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diff --git a/4147.txt b/4147.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..426f462 --- /dev/null +++ b/4147.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1393 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4147] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MARCH *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + MARCH + 1663-1664 + +March 1st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at +noon to the 'Change, and after much business and meeting my uncle Wight, +who told me how Mr. Maes had like to have been trapanned yesterday, but +was forced to run for it; so with Creed and Mr. Hunt home to dinner, and +after a good and pleasant dinner, Mr. Hunt parted, and I took Mr. Creed +and my wife and down to Deptford, it being most pleasant weather, and +there till night discoursing with the officers there about several things, +and so walked home by moonshine, it being mighty pleasant, and so home, +and I to my office, where late about getting myself a thorough +understanding in the business of masts, and so home to bed, my left eye +being mightily troubled with rheum. + +2nd. Up, my eye mightily out of order with the rheum that is fallen down +into it, however, I by coach endeavoured to have waited on my Lord +Sandwich, but meeting him in Chancery Lane going towards the City I +stopped and so fairly walked home again, calling at St. Paul's +Churchyarde, and there looked upon a pretty burlesque poem, called +"Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty;" extraordinary good. At home to the +office till dinner, and after dinner my wife cut my hair short, which is +growne pretty long again, and then to the office, and there till 9 at +night doing business. This afternoon we had a good present of tongues and +bacon from Mr. Shales, of Portsmouth. So at night home to supper, and, +being troubled with my eye, to bed. This morning Mr. Burgby, one of the +writing clerks belonging to the Council, was with me about business, a +knowing man, he complains how most of the Lords of the Council do look +after themselves and their own ends, and none the publique, unless Sir +Edward Nicholas. Sir G. Carteret is diligent, but all for his own ends +and profit. My Lord Privy Scale, a destroyer of every body's business, +and do no good at all to the publique. The Archbishop of Canterbury +speaks very little, nor do much, being now come to the highest pitch that +he can expect. He tells me, he believes that things will go very high +against the Chancellor by Digby, and that bad things will be proved. Talks +much of his neglecting the King; and making the King to trot every day to +him, when he is well enough to go to visit his cozen Chief-Justice Hide, +but not to the Council or King. He commends my Lord of Ormond mightily in +Ireland; but cries out cruelly of Sir G. Lane for his corruption; and that +he hath done my Lord great dishonour by selling of places here, which are +now all taken away, and the poor wretches ready to starve. That nobody +almost understands or judges of business better than the King, if he would +not be guilty of his father's fault to be doubtfull of himself, and easily +be removed from his own opinion. That my Lord Lauderdale is never from +the King's care nor council, and that he is a most cunning fellow. Upon +the whole, that he finds things go very bad every where; and even in the +Council nobody minds the publique. + +3rd. Up pretty early and so to the office, where we sat all the morning +making a very great contract with Sir W. Warren for provisions for the +yeare coming, and so home to dinner, and there was W. Howe come to dine +with me, and before dinner he and I walked in the garden, and we did +discourse together, he assuring me of what he told me the other day of my +Lord's speaking so highly in my commendation to my Lord Peterborough and +Povy, which speaks my Lord having yet a good opinion of me, and also how +well my Lord and Lady both are pleased with their children's being at my +father's, and when the bigger ladies were there a little while ago, at +which I am very glad. After dinner he went away, I having discoursed with +him about his own proceedings in his studies, and I observe him to be very +considerate and to mind his book in order to preferring himself by my +Lord's favour to something, and I hope to the outing of Creed in his +Secretaryship. For he tells me that he is confident my Lord do not love +him nor will trust him in any secret matter, he is so cunning and crafty +in all he do. So my wife and I out of doors thinking to have gone to have +seen a play, but when we came to take coach, they tell us there are none +this week, being the first of Lent. But, Lord! to see how impatient I +found myself within to see a play, I being at liberty once a month to see +one, and I think it is the best method I could have taken. But to my +office, did very much business with several people till night, and so +home, being unwilling to stay late because of my eye which is not yet well +of the rheum that is fallen down into it, but to supper and to bed. + +4th. Up, my eye being pretty well, and then by coach to my Lord Sandwich, +with whom I spoke, walking a good while with him in his garden, which and +the house is very fine, talking of my Lord Peterborough's accounts, +wherein he is concerned both for the foolery as also inconvenience which +may happen upon my Lord Peterborough's ill-stating of his matters, so as +to have his gaine discovered unnecessarily. We did talk long and freely +that I hope the worst is past and all will be well. There were several +people by trying a new-fashion gun + + [Many attempts to produce a satisfactory revolver were made in + former centuries, but it was not till the present one that Colt's + revolver was invented. On February 18th, 1661, Edward, Marquis of + Worcester, obtained Letters Patent for "an invencon to make certeyne + guns or pistolls which in the tenth parte of one minute of an houre + may, with a flaske contrived to that purpose, be re-charged the + fourth part of one turne of the barrell which remaines still fixt, + fastening it as forceably and effectually as a dozen thrids of any + scrue, which in the ordinary and usual way require as many turnes." + On March 3rd, 1664, Abraham Hill obtained Letters Patent for a "gun + or pistoll for small shott, carrying seaven or eight charges of the + same in the stocke of the gun."] + +brought my Lord this morning, to shoot off often, one after another, +without trouble or danger, very pretty. Thence to the Temple, and there +taking White's boat down to Woolwich, taking Mr. Shish at Deptford in my +way, with whom I had some good discourse of the Navy business. At +Woolwich discoursed with him and Mr. Pett about iron worke and other +businesses, and then walked home, and at Greenwich did observe the +foundation laying of a very great house for the King, which will cost a +great deale of money. + + [Building by John Webb; now a part of Greenwich Hospital. Evelyn + wrote in his Diary, October 19th, 1661: "I went to London to visite + my Lord of Bristoll, having been with Sir John Denham (his Mates + surveyor) to consult with him about the placing of his palace at + Greenwich, which I would have had built between the river and the + Queene's house, so as a large cutt should have let in ye Thames like + a bay; but Sir John was for setting it in piles at the very brink of + the water, which I did not assent to and so came away, knowing Sir + John to be a better poet than architect, tho' he had Mr. Webb (Inigo + Jones's man) to assist him."] + +So home to dinner, and my uncle Wight coming in he along with my wife and +I by coach, and setting him down by the way going to Mr. Maes we two to my +Lord Sandwich's to visit my Lady, with whom I left my wife discoursing, +and I to White Hall, and there being met by the Duke of Yorke, he called +me to him and discoursed a pretty while with me about the new ship's +dispatch building at Woolwich, and talking of the charge did say that he +finds always the best the most cheape, instancing in French guns, which in +France you may buy for 4 pistoles, as good to look to as others of 16, but +not the service. I never had so much discourse with the Duke before, and +till now did ever fear to meet him. He found me and Mr. Prin together +talking of the Chest money, which we are to blame not to look after. +Thence to my Lord's, and took up my wife, whom my Lady hath received with +her old good nature and kindnesse, and so homewards, and she home, I +'lighting by the way, and upon the 'Change met my uncle Wight and told him +my discourse this afternoon with Sir G. Carteret in Maes' business, but +much to his discomfort, and after a dish of coffee home, and at my office +a good while with Sir W. Warren talking with great pleasure of many +businesses, and then home to supper, my wife and I had a good fowle to +supper, and then I to the office again and so home, my mind in great ease +to think of our coming to so good a respect with my Lord again, and my +Lady, and that my Lady do so much cry up my father's usage of her +children, and the goodness of the ayre there, found in the young ladies' +faces at their return thence, as she says, as also my being put into the +commission of the Fishery, + + [There had been recently established, under the Great Seal of + England, a Corporation for the Royal Fishing, of which the Duke of + York was Governor, Lord Craven Deputy-Governor, and the Lord Mayor + and Chamberlain of London, for the time being, Treasurers, in which + body was vested the sole power of licensing lotteries ("The Newes," + October 6th, 1664). The original charter (dated April 8th, 1664), + incorporating James, Duke of York, and thirty-six assistants as + Governor and Company of the Royal Fishing of Great Britain and + Ireland, is among the State Papers. The duke was to be Governor + till February 26th, 1665] + +for which I must give my Lord thanks, and so home to bed, having a great +cold in my head and throat tonight from my late cutting my hair so close +to my head, but I hope it will be soon gone again. + +5th. Up and to the office, where, though I had a great cold, I was forced +to speak much upon a publique meeting of the East India Company, at our +office; where our own company was full, and there was also my Lord George +Barkeley, in behalfe of the company of merchants (I suppose he is on that +company), who, hearing my name, took notice of me, and condoled my cozen +Edward Pepys's death, not knowing whose son I was, nor did demand it of +me. We broke up without coming to any conclusion, for want of my Lord +Marlborough. We broke up and I to the 'Change, where with several people +and my uncle Wight to drink a dish of coffee, and so home to dinner, and +then to the office all the afternoon, my eye and my throat being very bad, +and my cold increasing so as I could not speak almost at all at night. So +at night home to supper, that is a posset, and to bed. + +6th (Lord's day). Up, and my cold continuing in great extremity I could +not go out to church, but sat all day (a little time at dinner excepted) +in my closet at the office till night drawing up a second letter to Mr. +Coventry about the measure of masts to my great satisfaction, and so in +the evening home, and my uncle and aunt Wight came to us and supped with +us, where pretty merry, but that my cold put me out of humour. At night +with my cold, and my eye also sore still, to bed. + +7th. Up betimes, and the Duke being gone abroad to-day, as we heard by a +messenger, I spent the morning at my office writing fair my yesterday's +work till almost 2 o'clock (only Sir G. Carteret coming I went down a +little way by water towards Deptford, but having more mind to have my +business done I pretended business at the 'Change, and so went into +another boat), and then, eating a bit, my wife and I by coach to the +Duke's house, where we saw "The Unfortunate Lovers;" but I know not +whether I am grown more curious than I was or no, but I was not much +pleased with it, though I know not where to lay the fault, unless it was +that the house was very empty, by reason of a new play at the other house. +Yet here was my Lady Castlemayne in a box, and it was pleasant to hear an +ordinary lady hard by us, that it seems did not know her before, say, +being told who she was, that "she was well enough." Thence home, and I +ended and sent away my letter to Mr. Coventry (having first read it and +had the opinion of Sir W. Warren in the case), and so home to supper and +to bed, my cold being pretty well gone, but my eye remaining still snare +and rhumey, which I wonder at, my right eye ayling nothing. + +8th. Up with some little discontent with my wife upon her saying that she +had got and used some puppy-dog water, being put upon it by a desire of my +aunt Wight to get some for her, who hath a mind, unknown to her husband, +to get some for her ugly face. I to the office, where we sat all the +morning, doing not much business through the multitude of counsellors, one +hindering another. It was Mr. Coventry's own saying to me in his coach +going to the 'Change, but I wonder that he did give me no thanks for my +letter last night, but I believe he did only forget it. Thence home, +whither Luellin came and dined with me, but we made no long stay at +dinner; for "Heraclius" being acted, which my wife and I have a mighty +mind to see, we do resolve, though not exactly agreeing with the letter of +my vowe, yet altogether with the sense, to see another this month, by +going hither instead of that at Court, there having been none conveniently +since I made my vowe for us to see there, nor like to be this Lent, and +besides we did walk home on purpose to make this going as cheap as that +would have been, to have seen one at Court, and my conscience knows that +it is only the saving of money and the time also that I intend by my +oaths, and this has cost no more of either, so that my conscience before +God do after good consultation and resolution of paying my forfeit, did my +conscience accuse me of breaking my vowe, I do not find myself in the +least apprehensive that I have done any violence to my oaths. The play +hath one very good passage well managed in it, about two persons +pretending, and yet denying themselves, to be son to the tyrant Phocas, +and yet heire of Mauritius to the crowne. The garments like Romans very +well. The little girle is come to act very prettily, and spoke the +epilogue most admirably. But at the beginning, at the drawing up of the +curtaine, there was the finest scene of the Emperor and his people about +him, standing in their fixed and different pastures in their Roman +habitts, above all that ever I yet saw at any of the theatres. Walked +home, calling to see my brother Tom, who is in bed, and I doubt very ill +of a consumption. To the office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed. + +9th. Up pretty betimes to my office, where all day long, but a little at +home at dinner, at my office finishing all things about Mr. Wood's +contract for masts, wherein I am sure I shall save the King L400 before I +have done. At night home to supper and to bed. + +10th. Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and at +noon to the 'Change and there very busy, and so home to dinner with my +wife, to a good hog's harslet, + + [Harslet or haslet, the entrails of an animal, especially of a hog, + as the heart, liver, &c.] + +a piece of meat I love, but have not eat of I think these seven years, and +after dinner abroad by coach set her at Mrs. Hunt's and I to White Hall, +and at the Privy Seale I enquired, and found the Bill come for the +Corporation of the Royall Fishery; whereof the Duke of Yorke is made +present Governor, and several other very great persons, to the number of +thirty-two, made his assistants for their lives: whereof, by my Lord +Sandwich's favour, I am one; and take it not only as a matter of honour, +but that, that may come to be of profit to me, and so with great content +went and called my wife, and so home and to the office, where busy late, +and so home to supper and to bed. + +11th. Up and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, who not being up I staid +talking with Mr. Moore till my Lord was ready and come down, and went +directly out without calling for me or seeing any body. I know not +whether he knew I was there, but I am apt to think not, because if he +would have given me that slighting yet he would not have done it to others +that were there. So I went back again doing nothing but discoursing with +Mr. Moore, who I find by discourse to be grown rich, and indeed not to use +me at all with the respect he used to do, but as his equal. He made me +known to their Chaplin, who is a worthy, able man. Thence home, and by and +by to the Coffee-house, and thence to the 'Change, and so home to dinner, +and after a little chat with my wife to the office, where all the +afternoon till very late at the office busy, and so home to supper and to +bed, hoping in God that my diligence, as it is really very useful for the +King, so it will end in profit to myself. In the meantime I have good +content in mind to see myself improve every day in knowledge and being +known. + +12th. Lay long pleasantly entertaining myself with my wife, and then up +and to the office, where busy till noon, vexed to see how Sir J. Minnes +deserves rather to be pitied for his dotage and folly than employed at a +great salary to ruin the King's business. At noon to the 'Change, and +thence home to dinner, and then down to Deptford, where busy a while, and +then walking home it fell hard a raining. So at Halfway house put in, and +there meeting Mr. Stacy with some company of pretty women, I took him +aside to a room by ourselves, and there talked with him about the several +sorts of tarrs, and so by and by parted, and I walked home and there late +at the office, and so home to supper and to bed. + +13th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and then up in +great doubt whether I should not go see Mr. Coventry or no, who hath not +been well these two or three days, but it being foul weather I staid +within, and so to my office, and there all the morning reading some Common +Law, to which I will allot a little time now and then, for I much want it. +At noon home to dinner, and then after some discourse with my wife, to the +office again, and by and by Sir W. Pen came to me after sermon and walked +with me in the garden and then one comes to tell me that Anthony and Will +Joyce were come to see me, so I in to them and made mighty much of them, +and very pleasant we were, and most of their business I find to be to +advise about getting some woman to attend my brother Tom, whom they say is +very ill and seems much to want one. To which I agreed, and desired them +to get their wives to enquire out one. By and by they bid me good night, +but immediately as they were gone out of doors comes Mrs. Turner's boy +with a note to me to tell me that my brother Tom was so ill as they feared +he would not long live, and that it would be fit I should come and see +him. So I sent for them back, and they came, and Will Joyce desiring to +speak with me alone I took him up, and there he did plainly tell me to my +great astonishment that my brother is deadly ill, and that their chief +business of coming was to tell me so, and what is worst that his disease +is the pox, which he hath heretofore got, and hath not been cured, but is +come to this, and that this is certain, though a secret told his father +Fenner by the Doctor which he helped my brother to. This troubled me +mightily, but however I thought fit to go see him for speech of people's +sake, and so walked along with them, and in our way called on my uncle +Fenner (where I have not been these 12 months and more) and advised with +him, and then to my brother, who lies in bed talking idle. He could only +say that he knew me, and then fell to other discourse, and his face like a +dying man, which Mrs. Turner, who was here, and others conclude he is. +The company being gone, I took the mayde, which seems a very grave and +serious woman, and in W. Joyce's company' did inquire how things are with +her master. She told me many things very discreetly, and said she had all +his papers and books, and key of his cutting house, and showed me a bag +which I and Wm. Joyce told, coming to L5 14s. 0d., which we left with her +again, after giving her good counsel, and the boys, and seeing a nurse +there of Mrs. Holden's choosing, I left them, and so walked home greatly +troubled to think of my brother's condition, and the trouble that would +arise to me by his death or continuing sick. So at home, my mind +troubled, to bed. + +14th. Up, and walked to my brother's, where I find he hath continued +talking idly all night, and now knows me not; which troubles me mightily. +So I walked down and discoursed a great while alone with the mayde, who +tells me many passages of her master's practices, and how she concludes +that he has run behind hand a great while and owes money, and has been +dunned by several people, among others by one Cave, both husband and wife, +but whether it was for--[See April 6th]--money or something worse she +knows not, but there is one Cranburne, I think she called him, in Fleete +Lane with whom he hath many times been mighty private, but what their +dealings have been she knows not, but believes these were naught, and then +his sitting up two Saturday nights one after another when all were abed +doing something to himself, which she now suspects what it was, but did +not before, but tells me that he hath been a very bad husband as to +spending his time, and hath often told him of it, so that upon the whole I +do find he is, whether he lives or dies, a ruined man, and what trouble +will befall me by it I know not. Thence to White Hall; and in the Duke's +chamber, while he was dressing, two persons of quality that were there did +tell his Royal Highness how the other night, in Holborne, about midnight, +being at cards, a link-boy come by and run into the house, and told the +people the house was a-falling. Upon this the whole family was frighted, +concluding that the boy had said that the house was a-fire: so they deft +their cards above, and one would have got out of the balcone, but it was +not open; the other went up to fetch down his children, that were in bed; +so all got clear out of the house. And no sooner so, but the house fell +down indeed, from top to bottom. It seems my Lord Southampton's +canaille--[sewer]--did come too near their foundation, and so weakened the +house, and down it came; which, in every respect, is a most extraordinary +passage. By and by into his closet and did our business with him. But I +did not speed as I expected in a business about the manner of buying hemp +for this year, which troubled me, but it proceeds only from my pride, that +I must needs expect every thing to be ordered just as I apprehend, though +it was not I think from my errour, but their not being willing to hear and +consider all that I had to propose. Being broke up I followed my Lord +Sandwich and thanked him for his putting me into the Fishery, which I +perceive he expected, and cried "Oh!" says he, "in the Fishery you mean. +I told you I would remember you in it," but offered no other discourse. +But demanding whether he had any commands for me, methought he cried "No!" +as if he had no more mind to discourse with me, which still troubles me +and hath done all the day, though I think I am a fool for it, in not +pursuing my resolution of going handsome in clothes and looking high, for +that must do it when all is done with my Lord. Thence by coach with Sir +W. Batten to the city, and his son Castle, who talks mighty highly against +Captain Tayler, calling him knave, and I find that the old Boating father +is led and talks just as the son do, or the son as the father would have +him. 'Light and to Mr. Moxon's, and there saw our office globes in doing, +which will be very handsome but cost money. So to the Coffee-house, and +there very fine discourse with Mr. Hill the merchant, a pretty, gentile, +young, and sober man. So to the 'Change, and thence home, where my wife +and I fell out about my not being willing to have her have her gowne +laced, but would lay out the same money and more on a plain new one. At +this she flounced away in a manner I never saw her, nor which I could ever +endure. So I away to the office, though she had dressed herself to go see +my Lady Sandwich. She by and by in a rage follows me, and coming to me +tells me in spitefull manner like a vixen and with a look full of rancour +that she would go buy a new one and lace it and make me pay for it, and +then let me burn it if I would after she had done it, and so went away in +a fury. This vexed me cruelly, but being very busy I had, not hand to +give myself up to consult what to do in it, but anon, I suppose after she +saw that I did not follow her, she came again to the office, where I made +her stay, being busy with another, half an houre, and her stomach coming +down we were presently friends, and so after my business being over at the +office we out and by coach to my Lady Sandwich's, with whom I left my +wife, and I to White Hall, where I met Mr. Delsety, and after an hour's +discourse with him met with nobody to do other business with, but back +again to my Lady, and after half an hour's discourse with her to my +brother's, who I find in the same or worse condition. The doctors give +him over and so do all that see him. He talks no sense two, words together +now; and I confess it made me weepe to see that he should not be able, +when I asked him, to say who I was. I went to Mrs. Turner's, and by her +discourse with my brother's Doctor, Mr. Powell, I find that she is full +now of the disease which my brother is troubled with, and talks of it +mightily, which I am sorry for, there being other company, but methinks +it should be for her honour to forbear talking of it, the shame of this +very thing I confess troubles me as much as anything. Back to my +brother's and took my wife, and carried her to my uncle Fenner's and there +had much private discourse with him. He tells me of the Doctor's thoughts +of my brother's little hopes of recovery, and from that to tell me his +thoughts long of my brother's bad husbandry, and from that to say that he +believes he owes a great deal of money, as to my cozen Scott I know not +how much, and Dr. Thos. Pepys L30, but that the Doctor confesses that he +is paid L20 of it, and what with that and what he owes my father and me I +doubt he is in a very sad condition, that if he lives he will not be able +to show his head, which will be a very great shame to me. After this I +went in to my aunt and my wife and Anthony Joyce and his wife, who were by +chance there, and drank and so home, my mind and head troubled, but I hope +it will [be] over in a little time one way or other. After doing a little +at my office of business I home to supper and to bed. From notice that my +uncle Fenner did give my father the last week of my brother's condition, +my mother is coming up to towne, which also do trouble me. The business +between my Lords Chancellor and Bristoll, they say, is hushed up; and the +latter gone or going, by the King's licence, to France. + +15th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon +comes Madam Turner and her daughter The., her chief errand to tell me that +she had got Dr. Wiverly, her Doctor, to search my brother's mouth, where +Mr. Powell says there is an ulcer, from thence he concludes that he hath +had the pox. But the Doctor swears that there is not, nor ever was any, +and my brother being very sensible, which I was glad to hear, he did talk +with him about it, and he did wholly disclaim that ever he had the +disease, or that ever he said to Powell that he had it. All which did put +me into great comfort as to the reproach which was spread against him. So +I sent for a barrel of oysters, and they dined, and we were very merry, I +being willing to be so upon this news. After dinner we took coach and to +my brother's, where contrary to my expectation he continues as bad or +worse, talking idle, and now not at all knowing any of us as before. Here +we staid a great while, I going up and down the house looking after +things. In the evening Dr. Wiverley came again, and I sent for Mr. Powell +(the Doctor and I having first by ourselves searched my brother again at +his privities, where he was as clear as ever he was born, and in the +Doctor's opinion had been ever so), and we three alone discoursed the +business, where the coxcomb did give us his simple reasons for what he had +said, which the Doctor fully confuted, and left the fellow only saying +that he should cease to report any such thing, and that what he had said +was the best of his judgment from my brother's words and a ulcer, as he +supposed, in his mouth. I threatened him that I would have satisfaction +if I heard any more such discourse, and so good night to them two, giving +the Doctor a piece for his fee, but the other nothing. I to my brother +again, where Madam Turner and her company, and Mrs. Croxton, my wife, and +Mrs. Holding. About 8 o'clock my brother began to fetch his spittle with +more pain, and to speak as much but not so distinctly, till at last the +phlegm getting the mastery of him, and he beginning as we thought to +rattle, I had no mind to see him die, as we thought he presently would, +and so withdrew and led Mrs. Turner home, but before I came back, which +was in half a quarter of an hour, my brother was dead. I went up and +found the nurse holding his eyes shut, and he poor wretch lying with his +chops fallen, a most sad sight, and that which put me into a present very +great transport of grief and cries, and indeed it was a most sad sight to +see the poor wretch lie now still and dead, and pale like a stone. I +staid till he was almost cold, while Mrs. Croxton, Holden, and the rest +did strip and lay him out, they observing his corpse, as they told me +afterwards, to be as clear as any they ever saw, and so this was the end +of my poor brother, continuing talking idle and his lips working even to +his last that his phlegm hindered his breathing, and at last his breath +broke out bringing a flood of phlegm and stuff out with it, and so he +died. This evening he talked among other talk a great deal of French very +plain and good, as, among others: 'quand un homme boit quand il n'a poynt +d'inclination a boire il ne luy fait jamais de bien.' I once begun to +tell him something of his condition, and asked him whither he thought he +should go. He in distracted manner answered me--"Why, whither should I +go? there are but two ways: If I go, to the bad way I must give God thanks +for it, and if I go the other way I must give God the more thanks for it; +and I hope I have not been so undutifull and unthankfull in my life but I +hope I shall go that way." This was all the sense, good or bad, that I +could get of him this day. I left my wife to see him laid out, and I by +coach home carrying my brother's papers, all I could find, with me, and +having wrote a letter to, my father telling him what hath been said I +returned by coach, it being very late, and dark, to my brother's, but all +being gone, the corpse laid out, and my wife at Mrs. Turner's, I thither, +and there after an hour's talk, we up to bed, my wife and I in the little +blue chamber, and I lay close to my wife, being full of disorder and grief +for my brother that I could not sleep nor wake with satisfaction, at last +I slept till 5 or 6 o'clock. + +16th. And then I rose and up, leaving my wife in bed, and to my +brother's, where I set them on cleaning the house, and my wife coming anon +to look after things, I up and down to my cozen Stradwicke's and uncle +Fenner's about discoursing for the funeral, which I am resolved to put off +till Friday next. Thence home and trimmed myself, and then to the +'Change, and told my uncle Wight of my brother's death, and so by coach to +my cozen Turner's and there dined very well, but my wife . . . . in +great pain we were forced to rise in some disorder, and in Mrs. Turner's +coach carried her home and put her to bed. Then back again with my cozen +Norton to Mrs. Turner's, and there staid a while talking with Dr. Pepys, +the puppy, whom I had no patience to hear. So I left them and to my +brother's to look after things, and saw the coffin brought; and by and by +Mrs. Holden came and saw him nailed up. Then came W. Joyce to me half +drunk, and much ado I had to tell him the story of my brother's being +found clear of what was said, but he would interrupt me by some idle +discourse or other, of his crying what a good man, and a good speaker my +brother was, and God knows what. At last weary of him I got him away, and +I to Mrs. Turner's, and there, though my heart is still heavy to think of +my poor brother, yet I could give way to my fancy to hear Mrs. The. play +upon the Harpsicon, though the musique did not please me neither. Thence +to my brother's and found them with my mayd Elizabeth taking an inventory +of the goods of the house, which I was well pleased at, and am much +beholden to Mr. Honeywood's man in doing of it. His name is Herbert, one +that says he knew me when he lived with Sir Samuel Morland, but I have +forgot him. So I left them at it, and by coach home and to my office, +there to do a little business, but God knows my heart and head is so full +of my brother's death, and the consequences of it, that I can do very +little or understand it. So home to supper, and after looking over some +business in my chamber I to bed to my wife, who continues in bed in some +pain still. This day I have a great barrel of oysters given me by Mr. +Barrow, as big as 16 of others, and I took it in the coach with me to Mrs. +Turner's, and give them to her. This day the Parliament met again, after +a long prorogation, but what they have done I have not been in the way to +hear. + +17th. Up and to my brother's, where all the morning doing business +against to-morrow, and so to my cozen Stradwicke's about the same +business, and to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, where my wife in +bed sick still, but not so bad as yesterday. I dined by her, and so to +the office, where we sat this afternoon, having changed this day our +sittings from morning to afternoons, because of the Parliament which +returned yesterday; but was adjourned till Monday next; upon pretence that +many of the members were said to be upon the road; and also the King had +other affairs, and so desired them to adjourn till then. But the truth +is, the King is offended at my Lord of Bristol, as they say, whom he hath +found to have been all this while (pretending a desire of leave to go into +France, and to have all the difference between him and the Chancellor made +up,) endeavouring to make factions in both Houses to the Chancellor. So +the King did this to keep the Houses from meeting; and in the meanwhile +sent a guard and a herald last night to have taken him at Wimbleton, where +he was in the morning, but could not find him: at which the King was and +is still mightily concerned, and runs up and down to and from the +Chancellor's like a boy: and it seems would make Digby's articles against +the Chancellor to be treasonable reflections against his Majesty. So that +the King is very high, as they say; and God knows what will follow upon +it! After office I to my brother's again, and thence to Madam Turner's, +in both places preparing things against to-morrow; and this night I have +altered my resolution of burying him in the church yarde among my young +brothers and sisters, and bury him in the church, in the middle isle, as +near as I can to my mother's pew. This costs me 20s. more. This being +all, home by coach, bringing my brother's silver tankard for safety along +with me, and so to supper, after writing to my father, and so to bed. + +18th. Up betimes, and walked to my brother's, where a great while putting +things in order against anon; then to Madam Turner's and eat a breakfast +there, and so to Wotton, my shoemaker, and there got a pair of shoes +blacked on the soles against anon for me; so to my brother's and to +church, and with the grave-maker chose a place for my brother to lie in, +just under my mother's pew. But to see how a man's tombes are at the +mercy of such a fellow, that for sixpence he would, (as his owne words +were,) "I will justle them together but I will make room for him;" +speaking of the fulness of the middle isle, where he was to lie; and that +he would, for my father's sake, do my brother that is dead all the +civility he can; which was to disturb other corps that are not quite +rotten, to make room for him; and methought his manner of speaking it was +very remarkable; as of a thing that now was in his power to do a man a +courtesy or not. At noon my wife, though in pain, comes, but I being +forced to go home, she went back with me, where I dressed myself, and so +did Besse; and so to my brother's again: whither, though invited, as the +custom is, at one or two o'clock, they came not till four or five. But at +last one after another they come, many more than I bid: and my reckoning +that I bid was one hundred and twenty; but I believe there was nearer one +hundred and fifty. Their service was six biscuits apiece, and what they +pleased of burnt claret. My cosen Joyce Norton kept the wine and cakes +above; and did give out to them that served, who had white gloves given +them. But above all, I am beholden to Mrs. Holden, who was most kind, and +did take mighty pains not only in getting the house and every thing else +ready, but this day in going up and down to see, the house filled and +served, in order to mine, and their great content, I think; the men +sitting by themselves in some rooms, and women by themselves in others, +very close, but yet room enough. Anon to church, walking out into the +streete to the Conduit, and so across the streete, and had a very good +company along with the corps. And being come to the grave as above, Dr. +Pierson, the minister of the parish, did read the service for buriall: and +so I saw my poor brother laid into the grave; and so all broke up; and I +and my wife and Madam Turner and her family to my brother's, and by and by +fell to a barrell of oysters, cake, and cheese, of Mr. Honiwood's, with +him, in his chamber and below, being too merry for so late a sad work. +But, Lord! to see how the world makes nothing of the memory of a man, an +houre after he is dead! And, indeed, I must blame myself; for though at +the sight of him dead and dying, I had real grief for a while, while he +was in my sight, yet presently after, and ever since, I have had very +little grief indeed for him. By and by, it beginning to be late, I put +things in some order in the house, and so took my wife and Besse (who hath +done me very good service in cleaning and getting ready every thing and +serving the wine and things to-day, and is indeed a most excellent +good-natured and faithful wench, and I love her mightily), by coach home, +and so after being at the office to set down the day's work home to supper +and to bed. + +19th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon my wife +and I alone, having a good hen, with eggs, to dinner, with great content. +Then by coach to my brother's, where I spent the afternoon in paying some +of the charges of the buriall, and in looking over his papers, among which +I find several letters of my brother John's to him speaking very foale +words of me and my deportment to him here, and very crafty designs about +Sturtlow land and God knows what, which I am very glad to know, and shall +make him repent them. Anon my father and my brother John came to towne by +coach. I sat till night with him, giving him an account of things. He, +poor man, very sad and sickly. I in great pain by a simple compressing of +my cods to-day by putting one leg over another as I have formerly done, +which made me hasten home, and after a little at the office in great +disorder home to bed. + +20th (Lord's day). Kept my bed all the morning, having laid a poultice to +my cods last night to take down the tumour there which I got yesterday, +which it did do, being applied pretty warm, and soon after the beginning +of the swelling, and the pain was gone also. We lay talking all the +while, among other things of religion, wherein I am sorry so often to hear +my wife talk of her being and resolving to die a Catholique, + + [Mrs. Pepys's leaning towards Roman Catholicism was a constant + trouble to her husband; but, in spite of his fears, she died a + Protestant (Dr. Milles's certificate.)] + +and indeed a small matter, I believe, would absolutely turn her, which I +am sorry for. Up at noon to dinner, and then to my chamber with a fire +till late at night looking over my brother Thomas's papers, sorting of +them, among which I find many base letters of my brother John's to him +against me, and carrying on plots against me to promote Tom's having of +his Banbury' Mistress, in base slighting terms, and in worse of my sister +Pall, such as I shall take a convenient time to make my father know, and +him also to his sorrow. So after supper to bed, our people rising to wash +to-morrow. + +21st. Up, and it snowing this morning a little, which from the mildness +of the winter and the weather beginning to be hot and the summer to come +on apace, is a little strange to us. I did not go abroad for fear of my +tumour, for fear it shall rise again, but staid within, and by and by my, +father came, poor man, to me, and my brother John. After much talke and +taking them up to my chamber, I did there after some discourse bring in +any business of anger--with John, and did before my father read all his +roguish letters, which troubled my father mightily, especially to hear me +say what I did, against my allowing any thing for the time to come to him +out of my owne purse, and other words very severe, while he, like a simple +rogue, made very silly and churlish answers to me, not like a man of any +goodness or witt, at which I was as much disturbed as the other, and will +be as good as my word in making him to his cost know that I will remember +his carriage to me in this particular the longest day I live. It troubled +me to see my poor father so troubled, whose good nature did make him, poor +wretch, to yield, I believe, to comply with my brother Tom and him in part +of their designs, but without any ill intent to me, or doubt of me or my +good intentions to him or them, though it do trouble me a little that he +should in any manner do it. They dined with me, and after dinner abroad +with my wife to buy some things for her, and I to the office, where we sat +till night, and then, after doing some business at my closet, I home and +to supper and to bed. This day the Houses of Parliament met; and the King +met them, with the Queene with him. And he made a speech to them: + + [March 16th, 1663-64. This day both Houses met, and on the gist the + king opened the session with a speech from the throne, in which + occurs this Passage: "I pray, Mr. Speaker, and you, gentlemen of the + House of Commons, give that Triennial Bill once a reading in your + house, and then, in God's name, do what you think fit for me and + yourselves and the whole kingdom. I need not tell you how much I + love parliaments. Never king was so much beholden to parliaments as + I have been, nor do I think the crown can ever be happy without + frequent parliaments" (Cobbett's "Parliamentary History," vol. iv., + cc. 290, 291).] + +among other things, discoursing largely of the plots abroad against him +and the peace of the kingdom; and, among other things, that the +dissatisfied party had great hopes upon the effect of the Act for a +Triennial Parliament granted by his father, which he desired them to +peruse, and, I think, repeal. So the Houses did retire to their own +House, and did order the Act to be read to-morrow before them; and I +suppose it will be repealed, though I believe much against the will of a +good many that sit there. + +22nd. Up, and spent the whole morning and afternoon at my office, only in +the evening, my wife being at my aunt Wight's, I went thither, calling at +my own house, going out found the parlour curtains drawn, and inquiring +the reason of it, they told me that their mistress had got Mrs. Buggin's +fine little dog and our little bitch, which is proud at this time, and I +am apt to think that she was helping him to line her, for going afterwards +to my uncle Wight's, and supping there with her, where very merry with Mr. +Woolly's drollery, and going home I found the little dog so little that of +himself he could not reach our bitch, which I am sorry for, for it is the +finest dog that ever I saw in my life, as if he were painted the colours +are so finely mixed and shaded. God forgive me, it went against me to +have my wife and servants look upon them while they endeavoured to do +something . . . . + +23rd. Up, and going out saw Mrs. Buggin's dog, which proves as I thought +last night so pretty that I took him and the bitch into my closet below, +and by holding down the bitch helped him to line her, which he did very +stoutly, so as I hope it will take, for it is the prettiest dog that ever +I saw. So to the office, where very busy all the morning, and so to the +'Change, and off hence with Sir W. Rider to the Trinity House, and there +dined very well: and good discourse among the old men of Islands now and +then rising and falling again in the Sea, and that there is many dangers +of grounds and rocks that come just up to the edge almost of the sea, that +is never discovered and ships perish without the world's knowing the +reason of it. Among other things, they observed, that there are but two +seamen in the Parliament house, viz., Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen, and +not above twenty or thirty merchants; which is a strange thing in an +island, and no wonder that things of trade go no better nor are better +understood. Thence home, and all the afternoon at the office, only for an +hour in the evening my Lady Jemimah, Paulina, and Madam Pickering come to +see us, but my wife would not be seen, being unready. Very merry with +them; they mightily talking of their thrifty living for a fortnight before +their mother came to town, and other such simple talk, and of their merry +life at Brampton, at my father's, this winter. So they being gone, to the +office again till late, and so home and to supper and to bed. + +24th. Called up by my father, poor man, coming to advise with me about +Tom's house and other matters, and he being gone I down by water to +Greenwich, it being very-foggy, and I walked very finely to Woolwich, and +there did very much business at both yards, and thence walked back, +Captain Grove with me talking, and so to Deptford and did the like-there, +and then walked to Redriffe (calling and eating a bit of collops and eggs +at Half-way house), and so home to the office, where we sat late, and home +weary to supper and to bed. + +25th (Lady-day). Up and by water to White Hall, and there to chappell; +where it was most infinite full to hear Dr. Critton. Being not knowne, +some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my +coming in. I told them my pretence; so they turned to the orders of the +chappell, which hung behind upon the wall, and read it; and were +satisfied; but they did not demand whether I was in waiting or no; and so +I was in some fear lest he that was in waiting might come and betray me. +The Doctor preached upon the thirty-first of Jeremy, and the twenty-first +and twenty-second verses, about a woman compassing a man; meaning the +Virgin conceiving and bearing our Saviour. It was the worst sermon I ever +heard him make, I must confess; and yet it was good, and in two places +very bitter, advising the King to do as the Emperor Severus did, to hang +up a Presbyter John (a short coat and a long gowne interchangeably) in all +the Courts of England. But the story of Severus was pretty, that he +hanged up forty senators before the Senate house, and then made a speech +presently to the Senate in praise of his owne lenity; and then decreed +that never any senator after that time should suffer in the same manner +without consent of the Senate: which he compared to the proceeding of the +Long Parliament against my Lord Strafford. He said the greatest part of +the lay magistrates in England were Puritans, and would not do justice; +and the Bishopps, their powers were so taken away and lessened, that they +could not exercise the power they ought. He told the King and the ladies +plainly, speaking of death and of the skulls and bones of dead men and +women, + + [The preacher appears to have had the grave scene in "Hamlet" in + his mind, as he gives the same illustration of Alexander as Hamlet + does.] + +how there is no difference; that nobody could tell that of the great +Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer; nor, for all the pains the ladies take +with their faces, he that should look in a charnels-house could not +distinguish which was Cleopatra's, or fair Rosamond's, or Jane Shoare's. +Thence by water home. After dinner to the office, thence with my wife to +see my father and discourse how he finds Tom's matters, which he do very +ill, and that he finds him to have been so negligent, that he used to +trust his servants with cutting out of clothes, never hardly cutting out +anything himself; and, by the abstract of his accounts, we find him to owe +above L290, and to be coming to him under L200. Thence home with my wife, +it being very dirty on foot, and bought some fowl in Gracious. Streets and +some oysters against our feast to-morrow. So home, and after at the +office a while, home to supper and to bed. + +26th. Up very betimes and to my office, and there read over some papers +against a meeting by and by at this office of Mr. Povy, Sir W. Rider, +Creed, and Vernaty, and Mr. Gauden about my Lord Peterborough's accounts +for Tangier, wherein we proceeded a good way; but, Lord! to see how +ridiculous Mr. Povy is in all he says or do; like a man not more fit for +to be in such employments as he is, and particularly that of Treasurer +(paying many and very great sums without the least written order) as he is +to be King of England, and seems but this day, after much discourse of +mine, to be sensible of that part of his folly, besides a great deal more +in other things. This morning in discourse Sir W. Rider [said], that he +hath kept a journals of his life for almost these forty years, even to +this day and still do, which pleases me mightily. That being done Sir J. +Minnes and I sat all the morning, and then I to the 'Change, and there got +away by pretence of business with my uncle Wight to put off Creed, whom I +had invited to dinner, and so home, and there found Madam Turner, her +daughter The., Joyce Norton, my father and Mr. Honywood, and by and by +come my uncle Wight and aunt. This being my solemn feast for my cutting +of the stone, it being now, blessed be God! this day six years since the +time; and I bless God I do in all respects find myself free from that +disease or any signs of it, more than that upon the least cold I continue +to have pain in making water, by gathering of wind and growing costive, +till which be removed I am at no ease, but without that I am very well. +One evil more I have, which is that upon the least squeeze almost my cods +begin to swell and come to great pain, which is very strange and +troublesome to me, though upon the speedy applying of a poultice it goes +down again, and in two days I am well again. Dinner not being presently +ready I spent some time myself and shewed them a map of Tangier left this +morning at my house by Creed, cut by our order, the Commissioners, and +drawn by Jonas Moore, which is very pleasant, and I purpose to have it +finely set out and hung up. Mrs. Hunt coming to see my wife by chance +dined here with us. After dinner Sir W. Batten sent to speak with me, and +told me that he had proffered our bill today in the House, and that it was +read without any dissenters, and he fears not but will pass very well, +which I shall be glad of. He told me also how Sir [Richard] Temple hath +spoke very discontentfull words in the House about the Tryennial Bill; but +it hath been read the second time to-day, and committed; and, he believes, +will go on without more ado, though there are many in the House are +displeased at it, though they dare not say much. But above all +expectation, Mr. Prin is the man against it, comparing it to the idoll +whose head was of gold, and his body and legs and feet of different metal. +So this Bill had several degrees of calling of Parliaments, in case the +King, and then the Council, and then the Lord Chancellor, and then the +Sheriffes, should fail to do it. He tells me also, how, upon occasion of +some 'prentices being put in the pillory to-day for beating of their +masters, or some such like thing, in Cheapside, a company of 'prentices +came and rescued them, and pulled down the pillory; and they being set up +again, did the like again. So that the Lord Mayor and Major Generall +Browne was fain to come and stay there, to keep the peace; and drums, all +up and down the city, was beat to raise the trained bands, for to quiett +the towne, and by and by, going out with my uncle and aunt Wight by coach +with my wife through Cheapside (the rest of the company after much content +and mirth being broke up), we saw a trained band stand in Cheapside upon +their guard. We went, much against my uncle's will, as far almost as Hyde +Park, he and my aunt falling out all the way about it, which vexed me, but +by this I understand my uncle more than ever I did, for he was mighty soon +angry, and wished a pox take her, which I was sorry to hear. The weather +I confess turning on a sudden to rain did make it very unpleasant, but yet +there was no occasion in the world for his being so angry, but she bore +herself very discreetly, and I must confess she proves to me much another +woman than I thought her, but all was peace again presently, and so it +raining very fast, we met many brave coaches coming from the Parke and so +we turned and set them down at home, and so we home ourselves, and ended +the day with great content to think how it hath pleased the Lord in six +years time to raise me from a condition of constant and dangerous and most +painfull sicknesse and low condition and poverty to a state of constant +health almost, great honour and plenty, for which the Lord God of heaven +make me truly thankfull. My wife found her gowne come home laced, which +is indeed very handsome, but will cost me a great deal of money, more than +ever I intended, but it is but for once. So to the office and did +business, and then home and to bed. + +27th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed wrangling with my wife about the +charge she puts me to at this time for clothes more than I intended, and +very angry we were, but quickly friends again. And so rising and ready I +to my office, and there fell upon business, and then to dinner, and then +to my office again to my business, and by and by in the afternoon walked +forth towards my father's, but it being church time, walked to St. +James's, to try if I could see the belle Butler, but could not; only saw +her sister, who indeed is pretty, with a fine Roman nose. Thence walked +through the ducking-pond fields; but they are so altered since my father +used to carry us to Islington, to the old man's, at the King's Head, to +eat cakes and ale (his name was Pitts) that I did not know which was the +ducking-pond nor where I was. So through F[l]ee[t] lane to my father's, +and there met Mr. Moore, and discoursed with him and my father about who +should administer for my brother Tom, and I find we shall have trouble in +it, but I will clear my hands of it, and what vexed me, my father seemed +troubled that I should seem to rely so wholly upon the advice of Mr. +Moore, and take nobody else, but I satisfied him, and so home; and in +Cheapside, both coming and going, it was full of apprentices, who have +been here all this day, and have done violence, I think, to the master of +the boys that were put in the pillory yesterday. But, Lord! to see how the +train-bands are raised upon this: the drums beating every where as if an +enemy were upon them; so much is this city subject to be put into a +disarray upon very small occasions. But it was pleasant to hear the boys, +and particularly one little one, that I demanded the business. He told me +that that had never been done in the city since it was a city, two +prentices put in the pillory, and that it ought not to be so. So I walked +home, and then it being fine moonshine with my wife an houre in the +garden, talking of her clothes against Easter and about her mayds, Jane +being to be gone, and the great dispute whether Besse, whom we both love, +should be raised to be chamber-mayde or no. We have both a mind to it, +but know not whether we should venture the making her proud and so make a +bad chamber-mayde of a very good natured and sufficient cook-mayde. So to +my office a little, and then to supper, prayers and to bed. + +28th. This is the first morning that I have begun, and I hope shall +continue to rise betimes in the morning, and so up and to my office, and +thence about 7 o'clock to T. Trice, and advised with him about our +administering to my brother Tom, and I went to my father and told him what +to do; which was to administer and to let my cozen Scott have a letter of +Atturny to follow the business here in his absence for him, who by that +means will have the power of paying himself (which we cannot however +hinder) and do us a kindness we think too. But, Lord! what a shame, +methinks, to me, that, in this condition, and at this age, I should know +no better the laws of my owne country! Thence to Westminster Hall, and +spent till noon, it being Parliament time, and at noon walked with Creed +into St. James's Parke, talking of many things, particularly of the poor +parts and great unfitness for business of Mr. Povy, and yet what a show he +makes in the world. Mr. Coventry not being come to his chamber, I walked +through the house with him for an hour in St. James's fields' talking of +the same subject, and then parted, and back and with great impatience, +sometimes reading, sometimes walking, sometimes thinking that Mr. +Coventry, though he invited us to dinner with him, was gone with the rest +of the office without a dinner. At last, at past 4 o'clock I heard that +the Parliament was not up yet, and so walked to Westminster Hall, and +there found it so, and meeting with Sir J. Minnes, and being very hungry, +went over with him to the Leg, and before we had cut a bit, the House +rises, however we eat a bit and away to St. James's and there eat a second +part of our dinner with Mr. Coventry and his brother Harry, Sir W. Batten +and Sir W. Pen. The great matter today in the House hath been, that Mr. +Vaughan, the great speaker, is this day come to towne, and hath declared +himself in a speech of an houre and a half, with great reason and +eloquence, against the repealing of the Bill for Triennial Parliaments; +but with no successe: but the House have carried it that there shall be +such Parliaments, but without any coercive power upon the King, if he will +bring this Act. But, Lord! to see how the best things are not done +without some design; for I perceive all these gentlemen that I was with +to-day were against it (though there was reason enough on their side); yet +purely, I could perceive, because it was the King's mind to have it; and +should he demand any thing else, I believe they would give it him. But +this the discontented Presbyters, and the faction of the House will be +highly displeased with; but it was carried clearly against them in the +House. We had excellent good table-talke, some of which I have entered in +my book of stories. So with them by coach home, and there find (bye my +wife), that Father Fogourdy hath been with her to-day, and she is mightily +for our going to hear a famous Reule preach at the French Embassador's +house: I pray God he do not tempt her in any matters of religion, which +troubles me; and also, she had messages from her mother to-day, who sent +for her old morning-gown, which was almost past wearing; and I used to +call it her kingdom, from the ease and content she used to have in the +wearing of it. I am glad I do not hear of her begging any thing of more +value, but I do not like that these messages should now come all upon +Monday morning, when my wife expects of course I should be abroad at the +Duke's. To the office, where Mr. Norman came and showed me a design of +his for the storekeeper's books, for the keeping of them regular in order +to a balance, which I am mightily satisfied to see, and shall love the +fellow the better, as he is in all things sober, so particularly for his +endeavour to do something in this thing so much wanted. So late home to +supper and to bed, weary-with walking so long to no purpose in the Park +to-day. + +29th. Was called up this morning by a messenger from Sir G. Carteret to +come to him to Sir W. Batten's, and so I rose and thither to him, and with +him and Sir J. Minnes to, Sir G. Carteret's to examine his accounts, and +there we sat at it all the morning. About noon Sir W. Batten came from +the House of Parliament and told us our Bill for our office was read the +second time to-day, with great applause, and is committed. By and by to +dinner, where good cheere, and Sir G. Carteret in his humour a very good +man, and the most kind father and pleased father in his children that ever +I saw. Here is now hung up a picture of my Lady Carteret, drawn by Lilly, +a very fine picture, but yet not so good as I have seen of his doing. +After dinner to the business again without any intermission till almost +night, and then home, and took coach to my father to see and discourse +with him, and so home again and to my office, where late, and then home to +bed. + +30th. Up very betimes to my office, and thence at 7 o'clock to Sir G. +Carteret, and there with Sir J. Minnes made an end of his accounts, but +staid not dinner, my Lady having made us drink our morning draft there of +several wines, but I drank: nothing but some of her coffee, which was +poorly made, with a little sugar in it. Thence to the 'Change a great +while, and had good discourse with Captain Cocke at the Coffee-house about +a Dutch warr, and it seems the King's design is by getting underhand the +merchants to bring in their complaints to the Parliament, to make them in +honour begin a warr, which he cannot in honour declare first, for fear +they should not second him with money. Thence homewards, staying a pretty +while with my little she milliner at the end of Birchin Lane, talking and +buying gloves of her, and then home to dinner, and in the afternoon had a +meeting upon the Chest business, but I fear unless I have time to look +after it nothing will be done,, and that I fear I shall not. In the +evening comes Sir W. Batten, who tells us that the Committee have approved +of our bill with very few amendments in words, not in matter. So to my +office, where late with Sir W. Warren, and so home to supper and to bed. + +31st. Up betimes, and to my office, where by and by comes Povy, Sir W. +Rider, Mr. Bland, Creed, and Vernatty, about my Lord Peterborough's +accounts, which we now went through, but with great difficulty, and many +high words between Mr. Povy and I; for I could not endure to see so many +things extraordinary put in, against truthe and reason. He was very +angry, but I endeavoured all I could to profess my satisfaction in my +Lord's part of the accounts, but not in those foolish idle things, they +say I said, that others had put in. Anon we rose and parted, both of us +angry, but I contented, because I knew all of them must know I was in the +right. Then with Creed to Deptford, where I did a great deal of business +enquiring into the business of canvas and other things with great content, +and so walked back again, good discourse between Creed and I by the way, +but most upon the folly of Povy, and at home found Luellin, and so we to +dinner, and thence I to the office, where we sat all the afternoon late, +and being up and my head mightily crowded with business, I took my wife by +coach to see my father. I left her at his house and went to him to an +alehouse hard by, where my cozen Scott was, and my father's new tenant, +Langford, a tailor, to whom I have promised my custom, and he seems a very +modest, carefull young man. Thence my wife coming with the coach to the +alley end I home, and after supper to the making up my monthly accounts, +and to my great content find myself worth above L900, the greatest sum I +ever yet had. Having done my accounts, late to bed. My head of late +mighty full of business, and with good content to myself in it, though +sometimes it troubles me that nobody else but I should bend themselves to +serve the King with that diligence, whereby much of my pains proves +ineffectual. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + Doubtfull of himself, and easily be removed from his own opinion + Drink a dish of coffee + Ill from my late cutting my hair so close to my head + Nothing of the memory of a man, an houre after he is dead! + She had got and used some puppy-dog water + Subject to be put into a disarray upon very small occasions + Very angry we were, but quickly friends again + Went against me to have my wife and servants look upon them + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MARCH *** + +***** This file should be named 4147.txt or 4147.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/4/4147/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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