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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 this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v31 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp32g10.zip b/old/sp32g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d25e0b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp32g10.zip |