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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--[?? D.W.]--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 re covery, covery, which shakes my +expectation of;630o 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 this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v33 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + |