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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER + 1663 + + +Sept. 1st. Up pretty betimes, and after a little at my viall to my +office, where we sat all the morning, and I got my bill among others for +my carved work (which I expected to have paid for myself) signed at the +table, and hope to get the money back again, though if the rest had not +got it paid by the King, I never intended nor did desire to have him pay +for my vanity. In the evening my brother John coming to me to complain +that my wife seems to be discontented at his being here, and shows him +great disrespect; so I took and walked with him in the garden, and +discoursed long with him about my affairs, and how imprudent it is for my +father and mother and him to take exceptions without great cause at my +wife, considering how much it concerns them to keep her their friend and +for my peace; not that I would ever be led by her to forget or desert +them in the main, but yet she deserves to be pleased and complied with a +little, considering the manner of life that I keep her to, and how +convenient it were for me to have Brampton for her to be sent to when I +have a mind or occasion to go abroad to Portsmouth or elsewhere. So +directed him how to behave himself to her, and gave him other counsel; +and so to my office, where late. + + + +2nd. Up betimes and to my office, and thence with Sir J. Minnes by coach +to White Hall, where met us Sir W. Batten, and there staid by the Council +Chamber till the Lords called us in, being appointed four days ago to +attend them with an account of the riott among the seamen the other day, +when Sir J. Minnes did as like a coxcomb as ever I saw any man speak in +my life, and so we were dismissed, they making nothing almost of the +matter. We staid long without, till by and by my Lord Mayor comes, who +also was commanded to be there, and he having, we not being within with +him, an admonition from the Lords to take better care of preserving the +peace, we joyned with him, and the Lords having commanded Sir J. Minnes +to prosecute the fellows for the riott, we rode along with my Lord Mayor +in his coach to the Sessions House in the Old Bayley, where the Sessions +are now sitting. Here I heard two or three ordinary tryalls, among +others one (which, they say, is very common now-a-days, and therefore in +my now taking of mayds I resolve to look to have some body to answer for +them) a woman that went and was indicted by four names for entering +herself a cookemayde to a gentleman that prosecuted her there, and after +3 days run away with a silver tankard, a porringer of silver, and a +couple of spoons, and being now found is found guilty, and likely will be +hanged. By and by up to dinner with my Lord Mayor and the Aldermen, and +a very great dinner and most excellent venison, but it almost made me +sick by not daring to drink wine. After dinner into a withdrawing room; +and there we talked, among other things, of the Lord Mayor's sword. They +tell me this sword, they believe, is at least a hundred or two hundred +years old; and another that he hath, which is called the Black Sword, +which the Lord Mayor wears when he mournes, but properly is their Lenten +sword to wear upon Good Friday and other Lent days, is older than that. +Thence I, leaving Sir J. Minnes to look after his indictment drawing up, +I home by water, and there found my wife mightily pleased with a present +of shells, fine shells given her by Captain Hickes, and so she and I up +and look them over, and indeed they are very pleasant ones. By and by in +comes Mr. Lewellin, lately come from Ireland, to see me, and he tells me +how the English interest falls mightily there, the Irish party being too +great, so that most of the old rebells are found innocent, and their +lands, which were forfeited and bought or given to the English, are +restored to them; which gives great discontent there among the English. +He being gone, I to my office, where late, putting things in order, and +so home to supper and to bed. Going through the City, my Lord Mayor told +me how the piller set up by Exeter House is only to show where the pipes +of water run to the City; and observed that this City is as well watered +as any city in the world, and that the bringing the water to the City +hath cost it first and last above L300,000; but by the new building, and +the building of St. James's by my Lord St. Albans, + + [It was at this time that the Earl of St. Albans planned St. James's + Square, which was first styled "The Piazza." The "Warrant for a + grant to Baptist May and Abraham Cowley on nomination of the Earl of + St. Albans of several parcels of ground in Pall Mall described, on + rental of L80, for building thereon a square of 13 or 14 great and + good houses," was dated September 24th, 1664.] + +which is now about (and which the City stomach I perceive highly, but +dare not oppose it), were it now to be done, it would not be done for a +million of money. + + + +3rd. Up betimes, and for an hour at my viall before my people rise. +Then up and to the office a while, and then to Sir W. Batten, who is +going this day for pleasure down to the Downes. I eat a breakfast with +them, and at my Lady's desire with them by coach to Greenwich, where I +went aboard with them on the Charlotte yacht. The wind very fresh, and I +believe they will be all sicke enough, besides that she is mighty +troublesome on the water. Methinks she makes over much of her husband's +ward, young Mr. Griffin, as if she expected some service from him when he +comes to it, being a pretty young boy. I left them under sayle, and I to +Deptford, and, after a word or two with Sir J. Minnes, walked to Redriffe +and so home. In my way, it coming into my head, overtaking of a beggar +or two on the way that looked like Gypsys, what the Gypsys 8 or 9 days +ago had foretold, that somebody that day se'nnight should be with me to +borrow money, but I should lend none; and looking, when I came to my +office, upon my journall, that my brother John had brought a letter that +day from my brother Tom to borrow L20 more of me, which had vexed me so +that I had sent the letter to my father into the country, to acquaint him +of it, and how little he is beforehand that he is still forced to borrow. +But it pleased me mightily to see how, contrary to my expectations, +having so lately lent him L20, and belief that he had money by him to +spare, and that after some days not thinking of it, I should look back +and find what the Gypsy had told me to be so true. After dinner at home +to my office, and there till late doing business, being very well pleased +with Mr. Cutler's coming to me about some business, and among other +things tells me that they value me as a man of business, which he +accounts the best virtuoso, and I know his thinking me so, and speaking +where he comes, may be of good use to me. Home to supper, and to bed. + + + +4th. Up betimes, and an hour at my viall, and then abroad by water to +White Hall and Westminster Hall, and there bought the first newes-books +of L'Estrange's writing; + + [Roger L'Estrange, a voluminous writer of pamphlets and periodical + papers, and translator of classics, &c. Born 1616. He was Licenser + of the Press to Charles II. and James II.; and M.P. for Winchester + in James II.'s parliament. L'Estrange was knighted in the reign of + James II., and died 1704. In 1663 L'Estrange set up a paper called + "The Public Intelligencer," which came out on August 31st, and + continued to be published twice a week till January 19th, 1665, when + it was superseded by the scheme of publishing the "London Gazette," + the first number of which appeared on February 4th following.] + +he beginning this week; and makes, methinks, but a simple beginning. +Then to speak to Mrs. Lane, who seems desirous to have me come to see her +and to have her company as I had a little while ago, which methinks if +she were very modest, considering how I tumbled her and tost her, she +should not. Thence to Mrs. Harper, and sent for Creed, and there Mrs. +Harper sent for a maid for me to come to live with my wife. I like the +maid's looks well enough, and I believe may do well, she looking very +modestly and speaking so too. I directed her to speak with my wife, and +so Creed and I away to Mr. Povy's, and he not being at home, walked to +Lincoln's Inn walks, which they are making very fine, and about one +o'clock went back to Povy's; and by and by in comes he, and so we sat and +down to dinner, and his lady, whom I never saw before (a handsome old +woman that brought him money that makes him do as he does), and so we had +plenty of meat and drink, though I drunk no wine, though mightily urged +to it, and in the exact manner that I never saw in my life any where, and +he the most full and satisfied in it that man can be in this world with +any thing. After dinner done, to see his new cellars, which he has made +so fine with so noble an arch and such contrivances for his barrels and +bottles, and in a room next to it such a grotto and fountayne, which in +summer will be so pleasant as nothing in the world can be almost. But to +see how he himself do pride himself too much in it, and command and +expect to have all admiration, though indeed everything do highly deserve +it, is a little troublesome. Thence Creed and I away, and by his +importunity away by coach to Bartholomew Fayre, where I have no mind to +go without my wife, and therefore rode through the fayre without +'lighting, and away home, leaving him there; and at home made my wife get +herself presently ready, and so carried her by coach to the fayre, and +showed her the monkeys dancing on the ropes, which was strange, but such +dirty sport that I was not pleased with it. There was also a horse with +hoofs like rams hornes, a goose with four feet, and a cock with three. +Thence to another place, and saw some German Clocke works, the Salutation +of the Virgin Mary, and several Scriptural stories; but above all there +was at last represented the sea, with Neptune, Venus, mermaids, and Ayrid +on a dolphin, the sea rocking, so well done, that had it been in a gaudy +manner and place, and at a little distance, it had been admirable. +Thence home by coach with my wife, and I awhile to the office, and so to +supper and to bed. This day I read a Proclamation for calling in and +commanding every body to apprehend my Lord Bristoll. + + + +5th. Up betimes and to my viall awhile, and so to the office, and there +sat, and busy all the morning. So at noon to the Exchange, and so home +to dinner, where I met Creed, who dined with me, and after dinner +mightily importuned by Captain Hicks, who came to tell my wife the names +and story of all the shells, which was a pretty present he made her the +other day. He being gone, Creed, my wife, and I to Cornhill, and after +many tryalls bought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian callico, +for to line her new study, which is very pretty. So home with her, and +then I away (Creed being gone) to Captain Minors upon Tower Hill, and +there, abating only some impertinence of his, I did inform myself well in +things relating to the East Indys; both of the country and the +disappointment the King met with the last voyage, by the knavery of the +Portugall Viceroy, and the inconsiderablenesse of the place of Bombaim, + + [Bombay, which was transferred to the East India Company in 1669. + The seat of the Western Presidency of India was removed from Surat + to Bombay in 1685-87.] + +if we had had it. But, above all things, it seems strange to me that +matters should not be understood before they went out; and also that such +a thing as this, which was expected to be one of the best parts of the +Queen's portion, should not be better understood; it being, if we had it, +but a poor place, and not really so as was described to our King in the +draught of it, but a poor little island; whereas they made the King and +Lord Chancellor, and other learned men about the King, believe that that, +and other islands which are near it, were all one piece; and so the +draught was drawn and presented to the King, and believed by the King and +expected to prove so when our men came thither; but it is quite +otherwise. Thence to my office, and after several letters writ, home to +supper and to bed, and took a pill. I hear this day that Sir W. Batten +was fain to put ashore at Queenborough with my Lady, who has been so sick +she swears never to go to sea again. But it happens well that Holmes is +come home into the Downes, where he will meet my Lady, and it may be do +her more good than she looked for. He brings news of the peace between +Tangier and the Moors, but the particulars I know not. He is come but +yesterday. + + + +6th (Lord's day). My pill I took last night worked very well, and I lay +long in bed and sweat to get away the itching all about my body from head +to foot, which is beginning again as it did the last winter, and I find +after I am up that it is abated. I staid at home all day and my wife +also, whom, God forgive me, I staid along with me for fear of her seeing +of Pembleton. But she and I entertained one another all day long with +great pleasure, contriving about my wife's closet and the bedchamber, +whither we intend to go up she and I to-day. We dined alone and supped +also at night, my brother John with us, and so to prayers and to bed. + + + +7th. Up pretty betimes, and awhile to my vyall, and then abroad to +several places, to buy things for the furnishing my house and my wife's +closet, and then met my uncle Thomas, by appointment, and he and I to the +Prerogative Office in Paternoster Row, and there searched and found my +uncle Day's will, end read it over and advised upon it, and his wife's +after him, and though my aunt Perkins testimony is very good, yet I fear +the estate being great, and the rest that are able to inform us in the +matter are all possessed of more or less of the estate:, it will be hard +for us ever to do anything, nor will I adventure anything till I see what +part will be given to us by my uncle Thomas of all that is gained. But I +had another end of putting my uncle into some doubt, that so I might keep +him: yet from going into the country that he may be there against the +Court at his own charge, and so I left him and his son at a loss what to +do till I see them again. And so I to my Lord Crew's,; thinking to have +dined there, but it was too late, and so back and called at my brother's +and Mr. Holden's about several businesses, and went all alone to the +Black Spread Eagle in Bride Lane, and there had a chopp of veale and some +bread, cheese, and beer, cost me a shilling to my dinner, and so through +Fleet Ally, God forgive me, out of an itch to look upon the sluts there, +against which when I saw them my stomach turned, and so to Bartholomew +Fayre, where I met with Mr. Pickering, and he and I to see the monkeys at +the Dutch house, which is far beyond the other that my wife and I saw the +other day; and thence to see the dancing on the ropes, which was very +poor and tedious. But he and I fell in discourse about my Lord Sandwich. +He tells me how he is sorry for my Lord at his being at Chelsey, and that +his but seeming so to my Lord without speaking one word, had put him +clear out of my Lord's favour, so as that he was fain to leave him before +he went into the country, for that he was put to eat with his servants; +but I could not fish from him, though I knew it, what was the matter; but +am very sorry to see that my Lord hath thus much forgot his honour, but +am resolved not to meddle with it. The play being done, I stole from him +and hied home, buying several things at the ironmonger's--dogs, tongs, +and shovels--for my wife's closett and the rest of my house, and so home, +and thence to my office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed. By my +letters from Tangier today I hear that it grows very strong by land, and +the Mole goes on. They have lately killed two hundred of the Moores, and +lost about forty or fifty. I am mightily afeard of laying out too much +money in goods upon my house, but it is not money flung away, though I +reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank, till I have a good sum +beforehand in the world. + + + +8th. Up and to my viall a while, and then to my office on Phillips +having brought me a draught of the Katherine yacht, prettily well done +for the common way of doing it. At the office all the morning making up +our last half year's account to my Lord Treasurer, which comes to +L160,000 or there abouts, the proper expense of this half year, only with +an addition of L13,000 for the third due of the last account to the +Treasurer for his disbursements, and L1100 for this half year's; so that +in three years and a half his thirds come to L14,100. Dined at home with +my wife. It being washing day, we had a good pie baked of a leg of +mutton; and then to my office, and then abroad, and among other places to +Moxon's, and there bought a payre of globes cost me L3 10s., with which I +am well pleased, I buying them principally for my wife, who has a mind to +understand them, and I shall take pleasure to teach her. But here I saw +his great window in his dining room, where there is the two Terrestrial +Hemispheres, so painted as I never saw in my life, and nobly done and to +good purpose, done by his own hand. Thence home to my office, and there +at business late, and then to supper home and to bed, my people sitting +up longer than ordinary before they had done their washing. + + + +9th. Up by break of day, and then to my vials a while, and so to Sir +W. Warren's by agreement, and after talking and eating something with +him, he and I down by water to Woolwich, and there I did several +businesses, and had good discourse, and thence walked to Greenwich; in my +way a little boy overtook us with a fine cupp turned out of Lignum Vitae, +which the poor child confessed was made in the King's yard by his father, +a turner there, and that he do often do it, and that I might have one, +and God knows what, which I shall examine. Thence to Sir W. Warren's +again, and there drew up a contract for masts which he is to sell us, and +so home to dinner, finding my poor wife busy. I, after dinner, to the +office, and then to White Hall, to Sir G. Carteret's, but did not speak +with him, and so to Westminster Hall, God forgive me, thinking to meet +Mrs. Lane, but she was not there, but here I met with Ned Pickering, with +whom I walked 3 or 4 hours till evening, he telling me the whole business +of my Lord's folly with this Mrs. Becke, at Chelsey, of all which I am +ashamed to see my Lord so grossly play the beast and fool, to the +flinging off of all honour, friends, servants, and every thing and person +that is good, and only will have his private lust undisturbed with this +common . . . . his sitting up night after night alone, suffering +nobody to come to them, and all the day too, casting off Pickering, +basely reproaching him with his small estate, which yet is a good one, +and other poor courses to obtain privacy beneath his honour, and with his +carrying her abroad and playing on his lute under her window, and forty +other poor sordid things, which I am grieved to hear; but believe it to +no purpose for me to meddle with it, but let him go on till God Almighty +and his own conscience and thoughts of his lady and family do it. So +after long discourse, to my full satisfaction but great trouble, I home +by water and at my office late, and so to supper to my poor wife, and so +to bed, being troubled to think that I shall be forced to go to Brampton +the next Court, next week. + + + +10th. Up betimes and to my office, and there sat all the morning making +a great contract with Sir W. Warren for L3,000 worth of masts; but, good +God! to see what a man might do, were I a knave, the whole business from +beginning to end being done by me out of the office, and signed to by +them upon the once reading of it to them, without the least care or +consultation either of quality, price, number, or need of them, only in +general that it was good to have a store. But I hope my pains was such, +as the King has the best bargain of masts has been bought these 27 years +in this office. Dined at home and then to my office again, many people +about business with me, and then stepped a little abroad about business +to the Wardrobe, but missed Mr. Moore, and elswhere, and in my way met +Mr. Moore, who tells me of the good peace that is made at Tangier with +the Moores, but to continue but from six months to six months, and that +the Mole is laid out, and likely to be done with great ease and successe, +we to have a quantity of ground for our cattle about the town to our use. +To my office late, and then home to supper, after writing letters, and to +bed. This day our cook maid (we having no luck in maids now-adays), +which was likely to prove a good servant, though none of the best cooks, +fell sick and is gone to her friends, having been with us but 4 days. + + + +11th. This morning, about two or three o'clock, knocked up in our back +yard, and rising to the window, being moonshine, I found it was the +constable and his watch, who had found our back yard door open, and so +came in to see what the matter was. So I desired them to shut the door, +and bid them good night, and so to bed again, and at 6 o'clock up and a +while to my vyall, and then to the office, where all the morning upon the +victualler's accounts, and then with him to dinner at the Dolphin, where +I eat well but drank no wine neither; which keeps me in such good order +that I am mightily pleased with myself for it. Hither Mr. Moore came to +me, and he and I home and advised about business, and so after an hour's +examining the state of the Navy debts lately cast up, I took coach to Sir +Philip Warwick's, but finding Sir G. Carteret there I did not go in, but +directly home, again, it raining hard, having first of all been with +Creed and Mrs. Harper about a cook maid, and am like to have one from +Creed's lodging. In my way home visited my Lord Crew and Sir Thomas, +thinking they might have enquired by the by of me touching my Lord's +matters at Chelsey, but they said nothing, and so after some slight +common talk I bid them good night. At home to my office, and after a +while doing business home to supper and bed. + + + +12th. Up betimes, and by water to White Hall; and thence to Sir Philip +Warwick, and there had half an hour's private discourse with him; and did +give him some good satisfaction in our Navy matters, and he also me, as +to the money paid and due to the Navy; so as he makes me assured by +particulars, that Sir G. Carteret is paid within L80,000 every farthing +that we to this day, nay to Michaelmas day next have demanded; and that, +I am sure, is above L50,000 snore than truly our expenses have been, +whatever is become of the money. Home with great content that I have +thus begun an acquaintance with him, who is a great man, and a man of as +much business as any man in England; which I will endeavour to deserve +and keep. Thence by water to my office, in here all the morning, and so +to the 'Change at noon, and there by appointment met and bring home my +uncle Thomas, who resolves to go with me to Brampton on Monday next. +I wish he may hold his mind. I do not tell him, and yet he believes that +there is a Court to be that he is to do some business for us there. The +truth is I do find him a much more cunning fellow than I ever took him +for, nay in his very drink he has his wits about him. I took him home to +dinner, and after dinner he began, after a glass of wine or two, to +exclaim against Sir G. Carteret and his family in Jersey, bidding me to +have a care of him, and how high, proud, false, and politique a fellow he +is, and how low he has been under his command in the island. After +dinner, and long discourse, he went away to meet on Monday morning, and I +to my office, and thence by water to White Hall and Westminster Hall +about several businesses, and so home, and to my office writing a +laborious letter about our last account to my Lord Treasurer, which took +me to one o'clock in the morning, + + + +13th (Lord's day). So that Griffin was fain to carry it to Westminster +to go by express, and my other letters of import to my father and +elsewhere could not go at all. To bed between one and two and slept till +8, and lay talking till 9 with great pleasure with my wife. So up and +put my clothes in order against tomorrow's journey, and then at noon at +dinner, and all the afternoon almost playing and discoursing with my wife +with great content, and then to my office there to put papers in order +against my going. And by and by comes my uncle Wight to bid us to dinner +to-morrow to a haunch of venison I sent them yesterday, given me by Mr. +Povy, but I cannot go, but my wife will. Then into the garden to read my +weekly vows, and then home, where at supper saying to my wife, in +ordinary fondness, "Well! shall you and I never travel together again?" +she took me up and offered and desired to go along with me. I thinking +by that means to have her safe from harm's way at home here, was willing +enough to feign, and after some difficulties made did send about for a +horse and other things, and so I think she will go. So, in a hurry +getting myself and her things ready, to bed. + + + +14th. Up betimes, and my wife's mind and mine holding for her going, so +she to get her ready, and I abroad to do the like for myself, and so +home, and after setting every thing at my office and at home in order, by +coach to Bishop's Gate, it being a very promising fair day. There at the +Dolphin we met my uncle Thomas and his son-in-law, which seems a very +sober man, and Mr. Moore. So Mr. Moore and my wife set out before, and +my uncle and I staid for his son Thomas, who, by a sudden resolution, is +preparing to go with us, which makes me fear something of mischief which +they design to do us. He staying a great while, the old man and I +before, and about eight miles off, his son comes after us, and about six +miles further we overtake Mr. Moore and my wife, which makes me mightily +consider what a great deal of ground is lost in a little time, when it is +to be got up again by another, that is to go his own ground and the +other's too; and so after a little bayte (I paying all the reckonings the +whole journey) at Ware, to Buntingford, where my wife, by drinking some +cold beer, being hot herself, presently after 'lighting, begins to be +sick, and became so pale, and I alone with her in a great chamber there, +that I thought she would have died, and so in great horror, and having a +great tryall of my true love and passion for her, called the mayds and +mistresse of the house, and so with some strong water, and after a little +vomit, she came to be pretty well again; and so to bed, and I having put +her to bed with great content, I called in my company, and supped in the +chamber by her, and being very merry in talk, supped and then parted, and +I to bed and lay very well. This day my cozen Thomas dropped his hanger, +and it was lost. + + + +15th. Up pretty betimes and rode as far as Godmanehester, Mr. Moore +having two falls, once in water and another in dirt, and there 'light and +eat and drunk, being all of us very weary, but especially my uncle and +wife. Thence to Brampton to my father's, and there found all well, but +not sensible how they ought to treat my uncle and his son, at least till +the Court be over, which vexed me, but on my counsel they carried it fair +to them; and so my father, cozen Thomas, and I up to Hinchingbroke, where +I find my Lord and his company gone to Boughton, which vexed me; but +there I find my Lady and the young ladies, and there I alone with my Lady +two hours, she carrying me through every part of the house and gardens, +which are, and will be, mighty noble indeed. Here I saw Mrs. Betty +Pickering, who is a very well-bred and comely lady, but very fat. +Thence, without so much as drinking, home with my father and cozen, who +staid for me, and to a good supper; after I had had an hour's talk with +my father abroad in the fields, wherein he begun to talk very highly of +my promises to him of giving him the profits of Sturtlow, as if it were +nothing that I give him out of my purse, and that he would have me to +give this also from myself to my brothers and sister; I mean Brampton and +all, I think: I confess I was angry to hear him talk in that manner, and +took him up roundly in it, and advised him if he could not live upon L50 +per ann., which was another part of his discourse, that he would think to +come and live at Tom's again, where L50 per ann. will be a good addition +to Tom's trade, and I think that must be done when all is done. But my +father spoke nothing more of it all the time I was in the country, though +at the time he seemed to like it well enough. I also spoke with Piggott +too this evening before I went in to supper, and doubt that I shall meet +with some knots in my business to-morrow before I can do it at the Court, +but I shall do my best. After supper my uncle and his son to Stankes's +to bed, which troubles me, all our father's beds being lent to +Hinchingbroke, and so my wife and I to bed, she very weary. + + + +16th. Up betimes, and with my wife to Hinchingbroke to see my Lady, she +being to go to my Lord this morning, and there I left her, and so back to +the Court, and heard Sir R. Bernard's charges to the Courts Baron and +Leete, which took up till noon, and were worth hearing, and after putting +my business into some way, went home to my father's to dinner, and after +dinner to the Court, where Sir Robert and his son came again by and by, +and then to our business, and my father and I having given bond to him +for the L21 Piggott owed him, my uncle Thomas did quietly admit himself +and surrender to us the lands first mortgaged for our whole debt, and Sir +Robert added to it what makes it up L209, to be paid in six months. But +when I came to give him an account of more lands to be surrendered to us, +wherein Piggott's wife was concerned, and she there to give her consent, +Sir Robert would not hear of it, but began to talk very high that we were +very cruel, and we had caution enough for our money, and he could not in +conscience let the woman do it, and reproached my uncle, both he and his +son, with taking use upon use for this money. To all which I did give +him such answers and spoke so well, and kept him so to it, that all the +Court was silent to hear us, and by report since do confess they did +never hear the like in the place. But he by a wile had got our bond, and +I was content to have as much as I could though I could not get all, and +so took Piggott's surrender of them without his wife, and by Sir Robert's +own consent did tell the Court that if the money were not paid in the +time, and the security prove not sufficient, I would conclude myself +wronged by Sir Robert, which he granted I should do. This kept us till +night, but am heartily glad it ended so well on my uncle's part, he doing +that and Prior's little house very willingly. So the Court broke up, +and my father and Mr. Shepley and I to Gorrum's to drink, and then I left +them, and to the Bull, where my uncle was to .hear what he and the people +said of our business, and here nothing but what liked me very well. So +by and by home and to supper, and with my mind in pretty good quiett, to +bed. + + + +17th. Up, and my father being gone to bed ill last night and continuing +so this morning, I was forced to come to a new consideration, whether it +was fit for to let my uncle and his son go to Wisbeach about my uncle +Day's estate alone or no, and concluded it unfit; and so resolved to go +with them myself, leaving my wife there, I begun a journey with them, and +with much ado, through the fens, along dikes, where sometimes we were +ready to have our horses sink to the belly, we got by night, with great +deal of stir and hard riding, to Parson's Drove, a heathen place, where I +found my uncle and aunt Perkins, and their daughters, poor wretches! in a +sad, poor thatched cottage, like a poor barn, or stable, peeling of hemp, +in which I did give myself good content to see their manner of preparing +of hemp; and in a poor condition of habitt took them to our miserable +inn, and there, after long stay, and hearing of Frank, their son, the +miller, play, upon his treble, as he calls it, with which he earns part +of his living, and singing of a country bawdy song, we sat down to +supper; the whole crew, and Frank's wife and child, a sad company, of +which I was ashamed, supped with us. And after supper I, talking with my +aunt about her report concerning my uncle Day's will and surrender, I +found her in such different reports from what she writes and says to the +people, and short of what I expected, that I fear little will be done of +good in it. By and by newes is brought to us that one of our horses is +stole out of the stable, which proves my uncle's, at which I am inwardly +glad--I mean, that it was not mine; and at this we were at a great loss; +and they doubting a person that lay at next door, a Londoner, some +lawyer's clerk, we caused him to be secured in his bed, and other care to +be taken to seize the horse; and so about twelve at night or more, to bed +in a sad, cold, nasty chamber, only the mayde was indifferent handsome, +and so I had a kiss or two of her, and I to bed, and a little after I was +asleep they waked me to tell me that the horse was found, which was good +newes, and so to sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly, and nobody +else of our company, which I wonder at, by the gnatts. + + + +18th. Up, and got our people together as soon as we could; and after +eating a dish of cold cream, which was my supper last night too, we took +leave of our beggarly company, though they seem good people, too; and +over most sad Fenns, all the way observing the sad life which the people +of the place which if they be born there, they do call the Breedlings' of +the place, do live, sometimes rowing from one spot to another, and then +wadeing, to Wisbeach, a pretty town, and a fine church and library, where +sundry very old abbey manuscripts; and a fine house, built on the church +ground by Secretary Thurlow, and a fine gallery built for him in the +church, but now all in the Bishop of Ely's hands. After visiting the +church, &c., we went out of the towne, by the help of a stranger, to find +out one Blinkhorne, a miller, of whom we might inquire something of old +Day's disposal of his estate, and in whose hands it now is; and by great +chance we met him, and brought him to our inn to dinner; and instead of +being informed in his estate by this fellow, we find that he is the next +heir to the estate, which was matter, of great sport to my cozen Thomas +and me, to see such a fellow prevent us in our hopes, he being Day's +brother's, daughter's son, whereas we are but his sister's sons and +grandsons; so that, after all, we were fain to propose our matter to him, +and to get him to give us leave to look after the business, and so he to +have one-third part, and we two to have the other two-third parts, of +what should be recovered of the estate, which he consented to; and after +some discourse and paying the reckoning, we mounted again, and rode, +being very merry at our defeat, to Chatteris, my uncle very weary, and +after supper, and my telling of three stories, to their good liking, of +spirits, we all three in a chamber went to bed. + + + +19th. Up pretty betimes, and after eating something, we set out and I +(being willing thereto) went by a mistake with them to St. Ives, and +there, it being known that it was their nearer way to London, I took +leave of them there, they going straight to London and I to Brampton, +where I find my father ill in bed still, and Madam Norbery (whom and her +fair daughter and sister I was ashamed to kiss, but did, my lip being +sore with riding in the wind and bit with the gnatts), lately come to +town, come to see my father and mother, and they after a little stay +being gone, I told my father my success. And after dinner my wife and I +took horse, and rode with marvellous, and the first and only hour of, +pleasure, that ever I had in this estate since I had to do with it, to +Brampton woods; and through the wood rode, and gathered nuts in my way, +and then at Graffam to an old woman's house to drink, where my wife used +to go; and being in all circumstances highly pleased, and in my wife's +riding and good company at this time, I rode, and she showed me the river +behind my father's house, which is very pleasant, and so saw her home, +and I straight to Huntingdon, and there met Mr. Shepley and to the Crown +(having sent home my horse by Stankes), and there a barber came and +trimmed me, and thence walked to Hinchingbroke, where my Lord and ladies +all are just alighted. And so I in among them, and my Lord glad to see +me, and the whole company. Here I staid and supped with them, and after +a good stay talking, but yet observing my Lord not to be so mightily +ingulphed in his pleasure in the country as I expected and hoped, I took +leave of them, and after a walk in the courtyard in the dark with Mr. +Howe, who tells me that my Lord do not enjoy himself and please himself +as he used to do, but will hasten up to London, and that he is resolved +to go to Chelsey again, which we are heartily grieved for and studious +how to prevent if it be possible, I took horse, there being one appointed +for me, and a groom to attend me, and so home, where my wife: staid up +and sister for me, and so to bed, troubled for what I hear of my Lord. + + + +20th (Lord's day). Up, and finding my father somewhat better, walked to +Huntingdon church, where in my Lord's pew, with the young ladies, by my +Lord's own showing me the place, I stayed the sermon, and so to +Hinchingbroke, walking with Mr. Shepley and Dr. King, whom they account a +witty man here, as well as a good physician, and there my Lord took me +with the rest of the company, and singly demanded my opinion in the walks +in his garden, about the bringing of the crooked wall on the mount to a +shape; and so to dinner, there being Collonel Williams and much other +company, and a noble dinner. But having before got my Lord's warrant for +travelling to-day, there being a proclamation read yesterday against it +at Huntingdon, at which I am very glad, I took leave, leaving them at +dinner, and walked alone to my father's, and there, after a word or two. +to my father and mother, my wife and I mounted, and, with my father's +boy, upon a horse I borrowed of Captain Ferrers, we rode to Bigglesworth +by the help of a couple of countrymen, that led us through the very long +and dangerous waters, because of the ditches on each side, though it +begun to be very dark, and there we had a good breast of mutton roasted +for us, and supped, and to bed. + + + +21st. Up very betimes by break of day, and got my wife up, whom the +thought of this day's long journey do discourage; and after eating +something, and changing of a piece of gold to pay the reckoning, we +mounted, and through Baldwicke, where a fayre is kept to-day, and a great +one for cheese and other such commodities, and so to Hatfield, it being +most curious weather from the time we set out to our getting home, and +here we dined, and my wife being very weary, and believing that it would +be hard to get her home to-night, and a great charge to keep her longer +abroad, I took the opportunity of an empty coach that was to go to +London, and left her to come in it to London, for half-a-crown, and so I +and the boy home as fast as we could drive, and it was even night before +we got home. So that I account it very good fortune that we took this +course, being myself very weary, much more would my wife have been. At +home found all very well and my house in good order. To see Sir W. Pen, +who is pretty well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is a little lame on one foot, +and the rest gone to Chatham, viz.: Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, +who has in my absence inveighed against my contract the other day for +Warren's masts, in which he is a knave, and I shall find matter of +tryumph, but it vexes me a little. So home, and by and by comes my wife +by coach well home, and having got a good fowl ready for supper against +her coming, we eat heartily, and so with great content and ease to our +own bed, there nothing appearing so to our content as to be at our own +home, after being abroad awhile. + + + +22nd. I up, well refreshed after my journey, and to my office and there +set some things in order, and then Sir W. Pen and I met and held an +office, and at noon to dinner, and so by water with my wife to +Westminster, she to see her father and mother, and we met again at my +Lord's lodgings, and thence by water home again, where at the door we met +Sir W. Pen and his daughter coming to visit us, and after their visit I +to my office, and after some discourse to my great satisfaction with Sir +W. Warren about our bargain of masts, I wrote my letters by the post, and +so home to supper and to bed. This day my wife showed me bills printed, +wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edward Ford, have got +a patent for curing of smoky chimneys. + + [The Patent numbered 138 is printed in the appendix to Wheatley's + "Samuel Pepys and the World he lived in" (p. 241). It is drawn in + favour of John Colladon, Doctor in Physicke, and of Alexander + Marchant, of St. Michall, and describes "a way to prevent and cure + the smoakeing of Chimneys, either by stopping the tunnell towards + the top, and altering the former course of the smoake, or by setting + tunnells with checke within the chimneyes." Sir Edward Ford's name + does not appear in the patent.] + +I wish they may do good thereof, but fear it will prove but a poor +project. This day the King and Queen are to come to Oxford. I hear my +Lady Castlemaine is for certain gone to Oxford to meet him, having lain +within here at home this week or two, supposed to have miscarried; but +for certain is as great in favour as heretofore; + + [According to Collins, Henry Fitzroy, Lady Castlemaine's second son + by Charles II., was born on September 20th, 1663. He was the first + Duke of Grafton.--B.] + +at least Mrs. Sarah at my Lord's, who hears all from their own family, do +say so. Every day brings newes of the Turke's advance into Germany, to +the awakeing of all the Christian Princes thereabouts, and possessing +himself of Hungary. My present care is fitting my wife's closett and my +house, and making her a velvet coate, and me a new black cloth suit, and +coate and cloake, and evening my reckoning as well as I can against +Michaelmas Day, hoping for all that to have my balance as great or +greater than ever I had yet. + + + +23rd. Up betimes and to my office, where setting down my journall while +I was in the country to this day, and at noon by water to my Lord Crew's, +and there dined with him and Sir Thomas, thinking to have them inquire +something about my Lord's lodgings at Chelsey, or any thing of that sort, +but they did not, nor seem to take the least notice of it, which is their +discretion, though it might be better for my Lord and them too if they +did, that so we might advise together for the best, which cannot be while +we seem ignorant one to another, and it is not fit for me to begin the +discourse. Thence walked to several places about business and to +Westminster Hall, thinking to meet Mrs. Lane, which is my great vanity +upon me at present, but I must correct it. She was not in the way. So +by water home and to my office, whither by and by came my brother John, +who is to go to Cambridge to-morrow, and I did give him a most severe +reprimand for his bad account he gives me of his studies. This I did +with great passion and sharp words, which I was sorry to be forced to +say, but that I think it for his good, forswearing doing anything for +him, and that which I have yet, and now do give him, is against my heart, +and will also be hereafter, till I do see him give me a better account of +his studies. I was sorry to see him give me no answer, but, for aught I +see, to hear me without great resentment, and such as I should have had: +in his condition. But I have done my duty, let him do his, for I am +resolved to be as good as my word. After two hours walking in the +garden, till after it was dark, I ended with him and to my office, and +there set some papers in order, and so to supper, and my poor wife, who +is mighty busy at home; fitting her closet. So to bed. + + + +24th. Up betimes, and after taking leave of my brother, John, who went +from me to my father's this day, I went forth by water to Sir Philip +Warwick's, where I was with him a pretty while; and in discourse he tells +me, and made it; appear to me, that the King cannot be in debt to the +Navy at this time L5,000; and it is my opinion that Sir G. Carteret do +owe the King money, and yet the whole Navy debt paid. Thence I parted, +being doubtful of myself that I have not, spoke with the gravity and +weight that I ought to do in so great a business. But I rather hope it +is my doubtfulness of myself, and the haste which he was in, some very +great personages waiting for him without, while he was with me, that made +him willing to be gone. To the office by water, where we sat doing +little, now Mr. Coventry is not here, but only vex myself to see what a +sort of coxcombs we are when he is not here to undertake such a business +as we do. In the afternoon telling my wife that I go to Deptford, I +went, by water to Westminster Hall, and there finding Mrs. Lane, took her +over to Lambeth, where we were lately, and there, did what I would with +her, but only the main thing, which she; would not consent to, for which +God be praised . . . . . But, trust in the Lord, I shall never do so +again while I live. After being tired with her company I landed her at +White; Hall, and so home and at my office writing letters till 12 at +night almost, and then home to supper and bed, and there found my poor +wife hard at work, which grieved my heart to see that I should abuse so +good a wretch, and that is just with God to make her bad with me for my +wrongin of her, but I do resolve never to do the like again. So to bed. + + + +25th. Lay pretty long in bed, and so to my office all the morning till +by and by called out by Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, with them by +water to Deptford, where it of a sudden did lighten, thunder, and rain so +as we could do nothing but stay in Davis's house, and by and by Sir J. +Minnes and I home again by water, and I home to dinner, and after dinner +to the office, and there till night all alone, even of my clerks being +there, doing of business, and so home and to bed. + + + +26th. Up and to my office, and there we sat till noon, and then I to the +Exchange, but did little there, but meeting Mr. Rawlinson he would needs +have me home to dinner, and Mr. Deane of Woolwich being with me I took +him with me, and there we dined very well at his own dinner, only no +invitation, but here I sat with little pleasure, considering my wife at +home alone, and so I made what haste home I could, and was forced to sit +down again at dinner with her, being unwilling to neglect her by being +known to dine abroad. My doing so being only to keep Deane from dining +at home with me, being doubtful what I have to eat. So to the office, +and there till late at night, and so home to supper and bed, being +mightily pleased to find my wife so mindful of her house. + + + +27th (Lord's day). Lay chatting with my wife a good while, then up and +got me ready and to church, without my man William, whom I have not seen +to-day, nor care, but would be glad to have him put himself far enough +out of my favour that he may not wonder to have me put him away. So home +to dinner, being a little troubled to see Pembleton out again, but I do +not discern in my wife the least memory of him. Dined, and so to my +office a little, and then to church again, where a drowsy sermon, and so +home to spend the evening with my poor wife, consulting about her +closett, clothes, and other things. At night to supper, though with +little comfort, I finding myself both head and breast in great pain, and +what troubles me most my right ear is almost deaf. It is a cold, which +God Almighty in justice did give me while I sat lewdly sporting with Mrs. +Lane the other day with the broken window in my neck. I went to bed with +a posset, being very melancholy in consideration of the loss of my +hearing. + + + +28th. Up, though with pain in my head, stomach, and ear, and that deaf +so as in my way by coach to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes I called at Mr. +Holliard's, who did give me some pills, and tells me I shall have my +hearing again and be well. So to White Hall, where Sir J. Minnes and I +did spend an hour in the Gallery, looking upon the pictures, in which he +hath some judgment. And by and by the Commissioners for Tangier met: and +there my Lord Teviott, together with Captain Cuttance, Captain Evans, and +Jonas Moore, sent to that purpose, did bring us a brave draught of the +Mole to be built there; and report that it is likely to be the most +considerable place the King of England hath in the world; and so I am apt +to think it will. After discourse of this, and of supplying the garrison +with some more horse, we rose; and Sir J. Minnes and I home again, +finding the street about our house full, Sir R. Ford beginning his +shrievalty to-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, +the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more +gracefull. Home and eat one bit of meat, and then by water with him and +Sir W. Batten to a sale of old provisions at Deptford, which we did at +Captain Boddily's house, to the value of L600 or L700, but I am not +satisfied with the method used in this thing. Then home again by water, +and after a little at my office, and visit Sir W. Pen, who is not very +well again, with his late pain, home to supper, being hungry, and my ear +and cold not so bad I think as it was. So to bed, taking one of my +pills. Newes that the King comes to town for certain on Thursday next +from his progresse. + + + +29th. Took two pills more in the morning and they worked all day, and I +kept the house. About noon dined, and then to carry several heavy things +with my wife up and down stairs, in order to our going to lie above, and +Will to come down to the Wardrobe, and that put me into a violent sweat, +so I had a fire made, and then, being dry again, she and I to put up some +paper pictures in the red chamber, where we go to lie very pretty, and +the map of Paris. Then in the evening, towards night, it fell to +thunder, lighten, and rain so violently that my house was all afloat, and +I in all the rain up to the gutters, and there dabbled in the rain and +wet half an hour, enough to have killed a man. That done downstairs to +dry myself again, and by and by come Mr. Sympson to set up my wife's +chimney-piece in her closett, which pleases me, and so that being done, I +to supper and to bed, shifting myself from top to toe, and doubtful of my +doing myself hurt. + + + +30th. Rose very well, and my hearing pretty well again, and so to my +office, by and by Mr. Holliard come, and at my house he searched my ear, +and I hope all will be well, though I do not yet hear so well as I used +to do with my right ear. So to my office till noon, and then home to +dinner, and in the afternoon by water to White Hall, to the Tangier +Committee; where my Lord Tiviott about his accounts; which grieves me to +see that his accounts being to be examined by us, there are none of the +great men at the Board that in compliment will except against any thing +in his accounts, and so none of the little persons dare do it: so the +King is abused. Thence home again by water with Sir W. Rider, and so to +my office, and there I sat late making up my month's accounts, and, +blessed be God, do find myself L760 creditor, notwithstanding that for +clothes for myself and wife, and layings out on her closett, I have spent +this month L47. So home, where I found our new cooke-mayde Elizabeth, +whom my wife never saw at all, nor I but once at a distance before, but +recommended well by Mr. Creed, and I hope will prove well. So to supper, +prayers, and bed. This evening Mr. Coventry is come to St. James's, but +I did not go see him, and tomorrow the King, Queen, Duke and his Lady, +and the whole Court comes to towne from their progresse. Myself and +family well, only my father sicke in the country. All the common talke +for newes is the Turke's advance in Hungary, &c. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER + 1663 + + +October 1st. Up and betimes to my office, and then to sit, where Sir G. +Carteret, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Coventry and +myself, a fuller board than by the King's progresse and the late pays and +my absence has been a great while. Sat late, and then home to dinner. +After dinner I by water to Deptford about a little business, and so back +again, buying a couple of good eeles by the way, and after writing by the +post, home to see the painter at work, late, in my wife's closet, and so +to supper and to bed, having been very merry with the painter, late, +while he was doing his work. This day the King and Court returned from +their progress. + + + +2nd. Up betimes and by water to St. James's, and there visited Mr. +Coventry as a compliment after his new coming to town, but had no great +talk with him, he being full of business. So back by foot through +London, doing several errands, and at the 'Change met with Mr. Cutler, +and he and I to a coffee-house, and there discoursed, and he do assure me +that there is great likelyhood of a war with Holland, but I hope we shall +be in good condition before it comes to break out. I like his company, +and will make much of his acquaintance. So home to dinner with my wife, +who is over head and eares in getting her house up, and so to the office, +and with Mr. Lewes, late, upon some of the old victuallers' accounts, and +so home to supper and to bed, up to our red chamber, where we purpose +always to lie. This day I received a letter from Mr. Barlow, with a +Terella, + + [Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., has kindly supplied me with + the following interesting note on the terrella (or terella): The + name given by Dr. William Gilbert, author of the famous treatise, + "De Magnete" (Lond. 1600), to a spherical loadstone, on account of + its acting as a model, magnetically, of the earth; compass-needles + pointing to its. poles, as mariners' compasses do to the poles of + the earth. The term was adopted by other writers who followed + Gilbert, as the following passage from Wm. Barlowe's "Magneticall + Advertisements" (Lond. 1616) shows: "Wherefore the round Loadstone + is significantly termed by Doct. Gilbert Terrella, that is, a + little, or rather a very little Earth: For it representeth in an + exceeding small model (as it were) the admirable properties + magneticall of the huge Globe of the earth" (op. cit, p. 55). + Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it + led him to propound the true theory of the mariners' compass. In + his portrait of himself which he had painted for the University of + Oxford he was represented as holding in his hand a globe inscribed + terella. In the Galileo Museum in Florence there is a terrella + twenty-seven inches in diameter, of loadstone from Elba, constructed + for Cosmo de' Medici. A smaller one contrived by Sir Christopher + Wren was long preserved in the museum of the Royal Society (Grew's + "Rarities belonging to the Royal Society," p. 364). Evelyn was + shown "a pretty terrella described with all ye circles and skewing + all y magnetic deviations" (Diary, July 3rd, 1655).] + +which I had hoped he had sent me, but to my trouble I find it is to +present from him to my Lord Sandwich, but I will make a little use of it +first, and then give it him. + + + +3rd. Up, being well pleased with my new lodging and the convenience of +having our mayds and none else about us, Will lying below. So to the +office, and there we sat full of business all the morning. At noon I +home to dinner, and then abroad to buy a bell to hang by our chamber door +to call the mayds. Then to the office, and met Mr. Blackburne, who came +to know the reason of his kinsman (my Will) his being observed by his +friends of late to droop much. I told him my great displeasure against +him and the reasons of it, to his great trouble yet satisfaction, for my +care over him, and how every thing I said was for the good of the fellow, +and he will take time to examine the fellow about all, and to desire my +pleasure concerning him, which I told him was either that he should +became a better servant or that we would not have him under my roof to be +a trouble. He tells me in a few days he will come to me again and we +shall agree what to do therein. I home and told my wife all, and am +troubled to see that my servants and others should be the greatest +trouble I have in the world, more than for myself. We then to set up our +bell with a smith very well, and then I late at the office. So home to +supper and to bed. + + + +4th (Lord's day). Up and to church, my house being miserably overflooded +with rayne last night, which makes me almost mad. At home to dinner with +my wife, and so to talk, and to church again, and so home, and all the +evening most pleasantly passed the time in good discourse of our fortune +and family till supper, and so to bed, in some pain below, through cold +got. + + + +5th. Up with pain, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to the Temple, and +then I to my brother's, and up and down on business, and so to the New +Exchange, and there met Creed, and he and I walked two or three hours, +talking of many businesses, especially about Tangier, and my Lord +Tiviot's bringing in of high accounts, and yet if they were higher are +like to pass without exception, and then of my Lord Sandwich sending a +messenger to know whether the King intends to come to Newmarket, as is +talked, that he may be ready to entertain him at Hinchingbroke. Thence +home and dined, and my wife all day putting up her hangings in her +closett, which she do very prettily herself with her own hand, to my +great content. So I to the office till night, about several businesses, +and then went and sat an hour or two with Sir W. Pen, talking very +largely of Sir J. Minnes's simplicity and unsteadiness, and of Sir W. +Batten's suspicious dealings, wherein I was open, and he sufficiently, +so that I do not care for his telling of tales, for he said as much, but +whether that were so or no I said nothing but what is my certain +knowledge and belief concerning him. Thence home to bed in great pain. + + + +6th. Slept pretty well, and my wife waked to ring the bell to call up +our mayds to the washing about 4 o'clock, and I was and she angry that +our bell did not wake them sooner, but I will get a bigger bell. So we +to sleep again till 8 o'clock, and then I up in some ease to the office, +where we had a full board, where we examined Cocke's second account, when +Mr. Turner had drawn a bill directly to be paid the balance thereof, as +Mr. Cocke demanded, and Sir J. Minnes did boldly assert the truth of it, +and that he had examined it, when there is no such thing, but many +vouchers, upon examination, missing, and we saw reason to strike off +several of his demands, and to bring down his 5 per cent. commission to +3 per cent. So we shall save the King some money, which both the +Comptroller and his clerke had absolutely given away. There was also two +occasions more of difference at the table; the one being to make out a +bill to Captain Smith for his salary abroad as commander-in-chief in the +Streights. Sir J. Minnes did demand an increase of salary for his being +Vice-Admiral in the Downes, he having received but 40s. without an +increase, when Sir J. Lawson, in the same voyage, had L3, and others have +also had increase, only he, because he was an officer of the board, was +worse used than any body else, and particularly told Sir W. Batten that +he was the opposer formerly of his having an increase, which I did wonder +to hear him so boldly lay it to him. So we hushed up the dispute, and +offered, if he would, to examine precedents, and report them, if there +was any thing to his advantage to be found, to the Duke. The next was, +Mr. Chr. Pett and Deane were summoned to give an account of some knees + + ["Naturally grown timber or bars of iron bent to a right angle or to + fit the surfaces and to secure bodies firmly together as hanging + knees secure the deck beams to the sides."--Smyth's Sailor's Word- + Book. There are several kinds of knees.] + +which Pett reported bad, that were to be served in by Sir W. Warren, we +having contracted that none should be served but such as were to be +approved of by our officers. So that if they were bad they were to be +blamed for receiving them. Thence we fell to talk of Warren's other +goods, which Pett had said were generally bad, and falling to this +contract again, I did say it was the most cautious and as good a contract +as had been made here, and the only [one] that had been in such terms. +Sir J. Minnes told me angrily that Winter's timber, bought for 33s. per +load, was as good and in the same terms. I told him that it was not so, +but that he and Sir W. Batten were both abused, and I would prove it was +as dear a bargain as had been made this half year, which occasioned high +words between them and me, but I am able to prove it and will. That also +was so ended, and so to other business. At noon Lewellin coming to me I +took him and Deane, and there met my uncle Thomas, and we dined together, +but was vexed that, it being washing-day, we had no meat dressed, but +sent to the Cook's, and my people had so little witt to send in our meat +from abroad in that Cook's dishes, which were marked with the name of the +Cook upon them, by which, if they observed anything, they might know it +was not my own dinner. After dinner we broke up, and I by coach, setting +down Luellin in Cheapside. So to White Hall, where at the Committee of +Tangier, but, Lord! how I was troubled to see my Lord Tiviott's accounts +of L10,000 paid in that manner, and wish 1000 times I had not been there. +Thence rose with Sir G. Carteret and to his lodgings, and there +discoursed of our frays at the table to-day, and particularly of that of +the contract, and the contract of masts the other day, declaring my fair +dealing, and so needing not any man's good report of it, or word for it, +and that I would make it so appear to him, if he desired it, which he +did, and I will do it. Thence home by water in great pain, and at my +office a while, and thence a little to Sir W. Pen, and so home to bed, +and finding myself beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be, +and in pain in making water, I took a couple of pills that I had by me of +Mr. Hollyard's. + + + +7th. They wrought in the morning, and I did keep my bed, and my pain +continued on me mightily that I kept within all day in great pain, and +could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. +So in the evening I took coach and to Mr. Holliard's, but he was not at +home, and so home again, and whether the coach did me good or no I know +not . . . . So to bed and lay in good ease all night, and . . . . +pretty well to the morning . . . . . + + [Pepys's prescription for the colic: + + "Balsom of Sulphur, 3 or 4 drops in a spoonfull of Syrrup of Colts + foote, not eating or drinking two hours before or after. + + "The making of this Balsom: + + "2/3ds of fine Oyle, and 1/3d of fine Brimstone, sett 13 or 14 + houres upon yt fire, simpring till a thicke Stufte lyes at ye + Bottome, and ye Balsom at ye topp. Take this off &c. + + "Sir Rob. Parkhurst for ye Collique."--M. B.] + + + +8th. So, keeping myself warm, to the office, and at noon home to dinner, +my pain coming again by breaking no wind nor having any stool. So to Mr. +Holliard, and by his direction, he assuring me that it is nothing of the +stone, but only my constitution being costive, and that, and cold from +without, breeding and keeping the wind, I took some powder that he did +give me in white wine, and sat late up, till past eleven at night, with +my wife in my chamber till it had done working, which was so weakly that +I could hardly tell whether it did work or no. My mayds being at this +time in great dirt towards getting of all my house clean, and weary and +having a great deal of work to do therein to-morrow and next day, were +gone to bed before my wife and I, who also do lie in our room more like +beasts than Christians, but that is only in order to having of the house +shortly in a cleaner, or rather very clean condition. Some ease I had so +long as this did keep my body loose, and I slept well. + + + +9th. And did keep my bed most of this morning, my body I find being +still bound and little wind, and so my pain returned again, though not so +bad, but keeping my body with warm clothes very hot I made shift to +endure it, and at noon sent word to Mr. Hollyard of my condition, that I +could neither have a natural stool nor break wind, and by that means +still in pain and frequent offering to make water. So he sent me two +bottles of drink and some syrup, one bottle to take now and the other to- +morrow morning. So in the evening, after Commissioner Pett, who came to +visit me, and was going to Chatham, but methinks do talk to me in quite +another manner, doubtfully and shyly, and like a stranger, to what he did +heretofore. After I saw he was gone I did drink one of them, but it was +a most loathsome draught, and did keep myself warm after it, and had that +afternoon still a stool or two, but in no plenty, nor any wind almost +carried away, and so to bed. In no great pain, but do not think myself +likely to be well till I have a freedom of stool and wind. Most of this +day and afternoon my wife and I did spend together in setting things now +up and in order in her closet, which indeed is, and will be, when I can +get her some more things to put in it, a very pleasant place, and is at +present very pretty, and such as she, I hope, will find great content in. +So to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and not in any good ease yet, but had pain in making water, +and some course. I see I must take besides keeping myself warm to make +myself break wind and go freely to stool before I can be well, neither of +which I can do yet, though I have drank the other bottle of Mr. +Hollyard's against my stomach this morning. I did, however, make shift +to go to the office, where we sat, and there Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. +Batten did advise me to take some juniper water, and Sir W. Batten sent +to his Lady for some for me, strong water made of juniper. Whether that +or anything else of my draught this morning did it I cannot tell, but I +had a couple of stools forced after it . . . . but whether I shall +grow better upon it I cannot tell. Dined at home at noon, my wife and +house in the dirtiest pickle that ever she and it was in almost, but in +order, I hope, this night to be very clean. To the office all the +afternoon upon victualling business, and late at it, so after I wrote by +the post to my father, I home. This evening Mr. Hollyard sends me an +electuary to take (a walnut quantity of it) going to bed, which I did. +'Tis true I slept well, and rose in a little ease in the morning. + + + +11th (Lord's day). And was mightily pleased to see my house clean and in +good condition, but something coming into my wife's head, and mine, to be +done more about bringing the green bed into our chamber, which is +handsomer than the red one, though not of the colour of our hangings, my +wife forebore to make herself clean to-day, but continued in a sluttish +condition till to-morrow. I after the old passe, all the day within +doors, . . . . the effect of my electuary last night, and the +greatest of my pain I find to come by my straining . . . . For all +this I eat with a very good stomach, and as much as I use to do, and so I +did this noon, and staid at home discoursing and doing things in my +chamber, altering chairs in my chamber, and set them above in the red +room, they being Turkey work, and so put their green covers upon those +that were above, not so handsome. At night fell to reading in the Church +History of Fuller's, and particularly Cranmer's letter to Queen +Elizabeth, which pleases me mightily for his zeal, obedience, and +boldness in a cause of religion. After supper to bed as I use to be, in +pain . . . . . + + + +12th. Up (though slept well) and made some water in the morning [as] I +used to do, and a little pain returned to me, and some fears, but being +forced to go to the Duke at St. James's, I took coach and in my way +called upon Mr. Hollyard and had his advice to take a glyster. At St. +James's we attended the Duke all of us. And there, after my discourse, +Mr. Coventry of his own accord begun to tell the Duke how he found that +discourse abroad did run to his prejudice about the fees that he took, +and how he sold places and other things; wherein he desired to appeal to +his Highness, whether he did any thing more than what his predecessors +did, and appealed to us all. So Sir G. Carteret did answer that some +fees were heretofore taken, but what he knows not; only that selling of +places never was nor ought to be countenanced. So Mr. Coventry very +hotly answered to Sir G. Carteret, and appealed to himself whether he was +not one of the first that put him upon looking after this taking of fees, +and that he told him that Mr. Smith should say that he made L5000 the +first year, and he believed he made L7000. This Sir G. Carteret denied, +and said, that if he did say so he told a lie, for he could not, nor did +know, that ever he did make that profit of his place; but that he +believes he might say L2500 the first year. Mr. Coventry instanced in +another thing, particularly wherein Sir G. Carteret did advise with him +about the selling of the Auditor's place of the stores, when in the +beginning there was an intention of creating such an office. This he +confessed, but with some lessening of the tale Mr. Coventry told, it +being only for a respect to my Lord Fitz-Harding. In fine, Mr. Coventry +did put into the Duke's hand a list of above 250 places that he did give +without receiving one farthing, so much as his ordinary fees for them, +upon his life and oath; and that since the Duke's establishment of fees +he had never received one token more of any man; and that in his whole +life he never conditioned or discoursed of any consideration from any +commanders since he came to the Navy. And afterwards, my Lord Barkeley +merrily discoursing that he wished his profit greater than it was, and +that he did believe that he had got L50,000 since he came in, Mr. +Coventry did openly declare that his Lordship, or any of us, should have +not only all he had got, but all that he had in the world (and yet he did +not come a beggar into the Navy, nor would yet be thought to speak in any +contempt of his Royall Highness's bounty), and should have a year to +consider of it too, for L25,000. The Duke's answer was, that he wished +we all had made more profit than he had of our places, and that we had +all of us got as much as one man below stayres in the Court, which he +presently named, and it was Sir George Lane! This being ended, and the +list left in the Duke's hand, we parted, and I with Sir G. Carteret, Sir +J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten by coach to the Exchange, and there a while, +and so home, and whether it be the jogging, or by having my mind more +employed (which I believe is a great matter) I know not, but . . . . +I begin to be suddenly well, at least better than I was. So home and to +dinner, and thence by coach to the Old Exchange, and there cheapened some +laces for my wife, and then to Mr.----- the great laceman in Cheapside, +and bought one cost me L4. more by 20s. than I intended, but when I came +to see them I was resolved to buy one worth wearing with credit, and so +to the New Exchange, and there put it to making, and so to my Lord's +lodgings and left my wife, and so I to the Committee of Tangier, and then +late home with my wife again by coach, beginning to be very well, and yet +when I came home . . . . the little straining which I thought was no +strain at all at the present did by and by bring me some pain for a good +while. Anon, about 8 o'clock, my wife did give me a clyster which Mr. +Hollyard directed, viz., a pint of strong ale, 4 oz. of sugar, and 2 oz. +of butter. It lay while I lay upon the bed above an hour, if not two, +and then thinking it quite lost I rose, and by and by it began with my +walking to work, and gave me three or four most excellent stools and +carried away wind, put me in excellent ease, and taking my usual walnut +quantity of electuary at my going into bed I had about two stools in the +night . . . . . + + + +13th. And so rose in the morning in perfect good ease . . . . +continued all the morning well, and in the afternoon had a natural easily +and dry stoole, the first I have had these five days or six, for which +God be praised, and so am likely to continue well, observing for the time +to come when any of this pain comes again + +(1) To begin to keep myself as warm as I can. + +(2) Strain as little as ever I can backwards, remembering that my pain +will come by and by, though in the very straining I do not feel it. + +(3) Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get +an easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind. + +(4) To begin to suspect my health immediately when I begin to become +costive and bound, and by all means to keep my body loose, and that to +obtain presently after I find myself going the contrary. + +This morning at the office, and at noon with Creed to the Exchange, where +much business, but, Lord! how my heart, though I know not reason for it, +began to doubt myself, after I saw Stint, Field's one-eyed solicitor, +though I know not any thing that they are doing, or that they endeavour +any thing further against us in the business till the terme. Home, and +Creed with me to dinner, and after dinner John Cole, my old friend, came +to see and speak with me about a friend. I find him ingenious, but more +and more discern his city pedantry; but however, I will endeavour to have +his company now and then, for that he knows much of the temper of the +City, and is able to acquaint therein as much as most young men, being of +large acquaintance, and himself, I think, somewhat unsatisfied with the +present state of things at Court and in the Church. Then to the office, +and there busy till late, and so home to my wife, with some ease and +pleasure that I hope to be able to follow my business again, which by +God's leave I am resolved to return to with more and more eagerness. +I find at Court, that either the King is doubtfull of some disturbance, +or else would seem so (and I have reason to hope it is no worse), by his +commanding all commanders of castles, &c., to repair to their charges; +and mustering the Guards the other day himself, where he found reason to +dislike their condition to my Lord Gerard, finding so many absent men, or +dead pays. + + [This is probably an allusion to the practice of not reporting the + deaths of soldiers, that the officers might continue to draw their + pay.--B.] + +My Lady Castlemaine, I hear, is in as great favour as ever, and the King +supped with her the very first night he came from Bath: and last night +and the night before supped with her; when there being a chine of beef to +roast, and the tide rising into their kitchen that it could not be +roasted there, and the cook telling her of it, she answered, "Zounds! +she must set the house on fire but it should be roasted!" So it was +carried to Mrs. Sarah's husband's, and there it was roasted. So home to +supper and to bed, being mightily pleased with all my house and my red +chamber, where my wife and I intend constantly to lie, and the having of +our dressing room and mayds close by us without any interfering or +trouble. + + + +14th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and part of it Sir J. +Minnes spent, as he do every thing else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy +of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand any +thing that I was weary of him, and so I toward the 'Change and met with +Mr. Grant, and he and I to the Coffee-house, where I understand by him +that Sir W. Petty and his vessel are coming, and the King intends to go +to Portsmouth to meet it. Thence home and after dinner my wife and I, +by Mr. Rawlinson's conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and +boys in their vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and +some things stand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which +all coming in do bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say +something, to which others that hear him do cry Amen, and the party do +kiss his vayle. Their service all in a singing way, and in Hebrew. And +anon their Laws that they take out of the press are carried by several +men, four or five several burthens in all, and they do relieve one +another; and whether it is that every one desires to have the carrying of +it, I cannot tell, thus they carried it round about the room while such a +service is singing. And in the end they had a prayer for the King, which +they pronounced his name in Portugall; but the prayer, like the rest, in +Hebrew. But, Lord! to see the disorder, laughing, sporting, and no +attention, but confusion in all their service, more like brutes than +people knowing the true God, would make a man forswear ever seeing them +more and indeed I never did see so much, or could have imagined there had +been any religion in the whole world so absurdly performed as this. Away +thence with my mind strongly disturbed with them, by coach and set down +my wife in Westminster Hall, and I to White Hall, and there the Tangier +Committee met, but the Duke and the Africa Committee meeting in our room, +Sir G. Carteret; Sir W. Compton, Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Rider, Cuttance and +myself met in another room, with chairs set in form but no table, and +there we had very fine discourses of the business of the fitness to keep +Sally, and also of the terms of our King's paying the Portugees that +deserted their house at Tangier, which did much please me, and so to +fetch my wife, and so to the New Exchange about her things, and called at +Thomas Pepys the turner's and bought something there, an so home to +supper and to bed, after I had been a good while with Sir W. Pen, railing +and speaking freely our minds against Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, +but no more than the folly of one and the knavery of the other do +deserve. + + + +15th. Up, I bless God being now in pretty good condition, but cannot +come to make natural stools yet . . . . . So up and to the office, +where we sat all the morning, and at noon dined at home, my head full of +business, and after stepping abroad to buy a thing or two, compasses and +snuffers for my wife, I returned to my office and there mighty busy till +it was late, and so home well contented with the business that I had done +this afternoon, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +16th. Up and to my office, where all the morning doing business, and at +noon home to dinner, and then up to remove my chest and clothes up stairs +to my new wardrobe, that I may have all my things above where I lie, and +so by coach abroad with my wife, leaving her at my Lord's till I went to +the Tangier Committee, where very good discourse concerning the Articles +of peace to be continued with Guyland, and thence took up my wife, and +with her to her tailor's, and then to the Exchange and to several places, +and so home and to my office, where doing some business, and then home to +supper and to bed. + + + +17th. Up and to my office, and there we sat a very full board all the +morning upon some accounts of Mr. Gauden's. Here happened something +concerning my Will which Sir W. Batten would fain charge upon him, and I +heard him mutter something against him of complaint for his often +receiving people's money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much, +but I will be even with him. Thence to the Dolphin Tavern, and there Mr. +Gauden did give us a great dinner. Here we had some discourse of the +Queen's being very sick, if not dead, the Duke and Duchess of York being +sent for betimes this morning to come to White Hall to her. So to my +office and there late doing business, and so home to supper, my house +being got mighty clean to my great content from top to toe, and so to +bed, myself beginning to be in good condition of health also, but only my +laying out so much money upon clothes for myself and wife and her closet +troubles me. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up, and troubled at a distaste my wife took at a +small thing that Jane did, and to see that she should be so vexed that I +took part with Jane, wherein I had reason; but by and by well again, and +so my wife in her best gown and new poynt that I bought her the other +day, to church with me, where she has not been these many weeks, and her +mayde Jane with her. I was troubled to see Pembleton there, but I +thought it prudence to take notice myself first of it and show my wife +him, and so by little and little considering that it mattered not much +his being there I grew less concerned and so mattered it not much, and +the less when, anon, my wife showed me his wife, a pretty little woman, +and well dressed, with a good jewel at her breast. The parson, Mr. +Mills, I perceive, did not know whether to pray for the Queen or no, +and so said nothing about her; which makes me fear she is dead. But +enquiring of Sir J. Minnes, he told me that he heard she was better last +night. So home to dinner, and Tom came and dined with me, and so, anon, +to church again, and there a simple coxcomb preached worse than the Scot, +and no Pembleton nor his wife there, which pleased me not a little, and +then home and spent most of the evening at Sir W. Pen's in complaisance, +seeing him though he deserves no respect from me. This evening came my +uncle Wight to speak with me about my uncle Thomas's business, and Mr. +Moore came, 4 or 5 days out of the country and not come to see me before, +though I desired by two or three messengers that he would come to me as +soon as he came to town. Which do trouble me to think he should so soon +forget my kindness to him, which I am afraid he do. After walking a good +while in the garden with these, I went up again to Sir W. Pen, and took +my wife home, and after supper to prayers, and read very seriously my +vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses, but I +hope in God I do not, and so to bed. + + + +19th. Waked with a very high wind, and said to my wife, "I pray God I +hear not of the death of any great person, this wind is so high!" fearing +that the Queen might be dead. So up; and going by coach with Sir W. +Batten and Sir J. Minnes to St. James's, they tell me that Sir W. +Compton, who it is true had been a little sickly for a week or fortnight, +but was very well upon Friday at night last at the Tangier Committee with +us, was dead--died yesterday: at which I was most exceedingly surprised, +he being, and so all the world saying that he was, one of the worthyest +men and best officers of State now in England; and so in my conscience he +was: of the best temper, valour, abilities of mind, integrity, birth, +fine person, and diligence of any one man he hath left behind him in the +three kingdoms; and yet not forty years old, or if so, that is all. + + [Sir William Compton (1625-1663) was knighted at Oxford, December + 12th, 1643. He was called by Cromwell "the sober young man and the + godly cavalier." After the Restoration he was M.P. for Cambridge + (1661), and appointed Master of the Ordnance. He died in Drury + Lane, suddenly, as stated in the text, and was buried at Compton + Wynyates, Warwickshire.] + +I find the sober men of the Court troubled for him; and yet not so as to +hinder or lessen their mirth, talking, laughing, and eating, drinking, +and doing every thing else, just as if there was no such thing, which is +as good an instance for me hereafter to judge of death, both as to the +unavoidableness, suddenness, and little effect of it upon the spirits of +others, let a man be never so high, or rich, or good; but that all die +alike, no more matter being made of the death of one than another, and +that even to die well, the praise of it is not considerable in the world, +compared to the many in the world that know not nor make anything of it, +nor perhaps to them (unless to one that like this poor gentleman, who is +one of a thousand, there nobody speaking ill of him) that will speak ill +of a man. Coming to St. James's, I hear that the Queen did sleep five +hours pretty well to-night, and that she waked and gargled her mouth, and +to sleep again; but that her pulse beats fast, beating twenty to the +King's or my Lady Suffolk's eleven; but not so strong as it was. It +seems she was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet, and to +have the extreme unction given her by the priests, who were so long about +it that the doctors were angry. The King, they all say; is most fondly +disconsolate for her, and weeps by her, which makes her weep; + + ["The queen was given over by her physicians, . . . , and the + good nature of the king was much affected with the situation in + which he saw! a princess whom, though he did not love her, yet he + greatly esteemed. She loved him tenderly, and thinking that it was + the last time she should ever speak to him, she told him 'That the + concern he showed for her death was enough to make her quit life + with regret; but that not possessing charms sufficient to merit his + tenderness, she had at least the consolation in dying to give place + to a consort who might be more worthy, of it and to whom heaven, + perhaps, might grant a blessing that had been refused to her.' At + these words she bathed his hands with some tears which he thought + would be her last; he mingled his own with hers, and without + supposing she would take him at his word, he conjured her to live + for his sake."--Grammont Memoirs, chap. vii.] + +which one this day told me he reckons a good sign, for that it carries +away some rheume from the head. This morning Captain Allen tells me how +the famous Ned Mullins, by a slight fall, broke his leg at the ancle, +which festered; and he had his leg cut off on Saturday, but so ill done, +notwithstanding all the great chyrurgeons about the town at the doing of +it, that they fear he will not live with it, which is very strange, +besides the torment he was put to with it. After being a little with the +Duke, and being invited to dinner to my Lord Barkeley's, and so, not +knowing how to spend our time till noon, Sir W. Batten and I took coach, +and to the Coffee-house in Cornhill; + + [This may be the Coffee House in Exchange Alley, which had for a + sign, Morat the Great, or The Great Turk, where coffee was sold in + berry, in powder, and pounded in a mortar. There is a token of the + house, see "Boyne's Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., p. 592.] + +where much talk about the Turk's proceedings, and that the plague is got +to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier; and it is also carried to +Hambrough. The Duke says the King purposes to forbid any of their ships +coming into the river. The Duke also told us of several Christian +commanders (French) gone over to the Turks to serve them; and upon +inquiry I find that the King of France do by this aspire to the Empire, +and so to get the Crown of Spayne also upon the death of the King, which +is very probable, it seems. Back to St. James's, and there dined with my +Lord Barkeley and his lady, where Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Batten, and +myself, with two gentlemen more; my Lady, and one of the ladies of honour +to the Duchesse (no handsome woman, but a most excellent hand). A fine +French dinner, and so we after dinner broke up and to Creed's new +lodgings in Axe-yard, which I like very well and so with him to White +Hall and walked up and down in the galleries with good discourse, and +anon Mr. Coventry and Povy, sad for the loss of one of our number we sat +down as a Committee for Tangier and did some business and so broke up, +and I down with Mr. Coventry and in his chamber discoursing of business +of the office and Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten's carriage, when he +most ingeniously tells me how they have carried themselves to him in +forbearing to speak the other day to the Duke what they know they have so +largely at other times said to him, and I told him what I am put to about +the bargain for masts. I perceive he thinks of it all and will remember +it. Thence took up my wife at Mrs. Harper's where she and Jane were, and +so called at the New Exchange for some things for her, and then at Tom's +went up and saw his house now it is finished, and indeed it is very +handsome, but he not within and so home and to my office; and then to +supper and to bed. + + + +20th. Up and to the office, where we sat; and at noon Sir G. Carteret, +Sir J. Minnes, and I to dinner to my Lord Mayor's, being invited, where +was the Farmers of the Customes, my Lord Chancellor's three sons, and +other great and much company, and a very great noble dinner, as this +Mayor--[Sir John Robinson.]--is good for nothing else. No extraordinary +discourse of any thing, every man being intent upon his dinner, and +myself willing to have drunk some wine to have warmed my belly, but I +did for my oath's sake willingly refrain it, but am so well pleased and +satisfied afterwards thereby, for it do keep me always in so good a frame +of mind that I hope I shall not ever leave this practice. Thence home, +and took my wife by coach to White Hall, and she set down at my Lord's +lodgings, I to a Committee of Tangier, and thence with her homeward, +calling at several places by the way. Among others at Paul's Churchyard, +and while I was in Kirton's shop, a fellow came to offer kindness or +force to my wife in the coach, but she refusing, he went away, after the +coachman had struck him, and he the coachman. So I being called, went +thither, and the fellow coming out again of a shop, I did give him a good +cuff or two on the chops, and seeing him not oppose me, I did give him +another; at last found him drunk, of which I was glad, and so left him, +and home, and so to my office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed. +This evening, at my Lord's lodgings, Mrs. Sarah talking with my wife and +I how the Queen do, and how the King tends her being so ill. She tells +us that the Queen's sickness is the spotted fever; that she was as full +of the spots as a leopard which is very strange that it should be no more +known; but perhaps it is not so. And that the King do seem to take it +much to heart, for that he hath wept before her; but, for all that; that +he hath not missed one night since she was sick, of supping with my Lady +Castlemaine; which I believe is true, for she [Sarah] says that her +husband hath dressed the suppers every night; and I confess I saw him +myself coming through the street dressing of a great supper to-night, +which Sarah says is also for the King and her; which is a very strange +thing. + + + +21st. Up, and by and by comes my brother Tom to me, though late (which +do vex me to the blood that I could never get him to come time enough to +me, though I have spoke a hundred times; but he is very sluggish, and too +negligent ever to do well at his trade I doubt), and having lately +considered with my wife very much of the inconvenience of my going in no +better plight, we did resolve of putting me into a better garb, and, +among other things, to have a good velvet cloake; that is, of cloth lined +with velvet and other things modish, and a perruque, and so I sent him +and her out to buy me velvet, and I to the Exchange, and so to Trinity +House, and there dined with Sir W. Batten, having some business to speak +with him, and Sir W. Rider. Thence, having my belly full, away on foot +to my brother's, all along Thames Streete, and my belly being full of +small beer, I did all alone, for health's sake, drink half a pint of +Rhenish wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer. From my brother's with +my wife to the Exchange, to buy things for her and myself, I being in a +humour of laying out money, but not prodigally, but only in clothes, +which I every day see that I suffer for want of, I so home, and after a +little at my office, home to supper and to bed. Memorandum: This morning +one Mr. Commander, a scrivener, came to me from Mr. Moore with a deed of +which. Mr. Moore had told me, that my Lord had made use of my name, and +that I was desired by my Lord to sign it. Remembering this very well, +though understanding little of the particulars, I read it over, and found +it concern Sir Robt. Bernard and Duckinford, their interest in the manor +of Brampton. So I did sign it, declaring to Mr. Commander that I am only +concerned in having my name at my Lord Sandwich's desire used therein, +and so I sealed it up after I had signed and sealed the deed, and desired +him to give it so sealed to Mr. Moore. I did also call at the Wardrobe +this afternoon to have told Mr. Moore of it, but he was not within, but +knowing Mr. Commander to have the esteem of a good and honest man with my +Lord Crew, I did not doubt to intrust him with the deed after I had +signed it. This evening after I came home I begun to enter my wife in +arithmetique, in order to her studying of the globes, and she takes it +very well, and, I hope, with great pleasure, I shall bring her to +understand many fine things. + + + +22nd. Up to the office, where we sat till noon and then I home to +dinner, and after dinner with my wife to her study and there read some +more arithmetique, which she takes with great ease and pleasure. This +morning, hearing that the Queen grows worse again, I sent to stop the +making of my velvet cloake, till I see whether she lives or dies. So a +little abroad about several businesses, and then home and to my office +till night, and then home to supper, teach my wife, and so to bed. + + + +23rd. Up, and this morning comes Mr. Clerke, and tells me that the +Injunction against Trice is dismissed again, which troubles me much. So +I am to look after it in the afternoon. There comes also by appointment +my uncle Thomas, to receive the first payment of his daughter's money. +But showing of me the original of the deed by which his daughter gives +her right to her legacy to him, and the copy of it attested by the +Scrivener, for me to keep by me, I did find some difference, and +thereupon did look more into it, and at last did find the whole thing a +forgery; yet he maintained it again and again, upon oath, that it had +been signed and sealed by my cozen Mary ever since before her marriage. +So I told him to his teeth he did like a knave, and so he did, and went +with him to the Scrivener at Bedlam, and there found how it came to pass, +viz., that he had lost, or pretends to have lost, the true original, and +that so he was forced to take this course; but a knave, at least a man +that values not what he swears to, I perceive he is. But however I am +now better able to see myself fully secured before I part with the money, +for I find that his son Charles has right to this legacy till the first +L100 of his daughter's portion be paid, he being bond for it. So I put +him upon getting both his sons to be bound for my security, and so left +him and so home, and then abroad to my brother's, but found him abroad at +the young couple that was married yesterday, and he one of the Br[ide's] +men, a kinswoman (Brumfield) of the Joyces married to an upholster. +Thence walked to the King's Head at Charing Cross and there dined, and +hear that the Queen slept pretty well last night, but her fever continues +upon her still. It seems she hath never a Portuguese doctor here. +Thence by appointment to the Six Clerks' office to meet Mr. Clerke, which +I did and there waited all the afternoon for Wilkinson my attorney, but +he came not, and so vexed and weary we parted, and I endeavoured but in +vain to have found Dr. Williams, of whom I shall have use in Trice's +business, but I could not find him. So weary walked home; in my way +bought a large kitchen knife and half dozen oyster knives. Thence to Mr. +Holliard, who tells me that Mullins is dead of his leg cut off the other +day, but most basely done. He tells me that there is no doubt but that +all my slyme do come away in my water, and therefore no fear of the +stone; but that my water being so slymy is a good sign. He would have me +now and then to take a clyster, the same I did the other day, though I +feel no pain, only to keep me loose, and instead of butter, which he +would have to be salt butter, he would have me sometimes use two or three +ounces of honey, at other times two or three ounces of Linseed oil. +Thence to Mr. Rawlinson's and saw some of my new bottles made, with my +crest upon them, filled with wine, about five or six dozen. So home and +to my office a little, and thence home to prepare myself against T. +Trice, and also to draw a bond fit for my uncle and his sons to enter +into before I pay them the money. That done to bed. + + + +24th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning about Mr. Gauden's +account, and at noon to dinner with him at the Dolphin, where mighty +merry by pleasant stories of Mr. Coventry's and Sir J. Minnes's, which I +have put down some of in my book of tales. Just as I was going out my +uncle Thomas came to the with a draught of a bond for him and his sons to +sign to me about the payment of the L20 legacy, which I agreed to, but he +would fain have had from me the copy of the deed, which he had forged and +did bring me yesterday, but I would not give him it. Says [he] I +perceive then you will keep it to defame me with, and desired me not to +speak of it, for he did it innocently. Now I confess I do not find any +great hurt in the thing, but only to keep from me a sight of the true +original deed, wherein perhaps there was something else that may touch +this business of the legacy which he would keep from me, or it may be, it +is really lost as he says it is. But then he need not have used such a +slight, but confess it without danger. Thence by coach with Mr. Coventry +to the Temple, and thence I to the Six Clerks' office, and discoursed +with my Attorney and Solicitor, and he and I to Mr. Turner, who puts me +in great fear that I shall not get retayned again against Tom Trice; +which troubles me. Thence, it being night, homewards, and called at +Wotton's and tried some shoes, but he had none to fit me. He tells me +that by the Duke of York's persuasion Harris is come again to Sir W. +Davenant upon his terms that he demanded, which will make him very high +and proud. Thence to another shop, and there bought me a pair of shoes, +and so walked home and to my office, and dispatch letters by the post, +and so home to supper and to bed, where to my trouble I find my wife +begin to talk of her being alone all day, which is nothing but her lack +of something to do, for while she was busy she never, or seldom, +complained . . . . . The Queen is in a good way of recovery; and Sir +Francis Pridgeon hath got great honour by it, it being all imputed to his +cordiall, which in her dispaire did give her rest and brought her to some +hopes of recovery. It seems that, after the much talk of troubles and a +plot, something is found in the North that a party was to rise, and some +persons that were to command it are found, as I find in a letter that Mr. +Coventry read to-day about it from those parts. + + [This refers to a rising in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which took + place on October 12th, and was known as the Farneley Wood Plot. The + rising was easily put down, and several prisoners were taken. A + special commission of oyer and terminer was sent down to York to try + the prisoners in January, 1663-64, when twenty-one were convicted + and executed. (See Whitaker's "Loidis and Elmete," 1816.)] + + + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and my wife and I to church, where it is strange +to see how the use and seeing Pembleton come with his wife thither to +church, I begin now to make too great matter of it, which before was so +terrible to me. Dined at home, my wife and I alone, a good dinner, and +so in the afternoon to church again, where the Scot preached, and I slept +most of the afternoon. So home, and my wife and I together all the +evening discoursing, and then after reading my vowes to myself, and my +wife with her mayds (who are mighty busy to get it dispatched because of +their mistress's promise, that when it is done they shall have leave all +to go see their friends at Westminster, whither my wife will carry them) +preparing for their washing to-morrow, we hastened to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. Waked about one o'clock in the morning . . . . My wife being +waked rung her bell, and the mayds rose and went to washing, we to sleep +again till 7 o'clock, and then up, and I abroad to look out Dr. Williams, +but being gone out I went to Westminster, and there seeing my Lord +Sandwich's footman knew he was come to town, and so I went in and saw +him, and received a kind salute from him, but hear that my father is very +ill still. Thence to Westminster Hall with Creed, and spent the morning +walking there, where, it being Terme time, I met several persons, and +talked with them, among others Dr. Pierce, who tells me that the Queen is +in a way to be pretty well again, but that her delirium in her head +continues still; that she talks idle, not by fits, but always, which in +some lasts a week after so high a fever, in some more, and in some for +ever; that this morning she talked mightily that she was brought to bed, +and that she wondered that she should be delivered without pain and +without spueing or being sicke, and that she was troubled that her boy +was but an ugly boy. But the King being by, said, "No, it is a very +pretty boy."--"Nay," says she, "if it be like you it is a fine boy +indeed, and I would be very well pleased with it." The other day she +talked mightily of Sir H. Wood's lady's great belly, and said if she +should miscarry he would never get another, and that she never saw such a +man as this Sir H. Wood in her life, and seeing of Dr. Pridgeon, she +said, "Nay, Doctor, you need not scratch your head, there is hair little +enough already in the place." But methinks it was not handsome for the +weaknesses of Princes to be talked of thus. Thence Creed and I to the +King's Head ordinary, where much and very good company, among others one +very talking man, but a scholler, that would needs put in his discourse +and philosophy upon every occasion, and though he did well enough, yet +his readiness to speak spoilt all. Here they say that the Turkes go on +apace, and that my Lord Castlehaven is going to raise 10,000 men here for +to go against him; that the King of France do offer to assist the Empire +upon condition that he may be their Generalissimo, and the Dolphin chosen +King of the Romans: and it is said that the King of France do occasion +this difference among the Christian Princes of the Empire, which gives +the Turke such advantages. They say also that the King of Spayne is +making all imaginable force against Portugall again. Thence Creed and I +to one or two periwigg shops about the Temple, having been very much +displeased with one that we saw, a head of greasy and old woman's haire, +at Jervas's in the morning; and there I think I shall fit myself of one +very handsomely made. Thence by coach, my mind being troubled for not +meeting with Dr. Williams, to St. Catharine's to look at a Dutch ship or +two for some good handsome maps, but met none, and so back to Cornhill to +Moxon's, but it being dark we staid not to see any, then to coach again, +and presently spying Sir W. Batten; I 'light and took him in and to the +Globe in Fleete Streete, by appointment, where by and by he and I with +our solicitor to Sir F. Turner about Field's business, and back to the +Globe, and thither I sent for Dr. Williams, and he is willing to swear in +my behalf against T. Trice, viz., that at T. Trice's desire we have met +to treat about our business. Thence (I drinking no wine) after an hour's +stay Sir W. Batten and another, and he drinking, we home by coach, and so +to my office and set down my Journall, and then home to supper and to +bed, my washing being in a good condition over. I did give Dr. Williams +20s. tonight, but it was after he had answered me well to what I had to +ask him about this business, and it was only what I had long ago in my +petty bag book allotted for him besides the bill of near L4 which I paid +him a good while since by my brother Tom for physique for my wife, +without any consideration to this business that he is to do for me, as +God shall save me. Among the rest, talking of the Emperor at table to- +day one young gentleman, a pretty man, and it seems a Parliament man, did +say that he was a sot; + + [Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor, was born June 9th, 1640. He + became King of Hungary in 1655, and King of Bohemia in 1658, in + which year he received the imperial crown. The Princes of the + German Empire watched for some time the progress of his struggle + with the Turks with indifference, but in 1663 they were induced to + grant aid to Leopold after he had made a personal appeal to them in + the diet at Ratisbon.] + +for he minded nothing of the Government, but was led by the Jesuites. +Several at table took him up, some for saying that he was a sot in being +led by the Jesuites, [who] are the best counsel he can take. Another +commander, a Scott[ish] Collonell, who I believe had several under him, +that he was a man that had thus long kept out the Turke till now, and did +many other great things, and lastly Mr. Progers, one of our courtiers, +who told him that it was not a thing to be said of any Soveraigne Prince, +be his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was +very prettily said. + + + +27th. Up, and my uncle Thomas and his scrivener bringing me a bond and +affidavit to my mind, I paid him his L20 for his daughter's legacy, and +L5 more for a Quarter's annuity, in the manner expressed in each +acquittance, to which I must be referred on any future occasion, and to +the bond and affidavit. Thence to the office and there sat till noon, +and then home to dinner, and after dinner (it being a foul house to-day +among my maids, making up their clothes) abroad with my Will with me by +coach to Dr, Williams, and with him to the Six Clerks's office, and +there, by advice of his acquaintance, I find that my case, through my +neglect and the neglect of my lawyers, is come to be very bad, so as that +it will be very hard to get my bill retayned again. However, I got him +to sign and swear an affidavit that there was treaties between T. Trice +and me with as much advantage as I could for me, but I will say that for +him he was most exact as ever I saw man in my life, word by word what it +was that he swore to, and though, God forgive me, I could have been +almost naturally willing to have let him ignorantly have sworn to +something that was not of itself very certain, either or no, yet out of +his own conscience and care he altered the words himself so as to make +them very safe for him to swear. This I carrying to my clerk Wilkinson, +and telling him how I heard matters to stand, he, like a conceited +fellow, made nothing of it but advised me to offer Trice's clerks the +cost of the dismission, viz., 46s. 8d., which I did, but they would not +take it without his client. Immediately thereupon we parted, and met T. +Trice coming into the room, and he came to me and served me with a +subpoena for these very costs, so I paid it him, but Lord! to see his +resolution, and indeed discretion, in the wording of his receipt, he +would have it most express to my greatest disadvantage that could be, yet +so as I could not deny to give it him. That being paid, my clerke, and +then his began to ask why we could not think, being friends, of referring +it, or stating it, first ourselves, and then put it to some good lawyer +to judge in it. From one word to more we were resolved to try, and to +that end to step to the Pope's Head Taverne, and there he and his Clerke +and Attorney and I and my Clerke, and sent for Mr. Smallwood, and by and +by comes Mr. Clerke, my Solicitor, and after I had privately discoursed +with my men and seen how doubtfully they talked, and what future certain +charge and trouble it would be, with a doubtful victory, I resolved to +condescend very low, and after some talke all together Trice and I +retired, and he came to L150 the lowest, and I bid him L80. So broke off +and then went to our company, and they putting us to a second private +discourse, at last I was contented to give him L100, he to spend 40s. of +it among this good company that was with us. So we went to our company, +both seeming well pleased that we were come to an end, and indeed I am in +the respects above said, though it be a great sum for us to part with. +I am to pay him by giving him leave to buy about L40 worth of Piggott's +land and to strike off so much of Piggott's debt, and the other to give +him bond to pay him in 12 months after without interest, only giving him +a power to buy more land of Piggott and paying him that way as he did for +the other, which I am well enough contented with, or at least to take the +land at that price and give him the money. This last I did not tell him, +but I shall order it so. Having agreed upon to-morrow come se'nnight for +the spending of the 40s. at Mr. Rawlinson's, we parted, and I set +T. Trice down in Paul's Churchyard and I by coach home and to my office, +and there set down this day's passages, and so home to supper and to bed. +Mr. Coventry tells me to-day that the Queen had a very good night last +night; but yet it is strange that still she raves and talks of little +more than of her having of children, and fancys now that she hath three +children, and that the girle is very like the King. And this morning +about five o'clock waked (the physician feeling her pulse, thinking to be +better able to judge, she being still and asleep, waked her) and the +first word she said was, "How do the children?" + + + +28th. Up and at my office all the morning, and at noon Mr. Creed came to +me and dined with me, and after dinner Murford came to me and he and I +discoursed wholly upon his breach of contract with us. After that Mr. +Creed and I abroad, I doing several errands, and with him at last to the +great coffee-house, and there after some common discourse we parted and I +home, paying what I owed at the Mitre in my way, and at home Sympson the +joyner coming he set up my press for my cloaks and other small things, +and so to my office a little, and to supper, and to bed. This morning +Mr. Blackburne came to me, and telling me what complaints Will made of +the usage he had from my wife and other discouragements, and, I seeing. +him, instead of advising, rather favouring his kinsman, I told him freely +my mind, but friendlily, and so we have concluded to have him have a +lodging elsewhere, and that I will spare him L15 of his salary, and if I +do not need to keep another L20. + + + +29th. Up, it being my Lord Mayor's day, Sir Anthony Bateman. This +morning was brought home my new velvet cloake, that is, lined with +velvet, a good cloth the outside, the first that ever I had in my life, +and I pray God it may not be too soon now that I begin to wear it. I had +it this day brought, thinking to have worn it to dinner, but I thought it +would be better to go without it because of the crowde, and so I did not +wear it. We met a little at the office, and then home again and got me +ready to go forth, my wife being gone forth by my consent before to see +her father and mother, and taken her cooke mayde and little girle to +Westminster with her for them to see their friends. This morning in +dressing myself and wanting a band, + + [The band succeeded the ruff as the ordinary civil costume. The + lawyers, who now retain bands, and the clergy, who have only lately + left them off, formerly wore ruffs.] + +I found all my bands that were newly made clean so ill smoothed that I +crumpled them, and flung them all on the ground, and was angry with Jane, +which made the poor girle mighty sad, so that I were troubled for it +afterwards. At noon I went forth, and by coach to Guild Hall (by the way +calling at Mr. Rawlinson's), and there was admitted, and meeting with Mr. +Proby (Sir R. Ford's son), and Lieutenant-Colonel Baron, a City +commander, we went up and down to see the tables; where under every salt +there was a bill of fare, and at the end of the table the persons proper +for the table. Many were the tables, but none in the Hall but the +Mayor's and the Lords of the Privy Council that had napkins + + [As the practice of eating with forks gradually was introduced from + Italy into England, napkins were not so generally used, but + considered more as an ornament than a necessary. + + "The laudable use of forks, + Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, + To the sparing of napkins." + + Ben Jonson, The Devil is an Ass, act v., sc. 3. + + The guests probably brought their own knife and fork with them in a + case.--M.B.] + +or knives, which was very strange. We went into the Buttry, and there +stayed and talked, and then into the Hall again: and there wine was +offered and they drunk, I only drinking some hypocras, which do not break +my vowe, it being, to the best of my present judgement, only a mixed +compound drink, and not any wine. + + [A drink, composed usually of red wine, but sometimes of white, with + the addition of sugar and spices. Sir Walter Scott ("Quarterly + Review," vol. xxxiii.) says, after quoting this passage of Pepys, + "Assuredly his pieces of bacchanalian casuistry can only be matched + by that of Fielding's chaplain of Newgate, who preferred punch to + wine, because the former was a liquor nowhere spoken against in + Scripture."] + +If I am mistaken, God forgive me! but I hope and do think I am not. By +and by met with Creed; and we, with the others, went within the several +Courts, and there saw the tables prepared for the Ladies and Judges and +Bishopps: all great sign of a great dinner to come. By and by about one +o'clock, before the Lord Mayor came, come into the Hall, from the room +where they were first led into, the Lord Chancellor (Archbishopp before +him), with the Lords of the Council, and other Bishopps, and they to +dinner. Anon comes the Lord Mayor, who went up to the lords, and then to +the other tables to bid wellcome; and so all to dinner. I sat near +Proby, Baron, and Creed at the Merchant Strangers' table; where ten good +dishes to a messe, with plenty of wine of all sorts, of which I drunk +none; but it was very unpleasing that we had no napkins nor change of +trenchers, and drunk out of earthen pitchers and wooden dishes.--[The +City plate was probably melted during the Civil War.-M.B.]--It happened +that after the lords had half dined, came the French Embassador, up to +the lords' table, where he was to have sat; but finding the table set, he +would not sit down nor dine with the Lord Mayor, who was not yet come, +nor have a table to himself, which was offered; but in a discontent went +away again. After I had dined, I and Creed rose and went up and down the +house, and up to the lady's room, and there stayed gazing upon them. But +though there were many and fine, both young and old, yet I could not +discern one handsome face there; which was very strange, nor did I find +the lady that young Dawes married so pretty as I took her for, I having +here an opportunity of looking much upon her very near. I expected +musique, but there was none but only trumpets and drums, which displeased +me. The dinner, it seems, is made by the Mayor and two Sheriffs for the +time being, the Lord Mayor paying one half, and they the other. And the +whole, Proby says, is reckoned to come to about 7 or L800 at most. Being +wearied with looking upon a company of ugly women, Creed and I went away, +and took coach and through Cheapside, and there saw the pageants, which +were very silly, and thence to the Temple, where meeting Greatorex, he +and we to Hercules Pillars, there to show me the manner of his going +about of draining of fenns, which I desired much to know, but it did not +appear very satisfactory to me, as he discoursed it, and I doubt he will +faile in it. Thence I by coach home, and there found my wife come home, +and by and by came my brother Tom, with whom I was very angry for not +sending me a bill with my things, so as that I think never to have more +work done by him if ever he serves me so again, and so I told him. The +consideration of laying out L32 12s. this very month in his very work +troubles me also, and one thing more, that is to say, that Will having +been at home all the day, I doubt is the occasion that Jane has spoken to +her mistress tonight that she sees she cannot please us and will look out +to provide herself elsewhere, which do trouble both of us, and we wonder +also at her, but yet when the rogue is gone I do not fear but the wench +will do well. To the office a little, to set down my Journall, and so +home late to supper and to bed. The Queen mends apace, they say; but yet +talks idle still. + + + +30th. Lay long in bed with my wife, and then up and a while at my +office, and so to the Change, and so [home] again, and there I found my +wife in a great passion with her mayds. I upstairs to set some things in +order in our chamber and wardrobe, and so to dinner upon a good dish of +stewed beef, then up again about my business. Then by coach with my wife +to the New Exchange, and there bought and paid for several things, and +then back, calling at my periwigg-makers, and there showed my wife the +periwigg made for me, and she likes it very well, and so to my brother's, +and to buy a pair of boddice for her, and so home, and to my office late, +and then home to my wife, purposing to go on to a new lesson in +arithmetique with her. So to supper and to bed. The Queen mends apace, +but her head still light. My mind very heavy thinking of my great +layings out lately, and what they must still be for clothes, but I hope +it is in order to getting of something the more by it, for I perceive how +I have hitherto suffered for lack of going as becomes my place. After a +little discourse with my wife upon arithmetique, to bed. + + + +31st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +home to dinner, where Creed came and dined with me, and after dinner he +and I upstairs, and I showed him my velvet cloake and other things of +clothes, that I have lately bought, which he likes very well, and I took +his opinion as to some things of clothes, which I purpose to wear, being +resolved to go a little handsomer than I have hitherto. Thence to the +office; where busy till night, and then to prepare my monthly account, +about which I staid till 10 or 11 o'clock at night, and to my great +sorrow find myself L43 worse than I was the last month, which was then +L760, and now it is but L717. But it hath chiefly arisen from my +layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her about L12, and +for myself L55, or thereabouts; having made myself a velvet cloake, two +new cloth suits, black, plain both; a new shagg + + [Shag was a stuff similar to plush. In 1703 a youth who was missing + is described in an advertisement as wearing "red shag breeches, + striped with black stripes." (Planche's "Cyclopxdia of Costume ").] + +gowne, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and, silk +tops for my legs, and many other things, being resolved henceforward to +go like myself. And also two perriwiggs, one whereof costs me L3, and +the other 40s.--I have worn neither yet, but will begin next week, God +willing. So that I hope I shall not need now to lay out more money a +great while, I having laid out in clothes for myself and wife, and for +her closett and other things without, these two months, this and the +last, besides household expenses of victuals, &c., above L110. But I +hope I shall with more comfort labour to get more, and with better +successe than when, for want of clothes, I was forced to sneake like a +beggar. Having done this I went home, and after supper to bed, my mind +being eased in knowing my condition, though troubled to think that I have +been forced to spend so much. + +Thus I end this month worth L717, or thereabouts, with a good deal of +good goods more than I had, and a great deal of new and good clothes. My +greatest trouble and my wife's is our family, mighty out of order by this +fellow Will's corrupting the mayds by his idle talke and carriage, which +we are going to remove by hastening him out of the house, which his uncle +Blackburne is upon doing, and I am to give him L20 per annum toward his +maintenance. The Queene continues lightheaded, but in hopes to recover. +The plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here, which God +defend. + + [Defend is used in the sense of forbid. It is a Gallicism from the + French "defendre."] + +The Turke goes on mightily in the Emperor's dominions, and the Princes +cannot agree among themselves how to go against him. Myself in pretty +good health now, after being ill this month for a week together, but +cannot yet come to . . . . well, being so costive, but for this month +almost I have not had a good natural stool, but to this hour am forced to +take physic every night, which brings me neither but one stool, and that +in the morning as soon as I am up, all the rest of the day very costive. +My father has been very ill in the country, but I hope better again now. +I am lately come to a conclusion with Tom Trice to pay him L100, which is +a great deale of money, but I hope it will save a great deale more. But +thus everything lessens, which I have and am like to have, and therefore +I must look about me to get something more than just my salary, or else I +may resolve to live well and die a beggar. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And so to sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly +And there, did what I would with her +Content as to be at our own home, after being abroad awhile +Found guilty, and likely will be hanged (for stealing spoons) +Half a pint of Rhenish wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer +His readiness to speak spoilt all +No more matter being made of the death of one than another +Out of an itch to look upon the sluts there +Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here +Pride himself too much in it +Reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank +Resolve to live well and die a beggar +Scholler, that would needs put in his discourse (every occasion) +She was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet +The plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier +We having no luck in maids now-a-days +Who is over head and eares in getting her house up + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v27 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp28g10.zip b/old/sp28g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6461ba --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp28g10.zip |