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+Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1664
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+Author: Samuel Pepys, Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
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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.
+                             APRIL & MAY
+                                 1664
+
+
+April 1st.  Up and to my office, where busy till noon, and then to the
+'Change, where I found all the merchants concerned with the presenting
+their complaints to the Committee of Parliament appointed to receive them
+this afternoon against the Dutch.  So home to dinner, and thence by
+coach, setting my wife down at the New Exchange, I to White Hall; and
+coming too soon for the Tangier Committee walked to Mr. Blagrave for a
+song.  I left long ago there, and here I spoke with his kinswoman, he not
+being within, but did not hear her sing, being not enough acquainted with
+her, but would be glad to have her, to come and be at my house a week now
+and then.  Back to White Hall, and in the Gallery met the Duke of Yorke
+(I also saw the Queene going to the Parke, and her Mayds of Honour: she
+herself looks ill, and methinks Mrs. Stewart is grown fatter, and not so
+fair as she was); and he called me to him, and discoursed a good while
+with me; and after he was gone, twice or thrice staid and called me again
+to him, the whole length of the house: and at last talked of the Dutch;
+and I perceive do much wish that the Parliament will find reason to fall
+out with them.  He gone, I by and by found that the Committee of Tangier
+met at the Duke of Albemarle's, and so I have lost my labour.  So with
+Creed to the 'Change, and there took up my wife and left him, and we two
+home, and I to walk in the garden with W. Howe, whom we took up, he
+having been to see us, he tells me how Creed has been questioned before
+the Council about a letter that has been met with, wherein he is
+mentioned by some fanatiques as a serviceable friend to them, but he says
+he acquitted himself well in it, but, however, something sticks against
+him, he says, with my Lord, at which I am not very sorry, for I believe
+he is a false fellow.  I walked with him to Paul's, he telling me how my
+Lord is little at home, minds his carding and little else, takes little
+notice of any body; but that he do not think he is displeased, as I fear,
+with me, but is strange to all, which makes me the less troubled.  So
+walked back home, and late at the office.  So home and to bed.  This day
+Mrs. Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one Mr. Wells, writ
+long ago, teaching the method of building a ship, which pleases me
+mightily.  I was at it to-night, but durst not stay long at it, I being
+come to have a great pain and water in my eyes after candle-light.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Up and to my office, and afterwards sat, where great contest with
+Sir W. Batten and Mr. Wood, and that doating fool Sir J. Minnes, that
+says whatever Sir W. Batten says, though never minding whether to the
+King's profit or not.  At noon to the Coffee-house, where excellent
+discourse with Sir W. Petty, who proposed it as a thing that is truly
+questionable, whether there really be any difference between waking and
+dreaming, that it is hard not only to tell how we know when we do a thing
+really or in a dream, but also to know what the difference [is] between
+one and the other.  Thence to the 'Change, but having at this discourse
+long afterwards with Sir Thomas Chamberlin, who tells me what I heard
+from others, that the complaints of most Companies were yesterday
+presented to the Committee of Parliament against the Dutch, excepting
+that of the East India, which he tells me was because they would not be
+said to be the first and only cause of a warr with Holland, and that it
+is very probable, as well as most necessary, that we fall out with that
+people.  I went to the 'Change, and there found most people gone, and so
+home to dinner, and thence to Sir W. Warren's, and with him past the
+whole afternoon, first looking over two ships' of Captain Taylor's and
+Phin. Pett's now in building, and am resolved to learn something of the
+art, for I find it is not hard and very usefull, and thence to Woolwich,
+and after seeing Mr. Falconer, who is very ill, I to the yard, and there
+heard Mr. Pett tell me several things of Sir W. Batten's ill managements,
+and so with Sir W. Warren walked to Greenwich, having good discourse, and
+thence by water, it being now moonshine and 9 or 10 o'clock at night, and
+landed at Wapping, and by him and his man safely brought to my door, and
+so he home, having spent the day with him very well.  So home and eat
+something, and then to my office a while, and so home to prayers and to
+bed.
+
+
+
+3rd (Lord's day).  Being weary last night lay long, and called up by W.
+Joyce.  So I rose, and his business was to ask advice of me, he being
+summonsed to the House of Lords to-morrow, for endeavouring to arrest my
+Lady Peters
+
+     [Elizabeth, daughter of John Savage, second Earl Rivers, and first
+     wife to William, fourth Lord Petre, who was, in 1678, impeached by
+     the Commons of high treason, and died under confinement in the
+     Tower, January 5th, 1683, s. p.--B.]
+
+for a debt.  I did give him advice, and will assist him.  He staid all
+the morning, but would not dine with me.  So to my office and did
+business.  At noon home to dinner, and being set with my wife in the
+kitchen my father comes and sat down there and dined with us.  After
+dinner gives me an account of what he had done in his business of his
+house and goods, which is almost finished, and he the next week expects
+to be going down to Brampton again, which I am glad of because I fear the
+children of my Lord that are there for fear of any discontent.  He being
+gone I to my office, and there very busy setting papers in order till
+late at night, only in the afternoon my wife sent for me home, to see her
+new laced gowne, that is her gown that is new laced; and indeed it
+becomes her very nobly, and is well made.  I am much pleased with it.  At
+night to supper, prayers, and to bed.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and walked to my Lord Sandwich's; and there spoke with him
+about W. Joyce, who told me he would do what was fit in so tender a
+point.  I can yet discern a coldness in him to admit me to any discourse
+with him.  Thence to Westminster, to the Painted Chamber, and there met
+the two Joyces.  Will in a very melancholy taking.  After a little
+discourse I to the Lords' House before they sat; and stood within it a
+good while, while the Duke of York came to me and spoke to me a good
+while about the new ship' at Woolwich.  Afterwards I spoke with my Lord
+Barkeley and my Lord Peterborough about it.  And so staid without a good
+while, and saw my Lady Peters, an impudent jade, soliciting all the Lords
+on her behalf.  And at last W. Joyce was called in; and by the
+consequences, and what my Lord Peterborough told me, I find that he did
+speak all he said to his disadvantage, and so was committed to the Black
+Rod: which is very hard, he doing what he did by the advice of my Lord
+Peters' own steward.  But the Sergeant of the Black Rod did direct one of
+his messengers to take him in custody, and so he was peaceably conducted
+to the Swan with two Necks, in Tuttle Street, to a handsome dining-room;
+and there was most civilly used, my uncle Fenner, and his brother
+Anthony, and some other friends being with him.  But who would have
+thought that the fellow that I should have sworn could have spoken before
+all the world should in this be so daunted, as not to know what he said,
+and now to cry like a child.  I protest, it is very strange to observe.
+I left them providing for his stay there to-night and getting a petition
+against tomorrow, and so away to Westminster Hall, and meeting Mr.
+Coventry, he took me to his chamber, with Sir William Hickeman, a member
+of their House, and a very civill gentleman.  Here we dined very
+plentifully, and thence to White Hall to the Duke's, where we all met,
+and after some discourse of the condition of the Fleete, in order to a
+Dutch warr, for that, I perceive, the Duke hath a mind it should come to,
+we away to the office, where we sat, and I took care to rise betimes, and
+so by water to Halfway House, talking all the way good discourse with Mr.
+Wayth, and there found my wife, who was gone with her mayd Besse to have
+a walk.  But, Lord!  how my jealous mind did make me suspect that she
+might have some appointment to meet somebody.  But I found the poor souls
+coming away thence, so I took them back, and eat and drank, and then
+home, and after at the office a while, I home to supper and to bed.  It
+was a sad sight, me thought, to-day to see my Lord Peters coming out of
+the House fall out with his lady (from whom he is parted) about this
+business; saying that she disgraced him.  But she hath been a handsome
+woman, and is, it seems, not only a lewd woman, but very high-spirited.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up very betimes, and walked to my cozen Anthony Joyce's, and thence
+with him to his brother Will, in Tuttle Street, where I find him pretty
+cheery over [what] he was yesterday (like a coxcomb), his wife being come
+to him, and having had his boy with him last night.  Here I staid an hour
+or two and wrote over a fresh petition, that which was drawn by their
+solicitor not pleasing me, and thence to the Painted chamber, and by and
+by away by coach to my Lord Peterborough's, and there delivered the
+petition into his hand, which he promised most readily to deliver to the
+House today.  Thence back, and there spoke to several Lords, and so did
+his solicitor (one that W. Joyce hath promised L5 to if he be released).
+Lord Peterborough presented a petition to the House from W. Joyce: and a
+great dispute, we hear, there was in the House for and against it.  At
+last it was carried that he should be bayled till the House meets again
+after Easter, he giving bond for his appearance.  This was not so good as
+we hoped, but as good as we could well expect.  Anon comes the King and
+passed the Bill for repealing the Triennial Act, and another about Writs
+of Errour.  I crowded in and heard the King's speech to them; but he
+speaks the worst that ever I heard man in my life worse than if he read
+it all, and he had it in writing in his hand.  Thence, after the House
+was up, and I inquired what the order of the House was, I to W. Joyce,'
+with his brother, and told them all.  Here was Kate come, and is a comely
+fat woman.  I would not stay dinner, thinking to go home to dinner, and
+did go by water as far as the bridge, but thinking that they would take
+it kindly my being there, to be bayled for him if there was need, I
+returned, but finding them gone out to look after it, only Will and his
+wife and sister left and some friends that came to visit him, I to
+Westminster Hall, and by and by by agreement to Mrs. Lane's lodging,
+whither I sent for a lobster, and with Mr. Swayne and his wife eat it,
+and argued before them mightily for Hawly, but all would not do, although
+I made her angry by calling her old, and making her know what herself is.
+Her body was out of temper for any dalliance, and so after staying there
+3 or 4 hours, but yet taking care to have my oath safe of not staying a
+quarter of an hour together with her, I went to W. Joyce, where I find
+the order come, and bayle (his father and brother) given; and he paying
+his fees, which come to above L2, besides L5 he is to give one man, and
+his charges of eating and drinking here, and 10s. a-day as many days as
+he stands under bayle: which, I hope, will teach him hereafter to hold
+his tongue better than he used to do.  Thence with Anth. Joyce's wife
+alone home talking of Will's folly, and having set her down, home myself,
+where I find my wife dressed as if she had been abroad, but I think she
+was not, but she answering me some way that I did not like I pulled her
+by the nose, indeed to offend her, though afterwards to appease her I
+denied it, but only it was done in haste.  The poor wretch took it mighty
+ill, and I believe besides wringing her nose she did feel pain, and so
+cried a great while, but by and by I made her friends, and so after
+supper to my office a while, and then home to bed.  This day great
+numbers of merchants came to a Grand Committee of the House to bring in
+their claims against the Dutch.  I pray God guide the issue to our good!
+
+
+
+6th.  Up and to my office, whither by and by came John Noble, my father's
+old servant, to speake with me.  I smelling the business, took him home;
+and there, all alone, he told me how he had been serviceable to my
+brother Tom, in the business of his getting his servant, an ugly jade,
+Margaret, with child.  She was brought to bed in St. Sepulchre's parish
+of two children; one is dead, the other is alive; her name Elizabeth, and
+goes by the name of Taylor, daughter to John Taylor.  It seems Tom did a
+great while trust one Crawly with the business, who daily got money of
+him; and at last, finding himself abused, he broke the matter to J.
+Noble, upon a vowe of secresy.  Tom's first plott was to go on the other
+side the water and give a beggar woman something to take the child.  They
+did once go, but did nothing, J. Noble saying that seven years hence the
+mother might come to demand the child and force him to produce it, or to
+be suspected of murder.  Then I think it was that they consulted, and got
+one Cave, a poor pensioner in St. Bride's parish to take it, giving him
+L5, he thereby promising to keepe it for ever without more charge to
+them.  The parish hereupon indite the man Cave for bringing this child
+upon the parish, and by Sir Richard Browne he is sent to the Counter.
+Cave thence writes to Tom to get him out.  Tom answers him in a letter of
+his owne hand, which J. Noble shewed me, but not signed by him, wherein
+he speaks of freeing him and getting security for him, but nothing as to
+the business of the child, or anything like it: so that forasmuch as I
+could guess, there is nothing therein to my brother's prejudice as to the
+main point, and therefore I did not labour to tear or take away the
+paper.  Cave being released, demands L5 more to secure my brother for
+ever against the child; and he was forced to give it him and took bond of
+Cave in L100, made at a scrivener's, one Hudson, I think, in the Old
+Bayly, to secure John Taylor, and his assigns, &c.  (in consideration of
+L10 paid him), from all trouble, or charge of meat, drink, clothes, and
+breeding of Elizabeth Taylor; and it seems, in the doing of it, J. Noble
+was looked upon as the assignee of this John Taylor.  Noble says that he
+furnished Tom with this money, and is also bound by another bond to pay
+him 20s. more this next Easter Monday; but nothing for either sum appears
+under Tom's hand.  I told him how I am like to lose a great sum by his
+death, and would not pay any more myself, but I would speake to my father
+about it against the afternoon.  So away he went, and I all the morning
+in my office busy, and at noon home to dinner mightily oppressed with
+wind, and after dinner took coach and to Paternoster Row, and there
+bought a pretty silke for a petticoate for my wife, and thence set her
+down at the New Exchange, and I leaving the coat at Unthanke's, went to
+White Hall, but the Councell meeting at Worcester House I went thither,
+and there delivered to the Duke of Albemarle a paper touching some
+Tangier business, and thence to the 'Change for my wife, and walked to my
+father's, who was packing up some things for the country.  I took him up
+and told him this business of Tom, at which the poor wretch was much
+troubled, and desired me that I would speak with J. Noble, and do what I
+could and thought fit in it without concerning him in it.  So I went to
+Noble, and saw the bond that Cave did give and also Tom's letter that I
+mentioned above, and upon the whole I think some shame may come, but that
+it will be hard from any thing I see there to prove the child to be his.
+Thence to my father and told what I had done, and how I had quieted Noble
+by telling him that, though we are resolved to part with no more money
+out of our own purses, yet if he can make it appear a true debt that it
+may be justifiable for us to pay it, we will do our part to get it paid,
+and said that I would have it paid before my own debt.  So my father and
+I both a little satisfied, though vexed to think what a rogue my brother
+was in all respects.  I took my wife by coach home, and to my office,
+where late with Sir W. Warren, and so home to supper and to bed.  I heard
+to-day that the Dutch have begun with us by granting letters of marke
+against us; but I believe it not.
+
+
+
+7th.  Up and to my office, where busy, and by and by comes Sir W. Warren
+and old Mr. Bond in order to the resolving me some questions about masts
+and their proportions, but he could say little to me to my satisfaction,
+and so I held him not long but parted.  So to my office busy till noon
+and then to the 'Change, where high talke of the Dutch's protest against
+our Royall Company in Guinny, and their granting letters of marke against
+us there, and every body expects a warr, but I hope it will not yet be
+so, nor that this is true.  Thence to dinner, where my wife got me a
+pleasant French fricassee of veal for dinner, and thence to the office,
+where vexed to see how Sir W. Batten ordered things this afternoon (vide
+my office book, for about this time I have begun, my notions and
+informations encreasing now greatly every day, to enter all occurrences
+extraordinary in my office in a book by themselves), and so in the
+evening after long discourse and eased my mind by discourse with Sir W.
+Warren, I to my business late, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+8th.  Up betimes and to the office, and anon, it begunn to be fair after
+a great shower this morning, Sir W. Batten and I by water (calling his
+son Castle by the way, between whom and I no notice at all of his letter
+the other day to me) to Deptford, and after a turn in the yard, I went
+with him to the Almes'-house to see the new building which he, with some
+ambition, is building of there, during his being Master of Trinity House;
+and a good worke it is, but to see how simply he answered somebody
+concerning setting up the arms of the corporation upon the door, that and
+any thing else he did not deny it, but said he would leave that to the
+master that comes after him.  There I left him and to the King's yard
+again, and there made good inquiry into the business of the poop
+lanterns, wherein I found occasion to correct myself mightily for what I
+have done in the contract with the platerer, and am resolved, though I
+know not how, to make them to alter it, though they signed it last night,
+and so I took Stanes
+
+     [Among the State Papers is a petition of Thomas Staine to the Navy
+     Commissioners "for employment as plateworker in one or two
+     dockyards.  Has incurred ill-will by discovering abuses in the great
+     rates given by the king for several things in the said trade.  Begs
+     the appointment, whereby it will be seen who does the work best and
+     cheapest, otherwise he and all others will be discouraged from
+     discovering abuses in future, with order thereon for a share of the
+     work to be given to him"  ("Calendar," Domestic, 1663-64, p. 395)]
+
+home with me by boat and discoursed it, and he will come to reason when I
+can make him to understand it.  No sooner landed but it fell a mighty
+storm of rain and hail, so I put into a cane shop and bought one to walk
+with, cost me 4s. 6d., all of one joint.  So home to dinner, and had an
+excellent Good Friday dinner of peas porridge and apple pye.  So to the
+office all the afternoon preparing a new book for my contracts, and this
+afternoon come home the office globes done to my great content.  In the
+evening a little to visit Sir W. Pen, who hath a feeling this day or two
+of his old pain.  Then to walk in the garden with my wife, and so to my
+office a while, and then home to the only Lenten supper I have had of
+wiggs--[Buns or teacakes.]-- and ale, and so to bed.  This morning
+betimes came to my office to me boatswain Smith of Woolwich, telling me a
+notable piece of knavery of the officers of the yard and Mr. Gold in
+behalf of a contract made for some old ropes by Mr. Wood, and I believe I
+shall find Sir W. Batten of the plot (vide my office daybook).
+
+     [These note-books referred to in the Diary are not known to exist
+     now.]
+
+
+
+9th.  The last night, whether it was from cold I got to-day upon the
+water I know not, or whether it was from my mind being over concerned
+with Stanes's business of the platery of the navy, for my minds was
+mighty troubled with the business all night long, I did wake about one
+o'clock in the morning, a thing I most rarely do, and pissed a little
+with great pain, continued sleepy, but in a high fever all night, fiery
+hot, and in some pain.  Towards morning I slept a little and waking found
+myself better, but .  .  .  . --[After what was just allowed print above,
+what could have required censorship here?  D.W.]--with some pain, and
+rose I confess with my clothes sweating, and it was somewhat cold too,
+which I believe might do me more hurt, for I continued cold and apt to
+shake all the morning, but that some trouble with Sir J. Minnes and Sir
+W. Batten kept me warm.  At noon home to dinner upon tripes, and so
+though not well abroad with my wife by coach to her Tailor's and the New
+Exchange, and thence to my father's and spoke one word with him, and
+thence home, where I found myself sick in my stomach and vomited, which I
+do not use to do.  Then I drank a glass or two of Hypocras, and to the
+office to dispatch some business, necessary, and so home and to bed, and
+by the help of Mithrydate--[An opiate??  D.W.]--slept very well.
+
+
+
+10th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed, and then up and my wife dressed
+herself, it being Easter day, but I not being so well as to go out, she,
+though much against her will, staid at home with me; for she had put on
+her new best gowns, which indeed is very fine now with the lace; and this
+morning her taylor brought home her other new laced silks gowns with a
+smaller lace, and new petticoats, I bought the other day both very
+pretty.  We spent the day in pleasant talks and company one with another,
+reading in Dr. Fuller's book what he says of the family of the Cliffords
+and Kingsmills, and at night being myself better than I was by taking a
+glyster,--[Pepy's spells this procedure sometimes with a 'c' and
+sometimes with a 'g' but a clyster however spelt is what today is termed
+and enema.  D.W.]--which did carry away a great deal of wind, I after
+supper at night went to bed and slept well.
+
+
+
+11th.  Lay long talking with my wife, then up and to my chamber preparing
+papers against my father comes to lie here for discourse about country
+business.  Dined well with my wife at home, being myself not yet thorough
+well, making water with some pain, but better than I was, and all my fear
+of an ague gone away.  In the afternoon my father came to see us, and he
+gone I up to my morning's work again, and so in the evening a little to
+the office and to see Sir W. Batten, who is ill again, and so home to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up, and after my wife had dressed herself very fine in her new
+laced gown, and very handsome indeed, W. Howe also coming to see us, I
+carried her by coach to my uncle Wight's and set her down there, and W.
+Howe and I to the Coffee-house, where we sat talking about getting of him
+some place under my Lord of advantage if he should go to sea, and I would
+be glad to get him secretary and to out Creed if I can, for he is a
+crafty and false rogue.  Thence a little to the 'Change, and thence took
+him to my uncle Wight's, where dined my father, poor melancholy man, that
+used to be as full of life as anybody, and also my aunt's brother, Mr.
+Sutton, a merchant in Flanders, a very sober, fine man, and Mr. Cole and
+his lady; but, Lord! how I used to adore that man's talke, and now
+methinks he is but an ordinary man, his son a pretty boy indeed, but his
+nose unhappily awry.  Other good company and an indifferent, and but
+indifferent dinner for so much company, and after dinner got a coach,
+very dear, it being Easter time and very foul weather, to my Lord's, and
+there visited my Lady, and leaving my wife there I and W. Howe to Mr.
+Pagett's, and there heard some musique not very good, but only one Dr.
+Walgrave, an Englishman bred at Rome, who plays the best upon the lute
+that I ever heard man.  Here I also met Mr. Hill
+
+     [Thomas Hill, a man whose taste for music caused him to be a very
+     acceptable companion to Pepys.  In January, 1664-65, he became
+     assistant to the secretary of the Prize Office.]
+
+the little merchant, and after all was done we sung.  I did well enough a
+Psalm or two of Lawes; he I perceive has good skill and sings well, and a
+friend of his sings a good base.  Thence late walked with them two as far
+as my Lord's, thinking to take up my wife and carry them home, but there
+being no coach to be got away they went, and I staid a great while, it
+being very late, about 10 o'clock, before a coach could be got.  I found
+my Lord and ladies and my wife at supper.  My Lord seems very kind.  But
+I am apt to think still the worst, and that it is only in show, my wife
+and Lady being there.  So home, and find my father come to lie at our
+house; and so supped, and saw him, poor man, to bed, my heart never being
+fuller of love to him, nor admiration of his prudence and pains
+heretofore in the world than now, to see how Tom hath carried himself in
+his trade; and how the poor man hath his thoughts going to provide for
+his younger children and my mother.  But I hope they shall never want.
+So myself and wife to bed.
+
+
+
+13th.  Though late, past 12, before we went to bed, yet I heard my poor
+father up, and so I rang up my people, and I rose and got something to
+eat and drink for him, and so abroad, it being a mighty foul day, by
+coach, setting my father down in Fleet Streete and I to St. James's,
+where I found Mr. Coventry (the Duke being now come thither for the
+summer) with a goldsmith, sorting out his old plate to change for new;
+but, Lord! what a deale he hath!  I staid and had two or three hours
+discourse with him, talking about the disorders of our office, and I
+largely to tell him how things are carried by Sir W. Batten and Sir J.
+Minnes to my great grief.  He seems much concerned also, and for all the
+King's matters that are done after the same rate every where else, and
+even the Duke's household matters too, generally with corruption, but
+most indeed with neglect and indifferency.  I spoke very loud and clear
+to him my thoughts of Sir J. Minnes and the other, and trust him with the
+using of them.  Then to talk of our business with the Dutch; he tells me
+fully that he believes it will not come to a warr; for first, he showed
+me a letter from Sir George Downing, his own hand, where he assures him
+that the Dutch themselves do not desire, but above all things fear it,
+and that they neither have given letters of marke against our shipps in
+Guinny, nor do De Ruyter
+
+     [Michael De Ruyter, the Dutch admiral, was born 1607.  He served
+     under Tromp in the war against England in 1653, and was Lieutenant
+     Admiral General of Holland in 1665.  He died April 26th, 1676, of
+     wounds received in a battle with the French off Syracuse.  Among the
+     State Papers is a news letter (dated July 14th, 1664) containing
+     information as to the views of the Dutch respecting a war with
+     England.  "They are preparing many ships, and raising 6,000 men, and
+     have no doubt of conquering by sea."  "A wise man says the States
+     know how to master England by sending moneys into Scotland for them
+     to rebel, and also to the discontented in England, so as to place
+     the King in the same straits as his father was, and bring him to
+     agree with Holland" ("Calendar," 1663-64, p. 642).]
+
+stay at home with his fleet with an eye to any such thing, but for want
+of a wind, and is now come out and is going to the Streights.  He tells
+me also that the most he expects is that upon the merchants' complaints,
+the Parliament will represent them to the King, desiring his securing of
+his subjects against them, and though perhaps they may not directly see
+fit, yet even this will be enough to let the Dutch know that the
+Parliament do not oppose the King, and by that means take away their
+hopes, which was that the King of England could not get money or do
+anything towards a warr with them, and so thought themselves free from
+making any restitution, which by this they will be deceived in.  He tells
+me also that the Dutch states are in no good condition themselves,
+differing one with another, and that for certain none but the states of
+Holland and Zealand will contribute towards a warr, the others reckoning
+themselves, being inland, not concerned in the profits of warr or peace.
+But it is pretty to see what he says, that those here that are forward
+for a warr at Court, they are reported in the world to be only designers
+of getting money into the King's hands, they that elsewhere are for it
+have a design to trouble the kingdom and to give the Fanatiques an
+opportunity of doing hurt, and lastly those that are against it (as he
+himself for one is very cold therein) are said to be bribed by the Dutch.
+After all this discourse he carried me in his coach, it raining still,
+to, Charing Cross, and there put me into another, and I calling my father
+and brother carried them to my house to dinner, my wife keeping bed all
+day .  .  .  .  .  All the afternoon at the office with W. Boddam looking
+over his particulars about the Chest of Chatham, which shows enough what
+a knave Commissioner Pett hath been all along, and how Sir W. Batten hath
+gone on in getting good allowance to himself and others out of the poors'
+money.  Time will show all.  So in the evening to see Sir W. Pen, and
+then home to my father to keep him company, he being to go out of town,
+and up late with him and my brother John till past 12 at night to make up
+papers of Tom's accounts fit to leave with my cozen Scott.  At last we
+did make an end of them, and so after supper all to bed.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up betimes, and after my father's eating something, I walked out
+with him as far as Milk Streete, he turning down to Cripplegate to take
+coach; and at the end of the streete I took leave, being much afeard I
+shall not see him here any more, he do decay so much every day, and so I
+walked on, there being never a coach to be had till I came to Charing
+Cross, and there Col. Froud took me up and carried me to St. James's,
+where with Mr. Coventry and Povy, &c., about my Lord Peterborough's
+accounts, but, Lord!  to see still what a puppy that Povy is with all his
+show is very strange.  Thence to Whitehall and W. C[oventry] and I and
+Sir W. Rider resolved upon a day to meet and make an end of all the.
+business.  Thence walked with Creed to the Coffee-house in Covent Garden,
+where no company, but he told me many fine experiments at Gresham
+College; and some demonstration that the heat and cold of the weather do
+rarify and condense the very body of glasse, as in a bolt head' with cold
+water in it put into hot water, shall first by rarifying the glasse make
+the water sink, and then when the heat comes to the water makes that rise
+again, and then put into cold water makes the water by condensing the
+glass to rise, and then when the cold comes to the water makes it sink,
+which is very pretty and true, he saw it tried.  Thence by coach home,
+and dined above with my wife by her bedside, she keeping her bed .  .  .
+.  .  So to the office, where a great conflict with Wood and Castle about
+their New England masts?  So in the evening my mind a little vexed, but
+yet without reason, for I shall prevail, I hope, for the King's profit,
+and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+15th.  Up and all the morning with Captain Taylor at my house talking
+about things of the Navy, and among other things I showed him my letters
+to Mr. Coventry, wherein he acknowledges that nobody to this day did ever
+understand so much as I have done, and I believe him, for I perceive he
+did very much listen to every article as things new to him, and is
+contented to abide by my opinion therein in his great contest with us
+about his and Mr. Wood's masts.  At noon to the 'Change, where I met with
+Mr. Hill, the little merchant, with whom, I perceive, I shall contract a
+musical acquaintance; but I will make it as little troublesome as I can.
+Home and dined, and then with my wife by coach to the Duke's house, and
+there saw "The German Princess" acted, by the woman herself; but never
+was any thing so well done in earnest, worse performed in jest upon the
+stage; and indeed the whole play, abating the drollery of him that acts
+her husband, is very simple, unless here and there a witty sprinkle or
+two. We met and sat by Dr. Clerke.  Thence homewards, calling at Madam
+Turner's, and thence set my wife down at my aunt Wight's and I to my
+office till late, and then at to at night fetched her home, and so again
+to my office a little, and then to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+16th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning upon the dispute of
+Mr. Wood's masts, and at noon with Mr. Coventry to the African House; and
+after a good and pleasant dinner, up with him, Sir W. Rider, the simple
+Povy, of all the most ridiculous foole that ever I knew to attend to
+business, and Creed and Vernatty, about my Lord Peterborough's accounts;
+but the more we look into them, the more we see of them that makes
+dispute, which made us break off, and so I home, and there found my wife
+and Besse gone over the water to Half-way house, and after them, thinking
+to have gone to Woolwich, but it was too late, so eat a cake and home,
+and thence by coach to have spoke with Tom Trice about a letter I met
+with this afternoon from my cozen Scott, wherein he seems to deny
+proceeding as my father's attorney in administering for him in my brother
+Tom's estate, but I find him gone out of town, and so returned vexed home
+and to the office, where late writing a letter to him, and so home and to
+bed.
+
+
+
+17th (Lord's day).  Up, and I put on my best cloth black suit and my
+velvet cloake, and with my wife in her best laced suit to church, where
+we have not been these nine or ten weeks.  The truth is, my jealousy hath
+hindered it, for fear she should see Pembleton.  He was here to-day, but
+I think sat so as he could not see her, which did please me, God help me!
+mightily, though I know well enough that in reason this is nothing but my
+ridiculous folly.  Home to dinner, and in the afternoon, after long
+consulting whether to go to Woolwich or no to see Mr. Falconer, but
+indeed to prevent my wife going to church, I did however go to church
+with her, where a young simple fellow did preach: I slept soundly all the
+sermon, and thence to Sir W. Pen's, my wife and I, there she talking with
+him and his daughter, and thence with my wife walked to my uncle Wight's
+and there supped, where very merry, but I vexed to see what charges the
+vanity of my aunt puts her husband to among her friends and nothing at
+all among ours.  Home and to bed.  Our parson, Mr. Mills, his owne
+mistake in reading of the service was very remarkable, that instead of
+saying, "We beseech thee to preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the
+earth," he cries, "Preserve to our use our gracious Queen Katherine."
+
+
+
+18th.  Up and by coach to Westminster, and there solicited W. Joyce's
+business again; and did speake to the Duke of Yorke about it, who did
+understand it very well.  I afterwards did without the House fall in
+company with my Lady Peters, and endeavoured to mollify her; but she told
+me she would not, to redeem her from hell, do any thing to release him;
+but would be revenged while she lived, if she lived the age of
+Methusalem.  I made many friends, and so did others.  At last it was
+ordered by the Lords that it should be referred to the Committee of
+Privileges to consider.  So I, after discoursing with the Joyces, away by
+coach to the 'Change; and there, among other things, do hear that a Jew
+hath put in a policy of four per cent. to any man, to insure him against
+a Dutch warr for four months; I could find in my heart to take him at
+this offer, but however will advise first, and to that end took coach to
+St. James's, but Mr. Coventry was gone forth, and I thence to Westminster
+Hall, where Mrs. Lane was gone forth, and so I missed of my intent to be
+with her this afternoon, and therefore meeting Mr. Blagrave, went home
+with him, and there he and his kinswoman sang, but I was not pleased with
+it, they singing methought very ill, or else I am grown worse to please
+than heretofore.  Thence to the Hall again, and after meeting with
+several persons, and talking there, I to Mrs. Hunt's (where I knew my
+wife and my aunt Wight were about business), and they being gone to walk
+in the parke I went after them with Mrs. Hunt, who staid at home for me,
+and finding them did by coach, which I had agreed to wait for me, go with
+them all and Mrs. Hunt and a kinswoman of theirs, Mrs. Steward, to Hide
+Parke, where I have not been since last year; where I saw the King with
+his periwigg, but not altered at all; and my Lady Castlemayne in a coach
+by herself, in yellow satin and a pinner on; and many brave persons.  And
+myself being in a hackney and full of people, was ashamed to be seen by
+the world, many of them knowing me.  Thence in the evening home, setting
+my aunt at home, and thence we sent for a joynt of meat to supper, and
+thence to the office at 11 o'clock at night, and so home to bed.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up and to St. James's, where long with Mr. Coventry, Povy, &c., in
+their Tangier accounts, but such the folly of that coxcomb Povy that we
+could do little in it, and so parted for the time, and I to walk with
+Creed and Vernaty in the Physique Garden in St. James's Parke; where I
+first saw orange-trees, and other fine trees.  So to Westminster Hall,
+and thence by water to the Temple, and so walked to the 'Change, and
+there find the 'Change full of news from Guinny, some say the Dutch have
+sunk our ships and taken our fort, and others say we have done the same
+to them.  But I find by our merchants that something is done, but is yet
+a secret among them.  So home to dinner, and then to the office, and at
+night with Captain Tayler consulting how to get a little money by letting
+him the Elias to fetch masts from New England.  So home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up and by coach to Westminster, and there solicited W. Joyce's
+business all the morning, and meeting in the Hall with Mr. Coventry, he
+told me how the Committee for Trade have received now all the complaints
+of the merchants against the Dutch, and were resolved to report very
+highly the wrongs they have done us (when, God knows! it is only our owne
+negligence and laziness that hath done us the wrong) and this to be made
+to the House to-morrow.  I went also out of the Hall with Mrs. Lane to
+the Swan at Mrs. Herbert's in the Palace Yard to try a couple of bands,
+and did (though I had a mind to be playing the fool with her) purposely
+stay but a little while, and kept the door open, and called the master
+and mistress of the house one after another to drink and talk with me,
+and showed them both my old and new bands.  So that as I did nothing so
+they are able to bear witness that I had no opportunity there to do
+anything.  Thence by coach with Sir W. Pen home, calling at the Temple
+for Lawes's Psalms, which I did not so much (by being against my oath)
+buy as only lay down money till others be bound better for me, and by
+that time I hope to get money of the Treasurer of the Navy by bills,
+which, according to my oath, shall make me able to do it.  At home dined,
+and all the afternoon at a Committee of the Chest, and at night comes my
+aunt and uncle Wight and Nan Ferrers and supped merrily with me, my uncle
+coming in an hour after them almost foxed.  Great pleasure by discourse
+with them, and so, they gone, late to bed.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up pretty betimes and to my office, and thither came by and by Mr.
+Vernaty and staid two hours with me, but Mr. Gauden did not come, and so
+he went away to meet again anon.  Then comes Mr. Creed, and, after some
+discourse, he and I and my wife by coach to Westminster (leaving her at
+Unthanke's, her tailor's) Hall, and there at the Lords' House heard that
+it is ordered, that, upon submission upon the knee both to the House and
+my Lady Peters, W. Joyce shall be released.  I forthwith made him submit,
+and aske pardon upon his knees; which he did before several Lords.  But
+my Lady would not hear it; but swore she would post the Lords, that the
+world might know what pitifull Lords the King hath; and that revenge was
+sweeter to her than milk; and that she would never be satisfied unless he
+stood in a pillory, and demand pardon there.  But I perceive the Lords
+are ashamed of her, and so I away calling with my wife at a place or two
+to inquire after a couple of mayds recommended to us, but we found both
+of them bad.  So set my wife at my uncle Wight's and I home, and
+presently to the 'Change, where I did some business, and thence to my
+uncle's and there dined very well, and so to the office, we sat all the
+afternoon, but no sooner sat but news comes my Lady Sandwich was come to
+see us, so I went out, and running up (her friend however before me) I
+perceive by my dear Lady blushing that in my dining-room she was doing
+something upon the pott, which I also was ashamed of, and so fell to some
+discourse, but without pleasure through very pity to my Lady.  She tells
+me, and I find true since, that the House this day have voted that the
+King be desired to demand right for the wrong done us by the Dutch, and
+that they will stand by him with their lives fortunes: which is a very
+high vote, and more than I expected.  What the issue will be, God knows!
+My Lady, my wife not being at home, did not stay, but, poor, good woman,
+went away, I being mightily taken with her dear visitt, and so to the
+office, where all the afternoon till late, and so to my office, and then
+to supper and to bed, thinking to rise betimes tomorrow.
+
+
+
+22nd.  Having directed it last night, I was called up this morning before
+four o'clock.  It was full light enough to dress myself, and so by water
+against tide, it being a little coole, to Greenwich; and thence, only
+that it was somewhat foggy till the sun got to some height, walked with
+great pleasure to Woolwich, in my way staying several times to listen to
+the nightingales.  I did much business both at the Ropeyarde and the
+other, and on floate I discovered a plain cheat which in time I shall
+publish of Mr. Ackworth's.  Thence, having visited Mr. Falconer also, who
+lies still sick, but hopes to be better, I walked to Greenwich, Mr. Deane
+with me.  Much good discourse, and I think him a very just man, only a
+little conceited, but yet very able in his way, and so he by water also
+with me also to towne.  I home, and immediately dressing myself, by coach
+with my wife to my Lord Sandwich's, but they having dined we would not
+'light but went to Mrs. Turner's, and there got something to eat, and
+thence after reading part of a good play, Mrs. The., my wife and I, in
+their coach to Hide Parke, where great plenty of gallants, and pleasant
+it was, only for the dust.  Here I saw Mrs. Bendy, my Lady Spillman's
+faire daughter that was, who continues yet very handsome.  Many others I
+saw with great content, and so back again to Mrs. Turner's, and then took
+a coach and home.  I did also carry them into St. James's Park and shewed
+them the garden.  To my office awhile while supper was making ready, and
+so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+23rd (Coronation day).  Up, and after doing something at my office, and,
+it being a holiday, no sitting likely to be, I down by water to Sir W.
+Warren's, who hath been ill, and there talked long with him good
+discourse, especially about Sir W. Batten's knavery and his son Castle's
+ill language of me behind my back, saying that I favour my fellow
+traytours, but I shall be even with him.  So home and to the 'Change,
+where I met with Mr. Coventry, who himself is now full of talke of a
+Dutch warr; for it seems the Lords have concurred in the Commons' vote
+about it; and so the next week it will be presented to the King, insomuch
+that he do desire we would look about to see what stores we lack, and buy
+what we can.  Home to dinner, where I and my wife much troubled about my
+money that is in my Lord Sandwich's hand, for fear of his going to sea
+and be killed; but I will get what of it out I can.  All the afternoon,
+not being well, at my office, and there doing much business, my thoughts
+still running upon a warr and my money.  At night home to supper and to
+bed.
+
+
+
+24th (Lord's day).  Up, and all the morning in my chamber setting some of
+my private papers in order, for I perceive that now publique business
+takes up so much of my time that I must get time a-Sundays or a-nights to
+look after my owne matters.  Dined and spent all the afternoon talking
+with my wife, at night a little to the office, and so home to supper and
+to bed.
+
+
+
+25th.  Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to St. James's and there up to
+the Duke, and after he was ready to his closet, where most of our talke
+about a Dutch warr, and discoursing of things indeed now for it.  The
+Duke, which gives me great good hopes, do talk of setting up a good
+discipline in the fleete.  In the Duke's chamber there is a bird, given
+him by Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, comes from the East Indys, black the
+greatest part, with the finest collar of white about the neck; but talks
+many things and neyes like the horse, and other things, the best almost
+that ever I heard bird in my life.  Thence down with Mr. Coventry and Sir
+W. Rider, who was there (going along with us from the East Indya house
+to-day) to discourse of my Lord Peterborough's accounts, and then walked
+over the Parke, and in Mr. Cutler's coach with him and Rider as far as
+the Strand, and thence I walked to my Lord Sandwich's, where by agreement
+I met my wife, and there dined with the young ladies; my Lady, being not
+well, kept her chamber.  Much simple discourse at table among the young
+ladies.  After dinner walked in the garden, talking, with Mr. Moore about
+my Lord's business.  He told me my Lord runs in debt every day more and
+more, and takes little care how to come out of it.  He counted to me how
+my Lord pays use now for above L9000, which is a sad thing, especially
+considering the probability of his going to sea, in great danger of his
+life, and his children, many of them, to provide for.  Thence, the young
+ladies going out to visit, I took my wife by coach out through the city,
+discoursing how to spend the afternoon; and conquered, with much ado,
+a desire of going to a play; but took her out at White Chapel, and to
+Bednal Green; so to Hackney, where I have not been many a year, since a
+little child I boarded there.  Thence to Kingsland, by my nurse's house,
+Goody Lawrence, where my brother Tom and I was kept when young.  Then to
+Newington Green, and saw the outside of Mrs. Herbert's house, where she
+lived, and my Aunt Ellen with her; but, Lord!  how in every point I find
+myself to over-value things when a child.  Thence to Islington, and so to
+St. John's to the Red Bull, and there: saw the latter part of a rude
+prize fought, but with good pleasure enough; and thence back to
+Islington, and at the King's Head, where Pitts lived, we 'light and eat
+and drunk for remembrance of the old house sake, and so through Kingsland
+again, and so to Bishopsgate, and so home with great pleasure.  The
+country mighty pleasant, and we with great content home, and after supper
+to bed, only a little troubled at the young ladies leaving my wife so
+to-day, and from some passages fearing my Lady might be offended.  But I
+hope the best.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up, and to my Lord Sandwich's, and coming a little too early, I
+went and saw W. Joyce, and by and by comes in Anthony, they both owning a
+great deal of kindness received from me in their late business, and
+indeed I did what I could, and yet less I could not do.  It has cost the
+poor man above L40; besides, he is likely to lose his debt.  Thence to my
+Lord's, and by and by he comes down, and with him (Creed with us) I rode
+in his coach to St. James's, talking about W. Joyce's business mighty
+merry, and my Lady Peters, he says, is a drunken jade, he himself having
+seen her drunk in the lobby of their House.  I went up with him to the
+Duke, where methought the Duke did not shew him any so great fondness as
+he was wont; and methought my Lord was not pleased that I should see the
+Duke made no more of him, not that I know any thing of any unkindnesse,
+but I think verily he is not as he was with him in his esteem.  By and by
+the Duke went out and we with him through the Parke, and there I left him
+going into White Hall, and Creed and I walked round the Parke, a pleasant
+walk, observing the birds, which is very pleasant; and so walked to the
+New Exchange, and there had a most delicate dish of curds and creame, and
+discourse with the good woman of the house, a discreet well-bred woman,
+and a place with great delight I shall make it now and then to go
+thither.  Thence up, and after a turn or two in the 'Change, home to the
+Old Exchange by coach, where great newes and true, I saw by written
+letters, of strange fires seen at Amsterdam in the ayre, and not only
+there, but in other places thereabout.  The talke of a Dutch warr is not
+so hot, but yet I fear it will come to it at last.  So home and to the
+office, where we sat late.  My wife gone this afternoon to the buriall of
+my she-cozen Scott, a good woman; and it is a sad consideration how the
+Pepys's decay, and nobody almost that I know in a present way of
+encreasing them.  At night late at my office, and so home to my wife to
+supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up, and all the morning very busy with multitude of clients, till
+my head began to be overloaded.  Towards noon I took coach and to the
+Parliament house door, and there staid the rising of the House, and with
+Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry discoursed of some tarr that I have been
+endeavouring to buy, for the market begins apace to rise upon us, and I
+would be glad first to serve the King well, and next if I could I find
+myself now begin to cast how to get a penny myself.  Home by coach with
+Alderman Backewell in his coach, whose opinion is that the Dutch will not
+give over the business without putting us to some trouble to set out a
+fleete; and then, if they see we go on well, will seek to salve up the
+matter.  Upon the 'Change busy.  Thence home to dinner, and thence to the
+office till my head was ready to burst with business, and so with my wife
+by coach, I sent her to my Lady Sandwich and myself to my cozen Roger
+Pepys's chamber, and there he did advise me about our Exchequer business,
+and also about my brother John, he is put by my father upon interceding
+for him, but I will not yet seem the least to pardon him nor can I in my
+heart.  However, he and I did talk how to get him a mandamus for a
+fellowship, which I will endeavour.  Thence to my Lady's, and in my way
+met Mr. Sanchy, of Cambridge, whom I have not met a great while.  He
+seems a simple fellow, and tells me their master, Dr. Rainbow, is newly
+made Bishop of Carlisle.  To my Lady's, and she not being well did not
+see her, but straight home with my wife, and late to my office,
+concluding in the business of Wood's masts, which I have now done and I
+believe taken more pains in it than ever any Principall officer in this
+world ever did in any thing to no profit to this day.  So, weary, sleepy,
+and hungry, home and to bed.  This day the Houses attended the King, and
+delivered their votes to him: upon the business of the Dutch; and he
+thanks them, and promises an answer in writing.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up and close at my office all the morning.  To the 'Change busy at
+noon, and so home to dinner, and then in the afternoon at the office till
+night, and so late home quite tired with business, and without joy in
+myself otherwise than that I am by God's grace enabled to go through it
+and one day, hope to have benefit by it.  So home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+29th.  Up betimes, and with Sir W. Rider and Cutler to White Hall.  Rider
+and I to St. James's, and there with Mr. Coventry did proceed strictly
+upon some fooleries of Mr. Povy's in my Lord Peterborough's accounts,
+which will touch him home, and I am glad of it, for he is the most
+troublesome impertinent man that ever I met with.  Thence to the 'Change,
+and there, after some business, home to dinner, where Luellin and Mount
+came to me and dined, and after dinner my wife and I by coach to see my
+Lady Sandwich, where we find all the children and my Lord removed, and
+the house so melancholy that I thought my Lady had been dead, knowing
+that she was not well; but it seems she hath the meazles, and I fear the
+small pox, poor lady.  It grieves me mightily; for it will be a sad houre
+to the family should she miscarry.  Thence straight home and to the
+office, and in the evening comes Mr. Hill the merchant and another with
+him that sings well, and we sung some things, and good musique it seemed
+to me, only my mind too full of business to have much pleasure in it.
+But I will have more of it.  They gone, and I having paid Mr. Moxon for
+the work he has done for the office upon the King's globes, I to my
+office, where very late busy upon Captain Tayler's bills for his masts,
+which I think will never off my hand.  Home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+30th.  Up and all the morning at the office.  At noon to the 'Change,
+where, after business done, Sir W. Rider and Cutler took me to the Old
+James and there did give me a good dish of mackerell, the first I have
+seen this year, very good, and good discourse.  After dinner we fell to
+business about their contract for tarr, in which and in another business
+of Sir W. Rider's, canvas, wherein I got him to contract with me, I held
+them to some terms against their wills, to the King's advantage, which I
+believe they will take notice of to my credit.  Thence home, and by water
+by a gally down to Woolwich, and there a good while with Mr. Pett upon
+the new ship discoursing and learning of him.  Thence with Mr. Deane to
+see Mr: Falconer, and there find him in a way to be well.  So to the
+water (after much discourse with great content with Mr. Deane) and home
+late, and so to the office, wrote to, my father among other things my
+continued displeasure against my brother John, so that I will give him
+nothing more out of my own purse, which will trouble the poor man, but
+however it is fit that I should take notice of my brother's ill carriage
+to me.  Then home and till 12 at night about my month's accounts, wherein
+I have just kept within compass, this having been a spending month.
+So my people being all abed I put myself to bed very sleepy.  All the
+newes now is what will become of the Dutch business, whether warr or
+peace.  We all seem to desire it, as thinking ourselves to have
+advantages at present over them; for my part I dread it.  The Parliament
+promises to assist the King with lives and fortunes, and he receives it
+with thanks and promises to demand satisfaction of the Dutch.  My poor
+Lady Sandwich is fallen sick three days since of the meazles.  My Lord
+Digby's business is hushed up, and nothing made of it; he is gone, and
+the discourse quite ended.  Never more quiet in my family all the days of
+my life than now, there being only my wife and I and Besse and the little
+girl Susan, the best wenches to our content that we can ever expect.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
+                                  MAY
+                                  1664
+
+
+May 1st (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed.  Went not to church, but staid at
+home to examine my last night's accounts, which I find right, and that I
+am L908 creditor in the world, the same I was last month.  Dined, and
+after dinner down by water with my wife and Besse with great pleasure as
+low as Greenwich and so back, playing as it were leisurely upon the water
+to Deptford, where I landed and sent my wife up higher to land below
+Half-way house.  I to the King's yard and there spoke about several
+businesses with the officers, and so with Mr. Wayth consulting about
+canvas, to Half-way house where my wife was, and after eating there we
+broke and walked home before quite dark.  So to supper, prayers, and to
+bed.
+
+
+
+2nd.  Lay pretty long in bed.  So up and by water to St. James's, and
+there attended the Duke with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and having
+done our work with him walked to Westminster Hall, and after walking
+there and talking of business met Mr. Rawlinson and by coach to the
+'Change, where I did some business, and home to dinner, and presently by
+coach to the King's Play-house to see "The Labyrinth," but, coming too
+soon, walked to my Lord's to hear how my Lady do, who is pretty well; at
+least past all fear.  There by Captain Ferrers meeting with an
+opportunity of my Lord's coach, to carry us to the Parke anon, we
+directed it to come to the play-house door; and so we walked, my wife and
+I and Madamoiselle.  I paid for her going in, and there saw "The
+Labyrinth," the poorest play, methinks, that ever I saw, there being
+nothing in it but the odd accidents that fell out, by a lady's being bred
+up in man's apparel, and a man in a woman's.  Here was Mrs. Stewart, who
+is indeed very pretty, but not like my Lady Castlemayne, for all that.
+Thence in the coach to the Parke, where no pleasure; there being much
+dust, little company, and one of our horses almost spoiled by falling
+down, and getting his leg over the pole; but all mended presently, and
+after riding up and down, home.  Set Madamoiselle at home; and we home,
+and to my office, whither comes Mr. Bland, and pays me the debt he
+acknowledged he owed me for my service in his business of the Tangier
+Merchant, twenty pieces of new gold, a pleasant sight.  It cheered my
+heart; and he being gone, I home to supper, and shewed them my wife; and
+she, poor wretch, would fain have kept them to look on, without any other
+design but a simple love to them; but I thought it not convenient, and so
+took them into my own hand.  So, after supper, to bed.
+
+
+
+3rd.  Up, and being ready, went by agreement to Mr. Bland's and there
+drank my morning draft in good chocollatte, and slabbering my band sent
+home for another, and so he and I by water to White Hall, and walked to
+St. James's, where met Creed and Vernatty, and by and by Sir W. Rider,
+and so to Mr. Coventry's chamber, and there upon my Lord Peterborough's
+accounts, where I endeavoured to shew the folly and punish it as much as
+I could of Mr. Povy; for, of all the men in the world, I never knew any
+man of his degree so great a coxcomb in such imployments.  I see I have
+lost him forever, but I value it not; for he is a coxcomb, and, I doubt,
+not over honest, by some things which I see; and yet, for all his folly,
+he hath the good lucke, now and then, to speak his follies in as good
+words, and with as good a show, as if it were reason, and to the purpose,
+which is really one of the wonders of my life.  Thence walked to
+Westminster Hall; and there, in the Lords' House, did in a great crowd,
+from ten o'clock till almost three, hear the cause of Mr. Roberts, my
+Lord Privy Seal's son, against Win, who by false ways did get the father
+of Mr. Roberts's wife (Mr. Bodvill) to give him the estate and disinherit
+his daughter.  The cause was managed for my Lord Privy Seal by Finch the
+Solicitor [General]; but I do really think that he is truly a man of as
+great eloquence as ever I heard, or ever hope to hear in all my life.
+Thence, after long staying to speak with my Lord Sandwich, at last he
+coming out to me and speaking with me about business of my Lord
+Peterborough, I by coach home to the office, where all the afternoon,
+only stept home to eat one bit and to the office again, having eaten
+nothing before to-day.  My wife abroad with my aunt Wight and Norbury.
+I in the evening to my uncle Wight's, and not finding them come home,
+they being gone to the Parke and the Mulberry garden, I went to the
+'Change, and there meeting with Mr. Hempson, whom Sir W. Batten has
+lately turned out of his place, merely because of his coming to me when
+he came to town before he went to him, and there he told me many
+rogueries of Sir W. Batten, how he knows and is able to prove that
+Captain Cox of Chatham did give him L10 in gold to get him to certify for
+him at the King's coming in, and that Tom Newborne did make [the] poor
+men give him L3 to get Sir W. Batten to cause them to be entered in the
+yard, and that Sir W. Batten had oftentimes said: "by God, Tom, you shall
+get something and I will have some on't."  His present clerk that is come
+in Norman's' room has given him something for his place; that they live
+high and (as Sir Francis Clerk's lady told his wife) do lack money as
+well as other people, and have bribes of a piece of sattin and cabinetts
+and other things from people that deal with him, and that hardly any body
+goes to see or hath anything done by Sir W. Batten but it comes with a
+bribe, and that this is publickly true that his wife was a whore, and
+that he had libells flung within his doors for a cuckold as soon as he
+was married; that he received L100 in money and in other things to the
+value of L50 more of Hempson, and that he intends to give him back but
+L50; that he hath abused the Chest and hath now some L1000 by him of it.
+I met also upon the 'Change with Mr. Cutler, and he told me how for
+certain Lawson hath proclaimed warr again with Argier, though they had at
+his first coming given back the ships which they had taken, and all their
+men; though they refused afterwards to make him restitution for the goods
+which they had taken out of them.  Thence to my uncle Wight's, and he not
+being at home I went with Mr. Norbury near hand to the Fleece, a mum
+house--[?? D.W.]--in Leadenhall, and there drunk mum and by and by broke
+up, it being about 11 o'clock at night, and so leaving them also at home,
+went home myself and to bed.
+
+
+
+4th.  Up, and my new Taylor, Langford, comes and takes measure of me for
+a new black cloth suit and cloake, and I think he will prove a very
+carefull fellow and will please me well.  Thence to attend my Lord
+Peterborough in bed and give him an account of yesterday's proceeding
+with Povy.  I perceive I labour in a business will bring me little
+pleasure; but no matter, I shall do the King some service.  To my Lord's
+lodgings, where during my Lady's sickness he is, there spoke with him
+about the same business.  Back and by water to my cozen Scott's.  There
+condoled with him the loss of my cozen, his wife, and talked about his
+matters, as atturney to my father, in his administering to my brother
+Tom.  He tells me we are like to receive some shame about the business of
+his bastarde with Jack Noble; but no matter, so it cost us no money.
+Thence to the Coffee-house and to the 'Change a while.  News uncertain
+how the Dutch proceed.  Some say for, some against a war.  The plague
+increases at Amsterdam.  So home to dinner, and after dinner to my
+office, where very late, till my eyes (which begin to fail me nowadays by
+candlelight) begin to trouble me.  Only in the afternoon comes Mr. Peter
+Honiwood to see me and gives me 20s., his and his friends' pence for my
+brother John, which, God forgive my pride, methinks I think myself too
+high to take of him; but it is an ungratefull pitch of pride in me, which
+God forgive.  Home at night to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+5th.  Up betimes to my office, busy, and so abroad to change some plate
+for my father to send to-day by the carrier to Brampton, but I observe
+and do fear it may be to my wrong that I change spoons of my uncle
+Robert's into new and set a P upon them that thereby I cannot claim them
+hereafter, as it was my brother Tom's practice.  However, the matter of
+this is not great, and so I did it.  So to the 'Change, and meeting Sir
+W. Warren, with him to a taverne, and there talked, as we used to do, of
+the evils the King suffers in our ordering of business in the Navy, as
+Sir W. Batten now forces us by his knavery.  So home to dinner, and to
+the office, where all the afternoon, and thence betimes home, my eyes
+beginning every day to grow less and less able to bear with long reading
+or writing, though it be by daylight; which I never observed till now.
+So home to my wife, and after supper to bed.
+
+
+
+6th.  This morning up and to my office, where Sympson my joyner came to
+work upon altering my closet, which I alter by setting the door in
+another place, and several other things to my great content.  Busy at it
+all day, only in the afternoon home, and there, my books at the office
+being out of order, wrote letters and other businesses.  So at night with
+my head full of the business of my closet home to bed, and strange it is
+to think how building do fill my mind and put out all other things out of
+my thoughts.
+
+
+
+7th.  Betimes at my office with the joyners, and giving order for other
+things about it.  By and by we sat all the morning.  At noon to dinner,
+and after dinner comes Deane of Woolwich, and I spent, as I had
+appointed, all the afternoon with him about instructions which he gives
+me to understand the building of a ship, and I think I shall soon
+understand it.  In the evening a little to my office to see how the work
+goes forward there, and then home and spent the evening also with Mr.
+Deane, and had a good supper, and then to bed, he lying at my house.
+
+
+
+8th (Lord's day).  This day my new tailor, Mr. Langford, brought me home
+a new black cloth suit and cloake lined with silk moyre, and he being
+gone, who pleases me very well with his work and I hope will use me
+pretty well, then Deane and I to my chamber, and there we repeated my
+yesterday's lesson about ships all the morning, and I hope I shall soon
+understand it.  At noon to dinner, and strange how in discourse he cries
+up chymistry from some talk he has had with an acquaintance of his, a
+chymist, when, poor man, he understands not one word of it.  But I
+discern very well that it is only his good nature, but in this of
+building ships he hath taken great pains, more than most builders I
+believe have.   After dinner he went away, and my wife and I to church,
+and after church to Sir W. Pen, and there sat and talked with him, and
+the perfidious rogue seems, as he do always, mightily civil to us, though
+I know he hates and envies us.  So home to supper, prayers, and to bed.
+
+
+
+9th.  Up and to my office all the morning, and there saw several things
+done in my work to my great content, and at noon home to dinner, and
+after dinner in Sir W. Pen's coach he set my wife and I down at the New
+Exchange, and after buying some things we walked to my Lady Sandwich's,
+who, good lady, is now, thanks be to God!  so well as to sit up, and sent
+to us, if we were not afeard, to come up to her.  So we did; but she was
+mightily against my wife's coming so near her; though, poor wretch! she
+is as well as ever she was, as to the meazles, and nothing can I see upon
+her face.  There we sat talking with her above three hours, till six
+o'clock, of several things with great pleasure and so away, and home by
+coach, buying several things for my wife in our way, and so after looking
+what had been done in my office to-day, with good content home to supper
+and to bed.  But, strange, how I cannot get any thing to take place in my
+mind while my work lasts at my office.  This day my wife and I in our way
+to Paternoster Row to buy things called upon Mr. Hollyard to advise upon
+her drying up her issue in her leg, which inclines of itself to dry up,
+and he admits of it that it should be dried up.
+
+
+
+10th.  Up and at my office looking after my workmen all the morning, and
+after the office was done did the same at night, and so home to supper
+and to bed.
+
+
+
+11th.  Up and all day, both forenoon and afternoon, at my office to see
+it finished by the joyners and washed and every thing in order, and
+indeed now my closet is very convenient and pleasant for me.  My uncle
+Wight came to me to my office this afternoon to speak with me about Mr.
+Maes's business again, and from me went to my house to see my wife, and
+strange to think that my wife should by and by send for me after he was
+gone to tell me that he should begin discourse of her want of children
+and his also, and how he thought it would be best for him and her to have
+one between them, and he would give her L500 either in money or jewells
+beforehand, and make the child his heir.  He commended her body, and
+discoursed that for all he knew the thing was lawful.  She says she did
+give him a very warm answer, such as he did not excuse himself by saying
+that he said this in jest, but told her that since he saw what her mind
+was he would say no more to her of it, and desired her to make no words
+of it.  It seemed he did say all this in a kind of counterfeit laugh, but
+by all words that passed, which I cannot now so well set down, it is
+plain to me that he was in good earnest, and that I fear all his kindness
+is but only his lust to her.  What to think of it of a sudden I know not,
+but I think not to take notice yet of it to him till I have thought
+better of it.  So with my mind and head a little troubled I received a
+letter from Mr. Coventry about a mast for the Duke's yacht, which with
+other business makes me resolve to go betimes to Woolwich to-morrow.  So
+to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+12th.  Up by 4 o'clock and by water to Woolwich, where did some business
+and walked to Greenwich, good discourse with Mr. Deane best part of the
+way; there met by appointment Commissioner Pett, and with him to
+Deptford, where did also some business, and so home to my office, and at
+noon Mrs. Hunt and her cozens child and mayd came and dined with me.  My
+wife sick .  .  .  .  in bed.  I was troubled with it, but, however,
+could not help it, but attended them till after dinner, and then to the
+office and there sat all the afternoon, and by a letter to me this
+afternoon from Mr. Coventry I saw the first appearance of a warr with
+Holland.  So home; and betimes to bed because of rising to-morrow.
+
+
+
+13th.  Up before three o'clock, and a little after upon the water, it
+being very light as at noon, and a bright sunrising; but by and by a
+rainbow appeared, the first that ever in a morning I saw, and then it
+fell a-raining a little, but held up again, and I to Woolwich, where
+before all the men came to work I with Mr. Deane spent two hours upon the
+new ship, informing myself in the names and natures of many parts of her
+to my great content, and so back again, without doing any thing else, and
+after shifting myself away to Westminster, looking after Mr. Maes's
+business and others.  In the Painted Chamber I heard a fine conference
+between some of the two Houses upon the Bill for Conventicles.  The Lords
+would be freed from having their houses searched by any but the Lord
+Lieutenant of the County; and upon being found guilty, to be tried only
+by their peers; and thirdly, would have it added, that whereas the Bill
+says, "That that, among other things, shall be a conventicle wherein any
+such meeting is found doing any thing contrary to the Liturgy of the
+Church of England," they would have it added, "or practice."  The Commons
+to the Lords said, that they knew not what might hereafter be found out
+which might be called the practice of the Church of England; for there
+are many things may be said to be the practice of the Church, which were
+never established by any law, either common, statute, or canon; as
+singing of psalms, binding up prayers at the end of the Bible, and
+praying extempore before and after sermon: and though these are things
+indifferent, yet things for aught they at present know may be started,
+which may be said to be the practice of the Church which would not be fit
+to allow.  For the Lords' priviledges, Mr. Walter told them how tender
+their predecessors had been of the priviledges of the Lords; but,
+however, where the peace of the kingdom stands in competition with them,
+they apprehend those priviledges must give place.  He told them that he
+thought, if they should owne all to be the priviledges of the Lords which
+might be demanded, they should be led like the man (who granted leave to
+his neighbour to pull off his horse's tail, meaning that he could not do
+it at once) that hair by hair had his horse's tail pulled off indeed: so
+the Commons, by granting one thing after another, might be so served by
+the Lords.  Mr. Vaughan, whom I could not to my grief perfectly hear, did
+say, if that they should be obliged in this manner to, exempt the Lords
+from every thing, it would in time come to pass that whatever (be [it]
+never so great) should be voted by the Commons as a thing penall for a
+commoner, the contrary should be thought a priviledge to the Lords: that
+also in this business, the work of a conventicle being but the work of an
+hour, the cause of a search would be over before a Lord Lieutenant, who
+may be many miles off, can be sent for; and that all this dispute is but
+about L100; for it is said in the Act, that it shall be banishment or
+payment of L100.  I thereupon heard the Duke of Lenox say, that there
+might be Lords who could not always be ready to lose L100, or some such
+thing: They broke up without coming to any end in it.  There was also in
+the Commons' House a great quarrel about Mr. Prin, and it was believed
+that he should have been sent to the Towre, for adding something to a
+Bill (after it was ordered to be engrossed) of his own head--a Bill for
+measures for wine and other things of that sort, and a Bill of his owne
+bringing in; but it appeared he could not mean any hurt in it.  But,
+however, the King was fain to write in his behalf, and all was passed
+over.  But it is worth my remembrance, that I saw old Ryly the Herald,
+and his son; and spoke to his son, who told me in very bad words
+concerning Mr. Prin, that the King had given him an office of keeping the
+Records; but that he never comes thither, nor had been there these six
+months: so that I perceive they expect to get his imployment from him.
+Thus every body is liable to be envied and supplanted.  At noon over to
+the Leg, where Sir G. Ascue, Sir Robt. Parkhurst and Sir W. Pen dined.
+A good dinner and merry.  Thence to White Hall walking up and down a
+great while, but the Council not meeting soon enough I went homeward,
+calling upon my cozen Roger Pepys, with whom I talked and heard so much
+from him of his desire that I would see my brother's debts paid, and
+things still of that nature tending to my parting with what I get with
+pain to serve others' expenses that I was cruelly vexed.  Thence to Sir
+R. Bernard, and there heard something of Pigott's delay of paying our
+money, that that also vexed me mightily.  So home and there met with a
+letter from my cozen Scott, which tells me that he is resolved to meddle
+no more with our business, of administering for my father, which
+altogether makes me almost distracted to think of the trouble that I am
+like to meet with by other folks' business more than ever I hope to have
+by my owne.  So with great trouble of mind to bed.
+
+
+
+14th.  Up, full of pain, I believe by cold got yesterday.  So to the
+office, where we sat, and after office home to dinner, being in
+extraordinary pain.  After dinner my pain increasing I was forced to go
+to bed, and by and by my pain rose to be as great for an hour or two as
+ever I remember it was in any fit of the stone, both in the lower part of
+my belly and in my back also.  No wind could I break.  I took a glyster,
+but it brought away but a little, and my height of pain followed it.  At
+last after two hours lying thus in most extraordinary anguish, crying and
+roaring, I know not what, whether it was my great sweating that may do
+it, but upon getting by chance, among my other tumblings, upon my knees,
+in bed, my pain began to grow less and less, till in an hour after I was
+in very little pain, but could break no wind, nor make any water, and so
+continued, and slept well all night.
+
+
+
+15th (Lord's day).  Rose, and as I had intended without reference to this
+pain, took physique, and it wrought well with me, my wife lying from me
+to-night, the first time she did in the same house ever since we were
+married, I think (unless while my father was in town, that he lay with
+me).  She took physique also to-day, and both of our physiques wrought
+well, so we passed our time to-day, our physique having done working,
+with some pleasure talking, but I was not well, for I could make no water
+yet, but a drop or two with great pain, nor break any wind.  In the
+evening came Mr. Vernatty to see me and discourse about my Lord
+Peterborough's business, and also my uncle Wight and Norbury, but I took
+no notice nor showed any different countenance to my uncle Wight, or he
+to me, for all that he carried himself so basely to my wife the last
+week, but will take time to make my use of it.  So, being exceeding hot,
+to bed, and slept well.
+
+
+
+16th.  Forced to rise because of going to the Duke to St. James's, where
+we did our usual business, and thence by invitation to Mr. Pierces the
+chyrurgeon, where I saw his wife, whom I had not seen in many months
+before.  She holds her complexion still, but in everything else, even in
+this her new house and the best rooms in it, and her closet which her
+husband with some vainglory took me to show me, she continues the eeriest
+slattern that ever I knew in my life.  By and by we to see an experiment
+of killing a dogg by letting opium into his hind leg.  He and Dr. Clerke
+did fail mightily in hitting the vein, and in effect did not do the
+business after many trials; but with the little they got in, the dogg did
+presently fall asleep, and so lay till we cut him up, and a little dogg
+also, which they put it down his throate; he also staggered first, and
+then fell asleep, and so continued.  Whether he recovered or no, after
+I was gone, I know not, but it is a strange and sudden effect.  Thence
+walked to Westminster Hall, where the King was expected to come to
+prorogue the House, but it seems, afterwards I hear, he did not come.
+I promised to go again to Mr. Pierce's, but my pain grew so great,
+besides a bruise I got to-day in my right testicle, which now vexes me as
+much as the other, that I was mighty melancholy, and so by coach home and
+there took another glyster, but find little good by it, but by sitting
+still my pain of my bruise went away, and so after supper to bed, my wife
+and I having talked and concluded upon sending my father an offer of
+having Pall come to us to be with us for her preferment, if by any means
+I can get her a husband here, which, though it be some trouble to us, yet
+it will be better than to have her stay there till nobody will have her
+and then be flung upon my hands.
+
+
+
+17th.  Slept well all night and lay long, then rose and wrote my letter
+to my father about Pall, as we had resolved last night.  So to dinner and
+then to the office, finding myself better than I was, and making a little
+water, but not yet breaking any great store of wind, which I wonder at,
+for I cannot be well till I do do it.  After office home and to supper
+and with good ease to bed, and endeavoured to tie my hands that I might
+not lay them out of bed, by which I believe I have got cold, but I could
+not endure it.
+
+
+
+18th.  Up and within all the morning, being willing to keep as much as I
+could within doors, but receiving a very wakening letter from Mr.
+Coventry about fitting of ships, which speaks something like to be done,
+I went forth to the office, there to take order in things, and after
+dinner to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, but did little.  So home
+again and to Sir W. Pen, who, among other things of haste in this new
+order for ships, is ordered to be gone presently to Portsmouth to look
+after the work there.  I staid to discourse with him, and so home to
+supper, where upon a fine couple of pigeons, a good supper; and here I
+met a pretty cabinet sent me by Mr. Shales, which I give my wife, the
+first of that sort of goods I ever had yet, and very conveniently it
+comes for her closett.  I staid up late finding out the private boxes,
+but could not do some of them, and so to bed, afraid that I have been too
+bold to-day in venturing in the cold.  This day I begun to drink butter-
+milke and whey, and I hope to find great good by it.
+
+
+
+19th.  Up, and it being very rayny weather, which makes it cooler than it
+was, by coach to Charing Cross with Sir W. Pen, who is going to
+Portsmouth this day, and left him going to St. James's to take leave of
+the Duke, and I to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier; where God
+forgive how our Report of my Lord Peterborough's accounts was read over
+and agreed to by the Lords, without one of them understanding it!  And
+had it been what it would, it had gone: and, besides, not one thing
+touching the King's profit in it minded or hit upon.  Thence by coach
+home again, and all the morning at the office, sat, and all the afternoon
+till 9 at night, being fallen again to business, and I hope my health
+will give me leave to follow it.  So home to supper and to bed, finding
+myself pretty well.  A pretty good stool, which I impute to my whey to-
+day, and broke wind also.
+
+
+
+20th.  Up and to my office, whither by and by comes Mr. Cholmely, and
+staying till the rest of the company come he told me how Mr. Edward
+Montagu is turned out of the Court, not [to] return again.  His fault, I
+perceive, was his pride, and most of all his affecting to seem great with
+the Queene and it seems indeed had more of her eare than any body else,
+and would be with her talking alone two or three hours together; insomuch
+that the Lords about the King, when he would be jesting with them about
+their wives, would tell the King that he must have a care of his wife
+too, for she hath now the gallant: and they say the King himself did once
+ask Montagu how his mistress (meaning the Queene) did.  He grew so proud,
+and despised every body, besides suffering nobody, he or she, to get or
+do any thing about the Queene, that they all laboured to do him a good
+turn.  They also say that he did give some affront to the Duke of
+Monmouth, which the King himself did speak to him of.  But strange it is
+that this man should, from the greatest negligence in the world, come to
+be the miracle of attendance, so as to take all offices from everybody,
+either men or women, about the Queene.  Insomuch that he was observed as
+a miracle, but that which is the worst, that which in a wise manner
+performed [would] turn to his greatest advantage, was by being so
+observed employed to his greatest wrong, the world concluding that there
+must be something more than ordinary to cause him to do this.  So he is
+gone, nobody pitying but laughing at him; and he pretends only that he is
+gone to his father, that is sick in the country.  By and by comes Povy,
+Creed, and Vernatty, and so to their accounts, wherein more trouble and
+vexation with Povy.  That being done, I sent them going and myself fell
+to business till dinner.  So home to dinner very pleasant.  In the
+afternoon to my office, where busy again, and by and by came a letter
+from my father so full of trouble for discontents there between my mother
+and servants, and such troubles to my father from hence from Cave that
+hath my brother's bastard that I know not what in the world to do, but
+with great trouble, it growing night, spent some time walking, and
+putting care as much as I could out of my head, with my wife in the
+garden, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+21st.  Up, called by Mr. Cholmely, and walked with him in the garden till
+others came to another Committee of Tangier, as we did meet as we did use
+to do, to see more of Povy's folly, and so broke up, and at the office
+sat all the morning, Mr. Coventry with us, and very hot we are getting
+out some ships.  At noon to the 'Change, and there did some business,
+and thence home to dinner, and so abroad with my wife by coach to the New
+Exchange, and there laid out almost 40s. upon her, and so called to see
+my Lady Sandwich, whom we found in her dining-room, which joyed us
+mightily; but she looks very thin, poor woman, being mightily broke.
+She told us that Mr. Montagu is to return to Court, as she hears, which
+I wonder at, and do hardly believe.  So home and to my office, where
+late, and so home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+22nd (Lord's day).  Up and by water to White Hall to my Lord's lodgings,
+and with him walked to White Hall without any great discourse, nor do I
+find that he do mind business at all.  Here the Duke of Yorke called me
+to him, to ask me whether I did intend to go with him to Chatham or no.
+I told him if he commanded, but I did believe there would be business
+here for me, and so he told me then it would be better to stay, which I
+suppose he will take better than if I had been forward to go.  Thence,
+after staying and seeing the throng of people to attend the King to
+Chappell (but, Lord! what a company of sad, idle people they are) I
+walked to St. James's with Colonell Remes, where staid a good while and
+then walked to White Hall with Mr. Coventry, talking about business.
+So meeting Creed, took him with me home and to dinner, a good dinner,
+and thence by water to Woolwich, where mighty kindly received by Mrs.
+Falconer and her husband, who is now pretty well again, this being the
+first time I ever carried my wife thither.  I walked to the Docke, where
+I met Mrs. Ackworth alone at home, and God forgive me! what thoughts I
+had, but I had not the courage to stay, but went to Mr. Pett's and walked
+up and down the yard with him and Deane talking about the dispatch of the
+ships now in haste, and by and by Creed and my wife and a friend of Mr.
+Falconer's came with the boat and called me, and so by water to Deptford,
+where I landed, and after talking with others walked to Half-way house
+with Mr. Wayth talking about the business of his supplying us with
+canvas, and he told me in discourse several instances of Sir W. Batten's
+cheats.  So to Half-way house, whither my wife and them were gone before,
+and after drinking there we walked, and by water home, sending Creed and
+the other with the boat home.  Then wrote a letter to Mr. Coventry, and
+so a good supper of pease, the first I eat this year, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+23rd.  Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and
+myself met and did business, we being in a mighty hurry.  The King is
+gone down with the Duke and a great crew this morning by break of day to
+Chatham.  Towards noon I and my wife by water to Woolwich, leaving my
+wife at Mr. Falconer's, and Mr. Hater and I with some officers of the
+yard on board to see several ships how ready they are.  Then to Mr.
+Falconer's to a good dinner, having myself carried them a vessel of
+sturgeon and a Lamprey pie, and then to the Yarde again, and among other
+things did at Mr. Ackworth's obtain a demonstration of his being a knave;
+but I did not discover it, till it be a little more seasonable.  So back
+to the Ropeyard and took my wife and Mr. Hater back, it raining mighty
+hard of a sudden, but we with the tilt
+
+     [Tilt (A.S. teld) represents a tent or awning.  It was used for a
+     cloth covering for a cart or waggon, or for a canopy or awning over
+     a portion of a boat.]
+
+kept ourselves dry.  So to Deptford, did some business there; but, Lord!
+to see how in both places the King's business, if ever it should come to
+a warr, is likely to be done, there not being a man that looks or speaks
+like a man that will take pains, or use any forecast to serve the King,
+at which I am heartily troubled.  So home, it raining terribly, but we
+still dry, and at the office late discoursing with Sir J. Minnes and Sir
+W. Batten, who like a couple of sots receive all I say but to little
+purpose.  So late home to supper and to bed.
+
+
+
+24th.  Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes and I sat all the
+morning, and after dinner thither again, and all the afternoon hard at
+the office till night, and so tired home to supper and to bed.  This day
+I heard that my uncle Fenner is dead, which makes me a little sad, to see
+with what speed a great many of my friends are gone, and more, I fear,
+for my father's sake, are going.
+
+
+
+25th.  Took physique betimes and to sleep, then up, it working all the
+morning.  At noon dined, and in the afternoon in my chamber spending two
+or three hours to look over some unpleasant letters and things of trouble
+to answer my father in, about Tom's business and others, that vexed me,
+but I did go through it and by that means eased my mind very much.  This
+afternoon also came Tom and Charles Pepys by my sending for, and received
+of me L40 in part towards their L70 legacy of my uncle's.  Spent the
+evening talking with my wife, and so to bed.
+
+
+
+26th.  Up to the office, where we sat, and I had some high words with Sir
+W. Batten about canvas, wherein I opposed him and all his experience,
+about seams in the middle, and the profit of having many breadths and
+narrow, which I opposed to good purpose, to the rejecting of the whole
+business.  At noon home to dinner, and thence took my wife by coach, and
+she to my Lady Sandwich to see her.  I to Tom Trice, to discourse about
+my father's giving over his administration to my brother, and thence to
+Sir R. Bernard, and there received L19 in money, and took up my father's
+bond of L21, that is L40, in part of Piggot's L209 due to us, which L40
+he pays for 7 roods of meadow in Portholme.  Thence to my wife, and
+carried her to the Old Bayly, and there we were led to the Quest House,
+by the church, where all the kindred were by themselves at the buriall of
+my uncle Fenner; but, Lord! what a pitiful rout of people there was of
+them, but very good service and great company the whole was.  And so anon
+to church, and a good sermon, and so home, having for ease put my L19
+into W. Joyce's hand, where I left it.  So to supper and to bed, being in
+a little pain from some cold got last night lying without anything upon
+my feet.
+
+
+
+27th.  Up, not without some pain by cold, which makes me mighty
+melancholy, to think of the ill state of my health.  To the office, where
+busy till my brains ready to drop with variety of business, and vexed for
+all that to see the service like to suffer by other people's neglect.
+Vexed also at a letter from my father with two troublesome ones enclosed
+from Cave and Noble, so that I know not what to do therein.  At home to
+dinner at noon.  But to comfort my heart, Captain Taylor this day brought
+me L20 he promised me for my assistance to him about his masts.  After
+dinner to the office again, and thence with Mr. Wayth to St. Catherine's
+to see some variety of canvas's, which indeed was worth my seeing, but
+only I was in some pain, and so took not the delight I should otherwise
+have done.  So home to the office, and there busy till late at night, and
+so home to supper and to bed.  This morning my taylor brought me a very
+tall mayde to be my cook-mayde; she asked L5, but my wife offered her but
+L3 10s.--whether she will take it or no I know not till to-morrow, but I
+am afeard she will be over high for us, she having last been a chamber
+mayde, and holds up her head, as my little girle Su observed.
+
+
+
+28th.  Up pretty well as to pain and wind, and to the office, where we
+sat close and did much business.  At noon I to the 'Change, and thence to
+Mr. Cutler's, where I heard Sir W. Rider was, where I found them at
+dinner and dined with them, he having yesterday and to-day a fit of a
+pain like the gout, the first time he ever had it.  A good dinner.  Good
+discourse, Sir W. Rider especially much fearing the issue of a Dutch
+warr, wherein I very highly commend him.  Thence home, and at the office
+a while, and then with Mr. Deane to a second lesson upon my Shipwrightry,
+wherein I go on with great pleasure.  He being gone I to the office late,
+and so home to supper and to bed.  But, Lord! to see how my very going to
+the 'Change, and being without my gowne, presently brought me wind and
+pain, till I came home and was well again; but I am come to such a pass
+that I shall not know what to do with myself, but I am apt to think that
+it is only my legs that I take cold in from my having so long worn a
+gowne constantly.
+
+
+
+29th (Whitsunday.  King's Birth and Restauration day).  Up, and having
+received a letter last night desiring it from Mr. Coventry, I walked to
+St. James's, and there he and I did long discourse together of the
+business of the office, and the warr with the Dutch; and he seemed to
+argue mightily with the little reason that there is for all this.  For
+first, as to the wrong we pretend they have done us: that of the East
+Indys, for their not delivering of Poleron, it is not yet known whether
+they have failed or no; that of their hindering the Leopard cannot amount
+to above L3,000 if true; that of the Guinny Company, all they had done us
+did not amount to above L200 or L300 he told me truly; and that now, from
+what Holmes, without any commission, hath done in taking an island and
+two forts, hath set us much in debt to them; and he believes that Holmes
+will have been so puffed up with this, that he by this time hath been
+enforced with more strength than he had then, hath, I say, done a great
+deale more wrong to them.  He do, as to the effect of the warr, tell me
+clearly that it is not any skill of the Dutch that can hinder our trade
+if we will, we having so many advantages over them, of winds, good ports,
+and men; but it is our pride, and the laziness of the merchant.  He seems
+to think that there may be some negotiation which may hinder a warr this
+year, but that he speaks doubtfully as unwilling I perceive to be thought
+to discourse any such thing.  The main thing he desired to speake with me
+about was, to know whether I do understand my Lord Sandwich's intentions
+as to going to sea with this fleete; saying, that the Duke, if he desires
+it, is most willing to it; but thinking that twelve ships is not a fleete
+fit for my Lord to be troubled to go out with, he is not willing to offer
+it to him till he hath some intimations of his mind to go, or not.  He
+spoke this with very great respect as to my Lord, though methinks it is
+strange they should not understand one another better at this time than
+to need another's mediation.  Thence walked over the Parke to White Hall,
+Mr. Povy with me, and was taken in a very great showre in the middle of
+the Parke that we were very wet.  So up into, the house and with him to
+the King's closett, whither by and by the King came, my Lord Sandwich
+carrying the sword.  A Bishopp preached, but he speaking too low for me
+to hear behind the King's closett, I went forth and walked and discoursed
+with Colonell Reames, who seems a very willing man to be informed in his
+business of canvas, which he is undertaking to strike in with us to serve
+the Navy.  By and by my Lord Sandwich came forth, and called me to him:
+and we fell into discourse a great while about his business, wherein he
+seems to be very open with me, and to receive my opinion as he used to
+do; and I hope I shall become necessary to him again.  He desired me to
+think of the fitness, or not, for him to offer himself to go to sea; and
+to give him my thoughts in a day or two.  Thence after sermon among the
+ladies on the Queene's side; where I saw Mrs. Stewart, very fine and
+pretty, but far beneath my Lady Castlemayne.  Thence with Mr. Povy home
+to dinner; where extraordinary cheer.  And after dinner up and down to
+see his house.  And in a word, methinks, for his perspective upon his
+wall in his garden, and the springs rising up with the perspective in the
+little closett; his room floored above with woods of several colours,
+like but above the best cabinet-work I ever saw; his grotto and vault,
+with his bottles of wine, and a well therein to keep them cool; his
+furniture of all sorts; his bath at the top of his house, good pictures,
+and his manner of eating and drinking; do surpass all that ever I did see
+of one man in all my life.  Thence walked home and found my uncle Wight
+and Mr. Rawlinson, who supped with me.  They being gone, I to bed, being
+in some pain from my being so much abroad to-day, which is a most strange
+thing that in such warm weather the least ayre should get cold and wind
+in me.  I confess it makes me mighty sad and out of all content in the
+world.
+
+
+
+30th.  Lay long, the bells ringing, it being holiday, and then up and all
+the day long in my study at home studying of shipmaking with great
+content till the evening, and then came Mr. Howe and sat and then supped
+with me.  He is a little conceited, but will make a discreet man.  He
+being gone, a little to my office, and then home to bed, being in much
+pain from yesterday's being abroad, which is a consideration of mighty
+sorrow to me.
+
+
+
+31st.  Up, and called upon Mr. Hollyard, with whom I advised and shall
+fall upon some course of doing something for my disease of the wind,
+which grows upon me every day more and more.  Thence to my Lord
+Sandwich's, and while he was dressing I below discoursed with Captain
+Cooke, and I think if I do find it fit to keep a boy at all I had as good
+be supplied from him with one as any body.  By and by up to my Lord, and
+to discourse about his going to sea, and the message I had from Mr.
+Coventry to him.  He wonders, as he well may, that this course should be
+taken, and he every day with the Duke, who, nevertheless, seems most
+friendly to him, who hath not yet spoke one word to my Lord of his desire
+to have him go to sea.  My Lord do tell me clearly that were it not that
+he, as all other men that were of the Parliament side, are obnoxious to
+reproach, and so is forced to bear what otherwise he would not, he would
+never suffer every thing to be done in the Navy, and he never be
+consulted; and it seems, in the naming of all these commanders for this
+fleete, he hath never been asked one question.  But we concluded it
+wholly inconsistent with his honour not to go with this fleete, nor with
+the reputation which the world hath of his interest at Court; and so he
+did give me commission to tell Mr. Coventry that he is most willing to
+receive any commands from the Duke in this fleete, were it less than it
+is, and that particularly in this service.  With this message I parted,
+and by coach to the office, where I found Mr. Coventry, and told him
+this.  Methinks, I confess, he did not seem so pleased with it as I
+expected, or at least could have wished, and asked me whether I had told
+my Lord that the Duke do not expect his going, which I told him I had.
+But now whether he means really that the Duke, as he told me the other
+day, do think the Fleete too small for him to take or that he would not
+have him go, I swear I cannot tell.  But methinks other ways might have
+been used to put him by without going in this manner about it, and so I
+hope it is out of kindness indeed.  Dined at home, and so to the office,
+where a great while alone in my office, nobody near, with Bagwell's wife
+of Deptford, but the woman seems so modest that I durst not offer any
+courtship to her, though I had it in my mind when I brought her in to me.
+But I am resolved to do her husband a courtesy, for I think he is a man
+that deserves very well.  So abroad with my wife by coach to St. James's,
+to one Lady Poultny's, where I found my Lord, I doubt, at some vain
+pleasure or other.  I did give him a short account of what I had done
+with Mr. Coventry, and so left him, and to my wife again in the coach,
+and with her to the Parke, but the Queene being gone by the Parke to
+Kensington, we staid not but straight home and to supper (the first time
+I have done so this summer), and so to my office doing business, and then
+to my monthly accounts, where to my great comfort I find myself better
+than I was still the last month, and now come to L930.  I was told to-
+day, that upon Sunday night last, being the King's birth-day, the King
+was at my Lady Castlemayne's lodgings (over the hither-gates at Lambert's
+lodgings) dancing with fiddlers all night almost; and all the world
+coming by taking notice of it, which I am sorry to hear.  The discourse
+of the town is only whether a warr with Holland or no, and we are
+preparing for it all we can, which is but little.  Myself subject more
+than ordinary to pain by winde, which makes me very sad, together with
+the trouble which at present lies upon me in my father's behalf, rising
+from the death of my brother, which are many and great.  Would to God
+they were over!
+
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+Bath at the top of his house
+Fear all his kindness is but only his lust to her
+Fetch masts from New England
+Find myself to over-value things when a child
+Generally with corruption, but most indeed with neglect
+I slept soundly all the sermon
+In a hackney and full of people, was ashamed to be seen
+In my dining-room she was doing something upon the pott
+Methought very ill, or else I am grown worse to please
+Mrs. Lane was gone forth, and so I missed of my intent
+Saw "The German Princess" acted, by the woman herself
+Slabbering my band sent home for another
+That hair by hair had his horse's tail pulled off indeed
+
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+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v32
+by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley
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