House do
+consent to send to the King to desire that he would be graciously pleased
+to let them know who it was that did inform him of what words Sir Richard
+Temple should say, which were to this purpose: "That if the King would
+side with him, or be guided by him and his party, that he should not lack
+money:" but without knowing who told it, they do not think fit to call
+him to any account for it.  Thence with Creed and bought a lobster, and
+then to an alehouse, where the maid of the house is a confident merry
+lass, and if modest is very pleasant to the customers that come thither.
+Here we eat it, and thence to walk in the Park a good while.  The Duke
+being gone a-hunting, and by and by came in and shifted himself; he
+having in his hunting, rather than go about, 'light and led his horse
+through a river up to his breast, and came so home: and when we were
+come, which was by and by, we went on to him, and being ready he retired
+with us, and we had a long discourse with him.  But Mr. Creed's accounts
+stick still through the perverse ignorance of Sir G. Carteret, which I
+cannot safely control as I would.  Thence to the Park again, and there
+walked up and down an hour or two till night with Creed, talking, who is
+so knowing, and a man of that reason, that I cannot but love his company,
+though I do not love the man, because he is too wise to be made a friend
+of, and acts all by interest and policy, but is a man fit to learn of.
+So to White Hall, and by water to the Temple, and calling at my brother's
+and several places, but to no purpose, I came home, and meeting Strutt,
+the purser, he tells me for a secret that he was told by Field that he
+had a judgment against me in the Exchequer for L400.  So I went to Sir W.
+Batten, and taking Mr. Batten, his son the counsellor, with me, by coach,
+I went to Clerke, our Solicitor, who tells me there can be no such thing,
+and after conferring with them two together, who are resolved to look
+well after the business, I returned home and to my office, setting down
+this day's passages, and having a letter that all is well in the country
+I went home to supper, and then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up by four o'clock, and so to my office; but before I went out,
+calling, as I have of late done, for my boy's copybook, I found that he
+had not done his task; so I beat him, and then went up to fetch my rope's
+end, but before I got down the boy was gone.  I searched the cellar with
+a candle, and from top to bottom could not find him high nor low.  So to
+the office; and after an hour or two, by water to the Temple, to my cozen
+Roger; who, I perceive, is a deadly high man in the Parliament business,
+and against the Court, showing me how they have computed that the King
+hath spent, at least hath received, about four millions of money since he
+came in: and in Sir J. Winter's case, in which I spoke to him, he is so
+high that he says he deserves to be hanged, and all the high words he
+could give, which I was sorry to see, though I am confident he means
+well.  Thence by water home, and to the 'Change; and by and by comes the
+King and the Queen by in great state, and the streets full of people.
+I stood in Mr.--------'s balcone.  They dine all at my Lord Mayor's; but
+what he do for victuals, or room for them, I know not.  So home to dinner
+alone, and there I found that my boy had got out of doors, and came in
+for his hat and band, and so is gone away to his brother; but I do
+resolve even to let him go away for good and all.  So I by and by to the
+office, and there had a great fray with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes,
+who, like an old dotard, is led by the nose by him.  It was in Captain
+Cocke's business of hemp, wherein the King is absolutely abused; but I
+was for peace sake contented to be quiet and to sign to his bill, but in
+my manner so as to justify myself, and so all was well; but to see what a
+knave Sir W. Batten is makes my heart ake.  So late at my office, and
+then home to supper and to bed, my man Will not being well.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up before 4 o'clock, and so to my lute an hour or more, and then
+by water, drinking my morning draft alone at an alehouse in Thames
+Street, to the Temple, and thence after a little discourse with my cozen
+Roger about some business, away by water to St. James's, and there an
+hour's private discourse with Mr. Coventry, where he told me one thing to
+my great joy, that in the business of Captain Cocke's hemp, disputed
+before him the other day, Mr. Coventry absent, the Duke did himself tell
+him since, that Mr. Pepys and he did stand up and carry it against the
+rest that were there, Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, which do please
+me much to see that the Duke do take notice of me.  We did talk highly of
+Sir W. Batten's corruption, which Mr. Coventry did very kindly say that
+it might be only his heaviness and unaptness for business, that he do
+things without advice and rashly, and to gratify people that do eat and
+drink and play with him, and that now and then he observes that he signs
+bills only in anger and fury to be rid of men.  Speaking of Sir G.
+Carteret, of whom I perceive he speaks but slightly, and diminishing of
+him in his services for the King in Jersey; that he was well rewarded,
+and had good lands and rents, and other profits from the King, all the
+time he was there; and that it was always his humour to have things done
+his way.  He brought an example how he would not let the Castle there be
+victualled for more than a month, that so he might keep it at his beck,
+though the people of the town did offer to supply it more often
+themselves, which, when one did propose to the King, Sir George Carteret
+being by, says Sir George, "Let me know who they are that would do it, I
+would with all my heart pay them."  "Ah, by God," says the Commander that
+spoke of it, "that is it that they are afeard of, that you would hug
+them," meaning that he would not endure them.  Another thing he told me,
+how the Duke of York did give Sir G. Carteret and the Island his profits
+as Admirall, and other things, toward the building of a pier there.  But
+it was never laid out, nor like to be.  So it falling out that a lady
+being brought to bed, the Duke was to be desired to be one of the
+godfathers; and it being objected that that would not be proper, there
+being no peer of the land to be joyned with him, the lady replied, "Why,
+let him choose; and if he will not be a godfather without a peer, then
+let him even stay till he hath made a pier of his own."
+
+     [In the same spirit, long after this, some question arising as to
+     the best material to be used in building Westminster Bridge, Lord
+     Chesterfield remarked, that there were too many wooden piers (peers)
+     at Westminster already.--B.]
+
+He tells me, too, that he hath lately been observed to tack about at
+Court, and to endeavour to strike in with the persons that are against
+the Chancellor; but this he says of him, that he do not say nor do
+anything to the prejudice of the Chancellor.  But he told me that the
+Chancellor was rising again, and that of late Sir G. Carteret's business
+and employment hath not been so full as it used to be while the
+Chancellor stood up.  From that we discoursed of the evil of putting out
+men of experience in business as the Chancellor, and from that to speak
+of the condition of the King's party at present, who, as the Papists,
+though otherwise fine persons, yet being by law kept for these fourscore
+years out of employment, they are now wholly uncapable of business; and
+so the Cavaliers for twenty years, who, says he, for the most part have
+either given themselves over to look after country and family business,
+and those the best of them, and the rest to debauchery, &c.; and that
+was it that hath made him high against the late Bill brought into the
+House for the making all men incapable of employment that had served
+against the King.  Why, says he, in the sea-service, it is impossible to
+do any thing without them, there being not more than three men of the
+whole King's side that are fit to command almost; and these were Captain
+Allen, Smith, and Beech; and it may be Holmes, and Utber, and Batts might
+do something.  I desired him to tell me if he thought that I did speak
+anything that I do against Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes out of ill
+will or design.  He told me quite the contrary, and that there was reason
+enough.  After a good deal of good and fine discourse, I took leave, and
+so to my Lord Sandwich's house, where I met my Lord, and there did
+discourse of our office businesses, and how the Duke do show me kindness,
+though I have endeavoured to displease more or less of my fellow
+officers, all but Mr. Coventry and Pett; but it matters not.  Yes, says
+my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, who is great with the Chancellor; I told him the
+Chancellor I have thought was declining, and however that the esteem he
+has among them is nothing but for a jester or a ballad maker; at which my
+Lord laughs, and asks me whether I believe he ever could do that well.
+Thence with Mr. Creed up and down to an ordinary, and, the King's Head
+being full, went to the other over against it, a pretty man that keeps
+it, and good and much meat, better than the other, but the company and
+room so small that he must break, and there wants the pleasure that the
+other house has in its company.  Here however dined an old courtier that
+is now so, who did bring many examples and arguments to prove that seldom
+any man that brings any thing to Court gets any thing, but rather the
+contrary; for knowing that they have wherewith to live, will not enslave
+themselves to the attendance, and flattery, and fawning condition of a
+courtier, whereas another that brings nothing, and will be contented to
+cog, and lie, and flatter every man and woman that has any interest with
+the persons that are great in favour, and can cheat the King, as nothing
+is to be got without offending God and the King, there he for the most
+part, and he alone, saves any thing.  Thence to St. James Park, and there
+walked two or three hours talking of the difference between Sir G.
+Carteret and Mr. Creed about his accounts, and how to obviate him, but
+I find Creed a deadly cunning fellow and one that never do any thing
+openly, but has intrigues in all he do or says.  Thence by water home to
+see all well, and thence down to Greenwich, arid there walked into a
+pretty common garden and there played with him at nine pins for some
+drink, and to make the fellows drink that set up the pins, and so home
+again being very cold, and taking a very great cold, being to-day the
+first time in my tabby doublet this year.  Home, and after a small supper
+Creed and I to bed.  This day I observed the house, which I took to be
+the new tennis-court, newly built next my Lord's lodgings, to be fallen
+down by the badness of the foundation or slight working, which my cozen
+Roger and his discontented party cry out upon, as an example how the
+King's work is done, which I am sorry to see him and others so apt to
+think ill of things.  It hath beaten down a good deal of my Lord's
+lodgings, and had like to have killed Mrs. Sarah, she having but newly
+gone out of it.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up both of us pretty early and to my chamber, where he and I did
+draw up a letter to Sir G. Carteret in excuse and preparation for Creed
+against we meet before the Duke upon his accounts, which I drew up and it
+proved very well, but I am pleased to see with what secret cunning and
+variety of artifice this Creed has carried on his business even unknown
+to me, which he is now forced by an accident to communicate to me.  So
+that taking up all the papers of moment which lead to the clearing of his
+accounts unobserved out of the Controller's hand, which he now makes
+great use of; knowing that the Controller has not wherewith to betray
+him.  About this all the morning, only Mr. Bland came to me about some
+business of his, and told me the news, which holds to be true, that the
+Portuguese did let in the Spaniard by a plot, and they being in the midst
+of the country and we believing that they would have taken the whole
+country, they did all rise and kill the whole body, near 8,000 men, and
+Don John of Austria having two horses killed under him, was forced with
+one man to flee away.  Sir George Carteret at the office (after dinner,
+and Creed being gone, for both now and yesterday I was afraid to have him
+seen by Sir G. Carteret with me, for fear that he should increase his
+doubt that I am of a plot with Creed in the business of his accounts) did
+tell us that upon Tuesday last, being with my Lord Treasurer, he showed
+him a letter from Portugall speaking of the advance of the Spaniards into
+their country, and yet that the Portuguese were never more courageous
+than now; for by an old prophecy, from France, sent thither some years,
+though not many since, from the French King, it is foretold that the
+Spaniards should come into their country, and in such a valley they
+should be all killed, and then their country should be wholly delivered
+from the Spaniards.  This was on Tuesday last, and yesterday came the
+very first news that in this very valley they had thus routed and killed
+the Spaniards, which is very strange but true.  So late at the office,
+and then home to supper and to bed.  This noon I received a letter from
+the country from my wife, wherein she seems much pleased with the
+country; God continue that she may have pleasure while she is there.
+She, by my Lady's advice, desires a new petticoat of the new silk striped
+stuff, very pretty.  So I went to Paternoster Row' presently, and bought
+her one, with Mr. Creed's help, a very fine rich one, the best I did see
+there, and much better than she desires or expects, and sent it by Creed
+to Unthanke to be made against tomorrow to send by the carrier, thinking
+it had been but Wednesday to-day, but I found myself mistaken, and also
+the taylor being out of the way, it could not be done, but the stuff was
+sent me back at night by Creed to dispose of some other way to make, but
+now I shall keep it to next week.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up betimes, and Mr. Moore coming to see me, he and
+
+     [Paternoster Row, now famous as the headquarters of the publishing
+     houses, was at this time chiefly inhabited by mercers.  "This
+     street, before the Fire of London, was taken up by eminent Mercers,
+     Silkmen and Lacemen; and their shops were so resorted to by the
+     nobility and gentry in their coaches, that oft times the street was
+     so stop'd up that there was no passage for foot passengers"
+     (Strype's "Stow," book iii., p. 195)].
+
+I discoursed of going to Oxford this Commencement, Mr. Nathaniel Crew
+being Proctor and Mr. Childe commencing Doctor of Musique this year,
+which I have a great mind to do, and, if I can, will order my matters so
+that I may do it.  By and by, he and I to the Temple, it raining hard, my
+cozen Roger being got out, he and I walked a good while among the Temple
+trees discoursing of my getting my Lord to let me have security upon his
+estate for L100 per ann. for two lives, my own and my wife, for my money.
+But upon second thoughts Mr. Moore tells me it is very likely my Lord
+will think that I beg something, and may take it ill, and so we resolved
+not to move it there, but to look for it somewhere else.  Here it raining
+hard he and I walked into the King's Bench Court, where I never was
+before, and there staid an hour almost, till it had done raining, which
+is a sad season, that it is said there hath not been one fair day these
+three months, and I think it is true, and then by water to Westminster,
+and at the Parliament House I spoke with Roger Pepys.  The House is upon
+the King's answer to their message about Temple, which is, that my Lord
+of Bristoll did tell him that Temple did say those words; so the House
+are resolved upon sending some of their members to him to know the truth,
+and to demand satisfaction if it be not true.  So by water home, and
+after a little while getting me ready, Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, my
+Lady Batten, and I by coach to Bednall Green, to Sir W. Rider's to
+dinner, where a fine place, good lady mother, and their daughter, Mrs.
+Middleton, a fine woman.  A noble dinner, and a fine merry walk with the
+ladies alone after dinner in the garden, which is very pleasant; the
+greatest quantity of strawberrys I ever saw, and good, and a collation of
+great mirth, Sir J. Minnes reading a book of scolding very prettily.
+This very house
+
+     [Sir William Rider's house was known as Kirby Castle, and was
+     supposed to have been built in 1570 by John Thorpe for John Kirby.
+     It was associated in rhyme with other follies of the time in bricks
+     and mortar, as recorded by Stow
+
+                   "Kirkebyes Castell, and Fisher's Follie,
+                    Spinila's pleasure, and Megse's glorie."
+
+     The place was known in Strype's time as the "Blind Beggar's House,"
+     but he knew nothing of the ballad, "The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall
+     Green," for he remarks, "perhaps Kirby beggared himself by it."  Sr.
+     William Rider died at this house in 1669.]
+
+was built by the Blind Beggar of Bednall Green, so much talked of and
+sang in ballads; but they say it was only some of the outhouses of it.
+We drank great store of wine, and a beer glass at last which made me
+almost sick.  At table, discoursing of thunder and lightning, they told
+many stories of their own knowledge at table of their masts being
+shivered from top to bottom, and sometimes only within and the outside
+whole, but among the rest Sir W. Rider did tell a story of his own
+knowledge, that a Genoese gaily in Leghorn Roads was struck by thunder,
+so as the mast was broke a-pieces, and the shackle upon one of the slaves
+was melted clear off of his leg without hurting his leg.  Sir William
+went on board the vessel, and would have contributed towards the release
+of the slave whom Heaven had thus set free, but he could not compass it,
+and so he was brought to his fetters again.  In the evening home, and a
+little to my Tryangle, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up by 4 o'clock and a little to my office.  Then comes by
+agreement Sir W. Warren, and he and I from ship to ship to see deals of
+all sorts, whereby I have encreased my knowledge and with great pleasure.
+Then to his yard and house, where I staid two hours or more discoursing
+of the expense of the navy and the corruption of Sir W. Batten and his
+man Wood that he brings or would bring to sell all that is to be sold by
+the Navy.  Then home to the office, where we sat a little, and at noon
+home to dinner, alone, and thence, it raining hard, by water to the
+Temple, and so to Lincoln's Inn, and there walked up and down to see the
+new garden which they are making, and will be very pretty, and so to walk
+under the Chappell by agreement, whither Mr. Clerke our Solicitor came to
+me, and he fetched Mr. Long, our Attorney in the Exchequer in the
+business against Field, and I directed him to come to the best and
+speediest composition he could, which he will do.  So home on foot,
+calling upon my brother's and elsewhere upon business, and so home to my
+office, and there wrote letters to my father and wife, and so home to
+bed, taking three pills overnight.
+
+
+
+28th (Lord's day).  Early in the morning my last night's physic worked
+and did give me a good stool, and then I rose and had three or four
+stools, and walked up and down my chamber.  Then up, my maid rose and
+made me a posset, and by and by comes Mr. Creed, and he and I spent all
+the morning discoursing against to-morrow before the Duke the business of
+his pieces of eight, in which the Treasurer makes so many queries.  At
+noon, my physic having done working, I went down to dinner, and then he
+and I up again and spent most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and
+other books of good discourse, and then he went away, and then came my
+brother Tom to see me, telling me how the Joyces do make themselves fine
+clothes against Mary is brought to bed.  He being gone I went to cast up
+my monthly accounts, and to my great trouble I find myself L7 worse than
+I was the last month, but I confess it is by my reckoning beforehand a
+great many things, yet however I am troubled to see that I can hardly
+promise myself to lay up much from month's end to month's end, about L4
+or L5 at most, one month with another, without some extraordinary
+gettings, but I must and I hope I shall continue to have a care of my own
+expenses.  So to the reading my vows seriously and then to supper.  This
+evening there came my boy's brother to see for him, and tells me he knows
+not where he is, himself being out of town this week and is very sorry
+that he is gone, and so am I, but he shall come no more.  So to prayers,
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+29th.  Up betimes and to my office, and by and by to the Temple, and
+there appointed to meet in the evening about my business, and thence I
+walked home, and up and down the streets is cried mightily the great
+victory got by the Portugalls against the Spaniards, where 10,000 slain,
+3 or 4,000 taken prisoners, with all the artillery, baggage, money, &c.,
+and Don John of Austria
+
+     [He was natural son of Philip IV., King of Spain, who, after his
+     father's death in 1665, exerted his whole influence to overthrow the
+     Regency appointed during the young king's minority.--B.]
+
+forced to flee with a man or two with him, which is very great news.
+Thence home and at my office all the morning, and then by water to St.
+James's, but no meeting to-day being holy day, but met Mr. Creed in the
+Park, and after a walk or two, discoursing his business, took leave of
+him in Westminster Hall, whither we walked, and then came again to the
+Hall and fell to talk with Mrs. Lane, and after great talk that she never
+went abroad with any man as she used heretofore to do, I with one word
+got her to go with me and to meet me at the further Rhenish wine-house,
+where I did give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over,
+making her believe how fair and good a skin she has, and indeed she has a
+very white thigh and leg, but monstrous fat.  When weary I did give over
+and somebody, having seen some of our dalliance, called aloud in the
+street, "Sir! why do you kiss the gentlewoman so?" and flung a stone at
+the window, which vexed me, but I believe they could not see my touzing
+her, and so we broke up and I went out the back way, without being
+observed I think, and so she towards the Hall and I to White Hall, where
+taking water I to the Temple with my cozen Roger and Mr. Goldsborough to
+Gray's Inn to his counsel, one Mr. Rawworth, a very fine man, where it
+being the question whether I as executor should give a warrant to
+Goldsborough in my reconveying her estate back again, the mortgage being
+performed against all acts of the testator, but only my own, my cozen
+said he never heard it asked before; and the other that it was always
+asked, and he never heard it denied, or scrupled before, so great a
+distance was there in their opinions, enough to make a man forswear ever
+having to do with the law; so they agreed to refer it to Serjeant
+Maynard.  So we broke up, and I by water home from the Temple, and there
+to Sir W. Batten and eat with him, he and his lady and Sir J. Minnes
+having been below to-day upon the East India men that are come in, but
+never tell me so, but that they have been at Woolwich and Deptford, and
+done great deal of business.  God help them.  So home and up to my lute
+long, and then, after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.  But I
+have used of late, since my wife went, to make a bad use of my fancy with
+whatever woman I have a mind to, which I am ashamed of, and shall
+endeavour to do so no more.  So to sleep.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up betimes yesterday and to-day, the sun rising very bright and
+glorious; and yet yesterday, as it hath been these two months and more,
+was a foul day the most part of the day.  By and by by water to White
+Hall, and there to my Lord's lodgings by appointment, whither Mr. Creed
+comes to me, having been at Chelsey this morning to fetch my Lord to St.
+James's.  So he and I to the Park, where we understand that the King and
+Duke are gone out betimes this morning on board the East India ships
+lately come in, and so our meeting appointed is lost.  But he and I
+walked at the further end of the Park, not to be observed, whither by and
+by comes my Lord Sandwich, and he and we walked two hours and more in the
+Park and then in White Hall Gallery, and lastly in White Hall garden,
+discoursing of Mr. Creed's accounts, and how to answer the Treasurer's
+objections.  I find that the business is L500 deep, the advantage of
+Creed, and why my Lord and I should be concerned to promote his profit
+with so much dishonour and trouble to us I know not, but however we shall
+do what we can, though he deserves it not, for there is nothing even to
+his own advantage that can be got out of him, but by mere force.  So full
+of policy he is in the smallest matters, that I perceive him to be made
+up of nothing but design.  I left him here, being in my mind vexed at the
+trouble that this business gets me, and the distance that it makes
+between Sir G. Carteret and myself, which I ought to avoyd.  Thence by
+water home and to dinner, and afterwards to the office, and there sat
+till evening, and then I by water to Deptford to see Sir W. Pen, who lies
+ill at Captain Rooth's, but in a way to be well again this weather, this
+day being the only fair day we have had these two or three months.  Among
+other discourse I did tell him plainly some of my thoughts concerning Sir
+W. Batten. and the office in general, upon design for him to understand
+that I do mind things and will not balk to take notice of them, that when
+he comes to be well again he may know how to look upon me.  Thence
+homeward walked, and in my way met Creed coming to meet me, and then
+turned back and walk a while, and so to boat and home by water, I being
+not very forward to talk of his business, and he by design the same, to
+see how I would speak of it, but I did not, but in general terms, and so
+after supper with general discourse to bed and sleep.  Thus, by God's
+blessing, ends this book of two years; I being in all points in good
+health and a good way to thrive and do well.  Some money I do and can lay
+up, but not much, being worth now above L700, besides goods of all sorts.
+My wife in the country with Ashwell, her woman, with my father; myself at
+home with W. Hewer and my cooke-maid Hannah, my boy Wayneman being lately
+run away from me.  In my office, my repute and understanding good,
+especially with the Duke and Mr. Coventry; only the rest of the officers
+do rather envy than love me, I standing in most of their lights,
+specially Sir W. Batten, whose cheats I do daily oppose to his great
+trouble, though he appears mighty kind and willing to keep friendship
+with me, while Sir J. Minnes, like a dotard, is led by the nose by him.
+My wife and I, by my late jealousy, for which I am truly to be blamed,
+have not the kindness between us which we used and ought to have, and I
+fear will be lost hereafter if I do not take course to oblige her and yet
+preserve my authority.  Publique matters are in an ill condition;
+Parliament sitting and raising four subsidys for the King, which is but a
+little, considering his wants; and yet that parted withal with great
+hardness.  They being offended to see so much money go, and no debts of
+the publique's paid, but all swallowed by a luxurious Court: which the
+King it is believed and hoped will retrench in a little time, when he
+comes to see the utmost of the revenue which shall be settled on him: he
+expecting to have his L1,200,000 made good to him, which is not yet done
+by above L150,000, as he himself reports to the House.  My differences
+with my uncle Thomas at a good quiett, blessed be God!  and other
+matters.  The town full of the great overthrow lately given to the
+Spaniards by the Portugalls, they being advanced into the very middle of
+Portugall.  The weather wet for two or three months together beyond
+belief, almost not one fair day coming between till this day, which has
+been a very pleasant [day] and the first pleasant [day] this summer.  The
+charge of the Navy intended to be limited to L200,000 per annum, the
+ordinary charge of it, and that to be settled upon the Customs.  The King
+yet greatly taken up with Madam Castlemaine and Mrs. Stewart, which God
+of Heaven put an end to!  Myself very studious to learn what I can of all
+things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy, reading lately
+what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides.  I have of
+late spent much time with Creed, being led to it by his business of his
+accounts, but I find him a fellow of those designs and tricks, that there
+is no degree of true friendship to be made with him, and therefore I must
+cast him off, though he be a very understanding man, and one that much
+may be learned of as to cunning and judging of other men.  Besides, too,
+I do perceive more and more that my time of pleasure and idleness of any
+sort must be flung off to attend to getting of some money and the keeping
+of my family in order, which I fear by my wife's liberty may be otherwise
+lost.
+
+
+
+
+ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
+
+A woman sober, and no high-flyer, as he calls it
+After awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends
+Book itself, and both it and them not worth a turd
+But a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises
+Did find none of them within, which I was glad of
+Did so watch to see my wife put on drawers, which (she did)
+Duodecimal arithmetique
+Employed by the fencers to play prizes at
+Enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great many
+Every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a difference
+Give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over
+God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my own mind
+Goes with his guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets
+Great plot which was lately discovered in Ireland
+He hoped he should live to see her "ugly and willing"
+He is too wise to be made a friend of
+I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me
+I slept most of the sermon
+In some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole church
+It must be the old ones that must do any good
+Jealous, though God knows I have no great reason
+John has got a wife, and for that he intends to part with him
+Keep at interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit
+Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife
+My wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot.  .  .  .
+No sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that ever I saw
+Nor would become obliged too much to any
+Nothing is to be got without offending God and the King
+Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design
+Reading my Latin grammar, which I perceive I have great need
+Sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart
+Saw his people go up and down louseing themselves
+See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do
+Sent me last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon
+She begins not at all to take pleasure in me or study to please
+She used the word devil, which vexed me
+So home, and after supper did wash my feet, and so to bed
+Softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no
+Statute against selling of offices
+The goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow
+Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad
+Therefore ought not to expect more justice from her
+They say now a common mistress to the King
+Through the Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets]
+Upon a small temptation I could be false to her
+Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird
+Whose voice I am not to be reconciled
+Wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing but talking
+Would not make my coming troublesome to any
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v25
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
+
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