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diff --git a/4141.txt b/4141.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be96930 --- /dev/null +++ b/4141.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2962 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/June 1663, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/June 1663 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4141] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + 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 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, 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, 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. 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, 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. + +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. 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; 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, and 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 the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/June 1663 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4141.txt or 4141.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/4/4141/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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