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diff --git a/4149.txt b/4149.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3da33e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/4149.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2170 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, June/July 1664, by Samuel Pepys + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, June/July 1664 + +Author: Samuel Pepys + +Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4149] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S. + + CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY + + TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY + MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW + AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE + + (Unabridged) + + WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES + + EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY + + HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JUNE & JULY + 1664 + +June 1st. Up, having lain long, going to bed very late after the ending +of my accounts. Being up Mr. Hollyard came to me, and to my great sorrow, +after his great assuring me that I could not possibly have the stone +again, he tells me that he do verily fear that I have it again, and has +brought me something to dissolve it, which do make me very much troubled, +and pray to God to ease me. He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and +Deptford to look after the dispatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr. +Spencer's Book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously writ, both for +matter and style. Home at noon, and my little girl got me my dinner, and +I presently out by water and landed at Somerset stairs, and thence through +Covent Garden, where I met with Mr. Southwell (Sir W. Pen's friend), who +tells me the very sad newes of my Lord Tiviott's and nineteen more +commission officers being killed at Tangier by the Moores, by an ambush of +the enemy upon them, while they were surveying their lines; which is very +sad, and, he says, afflicts the King much. Thence to W. Joyce's, where by +appointment I met my wife (but neither of them at home), and she and I to +the King's house, and saw "The Silent Woman;" but methought not so well +done or so good a play as I formerly thought it to be, or else I am +nowadays out of humour. Before the play was done, it fell such a storm of +hayle, that we in the middle of the pit were fain to rise; + + [The stage was covered in by a tiled roof, but the pit was open to + the sky. "The pit lay open to the weather for sake of light, but + was subsequently covered in with a glazed cupola, which, however, + only imperfectly protected the audience, so that in stormy weather + the house was thrown into disorder, and the people in the pit were + fain to rise" (Cunningham's "Story of Nell Gwyn," ed. 1893, p. 33).] + +and all the house in a disorder, and so my wife and I out and got into a +little alehouse, and staid there an hour after the play was done before we +could get a coach, which at last we did (and by chance took up Joyce +Norton and Mrs. Bowles. and set them at home), and so home ourselves, and +I, after a little to my office, so home to supper and to bed. + +2nd. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then to the +'Change, where after some stay by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Mr. +Coventry to St. James's, and there dined with Mr. Coventry very finely, +and so over the Parke to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier about +providing provisions, money, and men for Tangier. At it all the +afternoon, but it is strange to see how poorly and brokenly things are +done of the greatest consequence, and how soon the memory of this great +man is gone, or, at least, out of mind by the thoughts of who goes next, +which is not yet knowne. My Lord of Oxford, Muskerry, and several others +are discoursed of. It seems my Lord Tiviott's design was to go a mile and +half out of the towne, to cut down a wood in which the enemy did use to +lie in ambush. He had sent several spyes; but all brought word that the +way was clear, and so might be for any body's discovery of an enemy before +you are upon them. There they were all snapt, he and all his officers, +and about 200 men, as they say; there being left now in the garrison but +four captains. This happened the 3d of May last, being not before that +day twelvemonth of his entering into his government there: but at his +going out in the morning he said to some of his officers, "Gentlemen, let +us look to ourselves, for it was this day three years that so many brave +Englishmen were knocked on the head by the Moores, when Fines made his +sally out." Here till almost night, and then home with Sir J. Minnes by +coach, and so to my office a while, and home to supper and bed, being now +in constant pain in my back, but whether it be only wind or what it is the +Lord knows, but I fear the worst. + +3rd. Up, still in a constant pain in my back, which much afflicts me with +fear of the consequence of it. All the morning at the office, we sat at +the office extraordinary upon the business of our stores, but, Lord! what +a pitiful account the Surveyor makes of it grieves my heart. This morning +before I came out I made a bargain with Captain Taylor for a ship for the +Commissioners for Tangier, wherein I hope to get L40 or L50. To the +'Change, and thence home and dined, and then by coach to White Hall, +sending my wife to Mrs. Hunt's. At the Committee for Tangier all the +afternoon, where a sad consideration to see things of so great weight +managed in so confused a manner as it is, so as I would not have the +buying of an acre of land bought by the Duke of York and Mr. Coventry, for +ought I see, being the only two that do anything like men; Prince Rupert +do nothing but swear and laugh a little, with an oathe or two, and that's +all he do. Thence called my wife and home, and I late at my office, and +so home to supper and to bed, pleased at my hopes of gains by to-day's +work, but very sad to think of the state of my health. + +4th. Up and to St. James's by coach, after a good deal of talk before I +went forth with J. Noble, who tells me that he will secure us against +Cave, that though he knows, and can prove it, yet nobody else can prove +it, to be Tom's child; that the bond was made by one Hudson, a scrivener, +next to the Fountaine taverne, in the Old Bayly; that the children were +born, and christened, and entered in the parish-book of St. Sepulchre's, +by the name of Anne and Elizabeth Taylor and he will give us security +against Cave if we pay him the money. And then up to the Duke, and was +with him giving him an account how matters go, and of the necessity there +is of a power to presse seamen, without which we cannot really raise men +for this fleete of twelve sayle, besides that it will assert the King's +power of pressing, which at present is somewhat doubted, and will make the +Dutch believe that we are in earnest. Thence by water to the office, +where we sat till almost two o'clock. This morning Captain Ferrer came to +the office to tell me that my Lord hath given him a promise of Young's +place in the Wardrobe, and hearing that I pretend a promise to it he comes +to ask my consent, which I denied him, and told him my Lord may do what he +pleases with his promise to me, but my father's condition is not so as +that I should let it go if my Lord will stand to his word, and so I sent +him going, myself being troubled a little at it. After office I with Mr. +Coventry by water to St. James's and dined with him, and had excellent +discourse from him. So to the Committee for Tangier all afternoon, where +still the same confused doings, and my Lord Fitz-Harding now added to the +Committee; which will signify much. It grieves me to see how brokenly +things are ordered. So by coach home, and at my office late, and so to +supper and to bed, my body by plenty of breaking of wind being just now +pretty well again, having had a constant akeing in my back these 5 or 6 +days. Mr. Coventry discoursing this noon about Sir W. Batten (what a sad +fellow he is!) told me how the King told him the other day how Sir W. +Batten, being in the ship with him and Prince Rupert when they expected to +fight with Warwick, did walk up and down sweating with a napkin under his +throat to dry up his sweat; and that Prince Rupert being a most jealous +man, and particularly of Batten, do walk up and down swearing bloodily to +the King, that Batten had a mind to betray them to-day, and that the +napkin was a signal; "but, by God," says he, "if things go ill, the first +thing I will do is to shoot him." He discoursed largely and bravely to me +concerning the different sort of valours, the active and passive valour. +For the latter, he brought as an instance General Blake; who, in the +defending of Taunton and Lime for the Parliament, did through his stubborn +sort of valour defend it the most 'opiniastrement' that ever any man did +any thing; and yet never was the man that ever made any attaque by land or +sea, but rather avoyded it on all, even fair occasions. On the other +side, Prince Rupert, the boldest attaquer in the world for personal +courage; and yet, in the defending of Bristol, no man ever did anything +worse, he wanting the patience and seasoned head to consult and advise for +defence, and to bear with the evils of a siege. The like he says is said +of my Lord Tiviott, who was the boldest adventurer of his person in the +world, and from a mean man in few years was come to this greatness of +command and repute only by the death of all his officers, he many times +having the luck of being the only survivor of them all, by venturing upon +services for the King of France that nobody else would; and yet no man +upon a defence, he being all fury and no judgment in a fight. He tells me +above all of the Duke of Yorke, that he is more himself and more of +judgement is at hand in him in the middle of a desperate service, than at +other times, as appeared in the business of Dunkirke, wherein no man ever +did braver things, or was in hotter service in the close of that day, +being surrounded with enemies; and then, contrary to the advice of all +about him, his counsel carried himself and the rest through them safe, by +advising that he might make his passage with but a dozen with him; "For," +says he, "the enemy cannot move after me so fast with a great body, and +with a small one we shall be enough to deal with them;" and though he is a +man naturally martiall to the highest degree, yet a man that never in his +life talks one word of himself or service of his owne, but only that he +saw such or such a thing, and lays it down for a maxime that a Hector can +have no courage. He told me also, as a great instance of some men, that +the Prince of Condo's excellence is, that there not being a more furious +man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to +make him civill, and to command in words of great obligation to his +officers and men; but without any the least disturbance in his judgment or +spirit. + +5th (Lord's day). About one in the morning I was knocked up by my mayds +to come to my wife who is very ill. I rose, and from some cold she got +to-day, or from something else, she is taken with great gripings, a +looseness, and vomiting. I lay a while by her upon the bed, she being in +great pain, poor wretch, but that being a little over I to bed again, and +lay, and then up and to my office all the morning, setting matters to +rights in some accounts and papers, and then to dinner, whither Mr. +Shepley, late come to town, came to me, and after dinner and some pleasant +discourse he went his way, being to go out of town to Huntington again +to-morrow. So all the afternoon with my wife discoursing and talking, and +in the evening to my office doing business, and then home to supper and to +bed. + +6th. Up and found my wife very ill again, which troubles me, but I was +forced to go forth. So by water with Mr. Gauden and others to see a ship +hired by me for the Commissioners of Tangier, and to give order therein. +So back to the office, and by coach with Mr. Gauden to White Hall, and +there to my Lord Sandwich, and here I met Mr. Townsend very opportunely +and Captain Ferrer, and after some discourse we did accommodate the +business of the Wardrobe place, that he shall have the reversion if he +will take it out by giving a covenant that if Mr. Young' dyes before my +father my father shall have the benefit of it for his life. So home, and +thence by water to Deptford, and there found our Trinity Brethren come +from their election to church, where Dr. Britton made, methought, an +indifferent sermon touching the decency that we ought to observe in God's +house, the church, but yet to see how ridiculously some men will carry +themselves. Sir W. Batten did at open table anon in the name of the whole +Society desire him to print his sermon, as if the Doctor could think that +they were fit judges of a good sermon. Then by barge with Sir W. Batten +to Trinity House. It seems they have with much ado carried it for Sir G. +Carteret against Captain Harrison, poor man, who by succession ought to +have been it, and most hands were for him, but only they were forced to +fright the younger Brethren by requiring them to set their hands (which is +an ill course) and then Sir G. Carteret carryed it. Here was at dinner my +Lord Sandwich, Mr. Coventry, my Lord Craven, and others. A great dinner, +and good company. Mr. Prin also, who would not drink any health, no, not +the King's, but sat down with his hat on all the while; + + [William Prynne had published in 1628 a small book against the + drinking of healths, entitled, "Healthes, Sicknesse; or a + compendious and briefe Discourse, prouing, the Drinking and Pledging + of Healthes to be sinfull and utterly unlawfull unto Christians + . . . wherein all those ordinary objections, excuses or pretences, + which are made to justifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or + pledging of Healthes are likewise cleared and answered." The + pamphlet was dedicated to Charles I. as "more interessed in the + theame and subject of this compendious discourse then any other that + I know," and "because your Majestie of all other persons within your + owne dominions, are most dishonoured, prejudiced, and abused by + these Healthes."] + +but nobody took notice of it to him at all; but in discourse with the +Doctor he did declare himself that he ever was, and has expressed himself +in all his books for mixt communion against the Presbyterian examination. +Thence after dinner by water, my Lord Sandwich and all us Tangier men, +where at the Committee busy till night with great confusion, and then by +coach home, with this content, however, that I find myself every day +become more and more known, and shall one day hope to have benefit by it. +I found my wife a little better. A little to my office, then home to +supper and to bed. + +7th. Up and to the office (having by my going by water without any thing +upon my legs yesterday got some pain upon me again), where all the +morning. At noon a little to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, my +wife being ill still in bed. Thence to the office, where busy all the +afternoon till 9 at night, and so home to my wife, to supper, and to bed. + +8th. All day before dinner with Creed, talking of many things, among +others, of my Lord's going so often to Chelsy, and he, without my speaking +much, do tell me that his daughters do perceive all, and do hate the +place, and the young woman there, Mrs. Betty Becke; for my Lord, who sent +them thither only for a disguise for his going thither, will come under +pretence to see them, and pack them out of doors to the Parke, and stay +behind with her; but now the young ladies are gone to their mother to +Kensington. To dinner, and after dinner till 10 at night in my study +writing of my old broken office notes in shorthand all in one book, till +my eyes did ake ready to drop out. So home to supper and to bed. + +9th. Up and at my office all the morning. At noon dined at home, Mr. +Hunt and his kinswoman (wife in the country), after dinner I to the +office, where we sat all the afternoon. Then at night by coach to attend +the Duke of Albemarle about the Tangier ship. Coming back my wife spied +me going home by coach from Mr. Hunt's, with whom she hath gained much in +discourse to-day concerning W. Howe's discourse of me to him. That he was +the man that got me to be secretary to my Lord; and all that I have +thereby, and that for all this I never did give him 6d. in my life. Which +makes me wonder that this rogue dare talk after this manner, and I think +all the world is grown false. But I hope I shall make good use of it. So +home to supper and to bed, my eyes aching mightily since last night. + +10th. Up and by water to White Hall, and there to a Committee of Tangier, +and had occasion to see how my Lord Ashworth--[Lord Ashworth is probably a +miswriting for Lord Ashley (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury).]--deports +himself, which is very fine indeed, and it joys my heart to see that there +is any body looks so near into the King's business as I perceive he do in +this business of my Lord Peterborough's accounts. Thence into the Parke, +and met and walked with Captain Sylas Taylor, my old acquaintance while I +was of the Exchequer, and Dr. Whore, talking of musique, and particularly +of Mr. Berckenshaw's way, which Taylor magnifies mightily, and perhaps but +what it deserves, but not so easily to be understood as he and others make +of it. Thence home by water, and after dinner abroad to buy several +things, as a map, and powder, and other small things, and so home to my +office, and in the evening with Captain Taylor by water to our Tangier +ship, and so home, well pleased, having received L26 profit to-day of my +bargain for this ship, which comforts me mightily, though I confess my +heart, what with my being out of order as to my health, and the fear I +have of the money my Lord oweth me and I stand indebted to him in, is much +cast down of late. In the evening home to supper and to bed. + +11th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, where some +discourse arose from Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry, which gives me +occasion to think that something like a war is expected now indeed, though +upon the 'Change afterwards I hear too that an Embassador is landed from +Holland, and one from their East India Company, to treat with ours about +the wrongs we pretend to. Mr. Creed dined with me, and thence after +dinner by coach with my wife only to take the ayre, it being very warm and +pleasant, to Bowe and Old Ford; and thence to Hackney. There 'light, and +played at shuffle-board, eat cream and good churies; and so with good +refreshment home. Then to my office vexed with Captain Taylor about the +delay of carrying down the ship hired by me for Tangier, and late about +that and other things at the office. So home to supper and to bed. + +12th (Lord's day). All the morning in my chamber consulting my lesson of +ship building, and at noon Mr. Creed by appointment came and dined with +us, and sat talking all the afternoon till, about church time, my wife and +I began our great dispute about going to Griffin's child's christening, +where I was to have been godfather, but Sir J. Minnes refusing, he wanted +an equal for me and my Lady Batten, and so sought for other. Then the +question was whether my wife should go, and she having dressed herself on +purpose, was very angry, and began to talk openly of my keeping her within +doors before Creed, which vexed me to the guts, but I had the discretion +to keep myself without passion, and so resolved at last not to go, but to +go down by water, which we did by H. Russell--[a waterman]--to the +Half-way house, and there eat and drank, and upon a very small occasion +had a difference again broke out, where without any the least cause she +had the cunning to cry a great while, and talk and blubber, which made me +mighty angry in mind, but said nothing to provoke her because Creed was +there, but walked home, being troubled in my mind also about the knavery +and neglect of Captain Fudge and Taylor, who were to have had their ship +for Tangier ready by Thursday last, and now the men by a mistake are come +on board, and not any master or man or boy of the ship's company on board +with them when we came by her side this afternoon, and also received a +letter from Mr. Coventry this day in complaint of it. We came home, and +after supper Creed went home, and I to bed. My wife made great means to +be friends, coming to my bedside and doing all things to please me, and at +last I could not hold out, but seemed pleased, and so parted, and I with +much ado to sleep, but was easily wakened by extraordinary great rain, and +my mind troubled the more to think what the soldiers would do on board +tonight in all this weather. + +13th. So up at 5 o'clock, and with Captain Taylor on board her at +Deptford, and found all out of order, only the soldiers civil, and Sir +Arthur Bassett a civil person. I rated at Captain Taylor, whom, contrary +to my expectation, I found a lying and a very stupid blundering fellow, +good for nothing, and yet we talk of him in the Navy as if he had been an +excellent officer, but I find him a lying knave, and of no judgment or +dispatch at all. After finding the condition of the ship, no master, not +above four men, and many ship's provisions, sayls, and other things +wanting, I went back and called upon Fudge, whom I found like a lying +rogue unready to go on board, but I did so jeer him that I made him get +every thing ready, and left Taylor and H. Russell to quicken him, and so +away and I by water on to White Hall, where I met his Royal Highnesse at a +Tangier Committee about this very thing, and did there satisfy him how +things are, at which all was pacified without any trouble, and I hope may +end well, but I confess I am at a real trouble for fear the rogue should +not do his work, and I come to shame and losse of the money I did hope +justly to have got by it. Thence walked with Mr. Coventry to St. James's, +and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy +books given him of old Sir John Cooke's by the Archbishop of Canterbury +that now is; wherein the order that was observed in the Navy then, above +what it is now, is very observable, and fine things we did observe in our +reading. Anon to dinner, after dinner to discourse of the business of the +Dutch warr, wherein he tells me the Dutch do in every particular, which +are but few and small things that we can demand of them, whatever cry we +unjustly make, do seem to offer at an accommodation, for they do owne that +it is not for their profit to have warr with England. We did also talk of +a History of the Navy of England, how fit it were to be writ; and he did +say that it hath been in his mind to propose to me the writing of the +History of the late Dutch warr, which I am glad to hear, it being a thing +I much desire, and sorts mightily with my genius; and, if well done, may +recommend me much. So he says he will get me an order for making of +searches to all records, &c., in order thereto, and I shall take great +delight in doing of it. Thence by water down to the Tower, and thither +sent for Mr. Creed to my house, where he promised to be, and he and I down +to the ship, and find all things in pretty good order, and I hope will end +to my mind. Thence having a gaily down to Greenwich, and there saw the +King's works, which are great, a-doing there, and so to the Cherry Garden, +and so carried some cherries home, and after supper to bed, my wife lying +with me, which from my not being thoroughly well, nor she, we have not +done above once these two or three weeks. + +14th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and had great +conflict about the flags again, and am vexed methought to see my Lord +Berkely not satisfied with what I said, but however I stop the King's +being abused by the flag makers for the present. I do not know how it may +end, but I will do my best to preserve it. So home to dinner, and after +dinner by coach to Kensington. In the way overtaking Mr. Laxton, the +apothecary, with his wife and daughters, very fine young lasses, in a +coach; and so both of us to my Lady Sandwich, who hath lain this fortnight +here at Deane Hodges's. Much company came hither to-day, my Lady +Carteret, &c., Sir William Wheeler and his lady, and, above all, Mr. +Becke, of Chelsy, and wife and daughter, my Lord's mistress, and one that +hath not one good feature in her face, and yet is a fine lady, of a fine +taille, and very well carriaged, and mighty discreet. I took all the +occasion I could to discourse with the young ladies in her company to give +occasion to her to talk, which now and then she did, and that mighty +finely, and is, I perceive, a woman of such an ayre, as I wonder the less +at my Lord's favour to her, and I dare warrant him she hath brains enough +to entangle him. Two or three houres we were in her company, going into +Sir H. Finche's garden, and seeing the fountayne, and singing there with +the ladies, and a mighty fine cool place it is, with a great laver of +water in the middle and the bravest place for musique I ever heard. After +much mirthe, discoursing to the ladies in defence of the city against the +country or court, and giving them occasion to invite themselves to-morrow +to me to dinner, to my venison pasty, I got their mother's leave, and so +good night, very well pleased with my day's work, and, above all, that I +have seen my Lord's mistresse. So home to supper, and a little at my +office, and to bed. + +15th. Up and by appointment with Captain Witham (the Captain that brought +the newes of the disaster at Tangier, where my Lord Tiviott was slain) and +Mr. Tooker to Beares Quay, and there saw and more afterward at the several +grannarys several parcels of oates, and strange it is to hear how it will +heat itself if laid up green and not often turned. We came not to any +agreement, but did cheapen several parcels, and thence away, promising to +send again to them. So to the Victualling office, and then home. And in +our garden I got Captain Witham to tell me the whole story of my Lord +Tiviott's misfortune; for he was upon the guard with his horse neare the +towne, when at a distance he saw the enemy appear upon a hill, a mile and +a half off, and made up to them, and with much ado escaped himself; but +what became of my Lord he neither knows nor thinks that any body but the +enemy can tell. Our losse was about four hundred. But he tells me that +the greater wonder is that my Lord Tiviott met no sooner with such a +disaster; for every day he did commit himself to more probable danger than +this, for now he had the assurance of all his scouts that there was no +enemy thereabouts; whereas he used every day to go out with two or three +with him, to make his discoveries, in greater danger, and yet the man that +could not endure to have anybody else to go a step out of order to +endanger himself. He concludes him to be the man of the hardest fate to +lose so much honour at one blow that ever was. His relation being done he +parted; and so I home to look after things for dinner. And anon at noon +comes Mr. Creed by chance, and by and by the three young ladies:--[Lord +Sandwich's daughters.]--and very merry we were with our pasty, very well +baked; and a good dish of roasted chickens; pease, lobsters, strawberries. +And after dinner to cards: and about five o'clock, by water down to +Greenwich; and up to the top of the hill, and there played upon the ground +at cards. And so to the Cherry Garden, and then by water singing finely +to the Bridge, and there landed; and so took boat again, and to Somersett +House. And by this time, the tide being against us, it was past ten of +the clock; and such a troublesome passage, in regard of my Lady Paulina's +fearfullness, that in all my life I never did see any poor wretch in that +condition. Being come hither, there waited for them their coach; but it +being so late, I doubted what to do how to get them home. After half an +hour's stay in the street, I sent my wife home by coach with Mr. Creed's +boy; and myself and Creed in the coach home with them. But, Lord! the +fear that my Lady Paulina was in every step of the way; and indeed at this +time of the night it was no safe thing to go that road; so that I was even +afeard myself, though I appeared otherwise.--We came safe, however, to +their house, where all were abed; we knocked them up, my Lady and all the +family being in bed. So put them into doors; and leaving them with the +mayds, bade them good night, and then into the towne, Creed and I, it +being about twelve o'clock and past; and to several houses, inns, but +could get no lodging, all being in bed. At the last house, at last, we +found some people drinking and roaring; and there got in, and after +drinking, got an ill bed, where + +16th. I lay in my drawers and stockings and wastecoate till five of the +clock, and so up; and being well pleased with our frolique, walked to +Knightsbridge, and there eat a messe of creame, and so to St. James's, and +there walked a little, and so I to White Hall, and took coach, and found +my wife well got home last night, and now in bed. So I to the office, +where all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, so home and to my +office, where Mr. Ackworth came to me (though he knows himself and I know +him to be a very knave), yet he came to me to discover the knavery of +other people like the most honest man in the world. However, good use I +shall make of his discourse, for in this he is much in the right. He +being gone I to the 'Change, Mr. Creed with me, after we had been by water +to see a vessell we have hired to carry more soldiers to Tangier, and also +visited a rope ground, wherein I learnt several useful things. The talk +upon the 'Change is, that De Ruyter is dead, with fifty men of his own +ship, of the plague, at Cales: that the Holland Embassador here do +endeavour to sweeten us with fair words; and things likely to be +peaceable. Home after I had spoke with my cozen Richard Pepys upon the +'Change, about supplying us with bewpers from Norwich, which I should be +glad of, if cheap. So home to supper and bed. + +17th. Up, and to my office, where I dispatched much business, and then +down by water to Woolwich to make a discovery of a cheate providing for us +in the working of some of our own ground Tows into new cordage, to be sold +to us for Riga cordage. Thence to Mr. Falconer's, where I met Sir W. +Batten and Lady, and Captain Tinker, and there dined with them, and so to +the Dockyarde and to Deptford by water, and there very long informing +myself in the business of flags and bewpers and other things, and so home +late, being weary, and full of good information to-day, but I perceive the +corruptions of the Navy are of so many kinds that it is endless to look +after them, especially while such a one as Sir W. Batten discourages every +man that is honest. So home to my office, there very late, and then to +supper and to bed mightily troubled in my mind to hear how Sir W. Batten +and Sir J. Minnes do labour all they can to abuse or enable others to +abuse the King. + +18th. From morning till 11 at night (only a little at dinner at home) at +my office very busy, setting many businesses in order to my great trouble, +but great content in the end. So home to supper and to bed. Strange to +see how pert Sir W. Pen is to-day newly come from Portsmouth with his head +full of great reports of his service and the state of the ships there. +When that is over he will be just as another man again or worse. But I +wonder whence Mr. Coventry should take all this care for him, to send for +him up only to look after his Irish business with my Lord Ormond and to +get the Duke's leave for him to come with so much officiousness, when I am +sure he knows him as well as I do as to his little service he do. + +19th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning and afternoon (only at dinner +at home) at my office doing many businesses for want of time on the week +days. In the afternoon the greatest shower of rain of a sudden and the +greatest and most continued thunder that ever I heard I think in my life. +In the evening home to my wife, and there talked seriously of several of +our family concernments, and among others of bringing Pall out of the +country to us here to try to put her off, which I am very desirous, and my +wife also of. So to supper, prayers, which I have of late too much +omitted. So to bed. + +20th. It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, +and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off +farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins. Up +and did several businesses, and so with my wife by water to White Hall, +she to her father's, I to the Duke, where we did our usual business. And +among other discourse of the Dutch, he was merrily saying how they print +that Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, and my Lord Sandwich, are to be +Generalls; and soon after is to follow them "Vieux Pen;" and so the Duke +called him in mirth Old Pen. They have, it seems, lately wrote to the +King, to assure him that their setting-out ships were only to defend their +fishing-trade, and to stay near home, not to annoy the King's subjects; +and to desire that he would do the like with his ships: which the King +laughs at, but yet is troubled they should think him such a child, to +suffer them to bring home their fish and East India Company's ships, and +then they will not care a fart for us. Thence to Westminster Hall, it +being term time, meeting Mr. Dickering, he tells me how my Lady last week +went to see Mrs. Becke, the mother; and by and by the daughter came in, +but that my Lady do say herself, as he says, that she knew not for what +reason, for she never knew they had a daughter, which I do not believe. +She was troubled, and her heart did rise as soon as she appeared, and +seems the most ugly woman that ever she saw. This if true were strange, +but I believe it is not. Thence to my Lord's lodgings; and were merry +with the young ladies, who make a great story of their appearing before +their mother the morning after we carried them, the last week, home so +late; and that their mother took it very well, at least without any anger. +Here I heard how the rich widow, my Lady Gold, is married to one Neale, +after he had received a box on the eare by her brother (who was there a +sentinel, in behalf of some courtier) at the door; but made him draw, and +wounded him. She called Neale up to her, and sent for a priest, married +presently, and went to bed. The brother sent to the Court, and had a +serjeant sent for Neale; but Neale sent for him up to be seen in bed, and +she owned him for her husband: and so all is past. It seems Sir H. Bennet +did look after her. My Lady very pleasant. After dinner came in Sir +Thomas Crew and Mr. Sidney, lately come from France, who is growne a +little, and a pretty youth he is; but not so improved as they did give him +out to be, but like a child still. But yet I can perceive he hath good +parts and good inclinations. Thence with Creed, who dined here, to +Westminster to find out Mr. Hawly, and did, but he did not accept of my +offer of his being steward to my Lord at sea. Thence alone to several +places about my law businesses, and with good success; at last I to Mr. +Townsend at the Wardrobe, and received kind words from him to be true to +me against Captain Ferrers his endeavours to get the place from my father +as my Lord hath promised him. Here met Will. Howe, and he went forth with +me; and by water back to White Hall to wait on my Lord, who is come back +from Hinchinbroke; where he has been about 4 or 5 days. But I was never +more vexed to see how an over-officious visitt is received, for he +received me with as little concernment as in the middle of his discontent, +and a fool I am to be of so servile a humour, and vexed with that +consideration I took coach home, and could not get it off my mind all +night. To supper and to bed, my wife finding fault with Besse for her +calling upon Jane that lived with us, and there heard Mrs. Harper and her +talk ill of us and not told us of it. With which I was also vexed, and +told her soundly of it till she cried, poor wench, and I hope without +dissimulation, and yet I cannot tell; however, I was glad to see in what +manner she received it, and so to sleep. + +21st. Being weary yesterday with walking I sleep long, and at last up and +to the office, where all the morning. At home to dinner, Mr. Deane with +me. After dinner I to White Hall (setting down my wife by the way) to a +Committee of Tangier, where the Duke of Yorke, I perceive, do attend the +business very well, much better than any man there or most of them, and my +[mind] eased of some trouble I lay under for fear of his thinking ill of +me from the bad successe in the setting forth of these crew men to +Tangier. Thence with Mr. Creed, and walked in the Parke, and so to the +New Exchange, meeting Mr. Moore, and he with us. I shewed him no friendly +look, but he took no notice to me of the Wardrobe business, which vexes +me. I perceive by him my Lord's business of his family and estate goes +very ill, and runs in debt mightily. I would to God I were clear of it, +both as to my owne money and the bond of L1000, which I stand debtor for +him in, to my cozen Thomas Pepys. Thence by coach home and to my office a +little, and so to supper and to bed. + +22nd. Up and I found Mr. Creed below, who staid with me a while, and then +I to business all the morning. At noon to the 'Change and Coffee-house, +where great talke of the Dutch preparing of sixty sayle of ships. The +plague grows mightily among them, both at sea and land. From the 'Change +to dinner to Trinity House with Sir W. Rider and Cutler, where a very good +dinner. Here Sir G. Ascue dined also, who I perceive desires to make +himself known among the seamen. Thence home, there coming to me my Lord +Peterborough's Sollicitor with a letter from him to desire present +dispatch in his business of freight, and promises me L50, which is good +newes, and I hope to do his business readily for him. This much rejoiced +me. All the afternoon at his business, and late at night comes the +Sollicitor again, and I with him at 9 o'clock to Mr. Povy's, and there +acquainted him with the business. The money he won't pay without warrant, +but that will be got done in a few days. So home by coach and to bed. + +23rd. Up, and to the office, and there we sat all the morning. So to the +'Change, and then home to dinner and to my office, where till 10 at night +very busy, and so home to supper and to bed. My cozen, Thomas Pepys, was +with me yesterday and I took occasion to speak to him about the bond I +stand bound for my Lord Sandwich to him in L1000. I did very plainly, +obliging him to secrecy, tell him how the matter stands, yet with all duty +to my Lord my resolution to be bound for whatever he desires me for him, +yet that I would be glad he had any other security. I perceive by Mr. +Moore today that he hath been with my Lord, and my Lord how he takes it I +know not, but he is looking after other security and I am mighty glad of +it. W. Howe was with me this afternoon, to desire some things to be got +ready for my Lord against his going down to his ship, which will be soon; +for it seems the King and both the Queenes intend to visit him. The Lord +knows how my Lord will get out of this charge; for Mr. Moore tells me +to-day that he is L10,000 in debt and this will, with many other things +that daily will grow upon him (while he minds his pleasure as he do), set +him further backward. But it was pretty this afternoon to hear W. Howe +mince the matter, and say that he do believe that my Lord is in debt L2000 +or L3000, and then corrected himself and said, No, not so, but I am afraid +he is in debt L1000. I pray God gets me well rid of his Lordship as to +his debt, and I care not. + +24th. Up and out with Captain Witham in several places again to look for +oats for Tangier, and among other places to the City granarys, where it +seems every company have their granary and obliged to keep such a quantity +of corne always there or at a time of scarcity to issue so much at so much +a bushell: and a fine thing it is to see their stores of all sorts, for +piles for the bridge, and for pipes, a thing I never saw before. + + [From the commencement of the reign of Henry VIII., or perhaps + earlier, it was the custom of the City of London to provide against + scarcity, by requiring each of the chartered Companies to keep in + store a certain quantity of corn, which was to be renewed from time + to time, and when required for that purpose, produced in the market + for sale, at such times and prices, and in such quantities, as the + Lord Mayor or Common Council should direct. See the report of a + case in the Court of Chancery, "Attorney-General v. Haberdashers' + Company" (Mylne and Keens "Reports," vol. i., p. 420).--B.] + +Thence to the office, and there busy all the morning. At noon to my uncle +Wight's, and there dined, my wife being there all the morning. After +dinner to White Hall; and there met with Mr. Pierce, and he showed me the +Queene's bed-chamber, and her closett, where she had nothing but some +pretty pious pictures, and books of devotion; and her holy water at her +head as she sleeps, with her clock by her bed-side, wherein a lamp burns +that tells her the time of the night at any time. Thence with him to the +Parke, and there met the Queene coming from Chappell, with her Mayds of +Honour, all in silver-lace gowns again: which is new to me, and that which +I did not think would have been brought up again. Thence he carried me to +the King's closett: where such variety of pictures, and other things of +value and rarity, that I was properly confounded and enjoyed no pleasure +in the sight of them; which is the only time in my life that ever I was so +at a loss for pleasure, in the greatest plenty of objects to give it me. +Thence home, calling in many places and doing abundance of errands to my +great content, and at night weary home, where Mr. Creed waited for me, and +he and I walked in the garden, where he told me he is now in a hurry +fitting himself for sea, and that it remains that he deals as an ingenuous +man with me in the business I wot of, which he will do before he goes. +But I perceive he will have me do many good turns for him first, both as +to his bills coming to him in this office, and also in his absence at the +Committee of Tangier, which I promise, and as he acquits himself to me I +will willingly do. I would I knew the worst of it, what it is he intends, +that so I may either quit my hands of him or continue my kindness still to +him. + +25th. We staid late, and he lay with me all night and rose very merry +talking, and excellent company he is, that is the truth of it, and a most +cunning man. He being gone I to the office, where we sat all the morning. +At noon to dinner, and then to my office busy, and by and by home with Mr. +Deane to a lesson upon raising a Bend of Timbers, + + [This seems to refer to knee timber, of which there was not a + sufficient supply. A proposal was made to produce this bent wood + artificially: "June 22, 1664. Sir William Petty intimated that it + seemed by the scarcity and greater rate of knee timber that nature + did not furnish crooked wood enough for building: wherefore he + thought it would be fit to raise by art, so much of it in + proportion, as to reduce it to an equal rate with strait timber" + (Birch's "History of the Royal Society,")] + +and he being gone I to the office, and there came Captain Taylor, and he +and I home, and I have done all very well with him as to the business of +the last trouble, so that come what will come my name will be clear of any +false dealing with him. So to my office again late, and then to bed. + +26th (Lord's day). Up, and Sir J. Minnes set me down at my Lord +Sandwich's, where I waited till his coming down, when he came, too, could +find little to say to me but only a general question or two, and so +good-bye. Here his little daughter, my Lady Katharine was brought, who is +lately come from my father's at Brampton, to have her cheek looked after, +which is and hath long been sore. But my Lord will rather have it be as +it is, with a scarr in her face, than endanger it being worse by +tampering. He being gone, I went home, a little troubled to see he minds +me no more, and with Creed called at several churches, which, God knows, +are supplied with very young men, and the churches very empty; so home and +at our owne church looked in, and there heard one preach whom Sir W. Pen +brought, which he desired us yesterday to hear, that had been his chaplin +in Ireland, a very silly fellow. So home and to dinner, and after dinner +a frolique took us, we would go this afternoon to the Hope; so my wife +dressed herself, and, with good victuals and drink, we took boat presently +and the tide with us got down, but it was night, and the tide spent by the +time we got to Gravesend; so there we stopped, but went not on shore, only +Creed, to get some cherries, + + [Pliny tells us that cherries were introduced into Britain by the + Romans, and Lydgate alludes to them as sold in the London streets. + Richard Haines, fruiterer to Henry VI IL, imported a number of + cherry trees from Flanders, and planted them at Tenham, in Kent. + Hence the fame of the Kentish cherries.] + +and send a letter to the Hope, where the Fleete lies. And so, it being +rainy, and thundering mightily, and lightning, we returned. By and by the +evening turned mighty clear and moonshine; we got with great pleasure +home, about twelve o'clock, which did much please us, Creed telling pretty +stories in the boat. He lay with me all night. + +27th. Up, and he and I walked to Paul's Church yard, and there saw Sir +Harry Spillman's book, and I bespoke it and others, and thence we took +coach, and he to my Lord's and I to St. James's, where we did our usual +business, and thence I home and dined, and then by water to Woolwich, and +there spent the afternoon till night under pretence of buying Captain +Blackman's house and grounds, and viewing the ground took notice of +Clothiers' cordage with which he, I believe, thinks to cheat the King. +That being done I by water home, it being night first, and there I find +our new mayd Jane come, a cook mayd. So to bed. + +28th. Up, and this day put on a half shirt first this summer, it being +very hot; and yet so ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afeard I shall +catch cold, while all the world is ready to melt away. To the office all +the morning, at noon to dinner at home, then to my office till the +evening, then out about several businesses and then by appointment to the +'Change, and thence with my uncle Wight to the Mum house, and there +drinking, he do complain of his wife most cruel as the most troublesome +woman in the world, and how she will have her will, saying she brought him +a portion and God knows what. By which, with many instances more, I +perceive they do live a sad life together. Thence to the Mitre and there +comes Dr. Burnett to us and Mr. Maes, but the meeting was chiefly to bring +the Doctor and me together, and there I began to have his advice about my +disease, and then invited him to my house: and I am resolved to put myself +into his hands. Here very late, but I drank nothing, nor will, though he +do advise me to take care of cold drinks. So home and to bed. + +29th. Up, and Mr. Shepley came to me, who is lately come to town; among +other things I hear by him how the children are sent for away from my +father's, but he says without any great discontent. I am troubled there +should be this occasion of difference, and yet I am glad they are gone, +lest it should have come to worse. He tells me how my brave dogg I did +give him, going out betimes one morning to Huntington, was set upon by +five other doggs, and worried to pieces, of which I am a little, and he +the most sorry I ever saw man for such a thing. Forth with him and walked +a good way talking, then parted and I to the Temple, and to my cozen Roger +Pepys, and thence by water to Westminster to see Dean Honiwood, whom I had +not visited a great while. He is a good-natured, but a very weak man, yet +a Dean, and a man in great esteem. Thence walked to my Lord Sandwich's, +and there dined, my Lord there. He was pleasant enough at table with me, +but yet without any discourse of business, or any regard to me when dinner +was over, but fell to cards, and my Lady and I sat two hours alone, +talking of the condition of her family's being greatly in debt, and many +children now coming up to provide for. I did give her my sense very plain +of it, which she took well and carried further than myself, to the +bemoaning their condition, and remembering how finely things were ordered +about six years ago, when I lived there and my Lord at sea every year. +Thence home, doing several errands by the way. So to my office, and there +till late at night, Mr. Comander coming to me for me to sign and seal the +new draft of my will, which I did do, I having altered something upon the +death of my brother Tom. So home to supper and to bed. + +30th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home +to dinner, Mr. Wayth with me, and by and by comes in Mr. Falconer and his +wife and dined with us, the first time she was ever here. We had a pretty +good dinner, very merry in discourse, sat after dinner an hour or two, +then down by water to Deptford and Woolwich about getting of some business +done which I was bound to by my oath this month, and though in some things +I have not come to the height of my vow of doing all my business in paying +all my petty debts and receipt of all my petty monies due to me, yet I +bless God I am not conscious of any neglect in me that they are not done, +having not minded my pleasure at all, and so being resolved to take no +manner of pleasure till it be done, I doubt not God will forgive me for +not forfeiting the L10 promised. Walked back from Woolwich to Greenwich +all alone, save a man that had a cudgell in his hand, and, though he told +me he laboured in the King's yarde, and many other good arguments that he +is an honest man, yet, God forgive me! I did doubt he might knock me on +the head behind with his club. But I got safe home. Then to the making +up my month's accounts, and find myself still a gainer and rose to L951, +for which God be blessed. I end the month with my mind full of business +and some sorrow that I have not exactly performed all my vowes, though my +not doing is not my fault, and shall be made good out of my first leisure. +Great doubts yet whether the Dutch wary go on or no. The Fleet ready in +the Hope, of twelve sayle. The King and Queenes go on board, they say, on +Saturday next. Young children of my Lord Sandwich gone with their mayds +from my mother's, which troubles me, it being, I hear from Mr. Shepley, +with great discontent, saying, that though they buy good meate, yet can +never have it before it stinks, which I am ashamed of. + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + JULY + 1664 + +July 1st. Up and within all the morning, first bringing down my Tryangle +to my chamber below, having a new frame made proper for it to stand on. By +and by comes Dr. Burnett, who assures me that I have an ulcer either in +the kidneys or bladder, for my water, which he saw yesterday, he is sure +the sediment is not slime gathered by heat, but is a direct pusse. He did +write me down some direction what to do for it, but not with the +satisfaction I expected. + + Dr. Burnett's advice to mee. + + The Originall is fyled among my letters. + + Take of ye Rootes of Marsh-Mallows foure ounces, of Cumfry, of + Liquorish, of each two ounces, of ye Mowers of St. John's Wort two + Handsfull, of ye Leaves of Plantan, of Alehoofe, of each three + handfulls, of Selfeheale, of Red Roses, of each one Handfull, of + Cynament, of Nutmegg, of each halfe an ounce. Beate them well, then + powre upon them one Quart of old Rhenish wine, and about Six houres + after strayne it and clarify it with ye white of an Egge, and with a + sufficient quantity of sugar, boyle it to ye consistence of a Syrrup + and reserve it for use. + + Dissolve one spoonefull of this Syrrup in every draught of Ale or + beere you drink. + + Morning and evening swallow ye quantity of an hazle-nutt of Cyprus + Terebintine. + + If you are bound or have a fit of ye Stone eate an ounce of Cassia + new drawne, from ye poynt of a knife. + + Old Canary or Malaga wine you may drinke to three or 4 glasses, but + noe new wine, and what wine you drinke, lett it bee at meales.-[From + a slip of paper inserted in the Diary at this place.] + +I did give him a piece, with good hopes, however, that his advice will be +of use to me, though it is strange that Mr. Hollyard should never say one +word of this ulcer in all his life to me. He being gone, I to the +'Change, and thence home to dinner, and so to my office, busy till the +evening, and then by agreement came Mr. Hill and Andrews and one +Cheswicke, a maister who plays very well upon the Spinette, and we sat +singing Psalms till 9 at night, and so broke up with great pleasure, and +very good company it is, and I hope I shall now and then have their +company. They being gone, I to my office till towards twelve o'clock, and +then home and to bed. Upon the 'Change, this day, I saw how uncertain the +temper of the people is, that, from our discharging of about 200 that lay +idle, having nothing to do, upon some of our ships, which were ordered to +be fitted for service, and their works are now done, the towne do talk +that the King discharges all his men, 200 yesterday and 800 to-day, and +that now he hath got L100,000 in his hand, he values not a Dutch warr. +But I undeceived a great many, telling them how it is. + +2nd. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and there, which is strange, I could meet with nobody that I +could invite home to my venison pasty, but only Mr. Alsopp and Mr. Lanyon, +whom I invited last night, and a friend they brought along with them. So +home and with our venison pasty we had other good meat and good discourse. +After dinner sat close to discourse about our business of the victualling +of the garrison of Tangier, taking their prices of all provisions, and I +do hope to order it so that they and I also may get something by it, which +do much please me, for I hope I may get nobly and honestly with profit to +the King. They being gone came Sir W. Warren, and he and I discoursed +long about the business of masts, and then in the evening to my office, +where late writing letters, and then home to look over some Brampton +papers, which I am under an oathe to dispatch before I spend one half +houre in any pleasure or go to bed before 12 o'clock, to which, by the +grace of God, I will be true. Then to bed. When I came home I found that +to-morrow being Sunday I should gain nothing by doing it to-night, and +to-morrow I can do it very well and better than to-night. I went to bed +before my time, but with a resolution of doing the thing to better purpose +to-morrow. + +3rd (Lord's day). Up and ready, and all the morning in my chamber looking +over and settling some Brampton businesses. At noon to dinner, where the +remains of yesterday's venison and a couple of brave green geese, which we +are fain to eat alone, because they will not keepe, which troubled us. +After dinner I close to my business, and before the evening did end it +with great content, and my mind eased by it. Then up and spent the +evening walking with my wife talking, and it thundering and lightning all +the evening, and this yeare have had the most of thunder and lightning +they say of any in man's memory, and so it is, it seems, in France and +everywhere else. So to prayers and to bed. + +4th. Up, and many people with me about business, and then out to several +places, and so at noon to my Lord Crew's, and there dined and very much +made of there by him. He offered me the selling of some land of his in +Cambridgeshire, a purchase of about L1000, and if I can compass it I will. +After dinner I walked homeward, still doing business by the way, and at +home find my wife this day of her owne accord to have lain out 25s. upon a +pair of pendantes for her eares, which did vex me and brought both me and +her to very high and very foule words from her to me, such as trouble me +to think she should have in her mouth, and reflecting upon our old +differences, which I hate to have remembered. I vowed to breake them, or +that she should go and get what she could for them again. I went with +that resolution out of doors; the poor wretch afterwards in a little while +did send out to change them for her money again. I followed Besse her +messenger at the 'Change, and there did consult and sent her back; I would +not have them changed, being satisfied that she yielded. So went home, and +friends again as to that business; but the words I could not get out of my +mind, and so went to bed at night discontented, and she came to bed to me, +but all would not make me friends, but sleep and rise in the morning +angry. This day the King and the Queene went to visit my Lord Sandwich +and the fleete, going forth in the Hope. + + ["Their Majesties were treated at Tilbury Hope by the Earl of + Sandwich, returning the same day, abundantly satisfied both with the + dutiful respects of that honourable person and with the excellent + condition of all matters committed to his charge" ("The Newes," July + 7th, 1664).--B.] + +5th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the 'Change +a little, then with W. Howe home and dined. So after dinner to my office, +and there busy till late at night, having had among other things much +discourse with young Gregory about the Chest business, wherein Sir W. +Batten is so great a knave, and also with Alsop and Lanyon about the +Tangier victualling, wherein I hope to get something for myself. Late +home to supper and to bed, being full of thoughts of a sudden resolution +this day taken upon the 'Change of going down to-morrow to the Hope. + +6th. Up very betimes, and my wife also, and got us ready; and about eight +o'clock, having got some bottles of wine and beer and neat's tongues, we +went to our barge at the Towre, where Mr. Pierce and his wife, and a +kinswoman and his sister, and Mrs. Clerke and her sister and cozen were to +expect us; and so set out for the Hope, all the way down playing at cards +and other sports, spending our time pretty merry. Come to the Hope about +one and there showed them all the ships, and had a collacion of anchovies, +gammon, &c., and after an houre's stay or more, embarked again for home; +and so to cards and other sports till we came to Greenwich, and there Mrs. +Clerke and my wife and I on shore to an alehouse, for them to do their +business, and so to the barge again, having shown them the King's pleasure +boat; and so home to the Bridge, bringing night home with us; and it +rained hard, but we got them on foot to the Beare, and there put them into +a boat, and I back to my wife in the barge, and so to the Tower Wharf and +home, being very well pleased today with the company, especially Mrs. +Pierce, who continues her complexion as well as ever, and hath, at this +day, I think, the best complexion that ever I saw on any woman, young or +old, or child either, all days of my life. Also Mrs. Clerke's kinswoman +sings very prettily, but is very confident in it; Mrs. Clerke herself +witty, but spoils all in being so conceited and making so great a flutter +with a few fine clothes and some bad tawdry things worne with them. But +the charge of the barge lies heavy upon me, which troubles me, but it is +but once, and I may make Pierce do me some courtesy as great. Being come +home, I weary to bed with sitting. The reason of Dr. Clerke's not being +here was the King's being sicke last night and let blood, and so he durst +not come away to-day. + +7th. Up, and this day begun, the first day this year, to put off my +linnen waistcoat, but it happening to be a cool day I was afraid of taking +cold, which troubles me, and is the greatest pain I have in the world to +think of my bad temper of my health. At the office all the morning. +Dined at home, to my office to prepare some things against a Committee of +Tangier this afternoon. So to White Hall, and there found the Duke and +twenty more reading their commission (of which I am, and was also sent to, +to come) for the Royall Fishery, which is very large, and a very serious +charter it is; but the company generally so ill fitted for so serious a +worke that I do much fear it will come to little. That being done, and +not being able to do any thing for lacke of an oathe for the Governor and +Assistants to take, we rose. Then our Committee for the Tangier +victualling met and did a little, and so up, and I and Mr. Coventry walked +in the garden half an hour, talking of the business of our masts, and +thence away and with Creed walked half an hour or more in the Park, and +thence to the New Exchange to drink some creame, but missed it and so +parted, and I home, calling by the way for my new bookes, viz., Sir H. +Spillman's "Whole Glossary," "Scapula's Lexicon," and Shakespeare's plays, +which I have got money out of my stationer's bills to pay for. So home +and to my office a while, and then home and to bed, finding myself pretty +well for all my waistecoate being put off to-day. The king is pretty well +to-day, though let blood the night before yesterday. + +8th. Up and called out by my Lord Peterborough's gentleman to Mr. Povy's +to discourse about getting of his money, wherein I am concerned in hopes +of the L50 my Lord hath promised me, but I dare not reckon myself sure of +it till I have it in my main,--[hand.]--for these Lords are hard to be +trusted. Though I well deserve it. I staid at Povy's for his coming in, +and there looked over his stables and every thing, but notwithstanding all +the times I have been there I do yet find many fine things to look on. +Thence to White Hall a little, to hear how the King do, he not having been +well these three days. I find that he is pretty well again. So to Paul's +Churchyarde about my books, and to the binder's and directed the doing of +my Chaucer, + + [This was Speght's edition of 1602, which is still in the Pepysian + Library. The book is bound in calf, with brass clasps and bosses. + It is not lettered.] + +though they were not full neate enough for me, but pretty well it is; and +thence to the clasp-maker's to have it clasped and bossed. So to the +'Change and home to dinner, and so to my office till 5 o'clock, and then +came Mr. Hill and Andrews, and we sung an houre or two. Then broke up and +Mr. Alsop and his company came and consulted about our Tangier victualling +and brought it to a good head. So they parted, and I to supper and to +bed. + +9th. Up, and at the office all the morning. In the afternoon by coach +with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, and there to a Committee for Fishing; +but the first thing was swearing to be true to the Company, and we were +all sworne; but a great dispute we had, which, methought, is very ominous +to the Company; some, that we should swear to be true to the best of our +power, and others to the best of our understanding; and carried in the +last, though in that we are the least able to serve the Company, because +we would not be obliged to attend the business when we can, but when we +list. This consideration did displease me, but it was voted and so went. +We did nothing else, but broke up till a Committee of Guinny was set and +ended, and then met again for Tangier, and there I did my business about +my Lord Peterborough's order and my own for my expenses for the garrison +lately. So home, by the way calling for my Chaucer and other books, and +that is well done to my mind, which pleased me well. So to my office till +late writing letters, and so home to my wife to supper and bed, where we +have not lain together because of the heat of the weather a good while, +but now against her going into the country. + +10th (Lord's day). Up and by water, towards noon, to Somersett House, and +walked to my Lord Sandwich's, and there dined with my Lady and the +children. And after some ordinary discourse with my Lady, after dinner +took our leaves and my wife hers, in order to her going to the country +to-morrow. But my Lord took not occasion to speak one word of my father +or mother about the children at all, which I wonder at, and begin I will +not. Here my Lady showed us my Lady Castlemayne's picture, finely done; +given my Lord; and a most beautiful picture it is. Thence with my Lady +Jemimah and Mr. Sidney to St. Gyles's Church, and there heard a long, +poore sermon. Thence set them down and in their coach to Kate Joyce's +christening, where much company, good service of sweetmeates; and after an +houre's stay, left them, and in my Lord's coach--his noble, rich +coach--home, and there my wife fell to putting things in order against her +going to-morrow, and I to read, and so to bed, where I not well, and so +had no pleasure at all with my poor wife. + +11th. But betimes up this morning, and, getting ready, we by coach to +Holborne, where, at nine o'clock, they set out, and I and my man Will on +horseback, by my wife, to Barnett; a very pleasant day; and there dined +with her company, which was very good; a pretty gentlewoman with her, that +goes but to Huntington, and a neighbour to us in towne. Here we staid two +hours and then parted for all together, and my poor wife I shall soon want +I am sure. Thence I and Will to see the Wells, half a mile off, + + [The mineral springs at Barnet Common, nearly a mile to the west of + High Barnet. The discovery of the wells was announced in the + "Perfect Diurnall" of June 5th, 1652, and Fuller, writing in 1662, + says that there are hopes that the waters may "save as many lives as + were lost in the fatal battle at Barnet" ("Worthies," Herts). A + pamphlet on "The Barnet Well Water" was published by the Rev. W. M. + Trinder, M.D., as late as the year 1800, but in 1840 the old well- + house was pulled down.] + +and there I drank three glasses, and went and walked and came back and +drunk two more; the woman would have had me drink three more; but I could +not, my belly being full, but this wrought very well, and so we rode home, +round by Kingsland, Hackney, and Mile End till we were quite weary, and my +water working at least 7 or 8 times upon the road, which pleased me well, +and so home weary, and not being very well, I betimes to bed, and there +fell into a most mighty sweat in the night, about eleven o'clock, and +there, knowing what money I have in the house and hearing a noyse, I begun +to sweat worse and worse, till I melted almost to water. I rung, and could +not in half an houre make either of the wenches hear me, and this made me +fear the more, lest they might be gaga; and then I begun to think that +there was some design in a stone being flung at the window over our +stayres this evening, by which the thiefes meant to try what looking there +would be after them and know our company. These thoughts and fears I had, +and do hence apprehend the fears of all rich men that are covetous and +have much money by them. At last Jane rose, and then I understand it was +only the dogg wants a lodging and so made a noyse. So to bed, but hardly +slept, at last did, and so till morning, + +12th. And so rose, called up by my Lord Peterborough's gentleman about +getting his Lord's money to-day of Mr. Povy, wherein I took such order, +that it was paid, and I had my L50 brought me, which comforts my heart. We +sat at the office all the morning, then at home. Dined alone; sad for +want of company and not being very well, and know not how to eat alone. +After dinner down with Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten +to view, and did like a place by Deptford yard to lay masts in. By and by +comes Mr. Coventry, and after a little stay he and I down to Blackwall, he +having a mind to see the yarde, which we did, and fine storehouses there +are and good docks, but of no great profit to him that oweth them for +ought we see. + + [For "owneth." This sense is very common in Shakespeare. In the + original edition of the authorized version of the Bible we read: "So + shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that oweth this girdle" + (Acts xxi. I i) Nares's Glossary.] + +So home by water with him, having good discourse by the way, and so I to +the office a while, and late home to supper and to bed. + +13th. Up and to my office, at noon (after having at an alehouse hard by +discoursed with one Mr. Tyler, a neighbour, and one Captain Sanders about +the discovery of some pursers that have sold their provisions) I to my +Lord Sandwich, thinking to have dined there, but they not dining at home, +I with Captain Ferrers to Mr. Barwell the King's Squire Sadler, where +about this time twelvemonths I dined before at a good venison pasty. The +like we had now, and very good company, Mr. Tresham and others. Thence to +White Hall to the Fishery, and there did little. So by water home, and +there met Lanyon, &c., about Tangier matters, and so late to my office, +and thence home and to bed. Mr. Moore was with me late to desire me to +come to my Lord Sandwich tomorrow morning, which I shall, but I wonder +what my business is. + +14th. My mind being doubtful what the business should be, I rose a little +after four o'clock, and abroad. Walked to my Lord's, and nobody up, but +the porter rose out of bed to me so I back again to Fleete Streete, and +there bought a little book of law; and thence, hearing a psalm sung, I +went into St. Dunstan's, and there heard prayers read, which, it seems, is +done there every morning at six o'clock; a thing I never did do at a +chappell, but the College Chappell, in all my life. Thence to my Lord's +again, and my Lord being up, was sent for up, and he and I alone. He did +begin with a most solemn profession of the same confidence in and love for +me that he ever had, and then told me what a misfortune was fallen upon me +and him: in me, by a displeasure which my Lord Chancellor did show to him +last night against me, in the highest and most passionate manner that ever +any man did speak, even to the not hearing of any thing to be said to him: +but he told me, that he did say all that could be said for a man as to my +faithfullnesse and duty to his Lordship, and did me the greatest right +imaginable. And what should the business be, but that I should be forward +to have the trees in Clarendon Park marked and cut down, which he, it +seems, hath bought of my Lord Albemarle; when, God knows! I am the most +innocent man in the world in it, and did nothing of myself, nor knew of +his concernment therein, but barely obeyed my Lord Treasurer's warrant for +the doing thereof. And said that I did most ungentlemanlike with him, and +had justified the rogues in cutting down a tree of his; and that I had +sent the veriest Fanatique [Deane] that is in England to mark them, on +purpose to nose--[provoke]--him. All which, I did assure my Lord, was +most properly false, and nothing like it true; and told my Lord the whole +passage. My Lord do seem most nearly affected; he is partly, I believe, +for me, and partly for himself. So he advised me to wait presently upon +my Lord, and clear myself in the most perfect manner I could, with all +submission and assurance that I am his creature both in this and all other +things; and that I do owne that all I have, is derived through my Lord +Sandwich from his Lordship. So, full of horror, I went, and found him +busy in tryals of law in his great room; and it being Sitting-day, durst +not stay, but went to my Lord and told him so: whereupon he directed me to +take him after dinner; and so away I home, leaving my Lord mightily +concerned for me. I to the office, and there sat busy all the morning. +At noon to the 'Change, and from the 'Change over with Alsopp and the +others to the Pope's Head tavern, and there staid a quarter of an hour, +and concluded upon this, that in case I got them no more than 3s. per week +per man I should have of them but L150 per ann., but to have it without +any adventure or charge, but if I got them 3s. 2d., then they would give +me L300 in the like manner. So I directed them to draw up their tender in +a line or two against the afternoon, and to meet me at White Hall. So I +left them, and I to my Lord Chancellor's; and there coming out after +dinner I accosted him, telling him that I was the unhappy Pepys that had +fallen into his high displeasure, and come to desire him to give me leave +to make myself better understood to his Lordship, assuring him of my duty +and service. He answered me very pleasingly, that he was confident upon +the score of my Lord Sandwich's character of me, but that he had reason to +think what he did, and desired me to call upon him some evening: I named +to-night, and he accepted of it. So with my heart light I to White Hall, +and there after understanding by a stratagem, and yet appearing wholly +desirous not to understand Mr. Gauden's price when he desired to show it +me, I went down and ordered matters in our tender so well that at the +meeting by and by I was ready with Mr. Gauden's and his, both directed him +a letter to me to give the board their two tenders, but there being none +but the Generall Monk and Mr. Coventry and Povy and I, I did not think fit +to expose them to view now, but put it off till Saturday, and so with good +content rose. Thence I to the Half Moone, against the 'Change, to +acquaint Lanyon and his friends of our proceedings, and thence to my Lord +Chancellor's, and there heard several tryals, wherein I perceive my Lord +is a most able and ready man. After all done, he himself called, "Come, +Mr. Pepys, you and I will take a turn in the garden." So he was led down +stairs, having the goute, and there walked with me, I think, above an +houre, talking most friendly, yet cunningly. I told him clearly how +things were; how ignorant I was of his Lordship's concernment in it; how I +did not do nor say one word singly, but what was done was the act of the +whole Board. He told me by name that he was more angry with Sir G. +Carteret than with me, and also with the whole body of the Board. But +thinking who it was of the Board that knew him least, he did place his +fear upon me; but he finds that he is indebted to none of his friends +there. I think I did thoroughly appease him, till he thanked me for my +desire and pains to satisfy him; and upon my desiring to be directed who I +should of his servants advise with about this business, he told me nobody, +but would be glad to hear from me himself. He told me he would not direct +me in any thing, that it might not be said that the Lord Chancellor did +labour to abuse the King; or (as I offered) direct the suspending the +Report of the Purveyors but I see what he means, and I will make it my +worke to do him service in it. But, Lord! to see how he is incensed +against poor Deane, as a fanatique rogue, and I know not what: and what he +did was done in spite to his Lordship, among all his friends and tenants. +He did plainly say that he would not direct me in any thing, for he would +not put himself into the power of any man to say that he did so and so; +but plainly told me as if he would be glad I did something. Lord! to see +how we poor wretches dare not do the King good service for fear of the +greatness of these men. He named Sir G. Carteret, and Sir J. Minnes, and +the rest; and that he was as angry with them all as me. But it was +pleasant to think that, while he was talking to me, comes into the garden +Sir G. Carteret; and my Lord avoided speaking with him, and made him and +many others stay expecting him, while I walked up and down above an houre, +I think; and would have me walk with my hat on. And yet, after all this, +there has been so little ground for this his jealousy of me, that I am +sometimes afeard that he do this only in policy to bring me to his side by +scaring me; or else, which is worse, to try how faithfull I would be to +the King; but I rather think the former of the two. I parted with great +assurance how I acknowledged all I had to come from his Lordship; which he +did not seem to refuse, but with great kindness and respect parted. So I +by coach home, calling at my Lord's, but he not within. At my office +late, and so home to eat something, being almost starved for want of +eating my dinner to-day, and so to bed, my head being full of great and +many businesses of import to me. + +15th. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich's; where he sent for me up, and I did +give my Lord an account of what had passed with my Lord Chancellor +yesterday; with which he was well pleased, and advised me by all means to +study in the best manner I could to serve him in this business. After +this discourse ended, he begun to tell me that he had now pitched upon his +day of going to sea upon Monday next, and that he would now give me an +account how matters are with him. He told me that his work now in the +world is only to keep up his interest at Court, having little hopes to get +more considerably, he saying that he hath now about L8,000 per annum. It +is true, he says, he oweth about L10,000; but he hath been at great +charges in getting things to this pass in his estate; besides his building +and good goods that he hath bought. He says he hath now evened his +reckonings at the Wardrobe till Michaelmas last, and hopes to finish it to +Ladyday before he goes. He says now there is due, too, L7,000 to him +there, if he knew how to get it paid, besides L2000 that Mr. Montagu do +owe him. As to his interest, he says that he hath had all the injury done +him that ever man could have by another bosom friend that knows all his +secrets, by Mr. Montagu; but he says that the worst of it all is past, and +he gone out and hated, his very person by the King, and he believes the +more upon the score of his carriage to him; nay, that the Duke of Yorke +did say a little while since in his closett, that he did hate him because +of his ungratefull carriage to my Lord of Sandwich. He says that he is as +great with the Chancellor, or greater, than ever in his life. That with +the King he is the like; and told me an instance, that whereas he formerly +was of the private council to the King before he was last sicke, and that +by the sickness an interruption was made in his attendance upon him; the +King did not constantly call him, as he used to do, to his private +council, only in businesses of the sea and the like; but of late the King +did send a message to him by Sir Harry Bennet, to excuse the King to my +Lord that he had not of late sent for him as he used to do to his private +council, for it was not out of any distaste, but to avoid giving offence +to some others whom he did not name; but my Lord supposes it might be +Prince Rupert, or it may be only that the King would rather pass it by an +excuse, than be thought unkind: but that now he did desire him to attend +him constantly, which of late he hath done, and the King never more kind +to him in his life than now. The Duke of Yorke, as much as is possible; +and in the business of late, when I was to speak to my Lord about his +going to sea, he says that he finds the Duke did it with the greatest +ingenuity and love in the world; "and whereas," says my Lord, "here is a +wise man hard by that thinks himself so, and would be thought so, and it +may be is in a degree so (naming by and by my Lord Crew), would have had +me condition with him that neither Prince Rupert nor any body should come +over his head, and I know not what." The Duke himself hath caused in his +commission, that he be made Admirall of this and what other ships or +fleets shall hereafter be put out after these; which is very noble. He +tells me in these cases, and that of Mr. Montagu's, and all others, he +finds that bearing of them patiently is his best way, without noise or +trouble, and things wear out of themselves and come fair again. But, says +he, take it from me, never to trust too much to any man in the world, for +you put yourself into his power; and the best seeming friend and real +friend as to the present may have or take occasion to fall out with you, +and then out comes all. Then he told me of Sir Harry Bennet, though they +were always kind, yet now it is become to an acquaintance and familiarity +above ordinary, that for these months he hath done no business but with my +Lord's advice in his chamber, and promises all faithfull love to him and +service upon all occasions. My Lord says, that he hath the advantage of +being able by his experience to helpe and advise him; and he believes that +that chiefly do invite Sir Harry to this manner of treating him. "Now," +says my Lord, "the only and the greatest embarras that I have in the world +is, how to behave myself to Sir H. Bennet and my Lord Chancellor, in case +that there do lie any thing under the embers about my Lord Bristoll, which +nobody can tell; for then," says he, "I must appear for one or other, and +I will lose all I have in the world rather than desert my Lord Chancellor: +so that," says he, "I know not for my life what to do in that case." For +Sir H. Bennet's love is come to the height, and his confidence, that he +hath given my Lord a character, and will oblige my Lord to correspond with +him. "This," says he, "is the whole condition of my estate and interest; +which I tell you, because I know not whether I shall see you again or no." +Then as to the voyage, he thinks it will be of charge to him, and no +profit; but that he must not now look after nor think to encrease, but +study to make good what he hath, that what is due to him from the Wardrobe +or elsewhere may be paid, which otherwise would fail, and all a man hath +be but small content to him. So we seemed to take leave one of another; +my Lord of me, desiring me that I would write to him and give him +information upon all occasions in matters that concern him; which, put +together with what he preambled with yesterday, makes me think that my +Lord do truly esteem me still, and desires to preserve my service to him; +which I do bless God for. In the middle of our discourse my Lady Crew +came in to bring my Lord word that he hath another son, my Lady being +brought to bed just now, I did not think her time had been so nigh, but +she's well brought to bed, for which God be praised! and send my Lord to +study the laying up of something the more! Then with Creed to St. +James's, and missing Mr. Coventry, to White Hall; where, staying for him +in one of the galleries, there comes out of the chayre-room Mrs. Stewart, +in a most lovely form, with her hair all about her eares, having her +picture taking there. There was the King and twenty more, I think, +standing by all the while, and a lovely creature she in this dress seemed +to be. Thence to the 'Change by coach, and so home to dinner and then to +my office. In the evening Mr. Hill, Andrews and I to my chamber to sing, +which we did very pleasantly, and then to my office again, where very late +and so home, with my mind I bless God in good state of ease and body of +health, only my head at this juncture very full of business, how to get +something. Among others what this rogue Creed will do before he goes to +sea, for I would fain be rid of him and see what he means to do, for I +will then declare myself his firm friend or enemy. + +16th. Up in the morning, my head mightily confounded with the great deale +of business I have upon me to do. But to the office, and there dispatched +Mr. Creed's business pretty well about his bill; but then there comes W. +Howe for my Lord's bill of Imprest for L500 to carry with him this voyage, +and so I was at a loss how to carry myself in it, Creed being there, but +there being no help I delivered it to them both, and let them contend, +when I perceive they did both endeavour to have it, but W. Howe took it, +and the other had the discretion to suffer it. But I think I cleared +myself to Creed that it past not from any practice of mine. At noon rose +and did some necessary business at the 'Change. Thence to Trinity House +to a dinner which Sir G. Carteret makes there as Maister this year. +Thence to White Hall to the Tangier Committee, and there, above my +expectation, got the business of our contract for the victualling carried +for my people, viz., Alsopp, Lanyon, and Yeabsly; and by their promise I +do thereby get L300 per annum to myself, which do overjoy me; and the +matter is left to me to draw up. Mr. Lewes was in the gallery and is +mightily amazed at it, and I believe Mr. Gauden will make some stir about +it, for he wrote to Mr. Coventry to-day about it to argue why he should +for the King's convenience have it, but Mr. Coventry most justly did argue +freely for them that served cheapest. Thence walked a while with Mr. +Coventry in the gallery, and first find that he is mighty cold in his +present opinion of Mr. Peter Pett for his flagging and doing things so +lazily there, and he did also surprise me with a question why Deane did +not bring in their report of the timber of Clarendon. What he means +thereby I know not, but at present put him off; nor do I know how to steer +myself: but I must think of it, and advise with my Lord Sandwich. Thence +with Creed by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, and there I got Mr. Moore to +give me my Lord's hand for my receipt of L109 more of my money of Sir G. +Carteret, so that then his debt to me will be under L500, I think. This +do ease my mind also. Thence carried him and W. Howe into London, and set +them down at Sir G. Carteret's to receive some money, and I home and there +busy very late, and so home to supper and to bed, with my mind in pretty +good ease, my business being in a pretty good condition every where. + +17th (Lord's day). All the morning at my office doing business there, it +raining hard. So dined at home alone. After dinner walked to my Lord's, +and there found him and much other guests at table at dinner, and it seems +they have christened his young son to-day-called him James. I got a piece +of cake. I got my Lord to signe and seale my business about my selling of +Brampton land, which though not so full as I would, yet is as full as I +can at present. Walked home again, and there fell to read, and by and by +comes my uncle Wight, Dr. Burnett, and another gentleman, and talked and +drank, and the Doctor showed me the manner of eating, turpentine, which +pleases me well, for it is with great ease. So they being gone, I to +supper and to bed. + +18th. Up, and walked to my Lord's, and there took my leave of him, he +seeming very friendly to me in as serious a manner as ever in his life, +and I believe he is very confident of me. He sets out this morning for +Deale. Thence to St. James's to the Duke, and there did our usual +business. He discourses very freely of a warr with Holland, to begin +about winter, so that I believe we shall come to it. Before we went up to +the Duke, Sir G. Carteret and I did talk together in the Parke about my +Lord Chancellor's business of the timber; he telling me freely that my +Lord Chancellor was never so angry with him in all his life, as he was for +this business, in great passion; and that when he saw me there, he knew +what it was about. And plots now with me how we may serve my Lord, which +I am mightily glad of; and I hope together we may do it. Thence to +Westminster to my barber's, to have my Periwigg he lately made me cleansed +of its nits, which vexed me cruelly that he should put such a thing into +my hands. Here meeting his mayd Jane, that has lived with them so long, I +talked with her, and sending her of an errand to Dr. Clerk's, did meet +her, and took her into a little alehouse in Brewers Yard, and there did +sport with her, without any knowledge of her though, and a very pretty +innocent girl she is. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, but he being busy I +went away to the 'Change, and so home to dinner. By and by comes Creed, +and I out with him to Fleet Street, and he to Mr. Povy's, I to my Lord +Chancellor's, and missing him again walked to Povy's, and there saw his +new perspective in his closet. Povy, to my great surprise and wonder, did +here attacque me in his own and Mr. Bland's behalf that I should do for +them both for the new contractors for the victualling of the garrison. +Which I am ashamed that he should ask of me, nor did I believe that he was +a man that did seek benefit in such poor things. Besides that he +professed that he did not believe that I would have any hand myself in the +contract, and yet here declares that he himself would have profit by it, +and himself did move me that Sir W. Rider might join, and Ford with +Gauden. I told him I had no interest in them, but I fear they must do +something to him, for he told me that those of the Mole did promise to +consider him. Thence home and Creed with me, and there he took occasion +to owne his obligations to me, and did lay down twenty pieces in gold upon +my shelf in my closett, which I did not refuse, but wish and expected +should have been more. But, however, this is better than nothing, and now +I am out of expectation, and shall henceforward know how to deal with him. +After discourse of settling his matters here, we went out by coach, and he +'light at the Temple, and there took final leave of me, in order to his +following my Lord to-morrow. I to my Lord Chancellor, and discoursed his +business with him. I perceive, and he says plainly, that he will not have +any man to have it in his power to say that my Lord Chancellor did +contrive the wronging the King of his timber; but yet I perceive, he would +be glad to have service done him therein; and told me Sir G. Carteret hath +told him that he and I would look after his business to see it done in the +best manner for him. Of this I was glad, and so away. Thence home, and +late with my Tangier men about drawing up their agreement with us, wherein +I find much trouble, and after doing as much as we could to-night, broke +up and I to bed. + +19th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon dined +alone at home. After dinner Sir W. Batten and I down by water to +Woolwich, where coming to the ropeyarde we are told that Mr. Falconer, who +hath been ill of a relapse these two days, is just now dead. We went up +to his widow, who is sicke in bed also. The poor woman in great sorrow, +and entreats our friendship, which we shall, I think, in every thing do +for her. I am sure I will. Thence to the Docke, and there in Sheldon's +garden eat some fruit; so to Deptford a little, and thence home, it +raining mightily, and being cold I doubted my health after it. At the +office till 9 o'clock about Sir W. Warren's contract for masts, and then +at home with Lanyon and Yeabsly till 12 and past about their contract for +Tangier, wherein they and I differed, for I would have it drawn to the +King's advantage, as much as might be, which they did not like, but parted +good friends; however, when they were gone, I wished that I had forborne +any disagreement till I had had their promise to me in writing. They +being gone, I to bed. + +20th. Up, and a while to my office, and then home with Mr. Deane till +dinner, discoursing upon the business of my Lord Chancellor's timber in +Clarendon Parke, and how to make a report therein without offending him; +which at last I drew up, and hope it will please him. But I would to God +neither I nor he ever had had any thing to have done with it! Dined +together with a good pig, and then out by coach to White Hall, to the +Committee for Fishing; but nothing done, it being a great day to-day there +upon drawing at the Lottery of Sir Arthur Slingsby. I got in and stood by +the two Queenes and the Duchesse of Yorke, and just behind my Lady +Castlemayne, whom I do heartily adore; and good sport it was to see how +most that did give their ten pounds did go away with a pair of globes only +for their lot, and one gentlewoman, one Mrs. Fish, with the only blanke. +And one I staid to see drew a suit of hangings valued at L430, and they +say are well worth the money, or near it. One other suit there is better +than that; but very many lots of three and fourscore pounds. I observed +the King and Queenes did get but as poor lots as any else. But the wisest +man I met with was Mr. Cholmley, who insured as many as would, from +drawing of the one blank for 12d.; in which case there was the whole +number of persons to one, which I think was three or four hundred. And so +he insured about 200 for 200 shillings, so that he could not have lost if +one of them had drawn it, for there was enough to pay the L10; but it +happened another drew it, and so he got all the money he took. I left the +lottery, and went to a play, only a piece of it, which was the Duke's +house, "Worse and Worse;" just the same manner of play, and writ, I +believe, by the same man as "The Adventures of Five Hours;" very pleasant +it was, and I begin to admire Harris more than ever. Thence to +Westminster to see Creed, and he and I took a walk in the Parke. He is +ill, and not able yet to set out after my Lord, but will do to-morrow. So +home, and late at my office, and so home to bed. This evening being +moonshine I played a little late upon my flageolette in the garden. But +being at Westminster Hall I met with great news that Mrs. Lane is married +to one Martin, one that serves Captain Marsh. She is gone abroad with him +to-day, very fine. I must have a bout with her very shortly to see how +she finds marriage. + +21st. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, among other +things making a contract with Sir W. Warren for almost 1000 Gottenburg +masts, the biggest that ever was made in the Navy, and wholly of my +compassing and a good one I hope it is for the King. Dined at Sir W. +Batten's, where I have not eat these many months. Sir G. Carteret, Mr. +Coventry, Sir J. Minnes, and myself there only, and my Lady. A good +venison pasty, and very merry, and pleasant I made myself with my Lady, +and she as much to me. This morning to the office comes Nicholas Osborne, +Mr. Gauden's clerke, to desire of me what piece of plate I would choose to +have a L100, or thereabouts, bestowed upon me in, he having order to lay +out so much; and, out of his freedom with me, do of himself come to make +this question. I a great while urged my unwillingnesse to take any, not +knowing how I could serve Mr. Gauden, but left it wholly to himself; so at +noon I find brought home in fine leather cases, a pair of the noblest +flaggons that ever I saw all the days of my life; whether I shall keepe +them or no I cannot tell; for it is to oblige me to him in the business of +the Tangier victualling, wherein I doubt I shall not; but glad I am to see +that I shall be sure to get something on one side or other, have it which +will: so, with a merry heart, I looked upon them, and locked them up. +After dinner to [give] my Lord Chancellor a good account of his business, +and he is very well pleased therewith, and carries himself with great +discretion to me, without seeming over glad or beholding to me; and yet I +know that he do think himself very well served by me. Thence to +Westminster and to Mrs. Lane's lodgings, to give her joy, and there +suffered me to deal with her as I hoped to do, and by and by her husband +comes, a sorry, simple fellow, and his letter to her which she proudly +showed me a simple, nonsensical thing. A man of no discourse, and I fear +married her to make a prize of, which he is mistaken in, and a sad wife I +believe she will prove to him, for she urged me to appoint a time as soon +as he is gone out of town to give her a meeting next week. So by water +with a couple of cozens of Mrs. Lane's, and set them down at Queenhive, +and I through Bridge home, and there late at business, and so home to +supper and to bed. + +22nd. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and so home to dinner, and then down by water to Deptford, where +coming too soon, I spent an houre in looking round the yarde, and putting +Mr. Shish + + [Jonas Shish, master-shipwright at Deptford. There are several + papers of his among the State Papers. "I was at the funeral of old + Mr. Shish, Master Shipwright of His Majesty's Yard here, an honest + and remarkable man, and his death a public loss, for his excellent + success in building ships (though altogether illiterate) and for + bringing up so many of his children to be able artists. I held up + the pall with three knights who did him that honour, and he was + worthy of it. It was the custom of this good man to rise in the + night and pray, kneeling in his own coffin, which he had lying by + him for many years. He was born that famous year, the Gunpowder- + plot, 1605" (Evelyn's "Diary," May 13th, 1680).] + +to measure a piece or two of timber, which he did most cruelly wrong, and +to the King's losse 12 or 13s. in a piece of 28 feet in contents. Thence +to the Clerke of the Cheques, from whose house Mr. Falconer was buried +to-day; Sir J. Minnes and I the only principal officers that were there. +We walked to church with him, and then I left them without staying the +sermon and straight home by water, and there find, as I expected, Mr. +Hill, and Andrews, and one slovenly and ugly fellow, Seignor Pedro, who +sings Italian songs to the theorbo most neatly, and they spent the whole +evening in singing the best piece of musique counted of all hands in the +world, made by Seignor Charissimi, the famous master in Rome. Fine it +was, indeed, and too fine for me to judge of. They have spoke to Pedro to +meet us every weeke, and I fear it will grow a trouble to me if we once +come to bid judges to meet us, especially idle Masters, which do a little +displease me to consider. They gone comes Mr. Lanyon, who tells me Mr. +Alsopp is now become dangerously ill, and fears his recovery, covery, +which shakes my expectation of L630 per annum by the business; and, +therefore, bless God for what Mr. Gauden hath sent me, which, from some +discourse to-day with Mr. Osborne, swearing that he knows not any thing of +this business of the victualling; but, the contrary, that it is not that +moves Mr. Gauden to send it me, for he hath had order for it any time +these two months. Whether this be true or no, I know not; but I shall +hence with the more confidence keepe it. To supper and to the office a +little, and to walk in the garden, the moon shining bright, and fine warm +fair weather, and so home to bed. + +23rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon to the 'Change, +where I took occasion to break the business of my Lord Chancellor's timber +to Mr. Coventry in the best manner I could. He professed to me, that, +till, Sir G. Carteret did speake of it at the table, after our officers +were gone to survey it, he did not know that my Lord Chancellor had any +thing to do with it; but now he says that he had been told by the Duke +that Sir G. Carteret had spoke to him about it, and that he had told the +Duke that, were he in my Lord Chancellor's case, if he were his father, he +would rather fling away the gains of two or L3,000, than have it said that +the timber, which should have been the King's, if it had continued the +Duke of Albemarle's, was concealed by us in favour of my Lord Chancellor; +for, says he, he is a great man, and all such as he, and he himself +particularly, have a great many enemies that would be glad of such an +advantage against him. When I told him it was strange that Sir J. Minnes +and Sir G. Carteret, that knew my Lord Chancellor's concernment therein, +should not at first inform us, he answered me that for Sir J. Minnes, he +is looked upon to be an old good companion, but by nobody at the other end +of the towne as any man of business, and that my Lord Chancellor, he dares +say, never did tell him of it, only Sir G. Carteret, he do believe, must +needs know it, for he and Sir J. Shaw are the greatest confidants he hath +in the world. So for himself, he said, he would not mince the matter, but +was resolved to do what was fit, and stand upon his owne legs therein, and +that he would speak to the Duke, that he and Sir G. Carteret might be +appointed to attend my Lord Chancellor in it. All this disturbs me +mightily. I know not what to say to it, nor how to carry myself therein; +for a compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance +to my Lord Chancellor. But I think to let it alone, or at least meddle in +it as little more as I can. From thence walked toward Westminster, and +being in an idle and wanton humour, walked through Fleet Alley, and there +stood a most pretty wench at one of the doors, so I took a turn or two, +but what by sense of honour and conscience I would not go in, but much +against my will took coach and away, and away to Westminster Hall, and +there 'light of Mrs. Lane, and plotted with her to go over the water. So +met at White's stairs in Chanel Row, and over to the old house at Lambeth +Marsh, and there eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice, she +being the strangest woman in talk of love to her husband sometimes, and +sometimes again she do not care for him, and yet willing enough to allow +me a liberty of doing what I would with her. So spending 5s. or 6s. upon +her, I could do what I would, and after an hour's stay and more back again +and set her ashore there again, and I forward to Fleet Street, and called +at Fleet Alley, not knowing how to command myself, and went in and there +saw what formerly I have been acquainted with, the wickedness of these +houses, and the forcing a man to present expense. The woman indeed is a +most lovely woman, but I had no courage to meddle with her for fear of her +not being wholesome, and so counterfeiting that I had not money enough, it +was pretty to see how cunning she was, would not suffer me to have to do +in any manner with her after she saw I had no money, but told me then I +would not come again, but she now was sure I would come again, but I hope +in God I shall not, for though she be one of the prettiest women I ever +saw, yet I fear her abusing me. So desiring God to forgive me for this +vanity, I went home, taking some books from my bookseller, and taking his +lad home with me, to whom I paid L10 for books I have laid up money for, +and laid out within these three weeks, and shall do no more a great while +I hope. So to my office writing letters, and then home and to bed, weary +of the pleasure I have had to-day, and ashamed to think of it. + +24th (Lord's day). Up, in some pain all day from yesterday's passages, +having taken cold, I suppose. So staid within all day reading of two or +three good plays. At night to my office a little, and so home, after +supper to bed. + +25th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten by coach to St. +James's, but there the Duke being gone out we to my Lord Berkeley's +chamber, Mr. Coventry being there, and among other things there met with a +printed copy of the King's commission for the repair of Paul's, which is +very large, and large power for collecting money, and recovering of all +people that had bought or sold formerly any thing belonging to the Church. +And here I find my Lord Mayor of the City set in order before the +Archbishopp or any nobleman, though all the greatest officers of state are +there. But yet I do not hear by my Lord Berkeley, who is one of them, +that any thing is like to come of it. Thence back again homewards, and +Sir W. Batten and I to the Coffee-house, but no newes, only the plague is +very hot still, and encreases among the Dutch. Home to dinner, and after +dinner walked forth, and do what I could I could not keep myself from +going through Fleet Lane, but had the sense of safety and honour not to go +in, and the rather being a holiday I feared I might meet with some people +that might know me. Thence to Charing Cross, and there called at +Unthanke's to see what I owed, but found nothing, and here being a couple +of pretty ladies, lodgers in the kitchen, I staid a little there. Thence +to my barber Gervas, who this day buries his child, which it seems was +born without a passage behind, so that it never voided any thing in the +week or fortnight that it has been born. Thence to Mr. Reeves, it coming +just now in my head to buy a microscope, but he was not within, so I +walked all round that end of the town among the loathsome people and +houses, but, God be thanked! had no desire to visit any of them. So +home, where I met Mr. Lanyon, who tells me Mr. Alsop is past hopes, which +will mightily disappoint me in my hopes there, and yet it may be not. I +shall think whether it will be safe for me to venture myself or no, and +come in as an adventurer. He gone, Mr. Cole (my old Jack Cole) comes to +see and speak with me, and his errand in short to tell me that he is +giving over his trade; he can do no good in it, and will turn what he has +into money and go to sea, his father being dead and leaving him little, if +any thing. This I was sorry to hear, he being a man of good parts, but, I +fear, debauched. I promised him all the friendship I can do him, which +will end in little, though I truly mean it, and so I made him stay with me +till 11 at night, talking of old school stories, and very pleasing ones, +and truly I find that we did spend our time and thoughts then otherwise +than I think boys do now, and I think as well as methinks that the best +are now. He supped with me, and so away, and I to bed. And strange to +see how we are all divided that were bred so long at school together, and +what various fortunes we have run, some good, some bad. + +26th. All the morning at the office, at noon to Anthony Joyce's, to our +gossip's dinner. I had sent a dozen and a half of bottles of wine +thither, and paid my double share besides, which is 18s. Very merry we +were, and when the women were merry and rose from table, I above with +them, ne'er a man but I, I began discourse of my not getting of children, +and prayed them to give me their opinions and advice, and they freely and +merrily did give me these ten, among them (1) Do not hug my wife too hard +nor too much; (2) eat no late suppers; (3) drink juyce of sage; (4) tent +and toast; (5) wear cool holland drawers; (6) keep stomach warm and back +cool; (7) upon query whether it was best to do at night or morn, they +answered me neither one nor other, but when we had most mind to it; (8) +wife not to go too straight laced; (9) myself to drink mum and sugar; (10) +Mrs. Ward did give me, to change my place. The 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and +10th they all did seriously declare, and lay much stress upon them as +rules fit to be observed indeed, and especially the last, to lie with our +heads where our heels do, or at least to make the bed high at feet and low +at head. Very merry all, as much as I could be in such sorry company. +Great discourse of the fray yesterday in Moorefields, how the butchers at +first did beat the weavers (between whom there hath been ever an old +competition for mastery), but at last the weavers rallied and beat them. +At first the butchers knocked down all for weavers that had green or blue +aprons, till they were fain to pull them off and put them in their +breeches. At last the butchers were fain to pull off their sleeves, that +they might not be known, and were soundly beaten out of the field, and +some deeply wounded and bruised; till at last the weavers went out +tryumphing, calling L100 for a butcher. I to Mr. Reeves to see a +microscope, he having been with me to-day morning, and there chose one +which I will have. Thence back and took up young Mrs. Harman, a pretty +bred and pretty humoured woman whom I could love well, though not +handsome, yet for her person and carriage, and black. By the way met her +husband going for her, and set them both down at home, and so home to my +office a while, and so to supper and bed. + +27th. Up, and after some discourse with Mr. Duke, who is to be Secretary +to the Fishery, and is now Secretary to the Committee for Trade, who I +find a very ingenious man, I went to Mr. Povy's, and there heard a little +of his empty discourse, and fain he would have Mr. Gauden been the +victualler for Tangier, which none but a fool would say to me when he +knows he hath made it his request to me to get him something of these men +that now do it. Thence to St. James's, but Mr. Coventry being ill and in +bed I did not stay, but to White Hall a little, walked up and down, and so +home to fit papers against this afternoon, and after dinner to the 'Change +a little, and then to White Hall, where anon the Duke of Yorke came, and a +Committee we had of Tangier, where I read over my rough draught of the +contract for Tangier victualling, and acquainted them with the death of +Mr. Alsopp, which Mr. Lanyon had told me this morning, which is a sad +consideration to see how uncertain a thing our lives are, and how little +to be presumed of in our greatest undertakings. The words of the contract +approved of, and I home and there came Mr. Lanyon to me and brought my +neighbour, Mr. Andrews, to me, whom he proposes for his partner in the +room of Mr. Alsopp, and I like well enough of it. We read over the +contract together, and discoursed it well over and so parted, and I am +glad to see it once over in this condition again, for Mr. Lanyon and I had +some discourse to-day about my share in it, and I hope if it goes on to +have my first hopes of L300 per ann. They gone, I to supper and to bed. +This afternoon came my great store of Coles in, being to Chaldron, so that +I may see how long they will last me. + +28th. At the office all the morning, dined, after 'Change, at home, and +then abroad, and seeing "The Bondman" upon the posts, I consulted my +oaths and find I may go safely this time without breaking it; I went +thither, notwithstanding my great desire to have gone to Fleet Alley, God +forgive me, again. There I saw it acted. It is true, for want of +practice, they had many of them forgot their parts a little; but Betterton +and my poor Ianthe outdo all the world. There is nothing more taking in +the world with me than that play. Thence to Westminster to my barber's, +and strange to think how when I find that Jervas himself did intend to +bring home my periwigg, and not Jane his maid, I did desire not to have it +at all, for I had a mind to have her bring it home. I also went to Mr. +Blagrave's about speaking to him for his kinswoman to come live with my +wife, but they are not come to town, and so I home by coach and to my +office, and then to supper and to bed. My present posture is thus: my +wife in the country and my mayde Besse with her and all quiett there. I +am endeavouring to find a woman for her to my mind, and above all one that +understands musique, especially singing. I am the willinger to keepe one +because I am in good hopes to get 2 or L300 per annum extraordinary by the +business of the victualling of Tangier, and yet Mr. Alsopp, my chief +hopes, is dead since my looking after it, and now Mr. Lanyon, I fear, is, +falling sicke too. I am pretty well in health, only subject to wind upon +any cold, and then immediate and great pains. All our discourse is of a +Dutch warr and I find it is likely to come to it, for they are very high +and desire not to compliment us at all, as far as I hear, but to send a +good fleete to Guinny to oppose us there. My Lord Sandwich newly gone to +sea, and I, I think, fallen into his very good opinion again, at least he +did before his going, and by his letter since, show me all manner of +respect and confidence. I am over-joyed in hopes that upon this month's +account I shall find myself worth L1000, besides the rich present of two +silver and gilt flaggons which Mr. Gauden did give me the other day. I do +now live very prettily at home, being most seriously, quietly, and neatly +served by my two mayds Jane and the girle Su, with both of whom I am +mightily well pleased. My greatest trouble is the settling of Brampton +Estate, that I may know what to expect, and how to be able to leave it +when I die, so as to be just to my promise to my uncle Thomas and his son. +The next thing is this cursed trouble my brother Tom is likely to put us +to by his death, forcing us to law with his creditors, among others Dr. +Tom Pepys, and that with some shame as trouble, and the last how to know +in what manner as to saving or spending my father lives, lest they should +run me in debt as one of my uncle's executors, and I never the wiser nor +better for it. But in all this I hope shortly to be at leisure to +consider and inform myself well. + +29th. At the office all the morning dispatching of business, at noon to +the 'Change after dinner, and thence to Tom Trice about Dr. Pepys's +business, and thence it raining turned into Fleet Alley, and there was +with Cocke an hour or so. The jade, whether I would not give her money or +not enough; she would not offer to invite to do anything, but on the +contrary saying she had no time, which I was glad of, for I had no mind to +meddle with her, but had my end to see what a cunning jade she was, to see +her impudent tricks and ways of getting money and raising the reckoning by +still calling for things, that it come to 6 or 7 shillings presently. So +away home, glad I escaped without any inconvenience, and there came Mr. +Hill, Andrews and Seignor Pedro, and great store of musique we had, but I +begin to be weary of having a master with us, for it spoils, methinks, the +ingenuity of our practice. After they were gone comes Mr. Bland to me, +sat till 11 at night with me, talking of the garrison of Tangier and +serving them with pieces of eight. A mind he hath to be employed there, +but dares not desire any courtesy of me, and yet would fain engage me to +be for him, for I perceive they do all find that I am the busy man to see +the King have right done him by inquiring out other bidders. Being quite +tired with him, I got him gone, and so to bed. + +30th. All the morning at the office; at noon to the 'Change, where great +talke of a rich present brought by an East India ship from some of the +Princes of India, worth to the King L70,000 in two precious stones. After +dinner to the office, and there all the afternoon making an end of several +things against the end of the month, that I may clear all my reckonings +tomorrow; also this afternoon, with great content, I finished the +contracts for victualling of Tangier with Mr. Lanyon and the rest, and to +my comfort got him and Andrews to sign to the giving me L300 per annum, by +which, at least, I hope to be a L100 or two the better. Wrote many +letters by the post to ease my mind of business and to clear my paper of +minutes, as I did lately oblige myself to clear every thing against the +end of the month. So at night with my mind quiet and contented to bed. +This day I sent a side of venison and six bottles of wine to Kate Joyce. + +31st (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I have not been these many +weeks. So home, and thither, inviting him yesterday, comes Mr. Hill, at +which I was a little troubled, but made up all very well, carrying him +with me to Sir J. Minnes, where I was invited and all our families to a +venison pasty. Here good cheer and good discourse. After dinner Mr. Hill +and I to my house, and there to musique all the afternoon. He being gone, +in the evening I to my accounts, and to my great joy and with great thanks +to Almighty God, I do find myself most clearly worth L1014, the first time +that ever I was worth L1000 before, which is the height of all that ever I +have for a long time pretended to. But by the blessing of God upon my +care I hope to lay up something more in a little time, if this business of +the victualling of Tangier goes on as I hope it will. So with praise to +God for this state of fortune that I am brought to as to wealth, and my +condition being as I have at large set it down two days ago in this book, +I home to supper and to bed, desiring God to give me the grace to make +good use of what I have and continue my care and diligence to gain more. + + + + + ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + + All divided that were bred so long at school together + Began discourse of my not getting of children + Came to bed to me, but all would not make me friends + Feared I might meet with some people that might know me + Had no mind to meddle with her + Her impudent tricks and ways of getting money + How little to be presumed of in our greatest undertakings + Mind to have her bring it home + My wife made great means to be friends, coming to my bedside + Never to trust too much to any man in the world + Not well, and so had no pleasure at all with my poor wife + Not when we can, but when we list + Now against her going into the country (lay together) + Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of its nits + Presse seamen, without which we cannot really raise men + Shakespeare's plays + She had the cunning to cry a great while, and talk and blubber + There eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice + These Lords are hard to be trusted + Things wear out of themselves and come fair again + To my Lord Sandwich, thinking to have dined there + Upon a very small occasion had a difference again broke out + Very high and very foule words from her to me + What wine you drinke, lett it bee at meales + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, June/July 1664 +by Samuel Pepys + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, *** + +***** This file should be named 4149.txt or 4149.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/4/4149/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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