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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, July/August 1663 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4142] + +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. + JULY & AUGUST + 1663 + +July 1st. This morning it rained so hard (though it was fair yesterday, +and we thereupon in hopes of having some fair weather, which we have +wanted these three months) that it wakened Creed, who lay with me last +night, and me, and so we up and fell to discourse of the business of his +accounts now under dispute, in which I have taken much trouble upon myself +and raised a distance between Sir G. Carteret and myself, which troubles +me, but I hope we have this morning light on an expedient that will right +all, that will answer their queries, and yet save Creed the L500 which he +did propose to make of the exchange abroad of the pieces of eight which he +disbursed. Being ready, he and I by water to White Hall, where I left him +before we came into the Court, for fear I should be seen by Sir G. +Carteret with him, which of late I have been forced to avoid to remove +suspicion. I to St. James's, and there discoursed a while with Mr. +Coventry, between whom and myself there is very good understanding and +friendship, and so to Westminster Hall, and being in the Parliament lobby, +I there saw my Lord of Bristoll come to the Commons House to give his +answer to their question, about some words he should tell the King that +were spoke by Sir Richard Temple, a member of their House. A chair was +set at the bar of the House for him, which he used but little, but made an +harangue of half an hour bareheaded, the House covered. His speech being +done, he came out and withdrew into a little room till the House had +concluded of an answer to his speech; which they staying long upon, I went +away. And by and by out comes Sir W. Batten; and he told me that his +Lordship had made a long and a comedian-like speech, and delivered with +such action as was not becoming his Lordship. He confesses he did tell +the King such a thing of Sir Richard Temple, but that upon his honour they +were not spoke by Sir Richard, he having taken a liberty of enlarging to +the King upon the discourse which had been between Sir Richard and himself +lately; and so took upon himself the whole blame, and desired their +pardon, it being not to do any wrong to their fellow-member, but out of +zeal to the King. He told them, among many other things, that as to his +religion he was a Roman Catholique, but such a one as thought no man to +have right to the Crown of England but the Prince that hath it; and such a +one as, if the King should desire his counsel as to his own, he would not +advise him to another religion than the old true reformed religion of this +country, it being the properest of this kingdom as it now stands; and +concluded with a submission to what the House shall do with him, saying, +that whatever they shall do, says he, "thanks be to God, this head, this +heart, and this sword (pointing to them all), will find me a being in any +place in Europe." The House hath hereupon voted clearly Sir Richard +Temple to be free from the imputation of saying those words; but when Sir +William Batten came out, had not concluded what to say to my Lord, it +being argued that to own any satisfaction as to my Lord from his speech, +would be to lay some fault upon the King for the message he should upon no +better accounts send to the impeaching of one of their members. Walking +out, I hear that the House of Lords are offended that my Lord Digby should +come to this House and make a speech there without leave first asked of +the House of Lords. I hear also of another difficulty now upon him; that +my Lord of Sunderland (whom I do not know) was so near to the marriage of +his daughter as that the wedding-clothes were made, and portion and every +thing agreed on and ready; and the other day he goes away nobody yet knows +whither, sending her the next morning a release of his right or claim to +her, and advice to his friends not to enquire into the reason of this +doing, for he hath enough for it; but that he gives them liberty to say +and think what they will of him, so they do not demand the reason of his +leaving her, being resolved never to have her, but the reason desires and +resolves not to give. Thence by water with Sir W. Batten to Trinity +House, there to dine with him, which we did; and after dinner we fell +talking, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Batten and I; Mr. Batten telling us of a late +triall of Sir Charles Sydly the other day, before my Lord Chief Justice +Foster and the whole bench, for his debauchery a little while since at +Oxford Kate's, + + [The details in the original are very gross. Dr. Johnson relates + the story in the "Lives of the Poets," in his life of Sackville, + Lord Dorset "Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir + Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock, in Bow + Street, by Covent Garden, and going into the balcony exposed + themselves to the populace in very indecent postures. At last, as + they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the + populace in such profane language, that the publick indignation was + awakened; the crowd attempted to force the door, and being repulsed, + drove in the performers with stones, and broke the windows of the + house. For this misdemeanour they were indicted, and Sedley was + fined five hundred pounds; what was the sentence of the others is + not known. Sedley employed [Henry] Killigrew and another to procure + a remission from the King, but (mark the friendship of the + dissolute!) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to + the last groat." The woman known as Oxford Kate appears to have + kept the notorious Cock Tavern in Bow Street at this date.] + +coming in open day into the Balcone and showed his nakedness, . . . . +and abusing of scripture and as it were from thence preaching a mountebank +sermon from the pulpit, saying that there he had to sell such a powder as +should make all the [women] in town run after him, 1000 people standing +underneath to see and hear him, and that being done he took a glass of +wine . . . . and then drank it off, and then took another and drank +the King's health. It seems my Lord and the rest of the judges did all of +them round give him a most high reproof; my Lord Chief justice saying, +that it was for him, and such wicked wretches as he was, that God's anger +and judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah many times. It's said they +have bound him to his good behaviour (there being no law against him for +it) in L5000. It being told that my Lord Buckhurst was there, my Lord +asked whether it was that Buckhurst that was lately tried for robbery; and +when answered Yes, he asked whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance +at that time, and that it would have more become him to have been at his +prayers begging God's forgiveness, than now running into such courses +again . . . . Thence home, and my clerks being gone by my leave to see +the East India ships that are lately come home, I staid all alone within +my office all the afternoon. This day I hear at dinner that Don John of +Austria, since his flight out of Portugall, is dead of his wounds:--[not +true]--so there is a great man gone, and a great dispute like to be ended +for the crown of Spayne, if the King should have died before him. I +received this morning a letter from my wife, brought by John Gower to +town, wherein I find a sad falling out between my wife and my father and +sister and Ashwell upon my writing to my father to advise Pall not to keep +Ashwell from her mistress, or making any difference between them. Which +Pall telling to Ashwell, and she speaking some words that her mistress +heard, caused great difference among them; all which I am sorry from my +heart to hear of, and I fear will breed ill blood not to be laid again. +So that I fear my wife and I may have some falling out about it, or at +least my father and I, but I shall endeavour to salve up all as well as I +can, or send for her out of the country before the time intended, which I +would be loth to do. In the evening by water to my coz. Roger Pepys' +chamber, where he was not come, but I found Dr. John newly come to town, +and is well again after his sickness; but, Lord! what a simple man he is +as to any public matter of state, and talks so sillily to his brother Dr. +Tom. What the matter is I know not, but he has taken (as my father told +me a good while since) such displeasure that he hardly would touch his hat +to me, and I as little to him. By and by comes Roger, and he told us the +whole passage of my Lord Digby to-day, much as I have said here above; +only that he did say that he would draw his sword against the Pope +himself, if he should offer any thing against his Majesty, and the good of +these nations; and that he never was the man that did either look for a +Cardinal's cap for himself, or any body else, meaning Abbot Montagu; and +the House upon the whole did vote Sir Richard Temple innocent; and that my +Lord Digby hath cleared the honour of his Majesty, and Sir Richard +Temple's, and given perfect satisfaction of his own respects to the House. +Thence to my brother's, and being vexed with his not minding my father's +business here in getting his Landscape done, I went away in an anger, and +walked home, and so up to my lute and then to bed. + +2d. Up betimes to my office, and there all the morning doing business, at +noon to the Change, and there met with several people, among others +Captain Cox, and with him to a Coffee [House], and drank with him and some +other merchants. Good discourse. Thence home and to dinner, and, after a +little alone at my viol, to the office, where we sat all the afternoon, +and so rose at the evening, and then home to supper and to bed, after a +little musique. My mind troubled me with the thoughts of the difference +between my wife and my father in the country. Walking in the garden this +evening with Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes, Sir G. Carteret told us +with great contempt how like a stage-player my Lord Digby spoke yesterday, +pointing to his head as my Lord did, and saying, "First, for his head," +says Sir G. Carteret, "I know what a calf's head would have done better by +half for his heart and his sword, I have nothing to say to them." He told +us that for certain his head cost the late King his, for it was he that +broke off the treaty at Uxbridge. He told us also how great a man he was +raised from a private gentleman in France by Monsieur Grandmont, + + [Antoine, Duc de Gramont, marshal of France, who died July 12th, + 1678, aged seventy-four. His memoirs have been published.] + +and afterwards by the Cardinall,--[Mazarin]--who raised him to be a +Lieutenant-generall, and then higher; and entrusted by the Cardinall, when +he was banished out of France, with great matters, and recommended by him +to the Queen as a man to be trusted and ruled by: yet when he came to have +some power over the Queen, he begun to dissuade her from her opinion of +the Cardinal; which she said nothing to till the Cardinal was returned, +and then she told him of it; who told my Lord Digby, "Eh bien, Monsieur, +vous estes un fort bon amy donc:" but presently put him out of all; and +then he was, from a certainty of coming in two or three years' time to be +Mareschall of France (to which all strangers, even Protestants, and those +as often as French themselves, are capable of coming, though it be one of +the greatest places in France), he was driven to go out of France into +Flanders; but there was not trusted, nor received any kindness from the +Prince of Conde, as one to whom also he had been false, as he had been to +the Cardinal and Grandmont. In fine, he told us how he is a man of +excellent parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to +get up to great height of preferment, but never able to hold it. So home +and to my musique; and then comes Mr. Creed to me giving me an account of +his accounts, how he has now settled them fit for perusal the most strict, +at which I am glad. So he and I to bed together. + +3d. Up and he home, and I with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten by coach +to Westminster, to St. James's, thinking to meet Sir G. Carteret, and to +attend the Duke, but he not coming we broke up, and so to Westminster +Hall, and there meeting with Mr. Moore he tells me great news that my Lady +Castlemaine is fallen from Court, and this morning retired. He gives me +no account of the reason of it, but that it is so: for which I am sorry: +and yet if the King do it to leave off not only her but all other +mistresses, I should be heartily glad of it, that he may fall to look +after business. I hear my Lord Digby is condemned at Court for his +speech, and that my Lord Chancellor grows great again. Thence with Mr. +Creed, whom I called at his chamber, over the water to Lambeth; but could +not, it being morning, get to see the Archbishop's hearse: so he and I +walked over the fields to Southwark, and there parted, and I spent half an +hour in Mary Overy's Church, where are fine monuments of great antiquity, +I believe, and has been a fine church. Thence to the Change, and meeting +Sir J. Minnes there, he and I walked to look upon Backwell's design of +making another alley from his shop through over against the Exchange door, +which will be very noble and quite put down the other two. + +So home to dinner and then to the office, and entered in my manuscript +book the Victualler's contract, and then over the water and walked to see +Sir W. Pen, and sat with him a while, and so home late, and to my viall. +So up comes Creed again to me and stays all night, to-morrow morning being +a hearing before the Duke. So to bed full of discourse of his business. + +4th. Up by 4 o'clock and sent him to get matters ready, and I to my +office looking over papers and mending my manuscript by scraping out the +blots and other things, which is now a very fine book. So to St. James's +by water with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, I giving occasion to a +wager about the tide, that it did flow through bridge, by which Sir W. +Batten won 5s. of Sir J. Minnes. At St. James's we staid while the Duke +made himself ready. Among other things Sir Allen Apsley showed the Duke +the Lisbon Gazette in Spanish, where the late victory is set down +particularly, and to the great honour of the English beyond measure. They +have since taken back Evora, which was lost to the Spaniards, the English +making the assault, and lost not more than three men. Here I learnt that +the English foot are highly esteemed all over the world, but the horse not +so much, which yet we count among ourselves the best; but they abroad have +had no great knowledge of our horse, it seems. The Duke being ready, we +retired with him, and there fell upon Mr. Creed's business, where the +Treasurer did, like a mad coxcomb, without reason or method run over a +great many things against the account, and so did Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. +Batten, which the Duke himself and Mr. Coventry and my Lord Barkely and +myself did remove, and Creed being called in did answer all with great +method and excellently to the purpose (myself I am a little conscious did +not speak so well as I purposed and do think I used to do, that is, not so +intelligibly and persuasively, as I well hoped I should), not that what I +said was not well taken, and did carry the business with what was urged +and answered by Creed and Mr. Coventry, till the Duke himself did declare +that he was satisfied, and my Lord Barkely offered to lay L100 that the +King would receive no wrong in the account, and the two last knights held +their tongues, or at least by not understanding it did say what made for +Mr. Creed, and so Sir G. Carteret was left alone, but yet persisted to say +that the account was not good, but full of corruption and foul dealing. +And so we broke up to his shame, but I do fear to the loss of his +friendship to me a good while, which I am heartily troubled for. Thence +with Creed to the King's Head ordinary; but, coming late, dined at the +second table very well for 12d.; and a pretty gentleman in our company, +who confirms my Lady Castlemaine's being gone from Court, but knows not +the reason; he told us of one wipe the Queen a little while ago did give +her, when she came in and found the Queen under the dresser's hands, and +had been so long: + +"I wonder your Majesty," says she, "can have the patience to sit so long +a-dressing?"--"I have so much reason to use patience," says the Queen, +"that I can very well bear with it." He thinks that it may be the Queen +hath commanded her to retire, though that is not likely. Thence with +Creed to hire a coach to carry us to Hide Park, to-day there being a +general muster of the King's Guards, horse and foot: but they demand so +high, that I, spying Mr. Cutler the merchant, did take notice of him, and +he going into his coach, and telling me that he was going to shew a couple +of Swedish strangers the muster, I asked and went along with him; where a +goodly sight to see so many fine horses and officers, and the King, Duke, +and others come by a-horseback, and the two Queens in the Queen-Mother's +coach, my Lady Castlemaine not being there. And after long being there, I +'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke, &c., did stand to +see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French +Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen; +which indeed was very good, though not without a slip now and then; and +one broadside close to our coach we had going out of the Park, even to the +nearness as to be ready to burn our hairs. Yet methought all these gay +men are not the soldiers that must do the King's business, it being such +as these that lost the old King all he had, and were beat by the most +ordinary fellows that could be. Thence with much ado out of the Park, and +I 'lighted and through St. James's down the waterside over, to Lambeth, to +see the Archbishop's corps (who is to be carried away to Oxford on +Monday), but came too late, and so walked over the fields and bridge home +(calling by the way at old George's), but find that he is dead, and there +wrote several letters, and so home to supper and to bed. This day in the +Duke's chamber there being a Roman story in the hangings, and upon the +standards written these four letters--S. P. Q. R., Sir G. Carteret came to +me to know what the meaning of those four letters were; which ignorance is +not to be borne in a Privy Counsellor, methinks, that a schoolboy should +be whipt for not knowing. + +5th (Lord's day). Lady Batten had sent twice to invite me to go with them +to Walthamstow to-day, Mrs. Martha' being married already this morning to +Mr. Castle, at this parish church. I could not rise soon enough to go +with them, but got myself ready, and so to Games's, where I got a horse +and rode thither very pleasantly, only coming to make water I found a +stopping, which makes me fearful of my old pain. Being come thither, I +was well received, and had two pair of gloves, as the rest, and walked up +and down with my Lady in the garden, she mighty kind to me, and I have the +way to please her. A good dinner and merry, but methinks none of the +kindness nor bridall respect between the bridegroom and bride, that was +between my wife and I, but as persons that marry purely for convenience. +After dinner to church by coach, and there my Lady, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. +Lemon, and I only, we, in spite to one another, kept one another awake; +and sometimes I read in my book of Latin plays, which I took in my pocket, +thinking to have walked it. An old doting parson preached. So home +again, and by and by up and homewards, calling in our way (Sir J. Minnes +and I only) at Mr. Batten's (who with his lady and child went in another +coach by us), which is a very pretty house, and himself in all things +within and without very ingenious, and I find a very fine study and good +books. So set out, Sir J. Minnes and I in his coach together, talking all +the way of chymistry, wherein he do know something, at least, seems so to +me, that cannot correct him, Mr. Batten's man riding my horse, and so home +and to my office a while to read my vows, then home to prayers and to bed. + +6th. Up pretty early and to my office all the morning, writing out a list +of the King's ships in my Navy collections with great pleasure. At noon +Creed comes to me, who tells me how well he has sped with Sir G. Carteret +after all our trouble, that he had his tallys up and all the kind words +possible from him, which I believe is out of an apprehension what a fool +he has made of himself hitherto in making so great a stop therein. But I +find, and so my Lord Sandwich may, that Sir G. Carteret had a design to do +him a disgrace, if he could possibly, otherwise he would never have +carried the business so far after that manner, but would first have +consulted my Lord and given him advice what to do therein for his own +honour, which he thought endangered. Creed dined with me and then walked +a while, and so away, and I to my office at my morning's work till dark +night, and so with good content home. To supper, a little musique, and +then to bed. + +7th. Up by 4 o'clock and to my office, and there continued all the +morning upon my Navy book to my great content. At noon down by barge with +Sir J. Minnes (who is going to Chatham) to Woolwich, in our way eating of +some venison pasty in the barge, I having neither eat nor drank to-day, +which fills me full of wind. Here also in Mr. Pett's garden I eat some +and the first cherries I have eat this year, off the tree where the King +himself had been gathering some this morning. Thence walked alone, only +part of the way Deane walked with me, complaining of many abuses in the +Yard, to Greenwich, and so by water to Deptford, where I found Mr. +Coventry, and with him up and down all the stores, to the great trouble of +the officers, and by his help I am resolved to fall hard to work again, as +I used to do. So thence he and I by water talking of many things, and I +see he puts his trust most upon me in the Navy, and talks, as there is +reason, slightly of the two old knights, and I should be glad by any +drudgery to see the King's stores and service looked to as they ought, but +I fear I shall never understand half the miscarriages and tricks that the +King suffers by. He tells me what Mr. Pett did to-day, that my Lord +Bristoll told the King that he will impeach the Chancellor of High +Treason: but I find that my Lord Bristoll hath undone himself already in +every body's opinion, and now he endeavours to raise dust to put out other +men's eyes, as well as his own; but I hope it will not take, in +consideration merely that it is hard for a Prince to spare an experienced +old officer, be he never so corrupt; though I hope this man is not so, as +some report him to be. He tells me that Don John is yet alive, and not +killed, as was said, in the great victory against the Spaniards in +Portugall of late. So home, and late at my office. Thence home and to my +musique. This night Mr. Turner's house being to be emptied out of my +cellar, and therefore I think to sit up a little longer than ordinary. +This afternoon, coming from the waterside with Mr. Coventry, I spied my +boy upon Tower Hill playing with the rest of the boys; so I sent W. +Griffin to take him, and he did bring him to me, and so I said nothing to +him, but caused him to be stripped (for he was run away with his best +suit), and so putting on his other, I sent him going, without saying one +word hard to him, though I am troubled for the rogue, though he do not +deserve it. Being come home I find my stomach not well for want of eating +to-day my dinner as I should do, and so am become full of wind. I called +late for some victuals, and so to bed, leaving the men below in the cellar +emptying the vats up through Mr. Turner's own house, and so with more +content to bed late. + +8th. Being weary, and going to bed late last night, I slept till 7 +o'clock, it raining mighty hard, and so did every minute of the day after +sadly. But I know not what will become of the corn this year, we having +had but two fair days these many months. Up and to my office, where all +the morning busy, and then at noon home to dinner alone upon a good dish +of eeles, given me by Michell, the Bewpers' man, and then to my viall a +little, and then down into the cellar and up and down with Mr. Turner to +see where his vault may be made bigger, or another made him, which I think +may well be. And so to my office, where very busy all day setting things +in order my contract books and preparing things against the next sitting. +In the evening I received letters out of the country, among others from my +wife, who methinks writes so coldly that I am much troubled at it, and I +fear shall have much ado to bring her to her old good temper. So home to +supper and musique, which is all the pleasure I have of late given myself, +or is fit I should, others spending too much time and money. Going in I +stepped to Sir W. Batten, and there staid and talked with him (my Lady +being in the country), and sent for some lobsters, and Mrs. Turner came +in, and did bring us an umble pie hot out of her oven, extraordinary good, +and afterwards some spirits of her making, in which she has great +judgment, very good, and so home, merry with this night's refreshment. + +9th. Up. Making water this morning, which I do every morning as soon as +I am awake, with greater plenty and freedom than I used to do, which I +think I may impute to last night's drinking of elder spirits. Abroad, it +raining, to Blackfriars, and there went into a little alehouse and staid +while I sent to the Wardrobe, but Mr. Moore was gone out. Here I kissed +three or four times the maid of the house, who is a pretty girl, but very +modest, and, God forgive me, had a mind to something more. Thence to my +lawyer's; up and down to the Six Clerks' Office, where I found my bill +against Tom Trice dismissed, which troubles me, it being through my +neglect, and will put me to charges. So to Mr. Phillips, and discoursed +with him about finding me out somebody that will let me have for money an +annuity of about L100 per annum for two lives. So home, and there put up +my riding things against the evening, in case Mr. Moore should continue +his mind to go to Oxford, which I have little mind to do, the weather +continuing so bad and the waters high. Dined at home, and Mr. Moore in +the afternoon comes to me and concluded not to go. Sir W. Batten and I +sat a little this afternoon at the office, and thence I by water to +Deptford, and there mustered the Yard, purposely, God forgive me, to find +out Bagwell, a carpenter, whose wife is a pretty woman, that I might have +some occasion of knowing him and forcing her to come to the office again, +which I did so luckily that going thence he and his wife did of themselves +meet me in the way to thank me for my old kindness, but I spoke little to +her, but shall give occasion for her coming to me. Her husband went along +with me to show me Sir W. Pen's lodging, which I knew before, but only to +have a time of speaking to him and sounding him. So left and I went in to +Sir W. Pen, who continues ill, and worse, I think, than before. He tells +me my Lady Castlemaine was at Court, for all this talk this week, which I +am glad to hear; but it seems the King is stranger than ordinary to her. +Thence walked home as I used to do, and to bed presently, having taken +great cold in my feet by walking in the dirt this day in thin shoes or +some other way, so that I begun to be in pain, and with warm clothes made +myself better by morning, but yet in pain. + +10th. Up late and by water to Westminster Hall, where I met Pierce the +chirurgeon, who tells me that for certain the King is grown colder to my +Lady Castlemaine than ordinary, and that he believes he begins to love the +Queen, and do make much of her, more than he used to do. Up to the Lobby, +and there sent out for Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Batten, and told them if +they thought convenient I would go to Chatham today, Sir John Minnes being +already there at a Pay, and I would do such and such business there, which +they thought well of, and so I went home and prepared myself to go after, +dinner with Sir W. Batten. Sir W. Batten and Mr. Coventry tell me that my +Lord Bristoll hath this day impeached my Lord Chancellor in the House of +Lords of High Treason. The chief of the articles are these: 1st. That he +should be the occasion of the peace made with Holland lately upon such +disadvantageous terms, and that he was bribed to it. 2d. That Dunkirke +was also sold by his advice chiefly, so much to the damage of England. +3d. That he had L6000 given him for the drawing-up or promoting of the +Irish declaration lately, concerning the division of the lands there. +4th. He did carry on the design of the Portugall match, so much to the +prejudice of the Crown of England, notwithstanding that he knew the Queen +is not capable of bearing children. 5th. That the Duke's marrying of his +daughter was a practice of his, thereby to raise his family; and that it +was done by indirect courses. 6th. That the breaking-off of the match +with Parma, in which he was employed at the very time when the match with +Portugall was made up here, which he took as a great slur to him, and so +it was; and that, indeed, is the chief occasion of all this fewde. 7th. +That he hath endeavoured to bring in Popery, and wrote to the Pope for a +cap for a subject of the King of England's (my Lord Aubigny ); and some +say that he lays it to the Chancellor, that a good Protestant Secretary +(Sir Edward Nicholas) was laid aside, and a Papist, Sir H. Bennet, put in +his room: which is very strange, when the last of these two is his own +creature, and such an enemy accounted to the Chancellor, that they never +did nor do agree; and all the world did judge the Chancellor to be falling +from the time that Sir H. Bennet was brought in. Besides my Lord Bristoll +being a Catholique himself, all this is very strange. These are the main +of the Articles. Upon which my Lord Chancellor desired that the noble +Lord that brought in these Articles, would sign to them with his hand; +which my Lord Bristoll did presently. Then the House did order that the +judges should, against Monday next, bring in their opinion, Whether these +articles are treason, or no? and next, they would know, Whether they were +brought in regularly or no, without leave of the Lords' House? After +dinner I took boat (H. Russell) and down to Gravesend in good time, and +thence with a guide post to Chatham, where I found Sir J. Minnes and Mr. +Wayth walking in the garden, whom I told all this day's news, which I left +the town full of, and it is great news, and will certainly be in the +consequence of it. By and by to supper, and after long discourse, Sir J. +Minnes and I, he saw me to my chamber, which not pleasing me, I sent word +so to Mrs. Bradford, that I should be crowded into such a hole, while the +clerks and boarders of her own take up the best rooms. However I lay +there and slept well. + +11th. Up early and to the Dock, and with the Storekeeper and other +officers all the morning from one office to another. At noon to the +Hill-house in Commissioner Pett's coach, and after seeing the guard-ships, +to dinner, and after dining done to the Dock by coach, it raining hard, to +see "The Prince" launched, which hath lain in the Dock in repairing these +three years. I went into her and was launched in her. Thence by boat +ashore, it raining, and I went to Mr. Barrow's, where Sir J. Minnes and +Commissioner Pett; we staid long eating sweetmeats and drinking, and +looking over some antiquities of Mr. Barrow's, among others an old +manuscript Almanac, that I believe was made for some monastery, in +parchment, which I could spend much time upon to understand. Here was a +pretty young lady, a niece of Barrow's, which I took much pleasure to look +on. Thence by barge to St. Mary Creek; where Commissioner Pett (doubtful +of the growing greatness of Portsmouth by the finding of those creeks +there), do design a wett dock at no great charge, and yet no little one; +he thinks towards L10,000. And the place, indeed, is likely to be a very +fit place, when the King hath money to do it with. Thence, it raining as +hard as it could pour down, home to the Hillhouse, and anon to supper, and +after supper, Sir J. Minnes and I had great discourse with Captain Cox and +Mr. Hempson about business of the yard, and particularly of pursers' +accounts with Hempson, who is a cunning knave in that point. So late to +bed and, Mr. Wayth being gone, I lay above in the Treasurer's bed and +slept well. About one or two in the morning the curtains of my bed being +drawn waked me, and I saw a man stand there by the inside of my bed +calling me French dogg 20 times, one after another, and I starting, as if +I would get out of the bed, he fell a-laughing as hard as he could drive, +still calling me French dogg, and laid his hand on my shoulder. At last, +whether I said anything or no I cannot tell, but I perceived the man, +after he had looked wistly upon me, and found that I did not answer him to +the names that he called me by, which was Salmon, Sir Carteret's clerk, +and Robt. Maddox, another of the clerks, he put off his hat on a suddaine, +and forebore laughing, and asked who I was, saying, "Are you Mr. Pepys?" +I told him yes, and now being come a little better to myself, I found him +to be Tom Willson, Sir W. Batten's clerk, and fearing he might be in some +melancholy fit, I was at a loss what to do or say. At last I asked him +what he meant. He desired my pardon for that he was mistaken, for he +thought verily, not knowing of my coming to lie there, that it had been +Salmon, the Frenchman, with whom he intended to have made some sport. So +I made nothing of it, but bade him good night, and I, after a little +pause, to sleep again, being well pleased that it ended no worse, and +being a little the better pleased with it, because it was the Surveyor's +clerk, which will make sport when I come to tell Sir W. Batten of it, it +being a report that old Edgeborough, the former Surveyor, who died here, +do now and then walk. + +12th (Lord's day). Up, and meeting Tom Willson he asked my pardon again, +which I easily did give him, telling him only that it was well I was not a +woman with child, for it might have made me miscarry. With Sir J. Minnes +to church, where an indifferent good sermon. Here I saw Mrs. Becky Allen, +who hath been married, and is this day churched, after her bearing a +child. She is grown tall, but looks very white and thin, and I can find +no occasion while I am here to come to have her company, which I desire +and expected in my coming, but only coming out of the church I kissed her +and her sister and mother-in-law. So to dinner, Sir J. Minnes, +Commissioner Pett, and I, &c., and after dinner walked in the garden, it +being a very fine day, the best we have had this great while, if not this +whole summer. To church again, and after that walked through the +Rope-ground to the Dock, and there over and over the Dock and grounds +about it, and storehouses, &c., with the officers of the Yard, and then to +Commissioner Pett's and had a good sullybub and other good things, and +merry. Commissioner Pett showed me alone his bodys as a secrett, which I +found afterwards by discourse with Sir J. Minnes that he had shown them +him, wherein he seems to suppose great mystery in the nature of Lynes to +be hid, but I do not understand it at all. Thence walked to the +Hill-house, being myself much dissatisfied, and more than I thought I +should have been with Commissioner Pett, being, by what I saw since I came +hither, convinced that he is not able to exercise the command in the Yard +over the officers that he ought to do, or somebody else, if ever the +service be well looked after there. Sat up and with Sir J. Minnes +talking, and he speaking his mind in slighting of the Commissioner, for +which I wish there was not so much reason. For I do see he is but a man +of words, though indeed he is the ablest man that we have to do service if +he would or durst. Sir J. Minnes being gone to bed, I took Mr. Whitfield, +one of the clerks, and walked to the Dock about eleven at night, and there +got a boat and a crew, and rowed down to the guard-ships, it being a most +pleasant moonshine evening that ever I saw almost. The guard-ships were +very ready to hail us, being no doubt commanded thereto by their Captain, +who remembers how I surprised them the last time I was here. However, I +found him ashore, but the ship in pretty good order, and the arms well +fixed, charged, and primed. Thence to the Soveraign, where I found no +officers aboard, no arms fixed, nor any powder to prime their few guns, +which were charged, without bullet though. So to the London, where +neither officers nor any body awake; I boarded her, and might have done +what I would, and at last could find but three little boys; and so spent +the whole night in visiting all the ships, in which I found, for the most +part, neither an officer aboard, nor any men so much as awake, which I was +grieved to find, specially so soon after a great Larum, as Commissioner +Pett brought us word that he [had] provided against, and put all in a +posture of defence but a week ago, all which I am resolved to represent to +the Duke. + +13th. So, it being high day, I put in to shore and to bed for two hours +just, and so up again, and with the Storekeeper and Clerk of the Rope-yard +up and down the Dock and Rope-house, and by and by mustered the Yard, and +instructed the Clerks of the Cheque in my new way of Callbook, and that +and other things done, to the Hill-house, and there we eat something, and +so by barge to Rochester, and there took coach hired for our passage to +London, and Mrs. Allen, the clerk of the Rope-yard's wife with us, +desiring her passage, and it being a most pleasant and warm day, we got by +four o'clock home. In our way she telling us in what condition Becky +Allen is married against all expectation a fellow that proves to be a +coxcomb and worth little if any thing at all, and yet are entered into a +way of living above their condition that will ruin them presently, for +which, for the lady's sake, I am much troubled. Home I found all well +there, and after dressing myself, I walked to the Temple; and there, from +my cozen Roger, hear that the judges have this day brought in their answer +to the Lords, That the articles against my Lord Chancellor are not +Treason; and to-morrow they are to bring in their arguments to the House +for the same. This day also the King did send by my Lord Chamberlain to +the Lords, to tell them from him, that the most of the articles against my +Lord Chancellor he himself knows to be false. Thence by water to +Whitehall, and so walked to St. James's, but missed Mr. Coventry. I met +the Queen-Mother walking in the Pell Mell, led by my Lord St. Alban's. And +finding many coaches at the Gate, I found upon enquiry that the Duchess is +brought to bed of a boy; and hearing that the King and Queen are rode +abroad with the Ladies of Honour to the Park, and seeing a great crowd of +gallants staying here to see their return, I also staid walking up and +down, and among others spying a man like Mr. Pembleton (though I have +little reason to think it should be he, speaking and discoursing long with +my Lord D'Aubigne), yet how my blood did rise in my face, and I fell into +a sweat from my old jealousy and hate, which I pray God remove from me. +By and by the King and Queen, who looked in this dress (a white laced +waistcoat and a crimson short pettycoat, and her hair dressed ci la +negligence) mighty pretty; and the King rode hand in hand with her. Here +was also my Lady Castlemaine rode among the rest of the ladies; but the +King took, methought, no notice of her; nor when they 'light did any body +press (as she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but +was taken down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of humour, and +had a yellow plume in her hat (which all took notice of), and yet is very +handsome, but very melancholy: nor did any body speak to her, or she so +much as smile or speak to any body. I followed them up into White Hall, +and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking and +fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one +another's by one another's heads, and laughing. But it was the finest +sight to me, considering their great beautys and dress, that ever I did +see in all my life. But, above all, Mrs. Stewart in this dress, with her +hat cocked and a red plume, with her sweet eye, little Roman nose, and +excellent taille, is now the greatest beauty I ever saw, I think, in my +life; and, if ever woman can, do exceed my Lady Castlemaine, at least in +this dress nor do I wonder if the King changes, which I verily believe is +the reason of his coldness to my Lady Castlemaine. Here late, with much +ado I left to look upon them, and went away, and by water, in a boat with +other strange company, there being no other to be had, and out of him into +a sculler half to the bridge, and so home and to Sir W. Batten, where I +staid telling him and Sir J. Minnes and Mrs. Turner, with great mirth, my +being frighted at Chatham by young Edgeborough, and so home to supper and +to bed, before I sleep fancying myself to sport with Mrs. Stewart with +great pleasure. + +14th. Up a little late, last night recovering my sleepiness for the night +before, which was lost, and so to my office to put papers and things to +right, and making up my journal from Wednesday last to this day. All the +morning at my office doing of business; at noon Mr. Hunt came to me, and +he and I to the Exchange, and a Coffee House, and drank there, and thence +to my house to dinner, whither my uncle Thomas came, and he tells me that +he is going down to Wisbech, there to try what he can recover of my uncle +Day's estate, and seems to have good arguments for what he do go about, in +which I wish him good speed. I made him almost foxed, the poor man having +but a bad head, and not used I believe nowadays to drink much wine. So +after dinner, they being gone, I to my office, and so home to bed. This +day I hear the judges, according to order yesterday, did bring into the +Lords' House their reasons of their judgment in the business between my +Lord Bristoll and the Chancellor; and the Lords do concur with the Judges +that the articles are not treason, nor regularly brought into the House, +and so voted that a Committee should be chosen to examine them; but +nothing to be done therein till the next sitting of this Parliament (which +is like to be adjourned in a day or two), and in the mean time the two +Lords to, remain without prejudice done to either of them. + +15th. Up and all the morning at the office, among other things with +Cooper the Purveyor, whose dullness in his proceeding in his work I was +vexed at, and find that though he understands it may be as much as other +men that profess skill in timber, yet I perceive that many things, they do +by rote, and very dully. Thence home to dinner, whither Captain Grove +came and dined with me, he going into the country to-day; among other +discourse he told me of discourse very much to my honour, both as to my +care and ability, happening at the Duke of Albemarle's table the other +day, both from the Duke, and the Duchess themselves; and how I paid so +much a year to him whose place it was of right, and that Mr. Coventry did +report thus of me; which was greatly to my content, knowing how against +their minds I was brought into the Navy. Thence by water to Westminster, +and there spent a good deal of time walking in the Hall, which is going to +be repaired, and, God forgive me, had a mind to have got Mrs. Lane abroad, +or fallen in with any woman else (in that hot humour). But it so happened +she could not go out, nor I meet with any body else, and so I walked +homeward, and in my way did many and great businesses of my own at the +Temple among my lawyers and others to my great content, thanking God that +I did not fall into any company to occasion spending time and money. To +supper, and then to a little viall and to bed, sporting in my fancy with +the Queen. + +16th. Up and dispatched things into the country and to my father's, and +two keggs of Sturgeon and a dozen bottles of wine to Cambridge for my +cozen Roger Pepys, which I give him. By and by down by water on several +Deall ships, and stood upon a stage in one place seeing calkers sheathing +of a ship. Then at Wapping to my carver's about my Viall head. So home, +and thence to my Viall maker's in Bishops, gate Street; his name is Wise, +who is a pretty fellow at it. Thence to the Exchange, and so home to +dinner, and then to my office, where a full board, and busy all the +afternoon, and among other things made a great contract with Sir W. Warren +for 40,000 deals Swinsound, at L3 17s. od. per hundred. In the morning +before I went on the water I was at Thames Street about some pitch, and +there meeting Anthony Joyce, I took him and Mr. Stacy, the Tarr merchant, +to the tavern, where Stacy told me many old stories of my Lady Batten's +former poor condition, and how her former husband broke, and how she came +to her state. At night, after office done, I went to Sir W. Batten's, +where my Lady and I [had] some high words about emptying our house of +office, where I did tell her my mind, and at last agreed that it should be +done through my office, and so all well. So home to bed. + +17th. Up, and after doing some business at my office, Creed came to me, +and I took him to my viall maker's, and there I heard the famous Mr. +Stefkins play admirably well, and yet I found it as it is always, I over +expected. I took him to the tavern and found him a temperate sober man, +at least he seems so to me. I commit the direction of my viall to him. +Thence to the Change, and so home, Creed and I to dinner, and after dinner +Sir W. Warren came to me, and he and I in my closet about his last night's +contract, and from thence to discourse of measuring of timber, wherein I +made him see that I could understand the matter well, and did both learn +of and teach him something. Creed being gone through my staying talking +to him so long, I went alone by water down to Redriffe, and so to sit and +talk with Sir W. Pen, where I did speak very plainly concerning my +thoughts of Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes. So as it may cost me some +trouble if he should tell them again, but he said as much or more to me +concerning them both, which I may remember if ever it should come forth, +and nothing but what is true and my real opinion of them, that they +neither do understand to this day Creed's accounts, nor do deserve to be +employed in their places without better care, but that the King had better +give them greater salaries to stand still and do nothing. Thence coming +home I was saluted by Bagwell and his wife (the woman I have a kindness +for), and they would have me into their little house, which I was willing +enough to, and did salute his wife. They had got wine for me, and I +perceive live prettily, and I believe the woman a virtuous modest woman. +Her husband walked through to Redriffe with me, telling me things that I +asked of in the yard, and so by water home, it being likely to rain again +to-night, which God forbid. To supper and to bed. + +18th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and Sir J. Minnes and I +did a little, and but a little business at the office. So I eat a bit of +victuals at home, and so abroad to several places, as my bookseller's, and +then to Thomson the instrument maker's to bespeak a ruler for my pocket +for timber, &c., which I believe he will do to my mind. So to the Temple, +Wardrobe, and lastly to Westminster Hall, where I expected some bands made +me by Mrs. Lane, and while she went to the starchers for them, I staid at +Mrs. Howlett's, who with her husband were abroad, and only their daughter +(which I call my wife) was in the shop, and I took occasion to buy a pair +of gloves to talk to her, and I find her a pretty spoken girl, and will +prove a mighty handsome wench. I could love her very well. By and by +Mrs. Lane comes, and my bands not being done she and I posted and met at +the Crown in the Palace Yard, where we eat a chicken I sent for, and +drank, and were mighty merry, and I had my full liberty of towzing her and +doing what I would, but the last thing of all . . . . Of which I am +heartily ashamed, but I do resolve never to do more so. But, Lord! to see +what a mind she has to a husband, and how she showed me her hands to tell +her her fortune, and every thing that she asked ended always whom and when +she was to marry. And I pleased her so well, saying as. I know she would +have me, and then she would say that she had been with all the artists in +town, and they always told her the same things, as that she should live +long, and rich, and have a good husband, but few children, and a great fit +of sickness, and 20 other things, which she says she has always been told +by others. Here I staid late before my bands were done, and then they +came, and so I by water to the Temple, and thence walked home, all in a +sweat with my tumbling of her and walking, and so a little supper and to +bed, fearful of having taken cold. + +19th (Lord's day). Lay very long in pleasant dreams till Church time, and +so up, and it being foul weather so that I cannot walk as I intended to +meet my Cozen Roger at Thomas Pepys's house (whither he rode last night), +to Hatcham, I went to church, where a sober Doctor made a good sermon. So +home to dinner alone, and then to read a little, and so to church again, +where the Scot made an ordinary sermon, and so home to my office, and +there read over my vows and increased them by a vow against all strong +drink till November next of any sort or quantity, by which I shall try how +I can forbear it. God send it may not prejudice my health, and then I +care not. Then I fell to read over a silly play writ by a person of +honour (which is, I find, as much as to say a coxcomb), called "Love a la +Mode,"' and that being ended, home, and played on my lute and sung psalms +till bedtime, then to prayers and to bed. + +20th. Up and to my office, and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's +"Faber fortunae," + + [Pepys may here refer either to Essay XLI. (of Fortune) or to a + chapter' in the "Advancement of Learning." The sentence, "Faber + quisque fortunae propria," said to be by Appius Claudian, is quoted + more than once in the "De Augmentis Scientiarum," lib. viii., cap. + 2.] + +which the oftener I read the more I admire. There found Captain Cocke, +and up and down to many places to look after matters, and so walked back +again with him to his house, and there dined very finely. With much ado +obtained an excuse from drinking of wine, and did only taste a drop of +Sack which he had for his lady, who is, he fears, a little consumptive, +and her beauty begins to want its colour. It was Malago Sack, which, he +says, is certainly 30 years old, and I tasted a drop of it, and it was +excellent wine, like a spirit rather than wine. Thence by water to the +office, and taking some papers by water to White Hall and St. James's, but +there being no meeting with the Duke to-day, I returned by water and down +to Greenwich, to look after some blocks that I saw a load carried off by a +cart from Woolwich, the King's Yard. But I could not find them, and so +returned, and being heartily weary I made haste to bed, and being in bed +made Will read and construe three or four Latin verses in the Bible, and +chide him for forgetting his grammar. So to sleep, and sleep ill all the +night, being so weary, and feverish with it. + +21st. And so lay long in the morning, till I heard people knock at my +door, and I took it to be about 8 o'clock (but afterwards found myself a +little mistaken), and so I rose and ranted at Will and the maid, and swore +I could find my heart to kick them down stairs, which the maid mumbled at +mightily. It was my brother, who staid and talked with me, his chief +business being about his going about to build his house new at the top, +which will be a great charge for him, and above his judgment. By and by +comes Mr. Deane, of Woolwich, with his draught of a ship, and the bend and +main lines in the body of a ship very finely, and which do please me +mightily, and so am resolved to study hard, and learn of him to understand +a body, and I find him a very pretty fellow in it, and rational, but a +little conceited, but that's no matter to me. At noon, by my Lady +Batten's desire, I went over the water to Mr. Castle's, who brings his +wife home to his own house to-day, where I found a great many good old +women, and my Lady, Sir W. Batten, and Sir J. Minnes. A good, handsome, +plain dinner, and then walked in the garden; which is pleasant enough, +more than I expected there, and so Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and I by +water to the office, and there sat, and then I by water to the Temple +about my law business, and back again home and wrote letters to my father +and wife about my desire that they should observe the feast at Brampton, +and have my Lady and the family, and so home to supper and bed, my head +aching all the day from my last night's bad rest, and yesterday's +distempering myself with over walking, and to-day knocking my head against +a low door in Mr. Castle's house. This day the Parliament kept a fast for +the present unseasonable weather. + +22nd. Up, and by and by comes my uncle Thomas, to whom I paid L10 for his +last half year's annuity, and did get his and his son's hand and seal for +the confirming to us Piggott's mortgage, which was forgot to be expressed +in our late agreement with him, though intended, and therefore they might +have cavilled at it, if they would. Thence abroad calling at several +places upon some errands, among others to my brother Tom's barber and had +my hair cut, while his boy played on the viallin, a plain boy, but has a +very good genius, and understands the book very well, but to see what a +shift he made for a string of red silk was very pleasant. Thence to my +Lord Crew's. My Lord not being come home, I met and staid below with +Captain Ferrers, who was come to wait upon my Lady Jemimah to St. James's, +she being one of the four ladies that hold up the mantle at the +christening this afternoon of the Duke's child (a boy). In discourse of +the ladies at Court, Captain Ferrers tells me that my Lady Castlemaine is +now as great again as ever she was; and that her going away was only a fit +of her own upon some slighting words of the King, so that she called for +her coach at a quarter of an hour's warning, and went to Richmond; and the +King the next morning, under pretence of going a-hunting, went to see her +and make friends, and never was a-hunting at all. After which she came +back to Court, and commands the King as much as ever, and hath and doth +what she will. No longer ago than last night, there was a private +entertainment made for the King and Queen at the Duke of Buckingham's, and +she: was not invited: but being at my Lady Suffolk's, her aunt's (where my +Lady Jemimah and Lord Sandwich dined) yesterday, she was heard to say, +"Well; much good may it do them, and for all that I will be as merry as +they:" and so she went home and caused a great supper to be prepared. And +after the King had been with the Queen at Wallingford House, he came to my +Lady Castlemaine's, and was there all night, and my Lord Sandwich with +him, which was the reason my Lord lay in town all night, which he has not +done a great while before. He tells me he believes that, as soon as the +King can get a husband for Mrs. Stewart however, my Lady Castlemaine's +nose will be out of joynt; for that she comes to be in great esteem, and +is more handsome than she. I found by his words that my Lord Sandwich +finds some pleasure in the country where he now is, whether he means one +of the daughters of the house or no I know not, but hope the contrary, +that he thinks he is very well pleased with staying there, but yet upon +breaking up of the Parliament, which the King by a message to-day says +shall be on Monday next, he resolves to go. Ned Pickering, the coxcomb, +notwithstanding all his hopes of my Lord's assistance, wherein I am sorry +to hear my Lord has much concerned himself, is defeated of the place he +expected under the Queen. He came hither by and by and brought some +jewells for my Lady Jem. to put on, with which and her other clothes she +looks passing well. I staid and dined with my Lord Crew, who whether he +was not so well pleased with me as he used to be, or that his head was +full of business, as I believe it was, he hardly spoke one word to me all +dinner time, we dining alone, only young Jack Crew, Sir Thomas's son, with +us. After dinner I bade him farewell. Sir Thomas I hear has gone this +morning ill to bed, so I had no mind to see him. Thence homewards, and in +the way first called at Wotton's, the shoemaker's, who tells me the reason +of Harris's' going from Sir Wm. Davenant's house, that he grew very proud +and demanded L20 for himself extraordinary, more than Betterton or any +body else, upon every new play, and L10 upon every revive; which with +other things Sir W. Davenant would not give him, and so he swore he would +never act there more, in expectation of being received in the other House; +but the King will not suffer it, upon Sir W. Davenant's desire that he +would not, for then he might shut up house, and that is true. He tells me +that his going is at present a great loss to the House, and that he fears +he hath a stipend from the other House privately. He tells the that the +fellow grew very proud of late, the King and every body else crying him up +so high, and that above Betterton, he being a more ayery man, as he is +indeed. But yet Betterton, he says, they all say do act: some parts that +none but himself can do. Thence to my bookseller's, and found my +Waggoners done. The very binding cost me 14s., but they are well done, +and so with a porter home with them, and so by water to Ratcliffe, and +there went to speak with Cumberford the platt-maker, and there saw his +manner of working, which is very fine and laborious. So down to Deptford, +reading Ben Jonson's "Devil is an asse," and so to see Sir W. Pen, who I +find walking out of doors a little, but could not stand long; but in doors +and I with him, and staid a great while talking, I taking a liberty to +tell him my thoughts in things of the office; that when he comes abroad +again, he may know what to think of me, and to value me as he ought. +Walked home as I used to do, and being weary, and after some discourse +with Mr. Barrow, who came to see and take his leave of me, he being +to-morrow to set out toward the Isle of Man, I went to bed. This day I +hear that the Moores have made some attaques upon the outworks of Tangier; +but my Lord Tiviott; with the loss of about 200 men, did beat them off, +and killed many of them. To-morrow the King and Queen for certain go down +to Tunbridge. But the King comes hack again against Monday to raise the +Parliament. + +23rd. Up and to my office, and thence by information from, Mr. Ackworth I +went down to Woolwich, and mustered the three East India ships that lie +there, believing that there is great-juggling between the Pursers and +Clerks of the Cheque in cheating the King of the wages and victuals of men +that do not give attendance, and I found very few on board. So to the +yard, and there mustered the yard, and found many faults, and discharged +several fellows that were absent from their business. I staid also at Mr. +Ackworth's desire at dinner with him and his wife, and there was a simple +fellow, a gentleman I believe of the Court, their kinsmen, that threatened +me I could have little discourse or begin, acquaintance with Ackworth's +wife, and so after dinner away, with all haste home, and there found Sir +J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten at the office, and by Sir W. Batten's +testimony and Sir G. Carteret's concurrence was forced to consent to a +business of Captain Cocke's timber, as bad as anything we have lately +disputed about, and all through Mr. Coventry's not being with us. So up +and to supper with Sir W. Batten upon a soused mullett, very good meat, +and so home and to bed. + +24th. Up pretty early (though of late I have been faulty by an hour or +two every morning of what I should do) and by water to the Temple, and +there took leave of my cozen Roger Pepys, who goes out of town to-day. So +to Westminster Hall, and there at Mrs. Michell's shop sent for beer and +sugar and drink, and made great cheer with it among her and Mrs. Howlett, +her neighbour, and their daughters, especially Mrs. Howlett's daughter, +Betty, which is a pretty girl, and one I have long called wife, being, I +formerly thought, like my own wife. After this good neighbourhood, which +I do to give them occasion of speaking well and commending me in some +company that now and then I know comes to their shop, I went to the Six +clerks' office, and there had a writ for Tom Trice, and paid 20s. for it +to Wilkinson, and so up and down to many places, among others to the viall +maker's, and there saw the head, which now pleases me mightily, and so +home, and being sent for presently to Mr. Bland's, where Mr. Povy and +Gauden and I were invited to dinner, which we had very finely and great +plenty, but for drink, though many and good, I drank nothing but small +beer and water, which I drank so much that I wish it may not do me hurt. +They had a kinswoman, they call daughter, in the house, a short, ugly, +red-haired slut, that plays upon the virginalls, and sings, but after such +a country manner I was weary of it, but yet could not but commend it. So +by and by after dinner comes Monsr. Gotier, who is beginning to teach her, +but, Lord! what a droll fellow it is to make her hold open her mouth, and +telling this and that so drolly would make a man burst, but himself I +perceive sings very well. Anon we sat dawn again to a collacon of +cheesecakes, tarts, custards, and such like, very handsome, and so up and +away home, where I at the office a while, till disturbed by, Mr. Hill, of +Cambridge, with whom I walked in the garden a while, and thence home and +then in my dining room walked, talking of several matters of state till 11 +at night, giving him a glass of wine. I was not unwilling to hear him +talk, though he is full of words, yet a man of large conversation, +especially among the Presbyters and Independents; he tells me that +certainly, let the Bishops alone, and they will ruin themselves, and he is +confident that the King's declaration about two years since will be the +foundation of the settlement of the Church some time or other, for the +King will find it hard to banish all those that will appear Nonconformists +upon this Act that is coming out against them. He being gone, I to bed. + +25th. Up and to my office setting papers in order for these two or three +days, in which I have been hindered a little, and then having intended +this day to go to Banstead Downs to see a famous race, I sent Will to get +himself ready to go with me, and I also by and by home and put on my +riding suit, and being ready came to the office to Sir J. Minnes and Sir +W. Batten, and did a little of course at the office this morning, and so +by boat to White Hall, where I hear that the race is put off, because the +Lords do sit in Parliament to-day. However, having appointed Mr. Creed to +come to me to Fox Hall, I went over thither, and after some debate, Creed +and I resolved to go to Clapham, to Mr. Gauden's, who had sent his coach +to their place for me because I was to have my horse of him to go to the +race. So I went thither by coach and my Will by horse with me; Mr. Creed +he went over back again to Westminster to fetch his horse. When I came to +Mr. Gauden's one first thing was to show me his house, which is almost +built, wherein he and his family live. I find it very regular and finely +contrived, and the gardens and offices about it as convenient and as full +of good variety as ever I saw in my life. It is true he hath been +censured for laying out so much money; but he tells me that he built it +for his brother, who is since dead (the Bishop), who when he should come +to be Bishop of Winchester, which he was promised (to which bishoprick at +present there is no house), he did intend to dwell here. Besides, with +the good husbandry in making his bricks and other things I do not think it +costs him so much money as people think and discourse. By and by to +dinner, and in comes Mr. Creed. I saluted Mr. Gauden's lady, and the +young ladies, he having many pretty children, and his sister, the Bishop's +widow; who was, it seems, Sir W. Russel's daughter, the Treasurer of the +Navy; who by her discourse at dinner I find to be very well-bred, and a +woman of excellent discourse, even so much as to have my attention all +dinner with much more pleasure than I did give to Mr. Creed, whose +discourse was mighty merry in inveighing at Mr. Gauden's victuals that +they had at sea the last voyage that he prosecuted, till methought the +woman began to take it seriously. After dinner by Mr. Gauden's motion we +got Mrs. Gauden and her sister to sing to a viall, on which Mr. Gauden's +eldest son (a pretty man, but a simple one methinks) played but very +poorly, and the musique bad, but yet I commended it. Only I do find that +the ladies have been taught to sing and do sing well now, but that the +viall puts them out. I took the viall and played some things from one of +their books, Lyra lessons, which they seemed to like well. Thus we pass +an hour or two after dinner and towards the evening we bade them Adieu! +and took horse; being resolved that, instead of the race which fails us, +we would go to Epsum. So we set out, and being gone a little way I sent +home Will to look to the house, and Creed and I rode forward; the road +being full of citizens going and coming toward Epsum, where, when we came, +we could hear of no lodging, the town so full; but which was better, I +went towards Ashted, my old place of pleasure; and there by direction of +one goodman Arthur, whom we met on the way, we went to Farmer Page's, at +which direction he and I made good sport, and there we got a lodging in a +little hole we could not stand upright in, but rather than go further to +look we staid there, and while supper was getting ready I took him to walk +up and down behind my cozen Pepys's house that was, which I find comes +little short of what I took it to be when I was a little boy, as things +use commonly to appear greater than then when one comes to be a man and +knows more, and so up and down in the closes, which I know so well +methinks, and account it good fortune that I lie here that I may have +opportunity to renew my old walks. It seems there is one Mr. Rouse, they +call him the Queen's Tailor, that lives there now. So to our lodging to +supper, and among other meats had a brave dish of cream, the best I ever +eat in my life, and with which we pleased ourselves much, and by and by to +bed, where, with much ado yet good sport, we made shift to lie, but with +little ease, and a little spaniel by us, which has followed us all the +way, a pretty dogg, and we believe that follows my horse, and do belong to +Mrs. Gauden, which we, therefore, are very careful of. + +26th (Lord's-day). Up and to the Wells, + + [Epsom medicinal wells were discovered about 1618, but they did not + become fashionable until the Restoration. John Toland, in his + "Description of Epsom," says that he often counted seventy coaches in + the Ring (the present racecourse on the Downs) on a Sunday evening; + but by the end of the eighteenth century Epsom had entirely lost its + vogue.] + +where great store of citizens, which was the greatest part of the company, +though there were some others of better quality. I met many that I knew, +and we drank each of us two pots and so walked away, it being very +pleasant to see how everybody turns up his tail, here one and there +another, in a bush, and the women in their quarters the like. Thence I +walked with Creed to Mr. Minnes's house, which has now a very good way +made to it, and thence to Durdans and walked round it and within the Court +Yard and to the Bowling-green, where I have seen so much mirth in my time; +but now no family in it (my Lord Barkeley, whose it is, being with his +family at London), and so up and down by Minnes's wood, with great +pleasure viewing my old walks, and where Mrs. Hely and I did use to walk +and talk, with whom I had the first sentiments of love and pleasure in +woman's company, discourse, and taking her by the hand, she being a pretty +woman. So I led him to Ashted Church (by the place where Peter, my +cozen's man, went blindfold and found a certain place we chose for him +upon a wager), where we had a dull Doctor, one Downe, worse than I think +even parson King was, of whom we made so much scorn, and after sermon +home, and staid while our dinner, a couple of large chickens, were +dressed, and a good mess of cream, which anon we had with good content, +and after dinner (we taking no notice of other lodgers in the house, +though there was one that I knew, and knew and spoke to me, one Mr. Rider, +a merchant), he and I to walk, and I led him to the pretty little wood +behind my cozens house, into which we got at last by clambering, and our +little dog with us, but when we were among the hazel trees and bushes, +Lord! what a course did we run for an hour together, losing ourselves, and +indeed I despaired I should ever come to any path, but still from thicket +to thicket, a thing I could hardly have believed a man could have been +lost so long in so small a room. At last I found out a delicate walk in +the middle that goes quite through the wood, and then went out of the +wood, and holloed Mr. Creed, and made him hunt me from place to place, and +at last went in and called him into my fine walk, the little dog still +hunting with us through the wood. In this walk being all bewildered and +weary and sweating, Creed he lay down upon the ground, which I did a +little, but I durst not long, but walked from him in the fine green walk, +which is half a mile long, there reading my vows as I used to on Sundays. +And after that was done, and going and lying by Creed an hour, he and I +rose and went to our lodging and paid our reckoning, and so mounted, +whether to go toward London home or to find a new lodging, and so rode +through Epsum, the whole town over, seeing the various companys that were +there walking; which was very pleasant to see how they are there without +knowing almost what to do, but only in the morning to drink waters. But, +Lord! to see how many I met there of citizens, that I could not have +thought to have seen there, or that they had ever had it in their heads or +purses to go down thither. We rode out of the town through Yowell beyond +Nonesuch House a mile, and there our little dogg, as he used to do, fell +a-running after a flock of sheep feeding on the common, till he was out of +sight, and then endeavoured to come back again, and went to the last gate +that he parted with us at, and there the poor thing mistakes our scent, +instead of coming forward he hunts us backward, and runs as hard as he +could drive back towards Nonesuch, Creed and I after him, and being by +many told of his going that way and the haste he made, we rode still and +passed him through Yowell, and there we lost any further information of +him. However, we went as far as Epsum almost, hearing nothing of him, we +went back to Yowell, and there was told that he did pass through the town. +We rode back to Nonesuch to see whether he might be gone back again, but +hearing nothing we with great trouble and discontent for the loss of our +dogg came back once more to Yowell, and there set up our horses and selves +for all night, employing people to look for the dogg in the town, but can +hear nothing of him. However, we gave order for supper, and while that +was dressing walked out through Nonesuch Park to the house, and there +viewed as much as we could of the outside, and looked through the great +gates, and found a noble court; and altogether believe it to have been a +very noble house, and a delicate park about it, where just now there was a +doe killed, for the King to carry up to Court. So walked back again, and +by and by our supper being ready, a good leg of mutton boiled, we supped +and to bed, upon two beds in the same room, wherein we slept most +excellently all night. + +27th. Up in the morning about 7 o'clock, and after a little study, +resolved of riding to the Wells to look for our dogg, which we did, but +could hear nothing; but it being much a warmer day than yesterday there +was great store of gallant company, more than then, to my greater +pleasure. There was at a distance, under one of the trees on the common, +a company got together that sung. I, at the distance, and so all the rest +being a quarter of a mile off, took them for the Waytes, so I rode up to +them, and found them only voices, some citizens met by chance, that sung +four or five parts excellently. I have not been more pleased with a snapp +of musique, considering the circumstances of the time and place, in all +my life anything so pleasant. We drank each of us, three cupps, and so, +after riding up to the horsemen upon the hill, where they were making of +matches to run, we went away and to Yowell, where we found our breakfast, +the remains of our supper last night hashed, and by and by, after the +smith had set on two new shoes to Creed's horse, we mounted, and with +little discourse, I being intent upon getting home in time, we rode hard +home, observing Mr. Gauden's house, but not calling there (it being too +late for me to stay, and wanting their dog too). The house stands very +finely, and has a graceful view to the highway. Set up our horses at Fox +Hall, and I by water (observing the King's barge attending his going to +the House this day) home, it being about one o'clock. So got myself ready +and shifting myself, and so by water to Westminster, and there came most +luckily to the Lords' House as the House of Commons were going into the +Lord's House, and there I crowded in along with the Speaker, and got to +stand close behind him, where he made his speech to the King (who sat with +his crown on and robes, and so all the Lords in their robes, a fine +sight); wherein he told his Majesty what they have done this Parliament, +and now offered for his royall consent. The greatest matters were a bill +for the Lord's day (which it seems the Lords have lost, and so cannot be +passed, at which the Commons are displeased); the bills against +Conventicles and Papists (but it seems the Lords have not passed them), +and giving his Majesty four entire subsidys; which last, with about twenty +smaller Acts, were passed with this form: The Clerk of the House reads the +title of the bill, and then looks at the end and there finds (writ by the +King I suppose) "Le Roy le veult," and that he reads. And to others he +reads, "Soit fait comme vous desirez." And to the Subsidys, as well that +for the Commons, I mean the layety, as for the Clergy, the King writes, +"Le Roy remerciant les Seigneurs, &c., Prelats, &c., accepte leur +benevolences." The Speaker's speech was far from any oratory, but was as +plain (though good matter) as any thing could be, and void of elocution. +After the bills passed, the King, sitting on his throne, with his speech +writ in a paper which he held in his lap, and scarce looked off of it, I +thought, all the time he made his speech to them, giving them thanks for +their subsidys, of which, had he not need, he would not have asked or +received them; and that need, not from any extravagancys of his, he was +sure, in any thing, but the disorders of the times compelling him to be at +greater charge than he hoped for the future, by their care in their +country, he should be: and that for his family expenses and others, he +would labour however to retrench in many things convenient, and would have +all others to do so too. He desired that nothing of old faults should be +remembered, or severity for the same used to any in the country, it being +his desire to have all forgot as well as forgiven. But, however, to use +all care in suppressing any tumults, &c.; assuring them that the restless +spirits of his and their adversaries have great expectations of something +to be done this summer. And promised that though the Acts about +Conventicles and Papists were not ripe for passing this Session, yet he +would take care himself that neither of them should in this intervall be +encouraged to the endangering of the peace; and that at their next meeting +he would himself prepare two bills for them concerning them. So he +concluded, that for the better proceeding of justice he did think fit to +make this a Session, and to prorogue them to the 16th of March next. His +speech was very plain, nothing at all of spirit in it, nor spoke with any; +but rather on the contrary imperfectly, repeating many times his words +though he read all which I was sorry to see, it having not been hard for +him to have got all the speech without book. So they all went away, the +King out of the House at the upper end, he being by and by to go to +Tunbridge to the Queen; and I in the Painted Chamber spoke with my Lord +Sandwich while he was putting off his robes, who tells me he will now +hasten down into the country, as soon as he can get some money settled on +the Wardrobe. Here meeting Creed, he and I down to the Hall, and I having +at Michell's shop wrote a little letter to Mr. Gauden, to go with his +horse, and excusing my not taking leave or so much as asking after the old +lady the widow when we came away the other day from them, he and I over +the water to Fox Hall, and there sent away the horse with my letter, and +then to the new Spring Garden, walking up and down, but things being dear +and little attendance to be had we went away, leaving much brave company +there, and so to a less house hard by, where we liked very well their +Codlin tarts, having not time, as we intended, to stay the getting ready +of a dish of pease. And there came to us an idle boy to show us some +tumbling tricks, which he did very well, and the greatest bending of his +body that ever I observed in my life. Thence by water to White Hall, and +walked over the Park to St. James's; but missed Mr. Coventry, he not being +within; and so out again, and there the Duke was coming along the +Pell-Mell. It being a little darkish, I staid not to take notice of him, +but we went directly back again. And in our walk over the Park, one of +the Duke's footmen came running behind us, and came looking just in our +faces to see who we were, and went back again. What his meaning is I know +not, but was fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off, +though methinks that should not be it, besides, there were others covered +nearer than myself was, but only it was my fear. So to White Hall and by +water to the Bridge, and so home to bed, weary and well pleased with my +journey in all respects. Only it cost me about 20s., but it was for my +health, and I hope will prove so, only I do find by my riding a little +swelling to rise just by my anus. I had the same the last time I rode, +and then it fell again, and now it is up again about the bigness of the +bag of a silkworm, makes me fearful of a rupture. But I will speak to Mr. +Hollyard about it, and I am glad to find it now, that I may prevent it +before it goes too far. + +28th. Up after sleeping very well, and so to my office setting down the +Journall of this last three days, and so settled to business again, I hope +with greater cheerfulness and success by this refreshment. At the office +all the morning, and at noon to Wise's about my viall that is a-doing, and +so home to dinner and then to the office, where we sat all the afternoon +till night, and I late at it till after the office was risen. Late came +my Jane and her brother Will: to entreat for my taking of the boy again, +but I will not hear her, though I would yet be glad to do anything for her +sake to the boy, but receive him again I will not, nor give him anything. +She would have me send him to sea; which if I could I would do, but there +is no ship going out. The poor girl cried all the time she was with me, +and would not go from me, staying about two hours with me till 10 or 11 +o'clock, expecting that she might obtain something of me, but receive him +I will not. So the poor girl was fain to go away crying and saying +little. So from thence home, where my house of office was emptying, and I +find they will do, it with much more cleanness than I expected. I went up +and down among them a good while, but knowing that Mr. Coventry was to +call me in the morning, I went to bed and left them to look after the +people. So to bed. + +29th. Up about 6 o'clock, and found the people to have just done, and +Hannah not gone to bed yet, but was making clean of the yard and kitchen. +Will newly gone to bed. So I to my office, and having given some order to +Tom Hater, to whom I gave leave for his recreation to go down to +Portsmouth this Pay, I went down to Wapping to Sir W. Warren, and there +staid an hour or two discoursing of some of his goods and then things in +general relating to this office, &c., and so home, and there going to Sir +William Batten (having no stomach to dine at home, it being yet hardly +clean of last night's [mess])and there I dined with my Lady and her +daughter and son Castle, and mighty kind she is and I kind to her, but, +Lord! how freely and plainly she rails against Commissioner Pett, calling +him rogue, and wondering that the King keeps such a fellow in the Navy. +Thence by and by walked to see Sir W. Pen at Deptford, reading by the way +a most ridiculous play, a new one, called "The Politician Cheated." After +a little sitting with him I walked to the yard a little and so home again, +my Will with me, whom I bade to stay in the yard for me, and so to bed. +This morning my brother Tom was with me, and we had some discourse again +concerning his country mistress, but I believe the most that is fit for us +to condescend to, will not content her friends. + +30th. Up and to the office to get business ready for our sitting, this +being the first day of altering it from afternoon during the Parliament +sitting to the fore-noon again. By and by Mr. Coventry only came (Sir +John Minnes and Sir William Batten being gone this morning to Portsmouth +to pay some ships and the yard there), and after doing a little business +he and I down to Woolwich, and there up and down the yard, and by and by +came Sir G. Carteret and we all looked into matters, and then by water +back to Deptford, where we dined with him at his house, a very good dinner +and mightily tempted with wines of all sorts and brave French Syder, but I +drunk none. But that which is a great wonder I find his little daughter +Betty, that was in hanging sleeves but a month or two ago, and is a very +little young child; married, and to whom, but to young Scott, son to Madam +Catharine Scott, that was so long in law, and at whose triall I was with +her husband; he pleading that it was unlawfully got and would not own it, +she, it seems, being brought to bed of it, if not got by somebody else at +Oxford, but it seems a little before his death he did own the child, and +hath left him his estate, not long since. So Sir G. Carteret hath struck +up of a sudden a match with him for his little daughter. He hath about +L2000 per annum; and it seems Sir G. Carteret hath by this means +over-reached Sir H. Bennet, who did endeavour to get this gentleman for a +sister of his, but Sir G. Carteret I say has over-reached him. By this +means Sir G. Carteret hath married two daughters this year both very well. +After dinner into Deptford yard, but our bellies being full we could do no +great business, and so parted, and Mr. Coventry and I to White Hall by +water, where we also parted, and I to several places about business, and +so calling for my five books of the Variorum print bound according to my +common binding instead of the other which is more gaudy I went home. The +town talk this day is of nothing but the great foot-race run this day on +Banstead Downes, between Lee, the Duke of Richmond's footman, and a tyler, +a famous runner. And Lee hath beat him; though the King and Duke of York +and all men almost did bet three or four to one upon the tyler's head. + +31st. Up early to my accounts this month, and I find myself worth clear +L730, the most I ever had yet, which contents me though I encrease but +very little. Thence to my office doing business, and at noon to my viall +maker's, who has begun it and has a good appearance, and so to the +Exchange, where I met Dr. Pierce, who tells me of his good luck to get to +be groom of the Privy-Chamber to the Queen, and without my Lord Sandwich's +help; but only by his good fortune, meeting a man that hath let him have +his right for a small matter, about L60, for which he can every day have +L400. But he tells me my Lord hath lost much honour in standing so long +and so much for that coxcomb Pickering, and at last not carrying it for +him; but hath his name struck out by the King and Queen themselves after +he had been in ever since the Queen's coming. But he tells me he believes +that either Sir H. Bennet, my Lady Castlemaine, or Sir Charles Barkeley +had received some money for the place, and so the King could not +disappoint them, but was forced to put out this fool rather than a better +man. And I am sorry to hear what he tells me that Sir Charles Barkeley +hath still such power over the King, as to be able to fetch him from the +Council-table to my Lady Castlemaine when he pleases. He tells me also, +as a friend, the great injury that he thinks I do myself by being so +severe in the Yards, and contracting the ill-will of the whole Navy for +those offices, singly upon myself. Now I discharge a good conscience +therein, and I tell him that no man can (nor do he say any say it) charge +me with doing wrong; but rather do as many good offices as any man. They +think, he says, that I have a mind to get a good name with the King and +Duke, who he tells me do not consider any such thing; but I shall have as +good thanks to let all alone, and do as the rest. But I believe the +contrary; and yet I told him I never go to the Duke alone, as others do, +to talk of my own services. However, I will make use of his council, and +take some course to prevent having the single ill-will of the office. +Before I went to the office I went to the Coffee House, where Sir J. +Cutler and Mr. Grant were, and there Mr. Grant showed me letters of Sir +William Petty's, wherein he says, that his vessel which he hath built upon +two keeles (a modell whereof, built for the King, he showed me) hath this +month won a wager of L50 in sailing between Dublin and Holyhead with the +pacquett-boat, the best ship or vessel the King hath there; and he offers +to lay with any vessel in the world. It is about thirty ton in burden, +and carries thirty men, with good accommodation, (as much more as any ship +of her burden,) and so any vessel of this figure shall carry more men, +with better accommodation by half, than any other ship. This carries also +ten guns, of about five tons weight. In their coming back from Holyhead +they started together, and this vessel came to Dublin by five at night, +and the pacquett-boat not before eight the next morning; and when they +came they did believe that, this vessel had been drowned, or at least +behind, not thinking she could have lived in that sea. Strange things are +told of this vessel, and he concludes his letter with this position, "I +only affirm that the perfection of sayling lies in my principle, finde it +out who can." Thence home, in my way meeting Mr. Rawlinson, who tells me +that my uncle Wight is off of his Hampshire purchase and likes less of the +Wights, and would have me to be kind and study to please him, which I am +resolved to do. Being at home he sent for me to dinner to meet Mr. Moore, +so I went thither and dined well, but it was strange for me to refuse, and +yet I did without any reluctancy to drink wine in a tavern, where nothing +else almost was drunk, and that excellent good. Thence with Mr. Moore to +the Wardrobe, and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr. Townsend +about his accounts an hour or two, we reading of a merry book against the +Presbyters called Cabbala, extraordinary witty. Thence walked home and to +my office, setting papers of all sorts and writing letters and putting +myself into a condition to go to Chatham with Mr. Coventry to-morrow. So, +at almost 12 o'clock, and my eyes tired with seeing to write, I went home +and to bed. Ending the month with pretty good content of mind, my wife in +the country and myself in good esteem, and likely by pains to become +considerable, I think, with God's blessing upon my diligence. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + AUGUST + 1663 + +Aug. 1st. Up betimes and got me ready, and so to the office and put +things in order for my going. By and by comes Sir G. Carteret, and he and +I did some business, and then Mr. Coventry sending for me, he staying in +the boat, I got myself presently ready and down to him, he and I by water +to Gravesend (his man Lambert with us), and there eat a bit and so +mounted, I upon one of his horses which met him there, a brave proud +horse, all the way talking of businesses of the office and other matters +to good purpose. Being come to Chatham, we put on our boots and so walked +to the yard, where we met Commissioner Pett, and there walked up and down +looking and inquiring into many businesses, and in the evening went to the +Commissioner's and there in his upper Arbor sat and talked, and there +pressed upon the Commissioner to take upon him a power to correct and +suspend officers that do not their duty and other things, which he +unwillingly answered he would if we would own him in it. Being gone +thence Mr. Coventry and I did discourse about him, and conclude that he is +not able to do the same in that yard that he might and can and it maybe +will do in another, what with his old faults and the relations that he has +to most people that act there. After an hour or two's discourse at the +Hill-house before going to bed, I see him to his and he me to my chamber, +he lying in the Treasurer's and I in the Controller's chambers. + +2nd (Lord's day). Up and after the barber had done he and I walked to the +Docke, and so on board the Mathias, where Commissioner Pett and he and I +and a good many of the officers and others of the yard did hear an +excellent sermon of Mr. Hudson's upon "All is yours and you are God's," a +most ready, learned, and good sermon, such as I have not heard a good +while, nor ever thought he could have preached. We took him with us to +the Hill-house, and there we dined, and an officer or two with us. So +after dinner the company withdrew, and we three to private discourse and +laid the matters of the yard home again to the Commissioner, and +discoursed largely of several matters. Then to the parish church, and +there heard a poor sermon with a great deal of false Greek in it, upon +these words, "Ye are my friends, if ye do these things which I command +you." Thence to the Docke and by water to view St. Mary Creeke, but do +not find it so proper for a wet docks as we would have it, it being uneven +ground and hard in the bottom and no, great depth of water in many places. +Returned and walked from the Docke home, Mr. Coventry and I very much +troubled to see how backward Commissioner Pett is to tell any of the +faults of the officers, and to see nothing in better condition here for +his being here than they are in other yards where there is none. After +some discourse to bed. But I sat up an hour after Mr. Coventry was gone +to read my vows, it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for +an hour together. So to bed. + +3rd. Up both of us very betimes and to the Yard, and see the men called +over and choose some to be discharged. Then to the Ropehouses and viewed +them all and made an experiment which was the stronger, English or Riga +hemp, the latter proved the stronger, but the other is very good, and much +better we believe than any but Riga. We did many other things this +morning, and I caused the Timber measurer to measure some timber, where I +found much fault and with reason, which we took public notice of, and did +give them admonition for the time to come. At noon Mr. Pett did give us a +very great dinner, too big in all conscience, so that most of it was left +untouched. Here was Collonell Newman and several other gentlemen of the +country and officers of the yard. After dinner they withdrew and +Commissioner Pett, Mr. Coventry and I sat close to our business all the +noon in his parler, and there run through much business and answered +several people. And then in the evening walked in the garden, where we +conjured him to look after the yard, and for the time to come that he +would take the whole faults and ill management of the yard upon himself, +he having full power and our concurrence to suspend or do anything else +that he thinks fit to keep people and officers to their duty. He having +made good promises, though I fear his performance, we parted (though I +spoke so freely that he could have been angry) good friends, and in some +hopes that matters will be better for the time to come. So walked to the +Hillhouse (which we did view and the yard about it, and do think to put it +off as soon as we can conveniently) and there made ourselves ready and +mounted and rode to Gravesend (my riding Coate not being to be found I +fear it is stole) on our way being overtaken by Captain Browne that serves +the office of the Ordnance at Chatham. All the way, though he was a rogue +and served the late times all along, yet he kept us in discourse of the +many services that he did for many of the King's party, lords and Dukes, +and among others he recovered a dog that was stolne from Mr. Cary +(head-keeper of the buck-hounds to the King) and preserved several horses +of the Duke of Richmond's, and his best horse he was forst to put out his +eyes and keep him for a stallion to preserve him from being carried away. +But he gone at last upon my enquiry to tell us how (he having been here +too for survey of the Ropeyard) the day's work of the Rope-makers become +settled, which pleased me very well. Being come to our Inn Mr. Coventry +and I sat, and talked till 9 or 10 a-clock and then to bed. + +4th. We were called up about four a-clock, and being ready went and took +a Gravesend boat, and to London by nine a-clock. By the way talking of +several businesses of the navy. So to the office, where Sir Wm. Pen (the +first time that he has been with us a great while, he having been long +sick) met us, and there we sat all the morning. My brother John I find +come to town to my house, as I sent for him, on Saturday last; so at noon +home and dined with him, and after dinner and the barber been with me I +walked out with him to my viall maker's and other places and then left +him, and I by water to Blackbury's, and there talked with him about some +masts (and by the way he tells me that Paul's is now going to be repaired +in good earnest), and so with him to his garden close by his house, where +I eat some peaches and apricots; a very pretty place. So over the water +to Westminster hall, and not finding Mrs. Lane, with whom I purposed to be +merry, I went to Jervas's and took him and his wife over the water to +their mother Palmer's (the woman that speaks in the belly, and with whom I +have two or three years ago made good sport with Mr. Mallard), thinking +because I had heard that she is a woman of that sort that I might there +have lit upon some lady of pleasure (for which God forgive me), but blest +be God there was none, nor anything that pleased me, but a poor little +house that she has set out as fine as she can, and for her singing which +she pretends to is only some old body songs and those sung abominably, +only she pretends to be able to sing both bass and treble, which she do +something like, but not what I thought formerly and expected now; nor do +her speaking in her belly take me now as it did then, but it may be that +is because I know it and see her mouth when she speaks, which should not +be. After I had spent a shilling there in wine I took boat with Jervas +and his wife and set them at Westminster, and it being late forbore Mrs. +Lane and went by water to the Old Swan by a boat, where I had good sport +with one of the young men about his travells as far as Voxhall, in +mockery, which yet the fellow answered me most prettily and traveller-like +unto my very good mirth. So home, and with my brother eat a bit of bread +and cheese, and so to bed, he with me. This day I received a letter from +my wife, which troubles me mightily, wherein she tells me how Ashwell did +give her the lie to her teeth, and that thereupon my wife giving her a box +on the eare, the other struck her again, and a deal of stir which troubles +me, and that my Lady has been told by my father or mother something of my +wife's carriage, which altogether vexes me, and I fear I shall find a +trouble of my wife when she comes home to get down her head again, but if +Ashwell goes I am resolved to have no more, but to live poorly and low +again for a good while, and save money and keep my wife within bounds if I +can, or else I shall bid Adieu to all content in the world. So to bed, my +mind somewhat disturbed at this, but yet I shall take care, by prudence, +to avoid the ill consequences which I fear, things not being gone too far +yet, and this height that my wife is come to being occasioned from my own +folly in giving her too much head heretofore for the year past. + +5th. All the morning at the office, whither Deane of Woolwich came to me +and discoursed of the body of ships, which I am now going about to +understand, and then I took him to the coffee-house, where he was very +earnest against Mr. Grant's report in favour of Sir W. Petty's vessel, +even to some passion on both sides almost. So to the Exchange, and thence +home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall, +and there found Mrs. Lane, and by and by by agreement we met at the +Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my +lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I +ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no) +and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at Lambeth marsh, and had +variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but +could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton +and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which +I very much commend and like her. Staid pretty late, and so over with her +by water, and being in a great sweat with my towsing of her durst not go +home by water, but took coach, and at home my brother and I fell upon Des +Cartes, and I perceive he has studied him well, and I cannot find but he +has minded his book, and do love it. This evening came a letter about +business from Mr. Coventry, and with it a silver pen he promised me to +carry inke in, which is very necessary. So to prayers and to bed. + +6th. Up and was angry with my maid Hannah for keeping the house no +better, it being more dirty now-a-days than ever it was while my whole +family was together. So to my office, whither Mr. Coventry came and Sir +William Pen, and we sat all the morning. This day Mr. Coventry borrowed +of me my manuscript of the Navy. At noon I to the 'Change, and meeting +with Sir W. Warren, to a coffee-house, and there finished a contract with +him for the office, and so parted, and I to my cozen Mary Joyce's at a +gossiping, where much company and good cheer. There was the King's +Falconer, that lives by Paul's, and his wife, an ugly pusse, but brought +him money. He speaking of the strength of hawkes, which will strike a +fowle to the ground with that force that shall make the fowle rebound a +great way from ground, which no force of man or art can do, but it was +very pleasant to hear what reasons he and another, one Ballard, a rich man +of the same Company of Leathersellers of which the Joyces are, did give +for this. Ballard's wife, a pretty and a very well-bred woman, I took +occasion to kiss several times, and she to carve, drink, and show me great +respect. After dinner to talk and laugh. I drank no wine, but sent for +some water; the beer not being good. A fiddler was sent for, and there +one Mrs. Lurkin, a neighbour, a good, and merry poor woman, but a very +tall woman, did dance and show such tricks that made us all merry, but +above all a daughter of Mr. Brumfield's, black, but well-shaped and +modest, did dance very well, which pleased me mightily. I begun the +Duchess with her, but could not do it; but, however, I came off well +enough, and made mighty much of her, kissing and leading her home, with +her cozen Anthony and Kate Joyce (Kate being very handsome and well, that +is, handsomely dressed to-day, and I grew mighty kind and familiar with +her, and kissed her soundly, which she takes very well) to their house, +and there I left them, having in our way, though nine o'clock at night, +carried them into a puppet play in Lincolnes Inn Fields, where there was +the story of Holofernes, and other clockwork, well done. There was at +this house today Mr. Lawrence, who did give the name, it seems, to my +cozen Joyce's child, Samuel, who is a very civil gentleman, and his wife a +pretty woman, who, with Kate Joyce, were stewards of the feast to-day, and +a double share cost for a man and a woman came to 16s., which I also would +pay, though they would not by any means have had me do so. I walked home +very well contented with this afternoon's work, I thinking it convenient +to keep in with the Joyces against a bad day, if I should have occasion to +make use of them. So I walked home, and after a letter to my wife by the +post and my father, I home to supper, and after a little talk with my +brother to bed. + +7th. Up and to my office a little, and then to Brown's for my measuring +rule, which is made, and is certainly the best and the most commodious for +carrying in one's pocket, and most useful that ever was made, and myself +have the honour of being as it were the inventor of this form of it. Here +I staid discoursing an hour with him and then home, and thither came Sir +Fairbrother to me, and we walked a while together in the garden and then +abroad into the cittie, and then we parted for a while and I to my Viall, +which I find done and once varnished, and it will please me very well when +it is quite varnished. Thence home and to study my new rule till my head +aked cruelly. So by and by to dinner and the Doctor and Mr. Creed came to +me. The Doctor's discourse, which (though he be a very good-natured man) +is but simple, was some sport to me and Creed, though my head akeing I +took no great pleasure in it. We parted after dinner, and I walked to +Deptford and there found Sir W. Pen, and I fell to measuring of some +planks that was serving into the yard, which the people took notice of, +and the measurer himself was amused at, for I did it much more ready than +he, and I believe Sir W. Pen would be glad I could have done less or he +more. By and by he went away and I staid walking up and down, discoursing +with the officers of the yard of several things, and so walked back again, +and on my way young Bagwell and his wife waylayd me to desire my favour +about getting him a better ship, which I shall pretend to be willing to do +for them, but my mind is to know his wife a little better. They being +parted I went with Cadbury the mast maker to view a parcel of good masts +which I think it were good to buy, and resolve to speak to the board about +it. So home, and my brother John and I up and I to my musique, and then +to discourse with him, and I find him not so thorough a philosopher, at +least in Aristotle, as I took him for, he not being able to tell me the +definition of final nor which of the 4 Qualitys belonged to each of the 4 +Elements. So to prayers, and to bed, among other things being much +satisfied with my new rule. + +8th. Up and to my office, whither I search for Brown the mathematical +instrument maker, who now brought me a ruler for measuring timber and +other things so well done and in all things to my mind that I do set up my +trust upon it that I cannot have a better, nor any man else have so good +for this purpose, this being of my own ordering. By and by we sat all the +morning dispatching of business, and then at noon rose, and I with Mr. +Coventry down to the water-side, talking, wherein I see so much goodness +and endeavours of doing the King service, that I do more and more admire +him. It being the greatest trouble to me, he says, in the world to see +not only in the Navy, but in the greatest matters of State, where he can +lay his finger upon the soare (meaning this man's faults, and this man's +office the fault lies in), and yet dare or can not remedy matters. Thence +to the Exchange about several businesses, and so home to dinner, and in +the afternoon took my brother John and Will down to Woolwich by water, and +after being there a good while, and eating of fruit in Sheldon's garden, +we began our walk back again, I asking many things in physiques of my +brother John, to which he gives me so bad or no answer at all, as in the +regions of the ayre he told me that he knew of no such thing, for he never +read Aristotle's philosophy and Des Cartes ownes no such thing, which +vexed me to hear him say. But I shall call him to task, and see what it +is that he has studied since his going to the University. It was late +before we could get from Greenwich to London by water, the tide being +against us and almost past, so that to save time and to be clear of +anchors I landed at Wapping, and so walked home weary enough, walking over +the stones. This night Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes returned [from] +Portsmouth, but I did not go see them. + +9th (Lord's day). Up, and leaving my brother John to go somewhere else, I +to church, and heard Mr. Mills (who is lately returned out of the country, +and it seems was fetched in by many of the parishioners, with great +state,) preach upon the authority of the ministers, upon these words, "We +are therefore embassadors of Christ." Wherein, among other high +expressions, he said, that such a learned man used to say, that if a +minister of the word and an angell should meet him together, he would +salute the minister first; which methought was a little too high. This +day I begun to make use of the silver pen (Mr. Coventry did give me) in +writing of this sermon, taking only the heads of it in Latin, which I +shall, I think, continue to do. So home and at my office reading my +vowes, and so to Sir W. Batten to dinner, being invited and sent for, and +being willing to hear how they left things at Portsmouth, which I found +but ill enough, and are mightily for a Commissioner to be at seat there to +keep the yard in order. Thence in the afternoon with my Lady Batten, +leading her through the streets by the hand to St. Dunstan's Church, hard +by us (where by Mrs. Russell's means we were set well), and heard an +excellent sermon of one Mr. Gifford, the parson there, upon "Remember +Lot's wife." So from thence walked back to Mrs. Russell's, and there +drank and sat talking a great while. Among other things talked of young +Dawes that married the great fortune, who it seems has a Baronet's patent +given him, and is now Sir Thos. Dawes, and a very fine bred man they say +he is. Thence home, and my brother being abroad I walked to my uncle +Wight's and there staid, though with little pleasure, and supped, there +being the husband of Mrs. Anne Wight, who it seems is lately married to +one Mr. Bentley, a Norwich factor. Home, and staid up a good while +examining Will in his Latin below, and my brother along with him in his +Greeke, and so to prayers and to bed. This afternoon I was amused at the +tune set to the Psalm by the Clerke of the parish, and thought at first +that he was out, but I find him to be a good songster, and the parish +could sing it very well, and was a good tune. But I wonder that there +should be a tune in the Psalms that I never heard of. + +10th. Up, though not so early this summer as I did all the last, for +which I am sorry, and though late am resolved to get up betimes before the +season of rising be quite past. To my office to fit myself to wait on the +Duke this day. By and by by water to White Hall, and so to St. James's, +and anon called into the Duke's chamber, and being dressed we were all as +usual taken in with him and discoursed of our matters, and that being +done, he walked, and I in the company with him, to White Hall, and there +he took barge for Woolwich, and, I up to the Committee of Tangier, where +my Lord Sandwich, pay Lord Peterborough, (whom I have not seen before +since his coming back,) Sir W. Compton, and Mr. Povy. Our discourse about +supplying my Lord Teviott with money, wherein I am sorry to see, though +they do not care for him, yet they are willing to let him for civility and +compliment only have money almost without expecting any account of it; but +by this means, he being such a cunning fellow as he is, the King is like +to pay dear for our courtiers' ceremony. Thence by coach with my Lords +Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, +after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings, +with fine cuts; and also my Lord Peterborough's bowes and arrows, of which +he is a great lover, we sat down to dinner, my Lady coming down to dinner +also, and there being Mr. Williamson, that belongs to Sir H. Bennet, whom +I find a pretty understanding and accomplished man, but a little +conceited. After dinner I took leave and went to Greatorex's, whom I +found in his garden, and set him to work upon my ruler, to engrave an +almanac and other things upon the brasses of it, which a little before +night he did, but the latter part he slubbered over, that I must get him +to do it over better, or else I shall not fancy my rule, which is such a +folly that I am come to now, that whereas before my delight was in +multitude of books, and spending money in that and buying alway of other +things, now that I am become a better husband, and have left off buying, +now my delight is in the neatness of everything, and so cannot be pleased +with anything unless it be very neat, which is a strange folly. Hither +came W. Howe about business, and he and I had a great deal of discourse +about my Lord Sandwich, and I find by him that my Lord do dote upon one of +the daughters of Mrs. [Becke] where he lies, so that he spends his time +and money upon her. He tells me she is a woman of a very bad fame and +very impudent, and has told my Lord so, yet for all that my Lord do spend +all his evenings with her, though he be at court in the day time, and that +the world do take notice of it, and that Pickering is only there as a +blind, that the world may think that my Lord spends his time with him when +he do worse, and that hence it is that my Lord has no more mind to go into +the country than he has. In fine, I perceive my Lord is dabbling with +this wench, for which I am sorry, though I do not wonder at it, being a +man amorous enough, and now begins to allow himself the liberty that he +says every body else at Court takes. Here I am told that my Lord Bristoll +is either fled or concealed himself; having been sent for to the King, it +is believed to be sent to the Tower, but he is gone out of the way. +Yesterday, I am told also, that Sir J. Lenthall, in Southwarke, did +apprehend about one hundred Quakers, and other such people, and hath sent +some of them to the gaole at Kingston, it being now the time of the +Assizes. Hence home and examined a piece of, Latin of Will's with my +brother, and so to prayers and to bed. This evening I had a letter from +my father that says that my wife will come to town this week, at which I +wonder that she should come to town without my knowing more of it. But I +find they have lived very ill together since she went, and I must use all +the brains I have to bring her to any good when she do come home, which I +fear will be hard to do, and do much disgust me the thoughts of it. + +11th. Up and to my office, whither, by and by, my brother Tom came, and I +did soundly rattle him for his neglecting to see and please the Joyces as +he has of late done. I confess I do fear that he do not understand his +business, nor will do any good in his trade, though he tells me that he do +please every body and that he gets money, but I shall not believe it till +I see a state of his accounts, which I have ordered him to bring me before +he sees me any more. We met and sat at the office all the morning, and at +noon I to the 'Change, where I met Dr. Pierce, who tells me that the King +comes to towne this day, from Tunbridge, to stay a day or two, and then +fetch the Queen from thence, who he says is grown a very debonnaire lady, +and now hugs him, and meets him gallopping upon the road, and all the +actions of a fond and pleasant lady that can be, that he believes has a +chat now and then of Mrs. Stewart, but that there is no great danger of +her, she being only an innocent, young, raw girl; but my Lady Castlemaine, +who rules the King in matters of state, and do what she list with him, he +believes is now falling quite out of favour. After the Queen is come back +she goes to the Bath; and so to Oxford, where great entertainments are +making for her. This day I am told that my Lord Bristoll hath warrants +issued out against him, to have carried him to the Tower; but he is fled +away, or hid himself. So much the Chancellor hath got the better of him. +Upon the 'Change my brother, and Will bring me word that Madam Turner +would come and dine with me to-day, so I hasted home and found her and +Mrs. Morrice there (The. Joyce being gone into the country), which is the +reason of the mother rambling. I got a dinner for them, and after dinner +my uncle Thomas and aunt Bell came and saw me, and I made them almost +foxed with wine till they were very kind (but I did not carry them up to +my ladies). So they went away, and so my two ladies and I in Mrs. +Turner's coach to Mr. Povy's, who being not within, we went in and there +shewed Mrs. Turner his perspective and volary, + + [A large birdcage, in which the birds can fly about; French + 'voliere'. Ben Jonson uses the word volary.] + +and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat +thing. Thence to the Temple and by water to Westminster; and there +Morrice and I went to Sir R. Ling's to have fetched a niece of his, but +she was not within, and so we went to boat again and then down to the +bridge, and there tried to find a sister of Mrs. Morrice's, but she was +not within neither, and so we went through bridge, and I carried them on +board the King's pleasure-boat, all the way reading in a book of Receipts +of making fine meats and sweetmeats, among others to make my own sweet +water, which made us good sport. So I landed them at Greenwich, and there +to a garden, and gave them fruit and wine, and so to boat again, and +finally, in the cool of the evening, to Lyon Kee, + + [Lion Key, Lower Thames Street, where the famous Duchess of Suffolk + in the time of Bishop Gardiner's persecution took boat for the + continent. James, Duke of York, also left the country from this + same place on the night of April 20th, 1648, when he escaped from + St. James's Palace.] + +the tide against us, and so landed and walked to the Bridge, and there +took a coach by chance passing by, and so I saw them home, and there eat +some cold venison with them, and drunk and bade them good night, having +been mighty merry with them, and I think it is not amiss to preserve, +though it cost me a little, such a friend as Mrs. Turner. So home and to +bed, my head running upon what to do to-morrow to fit things against my +wife's coming, as to buy a bedstead, because my brother John is here, and +I have now no more beds than are used. + +12th. A little to my office, to put down my yesterday's journall, and so +abroad to buy a bedstead and do other things. So home again, and having +put up the bedstead and done other things in order to my wife's coming, I +went out to several places and to Mrs. Turner's, she inviting me last +night, and there dined; with her and Madam Morrice and a stranger we were +very merry and had a fine dinner, and thence I took leave and to White +Hall, where my Lords Sandwich, Peterborough, and others made a Tangier +Committee; spent the afternoon in reading and ordering with a great deal +of alteration, and yet methinks never a whit the better, of a letter drawn +by Creed to my Lord Rutherford. The Lords being against anything that +looked to be rough, though it was in matter of money and accounts, wherein +their courtship may cost the King dear. Only I do see by them, that +speaking in matters distasteful to him that we write to, it is best to do +it in the plainest way and without ambages or reasoning, but only say +matters of fact, and leave the party to collect your meaning. Thence by +water to my brother's, and there I hear my wife is come and gone home, and +my father is come to town also, at which I wondered. But I discern it is +to give my brother advice about his business, and it may be to pacify me +about the differences that have been between my wife and him and my mother +at her late being with them. Though by and by he coming to Mr. Holden's +(where I was buying a hat) he took no notice to me of anything. I talked +to him a little while and left him to lie at the end of the town, and I +home, where methought I found my wife strange, not knowing, I believe, in +what temper she could expect me to be in, but I fell to kind words, and so +we were very kind, only she could not forbear telling me how she had been +used by them and her mayde, Ashwell, in the country, but I find it will be +best not to examine it, for I doubt she's in fault too, and therefore I +seek to put it off from my hearing, and so to bed and there entertained +her with great content, and so to sleep. + +13th. Lay long in bed with my wife talking of family matters, and so up +and to the office, where we sat all the' morning, and then home to dinner, +and after dinner my wife and I to talk again about getting of a couple of +good mayds and to part with Ashwell, which troubles me for her father's +sake, though I shall be glad to have the charge taken away of keeping a +woman. Thence a little to the office, and so abroad with my wife by water +to White Hall, and there at my Lord's lodgings met my Lady Jemimah, with +whom we staid a good while. Thence to Mrs. Hunt's, where I left my wife, +and I to walk a little in St. James's Park, while Mrs. Harper might come +home, with whom we came to speak about her kinswoman Jane Gentleman to +come and live with us as a chamber mayde, and there met with Mr. Hoole my +old acquaintance of Magdalen, and walked with him an hour in the Parke, +discoursing chiefly of Sir Samuel Morland, whose lady is gone into France. +It seems he buys ground and a farm in the country, and lays out money upon +building, and God knows what! so that most of the money he sold his +pension of L500 per annum for, to Sir Arthur Slingsby, is believed is +gone. It seems he hath very great promises from the King, and Hoole hath +seen some of the King's letters, under his own hand, to Morland, promising +him great things (and among others, the order of the Garter, as Sir Samuel +says); but his lady thought it below her to ask any thing at the King's +first coming, believing the King would do it of himself, when as Hoole do +really think if he had asked to be Secretary of State at the King's first +coming, he might have had it. And the other day at her going into France, +she did speak largely to the King herself, how her husband hath failed of +what his Majesty had promised, and she was sure intended him; and the King +did promise still, as he is a King and a gentleman, to be as good as his +word in a little time, to a tittle: but I never believe it. Here in the +Park I met with Mr. Coventry, where he sent for a letter he had newly writ +to me, wherein he had enclosed one from Commissioner Pett complaining of +his being defeated in his attempt to suspend two pursers, wherein the +manner of his doing it, and complaint of our seeing him (contrary to our +promises the other day), deserted, did make us laugh mightily, and was +good sport to think how awkwardly he goes about a thing that he has no +courage of his own nor mind to do. Mr. Coventry answered it very +handsomely, but I perceive Pett has left off his corresponding with me any +more. Thence to fetch my wife from Mrs. Hunt's, where now he was come in, +and we eat and drunk, and so away (their child being at home, a very +lively, but not pretty at all), by water to Mrs. Turner's, and there made +a short visit, and so home by coach, and after supper to prayers and to +bed, and before going to bed Ashwell began to make her complaint, and by +her I do perceive that she has received most base usage from my wife, +which my wife sillily denies, but it is impossible the wench could invent +words and matter so particularly, against which my wife has nothing to say +but flatly to deny, which I am sorry to see, and blows to have past, and +high words even at Hinchinbrooke House among my Lady's people, of which I +am mightily ashamed. I said nothing to either of them, but let them talk +till she was gone and left us abed, and then I told my wife my mind with +great sobriety of grief, and so to sleep. + +14th. Awake, and to chide my wife again, and I find that my wife has got +too great head to be brought down soon, nor is it possible with any +convenience to keep Ashwell longer, my wife is so set and convinced, as +she was in Sarah, to make her appear a Lyer in every small thing that we +shall have no peace while she stays. So I up and to my office doing +several businesses in my study, and so home to dinner. The time having +outslipt me and my stomach, it being past, two a-clock, and yet before we +could sit down to dinner Mrs. Harper and her cousin Jane came, and we +treated and discoursed long about her coming to my wife for a chamber +mayd, and I think she will do well. So they went away expecting notice +when she shall come, and so we sat down to dinner at four a-clock almost, +and then I walked forth to my brother's, where I found my father very +discontented, and has no mind to come to my house, and would have begun +some of the differences between my wife and him, but I desired to hear +none of them, and am sorry at my folly in forcing it and theirs in not +telling me of it at the beginning, and therefore am resolved to make the +best of a bad market, and to bring my wife to herself again as soon and as +well as I can. So we parted very kindly, and he will dine with me +to-morrow or next day. Thence walked home, doing several errands by the +way, and at home took my wife to visit Sir W. Pen, who is still lame, and +after an hour with him went home and supped, and with great content to +bed. + +15th. Lay pretty long in bed, being a little troubled with some pain got +by wind and cold, and so up with good peace of mind, hoping that my wife +will mind her house and servants, and so to the office, and being too soon +to sit walked to my viail, which is well nigh done, and I believe I may +have it home to my mind next week. So back to my office, and there we sat +all the morning, I till 2 o'clock before I could go to dinner again. +After dinner walked forth to my instrument maker, and there had my rule he +made me lay now so perfected, that I think in all points I have never need +or desire a better, or think that any man yet had one so good in all the +several points of it for my use. So by water down to Deptford, taking +into my boat with me Mr. Palmer, one whom I knew and his wife when I was +first married, being an acquaintance of my wife's and her friends lodging +at Charing Cross during our differences. He joyed me in my condition, and +himself it seems is forced to follow the law in a common ordinary way, but +seems to do well, and is a sober man, enough by his discourse. He landed +with me at Deptford, where he saw by the officers' respect to me a piece +of my command, and took notice of it, though God knows I hope I shall not +be elated with that, but rather desire to be known for serving the King +well, and doing my duty. He gone I walked up and down the yard a while +discoursing with the officers, and so by water home meditating on my new +Rule with great pleasure. So to my office, and there by candle light +doing business, and so home to supper and to bed. + +16th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife to church, and finding her +desirous to go to church, I did suspect her meeting of Pembleton, but he +was not there, and so I thought my jealousy in vain, and treat the sermon +with great quiet. And home to dinner very pleasant, only some angry, +notwithstanding my wife could not forbear to give Ashwell, and after +dinner to church again, and there, looking up and down, I found Pembleton +to stand in the isle against us, he coming too late to get a pew. Which, +Lord! into what a sweat did it put me! I do not think my wife did see +him, which did a little satisfy me. But it makes me mad to see of what a +jealous temper I am and cannot helpe it, though let him do what he can I +do not see, as I am going to reduce my family, what hurt he can do me, +there being no more occasion now for my wife to learn of him. Here +preached a confident young coxcomb. So home, and I staid a while with Sir +J. Minnes, at Mrs. Turner's, hearing his parrat talk, laugh, and crow, +which it do to admiration. So home and with my wife to see Sir W. Pen, +and thence to my uncle Wight, and took him at supper and sat down, where +methinks my uncle is more kind than he used to be both to me now, and my +father tell me to him also, which I am glad at. After supper home, it +being extraordinary dark, and by chance a lanthorn came by, and so we +hired it to light us home, otherwise were we no sooner within doors but a +great showre fell that had doused us cruelly if we had not been within, it +being as dark as pitch. So to prayers and to bed. + +17th. Up, and then fell into discourse, my wife and I to Ashwell, and +much against my will I am fain to express a willingness to Ashwell that +she should go from us, and yet in my mind I am glad of it, to ease me of +the charge. So she is to go to her father this day. And leaving my wife +and her talking highly, I went away by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. +Batten to St. James's, and there attended of course the Duke. And so to +White Hall, where I met Mr. Moore, and he tells me with great sorrow of my +lord's being debauched he fears by this woman at Chelsey, which I am +troubled at, and resolve to speak to him of it if I can seasonably. Thence +home, where I dined, and after dinner comes our old mayde Susan to look +for a gorgett that she says she has lost by leaving it here, and by many +circumstances it being clear to me that Hannah, our present cook-mayde, +not only has it, but had it on upon her necke when Susan came in, and +shifted it off presently upon her coming in, I did charge her so home with +it (having a mind to have her gone from us), that in a huff she told us +she would be gone to-night if I would pay her her wages, which I was glad +and my wife of, and so fetched her her wages, and though I am doubtful +that she may convey some things away with her clothes, my wife searching +them, yet we are glad of her being so gone, and so she went away in a +quarter of an hour's time. Being much amused at this to have never a maid +but Ashwell, that we do not intend to keep, nor a boy, and my wife and I +being left for an hour, till my brother came in, alone in the house, I +grew very melancholy, and so my brother being come in I went forth to Mrs. +Holden's, to whom I formerly spoke about a girle to come to me instead of +a boy, and the like I did to Mrs. Standing and also to my brother Tom, +whom I found at an alehouse in Popinjay ally drinking, and I standing with +him at the gate of the ally, Ashwell came by, and so I left Tom and went +almost home with her, talking of her going away. I find that she is +willing to go, and told her (though behind my back my wife has told her +that it was more my desire than hers that she should go, which was not +well), that seeing my wife and she could not agree I did choose rather +(was she my sister) have her gone, it would be better for us and for her +too. To which she willing agreed, and will not tell me anything but that +she do believe that my wife would have some body there that might not be +so liable to give me information of things as she takes her to be. But, +however, I must later to prevent all that. I parted with her near home, +agreeing to take no notice of my coming along with her, and so by and by +came home after her. Where I find a sad distracted house, which troubles +me. However, to supper and prayers and to bed. And while we were getting +to bed my wife began to discourse to her, and plainly asked whether she +had got a place or no. And the other answered that she could go if we +would to one of our own office, to which we agreed if she would. She +thereupon said no; she would not go to any but where she might teach +children, because of keeping herself in use of what things she had earnt, +which she do not here nor will there, but only dressing. By which I +perceive the wench is cunning, but one very fit for such a place, and +accomplished to be woman to any lady in the land. So quietly to sleep, it +being a cold night. But till my house is settled, I do not see that I can +mind my business of the office, which grieves me to the heart. But I hope +all will over in a little time, and I hope to the best. This day at Mrs. +Holden's I found my new low crowned beaver according to the present +fashion made, and will be sent home to-morrow. + +18th. Up and to my office, where we sat all the morning. And at noon +home, and my father came and dined with me, Susan being come and helped my +wife to dress dinner. After dinner my father and I talked about our +country-matters, and in fine I find that he thinks L50 per ann. will go +near to keep them all, which I am glad of. He having taken his leave of +me and my wife without any mention of the differences between them and my +wife in the country, I went forth to several places about businesses, and +so home again, and after prayers to bed. + +19th. Up betimes, and my wife up and about the house, Susan beginning to +have her drunken tricks, and put us in mind of her old faults and folly +and distractednesse, which we had forgot, so that I became mightily +troubled with her. This morning came my joyners to new lay the floors, +and begun with the dining room. I out and see my viall again, and it is +very well, and to Mr. Hollyard, and took some pills of him and a note +under his hand to drink wine with my beere, without which I was obliged, +by my private vowe, to drink none a good while, and have strictly observed +it, and by my drinking of small beere and not eating, I am so mightily +troubled with wind, that I know not what to do almost. Thence to White +Hall, and there met Mr. Moore, and fell a-talking about my Lord's folly at +Chelsey, and it was our discourse by water to London and to the great +coffee house against the Exchange, where we sat a good while talking; and +I find that my lord is wholly given up to this wench, who it seems has +been reputed a common strumpett. I have little encouragement from Mr. +Moore to meddle with it to tell my Lord, for fear it may do him no good, +but me hurt. Thence homewards, taking leave of him, and met Tom Marsh, my +old acquaintance at Westminster, who talks mightily of the honour of his +place, being Clerke Assistant to the Clerke of the House of Commons, and I +take him to be a coxcombe, and so did give him half a pint of wine, but +drink none myself, and so got shut of him. So home, and there found my +wife almost mad with Susan's tricks, so as she is forced to let her go and +leave the house all in dirt and the clothes all wet, and gets Goody +Taylour to do the business for her till another comes. Here came Will +Howe, and he and I alone in my chamber talking of my Lord, who drives me +out of love to my Lord to tell my Lord of the matter we discoursed of, +which tend so much to the ruin of his state, and so I resolved to take a +good heart and do whatever comes of it. He gone, we sat down and eat a +bit of dinner fetched from the cooke's, and so up again and to my joyners, +who will make my floors very handsome. By and by comes in Pembleton, +which begun to make me sweat, but I did give him so little countenance, +and declared at one word against dancing any more, and bid him a short +(God be with you) myself, and so he took as short a leave of my wife and +so went away, and I think without any time of receiving any great +satisfaction from my wife or invitation to come again. To my office till +it was dark doing business, and so home by candle light to make up my +accounts for my Lord and Mr. Moore. By and by comes Mr. Moore to me, and +staid a good while with me making up his accounts and mine, and we did not +come to any end therein for want of his papers, and so put it off to +another time. He supped with me in all my dirt and disorder, and so went +away and we to bed. I discoursed with him a great while about my speaking +to my Lord of his business, and I apprehend from him that it is likely to +prove perhaps of bad effect to me and no good to him, and therefore I +shall even let it alone and let God do his will, at least till my Lord is +in the country, and then we shall see whether he resolves to come to +Chelsey again or no, and so order the stopping of him therein if we can. + +20th. Up betimes and to my office (having first been angry with my +brother John, and in the heat of my sudden passion called him Asse and +coxcomb, for which I am sorry, it being but for leaving the key of his +chamber with a spring lock within side of his door), and there we sat all +the morning, and at noon dined at home, and there found a little girl, +which she told my wife her name was Jinny, by which name we shall call +her. I think a good likely girl, and a parish child of St. Bride's, of +honest parentage, and recommended by the churchwarden. After dinner among +my joyners laying my floors, which please me well, and so to my office, +and we sat this afternoon upon an extraordinary business of victualling. +In the evening came Commissioner Pett, who fell foule on mee for my +carriage to him at Chatham, wherein, after protestation of my love and +good meaning to him, he was quiet; but I doubt he will not be able to do +the service there that any other man of his ability would. Home in the +evening my viall (and lute new strung being brought home too), and I would +have paid Mr. Hunt for it, but he did not come along with it himself, +which I expected and was angry for it, so much is it against my nature to +owe anything to any body. This evening the girle that was brought to me +to-day for so good a one, being cleansed of lice this day by my wife, and +good, new clothes put on her back, she run away from Goody Taylour that +was shewing her the way to the bakehouse, and we heard no more of her. So +to supper and to bed. + +21st. Up betimes and among my joyners, and to my office, where the +joyners are also laying mouldings in the inside of my closet. Then abroad +and by water to White Hall, and there got Sir G. Carteret to sign me my +last quarter's bills for my wages, and meeting with Mr. Creed he told me +how my Lord Teviott hath received another attaque from Guyland at Tangier +with 10,000 men, and at last, as is said, is come, after a personal treaty +with him, to a good understanding and peace with him. Thence to my +brother's, and there told him how my girl has served us which he sent me, +and directed him to get my clothes again, and get the girl whipped. So to +other places by the way about small businesses, and so home, and after +looking over all my workmen, I went by water and land to Deptford, and +there found by appointment Sir W. Batten, but he was got to Mr. Waith's to +dinner, where I dined with him, a good dinner and good discourse, and his +wife, I believe, a good woman. We fell in discourse of Captain Cocke, and +how his lady has lost all her fine linen almost, but besides that they say +she gives out she had L3000 worth of linen, which we all laugh at, and Sir +W. Batten (who I perceive is not so fond of the Captain as he used to be, +and less of her, from her slight receiving of him and his lady it seems +once) told me how he should say that he see he must spend L700 per ann. +get it how he could, which was a high speech, and by all men's discover, +his estate not good enough to spend so much. After dinner altered our +design to go to Woolwich, and put it off to to-morrow morning, and so went +all to Greenwich (Mrs. Waith excepted, who went thither, but not to the +same house with us, but to her father's, that lives there), to the +musique-house, where we had paltry musique, till the master organist came, +whom by discourse I afterwards knew, having employed him for my Lord +Sandwich, to prick out something (his name Arundell), and he did give me a +fine voluntary or two, and so home by water, and at home I find my girl +that run away brought by a bedel of St. Bride's Parish, and stripped her +and sent her away, and a newe one come, of Griffin's helping to, which I +think will prove a pretty girl. Her name, Susan, and so to supper after +having this evening paid Mr. Hunt L3 for my viall (besides the carving +which I paid this day 10s. for to the carver), and he tells me that I may, +without flattery, say, I have as good a Theorbo viall and viallin as is in +England. So to bed. + +22nd. Up by four o'clock to go with Sir W. Batten to Woolwich and Sir J. +Minnes, which we did, though not before 6 or 7 by their laying a-bed. Our +business was to survey the new wharf building there, in order to the +giving more to him that do it (Mr. Randall) than contracted for, but I see +no reason for it, though it be well done, yet no better than contracted to +be. Here we eat and drank at the Clerke of the Cheques, and in taking +water at the Tower gate, we drank a cup of strong water, which I did out +of pure conscience to my health, and I think is not excepted by my oaths, +but it is a thing I shall not do again, hoping to have no such occasion. +After breakfast Mr. Castle and I walked to Greenwich, and in our way met +some gypsys, who would needs tell me my fortune, and I suffered one of +them, who told me many things common as others do, but bade me beware of a +John and a Thomas, for they did seek to do me hurt, and that somebody +should be with me this day se'nnight to borrow money of me, but I should +lend him none. She got ninepence of me. And so I left them and to +Greenwich and so to Deptford, where the two knights were come, and thence +home by water, where I find my closet done at my office to my mind and +work gone well on at home; and Ashwell gone abroad to her father, my wife +having spoken plainly to her. After dinner to my office, getting my +closet made clean and setting some papers in order, and so in the evening +home and to bed. This day Sir W. Batten tells me that Mr. Newburne (of +whom the nickname came up among us forarse Tom Newburne) is dead of eating +cowcumbers, of which, the other day, I heard another, I think Sir Nicholas +Crisp's son. + +23rd (Lord's day). Up and to church without my wife, she being all dirty, +as my house is. God forgive me, I looked about to see if I could spy +Pembleton, but I could not, which did please me not a little. Home to +dinner, and then to walk up and down in my house with my wife, discoursing +of our family matters, and I hope, after all my troubles of mind and +jealousy, we shall live happily still. To church again, and so home to my +wife; and with her read "Iter Boreale," a poem, made just at the King's +coming home; but I never read it before, and now like it pretty well, but +not so as it was cried up. So to supper. No pleasure or discourse with +Ashwell, with whom for her neglect and unconcernment to do any thing in +this time of dirt and trouble in the house, but gadding abroad as she has +been all this afternoon, I know not whither. After supper to prayers and +to bed, having been, by a sudden letter coming to me from Mr. Coventry, +been with Sir W. Pen, to discourse with him about sending 500 soldiers +into Ireland. I doubt matters do not go very right there. + +24th. Up very early, and my joyners came to work. I to Mr. Moore; from +him came back home again, and drew up an account to my Lord, and that +being done met him at my Lord Sandwich's, where I was a good while alone +with my Lord; and I perceive he confides in me and loves me as he uses to +do, and tells me his condition, which is now very well all I fear is that +he will not live within compass, for I am told this morning of strange +dotages of his upon the slut at Chelsea, even in the presence of his +daughter, my Lady Jem, and Mrs. Ferrets, who took notice of it. There +come to him this morning his prints of the river Tagus and the City of +Lisbon, which he measured with his own hand, and printed by command of the +King. My Lord pleases himself with it, but methinks it ought to have been +better done than by jobing. Besides I put him upon having some took off +upon white sattin, which he ordered presently. I offered my Lord my +accounts, and did give him up his old bond for L500 and took a new one of +him for L700, which I am by lending him more money to make up: and I am +glad of it. My Lord would have had me dine with him, but I had a mind to +go home to my workmen, and so took a kind good bye of him, and so with +Creed to St. James's, and, missing Mr. Coventry, walked to the New +Exchange, and there drank some whey, and so I by water home, and found my +closett at my office made very clean and neat to my mind mightily, and +home to dinner, and then to my office to brush my books, and put them and +my papers in order again, and all the afternoon till late at night doing +business there, and so home to supper, and then to work in my chamber, +making matters of this day's accounts clear in my books, they being a +little extraordinary, and so being very late I put myself to bed, the rest +being long ago gone. + +25th. Up very early and removed the things out of my chamber into the +dining room, it being to be new floored this day. So the workmen being +come and falling to work there, I to the office, and thence down to +Lymehouse to Phin. Pett's about masts, and so back to the office, where we +sat; and being rose, and Mr. Coventry being gone, taking his leave, for +that he is to go to the Bath with the Duke to-morrow, I to the 'Change and +there spoke with several persons, and lastly with Sir W. Warren, and with +him to a Coffee House, and there sat two hours talking of office business +and Mr. Wood's knavery, which I verily believe, and lastly he tells me +that he hears that Captain Cocke is like to become a principal officer, +either a Controller or a Surveyor, at which I am not sorry so either of +the other may be gone, and I think it probable enough that it may be so. +So home at 2 o'clock, and there I found Ashwell gone, and her wages come +to 50s., and my wife, by a mistake from me, did give her 20s. more; but I +am glad that she is gone and the charge saved. After dinner among my +joyners, and with them till dark night, and this night they made an end of +all; and so having paid them 40s. for their six days' work, I am glad they +have ended and are gone, for I am weary and my wife too of this dirt. My +wife growing peevish at night, being weary, and I a little vexed to see +that she do not retain things in her memory that belong to the house as +she ought and I myself do, I went out in a little seeming discontent to +the office, and after being there a while, home to supper and to bed. +To-morrow they say the King and the Duke set out for the Bath. This noon +going to the Exchange, I met a fine fellow with trumpets before him in +Leadenhall-street, and upon enquiry I find that he is the clerk of the +City Market; and three or four men carried each of them an arrow of a +pound weight in their hands. It seems this Lord Mayor begins again an old +custome, that upon the three first days of Bartholomew Fayre, the first, +there is a match of wrestling, which was done, and the Lord Mayor there +and Aldermen in Moorefields yesterday: to-day, shooting: and to-morrow, +hunting. And this officer of course is to perform this ceremony of riding +through the city, I think to proclaim or challenge any to shoot. It seems +that the people of the fayre cry out upon it as a great hindrance to them. + +26th. Up, and after doing something in order to the putting of my house +in order now the joynery is done, I went by water to White Hall, where the +Court full of waggons and horses, the King and Court going this day out +towards the Bath, and I to St. James's, where I spent an hour or more +talking of many things to my great content with Mr. Coventry in his +chamber, he being ready to set forth too with the Duke to-day, and so left +him, and I meeting Mr. Gauden, with him to our offices and in Sir W. Pen's +chamber did discourse by a meeting on purpose with Mr. Waith about the +victualling business and came to some issue in it. So home to dinner, and +Mr. Moore came and dined with me, and after dinner I paid him some money +which evened all reckonings between him and me to this day, and for my +Lord also I paid him some money, so that now my Lord owes me, for which I +have his bond, just L700. After long discourse with him of the fitness of +his giving me a receipt for this money, which I for my security think +necessary and he otherwise do not think so, at last, after being a little +angry, and I resolving not to let go my money without it, he did give me +one. Thence I took him, and he and I took a pleasant walk to Deptford and +back again, I doing much business there. He went home and I home also, +indoors to supper, being very glad to see my house begin to look like +itself again, hoping after this is over not to be in any dirt a great +while again, but it is very handsome, and will be more when the floors +come to be of one colour. So weary to bed. Pleased this day to see +Captain Hickes come to me with a list of all the officers of Deptford +Yard, wherein he, being a high old Cavalier, do give me an account of +every one of them to their reproach in all respects, and discovers many of +their knaverys; and tells me, and so I thank God I hear every where, that +my name is up for a good husband for the King, and a good man, for which I +bless God; and that he did this by particular direction of Mr. Coventry. + +27th. Up, after much pleasant talke with my wife and a little that vexes +me, for I see that she is confirmed in it that all that I do is by design, +and that my very keeping of the house in dirt, and the doing of this and +any thing else in the house, is but to find her employment to keep her +within and from minding of her pleasure, in which, though I am sorry to +see she minds it, is true enough in a great degree. To my office, and +there we sat and despatched much business. Home and dined with my wife +well, and then up and made clean my closet of books, and had my chamber a +third time made very clean, so that it is now in a very fine condition. +Thence down to see some good plank in the river with Sir W. Batten and +back again, it being a very cold day and a cold wind. Home again, and +after seeing Sir W. Pen, to my office, and there till late doing of +business, being mightily encouraged by every body that I meet withal upon +the 'Change and every where else, that I am taken notice of for a man that +do the King's business wholly and well. For which the Lord be praised, +for I know no honour I desire more. Home to supper, where I find my house +very clean from top to bottom again to my great content. I found a feacho +(as he calls it) of fine sugar and a case of orange-flower water come from +Mr. Cocke, of Lisbon, the fruits of my last year's service to him, which I +did in great justice to the man, a perfect stranger. He sends it me +desiring that I would not let Sir J. Minnes know it, from whom he expected +to have found the service done that he had from me, from whom he could +expect nothing, and the other failed him, and would have done I am sure to +this day had not I brought it to some end. After supper to bed. + +28th. At the office betimes (it being cold all night and this morning, +and a very great frost they say abroad, which is much, having had no +summer at all almost), where we sat, and in the afternoon also about +settling the establishment of the number of men borne on ships, &c., till +the evening, and after that in my closet till late, and quite tired with +business, home to supper and to bed. + +29th. Abroad with my wife by water to Westminster, and there left her at +my Lord's lodgings, and I to Jervas the barber's, and there was trimmed, +and did deliver back a periwigg, which he brought by my desire the other +day to show me, having some thoughts, though no great desire or resolution +yet to wear one, and so I put it off for a while. Thence to my wife, and +calling at both the Exchanges, buying stockings for her and myself, and +also at Leadenhall, where she and I, it being candlelight, bought meat for +to-morrow, having never a mayde to do it, and I myself bought, while my +wife was gone to another shop, a leg of beef, a good one, for six pense, +and my wife says is worth my money. So walked home with a woman carrying +our things. I am mightily displeased at a letter Tom sent me last night, +to borrow L20 more of me, and yet gives me no account, as I have long +desired, how matters stand with him in the world. I am troubled also to +see how, contrary to my expectation, my brother John neither is the +scholler nor minds his studies as I thought would have done, but loiters +away his time, so that I must send him soon to Cambridge again. + +31st. Up and to my office all the morning, where Sir W. Batten and Sir J. +Minnes did pay the short allowance money to the East India companies, and +by the assistance of the City Marshall and his men, did lay hold of two or +three of the chief of the companies that were in the mutiny the other day, +and sent them to prison. This noon came Jane Gentleman to serve my wife +as her chamber mayde. I wish she may prove well. So ends this month, +with my mind pretty well in quiett, and in good disposition of health +since my drinking at home of a little wine with my beer; but no where else +do I drink any wine at all. The King and Queen and the Court at the Bath, +my Lord Sandwich in the country newly gone. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + And so to bed and there entertained her with great content + Apprehend about one hundred Quakers + Being cleansed of lice this day by my wife + Conceited, but that's no matter to me + Fear it may do him no good, but me hurt + Fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off + He having made good promises, though I fear his performance + My wife has got too great head to be brought down soon + So much is it against my nature to owe anything to any body + Sporting in my fancy with the Queen + Things being dear and little attendance to be had we went away + Towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all. . . . + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, July/August 1663 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4142.txt or 4142.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/4/4142/ + +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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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY & AUGUST + 1663 + + +July 1st. This morning it rained so hard (though it was fair yesterday, +and we thereupon in hopes of having some fair weather, which we have +wanted these three months) that it wakened Creed, who lay with me last +night, and me, and so we up and fell to discourse of the business of his +accounts now under dispute, in which I have taken much trouble upon +myself and raised a distance between Sir G. Carteret and myself, which +troubles me, but I hope we have this morning light on an expedient that +will right all, that will answer their queries, and yet save Creed the +L500 which he did propose to make of the exchange abroad of the pieces of +eight which he disbursed. Being ready, he and I by water to White Hall, +where I left him before we came into the Court, for fear I should be seen +by Sir G. Carteret with him, which of late I have been forced to avoid to +remove suspicion. I to St. James's, and there discoursed a while with +Mr. Coventry, between whom and myself there is very good understanding +and friendship, and so to Westminster Hall, and being in the Parliament +lobby, I there saw my Lord of Bristoll come to the Commons House to give +his answer to their question, about some words he should tell the King +that were spoke by Sir Richard Temple, a member of their House. A chair +was set at the bar of the House for him, which he used but little, but +made an harangue of half an hour bareheaded, the House covered. His +speech being done, he came out and withdrew into a little room till the +House had concluded of an answer to his speech; which they staying long +upon, I went away. And by and by out comes Sir W. Batten; and he told me +that his Lordship had made a long and a comedian-like speech, and +delivered with such action as was not becoming his Lordship. He +confesses he did tell the King such a thing of Sir Richard Temple, but +that upon his honour they were not spoke by Sir Richard, he having taken +a liberty of enlarging to the King upon the discourse which had been +between Sir Richard and himself lately; and so took upon himself the +whole blame, and desired their pardon, it being not to do any wrong to +their fellow-member, but out of zeal to the King. He told them, among +many other things, that as to his religion he was a Roman Catholique, but +such a one as thought no man to have right to the Crown of England but +the Prince that hath it; and such a one as, if the King should desire his +counsel as to his own, he would not advise him to another religion than +the old true reformed religion of this country, it being the properest of +this kingdom as it now stands; and concluded with a submission to what +the House shall do with him, saying, that whatever they shall do, says +he, "thanks be to God, this head, this heart, and this sword (pointing to +them all), will find me a being in any place in Europe." The House hath +hereupon voted clearly Sir Richard Temple to be free from the imputation +of saying those words; but when Sir William Batten came out, had not +concluded what to say to my Lord, it being argued that to own any +satisfaction as to my Lord from his speech, would be to lay some fault +upon the King for the message he should upon no better accounts send to +the impeaching of one of their members. Walking out, I hear that the +House of Lords are offended that my Lord Digby should come to this House +and make a speech there without leave first asked of the House of Lords. +I hear also of another difficulty now upon him; that my Lord of +Sunderland (whom I do not know) was so near to the marriage of his +daughter as that the wedding-clothes were made, and portion and every +thing agreed on and ready; and the other day he goes away nobody yet +knows whither, sending her the next morning a release of his right or +claim to her, and advice to his friends not to enquire into the reason of +this doing, for he hath enough for it; but that he gives them liberty to +say and think what they will of him, so they do not demand the reason of +his leaving her, being resolved never to have her, but the reason desires +and resolves not to give. Thence by water with Sir W. Batten to Trinity +House, there to dine with him, which we did; and after dinner we fell +talking, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Batten and I; Mr. Batten telling us of a late +triall of Sir Charles Sydly the other day, before my Lord Chief Justice +Foster and the whole bench, for his debauchery a little while since at +Oxford Kate's, + + [The details in the original are very gross. Dr. Johnson relates + the story in the "Lives of the Poets," in his life of Sackville, + Lord Dorset "Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir + Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock, in Bow + Street, by Covent Garden, and going into the balcony exposed + themselves to the populace in very indecent postures. At last, as + they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the + populace in such profane language, that the publick indignation was + awakened; the crowd attempted to force the door, and being repulsed, + drove in the performers with stones, and broke the windows of the + house. For this misdemeanour they were indicted, and Sedley was + fined five hundred pounds; what was the sentence of the others is + not known. Sedley employed [Henry] Killigrew and another to procure + a remission from the King, but (mark the friendship of the + dissolute!) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to + the last groat." The woman known as Oxford Kate appears to have + kept the notorious Cock Tavern in Bow Street at this date.] + +coming in open day into the Balcone and showed his nakedness, . . . . +and abusing of scripture and as it were from thence preaching a +mountebank sermon from the pulpit, saying that there he had to sell such +a powder as should make all the [women] in town run after him, 1000 +people standing underneath to see and hear him, and that being done he +took a glass of wine . . . . and then drank it off, and then took +another and drank the King's health. It seems my Lord and the rest of +the judges did all of them round give him a most high reproof; my Lord +Chief justice saying, that it was for him, and such wicked wretches as he +was, that God's anger and judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah many +times. It's said they have bound him to his good behaviour (there being +no law against him for it) in L5000. It being told that my Lord +Buckhurst was there, my Lord asked whether it was that Buckhurst that was +lately tried for robbery; and when answered Yes, he asked whether he had +so soon forgot his deliverance at that time, and that it would have more +become him to have been at his prayers begging God's forgiveness, than +now running into such courses again . . . . Thence home, and my +clerks being gone by my leave to see the East India ships that are lately +come home, I staid all alone within my office all the afternoon. This +day I hear at dinner that Don John of Austria, since his flight out of +Portugall, is dead of his wounds:--[not true]--so there is a great man +gone, and a great dispute like to be ended for the crown of Spayne, if +the King should have died before him. I received this morning a letter +from my wife, brought by John Gower to town, wherein I find a sad falling +out between my wife and my father and sister and Ashwell upon my writing +to my father to advise Pall not to keep Ashwell from her mistress, or +making any difference between them. Which Pall telling to Ashwell, and +she speaking some words that her mistress heard, caused great difference +among them; all which I am sorry from my heart to hear of, and I fear +will breed ill blood not to be laid again. So that I fear my wife and I +may have some falling out about it, or at least my father and I, but I +shall endeavour to salve up all as well as I can, or send for her out of +the country before the time intended, which I would be loth to do. In +the evening by water to my coz. Roger Pepys' chamber, where he was not +come, but I found Dr. John newly come to town, and is well again after +his sickness; but, Lord! what a simple man he is as to any public matter +of state, and talks so sillily to his brother Dr. Tom. What the matter +is I know not, but he has taken (as my father told me a good while since) +such displeasure that he hardly would touch his hat to me, and I as +little to him. By and by comes Roger, and he told us the whole passage +of my Lord Digby to-day, much as I have said here above; only that he did +say that he would draw his sword against the Pope himself, if he should +offer any thing against his Majesty, and the good of these nations; and +that he never was the man that did either look for a Cardinal's cap for +himself, or any body else, meaning Abbot Montagu; and the House upon the +whole did vote Sir Richard Temple innocent; and that my Lord Digby hath +cleared the honour of his Majesty, and Sir Richard Temple's, and given +perfect satisfaction of his own respects to the House. Thence to my +brother's, and being vexed with his not minding my father's business here +in getting his Landscape done, I went away in an anger, and walked home, +and so up to my lute and then to bed. + + + +2d. Up betimes to my office, and there all the morning doing business, +at noon to the Change, and there met with several people, among others +Captain Cox, and with him to a Coffee [House], and drank with him and +some other merchants. Good discourse. Thence home and to dinner, and, +after a little alone at my viol, to the office, where we sat all the +afternoon, and so rose at the evening, and then home to supper and to +bed, after a little musique. My mind troubled me with the thoughts of +the difference between my wife and my father in the country. Walking in +the garden this evening with Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes, Sir G. +Carteret told us with great contempt how like a stage-player my Lord +Digby spoke yesterday, pointing to his head as my Lord did, and saying, +"First, for his head," says Sir G. Carteret, "I know what a calf's head +would have done better by half for his heart and his sword, I have +nothing to say to them." He told us that for certain his head cost the +late King his, for it was he that broke off the treaty at Uxbridge. He +told us also how great a man he was raised from a private gentleman in +France by Monsieur Grandmont, + + [Antoine, Duc de Gramont, marshal of France, who died July 12th, + 1678, aged seventy-four. His memoirs have been published.] + +and afterwards by the Cardinall,--[Mazarin]-- who raised him to be a +Lieutenant-generall, and then higher; and entrusted by the Cardinall, +when he was banished out of France, with great matters, and recommended +by him to the Queen as a man to be trusted and ruled by: yet when he came +to have some power over the Queen, he begun to dissuade her from her +opinion of the Cardinal; which she said nothing to till the Cardinal was +returned, and then she told him of it; who told my Lord Digby, "Eh bien, +Monsieur, vous estes un fort bon amy donc:" but presently put him out of +all; and then he was, from a certainty of coming in two or three years' +time to be Mareschall of France (to which all strangers, even +Protestants, and those as often as French themselves, are capable of +coming, though it be one of the greatest places in France), he was driven +to go out of France into Flanders; but there was not trusted, nor +received any kindness from the Prince of Conde, as one to whom also he +had been false, as he had been to the Cardinal and Grandmont. In fine, +he told us how he is a man of excellent parts, but of no great faith nor +judgment, and one very easy to get up to great height of preferment, but +never able to hold it. So home and to my musique; and then comes Mr. +Creed to me giving me an account of his accounts, how he has now settled +them fit for perusal the most strict, at which I am glad. So he and I to +bed together. + + +3d. Up and he home, and I with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten by coach +to Westminster, to St. James's, thinking to meet Sir G. Carteret, and to +attend the Duke, but he not coming we broke up, and so to Westminster +Hall, and there meeting with Mr. Moore he tells me great news that my +Lady Castlemaine is fallen from Court, and this morning retired. He +gives me no account of the reason of it, but that it is so: for which I +am sorry: and yet if the King do it to leave off not only her but all +other mistresses, I should be heartily glad of it, that he may fall to +look after business. I hear my Lord Digby is condemned at Court for his +speech, and that my Lord Chancellor grows great again. Thence with Mr. +Creed, whom I called at his chamber, over the water to Lambeth; but could +not, it being morning, get to see the Archbishop's hearse: so he and I +walked over the fields to Southwark, and there parted, and I spent half +an hour in Mary Overy's Church, where are fine monuments of great +antiquity, I believe, and has been a fine church. Thence to the Change, +and meeting Sir J. Minnes there, he and I walked to look upon Backwell's +design of making another alley from his shop through over against the +Exchange door, which will be very noble and quite put down the other two. + +So home to dinner and then to the office, and entered in my manuscript +book the Victualler's contract, and then over the water and walked to see +Sir W. Pen, and sat with him a while, and so home late, and to my viall. +So up comes Creed again to me and stays all night, to-morrow morning +being a hearing before the Duke. So to bed full of discourse of his +business. + + + +4th. Up by 4 o'clock and sent him to get matters ready, and I to my +office looking over papers and mending my manuscript by scraping out the +blots and other things, which is now a very fine book. So to St. James's +by water with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, I giving occasion to a +wager about the tide, that it did flow through bridge, by which Sir W. +Batten won 5s. of Sir J. Minnes. At St. James's we staid while the Duke +made himself ready. Among other things Sir Allen Apsley showed the Duke +the Lisbon Gazette in Spanish, where the late victory is set down +particularly, and to the great honour of the English beyond measure. +They have since taken back Evora, which was lost to the Spaniards, the +English making the assault, and lost not more than three men. Here I +learnt that the English foot are highly esteemed all over the world, but +the horse not so much, which yet we count among ourselves the best; but +they abroad have had no great knowledge of our horse, it seems. The Duke +being ready, we retired with him, and there fell upon Mr. Creed's +business, where the Treasurer did, like a mad coxcomb, without reason or +method run over a great many things against the account, and so did Sir +J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, which the Duke himself and Mr. Coventry and +my Lord Barkely and myself did remove, and Creed being called in did +answer all with great method and excellently to the purpose (myself I am +a little conscious did not speak so well as I purposed and do think I +used to do, that is, not so intelligibly and persuasively, as I well +hoped I should), not that what I said was not well taken, and did carry +the business with what was urged and answered by Creed and Mr. Coventry, +till the Duke himself did declare that he was satisfied, and my Lord +Barkely offered to lay L100 that the King would receive no wrong in the +account, and the two last knights held their tongues, or at least by not +understanding it did say what made for Mr. Creed, and so Sir G. Carteret +was left alone, but yet persisted to say that the account was not good, +but full of corruption and foul dealing. And so we broke up to his +shame, but I do fear to the loss of his friendship to me a good while, +which I am heartily troubled for. Thence with Creed to the King's Head +ordinary; but, coming late, dined at the second table very well for 12d.; +and a pretty gentleman in our company, who confirms my Lady Castlemaine's +being gone from Court, but knows not the reason; he told us of one wipe +the Queen a little while ago did give her, when she came in and found the +Queen under the dresser's hands, and had been so long: + +"I wonder your Majesty," says she, "can have the patience to sit so long +a-dressing?"--"I have so much reason to use patience," says the Queen, +"that I can very well bear with it." He thinks that it may be the Queen +hath commanded her to retire, though that is not likely. Thence with +Creed to hire a coach to carry us to Hide Park, to-day there being a +general muster of the King's Guards, horse and foot: but they demand so +high, that I, spying Mr. Cutler the merchant, did take notice of him, and +he going into his coach, and telling me that he was going to shew a +couple of Swedish strangers the muster, I asked and went along with him; +where a goodly sight to see so many fine horses and officers, and the +King, Duke, and others come by a-horseback, and the two Queens in the +Queen-Mother's coach, my Lady Castlemaine not being there. And after +long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke, +&c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their +guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the +goodness of our firemen; which indeed was very good, though not without a +slip now and then; and one broadside close to our coach we had going out +of the Park, even to the nearness as to be ready to burn our hairs. Yet +methought all these gay men are not the soldiers that must do the King's +business, it being such as these that lost the old King all he had, and +were beat by the most ordinary fellows that could be. Thence with much +ado out of the Park, and I 'lighted and through St. James's down the +waterside over, to Lambeth, to see the Archbishop's corps (who is to be +carried away to Oxford on Monday), but came too late, and so walked over +the fields and bridge home (calling by the way at old George's), but find +that he is dead, and there wrote several letters, and so home to supper +and to bed. This day in the Duke's chamber there being a Roman story in +the hangings, and upon the standards written these four letters--S. P. Q. +R., Sir G. Carteret came to me to know what the meaning of those four +letters were; which ignorance is not to be borne in a Privy Counsellor, +methinks, that a schoolboy should be whipt for not knowing. + + + +5th (Lord's day). Lady Batten had sent twice to invite me to go with +them to Walthamstow to-day, Mrs. Martha' being married already this +morning to Mr. Castle, at this parish church. I could not rise soon +enough to go with them, but got myself ready, and so to Games's, where I +got a horse and rode thither very pleasantly, only coming to make water I +found a stopping, which makes me fearful of my old pain. Being come +thither, I was well received, and had two pair of gloves, as the rest, +and walked up and down with my Lady in the garden, she mighty kind to me, +and I have the way to please her. A good dinner and merry, but methinks +none of the kindness nor bridall respect between the bridegroom and +bride, that was between my wife and I, but as persons that marry purely +for convenience. After dinner to church by coach, and there my Lady, +Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Lemon, and I only, we, in spite to one another, kept +one another awake; and sometimes I read in my book of Latin plays, which +I took in my pocket, thinking to have walked it. An old doting parson +preached. So home again, and by and by up and homewards, calling in our +way (Sir J. Minnes and I only) at Mr. Batten's (who with his lady and +child went in another coach by us), which is a very pretty house, and +himself in all things within and without very ingenious, and I find a +very fine study and good books. So set out, Sir J. Minnes and I in his +coach together, talking all the way of chymistry, wherein he do know +something, at least, seems so to me, that cannot correct him, Mr. +Batten's man riding my horse, and so home and to my office a while to +read my vows, then home to prayers and to bed. + + + +6th. Up pretty early and to my office all the morning, writing out a +list of the King's ships in my Navy collections with great pleasure. At +noon Creed comes to me, who tells me how well he has sped with Sir G. +Carteret after all our trouble, that he had his tallys up and all the +kind words possible from him, which I believe is out of an apprehension +what a fool he has made of himself hitherto in making so great a stop +therein. But I find, and so my Lord Sandwich may, that Sir G. Carteret +had a design to do him a disgrace, if he could possibly, otherwise he +would never have carried the business so far after that manner, but would +first have consulted my Lord and given him advice what to do therein for +his own honour, which he thought endangered. Creed dined with me and +then walked a while, and so away, and I to my office at my morning's work +till dark night, and so with good content home. To supper, a little +musique, and then to bed. + + + +7th. Up by 4 o'clock and to my office, and there continued all the +morning upon my Navy book to my great content. At noon down by barge +with Sir J. Minnes (who is going to Chatham) to Woolwich, in our way +eating of some venison pasty in the barge, I having neither eat nor drank +to-day, which fills me full of wind. Here also in Mr. Pett's garden I +eat some and the first cherries I have eat this year, off the tree where +the King himself had been gathering some this morning. Thence walked +alone, only part of the way Deane walked with me, complaining of many +abuses in the Yard, to Greenwich, and so by water to Deptford, where I +found Mr. Coventry, and with him up and down all the stores, to the great +trouble of the officers, and by his help I am resolved to fall hard to +work again, as I used to do. So thence he and I by water talking of many +things, and I see he puts his trust most upon me in the Navy, and talks, +as there is reason, slightly of the two old knights, and I should be glad +by any drudgery to see the King's stores and service looked to as they +ought, but I fear I shall never understand half the miscarriages and +tricks that the King suffers by. He tells me what Mr. Pett did to-day, +that my Lord Bristoll told the King that he will impeach the Chancellor +of High Treason: but I find that my Lord Bristoll hath undone himself +already in every body's opinion, and now he endeavours to raise dust to +put out other men's eyes, as well as his own; but I hope it will not +take, in consideration merely that it is hard for a Prince to spare an +experienced old officer, be he never so corrupt; though I hope this man +is not so, as some report him to be. He tells me that Don John is yet +alive, and not killed, as was said, in the great victory against the +Spaniards in Portugall of late. So home, and late at my office. Thence +home and to my musique. This night Mr. Turner's house being to be +emptied out of my cellar, and therefore I think to sit up a little longer +than ordinary. This afternoon, coming from the waterside with Mr. +Coventry, I spied my boy upon Tower Hill playing with the rest of the +boys; so I sent W. Griffin to take him, and he did bring him to me, and +so I said nothing to him, but caused him to be stripped (for he was run +away with his best suit), and so putting on his other, I sent him going, +without saying one word hard to him, though I am troubled for the rogue, +though he do not deserve it. Being come home I find my stomach not well +for want of eating to-day my dinner as I should do, and so am become full +of wind. I called late for some victuals, and so to bed, leaving the men +below in the cellar emptying the vats up through Mr. Turner's own house, +and so with more content to bed late. + + + +8th. Being weary, and going to bed late last night, I slept till 7 +o'clock, it raining mighty hard, and so did every minute of the day after +sadly. But I know not what will become of the corn this year, we having +had but two fair days these many months. Up and to my office, where all +the morning busy, and then at noon home to dinner alone upon a good dish +of eeles, given me by Michell, the Bewpers' man, and then to my viall a +little, and then down into the cellar and up and down with Mr. Turner to +see where his vault may be made bigger, or another made him, which I +think may well be. And so to my office, where very busy all day setting +things in order my contract books and preparing things against the next +sitting. In the evening I received letters out of the country, among +others from my wife, who methinks writes so coldly that I am much +troubled at it, and I fear shall have much ado to bring her to her old +good temper. So home to supper and musique, which is all the pleasure I +have of late given myself, or is fit I should, others spending too much +time and money. Going in I stepped to Sir W. Batten, and there staid and +talked with him (my Lady being in the country), and sent for some +lobsters, and Mrs. Turner came in, and did bring us an umble pie hot out +of her oven, extraordinary good, and afterwards some spirits of her +making, in which she has great judgment, very good, and so home, merry +with this night's refreshment. + + + +9th. Up. Making water this morning, which I do every morning as soon as +I am awake, with greater plenty and freedom than I used to do, which I +think I may impute to last night's drinking of elder spirits. Abroad, it +raining, to Blackfriars, and there went into a little alehouse and staid +while I sent to the Wardrobe, but Mr. Moore was gone out. Here I kissed +three or four times the maid of the house, who is a pretty girl, but very +modest, and, God forgive me, had a mind to something more. Thence to my +lawyer's; up and down to the Six Clerks' Office, where I found my bill +against Tom Trice dismissed, which troubles me, it being through my +neglect, and will put me to charges. So to Mr. Phillips, and discoursed +with him about finding me out somebody that will let me have for money an +annuity of about L100 per annum for two lives. So home, and there put up +my riding things against the evening, in case Mr. Moore should continue +his mind to go to Oxford, which I have little mind to do, the weather +continuing so bad and the waters high. Dined at home, and Mr. Moore in +the afternoon comes to me and concluded not to go. Sir W. Batten and I +sat a little this afternoon at the office, and thence I by water to +Deptford, and there mustered the Yard, purposely, God forgive me, to find +out Bagwell, a carpenter, whose wife is a pretty woman, that I might have +some occasion of knowing him and forcing her to come to the office again, +which I did so luckily that going thence he and his wife did of +themselves meet me in the way to thank me for my old kindness, but I +spoke little to her, but shall give occasion for her coming to me. Her +husband went along with me to show me Sir W. Pen's lodging, which I knew +before, but only to have a time of speaking to him and sounding him. So +left and I went in to Sir W. Pen, who continues ill, and worse, I think, +than before. He tells me my Lady Castlemaine was at Court, for all this +talk this week, which I am glad to hear; but it seems the King is +stranger than ordinary to her. Thence walked home as I used to do, and +to bed presently, having taken great cold in my feet by walking in the +dirt this day in thin shoes or some other way, so that I begun to be in +pain, and with warm clothes made myself better by morning, but yet in +pain. + + + +10th. Up late and by water to Westminster Hall, where I met Pierce the +chirurgeon, who tells me that for certain the King is grown colder to my +Lady Castlemaine than ordinary, and that he believes he begins to love +the Queen, and do make much of her, more than he used to do. Up to the +Lobby, and there sent out for Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Batten, and told +them if they thought convenient I would go to Chatham today, Sir John +Minnes being already there at a Pay, and I would do such and such +business there, which they thought well of, and so I went home and +prepared myself to go after, dinner with Sir W. Batten. Sir W. Batten +and Mr. Coventry tell me that my Lord Bristoll hath this day impeached my +Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords of High Treason. The chief of the +articles are these: 1st. That he should be the occasion of the peace +made with Holland lately upon such disadvantageous terms, and that he was +bribed to it. 2d. That Dunkirke was also sold by his advice chiefly, so +much to the damage of England. 3d. That he had L6000 given him for the +drawing-up or promoting of the Irish declaration lately, concerning the +division of the lands there. 4th. He did carry on the design of the +Portugall match, so much to the prejudice of the Crown of England, +notwithstanding that he knew the Queen is not capable of bearing +children. 5th. That the Duke's marrying of his daughter was a practice +of his, thereby to raise his family; and that it was done by indirect +courses. 6th. That the breaking-off of the match with Parma, in which +he was employed at the very time when the match with Portugall was made +up here, which he took as a great slur to him, and so it was; and that, +indeed, is the chief occasion of all this fewde. 7th. That he hath +endeavoured to bring in Popery, and wrote to the Pope for a cap for a +subject of the King of England's (my Lord Aubigny ); and some say that he +lays it to the Chancellor, that a good Protestant Secretary (Sir Edward +Nicholas) was laid aside, and a Papist, Sir H. Bennet, put in his room: +which is very strange, when the last of these two is his own creature, +and such an enemy accounted to the Chancellor, that they never did nor do +agree; and all the world did judge the Chancellor to be falling from the +time that Sir H. Bennet was brought in. Besides my Lord Bristoll being a +Catholique himself, all this is very strange. These are the main of the +Articles. Upon which my Lord Chancellor desired that the noble Lord that +brought in these Articles, would sign to them with his hand; which my +Lord Bristoll did presently. Then the House did order that the judges +should, against Monday next, bring in their opinion, Whether these +articles are treason, or no? and next, they would know, Whether they were +brought in regularly or no, without leave of the Lords' House? After +dinner I took boat (H. Russell) and down to Gravesend in good time, and +thence with a guide post to Chatham, where I found Sir J. Minnes and Mr. +Wayth walking in the garden, whom I told all this day's news, which I +left the town full of, and it is great news, and will certainly be in the +consequence of it. By and by to supper, and after long discourse, Sir J. +Minnes and I, he saw me to my chamber, which not pleasing me, I sent word +so to Mrs. Bradford, that I should be crowded into such a hole, while the +clerks and boarders of her own take up the best rooms. However I lay +there and slept well. + + + +11th. Up early and to the Dock, and with the Storekeeper and other +officers all the morning from one office to another. At noon to the +Hill-house in Commissioner Pett's coach, and after seeing the guard- +ships, to dinner, and after dining done to the Dock by coach, it raining +hard, to see "The Prince" launched, which hath lain in the Dock in +repairing these three years. I went into her and was launched in her. +Thence by boat ashore, it raining, and I went to Mr. Barrow's, where Sir +J. Minnes and Commissioner Pett; we staid long eating sweetmeats and +drinking, and looking over some antiquities of Mr. Barrow's, among others +an old manuscript Almanac, that I believe was made for some monastery, in +parchment, which I could spend much time upon to understand. Here was a +pretty young lady, a niece of Barrow's, which I took much pleasure to +look on. Thence by barge to St. Mary Creek; where Commissioner Pett +(doubtful of the growing greatness of Portsmouth by the finding of those +creeks there), do design a wett dock at no great charge, and yet no +little one; he thinks towards L10,000. And the place, indeed, is likely +to be a very fit place, when the King hath money to do it with. Thence, +it raining as hard as it could pour down, home to the Hillhouse, and anon +to supper, and after supper, Sir J. Minnes and I had great discourse with +Captain Cox and Mr. Hempson about business of the yard, and particularly +of pursers' accounts with Hempson, who is a cunning knave in that point. +So late to bed and, Mr. Wayth being gone, I lay above in the Treasurer's +bed and slept well. About one or two in the morning the curtains of my +bed being drawn waked me, and I saw a man stand there by the inside of my +bed calling me French dogg 20 times, one after another, and I starting, +as if I would get out of the bed, he fell a-laughing as hard as he could +drive, still calling me French dogg, and laid his hand on my shoulder. +At last, whether I said anything or no I cannot tell, but I perceived the +man, after he had looked wistly upon me, and found that I did not answer +him to the names that he called me by, which was Salmon, Sir Carteret's +clerk, and Robt. Maddox, another of the clerks, he put off his hat on a +suddaine, and forebore laughing, and asked who I was, saying, "Are you +Mr. Pepys?" I told him yes, and now being come a little better to +myself, I found him to be Tom Willson, Sir W. Batten's clerk, and fearing +he might be in some melancholy fit, I was at a loss what to do or say. +At last I asked him what he meant. He desired my pardon for that he was +mistaken, for he thought verily, not knowing of my coming to lie there, +that it had been Salmon, the Frenchman, with whom he intended to have +made some sport. So I made nothing of it, but bade him good night, and +I, after a little pause, to sleep again, being well pleased that it ended +no worse, and being a little the better pleased with it, because it was +the Surveyor's clerk, which will make sport when I come to tell Sir W. +Batten of it, it being a report that old Edgeborough, the former +Surveyor, who died here, do now and then walk. + + + +12th (Lord's day). Up, and meeting Tom Willson he asked my pardon again, +which I easily did give him, telling him only that it was well I was not +a woman with child, for it might have made me miscarry. With Sir J. +Minnes to church, where an indifferent good sermon. Here I saw Mrs. +Becky Allen, who hath been married, and is this day churched, after her +bearing a child. She is grown tall, but looks very white and thin, and I +can find no occasion while I am here to come to have her company, which I +desire and expected in my coming, but only coming out of the church I +kissed her and her sister and mother-in-law. So to dinner, Sir J. +Minnes, Commissioner Pett, and I, &c., and after dinner walked in the +garden, it being a very fine day, the best we have had this great while, +if not this whole summer. To church again, and after that walked through +the Rope-ground to the Dock, and there over and over the Dock and grounds +about it, and storehouses, &c., with the officers of the Yard, and then +to Commissioner Pett's and had a good sullybub and other good things, and +merry. Commissioner Pett showed me alone his bodys as a secrett, which I +found afterwards by discourse with Sir J. Minnes that he had shown them +him, wherein he seems to suppose great mystery in the nature of Lynes to +be hid, but I do not understand it at all. Thence walked to the Hill- +house, being myself much dissatisfied, and more than I thought I should +have been with Commissioner Pett, being, by what I saw since I came +hither, convinced that he is not able to exercise the command in the Yard +over the officers that he ought to do, or somebody else, if ever the +service be well looked after there. Sat up and with Sir J. Minnes +talking, and he speaking his mind in slighting of the Commissioner, for +which I wish there was not so much reason. For I do see he is but a man +of words, though indeed he is the ablest man that we have to do service +if he would or durst. Sir J. Minnes being gone to bed, I took Mr. +Whitfield, one of the clerks, and walked to the Dock about eleven at +night, and there got a boat and a crew, and rowed down to the guard- +ships, it being a most pleasant moonshine evening that ever I saw almost. +The guard-ships were very ready to hail us, being no doubt commanded +thereto by their Captain, who remembers how I surprised them the last +time I was here. However, I found him ashore, but the ship in pretty +good order, and the arms well fixed, charged, and primed. Thence to the +Soveraign, where I found no officers aboard, no arms fixed, nor any +powder to prime their few guns, which were charged, without bullet +though. So to the London, where neither officers nor any body awake; I +boarded her, and might have done what I would, and at last could find but +three little boys; and so spent the whole night in visiting all the +ships, in which I found, for the most part, neither an officer aboard, +nor any men so much as awake, which I was grieved to find, specially so +soon after a great Larum, as Commissioner Pett brought us word that he +[had] provided against, and put all in a posture of defence but a week +ago, all which I am resolved to represent to the Duke. + + + +13th. So, it being high day, I put in to shore and to bed for two hours +just, and so up again, and with the Storekeeper and Clerk of the Rope- +yard up and down the Dock and Rope-house, and by and by mustered the +Yard, and instructed the Clerks of the Cheque in my new way of Callbook, +and that and other things done, to the Hill-house, and there we eat +something, and so by barge to Rochester, and there took coach hired for +our passage to London, and Mrs. Allen, the clerk of the Rope-yard's wife +with us, desiring her passage, and it being a most pleasant and warm day, +we got by four o'clock home. In our way she telling us in what condition +Becky Allen is married against all expectation a fellow that proves to be +a coxcomb and worth little if any thing at all, and yet are entered into +a way of living above their condition that will ruin them presently, for +which, for the lady's sake, I am much troubled. Home I found all well +there, and after dressing myself, I walked to the Temple; and there, from +my cozen Roger, hear that the judges have this day brought in their +answer to the Lords, That the articles against my Lord Chancellor are not +Treason; and to-morrow they are to bring in their arguments to the House +for the same. This day also the King did send by my Lord Chamberlain to +the Lords, to tell them from him, that the most of the articles against +my Lord Chancellor he himself knows to be false. Thence by water to +Whitehall, and so walked to St. James's, but missed Mr. Coventry. I met +the Queen-Mother walking in the Pell Mell, led by my Lord St. Alban's. +And finding many coaches at the Gate, I found upon enquiry that the +Duchess is brought to bed of a boy; and hearing that the King and Queen +are rode abroad with the Ladies of Honour to the Park, and seeing a great +crowd of gallants staying here to see their return, I also staid walking +up and down, and among others spying a man like Mr. Pembleton (though I +have little reason to think it should be he, speaking and discoursing +long with my Lord D'Aubigne), yet how my blood did rise in my face, and I +fell into a sweat from my old jealousy and hate, which I pray God remove +from me. By and by the King and Queen, who looked in this dress (a white +laced waistcoat and a crimson short pettycoat, and her hair dressed ci la +negligence) mighty pretty; and the King rode hand in hand with her. Here +was also my Lady Castlemaine rode among the rest of the ladies; but the +King took, methought, no notice of her; nor when they 'light did any body +press (as she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but +was taken down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of humour, +and had a yellow plume in her hat (which all took notice of), and yet is +very handsome, but very melancholy: nor did any body speak to her, or she +so much as smile or speak to any body. I followed them up into White +Hall, and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking +and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one +another's by one another's heads, and laughing. But it was the finest +sight to me, considering their great beautys and dress, that ever I did +see in all my life. But, above all, Mrs. Stewart in this dress, with her +hat cocked and a red plume, with her sweet eye, little Roman nose, and +excellent taille, is now the greatest beauty I ever saw, I think, in my +life; and, if ever woman can, do exceed my Lady Castlemaine, at least in +this dress nor do I wonder if the King changes, which I verily believe is +the reason of his coldness to my Lady Castlemaine. Here late, with much +ado I left to look upon them, and went away, and by water, in a boat with +other strange company, there being no other to be had, and out of him +into a sculler half to the bridge, and so home and to Sir W. Batten, +where I staid telling him and Sir J. Minnes and Mrs. Turner, with great +mirth, my being frighted at Chatham by young Edgeborough, and so home to +supper and to bed, before I sleep fancying myself to sport with Mrs. +Stewart with great pleasure. + + + +14th. Up a little late, last night recovering my sleepiness for the +night before, which was lost, and so to my office to put papers and +things to right, and making up my journal from Wednesday last to this +day. All the morning at my office doing of business; at noon Mr. Hunt +came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and a Coffee House, and drank +there, and thence to my house to dinner, whither my uncle Thomas came, +and he tells me that he is going down to Wisbech, there to try what he +can recover of my uncle Day's estate, and seems to have good arguments +for what he do go about, in which I wish him good speed. I made him +almost foxed, the poor man having but a bad head, and not used I believe +nowadays to drink much wine. So after dinner, they being gone, I to my +office, and so home to bed. This day I hear the judges, according to +order yesterday, did bring into the Lords' House their reasons of their +judgment in the business between my Lord Bristoll and the Chancellor; and +the Lords do concur with the Judges that the articles are not treason, +nor regularly brought into the House, and so voted that a Committee +should be chosen to examine them; but nothing to be done therein till the +next sitting of this Parliament (which is like to be adjourned in a day +or two), and in the mean time the two Lords to, remain without prejudice +done to either of them. + + + +15th. Up and all the morning at the office, among other things with +Cooper the Purveyor, whose dullness in his proceeding in his work I was +vexed at, and find that though he understands it may be as much as other +men that profess skill in timber, yet I perceive that many things, they +do by rote, and very dully. Thence home to dinner, whither Captain Grove +came and dined with me, he going into the country to-day; among other +discourse he told me of discourse very much to my honour, both as to my +care and ability, happening at the Duke of Albemarle's table the other +day, both from the Duke, and the Duchess themselves; and how I paid so +much a year to him whose place it was of right, and that Mr. Coventry did +report thus of me; which was greatly to my content, knowing how against +their minds I was brought into the Navy. Thence by water to Westminster, +and there spent a good deal of time walking in the Hall, which is going +to be repaired, and, God forgive me, had a mind to have got Mrs. Lane +abroad, or fallen in with any woman else (in that hot humour). But it so +happened she could not go out, nor I meet with any body else, and so I +walked homeward, and in my way did many and great businesses of my own at +the Temple among my lawyers and others to my great content, thanking God +that I did not fall into any company to occasion spending time and money. +To supper, and then to a little viall and to bed, sporting in my fancy +with the Queen. + + + +16th. Up and dispatched things into the country and to my father's, and +two keggs of Sturgeon and a dozen bottles of wine to Cambridge for my +cozen Roger Pepys, which I give him. By and by down by water on several +Deall ships, and stood upon a stage in one place seeing calkers sheathing +of a ship. Then at Wapping to my carver's about my Viall head. So home, +and thence to my Viall maker's in Bishops, gate Street; his name is Wise, +who is a pretty fellow at it. Thence to the Exchange, and so home to +dinner, and then to my office, where a full board, and busy all the +afternoon, and among other things made a great contract with Sir W. +Warren for 40,000 deals Swinsound, at L3 17s. od. per hundred. In the +morning before I went on the water I was at Thames Street about some +pitch, and there meeting Anthony Joyce, I took him and Mr. Stacy, the +Tarr merchant, to the tavern, where Stacy told me many old stories of my +Lady Batten's former poor condition, and how her former husband broke, +and how she came to her state. At night, after office done, I went to +Sir W. Batten's, where my Lady and I [had] some high words about emptying +our house of office, where I did tell her my mind, and at last agreed +that it should be done through my office, and so all well. So home to +bed. + + + +17th. Up, and after doing some business at my office, Creed came to me, +and I took him to my viall maker's, and there I heard the famous Mr. +Stefkins play admirably well, and yet I found it as it is always, I over +expected. I took him to the tavern and found him a temperate sober man, +at least he seems so to me. I commit the direction of my viall to him. +Thence to the Change, and so home, Creed and I to dinner, and after +dinner Sir W. Warren came to me, and he and I in my closet about his last +night's contract, and from thence to discourse of measuring of timber, +wherein I made him see that I could understand the matter well, and did +both learn of and teach him something. Creed being gone through my +staying talking to him so long, I went alone by water down to Redriffe, +and so to sit and talk with Sir W. Pen, where I did speak very plainly +concerning my thoughts of Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes. So as it +may cost me some trouble if he should tell them again, but he said as +much or more to me concerning them both, which I may remember if ever it +should come forth, and nothing but what is true and my real opinion of +them, that they neither do understand to this day Creed's accounts, nor +do deserve to be employed in their places without better care, but that +the King had better give them greater salaries to stand still and do +nothing. Thence coming home I was saluted by Bagwell and his wife (the +woman I have a kindness for), and they would have me into their little +house, which I was willing enough to, and did salute his wife. They had +got wine for me, and I perceive live prettily, and I believe the woman a +virtuous modest woman. Her husband walked through to Redriffe with me, +telling me things that I asked of in the yard, and so by water home, it +being likely to rain again to-night, which God forbid. To supper and to +bed. + + + +18th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and Sir J. Minnes and +I did a little, and but a little business at the office. So I eat a bit +of victuals at home, and so abroad to several places, as my bookseller's, +and then to Thomson the instrument maker's to bespeak a ruler for my +pocket for timber, &c., which I believe he will do to my mind. So to the +Temple, Wardrobe, and lastly to Westminster Hall, where I expected some +bands made me by Mrs. Lane, and while she went to the starchers for them, +I staid at Mrs. Howlett's, who with her husband were abroad, and only +their daughter (which I call my wife) was in the shop, and I took +occasion to buy a pair of gloves to talk to her, and I find her a pretty +spoken girl, and will prove a mighty handsome wench. I could love her +very well. By and by Mrs. Lane comes, and my bands not being done she +and I posted and met at the Crown in the Palace Yard, where we eat a +chicken I sent for, and drank, and were mighty merry, and I had my full +liberty of towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all +. . . . Of which I am heartily ashamed, but I do resolve never to do +more so. But, Lord! to see what a mind she has to a husband, and how she +showed me her hands to tell her her fortune, and every thing that she +asked ended always whom and when she was to marry. And I pleased her so +well, saying as. I know she would have me, and then she would say that +she had been with all the artists in town, and they always told her the +same things, as that she should live long, and rich, and have a good +husband, but few children, and a great fit of sickness, and 20 other +things, which she says she has always been told by others. Here I staid +late before my bands were done, and then they came, and so I by water to +the Temple, and thence walked home, all in a sweat with my tumbling of +her and walking, and so a little supper and to bed, fearful of having +taken cold. + + + +19th (Lord's day). Lay very long in pleasant dreams till Church time, +and so up, and it being foul weather so that I cannot walk as I intended +to meet my Cozen Roger at Thomas Pepys's house (whither he rode last +night), to Hatcham, I went to church, where a sober Doctor made a good +sermon. So home to dinner alone, and then to read a little, and so to +church again, where the Scot made an ordinary sermon, and so home to my +office, and there read over my vows and increased them by a vow against +all strong drink till November next of any sort or quantity, by which I +shall try how I can forbear it. God send it may not prejudice my health, +and then I care not. Then I fell to read over a silly play writ by a +person of honour (which is, I find, as much as to say a coxcomb), called +"Love a la Mode,"' and that being ended, home, and played on my lute and +sung psalms till bedtime, then to prayers and to bed. + + + +20th. Up and to my office, and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's +"Faber fortunae," + + [Pepys may here refer either to Essay XLI. (of Fortune) or to a + chapter' in the "Advancement of Learning." The sentence, "Faber + quisque fortunae propria," said to be by Appius Claudian, is quoted + more than once in the "De Augmentis Scientiarum," lib. viii., cap. + 2.] + +which the oftener I read the more I admire. There found Captain Cocke, +and up and down to many places to look after matters, and so walked back +again with him to his house, and there dined very finely. With much ado +obtained an excuse from drinking of wine, and did only taste a drop of +Sack which he had for his lady, who is, he fears, a little consumptive, +and her beauty begins to want its colour. It was Malago Sack, which, he +says, is certainly 30 years old, and I tasted a drop of it, and it was +excellent wine, like a spirit rather than wine. Thence by water to the +office, and taking some papers by water to White Hall and St. James's, +but there being no meeting with the Duke to-day, I returned by water and +down to Greenwich, to look after some blocks that I saw a load carried +off by a cart from Woolwich, the King's Yard. But I could not find them, +and so returned, and being heartily weary I made haste to bed, and being +in bed made Will read and construe three or four Latin verses in the +Bible, and chide him for forgetting his grammar. So to sleep, and sleep +ill all the night, being so weary, and feverish with it. + + + +21st. And so lay long in the morning, till I heard people knock at my +door, and I took it to be about 8 o'clock (but afterwards found myself a +little mistaken), and so I rose and ranted at Will and the maid, and +swore I could find my heart to kick them down stairs, which the maid +mumbled at mightily. It was my brother, who staid and talked with me, +his chief business being about his going about to build his house new at +the top, which will be a great charge for him, and above his judgment. +By and by comes Mr. Deane, of Woolwich, with his draught of a ship, and +the bend and main lines in the body of a ship very finely, and which do +please me mightily, and so am resolved to study hard, and learn of him to +understand a body, and I find him a very pretty fellow in it, and +rational, but a little conceited, but that's no matter to me. At noon, +by my Lady Batten's desire, I went over the water to Mr. Castle's, who +brings his wife home to his own house to-day, where I found a great many +good old women, and my Lady, Sir W. Batten, and Sir J. Minnes. A good, +handsome, plain dinner, and then walked in the garden; which is pleasant +enough, more than I expected there, and so Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, +and I by water to the office, and there sat, and then I by water to the +Temple about my law business, and back again home and wrote letters to my +father and wife about my desire that they should observe the feast at +Brampton, and have my Lady and the family, and so home to supper and bed, +my head aching all the day from my last night's bad rest, and yesterday's +distempering myself with over walking, and to-day knocking my head +against a low door in Mr. Castle's house. This day the Parliament kept a +fast for the present unseasonable weather. + + + +22nd. Up, and by and by comes my uncle Thomas, to whom I paid L10 for +his last half year's annuity, and did get his and his son's hand and seal +for the confirming to us Piggott's mortgage, which was forgot to be +expressed in our late agreement with him, though intended, and therefore +they might have cavilled at it, if they would. Thence abroad calling at +several places upon some errands, among others to my brother Tom's barber +and had my hair cut, while his boy played on the viallin, a plain boy, +but has a very good genius, and understands the book very well, but to +see what a shift he made for a string of red silk was very pleasant. +Thence to my Lord Crew's. My Lord not being come home, I met and staid +below with Captain Ferrers, who was come to wait upon my Lady Jemimah to +St. James's, she being one of the four ladies that hold up the mantle at +the christening this afternoon of the Duke's child (a boy). In discourse +of the ladies at Court, Captain Ferrers tells me that my Lady Castlemaine +is now as great again as ever she was; and that her going away was only a +fit of her own upon some slighting words of the King, so that she called +for her coach at a quarter of an hour's warning, and went to Richmond; +and the King the next morning, under pretence of going a-hunting, went to +see her and make friends, and never was a-hunting at all. After which +she came back to Court, and commands the King as much as ever, and hath +and doth what she will. No longer ago than last night, there was a +private entertainment made for the King and Queen at the Duke of +Buckingham's, and she: was not invited: but being at my Lady Suffolk's, +her aunt's (where my Lady Jemimah and Lord Sandwich dined) yesterday, she +was heard to say, "Well; much good may it do them, and for all that I +will be as merry as they:" and so she went home and caused a great supper +to be prepared. And after the King had been with the Queen at +Wallingford House, he came to my Lady Castlemaine's, and was there all +night, and my Lord Sandwich with him, which was the reason my Lord lay in +town all night, which he has not done a great while before. He tells me +he believes that, as soon as the King can get a husband for Mrs. Stewart +however, my Lady Castlemaine's nose will be out of joynt; for that she +comes to be in great esteem, and is more handsome than she. I found by +his words that my Lord Sandwich finds some pleasure in the country where +he now is, whether he means one of the daughters of the house or no I +know not, but hope the contrary, that he thinks he is very well pleased +with staying there, but yet upon breaking up of the Parliament, which the +King by a message to-day says shall be on Monday next, he resolves to go. +Ned Pickering, the coxcomb, notwithstanding all his hopes of my Lord's +assistance, wherein I am sorry to hear my Lord has much concerned +himself, is defeated of the place he expected under the Queen. He came +hither by and by and brought some jewells for my Lady Jem. to put on, +with which and her other clothes she looks passing well. I staid and +dined with my Lord Crew, who whether he was not so well pleased with me +as he used to be, or that his head was full of business, as I believe it +was, he hardly spoke one word to me all dinner time, we dining alone, +only young Jack Crew, Sir Thomas's son, with us. After dinner I bade him +farewell. Sir Thomas I hear has gone this morning ill to bed, so I had +no mind to see him. Thence homewards, and in the way first called at +Wotton's, the shoemaker's, who tells me the reason of Harris's' going +from Sir Wm. Davenant's house, that he grew very proud and demanded L20 +for himself extraordinary, more than Betterton or any body else, upon +every new play, and L10 upon every revive; which with other things Sir W. +Davenant would not give him, and so he swore he would never act there +more, in expectation of being received in the other House; but the King +will not suffer it, upon Sir W. Davenant's desire that he would not, for +then he might shut up house, and that is true. He tells me that his +going is at present a great loss to the House, and that he fears he hath +a stipend from the other House privately. He tells the that the fellow +grew very proud of late, the King and every body else crying him up so +high, and that above Betterton, he being a more ayery man, as he is +indeed. But yet Betterton, he says, they all say do act: some parts that +none but himself can do. Thence to my bookseller's, and found my +Waggoners done. The very binding cost me 14s., but they are well done, +and so with a porter home with them, and so by water to Ratcliffe, and +there went to speak with Cumberford the platt-maker, and there saw his +manner of working, which is very fine and laborious. So down to +Deptford, reading Ben Jonson's "Devil is an asse," and so to see Sir W. +Pen, who I find walking out of doors a little, but could not stand long; +but in doors and I with him, and staid a great while talking, I taking a +liberty to tell him my thoughts in things of the office; that when he +comes abroad again, he may know what to think of me, and to value me as +he ought. Walked home as I used to do, and being weary, and after some +discourse with Mr. Barrow, who came to see and take his leave of me, he +being to-morrow to set out toward the Isle of Man, I went to bed. This +day I hear that the Moores have made some attaques upon the outworks of +Tangier; but my Lord Tiviott; with the loss of about 200 men, did beat +them off, and killed many of them. To-morrow the King and Queen for +certain go down to Tunbridge. But the King comes hack again against +Monday to raise the Parliament. + + + +23rd. Up and to my office, and thence by information from, Mr. Ackworth +I went down to Woolwich, and mustered the three East India ships that lie +there, believing that there is great-juggling between the Pursers and +Clerks of the Cheque in cheating the King of the wages and victuals of +men that do not give attendance, and I found very few on board. So to +the yard, and there mustered the yard, and found many faults, and +discharged several fellows that were absent from their business. I staid +also at Mr. Ackworth's desire at dinner with him and his wife, and there +was a simple fellow, a gentleman I believe of the Court, their kinsmen, +that threatened me I could have little discourse or begin, acquaintance +with Ackworth's wife, and so after dinner away, with all haste home, and +there found Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten at the office, and by Sir W. +Batten's testimony and Sir G. Carteret's concurrence was forced to +consent to a business of Captain Cocke's timber, as bad as anything we +have lately disputed about, and all through Mr. Coventry's not being with +us. So up and to supper with Sir W. Batten upon a soused mullett, very +good meat, and so home and to bed. + + + +24th. Up pretty early (though of late I have been faulty by an hour or +two every morning of what I should do) and by water to the Temple, and +there took leave of my cozen Roger Pepys, who goes out of town to-day. +So to Westminster Hall, and there at Mrs. Michell's shop sent for beer +and sugar and drink, and made great cheer with it among her and Mrs. +Howlett, her neighbour, and their daughters, especially Mrs. Howlett's +daughter, Betty, which is a pretty girl, and one I have long called wife, +being, I formerly thought, like my own wife. After this good +neighbourhood, which I do to give them occasion of speaking well and +commending me in some company that now and then I know comes to their +shop, I went to the Six clerks' office, and there had a writ for Tom +Trice, and paid 20s. for it to Wilkinson, and so up and down to many +places, among others to the viall maker's, and there saw the head, which +now pleases me mightily, and so home, and being sent for presently to Mr. +Bland's, where Mr. Povy and Gauden and I were invited to dinner, which we +had very finely and great plenty, but for drink, though many and good, I +drank nothing but small beer and water, which I drank so much that I wish +it may not do me hurt. They had a kinswoman, they call daughter, in the +house, a short, ugly, red-haired slut, that plays upon the virginalls, +and sings, but after such a country manner I was weary of it, but yet +could not but commend it. So by and by after dinner comes Monsr. +Gotier, who is beginning to teach her, but, Lord! what a droll fellow it +is to make her hold open her mouth, and telling this and that so drolly +would make a man burst, but himself I perceive sings very well. Anon we +sat dawn again to a collacon of cheesecakes, tarts, custards, and such +like, very handsome, and so up and away home, where I at the office a +while, till disturbed by, Mr. Hill, of Cambridge, with whom I walked in +the garden a while, and thence home and then in my dining room walked, +talking of several matters of state till 11 at night, giving him a glass +of wine. I was not unwilling to hear him talk, though he is full of +words, yet a man of large conversation, especially among the Presbyters +and Independents; he tells me that certainly, let the Bishops alone, and +they will ruin themselves, and he is confident that the King's +declaration about two years since will be the foundation of the +settlement of the Church some time or other, for the King will find it +hard to banish all those that will appear Nonconformists upon this Act +that is coming out against them. He being gone, I to bed. + + + +25th. Up and to my office setting papers in order for these two or three +days, in which I have been hindered a little, and then having intended +this day to go to Banstead Downs to see a famous race, I sent Will to get +himself ready to go with me, and I also by and by home and put on my +riding suit, and being ready came to the office to Sir J. Minnes and Sir +W. Batten, and did a little of course at the office this morning, and so +by boat to White Hall, where I hear that the race is put off, because the +Lords do sit in Parliament to-day. However, having appointed Mr. Creed +to come to me to Fox Hall, I went over thither, and after some debate, +Creed and I resolved to go to Clapham, to Mr. Gauden's, who had sent his +coach to their place for me because I was to have my horse of him to go +to the race. So I went thither by coach and my Will by horse with me; +Mr. Creed he went over back again to Westminster to fetch his horse. +When I came to Mr. Gauden's one first thing was to show me his house, +which is almost built, wherein he and his family live. I find it very +regular and finely contrived, and the gardens and offices about it as +convenient and as full of good variety as ever I saw in my life. It is +true he hath been censured for laying out so much money; but he tells me +that he built it for his brother, who is since dead (the Bishop), who +when he should come to be Bishop of Winchester, which he was promised (to +which bishoprick at present there is no house), he did intend to dwell +here. Besides, with the good husbandry in making his bricks and other +things I do not think it costs him so much money as people think and +discourse. By and by to dinner, and in comes Mr. Creed. I saluted Mr. +Gauden's lady, and the young ladies, he having many pretty children, and +his sister, the Bishop's widow; who was, it seems, Sir W. Russel's +daughter, the Treasurer of the Navy; who by her discourse at dinner I +find to be very well-bred, and a woman of excellent discourse, even so +much as to have my attention all dinner with much more pleasure than I +did give to Mr. Creed, whose discourse was mighty merry in inveighing at +Mr. Gauden's victuals that they had at sea the last voyage that he +prosecuted, till methought the woman began to take it seriously. After +dinner by Mr. Gauden's motion we got Mrs. Gauden and her sister to sing +to a viall, on which Mr. Gauden's eldest son (a pretty man, but a simple +one methinks) played but very poorly, and the musique bad, but yet I +commended it. Only I do find that the ladies have been taught to sing +and do sing well now, but that the viall puts them out. I took the viall +and played some things from one of their books, Lyra lessons, which they +seemed to like well. Thus we pass an hour or two after dinner and +towards the evening we bade them Adieu! and took horse; being resolved +that, instead of the race which fails us, we would go to Epsum. So we +set out, and being gone a little way I sent home Will to look to the +house, and Creed and I rode forward; the road being full of citizens +going and coming toward Epsum, where, when we came, we could hear of no +lodging, the town so full; but which was better, I went towards Ashted, +my old place of pleasure; and there by direction of one goodman Arthur, +whom we met on the way, we went to Farmer Page's, at which direction he +and I made good sport, and there we got a lodging in a little hole we +could not stand upright in, but rather than go further to look we staid +there, and while supper was getting ready I took him to walk up and down +behind my cozen Pepys's house that was, which I find comes little short +of what I took it to be when I was a little boy, as things use commonly +to appear greater than then when one comes to be a man and knows more, +and so up and down in the closes, which I know so well methinks, and +account it good fortune that I lie here that I may have opportunity to +renew my old walks. It seems there is one Mr. Rouse, they call him the +Queen's Tailor, that lives there now. So to our lodging to supper, and +among other meats had a brave dish of cream, the best I ever eat in my +life, and with which we pleased ourselves much, and by and by to bed, +where, with much ado yet good sport, we made shift to lie, but with +little ease, and a little spaniel by us, which has followed us all the +way, a pretty dogg, and we believe that follows my horse, and do belong +to Mrs. Gauden, which we, therefore, are very careful of. + + + +26th (Lord's-day). Up and to the Wells, + + + [Epsom medicinal wells were discovered about 1618, but they did not + become fashionable until the Restoration. John Toland, in his + "Description of Epsom," says that he often counted seventy coaches in + the Ring (the present racecourse on the Downs) on a Sunday evening; + but by the end of the eighteenth century Epsom had entirely lost its + vogue.] + +where great store of citizens, which was the greatest part of the +company, though there were some others of better quality. I met many +that I knew, and we drank each of us two pots and so walked away, it +being very pleasant to see how everybody turns up his tail, here one and +there another, in a bush, and the women in their quarters the like. +Thence I walked with Creed to Mr. Minnes's house, which has now a very +good way made to it, and thence to Durdans and walked round it and within +the Court Yard and to the Bowling-green, where I have seen so much mirth +in my time; but now no family in it (my Lord Barkeley, whose it is, being +with his family at London), and so up and down by Minnes's wood, with +great pleasure viewing my old walks, and where Mrs. Hely and I did use to +walk and talk, with whom I had the first sentiments of love and pleasure +in woman's company, discourse, and taking her by the hand, she being a +pretty woman. So I led him to Ashted Church (by the place where Peter, +my cozen's man, went blindfold and found a certain place we chose for him +upon a wager), where we had a dull Doctor, one Downe, worse than I think +even parson King was, of whom we made so much scorn, and after sermon +home, and staid while our dinner, a couple of large chickens, were +dressed, and a good mess of cream, which anon we had with good content, +and after dinner (we taking no notice of other lodgers in the house, +though there was one that I knew, and knew and spoke to me, one Mr. +Rider, a merchant), he and I to walk, and I led him to the pretty little +wood behind my cozens house, into which we got at last by clambering, and +our little dog with us, but when we were among the hazel trees and +bushes, Lord! what a course did we run for an hour together, losing +ourselves, and indeed I despaired I should ever come to any path, but +still from thicket to thicket, a thing I could hardly have believed a man +could have been lost so long in so small a room. At last I found out a +delicate walk in the middle that goes quite through the wood, and then +went out of the wood, and holloed Mr. Creed, and made him hunt me from +place to place, and at last went in and called him into my fine walk, the +little dog still hunting with us through the wood. In this walk being +all bewildered and weary and sweating, Creed he lay down upon the ground, +which I did a little, but I durst not long, but walked from him in the +fine green walk, which is half a mile long, there reading my vows as I +used to on Sundays. And after that was done, and going and lying by +Creed an hour, he and I rose and went to our lodging and paid our +reckoning, and so mounted, whether to go toward London home or to find a +new lodging, and so rode through Epsum, the whole town over, seeing the +various companys that were there walking; which was very pleasant to see +how they are there without knowing almost what to do, but only in the +morning to drink waters. But, Lord! to see how many I met there of +citizens, that I could not have thought to have seen there, or that they +had ever had it in their heads or purses to go down thither. We rode out +of the town through Yowell beyond Nonesuch House a mile, and there our +little dogg, as he used to do, fell a-running after a flock of sheep +feeding on the common, till he was out of sight, and then endeavoured to +come back again, and went to the last gate that he parted with us at, and +there the poor thing mistakes our scent, instead of coming forward he +hunts us backward, and runs as hard as he could drive back towards +Nonesuch, Creed and I after him, and being by many told of his going that +way and the haste he made, we rode still and passed him through Yowell, +and there we lost any further information of him. However, we went as +far as Epsum almost, hearing nothing of him, we went back to Yowell, and +there was told that he did pass through the town. We rode back to +Nonesuch to see whether he might be gone back again, but hearing nothing +we with great trouble and discontent for the loss of our dogg came back +once more to Yowell, and there set up our horses and selves for all +night, employing people to look for the dogg in the town, but can hear +nothing of him. However, we gave order for supper, and while that was +dressing walked out through Nonesuch Park to the house, and there viewed +as much as we could of the outside, and looked through the great gates, +and found a noble court; and altogether believe it to have been a very +noble house, and a delicate park about it, where just now there was a doe +killed, for the King to carry up to Court. So walked back again, and by +and by our supper being ready, a good leg of mutton boiled, we supped and +to bed, upon two beds in the same room, wherein we slept most excellently +all night. + + + +27th. Up in the morning about 7 o'clock, and after a little study, +resolved of riding to the Wells to look for our dogg, which we did, but +could hear nothing; but it being much a warmer day than yesterday there +was great store of gallant company, more than then, to my greater +pleasure. There was at a distance, under one of the trees on the common, +a company got together that sung. I, at the distance, and so all the +rest being a quarter of a mile off, took them for the Waytes, so I rode +up to them, and found them only voices, some citizens met by chance, that +sung four or five parts excellently. I have not been more pleased with a +snapp of musique, considering the circumstances of the time and place,, +in all my life anything so pleasant. We drank each of us, three cupps, +and so, after riding up to the horsemen upon the hill, where they were +making of matches to run, we went away and to Yowell, where we found our +breakfast, the remains of our supper last night hashed, and by and by, +after the smith had set on two new shoes to Creed's horse, we mounted, +and with little discourse, I being intent upon getting home in time, we +rode hard home, observing Mr. Gauden's house, but not calling there (it +being too late for me to stay, and wanting their dog too). The house +stands very finely, and has a graceful view to the highway. Set up our +horses at Fox Hall, and I by water (observing the King's barge attending +his going to the House this day) home, it being about one o'clock. So +got myself ready and shifting myself, and so by water to Westminster, and +there came most luckily to the Lords' House as the House of Commons were +going into the Lord's House, and there I crowded in along with the +Speaker, and got to stand close behind him, where he made his speech to +the King (who sat with his crown on and robes, and so all the Lords in +their robes, a fine sight); wherein he told his Majesty what they have +done this Parliament, and now offered for his royall consent. The +greatest matters were a bill for the Lord's day (which it seems the Lords +have lost, and so cannot be passed, at which the Commons are displeased); +the bills against Conventicles and Papists (but it seems the Lords have +not passed them), and giving his Majesty four entire subsidys; which +last, with about twenty smaller Acts, were passed with this form: The +Clerk of the House reads the title of the bill, and then looks at the end +and there finds (writ by the King I suppose) "Le Roy le veult," and that +he reads. And to others he reads, "Soit fait comme vous desirez." And +to the Subsidys, as well that for the Commons, I mean the layety, as for +the Clergy, the King writes, "Le Roy remerciant les Seigneurs, &c., +Prelats, &c., accepte leur benevolences." The Speaker's speech was far +from any oratory, but was as plain (though good matter) as any thing +could be, and void of elocution. After the bills passed, the King, +sitting on his throne, with his speech writ in a paper which he held in +his lap, and scarce looked off of it, I thought, all the time he made his +speech to them, giving them thanks for their subsidys, of which, had he +not need, he would not have asked or received them; and that need, not +from any extravagancys of his, he was sure, in any thing, but the +disorders of the times compelling him to be at greater charge than he +hoped for the future, by their care in their country, he should be: and +that for his family expenses and others, he would labour however to +retrench in many things convenient, and would have all others to do so +too. He desired that nothing of old faults should be remembered, or +severity for the same used to any in the country, it being his desire to +have all forgot as well as forgiven. But, however, to use all care in +suppressing any tumults, &c.; assuring them that the restless spirits of +his and their adversaries have great expectations of something to be done +this summer. And promised that though the Acts about Conventicles and +Papists were not ripe for passing this Session, yet he would take care +himself that neither of them should in this intervall be encouraged to +the endangering of the peace; and that at their next meeting he would +himself prepare two bills for them concerning them. So he concluded, +that for the better proceeding of justice he did think fit to make this a +Session, and to prorogue them to the 16th of March next. His speech was +very plain, nothing at all of spirit in it, nor spoke with any; but +rather on the contrary imperfectly, repeating many times his words though +he read all which I was sorry to see, it having not been hard for him to +have got all the speech without book. So they all went away, the King +out of the House at the upper end, he being by and by to go to Tunbridge +to the Queen; and I in the Painted Chamber spoke with my Lord Sandwich +while he was putting off his robes, who tells me he will now hasten down +into the country, as soon as he can get some money settled on the +Wardrobe. Here meeting Creed, he and I down to the Hall, and I having at +Michell's shop wrote a little letter to Mr. Gauden, to go with his horse, +and excusing my not taking leave or so much as asking after the old lady +the widow when we came away the other day from them, he and I over the +water to Fox Hall, and there sent away the horse with my letter, and then +to the new Spring Garden, walking up and down, but things being dear and +little attendance to be had we went away, leaving much brave company +there, and so to a less house hard by, where we liked very well their +Codlin tarts, having not time, as we intended, to stay the getting ready +of a dish of pease. And there came to us an idle boy to show us some +tumbling tricks, which he did very well, and the greatest bending of his +body that ever I observed in my life. Thence by water to White Hall, and +walked over the Park to St. James's; but missed Mr. Coventry, he not +being within; and so out again, and there the Duke was coming along the +Pell-Mell. It being a little darkish, I staid not to take notice of him, +but we went directly back again. And in our walk over the Park, one of +the Duke's footmen came running behind us, and came looking just in our +faces to see who we were, and went back again. What his meaning is I +know not, but was fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off, +though methinks that should not be it, besides, there were others covered +nearer than myself was, but only it was my fear. So to White Hall and by +water to the Bridge, and so home to bed, weary and well pleased with my +journey in all respects. Only it cost me about 20s., but it was for my +health, and I hope will prove so, only I do find by my riding a little +swelling to rise just by my anus. I had the same the last time I rode, +and then it fell again, and now it is up again about the bigness of the +bag of a silkworm, makes me fearful of a rupture. But I will speak to +Mr. Hollyard about it, and I am glad to find it now, that I may prevent +it before it goes too far. + + + +28th. Up after sleeping very well, and so to my office setting down the +Journall of this last three days, and so settled to business again, I +hope with greater cheerfulness and success by this refreshment.: At the +office all the morning, and at noon to Wise's about my viall that is +a-doing, and so home to dinner and then to the office, where we sat all +the afternoon till night, and I late at it till after the office was +risen. Late came my Jane and her brother Will: to entreat for my taking +of the boy again, but I will not hear her, though I would yet be glad to +do anything for her sake to the boy, but receive him again I will not, +nor give him anything. She would have me send him to sea; which if I +could I would do, but there is no ship going out. The poor girl cried +all the time she was with me, and would not go from me, staying about two +hours with me till 10 or 11 o'clock, expecting that she might obtain +something of me, but receive him I will not. So the poor girl was fain +to go away crying and saying little. So from thence home, where my house +of office was emptying, and I find they will do, it with much more +cleanness than I expected. I went up and down among them a good while, +but knowing that Mr. Coventry was to call me in the morning, I went to +bed and left them to look after the people. So to bed. + + + +29th. Up about 6 o'clock, and found the people to have just done, and +Hannah not gone to bed yet, but was making clean of the yard and kitchen. +Will newly gone to bed. So I to my office, and having given some order +to Tom Hater, to whom I gave leave for his recreation to go down to +Portsmouth this Pay, I went down to Wapping to Sir W. Warren, and there +staid an hour or two discoursing of some of his goods and then things in +general relating to this office, &c., and so home, and there going to Sir +William Batten (having no stomach to dine at home, it being yet hardly +clean of last night's [mess])and there I dined with my Lady and her +daughter and son Castle, and mighty kind she is and I kind to her, but, +Lord! how freely and plainly she rails against Commissioner Pett, +calling him rogue, and wondering that the King keeps such a fellow in the +Navy. Thence by and by walked to see Sir W. Pen at Deptford, reading by +the way a most ridiculous play, a new one, called "The Politician +Cheated." After a little sitting with him I walked to the yard a little +and so home again, my Will with me, whom I bade to stay in the yard for +me, and so to bed. This morning my brother Tom was with me, and we had +some discourse again concerning his country mistress, but I believe the +most that is fit for us to condescend to, will not content her friends. + + + +30th. Up and to the office to get business ready for our sitting, this +being the first day of altering it from afternoon during the Parliament +sitting to the fore-noon again. By and by Mr. Coventry only came (Sir +John Minnes and Sir William Batten being gone this morning to Portsmouth +to pay some ships and the yard there), and after doing a little business +he and I down to Woolwich, and there up and down the yard, and by and by +came Sir G. Carteret and we all looked into matters, and then by water +back to Deptford, where we dined with him at his house, a very good +dinner and mightily tempted with wines of all sorts and brave French +Syder, but I drunk none. But that which is a great wonder I find his +little daughter Betty, that was in hanging sleeves but a month or two +ago, and is a very little young child; married, and to whom, but to young +Scott, son to Madam Catharine Scott, that was so long in law, and at +whose triall I was with her husband; he pleading that it was unlawfully +got and would not own it, she, it seems, being brought to bed of it, if +not got by somebody else at Oxford, but it seems a little before his +death he did own the child, and hath left him his estate, not long since. +So Sir G. Carteret hath struck up of a sudden a match with him for his +little daughter. He hath about L2000 per annum; and it seems Sir G. +Carteret hath by this means over-reached Sir H. Bennet, who did endeavour +to get this gentleman for a sister of his, but Sir G. Carteret I say has +over-reached him. By this means Sir G. Carteret hath married two +daughters this year both very well. After dinner into Deptford yard, but +our bellies being full we could do no great business, and so parted, and +Mr. Coventry and I to White Hall by water, where we also parted, and I to +several places about business, and so calling for my five books of the +Variorum print bound according to my common binding instead of the other +which is more gaudy I went home. The town talk this day is of nothing +but the great foot-race run this day on Banstead Downes, between Lee, the +Duke of Richmond's footman, and a tyler, a famous runner. And Lee hath +beat him; though the King and Duke of York and all men almost did bet +three or four to one upon the tyler's head. + + + +31st. Up early to my accounts this month, and I find myself worth clear +L730, the most I ever had yet, which contents me though I encrease but +very little. Thence to my office doing business, and at noon to my viall +maker's, who has begun it and has a good appearance, and so to the +Exchange, where I met Dr. Pierce, who tells me of his good luck to get to +be groom of the Privy-Chamber to the Queen, and without my Lord +Sandwich's help; but only by his good fortune, meeting a man that hath +let him have his right for a small matter, about L60, for which he can +every day have L400. But he tells me my Lord hath lost much honour in +standing so long and so much for that coxcomb Pickering, and at last not +carrying it for him; but hath his name struck out by the King and Queen +themselves after he had been in ever since the Queen's coming. But he +tells me he believes that either Sir H. Bennet, my Lady Castlemaine, or +Sir Charles Barkeley had received some money for the place, and so the +King could not disappoint them, but was forced to put out this fool +rather than a better man. And I am sorry to hear what he tells me that +Sir Charles Barkeley hath still such power over the King, as to be able +to fetch him from the Council-table to my Lady Castlemaine when he +pleases. He tells me also, as a friend, the great injury that he thinks +I do myself by being so severe in the Yards, and contracting the ill-will +of the whole Navy for those offices, singly upon myself. Now I discharge +a good conscience therein, and I tell him that no man can (nor do he say +any say it) charge me with doing wrong; but rather do as many good +offices as any man. They think, he says, that I have a mind to get a +good name with the King and Duke, who he tells me do not consider any +such thing; but I shall have as good thanks to let all alone, and do as +the rest. But I believe the contrary; and yet I told him I never go to +the Duke alone, as others do, to talk of my own services. However, I +will make use of his council, and take some course to prevent having the +single ill-will of the office. Before I went to the office I went to the +Coffee House, where Sir J. Cutler and Mr. Grant were, and there Mr. Grant +showed me letters of Sir William Petty's, wherein he says, that his +vessel which he hath built upon two keeles (a modell whereof, built for +the King, he showed me) hath this month won a wager of L50 in sailing +between Dublin and Holyhead with the pacquett-boat, the best ship or +vessel the King hath there; and he offers to lay with any vessel in the +world. It is about thirty ton in burden, and carries thirty men, with +good accommodation, (as much more as any ship of her burden,) and so any +vessel of this figure shall carry more men, with better accommodation by +half, than any other ship. This carries also ten guns, of about five +tons weight. In their coming back from Holyhead they started together, +and this vessel came to Dublin by five at night, and the pacquett-boat +not before eight the next morning; and when they came they did believe +that, this vessel had been drowned, or at least behind, not thinking she +could have lived in that sea. Strange things are told of this vessel, +and he concludes his letter with this position, "I only affirm that the +perfection of sayling lies in my principle, finde it out who can." +Thence home, in my way meeting Mr. Rawlinson, who tells me that my uncle +Wight is off of his Hampshire purchase and likes less of the Wights, and +would have me to be kind and study to please him, which I am resolved to +do. Being at home he sent for me to dinner to meet Mr. Moore, so I went +thither and dined well, but it was strange for me to refuse, and yet I +did without any reluctancy to drink wine in a tavern, where nothing else +almost was drunk, and that excellent good. Thence with Mr. Moore to the +Wardrobe, and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr. Townsend about +his accounts an hour or two, we reading of a merry book against the +Presbyters called Cabbala, extraordinary witty. Thence walked home and +to my office, setting papers of all sorts and writing letters and putting +myself into a condition to go to Chatham with Mr. Coventry to-morrow. +So, at almost 12 o'clock, and my eyes tired with seeing to write, I went +home and to bed. Ending the month with pretty good content of mind, my +wife in the country and myself in good esteem, and likely by pains to +become considerable, I think, with God's blessing upon my diligence. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + AUGUST + 1663 + + +Aug. 1st. Up betimes and got me ready, and so to the office and put +things in order for my going. By and by comes Sir G. Carteret, and he +and I did some business, and then Mr. Coventry sending for me, he staying +in the boat, I got myself presently ready and down to him, he and I by +water to Gravesend (his man Lambert with us), and there eat a bit and so +mounted, I upon one of his horses which met him there, a brave proud +horse, all the way talking of businesses of the office and other matters +to good purpose. Being come to Chatham, we put on our boots and so +walked to the yard, where we met Commissioner Pett, and there walked up +and down looking and inquiring into many businesses, and in the evening +went to the Commissioner's and there in his upper Arbor sat and talked, +and there pressed upon the Commissioner to take upon him a power to +correct and suspend officers that do not their duty and other things, +which he unwillingly answered he would if we would own him in it. Being +gone thence Mr. Coventry and I did discourse about him, and conclude that +he is not able to do the same in that yard that he might and can and it +maybe will do in another, what with his old faults and the relations that +he has to most people that act there. After an hour or two's discourse +at the Hill-house before going to bed, I see him to his and he me to my +chamber, he lying in the Treasurer's and I in the Controller's chambers. + + + +2nd (Lord's day). Up and after the barber had done he and I walked to +the Docke, and so on board the Mathias, where Commissioner Pett and he +and I and a good many of the officers and others of the yard did hear an +excellent sermon of Mr. Hudson's upon "All is yours and you are God's," +a most ready, learned, and good sermon, such as I have not heard a good +while, nor ever thought he could have preached. We took him with us to +the Hill-house, and there we dined, and an officer or two with us. So +after dinner the company withdrew, and we three to private discourse and +laid the matters of the yard home again to the Commissioner, and +discoursed largely of several matters. Then to the parish church, and +there heard a poor sermon with a great deal of false Greek in it, upon +these words, "Ye are my friends, if ye do these things which I command +you." Thence to the Docke and by water to view St. Mary Creeke, but do +not find it so proper for a wet docks as we would have it, it being +uneven ground and hard in the bottom and no, great depth of water in many +places. Returned and walked from the Docke home, Mr. Coventry and I very +much troubled to see how backward Commissioner Pett is to tell any of the +faults of the officers, and to see nothing in better condition here for +his being here than they are in other yards where there is none. After +some discourse to bed. But I sat up an hour after Mr. Coventry was gone +to read my vows, it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for +an hour together. So to bed. + + + +3rd. Up both of us very betimes and to the Yard, and see the men called +over and choose some to be discharged. Then to the Ropehouses and viewed +them all and made an experiment which was the stronger, English or Riga +hemp, the latter proved the stronger, but the other is very good, and +much better we believe than any but Riga. We did many other things this +morning, and I caused the Timber measurer to measure some timber, where I +found much fault and with reason, which we took public notice of, and did +give them admonition for the time to come. At noon Mr. Pett did give us +a very great dinner, too big in all conscience, so that most of it was +left untouched. Here was Collonell Newman and several other gentlemen of +the country and officers of the yard. After dinner they withdrew and +Commissioner Pett, Mr. Coventry and I sat close to our business all the +noon in his parler, and there run through much business and answered +several people. And then in the evening walked in the garden, where we +conjured him to look after the yard, and for the time to come that he +would take the whole faults and ill management of the yard upon himself, +he having full power and our concurrence to suspend or do anything else +that he thinks fit to keep people and officers to their duty. He having +made good promises, though I fear his performance, we parted (though I +spoke so freely that he could have been angry) good friends, and in some +hopes that matters will be better for the time to come. So walked to the +Hillhouse (which we did view and the yard about it, and do think to put +it off as soon as we can conveniently) and there made ourselves ready and +mounted and rode to Gravesend (my riding Coate not being to be found I +fear it is stole) on our way being overtaken by Captain Browne that +serves the office of the Ordnance at Chatham. All the way, though he was +a rogue and served the late times all along, yet he kept us in discourse +of the many services that he did for many of the King's party, lords and +Dukes, and among others he recovered a dog that was stolne from Mr. Cary +(head-keeper of the buck-hounds to the King) and preserved several horses +of the Duke of Richmond's, and his best horse he was forst to put out his +eyes and keep him for a stallion to preserve him from being carried away. +But he gone at last upon my enquiry to tell us how (he having been here +too for survey of the Ropeyard) the day's work of the Rope-makers become +settled, which pleased me very well. Being come to our Inn Mr. Coventry +and I sat, and talked till 9 or 10 a-clock and then to bed. + + + +4th. We were called up about four a-clock, and being ready went and took +a Gravesend boat, and to London by nine a-clock. By the way talking of +several businesses of the navy. So to the office, where Sir Wm. Pen (the +first time that he has been with us a great while, he having been long +sick) met us, and there we sat all the morning. My brother John I find +come to town to my house, as I sent for him, on Saturday last; so at noon +home and dined with him, and after dinner and the barber been with me I +walked out with him to my viall maker's and other places and then left +him, and I by water to Blackbury's, and there talked with him about some +masts (and by the way he tells me that Paul's is now going to be repaired +in good earnest), and so with him to his garden close by his house, where +I eat some peaches and apricots; a very pretty place. So over the water +to Westminster hall, and not finding Mrs. Lane, with whom I purposed to +be merry, I went to Jervas's and took him and his wife over the water to +their mother Palmer's (the woman that speaks in the belly, and with whom +I have two or three years ago made good sport with Mr. Mallard), thinking +because I had heard that she is a woman of that sort that I might there +have lit upon some lady of pleasure (for which God forgive me), but blest +be God there was none, nor anything that pleased me, but a poor little +house that she has set out as fine as she can, and for her singing which +she pretends to is only some old body songs and those sung abominably, +only she pretends to be able to sing both bass and treble, which she do +something like, but not what I thought formerly and expected now; nor do +her speaking in her belly take me now as it did then, but it may be that +is because I know it and see her mouth when she speaks, which should not +be. After I had spent a shilling there in wine I took boat with Jervas +and his wife and set them at Westminster, and it being late forbore Mrs. +Lane and went by water to the Old Swan by a boat, where I had good sport +with one of the young men about his travells as far as Voxhall, in +mockery, which yet the fellow answered me most prettily and traveller- +like unto my very good mirth. So home, and with my brother eat a bit of +bread and cheese, and so to bed, he with me. This day I received a +letter from my wife, which troubles me mightily, wherein she tells me how +Ashwell did give her the lie to her teeth, and that thereupon my wife +giving her a box on the eare, the other struck her again, and a deal of +stir which troubles me, and that my Lady has been told by my father or +mother something of my wife's carriage, which altogether vexes me, and I +fear I shall find a trouble of my wife when she comes home to get down +her head again, but if Ashwell goes I am resolved to have no more, but to +live poorly and low again for a good while, and save money and keep my +wife within bounds if I can, or else I shall bid Adieu to all content in +the world. So to bed, my mind somewhat disturbed at this, but yet I +shall take care, by prudence, to avoid the ill consequences which I fear, +things not being gone too far yet, and this height that my wife is come +to being occasioned from my own folly in giving her too much head +heretofore for the year past. + + + +5th. All the morning at the office, whither Deane of Woolwich came to me +and discoursed of the body of ships, which I am now going about to +understand, and then I took him to the coffee-house, where he was very +earnest against Mr. Grant's report in favour of Sir W. Petty's vessel, +even to some passion on both sides almost. So to the Exchange, and +thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to +Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by and by by agreement +we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should +meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me +of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take +notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at +Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse +her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was +very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not +adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her. +Staid pretty late, and so over with her by water, and being in a great +sweat with my towsing of her durst not go home by water, but took coach, +and at home my brother and I fell upon Des Cartes, and I perceive he has +studied him well, and I cannot find but he has minded his book, and do +love it. This evening came a letter about business from Mr. Coventry, +and with it a silver pen he promised me to carry inke in, which is very +necessary. So to prayers and to bed. + + + +6th. Up and was angry with my maid Hannah for keeping the house no +better, it being more dirty now-a-days than ever it was while my whole +family was together. So to my office, whither Mr. Coventry came and Sir +William Pen, and we sat all the morning. This day Mr. Coventry borrowed +of me my manuscript of the Navy. At noon I to the 'Change, and meeting +with Sir W. Warren, to a coffee-house, and there finished a contract with +him for the office, and so parted, and I to my cozen Mary Joyce's at a +gossiping, where much company and good cheer. There was the King's +Falconer, that lives by Paul's, and his wife, an ugly pusse, but brought +him money. He speaking of the strength of hawkes, which will strike a +fowle to the ground with that force that shall make the fowle rebound a +great way from ground, which no force of man or art can do, but it was +very pleasant to hear what reasons he and another, one Ballard, a rich +man of the same Company of Leathersellers of which the Joyces are, did +give for this. Ballard's wife, a pretty and a very well-bred woman, I +took occasion to kiss several times, and she to carve, drink, and show me +great respect. After dinner to talk and laugh. I drank no wine, but +sent for some water; the beer not being good. A fiddler was sent for, +and there one Mrs. Lurkin, a neighbour, a good, and merry poor woman, but +a very tall woman, did dance and show such tricks that made us all merry, +but above all a daughter of Mr. Brumfield's, black, but well-shaped and +modest, did dance very well, which pleased me mightily. I begun the +Duchess with her, but could not do it; but, however, I came off well +enough, and made mighty much of her, kissing and leading her home, with +her cozen Anthony and Kate Joyce (Kate being very handsome and well, that +is, handsomely dressed to-day, and I grew mighty kind and familiar with +her, and kissed her soundly, which she takes very well) to their house, +and there I left them, having in our way, though nine o'clock at night, +carried them into a puppet play in Lincolnes Inn Fields, where there was +the story of Holofernes, and other clockwork, well done. There was at +this house today Mr. Lawrence, who did give the name, it seems, to my +cozen Joyce's child, Samuel, who is a very civil gentleman, and his wife +a pretty woman, who, with Kate Joyce, were stewards of the feast to-day, +and a double share cost for a man and a woman came to 16s., which I also +would pay, though they would not by any means have had me do so. I +walked home very well contented with this afternoon's work, I thinking it +convenient to keep in with the Joyces against a bad day, if I should have +occasion to make use of them. So I walked home, and after a letter to my +wife by the post and my father, I home to supper, and after a little talk +with my brother to bed. + + + +7th. Up and to my office a little, and then to Brown's for my measuring +rule, which is made, and is certainly the best and the most commodious +for carrying in one's pocket, and most useful that ever was made, and +myself have the honour of being as it were the inventor of this form of +it. Here I staid discoursing an hour with him and then home, and thither +came Sir Fairbrother to me, and we walked a while together in the garden +and then abroad into the cittie, and then we parted for a while and I to +my Viall, which I find done and once varnished, and it will please me +very well when it is quite varnished. Thence home and to study my new +rule till my head aked cruelly. So by and by to dinner and the Doctor +and Mr. Creed came to me. The Doctor's discourse, which (though he be a +very good-natured man) is but simple, was some sport to me and Creed, +though my head akeing I took no great pleasure in it. We parted after +dinner, and I walked to Deptford and there found Sir W. Pen, and I fell +to measuring of some planks that was serving into the yard, which the +people took notice of, and the measurer himself was amused at, for I did +it much more ready than he, and I believe Sir W. Pen would be glad I +could have done less or he more. By and by he went away and I staid +walking up and down, discoursing with the officers of the yard of several +things, and so walked back again, and on my way young Bagwell and his +wife waylayd me to desire my favour about getting him a better ship, +which I shall pretend to be willing to do for them, but my mind is to +know his wife a little better. They being parted I went with Cadbury the +mast maker to view a parcel of good masts which I think it were good to +buy, and resolve to speak to the board about it. So home, and my brother +John and I up and I to my musique, and then to discourse with him, and I +find him not so thorough a philosopher, at least in Aristotle, as I took +him for, he not being able to tell me the definition of final nor which +of the 4 Qualitys belonged to each of the 4 Elements. So to prayers, and +to bed, among other things being much satisfied with my new rule. + + + +8th. Up and to my office, whither I search for Brown the mathematical +instrument maker, who now brought me a ruler for measuring timber and +other things so well done and in all things to my mind that I do set up +my trust upon it that I cannot have a better, nor any man else have so +good for this purpose, this being of my own ordering. By and by we sat +all the morning dispatching of business, and then at noon rose, and I +with Mr. Coventry down to the water-side, talking, wherein I see so much +goodness and endeavours of doing the King service, that I do more and +more admire him. It being the greatest trouble to me, he says, in the +world to see not only in the Navy, but in the greatest matters of State, +where he can lay his finger upon the soare (meaning this man's faults, +and this man's office the fault lies in), and yet dare or can not remedy +matters. Thence to the Exchange about several businesses, and so home to +dinner, and in the afternoon took my brother John and Will down to +Woolwich by water, and after being there a good while, and eating of +fruit in Sheldon's garden, we began our walk back again, I asking many +things in physiques of my brother John, to which he gives me so bad or no +answer at all, as in the regions of the ayre he told me that he knew of +no such thing, for he never read Aristotle's philosophy and Des Cartes +ownes no such thing, which vexed me to hear him say. But I shall call +him to task, and see what it is that he has studied since his going to +the University. It was late before we could get from Greenwich to London +by water, the tide being against us and almost past, so that to save time +and to be clear of anchors I landed at Wapping, and so walked home weary +enough, walking over the stones. This night Sir W. Batten and Sir J. +Minnes returned [from] Portsmouth, but I did not go see them. + + + +9th (Lord's day). Up, and leaving my brother John to go somewhere else, +I to church, and heard Mr. Mills (who is lately returned out of the +country, and it seems was fetched in by many of the parishioners, with +great state,) preach upon the authority of the ministers, upon these +words, "We are therefore embassadors of Christ." Wherein, among other +high expressions, he said, that such a learned man used to say, that if a +minister of the word and an angell should meet him together, he would +salute the minister first; which methought was a little too high. This +day I begun to make use of the silver pen (Mr. Coventry did give me) in +writing of this sermon, taking only the heads of it in Latin, which I +shall, I think, continue to do. So home and at my office reading my +vowes, and so to Sir W. Batten to dinner, being invited and sent for, and +being willing to hear how they left things at Portsmouth, which I found +but ill enough, and are mightily for a Commissioner to be at seat there +to keep the yard in order. Thence in the afternoon with my Lady Batten, +leading her through the streets by the hand to St. Dunstan's Church, hard +by us (where by Mrs. Russell's means we were set well), and heard an +excellent sermon of one Mr. Gifford, the parson there, upon "Remember +Lot's wife." So from thence walked back to Mrs. Russell's, and there +drank and sat talking a great while. Among other things talked of young +Dawes that married the great fortune, who it seems has a Baronet's patent +given him, and is now Sir Thos. Dawes, and a very fine bred man they say +he is. Thence home, and my brother being abroad I walked to my uncle +Wight's and there staid, though with little pleasure, and supped, there +being the husband of Mrs. Anne Wight, who it seems is lately married to +one Mr. Bentley, a Norwich factor. Home, and staid up a good while +examining Will in his Latin below, and my brother along with him in his +Greeke, and so to prayers and to bed. This afternoon I was amused at the +tune set to the Psalm by the Clerke of the parish, and thought at first +that he was out, but I find him to be a good songster, and the parish +could sing it very well, and was a good tune. But I wonder that there +should be a tune in the Psalms that I never heard of. + + + +10th. Up, though not so early this summer as I did all the last, for +which I am sorry, and though late am resolved to get up betimes before +the season of rising be quite past. To my office to fit myself to wait +on the Duke this day. By and by by water to White Hall, and so to St. +James's, and anon called into the Duke's chamber, and being dressed we +were all as usual taken in with him and discoursed of our matters, and +that being done, he walked, and I in the company with him, to White Hall, +and there he took barge for Woolwich, and, I up to the Committee of +Tangier, where my Lord Sandwich, pay Lord Peterborough, (whom I have not +seen before since his coming back,) Sir W. Compton, and Mr. Povy. Our +discourse about supplying my Lord Teviott with money, wherein I am sorry +to see, though they do not care for him, yet they are willing to let him +for civility and compliment only have money almost without expecting any +account of it; but by this means, he being such a cunning fellow as he +is, the King is like to pay dear for our courtiers' ceremony. Thence by +coach with my Lords Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's +house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the +Italian buildings, with fine cuts; and also my Lord Peterborough's bowes +and arrows, of which he is a great lover, we sat down to dinner, my Lady +coming down to dinner also, and there being Mr. Williamson, that belongs +to Sir H. Bennet, whom I find a pretty understanding and accomplished +man, but a little conceited. After dinner I took leave and went to +Greatorex's, whom I found in his garden, and set him to work upon my +ruler, to engrave an almanac and other things upon the brasses of it, +which a little before night he did, but the latter part he slubbered +over, that I must get him to do it over better, or else I shall not fancy +my rule, which is such a folly that I am come to now, that whereas before +my delight was in multitude of books, and spending money in that and +buying alway of other things, now that I am become a better husband, and +have left off buying, now my delight is in the neatness of everything, +and so cannot be pleased with anything unless it be very neat, which is a +strange folly. Hither came W. Howe about business, and he and I had a +great deal of discourse about my Lord Sandwich, and I find by him that my +Lord do dote upon one of the daughters of Mrs. [Becke] where he lies, so +that he spends his time and money upon her. He tells me she is a woman +of a very bad fame and very impudent, and has told my Lord so, yet for +all that my Lord do spend all his evenings with her, though he be at +court in the day time, and that the world do take notice of it, and that +Pickering is only there as a blind, that the world may think that my Lord +spends his time with him when he do worse, and that hence it is that my +Lord has no more mind to go into the country than he has. In fine, I +perceive my Lord is dabbling with this wench, for which I am sorry, +though I do not wonder at it, being a man amorous enough, and now begins +to allow himself the liberty that he says every body else at Court takes. +Here I am told that my Lord Bristoll is either fled or concealed himself; +having been sent for to the King, it is believed to be sent to the Tower, +but he is gone out of the way. Yesterday, I am told also, that Sir J. +Lenthall, in Southwarke, did apprehend about one hundred Quakers, and +other such people, and hath sent some of them to the gaole at Kingston, +it being now the time of the Assizes. Hence home and examined a piece +of, Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed. This +evening I had a letter from my father that says that my wife will come to +town this week, at which I wonder that she should come to town without my +knowing more of it. But I find they have lived very ill together since +she went, and I must use all the brains I have to bring her to any good +when she do come home, which I fear will be hard to do, and do much +disgust me the thoughts of it. + + + +11th. Up and to my office, whither, by and by, my brother Tom came, and +I did soundly rattle him for his neglecting to see and please the Joyces +as he has of late done. I confess I do fear that he do not understand +his business, nor will do any good in his trade, though he tells me that +he do please every body and that he gets money, but I shall not believe +it till I see a state of his accounts, which I have ordered him to bring +me before he sees me any more. We met and sat at the office all the +morning, and at noon I to the 'Change, where I met Dr. Pierce, who tells +me that the King comes to towne this day, from Tunbridge, to stay a day +or two, and then fetch the Queen from thence, who he says is grown a very +debonnaire lady, and now hugs him, and meets him gallopping upon the +road, and all the actions of a fond and pleasant lady that can be, that +he believes has a chat now and then of Mrs. Stewart, but that there is no +great danger of her, she being only an innocent, young, raw girl; but my +Lady Castlemaine, who rules the King in matters of state, and do what she +list with him, he believes is now falling quite out of favour. After the +Queen is come back she goes to the Bath; and so to Oxford, where great +entertainments are making for her. This day I am told that my Lord +Bristoll hath warrants issued out against him, to have carried him to the +Tower; but he is fled away, or hid himself. So much the Chancellor hath +got the better of him. Upon the 'Change my brother, and Will bring me +word that Madam Turner would come and dine with me to-day, so I hasted +home and found her and Mrs. Morrice there (The. Joyce being gone into the +country), which is the reason of the mother rambling. I got a dinner for +them, and after dinner my uncle Thomas and aunt Bell came and saw me, and +I made them almost foxed with wine till they were very kind (but I did +not carry them up to my ladies). So they went away, and so my two ladies +and I in Mrs. Turner's coach to Mr. Povy's, who being not within, we went +in and there shewed Mrs. Turner his perspective and volary, + + [A large birdcage, in which the birds can fly about; French + 'voliere'. Ben Jonson uses the word volary.] + +and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat +thing. Thence to the Temple and by water to Westminster; and there +Morrice and I went to Sir R. Ling's to have fetched a niece of his, but +she was not within, and so we went to boat again and then down to the +bridge, and there tried to find a sister of Mrs. Morrice's, but she was +not within neither, and so we went through bridge, and I carried them on +board the King's pleasure-boat, all the way reading in a book of Receipts +of making fine meats and sweetmeats, among others to make my own sweet +water, which made us good sport. So I landed them at Greenwich, and +there to a garden, and gave them fruit and wine, and so to boat again, +and finally, in the cool of the evening, to Lyon Kee, + + [Lion Key, Lower Thames Street, where the famous Duchess of Suffolk + in the time of Bishop Gardiner's persecution took boat for the + continent. James, Duke of York, also left the country from this + same place on the night of April 20th, 1648, when he escaped from + St. James's Palace.] + +the tide against us, and so landed and walked to the Bridge, and there +took a coach by chance passing by, and so I saw them home, and there eat +some cold venison with them, and drunk and bade them good night, having +been mighty merry with them, and I think it is not amiss to preserve, +though it cost me a little, such a friend as Mrs. Turner. So home and to +bed, my head running upon what to do to-morrow to fit things against my +wife's coming, as to buy a bedstead, because my brother John is here, and +I have now no more beds than are used. + + + +12th. A little to my office, to put down my yesterday's journall, and so +abroad to buy a bedstead and do other things. So home again, and having +put up the bedstead and done other things in order to my wife's coming, +I went out to several places and to Mrs. Turner's, she inviting me last +night, and there dined; with her and Madam Morrice and a stranger we were +very merry and had a fine dinner, and thence I took leave and to White +Hall, where my Lords Sandwich, Peterborough, and others made a Tangier +Committee; spent the afternoon in reading and ordering with a great deal +of alteration, and yet methinks never a whit the better, of a letter +drawn by Creed to my Lord Rutherford. The Lords being against anything +that looked to be rough, though it was in matter of money and accounts, +wherein their courtship may cost the King dear. Only I do see by them, +that speaking in matters distasteful to him that we write to, it is best +to do it in the plainest way and without ambages or reasoning, but only +say matters of fact, and leave the party to collect your meaning. Thence +by water to my brother's, and there I hear my wife is come and gone home, +and my father is come to town also, at which I wondered. But I discern +it is to give my brother advice about his business, and it may be to +pacify me about the differences that have been between my wife and him +and my mother at her late being with them. Though by and by he coming to +Mr. Holden's (where I was buying a hat) he took no notice to me of +anything. I talked to him a little while and left him to lie at the end +of the town, and I home, where methought I found my wife strange, not +knowing, I believe, in what temper she could expect me to be in, but I +fell to kind words, and so we were very kind, only she could not forbear +telling me how she had been used by them and her mayde, Ashwell, in the +country, but I find it will be best not to examine it, for I doubt she's +in fault too, and therefore I seek to put it off from my hearing, and so +to bed and there entertained her with great content, and so to sleep. + + + +13th. Lay long in bed with my wife talking of family matters, and so up +and to the office, where we sat all the' morning, and then home to +dinner, and after dinner my wife and I to talk again about getting of a +couple of good mayds and to part with Ashwell, which troubles me for her +father's sake, though I shall be glad to have the charge taken away of +keeping a woman. Thence a little to the office, and so abroad with my +wife by water to White Hall, and there at my Lord's lodgings met my Lady +Jemimah, with whom we staid a good while. Thence to Mrs. Hunt's, where I +left my wife, and I to walk a little in St. James's Park, while Mrs. +Harper might come home, with whom we came to speak about her kinswoman +Jane Gentleman to come and live with us as a chamber mayde, and there met +with Mr. Hoole my old acquaintance of Magdalen, and walked with him an +hour in the Parke, discoursing chiefly of Sir Samuel Morland, whose lady +is gone into France. It seems he buys ground and a farm in the country, +and lays out money upon building, and God knows what! so that most of the +money he sold his pension of L500 per annum for, to Sir Arthur Slingsby, +is believed is gone. It seems he hath very great promises from the King, +and Hoole hath seen some of the King's letters, under his own hand, to +Morland, promising him great things (and among others, the order of the +Garter, as Sir Samuel says); but his lady thought it below her to ask any +thing at the King's first coming, believing the King would do it of +himself, when as Hoole do really think if he had asked to be Secretary of +State at the King's first coming, he might have had it. And the other +day at her going into France, she did speak largely to the King herself, +how her husband hath failed of what his Majesty had promised, and she was +sure intended him; and the King did promise still, as he is a King and a +gentleman, to be as good as his word in a little time, to a tittle: but I +never believe it. Here in the Park I met with Mr. Coventry, where he +sent for a letter he had newly writ to me, wherein he had enclosed one +from Commissioner Pett complaining of his being defeated in his attempt +to suspend two pursers, wherein the manner of his doing it, and complaint +of our seeing him (contrary to our promises the other day), deserted, did +make us laugh mightily, and was good sport to think how awkwardly he goes +about a thing that he has no courage of his own nor mind to do. Mr. +Coventry answered it very handsomely, but I perceive Pett has left off +his corresponding with me any more. Thence to fetch my wife from Mrs. +Hunt's, where now he was come in, and we eat and drunk, and so away +(their child being at home, a very lively, but not pretty at all), by +water to Mrs. Turner's, and there made a short visit, and so home by +coach, and after supper to prayers and to bed, and before going to bed +Ashwell began to make her complaint, and by her I do perceive that she +has received most base usage from my wife, which my wife sillily denies, +but it is impossible the wench could invent words and matter so +particularly, against which my wife has nothing to say but flatly to +deny, which I am sorry to see, and blows to have past, and high words +even at Hinchinbrooke House among my Lady's people, of which I am +mightily ashamed. I said nothing to either of them, but let them talk +till she was gone and left us abed, and then I told my wife my mind with +great sobriety of grief, and so to sleep. + + + +14th. Awake, and to chide my wife again, and I find that my wife has got +too great head to be brought down soon, nor is it possible with any +convenience to keep Ashwell longer, my wife is so set and convinced, as +she was in Sarah, to make her appear a Lyer in every small thing that we +shall have no peace while she stays. So I up and to my office doing +several businesses in my study, and so home to dinner. The time having +outslipt me and my stomach, it being past, two a-clock, and yet before we +could sit down to dinner Mrs. Harper and her cousin Jane came, and we +treated and discoursed long about her coming to my wife for a chamber +mayd, and I think she will do well. So they went away expecting notice +when she shall come, and so we sat down to dinner at four a-clock almost, +and then I walked forth to my brother's, where I found my father very +discontented, and has no mind to come to my house, and would have begun +some of the differences between my wife and him, but I desired to hear +none of them, and am sorry at my folly in forcing it and theirs in not +telling me of it at the beginning, and therefore am resolved to make the +best of a bad market, and to bring my wife to herself again as soon and +as well as I can. So we parted very kindly, and he will dine with me to- +morrow or next day. Thence walked home, doing several errands by the +way, and at home took my wife to visit Sir W. Pen, who is still lame, and +after an hour with him went home and supped, and with great content to +bed. + + + +15th. Lay pretty long in bed, being a little troubled with some pain got +by wind and cold, and so up with good peace of mind, hoping that my wife +will mind her house and servants, and so to the office, and being too +soon to sit walked to my viail, which is well nigh done, and I believe I +may have it home to my mind next week. So back to my office, and there +we sat all the morning, I till 2 o'clock before I could go to dinner +again. After dinner walked forth to my instrument maker, and there had +my rule he made me lay now so perfected, that I think in all points I +have never need or desire a better, or think that any man yet had one so +good in all the several points of it for my use. So by water down to +Deptford, taking into my boat with me Mr. Palmer, one whom I knew and his +wife when I was first married, being an acquaintance of my wife's and her +friends lodging at Charing Cross during our differences. He joyed me in +my condition, and himself it seems is forced to follow the law in a +common ordinary way, but seems to do well, and is a sober man, enough by +his discourse. He landed with me at Deptford, where he saw by the +officers' respect to me a piece of my command, and took notice of it, +though God knows I hope I shall not be elated with that, but rather +desire to be known for serving the King well, and doing my duty. He gone +I walked up and down the yard a while discoursing with the officers, and +so by water home meditating on my new Rule with great pleasure. So to my +office, and there by candle light doing business, and so home to supper +and to bed. + + + +16th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife to church, and finding her +desirous to go to church, I did suspect her meeting of Pembleton, but he +was not there, and so I thought my jealousy in vain, and treat the sermon +with great quiet. And home to dinner very pleasant, only some angry, +notwithstanding my wife could not forbear to give Ashwell, and after +dinner to church again, and there, looking up and down, I found Pembleton +to stand in the isle against us, he coming too late to get a pew. Which, +Lord! into what a sweat did it put me! I do not think my wife did see +him, which did a little satisfy me. But it makes me mad to see of what a +jealous temper I am and cannot helpe it, though let him do what he can I +do not see, as I am going to reduce my family, what hurt he can do me, +there being no more occasion now for my wife to learn of him. Here +preached a confident young coxcomb. So home, and I staid a while with +Sir J. Minnes, at Mrs. Turner's, hearing his parrat talk, laugh, and +crow, which it do to admiration. So home and with my wife to see Sir W. +Pen, and thence to my uncle Wight, and took him at supper and sat down, +where methinks my uncle is more kind than he used to be both to me now, +and my father tell me to him also, which I am glad at. After supper +home, it being extraordinary dark, and by chance a lanthorn came by, and +so we hired it to light us home, otherwise were we no sooner within doors +but a great showre fell that had doused us cruelly if we had not been +within, it being as dark as pitch. So to prayers and to bed. + + + +17th. Up, and then fell into discourse, my wife and I to Ashwell, and +much against my will I am fain to express a willingness to Ashwell that +she should go from us, and yet in my mind I am glad of it, to ease me of +the charge. So she is to go to her father this day. And leaving my wife +and her talking highly, I went away by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir +W. Batten to St. James's, and there attended of course the Duke. And so +to White Hall, where I met Mr. Moore, and he tells me with great sorrow +of my lord's being debauched he fears by this woman at Chelsey, which I +am troubled at, and resolve to speak to him of it if I can seasonably. +Thence home, where I dined, and after dinner comes our old mayde Susan to +look for a gorgett that she says she has lost by leaving it here, and by +many circumstances it being clear to me that Hannah, our present cook- +mayde, not only has it, but had it on upon her necke when Susan came in, +and shifted it off presently upon her coming in, I did charge her so home +with it (having a mind to have her gone from us), that in a huff she told +us she would be gone to-night if I would pay her her wages, which I was +glad and my wife of, and so fetched her her wages, and though I am +doubtful that she may convey some things away with her clothes, my wife +searching them, yet we are glad of her being so gone, and so she went +away in a quarter of an hour's time. Being much amused at this to have +never a maid but Ashwell, that we do not intend to keep, nor a boy, and +my wife and I being left for an hour, till my brother came in, alone in +the house, I grew very melancholy, and so my brother being come in I went +forth to Mrs. Holden's, to whom I formerly spoke about a girle to come to +me instead of a boy, and the like I did to Mrs. Standing and also to my +brother Tom, whom I found at an alehouse in Popinjay ally drinking, and I +standing with him at the gate of the ally, Ashwell came by, and so I left +Tom and went almost home with her, talking of her going away. I find +that she is willing to go, and told her (though behind my back my wife +has told her that it was more my desire than hers that she should go, +which was not well), that seeing my wife and she could not agree I did +choose rather (was she my sister) have her gone, it would be better for +us and for her too. To which she willing agreed, and will not tell me +anything but that she do believe that my wife would have some body there +that might not be so liable to give me information of things as she takes +her to be. But, however, I must later to prevent all that. I parted +with her near home, agreeing to take no notice of my coming along with +her, and so by and by came home after her. Where I find a sad distracted +house, which troubles me. However, to supper and prayers and to bed. +And while we were getting to bed my wife began to discourse to her, and +plainly asked whether she had got a place or no. And the other answered +that she could go if we would to one of our own office, to which we +agreed if she would. She thereupon said no; she would not go to any but +where she might teach children, because of keeping herself in use of what +things she had earnt, which she do not here nor will there, but only +dressing. By which I perceive the wench is cunning, but one very fit for +such a place, and accomplished to be woman to any lady in the land. So +quietly to sleep, it being a cold night. But till my house is settled, +I do not see that I can mind my business of the office, which grieves me +to the heart. But I hope all will over in a little time, and I hope to +the best. This day at Mrs. Holden's I found my new low crowned beaver +according to the present fashion made, and will be sent home to-morrow. + + + +18th. Up and to my office, where we sat all the morning. And at noon +home, and my father came and dined with me, Susan being come and helped +my wife to dress dinner. After dinner my father and I talked about our +country-matters, and in fine I find that he thinks L50 per ann. will go +near to keep them all, which I am glad of. He having taken his leave of +me and my wife without any mention of the differences between them and my +wife in the country, I went forth to several places about businesses, and +so home again, and after prayers to bed. + + + +19th. Up betimes, and my wife up and about the house, Susan beginning to +have her drunken tricks, and put us in mind of her old faults and folly +and distractednesse, which we had forgot, so that I became mightily +troubled with her. This morning came my joyners to new lay the floors, +and begun with the dining room. I out and see my viall again, and it is +very well, and to Mr. Hollyard, and took some pills of him and a note +under his hand to drink wine with my beere, without which I was obliged, +by my private vowe, to drink none a good while, and have strictly +observed it, and by my drinking of small beere and not eating, I am so +mightily troubled with wind, that I know not what to do almost. Thence +to White Hall, and there met Mr. Moore, and fell a-talking about my +Lord's folly at Chelsey, and it was our discourse by water to London and +to the great coffee house against the Exchange, where we sat a good while +talking; and I find that my lord is wholly given up to this wench, who it +seems has been reputed a common strumpett. I have little encouragement +from Mr. Moore to meddle with it to tell my Lord, for fear it may do him +no good, but me hurt. Thence homewards, taking leave of him, and met Tom +Marsh, my old acquaintance at Westminster, who talks mightily of the +honour of his place, being Clerke Assistant to the Clerke of the House of +Commons, and I take him to be a coxcombe, and so did give him half a pint +of wine, but drink none myself, and so got shut of him. So home, and +there found my wife almost mad with Susan's tricks, so as she is forced +to let her go and leave the house all in dirt and the clothes all wet, +and gets Goody Taylour to do the business for her till another comes. +Here came Will Howe, and he and I alone in my chamber talking of my Lord, +who drives me out of love to my Lord to tell my Lord of the matter we +discoursed of, which tend so much to the ruin of his state, and so I +resolved to take a good heart and do whatever comes of it. He gone, we +sat down and eat a bit of dinner fetched from the cooke's, and so up +again and to my joyners, who will make my floors very handsome. By and +by comes in Pembleton, which begun to make me sweat, but I did give him +so little countenance, and declared at one word against dancing any more, +and bid him a short (God be with you) myself, and so he took as short a +leave of my wife and so went away, and I think without any time of +receiving any great satisfaction from my wife or invitation to come +again. To my office till it was dark doing business, and so home by +candle light to make up my accounts for my Lord and Mr. Moore. By and by +comes Mr. Moore to me, and staid a good while with me making up his +accounts and mine, and we did not come to any end therein for want of his +papers, and so put it off to another time. He supped with me in all my +dirt and disorder, and so went away and we to bed. I discoursed with him +a great while about my speaking to my Lord of his business, and I +apprehend from him that it is likely to prove perhaps of bad effect to me +and no good to him, and therefore I shall even let it alone and let God +do his will, at least till my Lord is in the country, and then we shall +see whether he resolves to come to Chelsey again or no, and so order the +stopping of him therein if we can. + + + +20th. Up betimes and to my office (having first been angry with my +brother John, and in the heat of my sudden passion called him Asse and +coxcomb, for which I am sorry, it being but for leaving the key of his +chamber with a spring lock within side of his door), and there we sat all +the morning, and at noon dined at home, and there found a little girl, +which she told my wife her name was Jinny, by which name we shall call +her. I think a good likely girl, and a parish child of St. Bride's, of +honest parentage, and recommended by the churchwarden. After dinner +among my joyners laying my floors, which please me well, and so to my +office, and we sat this afternoon upon an extraordinary business of +victualling. In the evening came Commissioner Pett, who fell foule on +mee for my carriage to him at Chatham, wherein, after protestation of my +love and good meaning to him, he was quiet; but I doubt he will not be +able to do the service there that any other man of his ability would. +Home in the evening my viall (and lute new strung being brought home +too), and I would have paid Mr. Hunt for it, but he did not come along +with it himself, which I expected and was angry for it, so much is it +against my nature to owe anything to any body. This evening the girle +that was brought to me to-day for so good a one, being cleansed of lice +this day by my wife, and good, new clothes put on her back, she run away +from Goody Taylour that was shewing her the way to the bakehouse, and we +heard no more of her. So to supper and to bed. + + + +21st. Up betimes and among my joyners, and to my office, where the +joyners are also laying mouldings in the inside of my closet. Then +abroad and by water to White Hall, and there got Sir G. Carteret to sign +me my last quarter's bills for my wages, and meeting with Mr. Creed he +told me how my Lord Teviott hath received another attaque from Guyland at +Tangier with 10,000 men, and at last, as is said, is come, after a +personal treaty with him, to a good understanding and peace with him. +Thence to my brother's, and there told him how my girl has served us +which he sent me, and directed him to get my clothes again, and get the +girl whipped. So to other places by the way about small businesses, and +so home, and after looking over all my workmen, I went by water and land +to Deptford, and there found by appointment Sir W. Batten, but he was got +to Mr. Waith's to dinner, where I dined with him, a good dinner and good +discourse, and his wife, I believe, a good woman. We fell in discourse +of Captain Cocke, and how his lady has lost all her fine linen almost, +but besides that they say she gives out she had L3000 worth of linen, +which we all laugh at, and Sir W. Batten (who I perceive is not so fond +of the Captain as he used to be, and less of her, from her slight +receiving of him and his lady it seems once) told me how he should say +that he see he must spend L700 per ann. get it how he could, which was a +high speech, and by all men's discover, his estate not good enough to +spend so much. After dinner altered our design to go to Woolwich, and +put it off to to-morrow morning, and so went all to Greenwich (Mrs. Waith +excepted, who went thither, but not to the same house with us, but to her +father's, that lives there), to the musique-house, where we had paltry +musique, till the master organist came, whom by discourse I afterwards +knew, having employed him for my Lord Sandwich, to prick out something +(his name Arundell), and he did give me a fine voluntary or two, and so +home by water, and at home I find my girl that run away brought by a +bedel of St. Bride's Parish, and stripped her and sent her away, and a +newe one come, of Griffin's helping to, which I think will prove a pretty +girl. Her name, Susan, and so to supper after having this evening paid +Mr. Hunt L3 for my viall (besides the carving which I paid this day 10s. +for to the carver), and he tells me that I may, without flattery, say, I +have as good a Theorbo viall and viallin as is in England. So to bed. + + + +22nd. Up by four o'clock to go with Sir W. Batten to Woolwich and Sir +J. Minnes, which we did, though not before 6 or 7 by their laying a-bed. +Our business was to survey the new wharf building there, in order to the +giving more to him that do it (Mr. Randall) than contracted for, but I +see no reason for it, though it be well done, yet no better than +contracted to be. Here we eat and drank at the Clerke of the Cheques, +and in taking water at the Tower gate, we drank a cup of strong water, +which I did out of pure conscience to my health, and I think is not +excepted by my oaths, but it is a thing I shall not do again, hoping to +have no such occasion. After breakfast Mr. Castle and I walked to +Greenwich, and in our way met some gypsys, who would needs tell me my +fortune, and I suffered one of them, who told me many things common as +others do, but bade me beware of a John and a Thomas, for they did seek +to do me hurt, and that somebody should be with me this day se'nnight to +borrow money of me, but I should lend him none. She got ninepence of me. +And so I left them and to Greenwich and so to Deptford, where the two +knights were come, and thence home by water, where I find my closet done +at my office to my mind and work gone well on at home; and Ashwell gone +abroad to her father, my wife having spoken plainly to her. After dinner +to my office, getting my closet made clean and setting some papers in +order, and so in the evening home and to bed. This day Sir W. Batten +tells me that Mr. Newburne (of whom the nickname came up among us forarse +Tom Newburne) is dead of eating cowcumbers, of which, the other day, I +heard another, I think Sir Nicholas Crisp's son. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). Up and to church without my wife, she being all +dirty, as my house is. God forgive me, I looked about to see if I could +spy Pembleton, but I could not, which did please me not a little. Home +to dinner, and then to walk up and down in my house with my wife, +discoursing of our family matters, and I hope, after all my troubles of +mind and jealousy, we shall live happily still. To church again, and so +home to my wife; and with her read "Iter Boreale," a poem, made just at +the King's coming home; but I never read it before, and now like it +pretty well, but not so as it was cried up. So to supper. No pleasure +or discourse with Ashwell, with whom for her neglect and unconcernment to +do any thing in this time of dirt and trouble in the house, but gadding +abroad as she has been all this afternoon, I know not whither. After +supper to prayers and to bed, having been, by a sudden letter coming to +me from Mr. Coventry, been with Sir W. Pen, to discourse with him about +sending 500 soldiers into Ireland. I doubt matters do not go very right +there. + + + +24th. Up very early, and my joyners came to work. I to Mr. Moore; from +him came back home again, and drew up an account to my Lord, and that +being done met him at my Lord Sandwich's, where I was a good while alone +with my Lord; and I perceive he confides in me and loves me as he uses to +do, and tells me his condition, which is now very well all I fear is that +he will not live within compass, for I am told this morning of strange +dotages of his upon the slut at Chelsea, even in the presence of his +daughter, my Lady Jem, and Mrs. Ferrets, who took notice of it. There +come to him this morning his prints of the river Tagus and the City of +Lisbon, which he measured with his own hand, and printed by command of +the King. My Lord pleases himself with it, but methinks it ought to have +been better done than by jobing. Besides I put him upon having some took +off upon white sattin, which he ordered presently. I offered my Lord my +accounts, and did give him up his old bond for L500 and took a new one of +him for L700, which I am by lending him more money to make up: and I am +glad of it. My Lord would have had me dine with him, but I had a mind to +go home to my workmen, and so took a kind good bye of him, and so with +Creed to St. James's, and, missing Mr. Coventry, walked to the New +Exchange, and there drank some whey, and so I by water home, and found my +closett at my office made very clean and neat to my mind mightily, and +home to dinner, and then to my office to brush my books, and put them and +my papers in order again, and all the afternoon till late at night doing +business there, and so home to supper, and then to work in my chamber, +making matters of this day's accounts clear in my books, they being a +little extraordinary, and so being very late I put myself to bed, the +rest being long ago gone. + + + +25th. Up very early and removed the things out of my chamber into the +dining room, it being to be new floored this day. So the workmen being +come and falling to work there, I to the office, and thence down to +Lymehouse to Phin. Pett's about masts, and so back to the office, where +we sat; and being rose, and Mr. Coventry being gone, taking his leave, +for that he is to go to the Bath with the Duke to-morrow, I to the +'Change and there spoke with several persons, and lastly with Sir W. +Warren, and with him to a Coffee House, and there sat two hours talking +of office business and Mr. Wood's knavery, which I verily believe, and +lastly he tells me that he hears that Captain Cocke is like to become a +principal officer, either a Controller or a Surveyor, at which I am not +sorry so either of the other may be gone, and I think it probable enough +that it may be so. So home at 2 o'clock, and there I found Ashwell gone, +and her wages come to 50s., and my wife, by a mistake from me, did give +her 20s. more; but I am glad that she is gone and the charge saved. +After dinner among my joyners, and with them till dark night, and this +night they made an end of all; and so having paid them 40s. for their six +days' work, I am glad they have ended and are gone, for I am weary and my +wife too of this dirt. My wife growing peevish at night, being weary, +and I a little vexed to see that she do not retain things in her memory +that belong to the house as she ought and I myself do, I went out in a +little seeming discontent to the office, and after being there a while, +home to supper and to bed. To-morrow they say the King and the Duke set +out for the Bath. This noon going to the Exchange, I met a fine fellow +with trumpets before him in Leadenhall-street, and upon enquiry I find +that he is the clerk of the City Market; and three or four men carried +each of them an arrow of a pound weight in their hands. It seems this +Lord Mayor begins again an old custome, that upon the three first days of +Bartholomew Fayre, the first, there is a match of wrestling, which was +done, and the Lord Mayor there and Aldermen in Moorefields yesterday: +to-day, shooting: and to-morrow, hunting. And this officer of course is +to perform this ceremony of riding through the city, I think to proclaim +or challenge any to shoot. It seems that the people of the fayre cry out +upon it as a great hindrance to them. + + + +26th. Up, and after doing something in order to the putting of my house +in order now the joynery is done, I went by water to White Hall, where +the Court full of waggons and horses, the King and Court going this day +out towards the Bath, and I to St. James's, where I spent an hour or more +talking of many things to my great content with Mr. Coventry in his +chamber, he being ready to set forth too with the Duke to-day, and so +left him, and I meeting Mr. Gauden, with him to our offices and in Sir W. +Pen's chamber did discourse by a meeting on purpose with Mr. Waith about +the victualling business and came to some issue in it. So home to +dinner, and Mr. Moore came and dined with me, and after dinner I paid him +some money which evened all reckonings between him and me to this day, +and for my Lord also I paid him some money, so that now my Lord owes me, +for which I have his bond, just L700. After long discourse with him of +the fitness of his giving me a receipt for this money, which I for my +security think necessary and he otherwise do not think so, at last, after +being a little angry, and I resolving not to let go my money without it, +he did give me one. Thence I took him, and he and I took a pleasant walk +to Deptford and back again, I doing much business there. He went home +and I home also, indoors to supper, being very glad to see my house begin +to look like itself again, hoping after this is over not to be in any +dirt a great while again, but it is very handsome, and will be more when +the floors come to be of one colour. So weary to bed. Pleased this day +to see Captain Hickes come to me with a list of all the officers of +Deptford Yard, wherein he, being a high old Cavalier, do give me an +account of every one of them to their reproach in all respects, and +discovers many of their knaverys; and tells me, and so I thank God I hear +every where, that my name is up for a good husband for the King, and a +good man, for which I bless God; and that he did this by particular +direction of Mr. Coventry. + + + +27th. Up, after much pleasant talke with my wife and a little that vexes +me, for I see that she is confirmed in it that all that I do is by +design, and that my very keeping of the house in dirt, and the doing of +this and any thing else in the house, is but to find her employment to +keep her within and from minding of her pleasure, in which, though I am +sorry to see she minds it, is true enough in a great degree. To my +office, and there we sat and despatched much business. Home and dined +with my wife well, and then up and made clean my closet of books, and had +my chamber a third time made very clean, so that it is now in a very fine +condition. Thence down to see some good plank in the river with Sir W. +Batten and back again, it being a very cold day and a cold wind. Home +again, and after seeing Sir W. Pen, to my office, and there till late +doing of business, being mightily encouraged by every body that I meet +withal upon the 'Change and every where else, that I am taken notice of +for a man that do the King's business wholly and well. For which the +Lord be praised, for I know no honour I desire more. Home to supper, +where I find my house very clean from top to bottom again to my great +content. I found a feacho (as he calls it) of fine sugar and a case of +orange-flower water come from Mr. Cocke, of Lisbon, the fruits of my last +year's service to him, which I did in great justice to the man, a perfect +stranger. He sends it me desiring that I would not let Sir J. Minnes +know it, from whom he expected to have found the service done that he had +from me, from whom he could expect nothing, and the other failed him, and +would have done I am sure to this day had not I brought it to some end. +After supper to bed. + + + +28th. At the office betimes (it being cold all night and this morning, +and a very great frost they say abroad, which is much, having had no +summer at all almost), where we sat, and in the afternoon also about +settling the establishment of the number of men borne on ships, &c., till +the evening, and after that in my closet till late, and quite tired with +business, home to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Abroad with my wife by water to Westminster, and there left her at +my Lord's lodgings, and I to Jervas the barber's, and there was trimmed, +and did deliver back a periwigg, which he brought by my desire the other +day to show me, having some thoughts, though no great desire or +resolution yet to wear one, and so I put it off for a while. Thence to +my wife, and calling at both the Exchanges, buying stockings for her and +myself, and also at Leadenhall, where she and I, it being candlelight, +bought meat for to-morrow, having never a mayde to do it, and I myself +bought, while my wife was gone to another shop, a leg of beef, a good +one, for six pense, and my wife says is worth my money. So walked home +with a woman carrying our things. I am mightily displeased at a letter +Tom sent me last night, to borrow L20 more of me, and yet gives me no +account, as I have long desired, how matters stand with him in the world. +I am troubled also to see how, contrary to my expectation, my brother +John neither is the scholler nor minds his studies as I thought would +have done, but loiters away his time, so that I must send him soon to +Cambridge again. + + + +31st. Up and to my office all the morning, where Sir W. Batten and Sir +J. Minnes did pay the short allowance money to the East India companies, +and by the assistance of the City Marshall and his men, did lay hold of +two or three of the chief of the companies that were in the mutiny the +other day, and sent them to prison. This noon came Jane Gentleman to +serve my wife as her chamber mayde. I wish she may prove well. So ends +this month, with my mind pretty well in quiett, and in good disposition +of health since my drinking at home of a little wine with my beer; but no +where else do I drink any wine at all. The King and Queen and the Court +at the Bath, my Lord Sandwich in the country newly gone. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And so to bed and there entertained her with great content +Apprehend about one hundred Quakers +Being cleansed of lice this day by my wife +Conceited, but that's no matter to me +Fear it may do him no good, but me hurt +Fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off +He having made good promises, though I fear his performance +My wife has got too great head to be brought down soon +So much is it against my nature to owe anything to any body +Sporting in my fancy with the Queen +Things being dear and little attendance to be had we went away +Towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all. . . . + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v26 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp27g10.zip b/old/sp27g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d17a8a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp27g10.zip |