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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS + + 1663 N.S. COMPLETE + + + JANUARY & FEBRUARY + 1662-1663 + + +January 1st, 1662-63. + +Lay with my wife at my Lord's lodgings, where I have been these two +nights, till 10 o'clock with great pleasure talking, then I rose and to +White Hall, where I spent a little time walking among the courtiers, +which I perceive I shall be able to do with great confidence, being now +beginning to be pretty well known among them. Then to my wife again, and +found Mrs. Sarah with us in the chamber we lay in. Among other +discourse, Mrs. Sarah tells us how the King sups at least four or [five] +times every week with my Lady Castlemaine; and most often stays till the +morning with her, and goes home through the garden all alone privately, +and that so as the very centrys take notice of it and speak of it. She +tells me, that about a month ago she [Lady Castlemaine] quickened at my +Lord Gerard's at dinner, and cried out that she was undone; and all the +lords and men were fain to quit the room, and women called to help her. +In fine, I find that there is nothing almost but bawdry at Court from top +to bottom, as, if it were fit, I could instance, but it is not necessary; +only they say my Lord Chesterfield, groom of the stole to the Queen, is +either gone or put away from the Court upon the score of his lady's +having smitten the Duke of York, so as that he is watched by the Duchess +of York, and his lady is retired into the country upon it. How much of +this is true, God knows, but it is common talk. After dinner I did +reckon with Mrs. Sarah for what we have eat and drank here, and gave her +a crown, and so took coach, and to the Duke's House, where we saw "The +Villaine" again; and the more I see it, the more I am offended at my +first undervaluing the play, it being very good and pleasant, and yet a +true and allowable tragedy. The house was full of citizens, and so the +less pleasant, but that I was willing to make an end of my gaddings, and +to set to my business for all the year again tomorrow. Here we saw the +old Roxalana in the chief box, in a velvet gown, as the fashion is, and +very handsome, at which I was glad. Hence by coach home, where I find +all well, only Sir W. Pen they say ill again. So to my office to set +down these two or three days' journall, and to close the last year +therein, and so that being done, home to supper, and to bed, with great +pleasure talking and discoursing with my wife of our late observations +abroad. + + +2nd. Lay long in bed, and so up and to tie office, where all the morning +alone doing something or another. So dined at home with my wife, and in +the afternoon to the Treasury office, where Sir W. Batten was paying off +tickets, but so simply and arbitrarily, upon a dull pretence of doing +right to the King, though to the wrong of poor people (when I know there +is no man that means the King less right than he, or would trouble +himself less about it, but only that he sees me stir, and so he would +appear doing something, though to little purpose), that I was weary of +it. At last we broke up, and walk home together, and I to see Sir W. +Pen, who is fallen sick again. I staid a while talking with him, and so +to my office, practising some arithmetique, and so home to supper and +bed, having sat up late talking to my poor wife with great content. + + +3rd. Up and to the office all the morning, and dined alone with my wife +at noon, and then to my office all the afternoon till night, putting +business in order with great content in my mind. Having nothing now in +my mind of trouble in the world, but quite the contrary, much joy, except +only the ending of our difference with my uncle Thomas, and the getting +of the bills well over for my building of my house here, which however +are as small and less than any of the others. Sir W. Pen it seems is +fallen very ill again. So to my arithmetique again to-night, and so home +to supper and to bed. + + +4th (Lord's day). Up and to church, where a lazy sermon, and so home to +dinner to a good piece of powdered beef, but a little too salt. At +dinner my wife did propound my having of my sister Pall at my house again +to be her woman, since one we must have, hoping that in that quality +possibly she may prove better than she did before, which I take very well +of her, and will consider of it, it being a very great trouble to me that +I should have a sister of so ill a nature, that I must be forced to spend +money upon a stranger when it might better be upon her, if she were good +for anything. After dinner I and she walked, though it was dirty, to +White Hall (in the way calling at the Wardrobe to see how Mr. Moore do, +who is pretty well, but not cured yet), being much afeard of being seen +by anybody, and was, I think, of Mr. Coventry, which so troubled me that +I made her go before, and I ever after loitered behind. She to Mr. +Hunt's, and I to White Hall Chappell, and then up to walk up and down the +house, which now I am well known there, I shall forbear to do, because I +would not be thought a lazy body by Mr. Coventry and others by being +seen, as I have lately been, to walk up and down doing nothing. So to +Mr. Hunt's, and there was most prettily and kindly entertained by him and +her, who are two as good people as I hardly know any, and so neat and +kind one to another. Here we staid late, and so to my Lord's to bed. + + +5th. Up and to the Duke, who himself told me that Sir J. Lawson was come +home to Portsmouth from the Streights, who is now come with great renown +among all men, and, I perceive, mightily esteemed at Court by all. The +Duke did not stay long in his chamber; but to the King's chamber, whither +by and by the Russia Embassadors come; who, it seems, have a custom that +they will not come to have any treaty with our or any King's +Commissioners, but they will themselves see at the time the face of the +King himself, be it forty days one after another; and so they did to-day +only go in and see the King; and so out again to the Council-chamber. +The Duke returned to his chamber, and so to his closett, where Sir G. +Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Mr. Coventry, and myself attended +him about the business of the Navy; and after much discourse and pleasant +talk he went away. And I took Sir W. Batten and Captain Allen into the +wine cellar to my tenant (as I call him, Serjeant Dalton), and there +drank a great deal of variety of wines, more than I have drunk at one +time, or shall again a great while, when I come to return to my oaths, +which I intend in a day or two. Thence to my Lord's lodging, where Mr. +Hunt and Mr. Creed dined with us, and were very merry. And after dinner +he and I to White Hall, where the Duke and the Commissioners for Tangier +met, but did not do much: my Lord Sandwich not being in town, nobody +making it their business. So up, and Creed and I to my wife again, and +after a game or two at cards, to the Cockpitt, where we saw "Claracilla," +a poor play, done by the King's house (but neither the King nor Queen +were there, but only the Duke and Duchess, who did show some impertinent +and, methought, unnatural dalliances there, before the whole world, such +as kissing, and leaning upon one another); but to my very little content, +they not acting in any degree like the Duke's people. So home (there +being here this night Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Martha Batten of our office) +to my Lord's lodgings again, and to a game at cards, we three and Sarah, +and so to supper and some apples and ale, and to bed with great pleasure, +blessed be God! + + +6th (Twelfth Day). Up and Mr. Creed brought a pot of chocolate ready +made for our morning draft, and then he and I to the Duke's, but I was +not very willing to be seen at this end of the town, and so returned to +our lodgings, and took my wife by coach to my brother's, where I set her +down, and Creed and I to St. Paul's Church-yard, to my bookseller's, and +looked over several books with good discourse, and then into St. Paul's +Church, and there finding Elborough, my old schoolfellow at Paul's, now a +parson, whom I know to be a silly fellow, I took him out and walked with +him, making Creed and myself sport with talking with him, and so sent him +away, and we to my office and house to see all well, and thence to the +Exchange, where we met with Major Thomson, formerly of our office, who do +talk very highly of liberty of conscience, which now he hopes for by the +King's declaration, and that he doubts not that if he will give him, he +will find more and better friends than the Bishopps can be to him, and +that if he do not, there will many thousands in a little time go out of +England, where they may have it. But he says that they are well +contented that if the King thinks it good, the Papists may have the same +liberty with them. He tells me, and so do others, that Dr. Calamy is +this day sent to Newgate for preaching, Sunday was se'nnight, without +leave, though he did it only to supply the place; when otherwise the +people must have gone away without ever a sermon, they being disappointed +of a minister but the Bishop of London will not take that as an excuse. +Thence into Wood Street, and there bought a fine table for my dining- +room, cost me 50s.; and while we were buying it, there was a scare-fire + + [Scar-fire or scarefire. An alarm of fire. One of the little + pieces in Herrick's "Hesperides" is entitled "The Scar-fire," but + the word sometimes was used, as in the text, for the fire itself. + Fuller, in his "Worthies," speaks of quenching scare-fires.] + +in an ally over against us, but they quenched it. So to my brother's, +where Creed and I and my wife dined with Tom, and after dinner to the +Duke's house, and there saw "Twelfth Night" + + [Pepys saw "Twelfth Night" for the first time on September 11th, + 1661, when he supposed it was a new play, and "took no pleasure at + all in it."] + +acted well, though it be but a silly play, and not related at all to the +name or day. Thence Mr. Battersby the apothecary, his wife, and I and +mine by coach together, and setting him down at his house, he paying his +share, my wife and I home, and found all well, only myself somewhat vexed +at my wife's neglect in leaving of her scarf, waistcoat, and night- +dressings in the coach today that brought us from Westminster, though, I +confess, she did give them to me to look after, yet it was her fault not +to see that I did take them out of the coach. I believe it might be as +good as 25s. loss or thereabouts. So to my office, however, to set down +my last three days' journall, and writing to my Lord Sandwich to give him +an account of Sir J. Lawson's being come home, and to my father about my +sending him some wine and things this week, for his making an +entertainment of some friends in the country, and so home. This night +making an end wholly of Christmas, with a mind fully satisfied with the +great pleasures we have had by being abroad from home, and I do find my +mind so apt to run to its old want of pleasures, that it is high time to +betake myself to my late vows, which I will to-morrow, God willing, +perfect and bind myself to, that so I may, for a great while, do my duty, +as I have well begun, and increase my good name and esteem in the world, +and get money, which sweetens all things, and whereof I have much need. +So home to supper and to bed, blessing God for his mercy to bring me +home, after much pleasure, to my house and business with health and +resolution to fall hard to work again. + + +7th. Up pretty early, that is by seven o'clock, it being not yet light +before or then. So to my office all the morning, signing the Treasurer's +ledger, part of it where I have not put my hand, and then eat a mouthful +of pye at home to stay my stomach, and so with Mr. Waith by water to +Deptford, and there among other things viewed old pay-books, and found +that the Commanders did never heretofore receive any pay for the rigging +time, but only for seatime, contrary to what Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. +Batten told the Duke the other day. I also searched all the ships in the +Wett Dock for fire, and found all in good order, it being very dangerous +for the King that so many of his ships lie together there. I was among +the canvass in stores also, with Mr. Harris, the saylemaker, and learnt +the difference between one sort and another, to my great content, and so +by water home again, where my wife tells me stories how she hears that by +Sarah's going to live at Sir W. Pen's, all our affairs of my family are +made known and discoursed of there and theirs by my people, which do +trouble me much, and I shall take a time to let Sir W. Pen know how he +has dealt in taking her without our full consent. So to my office, and +by and by home to supper, and so to prayers and bed. + + +8th. Up pretty early, and sent my boy to the carrier's with some wine +for my father, for to make his feast among his Brampton friends this +Christmas, and my muff to my mother, sent as from my wife. But before I +sent my boy out with them, I beat him for a lie he told me, at which his +sister, with whom we have of late been highly displeased, and warned her +to be gone, was angry, which vexed me, to see the girl I loved so well, +and my wife, should at last turn so much a fool and unthankful to us. +So to the office, and there all the morning, and though without and a +little against the advice of the officers did, to gratify him, send +Thomas Hater to-day towards Portsmouth a day or two before the rest of +the clerks, against the Pay next week. Dined at home; and there being +the famous new play acted the first time to-day, which is called "The +Adventures of Five Hours," at the Duke's house, being, they say, made or +translated by Colonel Tuke, I did long to see it; and so made my wife to +get her ready, though we were forced to send for a smith, to break open +her trunk, her mayde Jane being gone forth with the keys, and so we went; +and though early, were forced to sit almost out of sight, at the end of +one of the lower forms, so full was the house. And the play, in one +word, is the best, for the variety and the most excellent continuance of +the plot to the very end, that ever I saw, or think ever shall, and all +possible, not only to be done in the time, but in most other respects +very admittable, and without one word of ribaldry; and the house, by its +frequent plaudits, did show their sufficient approbation. So home; with +much ado in an hour getting a coach home, and, after writing letters at +my office, I went home to supper and to bed, now resolving to set up my +rest as to plays till Easter, if not Whitsuntide next, excepting plays at +Court. + + + +9th. Waking in the morning, my wife I found also awake, and begun to +speak to me with great trouble and tears, and by degrees from one +discourse to another at last it appears that Sarah has told somebody that +has told my wife of my meeting her at my brother's and making her sit +down by me while she told me stories of my wife, about her giving her +scallop to her brother, and other things, which I am much vexed at, for I +am sure I never spoke any thing of it, nor could any body tell her but by +Sarah's own words. I endeavoured to excuse my silence herein hitherto by +not believing any thing she told me, only that of the scallop which she +herself told me of. At last we pretty good friends, and my wife begun to +speak again of the necessity of her keeping somebody to bear her company; +for her familiarity with her other servants is it that spoils them all, +and other company she hath none, which is too true, and called for Jane +to reach her out of her trunk, giving her the keys to that purpose, a +bundle of papers, and pulls out a paper, a copy of what, a pretty while +since, she had wrote in a discontent to me, which I would not read, but +burnt. She now read it, and it was so piquant, and wrote in English, and +most of it true, of the retiredness of her life, and how unpleasant it +was; that being wrote in English, and so in danger of being met with and +read by others, I was vexed at it, and desired her and then commanded her +to tear it. When she desired to be excused it, I forced it from her, and +tore it, and withal took her other bundle of papers from her, and leapt +out of the bed and in my shirt clapped them into the pocket of my +breeches, that she might not get them from me, and having got on my +stockings and breeches and gown, I pulled them out one by one and tore +them all before her face, though it went against my heart to do it, she +crying and desiring me not to do it, but such was my passion and trouble +to see the letters of my love to her, and my Will wherein I had given her +all I have in the world, when I went to sea with my Lord Sandwich, to be +joyned with a paper of so much disgrace to me and dishonour, if it should +have been found by any body. Having torn them all, saving a bond of my +uncle Robert's, which she hath long had in her hands, and our marriage +license, and the first letter that ever I sent her when I was her +servant, + + [The usual word at this time for a lover. We have continued the + correlative term "mistress," but rejected that of "servant."] + +I took up the pieces and carried them into my chamber, and there, after +many disputes with myself whether I should burn them or no, and having +picked up, the pieces of the paper she read to-day, and of my Will which +I tore, I burnt all the rest, and so went out to my office troubled in +mind. Hither comes Major Tolhurst, one of my old acquaintance in +Cromwell's time, and sometimes of our clubb, to see me, and I could do no +less than carry him to the Mitre, and having sent for Mr. Beane, a +merchant, a neighbour of mine, we sat and talked, Tolhurst telling me the +manner of their collierys in the north. We broke up, and I home to +dinner. And to see my folly, as discontented as I am, when my wife came +I could not forbear smiling all dinner till she began to speak bad words +again, and then I began to be angry again, and so to my office. Mr. +Bland came in the evening to me hither, and sat talking to me about many +things of merchandise, and I should be very happy in his discourse, durst +I confess my ignorance to him, which is not so fit for me to do. There +coming a letter to me from Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, by my desire +appointing his and Dr. Clerke's coming to dine with me next Monday, I +went to my wife and agreed upon matters, and at last for my honour am +forced to make her presently a new Moyre gown to be seen by Mrs. Clerke, +which troubles me to part with so much money, but, however, it sets my +wife and I to friends again, though I and she never were so heartily +angry in our lives as to-day almost, and I doubt the heartburning will +not [be] soon over, and the truth is I am sorry for the tearing of so +many poor loving letters of mine from sea and elsewhere to her. So to my +office again, and there the Scrivener brought me the end of the +manuscript which I am going to get together of things of the Navy, which +pleases me much. So home, and mighty friends with my wife again, and so +to bed. + + +10th. Up and to the office. From thence, before we sat, Sir W. Pen sent +for me to his bedside to talk (indeed to reproach me with my not owning +to Sir J. Minnes that he had my advice in the blocking up of the garden +door the other day, which is now by him out of fear to Sir J. Minnes +opened again), to which I answered him so indifferently that I think he +and I shall be at a distance, at least to one another, better than ever +we did and love one another less, which for my part I think I need not +care for. So to the office, and sat till noon, then rose and to dinner, +and then to the office again, where Mr. Creed sat with me till late +talking very good discourse, as he is full of it, though a cunning knave +in his heart, at least not to be too much trusted, till Sir J. Minnes +came in, which at last he did, and so beyond my expectation he was +willing to sign his accounts, notwithstanding all his objections, which +really were very material, and yet how like a doting coxcomb he signs the +accounts without the least satisfaction, for which we both sufficiently +laughed at him and Sir W. Batten after they had signed them and were +gone, and so sat talking together till 11 o'clock at night, and so home +and to bed. + + + +11th (Lord's day). Lay long talking pleasant with my wife, then up and +to church, the pew being quite full with strangers come along with Sir W. +Batten and Sir J. Minnes, so after a pitifull sermon of the young Scott, +home to dinner. After dinner comes a footman of my Lord Sandwich's (my +Lord being come to town last night) with a letter from my father, in +which he presses me to carry on the business for Tom with his late +mistress, which I am sorry to see my father do, it being so much out of +our power or for his advantage, as it is clear to me it is, which I shall +think of and answer in my next. So to my office all the afternoon +writing orders myself to have ready against to-morrow, that I might not +appear negligent to Mr. Coventry. In the evening to Sir W. Pen's, where +Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, and afterwards came Sir G. Carteret. +There talked about business, and afterwards to Sir W. Batten's, where we +staid talking and drinking Syder, and so I went away to my office a +little, and so home and to bed. + + + +12th. Up, and to Sir W. Batten's to bid him and Sir J. Minnes adieu, +they going this day towards Portsmouth, and then to Sir W. Pen's to see +Sir J. Lawson, who I heard was there, where I found him the same plain +man that he was, after all his success in the Straights, with which he is +come loaded home. Thence to Sir G. Carteret, and with him in his coach +to White Hall, and first I to see my Lord Sandwich (being come now from +Hinchingbrooke), and after talking a little with him, he and I to the +Duke's chamber, where Mr. Coventry and he and I into the Duke's closett +and Sir J. Lawson discoursing upon business of the Navy, and particularly +got his consent to the ending some difficulties in Mr. Creed's accounts. +Thence to my Lord's lodgings, and with Mr. Creed to the King's Head +ordinary, but people being set down, we went to two or three places; at +last found some meat at a Welch cook's at Charing Cross, and here dined +and our boys. After dinner to the 'Change to buy some linen for my wife, +and going back met our two boys. Mine had struck down Creed's boy in the +dirt, with his new suit on, and the boy taken by a gentlewoman into a +house to make clean, but the poor boy was in a pitifull taking and +pickle; but I basted my rogue soundly. Thence to my Lord's lodging, and +Creed to his, for his papers against the Committee. I found my Lord +within, and he and I went out through the garden towards the Duke's +chamber, to sit upon the Tangier matters; but a lady called to my Lord +out of my Lady Castlemaine's lodging, telling him that the King was there +and would speak with him. My Lord could not tell what to bid me say at +the Committee to excuse his absence, but that he was with the King; nor +would suffer me to go into the Privy Garden (which is now a through- +passage, and common), but bid me to go through some other way, which I +did; so that I see he is a servant of the King's pleasures too, as well +as business. So I went to the Committee, where we spent all this night +attending to Sir J. Lawson's description of Tangier and the place for the +Mole, + + [The construction of this Mole or breakwater turned out a very + costly undertaking. In April, 1663, it was found that the charge + for one year's work was L13,000. In March, 1665, L36,000 had been + spent upon it. The wind and sea exerted a very destructive + influence over this structure, although it was very strongly built, + and Colonel Norwood reported in 1668 that a breach had been made in + the Mole, which cost a considerable sum to repair.] + +of which he brought a very pretty draught. Concerning the making of the +Mole, Mr. Cholmely did also discourse very well, having had some +experience in it. Being broke up, I home by coach to Mr. Bland's, and +there discoursed about sending away of the merchant ship which hangs so +long on hand for Tangier. So to my Lady Batten's, and sat with her +awhile, Sir W. Batten being gone out of town; but I did it out of design +to get some oranges for my feast to-morrow of her, which I did. So home, +and found my wife's new gown come home, and she mightily pleased with it. +But I appeared very angry that there were no more things got ready +against to-morrow's feast, and in that passion sat up long, and went +discontented to bed. + + +13th. So my poor wife rose by five o'clock in the morning, before day, +and went to market and bought fowls and many other things for dinner, +with which I was highly pleased, and the chine of beef was down also +before six o'clock, and my own jack, of which I was doubtfull, do carry +it very well. Things being put in order, and the cook come, I went to +the office, where we sat till noon and then broke up, and I home, whither +by and by comes Dr. Clerke and his lady, his sister, and a she-cozen, and +Mr. Pierce and his wife, which was all my guests. I had for them, after +oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of +beef. Next a great dish of roasted fowl, cost me about 30s., and a tart, +and then fruit and cheese. My dinner was noble and enough. I had my +house mighty clean and neat; my room below with a good fire in it; my +dining-room above, and my chamber being made a withdrawing-chamber; and +my wife's a good fire also. I find my new table very proper, and will +hold nine or ten people well, but eight with great room. After dinner +the women to cards in my wife's chamber, and the Dr. and Mr. Pierce in +mine, because the dining-room smokes unless I keep a good charcoal fire, +which I was not then provided with. At night to supper, had a good sack +posset and cold meat, and sent my guests away about ten o'clock at night, +both them and myself highly pleased with our management of this day; and +indeed their company was very fine, and Mrs. Clerke a very witty, fine +lady, though a little conceited and proud. So weary, so to bed. I +believe this day's feast will cost me near L5. + + +14th. Lay very long in bed, till with shame forced to rise, being called +up by Mr. Bland about business. He being gone I went and staid upon +business at the office and then home to dinner, and after dinner staid a +little talking pleasant with my wife, who tells me of another woman +offered by her brother that is pretty and can sing, to which I do listen +but will not appear over forward, but I see I must keep somebody for +company sake to my wife, for I am ashamed she should live as she do. +So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and +examining part of my sea-manuscript with great pleasure, my wife sitting +working by me. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +15th. Up and to my office preparing things, by and by we met and sat +Mr. Coventry and I till noon, and then I took him to dine with me, +I having a wild goose roasted, and a cold chine of beef and a barrel +of oysters. We dined alone in my chamber, and then he and I to fit +ourselves for horseback, he having brought me a horse; and so to +Deptford, the ways being very dirty. There we walked up and down the +Yard and Wett Dock, and did our main business, which was to examine the +proof of our new way of the call-books, which we think will be of great +use. And so to horse again, and I home with his horse, leaving him to +go over the fields to Lambeth, his boy at my house taking home his horse. +I vexed, having left my keys in my other pocket in my chamber, and my +door is shut, so that I was forced to set my boy in at the window, which +done I shifted myself, and so to my office till late, and then home to +supper, my mind being troubled about Field's business and my uncle's, +which the term coming on I must think to follow again. So to prayers and +to bed, and much troubled in mind this night in my dreams about my uncle +Thomas and his son going to law with us. + + + +16th. Lay long talking in bed with my wife. Up, and Mr. Battersby, the +apothecary, coming to see me, I called for the cold chine of beef and +made him eat, and drink wine, and talked, there being with us Captain +Brewer, the paynter, who tells me how highly the Presbyters do talk in +the coffeehouses still, which I wonder at. They being gone I walked two +or three hours with my brother Tom, telling him my mind how it is +troubled about my father's concernments, and how things would be with +them all if it should please God that I should die, and therefore desire +him to be a good husband and follow his business, which I hope he do. +At noon to dinner, and after dinner my wife began to talk of a woman +again, which I have a mind to have, and would be glad Pall might please +us, but she is quite against having her, nor have I any great mind to it, +but only for her good and to save money flung away upon a stranger. +So to my office till 9 o'clock about my navy manuscripts, and there +troubled in my mind more and more about my uncle's business from a letter +come this day from my father that tells me that all his tenants are sued +by my uncle, which will cost me some new trouble, I went home to supper +and so to bed. + + + +17th. Waked early with my mind troubled about our law matters, but it +came into my mind that [sayings] of Epictetus, which did put me to a +great deal of ease, it being a saying of great reason. Up to the office, +and there sat Mr. Coventry, Mr. Pett, new come to town, and I. I was +sorry for signing a bill and guiding Mr. Coventry to sign a bill to Mr. +Creed for his pay as Deputy Treasurer to this day, though the service +ended 5 or 6 months ago, which he perceiving did blot out his name +afterwards, but I will clear myself to him from design in it. Sat till +two o'clock and then home to dinner, and Creed with me, and after dinner, +to put off my mind's trouble, I took Creed by coach and to the Duke's +playhouse, where we did see "The Five Hours" entertainment again, which +indeed is a very fine play, though, through my being out of order, it did +not seem so good as at first; but I could discern it was not any fault in +the play. Thence with him to the China alehouse, and there drank a +bottle or two, and so home, where I found my wife and her brother +discoursing about Mr. Ashwell's daughter, whom we are like to have for my +wife's woman, and I hope it may do very well, seeing there is a necessity +of having one. So to the office to write letters, and then home to +supper and to bed. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up, and after the barber had done, and I had spoke +with Mr. Smith (whom I sent for on purpose to speak of Field's business, +who stands upon L250 before he will release us, which do trouble me +highly), and also Major Allen of the Victualling Office about his ship to +be hired for Tangier, I went to church, and thence home to dinner alone +with my wife, very pleasant, and after dinner to church again, and heard +a dull, drowsy sermon, and so home and to my office, perfecting my vows +again for the next year, which I have now done, and sworn to in the +presence of Almighty God to observe upon the respective penalties thereto +annexed, and then to Sir W. Pen's (though much against my will, for I +cannot bear him, but only to keep him from complaint to others that I do +not see him) to see how he do, and find him pretty well, and ready to go +abroad again. + + + +19th. Up and to White Hall, and while the Duke is dressing himself I +went to wait on my Lord Sandwich, whom I found not very well, and Dr. +Clerke with him. He is feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce to let him +blood, but not being in the way he puts it off till night, but he stirs +not abroad to-day. Then to the Duke, and in his closett discoursed as we +use to do, and then broke up. That done, I singled out Mr. Coventry into +the Matted Gallery, and there I told him the complaints I meet every day +about our Treasurer's or his people's paying no money, but at the +goldsmith's shops, where they are forced to pay fifteen or twenty +sometimes per cent. for their money, which is a most horrid shame, +and that which must not be suffered. Nor is it likely that the Treasurer +(at least his people) will suffer Maynell the Goldsmith to go away with +L10,000 per annum, as he do now get, by making people pay after this +manner for their money. We were interrupted by the Duke, who called Mr. +Coventry aside for half an hour, walking with him in the gallery, and +then in the garden, and then going away I ended my discourse with Mr. +Coventry. But by the way Mr. Coventry was saying that there remained +nothing now in our office to be amended but what would do of itself every +day better and better, for as much as he that was slowest, Sir W. Batten, +do now begin to look about him and to mind business. At which, God +forgive me! I was a little moved with envy, but yet I am glad, and ought +to be, though it do lessen a little my care to see that the King's +service is like to be better attended than it was heretofore. Thence by +coach to Mr. Povy's, being invited thither by [him] came a messenger this +morning from him, where really he made a most excellent and large dinner, +of their variety, even to admiration, he bidding us, in a frolique, to +call for what we had a mind, and he would undertake to give it us: and we +did for prawns, swan, venison, after I had thought the dinner was quite +done, and he did immediately produce it, which I thought great plenty, +and he seems to set off his rest in this plenty and the neatness of his +house, which he after dinner showed me, from room to room, so beset with +delicate pictures, and above all, a piece of perspective in his closett +in the low parler; his stable, where was some most delicate horses, and +the very-racks painted, and mangers, with a neat leaden painted cistern, +and the walls done with Dutch tiles, like my chimnies. But still, above +all things, he bid me go down into his wine-cellar, where upon several +shelves there stood bottles of all sorts of wine, new and old, with +labells pasted upon each bottle, and in the order and plenty as I never +saw books in a bookseller's shop; and herein, I observe, he puts his +highest content, and will accordingly commend all that he hath, but still +they deserve to be so. Here dined with me Dr. Whore and Mr. Scawen. +Therewith him and Mr. Bland, whom we met by the way, to my Lord +Chancellor's, where the King was to meet my Lord Treasurer, &c., many +great men, to settle the revenue of Tangier. I staid talking awhile +there, but the King not coming I walked to my brother's, where I met my +cozen Scotts (Tom not being at home) and sent for a glass of wine for +them, and having drunk we parted, and I to the Wardrobe talking with Mr. +Moore about my law businesses, which I doubt will go ill for want of time +for me to attend them. So home, where I found Mrs. Lodum speaking with +my wife about her kinswoman which is offered my wife to come as a woman +to her. So to the office and put things in order, and then home and to +bed, it being my great comfort that every day I understand more and more +the pleasure of following of business and the credit that a man gets by +it, which I hope at last too will end in profit. This day, by Dr. +Clerke, I was told the occasion of my Lord Chesterfield's going and +taking his lady (my Lord Ormond's daughter) from Court. It seems he not +only hath been long jealous of the Duke of York, but did find them two +talking together, though there were others in the room, and the lady by +all opinions a most good, virtuous woman. He, the next day (of which the +Duke was warned by somebody that saw the passion my Lord Chesterfield was +in the night before), went and told the Duke how much he did apprehend +himself wronged, in his picking out his lady of the whole Court to be the +subject of his dishonour; which the Duke did answer with great calmness, +not seeming to understand the reason of complaint, and that was all that +passed but my Lord did presently pack his lady into the country in +Derbyshire, near the Peake; which is become a proverb at Court, to send a +man's wife to the Devil's arse a' Peake, when she vexes him. This noon I +did find out Mr. Dixon at Whitehall, and discoursed with him about Mrs. +Wheatly's daughter for a wife for my brother Tom, and have committed it +to him to enquire the pleasure of her father and mother concerning it. I +demanded L300. + + + +20th. Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning. Dined at +home, and Mr. Deane of Woolwich with me, talking about the abuses of the +yard. Then to the office about business all the afternoon with great +pleasure, seeing myself observed by every body to be the only man of +business of us all, but Mr. Coventry. So till late at night, and then +home to supper and bed. + + + +21st. Up early leaving my wife very ill in bed . . . and to my office +till eight o'clock, there coming Ch. Pepys + + [Charles Pepys was second son of Thomas Pepys, elder brother of + Samuel's father. Samuel paid part of the legacy to Charles and his + elder brother Thomas on May 25th, 1664.] + +to demand his legacy of me, which I denied him upon good reason of his +father and brother's suing us, and so he went away. Then came +Commissioner Pett, and he and I by agreement went to Deptford, and after +a turn or two in the yard, to Greenwich, and thence walked to Woolwich. +Here we did business, and I on board the Tangier-merchant, a ship +freighted by us, that has long lain on hand in her despatch to Tangier, +but is now ready for sailing. Back, and dined at Mr. Ackworth's, where a +pretty dinner, and she a pretty, modest woman; but above all things we +saw her Rocke,--[?? D.W.]--which is one of the finest things done by a +woman that ever I saw. I must have my wife to see it. After dinner on +board the Elias, and found the timber brought by her from the forest of +Deane to be exceeding good. The Captain gave each of us two barrels of +pickled oysters put up for the Queen mother. So to the Dock again, and +took in Mrs. Ackworth and another gentlewoman, and carried them to +London, and at the Globe tavern, in Eastcheap, did give them a glass of +wine, and so parted. I home, where I found my wife ill in bed all day, +and her face swelled with pain. My Will has received my last two +quarters salary, of which I am glad. So to my office till late and then +home, and after the barber had done, to bed. + + + +22nd. To the office, where Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes are come from +Portsmouth. We sat till dinner time. Then home, and Mr. Dixon by +agreement came to dine, to give me an account of his success with Mr. +Wheatly for his daughter for my brother; and in short it is, that his +daughter cannot fancy my brother because of his imperfection in his +speech, which I am sorry for, but there the business must die, and we +must look out for another. There came in also Mrs. Lodum, with an answer +from her brother Ashwell's daughter, who is likely to come to me, and +with her my wife's brother, and I carried Commissioner Pett in with me, +so I feared want of victuals, but I had a good dinner, and mirth, and so +rose and broke up, and with the rest of the officers to Mr. Russell's +buriall, where we had wine and rings, and a great and good company of +aldermen and the livery of the Skinners' Company. We went to St. +Dunstan's in the East church, where a sermon, but I staid not, but went +home, and, after writing letters, I took coach to Mr. Povy's, but he not +within I left a letter there of Tangier business, and so to my Lord's, +and there find him not sick, but expecting his fit to-night of an ague. +Here was Sir W. Compton, Mr. Povy, Mr. Bland, Mr. Gawden and myself; we +were very busy about getting provisions sent forthwith to Tangier, +fearing that by Mr. Gawden's neglect they might want bread. So among +other ways thought of to supply them I was empowered by the Commissioners +of Tangier that were present to write to Plymouth and direct Mr. Lanyon +to take up vessels great or small to the quantity of 150 tons, and fill +them with bread of Mr. Gawden's lying ready there for Tangier, which they +undertake to bear me out in, and to see the freight paid. This I did. +About 10 o'clock we broke up, and my Lord's fit [Malaria?? D.W.] was +coming upon him, and so we parted, and I with Mr. Creed, Mr. Pierce, +Win. Howe and Captn. Ferrers, who was got almost drunk this afternoon, +and was mighty capricious and ready to fall out with any body, supped +together in the little chamber that was mine heretofore upon some fowls +sent by Mr. Shepley, so we were very merry till 12 at night, and so away, +and I lay with Mr. Creed at his lodgings, and slept well. + + + +23rd. Up and hastened him in despatching some business relating to +Tangier, and I away homewards, hearing that my Lord had a bad fit +to-night, called at my brother's, and found him sick in bed, of a pain in +the sole of one of his feet, without swelling, [Fasciitis?? D.W.] +knowing not how it came, but it will not suffer him to stand these two +days. So to Mr. Moore, and Mr. Lovell, our proctor, being there, +discoursed of my law business. Thence to Mr. Grant, to bid him come for +money for Mr. Barlow, and he and I to a coffee-house, where Sir +J. Cutler was; + + [Citizen and grocer of London; most severely handled by Pope. Two + statues were erected to his memory--one in the College of + Physicians, and the other in the Grocers' Hall. They were erected + and one removed (that in the College of Physicians) before Pope + stigmatized "sage Cutler." Pope says that Sir John Cutler had an + only daughter; in fact, he had two: one married to Lord Radnor; the + other, mentioned afterwards by Pepys, the wife of Sir William + Portman.--B.] + +and in discourse, among other things, he did fully make it out that the +trade of England is as great as ever it was, only in more hands; and that +of all trades there is a greater number than ever there was, by reason of +men taking more 'prentices, because of their having more money than +heretofore. His discourse was well worth hearing. Coming by Temple Bar +I bought "Audley's Way to be Rich,"--["How to get rich" schemes of the +17th century D.W.]--a serious pamphlett and some good things worth my +minding. Thence homewards, and meeting Sir W. Batten, turned back again +to a coffee-house, and there drunk more till I was almost sick, and here +much discourse, but little to be learned, but of a design in the north of +a rising, which is discovered, among some men of condition, and they sent +for up. Thence to the 'Change, and so home with him by coach, and I to +see how my wife do, who is pretty well again, and so to dinner to Sir W. +Batten's to a cod's head, and so to my office, and after stopping to see +Sir W. Pen, where was Sir J. Lawson and his lady and daughter, which is +pretty enough, I came back to my office, and there set to business pretty +late, finishing the margenting my Navy-Manuscript. So home and to bed. + + + +24th. Lay pretty long, and by lying with my sheet upon my lip, as I have +of old observed it, my upper lip was blistered in the morning. To the +office all the morning, sat till noon, then to the Exchange to look out +for a ship for Tangier, and delivered my manuscript to be bound at the +stationer's. So to dinner at home, and then down to Redriffe, to see a +ship hired for Tangier, what readiness she was in, and found her ready to +sail. Then home, and so by coach to Mr. Povy's, where Sir W. Compton, +Mr. Bland, Gawden, Sir J. Lawson and myself met to settle the victualling +of Tangier for the time past, which with much ado we did, and for a six +months' supply more. So home in Mr. Gawden's coach, and to my office +till late about business, and find that it is business that must and do +every day bring me to something.--[In earlier days Pepys noted for us +each few pounds or shillings of graft which he annexed at each +transaction in his office.]--So home to supper and to bed. + + + +25th (Lord's day). Lay till 9 a-bed, then up, and being trimmed by the +barber, I walked towards White Hall, calling upon Mr. Moore, whom I found +still very ill of his ague. I discoursed with him about my Lord's estate +against I speak with my Lord this day. Thence to the King's Head +ordinary at Charing Cross, and sent for Mr. Creed, where we dined very +finely and good company, good discourse. I understand the King of France +is upon consulting his divines upon the old question, what the power of +the Pope is? and do intend to make war against him, unless he do right +him for the wrong his Embassador received; + + [On the 20th of August, the Duc de Crequi, then French ambassador at + Rome, was insulted by the Corsican armed police, a force whose + ignoble duty it was to assist the Sbirri; and the pope, Alexander + VII., at first refused reparation for the affront offered to the + French. Louis, as in the case of D'Estrades, took prompt measures. + He ordered the papal nuncio forthwith to quit France; he seized upon + Avignon, and his army prepared to enter Italy. Alexander found it + necessary to submit. In fulfilment of a treaty signed at Pisa in + 1664, Cardinal Chigi, the pope's nephew, came to Paris, to tender + the pope's apology to Louis. The guilty individuals were punished; + the Corsicans banished for ever from the Roman States; and in front + of the guard-house which they had occupied a pyramid was erected, + bearing an inscription which embodied the pope's apology. This + pyramid Louis permitted Clement IX. to destroy on his accession.-B.] + +and banish the Cardinall Imperiall, + + [Lorenzo Imperiali, of Genoa. He had been appointed Governor of + Rome by Innocent X., and he had acted in that capacity at + the time of the tumult.--B.] + +which I understand this day is not meant the Cardinall belonging or +chosen by the Emperor, but the name of his family is Imperiali. Thence +to walk in the Park, which we did two hours, it being a pleasant sunshine +day though cold. Our discourse upon the rise of most men that we know, +and observing them to be the results of chance, not policy, in any of +them, particularly Sir J. Lawson's, from his declaring against Charles +Stuart in the river of Thames, and for the Rump. Thence to my Lord, who +had his ague fit last night, but is now pretty well, and I staid talking +with him an hour alone in his chamber, about sundry publique and private +matters. Among others, he wonders what the project should be of the +Duke's going down to Portsmouth just now with his Lady, at this time of +the year: it being no way, we think, to increase his popularity, which is +not great; nor yet safe to do it, for that reason, if it would have any +such effect. By and by comes in my Lady Wright, and so I went away, end +after talking with Captn. Ferrers, who tells me of my Lady Castlemaine's +and Sir Charles Barkeley being the great favourites at Court, and growing +every day more and more; and that upon a late dispute between my Lord +Chesterfield, that is the Queen's Lord Chamberlain, and Mr. Edward +Montagu, her Master of the Horse, who should have the precedence in +taking the Queen's upperhand abroad out of the house, which Mr. Montagu +challenges, it was given to my Lord Chesterfield. So that I perceive he +goes down the wind in honour as well as every thing else, every day. So +walk to my brother's and talked with him, who tells me that this day a +messenger is come, that tells us how Collonel Honiwood, who was well +yesterday at Canterbury, was flung by his horse in getting up, and broke +his scull, and so is dead. So home and to the office, despatching some +business, and so home to supper, and then to prayers and to bed. + + + +26th. Up and by water with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, drinking a glass +of wormewood wine at the Stillyard, and so up to the Duke, and with the +rest of the officers did our common service; thence to my Lord +Sandwich's, but he was in bed, and had a bad fit last night, and so I +went to, Westminster Hall, it being Term time, it troubling me to think +that I should have any business there to trouble myself and thoughts +with. Here I met with Monsieur Raby, who is lately come from France. +[He] tells me that my Lord Hinchingbroke and his brother do little +improve there, and are much neglected in their habits and other things; +but I do believe he hath a mind to go over as their tutour, and so I am +not apt to believe what he says therein. But I had a great deal of very +good discourse with him, concerning the difference between the French and +the Pope, and the occasion, which he told me very particularly, and to my +great content; and of most of the chief affairs of France, which I did +enquire: and that the King is a most excellent Prince, doing all business +himself; and that it is true he hath a mistress, Mademoiselle La Valiere, +one of the Princess Henriette's women, that he courts for his pleasure +every other day, but not so as to make him neglect his publique affairs. +He tells me how the King do carry himself nobly to the relations of the +dead Cardinall,--[Cardinal Mazarin died March 9th, 1661.]-- and will not +suffer one pasquill to come forth against him; and that he acts by what +directions he received from him before his death. Having discoursed long +with him, I took him by coach and set him down at my Lord Crew's, and +myself went and dined at Mr. Povy's, where Orlando Massam, Mr. Wilks, a +Wardrobe man, myself and Mr. Gawden, and had just such another dinner as +I had the other day there. But above all things I do the most admire his +piece of perspective especially, he opening me the closett door, and +there I saw that there is nothing but only a plain picture hung upon the +wall. After dinner Mr. Gauden and I to settle the business of the +Tangier victualling, which I perceive none of them yet have hitherto +understood but myself. Thence by coach to White Hall, and met upon the +Tangier Commission, our greatest business the discoursing of getting +things ready for my Lord Rutherford to go about the middle of March next, +and a proposal of Sir J. Lawson's and Mr. Cholmely's concerning +undertaking the Mole, which is referred to another time. So by coach +home, being melancholy, overcharged with business, and methinks I fear +that I have some ill offices done to Mr. Coventry, or else he observes +that of late I have not despatched business so as I did use to do, which +I confess I do acknowledge. But it may be it is but my fear only, he is +not so fond as he used to be of me. But I do believe that Sir W. Batten +has made him believe that I do too much crow upon having his kindness, +and so he may on purpose to countenance him seem a little more strange to +me, but I will study hard to bring him back again to the same degree of +kindness. So home, and after a little talk with my wife, to the office, +and did a great deal of business there till very late, and then home to +supper and to bed. + + + +27th. Up and to the office, where sat till two o'clock, and then home to +dinner, whither by and by comes Mr. Creed, and he and I talked of our +Tangier business, and do find that there is nothing in the world done +with true integrity, but there is design along with it, as in my Lord +Rutherford, who designs to have the profit of victualling of the garrison +himself, and others to have the benefit of making the Mole, so that I am +almost discouraged from coming any more to the Committee, were it not +that it will possibly hereafter bring me to some acquaintance of great +men. Then to the office again, where very busy till past ten at night, +and so home to supper and to bed. I have news this day from Cambridge +that my brother hath had his bachelor's cap put on; but that which +troubles me is, that he hath the pain of the stone, and makes bloody +water with great pain, it beginning just as mine did. I pray God help +him. + + + +28th. Up and all the morning at my office doing business, and at home +seeing my painters' work measured. So to dinner and abroad with my wife, +carrying her to Unthank's, where she alights, and I to my Lord +Sandwich's, whom I find missing his ague fit to-day, and is pretty well, +playing at dice (and by this I see how time and example may alter a man; +he being now acquainted with all sorts of pleasures and vanities, which +heretofore he never thought of nor loved, nor, it may be, hath allowed) +with Ned Pickering and his page Laud. Thence to the Temple to my cozen +Roger Pepys, and thence to Serjt. Bernard to advise with him and retain +him against my uncle, my heart and head being very heavy with the +business. Thence to Wotton's, the shoemaker, and there bought another +pair of new boots, for the other I bought my last would not fit me, and +here I drank with him and his wife, a pretty woman, they broaching a +vessel of syder a-purpose for me. So home, and there found my wife come +home, and seeming to cry; for bringing home in a coach her new ferrandin + + [Ferrandin, which was sometimes spelt farendon, was a stuff made of + silk mixed with some other material, like what is now called poplin. + Both mohair and farendon are generally cheap materials; for in the + case of Manby v. Scott, decided in the Exchequer Chamber in 1663, + and reported in the first volume of "Modern Reports," the question + being as to the liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied + against his consent to his wife, who had separated from him, Mr. + Justice Hyde (whose judgment is most amusing) observes, in putting + various supposed cases, that "The wife will have a velvet gown and a + satin petticoat, and the husband thinks a mohair or farendon for a + gown, and watered tabby for a petticoat, is as fashionable, and + fitter for her quality."--B.] + +waistecoate, in Cheapside, a man asked her whether that was the way to +the Tower; and while she was answering him, another, on the other side, +snatched away her bundle out of her lap, and could not be recovered, but +ran away with it, which vexes me cruelly, but it cannot be helped. So to +my office, and there till almost 12 at night with Mr. Lewes, learning to +understand the manner of a purser's account, which is very hard and +little understood by my fellow officers, and yet mighty necessary. So at +last with great content broke up and home to supper and bed. + + + +29th. Lay chiding, and then pleased with my wife in bed, and did consent +to her having a new waistcoate made her for that which she lost +yesterday. So to the office, and sat all the morning. At noon dined +with Mr. Coventry at Sir J. Minnes his lodgings, the first time that ever +I did yet, and am sorry for doing it now, because of obliging me to do +the like to him again. Here dined old Captn. Marsh of the Tower with us. +So to visit Sir W. Pen, and then to the office, and there late upon +business by myself, my wife being sick to-day. So home and to supper and +to bed. + + + +30th. A solemn fast for the King's murther, and we were forced to keep +it more than we would have done, having forgot to take any victuals into +the house. I to church in the forenoon, and Mr. Mills made a good sermon +upon David's heart smiting him for cutting off the garment of Saul. + + [Samuel, chap. xxiv. v. 5, "And it came to pass afterward, that + David's heart smote him, because he bad cut off Saul's skirt."] + +Home, and whiled away some of the afternoon at home talking with my wife. +So to my office, and all alone making up my month's accounts, which to my +great trouble I find that I am got no further than L640. But I have had +great expenses this month. I pray God the next may be a little better, +as I hope it will. In the evening my manuscript is brought home +handsomely bound, to my full content; and now I think I have a better +collection in reference to the Navy, and shall have by the time I have +filled it, than any of my predecessors. So home and eat something such +as we have, bread and butter and milk, and so to bed. + + + +31st. Up and to my office, and there we sat till noon. I home to +dinner, and there found my plate of the Soverayne with the table to it +come from Mr. Christopher Pett, of which I am very glad. So to dinner +late, and not very good, only a rabbit not half roasted, which made me +angry with my wife. So to the office, and there till late, busy all the +while. In the evening examining my wife's letter intended to my Lady, +and another to Mademoiselle; they were so false spelt that I was ashamed +of them, and took occasion to fall out about them with my wife, and so +she wrote none, at which, however, I was, sorry, because it was in answer +to a letter of Madam about business. Late home to supper and to bed. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + FEBRUARY + 1662-1663 + + +February 1st (Lord's day). Up and to church, where Mr. Mills, a good +sermon, and so home and had a good dinner with my wife, with which I was +pleased to see it neatly done, and this troubled me to think of parting +with Jane, that is come to be a very good cook. After dinner walked to +my Lord Sandwich, and staid with him in the chamber talking almost all +the afternoon, he being not yet got abroad since his sickness. Many +discourses we had; but, among others, how Sir R. Bernard is turned out of +his Recordership of Huntingdon by the Commissioners for Regulation, &c., +at which I am troubled, because he, thinking it is done by my Lord +Sandwich, will act some of his revenge, it is likely, upon me in my +business, so that I must cast about me to get some other counsel to rely +upon. In the evening came Mr. Povey and others to see my Lord, and they +gone, my Lord and I and Povey fell to the business of Tangier, as to the +victualling, and so broke up, and I, it being a fine frost, my boy +lighting me I walked home, and after supper up to prayers, and then alone +with my wife and Jane did fall to tell her what I did expect would become +of her since, after so long being my servant, she had carried herself so +as to make us be willing to put her away, and desired God to bless [her], +but bid her never to let me hear what became of her, for that I could +never pardon ingratitude. So I to bed, my mind much troubled for the +poor girl that she leaves us, and yet she not submitting herself, for +some words she spoke boldly and yet I believe innocently and out of +familiarity to her mistress about us weeks ago, I could not recall my +words that she should stay with me. This day Creed and I walking in +White Hall garden did see the King coming privately from my Lady +Castlemaine's; which is a poor thing for a Prince to do; and I expressed +my sense of it to Creed in terms which I should not have done, but that I +believe he is trusty in that point. + + + +2nd. Up, and after paying Jane her wages, I went away, because I could +hardly forbear weeping, and she cried, saying it was not her fault that +she went away, and indeed it is hard to say what it is, but only her not +desiring to stay that she do now go. By coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir +W. Batten to the Duke; and after discourse as usual with him in his +closett, I went to my Lord's: the King and Duke being gone to chappell, +it being collar-day, it being Candlemas-day; where I staid with him a +while until towards noon, there being Jonas Moore talking about some +mathematical businesses, and thence I walked at noon to Mr. Povey's, +where Mr. Gawden met me, and after a neat and plenteous dinner as is +usual, we fell to our victualling business, till Mr. Gawden and I did +almost fall out, he defending himself in the readiness of his provision, +when I know that the ships everywhere stay for them. Thence Mr. Povey +and I walked to White Hall, it being a great frost still, and after a +turn in the Park seeing them slide, we met at the Committee for Tangier, +a good full Committee, and agreed how to proceed in the dispatching of my +Lord Rutherford, and treating about this business of Mr. Cholmely and Sir +J. Lawson's proposal for the Mole. Thence with Mr. Coventry down to his +chamber, where among other discourse he did tell me how he did make it +not only his desire, but as his greatest pleasure, to make himself an +interest by doing business truly and justly, though he thwarts others +greater than himself, not striving to make himself friends by addresses; +and by this he thinks and observes he do live as contentedly (now he +finds himself secured from fear of want), and, take one time with +another, as void of fear or cares, or more, than they that (as his own +termes were) have quicker pleasures and sharper agonies than he. Thence +walking with Mr. Creed homewards we turned into a house and drank a cup +of Cock ale and so parted, and I to the Temple, where at my cozen Roger's +chamber I met Madam Turner, and after a little stay led her home and +there left her, she and her daughter having been at the play to-day at +the Temple, it being a revelling time with them. + + [The revels were held in the Inner Temple Hall. The last revel in + any of the Inns of Court was held in the Inner Temple in 1733.] + +Thence called at my brother's, who is at church, at the buriall of young +Cumberland, a lusty young man. So home and there found Jane gone, for +which my wife and I are very much troubled, and myself could hardly +forbear shedding tears for fear the poor wench should come to any ill +condition after her being so long with me. So to my office and setting +papers to rights, and then home to supper and to bed. This day at my +Lord's I sent for Mr. Ashwell, and his wife came to me, and by discourse +I perceive their daughter is very fit for my turn if my family may be as +much for hers, but I doubt it will be to her loss to come to me for so +small wages, but that will be considered of. + + + +3rd. To the office all the morning, at noon to dinner, where Mr. Creed +dined with me, and Mr. Ashwell, with whom after dinner I discoursed +concerning his daughter coming to live with us. I find that his daughter +will be very fit, I think, as any for our turn, but the conditions I know +not what they will be, he leaving it wholly to her, which will be agreed +on a while hence when my wife sees her. After an hour's discourse after +dinner with them, I to my office again, and there about business of the +office till late, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + + +4th. Up early and to Mr. Moore, and thence to Mr. Lovell about my law +business, and from him to Paul's School, it being Apposition-day there. +I heard some of their speeches, and they were just as schoolboys' used to +be, of the seven liberal sciences; but I think not so good as ours were +in our time. Away thence and to Bow Church, to the Court of Arches, +where a judge sits, and his proctors about him in their habits, and their +pleadings all in Latin. Here I was sworn to give a true answer to my +uncle's libells, and so paid my fee for swearing, and back again to +Paul's School, and went up to see the head forms posed in Latin, Greek, +and Hebrew, but I think they did not answer in any so well as we did, +only in geography they did pretty well: Dr. Wilkins and Outram were +examiners. So down to the school, where Dr. Crumlum did me much honour +by telling many what a present I had made to the school, shewing my +Stephanus, in four volumes, cost me L4 10s. He also shewed us, upon my +desire, an old edition of the grammar of Colett's, where his epistle to +the children is very pretty; and in rehearsing the creed it is said +"borne of the cleane Virgin Mary." Thence with Mr. Elborough (he being +all of my old acquaintance that I could meet with here) to a cook's shop +to dinner, but I found him a fool, as he ever was, or worse. Thence to +my cozen Roger Pepys and Mr. Phillips about my law businesses, which +stand very bad, and so home to the office, where after doing some +business I went home, where I found our new mayde Mary, that is come in +Jane's place. + + + +5th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then home +to dinner, and found it so well done, above what I did expect from my +mayde Susan, now Jane is gone, that I did call her in and give her +sixpence. Thence walked to the Temple, and there at my cozen Roger +Pepys's chamber met by appointment with my uncle Thomas and his son +Thomas, and there I shewing them a true state of my uncle's estate as he +has left it with the debts, &c., lying upon it, we did come to some +quiett talk and fair offers against an agreement on both sides, though I +do offer quite to the losing of the profit of the whole estate for 8 or +10 years together, yet if we can gain peace, and set my mind at a little +liberty, I shall be glad of it. I did give them a copy of this state, +and we are to meet tomorrow with their answer. So walked home, it being +a very great frost still, and to my office, there late writing letters of +office business, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +6th. Up and to my office about business, examining people what they +could swear against Field, and the whole is, that he has called us +cheating rogues and cheating knaves, for which we hope to be even with +him. Thence to Lincoln's Inn Fields; and it being too soon to go to +dinner, I walked up and down, and looked upon the outside of the new +theatre, now a-building in Covent Garden, which will be very fine. And +so to a bookseller's in the Strand, and there bought Hudibras again, it +being certainly some ill humour to be so against that which all the world +cries up to be the example of wit; for which I am resolved once again to +read him, and see whether I can find it or no. So to Mr. Povy's, and +there found them at dinner, and dined there, there being, among others, +Mr. Williamson, Latin Secretary, who, I perceive, is a pretty knowing man +and a scholler, but, it may be, thinks himself to be too much so. +Thence, after dinner, to the Temple, to my cozen Roger Pepys, where met +us my uncle Thomas and his son; and, after many high demands, we at last +came to a kind of agreement upon very hard terms, which are to be +prepared in writing against Tuesday next. But by the way promising them +to pay my cozen Mary's' legacys at the time of her marriage, they +afterwards told me that she was already married, and married very well, +so that I must be forced to pay it in some time. My cozen Roger was so +sensible of our coming to agreement that he could not forbear weeping, +and, indeed, though it is very hard, yet I am glad to my heart that we +are like to end our trouble. So we parted for to-night, and I to my Lord +Sandwich and there staid, there being a Committee to sit upon the +contract for the Mole, which I dare say none of us that were there +understood, but yet they agreed of things as Mr. Cholmely and Sir +J. Lawson demanded, who are the undertakers, and so I left them to go +on to agree, for I understood it not. So home, and being called by a +coachman who had a fare in him, he carried me beyond the Old Exchange, +and there set down his fare, who would not pay him what was his due, +because he carried a stranger with him, and so after wrangling he was +fain to be content with 6d., and being vexed the coachman would not carry +me home a great while, but set me down there for the other 6d., but with +fair words he was willing to it, and so I came home and to my office, +setting business in order, and so to supper and to bed, my mind being in +disorder as to the greatness of this day's business that I have done, but +yet glad that my trouble therein is like to be over. + + + +7th. Up and to my office, whither by agreement Mr. Coventry came before +the time of sitting to confer about preparing an account of the +extraordinary charge of the Navy since the King's coming, more than is +properly to be applied and called the Navy charge. So by and by we sat, +and so till noon. Then home to dinner, and in the afternoon some of us +met again upon something relating to the victualling, and thence to my +writing of letters late, and making my Alphabet to my new Navy book very +pretty. And so after writing to my father by the post about the +endeavour to come to a composition with my uncle, though a very bad one, +desiring him to be contented therewith, I went home to supper and to bed. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Up, and it being a very great frost, I walked to White +Hall, and to my Lord Sandwich's by the fireside till chapel time, and so +to chappell, where there preached little Dr. Duport, of Cambridge, upon +Josiah's words,--"But I and my house, we will serve the Lord." But +though a great scholler, he made the most flat dead sermon, both for +matter and manner of delivery, that ever I heard, and very long beyond +his hour, which made it worse. Thence with Mr. Creed to the King's Head +ordinary, where we dined well, and after dinner Sir Thomas Willis and +another stranger, and Creed and I, fell a-talking; they of the errours +and corruption of the Navy, and great expence thereof, not knowing who +I was, which at last I did undertake to confute, and disabuse them: and +they took it very well, and I hope it was to good purpose, they being +Parliament-men. By and by to my Lord's, and with him a good while +talking upon his want of money, and ways of his borrowing some, &c., +and then by other visitants, I withdrew and away, Creed and I and Captn. +Ferrers to the Park, and there walked finely, seeing people slide, we +talking all the while; and Captn. Ferrers telling me, among other Court +passages, how about a month ago, at a ball at Court, a child was dropped +by one of the ladies in dancing, but nobody knew who, it being taken up +by somebody in their handkercher. The next morning all the Ladies of +Honour appeared early at Court for their vindication, so that nobody +could tell whose this mischance should be. But it seems Mrs. Wells + + [Winifred Wells, maid of honour to the Queen, who figures in the + "Grammont Memoirs." The king is supposed to have been father of the + child. A similar adventure is told of Mary Kirke (afterwards + married to Sir Thomas Vernon), who figures in the "Grammont Memoirs" + as Miss Warmestre.] + +fell sick that afternoon, and hath disappeared ever since, so that it is +concluded that it was her. Another story was how my Lady Castlemaine, a +few days since, had Mrs. Stuart to an entertainment, and at night began a +frolique that they two must be married, and married they were, with ring +and all other ceremonies of church service, and ribbands and a sack +posset in bed, and flinging the stocking; but in the close, it is said +that my Lady Castlemaine, who was the bridegroom, rose, and the King came +and took her place with pretty Mrs. Stuart. This is said to be very +true. Another story was how Captain Ferrers and W. Howe both have often, +through my Lady Castlemaine's window, seen her go to bed and Sir Charles +Barkeley in the chamber all the while with her. But the other day Captn. +Ferrers going to Sir Charles to excuse his not being so timely at his +arms the other day, Sir Charles swearing and cursing told him before a +great many other gentlemen that he would not suffer any man of the King's +Guards to be absent from his lodging a night without leave. Not but +that, says he, once a week or so I know a gentleman must go . . ., and +I am not for denying it to any man, but however he shall be bound to ask +leave to lie abroad, and to give account of his absence, that we may know +what guard the King has to depend upon. The little Duke of Monmouth, it +seems, is ordered to take place of all Dukes, and so to follow Prince +Rupert now, before the Duke of Buckingham, or any else. Whether the wind +and the cold did cause it or no I know not, but having been this day or +two mightily troubled with an itching all over my body' which I took to +be a louse or two that might bite me, I found this afternoon that all my +body is inflamed, and my face in a sad redness and swelling and pimpled, +so that I was before we had done walking not only sick but ashamed of +myself to see myself so changed in my countenance, so that after we had +thus talked we parted and I walked home with much ado (Captn. Ferrers +with me as far as Ludgate Hill towards Mr. Moore at the Wardrobe), the +ways being so full of ice and water by peoples' trampling. At last got +home and to bed presently, and had a very bad night of it, in great pain +in my stomach, and in great fever. + + + +9th. Could not rise and go to the Duke, as I should have done with the +rest, but keep my bed and by the Apothecary's advice, Mr. Battersby, I am +to sweat soundly, and that will carry all this matter away which nature +would of itself eject, but they will assist nature, it being some +disorder given the blood, but by what I know not, unless it be by my late +quantitys of Dantzic-girkins that I have eaten. In the evening came Sir +J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten to see me, and Sir J. Minnes advises me to +the same thing, but would not have me take anything from the apothecary, +but from him, his Venice treacle being better than the others, which I +did consent to and did anon take and fell into a great sweat, and about +10 or 11 o'clock came out of it and shifted myself, and slept pretty well +alone, my wife lying in the red chamber above. + + + +10th. In the morning most of my disease, that is, itching and pimples, +were gone. In the morning visited by Mr. Coventry and others, and very +glad I am to see that I am so much inquired after and my sickness taken +notice of as I did. I keep my bed all day and sweat again at night, by +which I expect to be very well to-morrow. This evening Sir W. Warren +came himself to the door and left a letter and box for me, and went his +way. His letter mentions his giving me and my wife a pair of gloves; +but, opening the box, we found a pair of plain white gloves for my hand, +and a fair state dish of silver, and cup, with my arms, ready cut upon +them, worth, I believe, about L18, which is a very noble present, and the +best I ever had yet. So after some contentful talk with my wife, she to +bed and I to rest. + + + +11th. Took a clyster in the morning and rose in the afternoon. My wife +and I dined on a pullet and I eat heartily, having eat nothing since +Sunday but water gruel and posset drink, but must needs say that our new +maid Mary has played her part very well in her readiness and discretion +in attending me, of which I am very glad. In the afternoon several +people came to see me, my uncle Thomas, Mr. Creed, Sir J. Minnes (who has +been, God knows to what end, mighty kind to me and careful of me in my +sickness). At night my wife read Sir H. Vane's tryall to me, which she +began last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, +and him to have been a very wise man. So to supper and to bed. + + + +12th. Up and find myself pretty well, and so to the office, and there +all the morning. Rose at noon and home to dinner in my green chamber, +having a good fire. Thither there came my wife's brother and brought +Mary Ashwell with him, whom we find a very likely person to please us, +both for person, discourse, and other qualitys. She dined with us, and +after dinner went away again, being agreed to come to us about three +weeks or a month hence. My wife and I well pleased with our choice, only +I pray God I may be able to maintain it. Then came an old man from Mr. +Povy, to give me some advice about his experience in the stone, which I +[am] beholden to him for, and was well pleased with it, his chief remedy +being Castle soap in a posset. Then in the evening to the office, late +writing letters and my Journall since Saturday, and so home to supper and +to bed. + + + +13th. Lay very long with my wife in bed talking with great pleasure, and +then rose. This morning Mr. Cole, our timber merchant, sent me five +couple of ducks. Our maid Susan is very ill, and so the whole trouble of +the house lies upon our maid Mary, who do it very contentedly and mighty +well, but I am sorry she is forced to it. Dined upon one couple of ducks +to-day, and after dinner my wife and I by coach to Tom's, and I to the +Temple to discourse with my cozen Roger Pepys about my law business, and +so back again, it being a monstrous thaw after the long great frost, so +that there is no passing but by coach in the streets, and hardly that. +Took my wife home, and I to my office. Find myself pretty well but +fearful of cold, and so to my office, where late upon business; Mr. Bland +sitting with me, talking of my Lord Windsor's being come home from +Jamaica, unlooked-for; which makes us think that these young Lords are +not fit to do any service abroad, though it is said that he could not +have his health there, but hath razed a fort of the King of Spain upon +Cuba, which is considerable, or said to be so, for his honour. So home +to supper and to bed. This day I bought the second part of Dr. Bates's +Elenchus, which reaches to the fall of Richard, and no further, for which +I am sorry. This evening my wife had a great mind to choose Valentines +against to-morrow, I Mrs. Clerke, or Pierce, she Mr. Hunt or Captain +Ferrers, but I would not because of getting charge both to me for mine +and to them for her, which did not please her. + + + +14th. Up and to my office, where we met and sate all the morning, only +Mr. Coventry, which I think is the first or second time he has missed +since he came to the office, was forced to be absent. So home to dinner, +my wife and I upon a couple of ducks, and then by coach to the Temple, +where my uncle Thomas, and his sons both, and I, did meet at my cozen +Roger's and there sign and seal to an agreement. Wherein I was +displeased at nothing but my cozen Roger's insisting upon my being +obliged to settle upon them as the will do all my uncle's estate that he +has left, without power of selling any for the payment of debts, but I +would not yield to it without leave of selling, my Lord Sandwich himself +and my cozen Thos. Pepys being judges of the necessity thereof, which was +done. One thing more that troubles me was my being forced to promise to +give half of what personal estate could be found more than L372, which I +reported to them, which though I do not know it to be less than what we +really have found, yet he would have been glad to have been at liberty +for that, but at last I did agree to it under my own handwriting on the +backside of the report I did make and did give them of the estate, and +have taken a copy of it upon the backside of one that I have. All being +done I took the father and his son Thos. home by coach, and did pay them +L30, the arrears of the father's annuity, and with great seeming love +parted, and I presently to bed, my head akeing mightily with the hot +dispute I did hold with my cozen Roger and them in the business. + + + +15th (Lord's day). This morning my wife did wake me being frighted with +the noise I made in my sleep, being a dream that one of our sea maisters +did desire to see the St. John's Isle of my drawing, which methought I +showed him, but methought he did handle it so hard that it put me to very +horrid pain . . . . Which what a strange extravagant dream it was. +So to sleep again and lay long in bed, and then trimmed by the barber, +and so sending Will to church, myself staid at home, hanging up in my +green chamber my picture of the Soveraigne, and putting some things in +order there. So to dinner, to three more ducks and two teals, my wife +and I. Then to Church, where a dull sermon, and so home, and after +walking about the house awhile discoursing with my wife, I to my office +there to set down something and to prepare businesses for tomorrow, +having in the morning read over my vows, which through sicknesse I could +not do the last Lord's day, and not through forgetfulness or negligence, +so that I hope it is no breach of my vow not to pay my forfeiture. So +home, and after prayers to bed, talking long with my wife and teaching +her things in astronomy. + + + +16th. Up and by coach with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to White +Hall, and, after we had done our usual business with the Duke, to my Lord +Sandwich and by his desire to Sir W. Wheeler, who was brought down in a +sedan chair from his chamber, being lame of the gout, to borrow L1000 of +him for my Lord's occasions, but he gave me a very kind denial that he +could not, but if any body else would, he would be bond with my Lord for +it. So to Westminster Hall, and there find great expectation what the +Parliament will do, when they come two days hence to sit again, in +matters of religion. The great question is, whether the Presbyters will +be contented to have the Papists have the same liberty of conscience with +them, or no, or rather be denied it themselves: and the Papists, I hear, +are very busy designing how to make the Presbyters consent to take their +liberty, and to let them have the same with them, which some are apt to +think they will. It seems a priest was taken in his vests officiating +somewhere in Holborn the other day, and was committed by Secretary +Morris, according to law; and they say the Bishop of London did give him +thanks for it. Thence to my Lord Crew's and dined there, there being +much company, and the above-said matter is now the present publique +discourse. Thence about several businesses to Mr. Phillips my attorney, +to stop all proceedings at law, and so to the Temple, where at the +Solicitor General's I found Mr. Cholmely and Creed reading to him the +agreement for him to put into form about the contract for the Mole at +Tangier, which is done at 13s. the Cubical yard, though upon my +conscience not one of the Committee, besides the parties concerned, do +understand what they do therein, whether they give too much or too +little. Thence with Mr. Creed to see Mr. Moore, who continues sick +still, within doors, and here I staid a good while after him talking of +all the things either business or no that came into my mind, and so home +and to see Sir W. Pen, and sat and played at cards with him, his +daughter, and Mrs. Rooth, and so to my office a while, and then home and +to bed. + + + +17th. Up and to my office, and there we sat all the morning, and at noon +my wife being gone to Chelsey with her brother and sister and Mrs. Lodum, +to see the wassell at the school, where Mary Ashwell is, I took home Mr. +Pett and he dined with me all alone, and much discourse we had upon the +business of the office, and so after dinner broke up and with much ado, +it raining hard, which it has not done a great while now, but only frost +a great while, I got a coach and so to the Temple, where discoursed with +Mr. W. Montagu about borrowing some money for my Lord, and so by water +(where I have not been a good while through cold) to Westminster to Sir +W. Wheeler's, whom I found busy at his own house with the Commissioners +of Sewers, but I spoke to him about my Lord's business of borrowing +money, and so to my Lord of Sandwich, to give him an account of all, whom +I found at cards with Pickering; but he made an end soon: and so all +alone, he and I, after I had given him an account, he told me he had a +great secret to tell me, such as no flesh knew but himself, nor ought; +which was this: that yesterday morning Eschar, Mr. Edward Montagu's man, +did come to him from his master with some of the Clerks of the Exchequer, +for my Lord to sign to their books for the Embassy money; which my Lord +very civilly desired not to do till he had spoke with his master himself. +In the afternoon, my Lord and my Lady Wright being at cards in his +chamber, in comes Mr. Montagu; and desiring to speak with my Lord at the +window in his chamber, he begun to charge my Lord with the greatest +ingratitude in the world: that he that had received his earldom, garter, +L4000 per annum, and whatever he is in the world, from him, should now +study him all the dishonour that he could; and so fell to tell my Lord, +that if he should speak all that he knew of him, he could do so and so. +In a word, he did rip up all that could be said that was unworthy, and in +the basest terms they could be spoken in. To which my Lord answered with +great temper, justifying himself, but endeavouring to lessen his heat, +which was a strange temper in him, knowing that he did owe all he hath in +the world to my Lord, and that he is now all that he is by his means and +favour. But my Lord did forbear to increase the quarrel, knowing that it +would be to no good purpose for the world to see a difference in the +family; but did allay him so as that he fell to weeping. And after much +talk (among other things Mr. Montagu telling him that there was a fellow +in the town, naming me, that had done ill offices, and that if he knew it +to be so, he would have him cudgelled) my Lord did promise him that, if +upon account he saw that there was not many tradesmen unpaid, he would +sign the books; but if there was, he could not bear with taking too great +a debt upon him. So this day he sent him an account, and a letter +assuring him there was not above L200 unpaid; and so my Lord did sign to +the Exchequer books. Upon the whole, I understand fully what a rogue he +is, and how my Lord do think and will think of him for the future; +telling me that thus he has served his father my Lord Manchester, and his +whole family, and now himself: and which is worst, that he hath abused, +and in speeches every day do abuse, my Lord Chancellor, whose favour he +hath lost; and hath no friend but Sir H. Bennet, and that (I knowing the +rise of the friendship) only from the likeness of their pleasures, and +acquaintance, and concernments, they have in the same matters of lust and +baseness; for which, God forgive them! But he do flatter himself, from +promises of Sir H. Bennet, that he shall have a pension of L2000 per +annum, and be made an Earl. My Lord told me he expected a challenge from +him, but told me there was no great fear of him, for there was no man +lies under such an imputation as he do in the business of Mr. Cholmely, +who, though a simple sorry fellow, do brave him and struts before him +with the Queen, to the sport and observation of the whole Court. He did +keep my Lord at the window, thus reviling and braving him above an hour, +my Lady Wright being by; but my Lord tells me she could not hear every +word, but did well know what their discourse was; she could hear enough +to know that. So that he commands me to keep it as the greatest secret +in the world, and bids me beware of speaking words against Mr. Montagu, +for fear I should suffer by his passion thereby. After he had told me +this I took coach and home, where I found my wife come home and in bed +with her sister in law in the chamber with her, she not being able to +stay to see the wassel, being so ill . . ., which I was sorry for. +Hither we sent for her sister's viall, upon which she plays pretty well +for a girl, but my expectation is much deceived in her, not only for +that, but in her spirit, she being I perceive a very subtle witty jade, +and one that will give her husband trouble enough as little as she is, +whereas I took her heretofore for a very child and a simple fool. I +played also, which I have not done this long time before upon any +instrument, and at last broke up and I to my office a little while, being +fearful of being too much taken with musique, for fear of returning to my +old dotage thereon, and so neglect my business as I used to do. Then +home and to bed. Coming home I brought Mr. Pickering as far as the +Temple, who tells me the story is very true of a child being dropped at +the ball at Court; and that the King had it in his closett a week after, +and did dissect it; and making great sport of it, said that in his +opinion it must have been a month and three hours old; and that, whatever +others think, he hath the greatest loss (it being a boy, as he says), +that hath lost a subject by the business. He tells me, too, that the +other story, of my Lady Castlemaine's and Stuart's marriage, is certain, +and that it was in order to the King's coming to Stuart, as is believed +generally. He tells me that Sir H. Bennet is a Catholique, and how all +the Court almost is changed to the worse since his coming in, they being +afeard of him. And that the Queen-Mother's Court is now the greatest of +all; and that our own Queen hath little or no company come to her, which +I know also to be very true, and am sorry to see it. + + + +18th. Up, leaving my wife sick as last night in bed. I to my office all +the morning, casting up with Captain Cocke their accounts of 500 tons of +hemp brought from Riga, and bought by him and partners upon account, +wherein are many things worth my knowledge. So at noon to dinner, taking +Mr. Hater with me because of losing them, and in the afternoon he and I +alone at the office, finishing our account of the extra charge of the +Navy, not properly belonging to the Navy, since the King's coming in to +Christmas last; and all extra things being abated, I find that the true +charge of the Navy to that time hath been after the rate of L374,743 a- +year. I made an end by eleven o'clock at night, and so home to bed +almost weary. This day the Parliament met again, after their long +prorogation; but I know not any thing what they have done, being within +doors all day. + + + +19th. Up and to my office, where abundance of business all the morning. +Dined by my wife's bedside, she not being yet well. We fell out almost +upon my discourse of delaying the having of Ashwell, where my wife +believing that I have a mind to have Pall, which I have not, though I +could wish she did deserve to be had. So to my office, where by and by +we sat, this afternoon being the first we have met upon a great while, +our times being changed because of the parliament sitting. Being rose, I +to my office till twelve at night, drawing out copies of the overcharge +of the Navy, one to send to Mr. Coventry early to-morrow. So home and to +bed, being weary, sleepy, and my eyes begin to fail me, looking so long +by candlelight upon white paper. This day I read the King's speech to +the Parliament yesterday; which is very short, and not very obliging; but +only telling them his desire to have a power of indulging tender +consciences, not that he will yield to have any mixture in the uniformity +of the Church's discipline; and says the same for the Papists, but +declares against their ever being admitted to have any offices or places +of trust in the kingdom; but, God knows, too many have. + + + +20th. Up and by water with Commissioner Pett to Deptford, and there +looked over the yard, and had a call, wherein I am very highly pleased +with our new manner of call-books, being my invention. Thence thinking +to have gone down to Woolwich in the Charles pleasure boat, but she run +aground, it being almost low water, and so by oars to the town, and there +dined, and then to the yard at Mr. Ackworth's, discoursing with the +officers of the yard about their stores of masts, which was our chief +business, and having done something therein, took boat and to the +pleasure boat, which was come down to fetch us back, and I could have +been sick if I would in going, the wind being very fresh, but very +pleasant it was, and the first time I have sailed in any one of them. It +carried us to Cuckold's Point, and so by oars to the Temple, it raining +hard, where missed speaking with my cosen Roger, and so walked home and +to my office; there spent the night till bed time, and so home to supper +and to bed. + + + +21st. Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes (most of the rest being +at the Parliament-house), all the morning answering petitions and other +business. Towards noon there comes a man in as if upon ordinary +business, and shows me a writ from the Exchequer, called a Commission of +Rebellion, and tells me that I am his prisoner in Field's business; which +methought did strike me to the heart, to think that we could not sit in +the middle of the King's business. I told him how and where we were +employed, and bid him have a care; and perceiving that we were busy, he +said he would, and did withdraw for an hour: in which time Sir J. Minnes +took coach and to Court, to see what he could do from thence; and our +solicitor against Field came by chance and told me that he would go and +satisfy the fees of the Court, and would end the business. So he went +away about that, and I staid in my closett, till by and by the man and +four more of his fellows came to know what I would do; I told them stay +till I heard from the King or my Lord Chief Baron, to both whom I had now +sent. With that they consulted, and told me that if I would promise to +stay in the house they would go and refresh themselves, and come again, +and know what answer I had: so they away, and I home to dinner, whither +by chance comes Mr. Hawley and dined with me. Before I had dined, the +bayleys come back again with the constable, and at the office knock for +me, but found me not there; and I hearing in what manner they were come, +did forbear letting them know where I was; so they stood knocking and +enquiring for me. By and by at my parler-window comes Sir W. Batten's +Mungo, to tell me that his master and lady would have me come to their +house through Sir J. Minnes's lodgings, which I could not do; but, +however, by ladders, did get over the pale between our yards, and so to +their house, where I found them (as they have reason) to be much +concerned for me, my lady especially. The fellows staid in the yard +swearing with one or two constables, and some time we locked them into +the yard, and by and by let them out again, and so kept them all the +afternoon, not letting them see me, or know where I was. One time I went +up to the top of Sir W. Batten's house, and out of one of their windows +spoke to my wife out of one of ours; which methought, though I did it in +mirth, yet I was sad to think what a sad thing it would be for me to be +really in that condition. By and by comes Sir J. Minnes, who (like +himself and all that he do) tells us that he can do no good, but that my +Lord Chancellor wonders that we did not cause the seamen to fall about +their ears: which we wished we could have done without our being seen in +it; and Captain Grove being there, he did give them some affront, and +would have got some seamen to have drubbed them, but he had not time, nor +did we think it fit to have done it, they having executed their +commission; but there was occasion given that he did draw upon one of +them and he did complain that Grove had pricked him in the breast, but no +hurt done; but I see that Grove would have done our business to them if +we had bid him. By and by comes Mr. Clerke, our solicitor, who brings us +a release from our adverse atturney, we paying the fees of the +commission, which comes to five marks, and pay the charges of these +fellows, which are called the commissioners, but are the most rake-shamed +rogues that ever I saw in my life; so he showed them this release, and +they seemed satisfied, and went away with him to their atturney to be +paid by him. But before they went, Sir W. Batten and my lady did begin +to taunt them, but the rogues answered them as high as themselves, and +swore they would come again, and called me rogue and rebel, and they +would bring the sheriff and untile his house, before he should harbour a +rebel in his house, and that they would be here again shortly. Well, at +last they went away, and I by advice took occasion to go abroad, and +walked through the street to show myself among the neighbours, that they +might not think worse than the business is. Being met by Captn. Taylor +and Bowry, whose ship we have hired for Tangier, they walked along with +me to Cornhill talking about their business, and after some difference +about their prices we agreed, and so they would have me to a tavern, and +there I drank one glass of wine and discoursed of something about freight +of a ship that may bring me a little money, and so broke up, and I home +to Sir W. Batten's again, where Sir J. Lawson, Captain Allen, Spragg, and +several others, and all our discourse about the disgrace done to our +office to be liable to this trouble, which we must get removed. Hither +comes Mr. Clerke by and by, and tells me that he hath paid the fees of +the Court for the commission; but the men are not contented with under; +L5 for their charges, which he will not give them, and therefore advises +me not to stir abroad till Monday that he comes or sends to me again, +whereby I shall not be able to go to White Hall to the Duke of York, as I +ought. Here I staid vexing, and yet pleased to see every body, man and +woman, my Lady and Mr. Turner especially, for me, till 10 at night; and +so home, where my people are mightily surprized to see this business, but +it troubles me not very much, it being nothing touching my particular +person or estate. Being in talk to-day with Sir W. Batten he tells me +that little is done yet in the Parliament-house, but only this day it was +moved and ordered that all the members of the House do subscribe to the +renouncing of the Covenant, which is thought will try some of them. +There is also a bill brought in for the wearing of nothing but cloth or +stuffs of our own manufacture, and is likely to be passed. Among other +talk this evening, my lady did speak concerning Commissioner Pett's +calling the present King bastard, and other high words heretofore; and +Sir W. Batten did tell us, that he did give the Duke or Mr. Coventry an +account of that and other like matters in writing under oath, of which I +was ashamed, and for which I was sorry, but I see there is an absolute +hatred never to be altered there, and Sir J. Minnes, the old coxcomb, has +got it by the end, which troubles me for the sake of the King's service, +though I do truly hate the expressions laid to him. To my office and set +down this day's journall, and so home with my mind out of order, though +not very sad with it, but ashamed for myself something, and for the +honour of the office much more. So home and to bed. + + + +22d (Lord's day). Lay long in bed and went not out all day; but after +dinner to Sir W. Batten's and Sir W. Pen's, where discoursing much of +yesterday's trouble and scandal; but that which troubled me most was Sir +J. Minnes coming from Court at night, and instead of bringing great +comfort from thence (but I expected no better from him), he tells me that +the Duke and Mr. Coventry make no great matter of it. So at night +discontented to prayers, and to bed. + + + +23d. Up by times; and not daring to go by land, did (Griffin going along +with me for fear), slip to White Hall by water; where to Mr. Coventry, +and, as we used to do, to the Duke; the other of my fellows being come. +But we said nothing of our business, the Duke being sent for to the King, +that he could not stay to speak with us. This morning came my Lord +Windsor to kiss the Duke's hand, being returned from Jamaica. He tells +the Duke, that from such a degree of latitude going thither he begun to +be sick, and was never well till his coming so far back again, and then +presently begun to be well. He told the Duke of their taking the fort of +St. Jago, upon Cuba, by his men; but, upon the whole, I believe that he +did matters like a young lord, and was weary of being upon service out of +his own country, where he might have pleasure. For methought it was a +shame to see him this very afternoon, being the first day of his coming +to town, to be at a playhouse. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who though he +has been abroad again two or three days is falling ill again, and is let +blood this morning, though I hope it is only a great cold that he has +got. It was a great trouble to me (and I had great apprehensions of it) +that my Lord desired me to go to Westminster Hall, to the Parliament- +house door, about business; and to Sir Wm. Wheeler, which I told him I +would do, but durst not go for fear of being taken by these rogues; but +was forced to go to White Hall and take boat, and so land below the Tower +at the Iron-gate; and so the back way over Little Tower Hill; and with my +cloak over my face, took one of the watermen along with me, and staid +behind a wall in the New-buildings behind our garden, while he went to +see whether any body stood within the Merchants' Gate, under which we +pass to go into our garden, and there standing but a little dirty boy +before the gate, did make me quake and sweat to think he might be a +Trepan. But there was nobody, and so I got safe into the garden, and +coming to open my office door, something behind it fell in the opening, +which made me start. So that God knows in what a sad condition I should +be in if I were truly in the condition that many a poor man is for debt: +and therefore ought to bless God that I have no such reall reason, and to +endeavour to keep myself, by my good deportment and good husbandry, out +of any such condition. At home I found Mr. Creed with my wife, and so he +dined with us, I finding by a note that Mr. Clerke in my absence hath +left here, that I am free; and that he hath stopped all matters in Court; +I was very glad of it, and immediately had a light thought of taking +pleasure to rejoice my heart, and so resolved to take my wife to a play +at Court to-night, and the rather because it is my birthday, being this +day thirty years old, for which let me praise God. While my wife dressed +herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted to-day, and we +find it "The Slighted Mayde." But, Lord! to see that though I did know +myself to be out of danger, yet I durst not go through the street, but +round by the garden into Tower Street. By and by took coach, and to the +Duke's house, where we saw it well acted, though the play hath little +good in it, being most pleased to see the little girl dance in boy's +apparel, she having very fine legs, only bends in the hams, as I perceive +all women do. The play being done, we took coach and to Court, and there +got good places, and saw "The Wilde Gallant," performed by the King's +house, but it was ill acted, and the play so poor a thing as I never saw +in my life almost, and so little answering the name, that from beginning +to end, I could not, nor can at this time, tell certainly which was the +Wild Gallant. The King did not seem pleased at all, all the whole play, +nor any body else, though Mr. Clerke whom we met here did commend it to +us. My Lady Castlemaine was all worth seeing tonight, and little +Steward.--[Mrs. Stuart]-- Mrs. Wells do appear at Court again, and looks +well; so that, it may be, the late report of laying the dropped child to +her was not true. It being done, we got a coach and got well home about +12 at night. Now as my mind was but very ill satisfied with these two +plays themselves, so was I in the midst of them sad to think of the +spending so much money and venturing upon the breach of my vow, which I +found myself sorry for, I bless God, though my nature would well be +contented to follow the pleasure still. But I did make payment of my +forfeiture presently, though I hope to save it back again by forbearing +two plays at Court for this one at the Theatre, or else to forbear that +to the Theatre which I am to have at Easter. But it being my birthday +and my day of liberty regained to me, and lastly, the last play that is +likely to be acted at Court before Easter, because of the Lent coming in, +I was the easier content to fling away so much money. So to bed. This +day I was told that my Lady Castlemaine hath all the King's Christmas +presents, made him by the peers, given to her, which is a most abominable +thing; and that at the great ball she was much richer in jewells than the +Queen and Duchess put both together. + + + +24th. Slept hard till 8 o'clock, then waked by Mr. Clerke's being come +to consult me about Field's business, which we did by calling him up to +my bedside, and he says we shall trounce him. Then up, and to the +office, and at 11 o'clock by water to Westminster, and to Sir W. +Wheeler's about my Lord's borrowing of money that I was lately upon with +him, and then to my Lord, who continues ill, but will do well I doubt +not. Among other things, he tells me that he hears the Commons will not +agree to the King's late declaration, nor will yield that the Papists +have any ground given them to raise themselves up again in England, which +I perceive by my Lord was expected at Court. Thence home again by water +presently, and with a bad dinner, being not looked for, to the office, +and there we sat, and then Captn. Cocke and I upon his hemp accounts till +9 at night, and then, I not very well, home to supper and to bed. My +late distemper of heat and itching being come upon me again, so that I +must think of sweating again as I did before. + + + +25th. Up and to my office, where with Captain Cocke making an end of his +last night's accounts till noon, and so home to dinner, my wife being +come in from laying out about L4 in provision of several things against +Lent. In the afternoon to the Temple, my brother's, the Wardrobe, to Mr. +Moore, and other places, called at about small businesses, and so at +night home to my office and then to supper and to bed. The Commons in +Parliament, I hear, are very high to stand to the Act of Uniformity, and +will not indulge the Papists (which is endeavoured by the Court Party) +nor the Presbyters. + + + +26th. Up and drinking a draft of wormewood wine with Sir W. Batten at +the Steelyard, he and I by water to the Parliament-house: he went in, and +I walked up and down the Hall. All the news is the great odds yesterday +in the votes between them that are for the Indulgence to the Papists and +Presbyters, and those that are against it, which did carry it by 200 +against 30. And pretty it is to consider how the King would appear to be +a stiff Protestant and son of the, Church; and yet would appear willing +to give a liberty to these people, because of his promise at Breda. And +yet all the world do believe that the King would not have this liberty +given them at all. Thence to my Lord's, who, I hear, has his ague again, +for which I am sorry, and Creed and I to the King's Head ordinary, where +much good company. Among the rest a young gallant lately come from +France, who was full of his French, but methought not very good, but he +had enough to make him think himself a wise man a great while. Thence by +water from the New Exchange home to the Tower, and so sat at the office, +and then writing letters till 11 at night. Troubled this evening that my +wife is not come home from Chelsey, whither she is gone to see the play +at the school where Ashwell is, but she came at last, it seems, by water, +and tells me she is much pleased with Ashwell's acting and carriage, +which I am glad of. So home and to supper and bed. + + + +27th. Up and to my office, whither several persons came to me about +office business. About 11 o'clock, Commissioner Pett and I walked to +Chyrurgeon's Hall (we being all invited thither, and promised to dine +there); where we were led into the Theatre; and by and by comes the +reader, Dr. Tearne, with the Master and Company, in a very handsome +manner: and all being settled, he begun his lecture, this being the +second upon the kidneys, ureters, &c., which was very fine; and his +discourse being ended, we walked into the Hall, and there being great +store of company, we had a fine dinner and good learned company, many +Doctors of Phisique, and we used with extraordinary great respect. Among +other observables we drank the King's health out of a gilt cup given by +King Henry VIII. to this Company, with bells hanging at it, which every +man is to ring by shaking after he hath drunk up the whole cup. There is +also a very excellent piece of the King, done by Holbein, stands up in +the Hall, with the officers of the Company kneeling to him to receive +their Charter. After dinner Dr. Scarborough took some of his friends, +and I went along with them, to see the body alone, which we did, which +was a lusty fellow, a seaman, that was hanged for a robbery. I did touch +the dead body with my bare hand: it felt cold, but methought it was a +very unpleasant sight. It seems one Dillon, of a great family, was, +after much endeavours to have saved him, hanged with a silken halter this +Sessions (of his own preparing), not for honour only, but it seems, it +being soft and sleek, it do slip close and kills, that is, strangles +presently: whereas, a stiff one do not come so close together, and so the +party may live the longer before killed. But all the Doctors at table +conclude, that there is no pain at all in hanging, for that it do stop +the circulation of the blood; and so stops all sense and motion in an +instant. Thence we went into a private room, where I perceive they +prepare the bodies, and there were the kidneys, ureters [&c.], upon which +he read to-day, and Dr. Scarborough upon my desire and the company's did +show very clearly the manner of the disease of the stone and the cutting +and all other questions that I could think of . . . [Poor Mr. Wheatley +could not even stand a medical lecture on physiology. D.W.] how the +water [comes] into the bladder through the three skins or coats just as +poor Dr. Jolly has heretofore told me. Thence with great satisfaction to +me back to the Company, where I heard good discourse, and so to the +afternoon Lecture upon the heart and lungs, &c., and that being done we +broke up, took leave, and back to the office, we two, Sir W. Batten, who +dined here also, being gone before. Here late, and to Sir W. Batten's to +speak upon some business, where I found Sir J. Minnes pretty well fuddled +I thought: he took me aside to tell me how being at my Lord Chancellor's +to-day, my Lord told him that there was a Great Seal passing for Sir W. +Pen, through the impossibility of the Comptroller's duty to be performed +by one man; to be as it were joynt-comptroller with him, at which he is +stark mad; and swears he will give up his place, and do rail at Sir W. +Pen the cruellest; he I made shift to encourage as much as I could, but +it pleased me heartily to hear him rail against him, so that I do see +thoroughly that they are not like to be great friends, for he cries out +against him for his house and yard and God knows what. For my part, I do +hope, when all is done, that my following my business will keep me secure +against all their envys. But to see how the old man do strut, and swear +that he understands all his duty as easily as crack a nut, and easier, he +told my Lord Chancellor, for his teeth are gone; and that he understands +it as well as any man in England; and that he will never leave to record +that he should be said to be unable to do his duty alone; though, God +knows, he cannot do it more than a child. All this I am glad to see fall +out between them and myself safe, and yet I hope the King's service well +done for all this, for I would not that should be hindered by any of our +private differences. So to my office, and then home to supper and to +bed. + + + +28th. Waked with great pain in my right ear (which I find myself much +subject to) having taken cold. Up and to my office, where we sat all the +morning, and I dined with Sir W. Batten by chance, being in business +together about a bargain of New England masts. Then to the Temple to +meet my uncle Thomas, who I found there, but my cozen Roger not being +come home I took boat and to Westminster, where I found him in Parliament +this afternoon. The House have this noon been with the King to give him +their reasons for refusing to grant any indulgence to Presbyters or +Papists; which he, with great content and seeming pleasure, took, saying, +that he doubted not but he and they should agree in all things, though +there may seem a difference in judgement, he having writ and declared for +an indulgence: and that he did believe never prince was happier in a +House of Commons, than he was in them. Thence he and I to my Lord +Sandwich, who continues troubled with his cold. Our discourse most upon +the outing of Sir R. Bernard, and my Lord's being made Recorder of +Huntingdon in his stead, which he seems well contented with, saying, that +it may be for his convenience to have the chief officer of the town +dependent upon him, which is very true. Thence he and I to the Temple, +but my uncle being gone we parted, and I walked home, and to my office, +and at nine o'clock had a good supper of an oxe's cheek, of my wife's +dressing and baking, and so to my office again till past eleven at night, +making up my month's account, and find that I am at a stay with what I +was last, that is L640. So home and to bed. Coming by, I put in at +White Hall, and at the Privy Seal I did see the docquet by which Sir W. +Pen is made the Comptroller's assistant, as Sir J. Minnes told me last +night, which I must endeavour to prevent. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +After oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb +At last we pretty good friends +Before I sent my boy out with them, I beat him for a lie +Dr. Calamy is this day sent to Newgate for preaching +Eat a mouthful of pye at home to stay my stomach +Familiarity with her other servants is it that spoils them all +Feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce to let him blood +Found him a fool, as he ever was, or worse +Goes down the wind in honour as well as every thing else +Had a good supper of an oxe's cheek +Hanged with a silken halter +How highly the Presbyters do talk in the coffeehouses still +I and she never were so heartily angry in our lives as to-day +Ill humour to be so against that which all the world cries up +Lady Castlemaine hath all the King's Christmas presents +Lay chiding, and then pleased with my wife in bed +Lay very long with my wife in bed talking with great pleasure +Liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied his wife +Many thousands in a little time go out of England +Money, which sweetens all things +Most flat dead sermon, both for matter and manner of delivery +Much discourse, but little to be learned +Nor will yield that the Papists have any ground given them +Nothing in the world done with true integrity +Once a week or so I know a gentleman must go . . . . +Pain of the stone, and makes bloody water with great pain +Rabbit not half roasted, which made me angry with my wife +Scholler, but, it may be, thinks himself to be too much so +See how time and example may alter a man +Servant of the King's pleasures too, as well as business +So home, and mighty friends with my wife again +So neat and kind one to another +Sorry for doing it now, because of obliging me to do the like +Talk very highly of liberty of conscience +The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant +There is no passing but by coach in the streets, and hardly that +These young Lords are not fit to do any service abroad +They were so false spelt that I was ashamed of them +Vexed at my wife's neglect in leaving of her scarf +Wine, new and old, with labells pasted upon each bottle +With much ado in an hour getting a coach home +Yet it was her fault not to see that I did take them + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v23 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH & APRIL + 1662-1663 + + +March 1st (Lord's day). Up and walked to White Hall, to the Chappell, +where preached one Dr. Lewes, said heretofore to have been a great witt; +but he read his sermon every word, and that so brokenly and so low, that +nobody could hear at any distance, nor I anything worth hearing that sat +near. But, which was strange, he forgot to make any prayer before +sermon, which all wonder at, but they impute it to his forgetfulness. +After sermon a very fine anthem; so I up into the house among the +courtiers, seeing the fine ladies, and, above all, my Lady Castlemaine, +who is above all, that only she I can observe for true beauty. The King +and Queen being set to dinner I went to Mr. Fox's, and there dined with +him. Much genteel company, and, among other things, I hear for certain +that peace is concluded between the King of France and the Pope; and also +I heard the reasons given by our Parliament yesterday to the King why +they dissent from him in matter of Indulgence, which are very good quite +through, and which I was glad to hear. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who +continues with a great cold, locked up; and, being alone, we fell into +discourse of my uncle the Captain's death and estate, and I took the +opportunity of telling my Lord how matters stand, and read his will, and +told him all, what a poor estate he hath left, at all which he wonders +strangely, which he may well do. Thence after singing some new tunes +with W. Howe I walked home, whither came Will. Joyce, whom I have not +seen here a great while, nor desire it a great while again, he is so +impertinent a coxcomb, and yet good natured, and mightily concerned for +my brother's late folly in his late wooing at the charge to no purpose, +nor could in any probability a it. He gone, we all to bed, without +prayers, it being washing day to-morrow. + + + +2nd. Up early and by water with Commissioner Pett to Deptford, and there +took the Jemmy yacht (that the King and the Lords virtuosos built the +other day) down to Woolwich, where we discoursed of several matters both +there and at the Ropeyard, and so to the yacht again, and went down four +or five miles with extraordinary pleasure, it being a fine day, and a +brave gale of wind, and had some oysters brought us aboard newly taken, +which were excellent, and ate with great pleasure. There also coming +into the river two Dutchmen, we sent a couple of men on board and bought +three Hollands cheeses, cost 4d. a piece, excellent cheeses, whereof I +had two and Commissioner Pett one. So back again to Woolwich, and going +aboard the Hulke to see the manner of the iron bridles, which we are +making of for to save cordage to put to the chain, I did fall from the +shipside into the ship (Kent), and had like to have broke my left hand, +but I only sprained some of my fingers, which, when I came ashore I sent +to Mrs. Ackworth for some balsam, and put to my hand, and was pretty well +within a little while after. We dined at the White Hart with several +officers with us, and after dinner went and saw the Royal James brought +down to the stern of the Docke (the main business we came for), and then +to the Ropeyard, and saw a trial between Riga hemp and a sort of Indian +grass, which is pretty strong, but no comparison between it and the other +for strength, and it is doubtful whether it will take tarre or no. So to +the yacht again, and carried us almost to London, so by our oars home to +the office, and thence Mr. Pett and I to Mr. Grant's coffee-house, +whither he and Sir J. Cutler came to us and had much discourse, mixed +discourse, and so broke up, and so home where I found my poor wife all +alone at work, and the house foul, it being washing day, which troubled +me, because that tomorrow I must be forced to have friends at dinner. So +to my office, and then home to supper and to bed. + + + +3rd (Shrove Tuesday). Up and walked to the Temple, and by promise +calling Commissioner Pett, he and I to White Hall to give Mr. Coventry an +account of what we did yesterday. Thence I to the Privy Seal Office, and +there got a copy of Sir W. Pen's grant to be assistant to Sir J. Minnes, +Comptroller, which, though there be not much in it, yet I intend to stir +up Sir J. Minnes to oppose, only to vex Sir W. Pen. Thence by water +home, and at noon, by promise, Mrs. Turner and her daughter, and Mrs. +Morrice, came along with Roger Pepys to dinner. We were as merry as I +could be, having but a bad dinner for them; but so much the better, +because of the dinner which I must have at the end of this month. And +here Mrs. The. shewed me my name upon her breast as her Valentine, which +will cost me 20s. After dinner I took them down into the wine-cellar, +and broached my tierce of claret for them. Towards the evening we +parted, and I to the office awhile, and then home to supper and to bed, +the sooner having taken some cold yesterday upon the water, which brings +me my usual pain. This afternoon Roger Pepys tells me, that for certain +the King is for all this very highly incensed at the Parliament's late +opposing the Indulgence; which I am sorry for, and fear it will breed +great discontent. + + + +4th. Lay long talking with my wife about ordering things in our family, +and then rose and to my office, there collecting an alphabet for my Navy +Manuscript, which, after a short dinner, I returned to and by night +perfected to my great content. So to other business till 9 at night, and +so home to supper and to bed. + + + +5th. Rose this morning early, only to try with intention to begin my +last summer's course in rising betimes. So to my office a little, and +then to Westminster by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, in our +way talking of Sir W. Pen's business of his patent, which I think I have +put a stop to wholly, for Sir J. Minnes swears he will never consent to +it. Here to the Lobby, and spoke with my cozen Roger, who is going to +Cambridge to-morrow. In the Hall I do hear that the Catholiques are in +great hopes for all this, and do set hard upon the King to get +Indulgence. Matters, I hear, are all naught in Ireland, and that the +Parliament has voted, and the people, that is, the Papists, do cry out +against the Commissioners sent by the King; so that they say the English +interest will be lost there. Thence I went to see my Lord Sandwich, who +I found very ill, and by his cold being several nights hindered from +sleep, he is hardly able to open his eyes, and is very weak and sad upon +it, which troubled me much. So after talking with Mr. Cooke, whom I +found there, about his folly for looking and troubling me and other +friends in getting him a place (that is, storekeeper of the Navy at +Tangier) before there is any such thing, I returned to the Hall, and +thence back with the two knights home again by coach, where I found Mr. +Moore got abroad, and dined with me, which I was glad to see, he having +not been able to go abroad a great while. Then came in Mr. Hawley and +dined with us, and after dinner I left them, and to the office, where we +sat late, and I do find that I shall meet with nothing to oppose my +growing great in the office but Sir W. Pen, who is now well again, and +comes into the office very brisk, and, I think, to get up his time that +he has been out of the way by being mighty diligent at the office, which, +I pray God, he may be, but I hope by mine to weary him out, for I am +resolved to fall to business as hard as I can drive, God giving me +health. At my office late, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +6th. Up betimes, and about eight o'clock by coach with four horses, with +Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, to Woolwich, a pleasant day. There at +the yard we consulted and ordered several matters, and thence to the rope +yard and did the like, and so into Mr. Falconer's, where we had some +fish, which we brought with us, dressed; and there dined with us his new +wife, which had been his mayde, but seems to be a genteel woman, well +enough bred and discreet. Thence after dinner back to Deptford, where we +did as before, and so home, good discourse in our way, Sir J. Minnes +being good company, though a simple man enough as to the business of his +office, but we did discourse at large again about Sir W. Pen's patent to +be his assistant, and I perceive he is resolved never to let it pass. +To my office, and thence to Sir W. Batten's, where Major Holmes was +lately come from the Streights, but do tell me strange stories of the +faults of Cooper his master, put in by me, which I do not believe, but am +sorry to hear and must take some course to have him removed, though I +believe that the Captain is proud, and the fellow is not supple enough to +him. So to my office again to set down my Journall, and so home and to +bed. This evening my boy Waynman's brother was with me, and I did tell +him again that I must part with the boy, for I will not keep him. He +desires my keeping him a little longer till he can provide for him, which +I am willing for a while to do. This day it seems the House of Commons +have been very high against the Papists, being incensed by the stir which +they make for their having an Indulgence; which, without doubt, is a +great folly in them to be so hot upon at this time, when they see how +averse already the House have showed themselves from it. This evening +Mr. Povy was with me at my office, and tells me that my Lord Sandwich is +this day so ill that he is much afeard of him, which puts me to great +pain, not more for my own sake than for his poor family's. + + + +7th. Up betimes, and to the office, where some of us sat all the +morning. At noon Sir W. Pen began to talk with me like a counterfeit +rogue very kindly about his house and getting bills signed for all our +works, but he is a cheating fellow, and so I let him talk and answered +nothing. So we parted. I to dinner, and there met The. Turner, who is +come on foot in a frolique to beg me to get a place at sea for John, +their man, which is a rogue; but, however, it may be, the sea may do him +good in reclaiming him, and therefore I will see what I can do. She +dined with me; and after dinner I took coach, and carried her home; in +our way, in Cheapside, lighting and giving her a dozen pair of white +gloves as my Valentine. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who is gone to Sir +W. Wheeler's for his more quiet being, where he slept well last night, +and I took him very merry, playing at cards, and much company with him. +So I left him, and Creed and I to Westminster Hall, and there walked a +good while. He told me how for some words of my Lady Gerard's + + [Jane, wife of Lord Gerard (see ante, January 1st, 1662-63). The + king had previously put a slight upon Lady Gerard, probably at the + instigation of Lady Castlemaine, as the two ladies were not friends. + On the 4th of January of this same year Lady Gerard had given a + supper to the king and queen, when the king withdrew from the party + and proceeded to the house of Lady Castlemaine, and remained there + throughout the evening (see Steinman's "Memoir of Barbara, Duchess + of Cleveland," 1871, p. 47).] + +against my Lady Castlemaine to the Queen, the King did the other day +affront her in going out to dance with her at a ball, when she desired +it as the ladies do, and is since forbid attending the Queen by the King; +which is much talked of, my Lord her husband being a great favourite. +Thence by water home and to my office, wrote by the post and so home to +bed. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Being sent to by Sir J. Minnes to know whether I would +go with him to White Hall to-day, I rose but could not get ready before +he was gone, but however I walked thither and heard Dr. King, Bishop of +Chichester, make a good and eloquent sermon upon these words, "They that +sow in tears, shall reap in joy." Thence (the chappell in Lent being +hung with black, and no anthem sung after sermon, as at other times), to +my Lord Sandwich at Sir W. Wheeler's. I found him out of order, thinking +himself to be in a fit of an ague, but in the afternoon he was very +cheery. I dined with Sir William, where a good but short dinner, not +better than one of mine commonly of a Sunday. After dinner up to my +Lord, there being Mr. Kumball. My Lord, among other discourse, did tell +us of his great difficultys passed in the business of the Sound, and of +his receiving letters from the King there, but his sending them by +Whetstone was a great folly; and the story how my Lord being at dinner +with Sydney, one of his fellow plenipotentiarys and his mortal enemy, +did see Whetstone, and put off his hat three times to him, but the fellow +would not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour +(of which he was full), and bid Sydney take notice of him too, when at +the very time he had letters in his pocket from the King, as it proved +afterwards. And Sydney afterwards did find it out at Copenhagen, the +Dutch Commissioners telling him how my Lord Sandwich had hired one of +their ships to carry back Whetstone to Lubeck, he being come from +Flanders from the King. But I cannot but remember my Lord's aequanimity +in all these affairs with admiration. Thence walked home, in my way +meeting Mr. Moore, with whom I took a turn or two in the street among the +drapers in Paul's Churchyard, talking of business, and so home to bed. + + + +9th. Up betimes, to my office, where all the morning. About noon Sir J. +Robinson, Lord Mayor, desiring way through the garden from the Tower, +called in at the office and there invited me (and Sir W. Pen, who +happened to be in the way) to dinner, which we did; and there had a great +Lent dinner of fish, little flesh. And thence he and I in his coach, +against my will (for I am resolved to shun too great fellowship with him) +to White Hall, but came too late, the Duke having been with our fellow +officers before we came, for which I was sorry. Thence he and I to walk +one turn in the Park, and so home by coach, and I to my office, where +late, and so home to supper and bed. There dined with us to-day Mr. +Slingsby, of the Mint, who showed us all the new pieces both gold and +silver (examples of them all), that are made for the King, by Blondeau's' +way; and compared them with those made for Oliver. The pictures of the +latter made by Symons, and of the King by one Rotyr, a German, I think, +that dined with us also. He extolls those of Rotyr's above the others; +and, indeed, I think they are the better, because the sweeter of the two; +but, upon my word, those of the Protector are more like in my mind, than +the King's, but both very well worth seeing. The crowns of Cromwell are +now sold, it seems, for 25s. and 30s. apiece. + + + +10th. Up and to my office all the morning, and great pleasure it is to +be doing my business betimes. About noon Sir J. Minnes came to me and +staid half an hour with me in my office talking about his business with +Sir W. Pen, and (though with me an old doter) yet he told me freely how +sensible he is of Sir W. Pen's treachery in this business, and what poor +ways he has taken all along to ingratiate himself by making Mr. Turner +write out things for him and then he gives them to the Duke, and how he +directed him to give Mr. Coventry L100 for his place, but that Mr. +Coventry did give him L20 back again. All this I am pleased to hear that +his knavery is found out. Dined upon a poor Lenten dinner at home, my +wife being vexed at a fray this morning with my Lady Batten about my +boy's going thither to turn the watercock with their maydes' leave, but +my Lady was mighty high upon it and she would teach his mistress better +manners, which my wife answered aloud that she might hear, that she could +learn little manners of her. After dinner to my office, and there we sat +all the afternoon till 8 at night, and so wrote my letters by the post +and so before 9 home, which is rare with me of late, I staying longer, +but with multitude of business my head akes, and so I can stay no longer, +but home to supper and to bed. + + + +11th. Up betimes, and to my office, walked a little in the garden with +Sir W. Batten, talking about the difference between his Lady and my wife +yesterday, and I doubt my wife is to blame. About noon had news by Mr. +Wood that Butler, our chief witness against Field, was sent by him to New +England contrary to our desire, which made me mad almost; and so Sir J. +Minnes, Sir W. Pen, and I dined together at Trinity House, and thither +sent for him to us and told him our minds, which he seemed not to value +much, but went away. I wrote and sent an express to Walthamstow to Sir +W. Pen, who is gone thither this morning, to tell him of it. However, in +the afternoon Wood sends us word that he has appointed another to go, who +shall overtake the ship in the Downes. So I was late at the office, +among other things writing to the Downes, to the Commander-in-Chief, and +putting things into the surest course I could to help the business. So +home and to bed. + + + +12th. Up betimes and to my office all the morning with Captain Cocke +ending their account of their Riga contract for hemp. So home to dinner, +my head full of business against the office. After dinner comes my uncle +Thomas with a letter to my father, wherein, as we desire, he and his son +do order their tenants to pay their rents to us, which pleases me well. +In discourse he tells me my uncle Wight thinks much that I do never see +them, and they have reason, but I do apprehend that they have been too +far concerned with my uncle Thomas against us, so that I have had no mind +hitherto, but now I shall go see them. He being gone, I to the office, +where at the choice of maisters and chyrurgeons for the fleet now going +out, I did my business as I could wish, both for the persons I had a mind +to serve, and in getting the warrants signed drawn by my clerks, which I +was afeard of. Sat late, and having done I went home, where I found Mary +Ashwell come to live with us, of whom I hope well, and pray God she may +please us, which, though it cost me something, yet will give me much +content. So to supper and to bed, and find by her discourse and carriage +to-night that she is not proud, but will do what she is bid, but for want +of being abroad knows not how to give the respect to her mistress, as she +will do when she is told it, she having been used only to little +children, and there was a kind of a mistress over them. Troubled all +night with my cold, I being quite hoarse with it that I could not speak +to be heard at all almost. + + + +13th. Up pretty early and to my office all the morning busy. At noon +home to dinner expecting Ashwell's father, who was here in the morning +and promised to come but he did not, but there came in Captain Grove, and +I found him to be a very stout man, at least in his discourse he would be +thought so, and I do think that he is, and one that bears me great +respect and deserves to be encouraged for his care in all business. +Abroad by water with my wife and Ashwell, and left them at Mr. Pierce's, +and I to Whitehall and St. James's Park (there being no Commission for +Tangier sitting to-day as I looked for) where I walked an hour or two +with great pleasure, it being a most pleasant day. So to Mrs. Hunt's, +and there found my wife, and so took them up by coach, and carried them +to Hide Park, where store of coaches and good faces. Here till night, +and so home and to my office to write by the post, and so to supper and +to bed. + + + +14th. Up betimes and to my office, where we sat all the morning, and a +great rant I did give to Mr. Davis, of Deptford, and others about their +usage of Michell, in his Bewpers,--[Bewpers is the old name for +bunting.]--which he serves in for flaggs, which did trouble me, but yet +it was in defence of what was truth. So home to dinner, where Creed +dined with me, and walked a good while in the garden with me after +dinner, talking, among other things, of the poor service which Sir J. +Lawson did really do in the Streights, for which all this great fame and +honour done him is risen. So to my office, where all the afternoon +giving maisters their warrants for this voyage, for which I hope +hereafter to get something at their coming home. In the evening my wife +and I and Ashwell walked in the garden, and I find she is a pretty +ingenuous + + [For ingenious. The distinction of the two words ingenious and + ingenuous by which the former indicates mental, and the second moral + qualities, was not made in Pepys's day.] + +girl at all sorts of fine work, which pleases me very well, and I hope +will be very good entertainment for my wife without much cost. So to +write by the post, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +15th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife and her woman Ashwell the first +time to church, where our pew was so full with Sir J. Minnes's sister and +her daughter, that I perceive, when we come all together, some of us must +be shut out, but I suppose we shall come to some order what to do +therein. Dined at home, and to church again in the afternoon, and so +home, and I to my office till the evening doing one thing or other and +reading my vows as I am bound every Lord's day, and so home to supper and +talk, and Ashwell is such good company that I think we shall be very +lucky in her. So to prayers and to bed. This day the weather, which of +late has been very hot and fair, turns very wet and cold, and all the +church time this afternoon it thundered mightily, which I have not heard +a great while. + + + +16th. Up very betimes and to my office, where, with several Masters of +the King's ships, Sir J. Minnes and I advising upon the business of +Slopps, wherein the seaman is so much abused by the Pursers, and that +being done, then I home to dinner, and so carried my wife to her +mother's, set her down and Ashwell to my Lord's lodging, there left her, +and I to the Duke, where we met of course, and talked of our Navy +matters. Then to the Commission of Tangier, and there, among other +things, had my Lord Peterborough's Commission read over; and Mr. +Secretary Bennet did make his querys upon it, in order to the drawing one +for my Lord Rutherford more regularly, that being a very extravagant +thing. Here long discoursing upon my Lord Rutherford's despatch, and so +broke up, and so going out of the Court I met with Mr. Coventry, and so +he and I walked half an hour in the long Stone Gallery, where we +discoursed of many things, among others how the Treasurer doth intend to +come to pay in course, which is the thing of the world that will do the +King the greatest service in the Navy, and which joys my heart to hear +of. He tells me of the business of Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen, which I +knew before, but took no notice or little that I did know it. But he +told me it was chiefly to make Mr. Pett's being joyned with Sir W. Batten +to go down the better, and do tell me how he well sees that neither one +nor the other can do their duties without help. But however will let it +fall at present without doing more in it to see whether they will do +their duties themselves, which he will see, and saith they do not. We +discoursed of many other things to my great content and so parted, and I +to my wife at my Lord's lodgings, where I heard Ashwell play first upon +the harpsicon, and I find she do play pretty well, which pleaseth me very +well. Thence home by coach, buying at the Temple the printed virginal- +book for her, and so home and to my office a while, and so home and to +supper and to bed. + + + +17th. Up betimes and to my office a while, and then home and to Sir W. +Batten, with whom by coach to St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, where the +judge of the Admiralty came, and the rest of the Doctors of the Civill +law, and some other Commissioners, whose Commission of Oyer and Terminer +was read, and then the charge, given by Dr. Exton, which methought was +somewhat dull, though he would seem to intend it to be very rhetoricall, +saying that justice had two wings, one of which spread itself over the +land, and the other over the water, which was this Admiralty Court. That +being done, and the jury called, they broke up, and to dinner to a tavern +hard by, where a great dinner, and I with them; but I perceive that this +Court is yet but in its infancy (as to its rising again), and their +design and consultation was, I could overhear them, how to proceed with +the most solemnity, and spend time, there being only two businesses to +do, which of themselves could not spend much time. In the afternoon to +the court again, where, first, Abraham, the boatswain of the King's +pleasure boat, was tried for drowning a man; and next, Turpin, accused by +our wicked rogue Field, for stealing the King's timber; but after full +examination, they were both acquitted, and as I was glad of the first, +for the saving the man's life, so I did take the other as a very good +fortune to us; for if Turpin had been found guilty, it would have sounded +very ill in the ears of all the world, in the business between Field and +us. So home with my mind at very great ease, over the water to the +Tower, and thence, there being nobody at the office, we being absent, +and so no office could be kept. Sir W. Batten and I to my Lord Mayor's, +where we found my Lord with Colonel Strangways and Sir Richard Floyd, +Parliament-men, in the cellar drinking, where we sat with them, and then +up; and by and by comes in Sir Richard Ford. In our drinking, which was +always going, we had many discourses, but from all of them I do find Sir +R. Ford a very able man of his brains and tongue, and a scholler. But my +Lord Mayor I find to be a talking, bragging Bufflehead, a fellow that +would be thought to have led all the City in the great business of +bringing in the King, and that nobody understood his plots, and the dark +lanthorn he walked by; but led them and plowed with them as oxen and +asses (his own words) to do what he had a mind when in every discourse +I observe him to be as very a coxcomb as I could have thought had been in +the City. But he is resolved to do great matters in pulling down the +shops quite through the City, as he hath done in many places, and will +make a thorough passage quite through the City, through Canning-street, +which indeed will be very fine. And then his precept, which he, in vain- +glory, said he had drawn up himself, and hath printed it, against +coachmen and carrmen affronting of the gentry in the street; it is drawn +so like a fool, and some faults were openly found in it, that I believe +he will have so much wit as not to proceed upon it though it be printed. +Here we staid talking till eleven at night, Sir R. Ford breaking to my +Lord our business of our patent to be justices of the Peace in the City, +which he stuck at mightily; but, however, Sir R. Ford knows him to be a +fool, and so in his discourse he made him appear, and cajoled him into a +consent to it: but so as I believe when he comes to his right mind +tomorrow he will be of another opinion; and though Sir R. Ford moved it +very weightily and neatly, yet I had rather it had been spared now. But +to see how he do rant, and pretend to sway all the City in the Court of +Aldermen, and says plainly that they cannot do, nor will he suffer them +to do, any thing but what he pleases; nor is there any officer of the +City but of his putting in; nor any man that could have kept the City for +the King thus well and long but him. And if the country can be +preserved, he will undertake that the City shall not dare to stir again. +When I am confident there is no man almost in the City cares a turd for +him, nor hath he brains to outwit any ordinary tradesman. So home and +wrote a letter to Commissioner Pett to Chatham by all means to compose +the business between Major Holmes and Cooper his master, and so to bed. + + + +18th. Wake betimes and talk a while with my wife about a wench that she +has hired yesterday, which I would have enquired of before she comes, she +having lived in great families, and so up and to my office, where all the +morning, and at noon home to dinner. After dinner by water to Redriffe, +my wife and Ashwell with me, and so walked and left them at Halfway +house; I to Deptford, where up and down the store-houses, and on board +two or three ships now getting ready to go to sea, and so back, and find +my wife walking in the way. So home again, merry with our Ashwell, who +is a merry jade, and so awhile to my office, and then home to supper, and +to bed. This day my tryangle, which was put in tune yesterday, did +please me very well, Ashwell playing upon it pretty well. + + + +19th. Up betimes and to Woolwich all alone by water, where took the +officers most abed. I walked and enquired how all matters and businesses +go, and by and by to the Clerk of the Cheque's house, and there eat some +of his good Jamaica brawne, and so walked to Greenwich. Part of the way +Deane walking with me; talking of the pride and corruption of most of his +fellow officers of the yard, and which I believe to be true. So to +Deptford, where I did the same to great content, and see the people begin +to value me as they do the rest. At noon Mr. Wayth took me to his house, +where I dined, and saw his wife, a pretty woman, and had a good fish +dinner, and after dinner he and I walked to Redriffe talking of several +errors in the Navy, by which I learned a great deal, and was glad of his +company. So by water home, and by and by to the office, where we sat +till almost 9 at night. So after doing my own business in my office, +writing letters, &c., home to supper, and to bed, being weary and vexed +that I do not find other people so willing to do business as myself, when +I have taken pains to find out what in the yards is wanting and fitting +to be done. + + + +20th. Up betimes and over the water, and walked to Deptford, where up +and down the yarde, and met the two clerks of the Cheques to conclude by +our method their callbooks, which we have done to great perfection, and +so walked home again, where I found my wife in great pain abed . . . . +--[Nearly every month Pepy's documents his wife's menstrual cramps--and +every month Mr. Wheatly's delicately censors this out. D.W.]--I staid and +dined by her, and after dinner walked forth, and by water to the Temple, +and in Fleet Street bought me a little sword, with gilt handle, cost +23s., and silk stockings to the colour of my riding cloth suit, cost I +5s., and bought me a belt there too, cost 15s., and so calling at my +brother's I find he has got a new maid, very likely girl, I wish he do +not play the fool with her. Thence homewards, and meeting with Mr. +Kirton's kinsman in Paul's Church Yard, he and I to a coffee-house; where +I hear how there had like to have been a surprizall of Dublin by some +discontented protestants, and other things of like nature; and it seems +the Commissioners have carried themselves so high for the Papists that +the others will not endure it. Hewlett and some others are taken and +clapped up; and they say the King hath sent over to dissolve the +Parliament there, who went very high against the Commissioners. Pray God +send all well! Hence home and in comes Captain Ferrers and by and by Mr. +Bland to see the and sat talking with me till 9 or to at night, and so +good night. The Captain to bid my wife to his child's christening. So +my wife being pretty well again and Ashwell there we spent the evening +pleasantly, and so to bed. + + + +21st. Up betimes and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at +noon, after a very little dinner, to it again, and by and by, by +appointment, our full board met, and Sir Philip Warwick and Sir Robert +Long came from my Lord Treasurer to speak with us about the state of the +debts of the Navy; and how to settle it, so as to begin upon the new +foundation of L200,000 per annum, which the King is now resolved not to +exceed. This discourse done, and things put in a way of doing, they went +away, and Captain Holmes being called in he began his high complaint +against his Master Cooper, and would have him forthwith discharged. +Which I opposed, not in his defence but for the justice of proceeding not +to condemn a man unheard, upon [which] we fell from one word to another +that we came to very high terms, such as troubled me, though all and the +worst that I ever said was that that was insolently or ill mannerdly +spoken. When he told me that it was well it was here that I said it. +But all the officers, Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and +Sir W. Pen cried shame of it. At last he parted and we resolved to bring +the dispute between him and his Master to a trial next week, wherein I +shall not at all concern myself in defence of any thing that is +unhandsome on the Master's part nor willingly suffer him to have any +wrong. So we rose and I to my office, troubled though sensible that all +the officers are of opinion that he has carried himself very much +unbecoming him. So wrote letters by the post, and home to supper and to +bed. + + + +22d (Lord's day). Up betimes and in my office wrote out our bill for the +Parliament about our being made justices of Peace in the City. So home +and to church, where a dull formall fellow that prayed for the Right Hon. +John Lord Barkeley, Lord President of Connaught, &c. So home to dinner, +and after dinner my wife and I and her woman by coach to Westminster, +where being come too soon for the Christening we took up Mr. Creed and +went out to take some ayre, as far as Chelsey and further, I lighting +there and letting them go on with the coach while I went to the church +expecting to see the young ladies of the school, Ashwell desiring me, but +I could not get in far enough, and so came out and at the coach's coming +back went in again and so back to Westminster, and led my wife and her to +Captain Ferrers, and I to my Lord Sandwich, and with him talking a good +while; I find the Court would have this Indulgence go on, but the +Parliament are against it. Matters in Ireland are full of discontent. +Thence with Mr. Creed to Captain Ferrers, where many fine ladies; the +house well and prettily furnished. She [Mrs. Ferrers] lies in, in great +state, Mr. G. Montagu, Collonel Williams, Cromwell that was, + + [Colonel Williams--"Cromwell that was"--appears to have been Henry + Cromwell, grandson of Sir Oliver Cromwell, and first cousin, once + removed, to the Protector. He was seated at Bodsey House, in the + parish of Ramsey, which had been his father's residence, and held + the commission of a colonel. He served in several Parliaments for + Huntingdonshire, voting, in 1660, for the restoration of the + monarchy; and as he knew the name of Cromwell would not be grateful + to the Court, he disused it, and assumed that of Williams, which had + belonged to his ancestors; and he is so styled in a list of knights + of the proposed Order of the Royal Oak. He died at Huntingdon, 3rd + August, 1673. (Abridged from Noble's "Memoirs of the Cromwells," + vol. i., p. 70.)--B.] + +and Mrs. Wright as proxy for my Lady Jemimah, were witnesses. Very +pretty and plentiful entertainment, could not get away till nine at +night, and so home. My coach cost me 7s. So to prayers, and to bed. +This day though I was merry enough yet I could not get yesterday's +quarrel out of my mind, and a natural fear of being challenged by Holmes +for the words I did give him, though nothing but what did become me as a +principal officer. + + + +23rd. Up betimes and to my office, before noon my wife and I eat +something, thinking to have gone abroad together, but in comes Mr. Hunt, +who we were forced to stay to dinner, and so while that was got ready he +and I abroad about 2 or 3 small businesses of mine, and so back to +dinner, and after dinner he went away, and my wife and I and Ashwell by +coach, set my wife down at her mother's and Ashwell at my Lord's, she +going to see her father and mother, and I to Whitehall, being fearful +almost, so poor a spirit I have, of meeting Major Holmes. By and by the +Duke comes, and we with him about our usual business, and then the +Committee for Tangier, where, after reading my Lord Rutherford's +commission and consented to, Sir R. Ford, Sir W. Rider, and I were chosen +to bring in some laws for the Civill government of it, which I am little +able to do, but am glad to be joyned with them, for I shall learn +something of them. Thence to see my Lord Sandwich, and who should I meet +at the door but Major Holmes. He would have gone away, but I told him I +would not spoil his visitt, and would have gone, but however we fell to +discourse and he did as good as desire excuse for the high words that did +pass in his heat the other day, which I was willing enough to close with, +and after telling him my mind we parted, and I left him to speak with my +Lord, and I by coach home, where I found Will. Howe come home to-day with +my wife, and staid with us all night, staying late up singing songs, and +then he and I to bed together in Ashwell's bed and she with my wife. +This the first time that I ever lay in the room. This day Greatorex +brought me a very pretty weather-glass for heat and cold. + + [The thermometer was invented in the sixteenth century, but it is + disputed who the inventor was. The claims of Santorio are supported + by Borelli and Malpighi, while the title of Cornelius Drebbel is + considered undoubted by Boerhaave. Galileo's air thermometer, made + before 1597, was the foundation of accurate thermometry. Galileo + also invented the alcohol thermometer about 1611 or 1612. Spirit + thermometers were made for the Accademia del Cimento, and described + in the Memoirs of that academy. When the academy was dissolved by + order of the Pope, some of these thermometers were packed away in a + box, and were not discovered until early in the nineteenth century. + Robert Hooke describes the manufacture and graduation of + thermometers in his "Micrographia" (1665).] + + + +24th. Lay pretty long, that is, till past six o'clock, and them up and +W. Howe and I very merry together, till having eat our breakfast, he went +away, and I to my office. By and by Sir J. Minnes and I to the +Victualling Office by appointment to meet several persons upon stating +the demands of some people of money from the King. Here we went into +their Bakehouse, and saw all the ovens at work, and good bread too, as +ever I would desire to eat. Thence Sir J. Minnes and I homewards calling +at Browne's, the mathematician in the Minnerys, with a design of buying +White's ruler to measure timber with, but could not agree on the price. +So home, and to dinner, and so to my office, where we sat anon, and among +other things had Cooper's business tried against Captain Holmes, but I +find Cooper a fuddling, troublesome fellow, though a good artist, and so +am contented to have him turned out of his place, nor did I see reason to +say one word against it, though I know what they did against him was with +great envy and pride. So anon broke up, and after writing letters, &c., +home to supper and to bed. + + + +25th (Lady-day). Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning, at +noon dined and to the Exchange, and thence to the Sun Tavern, to my Lord +Rutherford, and dined with him, and some others, his officers, and Scotch +gentlemen, of fine discourse and education. My Lord used me with great +respect, and discoursed upon his business as with one that he did esteem +of, and indeed I do believe that this garrison is likely to come to +something under him. By and by he went away, forgetting to take leave of +me, my back being turned, looking upon the aviary, which is there very +pretty, and the birds begin to sing well this spring. Thence home and to +my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler +that I bought this morning of Browne concerning the lyne of numbers, in +which I find much pleasure. This evening came Captain Grove about hiring +ships for Tangier. I did hint to him my desire that I could make some +lawfull profit thereof, which he promises that he will tell me of all +that he gets and that I shall have a share, which I did not demand, but +did silently consent to it, and money I perceive something will be got +thereby. At night Mr. Bland came and sat with me at my office till late, +and so I home and to bed. This day being washing day and my maid Susan +ill, or would be thought so, put my house so out of order that we had no +pleasure almost in anything, my wife being troubled thereat for want of a +good cook-maid, and moreover I cannot have my dinner as I ought in memory +of my being cut for the stone, but I must have it a day or two hence. + + + +26th. Up betimes and to my office, leaving my wife in bed to take her +physique, myself also not being out of some pain to-day by some cold that +I have got by the sudden change of the weather from hot to cold. This +day is five years since it pleased God to preserve me at my being cut of +the stone, of which I bless God I am in all respects well. Only now and +then upon taking cold I have some pain, but otherwise in very good health +always. But I could not get my feast to be kept to-day as it used to be, +because of my wife's being ill and other disorders by my servants being +out of order. This morning came a new cook-maid at L4 per annum, the +first time I ever did give so much, but we hope it will be nothing lost +by keeping a good cook. She did live last at my Lord Monk's house, and +indeed at dinner did get what there was very prettily ready and neat for +me, which did please me much. This morning my uncle Thomas was with me +according to agreement, and I paid him the L50, which was against my +heart to part with, and yet I must be contented; I used him very kindly, +and I desire to continue so voyd of any discontent as to my estate, that +I may follow my business the better. At the Change I met him again, with +intent to have met with my uncle Wight to have made peace with him, with +whom by my long absence I fear I shall have a difference, but he was not +there, so we missed. All the afternoon sat at the office about business +till 9 or 10 at night, and so dispatch business and home to supper and to +bed. My maid Susan went away to-day, I giving her something for her +lodging and diet somewhere else a while that I might have room for my new +maid. + + + +27th. Up betimes and at my office all the morning, at noon to the +Exchange, and there by appointment met my uncles Thomas and Wight, and +from thence with them to a tavern, and there paid my uncle Wight three +pieces of gold for himself, my aunt, and their son that is dead, left by +my uncle Robert, and read over our agreement with my uncle Thomas and the +state of our debts and legacies, and so good friendship I think is made +up between us all, only we have the worst of it in having so much money +to pay. Thence I to the Exchequer again, and thence with Creed into +Fleet Street, and calling at several places about business; in passing, +at the Hercules pillars he and I dined though late, and thence with one +that we found there, a friend of Captain Ferrers I used to meet at the +playhouse, they would have gone to some gameing house, but I would not +but parted, and staying a little in Paul's Churchyard, at the foreign +Bookseller's looking over some Spanish books, and with much ado keeping +myself from laying out money there, as also with them, being willing +enough to have gone to some idle house with them, I got home, and after a +while at my office, to supper, and to bed. + + + +28th. Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning. Dined at home +and Creed with me, and though a very cold day and high wind, yet I took +him by land to Deptford, my common walk, where I did some little +businesses, and so home again walking both forwards and backwards, +as much along the street as we could to save going by water. So home, +and after being a little while hearing Ashwell play on the tryangle, to +my office, and there late, writing a chiding letter--to my poor father +about his being so unwilling to come to an account with me, which I +desire he might do, that I may know what he spends, and how to order the +estate so as to pay debts and legacys as far as may be. So late home to +supper and to bed. + + + +29th (Lord's day). Waked as I used to do betimes, but being Sunday and +very cold I lay long, it raining and snowing very hard, which I did never +think it would have done any more this year. Up and to church, home to +dinner. After dinner in comes Mr. Moore, and sat and talked with us a +good while; among other things telling me, that [neither] my Lord nor he +are under apprehensions of the late discourse in the House of Commons, +concerning resumption of Crowne lands, which I am very glad of. He being +gone, up to my chamber, where my wife and Ashwell and I all the afternoon +talking and laughing, and by and by I a while to my office, reading over +some papers which I found in my man William's chest of drawers, among +others some old precedents concerning the practice of this office +heretofore, which I am glad to find and shall make use of, among others +an oath, which the Principal Officers were bound to swear at their +entrance into their offices, which I would be glad were in use still. So +home and fell hard to make up my monthly accounts, letting my family go +to bed after prayers. I staid up long, and find myself, as I think, +fully worth L670. So with good comfort to bed, finding that though it be +but little, yet I do get ground every month. I pray God it may continue +so with me. + + + +30th. Up betimes and found my weather-glass sunk again just to the same +position which it was last night before I had any fire made in my +chamber, which had made it rise in two hours time above half a degree. +So to my office where all the morning and at the Glass-house, and after +dinner by coach with Sir W. Pen I carried my wife and her woman to +Westminster, they to visit Mrs. Ferrers and Clerke, we to the Duke, where +we did our usual business, and afterwards to the Tangier Committee, where +among other things we all of us sealed and signed the Contract for +building the Mole with my Lord Tiviott, Sir J. Lawson, and Mr. Cholmeley. +A thing I did with a very ill will, because a thing which I did not at +all understand, nor any or few of the whole board. We did also read over +the propositions for the Civill government and Law Merchant of the town, +as they were agreed on this morning at the Glasshouse by Sir R. Ford and +Sir W. Rider, who drew them, Mr. Povy and myself as a Committee appointed +to prepare them, which were in substance but not in the manner of +executing them independent wholly upon the Governor consenting to. +Thence to see my Lord Sandwich, who I found very merry and every day +better and better. So to my wife, who waited my coming at my Lord's +lodgings, and took her up and by coach home, where no sooner come but to +bed, finding myself just in the same condition I was lately by the +extreme cold weather, my pores stopt and so my body all inflamed and +itching. So keeping myself warm and provoking myself to a moderate +sweat, and so somewhat better in the morning, + + + +31st. And to that purpose I lay long talking with my wife about my +father's coming, which I expect to-day, coming up with the horses brought +up for my Lord. Up and to my office, where doing business all the +morning, and at Sir W. Batten's, whither Mr. Gauden and many others came +to us about business. Then home to dinner, where W. Joyce came, and he +still a talking impertinent fellow. So to the office again, and hearing +by and by that Madam Clerke, Pierce, and others were come to see my wife +I stepped in and staid a little with them, and so to the office again, +where late, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + APRIL + 1663 + + +April 1st. Up betimes and abroad to my brother's, but he being gone out +I went to the Temple to my Cozen Roger Pepys, to see and talk with him a +little; who tells me that, with much ado, the Parliament do agree to +throw down Popery; but he says it is with so much spite and passion, and +an endeavour of bringing all Non-conformists into the same condition, +that he is afeard matters will not yet go so well as he could wish. +Thence back to my brother's, in my way meeting Mr. Moore and talking with +him about getting me some money, and calling at my brother's they tell me +that my brother is still abroad, and that my father is not yet up. At +which I wondered, not thinking that he was come, though I expected him, +because I looked for him at my house. So I up to his bedside and staid +an hour or two talking with him. Among other things he tells me how +unquiett my mother is grown, that he is not able to live almost with her, +if it were not for Pall. All other matters are as well as upon so hard +conditions with my uncle Thomas we can expect them. I left him in bed, +being very weary, to come to my house to-night or tomorrow, when he +pleases, and so I home, calling on the virginall maker, buying a rest for +myself to tune my tryangle, and taking one of his people along with me to +put it in tune once more, by which I learned how to go about it myself +for the time to come. So to dinner, my wife being lazily in bed all this +morning. Ashwell and I dined below together, and a pretty girl she is, +and I hope will give my wife and myself good content, being very humble +and active, my cook maid do also dress my meat very well and neatly. So +to my office all the afternoon till night, and then home, calling at Sir +W. Batten's, where was Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen, I telling them how +by my letter this day from Commissioner Pett I hear that his Stempeese + + [Stemples, cross pieces which are put into a frame of woodwork to + cure and strengthen a shaft.] + +he undertook for the new ship at Woolwich, which we have been so long, to +our shame, in looking for, do prove knotty and not fit for service. +Lord! how Sir J. Minnes, like a mad coxcomb, did swear and stamp, +swearing that Commissioner Pett hath still the old heart against the King +that ever he had, and that this was his envy against his brother that was +to build the ship, and all the damnable reproaches in the world, at which +I was ashamed, but said little; but, upon the whole, I find him still a +fool, led by the nose with stories told by Sir W. Batten, whether with or +without reason. So, vexed in my mind to see things ordered so unlike +gentlemen, or men of reason, I went home and to bed. + + + +2nd. Up by very betimes and to my office, where all the morning till +towards noon, and then by coach to Westminster Hall with Sir W. Pen, and +while he went up to the House I walked in the Hall with Mr. Pierce, the +surgeon, that I met there, talking about my business the other day with +Holmes, whom I told my mind, and did freely tell how I do depend upon my +care and diligence in my employment to bear me out against the pride of +Holmes or any man else in things that are honest, and much to that +purpose which I know he will make good use of. But he did advise me to +take as few occasions as I can of disobliging Commanders, though this is +one that every body is glad to hear that he do receive a check. By and +by the House rises and I home again with Sir W. Pen, and all the way +talking of the same business, to whom I did on purpose tell him my mind +freely, and let him see that it must be a wiser man than Holmes (in these +very words) that shall do me any hurt while I do my duty. I to remember +him of Holmes's words against Sir J. Minnes, that he was a knave, rogue, +coward, and that he will kick him and pull him by the ears, which he +remembered all of them and may have occasion to do it hereafter to his +owne shame to suffer them to be spoke in his presence without any reply +but what I did give him, which, has caused all this feud. But I am glad +of it, for I would now and then take occasion to let the world know that +I will not be made a novice. Sir W. Pen took occasion to speak about my +wife's strangeness to him and his daughter, and that believing at last +that it was from his taking of Sarah to be his maid, he hath now put her +away, at which I am glad. He told me, that this day the King hath sent +to the House his concurrence wholly with them against the Popish priests, +Jesuits, &c., which gives great content, and I am glad of it. So home, +whither my father comes and dines with us, and being willing to be merry +with him I made myself so as much as I could, and so to the office, where +we sat all the afternoon, and at night having done all my business I went +home to my wife and father, and supped, and so to bed, my father lying +with me in Ashwell's bed in the red chamber. + + + +3rd. Waked betimes and talked half an hour with my father, and so I rose +and to my office, and about 9 o'clock by water from the Old Swan to White +Hall and to chappell, which being most monstrous full, I could not go +into my pew, but sat among the quire. Dr. Creeton, the Scotchman, +preached a most admirable, good, learned, honest and most severe sermon, +yet comicall, upon the words of the woman concerning the Virgin, "Blessed +is the womb that bare thee (meaning Christ) and the paps that gave thee +suck; and he answered, Nay; rather is he blessed that heareth the word of +God, and keepeth it." He railed bitterly ever and anon against John +Calvin, and his brood, the Presbyterians, and against the present term, +now in use, of "tender consciences." He ripped up Hugh Peters (calling +him the execrable skellum--[A villain or scoundrel; the cant term for a +thief.]--), his preaching and stirring up the maids of the city to bring +in their bodkins and thimbles. Thence going out of White Hall, I met +Captain Grove, who did give me a letter directed to myself from himself. +I discerned money to be in it, and took it, knowing, as I found it to be, +the proceed of the place I have got him to be, the taking up of vessels +for Tangier. But I did not open it till I came home to my office, and +there I broke it open, not looking into it till all the money was out, +that I might say I saw no money in the paper, if ever I should be +questioned about it. There was a piece in gold and L4 in silver. So +home to dinner with my father and wife, and after dinner up to my +tryangle, where I found that above my expectation Ashwell has very good +principles of musique and can take out a lesson herself with very little +pains, at which I am very glad. Thence away back again by water to +Whitehall, and there to the Tangier Committee, where we find ourselves at +a great stand; the establishment being but L70,000 per annum, and the +forces to be kept in the town at the least estimate that my Lord +Rutherford can be got to bring it is L53,000. The charge of this year's +work of the Mole will be L13,000; besides L1000 a-year to my Lord +Peterborough as a pension, and the fortifications and contingencys, which +puts us to a great stand, and so unsettled what to do therein we rose, +and I to see my Lord Sandwich, whom I found merry at cards, and so by +coach home, and after supper a little to my office and so home and to +bed. I find at Court that there is some bad news from Ireland of an +insurrection of the Catholiques there, which puts them into an alarm. +I hear also in the City that for certain there is an embargo upon all our +ships in Spayne, upon this action of my Lord Windsor's at Cuba, which +signifies little or nothing, but only he hath a mind to say that he hath +done something before he comes back again. Late tonight I sent to invite +my uncle Wight and aunt with Mrs. Turner to-morrow. + + + +4th. Up betimes and to my office. By and by to Lombard street by +appointment to meet Mr. Moore, but the business not being ready I +returned to the office, where we sat a while, and, being sent for, +I returned to him and there signed to some papers in the conveying of +some lands mortgaged by Sir Rob. Parkhurst in my name to my Lord +Sandwich, which I having done I returned home to dinner, whither by and +by comes Roger Pepys, Mrs. Turner her daughter, Joyce Norton, and a young +lady, a daughter of Coll. Cockes, my uncle Wight, his wife and Mrs. Anne +Wight. This being my feast, in lieu of what I should have had a few days +ago for my cutting of the stone, for which the Lord make me truly +thankful. Very merry at, before, and after dinner, and the more for that +my dinner was great, and most neatly dressed by our own only maid. We +had a fricasee of rabbits and chickens, a leg of mutton boiled, three +carps in a dish, a great dish of a side of lamb, a dish of roasted +pigeons, a dish of four lobsters, three tarts, a lamprey pie (a most rare +pie), a dish of anchovies, good wine of several sorts, and all things +mighty noble and to my great content. After dinner to Hide Park; my +aunt, Mrs. Wight and I in one coach, and all the rest of the women in +Mrs. Turner's; Roger being gone in haste to the Parliament about the +carrying this business of the Papists, in which it seems there is great +contest on both sides, and my uncle and father staying together behind. +At the Park was the King, and in another coach my Lady Castlemaine, they +greeting one another at every tour. + + [The company drove round and round the Ring in Hyde Park. The + following two extracts illustrate this, and the, second one shows + how the circuit was called the Tour: "Here (1697) the people of + fashion take the diversion of the Ring. In a pretty high place, + which lies very open, they have surrounded a circumference of two or + three hundred paces diameter with a sorry kind of balustrade, or + rather with postes placed upon stakes but three feet from the + ground; and the coaches drive round this. When they have turned for + some time round one way they face about and turn t'other: so rowls + the world!"--Wilson's Memoirs, 1719, p. 126.] + + ["It is in this Park where the Grand Tour or Ring is kept for the + Ladies to take the air in their coaches, and in fine weather I have + seen above three hundred at a time."--[Macky's] Journey through + England, 1724, vol. i., p. 75.] + +Here about an hour, and so leaving all by the way we home and found the +house as clean as if nothing had been done there to-day from top to +bottom, which made us give the cook 12d. a piece, each of us. So to my +office about writing letters by the post, one to my brother John at +Brampton telling him (hoping to work a good effect by it upon my mother) +how melancholy my father is, and bidding him use all means to get my +mother to live peaceably and quietly, which I am sure she neither do nor +I fear can ever do, but frightening her with his coming down no more, and +the danger of her condition if he should die I trust may do good. So +home and to bed. + + + +5th (Lord's day). Up and spent the morning, till the Barber came, in +reading in my chamber part of Osborne's Advice to his Son (which I shall +not never enough admire for sense and language), and being by and by +trimmed, to Church, myself, wife, Ashwell, &c. Home to dinner, it +raining, while that was prepared to my office to read over my vows with +great affection and to very good purpose. So to dinner, and very well +pleased with it. Then to church again, where a simple bawling young Scot +preached. So home to my office alone till dark, reading some papers of +my old navy precedents, and so home to supper, and, after some pleasant +talk, my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed. + + + +6th. Up very betimes and to my office, and there made an end of reading +my book that I have of Mr. Barlow's of the Journal of the Commissioners +of the Navy, who begun to act in the year 1628 and continued six years, +wherein is fine observations and precedents out of which I do purpose to +make a good collection. By and by, much against my will, being twice +sent for, to Sir G. Carteret's to pass his accounts there, upon which Sir +J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and myself all the morning, and +again after dinner to it, being vexed at my heart to see a thing of that +importance done so slightly and with that neglect for which God pardon +us, and I would I could mend it. Thence leaving them I made an excuse +and away home, and took my wife by coach and left her at Madam Clerk's, +to make a visit there, and I to the Committee of Tangier, where I found, +to my great joy, my Lord Sandwich, the first time I have seen him abroad +these some months, and by and by he rose and took leave, being, it seems, +this night to go to Kensington or Chelsey, where he hath taken a lodging +for a while to take the ayre. We staid, and after business done I got +Mr. Coventry into the Matted Gallery and told him my whole mind +concerning matters of our office, all my discontent to see things of so +great trust carried so neglectfully, and what pitiful service the +Controller and Surveyor make of their duties, and I disburdened my mind +wholly to him and he to me his own, many things, telling me that he is +much discouraged by seeing things not to grow better and better as he did +well hope they would have done. Upon the whole, after a full hour's +private discourse, telling one another our minds, we with great content +parted, and with very great satisfaction for my [having] thus cleared my +conscience, went to Dr. Clerk's and thence fetched my wife, and by coach +home. To my office a little to set things in order, and so home to +supper and to bed. + + + +7th. Up very betimes, and angry with Will that he made no more haste +to rise after I called him. So to my office, and all the morning there. +At noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife had +been with Ashwell to La Roche's to have her tooth drawn, which it seems +aches much, but my wife could not get her to be contented to have it +drawn after the first twich, but would let it alone, and so they came +home with it undone, which made my wife and me good sport. After dinner +to the office, where Sir J. Minnes did make a great complaint to me +alone, how my clerk Mr. Hater had entered in one of the Sea books a +ticket to have been signed by him before it had been examined, which +makes the old fool mad almost, though there was upon enquiry the greatest +reason in the world for it. Which though it vexes me, yet it is most to +see from day to day what a coxcomb he is, and that so great a trust +should lie in the hands of such a fool. We sat all the afternoon, and I +late at my office, it being post night, and so home to supper, my father +being come again to my house, and after supper to bed, and after some +talk to sleep. + + + +8th. Up betimes and to my office, and by and by, about 8 o'clock, to the +Temple to Commissioner Pett lately come to town and discoursed about the +affairs of our office, how ill they go through the corruption and folly +of Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes. Thence by water to White Hall, to +chappell; where preached Dr. Pierce, the famous man that preached the +sermon so much cried up, before the King against the Papists. His matter +was the Devil tempting our Saviour, being carried into the Wilderness by +the spirit. And he hath as much of natural eloquence as most men that +ever I heard in my life, mixed with so much learning. After sermon I +went up and saw the ceremony of the Bishop of Peterborough's paying +homage upon the knee to the King, while Sir H. Bennet, Secretary, read +the King's grant of the Bishopric of Lincoln, to which he is translated. +His name is Dr. Lany. Here I also saw the Duke of Monmouth, with his +Order of the Garter, the first time I ever saw it. I am told that the +University of Cambridge did treat him a little while since with all the +honour possible, with a comedy at Trinity College, and banquet; and made +him Master of Arts there. All which, they say, the King took very well. +Dr. Raynbow, Master of Magdalen, being now Vice-Chancellor. Home by +water to dinner, and with my father, wife, and Ashwell, after dinner, by +water towards Woolwich, and in our way I bethought myself that we had +left our poor little dog that followed us out of doors at the waterside, +and God knows whether he be not lost, which did not only strike my wife +into a great passion but I must confess myself also; more than was +becoming me. We immediately returned, I taking another boat and with my +father went to Woolwich, while they went back to find the dog. I took my +father on board the King's pleasure boat and down to Woolwich, and walked +to Greenwich thence and turning into the park to show my father the steps +up the hill, we found my wife, her woman, and dog attending us, which +made us all merry again, and so took boats, they to Deptford and so by +land to Half-way house, I into the King's yard and overlook them there, +and eat and drank with them, and saw a company of seamen play drolly at +our pence, and so home by water. I a little at the office, and so home +to supper and to bed, after having Ashwell play my father and me a lesson +upon her Tryangle. + + + +9th. Up betimes and to my office, and anon we met upon finishing the +Treasurer's accounts. At noon dined at home and am vexed to hear my wife +tell me how our maid Mary do endeavour to corrupt our cook maid, which +did please me very well, but I am resolved to rid the house of her as +soon as I can. To the office and sat all the afternoon till 9 at night, +and an hour after home to supper and bed. My father lying at Tom's +to-night, he dining with my uncle Fenner and his sons and a great many +more of the gang at his own cost to-day. To bed vexed also to think of +Sir J. Minnes finding fault with Mr. Hater for what he had done the other +day, though there be no hurt in the thing at all but only the old fool's +jealousy, made worse by Sir W. Batten. + + + +10th. Up very betimes and to my office, where most hard at business +alone all the morning. At noon to the Exchange, where I hear that after +great expectation from Ireland, and long stop of letters, there is good +news come, that all is quiett after our great noise of troubles there, +though some stir hath been as was reported. Off the Exchange with Sir +J. Cutler and Mr. Grant to the Royall Oak Tavern, in Lumbard Street, +where Alexander Broome the poet was, a merry and witty man, I believe, +if he be not a little conceited, and here drank a sort of French wine, +called Ho Bryan, + + [Haut Brion, a claret; one of the first growths of the red wines of + Medoc.] + +that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with. Home +to dinner, and then by water abroad to Whitehall, my wife to see Mrs. +Ferrers, I to Whitehall and the Park, doing no business. Then to my +Lord's lodgings, met my wife, and walked to the New Exchange. There laid +out 10s. upon pendents and painted leather gloves, very pretty and all +the mode. So by coach home and to my office till late, and so to supper +and to bed. + + + +11th. Up betimes and to my office, where we sat also all the morning +till noon, and then home to dinner, my father being there but not very +well. After dinner in comes Captain Lambert of the Norwich, this day +come from Tangier, whom I am glad to see. There came also with him +Captain Wager, and afterwards in came Captain Allen to see me, of the +Resolution. All staid a pretty while, and so away, and I a while to my +office, then abroad into the street with my father, and left him to go to +see my aunt Wight and uncle, intending to lie at Tom's to-night, or my +cozen Scott's, where it seems he has hitherto lain and is most kindly +used there. So I home and to my office very late making up my Lord's +navy accounts, wherein I find him to stand debtor L1200. So home to +supper and to bed. + + + +12th (Lord's day). Lay till 8 o'clock, which I have not done a great +while, then up and to church, where I found our pew altered by taking +some of the hind pew to make ours bigger, because of the number of women, +more by Sir J. Minnes company than we used to have. Home to dinner, and +after dinner, intending to go to Chelsey to my Lord Sandwich, my wife +would needs go with me, though she walked on foot to Whitehall. Which +she did and staid at my Lord's lodgings while Creed and I took a turn at +Whitehall, but no coach to be had, and so I returned to them and sat +talking till evening, and then got a coach and to Gray's Inn walks, where +some handsome faces, and so home and there to supper, and a little after +8 o'clock to bed, a thing I have not done God knows when. Coming home +to-night, a drunken boy was carrying by our constable to our new pair of +stocks to handsel them, being a new pair and very handsome. + + + +13th. Up by five o'clock and to my office, where hard at work till +towards noon, and home and eat a bit, and so going out met with Mr. Mount +my old acquaintance, and took him in and drank a glass or two of wine to +him and so parted, having not time to talk together, and I with Sir W. +Batten to the Stillyard, and there eat a lobster together, and Wyse the +King's fishmonger coming in we were very merry half an hour, and so by +water to Whitehall, and by and by being all met we went in to the Duke +and there did our business and so away, and anon to the Tangier +Committee, where we had very fine discourse from Dr. Walker and Wiseman, +civilians, against our erecting a court-merchant at Tangier, and well +answered in many things by my Lord Sandwich (whose speaking I never till +now observed so much to be very good) and Sir R. Ford. By and by the +discourse being ended, we fell to my Lord Rutherford's dispatch, which do +not please him, he being a Scott, and one resolved to scrape every penny +that he can get by any way, which the Committee will not agree to. +He took offence at something and rose away, without taking leave of the +board, which all took ill, though nothing said but only by the Duke of +Albemarle, who said that we ought to settle things as they ought to be, +and if he will not go upon these terms another man will, no doubt. +Here late, quite finishing things against his going, and so rose, and I +walked home, being accompanied by Creed to Temple Bar, talking of this +afternoon's passage, and so I called at the Wardrobe in my way home, +and there spoke at the Horn tavern with Mr. Moore a word or two, but my +business was with Mr. Townsend, who is gone this day to his country +house, about sparing Charles Pepys some money of his bills due to him +when he can, but missing him lost my labour. So walked home, finding my +wife abroad, at my aunt, Wight's, who coming home by and by, I home to +supper and to bed. + + + +14th. Up betimes to my office, where busy till 8 o'clock that Sir W. +Batten, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen and I down by barge to Woolwich, to see +"The Royal James" launched, where she has been under repair a great +while. We staid in the yard till almost noon, and then to Mr. Falconer's +to a dinner of fish of our own sending, and when it was just ready to +come upon the table, word is brought that the King and Duke are come, so +they all went away to shew themselves, while I staid and had a little +dish or two by myself, resolving to go home, and by the time I had dined +they came again, having gone to little purpose, the King, I believe, +taking little notice of them. So they to dinner, and I staid a little +with them, and so good bye. I walked to Greenwich, studying the slide +rule for measuring of timber, which is very fine. Thence to Deptford by +water, and walked through the yard, and so walked to Redriffe, and so +home pretty weary, to my office, where anon they all came home, the ship +well launched, and so sat at the office till 9 at night, and I longer +doing business at my office, and so home to supper, my father being come, +and to bed. Sir G. Carteret tells me to-night that he perceives the +Parliament is likely to make a great bustle before they will give the +King any money; will call all things into question; and, above all, the +expences of the Navy; and do enquire into the King's expences everywhere, +and into the truth of the report of people being forced to sell their +bills at 15 per cent. loss in the Navy; and, lastly, that they are in a +very angry pettish mood at present, and not likely to be better. + + + +15th. Up betimes, and after talking with my father awhile, I to my +office, and there hard at it till almost noon, and then went down the +river with Maynes, the purveyor, to show a ship's lading of Norway goods, +and called at Sir W. Warren's yard, and so home to dinner. After dinner +up with my wife and Ashwell a little to the Tryangle, and so I down to +Deptford by land about looking out a couple of catches fitted to be +speedily set forth in answer to a letter of Mr. Coventry's to me. Which +done, I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber +measure, comparing it with my new Sliding Rule brought home this morning +with great pleasure. Taking boat again I went to Shishe's yard, but he +being newly gone out towards Deptford I followed him thither again, and +there seeing him I went with him and pitched upon a couple, and so by +water home, it being late, past 8 at night, the wind cold, and I a little +weary. So home to my office, then to supper and bed. + + + +16th. Up betimes and to my office, met to pass Mr. Pitt's (anon Sir J. +Lawson's Secretary and Deputy Treasurer) accounts for the voyage last to +the Streights, wherein the demands are strangely irregular, and I dare +not oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good, but only bring a +review upon my Lord Sandwich, but God knows it troubles my heart to see +it, and to see the Comptroller, whose duty it is, to make no more matter +of it. At noon home for an hour to dinner, and so to the office public +and private till late at night, so home to supper and bed with my father. + + + +17th. Up by five o'clock as I have long done and to my office all the +morning, at noon home to dinner with my father with us. Our dinner, it +being Good Friday, was only sugarsopps and fish; the only time that we +have had a Lenten dinner all this Lent. This morning Mr. Hunt, the +instrument maker, brought me home a Basse Viall to see whether I like it, +which I do not very well, besides I am under a doubt whether I had best +buy one yet or no, because of spoiling my present mind and love to +business. After dinner my father and I walked into the city a little, +and parted and to Paul's Church Yard, to cause the title of my English +"Mare Clausum" + + [Selden's work was highly esteemed, and Charles I. made an order in + council that a copy should be kept in the Council chest, another in + the Court of Exchequer, and a third in the Court of Admiralty. The + book Pepys refers to is Nedham's translation, which was entitled, + "Of the Dominion or Ownership of the Sea. Two Books . . . , + written at first in Latin and entituled Mare Clausum, by John + Selden. Translated into English by Marchamont Nedham. London, + 1652." This has the Commonwealth arms on the title-page and a + dedication "To the Supreme Autoritie of the Nation-The Parliament of + the Commonwealth of England." The dedication to Charles I. in + Selden's original work was left out. Apparently a new title-page + and dedication was prepared in 1663, but the copy in the British + Museum, which formerly belonged to Charles Killigrew, does not + contain these additions.] + +to be changed, and the new title, dedicated to the King, to be put to it, +because I am ashamed to have the other seen dedicated to the +Commonwealth. So home and to my office till night, and so home to talk +with my father, and supper and to bed, I have not had yet one quarter of +an hour's leisure to sit down and talk with him since he came to town, +nor do I know till the holidays when I shall. + + + +18th. Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning. At noon to +dinner. With us Mr. Creed, who has been deeply engaged at the office +this day about the ending of his accounts, wherein he is most unhappy to +have to do with a company of fools who after they have signed his +accounts and made bills upon them yet dare not boldly assert to the +Treasurer that they are satisfied with his accounts. Hereupon all +dinner, and walking in the garden the afternoon, he and I talking of the +ill management of our office, which God knows is very ill for the King's +advantage. I would I could make it better. In the evening to my office, +and at night home to supper and bed. + + + +19th (Easter day). Up and this day put on my close-kneed coloured suit, +which, with new stockings of the colour, with belt, and new gilt-handled +sword, is very handsome. To church alone, and so to dinner, where my +father and brother Tom dined with us, and after dinner to church again, +my father sitting below in the chancel. After church done, where the +young Scotchman preaching I slept all the while, my father and I to see +my uncle and aunt Wight, and after a stay of an hour there my father to +my brother's and I home to supper, and after supper fell in discourse of +dancing, and I find that Ashwell hath a very fine carriage, which makes +my wife almost ashamed of herself to see herself so outdone, but +to-morrow she begins to learn to dance for a month or two. So to prayers +and to bed. Will being gone, with my leave, to his father's this day for +a day or two, to take physique these holydays. + + + +20th. Up betimes as I use to do, and in my chamber begun to look over my +father's accounts, which he brought out of the country with him by my +desire, whereby I may see what he has received and spent, and I find that +he is not anything extravagant, and yet it do so far outdo his estate +that he must either think of lessening his charge, or I must be forced to +spare money out of my purse to help him through, which I would willing do +as far as L20 goes. So to my office the remaining part of the morning +till towards noon, and then to Mr. Grant's. There saw his prints, which +he shewed me, and indeed are the best collection of any things almost +that ever I saw, there being the prints of most of the greatest houses, +churches, and antiquitys in Italy and France and brave cutts. I had not +time to look them over as I ought, and which I will take time hereafter +to do, and therefore left them and home to dinner. After dinner, it +raining very hard, by coach to Whitehall, where, after Sir G. Carteret, +Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Coventry and I had been with the Duke, we to the +Committee of Tangier and did matters there dispatching wholly my Lord +Teviott, and so broke up. With Sir G. Carteret and Sir John Minnes by +coach to my Lord Treasurer's, thinking to have spoken about getting money +for paying the Yards; but we found him with some ladies at cards: and so, +it being a bad time to speak, we parted, and Sir J. Minnes and I home, +and after walking with my wife in the garden late, to supper and to bed, +being somewhat troubled at Ashwell's desiring and insisting over eagerly +upon her going to a ball to meet some of her old companions at a dancing +school here in town next Friday, but I am resolved she shall not go. So +to bed. This day the little Duke of Monmouth was marryed at White Hall, +in the King's chamber; and tonight is a great supper and dancing at his +lodgings, near Charing-Cross. I observed his coat at the tail of his +coach he gives the arms of England, Scotland, and France, quartered upon +some other fields, but what it is that speaks his being a bastard I know +not. + + + +21st. Up betimes and to my office, where first I ruled with red ink my +English "Mare Clausum," which, with the new orthodox title, makes it now +very handsome. So to business, and then home to dinner, and after dinner +to sit at the office in the afternoon, and thence to my study late, and +so home to supper to play a game at cards with my wife, and so to bed. +Ashwell plays well at cards, and will teach us to play; I wish it do not +lose too much of my time, and put my wife too much upon it. + + + +22nd. Up betimes and to my office very busy all the morning there, +entering things into my Book Manuscript, which pleases me very much. +So to the Change, and so to my uncle Wight's, by invitation, whither my +father, wife, and Ashwell came, where we had but a poor dinner, and not +well dressed; besides, the very sight of my aunt's hands and greasy +manner of carving, did almost turn my stomach. After dinner by coach to +the King's Playhouse, where we saw but part of "Witt without mony," which +I do not like much, but coming late put me out of tune, and it costing me +four half-crowns for myself and company. So, the play done, home, and I +to my office a while and so home, where my father (who is so very +melancholy) and we played at cards, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +23rd. St. George's day and Coronacion, the King and Court being at +Windsor, at the installing of the King of Denmark by proxy and the Duke +of Monmouth. I up betimes, and with my father, having a fire made in my +wife's new closet above, it being a wet and cold day, we sat there all +the morning looking over his country accounts ever since his going into +the country. I find his spending hitherto has been (without +extraordinary charges) at full L100 per annum, which troubles me, and I +did let him apprehend it, so as that the poor man wept, though he did +make it well appear to me that he could not have saved a farthing of it. +I did tell him how things stand with us, and did shew my distrust of +Pall, both for her good nature and housewifery, which he was sorry for, +telling me that indeed she carries herself very well and carefully, which +I am glad to hear, though I doubt it was but his doting and not being +able to find her miscarriages so well nowadays as he could heretofore +have done. We resolve upon sending for Will Stankes up to town to give +us a right understanding in all that we have in Brampton, and before my +father goes to settle every thing so as to resolve how to find a living +for my father and to pay debts and legacies, and also to understand truly +how Tom's condition is in the world, that we may know what we are like to +expect of his doing ill or well. So to dinner, and after dinner to the +office, where some of us met and did a little business, and so to Sir W. +Batten's to see a little picture drawing of his by a Dutchman which is +very well done. So to my office and put a few things in order, and so +home to spend the evening with my father. At cards till late, and being +at supper, my boy being sent for some mustard to a neat's tongue, the +rogue staid half an hour in the streets, it seems at a bonfire, at which +I was very angry, and resolve to beat him to-morrow. + + + +24th. Up betimes, and with my salt eel + + [A salt eel is a rope's end cut from the piece to be used on the + back of a culprit. "Yeow shall have salt eel for supper" is an + emphatic threat.] + +went down in the parler and there got my boy and did beat him till I was +fain to take breath two or three times, yet for all I am afeard it will +make the boy never the better, he is grown so hardened in his tricks, +which I am sorry for, he being capable of making a brave man, and is a +boy that I and my wife love very well. So made me ready, and to my +office, where all the morning, and at noon home, whither came Captain +Holland, who is lately come home from sea, and has been much harassed in +law about the ship which he has bought, so that it seems in a despair he +endeavoured to cut his own throat, but is recovered it; and it seems +whether by that or any other persuasion (his wife's mother being a great +zealot) he is turned almost a Quaker, his discourse being nothing but +holy, and that impertinent, that I was weary of him. At last pretending +to go to the Change we walked thither together, and there I left him and +home to dinner, sending my boy by the way to enquire after two dancing +masters at our end of the town for my wife to learn, of whose names the +boy brought word. After dinner all the afternoon fiddling upon my +viallin (which I have not done many a day) while Ashwell danced above in +my upper best chamber, which is a rare room for musique, expecting this +afternoon my wife to bring my cozen Scott and Stradwick, but they came +not, and so in the evening we by ourselves to Half-way house to walk, but +did not go in there, but only a walk and so home again and to supper, my +father with us, and had a good lobster intended for part of our +entertainment to these people to-day, and so to cards, and then to bed, +being the first day that I have spent so much to my pleasure a great +while. + + + +25th. Up betimes and to my vyall and song book a pretty while, and so to +my office, and there we sat all the morning. Among other things Sir W. +Batten had a mind to cause Butler (our chief witness in the business of +Field, whom we did force back from an employment going to sea to come +back to attend our law sute) to be borne as a mate on the Rainbow in the +Downes in compensation for his loss for our sakes. This he orders an +order to be drawn by Mr. Turner for, and after Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. +Batten, and Sir W. Pen had signed it, it came to me and I was going to +put it up into my book, thinking to consider of it and give them my +opinion upon it before I parted with it, but Sir W. Pen told me I must +sign it or give it him again, for it should not go without my hand. +I told him what I meant to do, whereupon Sir W. Batten was very angry, +and in a great heat (which will bring out any thing which he has in his +mind, and I am glad of it, though it is base in him to have a thing so +long in his mind without speaking of it, though I am glad this is the +worst, for if he had worse it would out as well as this some time or +other) told me that I should not think as I have heretofore done, make +them sign orders and not sign them myself. Which what ignorance or worse +it implies is easy to judge, when he shall sign to things (and the rest +of the board too as appears in this business) for company and not out of +their judgment for. After some discourse I did convince them that it was +not fit to have it go, and Sir W. Batten first, and then the rest, did +willingly cancel all their hands and tear the order, for I told them, +Butler being such a rogue as I know him, and we have all signed him to be +to the Duke, it will be in his power to publish this to our great +reproach, that we should take such a course as this to serve ourselves in +wronging the King by putting him into a place he is no wise capable of, +and that in an Admiral ship. At noon we rose, Sir W. Batten ashamed and +vexed, and so home to dinner, and after dinner walked to the old Exchange +and so all along to Westminster Hall, White Hall, my Lord Sandwich's +lodgings, and going by water back to the Temple did pay my debts in +several places in order to my examining my accounts tomorrow to my great +content. So in the evening home, and after supper (my father at my +brother's) and merrily practising to dance, which my wife hath begun to +learn this day of Mr. Pembleton, + + [Pembleton, the dancing-master, made Pepys very jealous, and there + are many allusions to him in the following pages. His lessons + ceased on May 27th.] + +but I fear will hardly do any great good at it, because she is conceited +that she do well already, though I think no such thing. So to bed. At +Westminster Hall, this day, I buy a book lately printed and licensed by +Dr. Stradling, the Bishop of London's chaplin, being a book discovering +the practices and designs of the papists, and the fears of some of our +own fathers of the Protestant church heretofore of the return to Popery +as it were prefacing it. + +The book is a very good book; but forasmuch as it touches one of the +Queenmother's fathers confessors, the Bishop, which troubles many good +men and members of Parliament, hath called it in, which I am sorry for. +Another book I bought, being a collection of many expressions of the +great Presbyterian Preachers upon publique occasions, in the late times, +against the King and his party, as some of Mr. Marshall, Case, Calamy, +Baxter, &c., which is good reading now, to see what they then did teach, +and the people believe, and what they would seem to believe now. Lastly, +I did hear that the Queen is much grieved of late at the King's +neglecting her, he having not supped once with her this quarter of a +year, and almost every night with my Lady Castlemaine; who hath been with +him this St. George's feast at Windsor, and came home with him last +night; and, which is more, they say is removed as to her bed from her own +home to a chamber in White Hall, next to the King's own; which I am sorry +to hear, though I love her much. + + + +26th (Lord's-day). Lay pretty long in bed talking with my wife, and then +up and set to the making up of my monthly accounts, but Tom coming, with +whom I was angry for botching my camlott coat, to tell me that my father +and he would dine with me, and that my father was at our church, I got me +ready and had a very good sermon of a country minister upon "How blessed +a thing it is for brethren to live together in unity!" So home and all +to dinner, and then would have gone by coach to have seen my Lord +Sandwich at Chelsey if the man would have taken us, but he denying it we +staid at home, and I all the afternoon upon my accounts, and find myself +worth full L700, for which I bless God, it being the most I was ever yet +worth in money. In the evening (my father being gone to my brother's to +lie to-night) my wife, Ashwell, and the boy and I, and the dogg, over the +water and walked to Half-way house, and beyond into the fields, gathering +of cowslipps, and so to Half-way house, with some cold lamb we carried +with us, and there supped, and had a most pleasant walk back again, +Ashwell all along telling us some parts of their mask at Chelsey School, +which was very pretty, and I find she hath a most prodigious memory, +remembering so much of things acted six or seven years ago. So home, and +after reading my vows, being sleepy, without prayers to bed, for which +God forgive me! + + + +27th. Up betimes and to my office, where doing business alone a good +while till people came about business to me. Will Griffin tells me this +morning that Captain Browne, Sir W. Batten's brother-in-law, is dead of a +blow given him two days ago by a seaman, a servant of his, being drunk, +with a stone striking him on the forehead, for which I am sorry, he +having a good woman and several small children. At the office all the +morning, at noon dined at home with my wife, merry, and after dinner by +water to White Hall; but found the Duke of York gone to St. James's for +this summer; and thence with Mr. Coventry, to whose chamber I went, and +Sir W. Pen up to the Duke's closett. And a good while with him about our +Navy business; and so I to White Hall, and there alone a while with my +Lord Sandwich discoursing about his debt to the Navy, wherein he hath +given me some things to resolve him in. Thence to my Lord's lodging, +and thither came Creed to me, and he and I walked a great while in the +garden, and thence to an alehouse in the market place to drink fine +Lambeth ale, and so to Westminster Hall, and after walking there a great +while, home by coach, where I found Mary gone from my wife, she being too +high for her, though a very good servant, and my boy too will be going in +a few days, for he is not for my family, he is grown so out of order and +not to be ruled, and do himself, against his brother's counsel, desire to +be gone, which I am sorry for, because I love the boy and would be glad +to bring him to good. At home with my wife and Ashwell talking of her +going into the country this year, wherein we had like to have fallen out, +she thinking that I have a design to have her go, which I have not, and +to let her stay here I perceive will not be convenient, for she expects +more pleasure than I can give her here, and I fear I have done very ill +in letting her begin to learn to dance. The Queen (which I did not know) +it seems was at Windsor, at the late St. George's feast there; and the +Duke of Monmouth dancing with her with his hat in his hand, the King came +in and kissed him, and made him put on his hat, which every body took +notice of. After being a while at my office home to supper and to bed, +my Will being come home again after being at his father's all the last +week taking physique. + + + +28th. Up betimes and to my office, and there all the morning, only +stepped up to see my wife and her dancing master at it, and I think after +all she will do pretty well at it. So to dinner, Mr. Hunt dining with +us, and so to the office, where we sat late, and then I to my office +casting up my Lord's sea accounts over again, and putting them in order +for payment, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Up betimes, and after having at my office settled some accounts +for my Lord Sandwich, I went forth, and taking up my father at my +brother's, took coach and towards Chelsey, 'lighting at an alehouse near +the Gatehouse at Westminster to drink our morning draught, and so up +again and to Chelsey, where we found my Lord all alone at a little table +with one joynt of meat at dinner; we sat down and very merry talking, and +mightily extolling the manner of his retirement, and the goodness of his +diet, which indeed is so finely dressed: the mistress of the house, Mrs. +Becke, having been a woman of good condition heretofore, a merchant's +wife, and hath all things most excellently dressed; among others, her +cakes admirable, and so good that my Lord's words were, they were fit to +present to my Lady Castlemaine. From ordinary discourse my Lord fell to +talk of other matters to me, of which chiefly the second part of the +fray, which he told me a little while since of, between Mr. Edward +Montagu and himself, which is that after that he had since been with him +three times and no notice taken at all of any difference between them, +and yet since that he hath forborn coming to him almost two months, and +do speak not only slightly of my Lord every where, but hath complained to +my Lord Chancellor of him, and arrogated all that ever my Lord hath done +to be only by his direction and persuasion. Whether he hath done the +like to the King or no, my Lord knows not; but my Lord hath been with the +King since, and finds all things fair; and my Lord Chancellor hath told +him of it, but with so much contempt of Mr. Montagu, as my Lord knows +himself very secure against any thing the fool can do; and +notwithstanding all this, so noble is his nature, that he professes +himself ready to show kindness and pity to Mr. Montagu on any occasion. +My Lord told me of his presenting Sir H. Bennet with a gold cupp of L100, +which he refuses, with a compliment; but my Lord would have been glad he +had taken it, that he might have had some obligations upon him which he +thinks possible the other may refuse to prevent it; not that he hath any +reason to doubt his kindness. But I perceive great differences there are +at Court; and Sir H. Bennet and my Lord Bristol, and their faction, are +likely to carry all things before them (which my Lord's judgment is, will +not be for the best), and particularly against the Chancellor, who, he +tells me, is irrecoverably lost: but, however, that he will not actually +joyne in anything against the Chancellor, whom he do own to be his most +sure friend, and to have been his greatest; and therefore will not openly +act in either, but passively carry himself even. The Queen, my Lord +tells me, he thinks he hath incurred some displeasure with, for his +kindness to his neighbour, my Lady Castlemaine. My Lord tells me he hath +no reason to fall for her sake, whose wit, management, nor interest, is +not likely to hold up any man, and therefore he thinks it not his +obligation to stand for her against his own interest. The Duke and Mr. +Coventry my Lord says he is very well with, and fears not but they will +show themselves his very good friends, specially at this time, he being +able to serve them, and they needing him, which he did not tell me +wherein. Talking of the business of Tangier, he tells me that my Lord +Tiviott is gone away without the least respect paid to him, nor indeed to +any man, but without his commission; and (if it be true what he says) +having laid out seven or eight thousand pounds in commodities for the +place; and besides having not only disobliged all the Commissioners for +Tangier, but also Sir Charles Barkeley the other day, who, speaking in +behalf of Colonel Fitz-Gerald, that having been deputy-governor there +already, he ought to have expected and had the governorship upon the +death or removal of the former governor. And whereas it is said that he +and his men are Irish, which is indeed the main thing that hath moved the +King and Council to put in Tiviott to prevent the Irish having too great +and the whole command there under Fitz-Gerald; he further said that there +was never an Englishman fit to command Tangier; my Lord Tiviott answered +yes, that there were many more fit than himself or Fitz-Gerald either. +So that Fitz-Gerald being so great with the Duke of York, and being +already made deputy-governor, independent of my Lord Tiviott, and he +being also left here behind him for a while, my Lord Sandwich do think +that, putting all these things together, the few friends he hath left, +and the ill posture of his affairs, my Lord Tiviott is not a man of the +conduct and management that either people take him to be, or is fit for +the command of the place. And here, speaking of the Duke of York and Sir +Charles Barkeley, my Lord tells me that he do very much admire the good +management, and discretion, and nobleness of the Duke, that whatever he +may be led by him or Mr. Coventry singly in private, yet he did not +observe that in publique matters, but he did give as ready hearing and as +good acceptance to any reasons offered by any other man against the +opinions of them, as he did to them, and would concur in the prosecution +of it. Then we came to discourse upon his own sea accompts, and came to +a resolution what and how to proceed in them; wherein he resolved, though +I offered him a way of evading the greatest part of his debt honestly, +by making himself debtor to the Parliament, before the King's time, which +he might justly do, yet he resolved to go openly and nakedly in it, and +put himself to the kindness of the King and Duke, which humour, I must +confess, and so did tell him (with which he was not a little pleased) had +thriven very well with him, being known to be a man of candid and open +dealing, without any private tricks or hidden designs as other men +commonly have in what they do. From that we had discourse of Sir G. +Carteret, who he finds kind to him, but it may be a little envious, and +most other men are, and of many others; and upon the whole do find that +it is a troublesome thing for a man of any condition at Court to carry +himself even, and without contracting enemys or envyers; and that much +discretion and dissimulation is necessary to do it. My father staid a +good while at the window and then sat down by himself while my Lord and I +were thus an hour together or two after dinner discoursing, and by and by +he took his leave, and told me he would stay below for me. Anon I took +leave, and coming down found my father unexpectedly in great pain and +desiring for God's sake to get him a bed to lie upon, which I did, and +W. Howe and I staid by him, in so great pain as I never saw, poor wretch, +and with that patience, crying only: Terrible, terrible pain, God help +me, God help me, with the mournful voice, that made my heart ake. He +desired to rest a little alone to see whether it would abate, and W. Howe +and I went down and walked in the gardens, which are very fine, and a +pretty fountayne, with which I was finely wetted, and up to a banquetting +house, with a very fine prospect, and so back to my father, who I found +in such pain that I could not bear the sight of it without weeping, never +thinking that I should be able to get him from thence, but at last, +finding it like to continue, I got him to go to the coach, with great +pain, and driving hard, he all the while in a most unsufferable torment +(meeting in the way with Captain Ferrers going to my Lord, to tell him +that my Lady Jemimah is come to town, and that Will Stankes is come with +my father's horses), not staying the coach to speak with any body, but +once, in St. Paul's Churchyard, we were forced to stay, the jogging and +pain making my father vomit, which it never had done before. At last we +got home, and all helping him we got him to bed presently, and after half +an hour's lying in his naked bed (it being a rupture [with] which he is +troubled, and has been this 20 years, but never in half the pain and with +so great swelling as now, and how this came but by drinking of cold small +beer and sitting long upon a low stool and then standing long after it he +cannot tell) . . .--[We are not going to be told the treatment. D.W.]-- +After which he was at good ease, and so continued, and so fell to sleep, +and we went down whither W. Stankes was come with his horses. But it is +very pleasant to hear how he rails at the rumbling and ado that is in +London over it is in the country, that he cannot endure it. He supped +with us, and very merry, and then he to his lodgings at the Inne with the +horses, and so we to bed, I to my father who is very well again, and both +slept very well. + + + +30th. Up, and after drinking my morning draft with my father and W. +Stankes, I went forth to Sir W. Batten, who is going (to no purpose as he +uses to do) to Chatham upon a survey. So to my office, where till +towards noon, and then to the Exchange, and back home to dinner, where +Mrs. Hunt, my father, and W. Stankes; but, Lord! what a stir Stankes +makes with his being crowded in the streets and wearied in walking in +London, and would not be wooed by my wife and Ashwell to go to a play, +nor to White Hall, or to see the lyons, + + [The Tower menagerie, with its famous lions, which was one of the + chief sights of London, and gave rise to a new English word, was not + abolished until the early part of the present century.] + +though he was carried in a coach. I never could have thought there had +been upon earth a man so little curious in the world as he is. At the +office all the afternoon till 9 at night, so home to cards with my +father, wife, and Ashwell, and so to bed. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Academy was dissolved by order of the Pope +After some pleasant talk, my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed +And so to bed, my father lying with me in Ashwell's bed +Dare not oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good +Dinner was great, and most neatly dressed +Dog attending us, which made us all merry again +Galileo's air thermometer, made before 1597 +I do not find other people so willing to do business as myself +I was very angry, and resolve to beat him to-morrow +Insurrection of the Catholiques there +Justice of proceeding not to condemn a man unheard +Matters in Ireland are full of discontent +My maid Susan ill, or would be thought so +Parliament do agree to throw down Popery +Railed bitterly ever and anon against John Calvin +She is conceited that she do well already +So home to supper and bed with my father +That he is not able to live almost with her +That I might say I saw no money in the paper +There is no man almost in the City cares a turd for him +Though it be but little, yet I do get ground every month + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v24 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MAY & JUNE + 1663 + + +May 1st. Up betimes and my father with me, and he and I all the morning +and Will Stankes private, in my wife's closet above, settling our matters +concerning our Brampton estate, &c., and I find that there will be, after +all debts paid within L100, L50 per annum clear coming towards my +father's maintenance, besides L25 per annum annuities to my Uncle Thomas +and Aunt Perkins. Of which, though I was in my mind glad, yet thought it +not fit to let my father know it thoroughly, but after he had gone out to +visit my uncle Thomas and brought him to dinner with him, and after +dinner I got my father, brother Tom, and myself together, I did make the +business worse to them, and did promise L20 out of my own purse to make +it L50 a year to my father, propounding that Stortlow may be sold to pay +L200 for his satisfaction therein and the rest to go towards payment of +debts and legacies. The truth is I am fearful lest my father should die +before debts are paid, and then the land goes to Tom and the burden of +paying all debts will fall upon the rest of the land. Not that I would +do my brother any real hurt. I advised my father to good husbandry and +to living within the compass of L50 a year, and all in such kind words, +as not only made, them but myself to weep, and I hope it will have a good +effect. That being done, and all things agreed on, we went down, and +after a glass of wine we all took horse, and I, upon a horse hired of Mr. +Game, saw him out of London, at the end of Bishopsgate Street, and so I +turned and rode, with some trouble, through the fields, and then Holborn, +&c., towards Hide Park, whither all the world, I think, are going, and in +my going, almost thither, met W. Howe coming galloping upon a little crop +black nag; it seems one that was taken in some ground of my Lord's, by +some mischance being left by his master, a thief; this horse being found +with black cloth ears on, and a false mayne, having none of his own; and +I back again with him to the Chequer, at Charing Cross, and there put up +my own dull jade, and by his advice saddled a delicate stone-horse of +Captain Ferrers's, and with that rid in state to the Park, where none +better mounted than I almost, but being in a throng of horses, seeing the +King's riders showing tricks with their managed horses, which were very +strange, my stone-horse was very troublesome, and begun to, fight with +other horses, to the dangering him and myself, and with much ado I got +out, and kept myself out of harm's way.. Here I saw nothing good, +neither the King, nor my Lady Castlemaine, nor any great ladies or +beauties being there, there being more pleasure a great deal at an +ordinary day; or else those few good faces that there were choked up with +the many bad ones, there being people of all sorts in coaches there, to +some thousands, I think. Going thither in the highway, just by the Park +gate, I met a boy in a sculler boat, carried by a dozen people at least, +rowing as hard as he could drive, it seems upon some wager. By and by, +about seven or eight o'clock, homeward; and changing my horse again, I +rode home, coaches going in great crowds to the further end of the town +almost. In my way, in Leadenhall Street, there was morris-dancing which +I have not seen a great while. So set my horse up at Game's, paying 5s. +for him. And so home to see Sir J. Minnes, who is well again, and after +staying talking with him awhile, I took leave and went to hear Mrs. +Turner's daughter, at whose house Sir J. Minnes lies, play on the +harpsicon; but, Lord! it was enough to make any man sick to hear her; +yet I was forced to commend her highly. So home to supper and to bed, +Ashwell playing upon the tryangle very well before I went to bed. This +day Captain Grove sent me a side of pork, which was the oddest present, +sure, that was ever made any man; and the next, I remember I told my +wife, I believe would be a pound of candles, or a shoulder of mutton; but +the fellow do it in kindness, and is one I am beholden to. So to bed +very weary, and a little galled for lack of riding, praying to God for a +good journey to my father, of whom I am afeard, he being so lately ill of +his pain. + + + +2nd. Being weary last night, I slept till almost seven o'clock, a thing +I have not done many a day. So up and to my office (being come to some +angry words with my wife about neglecting the keeping of the house clean, +I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me) and there +all the morning. So to the Exchange and then home to dinner, and very +merry and well pleased with my wife, and so to the office again, where we +met extraordinary upon drawing up the debts of the Navy to my Lord +Treasurer. So rose and up to Sir W. Pen to drink a glass of bad syder in +his new far low dining room, which is very noble, and so home, where +Captain Ferrers and his lady are come to see my wife, he being to go the +beginning of next week to France to sea and I think to fetch over my +young Lord Hinchinbroke. They being gone I to my office to write letters +by the post, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +3rd (Lord's day). Up before 5 o'clock and alone at setting my Brampton +papers to rights according to my father's and my computation and +resolution the other day to my good content, I finding that there will be +clear saved to us L50 per annum, only a debt of it may be L100. So made +myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Pen showed me the young lady +which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath +stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth L1000 per annum +present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome +lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow. However, he got this good luck +to get her, which methinks I could envy him with all my heart. Home to +dinner with my wife, who not being very well did not dress herself but +staid at home all day, and so I to church in the afternoon and so home +again, and up to teach Ashwell the grounds of time and other things on +the tryangle, and made her take out a Psalm very well, she having a good +ear and hand. And so a while to my office, and then home to supper and +prayers, to bed, my wife and I having a little falling out because I +would not leave my discourse below with her and Ashwell to go up and talk +with her alone upon something she has to say. She reproached me but I +had rather talk with any body than her, by which I find I think she is +jealous of my freedom with Ashwell, which I must avoid giving occasion +of. + + + +4th. Up betimes and to setting my Brampton papers in order and looking +over my wardrobe against summer, and laying things in order to send to my +brother to alter. By and by took boat intending to have gone down to +Woolwich, but seeing I could not get back time enough to dinner, I +returned and home. Whither by and by the dancing-master' came, whom +standing by, seeing him instructing my wife, when he had done with her, +he would needs have me try the steps of a coranto, and what with his +desire and my wife's importunity, I did begin, and then was obliged to +give him entry-money 10s., and am become his scholler. The truth is, I +think it a thing very useful for a gentleman, and sometimes I may have +occasion of using it, and though it cost me what I am heartily sorry it +should, besides that I must by my oath give half as much more to the +poor, yet I am resolved to get it up some other way, and then it will not +be above a month or two in a year. So though it be against my stomach +yet I will try it a little while; if I see it comes to any great +inconvenience or charge I will fling it off. After I had begun with the +steps of half a coranto, which I think I shall learn well enough, he went +away, and we to dinner, and by and by out by coach, and set my wife down +at my Lord Crew's, going to see my Lady Jem. Montagu, who is lately come +to town, and I to St. James's; where Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen and I staid +a good while for the Duke's coming in, but not coming, we walked to White +Hall; and meeting the King, we followed him into the Park, where Mr. +Coventry and he talked of building a new yacht, which the King is +resolved to have built out of his privy purse, he having some contrivance +of his own. The talk being done, we fell off to White Hall, leaving the +King in the Park, and going back, met the Duke going towards St. James's +to meet us. So he turned back again, and to his closett at White Hall; +and there, my Lord Sandwich present, we did our weekly errand, and so +broke up; and I down into the garden with my Lord Sandwich (after we had +sat an hour at the Tangier Committee); and after talking largely of his +own businesses, we begun to talk how matters are at Court: and though he +did not flatly tell me any such thing, yet I do suspect that all is not +kind between the King and the Duke, and that the King's fondness to the +little Duke do occasion it; and it may be that there is some fear of his +being made heir to the Crown. But this my Lord did not tell me, but is +my guess only; and that my Lord Chancellor is without doubt falling past +hopes. He being gone to Chelsey by coach I to his lodgings, where my +wife staid for me, and she from thence to see Mrs. Pierce and called me +at Whitehall stairs (where I went before by land to know whether there +was any play at Court to-night) and there being none she and I to Mr. +Creed to the Exchange, where she bought something, and from thence by +water to White Fryars, and wife to see Mrs. Turner, and then came to me +at my brother's, where I did give him order about my summer clothes, and +so home by coach, and after supper to bed to my wife, with whom I have +not lain since I used to lie with my father till to-night. + + + +5th. Up betimes and to my office, and there busy all the morning, among +other things walked a good while up and down with Sir J. Minnes, he +telling many old stories of the Navy, and of the state of the Navy at the +beginning of the late troubles, and I am troubled at my heart to think, +and shall hereafter cease to wonder, at the bad success of the King's +cause, when such a knave as he (if it be true what he says) had the whole +management of the fleet, and the design of putting out of my Lord +Warwick, and carrying the fleet to the King, wherein he failed most +fatally to the King's ruin. Dined at home, and after dinner up to try my +dance, and so to the office again, where we sat all the afternoon. In +the evening Deane of Woolwich went home with me and showed me the use of +a little sliding ruler, less than that I bought the other day, which is +the same with that, but more portable; however I did not seem to +understand or even to have seen anything of it before, but I find him an +ingenious fellow, and a good servant in his place to the King. Thence to +my office busy writing letters, and then came Sir W. Warren, staying for +a letter in his business by the post, and while that was writing he and I +talked about merchandise, trade, and getting of money. I made it my +business to enquire what way there is for a man bred like me to come to +understand anything of trade. He did most discretely answer me in all +things, shewing me the danger for me to meddle either in ships or +merchandise of any sort or common stocks, but what I have to keep at +interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit, and once in a little +while something offers that with ready money you may make use of money to +good profit. Wherein I concur much with him, and parted late with great +pleasure and content in his discourse, and so home to supper and to bed. +It has been this afternoon very hot and this evening also, and about 11 +at night going to bed it fell a-thundering and lightening, the greatest +flashes enlightening the whole body of the yard, that ever I saw in my +life. + + + +6th. Up betimes and to my office a good while at my new rulers, then to +business, and towards noon to the Exchange with Creed, where we met with +Sir J. Minnes coming in his coach from Westminster, who tells us, in +great heat, that, by God, the Parliament will make mad work; that they +will render all men incapable of any military or civil employment that +have borne arms in the late troubles against the King, excepting some +persons; which, if it be so, as I hope it is not, will give great cause +of discontent, and I doubt will have but bad effects. I left them at the +Exchange and walked to Paul's Churchyard to look upon a book or two, and +so back, and thence to the Trinity House, and there dined, where, among +other discourse worth hearing among the old seamen, they tell us that +they have catched often in Greenland in fishing whales with the iron +grapnells that had formerly been struck into their bodies covered over +with fat; that they have had eleven hogsheads of oyle out of the tongue +of a whale. Thence after dinner home to my office, and there busy till +the evening. Then home and to supper, and while at supper comes Mr. +Pembleton, and after supper we up to our dancing room and there danced +three or four country dances, and after that a practice of my coranto I +began with him the other day, and I begin to think that I shall be able +to do something at it in time. Late and merry at it, and so weary to +bed. + + + +7th. Up betimes and to my office awhile, and then by water with my wife, +leaving her at the new Exchange, and I to see Dr. Williams, and spoke +with him about my business with Tom Trice, and so to my brother's, who I +find very careful now-a-days, more than ordinary in his business and like +to do well. From thence to Westminster, and there up and down from the +Hall to the Lobby, the Parliament sitting. Sir Thomas Crew this day +tells me that the Queen, hearing that there was L40,000 per annum brought +into her account among the other expences of the Crown to the Committee +of Parliament, she took order to let them know that she hath yet for the +payment of her whole family received but L4,000, which is a notable act +of spirit, and I believe is true. So by coach to my Lord Crew's, and +there dined with him. He tells me of the order the House of Commons have +made for the drawing an Act for the rendering none capable of preferment +or employment in the State, but who have been loyall and constant to the +King and Church; which will be fatal to a great many, and makes me doubt +lest I myself, with all my innocence during the late times, should be +brought in, being employed in the Exchequer; but, I hope, God will +provide for me. This day the new Theatre Royal begins to act with scenes +the Humourous Lieutenant, but I have not time to see it, nor could stay +to see my Lady Jemimah lately come to town, and who was here in the +house, but dined above with her grandmother. But taking my wife at my +brother's home by coach, and the officers being at Deptford at a Pay we +had no office, but I took my wife by water and so spent the evening, and +so home with great pleasure to supper, and then to bed. + + + +8th. Up very early and to my office, there preparing letters to my +father of great import in the settling of our affairs, and putting him +upon a way [of] good husbandry, I promising to make out of my own purse +him up to L50 per annum, till either by my uncle Thomas's death or the +fall of the Wardrobe place he be otherwise provided. That done I by +water to the Strand, and there viewed the Queen-Mother's works at +Somersett House, and thence to the new playhouse, but could not get in to +see it. So to visit my Lady Jemimah, who is grown much since I saw her; +but lacks mightily to be brought into the fashion of the court to set her +off: Thence to the Temple, and there sat till one o'clock reading at +Playford's in Dr. Usher's 'Body of Divinity' his discourse of the +Scripture, which is as much, I believe, as is anywhere said by any man, +but yet there is room to cavill, if a man would use no faith to the +tradition of the Church in which he is born, which I think to be as good +an argument as most is brought for many things, and it may be for that +among others. Thence to my brother's, and there took up my wife and +Ashwell to the Theatre Royall, being the second day of its being opened. +The house is made with extraordinary good contrivance, and yet hath some +faults, as the narrowness of the passages in and out of the Pitt, and the +distance from the stage to the boxes, which I am confident cannot hear; +but for all other things it is well, only, above all, the musique being +below, and most of it sounding under the very stage, there is no hearing +of the bases at all, nor very well of the trebles, which sure must be +mended. The play was "The Humerous Lieutenant," a play that hath little +good in it, nor much in the very part which, by the King's command, Lacy +now acts instead of Clun. In the dance, the tall devil's actions was +very pretty. The play being done, we home by water, having been a little +shamed that my wife and woman were in such a pickle, all the ladies being +finer and better dressed in the pitt than they used, I think, to be. To +my office to set down this day's passage, and, though my oath against +going to plays do not oblige me against this house, because it was not +then in being, yet believing that at the time my meaning was against all +publique houses, I am resolved to deny myself the liberty of two plays at +Court, which are in arreare to me for the months of March and April, +which will more than countervail this excess, so that this month of May +is the first that I must claim a liberty of going to a Court play +according to my oath. So home to supper, and at supper comes Pembleton, +and afterwards we all up to dancing till late, and so broke up and to +bed, and they say that I am like to make a dancer. + +9th. Up betimes and to my office, whither sooner than ordinary comes Mr. +Hater desiring to speak a word to me alone, which I was from the disorder +of his countenance amused at, and so the poor man began telling me that +by Providence being the last Lord's day at a meeting of some Friends upon +doing of their duties, they were surprised, and he carried to the +Counter, but afterwards released; however, hearing that Sir W. Batten do +hear of [it,] he thought it good to give me an account of it, lest it +might tend to any prejudice to me. I was extraordinary surprised with +it, and troubled for him, knowing that now it is out it is impossible for +me to conceal it, or keep him in employment under me without danger to +myself. I cast about all I could, and did give him the best advice I +could, desiring to know if I should promise that he would not for the +time to come commit the same, he told me he desired that I would rather +forbear to promise that, for he durst not do it, whatever God in His +providence shall do with him, and that for my part he did bless God and +thank me for all the love and kindness I have shewed him hitherto. I +could not without tears in my eyes discourse with him further, but at +last did pitch upon telling the truth of the whole to Mr. Coventry as +soon as I could, and to that end did use means to prevent Sir W. Batten +(who came to town last night) from going to that end to-day, lest he +might doe it to Sir G. Carteret or Mr. Coventry before me; which I did +prevail and kept him at the office all the morning. At noon dined at +home with a heavy heart for the poor man, and after dinner went out to my +brother's, and thence to Westminster, where at Mr. Jervas's, my old +barber, I did try two or three borders and perriwiggs, meaning to wear +one; and yet I have no stomach [for it,] but that the pains of keeping my +hair clean is so great. He trimmed me, and at last I parted, but my mind +was almost altered from my first purpose, from the trouble that I foresee +will be in wearing them also. Thence by water home and to the office, +where busy late, and so home to supper and bed, with my mind much +troubled about T. Hater. + + + +10th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and put on a black cloth suit, with white +lynings under all, as the fashion is to wear, to appear under the +breeches. So being ready walked to St. James's, where I sat talking with +Mr. Coventry, while he made himself ready, about several businesses of +the Navy, and afterwards, the Duke being gone out, he and I walked to +White Hall together over the Park, I telling him what had happened to Tom +Hater, at which he seems very sorry, but tells me that if it is not made +very publique, it will not be necessary to put him away at present, but +give him good caution for the time to come. However, he will speak to +the Duke about it and know his pleasure. Parted with him there, and I +walked back to St. James's, and was there at mass, and was forced in the +crowd to kneel down; and mass being done, to the King's Head ordinary, +whither I sent for Mr. Creed and there we dined, where many Parliament- +men; and most of their talk was about the news from Scotland, that the +Bishop of Galloway was besieged in his house by some woman, and had like +to have been outraged, but I know not how he was secured; which is bad +news, and looks just as it did in the beginning of the late troubles. +From thence they talked of rebellion; and I perceive they make it their +great maxime to be sure to master the City of London, whatever comes of +it or from it. After that to some other discourse, and, among other +things, talking of the way of ordinaries, that it is very convenient, +because a man knows what he hath to pay: one did wish that, among many +bad, we could learn two good things of France, which were that we would +not think it below the gentleman, or person of honour at a tavern, to +bargain for his meat before he eats it; and next, to take no servant +without certificate from some friend or gentleman of his good behaviour +and abilities. Hence with Creed into St. James's Park, and there walked +all the afternoon, and thence on foot home, and after a little while at +my office walked in the garden with my wife, and so home to supper, and +after prayers to bed. My brother Tom supped with me, and should have +brought my aunt Ellen with him; she was not free to go abroad. + + + +11th. Up betimes, and by water to Woolwich on board the Royall James, to +see in what dispatch she is to be carried about to Chatham. So to the +yard a little, and thence on foot to Greenwich, where going I was set +upon by a great dogg, who got hold of my garters, and might have done me +hurt; but, Lord, to see in what a maze I was, that, having a sword about +me, I never thought of it, or had the heart to make use of it, but might, +for want of that courage, have been worried. Took water there and home, +and both coming and going did con my lesson on my Ruler to measure +timber, which I think I can well undertake now to do. At home there +being Pembleton I danced, and I think shall come on to do something in a +little time, and after dinner by coach with Sir W. Pen (setting down his +daughter at Clerkenwell), to St. James's, where we attended the Duke of +York: and, among other things, Sir G. Carteret and I had a great dispute +about the different value of the pieces of eight rated by Mr. Creed at +4s. and 5d., and by Pitts at 4s. and 9d., which was the greatest husbandry +to the King? he persisting that the greatest sum was; which is as +ridiculous a piece of ignorance as could be imagined. However, it is to +be argued at the Board, and reported to the Duke next week; which I shall +do with advantage, I hope. Thence to the Tangier Committee, where we +should have concluded in sending Captain Cuttance and the rest to Tangier +to deliberate upon the design of the Mole before they begin to work upon +it, but there being not a committee (my Lord intending to be there but +was taken up at my Lady Castlemayne's) I parted and went homeward, after +a little discourse with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that my Lady +Castlemaine hath now got lodgings near the King's chamber at Court; and +that the other day Dr. Clerke and he did dissect two bodies, a man and a +woman; before the King, with which the King was highly pleased. By water +and called upon Tom Trice by appointment with Dr. Williams, but the Dr. +did not come, it seems by T. Trice's desire, not thinking he should be at +leisure. However, in general we talked of our business, and I do not +find that he will come to any lower terms than L150, which I think I +shall not give him but by law, and so we parted, and I called upon Mr. +Crumlum, and did give him the 10s. remaining, not laid out of the L5 I +promised him for the school, with which he will buy strings, and golden +letters upon the books I did give them. I sat with him and his wife a +great while talking, and she is [a] pretty woman, never yet with child, +and methinks looks as if her mouth watered now and then upon some of her +boys. Then upon Tom Pepys, the Turner, desiring his father and his +letter to Piggott signifying his consent to the selling of his land for +the paying of us his money, and so home, and finding Pembleton there we +did dance till it was late, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +12th. Up between four and five, and after dressing myself then to my +office to prepare business against the afternoon, where all the morning, +and dined at noon at home, where a little angry with my wife for minding +nothing now but the dancing-master, having him come twice a day, which is +a folly. Again, to my office. We sat till late, our chief business +being the reconciling the business of the pieces of eight mentioned +yesterday before the Duke of York, wherein I have got the day, and they +are all brought over to what I said, of which I am proud. Late writing +letters, and so home to supper and to bed. Here I found Creed staying +for me, and so after supper I staid him all night and lay with me, our +great discourse being the folly of our two doting knights, of which I am +ashamed. + + + +13th. Lay till 6 o'clock and then up, and after a little talk and mirth, +he went away, and I to my office, where busy all the morning, and at noon +home to dinner, and after dinner Pembleton came and I practised. But, +Lord! to see how my wife will not be thought to need telling by me or +Ashwell, and yet will plead that she has learnt but a month, which causes +many short fallings out between us. So to my office, whither one-eyed +Cooper came to see me, and I made him to show me the use of platts, and +to understand the lines, and how to find how lands bear, &c., to my great +content. Then came Mr. Barrow, storekeeper of Chatham, who tells me many +things, how basely Sir W. Batten has carried himself to him, and in all +things else like a passionate dotard, to the King's great wrong. God +mend all, for I am sure we are but in an ill condition in the Navy, +however the King is served in other places. Home to supper, to cards, +and to bed. + + + +14th. Up betimes and put up some things to send to Brampton. Then +abroad to the Temple, and up and down about business, and met Mr. Moore; +and with him to an alehouse in Holborn; where in discourse he told me +that he fears the King will be tempted to endeavour the setting the Crown +upon the little Duke, which may cause troubles; which God forbid, unless +it be his due! He told me my Lord do begin to settle to business again, +which I am glad of, for he must not sit out, now he has done his own +business by getting his estate settled, and that the King did send for +him the other day to my Lady Castlemaine's, to play at cards, where he +lost L50; for which I am sorry, though he says my Lord was pleased at it, +and said he would be glad at any time to lose L50 for the King to send +for him to play, which I do not so well like. Thence home, and after +dinner to the office, where we sat till night, and then made up my papers +and letters by the post, and so home to dance with Pembleton. This day +we received a baskett from my sister Pall, made by her of paper, which +hath a great deal of labour in it for country innocent work. After +supper to bed, and going to bed received a letter from Mr. Coventry +desiring my coming to him to-morrow morning, which troubled me to think +what the business should be, fearing it must be some bad news in Tom +Hater's business. + + + +15th. Up betimes and walked to St. James's, where Mr. Coventry being in +bed I walked in the Park, discoursing with the keeper of the Pell Mell, +who was sweeping of it; who told me of what the earth is mixed that do +floor the Mall, and that over all there is cockle-shells powdered, and +spread to keep it fast; which, however, in dry weather, turns to dust and +deads the ball. Thence to Mr. Coventry; and sitting by his bedside, he +did tell me that he sent for me to discourse upon my Lord Sandwich's +allowances for his several pays, and what his thoughts are concerning his +demands; which he could not take the freedom to do face to face, it being +not so proper as by me: and did give me a most friendly and ingenuous +account of all; telling me how unsafe, at this juncture, while every +man's, and his actions particularly, are descanted upon, it is either for +him to put the Duke upon doing, or my Lord himself to desire anything +extraordinary, 'specially the King having been so bountifull already; +which the world takes notice of even to some repinings. All which he did +desire me to discourse with my Lord of; which I have undertook to do. +We talked also of our office in general, with which he told me that he +was now-a-days nothing so satisfied as he was wont to be. I confess I +told him things are ordered in that way that we must of necessity break +in a little time a pieces. After done with him about these things, he +told me that for Mr. Hater the Duke's word was in short that he found he +had a good servant, an Anabaptist, and unless he did carry himself more +to the scandal of the office, he would bear with his opinion till he +heard further, which do please me very much. Thence walked to +Westminster, and there up and down in the Hall and the Parliament House +all the morning; at noon by coach to my Lord Crew's, hearing that Lord +Sandwich did dine there; where I told him what had passed between Mr. +Coventry and myself; with which he was contented, though I could perceive +not very well pleased. And I do believe that my Lord do find some other +things go against his mind in the House; for in the motion made the other +day in the House by my Lord Bruce, that none be capable of employment but +such as have been loyal and constant to the King and Church, the General +[Monk] and my Lord were mentioned to be excepted; and my Lord Bruce did +come since to my Lord, to clear himself that he meant nothing to his +prejudice, nor could it have any such effect if he did mean it. After +discourse with my Lord; to dinner with him; there dining there my Lord +Montagu of Boughton, Mr. William Montagu his brother, the Queen's +Sollicitor, &c., and a fine dinner. Their talk about a ridiculous +falling-out two days ago at my Lord of Oxford's house, at an +entertainment of his, there being there my Lord of Albemarle, Lynsey, +two of the Porters, my Lord Bellasses, and others, where there were high +words and some blows, and pulling off of perriwiggs; till my Lord Monk +took away some of their swords, and sent for some soldiers to guard the +house till the fray was ended. To such a degree of madness the nobility +of this age is come! After dinner I went up to Sir Thomas Crew, who lies +there not very well in his head, being troubled with vapours and fits of +dizziness: and there I sat talking with. him all the afternoon from one +discourse to another, the most was upon the unhappy posture of things at +this time; that the King do mind nothing but pleasures, and hates the +very sight or thoughts of business; that my Lady Castlemaine rules him, +who, he says, hath all the tricks of Aretin + + [An allusion to Aretin's infamous letters and sonnets accompanying + the as infamous "Postures" engraved by Marc Antonio from the designs + of Julio Romano (Steinman's "Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of + Cleveland," privately printed, 1871).] + +that are to be practised to give pleasure. In which he is too able . . +. , but what is the unhappiness in that, as the Italian proverb says, +"lazzo dritto non vuolt consiglio." If any of the sober counsellors give +him good advice, and move him in anything that is to his good and honour, +the other part, which are his counsellers of pleasure, take him when he +is with my Lady Castlemaine, and in a humour of delight, and then +persuade him that he ought not to hear nor listen to the advice of those +old dotards or counsellors that were heretofore his enemies: when, God +knows! it is they that now-a-days do most study his honour. It seems +the present favourites now are my Lord Bristol, Duke of Buckingham, Sir +H. Bennet, my Lord Ashley, and Sir Charles Barkeley; who, among them, +have cast my Lord Chancellor upon his back, past ever getting up again; +there being now little for him to do, and he waits at Court attending to +speak to the King as others do: which I pray God may prove of good +effects, for it is feared it will be the same with my Lord Treasurer +shortly. But strange to hear how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol's +means (he being brought over to the Catholique party against the +Bishopps, whom he hates to the death, and publicly rails against them; +not that he is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishopps; and +yet, for aught I hear, the Bishopp of London keeps as great with the King +as ever) is got into favour, so much that, being a man of great business +and yet of pleasure, and drolling too, he, it is thought, will be made +Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal of the good old man. My Lord +Albemarle, I hear, do bear through and bustle among them, and will not be +removed from the King's good opinion and favour, though none of the +Cabinett; but yet he is envied enough. It is made very doubtful whether +the King do not intend the making of the Duke of Monmouth legitimate; + + [Thomas Ross, Monmouth's tutor, put the idea into his head that + Charles II. had married his mother. The report was sedulously + spread abroad, and obtained some kind of credence, until, in June, + 1678, the king set the matter at rest by publishing a declaration, + which was entered in the Council book and registered in Chancery. + The words of the declaration are: "That to avoid any dispute which + might happen in time to come concerning the succession of the Crown, + he (Charles) did declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that he + never gave, nor made any contract of marriage, nor was married to + Mrs. Barlow, alias Waters, the Duke of Monmouth's mother, nor to any + other woman whatsoever, but to his present wife, Queen Catherine, + then living."] + +but surely the Commons of England will never do it, nor the Duke of York +suffer it, whose lady, I am told, is very troublesome to him by her +jealousy. But it is wonderful that Sir Charles Barkeley should be so +great still, not [only] with the King, but Duke also; who did so stiffly +swear that he had lain with her. + + [The conspiracy of Sir Charles Berkeley, Lord Arran, Jermyn, Talbot, + and Killigrew to traduce Anne Hyde was peculiarly disgraceful, and + the conduct of all the actors in the affair of the marriage, from + Lord Clarendon downwards, was far from creditable (see Lister's + "Life of Clarendon," ii. 68-79)] + +And another one Armour that he rode before her on horseback in Holland I +think . . . . No care is observed to be taken of the main chance, +either for maintaining of trade or opposing of factions, which, God +knows, are ready to break out, if any of them (which God forbid!) should +dare to begin; the King and every man about him minding so much their +pleasures or profits. My Lord Hinchingbroke, I am told, hath had a +mischance to kill his boy by his birding-piece going off as he was a- +fowling. The gun was charged with small shot, and hit the boy in the +face and about the temples, and he lived four days. In Scotland, it +seems, for all the newes-books tell us every week that they are all so +quiett, and everything in the Church settled, the old woman had like to +have killed, the other day, the Bishop of Galloway, and not half the +Churches of the whole kingdom conform. Strange were the effects of the +late thunder and lightning about a week since at Northampton, coming with +great rain, which caused extraordinary floods in a few hours, bearing +away bridges, drowning horses, men, and cattle. Two men passing over a +bridge on horseback, the arches before and behind them were borne away, +and that left which they were upon: but, however, one of the horses fell +over, and was drowned. Stacks of faggots carried as high as a steeple, +and other dreadful things; which Sir Thomas Crew showed me letters to him +about from Mr. Freemantle and others, that it is very true. The +Portugalls have choused--['cheated' D.W.]--us, + + [The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language + at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent + by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused + (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of L4,000, before + the arrival of his employer, and had decamped. The affair was quite + recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is + alluded to .] + +it seems, in the Island of Bombay, in the East Indys; for after a great +charge of our fleets being sent thither with full commission from the +King of Portugall to receive it, the Governour by some pretence or other +will not deliver it to Sir Abraham Shipman, sent from the King, nor to my +Lord of Marlborough; which the King takes highly ill, and I fear our +Queen will fare the worse for it. The Dutch decay there exceedingly, it +being believed that their people will revolt from them there, and they +forced to give over their trade. This is talked of among us, but how +true I understand not. Sir Thomas showed me his picture and Sir Anthony +Vandike's, in crayon in little, done exceedingly well. Having thus +freely talked with him, and of many more things, I took leave, and by +coach to St. James's, and there told Mr. Coventry what I had done with my +Lord with great satisfaction, and so well pleased home, where I found it +almost night, and my wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing +but talking. Now so deadly full of jealousy I am that my heart and head +did so cast about and fret that I could not do any business possibly, but +went out to my office, and anon late home again and ready to chide at +every thing, and then suddenly to bed and could hardly sleep, yet durst +not say any thing, but was forced to say that I had bad news from the +Duke concerning Tom Hater as an excuse to my wife, who by my folly has +too much opportunity given her with the man, who is a pretty neat black +man,--[Brown or black hair, not skin. D.W.]-- but married. But it is a +deadly folly and plague that I bring upon myself to be so jealous and by +giving myself such an occasion more than my wife desired of giving her +another month's dancing. Which however shall be ended as soon as I can +possibly. But I am ashamed to think what a course I did take by lying to +see whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do,--[How +could Mr. Wheatley have missed censoring this? D.W.]--and other things +to raise my suspicion of her, but I found no true cause of doing it. + + + +16th. Up with my mind disturbed and with my last night's doubts upon me, +for which I deserve to be beaten if not really served as I am fearful of +being, especially since God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my +own mind but that upon a small temptation I could be false to her, and +therefore ought not to expect more justice from her, but God pardon both +my sin and my folly herein. To my office and there sitting all the +morning, and at noon dined at home. After dinner comes Pembleton, and I +being out of humour would not see him, pretending business, but, Lord! +with what jealousy did I walk up and down my chamber listening to hear +whether they danced or no, which they did, notwithstanding I afterwards +knew and did then believe that Ashwell was with them. So to my office +awhile, and, my jealousy still reigning, I went in and, not out of any +pleasure but from that only reason, did go up to them to practise, and +did make an end of "La Duchesse," which I think I should, with a little +pains, do very well. So broke up and saw him gone. Then Captain Cocke +coming to me to speak about my seeming discourtesy to him in the business +of his hemp, I went to the office with him, and there discoursed it +largely and I think to his satisfaction. Then to my business, writing +letters and other things till late at night, and so home to supper and +bed. My mind in some better ease resolving to prevent matters for the +time to come as much as I can, it being to no purpose to trouble myself +for what is past, being occasioned too by my own folly. + + + +17th (Lord's day). Up and in my chamber all the morning, preparing my +great letters to my father, stating to him the perfect condition of our +estate. My wife and Ashwell to church, and after dinner they to church +again, and I all the afternoon making an end of my morning's work, which +I did about the evening, and then to talk with my wife till after supper, +and so to bed having another small falling out and myself vexed with my +old fit of jealousy about her dancing-master. But I am a fool for doing +it. So to bed by daylight, I having a very great cold, so as I doubt +whether I shall be able to speak to-morrow at our attending the Duke, +being now so hoarse. + + + +18th. Up and after taking leave of Sir W. Batten, who is gone this day +towards Portsmouth (to little purpose, God knows) upon his survey, I home +and spent the morning at dancing; at noon Creed dined with us and Mr. +Deane Woolwich, and so after dinner came Mr. Howe, who however had enough +for his dinner, and so, having done, by coach to Westminster, she to Mrs. +Clerke and I to St. James's, where the Duke being gone down by water +to-day with the King I went thence to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, where +Mr. Howe and I walked a while, and going towards Whitehall through the +garden Dr. Clerk and Creed called me across the bowling green, and so I +went thither and after a stay went up to Mrs. Clerke who was dressing +herself to go abroad with my wife. But, Lord! in what a poor condition +her best chamber is, and things about her, for all the outside and show +that she makes, but I found her just such a one as Mrs. Pierce, contrary +to my expectation, so much that I am sick and sorry to see it. Thence +for an hour Creed and I walked to White Hall, and into the Park, seeing +the Queen and Maids of Honour passing through the house going to the +Park. But above all, Mrs. Stuart is a fine woman, and they say now a +common mistress to the King, + + [The king said to 'la belle' Stuart, who resisted all his + importunities, that he hoped he should live to see her "ugly and + willing" (Lord Dartmouth's note to Burnet's "Own Time," vol. i., + p. 436, ed. 1823).] + +as my Lady Castlemaine is; which is a great pity. Thence taking a coach +to Mrs. Clerke's, took her, and my wife, and Ashwell, and a Frenchman, +a kinsman of hers, to the Park, where we saw many fine faces, and one +exceeding handsome, in a white dress over her head, with many others very +beautiful. Staying there till past eight at night, I carried Mrs. Clerke +and her Frenchman, who sings well, home, and thence home ourselves, +talking much of what we had observed to-day of the poor household stuff +of Mrs. Clerke and mere show and flutter that she makes in the world; +and pleasing myself in my own house and manner of living more than ever +I did by seeing how much better and more substantially I live than others +do. So to supper and bed. + + + +19th. Up pretty betimes, but yet I observe how my dancing and lying a +morning or two longer than ordinary for my cold do make me hard to rise +as I used to do, or look after my business as I am wont. To my chamber +to make an end of my papers to my father to be sent by the post to-night, +and taking copies of them, which was a great work, but I did it this +morning, and so to my office, and thence with Sir John Minnes to the +Tower; and by Mr. Slingsby, and Mr. Howard, Controller of the Mint, we +were shown the method of making this new money, from the beginning to the +end, which is so pretty that I did take a note of every part of it and +set them down by themselves for my remembrance hereafter. That being +done it was dinner time, and so the Controller would have us dine with +him and his company, the King giving them a dinner every day. And very +merry and good discourse about the business we have been upon, and after +dinner went to the Assay Office and there saw the manner of assaying of +gold and silver, and how silver melted down with gold do part, just being +put into aqua-fortis, the silver turning into water, and the gold lying +whole in the very form it was put in, mixed of gold and silver, which is +a miracle; and to see no silver at all but turned into water, which they +can bring again into itself out of the water.--[Not water--a solution of +Silver Oxide. D.W.]--And here I was made thoroughly to understand the +business of the fineness and coarseness of metals, and have put down my +lessons with my other observations therein. At table among other +discourse they told us of two cheats, the best I ever heard. One, of a +labourer discovered to convey away the bits of silver cut out pence by +swallowing them down into his belly, and so they could not find him out, +though, of course, they searched all the labourers; but, having reason to +doubt him, they did, by threats and promises, get him to confess, and did +find L7 of it in his house at one time. The other of one that got a way +of coyning money as good and passable and large as the true money is, and +yet saved fifty per cent. to himself, which was by getting moulds made to +stamp groats like old groats, which is done so well, and I did beg two of +them which I keep for rarities, that there is not better in the world, +and is as good, nay, better than those that commonly go, which was the +only thing that they could find out to doubt them by, besides the number +that the party do go to put off, and then coming to the Comptroller of +the Mint, he could not, I say, find out any other thing to raise any +doubt upon, but only their being so truly round or near it, though I +should never have doubted the thing neither. He was neither hanged nor +burned,--[No! They probably copied his technique. D.W.]-- the cheat was +thought so ingenious, and being the first time they could ever trap him +in it, and so little hurt to any man in it, the money being as good as +commonly goes. Thence to the office till the evening, we sat, and then +by water (taking Pembleton with us), over the water to the Halfway House, +where we played at nine-pins, and there my damned jealousy took fire, he +and my wife being of a side and I seeing of him take her by the hand in +play, though I now believe he did [it] only in passing and sport. Thence +home and being 10 o'clock was forced to land beyond the Custom House, and +so walked home and to my office, and having dispatched my great letters +by the post to my father, of which I keep copies to show by me and for my +future understanding, I went home to supper and bed, being late. The +most observables in the making of money which I observed to-day, is the +steps of their doing it. + +1. Before they do anything they assay the bullion, which is done, if it +be gold, by taking an equal weight of that and of silver, of each a small +weight, which they reckon to be six ounces or half a pound troy; this +they wrap up in within lead. If it be silver, they put such a quantity +of that alone and wrap it up in lead, and then putting them into little +earthen cupps made of stuff like tobacco pipes, and put them into a +burning hot furnace, where, after a while, the whole body is melted, and +at last the lead in both is sunk into the body of the cupp, which carries +away all the copper or dross with it, and left the pure gold and silver +embodyed together, of that which hath both been put into the cupp +together, and the silver alone in these where it was put alone in the +leaden case. And to part the silver and the gold in the first +experiment, they put the mixed body into a glass of aqua-fortis, which +separates them by spitting out the silver into such small parts that you +cannot tell what it becomes, but turns into the very water and leaves the +gold at the bottom clear of itself, with the silver wholly spit out, and +yet the gold in the form that it was doubled together in when it was a +mixed body of gold and silver, which is a great mystery; and after all +this is done to get the silver together out of the water is as strange. +But the nature of the assay is thus: the piece of gold that goes into the +furnace twelve ounces, if it comes out again eleven ounces, and the piece +of silver which goes in twelve and comes out again eleven and two +pennyweight, are just of the alloy of the standard of England. If it +comes out, either of them, either the gold above eleven, as very fine +will sometimes within very little of what it went in, or the silver above +eleven and two pennyweight, as that also will sometimes come out eleven +and ten penny weight or more, they are so much above the goodness of the +standard, and so they know what proportion of worse gold and silver to +put to such a quantity of the bullion to bring it to the exact standard. +And on the contrary, [if] it comes out lighter, then such a weight is +beneath the standard, and so requires such a proportion of fine metal to +be put to the bullion to bring it to the standard, and this is the +difference of good and bad, better and worse than the standard, and also +the difference of standards, that of Seville being the best and that of +Mexico worst, and I think they said none but Seville is better than ours. + +2. They melt it into long plates, which, if the mould do take ayre, then +the plate is not of an equal heaviness in every part of it, as it often +falls out. + +3. They draw these plates between rollers to bring them to an even +thickness all along and every plate of the same thickness, and it is very +strange how the drawing it twice easily between the rollers will make it +as hot as fire, yet cannot touch it.--[Many principles of Physics had +not yet then been deliniated. D.W.] + +4. They bring it to another pair of rollers, which they call adjusting +it, which bring it to a greater exactness in its thickness than the first +could be. + +5. They cut them into round pieces, which they do with the greatest +ease, speed, and exactness in the world. + +6. They weigh these, and where they find any to be too heavy they file +them, which they call sizeing them; or light, they lay them by, which is +very seldom, but they are of a most exact weight, but however, in the +melting, all parts by some accident not being close alike, now and then a +difference will be, and, this filing being done, there shall not be any +imaginable difference almost between the weight of forty of these against +another forty chosen by chance out of all their heaps. + +7. These round pieces having been cut out of the plates, which in +passing the rollers are bent, they are sometimes a little crooked or +swelling out or sinking in, and therefore they have a way of clapping 100 +or 2 together into an engine, which with a screw presses them so hard +that they come out as flat as is possible. + +8. They blanch them. + +9. They mark the letters on the edges, which is kept as the great secret +by Blondeau, who was not in the way, and so I did not speak with him to- +day. + + [Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, C.B., F.R.S., chemist to the Royal + Mint, refers to Pepys's Diary and to Blondeau's machine in his + Cantor Lectures on "Alloys used for Coinage," printed in the + "journal of the Society of Arts" (vol. xxxii.). He writes, "The + hammer was still retained for coining in the Mint in the Tower of + London, but the question of the adoption of the screw-press by the + Moneyers appears to have been revived in 1649, when the Council of + State had it represented to them that the coins of the Government + might be more perfectly and beautifully done, and made equal to any + coins in Europe. It was proposed to send to France for Peter + Blondeau, who had invented and improved a machine and method for + making all coins 'with the most beautiful polish and equality on the + edge, or with any proper inscription or graining.' He came on the + 3rd of September, and although a Committee of the Mint reported in + favour of his method of coining, the Company of Moneyers, who appear + to have boasted of the success of their predecessors in opposing the + introduction of the mill and screw-press in Queen Elizabeth's reign, + prevented the introduction of the machinery, and consequently he did + not produce pattern pieces until 1653 . . . . It is certain that + Blondeau did not invent, but only improved the method of coining by + the screw-press, and I believe his improvements related chiefly to a + method for `rounding the pieces before they are sized, and in making + the edges of the moneys with letters and graining,' which he + undertook to reveal to the king. Special stress is laid on the + engines wherewith the rims were marked, `which might be kept secret + among few men.' I cannot find that there is any record in the Paris + mint of Blondeau's employment there, and the only reference to his + invention in the Mint records of this country refers to the + 'collars,' or perforated discs of metal surrounding the 'blank' + while it was struck into a coin. There is, however, in the British + Museum a MS. believed to be in Blondeau's hand, in which he claims + his process, 'as a new invention, to make a handsome coyne, than can + be found in all the world besides, viz., that shall not only be + stamped on both flat sides, but shall even be marked with letters on + the thickness of the brim.' The letters were raised. The press + Blondeau used was, I believe, the ordinary screw-press, and I + suppose that the presses drawn in Akerman's well-known plate of the + coining-room of the Mint in the Tower, published in 1803 ['Microcosm + of London,' vol. ii., p. 202], if not actually the same machines, + were similar to those erected in 1661-62 by Sir William Parkhurst + and Sir Anthony St. Leger, wardens of the Mint, at a cost of L1400, + Professor Roberts-Austen shows that Benvenuto Cellini used a similar + press to that attributed to Blondeau, and he gives an illustration + of this in his lecture (p. 810). In a letter to the editor the + professor writes: "Pepys's account of the operations of coining, and + especially of assaying gold and silver, is very interesting and + singularly accurate considering that he could not have had technical + knowledge of the subject."] + +10. They mill them, that is, put on the marks on both sides at once with +great exactness and speed, and then the money is perfect. The mill is +after this manner: one of the dyes, which has one side of the piece cut, +is fastened to a thing fixed below, and the other dye (and they tell me a +payre of dyes will last the marking of L10,000 before it be worn out, +they and all other their tools being made of hardened steel, and the +Dutchman who makes them is an admirable artist, and has so much by the +pound for every pound that is coyned to find a constant supply of dyes) +to an engine above, which is moveable by a screw, which is pulled by men; +and then a piece being clapped by one sitting below between the two dyes, +when they meet the impression is set, and then the man with his finger +strikes off the piece and claps another in, and then the other men they +pull again and that is marked, and then another and another with great +speed. They say that this way is more charge to the King than the old +way, but it is neater, freer from clipping or counterfeiting, the putting +of the words upon the edges being not to be done (though counterfeited) +without an engine of the charge and noise that no counterfeit will be at +or venture upon, and it employs as many men as the old and speedier. +They now coyne between L16 and L24,000 in a week. At dinner they did +discourse very finely to us of the probability that there is a vast deal +of money hid in the land, from this:--that in King Charles's time there +was near ten millions of money coyned, besides what was then in being of +King James's and Queene Elizabeth's, of which there is a good deal at +this day in being. Next, that there was but L750,000 coyned of the Harp +and Crosse money, + + [The Commonwealth coins (stamped with the cross and harp, and the + inscription, "The Commonwealth of England") were called in by + proclamation, September, 1660, and when brought to the Mint an equal + amount of lawful money was allowed for them, weight for weight, + deducting only for the coinage (Ruding's "Annals of the Coinage," 18 + 19, vol. iii., p. 293). The harp was taken out of the naval flags + in May, 1660.] + +and of this there was L500,000 brought in upon its being called in. And +from very good arguments they find that there cannot be less of it in +Ireland and Scotland than L100,000; so that there is but L150,000 +missing; and of that, suppose that there should be not above 650,000 +still remaining, either melted down, hid, or lost, or hoarded up in +England, there will then be but L100,000 left to be thought to have been +transported. Now, if L750,000 in twelve years' time lost but a L100,000 +in danger of being transported, then within thirty-five years' time will +have lost but L3,888,880 and odd pounds; and as there is L650,000 +remaining after twelve years' time in England, so after thirty-five +years' time, which was within this two years, there ought in proportion +to have been resting L6,111,120 or thereabouts, beside King James's and +Queen Elizabeth's money. Now that most of this must be hid is evident, +as they reckon, because of the dearth of money immediately upon the +calling-in of the State's money, which was L500,000 that came in; and yet +there was not any money to be had in this City, which they say to their +own observation and knowledge was so. And therefore, though I can say +nothing in it myself, I do not dispute it. + + + +20th. Up and to my office, and anon home and to see my wife dancing with +Pembleton about noon, and I to the Trinity House to dinner and after +dinner home, and there met Pembleton, who I perceive has dined with my +wife, which she takes no notice of, but whether that proceeds out of +design, or fear to displease me I know not, but it put me into a great +disorder again, that I could mind nothing but vexing, but however I +continued my resolution of going down by water to Woolwich, took my wife +and Ashwell; and going out met Mr. Howe come to see me, whose horse we +caused to be set up, and took him with us. The tide against us, so I +went ashore at Greenwich before, and did my business at the yard about +putting things in order as to their proceeding to build the new yacht +ordered to be built by Christopher Pett, + + [In the minutes of the Royal Society is the following entry: "June + 11, 1662. Dr. Pett's brother shewed a draught of the pleasure boat + which he intended to make for the king" (Birch's "History of the + Royal Society," vol. i., p. 85). Peter Pett had already built a + yacht for the king at Deptford.] + +and so to Woolwich town, where at an alehouse I found them ready to +attend my coming, and so took boat again, it being cold, and I sweating, +with my walk, which was very pleasant along the green come and pease, and +most of the way sang, he and I, and eat some cold meat we had, and with +great pleasure home, and so he took horse again, and Pembleton coming, we +danced a country dance or two and so broke up and to bed, my mind +restless and like to be so while she learns to dance. God forgive my +folly. + + + +21st. Up, but cannot get up so early as I was wont, nor my mind to +business as it should be and used to be before this dancing. However, to +my office, where most of the morning talking of Captain Cox of Chatham +about his and the whole yard's difference against Mr. Barrow the +storekeeper, wherein I told him my mind clearly, that he would be upheld +against the design of any to ruin him, he being we all believed, but Sir +W. Batten his mortal enemy, as good a servant as any the King has in the +yard. After much good advice and other talk I home and danced with +Pembleton, and then the barber trimmed me, and so to dinner, my wife and +I having high words about her dancing to that degree that I did enter and +make a vow to myself not to oppose her or say anything to dispraise or +correct her therein as long as her month lasts, in pain of 2s. 6d. for +every time, which, if God pleases, I will observe, for this roguish +business has brought us more disquiett than anything [that] has happened +a great while. After dinner to my office, where late, and then home; and +Pembleton being there again, we fell to dance a country dance or two, and +so to supper and bed. But being at supper my wife did say something that +caused me to oppose her in, she used the word devil, which vexed me, and +among other things I said I would not have her to use that word, upon +which she took me up most scornfully, which, before Ashwell and the rest +of the world, I know not now-a-days how to check, as I would heretofore, +for less than that would have made me strike her. So that I fear without +great discretion I shall go near to lose too my command over her, and +nothing do it more than giving her this occasion of dancing and other +pleasures, whereby her mind is taken up from her business and finds other +sweets besides pleasing of me, and so makes her that she begins not at +all to take pleasure in me or study to please me as heretofore. But if +this month of her dancing were but out (as my first was this night, and I +paid off Pembleton for myself) I shall hope with a little pains to bring +her to her old wont. This day Susan that lived with me lately being out +of service, and I doubt a simple wench, my wife do take her for a little +time to try her at least till she goes into the country, which I am yet +doubtful whether it will be best for me to send her or no, for fear of +her running off in her liberty before I have brought her to her right +temper again. + + + +22nd. Up pretty betimes, and shall, I hope, come to myself and business +again, after a small playing the truant, for I find that my interest and +profit do grow daily, for which God be praised and keep me to my duty. +To my office, and anon one tells me that Rundall, the house-carpenter of +Deptford, hath sent me a fine blackbird, which I went to see. He tells +me he was offered 20s. for him as he came along, he do so whistle. So +to my office, and busy all the morning, among other things, learning to +understand the course of the tides, and I think I do now do it. At noon +Mr. Creed comes to me, and he and I to the Exchange, where I had much +discourse with several merchants, and so home with him to dinner, and +then by water to Greenwich, and calling at the little alehouse at the end +of the town to wrap a rag about my little left toe, being new sore with +walking, we walked pleasantly to Woolwich, in our way hearing the +nightingales sing. So to Woolwich yard, and after doing many things +there, among others preparing myself for a dispute against Sir W. Pen in +the business of Bowyer's, wherein he is guilty of some corruption to the +King's wrong, we walked back again without drinking, which I never do +because I would not make my coming troublesome to any, nor would become +obliged too much to any. In our going back we were overtook by Mr. +Steventon, a purser, and uncle to my clerk Will, who told me how he was +abused in the passing of his accounts by Sir J. Minnes to the degree that +I am ashamed to hear it, and resolve to retrieve the matter if I can +though the poor man has given it over. And however am pleased enough to +see that others do see his folly and dotage as well as myself, though I +believe in my mind the man in general means well. + +Took boat at Greenwich and to Deptford, where I did the same thing, and +found Davis, the storekeeper, a knave, and shuffling in the business of +Bewpers, being of the party with Young and Whistler to abuse the King, +but I hope I shall be even with them. So walked to Redriffe, drinking at +the Half-way house, and so walked and by water to White Hall, all our way +by water coming and going reading a little book said to be writ by a +person of Quality concerning English gentry to be preferred before +titular honours, but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet +in as good words that ever I saw in all my life, but from beginning to +end you met not with one entire and regular sentence. At White Hall Sir +G. Carteret was out of the way, and so returned back presently, and home +by water and to bed. + + + +23rd. Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird, which +whistles as well as ever I heard any; only it is the beginning of many +tunes very well, but there leaves them, and goes no further. So up and +to my office, where we sat, and among other things I had a fray with Sir +J. Minnes in defence of my Will in a business where the old coxcomb would +have put a foot upon him, which was only in Jack Davis and in him a +downright piece of knavery in procuring a double ticket and getting the +wrong one paid as well as the second was to the true party. But it +appeared clear enough to the board that Will was true in it. Home to +dinner, and after dinner by water to the Temple, and there took my Lyra +Viall book bound up with blank paper for new lessons. Thence to +Greatorex's, and there seeing Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen go by coach I +went in to them and to White Hall; where, in the Matted Gallery, Mr. +Coventry was, who told us how the Parliament have required of Sir G. +Carteret and him an account what money shall be necessary to be settled +upon the Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend to report +L200,000 per annum. And how to allott this we met this afternoon, and +took their papers for our perusal, and so we parted. Only there was +walking in the gallery some of the Barbary company, and there we saw a +draught of the arms of the company, which the King is of, and so is +called the Royall Company, which is, in a field argent an elephant +proper, with a canton on which England and France is quartered, supported +by two Moors. The crest an anchor winged, I think it is, and the motto +too tedious: "Regio floret, patrocinio commercium, commercioque Regnum." +Thence back by water to Greatorex's, and there he showed me his varnish +which he had invented, which appears every whit as good, upon a stick +which he hath done, as the Indian, though it did not do very well upon my +paper ruled with musique lines, for it sunk and did not shine. Thence +home by water, and after a dance with Pembleton to my office and wrote by +the post to Sir W. Batten at Portsmouth to send for him up against next +Wednesday, being our triall day against Field at Guildhall, in which God +give us good end. So home: to supper and to bed. + + + +24th (Lord's day). Having taken one of Mr. Holliard's pills last night +it brought a stool or two this morning, and so forebore going to church +this morning, but staid at home looking over my papers about Tom Trice's +business, and so at noon dined, and my wife telling me that there was a +pretty lady come to church with Peg Pen to-day, I against my intention +had a mind to go to church to see her, and did so, and she is pretty +handsome. But over against our gallery I espied Pembleton, and saw him +leer upon my wife all the sermon, I taking no notice of him, and my wife +upon him, and I observed she made a curtsey to him at coming out without +taking notice to me at all of it, which with the consideration of her +being desirous these two last Lord's days to go to church both forenoon +and afternoon do really make me suspect something more than ordinary, +though I am loth to think the worst, but yet it put and do still keep me +at a great loss in my mind, and makes me curse the time that I consented +to her dancing, and more my continuing it a second month, which was more +than she desired, even after I had seen too much of her carriage with +him. But I must have patience and get her into the country, or at least +to make an end of her learning to dance as soon as I can. After sermon +to Sir W. Pen's, with Sir J. Minnes to do a little business to answer Mr. +Coventry to-night. And so home and with my wife and Ashwell into the +garden walking a great while, discoursing what this pretty wench should +be by her garb and deportment; with respect to Mrs. Pen she may be her +woman, but only that she sat in the pew with her, which I believe he +would not let her do. So home, and read to my wife a fable or two in +Ogleby's AEsop, and so to supper, and then to prayers and to bed. My +wife this evening discoursing of making clothes for the country, which I +seem against, pleading lack of money, but I am glad of it in some +respects because of getting her out of the way from this fellow, and my +own liberty to look after my business more than of late I have done. So +to prayers and to bed. This morning it seems Susan, who I think is +distracted, or however is since she went from me taught to drink, and so +gets out of doors 2 or 3 times a day without leave to the alehouse, did +go before 5 o'clock to-day, making Griffin rise in his shirt to let her +out to the alehouse, she said to warm herself, but her mistress, falling +out with her about it, turned her out of doors this morning, and so she +is gone like an idle slut. I took a pill also this night. + + + +25th. Up, and my pill working a little I staid within most of the +morning, and by and by the barber came and Sarah Kite my cozen, poor +woman, came to see me and borrow 40s. of me, telling me she will pay it +at Michaelmas again to me. I was glad it was no more, being indifferent +whether she pays it me or no, but it will be a good excuse to lend her +nor give her any more. So I did freely at first word do it, and give her +a crown more freely to buy her child something, she being a good-natured +and painful wretch, and one that I would do good for as far as I can that +I might not be burdened. My wife was not ready, and she coming early did +not see her, and I was glad of it. She gone, I up and then hear that my +wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot . . . . +upon the floor and stool and God knows what, and were mighty merry making +of it clean. I took no great notice, but merrily. Ashwell did by and by +come to me with an errand from her mistress to desire money to buy a +country suit for her against she goes as we talked last night, and so I +did give her L4, and believe it will cost me the best part of 4 more to +fit her out, but with peace and honour I am willing to spare anything so +as to be able to keep all ends together, and my power over her +undisturbed. So to my office and by and by home, where my wife and her +master were dancing, and so I staid in my chamber till they had done, and +sat down myself to try a little upon the Lyra viall, my hand being almost +out, but easily brought to again. So by and by to dinner, and then +carried my wife and Ashwell to St. James's, and there they sat in the +coach while I went in, and finding nobody there likely to meet with the +Duke, but only Sir J. Minnes with my Lord Barkely (who speaks very +kindly, and invites me with great compliments to come now and then and +eat with him, which I am glad to hear, though I value not the thing, but +it implies that my esteem do increase rather than fall), and so I staid +not, but into the coach again, and taking up my wife's taylor, it raining +hard, they set me down, and who should our coachman be but Carleton the +Vintner, that should have had Mrs. Sarah, at Westminster, my Lord +Chancellor's, and then to Paternoster Row. I staid there to speak with +my Lord Sandwich, and in my staying, meeting Mr. Lewis Phillips of +Brampton, he and afterwards others tell me that news came last night to +Court, that the King of France is sick of the spotted fever, and that +they are struck in again; and this afternoon my Lord Mandeville is gone +from the King to make him a visit; which will be great news, and of great +import through Europe. By and by, out comes my Lord Sandwich, and he and +I talked a great while about his business, of his accounts for his pay, +and among other things he told me that this day a vote hath passed that +the King's grants of land to my Lord Monk and him should be made good; +which pleases him very well. He also tells me that things don't go right +in the House with Mr. Coventry; I suppose he means in the business of +selling of places; but I am sorry for it. Thence by coach home, where I +found Pembleton, and so I up to dance with them till the evening, when +there came Mr. Alsopp, the King's brewer, and Lanyon of Plymouth to see +me. Mr. Alsopp tells me of a horse of his that lately, after four days' +pain, voided at his fundament four stones, bigger than that I was cut of, +very heavy, and in the middle of each of them either a piece of iron or +wood. The King has two of them in his closett, and a third the College +of Physicians to keep for rarity, and by the King's command he causes the +turd of the horse to be every day searched to find more. At night to see +Sir W. Batten come home this day from Portsmouth. I met with some that +say that the King of France is poisoned, but how true that is is not +known. So home to supper and to bed pleasant. + + + +26th. Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife.--[We +have had several examples such as this, in the past few days diary, of +Mr. Wheatley tiring of his self-imposed work of censorship. D.W.]--So up +and to my office a while and then home, where I found Pembleton, and by +many circumstances I am led to conclude that there is something more than +ordinary between my wife and him, which do so trouble me that I know not +at this very minute that I now write this almost what either I write or +am doing, nor how to carry myself to my wife in it, being unwilling to +speak of it to her for making of any breach and other inconveniences, nor +let it pass for fear of her continuing to offend me and the matter grow +worse thereby. So that I am grieved at the very heart, but I am very +unwise in being so. There dined with me Mr. Creed and Captain Grove, and +before dinner I had much discourse in my chamber with Mr. Deane, the +builder of Woolwich, about building of ships. But nothing could get the +business out of my head, I fearing that this afternoon by my wife's +sending every [one] abroad and knowing that I must be at the office she +has appointed him to come. This is my devilish jealousy, which I pray +God may be false, but it makes a very hell in my mind, which the God of +heaven remove, or I shall be very unhappy. So to the office, where we +sat awhile. By and by my mind being in great trouble I went home to see +how things were, and there I found as I doubted Mr. Pembleton with my +wife, and nobody else in the house, which made me almost mad, and going +up to my chamber after a turn or two I went out again and called somebody +on pretence of business and left him in my little room at the door (it +was the Dutchman, commander of the King's pleasure boats, who having been +beat by one of his men sadly, was come to the office to-day to complain) +telling him I would come again to him to speak with him about his +business. So in great trouble and doubt to the office, and Mr. Coventry +nor Sir G. Carteret being there I made a quick end of our business and +desired leave to be gone, pretending to go to the Temple, but it was +home, and so up to my chamber, and as I think if they had any intention +of hurt I did prevent doing anything at that time, but I continued in my +chamber vexed and angry till he went away, pretending aloud, that I might +hear, that he could not stay, and Mrs. Ashwell not being within they +could not dance. And, Lord! to see how my jealousy wrought so far that +I went softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no, +which I found not, but that did not content me, but I staid all the +evening walking, and though anon my wife came up to me and would have +spoke of business to me, yet I construed it to be but impudence, and +though my heart full yet I did say nothing, being in a great doubt what +to do. So at night, suffered them to go all to bed, and late put myself +to bed in great discontent, and so to sleep. + + + +27th. So I waked by 3 o'clock, my mind being troubled, and so took +occasion by making water to wake my wife, and after having lain till past +4 o'clock seemed going to rise, though I did it only to see what she +would do, and so going out of the bed she took hold of me and would know +what ailed me, and after many kind and some cross words I began to tax +her discretion in yesterday's business, but she quickly told me my own, +knowing well enough that it was my old disease of jealousy, which I +denied, but to no purpose. After an hour's discourse, sometimes high and +sometimes kind, I found very good reason to think that her freedom with +him is very great and more than was convenient, but with no evil intent, +and so after awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends, but she +crying in a great discontent. So I up and by water to the Temple, and +thence with Commissioner Pett to St. James's, where an hour with Mr. +Coventry talking of Mr. Pett's proceedings lately in the forest of +Sherwood, and thence with Pett to my Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the +Exchequer; where we met the auditors about settling the business of the +accounts of persons to whom money is due before the King's time in the +Navy, and the clearing of their imprests for what little of their debts +they have received. I find my Lord, as he is reported, a very ready, +quick, and diligent person. Thence I to Westminster Hall, where Term and +Parliament make the Hall full of people; no further news yet of the King +of France, whether he be dead or not. Here I met with my cozen Roger +Pepys, and walked a good while with him, and among other discourse as a +secret he hath committed to nobody but myself, and he tells me that his +sister Claxton now resolving to give over the keeping of his house at +Impington, he thinks it fit to marry again, and would have me, by the +help of my uncle Wight or others, to look him out a widow between thirty +and forty years old, without children, and with a fortune, which he will +answer in any degree with a joynture fit for her fortune. A woman sober, +and no high-flyer, as he calls it. I demanded his estate. He tells me, +which he says also he hath not done to any, that his estate is not full +L800 per annum, but it is L780 per annum, of which L200 is by the death +of his last wife, which he will allot for a joynture for a wife, but the +rest, which lies in Cambridgeshire, he is resolved to leave entire for +his eldest son. I undertook to do what I can in it, and so I shall. He +tells me that the King hath sent to them to hasten to make an end by +midsummer, because of his going into the country; so they have set upon +four bills to dispatch: the first of which is, he says, too devilish a +severe act against conventicles; so beyond all moderation, that he is +afeard it will ruin all: telling me that it is matter of the greatest +grief to him in the world, that he should be put upon this trust of being +a Parliament-man, because he says nothing is done, that he can see, out +of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design. Thence by water to +Chelsey, all the way reading a little book I bought of "Improvement of +Trade," a pretty book and many things useful in it. So walked to Little +Chelsey, where I found my Lord Sandwich with Mr. Becke, the master of the +house, and Mr. Creed at dinner, and I sat down with them, and very merry. +After dinner (Mr. Gibbons being come in also before dinner done) to +musique, they played a good Fancy, to which my Lord is fallen again, and +says he cannot endure a merry tune, which is a strange turn of his +humour, after he has for two or three years flung off the practice of +Fancies and played only fidlers' tunes. Then into the Great Garden up to +the Banqueting House; and there by his glass we drew in the species very +pretty. Afterwards to ninepins, where I won a shilling, Creed and I +playing against my Lord and Cooke. This day there was great thronging to +Banstead Downs, upon a great horse-race and foot-race. I am sorry I +could not go thither. So home back as I came, to London Bridge, and so +home, where I find my wife in a musty humour, and tells me before Ashwell +that Pembleton had been there, and she would not have him come in unless +I was there, which I was ashamed of; but however, I had rather it should +be so than the other way. So to my office, to put things in order there, +and by and by comes Pembleton, and word is brought me from my wife +thereof that I might come home. So I sent word that I would have her go +dance, and I would come presently. So being at a great loss whether I +should appear to Pembleton or no, and what would most proclaim my +jealousy to him, I at last resolved to go home, and took Tom Hater with +me, and staid a good while in my chamber, and there took occasion to tell +him how I hear that Parliament is putting an act out against all sorts of +conventicles, + + [16 Car. II., cap. 4, "An Act to prevent and suppresse seditious + Conventicles." It was enacted that anyone of the age of sixteen or + upwards present at an unlawful assembly or conventicle was to incur + fine or imprisonment. A conventicle was defined as an assembly of + more than five persons besides the members of a family met together + for holding worship not according to the rites of the Church of + England. The act was amended 22 Car. II., cap. i (1670), and + practically repealed by the Toleration Act of 1689, but the act 22 + Car. II., cap. i, was specially repealed 52 Geo. III., cap. 155, s. + 1.] + +and did give him good counsel, not only in his own behalf, but my own, +that if he did hear or know anything that could be said to my prejudice, +that he would tell me, for in this wicked age (specially Sir W. Batten +being so open to my reproaches, and Sir J. Minnes, for the neglect of +their duty, and so will think themselves obliged to scandalize me all +they can to right themselves if there shall be any inquiry into the +matters of the Navy, as I doubt there will) a man ought to be prepared to +answer for himself in all things that can be inquired concerning him. +After much discourse of this nature to him I sent him away, and then went +up, and there we danced country dances, and single, my wife and I; and my +wife paid him off for this month also, and so he is cleared. After +dancing we took him down to supper, and were very merry, and I made +myself so, and kind to him as much as I could, to prevent his discourse, +though I perceive to my trouble that he knows all, and may do me the +disgrace to publish it as much as he can. Which I take very ill, and if +too much provoked shall witness it to her. After supper and he gone we +to bed. + + + +28th. Up this morning, and my wife, I know not for what cause, being +against going to Chelsey to-day, it being a holy day (Ascension Day) and +I at leisure, it being the first holy day almost that we have observed +ever since we came to the office, we did give Ashwell leave to go by +herself, and I out to several places about business. Among others to Dr. +Williams, to reckon with him for physique that my wife has had for a year +or two, coming to almost L4. Then to the Exchange, where I hear that the +King had letters yesterday from France that the King there is in a [way] +of living again, which I am glad to hear. At the coffee-house in +Exchange Alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders," by Sir +Balth. Gerbier. It is dedicated almost to all the men of any great +condition in England, so that the Epistles are more than the book itself, +and both it and them not worth a turd, that I am ashamed that I bought +it. Home and there found Creed, who dined with us, and after dinner by +water to the Royall Theatre; but that was so full they told us we could +have no room. And so to the Duke's House; and there saw "Hamlett" done, +giving us fresh reason never to think enough of Betterton. Who should we +see come upon the stage but Gosnell, my wife's maid? but neither spoke, +danced, nor sung; which I was sorry for. But she becomes the stage very +well. Thence by water home, after we had walked to and fro, backwards +and forwards, six or seven times in the Temple walks, disputing whether +to go by land or water. By land home, and thence by water to Halfway +House, and there eat some supper we carried with us, and so walked home +again, it being late we were forced to land at the dock, my wife and +they, but I in a humour not willing to daub my shoes went round by the +Custom House. So home, and by and by to bed, Creed lying with me in the +red chamber all night. + + + +29th. This day is kept strictly as a holy-day, being the King's +Coronation. We lay long in bed, and it rained very hard, rain and hail, +almost all the morning. By and by Creed and I abroad, and called at +several churches; and it is a wonder to see, and by that to guess the ill +temper of the City at this time, either to religion in general, or to the +King, that in some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole +church, and those poor people. So to a coffee-house, and there in +discourse hear the King of France is likely to be well again. So home to +dinner, and out by water to the Royall Theatre, but they not acting +to-day, then to the Duke's house, and there saw "The Slighted Mayde," +wherein Gosnell acted Pyramena, a great part, and did it very well, and I +believe will do it better and better, and prove a good actor. The play +is not very excellent, but is well acted, and in general the actors, in +all particulars, are better than at the other house. Thence to the Cocke +alehouse, and there having drunk, sent them with Creed to see the German +Princess, + + [Mary Moders, alias Stedman, a notorious impostor, who pretended to + be a German princess. Her arrival as the German princess "at the + Exchange Tavern, right against the Stocks betwixt the Poultry and + Cornhill, at 5 in the morning . . . ., with her marriage to + Carleton the taverner's wife's brother," are incidents fully + narrated in Francis Kirkman's "Counterfeit Lady Unveiled," 1673 + ("Boyne's Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., p. 703). Her + adventures formed the plot of a tragi-comedy by T. P., entitled "A + Witty Combat, or the Female Victor," 1663, which was acted with + great applause by persons of quality in Whitsun week. Mary Carleton + was tried at the Old Bailey for bigamy and acquitted, after which + she appeared on the stage in her own character as the heroine of a + play entitled "The German Princess." Pepys went to the Duke's House + to see her on April 15th, 1664. The rest of her life was one + continued course of robbery and fraud, and in 1678 she was executed + at Tyburn for stealing a piece of plate in Chancery Lane.] + +at the Gatehouse, at Westminster, and I to my brother's, and thence to my +uncle Fenner's to have seen my aunt James (who has been long in town and +goes away to-morrow and I not seen her), but did find none of them +within, which I was glad of, and so back to my brother's to speak with +him, and so home, and in my way did take two turns forwards and backwards +through the Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets] that stood +off the doors there, and God forgive me I could scarce stay myself from +going into their houses with them, so apt is my nature to evil after +once, as I have these two days, set upon pleasure again. So home and to +my office to put down these two days' journalls, then home again and to +supper, and then Creed and I to bed with good discourse, only my mind +troubled about my spending my time so badly for these seven or eight +days; but I must impute it to the disquiet that my mind has been in of +late about my wife, and for my going these two days to plays, for which +I have paid the due forfeit by money and abating the times of going to +plays at Court, which I am now to remember that I have cleared all my +times that I am to go to Court plays to the end of this month, and so +June is the first time that I am to begin to reckon. + + + +30th. Up betimes, and Creed and I by water to Fleet Street, and my +brother not being ready, he and I walked to the New Exchange, and there +drank our morning draught of whay, the first I have done this year; but I +perceive the lawyers come all in as they go to the Hall, and I believe it +is very good. So to my brother's, and there I found my aunt James, a +poor, religious, well-meaning, good soul, talking of nothing but God +Almighty, and that with so much innocence that mightily pleased me. +Here was a fellow that said grace so long like a prayer; I believe the +fellow is a cunning fellow, and yet I by my brother's desire did give him +a crown, he being in great want, and, it seems, a parson among the +fanatiques, and a cozen of my poor aunt's, whose prayers she told me did +do me good among the many good souls that did by my father's desires pray +for me when I was cut of the stone, and which God did hear, which I also +in complaisance did own; but, God forgive me, my mind was otherwise. +I had a couple of lobsters and some wine for her, and so, she going out +of town to-day, and being not willing to come home with me to dinner, +I parted and home, where we sat at the office all the morning, and after +dinner all the afternoon till night, there at my office getting up the +time that I have of late lost by not following my business, but I hope +now to settle my mind again very well to my business. So home, and after +supper did wash my feet, and so to bed. + + + +31st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and do plainly +see that her distaste (which is beginning now in her again) against +Ashwell arises from her jealousy of me and her, and my neglect of +herself, which indeed is true, and I to blame; but for the time to come +I will take care to remedy all. So up and to church, where I think I did +see Pembleton, whatever the reason is I did not perceive him to look up +towards my wife, nor she much towards him; however, I could hardly keep +myself from being troubled that he was there, which is a madness not to +be excused now that his coming to my house is past, and I hope all +likelyhood of her having occasion to converse with him again. Home to +dinner, and after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five +Houres' Adventures," which though I have seen it twice; yet I never did +admire or understand it enough, it being a play of the greatest plot that +ever I expect to see, and of great vigour quite through the whole play, +from beginning to the end. To church again after dinner (my wife finding +herself ill . . . . did not go), and there the Scot preaching I slept +most of the sermon. This day Sir W. Batten's son's child is christened +in the country, whither Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W, Batten, and Sir W. Pen +are all gone. I wonder, and take it highly ill that I am not invited by +the father, though I know his father and mother, with whom I am never +likely to have much kindness, but rather I study the contrary, are the +cause of it, and in that respect I am glad of it. Being come from +church, I to make up my month's accounts, and find myself clear worth +L726, for which God be praised, but yet I might have been better by L20 +almost had I forborne some layings out in dancing and other things upon +my wife, and going to plays and other things merely to ease my mind as to +the business of the dancing-master, which I bless God is now over and I +falling to my quiet of mind and business again, which I have for a +fortnight neglected too much. This month the greatest news is, the +height and heat that the Parliament is in, in enquiring into the revenue, +which displeases the Court, and their backwardness to give the King any +money. Their enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great +many among the chief, my Lord Chancellor (against whom particularly it is +carried), and Mr. Coventry; for which I am sorry. The King of France was +given out to be poisoned and dead; but it proves to be the measles: and +he is well, or likely to be soon well again. I find myself growing in +the esteem and credit that I have in the office, and I hope falling to my +business again will confirm me in it, and the saving of money which God +grant! So to supper, prayers, and bed. My whole family lying longer +this morning than was fit, and besides Will having neglected to brush my +clothes, as he ought to do, till I was ready to go to church, and not +then till I bade him, I was very angry, and seeing him make little matter +of it, but seeming to make it a matter indifferent whether he did it or +no, I did give him a box on the ear, and had it been another day should +have done more. This is the second time I ever struck him. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JUNE + 1663 + + +June 1st. Begun again to rise betimes by 4 o'clock, and made an end of +"The Adventures of Five Houres," and it is a most excellent play. So to +my office, where a while and then about several businesses, in my way to +my brother's, where I dined (being invited) with Mr. Peter and Dean +Honiwood, where Tom did give us a very pretty dinner, and we very +pleasant, but not very merry, the Dean being but a weak man, though very +good. I was forced to rise, being in haste to St. James's to attend the +Duke, and left them to end their dinner; but the Duke having been +a-hunting to-day, and so lately come home and gone to bed, we could not +see him, and Mr. Coventry being out of the house too, we walked away to +White Hall and there took coach, and I with Sir J. Minnes to the Strand +May-pole; and there 'light out of his coach, and walked to the New +Theatre, which, since the King's players are gone to the Royal one, +is this day begun to be employed by the fencers to play prizes at. +And here I came and saw the first prize I ever saw in my life: and it was +between one Mathews, who did beat at all weapons, and one Westwicke, who +was soundly cut several times both in the head and legs, that he was all +over blood: and other deadly blows they did give and take in very good +earnest, till Westwicke was in a most sad pickle. They fought at eight +weapons, three bouts at each weapon. It was very well worth seeing, +because I did till this day think that it has only been a cheat; but this +being upon a private quarrel, they did it in good earnest; and I felt one +of their swords, and found it to be very little, if at all blunter on the +edge, than the common swords are. Strange to see what a deal of money is +flung to them both upon the stage between every bout. But a woful rude +rabble there was, and such noises, made my head ake all this evening. +So, well pleased for once with this sight, I walked home, doing several +businesses by the way. In my way calling to see Commissioner Pett, who +lies sick at his daughter, a pretty woman, in Gracious Street, but is +likely to be abroad again in a day or two. At home I found my wife in +bed all this day . . . . I went to see Sir Wm. Pen, who has a little +pain of his gout again, but will do well. So home to supper and to bed. +This day I hear at Court of the great plot which was lately discovered in +Ireland, made among the Presbyters and others, designing to cry up the +Covenant, and to secure Dublin Castle and other places; and they have +debauched a good part of the army there, promising them ready money. + + [This was known as "Blood's Plot," and was named after Colonel + Thomas Blood, afterwards notorious for his desperate attack upon the + Duke of Ormond in St. James's Street (1670) and for his robbery of + the crown jewels in the Tower (1671). He died August 24th, 1680.] + +Some of the Parliament there, they say, are guilty, and some withdrawn +upon it; several persons taken, and among others a son of Scott's, that +was executed here for the King's murder. What reason the King hath, I +know not; but it seems he is doubtfull of Scotland: and this afternoon, +when I was there, the Council was called extraordinary; and they were +opening the letters this last post's coming and going between Scotland +and us and other places. Blessed be God, my head and hands are clear, +and therefore my sleep safe. The King of France is well again. + + + +2d. Up and by water to White Hall and so to St. James's, to Mr. +Coventry; where I had an hour's private talk with him. Most of it was +discourse concerning his own condition, at present being under the +censure of the House, being concerned with others in the Bill for selling +of offices. He tells me, that though he thinks himself to suffer much in +his fame hereby, yet he values nothing more of evil to hang over him for +that it is against no statute, as is pretended, nor more than what his +predecessors time out of mind have taken; + + [This reminds one of the prosecution of Sir. Francis Bacon of an + earlier century. Queen Elizabeth established then, for the first + time, salaries for government officers, that they need not provide a + living for themselves by selling offices and services. D.W.] + +and that so soon as he found himself to be in an errour, he did desire to +have his fees set, which was done; and since that he hath not taken a +token more. He undertakes to prove, that he did never take a token of +any captain to get him employed in his life beforehand, or demanded any +thing: and for the other accusation, that the Cavaliers are not employed, +he looked over the list of them now in the service, and of the twenty- +seven that are employed, thirteen have been heretofore always under the +King; two neutralls, and the other twelve men of great courage, and such +as had either the King's particular commands, or great recommendation to +put them in, and none by himself. Besides that, he says it is not the +King's nor Duke's opinion that the whole party of the late officers +should be rendered desperate. And lastly, he confesses that the more of +the Cavaliers are put in, the less of discipline hath followed in the +fleet; and that, whenever there comes occasion, it must be the old ones +that must do any good, there being only, he says, but Captain Allen good +for anything of them all. He tells me, that he cannot guess whom all +this should come from; but he suspects Sir G. Carteret, as I also do, at +least that he is pleased with it. But he tells me that he will bring Sir +G. Carteret to be the first adviser and instructor of him what to make +his place of benefit to him; telling him that Smith did make his place +worth L5000 and he believed L7000 to him the first year; besides +something else greater than all this, which he forbore to tell me. It +seems one Sir Thomas Tomkins of the House, that makes many mad motions, +did bring it into the House, saying that a letter was left at his +lodgings, subscribed by one Benson (which is a feigned name, for there is +no such man in the Navy), telling him how many places in the Navy have +been sold. And by another letter, left in the same manner since, nobody +appearing, he writes him that there is one Hughes and another Butler +(both rogues, that have for their roguery been turned out of their +places), that will swear that Mr. Coventry did sell their places and +other things. I offered him my service, and will with all my heart serve +him; but he tells me he do not think it convenient to meddle, or to any +purpose, but is sensible of my love therein. So I bade him good morrow, +he being out of order to speak anything of our office business, and so +away to Westminster Hall, where I hear more of the plot from Ireland; +which it seems hath been hatching, and known to the Lord Lieutenant a +great while, and kept close till within three days that it should have +taken effect. The term ended yesterday, and it seems the Courts rose +sooner, for want of causes, than it is remembered to have done in the +memory of man. Thence up and down about business in several places, as +to speak with Mr. Phillips, but missed him, and so to Mr. Beacham, the +goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow in Sir W. Batten's case +against Field. I have been telling him our case, and I believe he will +do us good service there. So home, and seeing my wife had dined I went, +being invited, and dined with Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, and others, +at Sir W. Batten's, Captain Allen giving them a Foy' dinner, he being to +go down to lie Admiral in the Downs this summer. I cannot but think it a +little strange that having been so civil to him as I have been he should +not invite me to dinner, but I believe it was but a sudden motion, and so +I heard not of it. After dinner to the office, where all the afternoon +till late, and so to see Sir W. Pen, and so home to supper and to bed. +To-night I took occasion with the vintner's man, who came by my direction +to taste again my tierce of claret, to go down to the cellar with him to +consult about the drawing of it; and there, to my great vexation, I find +that the cellar door hath long been kept unlocked, and above half the +wine drunk. I was deadly mad at it, and examined my people round, but +nobody would confess it; but I did examine the boy, and afterwards Will, +and told him of his sitting up after we were in bed with the maids, but +as to that business he denies it, which I can [not] remedy, but I shall +endeavour to know how it went. My wife did also this evening tell me a +story of Ashwell stealing some new ribbon from her, a yard or two, which +I am sorry to hear, and I fear my wife do take a displeasure against her, +that they will hardly stay together, which I should be sorry for, because +I know not where to pick such another out anywhere. + + + +3rd. Up betimes, and studying of my double horizontal diall against Dean +Honiwood comes to me, who dotes mightily upon it, and I think I must give +it him. So after talking with Sir W. Batten, who is this morning gone to +Guildhall to his trial with Field, I to my office, and there read all the +morning in my statute-book, consulting among others the statute against +selling of offices, wherein Mr. Coventry is so much concerned; and though +he tells me that the statute do not reach him, yet I much fear that it +will. At noon, hearing that the trial is done, and Sir W. Batten come to +the Sun behind the Exchange I went thither, where he tells me that he had +much ado to carry it on his side, but that at last he did, but the jury, +by the judge's favour, did give us but; L10 damages and the charges of +the suit, which troubles me; but it is well it went not against us, which +would have been much worse. So to the Exchange, and thence home to +dinner, taking Deane of Woolwich along with me, and he dined alone with +my wife being undressed, and he and I spent all the afternoon finely, +learning of him the method of drawing the lines of a ship, to my great +satisfaction, and which is well worth my spending some time in, as I +shall do when my wife is gone into the country. In the evening to the +office and did some business, then home, and, God forgive me, did from my +wife's unwillingness to tell me whither she had sent the boy, presently +suspect that he was gone to Pembleton's, and from that occasion grew so +discontented that I could hardly speak or sleep all night. + + + +4th. Up betimes, and my wife and Ashwell and I whiled away the morning +up and down while they got themselves ready, and I did so watch to see my +wife put on drawers, which poor soul she did, and yet I could not get off +my suspicions, she having a mind to go into Fenchurch Street before she +went out for good and all with me, which I must needs construe to be to +meet Pembleton, when she afterwards told me it was to buy a fan that she +had not a mind that I should know of, and I believe it is so. Specially +I did by a wile get out of my boy that he did not yesterday go to +Pembleton's or thereabouts, but only was sent all that time for some +starch, and I did see him bringing home some, and yet all this cannot +make my mind quiet. At last by coach I carried her to Westminster Hall, +and they two to Mrs. Bowyer to go from thence to my wife's father's and +Ashwell to hers, and by and by seeing my wife's father in the Hall, and +being loth that my wife should put me to another trouble and charge by +missing him to-day, I did employ a porter to go from a person unknown to +tell him his daughter was come to his lodgings, and I at a distance did +observe him, but, Lord! what a company of questions he did ask him, what +kind of man I was, and God knows what. So he went home, and after I had +staid in the Hall a good while, where I heard that this day the +Archbishop of Canterbury, Juxon, a man well spoken of by all for a good +man, is dead; and the Bishop of London is to have his seat. Home by +water, where by and by comes Dean Honiwood, and I showed him my double +horizontal diall, and promise to give him one, and that shall be it. So, +without eating or drinking, he went away to Mr. Turner's, where Sir J. +Minnes do treat my Lord Chancellor and a great deal of guests to-day with +a great dinner, which I thank God I do not pay for; and besides, I doubt +it is too late for any man to expect any great service from my Lord +Chancellor, for which I am sorry, and pray God a worse do not come in his +room. So I to dinner alone, and so to my chamber, and then to the office +alone, my head aching and my mind in trouble for my wife, being jealous +of her spending the day, though God knows I have no great reason. Yet my +mind is troubled. By and by comes Will Howe to see us, and walked with +me an hour in the garden, talking of my Lord's falling to business again, +which I am glad of, and his coming to lie at his lodgings at White Hall +again. The match between Sir J. Cutts and my Lady Jemimah, he says, is +likely to go on; for which I am glad. In the Hall to-day Dr. Pierce +tells me that the Queen begins to be brisk, and play like other ladies, +and is quite another woman from what she was, of which I am glad. It may +be, it may make the King like her the better, and forsake his two +mistresses, my Lady Castlemaine and Stewart. He gone we sat at the +office till night, and then home, where my wife is come, and has been +with her father all the afternoon, and so home, and she and I to walk in +the garden, giving ear to her discourse of her father's affairs, and I +found all well, so after putting things in order at my office, home to +supper and to bed. + + + +5th. Up and to read a little, and by and by the carver coming, I +directed him how to make me a neat head for my viall that is making. +About 10 o'clock my wife and I, not without some discontent, abroad by +coach, and I set her at her father's; but their condition is such that +she will not let me see where they live, but goes by herself when I am +out of sight. Thence to my brother's, taking care for a passage for my +wife the next week in a coach to my father's, and thence to Paul's +Churchyard, where I found several books ready bound for me; among others, +the new Concordance of the Bible, which pleases me much, and is a book I +hope to make good use of. Thence, taking the little History of England +with me, I went by water to Deptford, where Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. +Batten attending the Pay; I dined with them, and there Dr. Britton, +parson of the town, a fine man and good company, dined with us, and good +discourse. After dinner I left them and walked to Redriffe, and thence +to White Hall, and at my Lord's lodgings found my wife, and thence +carried her to see my Lady Jemimah, but she was not within. So to Mr. +Turner's, and there saw Mr. Edward Pepys's lady, who my wife concurs with +me to be very pretty, as most women we ever saw. So home, and after a +walk in the garden a little troubled to see my wife take no more pleasure +with Ashwell, but neglect her and leave her at home. Home to supper and +to bed. + + + +6th. Lay in bed till 7 o'clock, yet rose with an opinion that it was not +5, and so continued though I heard the clock strike, till noon, and would +not believe that it was so late as it truly was. I was hardly ever so +mistaken in my life before. Up and to Sir G. Carteret at his house, and +spoke to him about business, but he being in a bad humour I had no mind +to stay with him, but walked, drinking my morning draft of whay, by the +way, to York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie; and there I saw +his people go up and down louseing themselves: they are all in a great +hurry, being to be gone the beginning of next week. But that that +pleased me best, was the remains of the noble soul of the late Duke of +Buckingham appearing in his house, in every place, in the doorcases and +the windows. By and by comes Sir John Hebden, the Russia Resident, to +me, and he and I in his coach to White Hall, to Secretary Morrice's, to +see the orders about the Russia hemp that is to be fetched from Archangel +for our King, and that being done, to coach again, and he brought me into +the City and so I home; and after dinner abroad by water, and met by +appointment Mr. Deane in the Temple Church, and he and I over to Mr. +Blackbury's yard, and thence to other places, and after that to a +drinking house, in all which places I did so practise and improve my +measuring of timber, that I can now do it with great ease and perfection, +which do please me mightily. This fellow Deane is a conceited fellow, +and one that means the King a great deal of service, more of disservice +to other people that go away with the profits which he cannot make; but, +however, I learn much of him, and he is, I perceive, of great use to the +King in his place, and so I shall give him all the encouragement I can. +Home by water, and having wrote a letter for my wife to my Lady Sandwich +to copy out to send this night's post, I to the office, and wrote there +myself several things, and so home to supper and bed. My mind being +troubled to think into what a temper of neglect I have myself flung my +wife into by my letting her learn to dance, that it will require time to +cure her of, and I fear her going into the country will but make her +worse; but only I do hope in the meantime to spend my time well in my +office, with more leisure than while she is here. Hebden, to-day in the +coach, did tell me how he is vexed to see things at Court ordered as they +are by nobody that attends to business, but every man himself or his +pleasures. He cries up my Lord Ashley to be almost the only man that he +sees to look after business; and with that ease and mastery, that he +wonders at him. He cries out against the King's dealing so much with +goldsmiths, and suffering himself to have his purse kept and commanded by +them. He tells me also with what exact care and order the States of +Holland's stores are kept in their Yards, and every thing managed there +by their builders with such husbandry as is not imaginable; which I will +endeavour to understand further, if I can by any means learn. + + + +7th (Lord's day). Whit Sunday. Lay long talking with my wife, sometimes +angry and ended pleased and hope to bring our matters to a better posture +in a little time, which God send. So up and to church, where Mr. Mills +preached, but, I know not how, I slept most of the sermon. Thence home, +and dined with my wife and Ashwell and after dinner discoursed very +pleasantly, and so I to church again in the afternoon, and, the Scot +preaching, again slept all the afternoon, and so home, and by and by to +Sir W. Batten's, to talk about business, where my Lady Batten inveighed +mightily against the German Princess, and I as high in the defence of her +wit and spirit, and glad that she is cleared at the sessions. Thence to +Sir W. Pen, who I found ill again of the gout, he tells me that now Mr. +Castle and Mrs. Martha Batten do own themselves to be married, and have +been this fortnight. Much good may it do him, for I do not envy him his +wife. So home, and there my wife and I had an angry word or two upon +discourse of our boy, compared with Sir W. Pen's boy that he has now, +whom I say is much prettier than ours and she the contrary. It troubles +me to see that every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a +difference between us. So to my office and there did a little business, +and then home to supper and to bed. Mrs. Turner, who is often at Court, +do tell me to-day that for certain the Queen hath much changed her +humour, and is become very pleasant and sociable as any; and they say is +with child, or believed to be so. + + + +8th. Up and to my office a while, and thence by coach with Sir J. Minnes +to St. James's to the Duke, where Mr. Coventry and us two did discourse +with the Duke a little about our office business, which saved our coming +in the afternoon, and so to rights home again and to dinner. After +dinner my wife and I had a little jangling, in which she did give me the +lie, which vexed me, so that finding my talking did but make her worse, +and that her spirit is lately come to be other than it used to be, and +now depends upon her having Ashwell by her, before whom she thinks I +shall not say nor do anything of force to her, which vexes me and makes +me wish that I had better considered all that I have of late done +concerning my bringing my wife to this condition of heat, I went up vexed +to my chamber and there fell examining my new concordance, that I have +bought, with Newman's, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine +altogether as copious as that and something larger, though the order in +some respects not so good, that a man may think a place is missing, when +it is only put in another place. Up by and by my wife comes and good +friends again, and to walk in the garden and so anon to supper and to +bed. My cozen John Angier the son, of Cambridge coming to me late to see +me, and I find his business is that he would be sent to sea, but I +dissuaded him from it, for I will not have to do with it without his +friends' consent. + + + +9th. Up and after ordering some things towards my wife's going into the +country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules +very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about +mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore +which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to +measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which +I have a mind to learn. So he with me home to dinner and after dinner +walk in the garden, and then we met at the office, where Coventry, Sir J. +Minnes, and I, and so in the evening, business done, I went home and +spent my time till night with my wife. Presently after my coming home +comes Pembleton, whether by appointment or no I know not, or whether by a +former promise that he would come once before my wife's going into the +country, but I took no notice of, let them go up and Ashwell with them to +dance, which they did, and I staid below in my chamber, but, Lord! how I +listened and laid my ear to the door, and how I was troubled when I heard +them stand still and not dance. Anon they made an end and had done, and +so I suffered him to go away, and spoke not to him, though troubled in my +mind, but showed no discontent to my wife, believing that this is the +last time I shall be troubled with him. So my wife and I to walk in the +garden, home and to supper and to bed. + + + +10th. Up and all the morning helping my wife to put up her things +towards her going into the country and drawing the wine out of my vessel +to send. This morning came my cozen Thomas Pepys to desire me to furnish +him with some money, which I could not do till his father has wrote to +Piggott his consent to the sale of his lands, so by and by we parted and +I to the Exchange a while and so home and to dinner, and thence to the +Royal Theatre by water, and landing, met with Captain Ferrers his friend, +the little man that used to be with him, and he with us, and sat by us +while we saw "Love in a Maze." The play is pretty good, but the life of +the play is Lacy's part, the clown, which is most admirable; but for the +rest, which are counted such old and excellent actors, in my life I never +heard both men and women so ill pronounce their parts, even to my making +myself sick therewith. Thence, Creed happening to be with us, we four to +the Half-Moon Tavern, I buying some sugar and carrying it with me, which +we drank with wine and thence to the whay-house, and drank a great deal +of whay, and so by water home, and thence to see Sir W. Pen, who is not +in much pain, but his legs swell and so immoveable that he cannot stir +them, but as they are lifted by other people and I doubt will have +another fit of his late pain. Played a little at cards with him and his +daughter, who is grown every day a finer and finer lady, and so home to +supper and to bed. When my wife and I came first home we took Ashwell +and all the rest below in the cellar with the vintner drawing out my +wine, which I blamed Ashwell much for and told her my mind that I would +not endure it, nor was it fit for her to make herself equal with the +ordinary servants of the house. + + + +11th. Up and spent most of the morning upon my measuring Ruler and with +great pleasure I have found out some things myself of great dispatch, +more than my book teaches me, which pleases me mightily. Sent my wife's +things and the wine to-day by the carrier to my father's, but staid my +boy from a letter of my father's, wherein he desires that he may not come +to trouble his family as he did the last year. Dined at home and then to +the office, where we sat all the afternoon, and at night home and spent +the evening with my wife, and she and I did jangle mightily about her +cushions that she wrought with worsteds the last year, which are too +little for any use, but were good friends by and by again. But one thing +I must confess I do observe, which I did not before, which is, that I +cannot blame my wife to be now in a worse humour than she used to be, for +I am taken up in my talk with Ashwell, who is a very witty girl, that I +am not so fond of her as I used and ought to be, which now I do perceive +I will remedy, but I would to the Lord I had never taken any, though I +cannot have a better than her. To supper and to bed. The consideration +that this is the longest day in the year is very unpleasant to me.--[It +is necessary to note that this was according to the old style.]--This +afternoon my wife had a visit from my Lady Jeminah and Mr. Ferrers. + + + +12th. Up and my office, there conning my measuring Ruler, which I shall +grow a master of in a very little time. At noon to the Exchange and so +home to dinner, and abroad with my wife by water to the Royall Theatre; +and there saw "The Committee," a merry but indifferent play, only Lacey's +part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination. Here I saw my Lord +Falconbridge, and his Lady, my Lady Mary Cromwell, who looks as well as I +have known her, and well clad; but when the House began to fill she put +on her vizard, + + [Masks were commonly used by ladies in the reign of Elizabeth, and + when their use was revived at the Restoration for respectable women + attending the theatre, they became general. They soon, however, + became the mark of loose women, and their use was discontinued by + women of repute. On June 1st, 1704, a song was sung at the theatre + in Lincoln's Inn Fields called "The Misses' Lamentation for want of + their Vizard Masques at the Theatre." Mr. R. W. Lowe gives several + references to the use of vizard masks at the theatre in his + interesting biography, "Thomas Betterton."] + +and so kept it on all the play; which of late is become a great fashion +among the ladies, which hides their whole face. So to the Exchange, to +buy things with my wife; among others, a vizard for herself. And so by +water home and to my office to do a little business, and so to see Sir W. +Pen, but being going to bed and not well I could not see him. So home +and to supper and bed, being mightily troubled all night and next morning +with the palate of my mouth being down from some cold I took to-day +sitting sweating in the playhouse, and the wind blowing through the +windows upon my head. + + + +13th. Up and betimes to Thames Street among the tarr men, to look the +price of tarr and so by water to Whitehall thinking to speak with Sir G. +Carteret, but he lying in the city all night, and meeting with Mr. Cutler +the merchant, I with him in his coach into the city to Sir G. Carteret, +but missing him there, he and I walked to find him at Sir Tho. Allen's in +Bread Street, where not finding him he and I walked towards our office, +he discoursing well of the business of the Navy, and particularly of the +victualling, in which he was once I perceive concerned, and he and I +parted and I to the office and there had a difference with Sir W. Batten +about Mr. Bowyer's tarr, which I am resolved to cross, though he sent me +last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon, which, it may be, I shall +send back, for I will not have the King abused so abominably in the price +of what we buy, by Sir W. Batten's corruption and underhand dealing. So +from the office, Mr. Wayth with me, to the Parliament House, and there I +spoke and told Sir G. Carteret all, with which he is well pleased, and do +recall his willingness yesterday, it seems, to Sir W. Batten, that we +should buy a great quantity of tarr, being abused by him. Thence with +Mr. Wayth after drinking a cupp of ale at the Swan, talking of the +corruption of the Navy, by water. I landed him at Whitefriars, and I to +the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife's brother, and +thence after dinner by water to the Royall Theatre, where I resolved to +bid farewell, as shall appear by my oaths tomorrow against all plays +either at publique houses or Court till Christmas be over. Here we saw +"The Faithfull Sheepheardesse," a most simple thing, and yet much +thronged after, and often shown, but it is only for the scenes' sake, +which is very fine indeed and worth seeing; but I am quite out of opinion +with any of their actings, but Lacy's, compared with the other house. +Thence to see Mrs. Hunt, which we did and were much made of; and in our +way saw my Lady Castlemaine, who, I fear, is not so handsome as I have +taken her for, and now she begins to decay something. This is my wife's +opinion also, for which I am sorry. Thence by coach, with a mad +coachman, that drove like mad, and down byeways, through Bucklersbury +home, everybody through the street cursing him, being ready to run over +them. So home, and after writing letters by the post, home to supper and +bed. Yesterday, upon conference with the King in the Banqueting House, +the Parliament did agree with much ado, it being carried but by forty-two +voices, that they would supply him with a sum of money; but what and how +is not yet known, but expected to be done with great disputes the next +week. But if done at all, it is well. + + + +14th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed. So up and to church. Then to +dinner, and Tom dined with me, who I think grows a very thriving man, as +he himself tells me. He tells me that his man John has got a wife, and +for that he intends to part with him, which I am sorry for, and then that +Mr. Armiger comes to be a constant lodger at his house, and he says has +money in his purse and will be a good paymaster, but I do much doubt it. +He being gone, I up and sending my people to church, my wife and I did +even our reckonings, and had a great deal of serious talk, wherein I took +occasion to give her hints of the necessity of our saving all we can. +I do see great cause every day to curse the time that ever I did give way +to the taking of a woman for her, though I could never have had a better, +and also the letting of her learn to dance, by both which her mind is so +devilishly taken off her business and minding her occasions, and besides +has got such an opinion in her of my being jealous, that it is never to +be removed, I fear, nor hardly my trouble that attends it; but I must +have patience. I did give her 40s. to carry into the country tomorrow +with her, whereof 15s. is to go for the coach-hire for her and Ashwell, +there being 20s. paid here already in earnest. In the evening our +discourse turned to great content and love, and I hope that after a +little forgetting our late differences, and being a while absent one from +another, we shall come to agree as well as ever. So to Sir W. Pen's to +visit him, and finding him alone, sent for my wife, who is in her riding- +suit, to see him, which she hath not done these many months I think. By +and by in comes Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, and so we sat talking. +Among other things, Sir J. Minnes brought many fine expressions of +Chaucer, which he doats on mightily, and without doubt he is a very fine +poet. + + [Pepys continued through life an admirer of Chaucer, and we have the + authority of Dryden himself for saying that we owe his character of + the Good Parson to Pepys's recommendation.] + +Sir W. Pen continues lame of the gout, that he cannot rise from his +chair. So after staying an hour with him, we went home and to supper, +and so to prayers and bed. + + + +15th. Up betimes, and anon my wife rose and did give me her keys, and +put other things in order and herself against going this morning into the +country. I was forced to go to Thames Street and strike up a bargain for +some tarr, to prevent being abused therein by Hill, who was with me this +morning, and is mightily surprised that I should tell him what I can have +the same tarr with his for. Thence home, but finding my wife gone, I +took coach and after her to her inn, where I am troubled to see her +forced to sit in the back of the coach, though pleased to see her company +none but women and one parson; she I find is troubled at all, and I +seemed to make a promise to get a horse and ride after them; and so, +kissing her often, and Ashwell once, I bid them adieu. So home by coach, +and thence by water to Deptford to the Trinity House, where I came a +little late; but I found them reading their charter, which they did like +fools, only reading here and there a bit, whereas they ought to do it +all, every word, and then proceeded to the election of a maister, which +was Sir W. Batten, without any control, who made a heavy, short speech to +them, moving them to give thanks to the late Maister for his pains, which +he said was very great, and giving them thanks for their choice of him, +wherein he would serve them to the best of his power. Then to the choice +of their assistants and wardens, and so rose. I might have received 2s. +6d. as a younger Brother, but I directed one of the servants of the House +to receive it and keep it. Thence to church, where Dr. Britton preached +a sermon full of words against the Nonconformists, but no great matter in +it, nor proper for the day at all. His text was, "With one mind and one +mouth give glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." That +done, by water, I in the barge with the Maister, to the Trinity House at +London; where, among others, I found my Lords Sandwich and Craven, and my +cousin Roger Pepys, and Sir Wm. Wheeler. Anon we sat down to dinner, +which was very great, as they always have. Great variety of talk. Mr. +Prin, among many, had a pretty tale of one that brought in a bill in +parliament for the empowering him to dispose his land to such children as +he should have that should bear the name of his wife. It was in Queen +Elizabeth's time. One replied that there are many species of creatures +where the male gives the denomination to both sexes, as swan and +woodcock, but not above one where the female do, and that is a goose. +Both at and after dinner we had great discourses of the nature and power +of spirits, and whether they can animate dead bodies; in all which, as of +the general appearance of spirits, my Lord Sandwich is very scepticall. +He says the greatest warrants that ever he had to believe any, is the +present appearing of the Devil + + [In 1664, there being a generall report all over the kingdom of Mr. + Monpesson his house being haunted, which hee himself affirming to + the King and Queene to be true, the King sent the Lord Falmouth, and + the Queene sent mee, to examine the truth of; but wee could neither + see nor heare anything that was extraordinary; and about a year + after, his Majesty told me that hee had discovered the cheat, and + that Mr. Monpesson, upon his Majesty sending for him, confessed it + to him. And yet Mr. Monpesson, in a printed letter, had afterwards + the confidence to deny that hee had ever made any such confession" + ("Letters of the Second Earl of Chesterfield," p. 24, 1829, 8vo.). + Joseph Glanville published a relation of the famous disturbance at + the house of Mr. Monpesson, at Tedworth, Wilts, occasioned by the + beating of an invisible drum every night for a year. This story, + which was believed at the time, furnished the plot for Addison's + play of "The Drummer, or the Haunted House." In the "Mercurius + Publicus," April 16-23, 1663, there is a curious examination on this + subject, by which it appears that one William Drury, of Uscut, + Wilts, was the invisible drummer.--B.] + +in Wiltshire, much of late talked of, who beats a drum up and down. +There are books of it, and, they say, very true; but my Lord observes, +that though he do answer to any tune that you will play to him upon +another drum, yet one tune he tried to play and could not; which makes +him suspect the whole; and I think it is a good argument. Sometimes they +talked of handsome women, and Sir J. Minnes saying that there was no +beauty like what he sees in the country-markets, and specially at Bury, +in which I will agree with him that there is a prettiest women I ever +saw. My Lord replied thus: "Sir John, what do you think of your +neighbour's wife?" looking upon me. "Do you not think that he hath a +great beauty to his wife? Upon my word he hath." Which I was not a +little proud of. Thence by barge with my Lord to Blackfriars, where we +landed and I thence walked home, where vexed to find my boy (whom I boxed +at his coming for it) and Will abroad, though he was but upon Tower Hill +a very little while. My head akeing with the healths I was forced to +drink to-day I sent for the barber, and he having done, I up to my wife's +closett, and there played on my viallin a good while, and without supper +anon to bed, sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart, +though of late she has given me some troubled thoughts. + + + +16th. Up, but not so early as I intend now, and to my office, where +doing business all the morning. At noon by desire I dined with Sir W. +Batten, who tells me that the House have voted the supply, intended for +the King, shall be by subsidy. After dinner with Sir J. Minnes to see +some pictures at Brewer's, said to be of good hands, but I do not like +them. So I to the office and thence to Stacy's, his Tar merchant,. +whose servant with whom I agreed yesterday for some tar do by combination +with Bowyer and Hill fall from our agreement, which vexes us all at the +office, even Sir W. Batten, who was so earnest for it. So to the office, +where we sat all the afternoon till night, and then to Sir W. Pen, who +continues ill, and so to bed about 10 o'clock. + + + +17th. Up before 4 o'clock, which is the hour I intend now to rise at, +and to my office a while, and with great pleasure I fell to my business +again. Anon went with money to my tar merchant to pay for the tar, which +he refuses to sell me; but now the master is come home, and so he speaks +very civilly, and I believe we shall have it with peace. I brought back +my money to my office, and thence to White Hall, and in the garden spoke +to my Lord Sandwich, who is in his gold-buttoned suit, as the mode is, +and looks nobly. Captain Ferrers, I see, is come home from France. I +only spoke one word to him, my Lord being there. He tells me the young +gentlemen are well there; so my Lord went to my Lord Albemarle's to +dinner, and I by water home and dined alone, and at the office (after +half an hour's viallin practice after dinner) till late at night, and so +home and to bed. This day I sent my cozen Edward Pepys his Lady, at my +cozen Turner's, a piece of venison given me yesterday, and Madam Turner +I sent for a dozen bottles of her's, to fill with wine for her. This day +I met with Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that the King has made peace +between Mr. Edward Montagu and his father Lord Montagu, and that all is +well again; at which; for the family's sake, I am very glad, but do not +think it will hold long. + + + +18th. Up by four o'clock and to my office, where all the morning writing +out in my Navy collections the ordinary estimate of the Navy, and did it +neatly. Then dined at home alone, my mind pleased with business, but sad +for the absence of my wife. After dinner half an hour at my viallin, and +then all the afternoon sitting at the office late, and so home and to +bed. This morning Mr. Cutler came and sat in my closet half an hour with +me, his discourse very excellent, being a wise man, and I do perceive by +him as well as many others that my diligence is taken notice of in the +world, for which I bless God and hope to continue doing so. Before I +went into my house this night I called at Sir W. Batten's, where finding +some great ladies at table at supper with him and his lady, I retreated +and went home, though they called to me again and again, and afterwards +sent for me. So I went, and who should it be but Sir Fr. Clerke and his +lady and another proper lady at supper there, and great cheer, where I +staid till 11 o'clock at night, and so home and to bed. + + + +19th. Lay till 6 o'clock, and then up and to my office, where all the +morning, and at noon to the Exchange, and coming home met Mr. Creed, and +took him back, and he dined with me, and by and by came Mr. Moore, whom I +supplied with L30, and then abroad with them by water to Lambeth, +expecting to have seen the Archbishop lie in state; but it seems he is +not laid out yet. And so over to White Hall, and at the Privy Seal +Office examined the books, and found the grant of increase of salary to +the principall officers in the year 1639, L300 among the Controller, +Surveyor, and Clerk of the Shippes. Thence to Wilkinson's after a good +walk in the Park, where we met on horseback Captain Ferrers; who tells us +that the King of France is well again, and that he saw him train his +Guards, all brave men, at Paris; and that when he goes to his mistress, +Madame la Valiere, a pretty little woman, now with child by him, he goes +with his guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets and kettle-drums +with him, who stay before the house while he is with her; and yet he says +that, for all this, the Queen do not know of it, for that nobody dares to +tell her; but that I dare not believe. Thence I to Wilkinson's, where we +had bespoke a dish of pease, where we eat them very merrily, and there +being with us the little gentleman, a friend of Captain Ferrers, that was +with my wife and I at a play a little while ago, we went thence to the +Rhenish wine-house, where we called for a red Rhenish wine called +Bleahard, a pretty wine, and not mixed, as they say. Here Mr. Moore +showed us the French manner, when a health is drunk, to bow to him that +drunk to you, and then apply yourself to him, whose lady's health is +drunk, and then to the person that you drink to, which I never knew +before; but it seems it is now the fashion. Thence by water home and to +bed, having played out of my chamber window on my pipe before I went to +bed, and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive +in a little while he will be pretty ready, if he spends but a little +pains in it. + + + +20th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and dined at home, Mr. +Deane, of Woolwich, with me, and he and I all the afternoon down by +water, and in a timber yard, measuring of timber, which I now understand +thoroughly, and shall be able in a little time to do the King great +service. Home in the evening, and after Will's reading a little in the +Latin Testament, to bed. + + + +21st (Lord's day). Up betimes, and fell to reading my Latin grammar, +which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my +calling Will to the reading of a chapter in Latin, and I am resolved to +go through it. After being trimmed, I by water to White Hall, and so +over the Park, it raining hard, to Mr. Coventry's chamber, where I spent +two hours with him about business of the Navy, and how by his absence +things are like to go with us, and with good content from my being with +him he carried me by coach and set me down at Whitehall, and thence to +right home by water. He shewed me a list, which he hath prepared for the +Parliament's view, if the business of his selling of offices should be +brought to further hearing, wherein he reckons up, as I remember, 236 +offices of ships which have been disposed of without his taking one +farthing. This, of his own accord, he opened his cabinet on purpose to +shew me, meaning, I suppose, that I should discourse abroad of it, and +vindicate him therein, which I shall with all my power do. At home, +being wet, shifted my band and things, and then to dinner, and after +dinner went up and tried a little upon my tryangle, which I understand +fully, and with a little use I believe could bring myself to do +something. So to church, and slept all the sermon, the Scot, to whose +voice I am not to be reconciled, preaching. Thence with Sir J. Minnes +(who poor man had forgot that he carried me the other day to the +painter's to see some pictures which he has since bought and are brought +home) to his Jodgings to see some base things he calls them of great +masters of painting. So I said nothing that he had shown me them +already, but commended them, and I think they are indeed good enough. +Thence to see Sir W. Pen, who continues ill of the gout still. Here we +staid a good while, and then I to my office, and read my vows seriously +and with content, and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed. + + + +22nd. Up betimes and to my office, reading over all our letters of the +office that we have wrote since I came into the Navy, whereby to bring +the whole series of matters into my memory, and to enter in my manuscript +some of them that are needful and of great influence. By and by with Sir +W. Batten by coach to Westminster, where all along I find the shops +evening with the sides of the houses, even in the broadest streets; which +will make the City very much better than it was. I walked in the Hall +from one man to another. Hear that the House is still divided about the +manner of levying the subsidys which they intend to give the King, both +as to the manner, the time, and the number. It seems the House do +consent to send to the King to desire that he would be graciously pleased +to let them know who it was that did inform him of what words Sir Richard +Temple should say, which were to this purpose: "That if the King would +side with him, or be guided by him and his party, that he should not lack +money:" but without knowing who told it, they do not think fit to call +him to any account for it. Thence with Creed and bought a lobster, and +then to an alehouse, where the maid of the house is a confident merry +lass, and if modest is very pleasant to the customers that come thither. +Here we eat it, and thence to walk in the Park a good while. The Duke +being gone a-hunting, and by and by came in and shifted himself; he +having in his hunting, rather than go about, 'light and led his horse +through a river up to his breast, and came so home: and when we were +come, which was by and by, we went on to him, and being ready he retired +with us, and we had a long discourse with him. But Mr. Creed's accounts +stick still through the perverse ignorance of Sir G. Carteret, which I +cannot safely control as I would. Thence to the Park again, and there +walked up and down an hour or two till night with Creed, talking, who is +so knowing, and a man of that reason, that I cannot but love his company, +though I do not love the man, because he is too wise to be made a friend +of, and acts all by interest and policy, but is a man fit to learn of. +So to White Hall, and by water to the Temple, and calling at my brother's +and several places, but to no purpose, I came home, and meeting Strutt, +the purser, he tells me for a secret that he was told by Field that he +had a judgment against me in the Exchequer for L400. So I went to Sir W. +Batten, and taking Mr. Batten, his son the counsellor, with me, by coach, +I went to Clerke, our Solicitor, who tells me there can be no such thing, +and after conferring with them two together, who are resolved to look +well after the business, I returned home and to my office, setting down +this day's passages, and having a letter that all is well in the country +I went home to supper, and then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed. + + + +23rd. Up by four o'clock, and so to my office; but before I went out, +calling, as I have of late done, for my boy's copybook, I found that he +had not done his task; so I beat him, and then went up to fetch my rope's +end, but before I got down the boy was gone. I searched the cellar with +a candle, and from top to bottom could not find him high nor low. So to +the office; and after an hour or two, by water to the Temple, to my cozen +Roger; who, I perceive, is a deadly high man in the Parliament business, +and against the Court, showing me how they have computed that the King +hath spent, at least hath received, about four millions of money since he +came in: and in Sir J. Winter's case, in which I spoke to him, he is so +high that he says he deserves to be hanged, and all the high words he +could give, which I was sorry to see, though I am confident he means +well. Thence by water home, and to the 'Change; and by and by comes the +King and the Queen by in great state, and the streets full of people. +I stood in Mr.--------'s balcone. They dine all at my Lord Mayor's; but +what he do for victuals, or room for them, I know not. So home to dinner +alone, and there I found that my boy had got out of doors, and came in +for his hat and band, and so is gone away to his brother; but I do +resolve even to let him go away for good and all. So I by and by to the +office, and there had a great fray with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, +who, like an old dotard, is led by the nose by him. It was in Captain +Cocke's business of hemp, wherein the King is absolutely abused; but I +was for peace sake contented to be quiet and to sign to his bill, but in +my manner so as to justify myself, and so all was well; but to see what a +knave Sir W. Batten is makes my heart ake. So late at my office, and +then home to supper and to bed, my man Will not being well. + + + +24th. Up before 4 o'clock, and so to my lute an hour or more, and then +by water, drinking my morning draft alone at an alehouse in Thames +Street, to the Temple, and thence after a little discourse with my cozen +Roger about some business, away by water to St. James's, and there an +hour's private discourse with Mr. Coventry, where he told me one thing to +my great joy, that in the business of Captain Cocke's hemp, disputed +before him the other day, Mr. Coventry absent, the Duke did himself tell +him since, that Mr. Pepys and he did stand up and carry it against the +rest that were there, Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, which do please +me much to see that the Duke do take notice of me. We did talk highly of +Sir W. Batten's corruption, which Mr. Coventry did very kindly say that +it might be only his heaviness and unaptness for business, that he do +things without advice and rashly, and to gratify people that do eat and +drink and play with him, and that now and then he observes that he signs +bills only in anger and fury to be rid of men. Speaking of Sir G. +Carteret, of whom I perceive he speaks but slightly, and diminishing of +him in his services for the King in Jersey; that he was well rewarded, +and had good lands and rents, and other profits from the King, all the +time he was there; and that it was always his humour to have things done +his way. He brought an example how he would not let the Castle there be +victualled for more than a month, that so he might keep it at his beck, +though the people of the town did offer to supply it more often +themselves, which, when one did propose to the King, Sir George Carteret +being by, says Sir George, "Let me know who they are that would do it, I +would with all my heart pay them." "Ah, by God," says the Commander that +spoke of it, "that is it that they are afeard of, that you would hug +them," meaning that he would not endure them. Another thing he told me, +how the Duke of York did give Sir G. Carteret and the Island his profits +as Admirall, and other things, toward the building of a pier there. But +it was never laid out, nor like to be. So it falling out that a lady +being brought to bed, the Duke was to be desired to be one of the +godfathers; and it being objected that that would not be proper, there +being no peer of the land to be joyned with him, the lady replied, "Why, +let him choose; and if he will not be a godfather without a peer, then +let him even stay till he hath made a pier of his own." + + [In the same spirit, long after this, some question arising as to + the best material to be used in building Westminster Bridge, Lord + Chesterfield remarked, that there were too many wooden piers (peers) + at Westminster already.--B.] + +He tells me, too, that he hath lately been observed to tack about at +Court, and to endeavour to strike in with the persons that are against +the Chancellor; but this he says of him, that he do not say nor do +anything to the prejudice of the Chancellor. But he told me that the +Chancellor was rising again, and that of late Sir G. Carteret's business +and employment hath not been so full as it used to be while the +Chancellor stood up. From that we discoursed of the evil of putting out +men of experience in business as the Chancellor, and from that to speak +of the condition of the King's party at present, who, as the Papists, +though otherwise fine persons, yet being by law kept for these fourscore +years out of employment, they are now wholly uncapable of business; and +so the Cavaliers for twenty years, who, says he, for the most part have +either given themselves over to look after country and family business, +and those the best of them, and the rest to debauchery, &c.; and that +was it that hath made him high against the late Bill brought into the +House for the making all men incapable of employment that had served +against the King. Why, says he, in the sea-service, it is impossible to +do any thing without them, there being not more than three men of the +whole King's side that are fit to command almost; and these were Captain +Allen, Smith, and Beech; and it may be Holmes, and Utber, and Batts might +do something. I desired him to tell me if he thought that I did speak +anything that I do against Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes out of ill +will or design. He told me quite the contrary, and that there was reason +enough. After a good deal of good and fine discourse, I took leave, and +so to my Lord Sandwich's house, where I met my Lord, and there did +discourse of our office businesses, and how the Duke do show me kindness, +though I have endeavoured to displease more or less of my fellow +officers, all but Mr. Coventry and Pett; but it matters not. Yes, says +my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, who is great with the Chancellor; I told him the +Chancellor I have thought was declining, and however that the esteem he +has among them is nothing but for a jester or a ballad maker; at which my +Lord laughs, and asks me whether I believe he ever could do that well. +Thence with Mr. Creed up and down to an ordinary, and, the King's Head +being full, went to the other over against it, a pretty man that keeps +it, and good and much meat, better than the other, but the company and +room so small that he must break, and there wants the pleasure that the +other house has in its company. Here however dined an old courtier that +is now so, who did bring many examples and arguments to prove that seldom +any man that brings any thing to Court gets any thing, but rather the +contrary; for knowing that they have wherewith to live, will not enslave +themselves to the attendance, and flattery, and fawning condition of a +courtier, whereas another that brings nothing, and will be contented to +cog, and lie, and flatter every man and woman that has any interest with +the persons that are great in favour, and can cheat the King, as nothing +is to be got without offending God and the King, there he for the most +part, and he alone, saves any thing. Thence to St. James Park, and there +walked two or three hours talking of the difference between Sir G. +Carteret and Mr. Creed about his accounts, and how to obviate him, but +I find Creed a deadly cunning fellow and one that never do any thing +openly, but has intrigues in all he do or says. Thence by water home to +see all well, and thence down to Greenwich, arid there walked into a +pretty common garden and there played with him at nine pins for some +drink, and to make the fellows drink that set up the pins, and so home +again being very cold, and taking a very great cold, being to-day the +first time in my tabby doublet this year. Home, and after a small supper +Creed and I to bed. This day I observed the house, which I took to be +the new tennis-court, newly built next my Lord's lodgings, to be fallen +down by the badness of the foundation or slight working, which my cozen +Roger and his discontented party cry out upon, as an example how the +King's work is done, which I am sorry to see him and others so apt to +think ill of things. It hath beaten down a good deal of my Lord's +lodgings, and had like to have killed Mrs. Sarah, she having but newly +gone out of it. + + + +25th. Up both of us pretty early and to my chamber, where he and I did +draw up a letter to Sir G. Carteret in excuse and preparation for Creed +against we meet before the Duke upon his accounts, which I drew up and it +proved very well, but I am pleased to see with what secret cunning and +variety of artifice this Creed has carried on his business even unknown +to me, which he is now forced by an accident to communicate to me. So +that taking up all the papers of moment which lead to the clearing of his +accounts unobserved out of the Controller's hand, which he now makes +great use of; knowing that the Controller has not wherewith to betray +him. About this all the morning, only Mr. Bland came to me about some +business of his, and told me the news, which holds to be true, that the +Portuguese did let in the Spaniard by a plot, and they being in the midst +of the country and we believing that they would have taken the whole +country, they did all rise and kill the whole body, near 8,000 men, and +Don John of Austria having two horses killed under him, was forced with +one man to flee away. Sir George Carteret at the office (after dinner, +and Creed being gone, for both now and yesterday I was afraid to have him +seen by Sir G. Carteret with me, for fear that he should increase his +doubt that I am of a plot with Creed in the business of his accounts) did +tell us that upon Tuesday last, being with my Lord Treasurer, he showed +him a letter from Portugall speaking of the advance of the Spaniards into +their country, and yet that the Portuguese were never more courageous +than now; for by an old prophecy, from France, sent thither some years, +though not many since, from the French King, it is foretold that the +Spaniards should come into their country, and in such a valley they +should be all killed, and then their country should be wholly delivered +from the Spaniards. This was on Tuesday last, and yesterday came the +very first news that in this very valley they had thus routed and killed +the Spaniards, which is very strange but true. So late at the office, +and then home to supper and to bed. This noon I received a letter from +the country from my wife, wherein she seems much pleased with the +country; God continue that she may have pleasure while she is there. +She, by my Lady's advice, desires a new petticoat of the new silk striped +stuff, very pretty. So I went to Paternoster Row' presently, and bought +her one, with Mr. Creed's help, a very fine rich one, the best I did see +there, and much better than she desires or expects, and sent it by Creed +to Unthanke to be made against tomorrow to send by the carrier, thinking +it had been but Wednesday to-day, but I found myself mistaken, and also +the taylor being out of the way, it could not be done, but the stuff was +sent me back at night by Creed to dispose of some other way to make, but +now I shall keep it to next week. + + + +26th. Up betimes, and Mr. Moore coming to see me, he and + + [Paternoster Row, now famous as the headquarters of the publishing + houses, was at this time chiefly inhabited by mercers. "This + street, before the Fire of London, was taken up by eminent Mercers, + Silkmen and Lacemen; and their shops were so resorted to by the + nobility and gentry in their coaches, that oft times the street was + so stop'd up that there was no passage for foot passengers" + (Strype's "Stow," book iii., p. 195)]. + +I discoursed of going to Oxford this Commencement, Mr. Nathaniel Crew +being Proctor and Mr. Childe commencing Doctor of Musique this year, +which I have a great mind to do, and, if I can, will order my matters so +that I may do it. By and by, he and I to the Temple, it raining hard, my +cozen Roger being got out, he and I walked a good while among the Temple +trees discoursing of my getting my Lord to let me have security upon his +estate for L100 per ann. for two lives, my own and my wife, for my money. +But upon second thoughts Mr. Moore tells me it is very likely my Lord +will think that I beg something, and may take it ill, and so we resolved +not to move it there, but to look for it somewhere else. Here it raining +hard he and I walked into the King's Bench Court, where I never was +before, and there staid an hour almost, till it had done raining, which +is a sad season, that it is said there hath not been one fair day these +three months, and I think it is true, and then by water to Westminster, +and at the Parliament House I spoke with Roger Pepys. The House is upon +the King's answer to their message about Temple, which is, that my Lord +of Bristoll did tell him that Temple did say those words; so the House +are resolved upon sending some of their members to him to know the truth, +and to demand satisfaction if it be not true. So by water home, and +after a little while getting me ready, Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, my +Lady Batten, and I by coach to Bednall Green, to Sir W. Rider's to +dinner, where a fine place, good lady mother, and their daughter, Mrs. +Middleton, a fine woman. A noble dinner, and a fine merry walk with the +ladies alone after dinner in the garden, which is very pleasant; the +greatest quantity of strawberrys I ever saw, and good, and a collation of +great mirth, Sir J. Minnes reading a book of scolding very prettily. +This very house + + [Sir William Rider's house was known as Kirby Castle, and was + supposed to have been built in 1570 by John Thorpe for John Kirby. + It was associated in rhyme with other follies of the time in bricks + and mortar, as recorded by Stow + + "Kirkebyes Castell, and Fisher's Follie, + Spinila's pleasure, and Megse's glorie." + + The place was known in Strype's time as the "Blind Beggar's House," + but he knew nothing of the ballad, "The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall + Green," for he remarks, "perhaps Kirby beggared himself by it." Sr. + William Rider died at this house in 1669.] + +was built by the Blind Beggar of Bednall Green, so much talked of and +sang in ballads; but they say it was only some of the outhouses of it. +We drank great store of wine, and a beer glass at last which made me +almost sick. At table, discoursing of thunder and lightning, they told +many stories of their own knowledge at table of their masts being +shivered from top to bottom, and sometimes only within and the outside +whole, but among the rest Sir W. Rider did tell a story of his own +knowledge, that a Genoese gaily in Leghorn Roads was struck by thunder, +so as the mast was broke a-pieces, and the shackle upon one of the slaves +was melted clear off of his leg without hurting his leg. Sir William +went on board the vessel, and would have contributed towards the release +of the slave whom Heaven had thus set free, but he could not compass it, +and so he was brought to his fetters again. In the evening home, and a +little to my Tryangle, and so to bed. + + + +27th. Up by 4 o'clock and a little to my office. Then comes by +agreement Sir W. Warren, and he and I from ship to ship to see deals of +all sorts, whereby I have encreased my knowledge and with great pleasure. +Then to his yard and house, where I staid two hours or more discoursing +of the expense of the navy and the corruption of Sir W. Batten and his +man Wood that he brings or would bring to sell all that is to be sold by +the Navy. Then home to the office, where we sat a little, and at noon +home to dinner, alone, and thence, it raining hard, by water to the +Temple, and so to Lincoln's Inn, and there walked up and down to see the +new garden which they are making, and will be very pretty, and so to walk +under the Chappell by agreement, whither Mr. Clerke our Solicitor came to +me, and he fetched Mr. Long, our Attorney in the Exchequer in the +business against Field, and I directed him to come to the best and +speediest composition he could, which he will do. So home on foot, +calling upon my brother's and elsewhere upon business, and so home to my +office, and there wrote letters to my father and wife, and so home to +bed, taking three pills overnight. + + + +28th (Lord's day). Early in the morning my last night's physic worked +and did give me a good stool, and then I rose and had three or four +stools, and walked up and down my chamber. Then up, my maid rose and +made me a posset, and by and by comes Mr. Creed, and he and I spent all +the morning discoursing against to-morrow before the Duke the business of +his pieces of eight, in which the Treasurer makes so many queries. At +noon, my physic having done working, I went down to dinner, and then he +and I up again and spent most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and +other books of good discourse, and then he went away, and then came my +brother Tom to see me, telling me how the Joyces do make themselves fine +clothes against Mary is brought to bed. He being gone I went to cast up +my monthly accounts, and to my great trouble I find myself L7 worse than +I was the last month, but I confess it is by my reckoning beforehand a +great many things, yet however I am troubled to see that I can hardly +promise myself to lay up much from month's end to month's end, about L4 +or L5 at most, one month with another, without some extraordinary +gettings, but I must and I hope I shall continue to have a care of my own +expenses. So to the reading my vows seriously and then to supper. This +evening there came my boy's brother to see for him, and tells me he knows +not where he is, himself being out of town this week and is very sorry +that he is gone, and so am I, but he shall come no more. So to prayers, +and to bed. + + + +29th. Up betimes and to my office, and by and by to the Temple, and +there appointed to meet in the evening about my business, and thence I +walked home, and up and down the streets is cried mightily the great +victory got by the Portugalls against the Spaniards, where 10,000 slain, +3 or 4,000 taken prisoners, with all the artillery, baggage, money, &c., +and Don John of Austria + + [He was natural son of Philip IV., King of Spain, who, after his + father's death in 1665, exerted his whole influence to overthrow the + Regency appointed during the young king's minority.--B.] + +forced to flee with a man or two with him, which is very great news. +Thence home and at my office all the morning, and then by water to St. +James's, but no meeting to-day being holy day, but met Mr. Creed in the +Park, and after a walk or two, discoursing his business, took leave of +him in Westminster Hall, whither we walked, and then came again to the +Hall and fell to talk with Mrs. Lane, and after great talk that she never +went abroad with any man as she used heretofore to do, I with one word +got her to go with me and to meet me at the further Rhenish wine-house, +where I did give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over, +making her believe how fair and good a skin she has, and indeed she has a +very white thigh and leg, but monstrous fat. When weary I did give over +and somebody, having seen some of our dalliance, called aloud in the +street, "Sir! why do you kiss the gentlewoman so?" and flung a stone at +the window, which vexed me, but I believe they could not see my touzing +her, and so we broke up and I went out the back way, without being +observed I think, and so she towards the Hall and I to White Hall, where +taking water I to the Temple with my cozen Roger and Mr. Goldsborough to +Gray's Inn to his counsel, one Mr. Rawworth, a very fine man, where it +being the question whether I as executor should give a warrant to +Goldsborough in my reconveying her estate back again, the mortgage being +performed against all acts of the testator, but only my own, my cozen +said he never heard it asked before; and the other that it was always +asked, and he never heard it denied, or scrupled before, so great a +distance was there in their opinions, enough to make a man forswear ever +having to do with the law; so they agreed to refer it to Serjeant +Maynard. So we broke up, and I by water home from the Temple, and there +to Sir W. Batten and eat with him, he and his lady and Sir J. Minnes +having been below to-day upon the East India men that are come in, but +never tell me so, but that they have been at Woolwich and Deptford, and +done great deal of business. God help them. So home and up to my lute +long, and then, after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed. But I +have used of late, since my wife went, to make a bad use of my fancy with +whatever woman I have a mind to, which I am ashamed of, and shall +endeavour to do so no more. So to sleep. + + + +30th. Up betimes yesterday and to-day, the sun rising very bright and +glorious; and yet yesterday, as it hath been these two months and more, +was a foul day the most part of the day. By and by by water to White +Hall, and there to my Lord's lodgings by appointment, whither Mr. Creed +comes to me, having been at Chelsey this morning to fetch my Lord to St. +James's. So he and I to the Park, where we understand that the King and +Duke are gone out betimes this morning on board the East India ships +lately come in, and so our meeting appointed is lost. But he and I +walked at the further end of the Park, not to be observed, whither by and +by comes my Lord Sandwich, and he and we walked two hours and more in the +Park and then in White Hall Gallery, and lastly in White Hall garden, +discoursing of Mr. Creed's accounts, and how to answer the Treasurer's +objections. I find that the business is L500 deep, the advantage of +Creed, and why my Lord and I should be concerned to promote his profit +with so much dishonour and trouble to us I know not, but however we shall +do what we can, though he deserves it not, for there is nothing even to +his own advantage that can be got out of him, but by mere force. So full +of policy he is in the smallest matters, that I perceive him to be made +up of nothing but design. I left him here, being in my mind vexed at the +trouble that this business gets me, and the distance that it makes +between Sir G. Carteret and myself, which I ought to avoyd. Thence by +water home and to dinner, and afterwards to the office, and there sat +till evening, and then I by water to Deptford to see Sir W. Pen, who lies +ill at Captain Rooth's, but in a way to be well again this weather, this +day being the only fair day we have had these two or three months. Among +other discourse I did tell him plainly some of my thoughts concerning Sir +W. Batten. and the office in general, upon design for him to understand +that I do mind things and will not balk to take notice of them, that when +he comes to be well again he may know how to look upon me. Thence +homeward walked, and in my way met Creed coming to meet me, and then +turned back and walk a while, and so to boat and home by water, I being +not very forward to talk of his business, and he by design the same, to +see how I would speak of it, but I did not, but in general terms, and so +after supper with general discourse to bed and sleep. Thus, by God's +blessing, ends this book of two years; I being in all points in good +health and a good way to thrive and do well. Some money I do and can lay +up, but not much, being worth now above L700, besides goods of all sorts. +My wife in the country with Ashwell, her woman, with my father; myself at +home with W. Hewer and my cooke-maid Hannah, my boy Wayneman being lately +run away from me. In my office, my repute and understanding good, +especially with the Duke and Mr. Coventry; only the rest of the officers +do rather envy than love me, I standing in most of their lights, +specially Sir W. Batten, whose cheats I do daily oppose to his great +trouble, though he appears mighty kind and willing to keep friendship +with me, while Sir J. Minnes, like a dotard, is led by the nose by him. +My wife and I, by my late jealousy, for which I am truly to be blamed, +have not the kindness between us which we used and ought to have, and I +fear will be lost hereafter if I do not take course to oblige her and yet +preserve my authority. Publique matters are in an ill condition; +Parliament sitting and raising four subsidys for the King, which is but a +little, considering his wants; and yet that parted withal with great +hardness. They being offended to see so much money go, and no debts of +the publique's paid, but all swallowed by a luxurious Court: which the +King it is believed and hoped will retrench in a little time, when he +comes to see the utmost of the revenue which shall be settled on him: he +expecting to have his L1,200,000 made good to him, which is not yet done +by above L150,000, as he himself reports to the House. My differences +with my uncle Thomas at a good quiett, blessed be God! and other +matters. The town full of the great overthrow lately given to the +Spaniards by the Portugalls, they being advanced into the very middle of +Portugall. The weather wet for two or three months together beyond +belief, almost not one fair day coming between till this day, which has +been a very pleasant [day] and the first pleasant [day] this summer. The +charge of the Navy intended to be limited to L200,000 per annum, the +ordinary charge of it, and that to be settled upon the Customs. The King +yet greatly taken up with Madam Castlemaine and Mrs. Stewart, which God +of Heaven put an end to! Myself very studious to learn what I can of all +things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy, reading lately +what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides. I have of +late spent much time with Creed, being led to it by his business of his +accounts, but I find him a fellow of those designs and tricks, that there +is no degree of true friendship to be made with him, and therefore I must +cast him off, though he be a very understanding man, and one that much +may be learned of as to cunning and judging of other men. Besides, too, +I do perceive more and more that my time of pleasure and idleness of any +sort must be flung off to attend to getting of some money and the keeping +of my family in order, which I fear by my wife's liberty may be otherwise +lost. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +A woman sober, and no high-flyer, as he calls it +After awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends +Book itself, and both it and them not worth a turd +But a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises +Did find none of them within, which I was glad of +Did so watch to see my wife put on drawers, which (she did) +Duodecimal arithmetique +Employed by the fencers to play prizes at +Enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great many +Every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a difference +Give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over +God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my own mind +Goes with his guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets +Great plot which was lately discovered in Ireland +He hoped he should live to see her "ugly and willing" +He is too wise to be made a friend of +I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me +I slept most of the sermon +In some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole church +It must be the old ones that must do any good +Jealous, though God knows I have no great reason +John has got a wife, and for that he intends to part with him +Keep at interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit +Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife +My wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot. . . . +No sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that ever I saw +Nor would become obliged too much to any +Nothing is to be got without offending God and the King +Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design +Reading my Latin grammar, which I perceive I have great need +Sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart +Saw his people go up and down louseing themselves +See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do +Sent me last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon +She begins not at all to take pleasure in me or study to please +She used the word devil, which vexed me +So home, and after supper did wash my feet, and so to bed +Softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no +Statute against selling of offices +The goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow +Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad +Therefore ought not to expect more justice from her +They say now a common mistress to the King +Through the Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets] +Upon a small temptation I could be false to her +Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird +Whose voice I am not to be reconciled +Wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing but talking +Would not make my coming troublesome to any + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v25 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY & AUGUST + 1663 + + +July 1st. This morning it rained so hard (though it was fair yesterday, +and we thereupon in hopes of having some fair weather, which we have +wanted these three months) that it wakened Creed, who lay with me last +night, and me, and so we up and fell to discourse of the business of his +accounts now under dispute, in which I have taken much trouble upon +myself and raised a distance between Sir G. Carteret and myself, which +troubles me, but I hope we have this morning light on an expedient that +will right all, that will answer their queries, and yet save Creed the +L500 which he did propose to make of the exchange abroad of the pieces of +eight which he disbursed. Being ready, he and I by water to White Hall, +where I left him before we came into the Court, for fear I should be seen +by Sir G. Carteret with him, which of late I have been forced to avoid to +remove suspicion. I to St. James's, and there discoursed a while with +Mr. Coventry, between whom and myself there is very good understanding +and friendship, and so to Westminster Hall, and being in the Parliament +lobby, I there saw my Lord of Bristoll come to the Commons House to give +his answer to their question, about some words he should tell the King +that were spoke by Sir Richard Temple, a member of their House. A chair +was set at the bar of the House for him, which he used but little, but +made an harangue of half an hour bareheaded, the House covered. His +speech being done, he came out and withdrew into a little room till the +House had concluded of an answer to his speech; which they staying long +upon, I went away. And by and by out comes Sir W. Batten; and he told me +that his Lordship had made a long and a comedian-like speech, and +delivered with such action as was not becoming his Lordship. He +confesses he did tell the King such a thing of Sir Richard Temple, but +that upon his honour they were not spoke by Sir Richard, he having taken +a liberty of enlarging to the King upon the discourse which had been +between Sir Richard and himself lately; and so took upon himself the +whole blame, and desired their pardon, it being not to do any wrong to +their fellow-member, but out of zeal to the King. He told them, among +many other things, that as to his religion he was a Roman Catholique, but +such a one as thought no man to have right to the Crown of England but +the Prince that hath it; and such a one as, if the King should desire his +counsel as to his own, he would not advise him to another religion than +the old true reformed religion of this country, it being the properest of +this kingdom as it now stands; and concluded with a submission to what +the House shall do with him, saying, that whatever they shall do, says +he, "thanks be to God, this head, this heart, and this sword (pointing to +them all), will find me a being in any place in Europe." The House hath +hereupon voted clearly Sir Richard Temple to be free from the imputation +of saying those words; but when Sir William Batten came out, had not +concluded what to say to my Lord, it being argued that to own any +satisfaction as to my Lord from his speech, would be to lay some fault +upon the King for the message he should upon no better accounts send to +the impeaching of one of their members. Walking out, I hear that the +House of Lords are offended that my Lord Digby should come to this House +and make a speech there without leave first asked of the House of Lords. +I hear also of another difficulty now upon him; that my Lord of +Sunderland (whom I do not know) was so near to the marriage of his +daughter as that the wedding-clothes were made, and portion and every +thing agreed on and ready; and the other day he goes away nobody yet +knows whither, sending her the next morning a release of his right or +claim to her, and advice to his friends not to enquire into the reason of +this doing, for he hath enough for it; but that he gives them liberty to +say and think what they will of him, so they do not demand the reason of +his leaving her, being resolved never to have her, but the reason desires +and resolves not to give. Thence by water with Sir W. Batten to Trinity +House, there to dine with him, which we did; and after dinner we fell +talking, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Batten and I; Mr. Batten telling us of a late +triall of Sir Charles Sydly the other day, before my Lord Chief Justice +Foster and the whole bench, for his debauchery a little while since at +Oxford Kate's, + + [The details in the original are very gross. Dr. Johnson relates + the story in the "Lives of the Poets," in his life of Sackville, + Lord Dorset "Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir + Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock, in Bow + Street, by Covent Garden, and going into the balcony exposed + themselves to the populace in very indecent postures. At last, as + they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the + populace in such profane language, that the publick indignation was + awakened; the crowd attempted to force the door, and being repulsed, + drove in the performers with stones, and broke the windows of the + house. For this misdemeanour they were indicted, and Sedley was + fined five hundred pounds; what was the sentence of the others is + not known. Sedley employed [Henry] Killigrew and another to procure + a remission from the King, but (mark the friendship of the + dissolute!) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to + the last groat." The woman known as Oxford Kate appears to have + kept the notorious Cock Tavern in Bow Street at this date.] + +coming in open day into the Balcone and showed his nakedness, . . . . +and abusing of scripture and as it were from thence preaching a +mountebank sermon from the pulpit, saying that there he had to sell such +a powder as should make all the [women] in town run after him, 1000 +people standing underneath to see and hear him, and that being done he +took a glass of wine . . . . and then drank it off, and then took +another and drank the King's health. It seems my Lord and the rest of +the judges did all of them round give him a most high reproof; my Lord +Chief justice saying, that it was for him, and such wicked wretches as he +was, that God's anger and judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah many +times. It's said they have bound him to his good behaviour (there being +no law against him for it) in L5000. It being told that my Lord +Buckhurst was there, my Lord asked whether it was that Buckhurst that was +lately tried for robbery; and when answered Yes, he asked whether he had +so soon forgot his deliverance at that time, and that it would have more +become him to have been at his prayers begging God's forgiveness, than +now running into such courses again . . . . Thence home, and my +clerks being gone by my leave to see the East India ships that are lately +come home, I staid all alone within my office all the afternoon. This +day I hear at dinner that Don John of Austria, since his flight out of +Portugall, is dead of his wounds:--[not true]--so there is a great man +gone, and a great dispute like to be ended for the crown of Spayne, if +the King should have died before him. I received this morning a letter +from my wife, brought by John Gower to town, wherein I find a sad falling +out between my wife and my father and sister and Ashwell upon my writing +to my father to advise Pall not to keep Ashwell from her mistress, or +making any difference between them. Which Pall telling to Ashwell, and +she speaking some words that her mistress heard, caused great difference +among them; all which I am sorry from my heart to hear of, and I fear +will breed ill blood not to be laid again. So that I fear my wife and I +may have some falling out about it, or at least my father and I, but I +shall endeavour to salve up all as well as I can, or send for her out of +the country before the time intended, which I would be loth to do. In +the evening by water to my coz. Roger Pepys' chamber, where he was not +come, but I found Dr. John newly come to town, and is well again after +his sickness; but, Lord! what a simple man he is as to any public matter +of state, and talks so sillily to his brother Dr. Tom. What the matter +is I know not, but he has taken (as my father told me a good while since) +such displeasure that he hardly would touch his hat to me, and I as +little to him. By and by comes Roger, and he told us the whole passage +of my Lord Digby to-day, much as I have said here above; only that he did +say that he would draw his sword against the Pope himself, if he should +offer any thing against his Majesty, and the good of these nations; and +that he never was the man that did either look for a Cardinal's cap for +himself, or any body else, meaning Abbot Montagu; and the House upon the +whole did vote Sir Richard Temple innocent; and that my Lord Digby hath +cleared the honour of his Majesty, and Sir Richard Temple's, and given +perfect satisfaction of his own respects to the House. Thence to my +brother's, and being vexed with his not minding my father's business here +in getting his Landscape done, I went away in an anger, and walked home, +and so up to my lute and then to bed. + + + +2d. Up betimes to my office, and there all the morning doing business, +at noon to the Change, and there met with several people, among others +Captain Cox, and with him to a Coffee [House], and drank with him and +some other merchants. Good discourse. Thence home and to dinner, and, +after a little alone at my viol, to the office, where we sat all the +afternoon, and so rose at the evening, and then home to supper and to +bed, after a little musique. My mind troubled me with the thoughts of +the difference between my wife and my father in the country. Walking in +the garden this evening with Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes, Sir G. +Carteret told us with great contempt how like a stage-player my Lord +Digby spoke yesterday, pointing to his head as my Lord did, and saying, +"First, for his head," says Sir G. Carteret, "I know what a calf's head +would have done better by half for his heart and his sword, I have +nothing to say to them." He told us that for certain his head cost the +late King his, for it was he that broke off the treaty at Uxbridge. He +told us also how great a man he was raised from a private gentleman in +France by Monsieur Grandmont, + + [Antoine, Duc de Gramont, marshal of France, who died July 12th, + 1678, aged seventy-four. His memoirs have been published.] + +and afterwards by the Cardinall,--[Mazarin]-- who raised him to be a +Lieutenant-generall, and then higher; and entrusted by the Cardinall, +when he was banished out of France, with great matters, and recommended +by him to the Queen as a man to be trusted and ruled by: yet when he came +to have some power over the Queen, he begun to dissuade her from her +opinion of the Cardinal; which she said nothing to till the Cardinal was +returned, and then she told him of it; who told my Lord Digby, "Eh bien, +Monsieur, vous estes un fort bon amy donc:" but presently put him out of +all; and then he was, from a certainty of coming in two or three years' +time to be Mareschall of France (to which all strangers, even +Protestants, and those as often as French themselves, are capable of +coming, though it be one of the greatest places in France), he was driven +to go out of France into Flanders; but there was not trusted, nor +received any kindness from the Prince of Conde, as one to whom also he +had been false, as he had been to the Cardinal and Grandmont. In fine, +he told us how he is a man of excellent parts, but of no great faith nor +judgment, and one very easy to get up to great height of preferment, but +never able to hold it. So home and to my musique; and then comes Mr. +Creed to me giving me an account of his accounts, how he has now settled +them fit for perusal the most strict, at which I am glad. So he and I to +bed together. + + +3d. Up and he home, and I with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten by coach +to Westminster, to St. James's, thinking to meet Sir G. Carteret, and to +attend the Duke, but he not coming we broke up, and so to Westminster +Hall, and there meeting with Mr. Moore he tells me great news that my +Lady Castlemaine is fallen from Court, and this morning retired. He +gives me no account of the reason of it, but that it is so: for which I +am sorry: and yet if the King do it to leave off not only her but all +other mistresses, I should be heartily glad of it, that he may fall to +look after business. I hear my Lord Digby is condemned at Court for his +speech, and that my Lord Chancellor grows great again. Thence with Mr. +Creed, whom I called at his chamber, over the water to Lambeth; but could +not, it being morning, get to see the Archbishop's hearse: so he and I +walked over the fields to Southwark, and there parted, and I spent half +an hour in Mary Overy's Church, where are fine monuments of great +antiquity, I believe, and has been a fine church. Thence to the Change, +and meeting Sir J. Minnes there, he and I walked to look upon Backwell's +design of making another alley from his shop through over against the +Exchange door, which will be very noble and quite put down the other two. + +So home to dinner and then to the office, and entered in my manuscript +book the Victualler's contract, and then over the water and walked to see +Sir W. Pen, and sat with him a while, and so home late, and to my viall. +So up comes Creed again to me and stays all night, to-morrow morning +being a hearing before the Duke. So to bed full of discourse of his +business. + + + +4th. Up by 4 o'clock and sent him to get matters ready, and I to my +office looking over papers and mending my manuscript by scraping out the +blots and other things, which is now a very fine book. So to St. James's +by water with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, I giving occasion to a +wager about the tide, that it did flow through bridge, by which Sir W. +Batten won 5s. of Sir J. Minnes. At St. James's we staid while the Duke +made himself ready. Among other things Sir Allen Apsley showed the Duke +the Lisbon Gazette in Spanish, where the late victory is set down +particularly, and to the great honour of the English beyond measure. +They have since taken back Evora, which was lost to the Spaniards, the +English making the assault, and lost not more than three men. Here I +learnt that the English foot are highly esteemed all over the world, but +the horse not so much, which yet we count among ourselves the best; but +they abroad have had no great knowledge of our horse, it seems. The Duke +being ready, we retired with him, and there fell upon Mr. Creed's +business, where the Treasurer did, like a mad coxcomb, without reason or +method run over a great many things against the account, and so did Sir +J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, which the Duke himself and Mr. Coventry and +my Lord Barkely and myself did remove, and Creed being called in did +answer all with great method and excellently to the purpose (myself I am +a little conscious did not speak so well as I purposed and do think I +used to do, that is, not so intelligibly and persuasively, as I well +hoped I should), not that what I said was not well taken, and did carry +the business with what was urged and answered by Creed and Mr. Coventry, +till the Duke himself did declare that he was satisfied, and my Lord +Barkely offered to lay L100 that the King would receive no wrong in the +account, and the two last knights held their tongues, or at least by not +understanding it did say what made for Mr. Creed, and so Sir G. Carteret +was left alone, but yet persisted to say that the account was not good, +but full of corruption and foul dealing. And so we broke up to his +shame, but I do fear to the loss of his friendship to me a good while, +which I am heartily troubled for. Thence with Creed to the King's Head +ordinary; but, coming late, dined at the second table very well for 12d.; +and a pretty gentleman in our company, who confirms my Lady Castlemaine's +being gone from Court, but knows not the reason; he told us of one wipe +the Queen a little while ago did give her, when she came in and found the +Queen under the dresser's hands, and had been so long: + +"I wonder your Majesty," says she, "can have the patience to sit so long +a-dressing?"--"I have so much reason to use patience," says the Queen, +"that I can very well bear with it." He thinks that it may be the Queen +hath commanded her to retire, though that is not likely. Thence with +Creed to hire a coach to carry us to Hide Park, to-day there being a +general muster of the King's Guards, horse and foot: but they demand so +high, that I, spying Mr. Cutler the merchant, did take notice of him, and +he going into his coach, and telling me that he was going to shew a +couple of Swedish strangers the muster, I asked and went along with him; +where a goodly sight to see so many fine horses and officers, and the +King, Duke, and others come by a-horseback, and the two Queens in the +Queen-Mother's coach, my Lady Castlemaine not being there. And after +long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke, +&c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their +guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the +goodness of our firemen; which indeed was very good, though not without a +slip now and then; and one broadside close to our coach we had going out +of the Park, even to the nearness as to be ready to burn our hairs. Yet +methought all these gay men are not the soldiers that must do the King's +business, it being such as these that lost the old King all he had, and +were beat by the most ordinary fellows that could be. Thence with much +ado out of the Park, and I 'lighted and through St. James's down the +waterside over, to Lambeth, to see the Archbishop's corps (who is to be +carried away to Oxford on Monday), but came too late, and so walked over +the fields and bridge home (calling by the way at old George's), but find +that he is dead, and there wrote several letters, and so home to supper +and to bed. This day in the Duke's chamber there being a Roman story in +the hangings, and upon the standards written these four letters--S. P. Q. +R., Sir G. Carteret came to me to know what the meaning of those four +letters were; which ignorance is not to be borne in a Privy Counsellor, +methinks, that a schoolboy should be whipt for not knowing. + + + +5th (Lord's day). Lady Batten had sent twice to invite me to go with +them to Walthamstow to-day, Mrs. Martha' being married already this +morning to Mr. Castle, at this parish church. I could not rise soon +enough to go with them, but got myself ready, and so to Games's, where I +got a horse and rode thither very pleasantly, only coming to make water I +found a stopping, which makes me fearful of my old pain. Being come +thither, I was well received, and had two pair of gloves, as the rest, +and walked up and down with my Lady in the garden, she mighty kind to me, +and I have the way to please her. A good dinner and merry, but methinks +none of the kindness nor bridall respect between the bridegroom and +bride, that was between my wife and I, but as persons that marry purely +for convenience. After dinner to church by coach, and there my Lady, +Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Lemon, and I only, we, in spite to one another, kept +one another awake; and sometimes I read in my book of Latin plays, which +I took in my pocket, thinking to have walked it. An old doting parson +preached. So home again, and by and by up and homewards, calling in our +way (Sir J. Minnes and I only) at Mr. Batten's (who with his lady and +child went in another coach by us), which is a very pretty house, and +himself in all things within and without very ingenious, and I find a +very fine study and good books. So set out, Sir J. Minnes and I in his +coach together, talking all the way of chymistry, wherein he do know +something, at least, seems so to me, that cannot correct him, Mr. +Batten's man riding my horse, and so home and to my office a while to +read my vows, then home to prayers and to bed. + + + +6th. Up pretty early and to my office all the morning, writing out a +list of the King's ships in my Navy collections with great pleasure. At +noon Creed comes to me, who tells me how well he has sped with Sir G. +Carteret after all our trouble, that he had his tallys up and all the +kind words possible from him, which I believe is out of an apprehension +what a fool he has made of himself hitherto in making so great a stop +therein. But I find, and so my Lord Sandwich may, that Sir G. Carteret +had a design to do him a disgrace, if he could possibly, otherwise he +would never have carried the business so far after that manner, but would +first have consulted my Lord and given him advice what to do therein for +his own honour, which he thought endangered. Creed dined with me and +then walked a while, and so away, and I to my office at my morning's work +till dark night, and so with good content home. To supper, a little +musique, and then to bed. + + + +7th. Up by 4 o'clock and to my office, and there continued all the +morning upon my Navy book to my great content. At noon down by barge +with Sir J. Minnes (who is going to Chatham) to Woolwich, in our way +eating of some venison pasty in the barge, I having neither eat nor drank +to-day, which fills me full of wind. Here also in Mr. Pett's garden I +eat some and the first cherries I have eat this year, off the tree where +the King himself had been gathering some this morning. Thence walked +alone, only part of the way Deane walked with me, complaining of many +abuses in the Yard, to Greenwich, and so by water to Deptford, where I +found Mr. Coventry, and with him up and down all the stores, to the great +trouble of the officers, and by his help I am resolved to fall hard to +work again, as I used to do. So thence he and I by water talking of many +things, and I see he puts his trust most upon me in the Navy, and talks, +as there is reason, slightly of the two old knights, and I should be glad +by any drudgery to see the King's stores and service looked to as they +ought, but I fear I shall never understand half the miscarriages and +tricks that the King suffers by. He tells me what Mr. Pett did to-day, +that my Lord Bristoll told the King that he will impeach the Chancellor +of High Treason: but I find that my Lord Bristoll hath undone himself +already in every body's opinion, and now he endeavours to raise dust to +put out other men's eyes, as well as his own; but I hope it will not +take, in consideration merely that it is hard for a Prince to spare an +experienced old officer, be he never so corrupt; though I hope this man +is not so, as some report him to be. He tells me that Don John is yet +alive, and not killed, as was said, in the great victory against the +Spaniards in Portugall of late. So home, and late at my office. Thence +home and to my musique. This night Mr. Turner's house being to be +emptied out of my cellar, and therefore I think to sit up a little longer +than ordinary. This afternoon, coming from the waterside with Mr. +Coventry, I spied my boy upon Tower Hill playing with the rest of the +boys; so I sent W. Griffin to take him, and he did bring him to me, and +so I said nothing to him, but caused him to be stripped (for he was run +away with his best suit), and so putting on his other, I sent him going, +without saying one word hard to him, though I am troubled for the rogue, +though he do not deserve it. Being come home I find my stomach not well +for want of eating to-day my dinner as I should do, and so am become full +of wind. I called late for some victuals, and so to bed, leaving the men +below in the cellar emptying the vats up through Mr. Turner's own house, +and so with more content to bed late. + + + +8th. Being weary, and going to bed late last night, I slept till 7 +o'clock, it raining mighty hard, and so did every minute of the day after +sadly. But I know not what will become of the corn this year, we having +had but two fair days these many months. Up and to my office, where all +the morning busy, and then at noon home to dinner alone upon a good dish +of eeles, given me by Michell, the Bewpers' man, and then to my viall a +little, and then down into the cellar and up and down with Mr. Turner to +see where his vault may be made bigger, or another made him, which I +think may well be. And so to my office, where very busy all day setting +things in order my contract books and preparing things against the next +sitting. In the evening I received letters out of the country, among +others from my wife, who methinks writes so coldly that I am much +troubled at it, and I fear shall have much ado to bring her to her old +good temper. So home to supper and musique, which is all the pleasure I +have of late given myself, or is fit I should, others spending too much +time and money. Going in I stepped to Sir W. Batten, and there staid and +talked with him (my Lady being in the country), and sent for some +lobsters, and Mrs. Turner came in, and did bring us an umble pie hot out +of her oven, extraordinary good, and afterwards some spirits of her +making, in which she has great judgment, very good, and so home, merry +with this night's refreshment. + + + +9th. Up. Making water this morning, which I do every morning as soon as +I am awake, with greater plenty and freedom than I used to do, which I +think I may impute to last night's drinking of elder spirits. Abroad, it +raining, to Blackfriars, and there went into a little alehouse and staid +while I sent to the Wardrobe, but Mr. Moore was gone out. Here I kissed +three or four times the maid of the house, who is a pretty girl, but very +modest, and, God forgive me, had a mind to something more. Thence to my +lawyer's; up and down to the Six Clerks' Office, where I found my bill +against Tom Trice dismissed, which troubles me, it being through my +neglect, and will put me to charges. So to Mr. Phillips, and discoursed +with him about finding me out somebody that will let me have for money an +annuity of about L100 per annum for two lives. So home, and there put up +my riding things against the evening, in case Mr. Moore should continue +his mind to go to Oxford, which I have little mind to do, the weather +continuing so bad and the waters high. Dined at home, and Mr. Moore in +the afternoon comes to me and concluded not to go. Sir W. Batten and I +sat a little this afternoon at the office, and thence I by water to +Deptford, and there mustered the Yard, purposely, God forgive me, to find +out Bagwell, a carpenter, whose wife is a pretty woman, that I might have +some occasion of knowing him and forcing her to come to the office again, +which I did so luckily that going thence he and his wife did of +themselves meet me in the way to thank me for my old kindness, but I +spoke little to her, but shall give occasion for her coming to me. Her +husband went along with me to show me Sir W. Pen's lodging, which I knew +before, but only to have a time of speaking to him and sounding him. So +left and I went in to Sir W. Pen, who continues ill, and worse, I think, +than before. He tells me my Lady Castlemaine was at Court, for all this +talk this week, which I am glad to hear; but it seems the King is +stranger than ordinary to her. Thence walked home as I used to do, and +to bed presently, having taken great cold in my feet by walking in the +dirt this day in thin shoes or some other way, so that I begun to be in +pain, and with warm clothes made myself better by morning, but yet in +pain. + + + +10th. Up late and by water to Westminster Hall, where I met Pierce the +chirurgeon, who tells me that for certain the King is grown colder to my +Lady Castlemaine than ordinary, and that he believes he begins to love +the Queen, and do make much of her, more than he used to do. Up to the +Lobby, and there sent out for Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Batten, and told +them if they thought convenient I would go to Chatham today, Sir John +Minnes being already there at a Pay, and I would do such and such +business there, which they thought well of, and so I went home and +prepared myself to go after, dinner with Sir W. Batten. Sir W. Batten +and Mr. Coventry tell me that my Lord Bristoll hath this day impeached my +Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords of High Treason. The chief of the +articles are these: 1st. That he should be the occasion of the peace +made with Holland lately upon such disadvantageous terms, and that he was +bribed to it. 2d. That Dunkirke was also sold by his advice chiefly, so +much to the damage of England. 3d. That he had L6000 given him for the +drawing-up or promoting of the Irish declaration lately, concerning the +division of the lands there. 4th. He did carry on the design of the +Portugall match, so much to the prejudice of the Crown of England, +notwithstanding that he knew the Queen is not capable of bearing +children. 5th. That the Duke's marrying of his daughter was a practice +of his, thereby to raise his family; and that it was done by indirect +courses. 6th. That the breaking-off of the match with Parma, in which +he was employed at the very time when the match with Portugall was made +up here, which he took as a great slur to him, and so it was; and that, +indeed, is the chief occasion of all this fewde. 7th. That he hath +endeavoured to bring in Popery, and wrote to the Pope for a cap for a +subject of the King of England's (my Lord Aubigny ); and some say that he +lays it to the Chancellor, that a good Protestant Secretary (Sir Edward +Nicholas) was laid aside, and a Papist, Sir H. Bennet, put in his room: +which is very strange, when the last of these two is his own creature, +and such an enemy accounted to the Chancellor, that they never did nor do +agree; and all the world did judge the Chancellor to be falling from the +time that Sir H. Bennet was brought in. Besides my Lord Bristoll being a +Catholique himself, all this is very strange. These are the main of the +Articles. Upon which my Lord Chancellor desired that the noble Lord that +brought in these Articles, would sign to them with his hand; which my +Lord Bristoll did presently. Then the House did order that the judges +should, against Monday next, bring in their opinion, Whether these +articles are treason, or no? and next, they would know, Whether they were +brought in regularly or no, without leave of the Lords' House? After +dinner I took boat (H. Russell) and down to Gravesend in good time, and +thence with a guide post to Chatham, where I found Sir J. Minnes and Mr. +Wayth walking in the garden, whom I told all this day's news, which I +left the town full of, and it is great news, and will certainly be in the +consequence of it. By and by to supper, and after long discourse, Sir J. +Minnes and I, he saw me to my chamber, which not pleasing me, I sent word +so to Mrs. Bradford, that I should be crowded into such a hole, while the +clerks and boarders of her own take up the best rooms. However I lay +there and slept well. + + + +11th. Up early and to the Dock, and with the Storekeeper and other +officers all the morning from one office to another. At noon to the +Hill-house in Commissioner Pett's coach, and after seeing the guard- +ships, to dinner, and after dining done to the Dock by coach, it raining +hard, to see "The Prince" launched, which hath lain in the Dock in +repairing these three years. I went into her and was launched in her. +Thence by boat ashore, it raining, and I went to Mr. Barrow's, where Sir +J. Minnes and Commissioner Pett; we staid long eating sweetmeats and +drinking, and looking over some antiquities of Mr. Barrow's, among others +an old manuscript Almanac, that I believe was made for some monastery, in +parchment, which I could spend much time upon to understand. Here was a +pretty young lady, a niece of Barrow's, which I took much pleasure to +look on. Thence by barge to St. Mary Creek; where Commissioner Pett +(doubtful of the growing greatness of Portsmouth by the finding of those +creeks there), do design a wett dock at no great charge, and yet no +little one; he thinks towards L10,000. And the place, indeed, is likely +to be a very fit place, when the King hath money to do it with. Thence, +it raining as hard as it could pour down, home to the Hillhouse, and anon +to supper, and after supper, Sir J. Minnes and I had great discourse with +Captain Cox and Mr. Hempson about business of the yard, and particularly +of pursers' accounts with Hempson, who is a cunning knave in that point. +So late to bed and, Mr. Wayth being gone, I lay above in the Treasurer's +bed and slept well. About one or two in the morning the curtains of my +bed being drawn waked me, and I saw a man stand there by the inside of my +bed calling me French dogg 20 times, one after another, and I starting, +as if I would get out of the bed, he fell a-laughing as hard as he could +drive, still calling me French dogg, and laid his hand on my shoulder. +At last, whether I said anything or no I cannot tell, but I perceived the +man, after he had looked wistly upon me, and found that I did not answer +him to the names that he called me by, which was Salmon, Sir Carteret's +clerk, and Robt. Maddox, another of the clerks, he put off his hat on a +suddaine, and forebore laughing, and asked who I was, saying, "Are you +Mr. Pepys?" I told him yes, and now being come a little better to +myself, I found him to be Tom Willson, Sir W. Batten's clerk, and fearing +he might be in some melancholy fit, I was at a loss what to do or say. +At last I asked him what he meant. He desired my pardon for that he was +mistaken, for he thought verily, not knowing of my coming to lie there, +that it had been Salmon, the Frenchman, with whom he intended to have +made some sport. So I made nothing of it, but bade him good night, and +I, after a little pause, to sleep again, being well pleased that it ended +no worse, and being a little the better pleased with it, because it was +the Surveyor's clerk, which will make sport when I come to tell Sir W. +Batten of it, it being a report that old Edgeborough, the former +Surveyor, who died here, do now and then walk. + + + +12th (Lord's day). Up, and meeting Tom Willson he asked my pardon again, +which I easily did give him, telling him only that it was well I was not +a woman with child, for it might have made me miscarry. With Sir J. +Minnes to church, where an indifferent good sermon. Here I saw Mrs. +Becky Allen, who hath been married, and is this day churched, after her +bearing a child. She is grown tall, but looks very white and thin, and I +can find no occasion while I am here to come to have her company, which I +desire and expected in my coming, but only coming out of the church I +kissed her and her sister and mother-in-law. So to dinner, Sir J. +Minnes, Commissioner Pett, and I, &c., and after dinner walked in the +garden, it being a very fine day, the best we have had this great while, +if not this whole summer. To church again, and after that walked through +the Rope-ground to the Dock, and there over and over the Dock and grounds +about it, and storehouses, &c., with the officers of the Yard, and then +to Commissioner Pett's and had a good sullybub and other good things, and +merry. Commissioner Pett showed me alone his bodys as a secrett, which I +found afterwards by discourse with Sir J. Minnes that he had shown them +him, wherein he seems to suppose great mystery in the nature of Lynes to +be hid, but I do not understand it at all. Thence walked to the Hill- +house, being myself much dissatisfied, and more than I thought I should +have been with Commissioner Pett, being, by what I saw since I came +hither, convinced that he is not able to exercise the command in the Yard +over the officers that he ought to do, or somebody else, if ever the +service be well looked after there. Sat up and with Sir J. Minnes +talking, and he speaking his mind in slighting of the Commissioner, for +which I wish there was not so much reason. For I do see he is but a man +of words, though indeed he is the ablest man that we have to do service +if he would or durst. Sir J. Minnes being gone to bed, I took Mr. +Whitfield, one of the clerks, and walked to the Dock about eleven at +night, and there got a boat and a crew, and rowed down to the guard- +ships, it being a most pleasant moonshine evening that ever I saw almost. +The guard-ships were very ready to hail us, being no doubt commanded +thereto by their Captain, who remembers how I surprised them the last +time I was here. However, I found him ashore, but the ship in pretty +good order, and the arms well fixed, charged, and primed. Thence to the +Soveraign, where I found no officers aboard, no arms fixed, nor any +powder to prime their few guns, which were charged, without bullet +though. So to the London, where neither officers nor any body awake; I +boarded her, and might have done what I would, and at last could find but +three little boys; and so spent the whole night in visiting all the +ships, in which I found, for the most part, neither an officer aboard, +nor any men so much as awake, which I was grieved to find, specially so +soon after a great Larum, as Commissioner Pett brought us word that he +[had] provided against, and put all in a posture of defence but a week +ago, all which I am resolved to represent to the Duke. + + + +13th. So, it being high day, I put in to shore and to bed for two hours +just, and so up again, and with the Storekeeper and Clerk of the Rope- +yard up and down the Dock and Rope-house, and by and by mustered the +Yard, and instructed the Clerks of the Cheque in my new way of Callbook, +and that and other things done, to the Hill-house, and there we eat +something, and so by barge to Rochester, and there took coach hired for +our passage to London, and Mrs. Allen, the clerk of the Rope-yard's wife +with us, desiring her passage, and it being a most pleasant and warm day, +we got by four o'clock home. In our way she telling us in what condition +Becky Allen is married against all expectation a fellow that proves to be +a coxcomb and worth little if any thing at all, and yet are entered into +a way of living above their condition that will ruin them presently, for +which, for the lady's sake, I am much troubled. Home I found all well +there, and after dressing myself, I walked to the Temple; and there, from +my cozen Roger, hear that the judges have this day brought in their +answer to the Lords, That the articles against my Lord Chancellor are not +Treason; and to-morrow they are to bring in their arguments to the House +for the same. This day also the King did send by my Lord Chamberlain to +the Lords, to tell them from him, that the most of the articles against +my Lord Chancellor he himself knows to be false. Thence by water to +Whitehall, and so walked to St. James's, but missed Mr. Coventry. I met +the Queen-Mother walking in the Pell Mell, led by my Lord St. Alban's. +And finding many coaches at the Gate, I found upon enquiry that the +Duchess is brought to bed of a boy; and hearing that the King and Queen +are rode abroad with the Ladies of Honour to the Park, and seeing a great +crowd of gallants staying here to see their return, I also staid walking +up and down, and among others spying a man like Mr. Pembleton (though I +have little reason to think it should be he, speaking and discoursing +long with my Lord D'Aubigne), yet how my blood did rise in my face, and I +fell into a sweat from my old jealousy and hate, which I pray God remove +from me. By and by the King and Queen, who looked in this dress (a white +laced waistcoat and a crimson short pettycoat, and her hair dressed ci la +negligence) mighty pretty; and the King rode hand in hand with her. Here +was also my Lady Castlemaine rode among the rest of the ladies; but the +King took, methought, no notice of her; nor when they 'light did any body +press (as she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but +was taken down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of humour, +and had a yellow plume in her hat (which all took notice of), and yet is +very handsome, but very melancholy: nor did any body speak to her, or she +so much as smile or speak to any body. I followed them up into White +Hall, and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking +and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one +another's by one another's heads, and laughing. But it was the finest +sight to me, considering their great beautys and dress, that ever I did +see in all my life. But, above all, Mrs. Stewart in this dress, with her +hat cocked and a red plume, with her sweet eye, little Roman nose, and +excellent taille, is now the greatest beauty I ever saw, I think, in my +life; and, if ever woman can, do exceed my Lady Castlemaine, at least in +this dress nor do I wonder if the King changes, which I verily believe is +the reason of his coldness to my Lady Castlemaine. Here late, with much +ado I left to look upon them, and went away, and by water, in a boat with +other strange company, there being no other to be had, and out of him +into a sculler half to the bridge, and so home and to Sir W. Batten, +where I staid telling him and Sir J. Minnes and Mrs. Turner, with great +mirth, my being frighted at Chatham by young Edgeborough, and so home to +supper and to bed, before I sleep fancying myself to sport with Mrs. +Stewart with great pleasure. + + + +14th. Up a little late, last night recovering my sleepiness for the +night before, which was lost, and so to my office to put papers and +things to right, and making up my journal from Wednesday last to this +day. All the morning at my office doing of business; at noon Mr. Hunt +came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and a Coffee House, and drank +there, and thence to my house to dinner, whither my uncle Thomas came, +and he tells me that he is going down to Wisbech, there to try what he +can recover of my uncle Day's estate, and seems to have good arguments +for what he do go about, in which I wish him good speed. I made him +almost foxed, the poor man having but a bad head, and not used I believe +nowadays to drink much wine. So after dinner, they being gone, I to my +office, and so home to bed. This day I hear the judges, according to +order yesterday, did bring into the Lords' House their reasons of their +judgment in the business between my Lord Bristoll and the Chancellor; and +the Lords do concur with the Judges that the articles are not treason, +nor regularly brought into the House, and so voted that a Committee +should be chosen to examine them; but nothing to be done therein till the +next sitting of this Parliament (which is like to be adjourned in a day +or two), and in the mean time the two Lords to, remain without prejudice +done to either of them. + + + +15th. Up and all the morning at the office, among other things with +Cooper the Purveyor, whose dullness in his proceeding in his work I was +vexed at, and find that though he understands it may be as much as other +men that profess skill in timber, yet I perceive that many things, they +do by rote, and very dully. Thence home to dinner, whither Captain Grove +came and dined with me, he going into the country to-day; among other +discourse he told me of discourse very much to my honour, both as to my +care and ability, happening at the Duke of Albemarle's table the other +day, both from the Duke, and the Duchess themselves; and how I paid so +much a year to him whose place it was of right, and that Mr. Coventry did +report thus of me; which was greatly to my content, knowing how against +their minds I was brought into the Navy. Thence by water to Westminster, +and there spent a good deal of time walking in the Hall, which is going +to be repaired, and, God forgive me, had a mind to have got Mrs. Lane +abroad, or fallen in with any woman else (in that hot humour). But it so +happened she could not go out, nor I meet with any body else, and so I +walked homeward, and in my way did many and great businesses of my own at +the Temple among my lawyers and others to my great content, thanking God +that I did not fall into any company to occasion spending time and money. +To supper, and then to a little viall and to bed, sporting in my fancy +with the Queen. + + + +16th. Up and dispatched things into the country and to my father's, and +two keggs of Sturgeon and a dozen bottles of wine to Cambridge for my +cozen Roger Pepys, which I give him. By and by down by water on several +Deall ships, and stood upon a stage in one place seeing calkers sheathing +of a ship. Then at Wapping to my carver's about my Viall head. So home, +and thence to my Viall maker's in Bishops, gate Street; his name is Wise, +who is a pretty fellow at it. Thence to the Exchange, and so home to +dinner, and then to my office, where a full board, and busy all the +afternoon, and among other things made a great contract with Sir W. +Warren for 40,000 deals Swinsound, at L3 17s. od. per hundred. In the +morning before I went on the water I was at Thames Street about some +pitch, and there meeting Anthony Joyce, I took him and Mr. Stacy, the +Tarr merchant, to the tavern, where Stacy told me many old stories of my +Lady Batten's former poor condition, and how her former husband broke, +and how she came to her state. At night, after office done, I went to +Sir W. Batten's, where my Lady and I [had] some high words about emptying +our house of office, where I did tell her my mind, and at last agreed +that it should be done through my office, and so all well. So home to +bed. + + + +17th. Up, and after doing some business at my office, Creed came to me, +and I took him to my viall maker's, and there I heard the famous Mr. +Stefkins play admirably well, and yet I found it as it is always, I over +expected. I took him to the tavern and found him a temperate sober man, +at least he seems so to me. I commit the direction of my viall to him. +Thence to the Change, and so home, Creed and I to dinner, and after +dinner Sir W. Warren came to me, and he and I in my closet about his last +night's contract, and from thence to discourse of measuring of timber, +wherein I made him see that I could understand the matter well, and did +both learn of and teach him something. Creed being gone through my +staying talking to him so long, I went alone by water down to Redriffe, +and so to sit and talk with Sir W. Pen, where I did speak very plainly +concerning my thoughts of Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes. So as it +may cost me some trouble if he should tell them again, but he said as +much or more to me concerning them both, which I may remember if ever it +should come forth, and nothing but what is true and my real opinion of +them, that they neither do understand to this day Creed's accounts, nor +do deserve to be employed in their places without better care, but that +the King had better give them greater salaries to stand still and do +nothing. Thence coming home I was saluted by Bagwell and his wife (the +woman I have a kindness for), and they would have me into their little +house, which I was willing enough to, and did salute his wife. They had +got wine for me, and I perceive live prettily, and I believe the woman a +virtuous modest woman. Her husband walked through to Redriffe with me, +telling me things that I asked of in the yard, and so by water home, it +being likely to rain again to-night, which God forbid. To supper and to +bed. + + + +18th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and Sir J. Minnes and +I did a little, and but a little business at the office. So I eat a bit +of victuals at home, and so abroad to several places, as my bookseller's, +and then to Thomson the instrument maker's to bespeak a ruler for my +pocket for timber, &c., which I believe he will do to my mind. So to the +Temple, Wardrobe, and lastly to Westminster Hall, where I expected some +bands made me by Mrs. Lane, and while she went to the starchers for them, +I staid at Mrs. Howlett's, who with her husband were abroad, and only +their daughter (which I call my wife) was in the shop, and I took +occasion to buy a pair of gloves to talk to her, and I find her a pretty +spoken girl, and will prove a mighty handsome wench. I could love her +very well. By and by Mrs. Lane comes, and my bands not being done she +and I posted and met at the Crown in the Palace Yard, where we eat a +chicken I sent for, and drank, and were mighty merry, and I had my full +liberty of towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all +. . . . Of which I am heartily ashamed, but I do resolve never to do +more so. But, Lord! to see what a mind she has to a husband, and how she +showed me her hands to tell her her fortune, and every thing that she +asked ended always whom and when she was to marry. And I pleased her so +well, saying as. I know she would have me, and then she would say that +she had been with all the artists in town, and they always told her the +same things, as that she should live long, and rich, and have a good +husband, but few children, and a great fit of sickness, and 20 other +things, which she says she has always been told by others. Here I staid +late before my bands were done, and then they came, and so I by water to +the Temple, and thence walked home, all in a sweat with my tumbling of +her and walking, and so a little supper and to bed, fearful of having +taken cold. + + + +19th (Lord's day). Lay very long in pleasant dreams till Church time, +and so up, and it being foul weather so that I cannot walk as I intended +to meet my Cozen Roger at Thomas Pepys's house (whither he rode last +night), to Hatcham, I went to church, where a sober Doctor made a good +sermon. So home to dinner alone, and then to read a little, and so to +church again, where the Scot made an ordinary sermon, and so home to my +office, and there read over my vows and increased them by a vow against +all strong drink till November next of any sort or quantity, by which I +shall try how I can forbear it. God send it may not prejudice my health, +and then I care not. Then I fell to read over a silly play writ by a +person of honour (which is, I find, as much as to say a coxcomb), called +"Love a la Mode,"' and that being ended, home, and played on my lute and +sung psalms till bedtime, then to prayers and to bed. + + + +20th. Up and to my office, and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's +"Faber fortunae," + + [Pepys may here refer either to Essay XLI. (of Fortune) or to a + chapter' in the "Advancement of Learning." The sentence, "Faber + quisque fortunae propria," said to be by Appius Claudian, is quoted + more than once in the "De Augmentis Scientiarum," lib. viii., cap. + 2.] + +which the oftener I read the more I admire. There found Captain Cocke, +and up and down to many places to look after matters, and so walked back +again with him to his house, and there dined very finely. With much ado +obtained an excuse from drinking of wine, and did only taste a drop of +Sack which he had for his lady, who is, he fears, a little consumptive, +and her beauty begins to want its colour. It was Malago Sack, which, he +says, is certainly 30 years old, and I tasted a drop of it, and it was +excellent wine, like a spirit rather than wine. Thence by water to the +office, and taking some papers by water to White Hall and St. James's, +but there being no meeting with the Duke to-day, I returned by water and +down to Greenwich, to look after some blocks that I saw a load carried +off by a cart from Woolwich, the King's Yard. But I could not find them, +and so returned, and being heartily weary I made haste to bed, and being +in bed made Will read and construe three or four Latin verses in the +Bible, and chide him for forgetting his grammar. So to sleep, and sleep +ill all the night, being so weary, and feverish with it. + + + +21st. And so lay long in the morning, till I heard people knock at my +door, and I took it to be about 8 o'clock (but afterwards found myself a +little mistaken), and so I rose and ranted at Will and the maid, and +swore I could find my heart to kick them down stairs, which the maid +mumbled at mightily. It was my brother, who staid and talked with me, +his chief business being about his going about to build his house new at +the top, which will be a great charge for him, and above his judgment. +By and by comes Mr. Deane, of Woolwich, with his draught of a ship, and +the bend and main lines in the body of a ship very finely, and which do +please me mightily, and so am resolved to study hard, and learn of him to +understand a body, and I find him a very pretty fellow in it, and +rational, but a little conceited, but that's no matter to me. At noon, +by my Lady Batten's desire, I went over the water to Mr. Castle's, who +brings his wife home to his own house to-day, where I found a great many +good old women, and my Lady, Sir W. Batten, and Sir J. Minnes. A good, +handsome, plain dinner, and then walked in the garden; which is pleasant +enough, more than I expected there, and so Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, +and I by water to the office, and there sat, and then I by water to the +Temple about my law business, and back again home and wrote letters to my +father and wife about my desire that they should observe the feast at +Brampton, and have my Lady and the family, and so home to supper and bed, +my head aching all the day from my last night's bad rest, and yesterday's +distempering myself with over walking, and to-day knocking my head +against a low door in Mr. Castle's house. This day the Parliament kept a +fast for the present unseasonable weather. + + + +22nd. Up, and by and by comes my uncle Thomas, to whom I paid L10 for +his last half year's annuity, and did get his and his son's hand and seal +for the confirming to us Piggott's mortgage, which was forgot to be +expressed in our late agreement with him, though intended, and therefore +they might have cavilled at it, if they would. Thence abroad calling at +several places upon some errands, among others to my brother Tom's barber +and had my hair cut, while his boy played on the viallin, a plain boy, +but has a very good genius, and understands the book very well, but to +see what a shift he made for a string of red silk was very pleasant. +Thence to my Lord Crew's. My Lord not being come home, I met and staid +below with Captain Ferrers, who was come to wait upon my Lady Jemimah to +St. James's, she being one of the four ladies that hold up the mantle at +the christening this afternoon of the Duke's child (a boy). In discourse +of the ladies at Court, Captain Ferrers tells me that my Lady Castlemaine +is now as great again as ever she was; and that her going away was only a +fit of her own upon some slighting words of the King, so that she called +for her coach at a quarter of an hour's warning, and went to Richmond; +and the King the next morning, under pretence of going a-hunting, went to +see her and make friends, and never was a-hunting at all. After which +she came back to Court, and commands the King as much as ever, and hath +and doth what she will. No longer ago than last night, there was a +private entertainment made for the King and Queen at the Duke of +Buckingham's, and she: was not invited: but being at my Lady Suffolk's, +her aunt's (where my Lady Jemimah and Lord Sandwich dined) yesterday, she +was heard to say, "Well; much good may it do them, and for all that I +will be as merry as they:" and so she went home and caused a great supper +to be prepared. And after the King had been with the Queen at +Wallingford House, he came to my Lady Castlemaine's, and was there all +night, and my Lord Sandwich with him, which was the reason my Lord lay in +town all night, which he has not done a great while before. He tells me +he believes that, as soon as the King can get a husband for Mrs. Stewart +however, my Lady Castlemaine's nose will be out of joynt; for that she +comes to be in great esteem, and is more handsome than she. I found by +his words that my Lord Sandwich finds some pleasure in the country where +he now is, whether he means one of the daughters of the house or no I +know not, but hope the contrary, that he thinks he is very well pleased +with staying there, but yet upon breaking up of the Parliament, which the +King by a message to-day says shall be on Monday next, he resolves to go. +Ned Pickering, the coxcomb, notwithstanding all his hopes of my Lord's +assistance, wherein I am sorry to hear my Lord has much concerned +himself, is defeated of the place he expected under the Queen. He came +hither by and by and brought some jewells for my Lady Jem. to put on, +with which and her other clothes she looks passing well. I staid and +dined with my Lord Crew, who whether he was not so well pleased with me +as he used to be, or that his head was full of business, as I believe it +was, he hardly spoke one word to me all dinner time, we dining alone, +only young Jack Crew, Sir Thomas's son, with us. After dinner I bade him +farewell. Sir Thomas I hear has gone this morning ill to bed, so I had +no mind to see him. Thence homewards, and in the way first called at +Wotton's, the shoemaker's, who tells me the reason of Harris's' going +from Sir Wm. Davenant's house, that he grew very proud and demanded L20 +for himself extraordinary, more than Betterton or any body else, upon +every new play, and L10 upon every revive; which with other things Sir W. +Davenant would not give him, and so he swore he would never act there +more, in expectation of being received in the other House; but the King +will not suffer it, upon Sir W. Davenant's desire that he would not, for +then he might shut up house, and that is true. He tells me that his +going is at present a great loss to the House, and that he fears he hath +a stipend from the other House privately. He tells the that the fellow +grew very proud of late, the King and every body else crying him up so +high, and that above Betterton, he being a more ayery man, as he is +indeed. But yet Betterton, he says, they all say do act: some parts that +none but himself can do. Thence to my bookseller's, and found my +Waggoners done. The very binding cost me 14s., but they are well done, +and so with a porter home with them, and so by water to Ratcliffe, and +there went to speak with Cumberford the platt-maker, and there saw his +manner of working, which is very fine and laborious. So down to +Deptford, reading Ben Jonson's "Devil is an asse," and so to see Sir W. +Pen, who I find walking out of doors a little, but could not stand long; +but in doors and I with him, and staid a great while talking, I taking a +liberty to tell him my thoughts in things of the office; that when he +comes abroad again, he may know what to think of me, and to value me as +he ought. Walked home as I used to do, and being weary, and after some +discourse with Mr. Barrow, who came to see and take his leave of me, he +being to-morrow to set out toward the Isle of Man, I went to bed. This +day I hear that the Moores have made some attaques upon the outworks of +Tangier; but my Lord Tiviott; with the loss of about 200 men, did beat +them off, and killed many of them. To-morrow the King and Queen for +certain go down to Tunbridge. But the King comes hack again against +Monday to raise the Parliament. + + + +23rd. Up and to my office, and thence by information from, Mr. Ackworth +I went down to Woolwich, and mustered the three East India ships that lie +there, believing that there is great-juggling between the Pursers and +Clerks of the Cheque in cheating the King of the wages and victuals of +men that do not give attendance, and I found very few on board. So to +the yard, and there mustered the yard, and found many faults, and +discharged several fellows that were absent from their business. I staid +also at Mr. Ackworth's desire at dinner with him and his wife, and there +was a simple fellow, a gentleman I believe of the Court, their kinsmen, +that threatened me I could have little discourse or begin, acquaintance +with Ackworth's wife, and so after dinner away, with all haste home, and +there found Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten at the office, and by Sir W. +Batten's testimony and Sir G. Carteret's concurrence was forced to +consent to a business of Captain Cocke's timber, as bad as anything we +have lately disputed about, and all through Mr. Coventry's not being with +us. So up and to supper with Sir W. Batten upon a soused mullett, very +good meat, and so home and to bed. + + + +24th. Up pretty early (though of late I have been faulty by an hour or +two every morning of what I should do) and by water to the Temple, and +there took leave of my cozen Roger Pepys, who goes out of town to-day. +So to Westminster Hall, and there at Mrs. Michell's shop sent for beer +and sugar and drink, and made great cheer with it among her and Mrs. +Howlett, her neighbour, and their daughters, especially Mrs. Howlett's +daughter, Betty, which is a pretty girl, and one I have long called wife, +being, I formerly thought, like my own wife. After this good +neighbourhood, which I do to give them occasion of speaking well and +commending me in some company that now and then I know comes to their +shop, I went to the Six clerks' office, and there had a writ for Tom +Trice, and paid 20s. for it to Wilkinson, and so up and down to many +places, among others to the viall maker's, and there saw the head, which +now pleases me mightily, and so home, and being sent for presently to Mr. +Bland's, where Mr. Povy and Gauden and I were invited to dinner, which we +had very finely and great plenty, but for drink, though many and good, I +drank nothing but small beer and water, which I drank so much that I wish +it may not do me hurt. They had a kinswoman, they call daughter, in the +house, a short, ugly, red-haired slut, that plays upon the virginalls, +and sings, but after such a country manner I was weary of it, but yet +could not but commend it. So by and by after dinner comes Monsr. +Gotier, who is beginning to teach her, but, Lord! what a droll fellow it +is to make her hold open her mouth, and telling this and that so drolly +would make a man burst, but himself I perceive sings very well. Anon we +sat dawn again to a collacon of cheesecakes, tarts, custards, and such +like, very handsome, and so up and away home, where I at the office a +while, till disturbed by, Mr. Hill, of Cambridge, with whom I walked in +the garden a while, and thence home and then in my dining room walked, +talking of several matters of state till 11 at night, giving him a glass +of wine. I was not unwilling to hear him talk, though he is full of +words, yet a man of large conversation, especially among the Presbyters +and Independents; he tells me that certainly, let the Bishops alone, and +they will ruin themselves, and he is confident that the King's +declaration about two years since will be the foundation of the +settlement of the Church some time or other, for the King will find it +hard to banish all those that will appear Nonconformists upon this Act +that is coming out against them. He being gone, I to bed. + + + +25th. Up and to my office setting papers in order for these two or three +days, in which I have been hindered a little, and then having intended +this day to go to Banstead Downs to see a famous race, I sent Will to get +himself ready to go with me, and I also by and by home and put on my +riding suit, and being ready came to the office to Sir J. Minnes and Sir +W. Batten, and did a little of course at the office this morning, and so +by boat to White Hall, where I hear that the race is put off, because the +Lords do sit in Parliament to-day. However, having appointed Mr. Creed +to come to me to Fox Hall, I went over thither, and after some debate, +Creed and I resolved to go to Clapham, to Mr. Gauden's, who had sent his +coach to their place for me because I was to have my horse of him to go +to the race. So I went thither by coach and my Will by horse with me; +Mr. Creed he went over back again to Westminster to fetch his horse. +When I came to Mr. Gauden's one first thing was to show me his house, +which is almost built, wherein he and his family live. I find it very +regular and finely contrived, and the gardens and offices about it as +convenient and as full of good variety as ever I saw in my life. It is +true he hath been censured for laying out so much money; but he tells me +that he built it for his brother, who is since dead (the Bishop), who +when he should come to be Bishop of Winchester, which he was promised (to +which bishoprick at present there is no house), he did intend to dwell +here. Besides, with the good husbandry in making his bricks and other +things I do not think it costs him so much money as people think and +discourse. By and by to dinner, and in comes Mr. Creed. I saluted Mr. +Gauden's lady, and the young ladies, he having many pretty children, and +his sister, the Bishop's widow; who was, it seems, Sir W. Russel's +daughter, the Treasurer of the Navy; who by her discourse at dinner I +find to be very well-bred, and a woman of excellent discourse, even so +much as to have my attention all dinner with much more pleasure than I +did give to Mr. Creed, whose discourse was mighty merry in inveighing at +Mr. Gauden's victuals that they had at sea the last voyage that he +prosecuted, till methought the woman began to take it seriously. After +dinner by Mr. Gauden's motion we got Mrs. Gauden and her sister to sing +to a viall, on which Mr. Gauden's eldest son (a pretty man, but a simple +one methinks) played but very poorly, and the musique bad, but yet I +commended it. Only I do find that the ladies have been taught to sing +and do sing well now, but that the viall puts them out. I took the viall +and played some things from one of their books, Lyra lessons, which they +seemed to like well. Thus we pass an hour or two after dinner and +towards the evening we bade them Adieu! and took horse; being resolved +that, instead of the race which fails us, we would go to Epsum. So we +set out, and being gone a little way I sent home Will to look to the +house, and Creed and I rode forward; the road being full of citizens +going and coming toward Epsum, where, when we came, we could hear of no +lodging, the town so full; but which was better, I went towards Ashted, +my old place of pleasure; and there by direction of one goodman Arthur, +whom we met on the way, we went to Farmer Page's, at which direction he +and I made good sport, and there we got a lodging in a little hole we +could not stand upright in, but rather than go further to look we staid +there, and while supper was getting ready I took him to walk up and down +behind my cozen Pepys's house that was, which I find comes little short +of what I took it to be when I was a little boy, as things use commonly +to appear greater than then when one comes to be a man and knows more, +and so up and down in the closes, which I know so well methinks, and +account it good fortune that I lie here that I may have opportunity to +renew my old walks. It seems there is one Mr. Rouse, they call him the +Queen's Tailor, that lives there now. So to our lodging to supper, and +among other meats had a brave dish of cream, the best I ever eat in my +life, and with which we pleased ourselves much, and by and by to bed, +where, with much ado yet good sport, we made shift to lie, but with +little ease, and a little spaniel by us, which has followed us all the +way, a pretty dogg, and we believe that follows my horse, and do belong +to Mrs. Gauden, which we, therefore, are very careful of. + + + +26th (Lord's-day). Up and to the Wells, + + + [Epsom medicinal wells were discovered about 1618, but they did not + become fashionable until the Restoration. John Toland, in his + "Description of Epsom," says that he often counted seventy coaches in + the Ring (the present racecourse on the Downs) on a Sunday evening; + but by the end of the eighteenth century Epsom had entirely lost its + vogue.] + +where great store of citizens, which was the greatest part of the +company, though there were some others of better quality. I met many +that I knew, and we drank each of us two pots and so walked away, it +being very pleasant to see how everybody turns up his tail, here one and +there another, in a bush, and the women in their quarters the like. +Thence I walked with Creed to Mr. Minnes's house, which has now a very +good way made to it, and thence to Durdans and walked round it and within +the Court Yard and to the Bowling-green, where I have seen so much mirth +in my time; but now no family in it (my Lord Barkeley, whose it is, being +with his family at London), and so up and down by Minnes's wood, with +great pleasure viewing my old walks, and where Mrs. Hely and I did use to +walk and talk, with whom I had the first sentiments of love and pleasure +in woman's company, discourse, and taking her by the hand, she being a +pretty woman. So I led him to Ashted Church (by the place where Peter, +my cozen's man, went blindfold and found a certain place we chose for him +upon a wager), where we had a dull Doctor, one Downe, worse than I think +even parson King was, of whom we made so much scorn, and after sermon +home, and staid while our dinner, a couple of large chickens, were +dressed, and a good mess of cream, which anon we had with good content, +and after dinner (we taking no notice of other lodgers in the house, +though there was one that I knew, and knew and spoke to me, one Mr. +Rider, a merchant), he and I to walk, and I led him to the pretty little +wood behind my cozens house, into which we got at last by clambering, and +our little dog with us, but when we were among the hazel trees and +bushes, Lord! what a course did we run for an hour together, losing +ourselves, and indeed I despaired I should ever come to any path, but +still from thicket to thicket, a thing I could hardly have believed a man +could have been lost so long in so small a room. At last I found out a +delicate walk in the middle that goes quite through the wood, and then +went out of the wood, and holloed Mr. Creed, and made him hunt me from +place to place, and at last went in and called him into my fine walk, the +little dog still hunting with us through the wood. In this walk being +all bewildered and weary and sweating, Creed he lay down upon the ground, +which I did a little, but I durst not long, but walked from him in the +fine green walk, which is half a mile long, there reading my vows as I +used to on Sundays. And after that was done, and going and lying by +Creed an hour, he and I rose and went to our lodging and paid our +reckoning, and so mounted, whether to go toward London home or to find a +new lodging, and so rode through Epsum, the whole town over, seeing the +various companys that were there walking; which was very pleasant to see +how they are there without knowing almost what to do, but only in the +morning to drink waters. But, Lord! to see how many I met there of +citizens, that I could not have thought to have seen there, or that they +had ever had it in their heads or purses to go down thither. We rode out +of the town through Yowell beyond Nonesuch House a mile, and there our +little dogg, as he used to do, fell a-running after a flock of sheep +feeding on the common, till he was out of sight, and then endeavoured to +come back again, and went to the last gate that he parted with us at, and +there the poor thing mistakes our scent, instead of coming forward he +hunts us backward, and runs as hard as he could drive back towards +Nonesuch, Creed and I after him, and being by many told of his going that +way and the haste he made, we rode still and passed him through Yowell, +and there we lost any further information of him. However, we went as +far as Epsum almost, hearing nothing of him, we went back to Yowell, and +there was told that he did pass through the town. We rode back to +Nonesuch to see whether he might be gone back again, but hearing nothing +we with great trouble and discontent for the loss of our dogg came back +once more to Yowell, and there set up our horses and selves for all +night, employing people to look for the dogg in the town, but can hear +nothing of him. However, we gave order for supper, and while that was +dressing walked out through Nonesuch Park to the house, and there viewed +as much as we could of the outside, and looked through the great gates, +and found a noble court; and altogether believe it to have been a very +noble house, and a delicate park about it, where just now there was a doe +killed, for the King to carry up to Court. So walked back again, and by +and by our supper being ready, a good leg of mutton boiled, we supped and +to bed, upon two beds in the same room, wherein we slept most excellently +all night. + + + +27th. Up in the morning about 7 o'clock, and after a little study, +resolved of riding to the Wells to look for our dogg, which we did, but +could hear nothing; but it being much a warmer day than yesterday there +was great store of gallant company, more than then, to my greater +pleasure. There was at a distance, under one of the trees on the common, +a company got together that sung. I, at the distance, and so all the +rest being a quarter of a mile off, took them for the Waytes, so I rode +up to them, and found them only voices, some citizens met by chance, that +sung four or five parts excellently. I have not been more pleased with a +snapp of musique, considering the circumstances of the time and place,, +in all my life anything so pleasant. We drank each of us, three cupps, +and so, after riding up to the horsemen upon the hill, where they were +making of matches to run, we went away and to Yowell, where we found our +breakfast, the remains of our supper last night hashed, and by and by, +after the smith had set on two new shoes to Creed's horse, we mounted, +and with little discourse, I being intent upon getting home in time, we +rode hard home, observing Mr. Gauden's house, but not calling there (it +being too late for me to stay, and wanting their dog too). The house +stands very finely, and has a graceful view to the highway. Set up our +horses at Fox Hall, and I by water (observing the King's barge attending +his going to the House this day) home, it being about one o'clock. So +got myself ready and shifting myself, and so by water to Westminster, and +there came most luckily to the Lords' House as the House of Commons were +going into the Lord's House, and there I crowded in along with the +Speaker, and got to stand close behind him, where he made his speech to +the King (who sat with his crown on and robes, and so all the Lords in +their robes, a fine sight); wherein he told his Majesty what they have +done this Parliament, and now offered for his royall consent. The +greatest matters were a bill for the Lord's day (which it seems the Lords +have lost, and so cannot be passed, at which the Commons are displeased); +the bills against Conventicles and Papists (but it seems the Lords have +not passed them), and giving his Majesty four entire subsidys; which +last, with about twenty smaller Acts, were passed with this form: The +Clerk of the House reads the title of the bill, and then looks at the end +and there finds (writ by the King I suppose) "Le Roy le veult," and that +he reads. And to others he reads, "Soit fait comme vous desirez." And +to the Subsidys, as well that for the Commons, I mean the layety, as for +the Clergy, the King writes, "Le Roy remerciant les Seigneurs, &c., +Prelats, &c., accepte leur benevolences." The Speaker's speech was far +from any oratory, but was as plain (though good matter) as any thing +could be, and void of elocution. After the bills passed, the King, +sitting on his throne, with his speech writ in a paper which he held in +his lap, and scarce looked off of it, I thought, all the time he made his +speech to them, giving them thanks for their subsidys, of which, had he +not need, he would not have asked or received them; and that need, not +from any extravagancys of his, he was sure, in any thing, but the +disorders of the times compelling him to be at greater charge than he +hoped for the future, by their care in their country, he should be: and +that for his family expenses and others, he would labour however to +retrench in many things convenient, and would have all others to do so +too. He desired that nothing of old faults should be remembered, or +severity for the same used to any in the country, it being his desire to +have all forgot as well as forgiven. But, however, to use all care in +suppressing any tumults, &c.; assuring them that the restless spirits of +his and their adversaries have great expectations of something to be done +this summer. And promised that though the Acts about Conventicles and +Papists were not ripe for passing this Session, yet he would take care +himself that neither of them should in this intervall be encouraged to +the endangering of the peace; and that at their next meeting he would +himself prepare two bills for them concerning them. So he concluded, +that for the better proceeding of justice he did think fit to make this a +Session, and to prorogue them to the 16th of March next. His speech was +very plain, nothing at all of spirit in it, nor spoke with any; but +rather on the contrary imperfectly, repeating many times his words though +he read all which I was sorry to see, it having not been hard for him to +have got all the speech without book. So they all went away, the King +out of the House at the upper end, he being by and by to go to Tunbridge +to the Queen; and I in the Painted Chamber spoke with my Lord Sandwich +while he was putting off his robes, who tells me he will now hasten down +into the country, as soon as he can get some money settled on the +Wardrobe. Here meeting Creed, he and I down to the Hall, and I having at +Michell's shop wrote a little letter to Mr. Gauden, to go with his horse, +and excusing my not taking leave or so much as asking after the old lady +the widow when we came away the other day from them, he and I over the +water to Fox Hall, and there sent away the horse with my letter, and then +to the new Spring Garden, walking up and down, but things being dear and +little attendance to be had we went away, leaving much brave company +there, and so to a less house hard by, where we liked very well their +Codlin tarts, having not time, as we intended, to stay the getting ready +of a dish of pease. And there came to us an idle boy to show us some +tumbling tricks, which he did very well, and the greatest bending of his +body that ever I observed in my life. Thence by water to White Hall, and +walked over the Park to St. James's; but missed Mr. Coventry, he not +being within; and so out again, and there the Duke was coming along the +Pell-Mell. It being a little darkish, I staid not to take notice of him, +but we went directly back again. And in our walk over the Park, one of +the Duke's footmen came running behind us, and came looking just in our +faces to see who we were, and went back again. What his meaning is I +know not, but was fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off, +though methinks that should not be it, besides, there were others covered +nearer than myself was, but only it was my fear. So to White Hall and by +water to the Bridge, and so home to bed, weary and well pleased with my +journey in all respects. Only it cost me about 20s., but it was for my +health, and I hope will prove so, only I do find by my riding a little +swelling to rise just by my anus. I had the same the last time I rode, +and then it fell again, and now it is up again about the bigness of the +bag of a silkworm, makes me fearful of a rupture. But I will speak to +Mr. Hollyard about it, and I am glad to find it now, that I may prevent +it before it goes too far. + + + +28th. Up after sleeping very well, and so to my office setting down the +Journall of this last three days, and so settled to business again, I +hope with greater cheerfulness and success by this refreshment.: At the +office all the morning, and at noon to Wise's about my viall that is +a-doing, and so home to dinner and then to the office, where we sat all +the afternoon till night, and I late at it till after the office was +risen. Late came my Jane and her brother Will: to entreat for my taking +of the boy again, but I will not hear her, though I would yet be glad to +do anything for her sake to the boy, but receive him again I will not, +nor give him anything. She would have me send him to sea; which if I +could I would do, but there is no ship going out. The poor girl cried +all the time she was with me, and would not go from me, staying about two +hours with me till 10 or 11 o'clock, expecting that she might obtain +something of me, but receive him I will not. So the poor girl was fain +to go away crying and saying little. So from thence home, where my house +of office was emptying, and I find they will do, it with much more +cleanness than I expected. I went up and down among them a good while, +but knowing that Mr. Coventry was to call me in the morning, I went to +bed and left them to look after the people. So to bed. + + + +29th. Up about 6 o'clock, and found the people to have just done, and +Hannah not gone to bed yet, but was making clean of the yard and kitchen. +Will newly gone to bed. So I to my office, and having given some order +to Tom Hater, to whom I gave leave for his recreation to go down to +Portsmouth this Pay, I went down to Wapping to Sir W. Warren, and there +staid an hour or two discoursing of some of his goods and then things in +general relating to this office, &c., and so home, and there going to Sir +William Batten (having no stomach to dine at home, it being yet hardly +clean of last night's [mess])and there I dined with my Lady and her +daughter and son Castle, and mighty kind she is and I kind to her, but, +Lord! how freely and plainly she rails against Commissioner Pett, +calling him rogue, and wondering that the King keeps such a fellow in the +Navy. Thence by and by walked to see Sir W. Pen at Deptford, reading by +the way a most ridiculous play, a new one, called "The Politician +Cheated." After a little sitting with him I walked to the yard a little +and so home again, my Will with me, whom I bade to stay in the yard for +me, and so to bed. This morning my brother Tom was with me, and we had +some discourse again concerning his country mistress, but I believe the +most that is fit for us to condescend to, will not content her friends. + + + +30th. Up and to the office to get business ready for our sitting, this +being the first day of altering it from afternoon during the Parliament +sitting to the fore-noon again. By and by Mr. Coventry only came (Sir +John Minnes and Sir William Batten being gone this morning to Portsmouth +to pay some ships and the yard there), and after doing a little business +he and I down to Woolwich, and there up and down the yard, and by and by +came Sir G. Carteret and we all looked into matters, and then by water +back to Deptford, where we dined with him at his house, a very good +dinner and mightily tempted with wines of all sorts and brave French +Syder, but I drunk none. But that which is a great wonder I find his +little daughter Betty, that was in hanging sleeves but a month or two +ago, and is a very little young child; married, and to whom, but to young +Scott, son to Madam Catharine Scott, that was so long in law, and at +whose triall I was with her husband; he pleading that it was unlawfully +got and would not own it, she, it seems, being brought to bed of it, if +not got by somebody else at Oxford, but it seems a little before his +death he did own the child, and hath left him his estate, not long since. +So Sir G. Carteret hath struck up of a sudden a match with him for his +little daughter. He hath about L2000 per annum; and it seems Sir G. +Carteret hath by this means over-reached Sir H. Bennet, who did endeavour +to get this gentleman for a sister of his, but Sir G. Carteret I say has +over-reached him. By this means Sir G. Carteret hath married two +daughters this year both very well. After dinner into Deptford yard, but +our bellies being full we could do no great business, and so parted, and +Mr. Coventry and I to White Hall by water, where we also parted, and I to +several places about business, and so calling for my five books of the +Variorum print bound according to my common binding instead of the other +which is more gaudy I went home. The town talk this day is of nothing +but the great foot-race run this day on Banstead Downes, between Lee, the +Duke of Richmond's footman, and a tyler, a famous runner. And Lee hath +beat him; though the King and Duke of York and all men almost did bet +three or four to one upon the tyler's head. + + + +31st. Up early to my accounts this month, and I find myself worth clear +L730, the most I ever had yet, which contents me though I encrease but +very little. Thence to my office doing business, and at noon to my viall +maker's, who has begun it and has a good appearance, and so to the +Exchange, where I met Dr. Pierce, who tells me of his good luck to get to +be groom of the Privy-Chamber to the Queen, and without my Lord +Sandwich's help; but only by his good fortune, meeting a man that hath +let him have his right for a small matter, about L60, for which he can +every day have L400. But he tells me my Lord hath lost much honour in +standing so long and so much for that coxcomb Pickering, and at last not +carrying it for him; but hath his name struck out by the King and Queen +themselves after he had been in ever since the Queen's coming. But he +tells me he believes that either Sir H. Bennet, my Lady Castlemaine, or +Sir Charles Barkeley had received some money for the place, and so the +King could not disappoint them, but was forced to put out this fool +rather than a better man. And I am sorry to hear what he tells me that +Sir Charles Barkeley hath still such power over the King, as to be able +to fetch him from the Council-table to my Lady Castlemaine when he +pleases. He tells me also, as a friend, the great injury that he thinks +I do myself by being so severe in the Yards, and contracting the ill-will +of the whole Navy for those offices, singly upon myself. Now I discharge +a good conscience therein, and I tell him that no man can (nor do he say +any say it) charge me with doing wrong; but rather do as many good +offices as any man. They think, he says, that I have a mind to get a +good name with the King and Duke, who he tells me do not consider any +such thing; but I shall have as good thanks to let all alone, and do as +the rest. But I believe the contrary; and yet I told him I never go to +the Duke alone, as others do, to talk of my own services. However, I +will make use of his council, and take some course to prevent having the +single ill-will of the office. Before I went to the office I went to the +Coffee House, where Sir J. Cutler and Mr. Grant were, and there Mr. Grant +showed me letters of Sir William Petty's, wherein he says, that his +vessel which he hath built upon two keeles (a modell whereof, built for +the King, he showed me) hath this month won a wager of L50 in sailing +between Dublin and Holyhead with the pacquett-boat, the best ship or +vessel the King hath there; and he offers to lay with any vessel in the +world. It is about thirty ton in burden, and carries thirty men, with +good accommodation, (as much more as any ship of her burden,) and so any +vessel of this figure shall carry more men, with better accommodation by +half, than any other ship. This carries also ten guns, of about five +tons weight. In their coming back from Holyhead they started together, +and this vessel came to Dublin by five at night, and the pacquett-boat +not before eight the next morning; and when they came they did believe +that, this vessel had been drowned, or at least behind, not thinking she +could have lived in that sea. Strange things are told of this vessel, +and he concludes his letter with this position, "I only affirm that the +perfection of sayling lies in my principle, finde it out who can." +Thence home, in my way meeting Mr. Rawlinson, who tells me that my uncle +Wight is off of his Hampshire purchase and likes less of the Wights, and +would have me to be kind and study to please him, which I am resolved to +do. Being at home he sent for me to dinner to meet Mr. Moore, so I went +thither and dined well, but it was strange for me to refuse, and yet I +did without any reluctancy to drink wine in a tavern, where nothing else +almost was drunk, and that excellent good. Thence with Mr. Moore to the +Wardrobe, and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr. Townsend about +his accounts an hour or two, we reading of a merry book against the +Presbyters called Cabbala, extraordinary witty. Thence walked home and +to my office, setting papers of all sorts and writing letters and putting +myself into a condition to go to Chatham with Mr. Coventry to-morrow. +So, at almost 12 o'clock, and my eyes tired with seeing to write, I went +home and to bed. Ending the month with pretty good content of mind, my +wife in the country and myself in good esteem, and likely by pains to +become considerable, I think, with God's blessing upon my diligence. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + AUGUST + 1663 + + +Aug. 1st. Up betimes and got me ready, and so to the office and put +things in order for my going. By and by comes Sir G. Carteret, and he +and I did some business, and then Mr. Coventry sending for me, he staying +in the boat, I got myself presently ready and down to him, he and I by +water to Gravesend (his man Lambert with us), and there eat a bit and so +mounted, I upon one of his horses which met him there, a brave proud +horse, all the way talking of businesses of the office and other matters +to good purpose. Being come to Chatham, we put on our boots and so +walked to the yard, where we met Commissioner Pett, and there walked up +and down looking and inquiring into many businesses, and in the evening +went to the Commissioner's and there in his upper Arbor sat and talked, +and there pressed upon the Commissioner to take upon him a power to +correct and suspend officers that do not their duty and other things, +which he unwillingly answered he would if we would own him in it. Being +gone thence Mr. Coventry and I did discourse about him, and conclude that +he is not able to do the same in that yard that he might and can and it +maybe will do in another, what with his old faults and the relations that +he has to most people that act there. After an hour or two's discourse +at the Hill-house before going to bed, I see him to his and he me to my +chamber, he lying in the Treasurer's and I in the Controller's chambers. + + + +2nd (Lord's day). Up and after the barber had done he and I walked to +the Docke, and so on board the Mathias, where Commissioner Pett and he +and I and a good many of the officers and others of the yard did hear an +excellent sermon of Mr. Hudson's upon "All is yours and you are God's," +a most ready, learned, and good sermon, such as I have not heard a good +while, nor ever thought he could have preached. We took him with us to +the Hill-house, and there we dined, and an officer or two with us. So +after dinner the company withdrew, and we three to private discourse and +laid the matters of the yard home again to the Commissioner, and +discoursed largely of several matters. Then to the parish church, and +there heard a poor sermon with a great deal of false Greek in it, upon +these words, "Ye are my friends, if ye do these things which I command +you." Thence to the Docke and by water to view St. Mary Creeke, but do +not find it so proper for a wet docks as we would have it, it being +uneven ground and hard in the bottom and no, great depth of water in many +places. Returned and walked from the Docke home, Mr. Coventry and I very +much troubled to see how backward Commissioner Pett is to tell any of the +faults of the officers, and to see nothing in better condition here for +his being here than they are in other yards where there is none. After +some discourse to bed. But I sat up an hour after Mr. Coventry was gone +to read my vows, it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for +an hour together. So to bed. + + + +3rd. Up both of us very betimes and to the Yard, and see the men called +over and choose some to be discharged. Then to the Ropehouses and viewed +them all and made an experiment which was the stronger, English or Riga +hemp, the latter proved the stronger, but the other is very good, and +much better we believe than any but Riga. We did many other things this +morning, and I caused the Timber measurer to measure some timber, where I +found much fault and with reason, which we took public notice of, and did +give them admonition for the time to come. At noon Mr. Pett did give us +a very great dinner, too big in all conscience, so that most of it was +left untouched. Here was Collonell Newman and several other gentlemen of +the country and officers of the yard. After dinner they withdrew and +Commissioner Pett, Mr. Coventry and I sat close to our business all the +noon in his parler, and there run through much business and answered +several people. And then in the evening walked in the garden, where we +conjured him to look after the yard, and for the time to come that he +would take the whole faults and ill management of the yard upon himself, +he having full power and our concurrence to suspend or do anything else +that he thinks fit to keep people and officers to their duty. He having +made good promises, though I fear his performance, we parted (though I +spoke so freely that he could have been angry) good friends, and in some +hopes that matters will be better for the time to come. So walked to the +Hillhouse (which we did view and the yard about it, and do think to put +it off as soon as we can conveniently) and there made ourselves ready and +mounted and rode to Gravesend (my riding Coate not being to be found I +fear it is stole) on our way being overtaken by Captain Browne that +serves the office of the Ordnance at Chatham. All the way, though he was +a rogue and served the late times all along, yet he kept us in discourse +of the many services that he did for many of the King's party, lords and +Dukes, and among others he recovered a dog that was stolne from Mr. Cary +(head-keeper of the buck-hounds to the King) and preserved several horses +of the Duke of Richmond's, and his best horse he was forst to put out his +eyes and keep him for a stallion to preserve him from being carried away. +But he gone at last upon my enquiry to tell us how (he having been here +too for survey of the Ropeyard) the day's work of the Rope-makers become +settled, which pleased me very well. Being come to our Inn Mr. Coventry +and I sat, and talked till 9 or 10 a-clock and then to bed. + + + +4th. We were called up about four a-clock, and being ready went and took +a Gravesend boat, and to London by nine a-clock. By the way talking of +several businesses of the navy. So to the office, where Sir Wm. Pen (the +first time that he has been with us a great while, he having been long +sick) met us, and there we sat all the morning. My brother John I find +come to town to my house, as I sent for him, on Saturday last; so at noon +home and dined with him, and after dinner and the barber been with me I +walked out with him to my viall maker's and other places and then left +him, and I by water to Blackbury's, and there talked with him about some +masts (and by the way he tells me that Paul's is now going to be repaired +in good earnest), and so with him to his garden close by his house, where +I eat some peaches and apricots; a very pretty place. So over the water +to Westminster hall, and not finding Mrs. Lane, with whom I purposed to +be merry, I went to Jervas's and took him and his wife over the water to +their mother Palmer's (the woman that speaks in the belly, and with whom +I have two or three years ago made good sport with Mr. Mallard), thinking +because I had heard that she is a woman of that sort that I might there +have lit upon some lady of pleasure (for which God forgive me), but blest +be God there was none, nor anything that pleased me, but a poor little +house that she has set out as fine as she can, and for her singing which +she pretends to is only some old body songs and those sung abominably, +only she pretends to be able to sing both bass and treble, which she do +something like, but not what I thought formerly and expected now; nor do +her speaking in her belly take me now as it did then, but it may be that +is because I know it and see her mouth when she speaks, which should not +be. After I had spent a shilling there in wine I took boat with Jervas +and his wife and set them at Westminster, and it being late forbore Mrs. +Lane and went by water to the Old Swan by a boat, where I had good sport +with one of the young men about his travells as far as Voxhall, in +mockery, which yet the fellow answered me most prettily and traveller- +like unto my very good mirth. So home, and with my brother eat a bit of +bread and cheese, and so to bed, he with me. This day I received a +letter from my wife, which troubles me mightily, wherein she tells me how +Ashwell did give her the lie to her teeth, and that thereupon my wife +giving her a box on the eare, the other struck her again, and a deal of +stir which troubles me, and that my Lady has been told by my father or +mother something of my wife's carriage, which altogether vexes me, and I +fear I shall find a trouble of my wife when she comes home to get down +her head again, but if Ashwell goes I am resolved to have no more, but to +live poorly and low again for a good while, and save money and keep my +wife within bounds if I can, or else I shall bid Adieu to all content in +the world. So to bed, my mind somewhat disturbed at this, but yet I +shall take care, by prudence, to avoid the ill consequences which I fear, +things not being gone too far yet, and this height that my wife is come +to being occasioned from my own folly in giving her too much head +heretofore for the year past. + + + +5th. All the morning at the office, whither Deane of Woolwich came to me +and discoursed of the body of ships, which I am now going about to +understand, and then I took him to the coffee-house, where he was very +earnest against Mr. Grant's report in favour of Sir W. Petty's vessel, +even to some passion on both sides almost. So to the Exchange, and +thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to +Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by and by by agreement +we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should +meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me +of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take +notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at +Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse +her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was +very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not +adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her. +Staid pretty late, and so over with her by water, and being in a great +sweat with my towsing of her durst not go home by water, but took coach, +and at home my brother and I fell upon Des Cartes, and I perceive he has +studied him well, and I cannot find but he has minded his book, and do +love it. This evening came a letter about business from Mr. Coventry, +and with it a silver pen he promised me to carry inke in, which is very +necessary. So to prayers and to bed. + + + +6th. Up and was angry with my maid Hannah for keeping the house no +better, it being more dirty now-a-days than ever it was while my whole +family was together. So to my office, whither Mr. Coventry came and Sir +William Pen, and we sat all the morning. This day Mr. Coventry borrowed +of me my manuscript of the Navy. At noon I to the 'Change, and meeting +with Sir W. Warren, to a coffee-house, and there finished a contract with +him for the office, and so parted, and I to my cozen Mary Joyce's at a +gossiping, where much company and good cheer. There was the King's +Falconer, that lives by Paul's, and his wife, an ugly pusse, but brought +him money. He speaking of the strength of hawkes, which will strike a +fowle to the ground with that force that shall make the fowle rebound a +great way from ground, which no force of man or art can do, but it was +very pleasant to hear what reasons he and another, one Ballard, a rich +man of the same Company of Leathersellers of which the Joyces are, did +give for this. Ballard's wife, a pretty and a very well-bred woman, I +took occasion to kiss several times, and she to carve, drink, and show me +great respect. After dinner to talk and laugh. I drank no wine, but +sent for some water; the beer not being good. A fiddler was sent for, +and there one Mrs. Lurkin, a neighbour, a good, and merry poor woman, but +a very tall woman, did dance and show such tricks that made us all merry, +but above all a daughter of Mr. Brumfield's, black, but well-shaped and +modest, did dance very well, which pleased me mightily. I begun the +Duchess with her, but could not do it; but, however, I came off well +enough, and made mighty much of her, kissing and leading her home, with +her cozen Anthony and Kate Joyce (Kate being very handsome and well, that +is, handsomely dressed to-day, and I grew mighty kind and familiar with +her, and kissed her soundly, which she takes very well) to their house, +and there I left them, having in our way, though nine o'clock at night, +carried them into a puppet play in Lincolnes Inn Fields, where there was +the story of Holofernes, and other clockwork, well done. There was at +this house today Mr. Lawrence, who did give the name, it seems, to my +cozen Joyce's child, Samuel, who is a very civil gentleman, and his wife +a pretty woman, who, with Kate Joyce, were stewards of the feast to-day, +and a double share cost for a man and a woman came to 16s., which I also +would pay, though they would not by any means have had me do so. I +walked home very well contented with this afternoon's work, I thinking it +convenient to keep in with the Joyces against a bad day, if I should have +occasion to make use of them. So I walked home, and after a letter to my +wife by the post and my father, I home to supper, and after a little talk +with my brother to bed. + + + +7th. Up and to my office a little, and then to Brown's for my measuring +rule, which is made, and is certainly the best and the most commodious +for carrying in one's pocket, and most useful that ever was made, and +myself have the honour of being as it were the inventor of this form of +it. Here I staid discoursing an hour with him and then home, and thither +came Sir Fairbrother to me, and we walked a while together in the garden +and then abroad into the cittie, and then we parted for a while and I to +my Viall, which I find done and once varnished, and it will please me +very well when it is quite varnished. Thence home and to study my new +rule till my head aked cruelly. So by and by to dinner and the Doctor +and Mr. Creed came to me. The Doctor's discourse, which (though he be a +very good-natured man) is but simple, was some sport to me and Creed, +though my head akeing I took no great pleasure in it. We parted after +dinner, and I walked to Deptford and there found Sir W. Pen, and I fell +to measuring of some planks that was serving into the yard, which the +people took notice of, and the measurer himself was amused at, for I did +it much more ready than he, and I believe Sir W. Pen would be glad I +could have done less or he more. By and by he went away and I staid +walking up and down, discoursing with the officers of the yard of several +things, and so walked back again, and on my way young Bagwell and his +wife waylayd me to desire my favour about getting him a better ship, +which I shall pretend to be willing to do for them, but my mind is to +know his wife a little better. They being parted I went with Cadbury the +mast maker to view a parcel of good masts which I think it were good to +buy, and resolve to speak to the board about it. So home, and my brother +John and I up and I to my musique, and then to discourse with him, and I +find him not so thorough a philosopher, at least in Aristotle, as I took +him for, he not being able to tell me the definition of final nor which +of the 4 Qualitys belonged to each of the 4 Elements. So to prayers, and +to bed, among other things being much satisfied with my new rule. + + + +8th. Up and to my office, whither I search for Brown the mathematical +instrument maker, who now brought me a ruler for measuring timber and +other things so well done and in all things to my mind that I do set up +my trust upon it that I cannot have a better, nor any man else have so +good for this purpose, this being of my own ordering. By and by we sat +all the morning dispatching of business, and then at noon rose, and I +with Mr. Coventry down to the water-side, talking, wherein I see so much +goodness and endeavours of doing the King service, that I do more and +more admire him. It being the greatest trouble to me, he says, in the +world to see not only in the Navy, but in the greatest matters of State, +where he can lay his finger upon the soare (meaning this man's faults, +and this man's office the fault lies in), and yet dare or can not remedy +matters. Thence to the Exchange about several businesses, and so home to +dinner, and in the afternoon took my brother John and Will down to +Woolwich by water, and after being there a good while, and eating of +fruit in Sheldon's garden, we began our walk back again, I asking many +things in physiques of my brother John, to which he gives me so bad or no +answer at all, as in the regions of the ayre he told me that he knew of +no such thing, for he never read Aristotle's philosophy and Des Cartes +ownes no such thing, which vexed me to hear him say. But I shall call +him to task, and see what it is that he has studied since his going to +the University. It was late before we could get from Greenwich to London +by water, the tide being against us and almost past, so that to save time +and to be clear of anchors I landed at Wapping, and so walked home weary +enough, walking over the stones. This night Sir W. Batten and Sir J. +Minnes returned [from] Portsmouth, but I did not go see them. + + + +9th (Lord's day). Up, and leaving my brother John to go somewhere else, +I to church, and heard Mr. Mills (who is lately returned out of the +country, and it seems was fetched in by many of the parishioners, with +great state,) preach upon the authority of the ministers, upon these +words, "We are therefore embassadors of Christ." Wherein, among other +high expressions, he said, that such a learned man used to say, that if a +minister of the word and an angell should meet him together, he would +salute the minister first; which methought was a little too high. This +day I begun to make use of the silver pen (Mr. Coventry did give me) in +writing of this sermon, taking only the heads of it in Latin, which I +shall, I think, continue to do. So home and at my office reading my +vowes, and so to Sir W. Batten to dinner, being invited and sent for, and +being willing to hear how they left things at Portsmouth, which I found +but ill enough, and are mightily for a Commissioner to be at seat there +to keep the yard in order. Thence in the afternoon with my Lady Batten, +leading her through the streets by the hand to St. Dunstan's Church, hard +by us (where by Mrs. Russell's means we were set well), and heard an +excellent sermon of one Mr. Gifford, the parson there, upon "Remember +Lot's wife." So from thence walked back to Mrs. Russell's, and there +drank and sat talking a great while. Among other things talked of young +Dawes that married the great fortune, who it seems has a Baronet's patent +given him, and is now Sir Thos. Dawes, and a very fine bred man they say +he is. Thence home, and my brother being abroad I walked to my uncle +Wight's and there staid, though with little pleasure, and supped, there +being the husband of Mrs. Anne Wight, who it seems is lately married to +one Mr. Bentley, a Norwich factor. Home, and staid up a good while +examining Will in his Latin below, and my brother along with him in his +Greeke, and so to prayers and to bed. This afternoon I was amused at the +tune set to the Psalm by the Clerke of the parish, and thought at first +that he was out, but I find him to be a good songster, and the parish +could sing it very well, and was a good tune. But I wonder that there +should be a tune in the Psalms that I never heard of. + + + +10th. Up, though not so early this summer as I did all the last, for +which I am sorry, and though late am resolved to get up betimes before +the season of rising be quite past. To my office to fit myself to wait +on the Duke this day. By and by by water to White Hall, and so to St. +James's, and anon called into the Duke's chamber, and being dressed we +were all as usual taken in with him and discoursed of our matters, and +that being done, he walked, and I in the company with him, to White Hall, +and there he took barge for Woolwich, and, I up to the Committee of +Tangier, where my Lord Sandwich, pay Lord Peterborough, (whom I have not +seen before since his coming back,) Sir W. Compton, and Mr. Povy. Our +discourse about supplying my Lord Teviott with money, wherein I am sorry +to see, though they do not care for him, yet they are willing to let him +for civility and compliment only have money almost without expecting any +account of it; but by this means, he being such a cunning fellow as he +is, the King is like to pay dear for our courtiers' ceremony. Thence by +coach with my Lords Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's +house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the +Italian buildings, with fine cuts; and also my Lord Peterborough's bowes +and arrows, of which he is a great lover, we sat down to dinner, my Lady +coming down to dinner also, and there being Mr. Williamson, that belongs +to Sir H. Bennet, whom I find a pretty understanding and accomplished +man, but a little conceited. After dinner I took leave and went to +Greatorex's, whom I found in his garden, and set him to work upon my +ruler, to engrave an almanac and other things upon the brasses of it, +which a little before night he did, but the latter part he slubbered +over, that I must get him to do it over better, or else I shall not fancy +my rule, which is such a folly that I am come to now, that whereas before +my delight was in multitude of books, and spending money in that and +buying alway of other things, now that I am become a better husband, and +have left off buying, now my delight is in the neatness of everything, +and so cannot be pleased with anything unless it be very neat, which is a +strange folly. Hither came W. Howe about business, and he and I had a +great deal of discourse about my Lord Sandwich, and I find by him that my +Lord do dote upon one of the daughters of Mrs. [Becke] where he lies, so +that he spends his time and money upon her. He tells me she is a woman +of a very bad fame and very impudent, and has told my Lord so, yet for +all that my Lord do spend all his evenings with her, though he be at +court in the day time, and that the world do take notice of it, and that +Pickering is only there as a blind, that the world may think that my Lord +spends his time with him when he do worse, and that hence it is that my +Lord has no more mind to go into the country than he has. In fine, I +perceive my Lord is dabbling with this wench, for which I am sorry, +though I do not wonder at it, being a man amorous enough, and now begins +to allow himself the liberty that he says every body else at Court takes. +Here I am told that my Lord Bristoll is either fled or concealed himself; +having been sent for to the King, it is believed to be sent to the Tower, +but he is gone out of the way. Yesterday, I am told also, that Sir J. +Lenthall, in Southwarke, did apprehend about one hundred Quakers, and +other such people, and hath sent some of them to the gaole at Kingston, +it being now the time of the Assizes. Hence home and examined a piece +of, Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed. This +evening I had a letter from my father that says that my wife will come to +town this week, at which I wonder that she should come to town without my +knowing more of it. But I find they have lived very ill together since +she went, and I must use all the brains I have to bring her to any good +when she do come home, which I fear will be hard to do, and do much +disgust me the thoughts of it. + + + +11th. Up and to my office, whither, by and by, my brother Tom came, and +I did soundly rattle him for his neglecting to see and please the Joyces +as he has of late done. I confess I do fear that he do not understand +his business, nor will do any good in his trade, though he tells me that +he do please every body and that he gets money, but I shall not believe +it till I see a state of his accounts, which I have ordered him to bring +me before he sees me any more. We met and sat at the office all the +morning, and at noon I to the 'Change, where I met Dr. Pierce, who tells +me that the King comes to towne this day, from Tunbridge, to stay a day +or two, and then fetch the Queen from thence, who he says is grown a very +debonnaire lady, and now hugs him, and meets him gallopping upon the +road, and all the actions of a fond and pleasant lady that can be, that +he believes has a chat now and then of Mrs. Stewart, but that there is no +great danger of her, she being only an innocent, young, raw girl; but my +Lady Castlemaine, who rules the King in matters of state, and do what she +list with him, he believes is now falling quite out of favour. After the +Queen is come back she goes to the Bath; and so to Oxford, where great +entertainments are making for her. This day I am told that my Lord +Bristoll hath warrants issued out against him, to have carried him to the +Tower; but he is fled away, or hid himself. So much the Chancellor hath +got the better of him. Upon the 'Change my brother, and Will bring me +word that Madam Turner would come and dine with me to-day, so I hasted +home and found her and Mrs. Morrice there (The. Joyce being gone into the +country), which is the reason of the mother rambling. I got a dinner for +them, and after dinner my uncle Thomas and aunt Bell came and saw me, and +I made them almost foxed with wine till they were very kind (but I did +not carry them up to my ladies). So they went away, and so my two ladies +and I in Mrs. Turner's coach to Mr. Povy's, who being not within, we went +in and there shewed Mrs. Turner his perspective and volary, + + [A large birdcage, in which the birds can fly about; French + 'voliere'. Ben Jonson uses the word volary.] + +and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat +thing. Thence to the Temple and by water to Westminster; and there +Morrice and I went to Sir R. Ling's to have fetched a niece of his, but +she was not within, and so we went to boat again and then down to the +bridge, and there tried to find a sister of Mrs. Morrice's, but she was +not within neither, and so we went through bridge, and I carried them on +board the King's pleasure-boat, all the way reading in a book of Receipts +of making fine meats and sweetmeats, among others to make my own sweet +water, which made us good sport. So I landed them at Greenwich, and +there to a garden, and gave them fruit and wine, and so to boat again, +and finally, in the cool of the evening, to Lyon Kee, + + [Lion Key, Lower Thames Street, where the famous Duchess of Suffolk + in the time of Bishop Gardiner's persecution took boat for the + continent. James, Duke of York, also left the country from this + same place on the night of April 20th, 1648, when he escaped from + St. James's Palace.] + +the tide against us, and so landed and walked to the Bridge, and there +took a coach by chance passing by, and so I saw them home, and there eat +some cold venison with them, and drunk and bade them good night, having +been mighty merry with them, and I think it is not amiss to preserve, +though it cost me a little, such a friend as Mrs. Turner. So home and to +bed, my head running upon what to do to-morrow to fit things against my +wife's coming, as to buy a bedstead, because my brother John is here, and +I have now no more beds than are used. + + + +12th. A little to my office, to put down my yesterday's journall, and so +abroad to buy a bedstead and do other things. So home again, and having +put up the bedstead and done other things in order to my wife's coming, +I went out to several places and to Mrs. Turner's, she inviting me last +night, and there dined; with her and Madam Morrice and a stranger we were +very merry and had a fine dinner, and thence I took leave and to White +Hall, where my Lords Sandwich, Peterborough, and others made a Tangier +Committee; spent the afternoon in reading and ordering with a great deal +of alteration, and yet methinks never a whit the better, of a letter +drawn by Creed to my Lord Rutherford. The Lords being against anything +that looked to be rough, though it was in matter of money and accounts, +wherein their courtship may cost the King dear. Only I do see by them, +that speaking in matters distasteful to him that we write to, it is best +to do it in the plainest way and without ambages or reasoning, but only +say matters of fact, and leave the party to collect your meaning. Thence +by water to my brother's, and there I hear my wife is come and gone home, +and my father is come to town also, at which I wondered. But I discern +it is to give my brother advice about his business, and it may be to +pacify me about the differences that have been between my wife and him +and my mother at her late being with them. Though by and by he coming to +Mr. Holden's (where I was buying a hat) he took no notice to me of +anything. I talked to him a little while and left him to lie at the end +of the town, and I home, where methought I found my wife strange, not +knowing, I believe, in what temper she could expect me to be in, but I +fell to kind words, and so we were very kind, only she could not forbear +telling me how she had been used by them and her mayde, Ashwell, in the +country, but I find it will be best not to examine it, for I doubt she's +in fault too, and therefore I seek to put it off from my hearing, and so +to bed and there entertained her with great content, and so to sleep. + + + +13th. Lay long in bed with my wife talking of family matters, and so up +and to the office, where we sat all the' morning, and then home to +dinner, and after dinner my wife and I to talk again about getting of a +couple of good mayds and to part with Ashwell, which troubles me for her +father's sake, though I shall be glad to have the charge taken away of +keeping a woman. Thence a little to the office, and so abroad with my +wife by water to White Hall, and there at my Lord's lodgings met my Lady +Jemimah, with whom we staid a good while. Thence to Mrs. Hunt's, where I +left my wife, and I to walk a little in St. James's Park, while Mrs. +Harper might come home, with whom we came to speak about her kinswoman +Jane Gentleman to come and live with us as a chamber mayde, and there met +with Mr. Hoole my old acquaintance of Magdalen, and walked with him an +hour in the Parke, discoursing chiefly of Sir Samuel Morland, whose lady +is gone into France. It seems he buys ground and a farm in the country, +and lays out money upon building, and God knows what! so that most of the +money he sold his pension of L500 per annum for, to Sir Arthur Slingsby, +is believed is gone. It seems he hath very great promises from the King, +and Hoole hath seen some of the King's letters, under his own hand, to +Morland, promising him great things (and among others, the order of the +Garter, as Sir Samuel says); but his lady thought it below her to ask any +thing at the King's first coming, believing the King would do it of +himself, when as Hoole do really think if he had asked to be Secretary of +State at the King's first coming, he might have had it. And the other +day at her going into France, she did speak largely to the King herself, +how her husband hath failed of what his Majesty had promised, and she was +sure intended him; and the King did promise still, as he is a King and a +gentleman, to be as good as his word in a little time, to a tittle: but I +never believe it. Here in the Park I met with Mr. Coventry, where he +sent for a letter he had newly writ to me, wherein he had enclosed one +from Commissioner Pett complaining of his being defeated in his attempt +to suspend two pursers, wherein the manner of his doing it, and complaint +of our seeing him (contrary to our promises the other day), deserted, did +make us laugh mightily, and was good sport to think how awkwardly he goes +about a thing that he has no courage of his own nor mind to do. Mr. +Coventry answered it very handsomely, but I perceive Pett has left off +his corresponding with me any more. Thence to fetch my wife from Mrs. +Hunt's, where now he was come in, and we eat and drunk, and so away +(their child being at home, a very lively, but not pretty at all), by +water to Mrs. Turner's, and there made a short visit, and so home by +coach, and after supper to prayers and to bed, and before going to bed +Ashwell began to make her complaint, and by her I do perceive that she +has received most base usage from my wife, which my wife sillily denies, +but it is impossible the wench could invent words and matter so +particularly, against which my wife has nothing to say but flatly to +deny, which I am sorry to see, and blows to have past, and high words +even at Hinchinbrooke House among my Lady's people, of which I am +mightily ashamed. I said nothing to either of them, but let them talk +till she was gone and left us abed, and then I told my wife my mind with +great sobriety of grief, and so to sleep. + + + +14th. Awake, and to chide my wife again, and I find that my wife has got +too great head to be brought down soon, nor is it possible with any +convenience to keep Ashwell longer, my wife is so set and convinced, as +she was in Sarah, to make her appear a Lyer in every small thing that we +shall have no peace while she stays. So I up and to my office doing +several businesses in my study, and so home to dinner. The time having +outslipt me and my stomach, it being past, two a-clock, and yet before we +could sit down to dinner Mrs. Harper and her cousin Jane came, and we +treated and discoursed long about her coming to my wife for a chamber +mayd, and I think she will do well. So they went away expecting notice +when she shall come, and so we sat down to dinner at four a-clock almost, +and then I walked forth to my brother's, where I found my father very +discontented, and has no mind to come to my house, and would have begun +some of the differences between my wife and him, but I desired to hear +none of them, and am sorry at my folly in forcing it and theirs in not +telling me of it at the beginning, and therefore am resolved to make the +best of a bad market, and to bring my wife to herself again as soon and +as well as I can. So we parted very kindly, and he will dine with me to- +morrow or next day. Thence walked home, doing several errands by the +way, and at home took my wife to visit Sir W. Pen, who is still lame, and +after an hour with him went home and supped, and with great content to +bed. + + + +15th. Lay pretty long in bed, being a little troubled with some pain got +by wind and cold, and so up with good peace of mind, hoping that my wife +will mind her house and servants, and so to the office, and being too +soon to sit walked to my viail, which is well nigh done, and I believe I +may have it home to my mind next week. So back to my office, and there +we sat all the morning, I till 2 o'clock before I could go to dinner +again. After dinner walked forth to my instrument maker, and there had +my rule he made me lay now so perfected, that I think in all points I +have never need or desire a better, or think that any man yet had one so +good in all the several points of it for my use. So by water down to +Deptford, taking into my boat with me Mr. Palmer, one whom I knew and his +wife when I was first married, being an acquaintance of my wife's and her +friends lodging at Charing Cross during our differences. He joyed me in +my condition, and himself it seems is forced to follow the law in a +common ordinary way, but seems to do well, and is a sober man, enough by +his discourse. He landed with me at Deptford, where he saw by the +officers' respect to me a piece of my command, and took notice of it, +though God knows I hope I shall not be elated with that, but rather +desire to be known for serving the King well, and doing my duty. He gone +I walked up and down the yard a while discoursing with the officers, and +so by water home meditating on my new Rule with great pleasure. So to my +office, and there by candle light doing business, and so home to supper +and to bed. + + + +16th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife to church, and finding her +desirous to go to church, I did suspect her meeting of Pembleton, but he +was not there, and so I thought my jealousy in vain, and treat the sermon +with great quiet. And home to dinner very pleasant, only some angry, +notwithstanding my wife could not forbear to give Ashwell, and after +dinner to church again, and there, looking up and down, I found Pembleton +to stand in the isle against us, he coming too late to get a pew. Which, +Lord! into what a sweat did it put me! I do not think my wife did see +him, which did a little satisfy me. But it makes me mad to see of what a +jealous temper I am and cannot helpe it, though let him do what he can I +do not see, as I am going to reduce my family, what hurt he can do me, +there being no more occasion now for my wife to learn of him. Here +preached a confident young coxcomb. So home, and I staid a while with +Sir J. Minnes, at Mrs. Turner's, hearing his parrat talk, laugh, and +crow, which it do to admiration. So home and with my wife to see Sir W. +Pen, and thence to my uncle Wight, and took him at supper and sat down, +where methinks my uncle is more kind than he used to be both to me now, +and my father tell me to him also, which I am glad at. After supper +home, it being extraordinary dark, and by chance a lanthorn came by, and +so we hired it to light us home, otherwise were we no sooner within doors +but a great showre fell that had doused us cruelly if we had not been +within, it being as dark as pitch. So to prayers and to bed. + + + +17th. Up, and then fell into discourse, my wife and I to Ashwell, and +much against my will I am fain to express a willingness to Ashwell that +she should go from us, and yet in my mind I am glad of it, to ease me of +the charge. So she is to go to her father this day. And leaving my wife +and her talking highly, I went away by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir +W. Batten to St. James's, and there attended of course the Duke. And so +to White Hall, where I met Mr. Moore, and he tells me with great sorrow +of my lord's being debauched he fears by this woman at Chelsey, which I +am troubled at, and resolve to speak to him of it if I can seasonably. +Thence home, where I dined, and after dinner comes our old mayde Susan to +look for a gorgett that she says she has lost by leaving it here, and by +many circumstances it being clear to me that Hannah, our present cook- +mayde, not only has it, but had it on upon her necke when Susan came in, +and shifted it off presently upon her coming in, I did charge her so home +with it (having a mind to have her gone from us), that in a huff she told +us she would be gone to-night if I would pay her her wages, which I was +glad and my wife of, and so fetched her her wages, and though I am +doubtful that she may convey some things away with her clothes, my wife +searching them, yet we are glad of her being so gone, and so she went +away in a quarter of an hour's time. Being much amused at this to have +never a maid but Ashwell, that we do not intend to keep, nor a boy, and +my wife and I being left for an hour, till my brother came in, alone in +the house, I grew very melancholy, and so my brother being come in I went +forth to Mrs. Holden's, to whom I formerly spoke about a girle to come to +me instead of a boy, and the like I did to Mrs. Standing and also to my +brother Tom, whom I found at an alehouse in Popinjay ally drinking, and I +standing with him at the gate of the ally, Ashwell came by, and so I left +Tom and went almost home with her, talking of her going away. I find +that she is willing to go, and told her (though behind my back my wife +has told her that it was more my desire than hers that she should go, +which was not well), that seeing my wife and she could not agree I did +choose rather (was she my sister) have her gone, it would be better for +us and for her too. To which she willing agreed, and will not tell me +anything but that she do believe that my wife would have some body there +that might not be so liable to give me information of things as she takes +her to be. But, however, I must later to prevent all that. I parted +with her near home, agreeing to take no notice of my coming along with +her, and so by and by came home after her. Where I find a sad distracted +house, which troubles me. However, to supper and prayers and to bed. +And while we were getting to bed my wife began to discourse to her, and +plainly asked whether she had got a place or no. And the other answered +that she could go if we would to one of our own office, to which we +agreed if she would. She thereupon said no; she would not go to any but +where she might teach children, because of keeping herself in use of what +things she had earnt, which she do not here nor will there, but only +dressing. By which I perceive the wench is cunning, but one very fit for +such a place, and accomplished to be woman to any lady in the land. So +quietly to sleep, it being a cold night. But till my house is settled, +I do not see that I can mind my business of the office, which grieves me +to the heart. But I hope all will over in a little time, and I hope to +the best. This day at Mrs. Holden's I found my new low crowned beaver +according to the present fashion made, and will be sent home to-morrow. + + + +18th. Up and to my office, where we sat all the morning. And at noon +home, and my father came and dined with me, Susan being come and helped +my wife to dress dinner. After dinner my father and I talked about our +country-matters, and in fine I find that he thinks L50 per ann. will go +near to keep them all, which I am glad of. He having taken his leave of +me and my wife without any mention of the differences between them and my +wife in the country, I went forth to several places about businesses, and +so home again, and after prayers to bed. + + + +19th. Up betimes, and my wife up and about the house, Susan beginning to +have her drunken tricks, and put us in mind of her old faults and folly +and distractednesse, which we had forgot, so that I became mightily +troubled with her. This morning came my joyners to new lay the floors, +and begun with the dining room. I out and see my viall again, and it is +very well, and to Mr. Hollyard, and took some pills of him and a note +under his hand to drink wine with my beere, without which I was obliged, +by my private vowe, to drink none a good while, and have strictly +observed it, and by my drinking of small beere and not eating, I am so +mightily troubled with wind, that I know not what to do almost. Thence +to White Hall, and there met Mr. Moore, and fell a-talking about my +Lord's folly at Chelsey, and it was our discourse by water to London and +to the great coffee house against the Exchange, where we sat a good while +talking; and I find that my lord is wholly given up to this wench, who it +seems has been reputed a common strumpett. I have little encouragement +from Mr. Moore to meddle with it to tell my Lord, for fear it may do him +no good, but me hurt. Thence homewards, taking leave of him, and met Tom +Marsh, my old acquaintance at Westminster, who talks mightily of the +honour of his place, being Clerke Assistant to the Clerke of the House of +Commons, and I take him to be a coxcombe, and so did give him half a pint +of wine, but drink none myself, and so got shut of him. So home, and +there found my wife almost mad with Susan's tricks, so as she is forced +to let her go and leave the house all in dirt and the clothes all wet, +and gets Goody Taylour to do the business for her till another comes. +Here came Will Howe, and he and I alone in my chamber talking of my Lord, +who drives me out of love to my Lord to tell my Lord of the matter we +discoursed of, which tend so much to the ruin of his state, and so I +resolved to take a good heart and do whatever comes of it. He gone, we +sat down and eat a bit of dinner fetched from the cooke's, and so up +again and to my joyners, who will make my floors very handsome. By and +by comes in Pembleton, which begun to make me sweat, but I did give him +so little countenance, and declared at one word against dancing any more, +and bid him a short (God be with you) myself, and so he took as short a +leave of my wife and so went away, and I think without any time of +receiving any great satisfaction from my wife or invitation to come +again. To my office till it was dark doing business, and so home by +candle light to make up my accounts for my Lord and Mr. Moore. By and by +comes Mr. Moore to me, and staid a good while with me making up his +accounts and mine, and we did not come to any end therein for want of his +papers, and so put it off to another time. He supped with me in all my +dirt and disorder, and so went away and we to bed. I discoursed with him +a great while about my speaking to my Lord of his business, and I +apprehend from him that it is likely to prove perhaps of bad effect to me +and no good to him, and therefore I shall even let it alone and let God +do his will, at least till my Lord is in the country, and then we shall +see whether he resolves to come to Chelsey again or no, and so order the +stopping of him therein if we can. + + + +20th. Up betimes and to my office (having first been angry with my +brother John, and in the heat of my sudden passion called him Asse and +coxcomb, for which I am sorry, it being but for leaving the key of his +chamber with a spring lock within side of his door), and there we sat all +the morning, and at noon dined at home, and there found a little girl, +which she told my wife her name was Jinny, by which name we shall call +her. I think a good likely girl, and a parish child of St. Bride's, of +honest parentage, and recommended by the churchwarden. After dinner +among my joyners laying my floors, which please me well, and so to my +office, and we sat this afternoon upon an extraordinary business of +victualling. In the evening came Commissioner Pett, who fell foule on +mee for my carriage to him at Chatham, wherein, after protestation of my +love and good meaning to him, he was quiet; but I doubt he will not be +able to do the service there that any other man of his ability would. +Home in the evening my viall (and lute new strung being brought home +too), and I would have paid Mr. Hunt for it, but he did not come along +with it himself, which I expected and was angry for it, so much is it +against my nature to owe anything to any body. This evening the girle +that was brought to me to-day for so good a one, being cleansed of lice +this day by my wife, and good, new clothes put on her back, she run away +from Goody Taylour that was shewing her the way to the bakehouse, and we +heard no more of her. So to supper and to bed. + + + +21st. Up betimes and among my joyners, and to my office, where the +joyners are also laying mouldings in the inside of my closet. Then +abroad and by water to White Hall, and there got Sir G. Carteret to sign +me my last quarter's bills for my wages, and meeting with Mr. Creed he +told me how my Lord Teviott hath received another attaque from Guyland at +Tangier with 10,000 men, and at last, as is said, is come, after a +personal treaty with him, to a good understanding and peace with him. +Thence to my brother's, and there told him how my girl has served us +which he sent me, and directed him to get my clothes again, and get the +girl whipped. So to other places by the way about small businesses, and +so home, and after looking over all my workmen, I went by water and land +to Deptford, and there found by appointment Sir W. Batten, but he was got +to Mr. Waith's to dinner, where I dined with him, a good dinner and good +discourse, and his wife, I believe, a good woman. We fell in discourse +of Captain Cocke, and how his lady has lost all her fine linen almost, +but besides that they say she gives out she had L3000 worth of linen, +which we all laugh at, and Sir W. Batten (who I perceive is not so fond +of the Captain as he used to be, and less of her, from her slight +receiving of him and his lady it seems once) told me how he should say +that he see he must spend L700 per ann. get it how he could, which was a +high speech, and by all men's discover, his estate not good enough to +spend so much. After dinner altered our design to go to Woolwich, and +put it off to to-morrow morning, and so went all to Greenwich (Mrs. Waith +excepted, who went thither, but not to the same house with us, but to her +father's, that lives there), to the musique-house, where we had paltry +musique, till the master organist came, whom by discourse I afterwards +knew, having employed him for my Lord Sandwich, to prick out something +(his name Arundell), and he did give me a fine voluntary or two, and so +home by water, and at home I find my girl that run away brought by a +bedel of St. Bride's Parish, and stripped her and sent her away, and a +newe one come, of Griffin's helping to, which I think will prove a pretty +girl. Her name, Susan, and so to supper after having this evening paid +Mr. Hunt L3 for my viall (besides the carving which I paid this day 10s. +for to the carver), and he tells me that I may, without flattery, say, I +have as good a Theorbo viall and viallin as is in England. So to bed. + + + +22nd. Up by four o'clock to go with Sir W. Batten to Woolwich and Sir +J. Minnes, which we did, though not before 6 or 7 by their laying a-bed. +Our business was to survey the new wharf building there, in order to the +giving more to him that do it (Mr. Randall) than contracted for, but I +see no reason for it, though it be well done, yet no better than +contracted to be. Here we eat and drank at the Clerke of the Cheques, +and in taking water at the Tower gate, we drank a cup of strong water, +which I did out of pure conscience to my health, and I think is not +excepted by my oaths, but it is a thing I shall not do again, hoping to +have no such occasion. After breakfast Mr. Castle and I walked to +Greenwich, and in our way met some gypsys, who would needs tell me my +fortune, and I suffered one of them, who told me many things common as +others do, but bade me beware of a John and a Thomas, for they did seek +to do me hurt, and that somebody should be with me this day se'nnight to +borrow money of me, but I should lend him none. She got ninepence of me. +And so I left them and to Greenwich and so to Deptford, where the two +knights were come, and thence home by water, where I find my closet done +at my office to my mind and work gone well on at home; and Ashwell gone +abroad to her father, my wife having spoken plainly to her. After dinner +to my office, getting my closet made clean and setting some papers in +order, and so in the evening home and to bed. This day Sir W. Batten +tells me that Mr. Newburne (of whom the nickname came up among us forarse +Tom Newburne) is dead of eating cowcumbers, of which, the other day, I +heard another, I think Sir Nicholas Crisp's son. + + + +23rd (Lord's day). Up and to church without my wife, she being all +dirty, as my house is. God forgive me, I looked about to see if I could +spy Pembleton, but I could not, which did please me not a little. Home +to dinner, and then to walk up and down in my house with my wife, +discoursing of our family matters, and I hope, after all my troubles of +mind and jealousy, we shall live happily still. To church again, and so +home to my wife; and with her read "Iter Boreale," a poem, made just at +the King's coming home; but I never read it before, and now like it +pretty well, but not so as it was cried up. So to supper. No pleasure +or discourse with Ashwell, with whom for her neglect and unconcernment to +do any thing in this time of dirt and trouble in the house, but gadding +abroad as she has been all this afternoon, I know not whither. After +supper to prayers and to bed, having been, by a sudden letter coming to +me from Mr. Coventry, been with Sir W. Pen, to discourse with him about +sending 500 soldiers into Ireland. I doubt matters do not go very right +there. + + + +24th. Up very early, and my joyners came to work. I to Mr. Moore; from +him came back home again, and drew up an account to my Lord, and that +being done met him at my Lord Sandwich's, where I was a good while alone +with my Lord; and I perceive he confides in me and loves me as he uses to +do, and tells me his condition, which is now very well all I fear is that +he will not live within compass, for I am told this morning of strange +dotages of his upon the slut at Chelsea, even in the presence of his +daughter, my Lady Jem, and Mrs. Ferrets, who took notice of it. There +come to him this morning his prints of the river Tagus and the City of +Lisbon, which he measured with his own hand, and printed by command of +the King. My Lord pleases himself with it, but methinks it ought to have +been better done than by jobing. Besides I put him upon having some took +off upon white sattin, which he ordered presently. I offered my Lord my +accounts, and did give him up his old bond for L500 and took a new one of +him for L700, which I am by lending him more money to make up: and I am +glad of it. My Lord would have had me dine with him, but I had a mind to +go home to my workmen, and so took a kind good bye of him, and so with +Creed to St. James's, and, missing Mr. Coventry, walked to the New +Exchange, and there drank some whey, and so I by water home, and found my +closett at my office made very clean and neat to my mind mightily, and +home to dinner, and then to my office to brush my books, and put them and +my papers in order again, and all the afternoon till late at night doing +business there, and so home to supper, and then to work in my chamber, +making matters of this day's accounts clear in my books, they being a +little extraordinary, and so being very late I put myself to bed, the +rest being long ago gone. + + + +25th. Up very early and removed the things out of my chamber into the +dining room, it being to be new floored this day. So the workmen being +come and falling to work there, I to the office, and thence down to +Lymehouse to Phin. Pett's about masts, and so back to the office, where +we sat; and being rose, and Mr. Coventry being gone, taking his leave, +for that he is to go to the Bath with the Duke to-morrow, I to the +'Change and there spoke with several persons, and lastly with Sir W. +Warren, and with him to a Coffee House, and there sat two hours talking +of office business and Mr. Wood's knavery, which I verily believe, and +lastly he tells me that he hears that Captain Cocke is like to become a +principal officer, either a Controller or a Surveyor, at which I am not +sorry so either of the other may be gone, and I think it probable enough +that it may be so. So home at 2 o'clock, and there I found Ashwell gone, +and her wages come to 50s., and my wife, by a mistake from me, did give +her 20s. more; but I am glad that she is gone and the charge saved. +After dinner among my joyners, and with them till dark night, and this +night they made an end of all; and so having paid them 40s. for their six +days' work, I am glad they have ended and are gone, for I am weary and my +wife too of this dirt. My wife growing peevish at night, being weary, +and I a little vexed to see that she do not retain things in her memory +that belong to the house as she ought and I myself do, I went out in a +little seeming discontent to the office, and after being there a while, +home to supper and to bed. To-morrow they say the King and the Duke set +out for the Bath. This noon going to the Exchange, I met a fine fellow +with trumpets before him in Leadenhall-street, and upon enquiry I find +that he is the clerk of the City Market; and three or four men carried +each of them an arrow of a pound weight in their hands. It seems this +Lord Mayor begins again an old custome, that upon the three first days of +Bartholomew Fayre, the first, there is a match of wrestling, which was +done, and the Lord Mayor there and Aldermen in Moorefields yesterday: +to-day, shooting: and to-morrow, hunting. And this officer of course is +to perform this ceremony of riding through the city, I think to proclaim +or challenge any to shoot. It seems that the people of the fayre cry out +upon it as a great hindrance to them. + + + +26th. Up, and after doing something in order to the putting of my house +in order now the joynery is done, I went by water to White Hall, where +the Court full of waggons and horses, the King and Court going this day +out towards the Bath, and I to St. James's, where I spent an hour or more +talking of many things to my great content with Mr. Coventry in his +chamber, he being ready to set forth too with the Duke to-day, and so +left him, and I meeting Mr. Gauden, with him to our offices and in Sir W. +Pen's chamber did discourse by a meeting on purpose with Mr. Waith about +the victualling business and came to some issue in it. So home to +dinner, and Mr. Moore came and dined with me, and after dinner I paid him +some money which evened all reckonings between him and me to this day, +and for my Lord also I paid him some money, so that now my Lord owes me, +for which I have his bond, just L700. After long discourse with him of +the fitness of his giving me a receipt for this money, which I for my +security think necessary and he otherwise do not think so, at last, after +being a little angry, and I resolving not to let go my money without it, +he did give me one. Thence I took him, and he and I took a pleasant walk +to Deptford and back again, I doing much business there. He went home +and I home also, indoors to supper, being very glad to see my house begin +to look like itself again, hoping after this is over not to be in any +dirt a great while again, but it is very handsome, and will be more when +the floors come to be of one colour. So weary to bed. Pleased this day +to see Captain Hickes come to me with a list of all the officers of +Deptford Yard, wherein he, being a high old Cavalier, do give me an +account of every one of them to their reproach in all respects, and +discovers many of their knaverys; and tells me, and so I thank God I hear +every where, that my name is up for a good husband for the King, and a +good man, for which I bless God; and that he did this by particular +direction of Mr. Coventry. + + + +27th. Up, after much pleasant talke with my wife and a little that vexes +me, for I see that she is confirmed in it that all that I do is by +design, and that my very keeping of the house in dirt, and the doing of +this and any thing else in the house, is but to find her employment to +keep her within and from minding of her pleasure, in which, though I am +sorry to see she minds it, is true enough in a great degree. To my +office, and there we sat and despatched much business. Home and dined +with my wife well, and then up and made clean my closet of books, and had +my chamber a third time made very clean, so that it is now in a very fine +condition. Thence down to see some good plank in the river with Sir W. +Batten and back again, it being a very cold day and a cold wind. Home +again, and after seeing Sir W. Pen, to my office, and there till late +doing of business, being mightily encouraged by every body that I meet +withal upon the 'Change and every where else, that I am taken notice of +for a man that do the King's business wholly and well. For which the +Lord be praised, for I know no honour I desire more. Home to supper, +where I find my house very clean from top to bottom again to my great +content. I found a feacho (as he calls it) of fine sugar and a case of +orange-flower water come from Mr. Cocke, of Lisbon, the fruits of my last +year's service to him, which I did in great justice to the man, a perfect +stranger. He sends it me desiring that I would not let Sir J. Minnes +know it, from whom he expected to have found the service done that he had +from me, from whom he could expect nothing, and the other failed him, and +would have done I am sure to this day had not I brought it to some end. +After supper to bed. + + + +28th. At the office betimes (it being cold all night and this morning, +and a very great frost they say abroad, which is much, having had no +summer at all almost), where we sat, and in the afternoon also about +settling the establishment of the number of men borne on ships, &c., till +the evening, and after that in my closet till late, and quite tired with +business, home to supper and to bed. + + + +29th. Abroad with my wife by water to Westminster, and there left her at +my Lord's lodgings, and I to Jervas the barber's, and there was trimmed, +and did deliver back a periwigg, which he brought by my desire the other +day to show me, having some thoughts, though no great desire or +resolution yet to wear one, and so I put it off for a while. Thence to +my wife, and calling at both the Exchanges, buying stockings for her and +myself, and also at Leadenhall, where she and I, it being candlelight, +bought meat for to-morrow, having never a mayde to do it, and I myself +bought, while my wife was gone to another shop, a leg of beef, a good +one, for six pense, and my wife says is worth my money. So walked home +with a woman carrying our things. I am mightily displeased at a letter +Tom sent me last night, to borrow L20 more of me, and yet gives me no +account, as I have long desired, how matters stand with him in the world. +I am troubled also to see how, contrary to my expectation, my brother +John neither is the scholler nor minds his studies as I thought would +have done, but loiters away his time, so that I must send him soon to +Cambridge again. + + + +31st. Up and to my office all the morning, where Sir W. Batten and Sir +J. Minnes did pay the short allowance money to the East India companies, +and by the assistance of the City Marshall and his men, did lay hold of +two or three of the chief of the companies that were in the mutiny the +other day, and sent them to prison. This noon came Jane Gentleman to +serve my wife as her chamber mayde. I wish she may prove well. So ends +this month, with my mind pretty well in quiett, and in good disposition +of health since my drinking at home of a little wine with my beer; but no +where else do I drink any wine at all. The King and Queen and the Court +at the Bath, my Lord Sandwich in the country newly gone. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And so to bed and there entertained her with great content +Apprehend about one hundred Quakers +Being cleansed of lice this day by my wife +Conceited, but that's no matter to me +Fear it may do him no good, but me hurt +Fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off +He having made good promises, though I fear his performance +My wife has got too great head to be brought down soon +So much is it against my nature to owe anything to any body +Sporting in my fancy with the Queen +Things being dear and little attendance to be had we went away +Towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all. . . . + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v26 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER + 1663 + + +Sept. 1st. Up pretty betimes, and after a little at my viall to my +office, where we sat all the morning, and I got my bill among others for +my carved work (which I expected to have paid for myself) signed at the +table, and hope to get the money back again, though if the rest had not +got it paid by the King, I never intended nor did desire to have him pay +for my vanity. In the evening my brother John coming to me to complain +that my wife seems to be discontented at his being here, and shows him +great disrespect; so I took and walked with him in the garden, and +discoursed long with him about my affairs, and how imprudent it is for my +father and mother and him to take exceptions without great cause at my +wife, considering how much it concerns them to keep her their friend and +for my peace; not that I would ever be led by her to forget or desert +them in the main, but yet she deserves to be pleased and complied with a +little, considering the manner of life that I keep her to, and how +convenient it were for me to have Brampton for her to be sent to when I +have a mind or occasion to go abroad to Portsmouth or elsewhere. So +directed him how to behave himself to her, and gave him other counsel; +and so to my office, where late. + + + +2nd. Up betimes and to my office, and thence with Sir J. Minnes by coach +to White Hall, where met us Sir W. Batten, and there staid by the Council +Chamber till the Lords called us in, being appointed four days ago to +attend them with an account of the riott among the seamen the other day, +when Sir J. Minnes did as like a coxcomb as ever I saw any man speak in +my life, and so we were dismissed, they making nothing almost of the +matter. We staid long without, till by and by my Lord Mayor comes, who +also was commanded to be there, and he having, we not being within with +him, an admonition from the Lords to take better care of preserving the +peace, we joyned with him, and the Lords having commanded Sir J. Minnes +to prosecute the fellows for the riott, we rode along with my Lord Mayor +in his coach to the Sessions House in the Old Bayley, where the Sessions +are now sitting. Here I heard two or three ordinary tryalls, among +others one (which, they say, is very common now-a-days, and therefore in +my now taking of mayds I resolve to look to have some body to answer for +them) a woman that went and was indicted by four names for entering +herself a cookemayde to a gentleman that prosecuted her there, and after +3 days run away with a silver tankard, a porringer of silver, and a +couple of spoons, and being now found is found guilty, and likely will be +hanged. By and by up to dinner with my Lord Mayor and the Aldermen, and +a very great dinner and most excellent venison, but it almost made me +sick by not daring to drink wine. After dinner into a withdrawing room; +and there we talked, among other things, of the Lord Mayor's sword. They +tell me this sword, they believe, is at least a hundred or two hundred +years old; and another that he hath, which is called the Black Sword, +which the Lord Mayor wears when he mournes, but properly is their Lenten +sword to wear upon Good Friday and other Lent days, is older than that. +Thence I, leaving Sir J. Minnes to look after his indictment drawing up, +I home by water, and there found my wife mightily pleased with a present +of shells, fine shells given her by Captain Hickes, and so she and I up +and look them over, and indeed they are very pleasant ones. By and by in +comes Mr. Lewellin, lately come from Ireland, to see me, and he tells me +how the English interest falls mightily there, the Irish party being too +great, so that most of the old rebells are found innocent, and their +lands, which were forfeited and bought or given to the English, are +restored to them; which gives great discontent there among the English. +He being gone, I to my office, where late, putting things in order, and +so home to supper and to bed. Going through the City, my Lord Mayor told +me how the piller set up by Exeter House is only to show where the pipes +of water run to the City; and observed that this City is as well watered +as any city in the world, and that the bringing the water to the City +hath cost it first and last above L300,000; but by the new building, and +the building of St. James's by my Lord St. Albans, + + [It was at this time that the Earl of St. Albans planned St. James's + Square, which was first styled "The Piazza." The "Warrant for a + grant to Baptist May and Abraham Cowley on nomination of the Earl of + St. Albans of several parcels of ground in Pall Mall described, on + rental of L80, for building thereon a square of 13 or 14 great and + good houses," was dated September 24th, 1664.] + +which is now about (and which the City stomach I perceive highly, but +dare not oppose it), were it now to be done, it would not be done for a +million of money. + + + +3rd. Up betimes, and for an hour at my viall before my people rise. +Then up and to the office a while, and then to Sir W. Batten, who is +going this day for pleasure down to the Downes. I eat a breakfast with +them, and at my Lady's desire with them by coach to Greenwich, where I +went aboard with them on the Charlotte yacht. The wind very fresh, and I +believe they will be all sicke enough, besides that she is mighty +troublesome on the water. Methinks she makes over much of her husband's +ward, young Mr. Griffin, as if she expected some service from him when he +comes to it, being a pretty young boy. I left them under sayle, and I to +Deptford, and, after a word or two with Sir J. Minnes, walked to Redriffe +and so home. In my way, it coming into my head, overtaking of a beggar +or two on the way that looked like Gypsys, what the Gypsys 8 or 9 days +ago had foretold, that somebody that day se'nnight should be with me to +borrow money, but I should lend none; and looking, when I came to my +office, upon my journall, that my brother John had brought a letter that +day from my brother Tom to borrow L20 more of me, which had vexed me so +that I had sent the letter to my father into the country, to acquaint him +of it, and how little he is beforehand that he is still forced to borrow. +But it pleased me mightily to see how, contrary to my expectations, +having so lately lent him L20, and belief that he had money by him to +spare, and that after some days not thinking of it, I should look back +and find what the Gypsy had told me to be so true. After dinner at home +to my office, and there till late doing business, being very well pleased +with Mr. Cutler's coming to me about some business, and among other +things tells me that they value me as a man of business, which he +accounts the best virtuoso, and I know his thinking me so, and speaking +where he comes, may be of good use to me. Home to supper, and to bed. + + + +4th. Up betimes, and an hour at my viall, and then abroad by water to +White Hall and Westminster Hall, and there bought the first newes-books +of L'Estrange's writing; + + [Roger L'Estrange, a voluminous writer of pamphlets and periodical + papers, and translator of classics, &c. Born 1616. He was Licenser + of the Press to Charles II. and James II.; and M.P. for Winchester + in James II.'s parliament. L'Estrange was knighted in the reign of + James II., and died 1704. In 1663 L'Estrange set up a paper called + "The Public Intelligencer," which came out on August 31st, and + continued to be published twice a week till January 19th, 1665, when + it was superseded by the scheme of publishing the "London Gazette," + the first number of which appeared on February 4th following.] + +he beginning this week; and makes, methinks, but a simple beginning. +Then to speak to Mrs. Lane, who seems desirous to have me come to see her +and to have her company as I had a little while ago, which methinks if +she were very modest, considering how I tumbled her and tost her, she +should not. Thence to Mrs. Harper, and sent for Creed, and there Mrs. +Harper sent for a maid for me to come to live with my wife. I like the +maid's looks well enough, and I believe may do well, she looking very +modestly and speaking so too. I directed her to speak with my wife, and +so Creed and I away to Mr. Povy's, and he not being at home, walked to +Lincoln's Inn walks, which they are making very fine, and about one +o'clock went back to Povy's; and by and by in comes he, and so we sat and +down to dinner, and his lady, whom I never saw before (a handsome old +woman that brought him money that makes him do as he does), and so we had +plenty of meat and drink, though I drunk no wine, though mightily urged +to it, and in the exact manner that I never saw in my life any where, and +he the most full and satisfied in it that man can be in this world with +any thing. After dinner done, to see his new cellars, which he has made +so fine with so noble an arch and such contrivances for his barrels and +bottles, and in a room next to it such a grotto and fountayne, which in +summer will be so pleasant as nothing in the world can be almost. But to +see how he himself do pride himself too much in it, and command and +expect to have all admiration, though indeed everything do highly deserve +it, is a little troublesome. Thence Creed and I away, and by his +importunity away by coach to Bartholomew Fayre, where I have no mind to +go without my wife, and therefore rode through the fayre without +'lighting, and away home, leaving him there; and at home made my wife get +herself presently ready, and so carried her by coach to the fayre, and +showed her the monkeys dancing on the ropes, which was strange, but such +dirty sport that I was not pleased with it. There was also a horse with +hoofs like rams hornes, a goose with four feet, and a cock with three. +Thence to another place, and saw some German Clocke works, the Salutation +of the Virgin Mary, and several Scriptural stories; but above all there +was at last represented the sea, with Neptune, Venus, mermaids, and Ayrid +on a dolphin, the sea rocking, so well done, that had it been in a gaudy +manner and place, and at a little distance, it had been admirable. +Thence home by coach with my wife, and I awhile to the office, and so to +supper and to bed. This day I read a Proclamation for calling in and +commanding every body to apprehend my Lord Bristoll. + + + +5th. Up betimes and to my viall awhile, and so to the office, and there +sat, and busy all the morning. So at noon to the Exchange, and so home +to dinner, where I met Creed, who dined with me, and after dinner +mightily importuned by Captain Hicks, who came to tell my wife the names +and story of all the shells, which was a pretty present he made her the +other day. He being gone, Creed, my wife, and I to Cornhill, and after +many tryalls bought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian callico, +for to line her new study, which is very pretty. So home with her, and +then I away (Creed being gone) to Captain Minors upon Tower Hill, and +there, abating only some impertinence of his, I did inform myself well in +things relating to the East Indys; both of the country and the +disappointment the King met with the last voyage, by the knavery of the +Portugall Viceroy, and the inconsiderablenesse of the place of Bombaim, + + [Bombay, which was transferred to the East India Company in 1669. + The seat of the Western Presidency of India was removed from Surat + to Bombay in 1685-87.] + +if we had had it. But, above all things, it seems strange to me that +matters should not be understood before they went out; and also that such +a thing as this, which was expected to be one of the best parts of the +Queen's portion, should not be better understood; it being, if we had it, +but a poor place, and not really so as was described to our King in the +draught of it, but a poor little island; whereas they made the King and +Lord Chancellor, and other learned men about the King, believe that that, +and other islands which are near it, were all one piece; and so the +draught was drawn and presented to the King, and believed by the King and +expected to prove so when our men came thither; but it is quite +otherwise. Thence to my office, and after several letters writ, home to +supper and to bed, and took a pill. I hear this day that Sir W. Batten +was fain to put ashore at Queenborough with my Lady, who has been so sick +she swears never to go to sea again. But it happens well that Holmes is +come home into the Downes, where he will meet my Lady, and it may be do +her more good than she looked for. He brings news of the peace between +Tangier and the Moors, but the particulars I know not. He is come but +yesterday. + + + +6th (Lord's day). My pill I took last night worked very well, and I lay +long in bed and sweat to get away the itching all about my body from head +to foot, which is beginning again as it did the last winter, and I find +after I am up that it is abated. I staid at home all day and my wife +also, whom, God forgive me, I staid along with me for fear of her seeing +of Pembleton. But she and I entertained one another all day long with +great pleasure, contriving about my wife's closet and the bedchamber, +whither we intend to go up she and I to-day. We dined alone and supped +also at night, my brother John with us, and so to prayers and to bed. + + + +7th. Up pretty betimes, and awhile to my vyall, and then abroad to +several places, to buy things for the furnishing my house and my wife's +closet, and then met my uncle Thomas, by appointment, and he and I to the +Prerogative Office in Paternoster Row, and there searched and found my +uncle Day's will, end read it over and advised upon it, and his wife's +after him, and though my aunt Perkins testimony is very good, yet I fear +the estate being great, and the rest that are able to inform us in the +matter are all possessed of more or less of the estate:, it will be hard +for us ever to do anything, nor will I adventure anything till I see what +part will be given to us by my uncle Thomas of all that is gained. But I +had another end of putting my uncle into some doubt, that so I might keep +him: yet from going into the country that he may be there against the +Court at his own charge, and so I left him and his son at a loss what to +do till I see them again. And so I to my Lord Crew's,; thinking to have +dined there, but it was too late, and so back and called at my brother's +and Mr. Holden's about several businesses, and went all alone to the +Black Spread Eagle in Bride Lane, and there had a chopp of veale and some +bread, cheese, and beer, cost me a shilling to my dinner, and so through +Fleet Ally, God forgive me, out of an itch to look upon the sluts there, +against which when I saw them my stomach turned, and so to Bartholomew +Fayre, where I met with Mr. Pickering, and he and I to see the monkeys at +the Dutch house, which is far beyond the other that my wife and I saw the +other day; and thence to see the dancing on the ropes, which was very +poor and tedious. But he and I fell in discourse about my Lord Sandwich. +He tells me how he is sorry for my Lord at his being at Chelsey, and that +his but seeming so to my Lord without speaking one word, had put him +clear out of my Lord's favour, so as that he was fain to leave him before +he went into the country, for that he was put to eat with his servants; +but I could not fish from him, though I knew it, what was the matter; but +am very sorry to see that my Lord hath thus much forgot his honour, but +am resolved not to meddle with it. The play being done, I stole from him +and hied home, buying several things at the ironmonger's--dogs, tongs, +and shovels--for my wife's closett and the rest of my house, and so home, +and thence to my office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed. By my +letters from Tangier today I hear that it grows very strong by land, and +the Mole goes on. They have lately killed two hundred of the Moores, and +lost about forty or fifty. I am mightily afeard of laying out too much +money in goods upon my house, but it is not money flung away, though I +reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank, till I have a good sum +beforehand in the world. + + + +8th. Up and to my viall a while, and then to my office on Phillips +having brought me a draught of the Katherine yacht, prettily well done +for the common way of doing it. At the office all the morning making up +our last half year's account to my Lord Treasurer, which comes to +L160,000 or there abouts, the proper expense of this half year, only with +an addition of L13,000 for the third due of the last account to the +Treasurer for his disbursements, and L1100 for this half year's; so that +in three years and a half his thirds come to L14,100. Dined at home with +my wife. It being washing day, we had a good pie baked of a leg of +mutton; and then to my office, and then abroad, and among other places to +Moxon's, and there bought a payre of globes cost me L3 10s., with which I +am well pleased, I buying them principally for my wife, who has a mind to +understand them, and I shall take pleasure to teach her. But here I saw +his great window in his dining room, where there is the two Terrestrial +Hemispheres, so painted as I never saw in my life, and nobly done and to +good purpose, done by his own hand. Thence home to my office, and there +at business late, and then to supper home and to bed, my people sitting +up longer than ordinary before they had done their washing. + + + +9th. Up by break of day, and then to my vials a while, and so to Sir +W. Warren's by agreement, and after talking and eating something with +him, he and I down by water to Woolwich, and there I did several +businesses, and had good discourse, and thence walked to Greenwich; in my +way a little boy overtook us with a fine cupp turned out of Lignum Vitae, +which the poor child confessed was made in the King's yard by his father, +a turner there, and that he do often do it, and that I might have one, +and God knows what, which I shall examine. Thence to Sir W. Warren's +again, and there drew up a contract for masts which he is to sell us, and +so home to dinner, finding my poor wife busy. I, after dinner, to the +office, and then to White Hall, to Sir G. Carteret's, but did not speak +with him, and so to Westminster Hall, God forgive me, thinking to meet +Mrs. Lane, but she was not there, but here I met with Ned Pickering, with +whom I walked 3 or 4 hours till evening, he telling me the whole business +of my Lord's folly with this Mrs. Becke, at Chelsey, of all which I am +ashamed to see my Lord so grossly play the beast and fool, to the +flinging off of all honour, friends, servants, and every thing and person +that is good, and only will have his private lust undisturbed with this +common . . . . his sitting up night after night alone, suffering +nobody to come to them, and all the day too, casting off Pickering, +basely reproaching him with his small estate, which yet is a good one, +and other poor courses to obtain privacy beneath his honour, and with his +carrying her abroad and playing on his lute under her window, and forty +other poor sordid things, which I am grieved to hear; but believe it to +no purpose for me to meddle with it, but let him go on till God Almighty +and his own conscience and thoughts of his lady and family do it. So +after long discourse, to my full satisfaction but great trouble, I home +by water and at my office late, and so to supper to my poor wife, and so +to bed, being troubled to think that I shall be forced to go to Brampton +the next Court, next week. + + + +10th. Up betimes and to my office, and there sat all the morning making +a great contract with Sir W. Warren for L3,000 worth of masts; but, good +God! to see what a man might do, were I a knave, the whole business from +beginning to end being done by me out of the office, and signed to by +them upon the once reading of it to them, without the least care or +consultation either of quality, price, number, or need of them, only in +general that it was good to have a store. But I hope my pains was such, +as the King has the best bargain of masts has been bought these 27 years +in this office. Dined at home and then to my office again, many people +about business with me, and then stepped a little abroad about business +to the Wardrobe, but missed Mr. Moore, and elswhere, and in my way met +Mr. Moore, who tells me of the good peace that is made at Tangier with +the Moores, but to continue but from six months to six months, and that +the Mole is laid out, and likely to be done with great ease and successe, +we to have a quantity of ground for our cattle about the town to our use. +To my office late, and then home to supper, after writing letters, and to +bed. This day our cook maid (we having no luck in maids now-adays), +which was likely to prove a good servant, though none of the best cooks, +fell sick and is gone to her friends, having been with us but 4 days. + + + +11th. This morning, about two or three o'clock, knocked up in our back +yard, and rising to the window, being moonshine, I found it was the +constable and his watch, who had found our back yard door open, and so +came in to see what the matter was. So I desired them to shut the door, +and bid them good night, and so to bed again, and at 6 o'clock up and a +while to my vyall, and then to the office, where all the morning upon the +victualler's accounts, and then with him to dinner at the Dolphin, where +I eat well but drank no wine neither; which keeps me in such good order +that I am mightily pleased with myself for it. Hither Mr. Moore came to +me, and he and I home and advised about business, and so after an hour's +examining the state of the Navy debts lately cast up, I took coach to Sir +Philip Warwick's, but finding Sir G. Carteret there I did not go in, but +directly home, again, it raining hard, having first of all been with +Creed and Mrs. Harper about a cook maid, and am like to have one from +Creed's lodging. In my way home visited my Lord Crew and Sir Thomas, +thinking they might have enquired by the by of me touching my Lord's +matters at Chelsey, but they said nothing, and so after some slight +common talk I bid them good night. At home to my office, and after a +while doing business home to supper and bed. + + + +12th. Up betimes, and by water to White Hall; and thence to Sir Philip +Warwick, and there had half an hour's private discourse with him; and did +give him some good satisfaction in our Navy matters, and he also me, as +to the money paid and due to the Navy; so as he makes me assured by +particulars, that Sir G. Carteret is paid within L80,000 every farthing +that we to this day, nay to Michaelmas day next have demanded; and that, +I am sure, is above L50,000 snore than truly our expenses have been, +whatever is become of the money. Home with great content that I have +thus begun an acquaintance with him, who is a great man, and a man of as +much business as any man in England; which I will endeavour to deserve +and keep. Thence by water to my office, in here all the morning, and so +to the 'Change at noon, and there by appointment met and bring home my +uncle Thomas, who resolves to go with me to Brampton on Monday next. +I wish he may hold his mind. I do not tell him, and yet he believes that +there is a Court to be that he is to do some business for us there. The +truth is I do find him a much more cunning fellow than I ever took him +for, nay in his very drink he has his wits about him. I took him home to +dinner, and after dinner he began, after a glass of wine or two, to +exclaim against Sir G. Carteret and his family in Jersey, bidding me to +have a care of him, and how high, proud, false, and politique a fellow he +is, and how low he has been under his command in the island. After +dinner, and long discourse, he went away to meet on Monday morning, and I +to my office, and thence by water to White Hall and Westminster Hall +about several businesses, and so home, and to my office writing a +laborious letter about our last account to my Lord Treasurer, which took +me to one o'clock in the morning, + + + +13th (Lord's day). So that Griffin was fain to carry it to Westminster +to go by express, and my other letters of import to my father and +elsewhere could not go at all. To bed between one and two and slept till +8, and lay talking till 9 with great pleasure with my wife. So up and +put my clothes in order against tomorrow's journey, and then at noon at +dinner, and all the afternoon almost playing and discoursing with my wife +with great content, and then to my office there to put papers in order +against my going. And by and by comes my uncle Wight to bid us to dinner +to-morrow to a haunch of venison I sent them yesterday, given me by Mr. +Povy, but I cannot go, but my wife will. Then into the garden to read my +weekly vows, and then home, where at supper saying to my wife, in +ordinary fondness, "Well! shall you and I never travel together again?" +she took me up and offered and desired to go along with me. I thinking +by that means to have her safe from harm's way at home here, was willing +enough to feign, and after some difficulties made did send about for a +horse and other things, and so I think she will go. So, in a hurry +getting myself and her things ready, to bed. + + + +14th. Up betimes, and my wife's mind and mine holding for her going, so +she to get her ready, and I abroad to do the like for myself, and so +home, and after setting every thing at my office and at home in order, by +coach to Bishop's Gate, it being a very promising fair day. There at the +Dolphin we met my uncle Thomas and his son-in-law, which seems a very +sober man, and Mr. Moore. So Mr. Moore and my wife set out before, and +my uncle and I staid for his son Thomas, who, by a sudden resolution, is +preparing to go with us, which makes me fear something of mischief which +they design to do us. He staying a great while, the old man and I +before, and about eight miles off, his son comes after us, and about six +miles further we overtake Mr. Moore and my wife, which makes me mightily +consider what a great deal of ground is lost in a little time, when it is +to be got up again by another, that is to go his own ground and the +other's too; and so after a little bayte (I paying all the reckonings the +whole journey) at Ware, to Buntingford, where my wife, by drinking some +cold beer, being hot herself, presently after 'lighting, begins to be +sick, and became so pale, and I alone with her in a great chamber there, +that I thought she would have died, and so in great horror, and having a +great tryall of my true love and passion for her, called the mayds and +mistresse of the house, and so with some strong water, and after a little +vomit, she came to be pretty well again; and so to bed, and I having put +her to bed with great content, I called in my company, and supped in the +chamber by her, and being very merry in talk, supped and then parted, and +I to bed and lay very well. This day my cozen Thomas dropped his hanger, +and it was lost. + + + +15th. Up pretty betimes and rode as far as Godmanehester, Mr. Moore +having two falls, once in water and another in dirt, and there 'light and +eat and drunk, being all of us very weary, but especially my uncle and +wife. Thence to Brampton to my father's, and there found all well, but +not sensible how they ought to treat my uncle and his son, at least till +the Court be over, which vexed me, but on my counsel they carried it fair +to them; and so my father, cozen Thomas, and I up to Hinchingbroke, where +I find my Lord and his company gone to Boughton, which vexed me; but +there I find my Lady and the young ladies, and there I alone with my Lady +two hours, she carrying me through every part of the house and gardens, +which are, and will be, mighty noble indeed. Here I saw Mrs. Betty +Pickering, who is a very well-bred and comely lady, but very fat. +Thence, without so much as drinking, home with my father and cozen, who +staid for me, and to a good supper; after I had had an hour's talk with +my father abroad in the fields, wherein he begun to talk very highly of +my promises to him of giving him the profits of Sturtlow, as if it were +nothing that I give him out of my purse, and that he would have me to +give this also from myself to my brothers and sister; I mean Brampton and +all, I think: I confess I was angry to hear him talk in that manner, and +took him up roundly in it, and advised him if he could not live upon L50 +per ann., which was another part of his discourse, that he would think to +come and live at Tom's again, where L50 per ann. will be a good addition +to Tom's trade, and I think that must be done when all is done. But my +father spoke nothing more of it all the time I was in the country, though +at the time he seemed to like it well enough. I also spoke with Piggott +too this evening before I went in to supper, and doubt that I shall meet +with some knots in my business to-morrow before I can do it at the Court, +but I shall do my best. After supper my uncle and his son to Stankes's +to bed, which troubles me, all our father's beds being lent to +Hinchingbroke, and so my wife and I to bed, she very weary. + + + +16th. Up betimes, and with my wife to Hinchingbroke to see my Lady, she +being to go to my Lord this morning, and there I left her, and so back to +the Court, and heard Sir R. Bernard's charges to the Courts Baron and +Leete, which took up till noon, and were worth hearing, and after putting +my business into some way, went home to my father's to dinner, and after +dinner to the Court, where Sir Robert and his son came again by and by, +and then to our business, and my father and I having given bond to him +for the L21 Piggott owed him, my uncle Thomas did quietly admit himself +and surrender to us the lands first mortgaged for our whole debt, and Sir +Robert added to it what makes it up L209, to be paid in six months. But +when I came to give him an account of more lands to be surrendered to us, +wherein Piggott's wife was concerned, and she there to give her consent, +Sir Robert would not hear of it, but began to talk very high that we were +very cruel, and we had caution enough for our money, and he could not in +conscience let the woman do it, and reproached my uncle, both he and his +son, with taking use upon use for this money. To all which I did give +him such answers and spoke so well, and kept him so to it, that all the +Court was silent to hear us, and by report since do confess they did +never hear the like in the place. But he by a wile had got our bond, and +I was content to have as much as I could though I could not get all, and +so took Piggott's surrender of them without his wife, and by Sir Robert's +own consent did tell the Court that if the money were not paid in the +time, and the security prove not sufficient, I would conclude myself +wronged by Sir Robert, which he granted I should do. This kept us till +night, but am heartily glad it ended so well on my uncle's part, he doing +that and Prior's little house very willingly. So the Court broke up, +and my father and Mr. Shepley and I to Gorrum's to drink, and then I left +them, and to the Bull, where my uncle was to .hear what he and the people +said of our business, and here nothing but what liked me very well. So +by and by home and to supper, and with my mind in pretty good quiett, to +bed. + + + +17th. Up, and my father being gone to bed ill last night and continuing +so this morning, I was forced to come to a new consideration, whether it +was fit for to let my uncle and his son go to Wisbeach about my uncle +Day's estate alone or no, and concluded it unfit; and so resolved to go +with them myself, leaving my wife there, I begun a journey with them, and +with much ado, through the fens, along dikes, where sometimes we were +ready to have our horses sink to the belly, we got by night, with great +deal of stir and hard riding, to Parson's Drove, a heathen place, where I +found my uncle and aunt Perkins, and their daughters, poor wretches! in a +sad, poor thatched cottage, like a poor barn, or stable, peeling of hemp, +in which I did give myself good content to see their manner of preparing +of hemp; and in a poor condition of habitt took them to our miserable +inn, and there, after long stay, and hearing of Frank, their son, the +miller, play, upon his treble, as he calls it, with which he earns part +of his living, and singing of a country bawdy song, we sat down to +supper; the whole crew, and Frank's wife and child, a sad company, of +which I was ashamed, supped with us. And after supper I, talking with my +aunt about her report concerning my uncle Day's will and surrender, I +found her in such different reports from what she writes and says to the +people, and short of what I expected, that I fear little will be done of +good in it. By and by newes is brought to us that one of our horses is +stole out of the stable, which proves my uncle's, at which I am inwardly +glad--I mean, that it was not mine; and at this we were at a great loss; +and they doubting a person that lay at next door, a Londoner, some +lawyer's clerk, we caused him to be secured in his bed, and other care to +be taken to seize the horse; and so about twelve at night or more, to bed +in a sad, cold, nasty chamber, only the mayde was indifferent handsome, +and so I had a kiss or two of her, and I to bed, and a little after I was +asleep they waked me to tell me that the horse was found, which was good +newes, and so to sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly, and nobody +else of our company, which I wonder at, by the gnatts. + + + +18th. Up, and got our people together as soon as we could; and after +eating a dish of cold cream, which was my supper last night too, we took +leave of our beggarly company, though they seem good people, too; and +over most sad Fenns, all the way observing the sad life which the people +of the place which if they be born there, they do call the Breedlings' of +the place, do live, sometimes rowing from one spot to another, and then +wadeing, to Wisbeach, a pretty town, and a fine church and library, where +sundry very old abbey manuscripts; and a fine house, built on the church +ground by Secretary Thurlow, and a fine gallery built for him in the +church, but now all in the Bishop of Ely's hands. After visiting the +church, &c., we went out of the towne, by the help of a stranger, to find +out one Blinkhorne, a miller, of whom we might inquire something of old +Day's disposal of his estate, and in whose hands it now is; and by great +chance we met him, and brought him to our inn to dinner; and instead of +being informed in his estate by this fellow, we find that he is the next +heir to the estate, which was matter, of great sport to my cozen Thomas +and me, to see such a fellow prevent us in our hopes, he being Day's +brother's, daughter's son, whereas we are but his sister's sons and +grandsons; so that, after all, we were fain to propose our matter to him, +and to get him to give us leave to look after the business, and so he to +have one-third part, and we two to have the other two-third parts, of +what should be recovered of the estate, which he consented to; and after +some discourse and paying the reckoning, we mounted again, and rode, +being very merry at our defeat, to Chatteris, my uncle very weary, and +after supper, and my telling of three stories, to their good liking, of +spirits, we all three in a chamber went to bed. + + + +19th. Up pretty betimes, and after eating something, we set out and I +(being willing thereto) went by a mistake with them to St. Ives, and +there, it being known that it was their nearer way to London, I took +leave of them there, they going straight to London and I to Brampton, +where I find my father ill in bed still, and Madam Norbery (whom and her +fair daughter and sister I was ashamed to kiss, but did, my lip being +sore with riding in the wind and bit with the gnatts), lately come to +town, come to see my father and mother, and they after a little stay +being gone, I told my father my success. And after dinner my wife and I +took horse, and rode with marvellous, and the first and only hour of, +pleasure, that ever I had in this estate since I had to do with it, to +Brampton woods; and through the wood rode, and gathered nuts in my way, +and then at Graffam to an old woman's house to drink, where my wife used +to go; and being in all circumstances highly pleased, and in my wife's +riding and good company at this time, I rode, and she showed me the river +behind my father's house, which is very pleasant, and so saw her home, +and I straight to Huntingdon, and there met Mr. Shepley and to the Crown +(having sent home my horse by Stankes), and there a barber came and +trimmed me, and thence walked to Hinchingbroke, where my Lord and ladies +all are just alighted. And so I in among them, and my Lord glad to see +me, and the whole company. Here I staid and supped with them, and after +a good stay talking, but yet observing my Lord not to be so mightily +ingulphed in his pleasure in the country as I expected and hoped, I took +leave of them, and after a walk in the courtyard in the dark with Mr. +Howe, who tells me that my Lord do not enjoy himself and please himself +as he used to do, but will hasten up to London, and that he is resolved +to go to Chelsey again, which we are heartily grieved for and studious +how to prevent if it be possible, I took horse, there being one appointed +for me, and a groom to attend me, and so home, where my wife: staid up +and sister for me, and so to bed, troubled for what I hear of my Lord. + + + +20th (Lord's day). Up, and finding my father somewhat better, walked to +Huntingdon church, where in my Lord's pew, with the young ladies, by my +Lord's own showing me the place, I stayed the sermon, and so to +Hinchingbroke, walking with Mr. Shepley and Dr. King, whom they account a +witty man here, as well as a good physician, and there my Lord took me +with the rest of the company, and singly demanded my opinion in the walks +in his garden, about the bringing of the crooked wall on the mount to a +shape; and so to dinner, there being Collonel Williams and much other +company, and a noble dinner. But having before got my Lord's warrant for +travelling to-day, there being a proclamation read yesterday against it +at Huntingdon, at which I am very glad, I took leave, leaving them at +dinner, and walked alone to my father's, and there, after a word or two. +to my father and mother, my wife and I mounted, and, with my father's +boy, upon a horse I borrowed of Captain Ferrers, we rode to Bigglesworth +by the help of a couple of countrymen, that led us through the very long +and dangerous waters, because of the ditches on each side, though it +begun to be very dark, and there we had a good breast of mutton roasted +for us, and supped, and to bed. + + + +21st. Up very betimes by break of day, and got my wife up, whom the +thought of this day's long journey do discourage; and after eating +something, and changing of a piece of gold to pay the reckoning, we +mounted, and through Baldwicke, where a fayre is kept to-day, and a great +one for cheese and other such commodities, and so to Hatfield, it being +most curious weather from the time we set out to our getting home, and +here we dined, and my wife being very weary, and believing that it would +be hard to get her home to-night, and a great charge to keep her longer +abroad, I took the opportunity of an empty coach that was to go to +London, and left her to come in it to London, for half-a-crown, and so I +and the boy home as fast as we could drive, and it was even night before +we got home. So that I account it very good fortune that we took this +course, being myself very weary, much more would my wife have been. At +home found all very well and my house in good order. To see Sir W. Pen, +who is pretty well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is a little lame on one foot, +and the rest gone to Chatham, viz.: Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, +who has in my absence inveighed against my contract the other day for +Warren's masts, in which he is a knave, and I shall find matter of +tryumph, but it vexes me a little. So home, and by and by comes my wife +by coach well home, and having got a good fowl ready for supper against +her coming, we eat heartily, and so with great content and ease to our +own bed, there nothing appearing so to our content as to be at our own +home, after being abroad awhile. + + + +22nd. I up, well refreshed after my journey, and to my office and there +set some things in order, and then Sir W. Pen and I met and held an +office, and at noon to dinner, and so by water with my wife to +Westminster, she to see her father and mother, and we met again at my +Lord's lodgings, and thence by water home again, where at the door we met +Sir W. Pen and his daughter coming to visit us, and after their visit I +to my office, and after some discourse to my great satisfaction with Sir +W. Warren about our bargain of masts, I wrote my letters by the post, and +so home to supper and to bed. This day my wife showed me bills printed, +wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edward Ford, have got +a patent for curing of smoky chimneys. + + [The Patent numbered 138 is printed in the appendix to Wheatley's + "Samuel Pepys and the World he lived in" (p. 241). It is drawn in + favour of John Colladon, Doctor in Physicke, and of Alexander + Marchant, of St. Michall, and describes "a way to prevent and cure + the smoakeing of Chimneys, either by stopping the tunnell towards + the top, and altering the former course of the smoake, or by setting + tunnells with checke within the chimneyes." Sir Edward Ford's name + does not appear in the patent.] + +I wish they may do good thereof, but fear it will prove but a poor +project. This day the King and Queen are to come to Oxford. I hear my +Lady Castlemaine is for certain gone to Oxford to meet him, having lain +within here at home this week or two, supposed to have miscarried; but +for certain is as great in favour as heretofore; + + [According to Collins, Henry Fitzroy, Lady Castlemaine's second son + by Charles II., was born on September 20th, 1663. He was the first + Duke of Grafton.--B.] + +at least Mrs. Sarah at my Lord's, who hears all from their own family, do +say so. Every day brings newes of the Turke's advance into Germany, to +the awakeing of all the Christian Princes thereabouts, and possessing +himself of Hungary. My present care is fitting my wife's closett and my +house, and making her a velvet coate, and me a new black cloth suit, and +coate and cloake, and evening my reckoning as well as I can against +Michaelmas Day, hoping for all that to have my balance as great or +greater than ever I had yet. + + + +23rd. Up betimes and to my office, where setting down my journall while +I was in the country to this day, and at noon by water to my Lord Crew's, +and there dined with him and Sir Thomas, thinking to have them inquire +something about my Lord's lodgings at Chelsey, or any thing of that sort, +but they did not, nor seem to take the least notice of it, which is their +discretion, though it might be better for my Lord and them too if they +did, that so we might advise together for the best, which cannot be while +we seem ignorant one to another, and it is not fit for me to begin the +discourse. Thence walked to several places about business and to +Westminster Hall, thinking to meet Mrs. Lane, which is my great vanity +upon me at present, but I must correct it. She was not in the way. So +by water home and to my office, whither by and by came my brother John, +who is to go to Cambridge to-morrow, and I did give him a most severe +reprimand for his bad account he gives me of his studies. This I did +with great passion and sharp words, which I was sorry to be forced to +say, but that I think it for his good, forswearing doing anything for +him, and that which I have yet, and now do give him, is against my heart, +and will also be hereafter, till I do see him give me a better account of +his studies. I was sorry to see him give me no answer, but, for aught I +see, to hear me without great resentment, and such as I should have had: +in his condition. But I have done my duty, let him do his, for I am +resolved to be as good as my word. After two hours walking in the +garden, till after it was dark, I ended with him and to my office, and +there set some papers in order, and so to supper, and my poor wife, who +is mighty busy at home; fitting her closet. So to bed. + + + +24th. Up betimes, and after taking leave of my brother, John, who went +from me to my father's this day, I went forth by water to Sir Philip +Warwick's, where I was with him a pretty while; and in discourse he tells +me, and made it; appear to me, that the King cannot be in debt to the +Navy at this time L5,000; and it is my opinion that Sir G. Carteret do +owe the King money, and yet the whole Navy debt paid. Thence I parted, +being doubtful of myself that I have not, spoke with the gravity and +weight that I ought to do in so great a business. But I rather hope it +is my doubtfulness of myself, and the haste which he was in, some very +great personages waiting for him without, while he was with me, that made +him willing to be gone. To the office by water, where we sat doing +little, now Mr. Coventry is not here, but only vex myself to see what a +sort of coxcombs we are when he is not here to undertake such a business +as we do. In the afternoon telling my wife that I go to Deptford, I +went, by water to Westminster Hall, and there finding Mrs. Lane, took her +over to Lambeth, where we were lately, and there, did what I would with +her, but only the main thing, which she; would not consent to, for which +God be praised . . . . . But, trust in the Lord, I shall never do so +again while I live. After being tired with her company I landed her at +White; Hall, and so home and at my office writing letters till 12 at +night almost, and then home to supper and bed, and there found my poor +wife hard at work, which grieved my heart to see that I should abuse so +good a wretch, and that is just with God to make her bad with me for my +wrongin of her, but I do resolve never to do the like again. So to bed. + + + +25th. Lay pretty long in bed, and so to my office all the morning till +by and by called out by Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, with them by +water to Deptford, where it of a sudden did lighten, thunder, and rain so +as we could do nothing but stay in Davis's house, and by and by Sir J. +Minnes and I home again by water, and I home to dinner, and after dinner +to the office, and there till night all alone, even of my clerks being +there, doing of business, and so home and to bed. + + + +26th. Up and to my office, and there we sat till noon, and then I to the +Exchange, but did little there, but meeting Mr. Rawlinson he would needs +have me home to dinner, and Mr. Deane of Woolwich being with me I took +him with me, and there we dined very well at his own dinner, only no +invitation, but here I sat with little pleasure, considering my wife at +home alone, and so I made what haste home I could, and was forced to sit +down again at dinner with her, being unwilling to neglect her by being +known to dine abroad. My doing so being only to keep Deane from dining +at home with me, being doubtful what I have to eat. So to the office, +and there till late at night, and so home to supper and bed, being +mightily pleased to find my wife so mindful of her house. + + + +27th (Lord's day). Lay chatting with my wife a good while, then up and +got me ready and to church, without my man William, whom I have not seen +to-day, nor care, but would be glad to have him put himself far enough +out of my favour that he may not wonder to have me put him away. So home +to dinner, being a little troubled to see Pembleton out again, but I do +not discern in my wife the least memory of him. Dined, and so to my +office a little, and then to church again, where a drowsy sermon, and so +home to spend the evening with my poor wife, consulting about her +closett, clothes, and other things. At night to supper, though with +little comfort, I finding myself both head and breast in great pain, and +what troubles me most my right ear is almost deaf. It is a cold, which +God Almighty in justice did give me while I sat lewdly sporting with Mrs. +Lane the other day with the broken window in my neck. I went to bed with +a posset, being very melancholy in consideration of the loss of my +hearing. + + + +28th. Up, though with pain in my head, stomach, and ear, and that deaf +so as in my way by coach to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes I called at Mr. +Holliard's, who did give me some pills, and tells me I shall have my +hearing again and be well. So to White Hall, where Sir J. Minnes and I +did spend an hour in the Gallery, looking upon the pictures, in which he +hath some judgment. And by and by the Commissioners for Tangier met: and +there my Lord Teviott, together with Captain Cuttance, Captain Evans, and +Jonas Moore, sent to that purpose, did bring us a brave draught of the +Mole to be built there; and report that it is likely to be the most +considerable place the King of England hath in the world; and so I am apt +to think it will. After discourse of this, and of supplying the garrison +with some more horse, we rose; and Sir J. Minnes and I home again, +finding the street about our house full, Sir R. Ford beginning his +shrievalty to-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, +the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more +gracefull. Home and eat one bit of meat, and then by water with him and +Sir W. Batten to a sale of old provisions at Deptford, which we did at +Captain Boddily's house, to the value of L600 or L700, but I am not +satisfied with the method used in this thing. Then home again by water, +and after a little at my office, and visit Sir W. Pen, who is not very +well again, with his late pain, home to supper, being hungry, and my ear +and cold not so bad I think as it was. So to bed, taking one of my +pills. Newes that the King comes to town for certain on Thursday next +from his progresse. + + + +29th. Took two pills more in the morning and they worked all day, and I +kept the house. About noon dined, and then to carry several heavy things +with my wife up and down stairs, in order to our going to lie above, and +Will to come down to the Wardrobe, and that put me into a violent sweat, +so I had a fire made, and then, being dry again, she and I to put up some +paper pictures in the red chamber, where we go to lie very pretty, and +the map of Paris. Then in the evening, towards night, it fell to +thunder, lighten, and rain so violently that my house was all afloat, and +I in all the rain up to the gutters, and there dabbled in the rain and +wet half an hour, enough to have killed a man. That done downstairs to +dry myself again, and by and by come Mr. Sympson to set up my wife's +chimney-piece in her closett, which pleases me, and so that being done, I +to supper and to bed, shifting myself from top to toe, and doubtful of my +doing myself hurt. + + + +30th. Rose very well, and my hearing pretty well again, and so to my +office, by and by Mr. Holliard come, and at my house he searched my ear, +and I hope all will be well, though I do not yet hear so well as I used +to do with my right ear. So to my office till noon, and then home to +dinner, and in the afternoon by water to White Hall, to the Tangier +Committee; where my Lord Tiviott about his accounts; which grieves me to +see that his accounts being to be examined by us, there are none of the +great men at the Board that in compliment will except against any thing +in his accounts, and so none of the little persons dare do it: so the +King is abused. Thence home again by water with Sir W. Rider, and so to +my office, and there I sat late making up my month's accounts, and, +blessed be God, do find myself L760 creditor, notwithstanding that for +clothes for myself and wife, and layings out on her closett, I have spent +this month L47. So home, where I found our new cooke-mayde Elizabeth, +whom my wife never saw at all, nor I but once at a distance before, but +recommended well by Mr. Creed, and I hope will prove well. So to supper, +prayers, and bed. This evening Mr. Coventry is come to St. James's, but +I did not go see him, and tomorrow the King, Queen, Duke and his Lady, +and the whole Court comes to towne from their progresse. Myself and +family well, only my father sicke in the country. All the common talke +for newes is the Turke's advance in Hungary, &c. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + OCTOBER + 1663 + + +October 1st. Up and betimes to my office, and then to sit, where Sir G. +Carteret, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Coventry and +myself, a fuller board than by the King's progresse and the late pays and +my absence has been a great while. Sat late, and then home to dinner. +After dinner I by water to Deptford about a little business, and so back +again, buying a couple of good eeles by the way, and after writing by the +post, home to see the painter at work, late, in my wife's closet, and so +to supper and to bed, having been very merry with the painter, late, +while he was doing his work. This day the King and Court returned from +their progress. + + + +2nd. Up betimes and by water to St. James's, and there visited Mr. +Coventry as a compliment after his new coming to town, but had no great +talk with him, he being full of business. So back by foot through +London, doing several errands, and at the 'Change met with Mr. Cutler, +and he and I to a coffee-house, and there discoursed, and he do assure me +that there is great likelyhood of a war with Holland, but I hope we shall +be in good condition before it comes to break out. I like his company, +and will make much of his acquaintance. So home to dinner with my wife, +who is over head and eares in getting her house up, and so to the office, +and with Mr. Lewes, late, upon some of the old victuallers' accounts, and +so home to supper and to bed, up to our red chamber, where we purpose +always to lie. This day I received a letter from Mr. Barlow, with a +Terella, + + [Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., has kindly supplied me with + the following interesting note on the terrella (or terella): The + name given by Dr. William Gilbert, author of the famous treatise, + "De Magnete" (Lond. 1600), to a spherical loadstone, on account of + its acting as a model, magnetically, of the earth; compass-needles + pointing to its. poles, as mariners' compasses do to the poles of + the earth. The term was adopted by other writers who followed + Gilbert, as the following passage from Wm. Barlowe's "Magneticall + Advertisements" (Lond. 1616) shows: "Wherefore the round Loadstone + is significantly termed by Doct. Gilbert Terrella, that is, a + little, or rather a very little Earth: For it representeth in an + exceeding small model (as it were) the admirable properties + magneticall of the huge Globe of the earth" (op. cit, p. 55). + Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it + led him to propound the true theory of the mariners' compass. In + his portrait of himself which he had painted for the University of + Oxford he was represented as holding in his hand a globe inscribed + terella. In the Galileo Museum in Florence there is a terrella + twenty-seven inches in diameter, of loadstone from Elba, constructed + for Cosmo de' Medici. A smaller one contrived by Sir Christopher + Wren was long preserved in the museum of the Royal Society (Grew's + "Rarities belonging to the Royal Society," p. 364). Evelyn was + shown "a pretty terrella described with all ye circles and skewing + all y magnetic deviations" (Diary, July 3rd, 1655).] + +which I had hoped he had sent me, but to my trouble I find it is to +present from him to my Lord Sandwich, but I will make a little use of it +first, and then give it him. + + + +3rd. Up, being well pleased with my new lodging and the convenience of +having our mayds and none else about us, Will lying below. So to the +office, and there we sat full of business all the morning. At noon I +home to dinner, and then abroad to buy a bell to hang by our chamber door +to call the mayds. Then to the office, and met Mr. Blackburne, who came +to know the reason of his kinsman (my Will) his being observed by his +friends of late to droop much. I told him my great displeasure against +him and the reasons of it, to his great trouble yet satisfaction, for my +care over him, and how every thing I said was for the good of the fellow, +and he will take time to examine the fellow about all, and to desire my +pleasure concerning him, which I told him was either that he should +became a better servant or that we would not have him under my roof to be +a trouble. He tells me in a few days he will come to me again and we +shall agree what to do therein. I home and told my wife all, and am +troubled to see that my servants and others should be the greatest +trouble I have in the world, more than for myself. We then to set up our +bell with a smith very well, and then I late at the office. So home to +supper and to bed. + + + +4th (Lord's day). Up and to church, my house being miserably overflooded +with rayne last night, which makes me almost mad. At home to dinner with +my wife, and so to talk, and to church again, and so home, and all the +evening most pleasantly passed the time in good discourse of our fortune +and family till supper, and so to bed, in some pain below, through cold +got. + + + +5th. Up with pain, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to the Temple, and +then I to my brother's, and up and down on business, and so to the New +Exchange, and there met Creed, and he and I walked two or three hours, +talking of many businesses, especially about Tangier, and my Lord +Tiviot's bringing in of high accounts, and yet if they were higher are +like to pass without exception, and then of my Lord Sandwich sending a +messenger to know whether the King intends to come to Newmarket, as is +talked, that he may be ready to entertain him at Hinchingbroke. Thence +home and dined, and my wife all day putting up her hangings in her +closett, which she do very prettily herself with her own hand, to my +great content. So I to the office till night, about several businesses, +and then went and sat an hour or two with Sir W. Pen, talking very +largely of Sir J. Minnes's simplicity and unsteadiness, and of Sir W. +Batten's suspicious dealings, wherein I was open, and he sufficiently, +so that I do not care for his telling of tales, for he said as much, but +whether that were so or no I said nothing but what is my certain +knowledge and belief concerning him. Thence home to bed in great pain. + + + +6th. Slept pretty well, and my wife waked to ring the bell to call up +our mayds to the washing about 4 o'clock, and I was and she angry that +our bell did not wake them sooner, but I will get a bigger bell. So we +to sleep again till 8 o'clock, and then I up in some ease to the office, +where we had a full board, where we examined Cocke's second account, when +Mr. Turner had drawn a bill directly to be paid the balance thereof, as +Mr. Cocke demanded, and Sir J. Minnes did boldly assert the truth of it, +and that he had examined it, when there is no such thing, but many +vouchers, upon examination, missing, and we saw reason to strike off +several of his demands, and to bring down his 5 per cent. commission to +3 per cent. So we shall save the King some money, which both the +Comptroller and his clerke had absolutely given away. There was also two +occasions more of difference at the table; the one being to make out a +bill to Captain Smith for his salary abroad as commander-in-chief in the +Streights. Sir J. Minnes did demand an increase of salary for his being +Vice-Admiral in the Downes, he having received but 40s. without an +increase, when Sir J. Lawson, in the same voyage, had L3, and others have +also had increase, only he, because he was an officer of the board, was +worse used than any body else, and particularly told Sir W. Batten that +he was the opposer formerly of his having an increase, which I did wonder +to hear him so boldly lay it to him. So we hushed up the dispute, and +offered, if he would, to examine precedents, and report them, if there +was any thing to his advantage to be found, to the Duke. The next was, +Mr. Chr. Pett and Deane were summoned to give an account of some knees + + ["Naturally grown timber or bars of iron bent to a right angle or to + fit the surfaces and to secure bodies firmly together as hanging + knees secure the deck beams to the sides."--Smyth's Sailor's Word- + Book. There are several kinds of knees.] + +which Pett reported bad, that were to be served in by Sir W. Warren, we +having contracted that none should be served but such as were to be +approved of by our officers. So that if they were bad they were to be +blamed for receiving them. Thence we fell to talk of Warren's other +goods, which Pett had said were generally bad, and falling to this +contract again, I did say it was the most cautious and as good a contract +as had been made here, and the only [one] that had been in such terms. +Sir J. Minnes told me angrily that Winter's timber, bought for 33s. per +load, was as good and in the same terms. I told him that it was not so, +but that he and Sir W. Batten were both abused, and I would prove it was +as dear a bargain as had been made this half year, which occasioned high +words between them and me, but I am able to prove it and will. That also +was so ended, and so to other business. At noon Lewellin coming to me I +took him and Deane, and there met my uncle Thomas, and we dined together, +but was vexed that, it being washing-day, we had no meat dressed, but +sent to the Cook's, and my people had so little witt to send in our meat +from abroad in that Cook's dishes, which were marked with the name of the +Cook upon them, by which, if they observed anything, they might know it +was not my own dinner. After dinner we broke up, and I by coach, setting +down Luellin in Cheapside. So to White Hall, where at the Committee of +Tangier, but, Lord! how I was troubled to see my Lord Tiviott's accounts +of L10,000 paid in that manner, and wish 1000 times I had not been there. +Thence rose with Sir G. Carteret and to his lodgings, and there +discoursed of our frays at the table to-day, and particularly of that of +the contract, and the contract of masts the other day, declaring my fair +dealing, and so needing not any man's good report of it, or word for it, +and that I would make it so appear to him, if he desired it, which he +did, and I will do it. Thence home by water in great pain, and at my +office a while, and thence a little to Sir W. Pen, and so home to bed, +and finding myself beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be, +and in pain in making water, I took a couple of pills that I had by me of +Mr. Hollyard's. + + + +7th. They wrought in the morning, and I did keep my bed, and my pain +continued on me mightily that I kept within all day in great pain, and +could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. +So in the evening I took coach and to Mr. Holliard's, but he was not at +home, and so home again, and whether the coach did me good or no I know +not . . . . So to bed and lay in good ease all night, and . . . . +pretty well to the morning . . . . . + + [Pepys's prescription for the colic: + + "Balsom of Sulphur, 3 or 4 drops in a spoonfull of Syrrup of Colts + foote, not eating or drinking two hours before or after. + + "The making of this Balsom: + + "2/3ds of fine Oyle, and 1/3d of fine Brimstone, sett 13 or 14 + houres upon yt fire, simpring till a thicke Stufte lyes at ye + Bottome, and ye Balsom at ye topp. Take this off &c. + + "Sir Rob. Parkhurst for ye Collique."--M. B.] + + + +8th. So, keeping myself warm, to the office, and at noon home to dinner, +my pain coming again by breaking no wind nor having any stool. So to Mr. +Holliard, and by his direction, he assuring me that it is nothing of the +stone, but only my constitution being costive, and that, and cold from +without, breeding and keeping the wind, I took some powder that he did +give me in white wine, and sat late up, till past eleven at night, with +my wife in my chamber till it had done working, which was so weakly that +I could hardly tell whether it did work or no. My mayds being at this +time in great dirt towards getting of all my house clean, and weary and +having a great deal of work to do therein to-morrow and next day, were +gone to bed before my wife and I, who also do lie in our room more like +beasts than Christians, but that is only in order to having of the house +shortly in a cleaner, or rather very clean condition. Some ease I had so +long as this did keep my body loose, and I slept well. + + + +9th. And did keep my bed most of this morning, my body I find being +still bound and little wind, and so my pain returned again, though not so +bad, but keeping my body with warm clothes very hot I made shift to +endure it, and at noon sent word to Mr. Hollyard of my condition, that I +could neither have a natural stool nor break wind, and by that means +still in pain and frequent offering to make water. So he sent me two +bottles of drink and some syrup, one bottle to take now and the other to- +morrow morning. So in the evening, after Commissioner Pett, who came to +visit me, and was going to Chatham, but methinks do talk to me in quite +another manner, doubtfully and shyly, and like a stranger, to what he did +heretofore. After I saw he was gone I did drink one of them, but it was +a most loathsome draught, and did keep myself warm after it, and had that +afternoon still a stool or two, but in no plenty, nor any wind almost +carried away, and so to bed. In no great pain, but do not think myself +likely to be well till I have a freedom of stool and wind. Most of this +day and afternoon my wife and I did spend together in setting things now +up and in order in her closet, which indeed is, and will be, when I can +get her some more things to put in it, a very pleasant place, and is at +present very pretty, and such as she, I hope, will find great content in. +So to bed. + + + +10th. Up, and not in any good ease yet, but had pain in making water, +and some course. I see I must take besides keeping myself warm to make +myself break wind and go freely to stool before I can be well, neither of +which I can do yet, though I have drank the other bottle of Mr. +Hollyard's against my stomach this morning. I did, however, make shift +to go to the office, where we sat, and there Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. +Batten did advise me to take some juniper water, and Sir W. Batten sent +to his Lady for some for me, strong water made of juniper. Whether that +or anything else of my draught this morning did it I cannot tell, but I +had a couple of stools forced after it . . . . but whether I shall +grow better upon it I cannot tell. Dined at home at noon, my wife and +house in the dirtiest pickle that ever she and it was in almost, but in +order, I hope, this night to be very clean. To the office all the +afternoon upon victualling business, and late at it, so after I wrote by +the post to my father, I home. This evening Mr. Hollyard sends me an +electuary to take (a walnut quantity of it) going to bed, which I did. +'Tis true I slept well, and rose in a little ease in the morning. + + + +11th (Lord's day). And was mightily pleased to see my house clean and in +good condition, but something coming into my wife's head, and mine, to be +done more about bringing the green bed into our chamber, which is +handsomer than the red one, though not of the colour of our hangings, my +wife forebore to make herself clean to-day, but continued in a sluttish +condition till to-morrow. I after the old passe, all the day within +doors, . . . . the effect of my electuary last night, and the +greatest of my pain I find to come by my straining . . . . For all +this I eat with a very good stomach, and as much as I use to do, and so I +did this noon, and staid at home discoursing and doing things in my +chamber, altering chairs in my chamber, and set them above in the red +room, they being Turkey work, and so put their green covers upon those +that were above, not so handsome. At night fell to reading in the Church +History of Fuller's, and particularly Cranmer's letter to Queen +Elizabeth, which pleases me mightily for his zeal, obedience, and +boldness in a cause of religion. After supper to bed as I use to be, in +pain . . . . . + + + +12th. Up (though slept well) and made some water in the morning [as] I +used to do, and a little pain returned to me, and some fears, but being +forced to go to the Duke at St. James's, I took coach and in my way +called upon Mr. Hollyard and had his advice to take a glyster. At St. +James's we attended the Duke all of us. And there, after my discourse, +Mr. Coventry of his own accord begun to tell the Duke how he found that +discourse abroad did run to his prejudice about the fees that he took, +and how he sold places and other things; wherein he desired to appeal to +his Highness, whether he did any thing more than what his predecessors +did, and appealed to us all. So Sir G. Carteret did answer that some +fees were heretofore taken, but what he knows not; only that selling of +places never was nor ought to be countenanced. So Mr. Coventry very +hotly answered to Sir G. Carteret, and appealed to himself whether he was +not one of the first that put him upon looking after this taking of fees, +and that he told him that Mr. Smith should say that he made L5000 the +first year, and he believed he made L7000. This Sir G. Carteret denied, +and said, that if he did say so he told a lie, for he could not, nor did +know, that ever he did make that profit of his place; but that he +believes he might say L2500 the first year. Mr. Coventry instanced in +another thing, particularly wherein Sir G. Carteret did advise with him +about the selling of the Auditor's place of the stores, when in the +beginning there was an intention of creating such an office. This he +confessed, but with some lessening of the tale Mr. Coventry told, it +being only for a respect to my Lord Fitz-Harding. In fine, Mr. Coventry +did put into the Duke's hand a list of above 250 places that he did give +without receiving one farthing, so much as his ordinary fees for them, +upon his life and oath; and that since the Duke's establishment of fees +he had never received one token more of any man; and that in his whole +life he never conditioned or discoursed of any consideration from any +commanders since he came to the Navy. And afterwards, my Lord Barkeley +merrily discoursing that he wished his profit greater than it was, and +that he did believe that he had got L50,000 since he came in, Mr. +Coventry did openly declare that his Lordship, or any of us, should have +not only all he had got, but all that he had in the world (and yet he did +not come a beggar into the Navy, nor would yet be thought to speak in any +contempt of his Royall Highness's bounty), and should have a year to +consider of it too, for L25,000. The Duke's answer was, that he wished +we all had made more profit than he had of our places, and that we had +all of us got as much as one man below stayres in the Court, which he +presently named, and it was Sir George Lane! This being ended, and the +list left in the Duke's hand, we parted, and I with Sir G. Carteret, Sir +J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten by coach to the Exchange, and there a while, +and so home, and whether it be the jogging, or by having my mind more +employed (which I believe is a great matter) I know not, but . . . . +I begin to be suddenly well, at least better than I was. So home and to +dinner, and thence by coach to the Old Exchange, and there cheapened some +laces for my wife, and then to Mr.----- the great laceman in Cheapside, +and bought one cost me L4. more by 20s. than I intended, but when I came +to see them I was resolved to buy one worth wearing with credit, and so +to the New Exchange, and there put it to making, and so to my Lord's +lodgings and left my wife, and so I to the Committee of Tangier, and then +late home with my wife again by coach, beginning to be very well, and yet +when I came home . . . . the little straining which I thought was no +strain at all at the present did by and by bring me some pain for a good +while. Anon, about 8 o'clock, my wife did give me a clyster which Mr. +Hollyard directed, viz., a pint of strong ale, 4 oz. of sugar, and 2 oz. +of butter. It lay while I lay upon the bed above an hour, if not two, +and then thinking it quite lost I rose, and by and by it began with my +walking to work, and gave me three or four most excellent stools and +carried away wind, put me in excellent ease, and taking my usual walnut +quantity of electuary at my going into bed I had about two stools in the +night . . . . . + + + +13th. And so rose in the morning in perfect good ease . . . . +continued all the morning well, and in the afternoon had a natural easily +and dry stoole, the first I have had these five days or six, for which +God be praised, and so am likely to continue well, observing for the time +to come when any of this pain comes again + +(1) To begin to keep myself as warm as I can. + +(2) Strain as little as ever I can backwards, remembering that my pain +will come by and by, though in the very straining I do not feel it. + +(3) Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get +an easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind. + +(4) To begin to suspect my health immediately when I begin to become +costive and bound, and by all means to keep my body loose, and that to +obtain presently after I find myself going the contrary. + +This morning at the office, and at noon with Creed to the Exchange, where +much business, but, Lord! how my heart, though I know not reason for it, +began to doubt myself, after I saw Stint, Field's one-eyed solicitor, +though I know not any thing that they are doing, or that they endeavour +any thing further against us in the business till the terme. Home, and +Creed with me to dinner, and after dinner John Cole, my old friend, came +to see and speak with me about a friend. I find him ingenious, but more +and more discern his city pedantry; but however, I will endeavour to have +his company now and then, for that he knows much of the temper of the +City, and is able to acquaint therein as much as most young men, being of +large acquaintance, and himself, I think, somewhat unsatisfied with the +present state of things at Court and in the Church. Then to the office, +and there busy till late, and so home to my wife, with some ease and +pleasure that I hope to be able to follow my business again, which by +God's leave I am resolved to return to with more and more eagerness. +I find at Court, that either the King is doubtfull of some disturbance, +or else would seem so (and I have reason to hope it is no worse), by his +commanding all commanders of castles, &c., to repair to their charges; +and mustering the Guards the other day himself, where he found reason to +dislike their condition to my Lord Gerard, finding so many absent men, or +dead pays. + + [This is probably an allusion to the practice of not reporting the + deaths of soldiers, that the officers might continue to draw their + pay.--B.] + +My Lady Castlemaine, I hear, is in as great favour as ever, and the King +supped with her the very first night he came from Bath: and last night +and the night before supped with her; when there being a chine of beef to +roast, and the tide rising into their kitchen that it could not be +roasted there, and the cook telling her of it, she answered, "Zounds! +she must set the house on fire but it should be roasted!" So it was +carried to Mrs. Sarah's husband's, and there it was roasted. So home to +supper and to bed, being mightily pleased with all my house and my red +chamber, where my wife and I intend constantly to lie, and the having of +our dressing room and mayds close by us without any interfering or +trouble. + + + +14th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and part of it Sir J. +Minnes spent, as he do every thing else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy +of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand any +thing that I was weary of him, and so I toward the 'Change and met with +Mr. Grant, and he and I to the Coffee-house, where I understand by him +that Sir W. Petty and his vessel are coming, and the King intends to go +to Portsmouth to meet it. Thence home and after dinner my wife and I, +by Mr. Rawlinson's conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and +boys in their vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and +some things stand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which +all coming in do bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say +something, to which others that hear him do cry Amen, and the party do +kiss his vayle. Their service all in a singing way, and in Hebrew. And +anon their Laws that they take out of the press are carried by several +men, four or five several burthens in all, and they do relieve one +another; and whether it is that every one desires to have the carrying of +it, I cannot tell, thus they carried it round about the room while such a +service is singing. And in the end they had a prayer for the King, which +they pronounced his name in Portugall; but the prayer, like the rest, in +Hebrew. But, Lord! to see the disorder, laughing, sporting, and no +attention, but confusion in all their service, more like brutes than +people knowing the true God, would make a man forswear ever seeing them +more and indeed I never did see so much, or could have imagined there had +been any religion in the whole world so absurdly performed as this. Away +thence with my mind strongly disturbed with them, by coach and set down +my wife in Westminster Hall, and I to White Hall, and there the Tangier +Committee met, but the Duke and the Africa Committee meeting in our room, +Sir G. Carteret; Sir W. Compton, Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Rider, Cuttance and +myself met in another room, with chairs set in form but no table, and +there we had very fine discourses of the business of the fitness to keep +Sally, and also of the terms of our King's paying the Portugees that +deserted their house at Tangier, which did much please me, and so to +fetch my wife, and so to the New Exchange about her things, and called at +Thomas Pepys the turner's and bought something there, an so home to +supper and to bed, after I had been a good while with Sir W. Pen, railing +and speaking freely our minds against Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, +but no more than the folly of one and the knavery of the other do +deserve. + + + +15th. Up, I bless God being now in pretty good condition, but cannot +come to make natural stools yet . . . . . So up and to the office, +where we sat all the morning, and at noon dined at home, my head full of +business, and after stepping abroad to buy a thing or two, compasses and +snuffers for my wife, I returned to my office and there mighty busy till +it was late, and so home well contented with the business that I had done +this afternoon, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +16th. Up and to my office, where all the morning doing business, and at +noon home to dinner, and then up to remove my chest and clothes up stairs +to my new wardrobe, that I may have all my things above where I lie, and +so by coach abroad with my wife, leaving her at my Lord's till I went to +the Tangier Committee, where very good discourse concerning the Articles +of peace to be continued with Guyland, and thence took up my wife, and +with her to her tailor's, and then to the Exchange and to several places, +and so home and to my office, where doing some business, and then home to +supper and to bed. + + + +17th. Up and to my office, and there we sat a very full board all the +morning upon some accounts of Mr. Gauden's. Here happened something +concerning my Will which Sir W. Batten would fain charge upon him, and I +heard him mutter something against him of complaint for his often +receiving people's money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much, +but I will be even with him. Thence to the Dolphin Tavern, and there Mr. +Gauden did give us a great dinner. Here we had some discourse of the +Queen's being very sick, if not dead, the Duke and Duchess of York being +sent for betimes this morning to come to White Hall to her. So to my +office and there late doing business, and so home to supper, my house +being got mighty clean to my great content from top to toe, and so to +bed, myself beginning to be in good condition of health also, but only my +laying out so much money upon clothes for myself and wife and her closet +troubles me. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up, and troubled at a distaste my wife took at a +small thing that Jane did, and to see that she should be so vexed that I +took part with Jane, wherein I had reason; but by and by well again, and +so my wife in her best gown and new poynt that I bought her the other +day, to church with me, where she has not been these many weeks, and her +mayde Jane with her. I was troubled to see Pembleton there, but I +thought it prudence to take notice myself first of it and show my wife +him, and so by little and little considering that it mattered not much +his being there I grew less concerned and so mattered it not much, and +the less when, anon, my wife showed me his wife, a pretty little woman, +and well dressed, with a good jewel at her breast. The parson, Mr. +Mills, I perceive, did not know whether to pray for the Queen or no, +and so said nothing about her; which makes me fear she is dead. But +enquiring of Sir J. Minnes, he told me that he heard she was better last +night. So home to dinner, and Tom came and dined with me, and so, anon, +to church again, and there a simple coxcomb preached worse than the Scot, +and no Pembleton nor his wife there, which pleased me not a little, and +then home and spent most of the evening at Sir W. Pen's in complaisance, +seeing him though he deserves no respect from me. This evening came my +uncle Wight to speak with me about my uncle Thomas's business, and Mr. +Moore came, 4 or 5 days out of the country and not come to see me before, +though I desired by two or three messengers that he would come to me as +soon as he came to town. Which do trouble me to think he should so soon +forget my kindness to him, which I am afraid he do. After walking a good +while in the garden with these, I went up again to Sir W. Pen, and took +my wife home, and after supper to prayers, and read very seriously my +vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses, but I +hope in God I do not, and so to bed. + + + +19th. Waked with a very high wind, and said to my wife, "I pray God I +hear not of the death of any great person, this wind is so high!" fearing +that the Queen might be dead. So up; and going by coach with Sir W. +Batten and Sir J. Minnes to St. James's, they tell me that Sir W. +Compton, who it is true had been a little sickly for a week or fortnight, +but was very well upon Friday at night last at the Tangier Committee with +us, was dead--died yesterday: at which I was most exceedingly surprised, +he being, and so all the world saying that he was, one of the worthyest +men and best officers of State now in England; and so in my conscience he +was: of the best temper, valour, abilities of mind, integrity, birth, +fine person, and diligence of any one man he hath left behind him in the +three kingdoms; and yet not forty years old, or if so, that is all. + + [Sir William Compton (1625-1663) was knighted at Oxford, December + 12th, 1643. He was called by Cromwell "the sober young man and the + godly cavalier." After the Restoration he was M.P. for Cambridge + (1661), and appointed Master of the Ordnance. He died in Drury + Lane, suddenly, as stated in the text, and was buried at Compton + Wynyates, Warwickshire.] + +I find the sober men of the Court troubled for him; and yet not so as to +hinder or lessen their mirth, talking, laughing, and eating, drinking, +and doing every thing else, just as if there was no such thing, which is +as good an instance for me hereafter to judge of death, both as to the +unavoidableness, suddenness, and little effect of it upon the spirits of +others, let a man be never so high, or rich, or good; but that all die +alike, no more matter being made of the death of one than another, and +that even to die well, the praise of it is not considerable in the world, +compared to the many in the world that know not nor make anything of it, +nor perhaps to them (unless to one that like this poor gentleman, who is +one of a thousand, there nobody speaking ill of him) that will speak ill +of a man. Coming to St. James's, I hear that the Queen did sleep five +hours pretty well to-night, and that she waked and gargled her mouth, and +to sleep again; but that her pulse beats fast, beating twenty to the +King's or my Lady Suffolk's eleven; but not so strong as it was. It +seems she was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet, and to +have the extreme unction given her by the priests, who were so long about +it that the doctors were angry. The King, they all say; is most fondly +disconsolate for her, and weeps by her, which makes her weep; + + ["The queen was given over by her physicians, . . . , and the + good nature of the king was much affected with the situation in + which he saw! a princess whom, though he did not love her, yet he + greatly esteemed. She loved him tenderly, and thinking that it was + the last time she should ever speak to him, she told him 'That the + concern he showed for her death was enough to make her quit life + with regret; but that not possessing charms sufficient to merit his + tenderness, she had at least the consolation in dying to give place + to a consort who might be more worthy, of it and to whom heaven, + perhaps, might grant a blessing that had been refused to her.' At + these words she bathed his hands with some tears which he thought + would be her last; he mingled his own with hers, and without + supposing she would take him at his word, he conjured her to live + for his sake."--Grammont Memoirs, chap. vii.] + +which one this day told me he reckons a good sign, for that it carries +away some rheume from the head. This morning Captain Allen tells me how +the famous Ned Mullins, by a slight fall, broke his leg at the ancle, +which festered; and he had his leg cut off on Saturday, but so ill done, +notwithstanding all the great chyrurgeons about the town at the doing of +it, that they fear he will not live with it, which is very strange, +besides the torment he was put to with it. After being a little with the +Duke, and being invited to dinner to my Lord Barkeley's, and so, not +knowing how to spend our time till noon, Sir W. Batten and I took coach, +and to the Coffee-house in Cornhill; + + [This may be the Coffee House in Exchange Alley, which had for a + sign, Morat the Great, or The Great Turk, where coffee was sold in + berry, in powder, and pounded in a mortar. There is a token of the + house, see "Boyne's Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., p. 592.] + +where much talk about the Turk's proceedings, and that the plague is got +to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier; and it is also carried to +Hambrough. The Duke says the King purposes to forbid any of their ships +coming into the river. The Duke also told us of several Christian +commanders (French) gone over to the Turks to serve them; and upon +inquiry I find that the King of France do by this aspire to the Empire, +and so to get the Crown of Spayne also upon the death of the King, which +is very probable, it seems. Back to St. James's, and there dined with my +Lord Barkeley and his lady, where Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Batten, and +myself, with two gentlemen more; my Lady, and one of the ladies of honour +to the Duchesse (no handsome woman, but a most excellent hand). A fine +French dinner, and so we after dinner broke up and to Creed's new +lodgings in Axe-yard, which I like very well and so with him to White +Hall and walked up and down in the galleries with good discourse, and +anon Mr. Coventry and Povy, sad for the loss of one of our number we sat +down as a Committee for Tangier and did some business and so broke up, +and I down with Mr. Coventry and in his chamber discoursing of business +of the office and Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten's carriage, when he +most ingeniously tells me how they have carried themselves to him in +forbearing to speak the other day to the Duke what they know they have so +largely at other times said to him, and I told him what I am put to about +the bargain for masts. I perceive he thinks of it all and will remember +it. Thence took up my wife at Mrs. Harper's where she and Jane were, and +so called at the New Exchange for some things for her, and then at Tom's +went up and saw his house now it is finished, and indeed it is very +handsome, but he not within and so home and to my office; and then to +supper and to bed. + + + +20th. Up and to the office, where we sat; and at noon Sir G. Carteret, +Sir J. Minnes, and I to dinner to my Lord Mayor's, being invited, where +was the Farmers of the Customes, my Lord Chancellor's three sons, and +other great and much company, and a very great noble dinner, as this +Mayor--[Sir John Robinson.]--is good for nothing else. No extraordinary +discourse of any thing, every man being intent upon his dinner, and +myself willing to have drunk some wine to have warmed my belly, but I +did for my oath's sake willingly refrain it, but am so well pleased and +satisfied afterwards thereby, for it do keep me always in so good a frame +of mind that I hope I shall not ever leave this practice. Thence home, +and took my wife by coach to White Hall, and she set down at my Lord's +lodgings, I to a Committee of Tangier, and thence with her homeward, +calling at several places by the way. Among others at Paul's Churchyard, +and while I was in Kirton's shop, a fellow came to offer kindness or +force to my wife in the coach, but she refusing, he went away, after the +coachman had struck him, and he the coachman. So I being called, went +thither, and the fellow coming out again of a shop, I did give him a good +cuff or two on the chops, and seeing him not oppose me, I did give him +another; at last found him drunk, of which I was glad, and so left him, +and home, and so to my office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed. +This evening, at my Lord's lodgings, Mrs. Sarah talking with my wife and +I how the Queen do, and how the King tends her being so ill. She tells +us that the Queen's sickness is the spotted fever; that she was as full +of the spots as a leopard which is very strange that it should be no more +known; but perhaps it is not so. And that the King do seem to take it +much to heart, for that he hath wept before her; but, for all that; that +he hath not missed one night since she was sick, of supping with my Lady +Castlemaine; which I believe is true, for she [Sarah] says that her +husband hath dressed the suppers every night; and I confess I saw him +myself coming through the street dressing of a great supper to-night, +which Sarah says is also for the King and her; which is a very strange +thing. + + + +21st. Up, and by and by comes my brother Tom to me, though late (which +do vex me to the blood that I could never get him to come time enough to +me, though I have spoke a hundred times; but he is very sluggish, and too +negligent ever to do well at his trade I doubt), and having lately +considered with my wife very much of the inconvenience of my going in no +better plight, we did resolve of putting me into a better garb, and, +among other things, to have a good velvet cloake; that is, of cloth lined +with velvet and other things modish, and a perruque, and so I sent him +and her out to buy me velvet, and I to the Exchange, and so to Trinity +House, and there dined with Sir W. Batten, having some business to speak +with him, and Sir W. Rider. Thence, having my belly full, away on foot +to my brother's, all along Thames Streete, and my belly being full of +small beer, I did all alone, for health's sake, drink half a pint of +Rhenish wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer. From my brother's with +my wife to the Exchange, to buy things for her and myself, I being in a +humour of laying out money, but not prodigally, but only in clothes, +which I every day see that I suffer for want of, I so home, and after a +little at my office, home to supper and to bed. Memorandum: This morning +one Mr. Commander, a scrivener, came to me from Mr. Moore with a deed of +which. Mr. Moore had told me, that my Lord had made use of my name, and +that I was desired by my Lord to sign it. Remembering this very well, +though understanding little of the particulars, I read it over, and found +it concern Sir Robt. Bernard and Duckinford, their interest in the manor +of Brampton. So I did sign it, declaring to Mr. Commander that I am only +concerned in having my name at my Lord Sandwich's desire used therein, +and so I sealed it up after I had signed and sealed the deed, and desired +him to give it so sealed to Mr. Moore. I did also call at the Wardrobe +this afternoon to have told Mr. Moore of it, but he was not within, but +knowing Mr. Commander to have the esteem of a good and honest man with my +Lord Crew, I did not doubt to intrust him with the deed after I had +signed it. This evening after I came home I begun to enter my wife in +arithmetique, in order to her studying of the globes, and she takes it +very well, and, I hope, with great pleasure, I shall bring her to +understand many fine things. + + + +22nd. Up to the office, where we sat till noon and then I home to +dinner, and after dinner with my wife to her study and there read some +more arithmetique, which she takes with great ease and pleasure. This +morning, hearing that the Queen grows worse again, I sent to stop the +making of my velvet cloake, till I see whether she lives or dies. So a +little abroad about several businesses, and then home and to my office +till night, and then home to supper, teach my wife, and so to bed. + + + +23rd. Up, and this morning comes Mr. Clerke, and tells me that the +Injunction against Trice is dismissed again, which troubles me much. So +I am to look after it in the afternoon. There comes also by appointment +my uncle Thomas, to receive the first payment of his daughter's money. +But showing of me the original of the deed by which his daughter gives +her right to her legacy to him, and the copy of it attested by the +Scrivener, for me to keep by me, I did find some difference, and +thereupon did look more into it, and at last did find the whole thing a +forgery; yet he maintained it again and again, upon oath, that it had +been signed and sealed by my cozen Mary ever since before her marriage. +So I told him to his teeth he did like a knave, and so he did, and went +with him to the Scrivener at Bedlam, and there found how it came to pass, +viz., that he had lost, or pretends to have lost, the true original, and +that so he was forced to take this course; but a knave, at least a man +that values not what he swears to, I perceive he is. But however I am +now better able to see myself fully secured before I part with the money, +for I find that his son Charles has right to this legacy till the first +L100 of his daughter's portion be paid, he being bond for it. So I put +him upon getting both his sons to be bound for my security, and so left +him and so home, and then abroad to my brother's, but found him abroad at +the young couple that was married yesterday, and he one of the Br[ide's] +men, a kinswoman (Brumfield) of the Joyces married to an upholster. +Thence walked to the King's Head at Charing Cross and there dined, and +hear that the Queen slept pretty well last night, but her fever continues +upon her still. It seems she hath never a Portuguese doctor here. +Thence by appointment to the Six Clerks' office to meet Mr. Clerke, which +I did and there waited all the afternoon for Wilkinson my attorney, but +he came not, and so vexed and weary we parted, and I endeavoured but in +vain to have found Dr. Williams, of whom I shall have use in Trice's +business, but I could not find him. So weary walked home; in my way +bought a large kitchen knife and half dozen oyster knives. Thence to Mr. +Holliard, who tells me that Mullins is dead of his leg cut off the other +day, but most basely done. He tells me that there is no doubt but that +all my slyme do come away in my water, and therefore no fear of the +stone; but that my water being so slymy is a good sign. He would have me +now and then to take a clyster, the same I did the other day, though I +feel no pain, only to keep me loose, and instead of butter, which he +would have to be salt butter, he would have me sometimes use two or three +ounces of honey, at other times two or three ounces of Linseed oil. +Thence to Mr. Rawlinson's and saw some of my new bottles made, with my +crest upon them, filled with wine, about five or six dozen. So home and +to my office a little, and thence home to prepare myself against T. +Trice, and also to draw a bond fit for my uncle and his sons to enter +into before I pay them the money. That done to bed. + + + +24th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning about Mr. Gauden's +account, and at noon to dinner with him at the Dolphin, where mighty +merry by pleasant stories of Mr. Coventry's and Sir J. Minnes's, which I +have put down some of in my book of tales. Just as I was going out my +uncle Thomas came to the with a draught of a bond for him and his sons to +sign to me about the payment of the L20 legacy, which I agreed to, but he +would fain have had from me the copy of the deed, which he had forged and +did bring me yesterday, but I would not give him it. Says [he] I +perceive then you will keep it to defame me with, and desired me not to +speak of it, for he did it innocently. Now I confess I do not find any +great hurt in the thing, but only to keep from me a sight of the true +original deed, wherein perhaps there was something else that may touch +this business of the legacy which he would keep from me, or it may be, it +is really lost as he says it is. But then he need not have used such a +slight, but confess it without danger. Thence by coach with Mr. Coventry +to the Temple, and thence I to the Six Clerks' office, and discoursed +with my Attorney and Solicitor, and he and I to Mr. Turner, who puts me +in great fear that I shall not get retayned again against Tom Trice; +which troubles me. Thence, it being night, homewards, and called at +Wotton's and tried some shoes, but he had none to fit me. He tells me +that by the Duke of York's persuasion Harris is come again to Sir W. +Davenant upon his terms that he demanded, which will make him very high +and proud. Thence to another shop, and there bought me a pair of shoes, +and so walked home and to my office, and dispatch letters by the post, +and so home to supper and to bed, where to my trouble I find my wife +begin to talk of her being alone all day, which is nothing but her lack +of something to do, for while she was busy she never, or seldom, +complained . . . . . The Queen is in a good way of recovery; and Sir +Francis Pridgeon hath got great honour by it, it being all imputed to his +cordiall, which in her dispaire did give her rest and brought her to some +hopes of recovery. It seems that, after the much talk of troubles and a +plot, something is found in the North that a party was to rise, and some +persons that were to command it are found, as I find in a letter that Mr. +Coventry read to-day about it from those parts. + + [This refers to a rising in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which took + place on October 12th, and was known as the Farneley Wood Plot. The + rising was easily put down, and several prisoners were taken. A + special commission of oyer and terminer was sent down to York to try + the prisoners in January, 1663-64, when twenty-one were convicted + and executed. (See Whitaker's "Loidis and Elmete," 1816.)] + + + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and my wife and I to church, where it is strange +to see how the use and seeing Pembleton come with his wife thither to +church, I begin now to make too great matter of it, which before was so +terrible to me. Dined at home, my wife and I alone, a good dinner, and +so in the afternoon to church again, where the Scot preached, and I slept +most of the afternoon. So home, and my wife and I together all the +evening discoursing, and then after reading my vowes to myself, and my +wife with her mayds (who are mighty busy to get it dispatched because of +their mistress's promise, that when it is done they shall have leave all +to go see their friends at Westminster, whither my wife will carry them) +preparing for their washing to-morrow, we hastened to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. Waked about one o'clock in the morning . . . . My wife being +waked rung her bell, and the mayds rose and went to washing, we to sleep +again till 7 o'clock, and then up, and I abroad to look out Dr. Williams, +but being gone out I went to Westminster, and there seeing my Lord +Sandwich's footman knew he was come to town, and so I went in and saw +him, and received a kind salute from him, but hear that my father is very +ill still. Thence to Westminster Hall with Creed, and spent the morning +walking there, where, it being Terme time, I met several persons, and +talked with them, among others Dr. Pierce, who tells me that the Queen is +in a way to be pretty well again, but that her delirium in her head +continues still; that she talks idle, not by fits, but always, which in +some lasts a week after so high a fever, in some more, and in some for +ever; that this morning she talked mightily that she was brought to bed, +and that she wondered that she should be delivered without pain and +without spueing or being sicke, and that she was troubled that her boy +was but an ugly boy. But the King being by, said, "No, it is a very +pretty boy."--"Nay," says she, "if it be like you it is a fine boy +indeed, and I would be very well pleased with it." The other day she +talked mightily of Sir H. Wood's lady's great belly, and said if she +should miscarry he would never get another, and that she never saw such a +man as this Sir H. Wood in her life, and seeing of Dr. Pridgeon, she +said, "Nay, Doctor, you need not scratch your head, there is hair little +enough already in the place." But methinks it was not handsome for the +weaknesses of Princes to be talked of thus. Thence Creed and I to the +King's Head ordinary, where much and very good company, among others one +very talking man, but a scholler, that would needs put in his discourse +and philosophy upon every occasion, and though he did well enough, yet +his readiness to speak spoilt all. Here they say that the Turkes go on +apace, and that my Lord Castlehaven is going to raise 10,000 men here for +to go against him; that the King of France do offer to assist the Empire +upon condition that he may be their Generalissimo, and the Dolphin chosen +King of the Romans: and it is said that the King of France do occasion +this difference among the Christian Princes of the Empire, which gives +the Turke such advantages. They say also that the King of Spayne is +making all imaginable force against Portugall again. Thence Creed and I +to one or two periwigg shops about the Temple, having been very much +displeased with one that we saw, a head of greasy and old woman's haire, +at Jervas's in the morning; and there I think I shall fit myself of one +very handsomely made. Thence by coach, my mind being troubled for not +meeting with Dr. Williams, to St. Catharine's to look at a Dutch ship or +two for some good handsome maps, but met none, and so back to Cornhill to +Moxon's, but it being dark we staid not to see any, then to coach again, +and presently spying Sir W. Batten; I 'light and took him in and to the +Globe in Fleete Streete, by appointment, where by and by he and I with +our solicitor to Sir F. Turner about Field's business, and back to the +Globe, and thither I sent for Dr. Williams, and he is willing to swear in +my behalf against T. Trice, viz., that at T. Trice's desire we have met +to treat about our business. Thence (I drinking no wine) after an hour's +stay Sir W. Batten and another, and he drinking, we home by coach, and so +to my office and set down my Journall, and then home to supper and to +bed, my washing being in a good condition over. I did give Dr. Williams +20s. tonight, but it was after he had answered me well to what I had to +ask him about this business, and it was only what I had long ago in my +petty bag book allotted for him besides the bill of near L4 which I paid +him a good while since by my brother Tom for physique for my wife, +without any consideration to this business that he is to do for me, as +God shall save me. Among the rest, talking of the Emperor at table to- +day one young gentleman, a pretty man, and it seems a Parliament man, did +say that he was a sot; + + [Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor, was born June 9th, 1640. He + became King of Hungary in 1655, and King of Bohemia in 1658, in + which year he received the imperial crown. The Princes of the + German Empire watched for some time the progress of his struggle + with the Turks with indifference, but in 1663 they were induced to + grant aid to Leopold after he had made a personal appeal to them in + the diet at Ratisbon.] + +for he minded nothing of the Government, but was led by the Jesuites. +Several at table took him up, some for saying that he was a sot in being +led by the Jesuites, [who] are the best counsel he can take. Another +commander, a Scott[ish] Collonell, who I believe had several under him, +that he was a man that had thus long kept out the Turke till now, and did +many other great things, and lastly Mr. Progers, one of our courtiers, +who told him that it was not a thing to be said of any Soveraigne Prince, +be his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was +very prettily said. + + + +27th. Up, and my uncle Thomas and his scrivener bringing me a bond and +affidavit to my mind, I paid him his L20 for his daughter's legacy, and +L5 more for a Quarter's annuity, in the manner expressed in each +acquittance, to which I must be referred on any future occasion, and to +the bond and affidavit. Thence to the office and there sat till noon, +and then home to dinner, and after dinner (it being a foul house to-day +among my maids, making up their clothes) abroad with my Will with me by +coach to Dr, Williams, and with him to the Six Clerks's office, and +there, by advice of his acquaintance, I find that my case, through my +neglect and the neglect of my lawyers, is come to be very bad, so as that +it will be very hard to get my bill retayned again. However, I got him +to sign and swear an affidavit that there was treaties between T. Trice +and me with as much advantage as I could for me, but I will say that for +him he was most exact as ever I saw man in my life, word by word what it +was that he swore to, and though, God forgive me, I could have been +almost naturally willing to have let him ignorantly have sworn to +something that was not of itself very certain, either or no, yet out of +his own conscience and care he altered the words himself so as to make +them very safe for him to swear. This I carrying to my clerk Wilkinson, +and telling him how I heard matters to stand, he, like a conceited +fellow, made nothing of it but advised me to offer Trice's clerks the +cost of the dismission, viz., 46s. 8d., which I did, but they would not +take it without his client. Immediately thereupon we parted, and met T. +Trice coming into the room, and he came to me and served me with a +subpoena for these very costs, so I paid it him, but Lord! to see his +resolution, and indeed discretion, in the wording of his receipt, he +would have it most express to my greatest disadvantage that could be, yet +so as I could not deny to give it him. That being paid, my clerke, and +then his began to ask why we could not think, being friends, of referring +it, or stating it, first ourselves, and then put it to some good lawyer +to judge in it. From one word to more we were resolved to try, and to +that end to step to the Pope's Head Taverne, and there he and his Clerke +and Attorney and I and my Clerke, and sent for Mr. Smallwood, and by and +by comes Mr. Clerke, my Solicitor, and after I had privately discoursed +with my men and seen how doubtfully they talked, and what future certain +charge and trouble it would be, with a doubtful victory, I resolved to +condescend very low, and after some talke all together Trice and I +retired, and he came to L150 the lowest, and I bid him L80. So broke off +and then went to our company, and they putting us to a second private +discourse, at last I was contented to give him L100, he to spend 40s. of +it among this good company that was with us. So we went to our company, +both seeming well pleased that we were come to an end, and indeed I am in +the respects above said, though it be a great sum for us to part with. +I am to pay him by giving him leave to buy about L40 worth of Piggott's +land and to strike off so much of Piggott's debt, and the other to give +him bond to pay him in 12 months after without interest, only giving him +a power to buy more land of Piggott and paying him that way as he did for +the other, which I am well enough contented with, or at least to take the +land at that price and give him the money. This last I did not tell him, +but I shall order it so. Having agreed upon to-morrow come se'nnight for +the spending of the 40s. at Mr. Rawlinson's, we parted, and I set +T. Trice down in Paul's Churchyard and I by coach home and to my office, +and there set down this day's passages, and so home to supper and to bed. +Mr. Coventry tells me to-day that the Queen had a very good night last +night; but yet it is strange that still she raves and talks of little +more than of her having of children, and fancys now that she hath three +children, and that the girle is very like the King. And this morning +about five o'clock waked (the physician feeling her pulse, thinking to be +better able to judge, she being still and asleep, waked her) and the +first word she said was, "How do the children?" + + + +28th. Up and at my office all the morning, and at noon Mr. Creed came to +me and dined with me, and after dinner Murford came to me and he and I +discoursed wholly upon his breach of contract with us. After that Mr. +Creed and I abroad, I doing several errands, and with him at last to the +great coffee-house, and there after some common discourse we parted and I +home, paying what I owed at the Mitre in my way, and at home Sympson the +joyner coming he set up my press for my cloaks and other small things, +and so to my office a little, and to supper, and to bed. This morning +Mr. Blackburne came to me, and telling me what complaints Will made of +the usage he had from my wife and other discouragements, and, I seeing. +him, instead of advising, rather favouring his kinsman, I told him freely +my mind, but friendlily, and so we have concluded to have him have a +lodging elsewhere, and that I will spare him L15 of his salary, and if I +do not need to keep another L20. + + + +29th. Up, it being my Lord Mayor's day, Sir Anthony Bateman. This +morning was brought home my new velvet cloake, that is, lined with +velvet, a good cloth the outside, the first that ever I had in my life, +and I pray God it may not be too soon now that I begin to wear it. I had +it this day brought, thinking to have worn it to dinner, but I thought it +would be better to go without it because of the crowde, and so I did not +wear it. We met a little at the office, and then home again and got me +ready to go forth, my wife being gone forth by my consent before to see +her father and mother, and taken her cooke mayde and little girle to +Westminster with her for them to see their friends. This morning in +dressing myself and wanting a band, + + [The band succeeded the ruff as the ordinary civil costume. The + lawyers, who now retain bands, and the clergy, who have only lately + left them off, formerly wore ruffs.] + +I found all my bands that were newly made clean so ill smoothed that I +crumpled them, and flung them all on the ground, and was angry with Jane, +which made the poor girle mighty sad, so that I were troubled for it +afterwards. At noon I went forth, and by coach to Guild Hall (by the way +calling at Mr. Rawlinson's), and there was admitted, and meeting with Mr. +Proby (Sir R. Ford's son), and Lieutenant-Colonel Baron, a City +commander, we went up and down to see the tables; where under every salt +there was a bill of fare, and at the end of the table the persons proper +for the table. Many were the tables, but none in the Hall but the +Mayor's and the Lords of the Privy Council that had napkins + + [As the practice of eating with forks gradually was introduced from + Italy into England, napkins were not so generally used, but + considered more as an ornament than a necessary. + + "The laudable use of forks, + Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, + To the sparing of napkins." + + Ben Jonson, The Devil is an Ass, act v., sc. 3. + + The guests probably brought their own knife and fork with them in a + case.--M.B.] + +or knives, which was very strange. We went into the Buttry, and there +stayed and talked, and then into the Hall again: and there wine was +offered and they drunk, I only drinking some hypocras, which do not break +my vowe, it being, to the best of my present judgement, only a mixed +compound drink, and not any wine. + + [A drink, composed usually of red wine, but sometimes of white, with + the addition of sugar and spices. Sir Walter Scott ("Quarterly + Review," vol. xxxiii.) says, after quoting this passage of Pepys, + "Assuredly his pieces of bacchanalian casuistry can only be matched + by that of Fielding's chaplain of Newgate, who preferred punch to + wine, because the former was a liquor nowhere spoken against in + Scripture."] + +If I am mistaken, God forgive me! but I hope and do think I am not. By +and by met with Creed; and we, with the others, went within the several +Courts, and there saw the tables prepared for the Ladies and Judges and +Bishopps: all great sign of a great dinner to come. By and by about one +o'clock, before the Lord Mayor came, come into the Hall, from the room +where they were first led into, the Lord Chancellor (Archbishopp before +him), with the Lords of the Council, and other Bishopps, and they to +dinner. Anon comes the Lord Mayor, who went up to the lords, and then to +the other tables to bid wellcome; and so all to dinner. I sat near +Proby, Baron, and Creed at the Merchant Strangers' table; where ten good +dishes to a messe, with plenty of wine of all sorts, of which I drunk +none; but it was very unpleasing that we had no napkins nor change of +trenchers, and drunk out of earthen pitchers and wooden dishes.--[The +City plate was probably melted during the Civil War.-M.B.]--It happened +that after the lords had half dined, came the French Embassador, up to +the lords' table, where he was to have sat; but finding the table set, he +would not sit down nor dine with the Lord Mayor, who was not yet come, +nor have a table to himself, which was offered; but in a discontent went +away again. After I had dined, I and Creed rose and went up and down the +house, and up to the lady's room, and there stayed gazing upon them. But +though there were many and fine, both young and old, yet I could not +discern one handsome face there; which was very strange, nor did I find +the lady that young Dawes married so pretty as I took her for, I having +here an opportunity of looking much upon her very near. I expected +musique, but there was none but only trumpets and drums, which displeased +me. The dinner, it seems, is made by the Mayor and two Sheriffs for the +time being, the Lord Mayor paying one half, and they the other. And the +whole, Proby says, is reckoned to come to about 7 or L800 at most. Being +wearied with looking upon a company of ugly women, Creed and I went away, +and took coach and through Cheapside, and there saw the pageants, which +were very silly, and thence to the Temple, where meeting Greatorex, he +and we to Hercules Pillars, there to show me the manner of his going +about of draining of fenns, which I desired much to know, but it did not +appear very satisfactory to me, as he discoursed it, and I doubt he will +faile in it. Thence I by coach home, and there found my wife come home, +and by and by came my brother Tom, with whom I was very angry for not +sending me a bill with my things, so as that I think never to have more +work done by him if ever he serves me so again, and so I told him. The +consideration of laying out L32 12s. this very month in his very work +troubles me also, and one thing more, that is to say, that Will having +been at home all the day, I doubt is the occasion that Jane has spoken to +her mistress tonight that she sees she cannot please us and will look out +to provide herself elsewhere, which do trouble both of us, and we wonder +also at her, but yet when the rogue is gone I do not fear but the wench +will do well. To the office a little, to set down my Journall, and so +home late to supper and to bed. The Queen mends apace, they say; but yet +talks idle still. + + + +30th. Lay long in bed with my wife, and then up and a while at my +office, and so to the Change, and so [home] again, and there I found my +wife in a great passion with her mayds. I upstairs to set some things in +order in our chamber and wardrobe, and so to dinner upon a good dish of +stewed beef, then up again about my business. Then by coach with my wife +to the New Exchange, and there bought and paid for several things, and +then back, calling at my periwigg-makers, and there showed my wife the +periwigg made for me, and she likes it very well, and so to my brother's, +and to buy a pair of boddice for her, and so home, and to my office late, +and then home to my wife, purposing to go on to a new lesson in +arithmetique with her. So to supper and to bed. The Queen mends apace, +but her head still light. My mind very heavy thinking of my great +layings out lately, and what they must still be for clothes, but I hope +it is in order to getting of something the more by it, for I perceive how +I have hitherto suffered for lack of going as becomes my place. After a +little discourse with my wife upon arithmetique, to bed. + + + +31st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +home to dinner, where Creed came and dined with me, and after dinner he +and I upstairs, and I showed him my velvet cloake and other things of +clothes, that I have lately bought, which he likes very well, and I took +his opinion as to some things of clothes, which I purpose to wear, being +resolved to go a little handsomer than I have hitherto. Thence to the +office; where busy till night, and then to prepare my monthly account, +about which I staid till 10 or 11 o'clock at night, and to my great +sorrow find myself L43 worse than I was the last month, which was then +L760, and now it is but L717. But it hath chiefly arisen from my +layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her about L12, and +for myself L55, or thereabouts; having made myself a velvet cloake, two +new cloth suits, black, plain both; a new shagg + + [Shag was a stuff similar to plush. In 1703 a youth who was missing + is described in an advertisement as wearing "red shag breeches, + striped with black stripes." (Planche's "Cyclopxdia of Costume ").] + +gowne, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and, silk +tops for my legs, and many other things, being resolved henceforward to +go like myself. And also two perriwiggs, one whereof costs me L3, and +the other 40s.--I have worn neither yet, but will begin next week, God +willing. So that I hope I shall not need now to lay out more money a +great while, I having laid out in clothes for myself and wife, and for +her closett and other things without, these two months, this and the +last, besides household expenses of victuals, &c., above L110. But I +hope I shall with more comfort labour to get more, and with better +successe than when, for want of clothes, I was forced to sneake like a +beggar. Having done this I went home, and after supper to bed, my mind +being eased in knowing my condition, though troubled to think that I have +been forced to spend so much. + +Thus I end this month worth L717, or thereabouts, with a good deal of +good goods more than I had, and a great deal of new and good clothes. My +greatest trouble and my wife's is our family, mighty out of order by this +fellow Will's corrupting the mayds by his idle talke and carriage, which +we are going to remove by hastening him out of the house, which his uncle +Blackburne is upon doing, and I am to give him L20 per annum toward his +maintenance. The Queene continues lightheaded, but in hopes to recover. +The plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here, which God +defend. + + [Defend is used in the sense of forbid. It is a Gallicism from the + French "defendre."] + +The Turke goes on mightily in the Emperor's dominions, and the Princes +cannot agree among themselves how to go against him. Myself in pretty +good health now, after being ill this month for a week together, but +cannot yet come to . . . . well, being so costive, but for this month +almost I have not had a good natural stool, but to this hour am forced to +take physic every night, which brings me neither but one stool, and that +in the morning as soon as I am up, all the rest of the day very costive. +My father has been very ill in the country, but I hope better again now. +I am lately come to a conclusion with Tom Trice to pay him L100, which is +a great deale of money, but I hope it will save a great deale more. But +thus everything lessens, which I have and am like to have, and therefore +I must look about me to get something more than just my salary, or else I +may resolve to live well and die a beggar. + + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +And so to sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly +And there, did what I would with her +Content as to be at our own home, after being abroad awhile +Found guilty, and likely will be hanged (for stealing spoons) +Half a pint of Rhenish wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer +His readiness to speak spoilt all +No more matter being made of the death of one than another +Out of an itch to look upon the sluts there +Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here +Pride himself too much in it +Reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank +Resolve to live well and die a beggar +Scholler, that would needs put in his discourse (every occasion) +She was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet +The plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier +We having no luck in maids now-a-days +Who is over head and eares in getting her house up + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v27 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY +MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + NOVEMBER & DECEMBER + 1663 + + +November 1st (Lord's day). This morning my brother's man brought me a +new black baize waistecoate, faced with silke, which I put on from this +day, laying by half-shirts for this winter. He brought me also my new +gowne of purple shagg, trimmed with gold, very handsome; he also brought +me as a gift from my brother, a velvet hat, very fine to ride in, and the +fashion, which pleases me very well, to which end, I believe, he sent it +me, for he knows I had lately been angry with him. Up and to church with +my wife, and at noon dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and +dumplings, an excellent dinner methought it was. Then to church again, +whither Sir W. Pen came, the first time he has been at church these +several months, he having been sicke all the while. Home and to my +office, where I taught my wife some part of subtraction, and then fell +myself to set some papers of my last night's accounts in order, and so to +supper home, and after supper another bout at arithmetique with my wife, +and then to my office again and made an end of my papers, and so home to +prayers, and then to read my vowes, and to bed. + + + +2d. Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there in the long Matted Gallery +I find Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten--and by and by +comes the King to walk there with three or four with him; and soon as he +saw us, says he, "Here is the Navy Office," and there walked twenty turns +the length of the gallery, talking, methought, but ordinary talke. By +and by came the Duke, and he walked, and at last they went into the +Duke's lodgings. The King staid so long that we could not discourse with +the Duke, and so we parted. I heard the Duke say that he was going to +wear a perriwigg; and they say the King also will. I never till this day +observed that the King is mighty gray. Thence, meeting with Creed, +walked with him to Westminster Hall, and thence by coach took up Mrs. +Hunt, and carried her towards my house, and we light at the 'Change, and +sent her to my house, Creed and I to the Coffeehouse, and then to the +'Change, and so home, and carried a barrel of oysters with us, and so to +dinner, and after a good dinner left Mrs. Hunt and my wife making +marmalett of quinces, and Creed and I to the perriwigg makers, but it +being dark concluded of nothing, and so Creed went away, and I with Sir +W. Pen, who spied me in the street, in his coach home. There found them +busy still, and I up to my vyall. Anon, the comfiture being well done, +my wife and I took Mrs. Hunt at almost 9 at night by coach and carried +Mrs. Hunt home, and did give her a box of sugar and a haunch of venison +given me by my Lady the other day. We did not 'light, but saw her within +doors, and straight home, where after supper there happening some +discourse where my wife thought she had taken Jane in a lie, she told me +of it mighty triumphantly, but I, not seeing reason to conclude it a lie, +was vexed, and my wife and I to very high words, wherein I up to my +chamber, and she by and by followed me up, and to very bad words from her +to me, calling me perfidious and man of no conscience, whatever I pretend +to, and I know not what, which troubled me mightily, and though I would +allow something to her passion, yet I see again and again that she spoke +but somewhat of what she had in her heart. But I tempered myself very +well, so as that though we went to bed with discontent she yielded to me +and began to be fond, so that being willing myself to peace, we did +before we sleep become very good friends, it being past 12 o'clock, and +so with good hearts and joy to rest. + +3rd. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon to +the Coffee-house, and there heard a long and most passionate discourse +between two doctors of physique, of which one was Dr. Allen, whom I knew +at Cambridge, and a couple of apothecarys; these maintaining chymistry +against them Galenicall physique; and the truth is, one of the +apothecarys whom they charged most, did speak very prettily, that is, his +language and sense good, though perhaps he might not be so knowing a +physician as to offer to contest with them. At last they came to some +cooler terms, and broke up. I home, and there Mr. Moore coming by my +appointment dined with me, and after dinner came Mr. Goldsborough, and we +discoursed about the business of his mother, but could come to no +agreement in it but parted dissatisfied. By and by comes Chapman, the +periwigg-maker, and upon my liking it, without more ado I went up, and +there he cut off my haire, which went a little to my heart at present to +part with it; but, it being over, and my periwigg on, I paid him L3 for +it; and away went he with my owne haire to make up another of, and I by +and by, after I had caused all my mayds to look upon it; and they +conclude it do become me; though Jane was mightily troubled for my +parting of my own haire, and so was Besse, I went abroad to the +Coffeehouse, and coming back went to Sir W. Pen and there sat with him +and Captain Cocke till late at night, Cocke talking of some of the Roman +history very well, he having a good memory. Sir W. Pen observed +mightily, and discoursed much upon my cutting off my haire, as he do of +every thing that concerns me, but it is over, and so I perceive after a +day or two it will be no great matter. + + + +4th. Up and to my office, shewing myself to Sir W. Batten, and Sir J. +Minnes, and no great matter made of my periwigg, as I was afeard there +would be. Among other things there came to me Shales of Portsmouth, by +my order, and I began to discourse with him about the arrears of stores +belonging to the Victualling Office there, and by his discourse I am in +some hopes that if I can get a grant from the King of such a part of all +I discover I may chance to find a way to get something by the by, which +do greatly please me the very thoughts of. Home to dinner, and very +pleasant with my wife, who is this day also herself making of marmalett +of quince, which she now do very well herself. I left her at it and by +coach I to the New Exchange and several places to buy and bring home +things, among others a case I bought of the trunk maker's for my +periwigg, and so home and to my office late, and among other things wrote +a letter to Will's uncle to hasten his removal from me, and so home to +supper and to bed. This morning Captain Cocke did give me a good account +of the Guinny trade. The Queene is in a great way to recovery. This +noon came John Angier to me in a pickle, I was sad to see him, desiring +my good word for him to go a trooper to Tangier, but I did schoole him +and sent him away with good advice, but no present encouragement. +Presently after I had a letter from his poor father at Cambridge, who is +broke, it seems, and desires me to get him a protection, or a place of +employment; but, poor man, I doubt I can helpe him, but will endeavour +it. + + + +5th. Lay long in bed, then up, called by Captain Cocke about business of +a contract of his for some Tarre, and so to the office, and then to Sir +W. Pen and there talked, and he being gone came Sir W. Warren and +discoursed about our business with Field, and at noon by agreement to the +Miter to dinner upon T. Trice's 40s., to be spent upon our late +agreement. Here was a very poor dinner and great company. All our +lawyers on both sides, and several friends of his and some of mine +brought by him, viz., Mr. Moore, uncle Wight, Dr. Williams, and my cozen +Angier, that lives here in town, who t Captain John Shales after dinner +carried me aside and showed me a letter from his poor brother at +Cambridge to me of the same contents with that yesterday to me desiring +help from me. Here I was among a sorry company without any content or +pleasure, and at the last the reckoning coming to above 40s. by 15s., he +would have me pay the 10s. and he would pay the 5s., which was so poor +that I was ashamed of it, and did it only to save contending with him. +There, after agreeing a day for him and I to meet and seal our agreement, +I parted and home, and at the office by agreement came Mr. Shales, and +there he and I discourse till late the business of his helping me in the +discovery of some arrears of provisions and stores due to the stores at +Portsmouth, out of which I may chance to get some money, and save the +King some too, and therefore I shall endeavour to do the fellow some +right in other things here to his advantage between Mr. Gauden and him. +He gone my wife and I to her arithmetique, in which she pleases me well, +and so to the office, there set down my Journall, and so home to supper +and to bed. A little troubled to see how my family is out of order by +Will's being there, and also to hear that Jane do not please my wife as I +expected and would have wished. + + + +6th. This morning waking, my wife was mighty-earnest with me to persuade +me that she should prove with child since last night, which, if it be, +let it come, and welcome. Up to my office, whither Commissioner Pett +came, newly come out of the country, and he and I walked together in the +garden talking of business a great while, and I perceive that by our +countenancing of him he do begin to pluck up his head, and will do good +things I hope in the yard. Thence, he being gone, to my office and there +dispatched many people, and at noon to the 'Change to the coffee-house, +and among other things heard Sir John Cutler say, that of his owne +experience in time of thunder, so many barrels of beer as have a piece of +iron laid upon them will not be soured, and the others will. Thence to +the 'Change, and there discoursed with many people, and I hope to settle +again to my business and revive my report of following of business, which +by my being taken off for a while by sickness and, laying out of money +has slackened for a little while. Home, and there found Mrs. Hunt, who +dined very merry, good woman; with us. After dinner came in Captain +Grove, and he and I alone to talk of many things, and among many others +of the Fishery, in which he gives the such hopes that being at this time +full of projects how to get a little honestly, of which some of them I +trust in God will take, I resolved this afternoon to go and consult my +Lord Sandwich about it, and so, being to carry home Mrs. Hunt, I took her +and my wife by coach and set them at Axe Yard, and I to my Lord's and +thither sent for Creed and discoursed with him about it, and he and I to +White Hall, where Sir G. Carteret and my Lord met me very fortunately, +and wondered first to see me in my perruque, and I am glad it is over, +and then, Sir G. Carteret being gone, I took my Lord aside, who do give +me the best advice he can, and telling me how there are some projectors, +by name Sir Edward Ford, who would have the making of farthings, + + [Sir Edward Ford, son of Sir William Ford of Harting, born at Up + Park in 1605. "After the Restoration he invented a mode of coining + farthings. Each piece was to differ minutely from another to + prevent forgery. He failed in procuring a patent for these in + England, but obtained one for Ireland. He died in Ireland before he + could carry his design into execution, on September 3rd, 1670" + ("Dictionary of National Biography ").] + +and out of that give so much to the King for the maintenance of the +Fishery; but my Lord do not like that, but would have it go as they +offered the last year, and so upon my desire he promises me when it is +seasonable to bring me into the commission with others, if any of them +take, and I perceive he and Mr. Coventry are resolved to follow it hard. +Thence, after walking a good while in the Long gallery, home to my Lord's +lodging, my Lord telling me how my father did desire him to speak to me +about my giving of my sister something, which do vex me to see that he +should trouble my Lord in it, but however it is a good occasion for me to +tell my Lord my condition, and so I was glad of it. After that we begun +to talk of the Court, and he tells me how Mr. Edward Montagu begins to +show respect to him again after his endeavouring to bespatter him all +was, possible; but he is resolved never to admit him into his friendship +again. He tells me how he and Sir H. Bennet, the Duke of Buckingham and +his Duchesse, was of a committee with somebody else for the getting of +Mrs. Stewart for the King; but that she proves a cunning slut, and is +advised at Somerset House by the Queene-Mother, and by her mother, and so +all the plot is spoiled and the whole committee broke. Mr. Montagu and +the Duke of Buckingham fallen a-pieces, the Duchesse going to a nunnery; +and so Montagu begins to enter friendship with my Lord, and to attend the +Chancellor whom he had deserted. My Lord tells me that Mr. Montagu, +among other things, did endeavour to represent him to the Chancellor's +sons as one that did desert their father in the business of my Lord of +Bristoll; which is most false, being the only man that hath several times +dined with him when no soul hath come to him, and went with him that very +day home when the Earl impeached him in the Parliament House, and hath +refused ever to pay a visit to my Lord of Bristoll, not so much as in +return to a visit of his. So that the Chancellor and my Lord are well +known and trusted one by another. But yet my Lord blames the Chancellor +for desiring to have it put off to the next Session of Parliament, +contrary to my Lord Treasurer's advice, to whom he swore he would not do +it: and, perhaps, my Lord Chancellor, for aught I see by my Lord's +discourse, may suffer by it when the Parliament comes to sit. My Lord +tells me that he observes the Duke of York do follow and understand +business very well, and is mightily improved thereby. Here Mr. Pagett +coming in I left my Lord and him, and thence I called my wife and her +maid Jane and by coach home and to my office, where late writing some +things against tomorrow, and so home to supper and to bed. This morning +Mr. Blackburne came to me to let me know that he had got a lodging very +commodious for his kinsman, and so he is ready at my pleasure to go when +I would bid him, and so I told him that I would in a day or two send to +speak with him and he and I would talk and advise Will what to do, of +which I am very glad. + + + +7th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and Sir W. Pen +and I had a word or two, where by opposing him in not being willing to +excuse a mulct put upon the purser of the James, absent from duty, he +says, by his business and order, he was mighty angry, and went out of the +office like an asse discontented: At which I am never a whit sorry; I +would not have [him] think that I dare not oppose him, where I see reason +and cause for it. Home to dinner, and then by coach abroad about several +businesses to several places, among others to Westminster Hall, where, +seeing Howlett's daughter going out of the other end of the Hall, I +followed her if I would to have offered talk to her and dallied with her +a little, but I could not overtake her. Then calling at Unthank's for +something of my wife's not done, a pretty little gentlewoman, a lodger +there, came out to tell me that it was not yet done, which though it +vexed me yet I took opportunity of taking her by the hand with the boot, +and so found matter to talk a little the longer to her, but I was ready +to laugh at myself to see how my anger would not operate, my +disappointment coming to me by such a messenger. Thence to Doctors' +Commons and there consulted Dr. Turner about some differences we have +with the officers of the East India ships about goods brought by them +without paying freight, which we demand of them. So home to my office, +and there late writing letters, and so home to supper and to bed, having +got a scurvy cold by lying cold in my head the last night. This day +Captain Taylor brought me a piece of plate, a little small state dish, he +expecting that I should get him some allowance for demorage + + ["'Demurrage' is the compensation due to a shipowner from a + freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time + specified in the charter-party or bill of lading. It is in fact an + extended freight. A ship, unjustly detained as a prize is entitled + to 'demurrage.'"--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book, 1867.] + +of his ship "William," kept long at Tangier, which I shall and may justly +do. + + + +8th (Lord's day). Up, and it being late, to church without my wife, and +there I saw Pembleton come into the church and bring his wife with him, a +good comely plain woman, and by and by my wife came after me all alone, +which I was a little vexed at. I found that my coming in a perriwigg did +not prove so strange to the world as I was afear'd it would, for I +thought that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all upon +me, but I found no such thing. Here an ordinary lazy sermon of Mr. +Mill's, and then home to dinner, and there Tom came and dined with us; +and after dinner to talk about a new black cloth suit that I have a +making, and so at church time to church again, where the Scott preached, +and I slept most of the time. Thence home, and I spent most of the +evening upon Fuller's "Church History" and Barckly's "Argeny," and so +after supper to prayers and to bed, a little fearing my pain coming back +again, myself continuing as costive as ever, and my physic ended, but I +had sent a porter to-day for more and it was brought me before I went to +bed, and so with pretty good content to bed. + + + +9th. Up and found myself very well, and so by coach to White Hall and +there met all my fellow officers, and so to the Duke, where, when we came +into his closett, he told us that Mr. Pepys was so altered with his new +perriwigg that he did not know him. So to our discourse, and among and +above other things we were taken up in talking upon Sir J. Lawson's +coming home, he being come to Portsmouth; and Captain Berkely is come to +towne with a letter from the Duana of Algier to the King, wherein they do +demand again the searching of our ships and taking out of strangers, and +their goods; and that what English ships are taken without the Duke's +pass they will detain (though it be flat contrary to the words of the +peace) as prizes, till they do hear from our King, which they advise him +may be speedy. And this they did the very next day after they had +received with great joy the Grand Seignor's confirmation of the Peace +from Constantinople by Captain Berkely; so that there is no command nor +certainty to be had of these people. The King is resolved to send his +will by a fleete of ships; and it is thought best and speediest to send +these very ships that are now come home, five sail of good ships, back +again after cleaning, victualling, and paying them. But it is a pleasant +thing to think how their Basha, Shavan Aga, did tear his hair to see the +soldiers order things thus; for (just like his late predecessor) when +they see the evil of war with England, then for certain they complain to +the Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head off: this he is sure of, and +knows as certain. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I met with Mr. +Pierce, chyrurgeon; and among other things he asked me seriously whether +I knew anything of my Lord's being out of favour with the King; and told +me, that for certain the King do take mighty notice of my Lord's living +obscurely in a corner not like himself, and becoming the honour that he +is come to. I was sorry to hear, and the truth is, from my Lord's +discourse among his people (which I am told) of the uncertainty of +princes' favours, and his melancholy keeping from Court, I am doubtful of +some such thing; but I seemed wholly strange to him in it, but will make +my use of it. He told me also how loose the Court is, nobody looking +after business, but every man his lust and gain; and how the King is now +become besotted upon Mrs. Stewart, that he gets into corners, and will be +with her half an houre together kissing her to the observation of all the +world; and she now stays by herself and expects it, as my Lady +Castlemaine did use to do; to whom the King, he says, is still kind, so +as now and then he goes to have a chat with her as he believes; but with +no such fondness as he used to do. But yet it is thought that this new +wench is so subtle, that she lets him not do any thing than is safe to +her, but yet his doting is so great that, Pierce tells me, it is verily +thought if the Queene had died, he would have married her. The Duke of +Monmouth is to have part of the Cockpitt new built for lodgings for him, +and they say to be made Captain of the Guards in the room of my Lord +Gerard. Having thus talked with him, there comes into the Hall Creed and +Ned Pickering, and after a turne or two with them, it being noon, I +walked with them two to the King's Head ordinary, and there we dined; +little discourse but what was common, only that the Duke of Yorke is a +very, desperate huntsman, but I was ashamed of Pickering, who could not +forbear having up my Lord Sandwich now and then in the most paltry +matters abominable. Thence I took leave of them, and so having taken up +something at my wife's tailor's, I home by coach and there to my office, +whither Shales came and I had much discourse with him about the business +of the victualling, and thence in the evening to the Coffee-house, and +there sat till by and by, by appointment Will brought me word that his +uncle Blackburne was ready to speak with me. So I went down to him, and +he and I to a taverne hard by, and there I begun to speak to Will +friendlily, advising him how to carry himself now he is going from under +my roof, without any reflections upon the occasion from whence his +removal arose. This his uncle seconded, and after laying down to him his +duty to me, and what I expect of him, in a discourse of about a quarter +of an houre or more, we agreed upon his going this week, towards the +latter (end) of the week, and so dismissed him, and Mr. Blackburne and I +fell to talk of many things, wherein I did speak so freely to him in many +things agreeing with his sense that he was very open to me: first, in +that of religion, he makes it great matter of prudence for the King and +Council to suffer liberty of conscience; and imputes the losse of Hungary +to the Turke from the Emperor's denying them this liberty of their +religion. He says that many pious ministers of the word of God, some +thousands of them, do now beg their bread: and told me how highly the +present clergy carry themselves every where, so as that they are hated +and laughed at by everybody; among other things, for their +excommunications, which they send upon the least occasions almost that +can be. And I am convinced in my judgement, not only from his discourse, +but my thoughts in general, that the present clergy will never heartily +go down with the generality of the commons of England; they have been so +used to liberty and freedom, and they are so acquainted with the pride +and debauchery of the present clergy. He did give me many stories of the +affronts which the clergy receive in all places of England from the +gentry and ordinary persons of the parish. He do tell me what the City +thinks of General Monk, as of a most perfidious man that hath betrayed +every body, and the King also; who, as he thinks, and his party, and so I +have heard other good friends of the King say, it might have been better +for the King to have had his hands a little bound for the present, than +be forced to bring such a crew of poor people about him, and be liable to +satisfy the demands of every one of them. He told me that to his +knowledge (being present at every meeting at the Treaty at the Isle of +Wight), that the old King did confess himself overruled and convinced in +his judgement against the Bishopps, and would have suffered and did agree +to exclude the service out of the churches, nay his own chappell; and +that he did always say, that this he did not by force, for that he would +never abate one inch by any vyolence; but what he did was out of his +reason and judgement. He tells me that the King by name, with all his +dignities, is prayed for by them that they call Fanatiques, as heartily +and powerfully as in any of the other churches that are thought better: +and that, let the King think what he will, it is them that must helpe him +in the day of warr. For as they are the most, so generally they are the +most substantial sort of people, and the soberest; and did desire me to +observe it to my Lord Sandwich, among other things, that of all the old +army now you cannot see a man begging about the street; but what? You +shall have this captain turned a shoemaker; the lieutenant, a baker; this +a brewer; that a haberdasher; this common soldier, a porter; and every +man in his apron and frock, &c., as if they never had done anything else: +whereas the others go with their belts and swords, swearing and cursing, +and stealing; running into people's houses, by force oftentimes, to carry +away something; and this is the difference between the temper of one and +the other; and concludes (and I think with some reason,) that the spirits +of the old parliament soldiers are so quiett and contented with God's +providences, that the King is safer from any evil meant him by them one +thousand times more than from his own discontented Cavalier. And then to +the publique management of business: it is done, as he observes, so +loosely and so carelessly, that the kingdom can never be happy with it, +every man looking after himself, and his owne lust and luxury; among +other things he instanced in the business of money, he do believe that +half of what money the Parliament gives the King is not so much as +gathered. And to the purpose he told me how the Bellamys (who had some +of the Northern counties assigned them for their debt for the petty +warrant victualling) have often complained to him that they cannot get it +collected, for that nobody minds, or, if they do, they won't pay it in. +Whereas (which is a very remarkable thing,) he hath been told by some of +the Treasurers at Warr here of late, to whom the most of the L120,000 +monthly was paid, that for most months the payments were gathered so +duly, that they seldom had so much or more than 40s., or the like, short +in the whole collection; whereas now the very Commissioners for +Assessments and other publique payments are such persons, and those that +they choose in the country so like themselves, that from top to bottom +there is not a man carefull of any thing, or if he be, he is not solvent; +that what between the beggar and the knave, the King is abused the best +part of all his revenue. From thence we began to talk of the Navy, and +particularly of Sir W. Pen, of whose rise to be a general I had a mind to +be informed. He told me he was always a conceited man, and one that +would put the best side outward, but that it was his pretence of sanctity +that brought him into play. Lawson, and Portman, and the Fifth-monarchy +men, among whom he was a great brother, importuned that he might be +general; and it was pleasant to see how Blackburne himself did act it, +how when the Commissioners of the Admiralty would enquire of the captains +and admirals of such and such men, how they would with a sigh and casting +up the eyes say, "Such a man fears the Lord," or, "I hope such a man hath +the Spirit of God," and such things as that. But he tells me that there +was a cruel articling against Pen after one fight, for cowardice, in +putting himself within a coyle of cables, of which he had much ado to +acquit himself: and by great friends did it, not without remains of +guilt, but that his brethren had a mind to pass it by, and Sir H. Vane +did advise him to search his heart, and see whether this fault or a +greater sin was not the occasion of this so great tryall. And he tells +me, that what Pen gives out about Cromwell's sending and entreating him +to go to Jamaica, is very false; he knows the contrary: besides, the +Protector never was a man that needed to send for any man, specially such +a one as he, twice. He tells me that the business of Jamaica did +miscarry absolutely by his pride, and that when he was in the Tower he +would cry like a child. This he says of his own personal knowledge, and +lastly tells me that just upon the turne, when Monk was come from the +North to the City, and did begin to think of bringing in the King, Pen +was then turned Quaker. This he is most certain of. He tells me that +Lawson was never counted any thing but only a seaman, and a stout man, +but a false man, and that now he appears the greatest hypocrite in the +world. And Pen the same. He tells me that it is much talked of, that +the King intends to legitimate the Duke of Monmouth; and that he has not, +nor his friends of his persuasion, have any hopes of getting their +consciences at liberty but by God Almighty's turning of the King's heart, +which they expect, and are resolved to live and die in quiett hopes of +it; but never to repine, or act any thing more than by prayers towards +it. And that not only himself but all of them have, and are willing at +any time to take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. Thus far, and +upon many more things, we had discoursed when some persons in a room hard +by began to sing in three parts very finely and to play upon a flagilette +so pleasantly that my discourse afterwards was but troublesome, and I +could not attend it, and so, anon, considering of a sudden the time of +night, we found it 11 o'clock, which I thought it had not been by two +hours, but we were close in talk, and so we rose, he having drunk some +wine and I some beer and sugar, and so by a fair moonshine home and to +bed, my wife troubled with tooth ache. Mr. Blackburne observed further +to me, some certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked +of; that he was told by Mr. Rushworth, how one Captain Oates, a great +discoverer, did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot, +and that one of his agents met with one that would not listen to him, nor +conceal what he had offered him, but so detected the trapan. This, he +says, is most true. He also, among other instances how the King is +served, did much insist upon the cowardice and corruption of the King's +guards and militia, which to be sure will fail the King, as they have +done already, when there will be occasion for them. + + + +10th. Up and to the office, where we sat till noon, and then to the +Exchange, where spoke with several and had my head casting about how to +get a penny and I hope I shall, and then hone, and there Mr. Moore by +appointment dined with me, and after dinner all the afternoon till night +drawing a bond and release against to-morrow for T. Trice, and I to come +to a conclusion in which I proceed with great fear and jealousy, knowing +him to be a rogue and one that I fear has at this time got too great a +hank--[hold]--over me by the neglect of my lawyers. But among other +things I am come to an end with Mr. Moore for a L32, a good while lying +in my hand of my Lord Privy Seal's which he for the odd L7 do give me a +bond to secure me against, and so I got L25 clear. Then, he being gone, +to the office and there late setting down yesterday's remarkable +discourses, and so home and to supper, late, and to bed. The Queene, I +hear, is now very well again, and that she hath bespoke herself a new +gowne. + + + +11th. Up and to my office all the morning, and at noon to the Coffee- +house, where with Dr. Allen some good discourse about physique and +chymistry. And among other things, I telling him what Dribble the German +Doctor do offer of an instrument to sink ships; he tells me that which is +more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry +Aurum fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it put into a silver spoon +and fired, will give a blow like a musquett, and strike a hole through +the spoon downward, without the least force upward; and this he can make +a cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared. Thence to the +'Change, and being put off a meeting with T. Trice, he not coming, I home +to dinner, and after dinner by coach with my wife to my periwigg maker's +for my second periwigg, but it is not done, and so, calling at a place or +two, home, and there to my office, and there taught my wife a new lesson +in arithmetique and so sent her home, and I to several businesses; and so +home to supper and to bed, being mightily troubled with a cold in my +stomach and head, with a great pain by coughing. + + + +12th. Lay long in bed, indeed too long, divers people and the officers +staying for me. My cozen Thomas Pepys the executor being below, and I +went to him and stated reckonings about our debt, for his payments of +money to my uncle Thomas heretofore by the Captain's orders. I did not +pay him but will soon do it if I can. To the office and there all the +morning, where Sir W. Pen, like a coxcomb, was so ready to cross me in a +motion I made unawares for the entering a man at Chatham into the works, +wherein I was vexed to see his spleene, but glad to understand it, and +that it was in no greater a matter, I being not at all concerned here. +To the 'Change and did several businesses there and so home with Mr. +Moore to dinner, my wife having dined, with Mr. Hollyard with her to-day, +he being come to advise her about her hollow sore place. After dinner +Mr. Moore and I discoursing of my Lord's negligence in attendance at +Court, and the discourse the world makes of it, with the too great reason +that I believe there is for it; I resolved and took coach to his +lodgings, thinking to speak with my Lord about it without more ado. +Here I met Mr. Howe, and he and I largely about it, and he very soberly +acquainted me how things are with my Lord, that my Lord do not do +anything like himself, but follows his folly, and spends his time either +at cards at Court with the ladies, when he is there at all, or else at +Chelsy with the slut to his great disgrace, and indeed I do see and +believe that my Lord do apprehend that he do grow less too at Court. +Anon my Lord do come in, and I begun to fall in discourse with him, but +my heart did misgive me that my Lord would not take it well, and then +found him not in a humour to talk, and so after a few ordinary words, my +Lord not talking in the manner as he uses to do; I took leave, and spent +some time with W. Howe again, and told him how I could not do what I had +so great a mind and resolution to do, but that I thought it would be as +well to do it in writing, which he approves of, and so I took leave of +him, and by coach home, my mind being full of it, and in pain concerning +it. So to my office busy very late, the nights running on faster than +one thinks, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +13th. Up and to my office, busy all the morning with Commissioner Pett; +at noon I to the Exchange, and meeting Shales, he and I to the Coffee- +house and there talked of our victualling matters, which I fear will come +to little. However I will go on and carry it as far as I can. So home +to dinner where I expected Commissioner Pett, and had a good dinner, but +he came not. After dinner came my perriwigg-maker, and brings me a +second periwigg, made of my own haire, which comes to 21s. 6d. more than +the worth of my own haire, so that they both come to L4 1s. 6d., which he +sayth will serve me two years, but I fear it. He being gone, I to my +office, and put on my new shagg purple gowne, with gold buttons and loop +lace, I being a little fearful of taking cold and of pain coming upon me. +Here I staid making an end of a troublesome letter, but to my advantage, +against Sir W. Batten, giving Sir G. Carteret an account of our late +great contract with Sir W. Warren for masts, wherein I am sure I did the +King L600 service. That done home to my wife to take a clyster, which I +did, and it wrought very well and brought a great deal of wind, which I +perceive is all that do trouble me. After that, about 9 or 10 o'clock, +to supper in my wife's chamber, and then about 12 to bed. + + + +14th. Up and to the office, where we sat, and after we had almost done, +Sir W. Batten desired to have the room cleared, and there he did acquaint +the board how he was obliged to answer to something lately said which did +reflect upon the Comptroller and him, and to that purpose told how the +bargain for Winter's timber did not prove so bad as I had reported to the +board it would. After he had done I cleared the matter that I did not +mention the business as a thing designed by me against them, but was led +to it by Sir J. Minnes, and that I said nothing but what I was told by +Mayers the surveyor as much as by Deane upon whom they laid all the +fault, which I must confess did and do still trouble me, for they report +him to be a fellow not fit to be employed, when in my conscience he +deserves better than any officer in the yard. I thought it not +convenient to vindicate him much now, but time will serve when I will do +it, and I am bound to do it. I offered to proceed to examine and prove +what I said if they please, but Mr. Coventry most discreetly advised not, +it being to no purpose, and that he did believe that what I said did not +by my manner of speaking it proceed from any design of reproaching them, +and so it ended. But my great trouble is for poor Deane. At noon home +and dined with my wife, and after dinner Will told me if I pleased he was +ready to remove his things, and so before my wife I did give him good +counsel, and that his going should not abate my kindnesse for him, if he +carried himself well, and so bid "God bless him," and left him to remove +his things, the poor lad weeping, but I am apt to think matters will be +the better both for him and us. So to the office and there late busy. +In the evening Mr. Moore came to tell me that he had no opportunity of +speaking his mind to my Lord yesterday, and so I am resolved to write to +him very suddenly. So after my business done I home, I having staid till +12 o'clock at night almost, making an end of a letter to Sir G. Carteret +about the late contract for masts, wherein I have done myself right, and +no wrong to Sir W. Batten. This night I think is the first that I have +lain without ever a man in my house besides myself, since I came to keep +any. Will being this night gone to his lodging, and by the way I hear +to-day that my boy Waynman has behaved himself so with Mr. Davis that +they have got him put into a Barbadoes ship to be sent away, and though +he sends to me to get a release for him I will not out of love to the +boy, for I doubt to keep him here were to bring him to the gallows. + + + +15th (Lord's day). Lay very long in bed with my wife and then up and to +my office there to copy fair my letter to Sir G. Carteret, which I did, +and by and by most opportunely a footman of his came to me about other +business, and so I sent it him by his own servant. I wish good luck with +it. At noon home to dinner, my wife not being up, she lying to expect +Mr. Holyard the surgeon. So I dined by myself, and in the afternoon to +my office again, and there drew up a letter to my Lord, stating to him +what the world talks concerning him, and leaving it to him and myself to +be thought of by him as he pleases, but I have done but my duty in it. +I wait Mr. Moore's coming for his advice about sending it. So home to +supper to my wife, myself finding myself by cold got last night beginning +to have some pain, which grieves me much in my mind to see to what a +weakness I am come. This day being our Queene's birthday, the guns of +the Tower went all off; and in the evening the Lord Mayor sent from +church to church to order the constables to cause bonfires to be made in +every streete, which methinks is a poor thing to be forced to be +commanded. After a good supper with my wife, and hearing of the mayds +read in the Bible, we to prayers, and to bed. + + + +16th. Up, and being ready then abroad by coach to White Hall, and there +with the Duke, where Mr. Coventry did a second time go to vindicate +himself against reports and prove by many testimonies that he brought, +that he did nothing but what had been done by the Lord Admiral's +secretaries heretofore, though he do not approve of it, nor since he had +any rule from the Duke hath he exceeded what he is there directed to +take, and the thing I think is very clear that they always did take and +that now he do take less than ever they did heretofore. Thence away, and +Sir G. Carteret did call me to him and discourse with me about my letter +yesterday, and did seem to take it unkindly that I should doubt of his +satisfaction in the bargain of masts, and did promise me that hereafter +whatever he do hear to my prejudice he would tell me before he would +believe it, and that this was only Sir W. Batten's report in this +business, which he says he did ever approve of, in which I know he lies. +Thence to my Lord's lodgings thinking to find Mr. Moore, in order to the +sending away my letter of reproof to my Lord, but I do not find him, but +contrary do find my Lord come to Court, which I am glad to hear and +should be more glad to hear that he do follow his business that I may not +have occasion to venture upon his good nature by such a provocation as my +letter will be to him. So by coach home, to the Exchange, where I talked +about several businesses with several people, and so home to dinner with +my wife, and then in the afternoon to my office, and there late, and in +the evening Mr. Hollyard came, and he and I about our great work to look +upon my wife's malady, which he did, and it seems her great conflux of +humours, heretofore that did use to swell there, did in breaking leave a +hollow which has since gone in further and further; till now it is near +three inches deep, but as God will have it do not run into the bodyward, +but keeps to the outside of the skin, and so he must be forced to cut it +open all along, and which my heart I doubt will not serve for me to see +done, and yet she will not have any body else to see it done, no, not her +own mayds, and so I must do it, poor wretch, for her. To-morrow night he +is to do it. He being gone, I to my office again a little while, and so +home to supper and to bed. + + + +17th. Up, and while I am dressing myself, Mr. Deane of Woolwich came to +me, and I did tell him what had happened to him last Saturday in the +office, but did encourage him to make no matter of it, for that I did not +fear but he would in a little time be master of his enemies as much as +they think to master him, and so he did tell me many instances of the +abominable dealings of Mr. Pett of Woolwich towards him. So we broke up, +and I to the office, where we sat all the forenoon doing several +businesses, and at noon I to the 'Change where Mr. Moore came to me, and +by and by Tom Trice and my uncle Wight, and so we out to a taverne (the +New Exchange taverne over against the 'Change where I never was before, +and I found my old playfellow Ben Stanley master of it), and thence to a +scrivener to draw up a bond, and to another tavern (the King's Head) we +went, and calling on my cozen Angier at the India House there we eat a +bit of pork from a cookes together, and after dinner did seal the bond, +and I did take up the old bond of my uncle's to my aunt, and here T. +Trice before them do own all matters in difference between us is clear as +to this business, and that he will in six days give me it under the hand +of his attorney that there is no judgment against the bond that may give +me any future trouble, and also a copy of their letters of his +Administration to Godfrey, as much of it as concerns me to have. All +this being done towards night we broke up, and so I home and with Mr. +Moore to my office, and there I read to him the letter I have wrote to +send to my Lord to give him an account how the world, both city and +court, do talk of him and his living as he do there in such a poor and +bad house so much to his disgrace. Which Mr. Moore do conclude so well +drawn: that he would not have me by any means to neglect sending it, +assuring me in the best of his judgment that it cannot but endear me to +my Lord instead of what I fear of getting his offence, and did offer to +take the same words and send them as from, him with his hand to him, +which I am not unwilling should come (if they are at all fit to go) from +any body but myself, and so, he being gone, I did take a copy of it to +keep by me in shorthand, and sealed them up to send to-morrow by my Will. +So home, Mr. Hollyard being come to my wife, and there she being in bed, +he and I alone to look again upon her . . , and there he do find that, +though it would not be much pain, yet she is so fearful, and the thing +will be somewhat painful in the tending, which I shall not be able to +look after, but must require a nurse and people about her; so that upon +second thoughts he believes that a fomentation will do as well, and +though it will be troublesome yet no pain, and what her mayd will be able +to do without knowing directly what it is for, but only that it may be +for the piles. For though it be nothing but what is fiery honest, yet my +wife is loth to give occasion of discourse concerning it. By this my +mind and my wife's is much eased, for I confess I should have been +troubled to have had my wife cut before my face, I could not have borne +to have seen it. I had great discourse with him about my disease. He +tells me again that I must eat in a morning some loosening gruel, and at +night roasted apples, that I must drink now and then ale with my wine, +and eat bread and butter and honey, and rye bread if I can endure it, it +being loosening. I must also take once a week a clyster of his last +prescription, only honey now and then instead of butter, which things I +am now resolved to apply myself to. He being gone I to my office again +to a little business, and then home to supper and to bed, being in, a +little pain by drinking of cold small beer to-day and being in a cold +room at the Taverne I believe. + + + +18th. Up, and after being ready, and done a little business at the +office, I and Mr. Hater by water to Redriffe, and so walked to Deptford, +where I have not been a very great, while, and there paid off the Milford +in very good order, and all respect showed me in the office as much as +there used to be to any of the rest or the whole board. That done at +noon I took Captain Terne, and there coming in by chance Captain +Berkeley, him also to dinner with me to the Globe. Captain Berkeley, who +was lately come from Algier, did give us a good account of the place, and +how the Basha there do live like a prisoner, being at the mercy of the +soldiers and officers, so that there is nothing but a great confusion +there. After dinner came Sir W. Batten, and I left him to pay off +another ship, and I walked home again reading of a little book of new +poems of Cowley's, given me by his brother. Abraham do lie, it seems, +very sicke, still, but like to recover. At my office till late, and then +came Mr. Hollyard so full of discourse and Latin that I think he hath got +a cupp, but I do not know; but full of talke he is in defence of Calvin +and Luther. He begun this night the fomentation to my wife, and I hope +it will do well with her. He gone, I to the office again a little, and +so to bed. This morning I sent Will with my great letter of reproof to +my Lord Sandwich, who did give it into his owne hand. I pray God give a +blessing to it, but confess I am afeard what the consequence may be to me +of good or bad, which is according to the ingenuity that he do receive it +with. However, I am satisfied that it will do him good, and that he +needs it: + + MY LORD, + + I do verily hope that neither the manner nor matter of this advice + will be condemned by your Lordship, when for my defence in the first + I shall alledge my double attempt, since your return from + Hinchinbroke, of doing it personally, in both of which your + Lordship's occasions, no doubtfulnesse of mine, prevented me, and + that being now fearful of a sudden summons to Portsmouth, for the + discharge of some ships there, I judge it very unbecoming the duty + which every bit of bread I eat tells me I owe to your Lordship to + expose the safety of your honour to the uncertainty of my return. + For the matter, my Lord, it is such as could I in any measure think + safe to conceal from, or likely to be discovered to you by any other + hand, I should not have dared so far to owne what from my heart I + believe is false, as to make myself but the relater of other's + discourse; but, sir, your Lordship's honour being such as I ought to + value it to be, and finding both in city and court that discourses + pass to your prejudice, too generally for mine or any man's + controllings but your Lordship's, I shall, my Lord, without the + least greatening or lessening the matter, do my duty in laying it + shortly before you. + + People of all conditions, my Lord, raise matter of wonder from your + Lordship's so little appearance at Court: some concluding thence + their disfavour thereby, to which purpose I have had questions asked + me, and endeavouring to put off such insinuations by asserting the + contrary, they have replied, that your Lordship's living so beneath + your quality, out of the way, and declining of Court attendance, + hath been more than once discoursed about the King. Others, my + Lord, when the chief ministers of State, and those most active of + the Council have been reckoned up, wherein your Lordship never used + to want an eminent place, have said, touching your Lordship, that + now your turn was served, and the King had given you a good estate, + you left him to stand or fall as he would, and, particularly in that + of the Navy, have enlarged upon your letting fall all service there. + + Another sort, and those the most, insist upon the bad report of the + house wherein your Lordship, now observed in perfect health again, + continues to sojourne, and by name have charged one of the daughters + for a common courtizan, alledging both places and persons where and + with whom she hath been too well known, and how much her wantonnesse + occasions, though unjustly, scandal to your Lordship, and that as + well to gratifying of some enemies as to the wounding of more + friends I am not able to tell. + + Lastly, my Lord, I find a general coldness in all persons towards + your Lordship, such as, from my first dependance on you, I never yet + knew, wherein I shall not offer to interpose any thoughts or advice + of mine, well knowing your Lordship needs not any. But with a most + faithful assurance that no person nor papers under Heaven is privy + to what I here write, besides myself and this, which I shall be + careful to have put into your owne hands, I rest confident of your + Lordship's just construction of my dutifull intents herein, and in + all humility take leave, may it please your Lordship, + + Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, S. P. + + +The foregoing letter was sealed up, and enclosed in this that follows + + MY LORD, + + If this finds your Lordship either not alone, or not at leisure, I + beg the suspending your opening of the enclosed till you shall have + both, the matter very well bearing such a delay, and in all humility + remain, may it please your Lordship, + + Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, S. P. + + November 17, 1663. + + My servant hath my directions to put this into your Lordship's owne + hand, but not to stay for any answer. + + + +19th. Up, and to the office, where (Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten +being gone this morning to Portsmouth) the rest of us met, and rode at +noon. So I to the 'Change, where little business, and so home to dinner, +and being at dinner Mr. Creed in and dined with us, and after dinner Mr. +Gentleman, my Jane's father, to see us and her. And after a little stay +with them, I was sent for by Sir G. Carteret by agreement, and so left +them, and to him and with him by coach to my Lord Treasurer, to discourse +with him about Mr. Gauden's having of money, and to offer to him whether +it would not be necessary, Mr. Gauden's credit being so low as it is, to +take security of him if he demands any great sum, such as L20,000, which +now ought to be paid him upon his next year's declaration. Which is a +sad thing, that being reduced to this by us, we should be the first to +doubt his credit; but so it is. However, it will be managed with great +tenderness to him. My Lord Treasurer we found in his bed-chamber, being +laid up of the goute. I find him a very ready man, and certainly a brave +servant to the King: he spoke so quick and sensibly of the King's charge. +Nothing displeased me in him but his long nails, which he lets grow upon +a pretty thick white short hand, that it troubled me to see them. Thence +with Sir G. Carteret by coach, and he set me down at the New Exchange. +In our way he told me there is no such thing likely yet as a Dutch war, +neither they nor we being in condition for it, though it will come +certainly to that in some time, our interests lying the same way, that is +to say, in trade. But not yet. Thence to the Temple, and there visited +my cozen Roger Pepys and his brother Dr. John, a couple, methinks, of +very ordinary men, and thence to speak [with] Mr. Moore, and met him by +the way, who tells me, to my great content, that he believes my letter to +my Lord Sandwich hath wrought well upon him, and that he will look after +himself and his business upon it, for he begins already to do so. But I +dare not conclude anything till I see him, which shall be to-morrow +morning, that I may be out of my pain to know how he takes it of me. He +and I to the Coffee-house, and there drank and talked a little, and so I +home, and after a little at my office home to supper and to bed, not +knowing how to avoid hopes from Mr. Moore's words to-night, and yet I am +fearful of the worst. + + + +20th. Up, and as soon as I could to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but he +was gone out before, and so I am defeated of my expectation of being +eased one way or other in the business of my Lord. But I went up to Mr. +Howe, who I saw this day the first time in a periwigg, which becomes him +very well, and discoursed with him. He tells me that my Lord is of a +sudden much changed, and he do believe that he do take my letter well. +However, we do both bless God that it hath so good an effect upon him. +Thence I home again, calling at the Wardrobe, where I found my Lord, but +so busy with Mr. Townsend making up accounts there that I was unwilling +to trouble him, and so went away. By and by to the Exchange, and there +met by agreement Mr. Howe, and took him with a barrel of oysters home to +dinner, where we were very merry, and indeed I observe him to be a very +hopeful young man, but only a little conceited. After dinner I took him +and my wife, and setting her in Covent Garden at her mother's, he and I +to my Lord's, and thence I with Mr. Moore to White Hall, there the King +and Council being close, and I thinking it an improper place to meet my +Lord first upon the business; I took coach, and calling my wife went +home, setting Mr. Moore down by the way, and having been late at the +office alone looking over some plates of the Northern seas, the White +seas, and Archangell river, I went home, and, after supper, to bed. My +wife tells me that she and her brother have had a great falling out to- +night, he taking upon him to challenge great obligation upon her, and +taxing her for not being so as she ought to be to her friends, and that +she can do more with me than she pretends, and I know not what, but God +be thanked she cannot. A great talke there is today of a crush between +some of the Fanatiques up in arms, and the King's men in the North; but +whether true I know not yet. + + + +21st. At the office all the morning and at noon I receive a letter from +Mr. Creed, with a token, viz., a very noble parti-coloured Indian gowne +for my wife. The letter is oddly writ, over-prizing his present, and +little owning any past service of mine, but that this was his genuine +respects, and I know not what: I confess I had expectations of a better +account from him of my service about his accounts, and so give his boy +12d., and sent it back again, and after having been at the pay of a ship +this afternoon at the Treasury, I went by coach to Ludgate, and, by +pricing several there, I guess this gowne may be worth about L12 or L15. +But, however, I expect at least L50 of him. So in the evening I wrote +him a letter telling him clearly my mind, a copy of which I keep and of +his letter and so I resolve to have no more such correspondence as I used +to have but will have satisfaction of him as I do expect. So to write my +letters, and after all done I went home to supper and to bed, my mind +being pretty well at ease from my letter to Creed, and more for my +receipt this afternoon of L17 at the Treasury, for the L17 paid a year +since to the carver for his work at my house, which I did intend to have +paid myself, but, finding others to do it, I thought it not amisse to get +it too, but I am afeard that we may hear of it to our greater prejudices +hereafter. + + + +22nd (Lord's day). Up pretty early, and having last night bespoke a +coach, which failed me this morning, I walked as far as the Temple, and +there took coach, and to my Lord's lodgings, whom I found ready to go to +chappell; but I coming, he begun, with a very serious countenance, to +tell me that he had received my late letter, wherein first he took notice +of my care of him and his honour, and did give me thanks for that part of +it where I say that from my heart I believe the contrary of what I do +there relate to be the discourse of others; but since I intended it not a +reproach, but matter of information, and for him to make a judgment of it +for his practice, it was necessary for me to tell him the persons of whom +I have gathered the several particulars which I there insist on. I would +have made excuses in it; but, seeing him so earnest in it, I found myself +forced to it, and so did tell him Mr. Pierce; the chyrurgeon, in that of +his Lordship's living being discoursed of at Court; a mayd servant that- +I kept, that lived at Chelsy school; and also Mr. Pickering, about the +report touching the young woman; and also Mr. Hunt, in Axe Yard, near +whom she lodged. I told him the whole city do discourse concerning his +neglect of business; and so I many times asserting my dutifull intention +in all this, and he owning his accepting of it as such. That that +troubled me most in particular is, that he did there assert the civility +of the people of the house, and the young gentlewoman, for whose reproach +he was sorry. His saying that he was resolved how to live, and that +though he was taking a house, meaning to live in another manner, yet it +was not to please any people, or to stop report, but to please himself, +though this I do believe he might say that he might not seem to me to be +so much wrought upon by what I have writ; and lastly, and most of all, +when I spoke of the tenderness that I have used in declaring this to him, +there being nobody privy to it, he told me that I must give him leave to +except one. I told him that possibly somebody might know of some +thoughts of mine, I having borrowed some intelligence in this matter from +them, but nobody could say they knew of the thing itself what I writ. +This, I confess, however, do trouble me, for that he seemed to speak it +as a quick retort, and it must sure be Will. Howe, who did not see +anything of what I writ, though I told him indeed that I would write; but +in this, I think, there is no great hurt. I find him, though he cannot +but owne his opinion of my good intentions, and so, he did again and +again profess it, that he is troubled in his mind at it; and I confess, +I think I may have done myself an injury for his good, which, were it to +do again, and that I believed he would take it no better, I think I +should sit quietly without taking any notice of it, for I doubt there is +no medium between his taking it very well or very ill. I could not +forbear weeping before him at the latter end, which, since, I am ashamed +of, though I cannot see what he can take it to proceed from but my +tenderness and good will to him. After this discourse was ended, he +began to talk very, cheerfully of other things, and I walked with him to +White Hall, and we discoursed of the pictures in the gallery, which, it +may be, he might do out of policy, that the boy might not see any, +strangeness in him; but I rather think that his mind was somewhat eased, +and hope that he will be to me as he was before. But, however, I doubt +not when he sees that I follow my business, and become an honour to him, +and not to be like to need him, or to be a burden to him, and rather able +to serve him than to need him, and if he do continue to follow business, +and so come to his right witts again, I do not doubt but he will then +consider my faithfulnesse to him, and esteem me as he ought. At chappell +I had room in the Privy Seale pew with other gentlemen, and there heard +Dr. Killigrew, preach, but my mind was so, I know not whether troubled, +or only full of thoughts of what had passed between my Lord and me that I +could not mind it, nor can at this hour remember three words. The anthem +was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices +by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy. And they say there are +four or five of them that can do as much. And here I first perceived +that the King is a little musicall, and kept good time with his hand all +along the anthem. Up into the gallery after sermon and there I met +Creed. We saluted one another and spoke but not one word of what had +passed yesterday between us, but told me he was forced to such a place to +dinner and so we parted. Here I met Mr. Povy, who tells me how Tangier +had like to have been betrayed, and that one of the King's officers is +come, to whom 8,000 pieces of eight were offered for his part. Hence I +to the King's Head ordinary, and there dined, good and much company, and +a good dinner: most of their discourse was about hunting, in a dialect I +understand very little. Thence by coach to our own church, and there my +mind being yet unsettled I could mind nothing, and after sermon home and +there told my wife what had passed, and thence to my office, where doing +business only to keep my mind employed till late; and so home to supper, +to prayers, and to bed. + + + +23rd: Up and to Alderman Backwell's, where Sir W. Rider, by appointment, +met us to consult about the insuring of our hempe ship from Archangell, +in which we are all much concerned, by my Lord Treasurer's command. That +being put in a way I went to Mr. Beacham, one of our jury, to confer with +him about our business with Field at our trial to-morrow, and thence to +St. Paul's Churchyarde, and there bespoke "Rushworth's Collections," and +"Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament,"' &c., which I will make the King +pay for as to the office; and so I do not break my vow at all. Back to +the Coffee-house, and then to the 'Change, where Sir W. Rider and I did +bid 15 per cent., and nobody will take it under 20 per cent., and the +lowest was 15 per cent. premium, and 15 more to be abated in case of +losse, which we did not think fit without order to give, and so we +parted, and I home to a speedy, though too good a dinner to eat alone, +viz., a good goose and a rare piece of roast beef. Thence to the Temple, +but being there too soon and meeting Mr. Moore I took him up and to my +Lord Treasurer's, and thence to Sir Ph. Warwick's, where I found him and +did desire his advice, who left me to do what I thought fit in this +business of the insurance, and so back again to the Temple all the way +telling Mr. Moore what had passed between my Lord and me yesterday, and +indeed my fears do grow that my Lord will not reform as I hoped he would +nor have the ingenuity to take my advice as he ought kindly. But however +I am satisfied that the one person whom he said he would take leave to +except is not Mr. Moore, and so W. Howe I am sure could tell him nothing +of my letter that ever he saw it. Here Mr. Moore and I parted, and I up +to the Speaker's chamber, and there met Mr. Coventry by appointment to +discourse about Field's business, and thence we parting I homewards and +called at the Coffeehouse, and there by great accident hear that a letter +is come that our ship is safe come to Newcastle. With this news I went +like an asse presently to Alderman Backewell and, told him of it, and he +and I went to the African House in Broad Street to have spoke with Sir W. +Rider to tell him of it, but missed him. Now what an opportunity had I +to have concealed this and seemed to have made an insurance and got L100 +with the least trouble and danger in the whole world. This troubles me +to think I should be so oversoon. So back again with Alderman Backewell +talking of the new money, which he says will never be counterfeited, he +believes; but it is deadly inconvenient for telling, it is so thick, and +the edges are made to turn up. I found him as full of business, and, to +speak the truth, he is a very painfull man, and ever was, and now-a-days +is well paid for it. So home and to my office, doing business late in +order to the getting a little money, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +24th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to +the 'Change, where everybody joyed me in our hemp ship's coming safe, and +it seems one man, Middleburgh, did give 20 per cent. in gold last night, +three or four minutes before the newes came of her being safe. Thence +with Mr. Deane home and dined, and after dinner and a good deal of +discourse of the business of Woolwich Yard, we opened his draught of a +ship which he has made for me, and indeed it is a most excellent one and +that that I hope will be of good use to me as soon as I get a little +time, and much indebted I am to the poor man. Toward night I by coach to +Whitehall to the Tangier committee, and there spoke with my Lord and he +seems mighty kind to me, but I will try him to-morrow by a visit to see +whether he holds it or no. Then home by coach again and to my office, +where late with Captain Miners about the East India business. So home to +supper and to bed, being troubled to find myself so bound as I am, +notwithstanding all the physic that I take. This day our tryall was with +Field, and I hear that they have given him L29 damage more, which is a +strange thing, but yet not so much as formerly, nor as I was afeard of. + + + +25th. Up and to Sir G. Carteret's house, and with him by coach to +Whitehall. He uses me mighty well to my great joy, and in our discourse +took occasion to tell me that as I did desire of him the other day so he +desires of me the same favour that we may tell one another at any time +any thing that passes among us at the office or elsewhere wherein we are +either dissatisfied one with another, and that I should find him in all +things as kind and ready to serve me as my own brother. This methinks- +was very sudden and extraordinary and do please me mightily, and I am +resolved by no means ever to lose him again if I can. He told me that he +did still observe my care for the King's service in my office. He set me +down in Fleet Street and thence I by another coach to my Lord Sandwich's, +and there I did present him Mr. Barlow's "Terella," with which he was +very much pleased, and he did show me great kindnesse, and by other +discourse I have reason to think that he is not at all, as I feared he +would be, discontented against me more than the trouble of the thing will +work upon him. I left him in good humour, and I to White Hall, to the +Duke of York and Mr. Coventry, and there advised about insuring the hempe +ship at 12 per cent., notwithstanding her being come to Newcastle, and I +do hope that in all my three places which are now my hopes and supports I +may not now fear any thing, but with care, which through the Lord's +blessing I will never more neglect, I don't doubt but to keep myself up +with them all. For in the Duke, and Mr. Coventry, my Lord Sandwich and +Sir G. Carteret I place my greatest hopes, and it pleased me yesterday +that Mr. Coventry in the coach (he carrying me to the Exchange at noon +from the office) did, speaking of Sir W. Batten, say that though there +was a difference between them, yet he would embrace any good motion of +Sir W. Batten to the King's advantage as well as of Mr. Pepys' or any +friend he had. And when I talked that I would go about doing something +of the Controller's work when I had time, and that I thought the +Controller would not take it ill, he wittily replied that there was +nothing in the world so hateful as a dog in the manger. Back by coach +to the Exchange, there spoke with Sir W. Rider about insuring, and spoke +with several other persons about business, and shall become pretty well +known quickly. Thence home to dinner with my poor wife, and with great +joy to my office, and there all the afternoon about business, and among +others Mr. Bland came to me and had good discourse, and he has chose me +a referee for him in a business, and anon in the evening comes Sir W. +Warren, and he and I had admirable discourse. He advised me in things I +desired about, bummary,--[bottomry]--and other ways of putting out money +as in parts of ships, how dangerous they are, and lastly fell to talk of +the Dutch management of the Navy, and I think will helpe me to some +accounts of things of the Dutch Admiralty, which I am mighty desirous to +know. He seemed to have been mighty privy with my Lord Albemarle in +things before this great turn, and to the King's dallying with him and +others for some years before, but I doubt all was not very true. +However, his discourse is very useful in general, though he would seem a +little more than ordinary in this. Late at night home to supper and to +bed, my mind in good ease all but my health, of which I am not a little +doubtful. + + + +26th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon I +to the 'Change, and there met with Mr. Cutler the merchant, who would +needs have me home to his house by the Dutch Church, and there in an old +but good house, with his wife and mother, a couple of plain old women, +I dined a good plain dinner, and his discourse after dinner with me upon +matters of the navy victualling very good and worth my hearing, and so +home to my office in the afternoon with my mind full of business, and +there at it late, and so home to supper to my poor wife, and to bed, +myself being in a little pain. . . . . by a stroke . . . . in +pulling up my breeches yesterday over eagerly, but I will lay nothing to +it till I see whether it will cease of itself or no. The plague, it +seems, grows more and more at Amsterdam; and we are going upon making of +all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or any other infected places, +to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as Sir Rd. Browne expressed +it in the order of the Council, contrary to the import of the word, +though in the general acceptation it signifies now the thing, not the +time spent in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by us before. + + + +27th. Up and to my office, where busy with great delight all the +morning, and at noon to the 'Change, and so home to dinner with my poor +wife, and with great content to my office again, and there hard at work +upon stating the account of the freights due to the King from the East +India Company till late at night, and so home to supper and to bed. My +wife mightily pleased with my late discourse of getting a trip over to +Calais, or some other port of France, the next summer, in one of the +yachts, and I believe I shall do it, and it makes good sport that my +mayde Jane dares not go, and Besse is wild to go, and is mad for joy, but +yet will be willing to stay if Jane hath a mind, which is the best temper +in this and all other things that ever I knew in my life. + + + +28th. Up and at the office sat all the morning, and at noon by Mr. +Coventry's coach to the 'Change, and after a little while there where I +met with Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who tells me for good newes that my +Lord Sandwich is resolved to go no more to Chelsy, and told me he +believed that I had been giving my Lord some counsel, which I neither +denied nor affirmed, but seemed glad with him that he went thither no +more, and so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Paul's Church Yard, +and there looked upon the second part of Hudibras, which I buy not, but +borrow to read, to see if it be as good as the first, which the world cry +so mightily up, though it hath not a good liking in me, though I had +tried by twice or three times reading to bring myself to think it witty. +Back again home and to my office, and there late doing business and so +home to supper and to bed. I have been told two or three times, but to- +day for certain I am told how in Holland publickly they have pictured our +King with reproach. One way is with his pockets turned the wrong side +outward, hanging out empty; another with two courtiers picking of his +pockets; and a third, leading of two ladies, while others abuse him; +which amounts to great contempt. + + + +29th (Lord's day). This morning I put on my best black cloth suit, +trimmed with scarlett ribbon, very neat, with my cloake lined with +velvett, and a new beaver, which altogether is very noble, with my black +silk knit canons I bought a month ago. I to church alone, my wife not +going, and there I found my Lady Batten in a velvet gown, which vexed me +that she should be in it before my wife, or that I am able to put her +into one, but what cannot be, cannot be. However, when I came home I +told my wife of it, and to see my weaknesse, I could on the sudden have +found my heart to have offered her one, but second thoughts put it by, +and indeed it would undo me to think of doing as Sir W. Batten and his +Lady do, who has a good estate besides his office. A good dinner we had +of boeuf a la mode, but not roasted so well as my wife used to do it. +So after dinner I to the French Church, but that being too far begun I +came back to St. Dunstan's by six and heard a good sermon, and so home +and to my office all, the evening making up my accounts of this month, +and blessed be God I have got up my crumb again to L770, the most that +ever I had yet, and good clothes a great many besides, which is a great +mercy of God to me. So home to supper and to bed. + + + +30th. Was called up by a messenger from Sir W. Pen to go with him by +coach to White Hall. So I got up and went with him, and by the way he +began to observe to me some unkind dealing of mine to him a weeke or two +since at the table, like a coxcomb, when I answered him pretty freely +that I would not think myself to owe any man the service to do this or +that because they would have it so (it was about taking of a mulct upon a +purser for not keeping guard at Chatham when I was there), so he talked +and I talked and let fall the discourse without giving or receiving any +great satisfaction, and so to other discourse, but I shall know him still +for a false knave. At White Hall we met the Duke in the Matted Gallery, +and there he discoursed with us; and by and by my Lord Sandwich came and +stood by, and talked; but it being St. Andrew's, and a collar-day, he +went to the Chappell, and we parted. From him and Sir W. Pen and I back +again and 'light at the 'Change, and to the Coffee-house, where I heard +the best story of a cheate intended by a Master of a ship, who had +borrowed twice his money upon the bottomary, and as much more insured +upon his ship and goods as they were worth, and then would have cast her +away upon the coast of France, and there left her, refusing any pilott +which was offered him; and so the Governor of the place took her and sent +her over hither to find an owner, and so the ship is come safe, and goods +and all; they all worth L500, and he had one way or other taken L3000. +The cause is to be tried to-morrow at Guildhall, where I intend to be. +Thence home to dinner, and then with my wife to her arithmetique. In the +evening came W. Howe to see me, who tells me that my Lord hath been angry +three or four days with him, would not speak to him; at last did, and +charged him with having spoken to me about what he had observed +concerning his Lordship, which W. Howe denying stoutly, he was well at +ease; and continues very quiett, and is removing from Chelsy as fast as +he can, but, methinks, both by my Lord's looks upon me to-day, or it may +be it is only my doubtfulness, and by W. Howe's discourse, my Lord is not +very well pleased, nor, it may be, will be a good while, which vexes me; +but I hope all will over in time, or else I am but ill rewarded for my +good service. Anon he and I to the Temple and there parted, and I to my +cozen Roger Pepys, whom I met going to his chamber; he was in haste, and +to go out of town tomorrow. He tells me of a letter from my father which +he will keep to read to me at his coming to town again. I perceive it is +about my father's jealousys concerning my wife's doing ill offices with +me against him only from the differences they had when she was there, +which he very unwisely continues to have and troubles himself and friends +about to speak to me in, as my Lord Sandwich, Mr. Moore, and my cozen +Roger, which vexes me, but I must impute it to his age and care for my +mother and Pall and so let it go. After little discourse with him I took +coach and home, calling upon my bookseller's for two books, Rushworth's +and Scobell's Collections. I shall make the King pay for them. The +first I spent some time at the office to read and it is an excellent +book. So home and spent the evening with my wife in arithmetique, and so +to supper and to bed. I end this month with my mind in good condition +for any thing else, but my unhappy adventuring to disoblige my Lord by +doing him service in representing to him the discourse of the world +concerning him and his affairs. + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + DECEMBER + 1663 + +December 1st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At +noon I home to dinner with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I enjoy +great pleasure in her company and learning of Arithmetique. After dinner +I to Guild Hall to hear a tryall at King's Bench, before Lord Chief +Justice Hide, about the insurance of a ship, the same I mention in my +yesterday's journall, where everything was proved how money was so taken +up upon bottomary and insurance, and the ship left by the master and +seamen upon rocks, where, when the sea fell at the ebb, she must perish. +The master was offered helpe, and he did give the pilotts 20 sols to +drink to bid them go about their business, saying that the rocks were +old, but his ship was new, and that she was repaired for L6 and less all +the damage that she received, and is now brought by one, sent for on +purpose by the insurers, into the Thames, with her cargo, vessels of +tallow daubed over with butter, instead of all butter, the whole not +worth above L500, ship and all, and they had took up, as appeared, above +L2,400. He had given his men money to content them; and yet, for all +this, he did bring some of them to swear that it was very stormy weather, +and [they] did all they could to save her, and that she was seven feete +deep water in hold, and were fain to cut her main and foremast, that the +master was the last man that went out, and they were fain to force [him] +out when she was ready to sink; and her rudder broke off, and she was +drawn into the harbour after they were gone, as wrecke all broken, and +goods lost: that she could not be carried out again without new building, +and many other things so contrary as is not imaginable more. There was +all the great counsel in the kingdom in the cause; but after one witnesse +or two for the plaintiff, it was cried down as a most notorious cheate; +and so the jury, without going out, found it for the plaintiff. But it +was pleasant to see what mad sort of testimonys the seamen did give, and +could not be got to speak in order: and then their terms such as the +judge could not understand; and to hear how sillily the Counsel and judge +would speak as to the terms necessary in the matter, would make one +laugh: and above all, a Frenchman that was forced to speak in French, and +took an English oathe he did not understand, and had an interpreter sworn +to tell us what he said, which was the best testimony of all. So home +well satisfied with this afternoon's work, purposing to spend an +afternoon or two every term so, and so to my office a while and then home +to supper, arithmetique with my wife, and to bed. I heard other causes, +and saw the course of pleading by being at this trial, and heard and +learnt two things: one is that every man has a right of passage in, but +not a title to, any highway. The next, that the judge would not suffer +Mr. Crow, who hath fined for Alderman, to be called so, but only Mister, +and did eight or nine times fret at it, and stop every man that called +him so. + + + +2nd. My wife troubled all last night with the toothache and this +morning. I up and to my office, where busy, and so home to dinner with +my wife, who is better of her tooth than she was, and in the afternoon by +agreement called on by Mr. Bland, and with him to the Ship a neighbour +tavern and there met his antagonist Mr. Custos and his referee Mr. Clarke +a merchant also, and begun the dispute about the freight of a ship hired +by Mr. Bland to carry provisions to Tangier, and the freight is now +demanded, whereas he says that the goods were some spoiled, some not +delivered, and upon the whole demands L1300 of the other, and their minds +are both so high, their demands so distant, and their words so many and +hot against one another that I fear we shall bring it to nothing. But +however I am glad to see myself so capable of understanding the business +as I find I do, and shall endeavour to do Mr. Bland all the just service +I can therein. Here we were in a bad room, which vexed me most, but we. +meet at another house next. So at noon I home and to my office till 9 +o'clock, and so home to my wife to keep her company, arithmetique, then +to supper, and to bed, she being well of her tooth again. + + + +3rd. Up and to the office, where all the forenoon, and then (by Mr. +Coventry's coach) to the 'Change, and so home to dinner, very pleasant +with my poor wife. Somebody from Portsmouth, I know not who, has this +day sent me a Runlett of Tent. So to my office all the afternoon, where +much business till late at night, and so home to my wife, and then +to supper and to bed. This day Sir G. Carteret did tell us at the table, +that the Navy (excepting what is due to the Yards upon the quarter now +going on, and what few bills he hath not heard of) is quite out of debt; +which is extraordinary good newes, and upon the 'Change to hear how our +creditt goes as good as any merchant's upon the 'Change is a joyfull +thing to consider, which God continue! I am sure the King will have the +benefit of it, as well as we some peace and creditt. + + + +4th. Up pretty betimes, that is about 7 o'clock, it being now dark then, +and so got me ready, with my clothes, breeches and warm stockings, and by +water with Henry Russell, cold and wet and windy to Woolwich, to a hempe +ship there, and staid looking upon it and giving direction as to the +getting it ashore, and so back again very cold, and at home without going +on shore anywhere about 12 o'clock, being fearful of taking cold, and so +dined at home and shifted myself, and so all the afternoon at my office +till night, and then home to keep my poor wife company, and so to supper +and to bed. + + + +5th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then with +the whole board, viz., Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and myself along +with Captain Allen home to dinner, where he lives hard by in Mark Lane, +where we had a very good plain dinner and good welcome, in a pretty +little house but so smoky that it was troublesome to us all till they put +out the fire, and made one of charcoale. I was much pleased with this +dinner for the many excellent stories told by Mr. Coventry, which I have +put down in my book of tales and so shall not mention them here. We +staid till night, and then Mr. Coventry away, and by and by I home to my +office till 9 or 10 at night, and so home to supper and to bed after some +talke and Arithmetique with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I live +with great content, out of all trouble of mind by jealousy (for which God +forgive me), or any other distraction more than my fear of my Lord +Sandwich's displeasure. + + + +6th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up and to church alone, +which is the greatest trouble that I have by not having a man or, boy to +wait on me, and so home to dinner, my wife, it being a cold day, and it +begun to snow (the first snow we have seen this year) kept her bed till +after dinner, and I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books +and timber rule. So my wife rose anon, and she and I all the afternoon +at arithmetique, and she is come to do Addition, Subtraction, and +Multiplicacion very well, and so I purpose not to trouble her yet with +Division, but to begin with the Globes to her now. At night came Captain +Grove to discourse with me about Field's business and of other matters, +and so, he being gone, I to my office, and spent an houre or two reading +Rushworth, and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed, finding myself +by cold to have some pain begin with me, which God defend should +increase. + + + +7th. Up betimes, and, it being a frosty morning, walked on foot to White +Hall, but not without some fear of my pain coming. At White Hall I hear +and find that there was the last night the greatest tide that ever was +remembered in England to have been in this river: all White Hall having +been drowned, of which there was great discourse. Anon we all met, and +up with the Duke and did our business, and by and by my Lord of Sandwich +came in, but whether it be my doubt or no I cannot tell, but I do not +find that he made any sign of kindnesse or respect to me, which troubles +me more than any thing in the world. After done there Sir W. Batten and +Captain Allen and I by coach to the Temple, where I 'light, they going +home, and indeed it being my trouble of mind to try whether I could meet +with my Lord Sandwich and try him to see how he will receive me. I took +coach and back again to Whitehall, but there could not find him. But +here I met Dr. Clerke, and did tell him my story of my health; how my +pain comes to me now-a-days. He did write something for me which I shall +take when there is occasion. I then fell to other discourse of Dr. +Knapp, who tells me he is the King's physician, and is become a solicitor +for places for people, and I am mightily troubled with him. He tells me +he is the most impudent fellow in the world, that gives himself out to be +the King's physician, but it is not so, but is cast out of the Court. +From thence I may learn what impudence there is in the world, and how a +man may be deceived in persons: Anon the King and Duke and Duchesse came +to dinner in the Vane-roome, where I never saw them before; but it seems +since the tables are done, he dines there all together. The Queene is +pretty well, and goes out of her chamber to her little chappell in the +house. The King of France, they say, is hiring of sixty sail of ships of +the Dutch, but it is not said for what design. By and by, not hoping to +see my Lord, I went to the King's Head ordinary, where a good dinner but +no discourse almost, and after dinner by coach, home, and found my wife +this cold day not yet out of bed, and after a little good talk with her +to my office, and there spent my time till late. Sir W. Warren two or +three hours with me talking of trade, and other very good discourse, +which did please me very, well, and so, after reading in Rushworth, home +to supper and to bed. + + + +8th. Lay long in bed, and then up and to the office, where we sat all +the morning, and among other things my Lord Barkely called in question +his clerk Mr. Davy for something which Sir W. Batten and I did tell him +yesterday, but I endeavoured to make the least of it, and so all was put +up. At noon to the 'Change, and among other businesses did discourse +with Captain Taylor, and I think I shall safely get L20 by his ship's +freight at present, besides what it may be I may get hereafter. So home +to dinner, and thence by coach to White Hall, where a great while walked +with my Lord Tiviott, whom I find a most carefull, thoughtfull, and +cunning man, as I also ever took him to be. He is this day bringing in +an account where he makes the King debtor to him L10,000 already on the +garrison of Tangier account; but yet demands not ready money to pay it, +but offers such ways of paying it out of the sale of old decayed +provisions as will enrich him finely. Anon came my Lord Sandwich, and +then we fell to our business at the Committee about my Lord Tiviott's +accounts, wherein I took occasion to speak now and then, so as my Lord +Sandwich did well seem to like of it, and after we were up did bid me +good night in a tone that, methinks, he is not so displeased with me as I +did doubt he is; however, I will take a course to know whether he be or +no. The Committee done, I took coach and home to my office, and there +late, and so to supper at home, and to bed, being doubtful of my pain +through the very cold weather which we have, but I will take all the care +I can to prevent it. + + + +9th. Lay very long in bed for fear of my pain, and then rose and went to +stool (after my wife's way, who by all means would have me sit long and +upright) very well, and being ready to the office. From thence I was +called by and by to my wife, she not being well. So to her, and found +her in great pain. . . . . . So by and by to my office again, and then +abroad to look out a cradle to burn charcoal in at my office, and I found +one to my mind in Newgate Market, and so meeting Hoby's man in the +street, I spoke to him to serve it in to the office for the King. So +home to dinner, and after talk with my wife, she in bed and pain all day, +I to my office most of the evening, and then home to my wife. This day +Mrs. Russell did give my wife a very fine St. George, in alabaster, which +will set out my wife's closett mightily. This evening at the office, +after I had wrote my day's passages, there came to me my cozen Angier of +Cambridge, poor man, making his moan, and obtained of me that I would +send his son to sea as a Reformado, which I will take care to do. But to +see how apt every man is to forget friendship in time of adversity. How +glad was I when he was gone, for fear he should ask me to be bond for +him, or to borrow money of me. + + + +10th. Up, pretty well, the weather being become pretty warm again, and +to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I confess having +received so lately a token from Mrs. Russell, I did find myself concerned +for our not buying some tallow of her (which she bought on purpose +yesterday most unadvisedly to her great losse upon confidence of putting +it off to us). So hard it is for a man not to be warped against his duty +and master's interest that receives any bribe or present, though not as a +bribe, from any body else. But she must be contented, and I to do her a +good turn when I can without wrong to the King's service. Then home to +dinner (and did drink a glass of wine and beer, the more for joy that +this is the shortest day in the year,--[Old Style]--which is a pleasant +consideration) with my wife. She in bed but pretty well, and having a +messenger from my brother, that he is not well nor stirs out of doors, I +went forth to see him, and found him below, he has not been well, but is +not ill. I found him taking order for the distribution of Mrs. Ramsey's +coals, a thing my father for many years did, and now he after him, which +I was glad to see, as also to hear that Mr. Wheatly begins to look after +him. I hope it is about his daughter. Thence to St. Paul's Church Yard, +to my bookseller's, and having gained this day in the office by my +stationer's bill to the King about 40s. or L3, I did here sit two or +three hours calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon, and +found myself at a great losse where to choose, and do see how my nature +would gladly return to laying out money in this trade. I could not tell +whether to lay out my money for books of pleasure, as plays, which my +nature was most earnest in; but at last, after seeing Chaucer, Dugdale's +History of Paul's, Stows London, Gesner, History of Trent, besides +Shakespeare, Jonson, and Beaumont's plays, I at last chose Dr. Fuller's +Worthys, the Cabbala or Collections of Letters of State, and a little +book, Delices de Hollande, with another little book or two, all of good +use or serious pleasure: and Hudibras, both parts, the book now in +greatest fashion for drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough +where the wit lies. My mind being thus settled, I went by linke home, +and so to my office, and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and +to bed. Calling at Wotton's, my shoemaker's, today, he tells me that Sir +H. Wright is dying; and that Harris is come to the Duke's house again; +and of a rare play to be acted this week of Sir William Davenant's: the +story of Henry the Eighth with all his wives. + + + +11th. Up and abroad toward the Wardrobe, and going out Mr. Clerke met me +to tell me that Field has a writ against me in this last business of L30 +10s., and that he believes he will get an execution against me this +morning, and though he told me it could not be well before noon, and that +he would stop it at the Sheriff's, yet it is hard to believe with what +fear I did walk and how I did doubt at every man I saw and do start at +the hearing of one man cough behind my neck. I to, the Wardrobe and +there missed Mr. Moore. So to Mr. Holden's and evened all reckonings +there for hats, and then walked to Paul's Churchyard and after a little +at my bookseller's and bought at a shop Cardinall Mazarin's Will in +French. I to the Coffeehouse and there among others had good discourse +with an Iron Merchant, who tells me the great evil of discouraging our +natural manufacture of England in that commodity by suffering the Swede +to bring in three times more than ever they did and our owne Ironworks be +lost, as almost half of them, he says, are already. Then I went and sat +by Mr. Harrington, and some East country merchants, and talking of the +country about Quinsborough, and thereabouts, he told us himself that for +fish, none there, the poorest body, will buy a dead fish, but must be +alive, unless it be in winter; and then they told us the manner of +putting their nets into the water. Through holes made in the thick ice, +they will spread a net of half a mile long; and he hath known a hundred +and thirty and a hundred and seventy barrels of fish taken at one +draught. And then the people come with sledges upon the ice, with snow +at the bottome, and lay the fish in and cover them with snow, and so +carry them to market. And he hath seen when the said fish have been +frozen in the sledge, so as that he hath taken a fish and broke a-pieces, +so hard it hath been; and yet the same fishes taken out of the snow, and +brought into a hot room, will be alive and leap up and down. Swallows +are often brought up in their nets out of the mudd from under water, +hanging together to some twigg or other, dead in ropes, and brought to +the fire will come to life. Fowl killed in December. (Alderman Barker +said) he did buy, and putting into the box under his sledge, did forget +to take them out to eate till Aprill next, and they then were found +there, and were through the frost as sweet and fresh and eat as well as +at first killed. Young beares are there; their flesh sold in market as +ordinarily as beef here, and is excellent sweet meat. They tell us that +beares there do never hurt any body, but fly away from you, unless you +pursue and set upon them; but wolves do much mischief. Mr. Harrington +told us how they do to get so much honey as they send abroad. They make +hollow a great fir-tree, leaving only a small slitt down straight in one +place, and this they close up again, only leave a little hole, and there +the bees go in and fill the bodys of those trees as full of wax and honey +as they can hold; and the inhabitants at times go and open the slit, and +take what they please without killing the bees, and so let them live +there still and make more. Fir trees are always planted close together, +because of keeping one another from the violence of the windes; and when +a fell is made, they leave here and there a grown tree to preserve the +young ones coming up. The great entertainment and sport of the Duke of +Corland, and the princes thereabouts, is hunting; which is not with dogs +as we, but he appoints such a day, and summons all the country-people as +to a campagnia; and by several companies gives every one their circuit, +and they agree upon a place where the toyle is to be set; and so making +fires every company as they go, they drive all the wild beasts, whether +bears, wolves, foxes, swine, and stags, and roes, into the toyle; and +there the great men have their stands in such and such places, and shoot +at what they have a mind to, and that is their hunting. They are not +very populous there, by reason that people marry women seldom till they +are towards or above thirty; and men thirty or forty years old, or more +oftentimes. Against a publique hunting the Duke sends that no wolves be +killed by the people; and whatever harm they do, the Duke makes it good +to the person that suffers it: as Mr. Harrington instanced in a house +where he lodged, where a wolfe broke into a hog-stye, and bit three or +four great pieces off the back of the hog, before the house could come to +helpe it (it calling, and that did give notice to the people of the +house); and the man of the house told him that there were three or four +wolves thereabouts that did them great hurt; but it was no matter, for +the Duke was to make it good to him, otherwise he would kill them. Hence +home and upstairs, my wife keeping her bed, and had a very good dinner, +and after dinner to my office, and there till late busy. Among other +things Captain Taylor came to me about his bill for freight, and besides +that I found him contented that I have the L30 I got, he do offer me to +give me L6 to take the getting of the bill paid upon me, which I am ready +to do, but I am loath to have it said that I ever did it. However, I +will do him the service to get it paid if I can and stand to his courtesy +what he will give me. Late to supper home, and to my great joy I have by +my wife's good advice almost brought myself by going often and leisurely +to the stool that I am come almost to have my natural course of stool as +well as ever, which I pray God continue to me. + + + +12th. Up and to the office where all the morning, and among other things +got Sir G. Carteret to put his letters to Captain Taylor's bill by which +I am in hopes to get L5, which joys my heart. We had this morning a +great dispute between Mr. Gauden, Victualler of the Navy, and Sir J. +Lawson, and the rest of the Commanders going against Argier, about their +fish and keeping of Lent; which Mr. Gauden so much insists upon to have +it observed, as being the only thing that makes up the loss of his dear +bargain all the rest of the year. At noon went home and there I found +that one Abrahall, who strikes in for the serving of the King with Ship +chandlery ware, has sent my wife a Japan gowne, which pleases her very +well and me also, it coming very opportune, but I know not how to carry +myself to him, I being already obliged so far to Mrs. Russell, so that I +am in both their pays. To the Exchange, where I had sent Luellin word I +would come to him, and thence brought him home to dinner with me. He +tells me that W. Symon's wife is dead, for which I am sorry, she being a +good woman, and tells me an odde story of her saying before her death, +being in good sense, that there stood her uncle Scobell. Then he began +to tell me that Mr. Deering had been with him to desire him to speak to +me that if I would get him off with these goods upon his hands, he would +give me 50 pieces, and further that if I would stand his friend to helpe +him to the benefit of his patent as the King's merchant, he could spare +me L200 per annum out of his profits. I was glad to hear both of these, +but answered him no further than that as I would not by any thing be +bribed to be unjust in my dealings, + + [Edward Dering was granted, August, 1660, "the office of King's + merchant in the East, for buying and providing necessaries for + apparelling the Navy" ("Calendar," Domestic, 1660-61, p. 212). + There is evidence among the State Papers of some dissatisfaction + with the timber, &c., which he supplied to the Navy, and at this + time he appears to have had some stores left on his hands.] + +so I was not so squeamish as not to take people's acknowledgment where I +had the good fortune by my pains to do them good and just offices, and so +I would not come to be at any agreement with him, but I would labour to +do him this service and to expect his consideration thereof afterwards as +he thought fit. So I expect to hear more of it. I did make very much of +Luellin in hopes to have some good by this business, and in the evening +received some money from Mr. Moore, and so went and settled accounts in +my books between him and me, and I do hope at Christmas not only to find +myself as rich or more than ever I was yet, but also my accounts in less +compass, fewer reckonings either of debts or moneys due to me, than ever +I have been for some years, and indeed do so, the goodness of God +bringing me from better to a better expectation and hopes of doing well. +This day I heard my Lord Barkeley tell Sir G. Carteret that he hath +letters from France that the King hath unduked twelve Dukes, only to show +his power and to crush his nobility, who he said he did see had +heretofore laboured to cross him. And this my Lord Barkeley did mightily +magnify, as a sign of a brave and vigorous mind, that what he saw fit to +be done he dares do. At night, after business done at my office, home to +supper and to bed. I have forgot to set down a very remarkable passage +that, Lewellen being gone, and I going into the office, and it begun to +be dark, I found nobody there, my clerks being at the burial of a child +of W. Griffin's, and so I spent a little time till they came, walking in +the garden, and in the mean time, while I was walking Mrs. Pen's pretty +maid came by my side, and went into the office, but finding nobody there +I went in to her, being glad of the occasion. She told me as she was +going out again that there was nobody there, and that she came for a +sheet of paper. So I told her I would supply her, and left her in the +office and went into my office and opened my garden door, thinking to +have got her in, and there to have caressed her, and seeming looking for +paper, I told her this way was as near a way for her, but she told me she +had left the door open and so did not come to me. So I carried her some +paper and kissed her, leading her by the hand to the garden door and +there let her go. But, Lord! to see how much I was put out of order by +this surprisal, and how much I could have subjected my mind to have +treated and been found with this wench, and how afterwards I was troubled +to think what if she should tell this and whether I had spoke or done any +thing that might be unfit for her to tell. But I think there was nothing +more passed than just what I here write. + + + +13th (Lord's day). Up and made me ready for Church, but my wife and I +had a difference about her old folly that she would fasten lies upon her +mayds, and now upon Jane, which I did not see enough to confirm me in it, +and so would not consent to her. To church, where after sermon home, and +to my office, before dinner, reading my vowes, and so home to dinner, +where Tom came to me and he and I dined together, my wife not rising all +day, and after dinner I made even accounts with him, and spent all the +afternoon in my chamber talking of many things with him, and about +Wheately's daughter for a wife for him, and then about the Joyces and +their father Fenner, how they are sometimes all honey one with another +and then all turd, and a strange rude life there is among them. In the +evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and +answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine, and then to do a +little business against to-morrow, and so home to supper to my wife, and +then to bed. + + + +14th. Up by candlelight, which I do not use to do, though it be very +late, that is to say almost 8 o'clock, and out by coach to White Hall, +where we all met and to the Duke, where I heard a large discourse between +one that goes over an agent from the King to Legorne and thereabouts, to +remove the inconveniences his ships are put to by denial of pratique; +which is a thing that is now-a-days made use of only as a cheat, for a +man may buy a bill of health for a piece of eight, and my enemy may agree +with the Intendent of the Sante for ten pieces of eight or so; that he +shall not give me a bill of health, and so spoil me in my design, +whatever it be. This the King will not endure, and so resolves either to +have it removed, or to keep all ships from coming in, or going out there, +so long as his ships are stayed for want hereof. Then, my Lord Sandwich +being there, we all went into the Duke's closet and did our business. +But among other things, Lord! what an account did Sir J. Minnes and Sir +W. Batten make of the pulling down and burning of the head of the +Charles, where Cromwell was placed with people under his horse, and +Peter, as the Duke called him, is praying to him; and Sir J. Minnes would +needs infer the temper of the people from their joy at the doing of this +and their building a gibbet for the hanging of his head up, when God +knows, it is even the flinging away of L100 out of the King's purse, to +the building of another, which it seems must be a Neptune. Thence I +through White Hall only to see what was doing, but meeting none that I +knew I went through the garden to my Lord Sandwich's lodging, where I +found my Lord got before me (which I did not intend or expect) and was +there trying some musique, which he intends for an anthem of three parts, +I know not whether for the King's chapel or no, but he seems mighty +intent upon it. But it did trouble me to hear him swear before God and +other oathes, as he did now and then without any occasion, which methinks +did so ill become him, and I hope will be a caution for me, it being so +ill a thing in him. The musique being done, without showing me any good +or ill countenance, he did give me his hat and so adieu, and went down to +his coach without saying anything to me. He being gone I and Mr. Howe +talked a good while. He tells me that my Lord, it is true, for a while +after my letter, was displeased, and did shew many slightings of me when +he had occasion of mentioning me to his Lordship, but that now my Lord is +in good temper and he do believe will shew me as much respect as ever, +and would have me not to refrain to come to him. This news I confess did +much trouble me, but when I did hear how he is come to himself, and hath +wholly left Chelsy, and the slut, and that I see he do follow his +business, and becomes in better repute than before, I am rejoiced to see +it, though it do cost me some disfavour for a time, for if not his good +nature and ingenuity, yet I believe his memory will not bear it always in +his mind. But it is my comfort that this is the thing that after so many +years good service that has made him my enemy. Thence to the King's Head +ordinary, and there dined among a company of fine gentlemen; some of them +discoursed of the King of France's greatness, and how he is come to make +the Princes of the Blood to take place of all foreign Embassadors, which +it seems is granted by them of Venice and other States, and expected from +my Lord. Hollis, our King's Embassador there; and that either upon that +score or something else he hath not had his entry yet in Paris, but hath +received several affronts, and among others his harnesse cut, and his +gentlemen of his horse killed, which will breed bad blood if true. They +say also that the King of France hath hired threescore ships of Holland, +and forty of the Swede, but nobody knows what to do; but some great +designs he hath on foot against the next year. Thence by coach home and +to my office, where I spent all the evening till night with Captain +Taylor discoursing about keeping of masts, and when he was gone, with Sir +W. Warren, who did give me excellent discourse about the same thing, +which I have committed to paper, and then fell to other talk of his being +at Chatham lately and there discoursing of his masts. Commissioner Pett +did let fall several scurvy words concerning my pretending to know masts +as well as any body, which I know proceeds ever since I told him I could +measure a piece of timber as well as anybody employed by the King. But, +however, I shall remember him for a black sheep again a good while, with +all his fair words to me, and perhaps may let him know that my ignorance +does the King as much good as all his knowledge, which would do more it +is true if it were well used. Then we fell to talk of Sir J. Minnes's +and Sir W. Batten's burning of Oliver's head, while he was there; which +was done with so much insulting and folly as I never heard of, and had +the Trayned Band of Rochester to come to the solemnity, which when all +comes to all, Commissioner Pett says it never was made for him; but it +troubles me the King should suffer L100 losse in his purse, to make a new +one after it was forgot whose it was, or any words spoke of it. He being +gone I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I always learn +something, I to read a little in Rushworth, and so home to supper to my +wife, it having been washing day, and so to bed, my mind I confess a +little troubled for my Lord Sandwich's displeasure. But God will give me +patience to bear since it rises from so good an occasion. + + + +15th. Before I was up, my brother's man came to tell me that my cozen, +Edward Pepys, was dead, died at Mrs. Turner's, for which my wife and I +are very sorry, and the more for that his wife was the only handsome +woman of our name. So up and to the office, where the greatest business +was Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten against me for Sir W. Warren's +contract for masts, to which I may go to my memorandum book to see what +past, but came off with conquest, and my Lord Barkely and Mr. Coventry +well convinced that we are well used. So home to dinner, and thither +came to me Mr. Mount and Mr. Luellin, I think almost foxed, and there +dined with me and very merry as I could be, my mind being troubled to see +things so ordered at the Board, though with no disparagement to me at +all. At dinner comes a messenger from the Counter with an execution +against me for the L30 10s., given the last verdict to Field. The man's +name is Thomas, of the Poultry Counter. I sent Griffin with him to the +Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten was at dinner, and he being satisfied that I +should pay the money, I did cause the money to be paid him, and Griffin +to tell it out to him in the office. He offered to go along with me to +Sir R. Ford, but I thought it not necessary, but let him go with it, he +also telling me that there is never any receipt for it given, but I have +good witness of the payment of it. They being gone, Luellin having again +told me by myself that Deering is content to give me L50 if I can sell +his deals for him to the King, not that I did ever offer to take it, or +bid Luellin bargain for me with him, but did tacitly seem to be willing +to do him what service I could in it, and expect his thanks, what he +thought good. Thence to White Hall by coach, by the way overtaking Mr. +Moore, and took him into the coach to me, and there he could tell me +nothing of my Lord, how he stands as to his thoughts or respect to me, +but concludes that though at present he may be angry yet he will come to +be pleased again with me no doubt, and says that he do mind his business +well, and keeps at Court. So to White Hall, and there by order found +some of the Commissioners of Tangier met, and my Lord Sandwich among the +rest, to whom I bowed, but he shewed me very little if any countenance at +all, which troubles me mightily. Having soon done there, I took up Mr. +Moore again and set him down at Pauls, by the way he proposed to me of a +way of profit which perhaps may shortly be made by money by fines upon +houses at the Wardrobe, but how I did not understand but left it to +another discourse. So homeward, calling upon Mr. Fen, by Sir G. +Carteret's desire, and did there shew him the bill of Captain Taylor's +whereby I hope to get something justly. Home and to my office, and there +very late with Sir W. Warren upon very serious discourse, telling him how +matters passed to-day, and in the close he and I did fall to talk very +openly of the business of this office, and (if I was not a little too +open to tell him my interest, which is my fault) he did give me most +admirable advice, and such as do speak him a most able and worthy man, +and understanding seven times more than ever I thought to be in him. He +did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and +shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for +their falsenesse or their over-great power, being too high to fasten a +real friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent saying +to observe in all my life. He did give it in rhyme, but the sense was +this, that a man should treat every friend in his discourse and opening +his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe. He did also +advise me how I should take occasion to make known to the world my case, +and the pains that I take in my business, and above all to be sure to get +a thorough knowledge in my employment, and to that add all the interest +at Court that I can, which I hope I shall do. He staid talking with me +till almost 12 at night, and so good night, being sorry to part with him, +and more sorry that he should have as far as Wapping to walk to-night. +So I to my Journall and so home, to supper and to bed. + + + +16th. Up, and with my head and heart full of my business, I to my +office, and there all the morning, where among other things to my great +content Captain Taylor brought me L40, the greater part of which I shall +gain to myself after much care and pains out of his bill of freight, as I +have at large set down in my book of Memorandums. At noon to the 'Change +and there met with Mr. Wood by design, and got out of him to my advantage +a condition which I shall make good use of against Sir W. Batten (vide my +book of Memorandums touching the contract of masts of Sir W. Warren about +which I have had so much trouble). So home to dinner and then to the +Star Tavern hard by to our arbitration of Mr. Bland's business, and at it +a great while, but I found no order like to be kept in our inquiry, and +Mr. Clerke, the other arbitrator, one so far from being fit (though able +as to his trade of a merchant) to inquire and to take pains in searching +out the truth on both sides, that we parted without doing anything, nor +do I believe we shall at all ever attain to anything in it. Then home +and till 12 at night making up my accounts with great account of this +day's receipt of Captain Taylor's money and some money reimbursed me +which I have laid out on Field's business. So home with my mind in +pretty good quiet, and to Supper and to bed. + + + +17th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home +to my poor wife and dined, and then by coach abroad to Mrs. Turner's +where I have not been for many a day, and there I found her and her +sister Dike very sad for the death of their brother. After a little +common expression of sorrow, Mrs. Turner told me that the trouble she +would put me to was, to consult about getting an achievement prepared, +scutcheons were done already, to set over the door. So I did go out to +Mr. Smith's, where my brother tells me the scutcheons are made, but he +not being within, I went to the Temple, and there spent my time in a +Bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, +&c., where was very good reading, and then to Mrs. Turner's, and thither +came Smith to me, with whom I did agree for L4 to make a handsome one, +ell square within the frame. After he was gone I sat an houre talking of +the suddennesse of his death within 7 days, and how by little and little +death came upon him, neither he nor they thinking it would come to that. +He died after a day's raveing, through lightness in his head for want of +sleep. His lady did not know of his sickness, nor do they hear yet how +she takes it. Hence home, taking some books by the way in Paul's +Churchyard by coach to my office, where late doing business, and so home +to supper and to bed. + + + +18th. Up, and after being ready and done several businesses with people, +I took water (taking a dram of the bottle at the waterside) with a gaily, +the first that ever I had yet, and down to Woolwich, calling at Ham +Creeke, where I met Mr. Deane, and had a great deal of talke with him +about business, and so to the Ropeyarde and Docke, discoursing several +things, and so back again and did the like at Deptford, and I find that +it is absolutely necessary for me to do thus once a weeke at least all +the yeare round, which will do me great good, and so home with great ease +and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I +bought yesterday, being a discourse of the state of Rome under the +present Pope, Alexander the 7th, it being a very excellent piece. After +eating something at home, then to my office, where till night about +business to dispatch. Among other people came Mr. Primate, the leather +seller, in Fleete Streete, to see me, he says, coming this way; and he +tells me that he is upon a proposal to the King, whereby, by a law +already in being, he will supply the King, without wrong to any man, or +charge to the people in general, so much as it is now, above L200,000 per +annum, and God knows what, and that the King do like the proposal, and +hath directed that the Duke of Monmouth, with their consent, be made +privy, and go along with him and his fellow proposer in the business, God +knows what it is; for I neither can guess nor believe there is any such +thing in his head. At night made an end of the discourse I read this +morning, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +19th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I laboured +hard at Deering's business of his deals more than I would if I did not +think to get something, though I do really believe that I did what is to +the King's advantage in it, and yet, God knows, the expectation of profit +will have its force and make a man the more earnest. Dined at home, and +then with Mr. Bland to another meeting upon his arbitration, and seeing +we were likely to do no good I even put them upon it, and they chose Sir +W. Rider alone to end the matter, and so I am rid of it. Thence by coach +to my shoemaker's and paid all there, and gave something to the boys' box +against Christmas. To Mrs. Turner's, whom I find busy with Sir W. +Turner, about advising upon going down to Norfolke with the corps, and I +find him in talke a sober, considering man. So home to my office late, +and then home to supper and to bed. My head full of business, but pretty +good content. + + + +20th (Lord's day). Up and alone to church, where a common sermon of Mr. +Mills, and so home to dinner in our parler, my wife being clean, and the +first time we have dined here a great while together, and in the +afternoon went to church with me also, and there begun to take her place +above Mrs. Pen, which heretofore out of a humour she was wont to give her +as an affront to my Lady Batten. After a dull sermon of the Scotchman, +home, and there I found my brother Tom and my two cozens Scotts, he and +she, the first time they were ever here. And by and by in comes my +uncle. Wight and Mr. Norbury, and they sat with us a while drinking, of +wine, of which I did give them plenty. But the two would not stay +supper, but the other two did. And we were as merry as I could be with +people that I do wish well to, but know not what discourse either to give +them or find from them. We showed them our house from top to bottom, and +had a good Turkey roasted for our supper, and store of wine, and after +supper sent them home on foot, and so we to prayers and to bed. + + + +21st. Up betimes, my wife having a mind to have gone abroad with me, but +I had not because of troubling me, and so left her, though against my +will, to go and see her father and mother by herself, and I straight to +my Lord Sandwich's, and there I had a pretty kind salute from my Lord, +and went on to the Duke's, where my fellow officers by and by came, and +so in with him to his closet, and did our business, and so broke up, and +I with Sir W. Batten by coach to Salisbury Court, and there spoke with +Clerk our Solicitor about Field's business, and so parted, and I to Mrs. +Turner's, and there saw the achievement pretty well set up, and it is +well done. Thence I on foot to Charing Crosse to the ordinary, and +there, dined, meeting Mr. Gauden and Creed. Here variety of talk but to +no great purpose. After dinner won a wager of a payre of gloves of a +crowne of Mr. Gauden upon some words in his contract for victualling. +There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's, but he not +being within, took coach, and, being directed by sight of bills upon the +walls, I did go to Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there, +a sport I was never at in my life; but, Lord! to see the strange variety +of people, from Parliament-man (by name Wildes, that was Deputy Governor +of the Tower when Robinson was Lord Mayor) to the poorest 'prentices, +bakers, brewers, butchers, draymen, and what not; and all these fellows +one with another in swearing, cursing, and betting. I soon had enough of +it, and yet I would not but have seen it once, it being strange to +observe the nature of these poor creatures, how they will fight till they +drop down dead upon the table, and strike after they are ready to give up +the ghost, not offering to run away when they are weary or wounded past +doing further, whereas where a dunghill brood comes he will, after a +sharp stroke that pricks him, run off the stage, and then they wring off +his neck without more ado, whereas the other they preserve, though their +eyes be both out, for breed only of a true cock of the game. Sometimes a +cock that has had ten to one against him will by chance give an unlucky +blow, will strike the other starke dead in a moment, that he never stirs +more; but the common rule is, that though a cock neither runs nor dies, +yet if any man will bet L10 to a crowne, and nobody take the bet, the +game is given over, and not sooner. One thing more it is strange to see +how people of this poor rank, that look as if they had not bread to put +in their mouths, shall bet three or four pounds at one bet, and lose it, +and yet bet as much the next battle (so they call every match of two +cocks), so that one of them will lose L10 or L20 at a meeting. Thence, +having enough of it, by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, where I find him +within with Captain Cooke and his boys, Dr. Childe, Mr. Madge, and +Mallard, playing and singing over my Lord's anthem which he hath made to +sing in the King's Chappell: my Lord saluted me kindly and took me into +the withdrawing-room, to hear it at a distance, and indeed it sounds very +finely, and is a good thing, I believe, to be made by him, and they all +commend it. And after that was done Captain Cooke and his two boys did +sing some Italian songs, which I must in a word say I think was fully the +best musique that I ever yet heard in all my life, and it was to me a +very great pleasure to hear them. After all musique ended, my Lord going +to White Hall, I went along with him, and made a desire for to have his +coach to go along with my cozen Edward Pepys's hearse through the City on +Wednesday next, which he granted me presently, though he cannot yet come +to speak to me in the familiar stile that he did use to do, nor can I +expect it. But I was the willinger of this occasion to see whether he +would deny me or no, which he would I believe had he been at open +defyance against me. Being not a little pleased with all this, though I +yet see my Lord is not right yet, I thanked his Lordship and parted with +him in White Hall. I back to my Lord's, and there took up W. Howe in a +coach, and carried him as far as the Half Moone, and there set him down. +By the way, talking of my Lord, who is come another and a better man than +he was lately, and God be praised for it, and he says that I shall find +my Lord as he used to be to me, of which I have good hopes, but I shall +beware of him, I mean W. Howe, how I trust him, for I perceive he is not +so discreet as I took him for, for he has told Captain Ferrers (as Mr. +Moore tells me) of my letter to my Lord, which troubles me, for fear my +Lord should think that I might have told him. So called with my coach at +my wife's brother's lodging, but she was gone newly in a coach homewards, +and so I drove hard and overtook her at Temple Bar, and there paid off +mine, and went home with her in her coach. She tells me how there is a +sad house among her friends. Her brother's wife proves very unquiet, and +so her mother is, gone back to be with her husband and leave the young +couple to themselves, and great trouble, and I fear great want, will be +among them, I pray keep me from being troubled with them. At home to put +on my gowne and to my office, and there set down this day's Journall, and +by and by comes Mrs. Owen, Captain Allen's daughter, and causes me to +stay while the papers relating to her husband's place, bought of his +father, be copied out because of her going by this morning's tide home to +Chatham. Which vexes me, but there is no help for it. I home to supper +while a young [man] that she brought with her did copy out the things, +and then I to the office again and dispatched her, and so home to bed. + + + +22nd. Up and there comes my she cozen Angier, of Cambridge, to me to +speak about her son. But though I love them, and have reason so to do, +yet, Lord! to consider how cold I am to speak to her, for fear of giving +her too much hopes of expecting either money or anything else from me +besides my care of her son. I let her go without drinking, though that +was against my will, being forced to hasten to the office, where we sat +all the morning, and at noon I to Sir R. Ford's, where Sir R. Browne (a +dull but it seems upon action a hot man), and he and I met upon setting a +price upon the freight of a barge sent to France to the Duchess of +Orleans. And here by discourse I find them greatly crying out against +the choice of Sir J. Cutler to be Treasurer for Paul's upon condition +that he give L1500 towards it, and it seems he did give it upon condition +that he might be Treasurer for the work, which they say will be worth +three times as much money, and talk as if his being chosen to the office +will make people backward to give, but I think him as likely a man as +either of them, or better. The business being done we parted, Sir R. +Ford never inviting me to dine with him at all, and I was not sorry for +it. Home and dined. I had a letter from W. Howe that my Lord hath +ordered his coach and six horses for me to-morrow, which pleases me +mightily to think that my Lord should do so much, hoping thereby that his +anger is a little over. After dinner abroad with my wife by coach to +Westminster, and set her at Mrs. Hunt's while I about my business, having +in our way met with Captain Ferrers luckily to speak to him about my +coach, who was going in all haste thither, and I perceive the King and +Duke and all the Court was going to the Duke's playhouse to see "Henry +VIII." acted, which is said to be an admirable play. But, Lord! to see +how near I was to have broken my oathe, or run the hazard of 20s. losse, +so much my nature was hot to have gone thither; but I did not go, but +having spoke with W. Howe and known how my Lord did do this kindly as I +would have it, I did go to Westminster Hall, and there met Hawley, and +walked a great while with him. Among other discourse encouraging him to +pursue his love to Mrs. Lane, while God knows I had a roguish meaning in +it. Thence calling my wife home by coach, calling at several places, and +to my office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed. This day I +hear for certain that my Lady Castlemaine is turned Papist, which the +Queene for all do not much like, thinking that she do it not for +conscience sake. I heard to-day of a great fray lately between Sir H. +Finch's coachman, who struck with his whip a coachman of the King's to +the losse of one of his eyes; at which the people of the Exchange seeming +to laugh and make sport with some words of contempt to him, my Lord +Chamberlin did come from the King to shut up the 'Change, and by the help +of a justice, did it; but upon petition to the King it was opened again. + + + +23rd. Up betimes and my wife; and being in as mourning a dress as we +could, at present, without cost, put ourselves into, we by Sir W. Pen's +coach to Mrs. Turner's, at Salisbury Court, where I find my Lord's coach +and six horses. We staid till almost eleven o'clock, and much company +came, and anon, the corps being put into the hearse, and the scutcheons +set upon it, we all took coach, and I and my wife and Auditor Beale in my +Lord Sandwich's coach, and went next to Mrs. Turner's mourning coach, and +so through all the City and Shoreditch, I believe about twenty coaches, +and four or five with six and four horses. Being come thither, I made up +to the mourners, and bidding them a good journey, I took leave and back +again, and setting my wife into a hackney out of Bishopsgate Street, I +sent her home, and I to the 'Change and Auditor Beale about his business. +Did much business at the 'Change, and so home to dinner, and then to my +office, and there late doing business also to my great content to see God +bless me in my place and opening honest ways, I hope to get a little +money to lay up and yet to live handsomely. So to supper and to bed. My +wife having strange fits of the toothache, some times on this, and by and +by on that side of her tooth, which is not common. + + + +24th. Up betimes; and though it was a most foggy morning, and cold, yet +with a gally down to Eriffe, several times being at a loss whither we +went. There I mustered two ships of the King's, lent by him to the Guiny +Company, which are manned better than ours at far less wages. Thence on +board two of the King's, one of them the "Leopard," Captain Beech, who I +find an able and serious man. He received me civilly, and his wife was +there, a very well bred and knowing woman, born at Antwerp, but speaks as +good English as myself, and an ingenious woman. Here was also Sir G. +Carteret's son, who I find a pretty, but very talking man, but good +humour. Thence back again, entertaining myself upon my sliding rule with +great content, and called at Woolwich, where Mr. Chr. Pett having an +opportunity of being alone did tell me his mind about several things he +thought I was offended with him in, and told me of my kindness to his +assistant. I did give him such an answer as I thought was fit and left +him well satisfied, he offering to do me all the service, either by +draughts or modells that I should desire. Thence straight home, being +very cold, but yet well, I thank God, and at home found my wife making +mince pies, and by and by comes in Captain Ferrers to see us, and, among +other talke, tells us of the goodness of the new play of "Henry VIII.," +which makes me think [it] long till my time is out; but I hope before I +go I shall set myself such a stint as I may not forget myself as I have +hitherto done till I was forced for these months last past wholly to +forbid myself the seeing of one. He gone I to my office and there late +writing and reading, and so home to bed. + + + +25th (Christmas day). Lay long talking pleasantly with my wife, but +among other things she begun, I know not whether by design or chance, +to enquire what she should do if I should by any accident die, to which +I did give her some slight answer; but shall make good use of it to bring +myself to some settlement for her sake, by making a will as soon as I +can. Up and to church, where Mr. Mills made an ordinary sermon, and so +home and dined with great pleasure with my wife, and all the afternoon +first looking out at window and seeing the boys playing at many several +sports in our back yard by Sir W. Pen's, which reminded me of my own +former times, and then I began to read to my wife upon the globes with +great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to +me to have her understand these things. In the evening at the office, +where I staid late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent +collection of the beginning of the late quarrels in this kingdom, and so +home to supper and to bed, with good content of mind. + + + +26th. Up and walked forth first to the Minerys to Brown's, and there +with great pleasure saw and bespoke several instruments, and so to +Cornhill to Mr. Cades, and there went up into his warehouse to look for a +map or two, and there finding great plenty of good pictures, God forgive +me! how my mind run upon them, and bought a little one for my wife's +closett presently, and concluded presently of buying L10 worth, upon +condition he would give me the buying of them. Now it is true I did +still within me resolve to make the King one way or other pay for them, +though I saved it to him another way, yet I find myself too forward to +fix upon the expense, and came away with a resolution of buying them, but +do hope that I shall not upon second thoughts do it without a way made +out before I buy them to myself how to do [it] without charge to my main +stock. Thence to the Coffee-house, and sat long in good discourse with +some gentlemen concerning the Roman Empire. So home and found Mr. +Hollyard there, and he stayed and dined with us, we having a pheasant to +dinner. He gone, I all the afternoon with my wife to cards, and, God +forgive me! to see how the very discourse of plays, which I shall be at +liberty to see after New Year's Day next, do set my mind upon them, but I +must be forced to stint myself very strictly before I begin, or else I +fear I shall spoil all. In the evening came my aunt Wight's kinswoman to +see how my wife do, with a compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly +as it is unusual for her to do it, but I do perceive my uncle is very +kind to me of late. So to my office writing letters, and then to read +and make an end of Rushworth, which I did, and do say that it is a book +the most worth reading for a man of my condition or any man that hopes to +come to any publique condition in the world that I do know. So home to +supper and to bed. + + + +27th. Up and to church alone and so home to dinner with my wife very +pleasant and pleased with one another's company, and in our general +enjoyment one of another, better we think than most other couples do. So +after dinner to the French church, but came too late, and so back to our +owne church, where I slept all the sermon the Scott preaching, and so +home, and in the evening Sir J. Minnes and I met at Sir W. Pen's about +ordering some business of the Navy, and so I home to supper, discourse, +prayers, and bed. + + + +28th. Up and by coach to my Lord's lodgings, but he was gone abroad, so +I lost my pains, but, however, walking through White Hall I heard the +King was gone to play at Tennis, so I down to the new Tennis Court; and +saw him and Sir Arthur Slingsby play against my Lord of Suffolke and my +Lord Chesterfield. The King beat three, and lost two sets, they all, and +he particularly playing well, I thought. Thence went and spoke with the +Duke of Albemarle about his wound at Newhall, but I find him a heavy dull +man, methinks, by his answers to me. Thence to the King's Head ordinary. +and there dined, and found Creed there, but we met and dined and parted +without any thing more than "How do you?" After dinner straight on foot +to Mr. Hollyard's, and there paid him L3 in full for his physic and work +to my wife . . . . but whether it is cured for ever or no I cannot +tell, but he says it will never come to anything, though it may be it may +ooze now and then a little. So home and found my wife gone out with Will +(whom she sent for as she do now a days upon occasion) to have a tooth +drawn, she having it seems been in great pain all day, and at night came +home with it drawn, and pretty well. This evening I had a stove brought +me to the office to try, but it being an old one it smokes as much as if +there was nothing but a hearth as I had before, but it may be great new +ones do not, and therefore I must enquire further. So at night home to +supper and to bed. The Duchesse of York is fallen sicke of the meazles. + + + +29th. Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting, at noon to +the 'change, and there I found and brought home Mr. Pierse the surgeon to +dinner. Where I found also Mr. Luellin and Mount, and merry at dinner, +but their discourse so free . . . . that I was weary of them. But +after dinner Luellin took me up to my chamber to give me L50 for the +service I did him, though not so great as he expected and I intended. +But I told him that I would not sell my liberty to any man. If he would +give me any thing by another's hand I would endeavour to deserve it, but +I will never give him himself thanks for it, not acknowledging the +receiving of any, which he told me was reasonable. I did also tell him +that neither this nor any thing should make me to do any thing that +should not be for the King's service besides. So we parted and left them +three at home with my wife going to cards, and I to my office and there +staid late. Sir W. Pen came like a cunning rogue to sit and talk with me +about office business and freely about the Comptroller's business of the +office, to which I did give him free answers and let him make the best of +them. But I know him to be a knave, and do say nothing that I fear to +have said again. Anon came Sir W. Warren, and after talking of his +business of the masts and helping me to understand some foul dealing in +the business of Woods we fell to other talk, and particularly to speak of +some means how to part this great familiarity between Sir W. Batten and +Sir J. Minnes, and it is easy to do by any good friend of Sir J. Minnes +to whom it will be a good service, and he thinks that Sir J. Denham will +be a proper man for it, and so do I. So after other discourse we parted, +and I home and to bed. + + + +30th. Up betimes and by coach to my Lord Sandwich, who I met going out, +and he did aske me how his cozen, my wife; did, the first time he hath +done so since his being offended, and, in my conscience, he would be glad +to be free with me again, but he knows not how to begin. So he went out, +and I through the garden to Mr. Coventry, where I saw Mr. Ch. Pett +bringing him a modell, and indeed it is a pretty one, for a New Year's +gift; but I think the work not better done than mine. With him by coach +to London, with good and friendly discourse of business and against Sir +W. Batten and his foul dealings. So leaving him at the Guiny House I to +the Coffee House, whither came Mr. Grant and Sir W. Petty, with whom I +talked, and so did many, almost all the house there, about his new +vessel, wherein he did give me such satisfaction in every point that I am +almost confident she will prove an admirable invention. So home to +dinner, and after being upon the 'Change awhile I dined with my wife, who +took physique to-day, and so to my office, and there all the afternoon +till late at night about office business, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +31st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and among +other things Sir W. Warren came about some contract, and there did at the +open table, Sir W. Batten not being there; openly defy him, and insisted +how Sir W. Batten did endeavour to oppose him in everything that he +offered. Sir W. Pen took him up for it, like a counterfeit rogue, though +I know he was as much pleased to hear him talk so as any man there. But +upon his speaking no more was said but to the business. At noon we broke +up and I to the 'Change awhile, and so home again to dinner, my head +aching mightily with being overcharged with business. We had to dinner, +my wife and I, a fine turkey and a mince pie, and dined in state, poor +wretch, she and I, and have thus kept our Christmas together all alone +almost, having not once been out, but to-morrow my vowes are all out as +to plays and wine, but I hope I shall not be long before I come to new +ones, so much good, and God's blessing, I find to have attended them. +Thence to the office and did several businesses and answered several +people, but my head aching and it being my great night of accounts, I +went forth, took coach, and to my brother's, but he was not within, and +so I back again and sat an hour or two at the Coffee [house], hearing +some simple discourse about Quakers being charmed by a string about their +wrists, and so home, and after a little while at my office, I home and +supped, and so had a good fire in my chamber and there sat till 4 o'clock +in the morning making up my accounts and writing this last Journall of +the year. And first I bless God I do, after a large expense, even this +month, by reason of Christmas, and some payments to my father, and other +things extraordinary, find that I am worth in money, besides all my +household stuff, or any thing of Brampton, above L800, whereof in my Lord +Sandwich's hand, L700, and the rest in my hand. So that there is not +above L5 of all my estate in money at this minute out of my hands and my +Lord's. For which the good God be pleased to give me a thankful heart +and a mind careful to preserve this and increase it. I do live at my +lodgings in the Navy Office, my family being, besides my wife and I, Jane +Gentleman, Besse, our excellent, good-natured cookmayde, and Susan, a +little girle, having neither man nor boy, nor like to have again a good +while, living now in most perfect content and quiett, and very frugally +also; my health pretty good, but only that I have been much troubled with +a costiveness which I am labouring to get away, and have hopes of doing +it. At the office I am well, though envied to the devil by Sir William +Batten, who hates me to death, but cannot hurt me. The rest either love +me, or at least do not show otherwise, though I know Sir W. Pen to be a +false knave touching me, though he seems fair. My father and mother well +in the country; and at this time the young ladies of Hinchingbroke with +them, their house having the small-pox in it. The Queene after a long +and sore sicknesse is become well again; and the King minds his mistresse +a little too much, if it pleased God! but I hope all things will go +well, and in the Navy particularly, wherein I shall do my duty whatever +comes of it. The great talke is the designs of the King of France, +whether against the Pope or King of Spayne nobody knows; but a great and +a most promising Prince he is, and all the Princes of Europe have their +eye upon him. My wife's brother come to great unhappiness by the ill- +disposition, my wife says, of his wife, and her poverty, which she now +professes, after all her husband's pretence of a great fortune, but I see +none of them, at least they come not to trouble me. At present I am +concerned for my cozen Angier, of Cambridge, lately broke in his trade, +and this day am sending his son John, a very rogue, to sea. My brother +Tom I know not what to think of, for I cannot hear whether he minds his +business or not; and my brother John at Cambridge, with as little hopes +of doing good there, for when he was here he did give me great cause of +dissatisfaction with his manner of life. Pall with my father, and God +knows what she do there, or what will become of her, for I have not +anything yet to spare her, and she grows now old, and must be disposed +of one way or other. The Duchesse of York, at this time, sicke of the +meazles, but is growing well again. The Turke very far entered into +Germany, and all that part of the world at a losse what to expect from +his proceedings. Myself, blessed be God! in a good way, and design and +resolution of sticking to my business to get a little money with doing +the best service I can to the King also; which God continue! So ends the +old year. + + + + +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 + + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS FOR PEPY'S DIARY 1663 COMPLETE: + +A woman sober, and no high-flyer, as he calls it +Academy was dissolved by order of the Pope +After oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb +After some pleasant talk, my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed +After awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends +Again that she spoke but somewhat of what she had in her heart +And there, did what I would with her +And so to sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly +And so to bed and there entertained her with great content +And so to bed, my father lying with me in Ashwell's bed +Apprehend about one hundred Quakers +At last we pretty good friends +Before I sent my boy out with them, I beat him for a lie +Being cleansed of lice this day by my wife +Better we think than most other couples do +Book itself, and both it and them not worth a turd +But a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises +Compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly as it is unusual +Conceited, but that's no matter to me +Content as to be at our own home, after being abroad awhile +Dare not oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good +Did so watch to see my wife put on drawers, which (she did) +Did go to Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there +Did find none of them within, which I was glad of +Dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and dumplings +Dinner was great, and most neatly dressed +Dog attending us, which made us all merry again +Dr. Calamy is this day sent to Newgate for preaching +Duodecimal arithmetique +Eat a mouthful of pye at home to stay my stomach +Employed by the fencers to play prizes at +Enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great many +Every man looking after himself, and his owne lust and luxury +Every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a difference +Excommunications, which they send upon the least occasions +Expectation of profit will have its force +Familiarity with her other servants is it that spoils them all +Fear it may do him no good, but me hurt +Fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off +Feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce to let him blood +Found guilty, and likely will be hanged (for stealing spoons) +Found him a fool, as he ever was, or worse +Galileo's air thermometer, made before 1597 +Give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over +God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my own mind +Goes with his guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets +Goes down the wind in honour as well as every thing else +Great plot which was lately discovered in Ireland +Had a good supper of an oxe's cheek +Half a pint of Rhenish wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer +Hanged with a silken halter +He is too wise to be made a friend of +He hoped he should live to see her "ugly and willing" +He having made good promises, though I fear his performance +His readiness to speak spoilt all +How highly the Presbyters do talk in the coffeehouses still +I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me +I and she never were so heartily angry in our lives as to-day +I do not find other people so willing to do business as myself +I slept most of the sermon +I was very angry, and resolve to beat him to-morrow +Ill humour to be so against that which all the world cries up +In some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole church +Insurrection of the Catholiques there +It must be the old ones that must do any good +Jealous, though God knows I have no great reason +John has got a wife, and for that he intends to part with him +Justice of proceeding not to condemn a man unheard +Keep at interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit +King was gone to play at Tennis +Lady Castlemaine hath all the King's Christmas presents +Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife +Lay very long with my wife in bed talking with great pleasure +Lay chiding, and then pleased with my wife in bed +Liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied his wife +Many thousands in a little time go out of England +Matters in Ireland are full of discontent +Money, which sweetens all things +Most flat dead sermon, both for matter and manner of delivery +Much discourse, but little to be learned +My maid Susan ill, or would be thought so +My wife has got too great head to be brought down soon +My wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot. . . . +No more matter being made of the death of one than another +No sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that ever I saw +Nor will yield that the Papists have any ground given them +Nor would become obliged too much to any +Nothing in the world done with true integrity +Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design +Nothing is to be got without offending God and the King +Once a week or so I know a gentleman must go . . . . +Opening his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe +Out of an itch to look upon the, sluts there +Pain of the stone, and makes bloody water with great pain +Parliament do agree to throw down Popery +Pen was then turned Quaker +Persuade me that she should prove with child since last night +Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here +Pride and debauchery of the present clergy +Pride himself too much in it +Quakers being charmed by a string about their wrists +Rabbit not half roasted, which made me angry with my wife +Railed bitterly ever and anon against John Calvin +Reading my Latin grammar, which I perceive I have great need +Reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank +Resolve to live well and die a beggar +Sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart +Saw his people go up and down louseing themselves +Scholler, that would needs put in his discourse (every occasion) +Scholler, but, it may be, thinks himself to be too much so +See how time and example may alter a man +See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do +Sent me last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon +Servant of the King's pleasures too, as well as business +She was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet +She is conceited that she do well already +She used the word devil, which vexed me +She begins not at all to take pleasure in me or study to please +So home, and mighty friends with my wife again +So much is it against my nature to owe anything to any body +So home to supper and bed with my father +So home, and after supper did wash my feet, and so to bed +So neat and kind one to another +Softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no +Sorry for doing it now, because of obliging me to do the like +Sporting in my fancy with the Queen +Statute against selling of offices +Talk very highly of liberty of conscience +Taught my wife some part of subtraction +That I might say I saw no money in the paper +That he is not able to live almost with her +The plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier +The goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow +The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant +Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad +There is no passing but by coach in the streets, and hardly that +There is no man almost in the City cares a turd for him +Therefore ought not to expect more justice from her +These young Lords are not fit to do any service abroad +They were so false spelt that I was ashamed of them +They say now a common mistress to the King +Things being dear and little attendance to be had we went away +Though it be but little, yet I do get ground every month +Through the Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets] +To bed with discontent she yielded to me and began to be fond +Towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all. . . . +Upon a small temptation I could be false to her +Vexed at my wife's neglect in leaving of her scarf +Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird +We having no luck in maids now-a-days +Who is over head and eares in getting her house up +Whose voice I am not to be reconciled +Wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing but talking +Wine, new and old, with labells pasted upon each bottle +With much ado in an hour getting a coach home +Would not make my coming troublesome to any +Yet it was her fault not to see that I did take them + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v29 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |