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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, November/December
+1663, by Samuel Pepys
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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, November/December 1663
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+Author: Samuel Pepys
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+Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4144]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A.  F.R.S.
+
+            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
+
+    TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
+ MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
+                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
+
+                              (Unabridged)
+
+                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
+
+                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
+
+                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                           NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
+                                  1663
+
+November 1st (Lord's day).  This morning my brother's man brought me a new
+black baize waistecoate, faced with silke, which I put on from this day,
+laying by half-shirts for this winter.  He brought me also my new gowne of
+purple shagg, trimmed with gold, very handsome; he also brought me as a
+gift from my brother, a velvet hat, very fine to ride in, and the fashion,
+which pleases me very well, to which end, I believe, he sent it me, for he
+knows I had lately been angry with him.  Up and to church with my wife,
+and at noon dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and dumplings,
+an excellent dinner methought it was.  Then to church again, whither Sir
+W. Pen came, the first time he has been at church these several months, he
+having been sicke all the while.  Home and to my office, where I taught my
+wife some part of subtraction, and then fell myself to set some papers of
+my last night's accounts in order, and so to supper home, and after supper
+another bout at arithmetique with my wife, and then to my office again and
+made an end of my papers, and so home to prayers, and then to read my
+vowes, and to bed.
+
+2d.  Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there in the long Matted Gallery
+I find Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten--and by and by
+comes the King to walk there with three or four with him; and soon as he
+saw us, says he, "Here is the Navy Office," and there walked twenty turns
+the length of the gallery, talking, methought, but ordinary talke.  By and
+by came the Duke, and he walked, and at last they went into the Duke's
+lodgings.  The King staid so long that we could not discourse with the
+Duke, and so we parted.  I heard the Duke say that he was going to wear a
+perriwigg; and they say the King also will.  I never till this day
+observed that the King is mighty gray.  Thence, meeting with Creed, walked
+with him to Westminster Hall, and thence by coach took up Mrs. Hunt, and
+carried her towards my house, and we light at the 'Change, and sent her to
+my house, Creed and I to the Coffeehouse, and then to the 'Change, and so
+home, and carried a barrel of oysters with us, and so to dinner, and after
+a good dinner left Mrs. Hunt and my wife making marmalett of quinces, and
+Creed and I to the perriwigg makers, but it being dark concluded of
+nothing, and so Creed went away, and I with Sir W. Pen, who spied me in
+the street, in his coach home.  There found them busy still, and I up to
+my vyall.  Anon, the comfiture being well done, my wife and I took Mrs.
+Hunt at almost 9 at night by coach and carried Mrs. Hunt home, and did
+give her a box of sugar and a haunch of venison given me by my Lady the
+other day.  We did not 'light, but saw her within doors, and straight
+home, where after supper there happening some discourse where my wife
+thought she had taken Jane in a lie, she told me of it mighty
+triumphantly, but I, not seeing reason to conclude it a lie, was vexed,
+and my wife and I to very high words, wherein I up to my chamber, and she
+by and by followed me up, and to very bad words from her to me, calling me
+perfidious and man of no conscience, whatever I pretend to, and I know not
+what, which troubled me mightily, and though I would allow something to
+her passion, yet I see again and again that she spoke but somewhat of what
+she had in her heart.  But I tempered myself very well, so as that though
+we went to bed with discontent she yielded to me and began to be fond, so
+that being willing myself to peace, we did before we sleep become very
+good friends, it being past 12 o'clock, and so with good hearts and joy to
+rest.
+
+3rd.  Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon to the
+Coffee-house, and there heard a long and most passionate discourse between
+two doctors of physique, of which one was Dr. Allen, whom I knew at
+Cambridge, and a couple of apothecarys; these maintaining chymistry
+against them Galenicall physique; and the truth is, one of the apothecarys
+whom they charged most, did speak very prettily, that is, his language and
+sense good, though perhaps he might not be so knowing a physician as to
+offer to contest with them.  At last they came to some cooler terms, and
+broke up.  I home, and there Mr. Moore coming by my appointment dined with
+me, and after dinner came Mr. Goldsborough, and we discoursed about the
+business of his mother, but could come to no agreement in it but parted
+dissatisfied.  By and by comes Chapman, the periwigg-maker, and upon my
+liking it, without more ado I went up, and there he cut off my haire,
+which went a little to my heart at present to part with it; but, it being
+over, and my periwigg on, I paid him L3 for it; and away went he with my
+owne haire to make up another of, and I by and by, after I had caused all
+my mayds to look upon it; and they conclude it do become me; though Jane
+was mightily troubled for my parting of my own haire, and so was Besse, I
+went abroad to the Coffeehouse, and coming back went to Sir W. Pen and
+there sat with him and Captain Cocke till late at night, Cocke talking of
+some of the Roman history very well, he having a good memory.  Sir W. Pen
+observed mightily, and discoursed much upon my cutting off my haire, as he
+do of every thing that concerns me, but it is over, and so I perceive
+after a day or two it will be no great matter.
+
+4th.  Up and to my office, shewing myself to Sir W. Batten, and Sir J.
+Minnes, and no great matter made of my periwigg, as I was afeard there
+would be.  Among other things there came to me Shales of Portsmouth, by my
+order, and I began to discourse with him about the arrears of stores
+belonging to the Victualling Office there, and by his discourse I am in
+some hopes that if I can get a grant from the King of such a part of all I
+discover I may chance to find a way to get something by the by, which do
+greatly please me the very thoughts of.  Home to dinner, and very pleasant
+with my wife, who is this day also herself making of marmalett of quince,
+which she now do very well herself.  I left her at it and by coach I to
+the New Exchange and several places to buy and bring home things, among
+others a case I bought of the trunk maker's for my periwigg, and so home
+and to my office late, and among other things wrote a letter to Will's
+uncle to hasten his removal from me, and so home to supper and to bed.
+This morning Captain Cocke did give me a good account of the Guinny trade.
+The Queene is in a great way to recovery.  This noon came John Angier to
+me in a pickle, I was sad to see him, desiring my good word for him to go
+a trooper to Tangier, but I did schoole him and sent him away with good
+advice, but no present encouragement. Presently after I had a letter from
+his poor father at Cambridge, who is broke, it seems, and desires me to
+get him a protection, or a place of employment; but, poor man, I doubt I
+can helpe him, but will endeavour it.
+
+5th.  Lay long in bed, then up, called by Captain Cocke about business of
+a contract of his for some Tarre, and so to the office, and then to Sir W.
+Pen and there talked, and he being gone came Sir W. Warren and discoursed
+about our business with Field, and at noon by agreement to the Miter to
+dinner upon T. Trice's 40s., to be spent upon our late agreement.  Here
+was a very poor dinner and great company.  All our lawyers on both sides,
+and several friends of his and some of mine brought by him, viz., Mr.
+Moore, uncle Wight, Dr. Williams, and my cozen Angier, that lives here in
+town, who t Captain John Shales after dinner carried me aside and showed
+me a letter from his poor brother at Cambridge to me of the same contents
+with that yesterday to me desiring help from me.  Here I was among a sorry
+company without any content or pleasure, and at the last the reckoning
+coming to above 40s. by 15s., he would have me pay the 10s. and he would
+pay the 5s., which was so poor that I was ashamed of it, and did it only
+to save contending with him. There, after agreeing a day for him and I to
+meet and seal our agreement, I parted and home, and at the office by
+agreement came Mr. Shales, and there he and I discourse till late the
+business of his helping me in the discovery of some arrears of provisions
+and stores due to the stores at Portsmouth, out of which I may chance to
+get some money, and save the King some too, and therefore I shall
+endeavour to do the fellow some right in other things here to his
+advantage between Mr. Gauden and him. He gone my wife and I to her
+arithmetique, in which she pleases me well, and so to the office, there
+set down my Journall, and so home to supper and to bed.  A little troubled
+to see how my family is out of order by Will's being there, and also to
+hear that Jane do not please my wife as I expected and would have wished.
+
+6th.  This morning waking, my wife was mighty-earnest with me to persuade
+me that she should prove with child since last night, which, if it be, let
+it come, and welcome.  Up to my office, whither Commissioner Pett came,
+newly come out of the country, and he and I walked together in the garden
+talking of business a great while, and I perceive that by our
+countenancing of him he do begin to pluck up his head, and will do good
+things I hope in the yard.  Thence, he being gone, to my office and there
+dispatched many people, and at noon to the 'Change to the coffee-house,
+and among other things heard Sir John Cutler say, that of his owne
+experience in time of thunder, so many barrels of beer as have a piece of
+iron laid upon them will not be soured, and the others will.  Thence to
+the 'Change, and there discoursed with many people, and I hope to settle
+again to my business and revive my report of following of business, which
+by my being taken off for a while by sickness and, laying out of money has
+slackened for a little while.  Home, and there found Mrs. Hunt, who dined
+very merry, good woman; with us.  After dinner came in Captain Grove, and
+he and I alone to talk of many things, and among many others of the
+Fishery, in which he gives the such hopes that being at this time full of
+projects how to get a little honestly, of which some of them I trust in
+God will take, I resolved this afternoon to go and consult my Lord
+Sandwich about it, and so, being to carry home Mrs. Hunt, I took her and
+my wife by coach and set them at Axe Yard, and I to my Lord's and thither
+sent for Creed and discoursed with him about it, and he and I to White
+Hall, where Sir G. Carteret and my Lord met me very fortunately, and
+wondered first to see me in my perruque, and I am glad it is over, and
+then, Sir G. Carteret being gone, I took my Lord aside, who do give me the
+best advice he can, and telling me how there are some projectors, by name
+Sir Edward Ford, who would have the making of farthings,
+
+     [Sir Edward Ford, son of Sir William Ford of Harting, born at Up
+     Park in 1605.  "After the Restoration he invented a mode of coining
+     farthings.  Each piece was to differ minutely from another to
+     prevent forgery.  He failed in procuring a patent for these in
+     England, but obtained one for Ireland.  He died in Ireland before he
+     could carry his design into execution, on September 3rd, 1670"
+     ("Dictionary of National Biography ").]
+
+and out of that give so much to the King for the maintenance of the
+Fishery; but my Lord do not like that, but would have it go as they
+offered the last year, and so upon my desire he promises me when it is
+seasonable to bring me into the commission with others, if any of them
+take, and I perceive he and Mr. Coventry are resolved to follow it hard.
+Thence, after walking a good while in the Long gallery, home to my Lord's
+lodging, my Lord telling me how my father did desire him to speak to me
+about my giving of my sister something, which do vex me to see that he
+should trouble my Lord in it, but however it is a good occasion for me to
+tell my Lord my condition, and so I was glad of it.  After that we begun
+to talk of the Court, and he tells me how Mr. Edward Montagu begins to
+show respect to him again after his endeavouring to bespatter him all was,
+possible; but he is resolved never to admit him into his friendship again.
+He tells me how he and Sir H. Bennet, the Duke of Buckingham and his
+Duchesse, was of a committee with somebody else for the getting of Mrs.
+Stewart for the King; but that she proves a cunning slut, and is advised
+at Somerset House by the Queene-Mother, and by her mother, and so all the
+plot is spoiled and the whole committee broke.  Mr. Montagu and the Duke
+of Buckingham fallen a-pieces, the Duchesse going to a nunnery; and so
+Montagu begins to enter friendship with my Lord, and to attend the
+Chancellor whom he had deserted.  My Lord tells me that Mr. Montagu, among
+other things, did endeavour to represent him to the Chancellor's sons as
+one that did desert their father in the business of my Lord of Bristoll;
+which is most false, being the only man that hath several times dined with
+him when no soul hath come to him, and went with him that very day home
+when the Earl impeached him in the Parliament House, and hath refused ever
+to pay a visit to my Lord of Bristoll, not so much as in return to a visit
+of his.  So that the Chancellor and my Lord are well known and trusted one
+by another.  But yet my Lord blames the Chancellor for desiring to have it
+put off to the next Session of Parliament, contrary to my Lord Treasurer's
+advice, to whom he swore he would not do it: and, perhaps, my Lord
+Chancellor, for aught I see by my Lord's discourse, may suffer by it when
+the Parliament comes to sit.  My Lord tells me that he observes the Duke
+of York do follow and understand business very well, and is mightily
+improved thereby.  Here Mr. Pagett coming in I left my Lord and him, and
+thence I called my wife and her maid Jane and by coach home and to my
+office, where late writing some things against tomorrow, and so home to
+supper and to bed.  This morning Mr. Blackburne came to me to let me know
+that he had got a lodging very commodious for his kinsman, and so he is
+ready at my pleasure to go when I would bid him, and so I told him that I
+would in a day or two send to speak with him and he and I would talk and
+advise Will what to do, of which I am very glad.
+
+7th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and Sir W. Pen
+and I had a word or two, where by opposing him in not being willing to
+excuse a mulct put upon the purser of the James, absent from duty, he
+says, by his business and order, he was mighty angry, and went out of the
+office like an asse discontented: At which I am never a whit sorry; I
+would not have [him] think that I dare not oppose him, where I see reason
+and cause for it.  Home to dinner, and then by coach abroad about several
+businesses to several places, among others to Westminster Hall, where,
+seeing Howlett's daughter going out of the other end of the Hall, I
+followed her if I would to have offered talk to her and dallied with her a
+little, but I could not overtake her.  Then calling at Unthank's for
+something of my wife's not done, a pretty little gentlewoman, a lodger
+there, came out to tell me that it was not yet done, which though it vexed
+me yet I took opportunity of taking her by the hand with the boot, and so
+found matter to talk a little the longer to her, but I was ready to laugh
+at myself to see how my anger would not operate, my disappointment coming
+to me by such a messenger.  Thence to Doctors' Commons and there consulted
+Dr. Turner about some differences we have with the officers of the East
+India ships about goods brought by them without paying freight, which we
+demand of them.  So home to my office, and there late writing letters, and
+so home to supper and to bed, having got a scurvy cold by lying cold in my
+head the last night.  This day Captain Taylor brought me a piece of plate,
+a little small state dish, he expecting that I should get him some
+allowance for demorage
+
+     ["'Demurrage' is the compensation due to a shipowner from a
+     freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time
+     specified in the charter-party or bill of lading.  It is in fact an
+     extended freight.  A ship, unjustly detained as a prize is entitled
+     to 'demurrage.'"--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book, 1867.]
+
+of his ship "William," kept long at Tangier, which I shall and may justly
+do.
+
+8th (Lord's day).  Up, and it being late, to church without my wife, and
+there I saw Pembleton come into the church and bring his wife with him, a
+good comely plain woman, and by and by my wife came after me all alone,
+which I was a little vexed at.  I found that my coming in a perriwigg did
+not prove so strange to the world as I was afear'd it would, for I thought
+that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all upon me, but
+I found no such thing.  Here an ordinary lazy sermon of Mr. Mill's, and
+then home to dinner, and there Tom came and dined with us; and after
+dinner to talk about a new black cloth suit that I have a making, and so
+at church time to church again, where the Scott preached, and I slept most
+of the time.  Thence home, and I spent most of the evening upon Fuller's
+"Church History" and Barckly's "Argeny," and so after supper to prayers
+and to bed, a little fearing my pain coming back again, myself continuing
+as costive as ever, and my physic ended, but I had sent a porter to-day
+for more and it was brought me before I went to bed, and so with pretty
+good content to bed.
+
+9th.  Up and found myself very well, and so by coach to White Hall and
+there met all my fellow officers, and so to the Duke, where, when we came
+into his closett, he told us that Mr. Pepys was so altered with his new
+perriwigg that he did not know him.  So to our discourse, and among and
+above other things we were taken up in talking upon Sir J. Lawson's coming
+home, he being come to Portsmouth; and Captain Berkely is come to towne
+with a letter from the Duana of Algier to the King, wherein they do demand
+again the searching of our ships and taking out of strangers, and their
+goods; and that what English ships are taken without the Duke's pass they
+will detain (though it be flat contrary to the words of the peace) as
+prizes, till they do hear from our King, which they advise him may be
+speedy.  And this they did the very next day after they had received with
+great joy the Grand Seignor's confirmation of the Peace from
+Constantinople by Captain Berkely; so that there is no command nor
+certainty to be had of these people.  The King is resolved to send his
+will by a fleete of ships; and it is thought best and speediest to send
+these very ships that are now come home, five sail of good ships, back
+again after cleaning, victualling, and paying them.  But it is a pleasant
+thing to think how their Basha, Shavan Aga, did tear his hair to see the
+soldiers order things thus; for (just like his late predecessor) when they
+see the evil of war with England, then for certain they complain to the
+Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head off:  this he is sure of, and knows
+as certain.  Thence to Westminster Hall, where I met with Mr. Pierce,
+chyrurgeon; and among other things he asked me seriously whether I knew
+anything of my Lord's being out of favour with the King; and told me, that
+for certain the King do take mighty notice of my Lord's living obscurely
+in a corner not like himself, and becoming the honour that he is come to.
+I was sorry to hear, and the truth is, from my Lord's discourse among his
+people (which I am told) of the uncertainty of princes' favours, and his
+melancholy keeping from Court, I am doubtful of some such thing;  but I
+seemed wholly strange to him in it, but will make my use of it.  He told
+me also how loose the Court is, nobody looking after business, but every
+man his lust and gain; and how the King is now become besotted upon Mrs.
+Stewart, that he gets into corners, and will be with her half an houre
+together kissing her to the observation of all the world; and she now
+stays by herself and expects it, as my Lady Castlemaine did use to do; to
+whom the King, he says, is still kind, so as now and then he goes to have
+a chat with her as he believes;  but with no such fondness as he used to
+do.  But yet it is thought that this new wench is so subtle, that she lets
+him not do any thing than is safe to her, but yet his doting is so great
+that, Pierce tells me, it is verily thought if the Queene had died, he
+would have married her.  The Duke of Monmouth is to have part of the
+Cockpitt new built for lodgings for him, and they say to be made Captain
+of the Guards in the room of my Lord Gerard.  Having thus talked with him,
+there comes into the Hall Creed and Ned Pickering, and after a turne or
+two with them, it being noon, I walked with them two to the King's Head
+ordinary, and there we dined; little discourse but what was common, only
+that the Duke of Yorke is a very, desperate huntsman, but I was ashamed of
+Pickering, who could not forbear having up my Lord Sandwich now and then
+in the most paltry matters abominable.  Thence I took leave of them, and
+so having taken up something at my wife's tailor's, I home by coach and
+there to my office, whither Shales came and I had much discourse with him
+about the business of the victualling, and thence in the evening to the
+Coffee-house, and there sat till by and by, by appointment Will brought me
+word that his uncle Blackburne was ready to speak with me.  So I went down
+to him, and he and I to a taverne hard by, and there I begun to speak to
+Will friendlily, advising him how to carry himself now he is going from
+under my roof, without any reflections upon the occasion from whence his
+removal arose.  This his uncle seconded, and after laying down to him his
+duty to me, and what I expect of him, in a discourse of about a quarter of
+an houre or more, we agreed upon his going this week, towards the latter
+(end) of the week, and so dismissed him, and Mr. Blackburne and I fell to
+talk of many things, wherein I did speak so freely to him in many things
+agreeing with his sense that he was very open to me: first, in that of
+religion, he makes it great matter of prudence for the King and Council to
+suffer liberty of conscience; and imputes the losse of Hungary to the
+Turke from the Emperor's denying them this liberty of their religion.  He
+says that many pious ministers of the word of God, some thousands of them,
+do now beg their bread: and told me how highly the present clergy carry
+themselves every where, so as that they are hated and laughed at by
+everybody; among other things, for their excommunications, which they send
+upon the least occasions almost that can be.  And I am convinced in my
+judgement, not only from his discourse, but my thoughts in general, that
+the present clergy will never heartily go down with the generality of the
+commons of England; they have been so used to liberty and freedom, and
+they are so acquainted with the pride and debauchery of the present
+clergy.  He did give me many stories of the affronts which the clergy
+receive in all places of England from the gentry and ordinary persons of
+the parish.  He do tell me what the City thinks of General Monk, as of a
+most perfidious man that hath betrayed every body, and the King also; who,
+as he thinks, and his party, and so I have heard other good friends of the
+King say, it might have been better for the King to have had his hands a
+little bound for the present, than be forced to bring such a crew of poor
+people about him, and be liable to satisfy the demands of every one of
+them.  He told me that to his knowledge (being present at every meeting at
+the Treaty at the Isle of Wight), that the old King did confess himself
+overruled and convinced in his judgement against the Bishopps, and would
+have suffered and did agree to exclude the service out of the churches,
+nay his own chappell; and that he did always say, that this he did not by
+force, for that he would never abate one inch by any vyolence; but what he
+did was out of his reason and judgement.  He tells me that the King by
+name, with all his dignities, is prayed for by them that they call
+Fanatiques, as heartily and powerfully as in any of the other churches
+that are thought better: and that, let the King think what he will, it is
+them that must helpe him in the day of warr.  For as they are the most, so
+generally they are the most substantial sort of people, and the soberest;
+and did desire me to observe it to my Lord Sandwich, among other things,
+that of all the old army now you cannot see a man begging about the
+street; but what?  You shall have this captain turned a shoemaker; the
+lieutenant, a baker; this a brewer; that a haberdasher; this common
+soldier, a porter; and every man in his apron and frock, &c., as if they
+never had done anything else: whereas the others go with their belts and
+swords, swearing and cursing, and stealing; running into people's houses,
+by force oftentimes, to carry away something; and this is the difference
+between the temper of one and the other; and concludes (and I think with
+some reason,) that the spirits of the old parliament soldiers are so
+quiett and contented with God's providences, that the King is safer from
+any evil meant him by them one thousand times more than from his own
+discontented Cavalier.  And then to the publique management of business:
+it is done, as he observes, so loosely and so carelessly, that the kingdom
+can never be happy with it, every man looking after himself, and his owne
+lust and luxury; among other things he instanced in the business of money,
+he do believe that half of what money the Parliament gives the King is not
+so much as gathered.  And to the purpose he told me how the Bellamys (who
+had some of the Northern counties assigned them for their debt for the
+petty warrant victualling) have often complained to him that they cannot
+get it collected, for that nobody minds, or, if they do, they won't pay it
+in. Whereas (which is a very remarkable thing,) he hath been told by some
+of the Treasurers at Warr here of late, to whom the most of the L120,000
+monthly was paid, that for most months the payments were gathered so duly,
+that they seldom had so much or more than 40s., or the like, short in the
+whole collection; whereas now the very Commissioners for Assessments and
+other publique payments are such persons, and those that they choose in
+the country so like themselves, that from top to bottom there is not a man
+carefull of any thing, or if he be, he is not solvent; that what between
+the beggar and the knave, the King is abused the best part of all his
+revenue.  From thence we began to talk of the Navy, and particularly of
+Sir W. Pen, of whose rise to be a general I had a mind to be informed.  He
+told me he was always a conceited man, and one that would put the best
+side outward, but that it was his pretence of sanctity that brought him
+into play.  Lawson, and Portman, and the Fifth-monarchy men, among whom he
+was a great brother, importuned that he might be general; and it was
+pleasant to see how Blackburne himself did act it, how when the
+Commissioners of the Admiralty would enquire of the captains and admirals
+of such and such men, how they would with a sigh and casting up the eyes
+say, "Such a man fears the Lord," or, "I hope such a man hath the Spirit
+of God," and such things as that.  But he tells me that there was a cruel
+articling against Pen after one fight, for cowardice, in putting himself
+within a coyle of cables, of which he had much ado to acquit himself: and
+by great friends did it, not without remains of guilt, but that his
+brethren had a mind to pass it by, and Sir H. Vane did advise him to
+search his heart, and see whether this fault or a greater sin was not the
+occasion of this so great tryall.  And he tells me, that what Pen gives
+out about Cromwell's sending and entreating him to go to Jamaica, is very
+false; he knows the contrary: besides, the Protector never was a man that
+needed to send for any man, specially such a one as he, twice.  He tells
+me that the business of Jamaica did miscarry absolutely by his pride, and
+that when he was in the Tower he would cry like a child.  This he says of
+his own personal knowledge, and lastly tells me that just upon the turne,
+when Monk was come from the North to the City, and did begin to think of
+bringing in the King, Pen was then turned Quaker.  This he is most certain
+of.  He tells me that Lawson was never counted any thing but only a
+seaman, and a stout man, but a false man, and that now he appears the
+greatest hypocrite in the world.  And Pen the same.  He tells me that it
+is much talked of, that the King intends to legitimate the Duke of
+Monmouth; and that he has not, nor his friends of his persuasion, have any
+hopes of getting their consciences at liberty but by God Almighty's
+turning of the King's heart, which they expect, and are resolved to live
+and die in quiett hopes of it; but never to repine, or act any thing more
+than by prayers towards it.  And that not only himself but all of them
+have, and are willing at any time to take the oaths of Allegiance and
+Supremacy.  Thus far, and upon many more things, we had discoursed when
+some persons in a room hard by began to sing in three parts very finely
+and to play upon a flagilette so pleasantly that my discourse afterwards
+was but troublesome, and I could not attend it, and so, anon, considering
+of a sudden the time of night, we found it 11 o'clock, which I thought it
+had not been by two hours, but we were close in talk, and so we rose, he
+having drunk some wine and I some beer and sugar, and so by a fair
+moonshine home and to bed, my wife troubled with tooth ache.  Mr.
+Blackburne observed further to me, some certain notice that he had of the
+present plot so much talked of; that he was told by Mr. Rushworth,  how
+one Captain Oates, a great discoverer, did employ several to bring and
+seduce others into a plot, and that one of his agents met with one that
+would not listen to him, nor conceal what he had offered him, but so
+detected the trapan.  This, he says, is most true.  He also, among other
+instances how the King is served, did much insist upon the cowardice and
+corruption of the King's guards and militia, which to be sure will fail
+the King, as they have done already, when there will be occasion for them.
+
+10th.  Up and to the office, where we sat till noon, and then to the
+Exchange, where spoke with several and had my head casting about how to
+get a penny and I hope I shall, and then hone, and there Mr. Moore by
+appointment dined with me, and after dinner all the afternoon till night
+drawing a bond and release against to-morrow for T. Trice, and I to come
+to a conclusion in which I proceed with great fear and jealousy, knowing
+him to be a rogue and one that I fear has at this time got too great a
+hank--[hold]--over me by the neglect of my lawyers.  But among other
+things I am come to an end with Mr. Moore for a L32, a good while lying in
+my hand of my Lord Privy Seal's which he for the odd L7 do give me a bond
+to secure me against, and so I got L25 clear.  Then, he being gone, to the
+office and there late setting down yesterday's remarkable discourses, and
+so home and to supper, late, and to bed.  The Queene, I hear, is now very
+well again, and that she hath bespoke herself a new gowne.
+
+11th.  Up and to my office all the morning, and at noon to the
+Coffee-house, where with Dr. Allen some good discourse about physique and
+chymistry.  And among other things, I telling him what Dribble the German
+Doctor do offer of an instrument to sink ships; he tells me that which is
+more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry
+Aurum fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it put into a silver spoon
+and fired, will give a blow like a musquett, and strike a hole through the
+spoon downward, without the least force upward; and this he can make a
+cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared.  Thence to the
+'Change, and being put off a meeting with T. Trice, he not coming, I home
+to dinner, and after dinner by coach with my wife to my periwigg maker's
+for my second periwigg, but it is not done, and so, calling at a place or
+two, home, and there to my office, and there taught my wife a new lesson
+in arithmetique and so sent her home, and I to several businesses; and so
+home to supper and to bed, being mightily troubled with a cold in my
+stomach and head, with a great pain by coughing.
+
+12th.  Lay long in bed, indeed too long, divers people and the officers
+staying for me.  My cozen Thomas Pepys the executor being below, and I
+went to him and stated reckonings about our debt, for his payments of
+money to my uncle Thomas heretofore by the Captain's orders.  I did not
+pay him but will soon do it if I can.  To the office and there all the
+morning, where Sir W. Pen, like a coxcomb, was so ready to cross me in a
+motion I made unawares for the entering a man at Chatham into the works,
+wherein I was vexed to see his spleene, but glad to understand it, and
+that it was in no greater a matter, I being not at all concerned here. To
+the 'Change and did several businesses there and so home with Mr. Moore to
+dinner, my wife having dined, with Mr. Hollyard with her to-day, he being
+come to advise her about her hollow sore place.  After dinner Mr. Moore
+and I discoursing of my Lord's negligence in attendance at Court, and the
+discourse the world makes of it, with the too great reason that I believe
+there is for it; I resolved and took coach to his lodgings, thinking to
+speak with my Lord about it without more ado. Here I met Mr. Howe, and he
+and I largely about it, and he very soberly acquainted me how things are
+with my Lord, that my Lord do not do anything like himself, but follows
+his folly, and spends his time either at cards at Court with the ladies,
+when he is there at all, or else at Chelsy with the slut to his great
+disgrace, and indeed I do see and believe that my Lord do apprehend that
+he do grow less too at Court. Anon my Lord do come in, and I begun to fall
+in discourse with him, but my heart did misgive me that my Lord would not
+take it well, and then found him not in a humour to talk, and so after a
+few ordinary words, my Lord not talking in the manner as he uses to do; I
+took leave, and spent some time with W. Howe again, and told him how I
+could not do what I had so great a mind and resolution to do, but that I
+thought it would be as well to do it in writing, which he approves of, and
+so I took leave of him, and by coach home, my mind being full of it, and
+in pain concerning it.  So to my office busy very late, the nights running
+on faster than one thinks, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+13th.  Up and to my office, busy all the morning with Commissioner Pett;
+at noon I to the Exchange, and meeting Shales, he and I to the
+Coffee-house and there talked of our victualling matters, which I fear
+will come to little.  However I will go on and carry it as far as I can.
+So home to dinner where I expected Commissioner Pett, and had a good
+dinner, but he came not.  After dinner came my perriwigg-maker, and brings
+me a second periwigg, made of my own haire, which comes to 21s. 6d. more
+than the worth of my own haire, so that they both come to L4 1s. 6d.,
+which he sayth will serve me two years, but I fear it.  He being gone, I
+to my office, and put on my new shagg purple gowne, with gold buttons and
+loop lace, I being a little fearful of taking cold and of pain coming upon
+me. Here I staid making an end of a troublesome letter, but to my
+advantage, against Sir W. Batten, giving Sir G. Carteret an account of our
+late great contract with Sir W. Warren for masts, wherein I am sure I did
+the King L600 service.  That done home to my wife to take a clyster, which
+I did, and it wrought very well and brought a great deal of wind, which I
+perceive is all that do trouble me.  After that, about 9 or 10 o'clock, to
+supper in my wife's chamber, and then about 12 to bed.
+
+14th.  Up and to the office, where we sat, and after we had almost done,
+Sir W. Batten desired to have the room cleared, and there he did acquaint
+the board how he was obliged to answer to something lately said which did
+reflect upon the Comptroller and him, and to that purpose told how the
+bargain for Winter's timber did not prove so bad as I had reported to the
+board it would.  After he had done I cleared the matter that I did not
+mention the business as a thing designed by me against them, but was led
+to it by Sir J. Minnes, and that I said nothing but what I was told by
+Mayers the surveyor as much as by Deane upon whom they laid all the fault,
+which I must confess did and do still trouble me, for they report him to
+be a fellow not fit to be employed, when in my conscience he deserves
+better than any officer in the yard.  I thought it not convenient to
+vindicate him much now, but time will serve when I will do it, and I am
+bound to do it.  I offered to proceed to examine and prove what I said if
+they please, but Mr. Coventry most discreetly advised not, it being to no
+purpose, and that he did believe that what I said did not by my manner of
+speaking it proceed from any design of reproaching them, and so it ended.
+But my great trouble is for poor Deane.  At noon home and dined with my
+wife, and after dinner Will told me if I pleased he was ready to remove
+his things, and so before my wife I did give him good counsel, and that
+his going should not abate my kindnesse for him, if he carried himself
+well, and so bid "God bless him," and left him to remove his things, the
+poor lad weeping, but I am apt to think matters will be the better both
+for him and us.  So to the office and there late busy. In the evening Mr.
+Moore came to tell me that he had no opportunity of speaking his mind to
+my Lord yesterday, and so I am resolved to write to him very suddenly.  So
+after my business done I home, I having staid till 12 o'clock at night
+almost, making an end of a letter to Sir G. Carteret about the late
+contract for masts, wherein I have done myself right, and no wrong to Sir
+W. Batten.  This night I think is the first that I have lain without ever
+a man in my house besides myself, since I came to keep any.  Will being
+this night gone to his lodging, and by the way I hear to-day that my boy
+Waynman has behaved himself so with Mr. Davis that they have got him put
+into a Barbadoes ship to be sent away, and though he sends to me to get a
+release for him I will not out of love to the boy, for I doubt to keep him
+here were to bring him to the gallows.
+
+15th (Lord's day).  Lay very long in bed with my wife and then up and to
+my office there to copy fair my letter to Sir G. Carteret, which I did,
+and by and by most opportunely a footman of his came to me about other
+business, and so I sent it him by his own servant.  I wish good luck with
+it.  At noon home to dinner, my wife not being up, she lying to expect Mr.
+Holyard the surgeon.  So I dined by myself, and in the afternoon to my
+office again, and there drew up a letter to my Lord, stating to him what
+the world talks concerning him, and leaving it to him and myself to be
+thought of by him as he pleases, but I have done but my duty in it. I wait
+Mr. Moore's coming for his advice about sending it.  So home to supper to
+my wife, myself finding myself by cold got last night beginning to have
+some pain, which grieves me much in my mind to see to what a weakness I am
+come.  This day being our Queene's birthday, the guns of the Tower went
+all off; and in the evening the Lord Mayor sent from church to church to
+order the constables to cause bonfires to be made in every streete, which
+methinks is a poor thing to be forced to be commanded.  After a good
+supper with my wife, and hearing of the mayds read in the Bible, we to
+prayers, and to bed.
+
+16th.  Up, and being ready then abroad by coach to White Hall, and there
+with the Duke, where Mr. Coventry did a second time go to vindicate
+himself against reports and prove by many testimonies that he brought,
+that he did nothing but what had been done by the Lord Admiral's
+secretaries heretofore, though he do not approve of it, nor since he had
+any rule from the Duke hath he exceeded what he is there directed to take,
+and the thing I think is very clear that they always did take and that now
+he do take less than ever they did heretofore.  Thence away, and Sir G.
+Carteret did call me to him and discourse with me about my letter
+yesterday, and did seem to take it unkindly that I should doubt of his
+satisfaction in the bargain of masts, and did promise me that hereafter
+whatever he do hear to my prejudice he would tell me before he would
+believe it, and that this was only Sir W. Batten's report in this
+business, which he says he did ever approve of, in which I know he lies.
+Thence to my Lord's lodgings thinking to find Mr. Moore, in order to the
+sending away my letter of reproof to my Lord, but I do not find him, but
+contrary do find my Lord come to Court, which I am glad to hear and should
+be more glad to hear that he do follow his business that I may not have
+occasion to venture upon his good nature by such a provocation as my
+letter will be to him.  So by coach home, to the Exchange, where I talked
+about several businesses with several people, and so home to dinner with
+my wife, and then in the afternoon to my office, and there late, and in
+the evening Mr. Hollyard came, and he and I about our great work to look
+upon my wife's malady, which he did, and it seems her great conflux of
+humours, heretofore that did use to swell there, did in breaking leave a
+hollow which has since gone in further and further; till now it is near
+three inches deep, but as God will have it do not run into the bodyward,
+but keeps to the outside of the skin, and so he must be forced to cut it
+open all along, and which my heart I doubt will not serve for me to see
+done, and yet she will not have any body else to see it done, no, not her
+own mayds, and so I must do it, poor wretch, for her.  To-morrow night he
+is to do it.  He being gone, I to my office again a little while, and so
+home to supper and to bed.
+
+17th.  Up, and while I am dressing myself, Mr. Deane of Woolwich came to
+me, and I did tell him what had happened to him last Saturday in the
+office, but did encourage him to make no matter of it, for that I did not
+fear but he would in a little time be master of his enemies as much as
+they think to master him, and so he did tell me many instances of the
+abominable dealings of Mr. Pett of Woolwich towards him.  So we broke up,
+and I to the office, where we sat all the forenoon doing several
+businesses, and at noon I to the 'Change where Mr. Moore came to me, and
+by and by Tom Trice and my uncle Wight, and so we out to a taverne (the
+New Exchange taverne over against the 'Change where I never was before,
+and I found my old playfellow Ben Stanley master of it), and thence to a
+scrivener to draw up a bond, and to another tavern (the King's Head) we
+went, and calling on my cozen Angier at the India House there we eat a bit
+of pork from a cookes together, and after dinner did seal the bond, and I
+did take up the old bond of my uncle's to my aunt, and here T. Trice
+before them do own all matters in difference between us is clear as to
+this business, and that he will in six days give me it under the hand of
+his attorney that there is no judgment against the bond that may give me
+any future trouble, and also a copy of their letters of his Administration
+to Godfrey, as much of it as concerns me to have.  All this being done
+towards night we broke up, and so I home and with Mr. Moore to my office,
+and there I read to him the letter I have wrote to send to my Lord to give
+him an account how the world, both city and court, do talk of him and his
+living as he do there in such a poor and bad house so much to his
+disgrace.  Which Mr. Moore do conclude so well drawn: that he would not
+have me by any means to neglect sending it, assuring me in the best of his
+judgment that it cannot but endear me to my Lord instead of what I fear of
+getting his offence, and did offer to take the same words and send them as
+from, him with his hand to him, which I am not unwilling should come (if
+they are at all fit to go) from any body but myself, and so, he being
+gone, I did take a copy of it to keep by me in shorthand, and sealed them
+up to send to-morrow by my Will. So home, Mr. Hollyard being come to my
+wife, and there she being in bed, he and I alone to look again upon her
+.  .  .  . and there he do find that, though it would not be much pain,
+yet she is so fearful,  and the thing will be somewhat painful in the
+tending, which I shall not be able to look after, but must require a nurse
+and people about her; so that upon second thoughts he believes that a
+fomentation will do as well, and though it will be troublesome yet no
+pain, and what her mayd will be able to do without knowing directly what
+it is for, but only that it may be for the piles.  For though it be
+nothing but what is fiery honest, yet my wife is loth to give occasion of
+discourse concerning it.  By this my mind and my wife's is much eased, for
+I confess I should have been troubled to have had my wife cut before my
+face, I could not have borne to have seen it.  I had great discourse with
+him about my disease.  He tells me again that I must eat in a morning some
+loosening gruel, and at night roasted apples, that I must drink now and
+then ale with my wine, and eat bread and butter and honey, and rye bread
+if I can endure it, it being loosening.  I must also take once a week a
+clyster of his last prescription, only honey now and then instead of
+butter, which things I am now resolved to apply myself to.  He being gone
+I to my office again to a little business, and then home to supper and to
+bed, being in, a little pain by drinking of cold small beer to-day and
+being in a cold room at the Taverne I believe.
+
+18th.  Up, and after being ready, and done a little business at the
+office, I and Mr. Hater by water to Redriffe, and so walked to Deptford,
+where I have not been a very great, while, and there paid off the Milford
+in very good order, and all respect showed me in the office as much as
+there used to be to any of the rest or the whole board.  That done at noon
+I took Captain Terne, and there coming in by chance Captain Berkeley, him
+also to dinner with me to the Globe.  Captain Berkeley, who was lately
+come from Algier, did give us a good account of the place, and how the
+Basha there do live like a prisoner, being at the mercy of the soldiers
+and officers, so that there is nothing but a great confusion there.  After
+dinner came Sir W. Batten, and I left him to pay off another ship, and I
+walked home again reading of a little book of new poems of Cowley's, given
+me by his brother.  Abraham do lie, it seems, very sicke, still, but like
+to recover.  At my office till late, and then came Mr. Hollyard so full of
+discourse and Latin that I think he hath got a cupp, but I do not know;
+but full of talke he is in defence of Calvin and Luther.  He begun this
+night the fomentation to my wife, and I hope it will do well with her.  He
+gone, I to the office again a little, and so to bed.  This morning I sent
+Will with my great letter of reproof to my Lord Sandwich, who did give it
+into his owne hand.  I pray God give a blessing to it, but confess I am
+afeard what the consequence may be to me of good or bad, which is
+according to the ingenuity that he do receive it with.  However, I am
+satisfied that it will do him good, and that he needs it:
+
+     MY LORD,
+
+     I do verily hope that neither the manner nor matter of this advice
+     will be condemned by your Lordship, when for my defence in the first
+     I shall alledge my double attempt, since your return from
+     Hinchinbroke, of doing it personally, in both of which your
+     Lordship's occasions, no doubtfulnesse of mine, prevented me, and
+     that being now fearful of a sudden summons to Portsmouth, for the
+     discharge of some ships there, I judge it very unbecoming the duty
+     which every bit of bread I eat tells me I owe to your Lordship to
+     expose the safety of your honour to the uncertainty of my return.
+     For the matter, my Lord, it is such as could I in any measure think
+     safe to conceal from, or likely to be discovered to you by any other
+     hand, I should not have dared so far to owne what from my heart I
+     believe is false, as to make myself but the relater of other's
+     discourse; but, sir, your Lordship's honour being such as I ought to
+     value it to be, and finding both in city and court that discourses
+     pass to your prejudice, too generally for mine or any man's
+     controllings but your Lordship's, I shall, my Lord, without the
+     least greatening or lessening the matter, do my duty in laying it
+     shortly before you.
+
+     People of all conditions, my Lord, raise matter of wonder from your
+     Lordship's so little appearance at Court: some concluding thence
+     their disfavour thereby, to which purpose I have had questions asked
+     me, and endeavouring to put off such insinuations by asserting the
+     contrary, they have replied, that your Lordship's living so beneath
+     your quality, out of the way, and declining of Court attendance,
+     hath been more than once discoursed about the King.  Others, my
+     Lord, when the chief ministers of State, and those most active of
+     the Council have been reckoned up, wherein your Lordship never used
+     to want an eminent place, have said, touching your Lordship, that
+     now your turn was served, and the King had given you a good estate,
+     you left him to stand or fall as he would, and, particularly in that
+     of the Navy, have enlarged upon your letting fall all service there.
+
+     Another sort, and those the most, insist upon the bad report of the
+     house wherein your Lordship, now observed in perfect health again,
+     continues to sojourne, and by name have charged one of the daughters
+     for a common courtizan, alledging both places and persons where and
+     with whom she hath been too well known, and how much her wantonnesse
+     occasions, though unjustly, scandal to your Lordship, and that as
+     well to gratifying of some enemies as to the wounding of more
+     friends I am not able to tell.
+
+     Lastly, my Lord, I find a general coldness in all persons towards
+     your Lordship, such as, from my first dependance on you, I never yet
+     knew, wherein I shall not offer to interpose any thoughts or advice
+     of mine, well knowing your Lordship needs not any.  But with a most
+     faithful assurance that no person nor papers under Heaven is privy
+     to what I here write, besides myself and this, which I shall be
+     careful to have put into your owne hands, I rest confident of your
+     Lordship's just construction of my dutifull intents herein, and in
+     all humility take leave, may it please your Lordship,
+
+     Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, S. P.
+
+The foregoing letter was sealed up, and enclosed in this that follows
+
+     MY LORD,
+
+     If this finds your Lordship either not alone, or not at leisure, I
+     beg the suspending your opening of the enclosed till you shall have
+     both, the matter very well bearing such a delay, and in all humility
+     remain, may it please your Lordship,
+
+     Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, S. P.
+
+     November 17, 1663.
+
+     My servant hath my directions to put this into your Lordship's owne
+     hand, but not to stay for any answer.
+
+19th.  Up, and to the office, where (Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten being
+gone this morning to Portsmouth) the rest of us met, and rode at noon.  So
+I to the 'Change, where little business, and so home to dinner, and being
+at dinner Mr. Creed in and dined with us, and after dinner Mr. Gentleman,
+my Jane's father, to see us and her.  And after a little stay with them, I
+was sent for by Sir G. Carteret by agreement, and so left them, and to him
+and with him by coach to my Lord Treasurer, to discourse with him about
+Mr. Gauden's having of money, and to offer to him whether it would not be
+necessary, Mr. Gauden's credit being so low as it is, to take security of
+him if he demands any great sum, such as L20,000, which now ought to be
+paid him upon his next year's declaration.  Which is a sad thing, that
+being reduced to this by us, we should be the first to doubt his credit;
+but so it is.  However, it will be managed with great tenderness to him.
+My Lord Treasurer we found in his bed-chamber, being laid up of the goute.
+I find him a very ready man, and certainly a brave servant to the King: he
+spoke so quick and sensibly of the King's charge. Nothing displeased me in
+him but his long nails, which he lets grow upon a pretty thick white short
+hand, that it troubled me to see them.  Thence with Sir G. Carteret by
+coach, and he set me down at the New Exchange. In our way he told me there
+is no such thing likely yet as a Dutch war, neither they nor we being in
+condition for it, though it will come certainly to that in some time, our
+interests lying the same way, that is to say, in trade.  But not yet.
+Thence to the Temple, and there visited my cozen Roger Pepys and his
+brother Dr. John, a couple, methinks, of very ordinary men, and thence to
+speak [with] Mr. Moore, and met him by the way, who tells me, to my great
+content, that he believes my letter to my Lord Sandwich hath wrought well
+upon him, and that he will look after himself and his business upon it,
+for he begins already to do so.  But I dare not conclude anything till I
+see him, which shall be to-morrow morning, that I may be out of my pain to
+know how he takes it of me.  He and I to the Coffee-house, and there drank
+and talked a little, and so I home, and after a little at my office home
+to supper and to bed, not knowing how to avoid hopes from Mr. Moore's
+words to-night, and yet I am fearful of the worst.
+
+20th.  Up, and as soon as I could to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but he
+was gone out before, and so I am defeated of my expectation of being eased
+one way or other in the business of my Lord.  But I went up to Mr. Howe,
+who I saw this day the first time in a periwigg, which becomes him very
+well, and discoursed with him.  He tells me that my Lord is of a sudden
+much changed, and he do believe that he do take my letter well. However,
+we do both bless God that it hath so good an effect upon him. Thence I
+home again, calling at the Wardrobe, where I found my Lord, but so busy
+with Mr. Townsend making up accounts there that I was unwilling to trouble
+him, and so went away.  By and by to the Exchange, and there met by
+agreement Mr. Howe, and took him with a barrel of oysters home to dinner,
+where we were very merry, and indeed I observe him to be a very hopeful
+young man, but only a little conceited.  After dinner I took him and my
+wife, and setting her in Covent Garden at her mother's, he and I to my
+Lord's, and thence I with Mr. Moore to White Hall, there the King and
+Council being close, and I thinking it an improper place to meet my Lord
+first upon the business; I took coach, and calling my wife went home,
+setting Mr. Moore down by the way, and having been late at the office
+alone looking over some plates of the Northern seas, the White seas, and
+Archangell river, I went home, and, after supper, to bed.  My wife tells
+me that she and her brother have had a great falling out to-night, he
+taking upon him to challenge great obligation upon her, and taxing her for
+not being so as she ought to be to her friends, and that she can do more
+with me than she pretends, and I know not what, but God be thanked she
+cannot.  A great talke there is today of a crush between some of the
+Fanatiques up in arms, and the King's men in the North; but whether true I
+know not yet.
+
+21st.  At the office all the morning and at noon I receive a letter from
+Mr. Creed, with a token, viz., a very noble parti-coloured Indian gowne
+for my wife.  The letter is oddly writ, over-prizing his present, and
+little owning any past service of mine, but that this was his genuine
+respects, and I know not what: I confess I had expectations of a better
+account from him of my service about his accounts, and so give his boy
+12d., and sent it back again, and after having been at the pay of a ship
+this afternoon at the Treasury, I went by coach to Ludgate, and, by
+pricing several there, I guess this gowne may be worth about L12 or L15.
+But, however, I expect at least L50 of him.  So in the evening I wrote him
+a letter telling him clearly my mind, a copy of which I keep and of his
+letter and so I resolve to have no more such correspondence as I used to
+have but will have satisfaction of him as I do expect.  So to write my
+letters, and after all done I went home to supper and to bed, my mind
+being pretty well at ease from my letter to Creed, and more for my receipt
+this afternoon of L17 at the Treasury, for the L17 paid a year since to
+the carver for his work at my house, which I did intend to have paid
+myself, but, finding others to do it, I thought it not amisse to get it
+too, but I am afeard that we may hear of it to our greater prejudices
+hereafter.
+
+22nd (Lord's day).  Up pretty early, and having last night bespoke a
+coach, which failed me this morning, I walked as far as the Temple, and
+there took coach, and to my Lord's lodgings, whom I found ready to go to
+chappell; but I coming, he begun, with a very serious countenance, to tell
+me that he had received my late letter, wherein first he took notice of my
+care of him and his honour, and did give me thanks for that part of it
+where I say that from my heart I believe the contrary of what I do there
+relate to be the discourse of others; but since I intended it not a
+reproach, but matter of information, and for him to make a judgment of it
+for his practice, it was necessary for me to tell him the persons of whom
+I have gathered the several particulars which I there insist on.  I would
+have made excuses in it; but, seeing him so earnest in it, I found myself
+forced to it, and so did tell him Mr. Pierce; the chyrurgeon, in that of
+his Lordship's living being discoursed of at Court; a mayd servant that-I
+kept, that lived at Chelsy school; and also Mr. Pickering, about the
+report touching the young woman; and also Mr. Hunt, in Axe Yard, near whom
+she lodged.  I told him the whole city do discourse concerning his neglect
+of business; and so I many times asserting my dutifull intention in all
+this, and he owning his accepting of it as such.  That that troubled me
+most in particular is, that he did there assert the civility of the people
+of the house, and the young gentlewoman, for whose reproach he was sorry.
+His saying that he was resolved how to live, and that though he was taking
+a house, meaning to live in another manner, yet it was not to please any
+people, or to stop report, but to please himself, though this I do believe
+he might say that he might not seem to me to be so much wrought upon by
+what I have writ; and lastly, and most of all, when I spoke of the
+tenderness that I have used in declaring this to him, there being nobody
+privy to it, he told me that I must give him leave to except one.  I told
+him that possibly somebody might know of some thoughts of mine, I having
+borrowed some intelligence in this matter from them, but nobody could say
+they knew of the thing itself what I writ. This, I confess, however, do
+trouble me, for that he seemed to speak it as a quick retort, and it must
+sure be Will. Howe, who did not see anything of what I writ, though I told
+him indeed that I would write; but in this, I think, there is no great
+hurt.  I find him, though he cannot but owne his opinion of my good
+intentions, and so, he did again and again profess it, that he is troubled
+in his mind at it; and I confess, I think I may have done myself an injury
+for his good, which, were it to do again, and that I believed he would
+take it no better, I think I should sit quietly without taking any notice
+of it, for I doubt there is no medium between his taking it very well or
+very ill.  I could not forbear weeping before him at the latter end,
+which, since, I am ashamed of, though I cannot see what he can take it to
+proceed from but my tenderness and good will to him.  After this discourse
+was ended, he began to talk very, cheerfully of other things, and I walked
+with him to White Hall, and we discoursed of the pictures in the gallery,
+which, it may be, he might do out of policy, that the boy might not see
+any, strangeness in him; but I rather think that his mind was somewhat
+eased, and hope that he will be to me as he was before.  But, however, I
+doubt not when he sees that I follow my business, and become an honour to
+him, and not to be like to need him, or to be a burden to him, and rather
+able to serve him than to need him, and if he do continue to follow
+business, and so come to his right witts again, I do not doubt but he will
+then consider my faithfulnesse to him, and esteem me as he ought.  At
+chappell I had room in the Privy Seale pew with other gentlemen, and there
+heard Dr. Killigrew, preach, but my mind was so, I know not whether
+troubled, or only full of thoughts of what had passed between my Lord and
+me that I could not mind it, nor can at this hour remember three words.
+The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for
+five voices by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy.  And they say
+there are four or five of them that can do as much.  And here I first
+perceived that the King is a little musicall, and kept good time with his
+hand all along the anthem.  Up into the gallery after sermon and there I
+met Creed.  We saluted one another and spoke but not one word of what had
+passed yesterday between us, but told me he was forced to such a place to
+dinner and so we parted.  Here I met Mr. Povy, who tells me how Tangier
+had like to have been betrayed, and that one of the King's officers is
+come, to whom 8,000 pieces of eight were offered for his part.  Hence I to
+the King's Head ordinary, and there dined, good and much company, and a
+good dinner: most of their discourse was about hunting, in a dialect I
+understand very little.  Thence by coach to our own church, and there my
+mind being yet unsettled I could mind nothing, and after sermon home and
+there told my wife what had passed, and thence to my office, where doing
+business only to keep my mind employed till late; and so home to supper,
+to prayers, and to bed.
+
+23rd: Up and to Alderman Backwell's, where Sir W. Rider, by appointment,
+met us to consult about the insuring of our hempe ship from Archangell, in
+which we are all much concerned, by my Lord Treasurer's command.  That
+being put in a way I went to Mr. Beacham, one of our jury, to confer with
+him about our business with Field at our trial to-morrow, and thence to
+St. Paul's Churchyarde, and there bespoke "Rushworth's Collections," and
+"Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament,"' &c., which I will make the King
+pay for as to the office; and so I do not break my vow at all.  Back to
+the Coffee-house, and then to the 'Change, where Sir W. Rider and I did
+bid 15 per cent., and nobody will take it under 20 per cent., and the
+lowest was 15 per cent.  premium, and 15 more to be abated in case of
+losse, which we did not think fit without order to give, and so we parted,
+and I home to a speedy, though too good a dinner to eat alone, viz., a
+good goose and a rare piece of roast beef.  Thence to the Temple, but
+being there too soon and meeting Mr. Moore I took him up and to my Lord
+Treasurer's, and thence to Sir Ph. Warwick's, where I found him and did
+desire his advice, who left me to do what I thought fit in this business
+of the insurance, and so back again to the Temple all the way telling Mr.
+Moore what had passed between my Lord and me yesterday, and indeed my
+fears do grow that my Lord will not reform as I hoped he would nor have
+the ingenuity to take my advice as he ought kindly.  But however I am
+satisfied that the one person whom he said he would take leave to except
+is not Mr. Moore, and so W. Howe I am sure could tell him nothing of my
+letter that ever he saw it.  Here Mr. Moore and I parted, and I up to the
+Speaker's chamber, and there met Mr. Coventry by appointment to discourse
+about Field's business, and thence we parting I homewards and called at
+the Coffeehouse, and there by great accident hear that a letter is come
+that our ship is safe come to Newcastle.  With this news I went like an
+asse presently to Alderman Backewell and, told him of it, and he and I
+went to the African House in Broad Street to have spoke with Sir W. Rider
+to tell him of it, but missed him.  Now what an opportunity had I to have
+concealed this and seemed to have made an insurance and got L100 with the
+least trouble and danger in the whole world.  This troubles me to think I
+should be so oversoon.  So back again with Alderman Backewell talking of
+the new money, which he says will never be counterfeited, he believes; but
+it is deadly inconvenient for telling, it is so thick, and the edges are
+made to turn up.  I found him as full of business, and, to speak the
+truth, he is a very painfull man, and ever was, and now-a-days is well
+paid for it.  So home and to my office, doing business late in order to
+the getting a little money, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+24th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to
+the 'Change, where everybody joyed me in our hemp ship's coming safe, and
+it seems one man, Middleburgh, did give 20 per cent. in gold last night,
+three or four minutes before the newes came of her being safe.  Thence
+with Mr. Deane home and dined, and after dinner and a good deal of
+discourse of the business of Woolwich Yard, we opened his draught of a
+ship which he has made for me, and indeed it is a most excellent one and
+that that I hope will be of good use to me as soon as I get a little time,
+and much indebted I am to the poor man.  Toward night I by coach to
+Whitehall to the Tangier committee, and there spoke with my Lord and he
+seems mighty kind to me, but I will try him to-morrow by a visit to see
+whether he holds it or no.  Then home by coach again and to my office,
+where late with Captain Miners about the East India business.  So home to
+supper and to bed, being troubled to find myself so bound as I am,
+notwithstanding all the physic that I take.  This day our tryall was with
+Field, and I hear that they have given him L29 damage more, which is a
+strange thing, but yet not so much as formerly, nor as I was afeard of.
+
+25th.  Up and to Sir G. Carteret's house, and with him by coach to
+Whitehall.  He uses me mighty well to my great joy, and in our discourse
+took occasion to tell me that as I did desire of him the other day so he
+desires of me the same favour that we may tell one another at any time any
+thing that passes among us at the office or elsewhere wherein we are
+either dissatisfied one with another, and that I should find him in all
+things as kind and ready to serve me as my own brother.  This methinks-was
+very sudden and extraordinary and do please me mightily, and I am resolved
+by no means ever to lose him again if I can.  He told me that he did still
+observe my care for the King's service in my office.  He set me down in
+Fleet Street and thence I by another coach to my Lord Sandwich's, and
+there I did present him Mr. Barlow's "Terella," with which he was very
+much pleased, and he did show me great kindnesse, and by other discourse I
+have reason to think that he is not at all, as I feared he would be,
+discontented against me more than the trouble of the thing will work upon
+him.  I left him in good humour, and I to White Hall, to the Duke of York
+and Mr. Coventry, and there advised about insuring the hempe ship at 12
+per cent., notwithstanding her being come to Newcastle, and I do hope that
+in all my three places which are now my hopes and supports I may not now
+fear any thing, but with care, which through the Lord's blessing I will
+never more neglect, I don't doubt but to keep myself up with them all.
+For in the Duke, and Mr. Coventry, my Lord Sandwich and Sir G. Carteret I
+place my greatest hopes, and it pleased me yesterday that Mr. Coventry in
+the coach (he carrying me to the Exchange at noon from the office) did,
+speaking of Sir W. Batten, say that though there was a difference between
+them, yet he would embrace any good motion of Sir W. Batten to the King's
+advantage as well as of Mr. Pepys' or any friend he had.   And when I
+talked that I would go about doing something of the Controller's work when
+I had time, and that I thought the Controller would not take it ill, he
+wittily replied that there was nothing in the world so hateful as a dog in
+the manger.  Back by coach to the Exchange, there spoke with Sir W. Rider
+about insuring, and spoke with several other persons about business, and
+shall become pretty well known quickly.  Thence home to dinner with my
+poor wife, and with great joy to my office, and there all the afternoon
+about business, and among others Mr. Bland came to me and had good
+discourse, and he has chose me a referee for him in a business, and anon
+in the evening comes Sir W. Warren, and he and I had admirable discourse.
+He advised me in things I desired about, bummary,--[bottomry]--and other
+ways of putting out money as in parts of ships, how dangerous they are,
+and lastly fell to talk of the Dutch management of the Navy, and I think
+will helpe me to some accounts of things of the Dutch Admiralty, which I
+am mighty desirous to know.  He seemed to have been mighty privy with my
+Lord Albemarle in things before this great turn, and to the King's
+dallying with him and others for some years before, but I doubt all was
+not very true. However, his discourse is very useful in general, though he
+would seem a little more than ordinary in this.  Late at night home to
+supper and to bed, my mind in good ease all but my health, of which I am
+not a little doubtful.
+
+26th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon I
+to the 'Change, and there met with Mr. Cutler the merchant, who would
+needs have me home to his house by the Dutch Church, and there in an old
+but good house, with his wife and mother, a couple of plain old women, I
+dined a good plain dinner, and his discourse after dinner with me upon
+matters of the navy victualling very good and worth my hearing, and so
+home to my office in the afternoon with my mind full of business, and
+there at it late, and so home to supper to my poor wife, and to bed,
+myself being in a little pain.  .  .  .  . by a stroke .  .  .  .  in
+pulling up my breeches yesterday over eagerly, but I will lay nothing to
+it till I see whether it will cease of itself or no.  The plague, it
+seems, grows more and more at Amsterdam; and we are going upon making of
+all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or any other infected places,
+to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as Sir Rd. Browne expressed
+it in the order of the Council, contrary to the import of the word, though
+in the general acceptation it signifies now the thing, not the time spent
+in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by us before.
+
+27th.  Up and to my office, where busy with great delight all the morning,
+and at noon to the 'Change, and so home to dinner with my poor wife, and
+with great content to my office again, and there hard at work upon stating
+the account of the freights due to the King from the East India Company
+till late at night, and so home to supper and to bed.  My wife mightily
+pleased with my late discourse of getting a trip over to Calais, or some
+other port of France, the next summer, in one of the yachts, and I believe
+I shall do it, and it makes good sport that my mayde Jane dares not go,
+and Besse is wild to go, and is mad for joy, but yet will be willing to
+stay if Jane hath a mind, which is the best temper in this and all other
+things that ever I knew in my life.
+
+28th.  Up and at the office sat all the morning, and at noon by Mr.
+Coventry's coach to the 'Change, and after a little while there where I
+met with Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who tells me for good newes that my
+Lord Sandwich is resolved to go no more to Chelsy, and told me he believed
+that I had been giving my Lord some counsel, which I neither denied nor
+affirmed, but seemed glad with him that he went thither no more, and so I
+home to dinner, and thence abroad to Paul's Church Yard, and there looked
+upon the second part of Hudibras, which I buy not, but borrow to read, to
+see if it be as good as the first, which the world cry so mightily up,
+though it hath not a good liking in me, though I had tried by twice or
+three times reading to bring myself to think it witty. Back again home and
+to my office, and there late doing business and so home to supper and to
+bed.  I have been told two or three times, but to-day for certain I am
+told how in Holland publickly they have pictured our King with reproach.
+One way is with his pockets turned the wrong side outward, hanging out
+empty; another with two courtiers picking of his pockets; and a third,
+leading of two ladies, while others abuse him; which amounts to great
+contempt.
+
+29th (Lord's day).  This morning I put on my best black cloth suit,
+trimmed with scarlett ribbon, very neat, with my cloake lined with
+velvett, and a new beaver, which altogether is very noble, with my black
+silk knit canons I bought a month ago.  I to church alone, my wife not
+going, and there I found my Lady Batten in a velvet gown, which vexed me
+that she should be in it before my wife, or that I am able to put her into
+one, but what cannot be, cannot be.  However, when I came home I told my
+wife of it, and to see my weaknesse, I could on the sudden have found my
+heart to have offered her one, but second thoughts put it by, and indeed
+it would undo me to think of doing as Sir W. Batten and his Lady do, who
+has a good estate besides his office.  A good dinner we had of boeuf a la
+mode, but not roasted so well as my wife used to do it. So after dinner I
+to the French Church, but that being too far begun I came back to St.
+Dunstan's by six and heard a good sermon, and so home and to my office
+all, the evening making up my accounts of this month, and blessed be God I
+have got up my crumb again to L770, the most that ever I had yet, and good
+clothes a great many besides, which is a great mercy of God to me.  So
+home to supper and to bed.
+
+30th.  Was called up by a messenger from Sir W. Pen to go with him by
+coach to White Hall.  So I got up and went with him, and by the way he
+began to observe to me some unkind dealing of mine to him a weeke or two
+since at the table, like a coxcomb, when I answered him pretty freely that
+I would not think myself to owe any man the service to do this or that
+because they would have it so (it was about taking of a mulct upon a
+purser for not keeping guard at Chatham when I was there), so he talked
+and I talked and let fall the discourse without giving or receiving any
+great satisfaction, and so to other discourse, but I shall know him still
+for a false knave.  At White Hall we met the Duke in the Matted Gallery,
+and there he discoursed with us; and by and by my Lord Sandwich came and
+stood by, and talked; but it being St. Andrew's, and a collar-day, he went
+to the Chappell, and we parted.  From him and Sir W. Pen and I back again
+and 'light at the 'Change, and to the Coffee-house, where I heard the best
+story of a cheate intended by a Master of a ship, who had borrowed twice
+his money upon the bottomary, and as much more insured upon his ship and
+goods as they were worth, and then would have cast her away upon the coast
+of France, and there left her, refusing any pilott which was offered him;
+and so the Governor of the place took her and sent her over hither to find
+an owner, and so the ship is come safe, and goods and all; they all worth
+L500, and he had one way or other taken L3000. The cause is to be tried
+to-morrow at Guildhall, where I intend to be. Thence home to dinner, and
+then with my wife to her arithmetique.  In the evening came W. Howe to see
+me, who tells me that my Lord hath been angry three or four days with him,
+would not speak to him; at last did, and charged him with having spoken to
+me about what he had observed concerning his Lordship, which W. Howe
+denying stoutly, he was well at ease; and continues very quiett, and is
+removing from Chelsy as fast as he can, but, methinks, both by my Lord's
+looks upon me to-day, or it may be it is only my doubtfulness, and by W.
+Howe's discourse, my Lord is not very well pleased, nor, it may be, will
+be a good while, which vexes me; but I hope all will over in time, or else
+I am but ill rewarded for my good service.  Anon he and I to the Temple
+and there parted, and I to my cozen Roger Pepys, whom I met going to his
+chamber; he was in haste, and to go out of town tomorrow.  He tells me of
+a letter from my father which he will keep to read to me at his coming to
+town again.  I perceive it is about my father's jealousys concerning my
+wife's doing ill offices with me against him only from the differences
+they had when she was there, which he very unwisely continues to have and
+troubles himself and friends about to speak to me in, as my Lord Sandwich,
+Mr. Moore, and my cozen Roger, which vexes me, but I must impute it to his
+age and care for my mother and Pall and so let it go.  After little
+discourse with him I took coach and home, calling upon my bookseller's for
+two books, Rushworth's and Scobell's Collections.  I shall make the King
+pay for them.  The first I spent some time at the office to read and it is
+an excellent book.  So home and spent the evening with my wife in
+arithmetique, and so to supper and to bed.  I end this month with my mind
+in good condition for any thing else, but my unhappy adventuring to
+disoblige my Lord by doing him service in representing to him the
+discourse of the world concerning him and his affairs.
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                 DECEMBER
+                                   1663
+
+December 1st.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At
+noon I home to dinner with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I enjoy
+great pleasure in her company and learning of Arithmetique.  After dinner
+I to Guild Hall to hear a tryall at King's Bench, before Lord Chief
+Justice Hide, about the insurance of a ship, the same I mention in my
+yesterday's journall, where everything was proved how money was so taken
+up upon bottomary and insurance, and the ship left by the master and
+seamen upon rocks, where, when the sea fell at the ebb, she must perish.
+The master was offered helpe, and he did give the pilotts 20 sols to drink
+to bid them go about their business, saying that the rocks were old, but
+his ship was new, and that she was repaired for L6 and less all the damage
+that she received, and is now brought by one, sent for on purpose by the
+insurers, into the Thames, with her cargo, vessels of tallow daubed over
+with butter, instead of all butter, the whole not worth above L500, ship
+and all, and they had took up, as appeared, above L2,400.  He had given
+his men money to content them; and yet, for all this, he did bring some of
+them to swear that it was very stormy weather, and [they] did all they
+could to save her, and that she was seven feete deep water in hold, and
+were fain to cut her main and foremast, that the master was the last man
+that went out, and they were fain to force [him] out when she was ready to
+sink; and her rudder broke off, and she was drawn into the harbour after
+they were gone, as wrecke all broken, and goods lost: that she could not
+be carried out again without new building, and many other things so
+contrary as is not imaginable more.  There was all the great counsel in
+the kingdom in the cause; but after one witnesse or two for the plaintiff,
+it was cried down as a most notorious cheate; and so the jury, without
+going out, found it for the plaintiff.  But it was pleasant to see what
+mad sort of testimonys the seamen did give, and could not be got to speak
+in order: and then their terms such as the judge could not understand; and
+to hear how sillily the Counsel and judge would speak as to the terms
+necessary in the matter, would make one laugh: and above all, a Frenchman
+that was forced to speak in French, and took an English oathe he did not
+understand, and had an interpreter sworn to tell us what he said, which
+was the best testimony of all.  So home well satisfied with this
+afternoon's work, purposing to spend an afternoon or two every term so,
+and so to my office a while and then home to supper, arithmetique with my
+wife, and to bed.  I heard other causes, and saw the course of pleading by
+being at this trial, and heard and learnt two things: one is that every
+man has a right of passage in, but not a title to, any highway.  The next,
+that the judge would not suffer Mr. Crow, who hath fined for Alderman, to
+be called so, but only Mister, and did eight or nine times fret at it, and
+stop every man that called him so.
+
+2nd.  My wife troubled all last night with the toothache and this morning.
+I up and to my office, where busy, and so home to dinner with my wife, who
+is better of her tooth than she was, and in the afternoon by agreement
+called on by Mr. Bland, and with him to the Ship a neighbour tavern and
+there met his antagonist Mr. Custos and his referee Mr. Clarke a merchant
+also, and begun the dispute about the freight of a ship hired by Mr. Bland
+to carry provisions to Tangier, and the freight is now demanded, whereas
+he says that the goods were some spoiled, some not delivered, and upon the
+whole demands L1300 of the other, and their minds are both so high, their
+demands so distant, and their words so many and hot against one another
+that I fear we shall bring it to nothing.  But however I am glad to see
+myself so capable of understanding the business as I find I do, and shall
+endeavour to do Mr. Bland all the just service I can therein.  Here we
+were in a bad room, which vexed me most, but we. meet at another house
+next.  So at noon I home and to my office till 9 o'clock, and so home to
+my wife to keep her company, arithmetique, then to supper, and to bed, she
+being well of her tooth again.
+
+3rd.  Up and to the office, where all the forenoon, and then (by Mr.
+Coventry's coach) to the 'Change, and so home to dinner, very pleasant
+with my poor wife.  Somebody from Portsmouth, I know not who, has this day
+sent me a Runlett of Tent.  So to my office all the afternoon, where much
+business till late at night, and so home to my wife, and then to supper
+and to bed.  This day Sir G. Carteret did tell us at the table, that the
+Navy (excepting what is due to the Yards upon the quarter now going on,
+and what few bills he hath not heard of) is quite out of debt; which is
+extraordinary good newes, and upon the 'Change to hear how our creditt
+goes as good as any merchant's upon the 'Change is a joyfull thing to
+consider, which God continue!  I am sure the King will have the benefit of
+it, as well as we some peace and creditt.
+
+4th.  Up pretty betimes, that is about 7 o'clock, it being now dark then,
+and so got me ready, with my clothes, breeches and warm stockings, and by
+water with Henry Russell, cold and wet and windy to Woolwich, to a hempe
+ship there, and staid looking upon it and giving direction as to the
+getting it ashore, and so back again very cold, and at home without going
+on shore anywhere about 12 o'clock, being fearful of taking cold, and so
+dined at home and shifted myself, and so all the afternoon at my office
+till night, and then home to keep my poor wife company, and so to supper
+and to bed.
+
+5th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then with
+the whole board, viz., Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and myself along with
+Captain Allen home to dinner, where he lives hard by in Mark Lane, where
+we had a very good plain dinner and good welcome, in a pretty little house
+but so smoky that it was troublesome to us all till they put out the fire,
+and made one of charcoale.  I was much pleased with this dinner for the
+many excellent stories told by Mr. Coventry, which I have put down in my
+book of tales and so shall not mention them here.  We staid till night,
+and then Mr. Coventry away, and by and by I home to my office till 9 or 10
+at night, and so home to supper and to bed after some talke and
+Arithmetique with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I live with great
+content, out of all trouble of mind by jealousy (for which God forgive
+me), or any other distraction more than my fear of my Lord Sandwich's
+displeasure.
+
+6th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed, and then up and to church alone, which
+is the greatest trouble that I have by not having a man or, boy to wait on
+me, and so home to dinner, my wife, it being a cold day, and it begun to
+snow (the first snow we have seen this year) kept her bed till after
+dinner, and I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and
+timber rule.  So my wife rose anon, and she and I all the afternoon at
+arithmetique, and she is come to do Addition, Subtraction, and
+Multiplicacion very well, and so I purpose not to trouble her yet with
+Division, but to begin with the Globes to her now.  At night came Captain
+Grove to discourse with me about Field's business and of other matters,
+and so, he being gone, I to my office, and spent an houre or two reading
+Rushworth, and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed, finding myself
+by cold to have some pain begin with me, which God defend should increase.
+
+7th.  Up betimes, and, it being a frosty morning, walked on foot to White
+Hall, but not without some fear of my pain coming.  At White Hall I hear
+and find that there was the last night the greatest tide that ever was
+remembered in England to have been in this river: all White Hall having
+been drowned, of which there was great discourse.  Anon we all met, and up
+with the Duke and did our business, and by and by my Lord of Sandwich came
+in, but whether it be my doubt or no I cannot tell, but I do not find that
+he made any sign of kindnesse or respect to me, which troubles me more
+than any thing in the world.  After done there Sir W. Batten and Captain
+Allen and I by coach to the Temple, where I 'light, they going home, and
+indeed it being my trouble of mind to try whether I could meet with my
+Lord Sandwich and try him to see how he will receive me.  I took coach and
+back again to Whitehall, but there could not find him.  But here I met Dr.
+Clerke, and did tell him my story of my health; how my pain comes to me
+now-a-days.  He did write something for me which I shall take when there
+is occasion.  I then fell to other discourse of Dr. Knapp, who tells me he
+is the King's physician, and is become a solicitor for places for people,
+and I am mightily troubled with him.  He tells me he is the most impudent
+fellow in the world, that gives himself out to be the King's physician,
+but it is not so, but is cast out of the Court. From thence I may learn
+what impudence there is in the world, and how a man may be deceived in
+persons: Anon the King and Duke and Duchesse came to dinner in the
+Vane-roome, where I never saw them before; but it seems since the tables
+are done, he dines there all together.  The Queene is pretty well, and
+goes out of her chamber to her little chappell in the house.  The King of
+France, they say, is hiring of sixty sail of ships of the Dutch, but it is
+not said for what design.  By and by, not hoping to see my Lord, I went to
+the King's Head ordinary, where a good dinner but no discourse almost, and
+after dinner by coach, home, and found my wife this cold day not yet out
+of bed, and after a little good talk with her to my office, and there
+spent my time till late.  Sir W. Warren two or three hours with me talking
+of trade, and other very good discourse, which did please me very, well,
+and so, after reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.
+
+8th.  Lay long in bed, and then up and to the office, where we sat all the
+morning, and among other things my Lord Barkely called in question his
+clerk Mr. Davy for something which Sir W. Batten and I did tell him
+yesterday, but I endeavoured to make the least of it, and so all was put
+up.  At noon to the 'Change, and among other businesses did discourse with
+Captain Taylor, and I think I shall safely get L20 by his ship's freight
+at present, besides what it may be I may get hereafter.  So home to
+dinner, and thence by coach to White Hall, where a great while walked with
+my Lord Tiviott, whom I find a most carefull, thoughtfull, and cunning
+man, as I also ever took him to be.  He is this day bringing in an account
+where he makes the King debtor to him L10,000 already on the garrison of
+Tangier account; but yet demands not ready money to pay it, but offers
+such ways of paying it out of the sale of old decayed provisions as will
+enrich him finely.  Anon came my Lord Sandwich, and then we fell to our
+business at the Committee about my Lord Tiviott's accounts, wherein I took
+occasion to speak now and then, so as my Lord Sandwich did well seem to
+like of it, and after we were up did bid me good night in a tone that,
+methinks, he is not so displeased with me as I did doubt he is; however, I
+will take a course to know whether he be or no.  The Committee done, I
+took coach and home to my office, and there late, and so to supper at
+home, and to bed, being doubtful of my pain through the very cold weather
+which we have, but I will take all the care I can to prevent it.
+
+9th.  Lay very long in bed for fear of my pain, and then rose and went to
+stool (after my wife's way, who by all means would have me sit long and
+upright) very well, and being ready to the office.  From thence I was
+called by and by to my wife, she not being well.  So to her, and found her
+in great pain. . . . . .  So by and by to my office again, and then abroad
+to look out a cradle to burn charcoal in at my office, and I found one to
+my mind in Newgate Market, and so meeting Hoby's man in the street, I
+spoke to him to serve it in to the office for the King.  So home to
+dinner, and after talk with my wife, she in bed and pain all day, I to my
+office most of the evening, and then home to my wife.  This day Mrs.
+Russell did give my wife a very fine St. George, in alabaster, which will
+set out my wife's closett mightily.  This evening at the office, after I
+had wrote my day's passages, there came to me my cozen Angier of
+Cambridge, poor man, making his moan, and obtained of me that I would send
+his son to sea as a Reformado, which I will take care to do.  But to see
+how apt every man is to forget friendship in time of adversity.  How glad
+was I when he was gone, for fear he should ask me to be bond for him, or
+to borrow money of me.
+
+10th.  Up, pretty well, the weather being become pretty warm again, and to
+the office, where we sat all the morning, and I confess having received so
+lately a token from Mrs. Russell, I did find myself concerned for our not
+buying some tallow of her (which she bought on purpose yesterday most
+unadvisedly to her great losse upon confidence of putting it off to us).
+So hard it is for a man not to be warped against his duty and master's
+interest that receives any bribe or present, though not as a bribe, from
+any body else.  But she must be contented, and I to do her a good turn
+when I can without wrong to the King's service.  Then home to dinner (and
+did drink a glass of wine and beer, the more for joy that this is the
+shortest day in the year,--[Old Style]--which is a pleasant consideration)
+with my wife.  She in bed but pretty well, and having a messenger from my
+brother, that he is not well nor stirs out of doors, I went forth to see
+him, and found him below, he has not been well, but is not ill.  I found
+him taking order for the distribution of Mrs. Ramsey's coals, a thing my
+father for many years did, and now he after him, which I was glad to see,
+as also to hear that Mr. Wheatly begins to look after him.  I hope it is
+about his daughter.  Thence to St. Paul's Church Yard, to my bookseller's,
+and having gained this day in the office by my stationer's bill to the
+King about 40s. or L3, I did here sit two or three hours calling for
+twenty books to lay this money out upon, and found myself at a great losse
+where to choose, and do see how my nature would gladly return to laying
+out money in this trade.  I could not tell whether to lay out my money for
+books of pleasure, as plays, which my nature was most earnest in; but at
+last, after seeing Chaucer, Dugdale's History of Paul's, Stows London,
+Gesner, History of Trent, besides Shakespeare, Jonson, and Beaumont's
+plays, I at last chose Dr. Fuller's Worthys, the Cabbala or Collections of
+Letters of State, and a little book, Delices de Hollande, with another
+little book or two, all of good use or serious pleasure: and Hudibras,
+both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for drollery, though I
+cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies.  My mind being thus
+settled, I went by linke home, and so to my office, and to read in
+Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.  Calling at Wotton's, my
+shoemaker's, today, he tells me that Sir H. Wright is dying; and that
+Harris is come to the Duke's house again; and of a rare play to be acted
+this week of Sir William Davenant's: the story of Henry the Eighth with
+all his wives.
+
+11th.  Up and abroad toward the Wardrobe, and going out Mr. Clerke met me
+to tell me that Field has a writ against me in this last business of L30
+10s., and that he believes he will get an execution against me this
+morning, and though he told me it could not be well before noon, and that
+he would stop it at the Sheriff's, yet it is hard to believe with what
+fear I did walk and how I did doubt at every man I saw and do start at the
+hearing of one man cough behind my neck.  I to, the Wardrobe and there
+missed Mr. Moore.  So to Mr. Holden's and evened all reckonings there for
+hats, and then walked to Paul's Churchyard and after a little at my
+bookseller's and bought at a shop Cardinall Mazarin's Will in French.  I
+to the Coffeehouse and there among others had good discourse with an Iron
+Merchant, who tells me the great evil of discouraging our natural
+manufacture of England in that commodity by suffering the Swede to bring
+in three times more than ever they did and our owne Ironworks be lost, as
+almost half of them, he says, are already.  Then I went and sat by Mr.
+Harrington, and some East country merchants, and talking of the country
+about Quinsborough, and thereabouts, he told us himself that for fish,
+none there, the poorest body, will buy a dead fish, but must be alive,
+unless it be in winter; and then they told us the manner of putting their
+nets into the water.  Through holes made in the thick ice, they will
+spread a net of half a mile long; and he hath known a hundred and thirty
+and a hundred and seventy barrels of fish taken at one draught.  And then
+the people come with sledges upon the ice, with snow at the bottome, and
+lay the fish in and cover them with snow, and so carry them to market.
+And he hath seen when the said fish have been frozen in the sledge, so as
+that he hath taken a fish and broke a-pieces, so hard it hath been; and
+yet the same fishes taken out of the snow, and brought into a hot room,
+will be alive and leap up and down.  Swallows are often brought up in
+their nets out of the mudd from under water, hanging together to some
+twigg or other, dead in ropes, and brought to the fire will come to life.
+Fowl killed in December.  (Alderman Barker said) he did buy, and putting
+into the box under his sledge, did forget to take them out to eate till
+Aprill next, and they then were found there, and were through the frost as
+sweet and fresh and eat as well as at first killed.  Young beares are
+there; their flesh sold in market as ordinarily as beef here, and is
+excellent sweet meat.  They tell us that beares there do never hurt any
+body, but fly away from you, unless you pursue and set upon them; but
+wolves do much mischief.  Mr. Harrington told us how they do to get so
+much honey as they send abroad.  They make hollow a great fir-tree,
+leaving only a small slitt down straight in one place, and this they close
+up again, only leave a little hole, and there the bees go in and fill the
+bodys of those trees as full of wax and honey as they can hold; and the
+inhabitants at times go and open the slit, and take what they please
+without killing the bees, and so let them live there still and make more.
+Fir trees are always planted close together, because of keeping one
+another from the violence of the windes; and when a fell is made, they
+leave here and there a grown tree to preserve the young ones coming up.
+The great entertainment and sport of the Duke of Corland, and the princes
+thereabouts, is hunting; which is not with dogs as we, but he appoints
+such a day, and summons all the country-people as to a campagnia; and by
+several companies gives every one their circuit, and they agree upon a
+place where the toyle is to be set; and so making fires every company as
+they go, they drive all the wild beasts, whether bears, wolves, foxes,
+swine, and stags, and roes, into the toyle; and there the great men have
+their stands in such and such places, and shoot at what they have a mind
+to, and that is their hunting.  They are not very populous there, by
+reason that people marry women seldom till they are towards or above
+thirty; and men thirty or forty years old, or more oftentimes.  Against a
+publique hunting the Duke sends that no wolves be killed by the people;
+and whatever harm they do, the Duke makes it good to the person that
+suffers it: as Mr. Harrington instanced in a house where he lodged, where
+a wolfe broke into a hog-stye, and bit three or four great pieces off the
+back of the hog, before the house could come to helpe it (it calling, and
+that did give notice to the people of the house); and the man of the house
+told him that there were three or four wolves thereabouts that did them
+great hurt; but it was no matter, for the Duke was to make it good to him,
+otherwise he would kill them.  Hence home and upstairs, my wife keeping
+her bed, and had a very good dinner, and after dinner to my office, and
+there till late busy.  Among other things Captain Taylor came to me about
+his bill for freight, and besides that I found him contented that I have
+the L30 I got, he do offer me to give me L6 to take the getting of the
+bill paid upon me, which I am ready to do, but I am loath to have it said
+that I ever did it.  However, I will do him the service to get it paid if
+I can and stand to his courtesy what he will give me.  Late to supper
+home, and to my great joy I have by my wife's good advice almost brought
+myself by going often and leisurely to the stool that I am come almost to
+have my natural course of stool as well as ever, which I pray God continue
+to me.
+
+12th.  Up and to the office where all the morning, and among other things
+got Sir G. Carteret to put his letters to Captain Taylor's bill by which I
+am in hopes to get L5, which joys my heart.  We had this morning a great
+dispute between Mr. Gauden, Victualler of the Navy, and Sir J. Lawson, and
+the rest of the Commanders going against Argier, about their fish and
+keeping of Lent; which Mr. Gauden so much insists upon to have it
+observed, as being the only thing that makes up the loss of his dear
+bargain all the rest of the year.  At noon went home and there I found
+that one Abrahall, who strikes in for the serving of the King with Ship
+chandlery ware, has sent my wife a Japan gowne, which pleases her very
+well and me also, it coming very opportune, but I know not how to carry
+myself to him, I being already obliged so far to Mrs. Russell, so that I
+am in both their pays.  To the Exchange, where I had sent Luellin word I
+would come to him, and thence brought him home to dinner with me.  He
+tells me that W. Symon's wife is dead, for which I am sorry, she being a
+good woman, and tells me an odde story of her saying before her death,
+being in good sense, that there stood her uncle Scobell.  Then he began to
+tell me that Mr. Deering had been with him to desire him to speak to me
+that if I would get him off with these goods upon his hands, he would give
+me 50 pieces, and further that if I would stand his friend to helpe him to
+the benefit of his patent as the King's merchant, he could spare me L200
+per annum out of his profits.  I was glad to hear both of these, but
+answered him no further than that as I would not by any thing be bribed to
+be unjust in my dealings,
+
+     [Edward Dering was granted, August, 1660, "the office of King's
+     merchant in the East, for buying and providing necessaries for
+     apparelling the Navy" ("Calendar," Domestic, 1660-61, p.  212).
+     There is evidence among the State Papers of some dissatisfaction
+     with the timber, &c., which he supplied to the Navy, and at this
+     time he appears to have had some stores left on his hands.]
+
+so I was not so squeamish as not to take people's acknowledgment where I
+had the good fortune by my pains to do them good and just offices, and so
+I would not come to be at any agreement with him, but I would labour to do
+him this service and to expect his consideration thereof afterwards as he
+thought fit.  So I expect to hear more of it.  I did make very much of
+Luellin in hopes to have some good by this business, and in the evening
+received some money from Mr. Moore, and so went and settled accounts in my
+books between him and me, and I do hope at Christmas not only to find
+myself as rich or more than ever I was yet, but also my accounts in less
+compass, fewer reckonings either of debts or moneys due to me, than ever I
+have been for some years, and indeed do so, the goodness of God bringing
+me from better to a better expectation and hopes of doing well. This day I
+heard my Lord Barkeley tell Sir G. Carteret that he hath letters from
+France that the King hath unduked twelve Dukes, only to show his power and
+to crush his nobility, who he said he did see had heretofore laboured to
+cross him.  And this my Lord Barkeley did mightily magnify, as a sign of a
+brave and vigorous mind, that what he saw fit to be done he dares do.  At
+night, after business done at my office, home to supper and to bed.  I
+have forgot to set down a very remarkable passage that, Lewellen being
+gone, and I going into the office, and it begun to be dark, I found nobody
+there, my clerks being at the burial of a child of W. Griffin's, and so I
+spent a little time till they came, walking in the garden, and in the mean
+time, while I was walking Mrs. Pen's pretty maid came by my side, and went
+into the office, but finding nobody there I went in to her, being glad of
+the occasion.  She told me as she was going out again that there was
+nobody there, and that she came for a sheet of paper.  So I told her I
+would supply her, and left her in the office and went into my office and
+opened my garden door, thinking to have got her in, and there to have
+caressed her, and seeming looking for paper, I told her this way was as
+near a way for her, but she told me she had left the door open and so did
+not come to me.  So I carried her some paper and kissed her, leading her
+by the hand to the garden door and there let her go.  But, Lord! to see
+how much I was put out of order by this surprisal, and how much I could
+have subjected my mind to have treated and been found with this wench, and
+how afterwards I was troubled to think what if she should tell this and
+whether I had spoke or done any thing that might be unfit for her to tell.
+But I think there was nothing more passed than just what I here write.
+
+13th (Lord's day).  Up and made me ready for Church, but my wife and I had
+a difference about her old folly that she would fasten lies upon her
+mayds, and now upon Jane, which I did not see enough to confirm me in it,
+and so would not consent to her.  To church, where after sermon home, and
+to my office, before dinner, reading my vowes, and so home to dinner,
+where Tom came to me and he and I dined together, my wife not rising all
+day, and after dinner I made even accounts with him, and spent all the
+afternoon in my chamber talking of many things with him, and about
+Wheately's daughter for a wife for him, and then about the Joyces and
+their father Fenner, how they are sometimes all honey one with another and
+then all turd, and a strange rude life there is among them.  In the
+evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and
+answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine, and then to do a
+little business against to-morrow, and so home to supper to my wife, and
+then to bed.
+
+14th.  Up by candlelight, which I do not use to do, though it be very
+late, that is to say almost 8 o'clock, and out by coach to White Hall,
+where we all met and to the Duke, where I heard a large discourse between
+one that goes over an agent from the King to Legorne and thereabouts, to
+remove the inconveniences his ships are put to by denial of pratique;
+which is a thing that is now-a-days made use of only as a cheat, for a man
+may buy a bill of health for a piece of eight, and my enemy may agree with
+the Intendent of the Sante for ten pieces of eight or so; that he shall
+not give me a bill of health, and so spoil me in my design, whatever it
+be.  This the King will not endure, and so resolves either to have it
+removed, or to keep all ships from coming in, or going out there, so long
+as his ships are stayed for want hereof.  Then, my Lord Sandwich being
+there, we all went into the Duke's closet and did our business. But among
+other things, Lord! what an account did Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten
+make of the pulling down and burning of the head of the Charles, where
+Cromwell was placed with people under his horse, and Peter, as the Duke
+called him, is praying to him; and Sir J. Minnes would needs infer the
+temper of the people from their joy at the doing of this and their
+building a gibbet for the hanging of his head up, when God knows, it is
+even the flinging away of L100 out of the King's purse, to the building of
+another, which it seems must be a Neptune.  Thence I through White Hall
+only to see what was doing, but meeting none that I knew I went through
+the garden to my Lord Sandwich's lodging, where I found my Lord got before
+me (which I did not intend or expect) and was there trying some musique,
+which he intends for an anthem of three parts, I know not whether for the
+King's chapel or no, but he seems mighty intent upon it.  But it did
+trouble me to hear him swear before God and other oathes, as he did now
+and then without any occasion, which methinks did so ill become him, and I
+hope will be a caution for me, it being so ill a thing in him.  The
+musique being done, without showing me any good or ill countenance, he did
+give me his hat and so adieu, and went down to his coach without saying
+anything to me.  He being gone I and Mr. Howe talked a good while.  He
+tells me that my Lord, it is true, for a while after my letter, was
+displeased, and did shew many slightings of me when he had occasion of
+mentioning me to his Lordship, but that now my Lord is in good temper and
+he do believe will shew me as much respect as ever, and would have me not
+to refrain to come to him.  This news I confess did much trouble me, but
+when I did hear how he is come to himself, and hath wholly left Chelsy,
+and the slut, and that I see he do follow his business, and becomes in
+better repute than before, I am rejoiced to see it, though it do cost me
+some disfavour for a time, for if not his good nature and ingenuity, yet I
+believe his memory will not bear it always in his mind.  But it is my
+comfort that this is the thing that after so many years good service that
+has made him my enemy.  Thence to the King's Head ordinary, and there
+dined among a company of fine gentlemen; some of them discoursed of the
+King of France's greatness, and how he is come to make the Princes of the
+Blood to take place of all foreign Embassadors, which it seems is granted
+by them of Venice and other States, and expected from my Lord.  Hollis,
+our King's Embassador there; and that either upon that score or something
+else he hath not had his entry yet in Paris, but hath received several
+affronts, and among others his harnesse cut, and his gentlemen of his
+horse killed, which will breed bad blood if true.  They say also that the
+King of France hath hired threescore ships of Holland, and forty of the
+Swede, but nobody knows what to do; but some great designs he hath on foot
+against the next year.  Thence by coach home and to my office, where I
+spent all the evening till night with Captain Taylor discoursing about
+keeping of masts, and when he was gone, with Sir W. Warren, who did give
+me excellent discourse about the same thing, which I have committed to
+paper, and then fell to other talk of his being at Chatham lately and
+there discoursing of his masts.  Commissioner Pett did let fall several
+scurvy words concerning my pretending to know masts as well as any body,
+which I know proceeds ever since I told him I could measure a piece of
+timber as well as anybody employed by the King.  But, however, I shall
+remember him for a black sheep again a good while, with all his fair words
+to me, and perhaps may let him know that my ignorance does the King as
+much good as all his knowledge, which would do more it is true if it were
+well used.  Then we fell to talk of Sir J. Minnes's and Sir W. Batten's
+burning of Oliver's head, while he was there; which was done with so much
+insulting and folly as I never heard of, and had the Trayned Band of
+Rochester to come to the solemnity, which when all comes to all,
+Commissioner Pett says it never was made for him; but it troubles me the
+King should suffer L100 losse in his purse, to make a new one after it was
+forgot whose it was, or any words spoke of it.  He being gone I mightily
+pleased with his discourse, by which I always learn something, I to read a
+little in Rushworth, and so home to supper to my wife, it having been
+washing day, and so to bed, my mind I confess a little troubled for my
+Lord Sandwich's displeasure.  But God will give me patience to bear since
+it rises from so good an occasion.
+
+15th.  Before I was up, my brother's man came to tell me that my cozen,
+Edward Pepys, was dead, died at Mrs. Turner's, for which my wife and I are
+very sorry, and the more for that his wife was the only handsome woman of
+our name.  So up and to the office, where the greatest business was Sir J.
+Minnes and Sir W. Batten against me for Sir W. Warren's contract for
+masts, to which I may go to my memorandum book to see what past, but came
+off with conquest, and my Lord Barkely and Mr. Coventry well convinced
+that we are well used.  So home to dinner, and thither came to me Mr.
+Mount and Mr. Luellin, I think almost foxed, and there dined with me and
+very merry as I could be, my mind being troubled to see things so ordered
+at the Board, though with no disparagement to me at all.  At dinner comes
+a messenger from the Counter with an execution against me for the L30
+10s., given the last verdict to Field.  The man's name is Thomas, of the
+Poultry Counter.  I sent Griffin with him to the Dolphin, where Sir W.
+Batten was at dinner, and he being satisfied that I should pay the money,
+I did cause the money to be paid him, and Griffin to tell it out to him in
+the office.  He offered to go along with me to Sir R. Ford, but I thought
+it not necessary, but let him go with it, he also telling me that there is
+never any receipt for it given, but I have good witness of the payment of
+it.  They being gone, Luellin having again told me by myself that Deering
+is content to give me L50 if I can sell his deals for him to the King, not
+that I did ever offer to take it, or bid Luellin bargain for me with him,
+but did tacitly seem to be willing to do him what service I could in it,
+and expect his thanks, what he thought good.  Thence to White Hall by
+coach, by the way overtaking Mr. Moore, and took him into the coach to me,
+and there he could tell me nothing of my Lord, how he stands as to his
+thoughts or respect to me, but concludes that though at present he may be
+angry yet he will come to be pleased again with me no doubt, and says that
+he do mind his business well, and keeps at Court.  So to White Hall, and
+there by order found some of the Commissioners of Tangier met, and my Lord
+Sandwich among the rest, to whom I bowed, but he shewed me very little if
+any countenance at all, which troubles me mightily.  Having soon done
+there, I took up Mr. Moore again and set him down at Pauls, by the way he
+proposed to me of a way of profit which perhaps may shortly be made by
+money by fines upon houses at the Wardrobe, but how I did not understand
+but left it to another discourse.  So homeward, calling upon Mr. Fen, by
+Sir G. Carteret's desire, and did there shew him the bill of Captain
+Taylor's whereby I hope to get something justly.  Home and to my office,
+and there very late with Sir W. Warren upon very serious discourse,
+telling him how matters passed to-day, and in the close he and I did fall
+to talk very openly of the business of this office, and (if I was not a
+little too open to tell him my interest, which is my fault) he did give me
+most admirable advice, and such as do speak him a most able and worthy
+man, and understanding seven times more than ever I thought to be in him.
+He did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and
+shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for their
+falsenesse or their over-great power, being too high to fasten a real
+friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent saying to
+observe in all my life.  He did give it in rhyme, but the sense was this,
+that a man should treat every friend in his discourse and opening his mind
+to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe.  He did also advise me how
+I should take occasion to make known to the world my case, and the pains
+that I take in my business, and above all to be sure to get a thorough
+knowledge in my employment, and to that add all the interest at Court that
+I can, which I hope I shall do.  He staid talking with me till almost 12
+at night, and so good night, being sorry to part with him, and more sorry
+that he should have as far as Wapping to walk to-night. So I to my
+Journall and so home, to supper and to bed.
+
+16th.  Up, and with my head and heart full of my business, I to my office,
+and there all the morning, where among other things to my great content
+Captain Taylor brought me L40, the greater part of which I shall gain to
+myself after much care and pains out of his bill of freight, as I have at
+large set down in my book of Memorandums.  At noon to the 'Change and
+there met with Mr. Wood by design, and got out of him to my advantage a
+condition which I shall make good use of against Sir W. Batten (vide my
+book of Memorandums touching the contract of masts of Sir W. Warren about
+which I have had so much trouble).  So home to dinner and then to the Star
+Tavern hard by to our arbitration of Mr. Bland's business, and at it a
+great while, but I found no order like to be kept in our inquiry, and Mr.
+Clerke, the other arbitrator, one so far from being fit (though able as to
+his trade of a merchant) to inquire and to take pains in searching out the
+truth on both sides, that we parted without doing anything, nor do I
+believe we shall at all ever attain to anything in it.  Then home and till
+12 at night making up my accounts with great account of this day's receipt
+of Captain Taylor's money and some money reimbursed me which I have laid
+out on Field's business.  So home with my mind in pretty good quiet, and
+to Supper and to bed.
+
+17th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon home
+to my poor wife and dined, and then by coach abroad to Mrs. Turner's where
+I have not been for many a day, and there I found her and her sister Dike
+very sad for the death of their brother.  After a little common expression
+of sorrow, Mrs. Turner told me that the trouble she would put me to was,
+to consult about getting an achievement prepared, scutcheons were done
+already, to set over the door.  So I did go out to Mr. Smith's, where my
+brother tells me the scutcheons are made, but he not being within, I went
+to the Temple, and there spent my time in a Bookseller's shop, reading in
+a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c., where was very good reading,
+and then to Mrs. Turner's, and thither came Smith to me, with whom I did
+agree for L4 to make a handsome one, ell square within the frame.  After
+he was gone I sat an houre talking of the suddennesse of his death within
+7 days, and how by little and little death came upon him, neither he nor
+they thinking it would come to that. He died after a day's raveing,
+through lightness in his head for want of sleep.  His lady did not know of
+his sickness, nor do they hear yet how she takes it.  Hence home, taking
+some books by the way in Paul's Churchyard by coach to my office, where
+late doing business, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+18th.  Up, and after being ready and done several businesses with people,
+I took water (taking a dram of the bottle at the waterside) with a gaily,
+the first that ever I had yet, and down to Woolwich, calling at Ham
+Creeke, where I met Mr. Deane, and had a great deal of talke with him
+about business, and so to the Ropeyarde and Docke, discoursing several
+things, and so back again and did the like at Deptford, and I find that it
+is absolutely necessary for me to do thus once a weeke at least all the
+yeare round, which will do me great good, and so home with great ease and
+content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought
+yesterday, being a discourse of the state of Rome under the present Pope,
+Alexander the 7th, it being a very excellent piece.  After eating
+something at home, then to my office, where till night about business to
+dispatch.  Among other people came Mr. Primate, the leather seller, in
+Fleete Streete, to see me, he says, coming this way; and he tells me that
+he is upon a proposal to the King, whereby, by a law already in being, he
+will supply the King, without wrong to any man, or charge to the people in
+general, so much as it is now, above L200,000 per annum, and God knows
+what, and that the King do like the proposal, and hath directed that the
+Duke of Monmouth, with their consent, be made privy, and go along with him
+and his fellow proposer in the business, God knows what it is; for I
+neither can guess nor believe there is any such thing in his head.  At
+night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+19th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I laboured
+hard at Deering's business of his deals more than I would if I did not
+think to get something, though I do really believe that I did what is to
+the King's advantage in it, and yet, God knows, the expectation of profit
+will have its force and make a man the more earnest.  Dined at home, and
+then with Mr. Bland to another meeting upon his arbitration, and seeing we
+were likely to do no good I even put them upon it, and they chose Sir W.
+Rider alone to end the matter, and so I am rid of it.  Thence by coach to
+my shoemaker's and paid all there, and gave something to the boys' box
+against Christmas.  To Mrs. Turner's, whom I find busy with Sir W. Turner,
+about advising upon going down to Norfolke with the corps, and I find him
+in talke a sober, considering man.  So home to my office late, and then
+home to supper and to bed.  My head full of business, but pretty good
+content.
+
+20th (Lord's day).  Up and alone to church, where a common sermon of Mr.
+Mills, and so home to dinner in our parler, my wife being clean, and the
+first time we have dined here a great while together, and in the afternoon
+went to church with me also, and there begun to take her place above Mrs.
+Pen, which heretofore out of a humour she was wont to give her as an
+affront to my Lady Batten.  After a dull sermon of the Scotchman, home,
+and there I found my brother Tom and my two cozens Scotts, he and she, the
+first time they were ever here.  And by and by in comes my uncle.  Wight
+and Mr. Norbury, and they sat with us a while drinking, of wine, of which
+I did give them plenty.  But the two would not stay supper, but the other
+two did.  And we were as merry as I could be with people that I do wish
+well to, but know not what discourse either to give them or find from
+them.  We showed them our house from top to bottom, and had a good Turkey
+roasted for our supper, and store of wine, and after supper sent them home
+on foot, and so we to prayers and to bed.
+
+21st.  Up betimes, my wife having a mind to have gone abroad with me, but
+I had not because of troubling me, and so left her, though against my
+will, to go and see her father and mother by herself, and I straight to my
+Lord Sandwich's, and there I had a pretty kind salute from my Lord, and
+went on to the Duke's, where my fellow officers by and by came, and so in
+with him to his closet, and did our business, and so broke up, and I with
+Sir W. Batten by coach to Salisbury Court, and there spoke with Clerk our
+Solicitor about Field's business, and so parted, and I to Mrs. Turner's,
+and there saw the achievement pretty well set up, and it is well done.
+Thence I on foot to Charing Crosse to the ordinary, and there, dined,
+meeting Mr. Gauden and Creed.  Here variety of talk but to no great
+purpose.  After dinner won a wager of a payre of gloves of a crowne of Mr.
+Gauden upon some words in his contract for victualling. There parted in
+the street with them, and I to my Lord's, but he not being within, took
+coach, and, being directed by sight of bills upon the walls, I did go to
+Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there, a sport I was never
+at in my life; but, Lord! to see the strange variety of people, from
+Parliament-man (by name Wildes, that was Deputy Governor of the Tower when
+Robinson was Lord Mayor) to the poorest 'prentices, bakers, brewers,
+butchers, draymen, and what not; and all these fellows one with another in
+swearing, cursing, and betting.  I soon had enough of it, and yet I would
+not but have seen it once, it being strange to observe the nature of these
+poor creatures, how they will fight till they drop down dead upon the
+table, and strike after they are ready to give up the ghost, not offering
+to run away when they are weary or wounded past doing further, whereas
+where a dunghill brood comes he will, after a sharp stroke that pricks
+him, run off the stage, and then they wring off his neck without more ado,
+whereas the other they preserve, though their eyes be both out, for breed
+only of a true cock of the game.  Sometimes a cock that has had ten to one
+against him will by chance give an unlucky blow, will strike the other
+starke dead in a moment, that he never stirs more; but the common rule is,
+that though a cock neither runs nor dies, yet if any man will bet L10 to a
+crowne, and nobody take the bet, the game is given over, and not sooner.
+One thing more it is strange to see how people of this poor rank, that
+look as if they had not bread to put in their mouths, shall bet three or
+four pounds at one bet, and lose it, and yet bet as much the next battle
+(so they call every match of two cocks), so that one of them will lose L10
+or L20 at a meeting.  Thence, having enough of it, by coach to my Lord
+Sandwich's, where I find him within with Captain Cooke and his boys, Dr.
+Childe, Mr. Madge, and Mallard, playing and singing over my Lord's anthem
+which he hath made to sing in the King's Chappell: my Lord saluted me
+kindly and took me into the withdrawing-room, to hear it at a distance,
+and indeed it sounds very finely, and is a good thing, I believe, to be
+made by him, and they all commend it.  And after that was done Captain
+Cooke and his two boys did sing some Italian songs, which I must in a word
+say I think was fully the best musique that I ever yet heard in all my
+life, and it was to me a very great pleasure to hear them.  After all
+musique ended, my Lord going to White Hall, I went along with him, and
+made a desire for to have his coach to go along with my cozen Edward
+Pepys's hearse through the City on Wednesday next, which he granted me
+presently, though he cannot yet come to speak to me in the familiar stile
+that he did use to do, nor can I expect it.  But I was the willinger of
+this occasion to see whether he would deny me or no, which he would I
+believe had he been at open defyance against me.  Being not a little
+pleased with all this, though I yet see my Lord is not right yet, I
+thanked his Lordship and parted with him in White Hall.  I back to my
+Lord's, and there took up W. Howe in a coach, and carried him as far as
+the Half Moone, and there set him down. By the way, talking of my Lord,
+who is come another and a better man than he was lately, and God be
+praised for it, and he says that I shall find my Lord as he used to be to
+me, of which I have good hopes, but I shall beware of him, I mean W. Howe,
+how I trust him, for I perceive he is not so discreet as I took him for,
+for he has told Captain Ferrers (as Mr. Moore tells me) of my letter to my
+Lord, which troubles me, for fear my Lord should think that I might have
+told him.  So called with my coach at my wife's brother's lodging, but she
+was gone newly in a coach homewards, and so I drove hard and overtook her
+at Temple Bar, and there paid off mine, and went home with her in her
+coach.  She tells me how there is a sad house among her friends.  Her
+brother's wife proves very unquiet, and so her mother is, gone back to be
+with her husband and leave the young couple to themselves, and great
+trouble, and I fear great want, will be among them, I pray keep me from
+being troubled with them.  At home to put on my gowne and to my office,
+and there set down this day's Journall, and by and by comes Mrs. Owen,
+Captain Allen's daughter, and causes me to stay while the papers relating
+to her husband's place, bought of his father, be copied out because of her
+going by this morning's tide home to Chatham.  Which vexes me, but there
+is no help for it.  I home to supper while a young [man] that she brought
+with her did copy out the things, and then I to the office again and
+dispatched her, and so home to bed.
+
+22nd.  Up and there comes my she cozen Angier, of Cambridge, to me to
+speak about her son.  But though I love them, and have reason so to do,
+yet, Lord!  to consider how cold I am to speak to her, for fear of giving
+her too much hopes of expecting either money or anything else from me
+besides my care of her son.  I let her go without drinking, though that
+was against my will, being forced to hasten to the office, where we sat
+all the morning, and at noon I to Sir R. Ford's, where Sir R. Browne (a
+dull but it seems upon action a hot man), and he and I met upon setting a
+price upon the freight of a barge sent to France to the Duchess of
+Orleans.  And here by discourse I find them greatly crying out against the
+choice of Sir J. Cutler to be Treasurer for Paul's upon condition that he
+give L1500 towards it, and it seems he did give it upon condition that he
+might be Treasurer for the work, which they say will be worth three times
+as much money, and talk as if his being chosen to the office will make
+people backward to give, but I think him as likely a man as either of
+them, or better.  The business being done we parted, Sir R. Ford never
+inviting me to dine with him at all, and I was not sorry for it.  Home and
+dined.  I had a letter from W. Howe that my Lord hath ordered his coach
+and six horses for me to-morrow, which pleases me mightily to think that
+my Lord should do so much, hoping thereby that his anger is a little over.
+After dinner abroad with my wife by coach to Westminster, and set her at
+Mrs. Hunt's while I about my business, having in our way met with Captain
+Ferrers luckily to speak to him about my coach, who was going in all haste
+thither, and I perceive the King and Duke and all the Court was going to
+the Duke's playhouse to see "Henry VIII."  acted, which is said to be an
+admirable play.  But, Lord! to see how near I was to have broken my oathe,
+or run the hazard of 20s. losse, so much my nature was hot to have gone
+thither; but I did not go, but having spoke with W. Howe and known how my
+Lord did do this kindly as I would have it, I did go to Westminster Hall,
+and there met Hawley, and walked a great while with him.  Among other
+discourse encouraging him to pursue his love to Mrs. Lane, while God knows
+I had a roguish meaning in it.  Thence calling my wife home by coach,
+calling at several places, and to my office, where late, and so home to
+supper and to bed.  This day I hear for certain that my Lady Castlemaine
+is turned Papist, which the Queene for all do not much like, thinking that
+she do it not for conscience sake.  I heard to-day of a great fray lately
+between Sir H. Finch's coachman, who struck with his whip a coachman of
+the King's to the losse of one of his eyes; at which the people of the
+Exchange seeming to laugh and make sport with some words of contempt to
+him, my Lord Chamberlin did come from the King to shut up the 'Change, and
+by the help of a justice, did it; but upon petition to the King it was
+opened again.
+
+23rd.  Up betimes and my wife; and being in as mourning a dress as we
+could, at present, without cost, put ourselves into, we by Sir W. Pen's
+coach to Mrs. Turner's, at Salisbury Court, where I find my Lord's coach
+and six horses.  We staid till almost eleven o'clock, and much company
+came, and anon, the corps being put into the hearse, and the scutcheons
+set upon it, we all took coach, and I and my wife and Auditor Beale in my
+Lord Sandwich's coach, and went next to Mrs. Turner's mourning coach, and
+so through all the City and Shoreditch, I believe about twenty coaches,
+and four or five with six and four horses.  Being come thither, I made up
+to the mourners, and bidding them a good journey, I took leave and back
+again, and setting my wife into a hackney out of Bishopsgate Street, I
+sent her home, and I to the 'Change and Auditor Beale about his business.
+Did much business at the 'Change, and so home to dinner, and then to my
+office, and there late doing business also to my great content to see God
+bless me in my place and opening honest ways, I hope to get a little money
+to lay up and yet to live handsomely.  So to supper and to bed.  My wife
+having strange fits of the toothache, some times on this, and by and by on
+that side of her tooth, which is not common.
+
+24th.  Up betimes; and though it was a most foggy morning, and cold, yet
+with a gally down to Eriffe, several times being at a loss whither we
+went.  There I mustered two ships of the King's, lent by him to the Guiny
+Company, which are manned better than ours at far less wages.  Thence on
+board two of the King's, one of them the "Leopard," Captain Beech, who I
+find an able and serious man.  He received me civilly, and his wife was
+there, a very well bred and knowing woman, born at Antwerp, but speaks as
+good English as myself, and an ingenious woman.  Here was also Sir G.
+Carteret's son, who I find a pretty, but very talking man, but good
+humour.  Thence back again, entertaining myself upon my sliding rule with
+great content, and called at Woolwich, where Mr. Chr. Pett having an
+opportunity of being alone did tell me his mind about several things he
+thought I was offended with him in, and told me of my kindness to his
+assistant.  I did give him such an answer as I thought was fit and left
+him well satisfied, he offering to do me all the service, either by
+draughts or modells that I should desire.  Thence straight home, being
+very cold, but yet well, I thank God, and at home found my wife making
+mince pies, and by and by comes in Captain Ferrers to see us, and, among
+other talke, tells us of the goodness of the new play of "Henry VIII.,"
+which makes me think [it] long till my time is out; but I hope before I go
+I shall set myself such a stint as I may not forget myself as I have
+hitherto done till I was forced for these months last past wholly to
+forbid myself the seeing of one.  He gone I to my office and there late
+writing and reading, and so home to bed.
+
+25th (Christmas day).  Lay long talking pleasantly with my wife, but among
+other things she begun, I know not whether by design or chance, to enquire
+what she should do if I should by any accident die, to which I did give
+her some slight answer; but shall make good use of it to bring myself to
+some settlement for her sake, by making a will as soon as I can.  Up and
+to church, where Mr. Mills made an ordinary sermon, and so home and dined
+with great pleasure with my wife, and all the afternoon first looking out
+at window and seeing the boys playing at many several sports in our back
+yard by Sir W. Pen's, which reminded me of my own former times, and then I
+began to read to my wife upon the globes with great pleasure and to good
+purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand
+these things.  In the evening at the office, where I staid late reading
+Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the beginning of the
+late quarrels in this kingdom, and so home to supper and to bed, with good
+content of mind.
+
+26th.  Up and walked forth first to the Minerys to Brown's, and there with
+great pleasure saw and bespoke several instruments, and so to Cornhill to
+Mr. Cades, and there went up into his warehouse to look for a map or two,
+and there finding great plenty of good pictures, God forgive me! how my
+mind run upon them, and bought a little one for my wife's closett
+presently, and concluded presently of buying L10 worth, upon condition he
+would give me the buying of them.  Now it is true I did still within me
+resolve to make the King one way or other pay for them, though I saved it
+to him another way, yet I find myself too forward to fix upon the expense,
+and came away with a resolution of buying them, but do hope that I shall
+not upon second thoughts do it without a way made out before I buy them to
+myself how to do [it] without charge to my main stock.  Thence to the
+Coffee-house, and sat long in good discourse with some gentlemen
+concerning the Roman Empire.  So home and found Mr. Hollyard there, and he
+stayed and dined with us, we having a pheasant to dinner.  He gone, I all
+the afternoon with my wife to cards, and, God forgive me! to see how the
+very discourse of plays, which I shall be at liberty to see after New
+Year's Day next, do set my mind upon them, but I must be forced to stint
+myself very strictly before I begin, or else I fear I shall spoil all.  In
+the evening came my aunt Wight's kinswoman to see how my wife do, with a
+compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly as it is unusual for her to
+do it, but I do perceive my uncle is very kind to me of late.  So to my
+office writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth,
+which I did, and do say that it is a book the most worth reading for a man
+of my condition or any man that hopes to come to any publique condition in
+the world that I do know.  So home to supper and to bed.
+
+27th.  Up and to church alone and so home to dinner with my wife very
+pleasant and pleased with one another's company, and in our general
+enjoyment one of another, better we think than most other couples do.  So
+after dinner to the French church, but came too late, and so back to our
+owne church, where I slept all the sermon the Scott preaching, and so
+home, and in the evening Sir J. Minnes and I met at Sir W. Pen's about
+ordering some business of the Navy, and so I home to supper, discourse,
+prayers, and bed.
+
+28th.  Up and by coach to my Lord's lodgings, but he was gone abroad, so I
+lost my pains, but, however, walking through White Hall I heard the King
+was gone to play at Tennis, so I down to the new Tennis Court; and saw him
+and Sir Arthur Slingsby play against my Lord of Suffolke and my Lord
+Chesterfield.  The King beat three, and lost two sets, they all, and he
+particularly playing well, I thought.  Thence went and spoke with the Duke
+of Albemarle about his wound at Newhall, but I find him a heavy dull man,
+methinks, by his answers to me.  Thence to the King's Head ordinary and
+there dined, and found Creed there, but we met and dined and parted
+without any thing more than "How do you?"  After dinner straight on foot
+to Mr. Hollyard's, and there paid him L3 in full for his physic and work
+to my wife .  .  .  .  but whether it is cured for ever or no I cannot
+tell, but he says it will never come to anything, though it may be it may
+ooze now and then a little.  So home and found my wife gone out with Will
+(whom she sent for as she do now a days upon occasion) to have a tooth
+drawn, she having it seems been in great pain all day, and at night came
+home with it drawn, and pretty well.  This evening I had a stove brought
+me to the office to try, but it being an old one it smokes as much as if
+there was nothing but a hearth as I had before, but it may be great new
+ones do not, and therefore I must enquire further.  So at night home to
+supper and to bed.  The Duchesse of York is fallen sicke of the meazles.
+
+29th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting, at noon to the
+'change, and there I found and brought home Mr. Pierse the surgeon to
+dinner.  Where I found also Mr. Luellin and Mount, and merry at dinner,
+but their discourse so free .  .  .  .  that I was weary of them.  But
+after dinner Luellin took me up to my chamber to give me L50 for the
+service I did him, though not so great as he expected and I intended. But
+I told him that I would not sell my liberty to any man.  If he would give
+me any thing by another's hand I would endeavour to deserve it, but I will
+never give him himself thanks for it, not acknowledging the receiving of
+any, which he told me was reasonable.  I did also tell him that neither
+this nor any thing should make me to do any thing that should not be for
+the King's service besides.  So we parted and left them three at home with
+my wife going to cards, and I to my office and there staid late.  Sir W.
+Pen came like a cunning rogue to sit and talk with me about office
+business and freely about the Comptroller's business of the office, to
+which I did give him free answers and let him make the best of them.  But
+I know him to be a knave, and do say nothing that I fear to have said
+again.  Anon came Sir W. Warren, and after talking of his business of the
+masts and helping me to understand some foul dealing in the business of
+Woods we fell to other talk, and particularly to speak of some means how
+to part this great familiarity between Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes,
+and it is easy to do by any good friend of Sir J. Minnes to whom it will
+be a good service, and he thinks that Sir J. Denham will be a proper man
+for it, and so do I. So after other discourse we parted, and I home and to
+bed.
+
+30th.  Up betimes and by coach to my Lord Sandwich, who I met going out,
+and he did aske me how his cozen, my wife; did, the first time he hath
+done so since his being offended, and, in my conscience, he would be glad
+to be free with me again, but he knows not how to begin.  So he went out,
+and I through the garden to Mr. Coventry, where I saw Mr. Ch. Pett
+bringing him a modell, and indeed it is a pretty one, for a New Year's
+gift; but I think the work not better done than mine.  With him by coach
+to London, with good and friendly discourse of business and against Sir W.
+Batten and his foul dealings.  So leaving him at the Guiny House I to the
+Coffee House, whither came Mr. Grant and Sir W. Petty, with whom I talked,
+and so did many, almost all the house there, about his new vessel, wherein
+he did give me such satisfaction in every point that I am almost confident
+she will prove an admirable invention.  So home to dinner, and after being
+upon the 'Change awhile I dined with my wife, who took physique to-day,
+and so to my office, and there all the afternoon till late at night about
+office business, and so to supper and to bed.
+
+31st.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and among other
+things Sir W. Warren came about some contract, and there did at the open
+table, Sir W. Batten not being there; openly defy him, and insisted how
+Sir W. Batten did endeavour to oppose him in everything that he offered.
+Sir W. Pen took him up for it, like a counterfeit rogue, though I know he
+was as much pleased to hear him talk so as any man there.  But upon his
+speaking no more was said but to the business.  At noon we broke up and I
+to the 'Change awhile, and so home again to dinner, my head aching
+mightily with being overcharged with business.  We had to dinner, my wife
+and I, a fine turkey and a mince pie, and dined in state, poor wretch, she
+and I, and have thus kept our Christmas together all alone almost, having
+not once been out, but to-morrow my vowes are all out as to plays and
+wine, but I hope I shall not be long before I come to new ones, so much
+good, and God's blessing, I find to have attended them. Thence to the
+office and did several businesses and answered several people, but my head
+aching and it being my great night of accounts, I went forth, took coach,
+and to my brother's, but he was not within, and so I back again and sat an
+hour or two at the Coffee [house], hearing some simple discourse about
+Quakers being charmed by a string about their wrists, and so home, and
+after a little while at my office, I home and supped, and so had a good
+fire in my chamber and there sat till 4 o'clock in the morning making up
+my accounts and writing this last Journall of the year.  And first I bless
+God I do, after a large expense, even this month, by reason of Christmas,
+and some payments to my father, and other things extraordinary, find that
+I am worth in money, besides all my household stuff, or any thing of
+Brampton, above L800, whereof in my Lord Sandwich's hand, L700, and the
+rest in my hand.  So that there is not above L5 of all my estate in money
+at this minute out of my hands and my Lord's.  For which the good God be
+pleased to give me a thankful heart and a mind careful to preserve this
+and increase it.  I do live at my lodgings in the Navy Office, my family
+being, besides my wife and I, Jane Gentleman, Besse, our excellent,
+good-natured cookmayde, and Susan, a little girle, having neither man nor
+boy, nor like to have again a good while, living now in most perfect
+content and quiett, and very frugally also; my health pretty good, but
+only that I have been much troubled with a costiveness which I am
+labouring to get away, and have hopes of doing it.  At the office I am
+well, though envied to the devil by Sir William Batten, who hates me to
+death, but cannot hurt me.  The rest either love me, or at least do not
+show otherwise, though I know Sir W. Pen to be a false knave touching me,
+though he seems fair.  My father and mother well in the country; and at
+this time the young ladies of Hinchingbroke with them, their house having
+the small-pox in it.  The Queene after a long and sore sicknesse is become
+well again; and the King minds his mistresse a little too much, if it
+pleased God!  but I hope all things will go well, and in the Navy
+particularly, wherein I shall do my duty whatever comes of it.  The great
+talke is the designs of the King of France, whether against the Pope or
+King of Spayne nobody knows; but a great and a most promising Prince he
+is, and all the Princes of Europe have their eye upon him.  My wife's
+brother come to great unhappiness by the ill-disposition, my wife says, of
+his wife, and her poverty, which she now professes, after all her
+husband's pretence of a great fortune, but I see none of them, at least
+they come not to trouble me.  At present I am concerned for my cozen
+Angier, of Cambridge, lately broke in his trade, and this day am sending
+his son John, a very rogue, to sea.  My brother Tom I know not what to
+think of, for I cannot hear whether he minds his business or not; and my
+brother John at Cambridge, with as little hopes of doing good there, for
+when he was here he did give me great cause of dissatisfaction with his
+manner of life.  Pall with my father, and God knows what she do there, or
+what will become of her, for I have not anything yet to spare her, and she
+grows now old, and must be disposed of one way or other.  The Duchesse of
+York, at this time, sicke of the meazles, but is growing well again.  The
+Turke very far entered into Germany, and all that part of the world at a
+losse what to expect from his proceedings.  Myself, blessed be God!  in a
+good way, and design and resolution of sticking to my business to get a
+little money with doing the best service I can to the King also; which God
+continue!  So ends the old year.
+
+
+
+
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+     Again that she spoke but somewhat of what she had in her heart
+     Better we think than most other couples do
+     Compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly as it is unusual
+     Did go to Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there
+     Dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and dumplings
+     Every man looking after himself, and his owne lust and luxury
+     Excommunications, which they send upon the least occasions
+     Expectation of profit will have its force
+     King was gone to play at Tennis
+     Opening his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe
+     Pen was then turned Quaker
+     Persuade me that she should prove with child since last night
+     Pride and debauchery of the present clergy
+     Quakers being charmed by a string about their wrists
+     Taught my wife some part of subtraction
+     To bed with discontent she yielded to me and began to be fond
+
+
+
+
+
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