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WHEATLEY F.S.A. + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + AUGUST & SEPTEMBER + 1664 + + +August 1st. Up, my mind very light from my last night's accounts, and so +up and with Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, +where among other things having prepared with some industry every man a +part this morning and no sooner (for fear they should either consider of +it or discourse of it one to another) Mr. Coventry did move the Duke and +obtain it that one of the clerkes of the Clerke of the Acts should have +an addition of L30 a year, as Mr. Turner hath, which I am glad of, that I +may give T. Hater L20 and keep L10 towards a boy's keeping. Thence Mr. +Coventry and I to the Attorney's chamber at the Temple, but not being +there we parted, and I home, and there with great joy told T. Hater what +I had done, with which the poor wretch was very glad, though his modesty +would not suffer him to say much. So to the Coffee-house, and there all +the house full of the victory Generall Soushe + + [General Soushe was Louis Ratuit, Comte de Souches. The battle was + fought at Lewenz (or Leva), in Hungary.--B.] + +(who is a Frenchman, a soldier of fortune, commanding part of the German +army) hath had against the Turke; killing 4,000 men, and taking most +extraordinary spoil. Thence taking up Harman and his wife, carried them +to Anthony Joyce's, where we had my venison in a pasty well done; but, +Lord! to see how much they made of, it, as if they had never eat any +before, and very merry we were, but Will most troublesomely so, and I +find he and his wife have a most wretched life one with another, but we +took no notice, but were very merry as I could be in such company. But +Mrs. Harman is a very pretty-humoured wretch, whom I could love with all +my heart, being so good and innocent company. Thence to Westminster to +Mr. Blagrave's, and there, after singing a thing or two over, I spoke to +him about a woman for my wife, and he offered me his kinswoman, which I +was glad of, but she is not at present well, but however I hope to have +her. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and thence with Mr. Coventry, who +appointed to meet me there, and with him to the Attorney General, and +there with Sir Ph. Warwicke consulted of a new commission to be had +through the Broad Seale to enable us to make this contract for Tangier +victualling. So home, and there talked long with Will about the young +woman of his family which he spoke of for to live with my wife, but +though she hath very many good qualitys, yet being a neighbour's child +and young and not very staid, I dare not venture of having her, because +of her being able to spread any report of our family upon any discontent +among the heart of our neighbours. So that my dependance is upon Mr. +Blagrave, and so home to supper and to bed. Last night, at 12 o'clock,. +I was waked with knocking at Sir W. Pen's door; and what was it but +people's running up and down to bring him word that his brother, + + [George Penn, the elder brother of Sir W. Penn, was a wealthy + merchant at San Lucar, the port of Seville. He was seized as a + heretic by the Holy Office, and cast into a dungeon eight feet + square and dark as the grave. There he remained three years, every + month being scourged to make him confess his crimes. At last, after + being twice put to the rack, he offered to confess whatever they + would suggest. His property, L12,000, was then confiscated, his + wife, a Catholic, taken from him, and he was banished from Spain for + ever.--M. B.] + +who hath been a good while, it seems, sicke, is dead. + + + +2nd. At the office all the morning. At noon dined, and then to, the +'Change, and there walked two hours or more with Sir W. Warren, who after +much discourse in general of Sir W. Batten's dealings, he fell to talk +how every body must live by their places, and that he was willing, if I +desired it, that I should go shares with him in anything that he deals +in. He told me again and again, too, that he confesses himself my debtor +too for my service and friendship to him in his present great contract of +masts, and that between this and Christmas he shall be in stocke and will +pay it me. This I like well, but do not desire to become a merchant, +and, therefore, put it off, but desired time to think of it. Thence to +the King's play-house, and there saw "Bartholomew Fayre," which do still +please me; and is, as it is acted, the best comedy in the world, I +believe. I chanced to sit by Tom Killigrew, who tells me that he is +setting up a Nursery; that is, is going to build a house in Moorefields, +wherein he will have common plays acted. But four operas it shall have +in the year, to act six weeks at a time; where we shall have the best +scenes and machines, the best musique, and every thing as magnificent as +is in Christendome; and to that end hath sent for voices and painters and +other persons from Italy. Thence homeward called upon my Lord +Marlborough, and so home and to my office, and then to Sir W. Pen, and +with him and our fellow officers and servants of the house and none else +to Church to lay his brother in the ground, wherein nothing handsome at +all, but that he lays him under the Communion table in the chancel, about +nine at night? So home and to bed. + + + +3rd. Up betimes and set some joyners on work to new lay my floor in our +wardrobe, which I intend to make a room for musique. Thence abroad to +Westminster, among other things to Mr. Blagrave's, and there had his +consent for his kinswoman to come to be with my wife for her woman, at +which I am well pleased and hope she may do well. Thence to White Hall +to meet with Sir G. Carteret about hiring some ground to make our mast +docke at Deptford, but being Council morning failed, but met with Mr. +Coventry, and he and I discoursed of the likeliness of a Dutch warr, +which I think is very likely now, for the Dutch do prepare a fleet to +oppose us at Guinny, and he do think we shall, though neither of us have +a mind to it, fall into it of a sudden, and yet the plague do increase +among them, and is got into their fleet, and Opdam's own ship, which +makes it strange they should be so high. Thence to the 'Change, and +thence home to dinner, and down by water to Woolwich to the rope yard, +and there visited Mrs. Falconer, who tells me odd stories of how Sir W. +Pen was rewarded by her husband with a gold watch (but seems not certain +of what Sir W. Batten told me, of his daughter having a life given her in +L80 per ann.) for his helping him to his place, and yet cost him L150 to +Mr. Coventry besides. He did much advise it seems Mr. Falconer not to +marry again, expressing that he would have him make his daughter his +heire, or words to that purpose, and that that makes him, she thinks, so +cold in giving her any satisfaction, and that W. Boddam hath publickly +said, since he came down thither to be clerke of the ropeyard, that it +hath this week cost him L100, and would be glad that it would cost him +but half as much more for the place, and that he was better before than +now, and that if he had been to have bought it, he would not have given +so much for it. Now I am sure that Mr. Coventry hath again and again +said that he would take nothing, but would give all his part in it freely +to him, that so the widow might have something. What the meaning of this +is I know not, but that Sir W. Pen do get something by it. Thence to the +Dockeyard, and there saw the new ship in great forwardness. So home and +to supper, and then to the office, where late, Mr. Bland and I talking +about Tangier business, and so home to bed. + + + +4th. Up betimes and to the office, fitting myself against a great +dispute about the East India Company, which spent afterwards with us all +the morning. At noon dined with Sir W. Pen, a piece of beef only, and I +counterfeited a friendship and mirth which I cannot have with him, yet +out with him by his coach, and he did carry me to a play and pay for me +at the King's house, which is "The Rivall Ladys," a very innocent and +most pretty witty play. I was much pleased with it, and it being given +me, I look upon it as no breach to my oathe. Here we hear that Clun, one +of their best actors, was, the last night, going out of towne (after he +had acted the Alchymist, wherein was one of his best parts that he acts) +to his country-house, set upon and murdered; one of the rogues taken, an +Irish fellow. It seems most cruelly butchered and bound. The house will +have a great miss of him. Thence visited my Lady Sandwich, who tells me +my Lord FitzHarding is to be made a Marquis. Thence home to my office +late, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +5th. Up very betimes and set my plaisterer to work about whiting and +colouring my musique roome, which having with great pleasure seen done, +about ten o'clock I dressed myself, and so mounted upon a very pretty +mare, sent me by Sir W. Warren, according to his promise yesterday. And +so through the City, not a little proud, God knows, to be seen upon so +pretty a beast, and to my cozen W. Joyce's, who presently mounted too, +and he and I out of towne toward Highgate; in the way, at Kentish-towne, +showing me the place and manner of Clun's being killed and laid in a +ditch, and yet was not killed by any wounds, having only one in his arm, +but bled to death through his struggling. He told me, also, the manner +of it, of his going home so late [from] drinking with his whore, and +manner of having it found out. Thence forward to Barnett, and there +drank, and so by night to Stevenage, it raining a little, but not much, +and there to my great trouble, find that my wife was not come, nor any +Stamford coach gone down this week, so that she cannot come. So vexed +and weary, and not thoroughly out of pain neither in my old parts, I +after supper to bed, and after a little sleep, W. Joyce comes in his +shirt into my chamber, with a note and a messenger from my wife, that she +was come by Yorke coach to Bigglesworth, and would be with us to-morrow +morning. So, mightily pleased at her discreete action in this business, +I with peace to sleep again till next morning. So up, and + + + +6th. Here lay Deane Honiwood last night. I met and talked with him this +morning, and a simple priest he is, though a good, well-meaning man. +W. Joyce and I to a game at bowles on the green there till eight o'clock, +and then comes my wife in the coach, and a coach full of women, only one +man riding by, gone down last night to meet a sister of his coming to +town. So very joyful drank there, not 'lighting, and we mounted and away +with them to Welling, and there 'light, and dined very well and merry and +glad to see my poor-wife. Here very merry as being weary I could be, and +after dinner, out again, and to London. In our way all the way the +mightiest merry, at a couple of young gentlemen, come down to meet the +same gentlewoman, that ever I was in my life, and so W. Joyce too, to see +how one of them was horsed upon a hard-trotting sorrell horse, and both +of them soundly weary and galled. But it is not to be set down how merry +we were all the way. We 'light in Holborne, and by another coach my wife +and mayde home, and I by horseback, and found all things well and most +mighty neate and clean. So, after welcoming my wife a little, to the +office, and so home to supper, and then weary and not very well to bed. + + + +7th (Lord's day). Lay long caressing my wife and talking, she telling me +sad stories of the ill, improvident, disquiett, and sluttish manner that +my father and mother and Pall live in the country, which troubles me +mightily, and I must seek to remedy it. So up and ready, and my wife +also, and then down and I showed my wife, to her great admiration and +joy, Mr. Gauden's present of plate, the two flaggons, which indeed are so +noble that I hardly can think that they are yet mine. So blessing God +for it, we down to dinner mighty pleasant, and so up after dinner for a +while, and I then to White Hall, walked thither, having at home met with +a letter of Captain Cooke's, with which he had sent a boy for me to see, +whom he did intend to recommend to me. I therefore went and there met +and spoke with him. He gives me great hopes of the boy, which pleases +me, and at Chappell I there met Mr. Blagrave, who gives a report of the +boy, and he showed me him, and I spoke to him, and the boy seems a good +willing boy to come to me, and I hope will do well. I am to speak to Mr. +Townsend to hasten his clothes for him, and then he is to come. So I +walked homeward and met with Mr. Spong, and he with me as far as the Old +Exchange talking of many ingenuous things, musique, and at last of +glasses, and I find him still the same ingenuous man that ever he was, +and do among other fine things tell me that by his microscope of his owne +making he do discover that the wings of a moth is made just as the +feathers of the wing of a bird, and that most plainly and certainly. +While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by +constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any +resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, +and not be catched! Thence parted with him, mightily pleased with his +company, and away homeward, calling at Dan Rawlinson, and supped there +with my uncle Wight, and then home and eat again for form sake with her, +and then to prayers and to bed. + + + +8th. Up and abroad with Sir W. Batten, by coach to St. James's, where by +the way he did tell me how Sir J. Minnes would many times arrogate to +himself the doing of that that all the Board have equal share in, and +more that to himself which he hath had nothing to do in, and particularly +the late paper given in by him to the Duke, the translation of a Dutch +print concerning the quarrel between us and them, which he did give as +his own when it was Sir Richard Ford's wholly. Also he told me how Sir +W. Pen (it falling in our discourse touching Mrs. Falconer) was at first +very great for Mr. Coventry to bring him in guests, and that at high +rates for places, and very open was he to me therein. After business +done with the Duke, I home to the Coffee-house, and so home to dinner, +and after dinner to hang up my fine pictures in my dining room, which +makes it very pretty, and so my wife and I abroad to the King's play- +house, she giving me her time of the last month, she having not seen any +then; so my vowe is not broke at all, it costing me no more money than it +would have done upon her, had she gone both her times that were due to +her. Here we saw "Flora's Figarys." I never saw it before, and by the +most ingenuous performance of the young jade Flora, it seemed as pretty a +pleasant play as ever I saw in my life. So home to supper, and then to +my office late, Mr. Andrews and I to talk about our victualling +commission, and then he being gone I to set down my four days past +journalls and expenses, and so home to bed. + + + +9th. Up, and to my office, and there we sat all the morning, at noon +home, and there by appointment Mr. Blagrave came and dined with me, and +brought a friend of his of the Chappell with him. Very merry at dinner, +and then up to my chamber and there we sung a Psalm or two of Lawes's, +then he and I a little talke by ourselves of his kinswoman that is to +come to live with my wife, who is to come about ten days hence, and I +hope will do well. They gone I to my office, and there my head being a +little troubled with the little wine I drank, though mixed with beer, but +it may be a little more than I used to do, and yet I cannot say so, I +went home and spent the afternoon with my wife talking, and then in the +evening a little to my office, and so home to supper and to bed. This +day comes the newes that the Emperour hath beat the Turke; + + [This was the battle of St. Gothard, in which the Turks were + defeated with great slaughter by the imperial forces under + Montecuculli, assisted by the confederates from the Rhine, and by + forty troops of French cavalry under Coligni. St. Gothard is in + Hungary, on the river Raab, near the frontier of Styria; it is about + one hundred and twenty miles south of Vienna, and thirty east of + Gratz. The battle took place on the 9th Moharrem, A.H. 1075, or + 23rd July, A.D. 1664 (old style), which is that used by Pepys.--B.] + +killed the Grand Vizier and several great Bassas, with an army of 80,000 +men killed and routed; with some considerable loss of his own side, +having lost three generals, and the French forces all cut off almost. +Which is thought as good a service to the Emperour as beating the Turke +almost, for had they conquered they would have been as troublesome to +him. + + [The fact is, the Germans were beaten by the Turks, and the French + won the battle for them.--B.] + + + +10th. Up, and, being ready, abroad to do several small businesses, among +others to find out one to engrave my tables upon my new sliding rule with +silver plates, it being so small that Browne that made it cannot get one +to do it. So I find out Cocker, the famous writing-master, and get him +to do it, and I set an hour by him to see him design it all; and strange +it is to see him with his natural eyes to cut so small at his first +designing it, and read it all over, without any missing, when for my life +I could not, with my best skill, read one word or letter of it; but it is +use. But he says that the best light for his life to do a very small +thing by (contrary to Chaucer's words to the Sun, "that he should lend +his light to them that small seals grave"), it should be by an artificial +light of a candle, set to advantage, as he could do it. I find the +fellow, by his discourse, very ingenuous; and among other things, a great +admirer and well read in all our English poets, and undertakes to judge +of them all, and that not impertinently. Well pleased with his company +and better with his judgement upon my Rule, I left him and home, whither +Mr. Deane by agreement came to me and dined with me, and by chance Gunner +Batters's wife. After dinner Deane and I [had] great discourse again +about my Lord Chancellor's timber, out of which I wish I may get well. +Thence I to Cocker's again, and sat by him with good discourse again for +an hour or two, and then left him, and by agreement with Captain Silas +Taylor (my old acquaintance at the Exchequer) to the Post Officer to hear +some instrument musique of Mr. Berchenshaw's before my Lord Brunkard and +Sir Robert Murray. I must confess, whether it be that I hear it but +seldom, or that really voice is better, but so it is that I found no +pleasure at all in it, and methought two voyces were worth twenty of it. +So home to my office a while, and then to supper and to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and through pain, to my great grief forced to wear my gowne to +keep my legs warm. At the office all the morning, and there a high +dispute against Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen about the breadth of canvas +again, they being for the making of it narrower, I and Mr. Coventry and +Sir J. Minnes for the keeping it broader. So home to dinner, and by and +by comes Mr. Creed, lately come from the Downes, and dined with me. +I show him a good countenance, but love him not for his base ingratitude +to me. However, abroad, carried my wife to buy things at the New +Exchange, and so to my Lady Sandwich's, and there merry, talking with her +a great while, and so home, whither comes Cocker with my rule, which he +hath engraved to admiration, for goodness and smallness of work: it cost +me 14s. the doing, and mightily pleased I am with it. By and by, he +gone, comes Mr. Moore and staid talking with me a great while about my +Lord's businesses, which I fear will be in a bad condition for his family +if my Lord should miscarry at sea. He gone, I late to my office, and +cannot forbear admiring and consulting my new rule, and so home to supper +and to bed. This day, for a wager before the King, my Lords of +Castlehaven and Arran (a son of my Lord of Ormond's), they two alone +did run down and kill a stoute bucke in St. James's parke. + + + +12th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office with Sir W. Warren +about a great contract for New England masts, where I was very hard with +him, even to the making him angry, but I thought it fit to do it as well +as just for my owne [and] the King's behalf. At noon to the 'Change a +little, and so to dinner and then out by coach, setting my wife and mayde +down, going to Stevens the silversmith to change some old silver lace and +to go buy new silke lace for a petticoat; I to White Hall and did much +business at a Tangier Committee; where, among other things, speaking +about propriety of the houses there, and how we ought to let the +Portugeses I have right done them, as many of them as continue, or did +sell the houses while they were in possession, and something further in +their favour, the Duke in an anger I never observed in him before, did +cry, says he, "All the world rides us, and I think we shall never ride +anybody." Thence home, and, though late, yet Pedro being there, he sang +a song and parted. I did give him 5s., but find it burdensome and so +will break up the meeting. At night is brought home our poor Fancy, +which to my great grief continues lame still, so that I wish she had not +been brought ever home again, for it troubles me to see her. + + + +13th. Up, and before I went to the office comes my Taylor with a coate I +have made to wear within doors, purposely to come no lower than my knees, +for by my wearing a gowne within doors comes all my tenderness about my +legs. There comes also Mr. Reeve, with a microscope and scotoscope. + + [An optical instrument used to enable objects to be seen in the + dark. The name is derived from the Greek.] + +For the first I did give him L5 10s., a great price, but a most curious +bauble it is, and he says, as good, nay, the best he knows in England, +and he makes the best in the world. The other he gives me, and is of +value; and a curious curiosity it is to look objects in a darke room +with. Mightly pleased with this I to the office, where all the morning. +There offered by Sir W. Pen his coach to go to Epsum and carry my wife, +I stept out and bade my wife make her ready, but being not very well and +other things advising me to the contrary, I did forbear going, and so Mr. +Creed dining with me I got him to give my wife and me a play this +afternoon, lending him money to do it, which is a fallacy that I have +found now once, to avoyde my vowe with, but never to be more practised +I swear, and to the new play, at the Duke's house, of "Henry the Fifth;" +a most noble play, writ by my Lord Orrery; wherein Betterton, Harris, and +Ianthe's parts are most incomparably wrote and done, and the whole play +the most full of height and raptures of wit and sense, that ever I heard; +having but one incongruity, or what did, not please me in it, that is, +that King Harry promises to plead for Tudor to their Mistresse, Princesse +Katherine of France, more than when it comes to it he seems to do; and +Tudor refused by her with some kind of indignity, not with a difficulty +and honour that it ought to have been done in to him. Thence home and to +my office, wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr. Power's +book of discovery by the Microscope to enable me a little how to use and +what to expect from my glasse. So to supper and to bed. + + + +14th (Lord's day). After long lying discoursing with my wife, I up, and +comes Mr. Holliard to see me, who concurs with me that my pain is nothing +but cold in my legs breeding wind, and got only by my using to wear a +gowne, and that I am not at all troubled with any ulcer, but my thickness +of water comes from my overheat in my back. He gone, comes Mr. Herbert, +Mr. Honiwood's man, and dined with me, a very honest, plain, well-meaning +man, I think him to be; and by his discourse and manner of life, the true +embleme of an old ordinary serving-man. After dinner up to my chamber +and made an end of Dr. Power's booke of the Microscope, very fine and to +my content, and then my wife and I with great pleasure, but with great +difficulty before we could come to find the manner of seeing any thing by +my microscope. At last did with good content, though not so much as I +expect when I come to understand it better. By and by comes W. Joyce, in +his silke suit, and cloake lined with velvett: staid talking with me, and +I very merry at it. He supped with me; but a cunning, crafty fellow he +is, and dangerous to displease, for his tongue spares nobody. After +supper I up to read a little, and then to bed. + + + +15th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to St. James's, and there did +our business with the Duke, who tells us more and more signs of a Dutch +warr, and how we must presently set out a fleete for Guinny, for the +Dutch are doing so, and there I believe the warr will begin. Thence home +with him again, in our way he talking of his cures abroad, while he was +with the King as a doctor, and above all men the pox. And among others, +Sir J. Denham he told me he had cured, after it was come to an ulcer all +over his face, to a miracle. To the Coffee-house I, and so to the +'Change a little, and then home to dinner with Creed, whom I met at the +Coffee-house, and after dinner by coach set him down at the Temple, and I +and my wife to Mr. Blagrave's. They being none of them at home; I to the +Hall, leaving her there, and thence to the Trumpett, whither came Mrs. +Lane, and there begins a sad story how her husband, as I feared, proves +not worth a farthing, and that she is with child and undone, if I do not +get him a place. I had my pleasure here of her, and she, like an +impudent jade, depends upon my kindness to her husband, but I will have +no more to do with her, let her brew as she has baked, seeing she would +not take my counsel about Hawly. After drinking we parted, and I to +Blagrave's, and there discoursed with Mrs. Blagrave about her kinswoman, +who it seems is sickly even to frantiqueness sometimes, and among other +things chiefly from love and melancholy upon the death of her servant,-- +[Servant = lover.]--insomuch that she telling us all most simply and +innocently I fear she will not be able to come to us with any pleasure, +which I am sorry for, for I think she would have pleased us very well. +In comes he, and so to sing a song and his niece with us, but she sings +very meanly. So through the Hall and thence by coach home, calling by +the way at Charing Crosse, and there saw the great Dutchman that is come +over, under whose arm I went with my hat on, and could not reach higher +than his eye-browes with the tip of my fingers, reaching as high as I +could. He is a comely and well-made man, and his wife a very little, but +pretty comely Dutch woman. It is true, he wears pretty high-heeled +shoes, but not very high, and do generally wear a turbant, which makes +him show yet taller than really he is, though he is very tall, as I have +said before. Home to my office, and then to supper, and then to my +office again late, and so home to bed, my wife and I troubled that we do +not speed better in this business of her woman. + + + +16th. Wakened about two o'clock this morning with the noise of thunder, +which lasted for an houre, with such continued lightnings, not flashes, +but flames, that all the sky and ayre was light; and that for a great +while, not a minute's space between new flames all the time; such a thing +as I never did see, nor could have believed had ever been in nature. And +being put into a great sweat with it, could not sleep till all was over. +And that accompanied with such a storm of rain as I never heard in my +life. I expected to find my house in the morning overflowed with the +rain breaking in, and that much hurt must needs have been done in the +city with this lightning; but I find not one drop of rain in my house, +nor any newes of hurt done. But it seems it has been here and all up and +down the countrie hereabouts the like tempest, Sir W. Batten saying much +of the greatness thereof at Epsum. Up and all the morning at the office. +At noon busy at the 'Change about one business or other, and thence home +to dinner, and so to my office all the afternoon very busy, and so to +supper anon, and then to my office again a while, collecting observations +out of Dr. Power's booke of Microscopes, and so home to bed, very stormy +weather to-night for winde. This day we had newes that my Lady Pen is +landed and coming hither, so that I hope the family will be in better +order and more neate than it hath been. + + + +17th. Up, and going to Sir W. Batten to speak to him about business, he +did give me three, bottles of his Epsum water, which I drank and it +wrought well with me, and did give me many good stools, and I found +myself mightily cooled with them and refreshed. Thence I to Mr. Honiwood +and my father's old house, but he was gone out, and there I staid talking +with his man Herbert, who tells me how Langford and his wife are very +foul-mouthed people, and will speak very ill of my father, calling him +old rogue in reference to the hard penniworths he sold him of his goods +when the rogue need not have bought any of them. So that I am resolved +he shall get no more money by me, but it vexes me to think that my father +should be said to go away in debt himself, but that I will cause to be +remedied whatever comes of it. Thence to my Lord Crew, and there with +him a little while. Before dinner talked of the Dutch war, and find that +he do much doubt that we shall fall into it without the money or consent +of Parliament, that is expected or the reason of it that is fit to have +for every warr. Dined with him, and after dinner talked with Sir Thomas +Crew, who told me how Mr. Edward Montagu is for ever blown up, and now +quite out with his father again; to whom he pretended that his going down +was, not that he was cast out of the Court, but that he had leave to be +absent a month; but now he finds the truth. Thence to my Lady Sandwich, +where by agreement my wife dined, and after talking with her I carried my +wife to Mr. Pierce's and left her there, and so to Captain Cooke's, but +he was not at home, but I there spoke with my boy Tom Edwards, and +directed him to go to Mr. Townsend (with whom I was in the morning) to +have measure taken of his clothes to be made him there out of the +Wardrobe, which will be so done, and then I think he will come to me. +Thence to White Hall, and after long staying there was no Committee of +the Fishery as was expected. Here I walked long with Mr. Pierce, who +tells me the King do still sup every night with my Lady Castlemayne, who +he believes has lately slunk a great belly away, for from very big she is +come to be down again. Thence to Mrs. Pierce's, and with her and my wife +to see Mrs. Clarke, where with him and her very merry discoursing of the +late play of Henry the 5th, which they conclude the best that ever was +made, but confess with me that Tudor's being dismissed in the manner he +is is a great blemish to the play. I am mightily pleased with the +Doctor, for he is the only man I know that I could learn to pronounce by, +which he do the best that ever I heard any man. Thence home and to the +office late, and so to supper and to bed. My Lady Pen came hither first +to-night to Sir W. Pen's lodgings. + + + +18th. Lay too long in bed, till 8 o'clock, then up and Mr. Reeve came +and brought an anchor and a very fair loadstone. He would have had me +bought it, and a good stone it is, but when he saw that I would not buy +it he said he [would] leave it for me to sell for him. By and by he +comes to tell me that he had present occasion for L6 to make up a sum, +and that he would pay me in a day or two, but I had the unusual wit to +deny him, and so by and by we parted, and I to the office, where busy all +the morning sitting. Dined alone at home, my wife going to-day to dine +with Mrs. Pierce, and thence with her and. Mrs. Clerke to see a new +play, "The Court Secret." I busy all the afternoon, toward evening to +Westminster, and there in the Hall a while, and then to my barber, +willing to have any opportunity to speak to Jane, but wanted it. So to +Mrs. Pierces, who was come home, and she and Mrs. Clerke busy at cards, +so my wife being gone home, I home, calling by the way at the Wardrobe +and met Mr. Townsend, Mr. Moore and others at the Taverne thereby, and +thither I to them and spoke with Mr. Townsend about my boy's clothes, +which he says shall be soon done, and then I hope I shall be settled when +I have one in the house that is musicall. So home and to supper, and +then a little to my office, and then home to bed. My wife says the play +she saw is the worst that ever she saw in her life. + + + +19th. Up and to the office, where Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Pen and I sat +all the morning hiring of ships to go to Guinny, where we believe the +warr with Holland will first break out. At noon dined at home, and after +dinner my wife and I to Sir W. Pen's, to see his Lady, the first time, +who is a well-looked, fat, short, old Dutchwoman, but one that hath been +heretofore pretty handsome, and is now very discreet, and, I believe, +hath more wit than her husband. Here we staid talking a good while, and +very well pleased I was with the old woman at first visit. So away home, +and I to my office, my wife to go see my aunt Wight, newly come to town. +Creed came to me, and he and I out, among other things, to look out a man +to make a case, for to keep my stone, that I was cut of, in, and he to +buy Daniel's history, which he did, but I missed of my end. So parted +upon Ludgate Hill, and I home and to the office, where busy till supper, +and home to supper to a good dish of fritters, which I bespoke, and were +done much to my mind. Then to the office a while again, and so home to +bed. The newes of the Emperour's victory over the Turkes is by some +doubted, but by most confessed to be very small (though great) of what +was talked, which was 80,000 men to be killed and taken of the Turke's +side. + + + +20th. Up and to the office a while, but this day the Parliament meeting +only to be adjourned to November (which was done, accordingly), we did +not meet, and so I forth to bespeak a case to be made to keep my stone +in, which will cost me 25s. Thence I walked to Cheapside, there to see +the effect of a fire there this morning, since four o'clock; which I find +in the house of Mr. Bois, that married Dr. Fuller's niece, who are both +out of towne, leaving only a mayde and man in towne. It begun in their +house, and hath burned much and many houses backward, though none +forward; and that in the great uniform pile of buildings in the middle of +Cheapside. I am very sorry for them, for the Doctor's sake. Thence to +the 'Change, and so home to dinner. And thence to Sir W. Batten's, +whither Sir Richard Ford came, the Sheriffe, who hath been at this fire +all the while; and he tells me, upon my question, that he and the Mayor +were there, as it is their dutys to be, not only to keep the peace, but +they have power of commanding the pulling down of any house or houses, to +defend the whole City. By and by comes in the Common Cryer of the City +to speak with him; and when he was gone, says he, "You may see by this +man the constitution of the Magistracy of this City; that this fellow's +place, I dare give him (if he will be true to me) L1000 for his profits +every year, and expect to get L500 more to myself thereby. When," says +he, "I in myself am forced to spend many times as much." By and by came +Mr. Coventry, and so we met at the office, to hire ships for Guinny, and +that done broke up. I to Sir W. Batten's, there to discourse with Mrs. +Falconer, who hath been with Sir W. Pen this evening, after Mr. Coventry +had promised her half what W. Bodham had given him for his place, but Sir +W. Pen, though he knows that, and that Mr. Bodham hath said that his +place hath cost him L100 and would L100 more, yet is he so high against +the poor woman that he will not hear to give her a farthing, but it seems +do listen after a lease where he expects Mr. Falconer hath put in his +daughter's life, and he is afraid that that is not done, and did tell +Mrs. Falconer that he would see it and know what is done therein in spite +of her, when, poor wretch, she neither do nor can hinder him the knowing +it. Mr. Coventry knows of this business of the lease, and I believe do +think of it as well as I. But the poor woman is gone home without any +hope, but only Mr. Coventry's own nobleness. So I to my office and wrote +many letters, and so to supper and to bed. + + + +21st (Lord's day). Waked about 4 o'clock with my wife, having a +looseness, and peoples coming in the yard to the pump to draw water +several times, so that fear of this day's fire made me fearful, and +called Besse and sent her down to see, and it was Griffin's maid for +water to wash her house. So to sleep again, and then lay talking till 9 +o'clock. So up and drunk three bottles of Epsum water, which wrought +well with me. I all the morning and most of the afternoon after dinner +putting papers to rights in my chamber, and the like in the evening till +night at my office, and renewing and writing fair over my vowes. So home +to supper, prayers, and to bed. Mr. Coventry told us the Duke was gone +ill of a fit of an ague to bed; so we sent this morning to see how he do. + + [Elizabeth Falkener, wife of John Falkener, announced to Pepys the + death of "her dear and loving husband" in a letter dated July 19th, + 1664 "begs interest that she may be in something considered by the + person succeeding her husband in his employment, which has + occasioned great expenses." ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, + 1663-64, p. 646)] + + + +22nd. Up and abroad, doing very many errands to my great content which +lay as burdens upon my mind and memory. Home to dinner, and so to White +Hall, setting down my wife at her father's, and I to the Tangier +Committee, where several businesses I did to my mind, and with hopes +thereby to get something. So to Westminster Hall, where by appointment +I had made I met with Dr. Tom Pepys, but avoided all discourse of +difference with him, though much against my will, and he like a doating +coxcomb as he is, said he could not but demand his money, and that he +would have his right, and that let all anger be forgot, and such sorry +stuff, nothing to my mind, but only I obtained this satisfaction, that he +told me about Sturbridge last was 12 months or 2 years he was at +Brampton, and there my father did tell him that what he had done for my +brother in giving him his goods and setting him up as he had done was +upon condition that he should give my brother John L20 per ann., which he +charged upon my father, he tells me in answer, as a great deal of hard +measure that he should expect that with him that had a brother so able as +I am to do that for him. This is all that he says he can say as to my +father's acknowledging that he had given Tom his goods. He says his +brother Roger will take his oath that my father hath given him thanks for +his counsel for his giving of Tom his goods and setting him up in the +manner that he hath done, but the former part of this he did not speak +fully so bad nor as certain what he could say. So we walked together to +my cozen Joyce's, where my wife staid for me, and then I home and her by +coach, and so to my office, then to supper and to bed. + + + +23rd. Lay long talking with my wife, and angry awhile about her desiring +to have a French mayde all of a sudden, which I took to arise from +yesterday's being with her mother. But that went over and friends again, +and so she be well qualitied, I care not much whether she be French or +no, so a Protestant. Thence to the office, and at noon to the 'Change, +where very busy getting ships for Guinny and for Tangier. So home to +dinner, and then abroad all the afternoon doing several errands, to +comply with my oath of ending many businesses before Bartholomew's day, +which is two days hence. Among others I went into New Bridewell, in my +way to Mr. Cole, and there I saw the new model, and it is very handsome. +Several at work, among others, one pretty whore brought in last night, +which works very lazily. I did give them 6d. to drink, and so away. To +Graye's Inn, but missed Mr. Cole, and so homeward called at Harman's, and +there bespoke some chairs for a room, and so home, and busy late, and +then to supper and to bed. The Dutch East India Fleete are now come home +safe, which we are sorry for. Our Fleets on both sides are hastening out +to Guinny. + + + +24th. Up by six o'clock, and to my office with Tom Hater dispatching +business in haste. At nine o'clock to White Hall about Mr. Maes's +business at the Council, which stands in an ill condition still. Thence +to Graye's Inn, but missed of Mr. Cole the lawyer, and so walked home, +calling among the joyners in Wood Streete to buy a table and bade in many +places, but did not buy it till I come home to see the place where it is +to stand, to judge how big it must be. So after 'Change home and a good +dinner, and then to White Hall to a Committee of the Fishery, where my +Lord Craven and Mr. Gray mightily against Mr. Creed's being joined in the +warrant for Secretary with Mr. Duke. However I did get it put off till +the Duke of Yorke was there, and so broke up doing nothing. So walked +home, first to the Wardrobe, and there saw one suit of clothes made for +my boy and linen set out, and I think to have him the latter end of this +week, and so home, Mr. Creed walking the greatest part of the way with me +advising what to do in his case about his being Secretary to us in +conjunction with Duke, which I did give him the best I could, and so home +and to my office, where very much business, and then home to supper and +to bed. + + + +25th. Up and to the office after I had spoke to my taylor, Langford (who +came to me about some work), desiring to know whether he knew of any +debts that my father did owe of his own in the City. He tells me, "No, +not any." I did on purpose try him because of what words he and his wife +have said of him (as Herbert told me the other day), and further did +desire him, that if he knew of any or could hear of any that he should +bid them come to me, and I would pay them, for I would not that because +he do not pay my brother's debts that therefore he should be thought to +deny the payment of his owne. All the morning at the office busy. At +noon to the 'Change, among other things busy to get a little by the hire +of a ship for Tangier. So home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr. +Cooke to see me; it is true he was kind to me at sea in carrying messages +to and fro to my wife from sea, but I did do him kindnesses too, and +therefore I matter not much to compliment or make any regard of his +thinking me to slight him as I do for his folly about my brother Tom's +mistress. After dinner and some talk with him, I to my office; there +busy, till by and by Jacke Noble came to me to tell me that he had Cave +in prison, and that he would give me and my father good security that +neither we nor any of our family should be troubled with the child; for +he could prove that he was fully satisfied for him; and that if the worst +came to the worst, the parish must keep it; that Cave did bring the child +to his house, but they got it carried back again, and that thereupon he +put him in prison. When he saw that I would not pay him the money, nor +made anything of being secured against the child, he then said that then +he must go to law, not himself, but come in as a witness for Cave against +us. I could have told him that he could bear witness that Cave is +satisfied, or else there is no money due to himself; but I let alone any +such discourse, only getting as much out of him as I could. I perceive +he is a rogue, and hath inquired into everything and consulted with Dr. +Pepys, and that he thinks as Dr. Pepys told him that my father if he +could would not pay a farthing of the debts, and yet I made him confess +that in all his lifetime he never knew my father to be asked for money +twice, nay, not once, all the time he lived with him, and that for his +own debts he believed he would do so still, but he meant only for those +of Tom. He said now that Randall and his wife and the midwife could +prove from my brother's own mouth that the child was his, and that Tom +had told them the circumstances of time, upon November 5th at night, that +he got it on her. I offered him if he would secure my father against +being forced to pay the money again I would pay him, which at first he +would do, give his own security, and when I asked more than his own he +told me yes he would, and those able men, subsidy men, but when we came +by and by to discourse of it again he would not then do it, but said he +would take his course, and joyne with Cave and release him, and so we +parted. However, this vexed me so as I could not be quiet, but took +coach to go speak with Mr. Cole, but met him not within, so back, buying +a table by the way, and at my office late, and then home to supper and to +bed, my mind disordered about this roguish business--in every thing else, +I thank God, well at ease. + + + +26th. Up by 5 o'clock, which I have not been many a day, and down by +water to Deptford, and there took in Mr. Pumpfield the rope-maker, and +down with him to Woolwich to view Clothier's cordage, which I found bad +and stopped the receipt of it. Thence to the ropeyard, and there among +other things discoursed with Mrs. Falconer, who tells me that she has +found the writing, and Sir W. Pen's daughter is not put into the lease +for her life as he expected, and I am glad of it. Thence to the +Dockyarde, and there saw the new ship in very great forwardness, and so +by water to Deptford a little, and so home and shifting myself, to the +'Change, and there did business, and thence down by water to White Hall, +by the way, at the Three Cranes, putting into an alehouse and eat a bit +of bread and cheese. There I could not get into the Parke, and so was +fain to stay in the gallery over the gate to look to the passage into the +Parke, into which the King hath forbid of late anybody's coming, to watch +his coming that had appointed me to come, which he did by and by with his +lady and went to Guardener's Lane, and there instead of meeting with one +that was handsome and could play well, as they told me, she is the +ugliest beast and plays so basely as I never heard anybody, so that I +should loathe her being in my house. However, she took us by and by and +showed us indeed some pictures at one Hiseman's, a picture drawer, a +Dutchman, which is said to exceed Lilly, and indeed there is both of the +Queenes and Mayds of Honour (particularly Mrs. Stewart's in a buff +doublet like a soldier) as good pictures, I think, as ever I saw. The +Queene is drawn in one like a shepherdess, in the other like St. +Katharin, most like and most admirably. I was mightily pleased with this +sight indeed, and so back again to their lodgings, where I left them, but +before I went this mare that carried me, whose name I know not but that +they call him Sir John, a pitiful fellow, whose face I have long known +but upon what score I know not, but he could have the confidence to ask +me to lay down money for him to renew the lease of his house, which I did +give eare to there because I was there receiving a civility from him, but +shall not part with my money. There I left them, and I by water home, +where at my office busy late, then home to supper, and so to bed. This +day my wife tells me Mr. Pen, + + [William Penn, afterwards the famous Quaker. P. Gibson, writing to + him in March, 1711-12, says: "I remember your honour very well, + when you newly came out of France and wore pantaloon breeches"] + +Sir William's son, is come back from France, and come to visit her. A +most modish person, grown, she says, a fine gentleman. + + + +27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the +'Change, and there almost made my bargain about a ship for Tangier, which +will bring me in a little profit with Captain Taylor. Off the 'Change +with Mr. Cutler and Sir W. Rider to Cutler's house, and there had a very +good dinner, and two or three pretty young ladies of their relations +there. Thence to my case-maker for my stone case, and had it to my mind, +and cost me 24s., which is a great deale of money, but it is well done +and pleases me. So doing some other small errands I home, and there find +my boy, Tom Edwards, come, sent me by Captain Cooke, having been bred in +the King's Chappell these four years. I propose to make a clerke of him, +and if he deserves well, to do well by him. Spent much of the afternoon +to set his chamber in order, and then to the office leaving him at home, +and late at night after all business was done I called Will and told him +my reason of taking a boy, and that it is of necessity, not out of any +unkindness to him, nor should be to his injury, and then talked about his +landlord's daughter to come to my wife, and I think it will be. So home +and find my boy a very schoole boy, that talks innocently and +impertinently, but at present it is a sport to us, and in a little time +he will leave it. So sent him to bed, he saying that he used to go to +bed at eight o'clock, and then all of us to bed, myself pretty well +pleased with my choice of a boy. All the newes this day is, that the +Dutch are, with twenty-two sayle of ships of warr, crewsing up and down +about Ostend; at which we are alarmed. My Lord Sandwich is come back +into the Downes with only eight sayle, which is or may be a prey to the +Dutch, if they knew our weakness and inability to set out any more +speedily. + + + +28th (Lord's day). Up the first time I have had great while. Home to +dined, and with my boy alone to church anybody to attend me to church a +dinner, and there met Creed, who, and we merry together, as his learning +is such and judgment that I cannot but be pleased with it. After dinner +I took him to church, into our gallery, with me, but slept the best part +of the sermon, which was a most silly one. So he and I to walk to the +'Change a while, talking from one pleasant discourse to another, and so +home, and thither came my uncle Wight and aunt, and supped with us mighty +merry. And Creed lay with us all night, and so to bed, very merry to +think how Mr. Holliard (who came in this evening to see me) makes +nothing, but proving as a most clear thing that Rome is Antichrist. + + + +29th. Up betimes, intending to do business at my office, by 5 o'clock, +but going out met at my door Mr. Hughes come to speak with me about +office business, and told me that as he came this morning from Deptford +he left the King's yarde a-fire. So I presently took a boat and down, +and there found, by God's providence, the fire out; but if there had been +any wind it must have burned all our stores, which is a most dreadfull +consideration. But leaving all things well I home, and out abroad doing +many errands, Mr. Creed also out, and my wife to her mother's, and Creed +and I met at my Lady Sandwich's and there dined; but my Lady is become as +handsome, I think, as ever she was; and so good and discreet a woman I +know not in the world. After dinner I to Westminster to Jervas's a +while, and so doing many errands by the way, and necessary ones, I home, +and thither came the woman with her mother which our Will recommends to +my wife. I like her well, and I think will please us. My wife and they +agreed, and she is to come the next week. At which I am very well +contented, for then I hope we shall be settled, but I must remember that, +never since I was housekeeper, I ever lived so quietly, without any noise +or one angry word almost, as I have done since my present mayds Besse, +Jane, and Susan came and were together. Now I have taken a boy and am +taking a woman, I pray God we may not be worse, but I will observe it. +After being at my office a while, home to supper and to bed. + + + +30th. Up and to the office, where sat long, and at noon to dinner at +home; after dinner comes Mr. Pen to visit me, and staid an houre talking +with me. I perceive something of learning he hath got, but a great +deale, if not too much, of the vanity of the French garbe and affected +manner of speech and gait. I fear all real profit he hath made of his +travel will signify little. So, he gone, I to my office and there very +busy till late at night, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +31st. Up by five o'clock and to my office, where T. Hater and Will met +me, and so we dispatched a great deal of my business as to the ordering +my papers and books which were behindhand. All the morning very busy at +my office. At noon home to dinner, and there my wife hath got me some +pretty good oysters, which is very soon and the soonest, I think, I ever +eat any. After dinner I up to hear my boy play upon a lute, which I have +this day borrowed of Mr. Hunt; and indeed the boy would, with little +practice, play very well upon the lute, which pleases me well. So by +coach to the Tangier Committee, and there have another small business by +which I may get a little small matter of money. Staid but little there, +and so home and to my office, where late casting up my monthly accounts, +and, blessed be God! find myself worth L1020, which is still the most I +ever was worth. So home and to bed. Prince Rupert I hear this day is to +go to command this fleete going to Guinny against the Dutch. I doubt few +will be pleased with his going, being accounted an unhappy' man. My mind +at good rest, only my father's troubles with Dr. Pepys and my brother +Tom's creditors in general do trouble me. I have got a new boy that +understands musique well, as coming to me from the King's Chappell, and I +hope will prove a good boy, and my wife and I are upon having a woman, +which for her content I am contented to venture upon the charge of again, +and she is one that our' Will finds out for us, and understands a little +musique, and I think will please us well, only her friends live too near +us. Pretty well in health, since I left off wearing of a gowne within +doors all day, and then go out with my legs into the cold, which brought +me daily pain. + + + + + + + + DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. + SEPTEMBER + 1664 + + +Sept. 1st. A sad rainy night, up and to the office, where busy all the +morning. At noon to the 'Change and thence brought Mr. Pierce, the +Surgeon, and Creed, and dined very merry and handsomely; but my wife not +being well of those she not with us; and we cut up the great cake +Moorcocke lately sent us, which is very good. They gone I to my office, +and there very busy till late at night, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +2nd. Up very betimes and walked (my boy with me) to Mr. Cole's, and +after long waiting below, he being under the barber's hands, I spoke with +him, and he did give me much hopes of getting my debt that my brother +owed me, and also that things would go well with my father. But going to +his attorney's, that he directed me to, they tell me both that though I +could bring my father to a confession of a judgment, yet he knowing that +there are specialties out against him he is bound to plead his knowledge +of them to me before he pays me, or else he must do it in his own wrong. +I took a great deal of pains this morning in the thorough understanding +hereof, and hope that I know the truth of our case, though it be but bad, +yet better than to run spending money and all to no purpose. However, I +will inquire a little more. Walked home, doing very many errands by the +way to my great content, and at the 'Change met and spoke with several +persons about serving us with pieces of eight at Tangier. So home to +dinner above stairs, my wife not being well of those in bed. I dined by +her bedside, but I got her to rise and abroad with me by coach to +Bartholomew Fayre, and our boy with us, and there shewed them and myself +the dancing on the ropes, and several other the best shows; but pretty it +is to see how our boy carries himself so innocently clownish as would +make one laugh. Here till late and dark, then up and down, to buy combes +for my wife to give her mayds, and then by coach home, and there at the +office set down my day's work, and then home to bed. + + + +3rd. I have had a bad night's rest to-night, not sleeping well, as my +wife observed, and once or twice she did wake me, and I thought myself to +be mightily bit with fleas, and in the morning she chid her mayds for not +looking the fleas a-days. But, when I rose, I found that it is only the +change of the weather from hot to cold, which, as I was two winters ago, +do stop my pores, and so my blood tingles and itches all day all over my +body, and so continued to-day all the day long just as I was then, and if +it continues to be so cold I fear I must come to the same pass, but +sweating cured me then, and I hope, and am told, will this also. At the +office sat all the morning, dined at home, and after dinner to White +Hall, to the Fishing Committee, but not above four of us met, which could +do nothing, and a sad thing it is to see so great a work so ill followed, +for at this pace it can come to any thing at first sight. Mr. Hill came +to tell me that he had got a gentlewoman for my wife, one Mrs. +Ferrabosco, that sings most admirably. I seemed glad of it; but I hear +she is too gallant for me, and I am not sorry that I misse her. Thence +to the office, setting some papers right, and so home to supper and to +bed, after prayers. + + + +5th. Up and to St. James's, and there did our business with the Duke; +where all our discourse of warr in the highest measure. Prince Rupert +was with us; who is fitting himself to go to sea in the Heneretta. And +afterwards in White Hall I met him and Mr. Gray, and he spoke to me, and +in other discourse, says he, "God damn me, I can answer but for one ship, +and in that I will do my part; for it is not in that as in an army, where +a man can command every thing." By and by to a Committee for the +Fishery, the Duke of Yorke there, where, after Duke was made Secretary, +we fell to name a Committee, whereof I was willing to be one, because I +would have my hand in the business, to understand it and be known in +doing something in it; and so, after cutting out work for the Committee, +we rose, and I to my wife to Unthanke's, and with her from shop to shop, +laying out near L10 this morning in clothes for her. And so I to the +'Change, where a while, and so home and to dinner, and thither came W. +Bowyer and dined with us; but strange to see how he could not endure +onyons in sauce to lamb, but was overcome with the sight of it, and so- +was forced to make his dinner of an egg or two. He tells us how Mrs. +Lane is undone, by her marrying so bad, and desires to speak with me, +which I know is wholly to get me to do something for her to get her +husband a place, which he is in no wise fit for. After dinner down to +Woolwich with a gaily, and then to Deptford, and so home, all the way +reading Sir J. Suck[l]ing's "Aglaura," which, methinks, is but a mean +play; nothing of design in it. Coming home it is strange to see how I +was troubled to find my wife, but in a necessary compliment, expecting +Mr. Pen to see her, who had been there and was by her people denied, +which, he having been three times, she thought not fit he should be any +more. But yet even this did raise my jealousy presently and much vex me. +However, he did not come, which pleased me, and I to supper, and to the +office till 9 o'clock or thereabouts, and so home to bed. My aunt James +had been here to-day with Kate Joyce twice to see us. The second time my +wife was at home, and they it seems are going down to Brampton, which I +am sorry for, for the charge that my father will be put to. But it must +be borne with, and my mother has a mind to see them, but I do condemn +myself mightily for my pride and contempt of my aunt and kindred that are +not so high as myself, that I have not seen her all this while, nor +invited her all this while. + + + +6th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home +to dinner, then to my office and there waited, thinking to have had +Bagwell's wife come to me about business, that I might have talked with +her, but she came not. So I to White Hall by coach with Mr. Andrews, and +there I got his contract for the victualling of Tangier signed and sealed +by us there, so that all the business is well over, and I hope to have +made a good business of it and to receive L100 by it the next weeke, for +which God be praised! Thence to W. Joyce's and Anthony's, to invite them +to dinner to meet my aunt James at my house, and the rather because they +are all to go down to my father the next weeke, and so I would be a +little kind to them before they go. So home, having called upon Doll, +our pretty 'Change woman, for a pair of gloves trimmed with yellow +ribbon, to [match the] petticoate my wife bought yesterday, which cost me +20s.; but she is so pretty, that, God forgive me! I could not think it +too much--which is a strange slavery that I stand in to beauty, that I +value nothing near it. So going home, and my coach stopping in Newgate +Market over against a poulterer's shop, I took occasion to buy a rabbit, +but it proved a deadly old one when I came to eat it, as I did do after +an hour being at my office, and after supper again there till past 11 at +night. So home,, and to bed. This day Mr. Coventry did tell us how the +Duke did receive the Dutch Embassador the other day; by telling him that, +whereas they think us in jest, he believes that the Prince (Rupert) which +goes in this fleete to Guinny will soon tell them that we are in +earnest, and that he himself will do the like here, in the head of the +fleete here at home, and that for the meschants, which he told the Duke +there were in England, which did hope to do themselves good by the King's +being at warr, says he, the English have ever united all this private +difference to attend foraigne, and that Cromwell, notwithstanding the +meschants in his time, which were the Cavaliers, did never find them +interrupt him in his foraigne businesses, and that he did not doubt but +to live to see the Dutch as fearfull of provoking the English, under the +government of a King, as he remembers them to have been under that of a +Coquin. I writ all this story to my Lord Sandwich tonight into the +Downes, it being very good and true, word for word from Mr. Coventry to- +day. + + + +7th. Lay long to-day, pleasantly discoursing with my wife about the +dinner we are to have for the Joyces, a day or two hence. Then up and +with Mr. Margetts to Limehouse to see his ground and ropeyarde there, +which is very fine, and I believe we shall employ it for the Navy, for +the King's grounds are not sufficient to supply our defence if a warr +comes. Thence back to the 'Change, where great talke of the forwardnesse +of the Dutch, which puts us all to a stand, and particularly myself for +my Lord Sandwich, to think him to lie where he is for a sacrifice, if +they should begin with us. So home and Creed with me, and to dinner, and +after dinner I out to my office, taking in Bagwell's wife, who I knew +waited for me, but company came to me so soon that I could have no +discourse with her, as I intended, of pleasure. So anon abroad with +Creed walked to Bartholomew Fayre, this being the last day, and there saw +the best dancing on the ropes that I think I ever saw in my life, and so +all say, and so by coach home, where I find my wife hath had her head +dressed by her woman, Mercer, which is to come to her to-morrow, but my +wife being to go to a christening tomorrow, she came to do her head up +to-night. So a while to my office, and then to supper and to bed. + + + +8th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined at +home, and I by water down to Woolwich by a galley, and back again in the +evening. All haste made in setting out this Guinny fleete, but yet not +such as will ever do the King's business if we come to a warr. My wife +this afternoon being very well dressed by her new woman, Mary Mercer, a +decayed merchant's daughter that our Will helps us to, did go to the +christening of Mrs. Mills, the parson's wife's child, where she never was +before. After I was come home Mr. Povey came to me and took me out to +supper to Mr. Bland's, who is making now all haste to be gone for +Tangier. Here pretty merry, and good discourse, fain to admire the +knowledge and experience of Mrs. Bland, who I think as good a merchant as +her husband. I went home and there find Mercer, whose person I like +well, and I think will do well, at least I hope so. So to my office a +while and then to bed. + + + +9th. Up, and to put things in order against dinner. I out and bought +several things, among others, a dozen of silver salts; home, and to the +office, where some of us met a little, and then home, and at noon comes +my company, namely, Anthony and Will Joyce and their wives, my aunt James +newly come out of Wales, and my cozen Sarah Gyles. Her husband did not +come, and by her I did understand afterwards, that it was because he was +not yet able to pay me the 40s. she had borrowed a year ago of me. + + [Pepys would have been more proud of his cousin had he anticipated + her husband's becoming a knight, for she was probably the same + person whose burial is recorded in the register of St. Helen's, + Bishopsgate, September 4th, 1704: "Dame Sarah Gyles, widow, relict + of Sir John Gyles."--B.] + +I was as merry as I could, giving them a good dinner; but W. Joyce did so +talk, that he made every body else dumb, but only laugh at him. I forgot +there was Mr. Harman and his wife, my aunt, a very good harmlesse woman. +All their talke is of her and my two she-cozen Joyces and Will's little +boy Will (who was also here to-day), down to Brampton to my father's next +week, which will be trouble and charge to them, but however my father and +mother desire to see them, and so let them. They eyed mightily my great +cupboard of plate, I this day putting my two flaggons upon my table; and +indeed it is a fine sight, and better than ever I did hope to see of my +owne. Mercer dined with us at table, this being her first dinner in my +house. After dinner left them and to White Hall, where a small Tangier +Committee, and so back again home, and there my wife and Mercer and Tom +and I sat till eleven at night, singing and fiddling, and a great joy it +is to see me master of so much pleasure in my house, that it is and will +be still, I hope, a constant pleasure to me to be at home. The girle +plays pretty well upon the harpsicon, but only ordinary tunes, but hath a +good hand; sings a little, but hath a good voyce and eare. My boy, a +brave boy, sings finely, and is the most pleasant boy at present, while +his ignorant boy's tricks last, that ever I saw. So to supper, and with +great pleasure to bed. + + + +10th. Up and to the office, where we sate all the morning, and I much +troubled to think what the end of our great sluggishness will be, for we +do nothing in this office like people able to carry on a warr. We must +be put out, or other people put in. Dined at home, and then my wife and +I and Mercer to the Duke's house, and there saw "The Rivalls," which is +no excellent play, but good acting in it; especially Gosnell comes and +sings and dances finely, but, for all that, fell out of the key, so that +the musique could not play to her afterwards, and so did Harris also go +out of the tune to agree with her. Thence home and late writing letters, +and this night I received, by Will, L105, the first-fruits of my +endeavours in the late contract for victualling of Tangier, for which God +be praised! for I can with a safe conscience say that I have therein +saved the King L5000 per annum, and yet got myself a hope of L300 per +annum without the least wrong to the King. So to supper and to bed. + + + +11th (Lord's day). Up and to church in the best manner I have gone a +good while, that is to say, with my wife, and her woman, Mercer, along +with us, and Tom, my boy, waiting on us. A dull sermon. Home, dined, +left my wife to go to church alone, and I walked in haste being late to +the Abbey at Westminster, according to promise to meet Jane Welsh, and +there wearily walked, expecting her till 6 o'clock from three, but no +Jane came, which vexed me, only part of it I spent with Mr. Blagrave +walking in the Abbey, he telling me the whole government and discipline +of White Hall Chappell, and the caution now used against admitting any +debauched persons, which I was glad to hear, though he tells me there are +persons bad enough. Thence going home went by Jarvis's, and there stood +Jane at the door, and so I took her in and drank with her, her master and +mistress being out of doors. She told me how she could not come to me +this afternoon, but promised another time. So I walked home contented +with my speaking with her, and walked to my uncle Wight's, where they +were all at supper, and among others comes fair Mrs. Margarett Wight, who +indeed is very pretty. So after supper home to prayers and to bed. This +afternoon, it seems, Sir J. Minnes fell sicke at church, and going down +the gallery stairs fell down dead, but came to himself again and is +pretty well. + + + +12th. Up, and to my cozen Anthony Joyce's, and there took leave of my +aunt James, and both cozens, their wives, who are this day going down to +my father's by coach. I did give my Aunt 20s., to carry as a token to my +mother, and 10s. to Pall. Thence by coach to St. James's, and there did +our business as usual with the Duke; and saw him with great pleasure play +with his little girle,--[Afterwards Queen Mary II.]--like an ordinary +private father of a child. Thence walked to Jervas's, where I took Jane +in the shop alone, and there heard of her, her master and mistress were +going out. So I went away and came again half an hour after. In the +meantime went to the Abbey, and there went in to see the tombs with great +pleasure. Back again to Jane, and there upstairs and drank with her, and +staid two hours with her kissing her, but nothing more. Anon took boat +and by water to the Neat Houses over against Fox Hall to have seen +Greatorex dive, which Jervas and his wife were gone to see, and there I +found them (and did it the rather for a pretence for my having been so +long at their house), but being disappointed of some necessaries to do it +I staid not, but back to Jane, but she would not go out with me. So I to +Mr. Creed's lodgings, and with him walked up and down in the New +Exchange, talking mightily of the convenience and necessity of a man's +wearing good clothes, and so after eating a messe of creame I took leave +of him, he walking with me as far as Fleete Conduit, he offering me upon +my request to put out some money for me into Backewell's hands at 6 per +cent. interest, which he seldom gives, which I will consider of, being +doubtful of trusting any of these great dealers because of their +mortality, but then the convenience of having one's money, at an houre's +call is very great. Thence to my uncle Wight's, and there supped with my +wife, having given them a brave barrel of oysters of Povy's giving me. +So home and to bed. + + + +13th. Up and, to the office, where sat busy all morning, dined at home +and after dinner to Fishmonger's Hall, where we met the first time upon +the Fishery Committee, and many good things discoursed of concerning +making of farthings, which was proposed as a way of raising money for +this business, and then that of lotterys, + + [Among the State Papers is a "Statement of Articles in the Covenant + proposed by the Commissioners for the Royal Fishing to, Sir Ant. + Desmarces & Co. in reference to the regulation of lotteries; which + are very unreasonable, and of the objections thereto" ("Calendar of + State Papers," Domestic, 1663-64, p. 576.)] + +but with great confusion; but I hope we shall fall into greater order. +So home again and to my office, where after doing business home and to a +little musique, after supper, and so to bed. + + + +14th. Up, and wanting some things that should be laid ready for my +dressing myself I was angry, and one thing after another made my wife +give Besse warning to be gone, which the jade, whether out of fear or +ill-nature or simplicity I know not, but she took it and asked leave to +go forth to look a place, and did, which vexed me to the heart, she being +as good a natured wench as ever we shall have, but only forgetful. At +the office all the morning and at noon to the 'Change, and there went off +with Sir W. Warren and took occasion to desire him to lend me L100, which +he said he would let the have with all his heart presently, as he had +promised me a little while ago to give me for my pains in his two great +contracts for masts L100, and that this should be it. To which end I did +move it to him, and by this means I hope to be, possessed of the L100 +presently within 2 or 3 days. So home to dinner, and then to the office, +and down to Blackwall by water to view a place found out for laying of +masts, and I think it will be most proper. So home and there find Mr. +Pen come to visit my wife, and staid with them till sent for to Mr. +Bland's, whither by appointment I was to go to supper, and against my +will left them together, but, God knows, without any reason of fear in my +conscience of any evil between them, but such is my natural folly. Being +thither come they would needs have my wife, and so Mr. Bland and his wife +(the first time she was ever at my house or my wife at hers) very civilly +went forth and brought her and W. Pen, and there Mr. Povy and we supped +nobly and very merry, it being to take leave of Mr. Bland, who is upon +going soon to Tangier. So late home and to bed. + + + +15th. At the office all the morning, then to the 'Change, and so home to +dinner, where Luellin dined with us, and after dinner many people came in +and kept me all the afternoon, among other the Master and Wardens of +Chyrurgeon's Hall, who staid arguing their cause with me; I did give them +the best answer I could, and after their being two hours with me parted, +and I to my office to do business, which is much on my hands, and so late +home to supper and to bed. + + + +16th. Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning very busy +putting papers to rights. And among other things Mr. Gauden coming to +me, I had a good opportunity to speak to him about his present, which +hitherto hath been a burden: to me, that I could not do it, because I was +doubtfull that he meant it as a temptation to me to stand by him in the +business of Tangier victualling; but he clears me it was not, and that he +values me and my proceedings therein very highly, being but what became +me, and that what he did was for my old kindnesses to him in dispatching +of his business, which I was glad to hear, and with my heart in good rest +and great joy parted, and to my business again. At noon to the 'Change, +where by appointment I met Sir W. Warren, and afterwards to the Sun +taverne, where he brought to me, being all alone; L100 in a bag, which I +offered him to give him my receipt for, but he told me, no, it was my +owne, which he had a little while since promised me and was glad that +(as I had told him two days since) it would now do me courtesy; and so +most kindly he did give it me, and I as joyfully, even out of myself, +carried it home in a coach, he himself expressly taking care that nobody +might see this business done, though I was willing enough to have carried +a servant with me to have received it, but he advised me to do it myself. +So home with it and to dinner; after dinner I forth with my boy to buy +severall things, stools and andirons and candlesticks, &c., household +stuff, and walked to the mathematical instrument maker in Moorefields and +bought a large pair of compasses, and there met Mr. Pargiter, and he +would needs have me drink a cup of horse-radish ale, which he and a +friend of his troubled with the stone have been drinking of, which we did +and then walked into the fields as far almost as Sir G. Whitmore's, all +the way talking of Russia, which, he says, is a sad place; and, though +Moscow is a very great city, yet it is from the distance between house +and house, and few people compared with this, and poor, sorry houses, the +Emperor himself living in a wooden house, his exercise only flying a hawk +at pigeons and carrying pigeons ten or twelve miles off and then laying +wagers which pigeon shall come soonest home to her house. All the winter +within doors, some few playing at chesse, but most drinking their time +away. Women live very slavishly there, and it seems in the Emperor's +court no room hath above two or three windows, and those the greatest not +a yard wide or high, for warmth in winter time; and that the general cure +for all diseases there is their sweating houses, or people that are poor +they get into their ovens, being heated, and there lie. Little learning +among things of any sort. Not a man that speaks Latin, unless the +Secretary of State by chance. Mr. Pargiter and I walked to the 'Change +together and there parted, and so I to buy more things and then home, and +after a little at my office, home to supper and to bed. This day old +Hardwicke came and redeemed a watch he had left with me in pawne for 40s. +seven years ago, and I let him gave it. Great talk that the Dutch will +certainly be out this week, and will sail directly to Guinny, being +convoyed out of the Channel with 42 sail of ships. + + + +17th. Up and to the office, where Mr. Coventry very angry to see things +go so coldly as they do, and I must needs say it makes me fearful every +day of having some change of the office, and the truth is, I am of late a +little guilty of being remiss myself of what I used to be, but I hope I +shall come to my old pass again, my family being now settled again. +Dined at home, and to the office, where late busy in setting all my +businesses in order, and I did a very great and a very contenting +afternoon's work. This day my aunt Wight sent my wife a new scarfe, with +a compliment for the many favours she had received of her, which is the +several things we have sent her. I am glad enough of it, for I see my +uncle is so given up to the Wights that I hope for little more of them. +So home to supper and to bed. + + + +18th (Lord's day). Up and to church all of us. At noon comes Anthony +and W. Joyce (their wives being in the country with my father) and dined +with me very merry as I can be in such company. After dinner walked to +Westminster (tiring them by the way, and so left them, Anthony in +Cheapside and the other in the Strand), and there spent all the afternoon +in the Cloysters as I had agreed with Jane Welsh, but she came not, which +vexed me, staying till 5 o'clock, and then walked homeward, and by coach +to the old Exchange, and thence to my aunt Wight's, and invited her and +my uncle to supper, and so home, and by and by they came, and we eat a +brave barrel of oysters Mr. Povy sent me this morning, and very merry at +supper, and so to prayers and to bed. Last night it seems my aunt Wight +did send my wife a new scarfe, laced, as a token for her many givings to +her. It is true now and then we give them some toys, as oranges, &c., +but my aime is to get myself something more from my uncle's favour than +this. + + + +19th. Up, my wife and I having a little anger about her woman already, +she thinking that I take too much care of her at table to mind her (my +wife) of cutting for her, but it soon over, and so up and with Sir W. +Batten and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, and there did our business with the +Duke, and thence homeward straight, calling at the Coffee-house, and +there had very good discourse with Sir ---- Blunt and Dr. Whistler about +Egypt and other things. So home to dinner, my wife having put on to-day +her winter new suit of moyre, which is handsome, and so after dinner I +did give her L15 to lay out in linen and necessaries for the house and to +buy a suit for Pall, and I myself to White Hall to a Tangier Committee, +where Colonell Reames hath brought us so full and methodical an account +of all matters there, that I never have nor hope to see the like of any +publique business while I live again. The Committee up, I to Westminster +to Jervas's, and spoke with Jane; who I find cold and not so desirous of +a meeting as before, and it is no matter, I shall be the freer from the +inconvenience that might follow thereof, besides offending God Almighty +and neglecting my business. So by coach home and to my office, where +late, and so to supper and to bed. I met with Dr. Pierce to-day, who, +speaking of Dr. Frazier's being so earnest to have such a one (one +Collins) go chyrurgeon to the Prince's person will have him go in his +terms and with so much money put into his hands, he tells me (when I was +wondering that Frazier should order things with the Prince in that +confident manner) that Frazier is so great with my Lady Castlemayne, and +Stewart, and all the ladies at Court, in helping to slip their calfes +when there is occasion, and with the great men in curing of their claps +that he can do what he please with the King, in spite of any man, and +upon the same score with the Prince; they all having more or less +occasion to make use of him. Sir G. Carteret tells me this afternoon +that the Dutch are not yet ready to set out; and by that means do lose a +good wind which would carry them out and keep us in, and moreover he says +that they begin to boggle in the business, and he thinks may offer terms +of peace for all this, and seems to argue that it will be well for the +King too, and I pray God send it. Colonell Reames did, among other +things, this day tell me how it is clear that, if my Lord Tiviott had +lived, he would have quite undone Tangier, or designed himself to be +master of it. He did put the King upon most great, chargeable, and +unnecessary works there, and took the course industriously to deter, all +other merchants but himself to deal there, and to make both King and all +others pay what he pleased for all that was brought thither. + + + +20th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, at noon to the +'Change, and there met by appointment with Captain Poyntz, who hath some +place, or title to a place, belonging to gameing, and so I discoursed +with him about the business of our improving of the Lotterys, to the +King's benefit, and that of the Fishery, and had some light from him in +the business, and shall, he says, have more in writing from him. So home +to dinner and then abroad to the Fishing Committee at Fishmongers' Hall, +and there sat and did some business considerable, and so up and home, and +there late at my office doing much business, and I find with great +delight that I am come to my good temper of business again. God continue +me in it. So home to supper, it being washing day, and to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and by coach to Mr. Povy's, and there got him to signe the +payment of Captain Tayler's bills for the remainder of freight for the +Eagle, wherein I shall be gainer about L30, thence with him to +Westminster by coach to Houseman's [Huysman] the great picture drawer, +and saw again very fine pictures, and have his promise, for Mr. Povy's +sake, to take pains in what picture I shall set him about, and I think to +have my wife's. But it is a strange thing to observe and fit for me to +remember that I am at no time so unwilling to part with money as when I +am concerned in the getting of it most, as I thank God of late I have got +more in this month, viz. near 0250, than ever I did in half a year before +in my life, I think. Thence to White Hall with him, and so walked to the +old Exchange and back to Povy's to dinner, where great and good company; +among others Sir John Skeffington, whom I knew at Magdalen College, +a fellow-commoner, my fellow-pupil, but one with whom I had no great +acquaintance, he being then, God knows, much above me. Here I was afresh +delighted with Mr. Povy's house and pictures of perspective, being +strange things to think how they do delude one's eye, that methinks it +would make a man doubtful of swearing that ever he saw any thing. Thence +with him to St. James's, and so to White Hall to a Tangier Committee, and +hope I have light of another opportunity of getting a little money if Sir +W. Warren will use me kindly for deales to Tangier, and with the hopes +went joyfully home, and there received Captain Tayler's money, received +by Will to-day, out of which (as I said above) I shall get above L30. +So with great comfort to bed, after supper. By discourse this day I have +great hopes from Mr. Coventry that the Dutch and we shall not fall out. + + + +22nd. Up and at the office all the morning. To the 'Change at noon, and +among other things discoursed with Sir William Warren what I might do to +get a little money by carrying of deales to Tangier, and told him the +opportunity I have there of doing it, and he did give me some advice, +though not so good as he would have done at any other time of the year, +but such as I hope to make good use of, and get a little money by. So to +Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, and he and I and Captain Cocke all alone, +and good discourse, and thence to a Committee of Tangier at White Hall, +and so home, where I found my wife not well, and she tells me she thinks +she is with child, but I neither believe nor desire it. But God's will +be done! So to my office late, and home to supper and to bed; having got +a strange cold in my head, by flinging off my hat at dinner, and sitting +with the wind in my neck. + + [In Lord Clarendon's Essay, "On the decay of respect paid to Age," + he says that in his younger days he never kept his hat on before + those older than himself, except at dinner.--B.] + + + +23rd. My cold and pain in my head increasing, and the palate of my mouth +falling, I was in great pain all night. My wife also was not well, so +that a mayd was fain to sit up by her all night. Lay long in the +morning, at last up, and amongst others comes Mr. Fuller, that was the +wit of Cambridge, and Praevaricator + + [At the Commencement (Comitia Majora) in July, the Praevaricator, or + Varier, held a similar position to the Tripos at the Comitia Minora. + He was so named from varying the question which he proposed, either + by a play upon the words or by the transposition of the terms in + which it was expressed. Under the pretence of maintaining some + philosophical question, he poured out a medley of absurd jokes and + 'personal ridicule, which gradually led to the abolition of the + office. In Thoresby's "Diary" we read, "Tuesday, July 6th. The + Praevaricator's speech was smart and ingenious, attended with + vollies of hurras" (see Wordsworth's "University Life in the + Eighteenth Century ").--M. B.] + +in my time, and staid all the morning with me discoursing, and his +business to get a man discharged, which I did do for him. Dined with +little heart at noon, in the afternoon against my will to the office, +where Sir G. Carteret and we met about an order of the Council for the +hiring him a house, giving him L1000 fine, and L70 per annum for it. +Here Sir J. Minnes took occasion, in the most childish and most +unbeseeming manner, to reproach us all, but most himself, that he was not +valued as Comptroller among us, nor did anything but only set his hand to +paper, which is but too true; and every body had a palace, and he no +house to lie in, and wished he had but as much to build him a house with, +as we have laid out in carved worke. It was to no end to oppose, but all +bore it, and after laughed at him for it. So home, and late reading "The +Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed, my head being in great pain +and my palate still down. + + + +24th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy, then home to +dinner, and so after dinner comes one Phillips, who is concerned in the +Lottery, and from him I collected much concerning that business. I +carried him in my way to White Hall and set him down at Somersett House. +Among other things he told me that Monsieur Du Puy, that is so great a +man at the Duke of Yorke's, and this man's great opponent, is a knave and +by quality but a tailor. To the Tangier Committee, and there I opposed +Colonell Legg's estimate of supplies of provisions to be sent to Tangier +till all were ashamed of it, and he fain after all his good husbandry and +seeming ignorance and joy to have the King's money saved, yet afterwards +he discovered all his design to be to keep the furnishing of these things +to the officers of the Ordnance, but Mr. Coventry seconded me, and +between us we shall save the King some money in the year. In one +business of deales in L520, I offer to save L172, and yet purpose getting +money, to myself by it. So home and to my office, and business being +done home to supper and so to bed, my head and throat being still out of +order mightily. This night Prior of Brampton came and paid me L40, and I +find this poor painful man is the only thriving and purchasing man in the +town almost. We were told to-day of a Dutch ship of 3 or 400 tons, where +all the men were dead of the plague, and the ship cast ashore at +Gottenburgh. + + + +25th (Lord's day). Up, and my throat being yet very sore, and, my head +out of order, we went not to church, but I spent all the morning reading +of "The Madd Lovers," a very good play, and at noon comes Harman and his +wife, whom I sent for to meet the Joyces, but they came not. It seems +Will has got a fall off his horse and broke his face. However, we were +as merry as I could in their company, and we had a good chine of beef, +but I had no taste nor stomach through my cold, and therefore little +pleased with my dinner. It raining, they sat talking with us all the +afternoon. So anon they went away; and then I to read another play, +"The Custome of the Country," which is a very poor one, methinks. Then +to supper, prayers, and bed. + + + +26th. Up pretty well again, but my mouth very scabby, my cold being +going away, so that I was forced to wear a great black patch, but that +would not do much good, but it happens we did not go to the Duke to-day, +and so I staid at home busy all the morning. At noon, after dinner, to +the 'Change, and thence home to my office again, where busy, well +employed till 10 at night, and so home to supper and to bed, my mind a +little troubled that I have not of late kept up myself so briske in +business; but mind my ease a little too much and my family upon the +coming of Mercer and Tom. So that I have not kept company, nor appeared +very active with Mr. Coventry, but now I resolve to settle to it again, +not that I have idled all my time, but as to my ease something. So I +have looked a little too much after Tangier and the Fishery, and that in +the sight of Mr. Coventry, but I have good reason to love myself for +serving Tangier, for it is one of the best flowers in my garden. + + + +27th. Lay long, sleeping, it raining and blowing very hard. Then up and +to the office, my mouth still being scabby and a patch on it. At the +office all the morning. At noon dined at home, and so after dinner +(Lewellin dining with me and in my way talking about Deering) to the +Fishing Committee, and had there very many fine things argued, and I hope +some good will cone of it. So home, where my wife having (after all her +merry discourse of being with child) her months upon her is gone to bed. +I to my office very late doing business, then home to supper and to bed. +To-night Mr. T. Trice and Piggot came to see me, and desire my going down +to Brampton Court, where for Piggot's sake, for whom it is necessary, I +should go, I would be glad to go, and will, contrary to my purpose, +endeavour it, but having now almost L1000, if not above, in my house, I +know not what to do with it, and that will trouble my mind to leave in +the house, and I not at home. + + + +28th. Up and by water with Mr. Tucker down to Woolwich, first to do +several businesses of the King's, then on board Captain Fisher's ship, +which we hire to carry goods to Tangier. All the way going and coming I +reading and discoursing over some papers of his which he, poor man, +having some experience, but greater conceit of it than is fit, did at the +King's first coming over make proposals of, ordering in a new manner the +whole revenue of the kingdom, but, God knows, a most weak thing; however, +one paper I keep wherein he do state the main branches of the publick +revenue fit to consider and remember. So home, very cold, and fearfull +of having got some pain, but, thanks be to God! I was well after it. So +to dinner, and after dinner by coach to White Hall, thinking to have met +at a Committee of Tangier, but nobody being there but my Lord Rutherford, +he would needs carry me and another Scotch Lord to a play, and so we saw, +coming late, part of "The Generall," my Lord Orrery's (Broghill) second +play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in words, sense, or design, +it is to his "Harry the 5th" is not imaginable, and so poorly acted, +though in finer clothes, is strange. And here I must confess breach of a +vowe in appearance, but I not desiring it, but against my will, and my +oathe being to go neither at my own charge nor at another's, as I had +done by becoming liable to give them another, as I am to Sir W. Pen and +Mr. Creed; but here I neither know which of them paid for me, nor, if I +did, am I obliged ever to return the like, or did it by desire or with +any willingness. So that with a safe conscience I do think my oathe is +not broke and judge God Almighty will not think it other wise. Thence to +W. Joyce's, and there found my aunt and cozen Mary come home from my +father's with great pleasure and content, and thence to Kate's and found +her also mighty pleased with her journey and their good usage of them, +and so home, troubled in my conscience at my being at a play. But at +home I found Mercer playing on her Vyall, which is a pretty instrument, +and so I to the Vyall and singing till late, and so to bed. My mind at a +great losse how to go down to Brampton this weeke, to satisfy Piggott; +but what with the fears of my house, my money, my wife, and my office, I +know not how in the world to think of it, Tom Hater being out of towne, +and I having near L1000 in my house. + + + +29th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, dined at home and +Creed with me; after dinner I to Sir G. Carteret, and with him to his new +house he is taking in Broad Streete, and there surveyed all the rooms and +bounds, in order to the drawing up a lease thereof; and that done, Mr. +Cutler, his landlord, took me up and down, and showed me all his ground +and house, which is extraordinary great, he having bought all the +Augustine Fryers, and many, many a L1000 he hath and will bury there. +So home to my business, clearing my papers and preparing my accounts +against tomorrow for a monthly and a great auditt. So to supper and to +bed. Fresh newes come of our beating the Dutch at Guinny quite out of +all their castles almost, which will make them quite mad here at home +sure. And Sir G. Carteret did tell me, that the King do joy mightily at +it; but asked him laughing, "But," says he, "how shall I do to answer +this to the Embassador when he comes?" Nay they say that we have beat +them out of the New Netherlands too; + + [Captain (afterwards Sir Robert) Holmes' expedition to attack the + Dutch settlements in Africa eventuated in an important exploit. + Holmes suddenly left the coast of Africa, sailed across the + Atlantic, and reduced the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands to + English rule, under the title of New York. "The short and true + state of the matter is this: the country mentioned was part of the + province of Virginia, and, as there is no settling an extensive + country at once, a few Swedes crept in there, who surrendered the + plantations they could not defend to the Dutch, who, having bought + the charts and papers of one Hudson, a seaman, who, by the + commission from the crown of England, discovered a river, to which + he gave his name, conceited they had purchased a province. + Sometimes, when we had strength in those parts, they were English + subjects; at others, when that strength declined, they were subjects + of the United Provinces. However, upon King Charles's claim the + States disowned the title, but resumed it during our confusions. On + March 12th, 1663-64, Charles II. granted it to the Duke of York . . + . . The King sent Holmes, when he returned, to the Tower, and did + not discharge him; till he made it evidently appear that he had not + infringed the law of nations ". (Campbell's "Naval History," vol. + ii, p., 89). How little did the King or Holmes himself foresee + the effects of the capture,--B.] + +so that we have been doing them mischief for a great while in several +parts of the world; without publique knowledge or reason. Their fleete +for Guinny is now, they say, ready, and abroad, and will be going this +week. Coming home to-night, I did go to examine my wife's house +accounts, and finding things that seemed somewhat doubtful, I was angry +though she did make it pretty plain, but confessed that when she do misse +a sum, she do add something to other things to make it, and, upon my +being very angry, she do protest she will here lay up something for +herself to buy her a necklace with, which madded me and do still trouble +me, for I fear she will forget by degrees the way of living cheap and +under a sense of want. + + + +30th. Up, and all day, both morning and afternoon, at my accounts, it +being a great month, both for profit and layings out, the last being L89 +for kitchen and clothes for myself and wife, and a few extraordinaries +for the house; and my profits, besides salary, L239; so that I have this +weeke, notwithstanding great layings out, and preparations for laying +out, which I make as paid this month, my balance to come to L1203, for +which the Lord's name be praised! Dined at home at noon, staying long +looking for Kate Joyce and my aunt James and Mary, but they came not. So +my wife abroad to see them, and took Mary Joyce to a play. Then in the +evening came and sat working by me at the office, and late home to supper +and to bed, with my heart in good rest for this day's work, though +troubled to think that my last month's negligence besides the making me +neglect business and spend money, and lessen myself both as to business +and the world and myself, I am fain to preserve my vowe by paying 20s. +dry--[ Dry = hard, as "hard cash." ]--money into the poor's box, because +I had not fulfilled all my memorandums and paid all my petty debts and +received all my petty credits, of the last month, but I trust in God I +shall do so no more. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +All the men were dead of the plague, and the ship cast ashore +And with the great men in curing of their claps +Expressly taking care that nobody might see this business done +Having some experience, but greater conceit of it than is fit +Helping to slip their calfes when there is occasion +Her months upon her is gone to bed +I had agreed with Jane Welsh, but she came not, which vexed me +Lay long caressing my wife and talking +Let her brew as she has baked +New Netherlands to English rule, under the title of New York +Reduced the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands to English rule +Staid two hours with her kissing her, but nothing more +Strange slavery that I stand in to beauty +Thinks she is with child, but I neither believe nor desire it +Up, my mind very light from my last night's accounts +We do nothing in this office like people able to carry on a warr +Would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched! + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v34 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp35g10.zip b/old/sp35g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e44d930 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp35g10.zip |