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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64

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                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.

            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

                              (Unabridged)

                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.



                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 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.




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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




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