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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. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +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 + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v28 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |